Chapter Summaries

Fan Yu led Shrek’s exchange team to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy while secretly preparing to avenge Zhou Yi. The next day, Huo Yuhao left Shrek with Ma Xiaotao, Ling Luochen, and Wei Na, and Zhang Lexuan joined them for the journey.

• Fan Yu led the exchange team toward the Sun Moon Empire, determined to gain power and avenge Zhou Yi without implicating Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuyao and the elders saw the team off, while Old Song escorted them to the border.
• The day after the exchange team left, Huo Yuhao set out from Shrek with Ma Xiaotao, Ling Luochen, and Wei Na.
• Zhang Lexuan appeared dressed for travel, and Huo Yuhao welcomed her to join their group.

The Death God Messenger left Holy Spirit Cult to hunt for an Eighth Soul Ring after reaching Rank 80, fearing that the Blue Silver Saintess and Blue Silver Knight planned to kill him. Huo Yuhao examined his body and memories, then sent the Centipede Leg Clone to find a powerful yin-type soul beast for him.

• The Death God Messenger reached Rank 80 by refining his body into a zombie and decided to leave Holy Spirit Cult for an Eighth Soul Ring.
• He suspected the Blue Silver Saintess and Blue Silver Knight intended to eliminate him, and planned to hunt a soul beast around seventy thousand years old to avoid injury.
• Huo Yuhao sensed the Death God Messenger's departure, entered his body, and reviewed his condition, memories, and ambitions.
• The Centipede Leg Clone delivered a Soul Tool ring to the Death God Messenger near the Jingyang Mountain Range.
• Huo Yuhao ordered the Centipede Leg Clone to find a yin-type soul beast of around ninety thousand years, avoiding yang-type attributes.

Huo Yuhao equipped the Death God Messenger with three magical artifacts and sent the Centipede Leg Clone to investigate a nearby target. The clone led him to a ninety-thousand-year Devil Monkey, which attacked after its spiritual intimidation failed.

• Huo Yuhao gave the Death God Messenger a Pale Left-Hand Glove, a Three Lifetimes Spirit Communication Pill, and a Soul Banner, along with a Storage Ring.
• Huo Yuhao controlled the Death God Messenger as it refined the artifacts and waited for the Centipede Leg Clone to return.
• The Centipede Leg Clone returned at deep night with news of a discovery and carried the Death God Messenger toward the target.
• Huo Yuhao spotted a ninety-thousand-year Devil Monkey foraging in the forest and recognized it from a book in Shrek Academy's Inner Court Library.
• The Devil Monkey tried to intimidate Huo Yuhao with spiritual power, then leaped at him, but Huo Yuhao met its charge with his left palm.

Huo Yuhao used the Death God Messenger to poison and battle the Devil Monkey, then fled to let the corpse poison weaken it. The Devil Monkey pursued him, while two zombies returned to their Blood Coffins.

• Huo Yuhao traded blows with the Devil Monkey, infecting it with Ultimate Corpse Poison while its Darkness Power curse damaged the Death God Messenger.
• Huo Yuhao activated Zombie True Body, healing the Death God Messenger's wounds and greatly increasing its strength, but filling it with violence and bloodlust.
• Huo Yuhao summoned two zombies and ordered them to hold off the Devil Monkey, then attacked again and inflicted another poisonous handprint.
• Huo Yuhao used Smoke Magic to evade the Devil Monkey and hopped away, drawing it into pursuit so the poison could take effect.
• After the Devil Monkey chased Huo Yuhao, the two zombies returned to their Blood Coffins and covered themselves with the lids.

Huo Yuhao kept the Devil Monkey chasing the Death God Messenger until corpse poison overwhelmed it, then used its blood and Soul Ring to strengthen the zombie. After helping the Death God Messenger reach rank 83, Huo Yuhao found a ninety-thousand-year head Soul Bone and decided to send it to Main Body.

• Huo Yuhao used the Death God Messenger to evade the Devil Monkey and repeatedly poison it while Zombie True Body drained away.
• After Zombie True Body ended, Huo Yuhao used the Wolf-Ape Artifact Spirit’s spatial displacement to dodge an attack and lure the Devil Monkey toward the Blood Coffins.
• The corpse poison reached the Devil Monkey’s brain, causing it to lose consciousness, and Huo Yuhao let the Death God Messenger drain its blood until it died.
• Huo Yuhao seized the Devil Monkey’s soul with the Soul Banner and helped the Death God Messenger absorb its ninety-thousand-year Soul Ring, raising him to rank 83.
• Huo Yuhao discovered a ninety-thousand-year Devil Monkey head Soul Bone in the corpse and decided to give it to Main Body.

Huo Yuhao and the four girls traveled through the Heaven Dou Empire, planning to visit powerful families and sects, fight in Soul Arenas, and take on bounty missions. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao studied the Death God Messenger’s mutated zombie body and began planning its cultivation as he discovered the messenger’s new Eighth Soul Skill.

• Wei Na called Huo Yuhao over as Zhang Lexuan led the group to register a mercenary group.
• Huo Yuhao examined the Death God Messenger and found that it needed fresh blood to gain power and evolve.
• Huo Yuhao explained the zombie grades and noted that the Death God Messenger was a Green Corpse while its two underlings were White Corpses.
• Huo Yuhao planned the Death God Messenger’s future cultivation and activated its Eighth Soul Skill, Devil’s Horror, which inflicted spiritual damage by inspiring fear.

A twelve-member team of Evil Soul Masters tracked the Death God Messenger to his cave, forcing Huo Yuhao to flee underground in the Centipede Leg Clone. The team pursued him but could not follow him into the depths, and they continued tracking his position.

• The Blue Silver Saintess and the Blue Silver Knight sent twelve capable Evil Soul Masters to hunt the Death God Messenger before he could leave headquarters and expose Bei Bei's identity.
• The team found the cave where the Death God Messenger was hiding and silently surrounded it.
• Huo Yuhao sensed the living pursuers through the Death God Messenger's sensitivity to Life Force and realized they had come to kill him.
• Huo Yuhao chose to flee instead of fighting in daylight, and the Centipede Leg Clone swallowed him and burrowed underground.
• A scout detected the escape with his Blood-colored Compass, and the twelve Evil Soul Masters pursued Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao's clone drilled deeper underground, leaving the pursuers unable to follow as their leader ordered them to keep tracking him.

Huo Yuhao used Death God Messenger to mine and hunt underground while evading Tang Ya’s pursuing force, then emerged at night to confront them. He left the pursuers prepared for battle as Death God Messenger unleashed his Eighth Soul Skill.

• Tang Ya sent Evil Wolf and eleven other Evil Soul Masters to hunt Death God Messenger in the Jingyang Mountain Range.
• The pursuers tracked Death God Messenger underground and grew angry and exhausted when he stayed beneath the surface all day.
• Huo Yuhao mined precious resources, killed underground soul beasts, and raised Death God Messenger’s Fourth Soul Ring to ten thousand years.
• After night fell, the Evil Soul Masters spotted Death God Messenger emerging and prepared to attack under Evil Wolf’s command.
• Huo Yuhao sent Death God Messenger bursting from the ground with Soul Douluo-level power, and Death God Messenger activated his Eighth Soul Skill, Devil’s Horror.

Huo Yuhao used Death God Messenger’s soul attack to disable the Evil Soul Masters, then defeated Evil Wolf with Mourning Absorption and Ultimate Corpse Poison. He left Evil Wolf barely alive and drained his blood.

• Huo Yuhao unleashed Death God Messenger’s soul attack, killing five of the twelve Evil Soul Masters and leaving only Evil Wolf able to fight.
• Evil Wolf realized Death God Messenger was a Soul Douluo, activated his Martial Soul Avatar, and tried to flee.
• Huo Yuhao used Smoke Magic and Space Movement to catch Evil Wolf and strike him with Ultimate Corpse Poison.
• Evil Wolf begged Huo Yuhao to spare him and offered information, but Huo Yuhao refused and attacked again.
• Huo Yuhao fought Evil Wolf with Mourning Absorption, weakening him until he collapsed and lost his Martial Soul Avatar.
• Huo Yuhao lifted the barely conscious Evil Wolf by the neck and drank his blood.

Huo Yuhao killed the twelve pursuers, turned Evil Wolf into a zombie, and returned to the Holy Spirit Cult Headquarters. He entered the cult’s vast underground palace, where more than a thousand Core Disciples lived.

• The Death God Messenger killed the fleeing Soul Saint and Soul Emperor and finished off all twelve pursuers, taking their blood, souls, and supplies.
• Huo Yuhao used the Death God Messenger’s soul skills to raise Evil Wolf as a zombie and placed him in a Blood Coffin.
• Huo Yuhao traveled through the Fiend Forest overnight and reached the Holy Spirit Cult Headquarters at dawn.
• Huo Yuhao showed the Death God Messenger’s token to the cult’s guards and passed into its territory.
• Huo Yuhao entered the underground palace and discovered that more than a thousand Holy Spirit Cult Core Disciples lived there.

Huo Yuhao weighed how to protect Death God Messenger from the dangers of the Holy Spirit Church headquarters and decided that a branch assignment was safest. Before Death God Messenger received his assignment, the Cult Leader summoned him, and Huo Yuhao followed the Cult Leader’s maid.

• Huo Yuhao considered the risks Long Xiaoyao posed to Death God Messenger and resolved to send him to a branch if possible.
• Huo Yuhao planned to preserve Death God Messenger’s soul in the Ghost Banner Martial Soul if he was killed.
• Huo Yuhao returned to Death God Messenger’s bloodstained residence and left him waiting for his branch assignment.
• A veiled maid with Soul Saint cultivation arrived and ordered Death God Messenger to meet the Cult Leader.
• Huo Yuhao wondered whether the Cult Leader was Zhongli Wu and followed the maid.

Huo Yuhao, controlling the Death God Messenger, met Holy Spirit Cult leader Zhongli Wu, who tested his faith and learned of his strength. Zhongli Wu offered him a choice between staying at headquarters and going to a branch, and Huo Yuhao accepted a post in Mingdu.

• A maid led Huo Yuhao to the palace where the Holy Spirit Cult leader awaited him.
• Huo Yuhao entered the Great Hall and greeted Zhongli Wu, who recognized that the Death God Messenger had reached Soul Douluo strength.
• Zhongli Wu asked whether the Death God Messenger believed in the God of Death, and Huo Yuhao said he believed in death and spreading it.
• Zhongli Wu offered the Death God Messenger a chance to remain at headquarters, but Huo Yuhao chose to serve at a branch.
• Zhongli Wu appointed Huo Yuhao Branch Leader Elder at a branch in Mingdu.

Huo Yuhao accepted Zhongli Wu’s offer to become a Branch Leader Elder in Mingdu, gaining the Holy Spirit Cult’s resources while preparing the Death God Messenger to serve as his foothold there. After leaving the palace, Huo Yuhao studied Zhongli Wu’s martial soul and followed Mei’er to claim his benefits.

• Huo Yuhao accepted Zhongli Wu’s appointment as a Branch Leader Elder in the Mingdu branch and thanked him for the position and resources.
• Zhongli Wu recognized that the Death God Messenger had refined his body into a zombie and considered ways to control him or use him as a future replacement for his lifebound beast spirit.
• Huo Yuhao used the Qi Observation Technique to inspect Zhongli Wu’s Death God Demon Puppet and noted the Bone Dragon King and its many beast spirit resentful souls.
• Mei’er approached the Death God Messenger respectfully and offered to guide him to claim his monthly benefits.
• Huo Yuhao ordered Mei’er to lead the way while keeping his plans to leave the Holy Spirit Cult for his main body.

Huo Yuhao entered the Holy Spirit Church’s guarded Great Hall to choose secret methods and learned how they could create Evil Soul Masters. He found the Shield Condensation Secret Method and focused on its ability to transform a martial soul’s form.

• Mei'er explained the benefits available to Holy Spirit Church members and led Huo Yuhao to the Great Hall where secret methods were kept.
• The guards inspected Mei'er’s token and allowed Huo Yuhao to enter alone, where hidden wardens monitored him.
• Huo Yuhao examined more than a hundred secret methods and considered how their use could turn ordinary soul masters into Evil Soul Masters.
• Huo Yuhao reviewed the three ways Evil Soul Masters could arise and recognized the danger of the methods stored in the Great Hall.
• Huo Yuhao began choosing three secret methods and found the Shield Condensation Secret Method, which could condense a defensive martial soul into a shield.

Huo Yuhao selected three Holy Spirit Church secret methods, then received resources and an appointment sending the Death God Messenger to Mingdu. Meanwhile, his main body traveled with four women through the Heaven Dou Empire, where he studied the Shield Condensation Secret Method and discovered it could shatter a Martial Soul if used improperly.

• Huo Yuhao chose the Shield Condensation Secret Method and two bold Evil Soul Master methods for corpse control and refining evil soul beasts.
• Mei'er escorted Huo Yuhao back to the Death God Messenger's residence, where Holy Spirit Disciples delivered Beast Souls, Soul Tools, and powerful corpses.
• An appointment arrived the next morning, and Huo Yuhao secretly took the Death God Messenger to Mingdu.
• Huo Yuhao and the four women traveled through the Heaven Dou Empire, challenging local Soul Masters while Zhang Lexuan continued searching for Bei Bei.
• Huo Yuhao studied the Shield Condensation Secret Method with the Myriad Laws Eye and found that misuse could shatter a Martial Soul.

Huo Yuhao reached Mingdu in the Death God Messenger’s body and met the Holy Spirit Church’s contacts outside the city. After proving his identity as a Branch Elder, he entered Mingdu disguised as goods in a merchant caravan.

• Huo Yuhao surveyed Mingdu at night and noted its modern Soul Tool infrastructure and growing Fortune.
• Huo Yuhao met three Holy Spirit Church contact men in a forest outside the city and confirmed their identities with the Church’s contact phrase.
• Huo Yuhao presented his appointment document and Branch Leader Elder Token, and the three men recognized him as a Branch Elder.
• Huo Yuhao followed the lead contact man toward his assigned branch, then entered Mingdu disguised as goods after the guards accepted a bribe.

Huo Yuhao entered the Holy Spirit Cult’s most important Mingdu sub-altar and killed its Branch Leader Elder and the gathered members. He collected their souls and began searching them for information, leaving himself to manage the entire sub-altar alone.

• Huo Yuhao paid a contact with a century-level Beast Soul and learned how the eight Mingdu sub-altars operated.
• The contact led Huo Yuhao to the most important sub-altar, where its Branch Leader Elder and other Holy Spirit Disciples had gathered to confront him.
• Huo Yuhao smashed open the courtyard gate and used the Death God Messenger’s Eighth Soul Skill, Devil’s Horror, to kill everyone inside, including the contact.
• Huo Yuhao collected the dead members’ souls with the Soul Banner artifact and began searching them for information about the sub-altar.
• Huo Yuhao learned he would have to keep the sub-altar operating and handle its responsibilities by himself.

After uncovering Nangong Wan’s ties to the Mingdu Branch Altar, Huo Yuhao looted the altar and planned how to obtain more corpse-refining resources. He set his sights on taking over parts of the Ao Du Merchant Guild and later targeting Ye Guyi in the Ordinary Alliance.

• Huo Yuhao learned through Soul Searching that the former Branch Altar elder had relied on Nangong Wan, leader of the Xi Shui Alliance and a Holy Spirit Cult elder.
• Huo Yuhao used Death God Messenger to loot the Branch Altar, collecting Soul Tools, the Holy Spirit Banner, and other valuables.
• Huo Yuhao decided to turn the dead disciples and their relatives into resources for raising zombies, but found that he lacked enough materials to improve his existing zombies.
• Huo Yuhao chose the Ao Du Merchant Guild as a source of corpses and planned to bring its assassination and theft businesses under his control by approaching An Litong.
• Huo Yuhao also planned to target the Ordinary Alliance because Ye Guyi, whose Sacred Angel Martial Soul he wanted, was there.
• Huo Yuhao continued using Death God Messenger to clean up evidence at the Branch Altar, lamenting that he had no subordinates to help.

Huo Yuhao took control of the Mingdu Branch Altar and gathered the Holy Servants, promising to train them and potentially free their loved ones’ souls. He renamed them Holy Disciples and left them kneeling as his followers in what he declared the birth of an Evil Cultivator sect.

• Huo Yuhao killed the former branch altar elders and other Holy Spirit Disciples, gathered their wealth, and kept the Holy Spirit Banner containing the Holy Servants’ loved ones’ souls.
• Huo Yuhao directed the Holy Servants from across the branch altars to gather at the expanded underground plaza.
• Huo Yuhao introduced himself as the new Mingdu Branch Altar elder, Death God Messenger, and said he had killed his predecessors.
• Huo Yuhao promised to keep the loved ones’ souls safe and possibly set them free if the Holy Servants performed well.
• Huo Yuhao promoted the Prospective Holy Spirit Disciples, renamed all Holy Servants as Holy Disciples, and promised to teach them cultivation arts.
• The Holy Disciples knelt and hailed Huo Yuhao as their teacher, and he declared that an Evil Cultivator sect had been born.

Huo Yuhao established the White Lotus Holy Altar and used three demonic cultivation methods to rapidly strengthen and indoctrinate its new disciples. The disciples woke with increased power and newfound hope that their relatives’ souls might be freed.

• Huo Yuhao renamed the Mingdu Branch Altar the White Lotus Holy Altar and declared himself its Holy Altar Master.
• He presented the disciples with stone tablets containing the White Lotus Holy Skill, Doctrine, and Secret Method, whose suggestive arts drew them into cultivation.
• Huo Yuhao explained that the methods could rapidly increase strength while draining life, instilling loyalty to the Death God Messenger, and teaching combat techniques including self-detonation.
• The disciples spent half a day cultivating, and some broke through their Soul Power Levels while the rest gained strength.
• The disciples felt grateful to Huo Yuhao and hoped the new altar might help release their relatives’ souls.