Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao disrupted the award ceremony by personally offering Ju Zi a place in his residence and a luxurious research lab. Xu Tianran lost his composure, while Xian Lin'er realized the Third Prince might help her access Mingde Hall.

• Jing Hongchen ended Huo Yuhao's confrontation with Xu Tianran and started the award ceremony early.
• Xian Lin'er considered using the Third Prince's qualification to enter Mingde Hall to investigate her unanswered questions.
• Huo Yuhao examined the students receiving awards and quietly noted promising martial souls and bloodlines.
• Ju Zi was called onstage to receive an award from Xu Tianran.
• Huo Yuhao sprang from his wheelchair, took the award, and offered Ju Zi a position in his residence with a luxurious soul engineer research lab.
• Xu Tianran crushed his wheelchair's armrest and let his anger show.

Huo Yuhao provoked Xu Tianran by openly courting Ju Zi, and both Xu Tianran and Ju Zi concluded that he knew too much and had to die. He then joined Zhang Lexuan in hunting Holy Spirit Cult Evil Soul Masters, leaving them suspecting that the cult’s strongest members came from the Sun Moon Empire.

• Huo Yuhao publicly invited Ju Zi to his residence, making Xu Tianran suspect that the Third Prince was trying to interfere with his plans for her.
• Ju Zi denied knowing Huo Yuhao, and Huo Yuhao mocked Xu Tianran’s Wheelchair before leaving with Celadon Douluo and Ink Shadow Douluo.
• Xu Tianran and Ju Zi each decided that the Third Prince had to die, while Huo Yuhao said that his bait was about to be taken.
• Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan pursued and killed a fleeing Soul Saint from a Holy Spirit Cult branch altar, but found no clues about Bei Bei.
• Zhang Lexuan suggested that the Holy Spirit Cult’s powerful Evil Soul Masters, including a suspected Titled Douluo, might have originated in the Sun Moon Empire.

Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan hunted Holy Spirit Cult branch altars as they traveled west through the Sun Moon Empire, while Zhang Lexuan secretly struggled with the silver markings’ effects. Near Blue Silver Emperor Valley, they reached a village whose residents seemed unusually happy.

• Zhang Lexuan said they should investigate the Holy Spirit Cult’s strength and report what they learned to the Sea God Pavilion.
• Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan cleared a branch altar, but a Soul Saint Evil Soul Master with the Ghost Shadow martial soul escaped; Huo Yuhao collected his soul and disposed of his corpse with Ultimate Ice.
• After Zhang Lexuan withdrew the silver markings, her blood and qi surged and she suppressed the resulting sensations with Soul Power, while Huo Yuhao secretly watched and a golden centipede affected the markings.
• Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan traveled west, finding fewer branch altars because the Holy Spirit Cult’s power did not reach far and many local elders had been exiled there.
• Near Blue Silver Emperor Valley, Zhang Lexuan noticed that the village and its smiling residents seemed unusually harmonious and happy.

Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan discovered that Water Ripple Village’s unusually healthy, Soul Power-bearing residents belonged to the White Lotus Sect, which had ties to the Death God Messenger. The village chief gave them the sect’s cultivation technique and doctrine, leaving Zhang Lexuan shocked by the possibility that ordinary people could become soul masters.

• Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan visited Water Ripple Village and stayed with village chief Mu Qi, whose granddaughter and other villagers seemed unusually healthy and content.
• At night, Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan investigated the village and noticed that its fields were neglected, its elderly were healthy, and everyone had Soul Power.
• The two decided to stay and investigate, then asked Mu Qi directly why every villager could awaken Soul Power.
• Mu Qi explained that the White Lotus Sect had given the villagers power, health, and food, and that the young people worked for the sect in the city.
• Zhang Lexuan recognized the White Lotus Sect’s connection to the Death God Messenger, while Huo Yuhao calmed her and asked Mu Qi for more information.
• Mu Qi praised the sect and gave Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan the White Lotus Holy Skill and White Lotus Doctrine, which left Zhang Lexuan astonished.

Eunuch Gao led the White Lotus Sect in seizing control of a southern city, while the sect’s rapid expansion pushed it toward open conflict with the Sun Moon Empire. Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan investigated the sect in Nanshui City as Death God Messenger advanced to Titled Douluo.

• Eunuch Gao killed the city lord and found that the city lord’s guards and family had become fanatical White Lotus Sect believers.
• Eunuch Gao decided the sect would strike first and seize the province, expecting Death God Messenger to help defeat its Titled Douluo governor.
• Death God Messenger absorbed a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, grew stronger, and fed on the hundred-thousand-year Blue Ringed Octopus corpse.
• Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan found White Lotus Sect believers recruiting openly in Nanshui City and used the village chief’s booklets to pass as sect members.
• Zhang Lexuan rejected the sect’s doctrine and suspected its unusual cultivation techniques might be Evil Soul Master methods, while the pair began investigating the sect.

Huo Yuhao explained to Zhang Lexuan why the White Lotus Sect’s apparently harmonious society would collapse once it exhausted its resources, while privately using their time together to draw her closer. As the sect expanded violently through the Southern Province, Holy Spirit Cult elders tracked down Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan after several branches were destroyed.

• Zhang Lexuan praised the White Lotus Sect’s mutual care, and Huo Yuhao argued that its followers were consuming resources rather than creating value, leaving the sect destined to collapse.
• Huo Yuhao warned Zhang Lexuan that the Sun Moon Empire would benefit from the White Lotus Sect’s downfall, then covered her mouth when she began to mention rebellion.
• Zhang Lexuan grew more comfortable with Huo Yuhao, while he privately considered their growing closeness useful for his future plans against her.
• The White Lotus Sect expanded through the Southern Province as officials underestimated the danger and mobilized the provincial garrison against its forces.
• Holy Spirit Cult elders from southern branches tracked down Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan after several branches were destroyed, and the surviving branches joined forces to hunt the culprit.

Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan were ambushed by Evil Soul Masters from multiple Holy Spirit Cult branch altars, but survived the initial attack and fought back. Zhang Lexuan unleashed her powerful soul skills while Huo Yuhao activated Frost Centipede Armor, and he destroyed the three corpse puppets as the battle continued.

• Holy Spirit Cult Evil Soul Masters surrounded Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan in the wilderness and detonated a class-six Fixed Soul Guidance Bomb beneath them.
• Huo Yuhao protected them with an Ultimate Ice barrier, then Zhang Lexuan ordered that no Evil Soul Masters be left alive.
• Huo Yuhao's Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul burst from underground and killed several enemies as the Evil Soul Masters revealed a force drawn from at least five branch altars.
• Zhang Lexuan blocked the enemy Soul Guidance Cannons with her moonlight and prepared to break out with Huo Yuhao.
• Five branch altar elders surrounded Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan with sinister Soul Tools, while the remaining Evil Soul Masters attacked from the rear.
• Zhang Lexuan counterattacked with Silver Moon True Body and Blood Moon Eclipse, while Huo Yuhao activated Frost Centipede Armor and shattered the three corpse puppets.

Huo Yuhao defeated Corpse Demon after surviving his corpse-worm swarm, then unleashed the Frost Centipede Demon-Banning Domain to erase Corpse Demon and the Evil Soul Masters caught within it. Zhang Lexuan witnessed the battle end with Huo Yuhao standing unharmed amid the light-stained ground.

• Huo Yuhao destroyed Corpse Demon's three Flesh Puppets, and Corpse Demon tried to flee before realizing Huo Yuhao could catch him.
• Corpse Demon transformed with his Corpse Worm True Body and unleashed his insect swarm, forcing the other branch altar elders to retreat and Zhang Lexuan to rise above it.
• Huo Yuhao's Ice Crystal Barrier kept the corpse worms away, and his Ultimate Ice froze and killed the swarm.
• Huo Yuhao activated World Domination and combined his armor with the Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul as he pursued Corpse Demon.
• Huo Yuhao trapped Corpse Demon and the nearby Evil Soul Masters in the Frost Centipede Demon-Banning Domain, whose light erased them completely.

Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan defeated the Evil Soul Masters at a branch altar, with Huo Yuhao’s new technique devastating their forces and Zhang Lexuan killing the four remaining elders. After the battle, Zhang Lexuan struggled to control the effects of her Silver-Pattern External Soul Bone while Huo Yuhao supported her.

• Huo Yuhao used Frost Centipede Demon-Banning Domain to kill more than forty Evil Soul Masters, including Corpse Demon, but the effort left him drained.
• The four surviving branch altar elders attacked Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan, and Zhang Lexuan fought them while protecting Huo Yuhao.
• Several Evil Soul Masters tried to seize Huo Yuhao, but his Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul killed them and routed the remaining enemies.
• Zhang Lexuan unleashed her strengthened soul skills and killed all four branch altar elders, then faltered as her Silver Moon True Body disappeared.
• Huo Yuhao caught Zhang Lexuan, who claimed she was fine while struggling to control the sensations caused by the silver patterns.

Huo Yuhao triggered Zhang Lexuan’s suppressed instincts, and she lost control before waking alone, ashamed and worried about their relationship. The next day, Zhang Lexuan apologized and asked Huo Yuhao to treat the incident as a dream so they could remain as they were.

• Huo Yuhao stirred the Golden Centipede inside Zhang Lexuan, causing her to lose control and climb onto him.
• Zhang Lexuan woke alone in her room, distressed by what had happened and guilty toward Bei Bei.
• Huo Yuhao explained to Sky Dream Ice Silkworm that he had held back because forcing Zhang Lexuan could ruin their relationship and cause danger at the Sea God Pavilion.
• Huo Yuhao spent the rest of the time with his Beast Souls before meeting Zhang Lexuan again the next day.
• Zhang Lexuan apologized to Huo Yuhao and asked him not to let the incident affect their relationship.

Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan put their private incident behind them while Eunuch Gao led the White Lotus Sect’s rebellion across the Southern Province. Eunuch Gao confronted Yongning Prince Xu Guoan, and their battle began with Xu Guoan at a disadvantage.

• Zhang Lexuan called the incident an accident and refused to explain what had caused it, and Huo Yuhao accepted her decision.
• Eunuch Gao directed the White Lotus Sect to seize towns, spread its doctrine, and capture those who resisted for later “purification.”
• Eunuch Gao distributed ordinary resources and lower-year soul bones to reward the sect’s followers and fuel its expansion.
• Xu Guoan learned that the White Lotus Sect had taken control of several cities and planned to move against it.
• Eunuch Gao entered Xu Guoan’s estate, revealed his nine soul rings, and attacked the prince with his Bloodlust Domain.
• Xu Guoan countered with his Sun Martial Soul, but Eunuch Gao’s domain overwhelmed his opening attack and Blood-Red Sunflower petals struck at him.

Xu Guoan and his forces fought Eunuch Gao, but the Bloodlust Domain drove the soldiers and civilians into murderous madness and turned the battle in Eunuch Gao’s favor. Huo Yuhao’s puppet arrived, and after learning the Yongning Prince and the Southern Province were under control, he chose to feed.

• Xu Guoan activated his Sun True Body and fired his Great Sun Armor-Piercing Cannon at Eunuch Gao, whose Blood Slaughter Orb blocked the attack.
• Xu Guoan’s deputy brought a thousand Soul Engineers to support him, and the city army soon joined the battle against Eunuch Gao.
• Eunuch Gao’s Bloodlust Domain grew stronger as it absorbed the dead soldiers’ blood, spreading to nearby civilians and driving the fighters mad.
• Blood Qi overcame Xu Guoan’s reason, and he charged Eunuch Gao, who struck him aside before preparing to finish him.
• Huo Yuhao’s Death God Messenger puppet arrived, and Eunuch Gao reported that the Yongning Prince and Southern Province were under their control.
• Huo Yuhao looked at the crazed Xu Guoan and said they should eat first.

The Sun Moon Emperor learned that the White Lotus Sect had rebelled in the Southern Province and dispatched imperial forces to suppress it, while the princes maneuvered for influence. Huo Yuhao kept his distance from the conflict, and Zhang Lexuan continued investigating the White Lotus Sect in secret as the province remained stable under its control.

• The Sun Moon Emperor received news that the White Lotus Sect had occupied towns in the Southern Province and killed the Yongning Prince and his household.
• The Sun Moon Emperor questioned how to handle the rebellion, and the court agreed to send troops to crush the White Lotus Sect.
• The Fourth Prince and Fifth Prince volunteered to join the campaign, while the Sixth Prince recruited noble youths to support the Fourth Prince.
• Huo Yuhao chose not to implicate the Holy Spirit Cult and later visited the Sun Moon Emperor, easing the emperor’s suspicions of him.
• News of the rebellion spread across the empire, though the Southern Province’s towns remained stable and its people were better off under the White Lotus Sect.
• Zhang Lexuan and Huo Yuhao continued their covert investigation, avoiding both Evil Soul Masters and discovery by the White Lotus Sect.

Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan infiltrated the White Lotus Sect to investigate the Death God Messenger and learn about Bei Bei’s whereabouts. After joining the sect’s army, they were sent to fight the Sun Moon Empire, and the White Lotus Army won its first battle.

• Zhang Lexuan proposed that she and Huo Yuhao join the White Lotus Sect to investigate it from within, and Huo Yuhao agreed.
• The two joined easily and learned from the regional leader about the sect’s disciples, White Lotus Army, and Ming Wang Attendants.
• Zhang Lexuan and Huo Yuhao chose the White Lotus Army to gain access to the two Ming King Envoys, one of whom might be the Death God Messenger.
• The Ming King Envoys approved them as army commanders, placing Zhang Lexuan over a thousand soldiers and Huo Yuhao over five hundred.
• The White Lotus Army fought the Sun Moon Empire’s punitive force in the Southern Province and defeated its vanguard.

The White Lotus Army’s ten-thousand-strong Soul Elder force defeated the Vanguard Legion and alarmed the Sun Moon Empire’s court. As the emperor dispatched two Beast King Legions and gave the Third Prince a role in the campaign, Huo Yuhao’s forces attacked the rear, leaving the Fourth and Fifth Princes’ fates unknown.

• The Sun Moon Emperor learned that the White Lotus Sect had fielded ten thousand Soul Elders and ordered a Beast King Legion to join the Southern Legion against them.
• News reached Mingdu that the White Lotus Army had attacked the Fourth and Fifth Princes’ legions, while the Southern Legion had held its ground.
• The Sun Moon Emperor sent a second Beast King Legion and ordered the Third Prince to accompany the army and take part in military affairs.
• Huo Yuhao received the news of the empire’s response and continued the White Lotus Army’s advance against the legions in the rear.
• The White Lotus Army devastated the ordinary legions assigned to the Fourth and Fifth Princes, leaving both princes’ lives and deaths unknown.

After the White Lotus Army destroyed the Sun Moon Empire’s vanguard and defeated an attack led by the Fourth and Fifth Princes, Huo Yuhao killed both princes and was promoted to Grand Commander. Zhang Lexuan warned him to prioritize his safety as they continued investigating the Death God Messenger.

• The White Lotus Army wiped out the five-hundred-man vanguard but became scattered while its commanders argued over what to do next.
• The Fourth and Fifth Princes attacked the White Lotus Army’s flanks, but Huo Yuhao killed them and their forces collapsed.
• The Death God Messenger rallied troops against the Southern Legion, then withdrew without revealing his true strength.
• Huo Yuhao was promoted to Grand Commander, and Zhang Lexuan returned to learn that he had killed two princes.
• Zhang Lexuan cautioned Huo Yuhao to avoid dangerous fights and keep investigating the Death God Messenger carefully.

After the White Lotus Army’s victory, its resources and ranks grew rapidly, while Zhang Lexuan worried about the sect’s fanaticism and Huo Yuhao recognized its darker effects on civilians. Huo Yuhao went to Blue Silver Emperor Valley to meet its owner while Eunuch Gao guarded the entrance.

• The White Lotus Army rewarded its soldiers and commanders lavishly, and its force grew to twelve thousand Soul Elders as new disciples joined.
• Zhang Lexuan feared that the White Lotus cultivation method turned its practitioners into fanatics, while Huo Yuhao knew the sect’s rule was impoverishing civilians and making dissenters disappear.
• Huo Yuhao used the Death God Messenger matter to get time away from Zhang Lexuan and met Eunuch Gao at Blue Silver Emperor Valley.
• Huo Yuhao released the Healing Angel Puppet Martial Soul’s Level Ninety-Nine Limit Douluo aura and flew into the valley, leaving Eunuch Gao to guard the entrance.

Huo Yuhao located the 190,000-year-old Blue Silver Emperor in Blue Silver Emperor Valley and demanded that she join his Ghost Banner. When she refused, he ordered the Healing Angel Puppet Martial Soul to attack, leaving their confrontation about to turn violent.

• The Healing Angel Puppet Martial Soul carried Huo Yuhao through Blue Silver Emperor Valley until his Fortune navigation led them to the Blue Silver Emperor.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that he knew the Blue Silver Emperor had survived three heavenly tribulations and lacked confidence in surviving the next one.
• Huo Yuhao summoned the Ghost Banner Martial Soul, Golden Xuanwu, and Jin Qiuer, then offered the Blue Silver Emperor and her people a place in the banner.
• The Blue Silver Emperor refused Huo Yuhao's offer and warned him to leave, while Golden Xuanwu argued with her.
• Huo Yuhao stopped Golden Xuanwu and ordered the Healing Angel Puppet Martial Soul to strike the Blue Silver Emperor; she activated her Ice Jade Scorpion sixth soul skill, Ultimate Ice Control.

Huo Yuhao and the Healing Angel Puppet Martial Soul attacked the Blue Silver Emperor Valley with Ultimate Ice, overwhelming the Blue Silver Emperor’s defenses and killing many of her subjects. As Huo Yuhao absorbed the Blue Silver Grass souls, the Blue Silver Emperor launched a powerful counterattack, and the Healing Angel Puppet Martial Soul prepared to block it.

• The Healing Angel Puppet Martial Soul unleashed Ultimate Ice, froze the Blue Silver Emperor’s Blue Silver Grass defense, and followed with an Ice Bear Blizzard that ravaged the valley.
• The Blue Silver Emperor revealed her giant main body and used her Blue Silver Domain to gather the valley’s strength, countering the blizzard with a powerful attack.
• Huo Yuhao refused the Blue Silver Emperor’s offer to talk, and the Healing Angel Puppet Martial Soul fired Breath Severing Cold Light, freezing her Blue Silver Senluo Power and much of the valley’s grass.
• The Healing Angel Puppet Martial Soul spread her Life Domain while Huo Yuhao used the Ghost Banner Martial Soul to absorb the souls of the Blue Silver Grass.
• The Blue Silver Emperor launched Blue Silver Thunder Spirit Light at Huo Yuhao and the Healing Angel Puppet Martial Soul, who answered by activating Mystic Turtle Sky Support.

The Healing Angel Puppet Martial Soul defeated the Blue Silver Emperor after a four-hour battle, and Huo Yuhao forced the defeated spirit to submit. He captured her soul as He Caitou’s sixth soul ring, while the Blue Silver Emperor’s seed ended up swallowed by Huo Yuhao.

• The Healing Angel Puppet Martial Soul fought the Blue Silver Emperor for four hours, then sealed her in ice with Ultimate Ice.
• Golden Xuanwu tried to persuade the Blue Silver Emperor to surrender, but she refused until Huo Yuhao threatened to erase her consciousness; she then submitted.
• Huo Yuhao used the Ghost Banner Martial Soul to detain the Blue Silver Emperor’s soul and make her its sixth soul ring, attached to He Caitou’s Cigar Martial Soul.
• He Caitou gained the Blue Silver Tobacco and All-Encompassing Golden Cigar soul skills from the Blue Silver Emperor’s soul ring.
• The Blue Silver Emperor’s body became a seed, but Huo Yuhao swallowed it before she could ask him to plant it.