Recaps

Chen Xin wounded Dai Weisi and escaped, leaving the Crown Prince humiliated and furious. Blood One urged Dai Weisi to improve his cultivation before others surpassed him, while the Wu brothers arrived at Dai Weisi’s residence.

• Dai Weisi tried to stop Chen Xin, but Chen Xin wounded him and escaped after warning that he would fight Spirit Hall alongside his father.
• Dai Weisi berated his guards and ordered them to bring Wu Chao and Wu Ren to his residence instead of pursuing Chen Xin to Count Chen.
• Blood One reminded Dai Weisi that Chen Xin had rapidly advanced through divine cultivation while Dai Weisi had made no progress, prompting Dai Weisi to hesitate.
• The guards brought Wu Chao and Wu Ren to Dai Weisi, who welcomed the brothers into his room.

Dai Weisi warned Wu Chao and Wu Ren not to target anyone beyond civilian soul masters from small towns, then worried that the evil technique would make ministers stronger than the imperial family. He took out the technique’s cultivation method and considered learning it himself, while Blood One watched from outside and anticipated the spread of cultivation across the Star Luo Empire.

• Dai Weisi saw contempt and killing intent beneath Wu Chao and Wu Ren’s outward respect and summoned them to discuss their cultivation.
• Dai Weisi told the brothers that Wang Jian and others had been killed by Chen Xin, who cultivated the same evil technique.
• Wu Chao and Wu Ren denied harming anyone from the academy, and Dai Weisi warned them not to target anyone beyond civilian soul masters from small towns.
• The brothers left to stabilize their Soul King cultivation, and Dai Weisi worried that the technique would leave him and the imperial family weaker than the ministers.
• Dai Weisi took out the cultivation method and wondered whether he should cultivate the evil technique, while Blood One watched outside and anticipated its spread through the empire.

Blood One manipulated Dai Weisi into cultivating the evil art by trapping him with the bleeding Wu brothers and releasing Blood Poison. Dai Weisi drank their blood, gained a level of Soul Power, and realized he had become an Evil Soul Master, while Blood One left expecting chaos to spread through the Star Luo Empire.

• Blood One ambushed Wu Chao and Wu Ren, slit their arteries, and locked them in Dai Weisi's room as his first taste of meat.
• Dai Weisi tried to save the Wu brothers, but Blood One's Soul Power blocked him, and Blood Poison intensified his desire for blood.
• After the Wu brothers accused Dai Weisi of plotting to use them as cultivation fuel, he succumbed to the temptation and cultivated the evil art with Blood One's help.
• Dai Weisi drained the Wu brothers' blood and later awoke to find their corpses, discovering that his Soul Power had risen from level forty-eight to level forty-nine.
• Blood One admitted that he had magnified Dai Weisi's desires and left, expecting Dai Weisi's corruption to throw the Star Luo Empire into chaos.

Dai Weisi became an Evil Soul Master, secretly killing people and absorbing their blood until Zhu Zhuyun discovered him in the act. After Zhu Zhuyun confided in her mother, Dai Yu learned that the emperor, empress, ministers, and Dai Weisi had all turned to evil cultivation to oppose Spirit Hall.

• Dai Weisi began hunting people for their blood, reached level fifty, and then had his guards capture soul masters for his cultivation.
• Zhu Zhuyun investigated Dai Weisi's suspicious behavior and discovered that he was cultivating an evil art.
• Zhu Zhuyun entered Dai Weisi's room and found him draining a victim's blood beside dried corpses and captured soul masters.
• Dai Weisi claimed he had been set up, but Zhu Zhuyun rejected his excuse and left while he continued cultivating.
• Dai Yu found Zhu Zhuyun distressed, and Zhu Zhuyun told her that Dai Weisi, the emperor, the empress, and more than ten ministers had become Evil Soul Masters.

Dai Yu and Zhu Lingyu chose to pursue the evil cultivation method to avenge their family and empire, while Zhu Zhuyun left the Star Luo Empire with her young cousin Zhu Zhuchuan. Dai Yu and Zhu Lingyu went to see Dai Feng and Zhu Lingxin, but Dai Feng told them not to interrupt their cultivation.

• Dai Yu embraced the evil method as a chance to avenge Zhu Lingtian and rejected Zhu Zhuyun’s plea not to become an Evil Soul Master.
• Dai Yu urged Zhu Zhuyun to leave the Star Luo Empire, gave her a Storage Ring, and warned that the empire would not survive even if it defeated Spirit Hall.
• Zhu Lingyu gave Zhu Zhuyun a bracelet and asked her to take his youngest son, Zhu Zhuchuan, away with her.
• Zhu Zhuyun left for the former Balak Kingdom with Zhu Zhuchuan, while Dai Yu and Zhu Lingyu resolved to cultivate the evil method.
• Dai Yu and Zhu Lingyu went to find Dai Feng and Zhu Lingxin, but Dai Feng told them to handle matters themselves and not disturb their cultivation.

Dai Yu and Zhu Lingyu discovered that Dai Feng and the Empress had become Evil Soul Masters and learned how powerfully the forbidden art increased Soul Power. After receiving the cultivation method, they began using it against soul master clans they considered likely to betray the Star Luo Empire, leaving several clans destroyed and Star Luo City in greater panic.

• Dai Yu and Zhu Lingyu entered Dai Feng's room and found dried corpses and captured commoner soul masters being prepared for the forbidden art.
• Dai Yu explained that Dai Weisi had also become an Evil Soul Master, and that she and her second brother had hidden Zhu Zhuyun and Zhu Zhuchuan to preserve a pure royal bloodline.
• Dai Feng revealed that he and the Empress had each gained two or three ranks in a month and had reached level ninety-seven Super Douluo.
• Dai Feng gave Dai Yu and Zhu Lingyu the forbidden art's method, warning them not to spread it further.
• Dai Yu and Zhu Lingyu returned to prepare for cultivation, intending to target soul master clans they believed would side with Spirit Hall.
• Within three days, several soul master clans in Heaven Dou City disappeared overnight, deepening the panic in Star Luo City.

Zhu Zhuyun and Zhu Zhuchuan hid under assumed names in Far North City, but Zhu Zhuchuan exposed his Evil-Eyed White Tiger Martial Soul to local children. Leng Qianji recognized it and told Leng Feng, while Zhu Zhuyun decided to flee the city with her brother that night.

• Zhu Zhuyun brought Zhu Zhuchuan to Far North City after finding the Balak Kingdom occupied by the Spirit Hall Empire.
• Zhu Zhuchuan revealed his Martial Soul to children after they mocked him, showing the Evil-Eyed White Tiger.
• Leng Qianji recognized the Star Luo Imperial Family's hereditary Martial Soul and reported the siblings to Leng Feng.
• Leng Feng decided to investigate the siblings and hurried with Leng Qianji to their residence.
• Zhu Zhuchuan told Zhu Zhuyun what he had done, and she ordered him to pack so they could leave Far North City that night.

Zhu Zhuyun and Zhu Zhuchuan were captured in Far North City after Leng Feng discovered their connection to the Star Luo Imperial Family, and Zhu Zhuyun asked to speak directly with the Pope. In Spirit City, Tai Yi and Qian Renxue learned that the former Heaven Dou territories were fully under Spirit Hall rule and discussed the coming fall of the Star Luo Empire and Qian Daoliu's stakeout of Slaughter City.

• Leng Feng and Leng Qianji confronted Zhu Zhuyun and Zhu Zhuchuan, then captured them after Zhu Zhuyun tried to resist.
• Leng Feng questioned the siblings about their ties to the Star Luo Imperial Family and threatened to send them to Spirit City for interrogation.
• Zhu Zhuyun agreed to reveal what she knew and asked to meet the Pope; Leng Feng ordered Leng Qianji to imprison the siblings and take them to Spirit City.
• The next morning, Leng Feng carried the siblings toward Spirit City.
• Tai Yi and Qian Renxue reviewed a report confirming Spirit Hall's control over the former Heaven Dou territories, and Qian Renxue said only the Star Luo Empire remained.
• Tai Yi said the empire's fall would let him complete his fifth God Trial, then wondered whether Qian Daoliu had found anything near Slaughter City.

Tai Yi and Qian Renxue arranged to contain Bibi Dong and stop her evil technique from spreading while they focused on their God Trials. After Leng Feng brought Zhu Zhuyun and her younger brother to Spirit City, Zhu Zhuyun offered confidential information about the Star Luo Empire in exchange for her brother’s life.

• Qian Renxue told Tai Yi that Qian Daoliu had found a divine, murderous aura at Slaughter City and captured a Title Douluo who killed himself rather than reveal anything.
• Tai Yi ordered Slaughter City's entrances sealed and planned ambushes to stop people from entering, then sent a force led by Qian Jun, Jiang Mo, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei to replace Qian Daoliu.
• Qian Daoliu returned to Spirit City and advised Tai Yi and Qian Renxue to prioritize their God Trials while preventing Bibi Dong from leaving Slaughter City or being discovered alive.
• Leng Qianqiu brought Leng Feng to Pope Palace, where Leng Feng presented Zhu Zhuyun and her younger brother after discovering their Martial Souls were the Hell Spirit Cat and Evil-Eyed White Tiger.
• Zhu Zhuyun offered confidential information about the Star Luo Empire in exchange for her younger brother's safety, and Tai Yi promised to spare them if the information satisfied him.

Zhu Zhuyun revealed that the Star Luo Empire’s ruling family and ministers had become Evil Soul Masters after learning a blood-based cultivation method from a man called Blood One. Tai Yi spared Zhu Zhuyun and Zhu Zhuchuan but confined them in Spirit City, while he remained uncertain about Bibi Dong’s reason for spreading the method.

• Zhu Zhuyun explained that she and Zhu Zhuchuan had fled the Star Luo Empire because its rulers and ministers had become Evil Soul Masters who cultivated with human blood.
• Zhu Zhuyun said a man had given the method to Dai Feng and Dai Weisi, and Qian Daoliu recognized her description as matching the man he had captured outside Slaughter City.
• Zhu Zhuyun reported that Blood One had stayed in Star Luo City to help the empire fight Spirit Hall, leaving Tai Yi to suspect Bibi Dong had another motive for spreading the method.
• Tai Yi agreed to spare Zhu Zhuyun and Zhu Zhuchuan but ordered them to remain under Spirit Hall surveillance in Spirit City, and he agreed to help them obtain a Spirit Ring when Zhu Zhuchuan needed one.
• Tai Yi placed the siblings near Snow Empress and the other ferocious beasts, while Qian Renxue and Tai Yi planned to use them to stabilize Spirit Hall’s rule over the Star Luo Empire.

Tai Yi set out for the Star Luo Empire to capture the person spreading Bibi Dong’s evil cultivation technique and uncover her plans. He saw the technique had turned provinces into killing grounds, then reached Star Luo City as its nobles debated whether the whole nation should adopt it.

• Tai Yi rewarded Leng Feng with a Spirit Bone for helping capture two people from the Star Luo Empire, then discussed his plan with Qian Renxue and Qian Daoliu.
• Tai Yi decided to infiltrate Star Luo City, capture the technique’s spreader, and investigate the Star Luo Empire before war began.
• The next morning, Tai Yi flew toward Star Luo City with Snow Empress and seven others inside his Donghuang Bell.
• Tai Yi saw that soldiers and officials across the Star Luo Empire were using the evil technique to prey on civilians and attack Soul Master clans.
• Tai Yi continued toward Star Luo City rather than risk alerting his target, while nobles there argued over whether everyone should cultivate the evil technique.

Tai Yi captured Dai Yu and forced her to reveal where Blood One could be found by threatening her children, Zhu Zhuyun and Zhu Zhuchuan. He left Dai Yu to the people she had captured so they could take revenge while he pursued Blood One.

• Tai Yi waited in Dai Yu’s secret chamber and had Snow Empress subdue her when she returned to Star Luo City.
• Tai Yi demanded to know where Blood One was, but Dai Yu refused until Tai Yi revealed that her children were safe in Spirit City and threatened their future if she stayed silent.
• Dai Yu told Tai Yi where Dai Feng’s manor for Blood One was and named places Blood One liked to visit.
• Tai Yi brought in Dai Yu’s former captives, warned them to stay in the secret chamber after killing her, and left.

After arranging for Dai Yu’s victims to remain at her house, Tai Yi tracked Blood One, a servant of Bibi Dong, from Star Luo City toward the Star Luo Royal Soul Master Academy. Tai Yi intercepted him before he could attack the students, and Di Tian and Snow Empress knocked Blood One unconscious.

• Dai Yu’s victims tortured her to death and stayed at her house as Tai Yi had instructed.
• Tai Yi found Blood One watching Star Luo City from a bell tower and had Sky Dream Ice Silkworm listen to him.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm told Tai Yi that Blood One wanted slaughter to benefit Bibi Dong and was heading out of the city.
• Tai Yi realized Blood One was targeting the Star Luo Royal Soul Master Academy and attacked him before he could reach it.
• Blood One recognized Tai Yi and charged at him, but Di Tian and Snow Empress appeared and knocked Blood One unconscious.

Tai Yi captured Blood One and led his group back toward Spirit City, eliminating Evil Soul Masters along the way. After rescuing townspeople, he invited them to seek temporary refuge in Spirit Province, and the news spread while Star Luo City’s rulers remained absorbed in evil cultivation.

• Di Tian kept Blood One unconscious and carried him as Tai Yi, Snow Empress, and the other ferocious beasts flew toward Spirit City.
• Tai Yi and the ferocious beasts attacked a town where Evil Soul Masters were seizing civilians; Ice Empress killed the minister who had become a Title Douluo.
• Tai Yi told the rescued people that they could temporarily relocate to Spirit Province and promised to clear the route to the border.
• The townspeople and nearby villagers began packing and preparing to travel to Spirit Province as news of Tai Yi’s offer spread.
• Star Luo City received the news but took no action because its emperor, empress, princes, and other authorities were cultivating evil arts.

Tai Yi returned to Spirit City with Blood One, an Evil Soul Master tied to Bibi Dong, and questioned him about the Slaughter City and the benefits Bibi Dong gained from the evil technique. After Qian Renxue repeatedly burned and Tai Yi restored Blood One’s soul, Blood One’s defiance gave way to fear, leaving him ready to be questioned.

• Tai Yi’s group cleared Evil Soul Masters from their route and directed civilians toward Spirit Province, triggering a mass migration from the Star Luo Empire.
• Tai Yi arranged for refugees to be received at the border, excluding Evil Soul Masters, then brought Blood One to the Pope Palace.
• Blood One woke in the Pope Palace and tried to circulate his Soul Power, but Qian Daoliu struck him with sacred Soul Power that countered his evil cultivation.
• Tai Yi asked Blood One about the Slaughter City and what Bibi Dong gained from the killings, but Blood One refused to betray his master.
• Qian Renxue burned Blood One’s soul with the Angel God’s divinity, while Tai Yi restored it, repeating the torture ten times.
• Tai Yi threatened to torture Blood One’s body as well as his soul, and Blood One lost his defiance and became afraid.

Tai Yi learned that Bibi Dong was using Slaughter City to create Title Douluo and gain power from the killing they caused. He decided to prepare an attack on the Star Luo Empire, leaving scouts to locate Dai Feng’s ministers before the army moved.

• Blood One told Tai Yi that Bibi Dong had changed Slaughter City’s rules, creating subordinate Title Douluo from blood and rewarding those who earned her favor.
• Blood One revealed that the slaughter caused by cultivators of Bibi Dong’s method gave her killing energy to help her cultivate toward godhood.
• Tai Yi concluded that Bibi Dong’s plan posed a growing threat and that the people of the Star Luo Empire needed help.
• Blood One shattered his meridians and died, and Tai Yi ordered his corpse removed.
• Tai Yi, Qian Renxue, and Qian Daoliu agreed to prepare an expedition against the Star Luo Empire and send troops the next day.
• Tai Yi sent fast scouts to locate the ministers Dai Feng had dispatched to the provinces so they could be attacked all at once.

As the Star Luo Empire descended into chaos, Tai Yi assembled Spirit Hall Empire’s forces and set out to invade, declaring that they would save its people. Dai Feng prepared to resist with his newly gained Rank 99 strength, while escaped soldiers mistakenly saw the coming war as a chance to enter Spirit Hall territory.

• Forbidden-art users and former soldiers built forces across the Star Luo Empire as civilians fled the violence.
• Tai Yi ordered allied factions to deploy at least half their Soul Kings and above, then led more than three thousand Soul Masters out of Spirit City.
• Dai Feng learned of the advance and ordered his ministers to recall their soldiers, threatening to use deserters as blood food.
• Deserters formed groups and headed toward Spirit Hall territory, unaware that its provincial armies and local Spirit Halls remained in place to stop them.
• Dai Feng resolved to defend the ruined Star Luo Empire, trusting his Rank 99 strength, Zhu Lingxin, their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and the remaining Title Douluo.

Tai Yi sent Scarlet King and Bear Lord to rescue the people hiding in Dai Yu’s house before Dai Feng could summon them. After discovering Dai Yu’s remains, Dai Feng blamed Spirit Hall and rallied the Star Luo Empire for war.

• Tai Yi realized Dai Feng’s recall of his forces meant a final confrontation and ordered Scarlet King and Bear Lord to evacuate the people in Dai Yu’s house.
• Scarlet King and Bear Lord rescued the people and brought them somewhere safe before returning to Tai Yi.
• Dai Feng summoned Zhu Lingyu and Dai Weisi, then went to find Dai Yu when she failed to appear.
• Dai Feng found Dai Yu’s mutilated remains and concluded that Spirit Hall had arranged her death.
• Dai Feng told his assembled forces that Spirit Hall had killed Dai Yu, then rallied them to fight and avenge her.

Dai Feng led the Star Luo Empire’s forces to Dragonrise City to make a final stand against the Spirit Hall Empire, while Tai Yi brought his army to meet them. The two sides began charging into battle, with the Spirit Hall Empire holding the stronger high-level fighters.

• Dai Feng moved his forces from Star Luo City to Dragonrise City and ordered them to prepare for a decisive battle within two days.
• Dai Feng gathered more than ten Title Douluo and twenty thousand Soul Masters, while Tai Yi arrived with a little over three thousand fighters from the Spirit Hall Empire.
• Dai Feng and Tai Yi accused each other of causing the suffering of the people and defended their reasons for fighting.
• Dai Feng completed Martial Soul Possession and led the Star Luo Empire’s forces in a charge against the Spirit Hall Empire.
• Tai Yi, Qian Renxue, Qian Daoliu, and their allies completed Martial Soul Possession and prepared to meet the attack.

Tai Yi helped the Spirit Hall Empire overwhelm the Star Luo Empire’s troops while Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile Douluo confronted Dai Feng. Dai Feng and Zhu Lingxin’s bloody Hell White Tiger was shattered by Qian Daoliu, leaving them badly injured on the battlefield.

• Tai Yi used Soul Vibration and Golden Crow Sun-Piercing Divine Light to cripple and kill Star Luo Empire soldiers, then healed Spirit Hall Empire fighters with Myriad Life Bell Chime.
• Tai Yi joined Qian Renxue and drove back an attacker while they faced two Super Douluos; he avoided confronting Dai Feng because Dai Feng could combine with Zhu Lingxin.
• Dai Feng and Zhu Lingxin formed their blood-red Hell White Tiger and attacked Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile Douluo.
• Golden Crocodile absorbed the Hell White Tiger’s blows while Qian Daoliu counterattacked, exploiting Dai Feng’s faltering resolve.
• Qian Daoliu struck the Hell White Tiger with his divine sword and shattered it, sending Dai Feng and Zhu Lingxin flying and coughing up blood.

Zhu Lingxin and Dai Feng watched the Star Luo Empire’s forces collapse against the Spirit Hall Empire, while Tai Yi’s forces blocked every escape route. Dai Weisi tried to flee but Ice Empress killed him at Dragonrise City’s gates.

• Qian Renxue and Tai Yi killed the two Title Douluo who fought them, while the Spirit Hall Empire’s forces overwhelmed the Star Luo Empire’s Evil Soul Masters.
• The Angel Legion and the Spirit Hall Empire’s other soul master squads defeated the vastly larger enemy army, leaving fewer than five thousand survivors.
• Dai Feng and Zhu Lingxin realized the Star Luo Empire was on the verge of collapse, and Dai Weisi began fleeing toward Dragonrise City.
• Tai Yi’s Demon Marshals and companions revealed themselves around the battlefield to stop the Evil Soul Masters from escaping.
• Ice Empress emerged from Dragonrise City and killed Dai Weisi with a thrust of her Ice Empress Spear.

Tai Yi and the Spirit Hall forces defeated the Star Luo Empire’s Evil Soul Masters, killing Dai Weisi, Zhu Lingxin, and Dai Feng. After the battle, Dai Weisi’s corpse was found missing, and Tai Yi and Qian Daoliu suspected Bibi Dong had taken it.

• Ice Empress, Di Tian, Bear Lord, and the other defenders cut off the Evil Soul Masters’ escape routes, and Ice Empress killed Dai Weisi with her spear.
• Grief-stricken over Dai Weisi’s death, Zhu Lingxin charged at Tai Yi, but Golden Crocodile Douluo killed her.
• Dai Feng attacked Tai Yi’s group in a rage, but Qian Daoliu defeated him and beheaded him.
• Two of Bibi Dong’s Evil Soul Master subordinates tried to seize Dai Feng and Zhu Lingxin’s corpses, but Qian Daoliu killed them.
• Tai Yi ordered the forces to eliminate the remaining Evil Soul Masters, while an unnoticed figure escaped Dragonrise City with Dai Weisi’s corpse.
• Ice Empress discovered Dai Weisi’s corpse was gone, and Tai Yi and Qian Daoliu suspected Bibi Dong had sent someone to take it.

Tai Yi and Qian Renxue went to Slaughter City to investigate the escaped Evil Soul Masters and stop Bibi Dong from reclaiming Dai Weisi’s corpse. They arrived in time to defeat the Soul Masters carrying it, but a blood-red Soul Power seized the corpse and pulled it back into Slaughter City.

• Tai Yi persuaded Qian Daoliu to let him and Qian Renxue travel to Slaughter City while Qian Daoliu stayed behind to secure the conquered Star Luo Empire.
• Tai Yi and Qian Renxue arrived at Slaughter City and saw Qian Jun and Jiang Mo fighting three Evil Soul Masters while a fourth carried Dai Weisi’s corpse.
• Di Tian and the others joined the fight, captured the four Evil Soul Masters, and killed them.
• Qian Jun and Jiang Mo explained that five Evil Soul Masters had escaped Slaughter City after drawing Qian Jun away, and that three had fled toward Dragonrise City.
• As Tai Yi prepared to destroy Dai Weisi’s corpse, blood-red Soul Power shot from Slaughter City, changed direction, and carried the corpse inside.

Tai Yi and Qian Renxue survived Bibi Dong’s attack at Slaughter City, where she warned that her plan would succeed within a few years. Bibi Dong revealed that she intended to use Dai Weisi’s corpse to restart her plan and gain a powerful god as an ally against Tai Yi and Qian Renxue.

• Bibi Dong sent an Asura Demon Sword strike from Slaughter City, but Snow Empress, Di Tian, and the other Demon Marshals blocked it.
• Bibi Dong warned Tai Yi and Qian Renxue that her plan would succeed within a few years and then fell silent.
• Tai Yi left Qianjun Douluo and Xiangmo Douluo to guard Slaughter City before taking Qian Renxue back toward Spirit City on Xiao Bai.
• Bibi Dong mourned the loss of most of her Hell Envoys but was relieved that Dai Weisi’s corpse had been brought back.
• The Asura God King offered to give Dai Feng or Dai Weisi the War God’s Divine Position and merge it with the God of Plants’ Divine Position to create a First-Level God ally for Bibi Dong.

The Asura God King arranged for the War God to revive Dai Weisi and pass down his Divine Position, then killed the War God and took control of the War God Trial. When the God King of Destruction confronted him, Asura refused to surrender control and defended his actions with shameless excuses.

• Bibi Dong watched as the War God used divine power to revive Dai Weisi and pass down the War God Divine Position.
• The Asura God King sent the God of Plants' Divine Position into Dai Weisi's body to merge with the War God Trial.
• After the War God reported completing the transfer, the Asura God King stabbed him through the heart and seized control of the War God Trial.
• The God King of Destruction arrived, questioned Asura about killing the War God, and demanded control of the trial.
• The Asura God King refused to hand over the War God Trial and claimed he was helping the other God Kings manage their workload.