Chapter Summaries

Tai Yi returned to Spirit City after ordering the four kingdoms and one duchy to surrender their provinces to the Spirit Hall Empire, and all five complied. He then told Qian Daoliu that Bibi Dong was alive and had taught Heaven Dou commanders the evil arts that made them Evil Soul Masters.

• Tai Yi left Heaven Dou City with Qian Renxue and Guang Tian and sent the four kingdoms and one duchy an ultimatum to give their provinces to Spirit Hall.
• The five rulers surrendered control of their territories to Spirit Hall branches rather than risk the empire's military retaliation.
• Tai Yi returned to Spirit City and learned that the kingdoms and duchy had accepted the takeover.
• Tai Yi asked Qian Daoliu about the Star Luo Empire campaign, and Qian Daoliu said he had found no Evil Soul Masters there.
• Tai Yi told Qian Daoliu that Heaven Dou commanders had become Evil Soul Masters and that Xue Xing had named Bibi Dong as the source of their evil arts.

Qian Daoliu learned that Bibi Dong had survived and was spreading a forbidden method that created Evil Soul Masters, so he set out for Slaughter City with Golden Crocodile Douluo to stop her. Meanwhile, Blood One offered Dai Feng a forbidden cultivation method to help the weakened Star Luo Empire resist Spirit Hall, and Dai Feng recognized that it would turn him into an Evil Soul Master.

• Tai Yi told Qian Daoliu that Xue Xing had revealed Bibi Dong was alive and passing on a forbidden method that created Evil Soul Masters.
• Qian Daoliu decided to kill Bibi Dong to protect Spirit Hall's reputation and left Spirit City for Slaughter City with Golden Crocodile Douluo.
• Dai Feng reviewed a battle report showing that Spirit Hall had crippled the Star Luo Empire's forces and annexed the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Blood One appeared in Dai Feng's Imperial Study and offered him a method that could strengthen him, the empress, and the empire's fighters against Spirit Hall.
• Dai Feng read the booklet and realized its flesh-and-blood cultivation requirements would turn him into an Evil Soul Master.

Blood One tried to persuade Dai Feng to cultivate an evil technique by promising rapid growth and a chance to defeat Spirit Hall. Dai Feng became tempted but demanded to know what Blood One and his master wanted in return.

• Dai Feng refused the evil technique at first, fearing he would sacrifice his subjects and be remembered as a disgraceful ruler.
• Blood One claimed the technique could let Dai Feng advance a level in a few days if he had enough blood food.
• Blood One said Xue Xing had risen from Soul Emperor to Super Douluo in a few months before Spirit Hall killed him.
• Blood One urged Dai Feng to cultivate alongside the Empress, promising their Martial Soul Fusion Skill could help them become Ultimate Douluos and unify the continent.
• Dai Feng reconsidered the technique but questioned why Blood One's master was offering it and demanded to know their purpose.

Dai Feng accepted Blood One’s offer to help the Star Luo Empire fight Spirit Hall and decided to cultivate the evil art, with Zhu Lingxin agreeing to stand by him. To test the art before using it himself, Dai Feng ordered his guard captain to try it on two children taken from the slums.

• Blood One told Dai Feng that his unnamed master hated Spirit Hall and urged him to cultivate the divine art to prepare for its invasion.
• Dai Feng accepted Blood One’s offer to stay in the Star Luo Empire and help him, believing Blood One’s master was a powerful Evil Soul Master with a grudge against Spirit Hall.
• After Blood One left, Dai Feng ordered his men to seize two children with Soul Power from the slums and went to tell Zhu Lingxin what had happened.
• Zhu Lingxin agreed to follow Dai Feng’s decision, and Dai Feng said they would cultivate the evil art to protect the empire, even if the people suffered for now.
• The guard captain brought the two children to Dai Feng and Zhu Lingxin, and Dai Feng handed him the evil art and ordered him to test it first.

Dai Feng and Zhu Lingxin tested a forbidden technique that turned its user into an Evil Soul Master and decided to use loyal officials to strengthen the Star Luo Empire against Spirit Hall. They left Dai Weisi and two trusted relatives untainted, then began recruiting prisoners for the officials to use in cultivation.

• The guard captain learned the forbidden technique, killed two children who had awakened their Martial Souls, and absorbed their blood and Soul Power, increasing his strength.
• Dai Feng ordered the guard captain to arrange attacks and abductions so Spirit Hall and Soul Beasts would take the blame for the Star Luo Empire's use of the forbidden technique.
• Dai Feng and Zhu Lingxin decided that Dai Weisi, Zhu Lingyu, and Dai Yu must remain unaware of or untouched by the technique, and planned to eliminate its cultivators if they defeated Spirit Hall.
• Dai Feng summoned more than a dozen trusted ministers and generals to the Imperial Study and told them he had found a way to oppose Spirit Hall.
• The ministers swore loyalty, and Dai Feng ordered guards to bring in more than thirty prisoners, assigning two to each official for initial cultivation.

Dai Feng gave his ministers a forbidden cultivation art that strengthened them by consuming human blood and flesh, then ordered them to spread across the Star Luo Empire and build armies. He acknowledged that the provinces would suffer and planned to use the ministers’ atrocities as a pretext to eliminate them if the empire survived its war with Spirit Hall.

• Dai Feng presented the forbidden art to his ministers, and they agreed to cultivate it alongside him and Zhu Lingxin.
• Dai Feng, Zhu Lingxin, and the ministers cultivated through the night, consuming criminals and rapidly increasing their Soul Power.
• Dai Feng ordered the ministers to leave Star Luo City, cultivate using criminals and other vulnerable people, and train elite armies in their territories.
• Zhu Lingxin warned Dai Feng that the ministers would likely prey on civilians, and Dai Feng admitted he accepted the cost because of Spirit Hall’s threat.
• Dai Feng told Zhu Lingxin he intended to use the ministers’ crimes as grounds to eliminate them after victory, then planned to have Davis oversee the state while they cultivated in the inner palace.

Dai Feng announced that he and the Empress would enter seclusion while Dai Weisi governed the Star Luo Empire. After detecting a blood scent associated with Evil Soul Masters, Dai Weisi confronted his father and learned that Dai Feng, the Empress, and several ministers were using an evil technique to prepare for war with Spirit Hall.

• Dai Feng told the court that trusted ministers had been sent to train soldiers and appointed Dai Weisi to oversee the empire during his and the Empress’s seclusion, assisted by Zhu Lingyu and Dai Yu.
• Dai Weisi noticed a blood scent on Dai Feng that resembled the scent of Evil Soul Masters and waited until the court was dismissed to question him.
• Dai Feng admitted that he, the Empress, and the departed ministers were using a technique that absorbed human blood to increase their strength and train an army against Spirit Hall.
• Dai Weisi offered to cultivate the evil technique too, but Dai Feng slapped him and ordered him to focus on governing the empire.
• Dai Feng said that if they survived the crisis, he and the Empress would eliminate the ministers using the technique and leave Dai Weisi an empire without Evil Soul Masters.

Dai Weisi learned that Dai Feng and the empress were cultivating an evil art and had been told to conceal their actions while overseeing the Star Luo Empire. Blood One secretly gave Dai Weisi the method, and after telling Zhu Zhuyun everything, Dai Weisi asked whether he should cultivate it.

• Dai Feng told Dai Weisi that his uncle and aunt did not know about the evil art and warned him to keep it secret while dismissing reports of missing people.
• Dai Weisi wondered whether he could help the empire by cultivating the evil art, but believed his parents would not give it to him.
• Blood One followed Dai Weisi home and handed him a manual containing the evil cultivation method.
• Dai Weisi recognized the method and began to question whether he should use it.
• Zhu Zhuyun visited Dai Weisi, and he told her about his parents’ cultivation and his new responsibility overseeing the empire.
• Dai Weisi asked Zhu Zhuyun whether he should obey his parents and avoid cultivating the evil art.

Dai Weisi ignored reports of people vanishing across the Star Luo Empire until officials reported that their grandsons had disappeared from Star Luo Royal Soul Master Academy. He suspected Blood One, who denied abducting the students.

• Zhu Zhuyun persuaded Dai Weisi to put away the evil technique, and he stored it in his Storage Soul Tool.
• Blood One watched Dai Weisi set aside the technique and planned to find a way to make him cultivate it.
• During the following week, Dai Weisi dismissed reports of mass disappearances, while officials and commoners grew frightened.
• A month later, Lord Wang and several officials told Dai Weisi that their grandsons had vanished from Star Luo Royal Soul Master Academy.
• Dai Weisi suspected Blood One and asked why he had taken the students, but Blood One denied targeting them.

Dai Weisi traced the attacks on academy students to Chen Xin, a noble youth who had cultivated the evil technique and rapidly advanced to Soul King. As Chen Xin broke through the guards and charged at him, Dai Weisi realized he was in immediate danger.

• Blood One told Dai Weisi that at least three other people in Star Luo City had cultivated the evil technique, and Dai Weisi suspected ministers had passed it to their children.
• Dai Weisi investigated the ministers’ families and learned that Chen Xin and two sons from another family had cultivated the technique.
• Dai Weisi identified Chen Xin as the likely attacker after reports linked him to corpses and Lord Wang’s missing grandson.
• Dai Weisi led guards to the count’s residence, where Chen Xin admitted attacking Wang Jian and others because he wanted revenge on those who had bullied and looked down on him.
• Chen Xin charged at Dai Weisi, who realized Chen Xin had reached Soul King in a month, before Chen Xin broke through the guards and attacked him.

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.