Chapter Summaries

Dai Tu escaped Ye Xishui’s first attack, but she pursued him through the Evil Demon Forest as his spatial abilities weakened. Long Xiaoyao appeared ahead and blocked his path, leaving him trapped between two Limit Douluos.

• Ye Xishui struck during the brief gap before Dai Tu’s Intangibility activated, but he fired the Light of Time and Space and escaped.
• Ye Xishui recognized the Evil Eye Tyrant’s skill and pursued Dai Tu as he fled toward the outskirts of the Evil Demon Forest.
• Dai Tu repeatedly used Kamui to evade Ye Xishui, exhausting his Soul Power and spiritual power as she closed the distance.
• Dai Tu sensed that the space around him was being sealed, realized Ye Xishui was not responsible, and stopped fleeing.
• Long Xiaoyao appeared before Dai Tu and blocked his path.

Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao cornered Dai Tu, but Ye Xishui offered to spare him if he joined the Holy Spirit Cult. Dai Tu rejected the path in his heart, yet faced the danger that refusing could cost him his life.

• Dai Tu stopped fleeing when Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao blocked his escape, and he prepared to fight them to the death.
• Ye Xishui praised Dai Tu’s unusual eyes and abilities, saying they showed the potential to become an Evil Soul Master.
• Ye Xishui offered to forgive Dai Tu for killing the Zhongli Three Brothers if he joined the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Dai Tu considered Ye Xishui’s offer but knew he could not join the cult because of his own goals and the people he had to protect.
• Dai Tu weighed the danger of refusing as Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao remained ready to kill him.

Dai Tu agreed to join the Holy Spirit Cult in exchange for resources, intelligence, and freedom from control. As Ye Xishui prepared to introduce him to the elders, he planned to use the cult temporarily and eventually escape or turn against it.

• Dai Tu negotiated terms with Ye Xishui and agreed to join the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Ye Xishui led Dai Tu through the cult’s hidden underground headquarters in the Evil Demon Forest.
• Ye Xishui entered the council hall to summon the elders and formally introduce Dai Tu.
• Powerful cult members gathered in the hall while Dai Tu waited outside and assessed their auras.
• Dai Tu resolved to pose as the Holy Son while using the cult’s resources and intelligence for his own plans.

Dai Tu entered the Holy Spirit Cult’s council hall, where Ye Xishui named him its Holy Son and the elders challenged his appointment. He offered to defend his position against any elder, and Venom Scorpion prepared to test him.

• Dai Tu entered the council hall and saw the Holy Spirit Cult’s gathered forces and its eerie surroundings.
• Ye Xishui introduced Dai Tu as the Holy Son, second only to herself and Long Xiaoyao.
• Venom Scorpion and other elders objected to Dai Tu’s appointment because he was only a five-ringed Soul King.
• Dai Tu offered to let any elder take his position if they could force him back one step.
• The elders laughed at Dai Tu’s challenge, and Venom Scorpion began to threaten him.

Dai Tu defeated Venom Scorpion’s attempts to test him and was formally named the Holy Spirit Cult’s Holy Son by Ye Xishui. He resolved to stay inside the evil organization so he could eventually end its darkness.

• Venom Scorpion attacked Dai Tu, but Dai Tu evaded his strike with a spatial soul skill.
• Venom Scorpion’s Myriad Souls Lock Heaven failed when Dai Tu’s spiritual power frightened the resentful spirits into retreating.
• Ye Xishui stopped Venom Scorpion from escalating the fight and asked whether any other elder wished to challenge Dai Tu.
• Ye Xishui declared Dai Tu the Holy Son, and the elders bowed to him.
• Dai Tu judged the Holy Spirit Cult more evil and dangerous than he had expected, but resolved to remain and end its darkness.

Dai Tu challenged the Holy Spirit Cult elders’ doubts about his appointment as Holy Son and demonstrated overwhelming spiritual power against Blood Butcher. The elders were left stunned by the strength hidden behind Dai Tu’s five-ring Soul King rank.

• Dai Tu told the elders that he stood above them through his own strength, not merely the Supreme Cult Leader’s favor.
• Blood Butcher, a rank ninety-two Titled Douluo, stepped forward and used his aura to pressure Dai Tu.
• Dai Tu remained unmoved, then unleashed spiritual pressure that overwhelmed the council hall and forced Blood Butcher to struggle.
• Dai Tu asked whether Blood Butcher could withstand a single move from him, while Blood Butcher realized Dai Tu was far stronger than an ordinary five-ring Soul King.

Dai Tu proved his strength to the Holy Spirit Cult's elders and won their obedience under Ye Xishui's authority. Seven days later, Ye Xishui summoned him and demanded that he undergo the cult's Soul Imprint ritual to prove his loyalty.

• Dai Tu overwhelmed Blood Butcher with his spiritual power, ending the elders' challenge.
• Dai Tu pledged himself to Ye Xishui, who declared that the Holy Son's words carried her authority, and the elders obeyed.
• Dai Tu spent seven days attending high-level meetings and gradually earned Ye Xishui's trust.
• Ye Xishui told Dai Tu that the Holy Spirit Cult's core members underwent the Soul Imprint ritual and said he could not be an exception.

Dai Tu deceived Ye Xishui into believing she had bound him with a Soul Imprint, preserving his freedom within the Holy Spirit Cult. Ye Xishui then revealed the cult’s Soul Ring Ascension Altar, which used sacrificed Soul Beast souls to increase Soul Ring age.

• Dai Tu accepted Ye Xishui’s Soul Imprint and secretly used his spiritual power to fake its effects.
• Ye Xishui sensed the supposed imprint and recognized Dai Tu as the Holy Spirit Cult’s true Holy Son.
• Ye Xishui led Dai Tu through a hidden passage into an underground chamber containing a colossal altar.
• Ye Xishui explained that the Soul Ring Ascension Altar refined sacrificed Soul Beast souls and injected them into Soul Rings to raise their age.

Dai Tu discovered that the Soul Ring Ascension Altar could raise rings by consuming soul beast souls, and secretly drew on its stored soul energy to strengthen his spiritual sea. He also sent some of that energy to Electrolux, hoping to awaken the sleeping demigod.

• Ye Xishui told Dai Tu that the altar could raise a soul ring to one hundred thousand years by sacrificing at least ten ten-thousand-year soul beast souls.
• Dai Tu asked to use the altar and considered researching a gentler way to raise soul rings for the Body Sect and Spirit Pagoda.
• After Ye Xishui left, Dai Tu sensed that the altar held a vast reserve of soul energy from past sacrifices.
• Dai Tu secretly connected his spiritual power to the altar and drew its stored energy into his spiritual sea.
• Dai Tu used some of the energy to heal and strengthen his spiritual sea, then directed the rest toward the sleeping Electrolux.

Dai Tu used the altar’s soul energy to revive Electrolux in his sea of consciousness. Electrolux agreed to hide his presence, help Dai Tu remain undercover, and study the altar, leaving Dai Tu confident that they could turn it to their advantage.

• Dai Tu repeatedly guided soul energy into Electrolux until Electrolux awakened and recognized him.
• Electrolux sensed the altar’s dense resentment and soul energy, and Dai Tu explained how he had joined the Holy Spirit Cult and found the Soul Ring Ascension Altar.
• Electrolux warned Dai Tu about the danger of deceiving a ninety-ninth-rank Limit Douluo, and Dai Tu asked him to conceal his aura while he continued his undercover work.
• Electrolux agreed to recover using the altar’s soul energy, strengthen Dai Tu’s spiritual power, and study how to make the altar more gentle.
• Electrolux told Dai Tu to keep the woman surnamed Ye under control while he studied the altar, and Dai Tu returned from his sea of consciousness determined to use it.