Recaps

Xu Tian bargained with Tai Yi to preserve a descendant of his family, offering information about a Divine Position in return. Tai Yi agreed to spare a granddaughter after the God of Destruction revealed that the position belonged to a loyal subordinate and asked him to protect its hereditary line.

• Xu Tian asked Tai Yi to preserve his bloodline, but Tai Yi initially refused and threatened to question his son instead.
• Xu Tian offered information about a Divine Position if Tai Yi spared one descendant, explaining that only someone with the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon Martial Soul could inherit it.
• Tai Yi displayed his two Martial Souls and eighteen Spirit Rings, then agreed to spare a granddaughter but not a grandson.
• Xu Tian believed the surviving descendant could eventually awaken the hereditary Martial Soul and restore the Xu Family’s influence through the Purple Brilliant God’s inheritance.
• The God of Destruction told Tai Yi that the Divine Position belonged to the loyal Second-Level God Purple Brilliant God and asked him to preserve the family line.
• Tai Yi agreed to leave a descendant, and the God of Destruction promised to ensure that the descendant could awaken only the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon Martial Soul and become Tai Yi’s ally upon becoming the new Purple Brilliant God.

The God King of Destruction explained that Purple Brilliant had died saving the God Kings after being deceived by the Dragon God, and asked Tai Yi to recover its surviving origin and divine position. Tai Yi spared one of Xu Tian’s granddaughters in exchange for answers, learning how the Sun Moon Empire acquired soul-tool technology and where the inheritance site was hidden.

• The God King of Destruction told Tai Yi how he had taken in Purple Brilliant, who later died blocking the Dragon God’s prepared attack on the five God Kings.
• The God King of Destruction asked Tai Yi to seek Purple Brilliant’s remaining origin and divine position so they could be restored and inherited.
• Tai Yi agreed to spare one of Xu Tian’s granddaughters and asked about the Sun Moon Empire’s soul tools and the place of divine position inheritance.
• Xu Tian explained that he had found ancient Storage Soul Tools containing manufacturing methods and Level Nine weapons, which the empire had used to develop soul tools for its army.
• Xu Tian revealed that the inheritance site was beneath the Hall of Ancestral Offerings in the imperial palace, accessed by turning the incense burner.

Tai Yi forced Xu Tian to lead him to the Divine Position Inheritance site beneath the Hall of Ancestral Offerings, while keeping Xu Tian and Xu Chenghuang under guard. Xu Tian revealed the Sun Moon Empire’s pact with a fallen god, and the group reached the purple stone door to the inheritance site.

• Tai Yi took Xu Tian’s Storage Ring, placed Soul Power inside his body, and brought him toward the Hall of Ancestral Offerings with Xu Chenghuang and Bi Ji.
• Tai Yi ordered Bi Ji to seal the palace so no one could escape, then made Xu Tian point out the hidden hall.
• Tai Yi killed two palace maids in the hall, and Xu Tian opened a passage beneath the altar.
• Xu Tian told Xu Chenghuang that their family had inherited the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon Martial Soul through a pact with a fallen god, and that Xu Chenghuang had once been the strongest candidate for the Divine Position.
• Tai Yi, Xu Tian, and Xu Chenghuang descended through the passage and arrived at a glowing purple stone door leading to the inheritance site.

Tai Yi found the Purple Brilliant God in the Xu Family’s place of inheritance and learned that the God King of Destruction could restore him. The God King reclaimed the essence from the Xu Family bloodline, leaving Xu Tian and Xu Chenghuang weakened as Purple Brilliant prepared to recover.

• Tai Yi, Xu Tian, and Xu Chenghuang entered the inheritance cavern, where a dragon sculpture on the Sacrificial Altar awakened as the Purple Brilliant God.
• Xu Tian and Xu Chenghuang begged the Purple Brilliant God to destroy Tai Yi, but the dragon instead asked whether Tai Yi was the God King of Destruction’s successor.
• Tai Yi explained that the God King of Destruction had forgiven Purple Brilliant and wanted to know whether any of his essence remained.
• Purple Brilliant revealed that his essence was nearly exhausted, and the God King of Destruction began restoring him with purple divine power.
• The God King of Destruction reclaimed the essence from the Xu Family bloodline, draining Xu Tian and Xu Chenghuang and causing them to lose their Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon Martial Soul.
• The God King of Destruction told Tai Yi to have Purple Brilliant absorb the recovered essence so he could return to the Divine Realm and recover.

Tai Yi killed Xu Tian and Xu Chenghuang after agreeing to preserve two unborn martial-soul heirs of the Xu Family. He seized their Soul Tools and a valuable Level 9 Soul Engineer’s diary, then left the inheritance grounds and sealed the passage.

• Purple Brilliant asked Tai Yi to spare some of the Xu Family’s bloodline, and Tai Yi agreed to leave one boy and one girl alive under his watch.
• Purple Brilliant absorbed his gathered essence while Xu Tian and Xu Chenghuang faced their impending deaths.
• Tai Yi struck down Xu Tian and Xu Chenghuang, then took their Storage Soul Tools.
• Tai Yi found Xu Tian’s Level Nine Soul Tools, fixed-charge Soul Cannons, and the diary of a Level 9 Soul Engineer, which he kept for the Spirit Hall Empire to study.
• Tai Yi burned the unwanted items and the bodies, returned to the Hall of Ancestral Offerings, and closed the passage to the inheritance grounds.

Tai Yi took control of the palace and spared Xu Chengxin’s two infant children under a promise he had made to their father. He killed the remaining people gathered in the square and left Bi Ji to watch the fire while he went to the Soul Tool research institute.

• Bi Ji gathered the palace’s thousands of occupants in a square and killed those who tried to escape.
• Tai Yi identified Xu Chengxin and told her that her two infants would live because he had promised to spare two members of Xu Tian’s bloodline.
• Bi Ji took both children as Tai Yi ordered, and Xu Chengxin handed over her daughter after saying goodbye to them.
• Tai Yi rang the Donghuang Bell three times, killing everyone else in the square, then burned their bodies.
• Tai Yi told Bi Ji to watch the fire and keep the infants alive while he went elsewhere in Bright Capital.

Tai Yi attacked the Soul Tool Research Institute in Bright Capital, killing its guards, Soul Douluos, and nearly a thousand workers. He reached the underground center, where the continent’s leading Soul Tool researchers faced him with their weapons aimed.

• Tai Yi entered the Research Institute and defeated the soldiers guarding it.
• Tai Yi killed three hidden Soul Douluos with attacks infused with Sun True Fire.
• Tai Yi reached the Soul Tool workshops and used the Donghuang Bell to kill nearly a thousand researchers.
• Tai Yi broke through the Institute’s restrictions and entered its underground research center.
• Tai Yi told the specialists there that their Soul Tools could not harm him, leaving them uncertain how to respond.

Tai Yi forced the Soul Engineers at the research institute to choose between serving him and dying, then took control of their Soul Tool research. The twenty-five survivors agreed to work for him and began their first task of handing over the institute’s records and Soul Tools.

• Tai Yi offered to spare the Soul Engineers and their families if they taught his people and researched Soul Tools that benefited ordinary people under supervision.
• The Level Seven Soul Engineer urged the others to resist, then tried to destroy the research, but Tai Yi struck him down with the Donghuang Bell.
• After the Soul Douluo died, several Soul Engineers tried to wreck the research, but Tai Yi’s Donghuang Bell projection trapped and repelled them.
• Tai Yi killed everyone who tried to destroy the research and threatened to kill their families as well.
• The twenty-five remaining Soul Engineers agreed to serve Tai Yi, who ordered them to hand over every Soul Tool record and device in the institute.

Tai Yi left Sky Dream Ice Silkworm in charge of the Research Institute, assigning him to guard its twenty-five Soul Engineers and study Level Nine Soul Tools. After collecting the institute’s Soul Tools and research records, Tai Yi departed to deal with the people throughout the Bright Capital.

• Tai Yi summoned Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to the Research Institute and gave him two Level Nine Soul Tools to test.
• Tai Yi asked Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to guard the twenty-five Soul Engineers and study the Soul Tools, with the hope that he would become a Level 9 Soul Engineer.
• The Soul Engineers handed Tai Yi several thousand Soul Tools and the institute’s copied research records.
• Tai Yi recorded the Soul Engineers’ names, addresses, and household details, promising to protect their families during the Bright Capital purge.
• Tai Yi ordered the Soul Engineers to research Soul Tools for ordinary people and teach Tian Meng, then left the institute to deal with the Bright Capital.

Tai Yi seized Bright Capital for the Spirit Hall Empire and gave its residents half an hour to submit before he began a purge. He gathered the families of the twenty-five Soul Engineers at the central square, then sealed them inside a phantom of the Donghuang Bell as the deadline expired.

• Tai Yi learned from Di Tian and the Demon King that they had blocked most escapes from Bright Capital, then ordered them to begin purging the city.
• Tai Yi announced that the Sun Moon Empire's royal family was dead and offered residents half an hour to submit to the Spirit Hall Empire.
• Tai Yi, Di Tian, and the Demon King brought the families of the twenty-five Soul Engineers to the central square; one family that attacked Tai Yi was killed, while some others refused to leave their homes.
• When the deadline passed, Tai Yi declared that those who had not submitted had forfeited their chance, and formed a phantom of the Donghuang Bell around the people gathered in the square.

Tai Yi ordered Di Tian and the other Demon Marshals to kill everyone in Bright Capital outside the central square. After an hour of slaughter, the city was destroyed and left empty except for the people protected in the square.

• Tai Yi commanded the seven Demon Marshals present to kill everyone outside his protection.
• Snow Empress, Scarlet King, Xiong Jun, and Myriad Demon King attacked across Bright Capital, while Di Tian and Demon Empress killed people trying to reach the central square.
• Demon Empress flooded a district, and Ice Empress and Snow Empress froze it solid with everyone inside.
• Scarlet King killed people who reached the square’s barrier, while Bi Ji and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm killed those who fled toward the palace or Research Institute.
• After an hour, the Demon Marshals had frozen one half of Bright Capital and burned the other, leaving only the people in the central square alive.

After purging Bright Capital, Tai Yi promised the survivors safety under the Spirit Hall Empire and restored the scorched land to grassland. Di Tian announced that the Evil Emperor had arrived, and Tai Yi tried to begin talks, but the Evil Emperor insulted him and questioned Di Tian’s association with humans.

• Tai Yi released the frozen buildings in Bright Capital, and the Ice Empress, the Snow Empress, and the Demon King cleared away the bodies and meltwater.
• Tai Yi told the survivors they could settle in the intact houses if they served the Spirit Hall Empire, and they pledged their loyalty.
• Tai Yi used his life-infused Soul Power to turn the scorched ground into grassland before going to the city walls.
• Di Tian told Tai Yi that the Evil Emperor had come, and Tai Yi prepared to negotiate or fight him.
• The Evil Emperor arrived as a gigantic eye with tentacles, and Tai Yi asked him to take human form before they talked.
• The Evil Emperor demanded to know who Tai Yi was and rebuked Di Tian for keeping company with humans.