Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao absorbed the Blue Silver Emperor’s power, destroyed Blue Silver Emperor Valley, and discovered the women Eunuch Gao had prepared as Ming Wang Attendants. He used them in an attempt to awaken his Spirit Eye Martial Soul for a second time.

• The Blue Silver Emperor accepted her place within the Ghost Banner Martial Soul after Electrolux showed her the fate of the uncooperative Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Zi Ji.
• Huo Yuhao turned the Blue Silver Emperor’s soul bone into an external soul bone and refined a Blue Silver Grass patella Soul of Arcana External Soul Bone from the other soul beasts’ remains.
• Huo Yuhao thawed Blue Silver Emperor Valley, set it on fire, and entered a hidden underground space where several thousand Ming Wang Attendants lived.
• Huo Yuhao appeared on the White Lotus Throne and used a special martial art to draw the women to him, where they recognized him as the Ming King and knelt.
• Huo Yuhao began cultivating with the women to stimulate his potential and trigger the second awakening of his Spirit Eye Martial Soul.

Huo Yuhao completed a purple-gold second awakening, transforming his Evil Eye Martial Soul into the God-Tier Saint Eyes and gaining power equivalent to a ten-ring god. He left the underground space with a Beauty Bone and declared himself invincible in the mortal world.

• Huo Yuhao used the women he had deceived as potential to awaken his Evil Eye Martial Soul while their souls served as his Ming Wang Attendants.
• Huo Yuhao’s Martial Soul projection changed from iron-black through bronze, silver, and gold to purple-gold as bodily anomalies emerged.
• Huo Yuhao completed the awakening with heterochromatic, double-pupiled eyes, and the flying ash of the women condensed into a Beauty Bone.
• Huo Yuhao named his evolved Martial Soul Saint Eyes, which possessed creation and destruction attributes, ultimate spiritual power, and the Saint Eyes Domain.
• Huo Yuhao gained the ability to reach ten-ring god-level combat power and declared himself invincible in the mortal world.

Zhang Lexuan investigated the White Lotus Church’s rumored Ming King Divine Artifact, hoping to find the Death God Messenger and learn about Bei Bei. She was defeated while confronting him, but holy white light from inside the mountain stopped him before he could kill her.

• Zhang Lexuan learned that the Ming King Divine Artifact was rumored to help devout believers break through and that the two Ming King Envoys guarded it in turns.
• Zhang Lexuan left Huo Yuhao a letter instructing him to return to Shrek Academy if she did not come back, then went alone to search for the artifact.
• Zhang Lexuan found the artifact’s mountain location and slipped past the White Lotus Army guards, carrying Soul Cannon Shells she had obtained from the church’s logistics unit.
• The Death God Messenger discovered Zhang Lexuan near the artifact, and she fought him with all her strength but was overwhelmed and exhausted her Soul Power.
• Holy white light rose from within the mountain and stopped the Death God Messenger as he was about to kill Zhang Lexuan, who then lost consciousness after faintly hearing him call her “Holy Maiden.”

Zhang Lexuan woke in the White Lotus Sect as its newly appointed Holy Maiden, emotionally numbed by a mysterious power linked to the Ming King Divine Artifact. She met the Death God Messenger and demanded to know where Bei Bei was.

• Zhang Lexuan awoke unharmed in the Holy Maiden Palace and realized she could feel neither joy nor sorrow.
• Shui Er explained that the Death God Messenger had brought Zhang Lexuan back and proclaimed her the White Lotus Holy Maiden, with authority over the sect and its army.
• Zhang Lexuan examined the unfamiliar power in her lower dantian, then bathed, ate, and prepared to meet the Body Envoy.
• Jin Er escorted Zhang Lexuan to the mountain containing the Ming King Divine Artifact, where she saw a glowing jade pillar connected to the power inside her.
• Zhang Lexuan faced the Death God Messenger and asked where Bei Bei was.

Zhang Lexuan learned that Bei Bei was in the Holy Spirit Cult and that Tang Ya had become its Blue Silver Saintess, then stayed with the White Lotus Sect to gain strength to rescue him. After she left, Huo Yuhao revealed that the Ming King Divine Artifact and its blessing were his inventions, and that its power suppressed Zhang Lexuan’s emotions.

• The Death God Messenger told Zhang Lexuan that Bei Bei was in the Holy Spirit Cult and served as Tang Ya’s knight, and that Tang Ya had become the Blue Silver Saintess after her Blue Silver Grass mutated into Dark Blue Silver Grass.
• Zhang Lexuan questioned the Death God Messenger about the Mingdu explosion and the evil dragon, but he said he knew little and claimed he had left the Holy Spirit Cult to establish the White Lotus Sect.
• The Death God Messenger urged Zhang Lexuan to lead the White Lotus Sect, offering its strength as a way to rescue Bei Bei and warning that the Ming King’s blessing was suppressing her emotions.
• Zhang Lexuan chose to stay with the White Lotus Sect for Bei Bei’s sake, then left the mountain with her four maids and returned to the Holy Maiden Palace.
• After Zhang Lexuan departed, Huo Yuhao revealed that he had made the Ming King Divine Artifact and its blessing, which functioned like an Inner Core but influenced Zhang Lexuan’s emotions.

Zhang Lexuan took command of the White Lotus Army and planned to use the looming battle against the Sun Moon Empire to draw attention away while she rescued Bei Bei in Mingdu. Huo Yuhao joined her, promised to help save Bei Bei and cure her condition, and proposed tactics to stall the Beast King Legions.

• Zhang Lexuan used intelligence from the Death God Messenger to learn that Bei Bei was in Mingdu with the Xi Shui Alliance, but chose to pursue the rescue alone rather than join forces against the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Zhang Lexuan brought her four loyal maids to the White Lotus Army and kept them after confirming they had chosen to follow her.
• The Sun Moon Empire’s two Beast King Legions arrived at the front, and Zhang Lexuan took overall command of the White Lotus Army as both sides prepared for battle.
• Zhang Lexuan inspected the troops to raise their morale, then met Huo Yuhao, who revealed he had remained with the army.
• Zhang Lexuan told Huo Yuhao about her condition and plan to rescue Bei Bei, and Huo Yuhao promised to help and proposed poisoning, decapitation strikes, and tactical maneuvering to stall the enemy.

Huo Yuhao, disguised as the Third Prince, impressed the commanders of the two Beast King Legions with his military analysis as the Sun Moon Empire prepared to attack the White Lotus Army. The night before the battle, poison struck the imperial camp, leaving soldiers dead and elite soul masters unable to fight, while Huo Yuhao revealed his intent to turn the conflict into a blood-soaked performance.

• The Terror Claw and Evil Monarch Soul Engineer Legions arrived with the Third Prince and gathered intelligence before planning their attack on the White Lotus Army.
• Huo Yuhao presented ten reasons for the Sun Moon Empire’s victory and ten reasons for the White Lotus Army’s defeat, earning new respect and boosting army morale.
• Nobles sought to befriend the Third Prince and offered daughters and female soul masters to join his household, while he welcomed them.
• Poison spread through the Sun Moon Empire’s camp, killing ordinary soldiers and disabling some Beast King Legion soul masters.
• The legion commanders sealed the camp and began investigating as Huo Yuhao revealed that he intended to restrict the stronger side and make the battle a bloody performance.

Zhang Lexuan and Huo Yuhao launched a poisoning and beheading operation against the Sun Moon Empire’s military camp to create an opening for the White Lotus Army to withdraw and later rescue Bei Bei. As the White Lotus Army charged, the Sun Moon Empire’s commanders prepared to fight back.

• Zhang Lexuan woke from a nightmare about Bei Bei becoming an Evil Soul Master and told Huo Yuhao she was fine.
• Huo Yuhao reported that he had poisoned the Sun Moon Empire’s camp, and Zhang Lexuan prepared to lead a beheading strike against the Beast King Legion commanders and the Third Prince.
• As the poison spread and the camp fell into chaos, Zhang Lexuan ordered the attack, and Huo Yuhao led the White Lotus Army in its charge.
• The Sun Moon Empire’s commanders found Huo Yuhao’s tunnel, ordered the poisoned soldiers quarantined, and prepared their remaining forces for battle.
• The Third Prince suspected the White Lotus Army had a plan, but a report arrived that the White Lotus Army was attacking.

Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan led the White Lotus Army in a surprise assault on the Sun Moon Empire military camp, using planted explosives and the poisoning to break its defenses. They began targeting the commanders of the Beast King Legions while the battle raged, and the chapter ended as Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan unleashed attacks on them.

• Huo Yuhao detonated the Standard Soul Cannon Shells he had planted in the camp, destroying defensive soul tools and throwing the soldiers into confusion.
• The White Lotus Army charged into the camp, and its more than two hundred powerful fighters clashed with the two Beast King Legions and the Southern Legion.
• The Third Prince held his legion in reserve behind the front lines with Ink Shadow Douluo and Celadon Douluo at his side.
• Zhang Lexuan and Huo Yuhao searched for the Third Prince, then chose to attack the commanders of the two Beast King Legions while the White Lotus Army held back the Southern Legion.
• The Beast King Legion commanders defended against a barrage of cannon shells, but Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan followed with Blood Moon Eclipse and Frost Centipede Fist.

Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan attacked the Sun Moon Empire military camp, battling the commanders Liao Mengkai and Wang Yihang to buy time for the White Lotus Army’s retreat. Huo Yuhao gained control of Wang Yihang, while Zhang Lexuan’s depleted Soul Power was restored by the Fake Core at the cost of suppressing her emotions further.

• Liao Mengkai blocked Zhang Lexuan’s surprise attack with his Rank 9 Soul Tools and engaged her in close combat, forcing her onto the defensive.
• Wang Yihang deployed Blazing Sky Net, but Huo Yuhao pressed in with Ultimate Ice and broke through the attack using World Domination and Awakening Thunder.
• Huo Yuhao struck Wang Yihang with Mystic Ice Haze Fist, sending spiritual power through his barrier and controlling his mind.
• Zhang Lexuan’s maids began transferring the White Lotus Army while she fought Liao Mengkai to delay the Sun Moon Empire forces.
• As Zhang Lexuan’s Soul Power ran low, the Fake Core in her lower dantian restored it and further suppressed her emotions, leaving her cold and emotionless.

Zhang Lexuan pretended to be exhausted so she could ambush Liao Mengkai, but the Terror Claw Soul Engineer Legion surrounded her. Huo Yuhao and Wang Yihang disrupted the legion’s attack, allowing Huo Yuhao to help Zhang Lexuan kill Liao Mengkai.

• Liao Mengkai urged Zhang Lexuan to surrender, believing her Soul Power was nearly exhausted and that capturing her alive would earn him great merit.
• The fake Soul Core in Zhang Lexuan’s lower dantian restored her strength and imposed an absolute calm conception, which she used to hide her recovery and plan a counterattack.
• When Liao Mengkai reached for her, Zhang Lexuan unleashed a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone Skill that shattered his Class 9 Soul Guidance Barrier and sent him flying.
• Liao Mengkai ordered the Terror Claw Soul Engineer Legion to fire, but Huo Yuhao hurled Wang Yihang’s Martial Soul Avatar into the legion and charged to support Zhang Lexuan.
• Zhang Lexuan attacked Liao Mengkai from the front while Huo Yuhao struck him with Extreme Ice—Frost Centipede Fist, freezing him to death.

Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan killed Liao Mengkai and Wang Yihang amid the White Lotus Army’s retreat, while the Third Prince turned the battle in the Sun Moon Empire’s favor. After Huo Yuhao was badly wounded protecting Zhang Lexuan, the Third Prince announced that he would take control of the military camp and challenged the soldiers to oppose him.

• Wang Yihang went berserk under Huo Yuhao’s spiritual attack, while Zhang Lexuan revealed that the Bright King’s power let her heal her wounds.
• Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan killed Wang Yihang as the two Beast King Legions tried to restrain him.
• The Third Prince led the Sun Moon Empire forces in a counterattack, forcing Zhang Lexuan and the surviving White Lotus Army soul masters to retreat.
• Huo Yuhao shielded Zhang Lexuan from a Soul Guidance Ray attack and collapsed, so she carried him away and used five Class 7 Soul Guidance Bombs to stop the pursuers.
• The Third Prince summoned his Sun Martial Soul and declared that he would take control of the military camp, asking who approved and who opposed.

The Third Prince took command of the battered Sun Moon military camp and drove its soldiers into a counterattack against the White Lotus Army. Meanwhile, Zhang Lexuan returned to the White Lotus Army with Huo Yuhao, learned that its commanders had died, and ordered its evacuation plan to continue.

• The Third Prince seized authority over the Sun Moon military camp and ordered all soldiers able to fight to counterattack immediately.
• After a legion commander objected, the Third Prince struck him and rallied the camp by stirring the soldiers' killing intent, sending most of the forces after him.
• The Southern Legion Commander stayed behind to manage the wounded and poisoned, while considering whether to pledge allegiance to the Third Prince if he won.
• Zhang Lexuan brought Huo Yuhao back to the White Lotus Army and ordered Healing System Soul Masters to treat him.
• Zhang Lexuan learned that all White Lotus Army commanders and Grand Commanders had died and that half of its elites had evacuated, with more than three thousand remaining in ambush.
• Zhang Lexuan told Jin Er to proceed with the evacuation plan and prepare to ensure the Sun Moon Empire's forces did not return.

Huo Yuhao recovered enough to leave the White Lotus Army with Zhang Lexuan and head north toward Mingdu to find Bei Bei. The Third Prince’s forces defeated the White Lotus Army’s ambush and burned their camp as they continued their assault.

• Huo Yuhao woke after the Healing System soul masters treated his injuries, and he told Zhang Lexuan he could travel but could not fight with his martial soul for a while.
• After Huo Er reported the Sun Moon Empire’s attack, Zhang Lexuan ordered the White Lotus Army to ambush the enemy, then break off and use guerrilla warfare to pin its forces in the Southern Province.
• Zhang Lexuan and Huo Yuhao secretly left with the four maids and an elite squad, then headed north toward Mingdu while the White Lotus Army’s camp burned in the distance.
• The Third Prince saw through the White Lotus Army’s ambush and used his soul tools to expose its soldiers, allowing the Sun Moon Soul Engineer Legion to overwhelm them.
• The Third Prince burned the White Lotus Army’s camp with Blazing Sky Net and ordered his troops to keep killing as Centipede Leg Clones collected souls.

After Zhang Lexuan removed the silver patterns, a surge of desire shattered the mindscape suppressing her emotions, restoring her feelings and freeing her from the White Lotus Sect’s control. She and Huo Yuhao then discussed their costly operation and planned to search for Bei Bei in Mingdu, with Dean Xian as a possible ally.

• Huo Yuhao stayed turned away while Zhang Lexuan removed the silver patterns, and the resulting surge of desire shattered her mindscape and restored her emotions.
• Zhang Lexuan told Huo Yuhao she had recovered, then covered herself and sent him out while Shui Er helped her bathe.
• After they ate, Zhang Lexuan questioned whether their operation had been right because the White Lotus Army had suffered heavy casualties.
• Huo Yuhao argued that the White Lotus Army would have been destroyed without their strike and that their actions had helped it avoid being trapped by the Sun Moon Empire.
• Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan planned to search for Bei Bei in Mingdu and considered asking Dean Xian for help at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.

Zhang Lexuan’s Bright King’s Grace intent resurfaced, suppressing her emotions, and Huo Yuhao failed to counter it with World Domination. As they prepared to travel by night, Zhang Lexuan considered whether desire could overcome the White Lotus Sect’s methods, while the Third Prince pressed deeper into the Southern Province and alarmed the Southern Legion commander.

• Zhang Lexuan resisted the returning intent with her silver patterns, then asked Huo Yuhao to help her fight Bright King’s Grace.
• Huo Yuhao struck Zhang Lexuan with World Domination, but her false Soul Core rebounded the force and shattered his intent.
• Zhang Lexuan told Huo Yuhao that desire had previously broken the intent and said she had an idea to try.
• The Third Prince led his troops through the White Lotus Army camp, won successive battles, and continued pursuing the remnants into the Southern Province.
• The Southern Legion commander worried that the Third Prince was advancing too far into White Lotus Sect territory and sent an urgent battle report to Mingdu.

The Sun Moon Emperor and court learned that the White Lotus Army had breached the Southern Legion’s camp, killed two Beast King Legion commanders, and then been defeated by the Third Prince. Convinced that the Third Prince might be behind the rebellion, the emperor sent Xu Tianran to support him while ordering the other legions to secure the empire.

• Xu Tianran asked the Sun Moon Emperor about the Third Prince after his secret attempt to enlist the White Lotus Sect against him failed.
• The eunuch read reports describing the White Lotus Army’s raid, the deaths of two commanders, and the Third Prince’s counterattack and advance into the Southern Province.
• Third Prince’s supporters praised his victory, while Xu Tianran realized he had taken control of the front-line legions and become a threat.
• The Sun Moon Emperor suspected that the Third Prince had secretly controlled the White Lotus Sect and might have orchestrated the rebellion and the deaths of the Fourth Prince and Fifth Prince.
• The Sun Moon Emperor ordered Xu Tianran to take the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Legion and the Western Soul Engineer Legion to support the Third Prince.
• The Sun Moon Emperor ordered the remaining legions to secure other regions and guard against an invasion by the Star Luo Empire.

Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan’s group rested in a prosperous central Sun Moon Empire city while gathering intelligence, and the four maidservants persuaded Huo Yuhao to make barbecue. As Zhang Lexuan’s silver-pattern symptoms weakened as a way to affect her emotional suppression, she decided to seek outside help and try stimulating her desire herself.

• Huo Yuhao, Zhang Lexuan, and the others entered a central Sun Moon Empire city in disguises and gathered information about Mingdu and the White Lotus Sect.
• Zhang Lexuan continued trying to condense a Soul Core as she neared rank 90, while the four maidservants found the hotel’s food inferior to Huo Yuhao’s barbecue.
• Jin Er and the other maidservants asked Huo Yuhao to make barbecue, and he agreed.
• Zhang Lexuan found that her emotional fluctuations after removing the silver patterns were fading as the conception adapted to their effects.
• Zhang Lexuan considered how to use external forces to stimulate her desire, thought of Huo Yuhao, then decided to try doing it herself.

The Third Prince drove the White Lotus Army from the Southern Province, gathered a powerful force of Soul Engineers and soldiers, and defeated the Death God Messenger and Eunuch Gao. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao’s journey north grew complicated as Jin Er and the other maids pursued him, until Zhang Lexuan discovered them near Mingdu and a New Door God appeared.

• The Third Prince won repeated victories against White Lotus guerrilla forces and drew Soul Engineers, noble legions, and other soldiers into his command.
• The Death God Messenger and Eunuch Gao attacked the Third Prince’s camp, but he defeated them and strengthened the soldiers’ loyalty to him.
• Huo Yuhao used his cooking and a secret cultivation method to grow closer to the four maids as he traveled north with Zhang Lexuan and the others.
• Jin Er made the first move on Huo Yuhao, and Mu Er, Huo Er, and Shui Er eventually joined her in pursuing him.
• Near Mingdu, Zhang Lexuan went to discuss a problem with Huo Yuhao and discovered the four maids crowding around him; a New Door God appeared that night.

Huo Yuhao led Zhang Lexuan and the White Lotus Sect group into Mingdu through tunnels, then used the city as a base to gather intelligence and plan what to take before leaving. Meanwhile, Crown Prince Xu Tianran arrived in the Southern Province, intending to eliminate the Third Prince.

• Huo Yuhao rejected Jin Er's offer to stay at her family's residence because the Sun Moon Empire was secretly watching people connected to the Southern Province.
• Huo Yuhao dug a tunnel that brought Zhang Lexuan, the four maids, and the White Lotus Sect members into Mingdu, where they settled in a remote courtyard.
• Zhang Lexuan planned to contact Xian Lin'er, while the White Lotus Sect members used the tunnels to investigate Mingdu and the Xi Shui Alliance through Ghost Street.
• Huo Yuhao spent three days digging tunnels and considered taking the imperial harem, the Sun Moon Emperor, weapons, martial souls, bloodlines, and Fortune before leaving Mingdu.
• Xu Tianran arrived in the Southern Province with two army corps, and the Third Prince stayed away and sent him a letter acknowledging his arrival.
• Xu Tianran decided that he would deal with the Third Prince himself.