Recaps

Yin Hongye held Shrek Academy’s teachers and students for ransom in a supernatural tunnel, forcing Yun Ming to trade rare treasures for their release. After the captives emerged, Yin Hongye openly declared that Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy wanted Xu Xiaoyan.

• Yin Hongye repeatedly killed and revived Cai Yue'er while tormenting her, then forced her into the tunnel and demanded Yun Ming speak with him.
• Cai Yue'er told Yun Ming that Yin Hongye had trapped Shrek Academy’s students and teachers and demanded ten million per person for their release.
• Yun Ming negotiated with Yin Hongye and agreed to pay with ten-thousand-year spiritual treasures rather than money.
• Yun Ming returned with rare treasures, including a Life Crystal and a Stone of Destruction, and Yin Hongye removed the tunnel’s restraints to release the captives.
• Yun Ming learned that five students had been eliminated by their classmates to improve their own chances, then took the group away.
• Yin Hongye told Yun Ming that Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy wanted Xu Xiaoyan.

Yin Hongye took Xu Xiaoyan and the other students despite Tang Wulin and Wu Changkong’s protest, then explained Devil Island’s opposing life and destruction energies. As the group planned to travel to Star Dou Forest, Destruction God King grew uneasy about the island’s seven devils.

• Tang Wulin and Wu Changkong stood against Yin Hongye taking Xu Xiaoyan, but Yin Hongye restrained the students and carried them away.
• Yun Ming left with Cai Yue'er and the others, while Cai Yue'er told the remaining students to repay the academy.
• Yin Hongye and Mu Hongchen explained that Devil Island contained Destruction Fragments balanced by dense life energy from beyond their planet.
• The Goddess of Life attacked Tang San for splitting Xiao Qi’s soul, beat him against a broken pillar, and left him unable to rise.
• Yin Hongye told Qian Renxue that Devil Island’s seven devils embodied pride, envy, wrath, sloth, greed, gluttony, and lust.
• Yin Hongye prepared to return to Mingdu and then take Di Qiuer to Star Dou Forest, while Destruction God King grew increasingly troubled by the discussion.

Yin Hongye brought Qian Renxue, Di Qiuer, and Na'er into the Star Dou Forest after cutting through the Spirit Pagoda’s barrier. At the Lake of Life, Di Qiuer reunited with Di Tian and the gathered Ferocious Beasts.

• The Destruction God King listened to Yin Hongye’s account of Devil Island and decided to watch for the truth to emerge.
• Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan entered the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy and were conscripted by Yue Zhengyu amid its dangerous training.
• Yin Hongye arrived at Star Dou Fortress with Qian Renxue, Di Qiuer, and Na'er, then ignored Xu Shengqun’s demand for tickets.
• Yin Hongye split the Soul-guided barrier with Blood Blade and led the group into the Star Dou Forest.
• Di Qiuer called out to Uncle Di Tian at the Lake of Life, and Di Tian appeared with Xiong Jun, Myriad Demon King, Scarlet King, Bi Ji, and Zi JI.

Di Qiuer reunited with Bi Ji while Yin Hongye trained Na'er to control earth and dig a tunnel to Shrek Academy. After several days, Na'er completed the tunnel and mastered the Body Sect's true inheritance, while Yin Hongye prepared to destroy Shrek Academy's chance of rising again.

• Di Tian and Bi Ji greeted Di Qiuer at the lake, and Bi Ji touched her head during their emotional reunion.
• Yin Hongye sent Na'er to dig a tunnel to Shrek Academy and taught her to control the earth across the range of her spiritual power.
• Di Tian and Bi Ji watched the Heavenly Screen and mourned the Star Dou Forest's decline, while Di Tian vowed to suppress Soul Masters.
• Yin Hongye planted Fire Lotus Seeds in the tunnel walls, explaining that they could absorb nutrients and eventually destroy Shrek Academy and the surrounding land.
• Na'er continued digging for several days until she completed the tunnel and mastered the Body Sect's true inheritance.

Yin Hongye and his companions visited Jin Lao beneath the Golden Ancient Tree to obtain a way to trigger the Life Tide for their trip to Devil Island. Jin Lao revealed that Tang San had made the Sea God Pavilion masters’ sacrifices nourish Ah Yin, leaving Mu En and the Evil God King furious.

• Na'er led Yin Hongye, Di Qiuer, and Qian Renxue through a tunnel to the Golden Ancient Tree, where Yin Hongye cut through blocking roots with his twin swords and Karmic Fire.
• Jin Lao appeared, welcomed Yin Hongye, and gave him a golden sapling that could trigger the Life Tide.
• Yin Hongye offered to help Jin Lao kill Ah Yin, but Jin Lao said the time had not yet come and explained that Tang San had left a contingency plan on his mother.
• Jin Lao revealed that the Sea God Pavilion masters’ souls and cultivation had been absorbed by the Golden Ancient Tree without his knowledge, while their sacrifices had benefited Ah Yin.
• Mu En realized that the academy’s generations of masters had been deceived, and the Evil God King condemned Tang San.

Tang San began his Sea God examination under a hunt arranged by the Evil God King, while Old Jin revealed the Plane Lord’s disappearance and Yin Hongye’s destructive plans. Yin Hongye then led the group into Shrek Academy’s sealed hall to search its rooms and treasure vault.

• The Sea God started Tang San’s examination after the Sea Soul Beasts wounded him, and the Evil God King arranged for them to track and hunt him.
• Tang San woke on a beach and was instructed to find Ma Hongjun, unaware that Sea Soul Beasts across the sea could locate him.
• Old Jin told Qian Renxue that the Nether Emperor sought to restrain the Abyss, while Yin Hongye’s Killing Dao could destroy either side along with the plane.
• Yin Hongye said Tang Hao controlled the present-day Douluo Continent’s plane and explained that the Abyss invasion would be shown to Qian Renxue later.
• Old Jin led Yin Hongye, Di Qiuer, and Na'er into a sealed hall containing 108 rooms, and they planned to search Shrek Academy’s treasure vault.

The Destruction God King defeated Tang San and dragged him to the God Realm Committee to answer for his interference in the lower realm. In the Heavenly Screen, Yin Hongye’s group raided Shrek Academy’s dusty treasure vault, and Qian Renxue received the Rakshasa Demon Scythe as Yin Hongye began recounting Bibi Dong’s past.

• The Destruction God King confronted Tang San over his family’s affairs and unauthorized interference in the lower realm, then beat and bound him.
• Jin Lao led Yin Hongye, Qian Renxue, Na'er, and Di Qiuer into Shrek Academy’s neglected treasure vault, where they found many stored treasures.
• Na'er discovered and claimed a Silver Dragon Dragon Pill, while Yin Hongye uncovered the Rakshasa Demon Scythe and passed it to Qian Renxue.
• Bibi Dong recognized the Rakshasa Demon Scythe on the Heavenly Screen and grew furious at Yin Hongye’s remarks.
• Yin Hongye began explaining Bibi Dong’s past, telling Qian Renxue that Bibi Dong had met Yu Xiaogang as a young Spirit Hall Saintess.

Yin Hongye and his companions looted Shrek Academy’s treasure vault and meditation rooms, while he explained Bibi Dong’s history to Qian Renxue. Before leaving, he planted a Red Lotus Seed that trapped Ah Yin inside the Golden Ancient Tree, then set out with the group for the North Sea.

• Yin Hongye told Qian Renxue how Bibi Dong fell in love with Yu Xiaogang, was imprisoned by Qian Xunji, and gave Yu Xiaogang the Twin Martial Soul cultivation method.
• Di Qiuer found the Body Sect’s lost inheritance, Secret of the Body, beneath a table leg, and Yin Hongye added it to their haul of treasures and ancient books.
• Yin Hongye tore down Shrek Academy’s meditation rooms, and Qian Renxue realized the academy would soon be left with little besides the Golden Ancient Tree.
• Yin Hongye planted a Red Lotus Seed that rapidly grew beneath the Golden Ancient Tree and trapped Ah Yin within its roots.
• Yin Hongye led the group away, saying they would refine pills before traveling to the North Sea.

Yin Hongye returned to Mingdu, refined Universe Creation Pills, and then traveled with Qian Renxue and the others to the Ice Sea. His account of Liya and Huo Yuhao provoked the Sea Princess chieftains of two eras, who feared their daughters would lose their freedom to humans.

• Yin Hongye and his group left the Star Dou Forest, and Qian Renxue asked when the Golden Ancient Tree would explode.
• Yin Hongye refined nine Universe Creation Pills, gave one to Mu Hongchen, and named several others who would receive them.
• Yin Hongye told Mu Hongchen he could forge Heavenforged Metal himself before departing for Devil Island in the North Sea.
• Yin Hongye and his companions reached Dongyang City and boarded a warship to cross the Ice Sea, where flying was forbidden.
• Yin Hongye explained that Liya, the daughter of the Sea Princess chieftain, had become Ling Bing Douluo Huo Yuhao's Soul Spirit.
• The Sea Princess chieftains in the eras of The Unrivaled Tang Clan and twenty thousand years earlier reacted with anger and fear over their daughters and human Soul Spirits.

Yin Hongye recounted how Liya was deceived and killed, prompting the Sea Princess clan to blame the Sea God and attack Tang San. In the Heavenly Screen’s present, Yin Hongye’s group reached the Ice Sea, where he confronted a force of mermaids who claimed the Sea God would protect them.

• Yin Hongye explained that Evil Soul Masters had tricked Liya into sacrificing her clan members, and Huo Yuhao later made her a Soul Spirit after killing the Ten Thousand Soul Douluo.
• After hearing that the Sea God had not protected the Sea Princess clan, the clan leader and elders set out to kill Tang San on Sea God Island.
• Tang San sensed a hostile army approaching, while red flowers appeared along the shore.
• Yin Hongye’s group traveled through the Ice Sea, where he killed a school of saberfish by creating a vast whirlpool.
• A gold-crowned mermaid and more than a hundred others attacked the group with a combined spiritual net, and Yin Hongye prepared to fight them in a Blood Sea.

Yin Hongye overwhelmed the Sea Princesses despite their spiritual net and the Sea Princess leader’s Heart of the Ocean. He unleashed the Blood Sea across their territory, leaving the Sea God’s followers facing destruction.

• Yin Hongye broke through the golden-crowned mermaid’s spiritual net and challenged her claim that the Sea God would protect her.
• The Sea Princess leader arrived and blocked Yin Hongye’s Blood Dragon, then used her song as a spiritual attack, which had no effect on him.
• The Sea Princess leader used the Heart of the Ocean to nullify Yin Hongye’s arrow, but he anticipated her defense and pierced her chest with his spear.
• Yin Hongye expanded the Blood Sea across the Sea Princess territory, melting its inhabitants and swallowing their Soul Rings, Soul Bones, and souls.
• The dying Sea Princess leader cursed Yin Hongye and cried out that the Sea God would not let him go.

Yin Hongye led Qian Renxue and Di Qiuer onto Devil Island, where the island’s hostile waters suppressed their power and a lush inner valley concealed powerful residents. Elsewhere, the Ice Empress and Snow Empress set out to find Earth Dragon Gate and its Ten-Thousand-Year Black Ice Cave.

• The Sea Princess clan turned its faith in Tang San into hatred after learning that the Sea God had not protected them, and the Blood Sea swallowed the clan members in the Heavenly Screen.
• Yin Hongye told Qian Renxue about Ice Extreme Divine Crystal and the Ten-Thousand-Year Black Ice Cave at Earth Dragon Gate, prompting Lou Gao to marvel at the natural metal.
• The Ice Empress and Snow Empress decided to seek out Earth Dragon Gate, believing its Black Ice Cave could help them survive more tribulations.
• Yin Hongye, Qian Renxue, and Di Qiuer reached Devil Island, where the black sea suppressed their power and the group landed on the barren shore.
• Yin Hongye led the group toward the island’s core, while the Destruction God King sensed an aura resembling his own and seven Limit Douluos in the inner valley prepared to confront the newcomers.

Yin Hongye and his companions reached Devil Island’s valley, where Qian Renxue fought Annihilation Old Demon and Yin Hongye exposed Nightmare Old Demon’s illusion. The remaining five Old Demons arrived, while Destruction God King watched from the God Realm and grew suspicious of the island’s power.

• Yin Hongye shattered the barrier to the valley and identified Annihilation Old Demon by his power of destruction.
• Qian Renxue used her angel abilities to overwhelm Annihilation Old Demon and break through his defenses.
• Nightmare Old Demon tried to trap the group in an illusion, but Yin Hongye, Di Qiuer, and Na'er resisted; Yin Hongye kicked him away, and Qian Renxue struck him down.
• Greed, Devouring, Hatred, Desire, and Sloth Old Demons arrived and surrounded Yin Hongye and the others.
• Destruction God King watched Devil Island’s seven Old Demons emerge and began to suspect something was wrong.

Destruction God King tortured Tang San for the God Realm Core while Yin Hongye and Qian Renxue fought the Seven Old Demons on Devil Island. Qian Renxue defeated them, but they revived, so Yin Hongye covered the valley with a Blood Sea and hoped they were truly immortal.

• Destruction God King repeatedly struck Tang San and demanded that he hand over the God Realm Core, while Tang San could not get a word in.
• Desire Old Demon, Hatred Old Demon, Sloth Old Demon, and Greed Old Demon attacked Yin Hongye and Qian Renxue, but their powers barely affected Yin Hongye and severely pressured Qian Renxue.
• Yin Hongye reminded Qian Renxue of her past suffering, and she awakened her Spiritual Domain and unleashed her Angel Avatar to cut down the Seven Old Demons.
• Yin Hongye explained that a Spiritual Domain let its wielder control a small world, but the Seven Old Demons recovered and declared that they could not truly die while the Destruction Origin remained.
• Yin Hongye enveloped the valley in a Blood Sea and said he hoped the Seven Old Demons were truly immortal.

Yin Hongye used the Blood Sea to sever the Seven Old Demons from the life energy sustaining them, then killed them and learned what they knew about Devil Island and the missing God Realm. With the valley drained of life, he prepared to trigger the Life Tide and gave Di Qiuer and Qian Renxue the chance to absorb its energy.

• Yin Hongye flooded the valley with the Blood Sea, suppressed the Seven Old Demons, and prevented Annihilation Old Demon's severed arm from regenerating.
• Annihilation Old Demon admitted that the Seven Old Demons had once been the Shrek Seven Monsters, and Yin Hongye explained that their immortality depended on Devil Island's life energy.
• Annihilation Old Demon revealed that the Life Tide had last appeared fourteen years earlier and that Shrek Academy's strongest fighters had been unable to sense the God Realm since Ling Bing Douluo ascended.
• Yin Hongye killed the Seven Old Demons and let the Blood Sea swallow their bodies, leaving the valley's plants, stream, and soil drained of life.
• Yin Hongye told Di Qiuer and Qian Renxue that they could absorb the coming Life Tide, then took out the sapling from the Golden Ancient Tree.

Yin Hongye triggered the Life Tide and Destruction Tide on Devil Island, causing the phantoms of the Destruction God King and the Goddess of Life to appear and shatter. After the Golden Dragon King identified them as remnant souls, Yin Hongye used both tides to try to awaken their consciousness.

• Yin Hongye brought out the Golden Tree sapling, triggering the Life Tide, and Di Qiuer, Na'er, and Qian Renxue absorbed its energy.
• Yin Hongye used a blood-colored domain to keep approaching Sea Soul Beasts away as the Destruction Tide spread across Devil Island and the nearby sea.
• The phantoms of the Destruction God King and the Goddess of Life appeared, reached toward each other, and shattered into purple and green fragments.
• Watching from the God Realm, the Destruction God King and the Goddess of Life recognized the figures as themselves, while the Destruction God King doubted the scene was their future.
• Yin Hongye asked the Golden Dragon King whether the two figures were remnant souls, and it confirmed they were while mocking Tang San's use of the Asura God power.
• Yin Hongye drew on the Life Tide and Destruction Tide to stir the two phantoms, which trembled as if briefly regaining consciousness.

Yin Hongye questioned Destruction God King and the Goddess of Life about the Divine Realm’s failures and the conflict over expanding it. Their account exposed how poor communication and belated divination shaped the crisis, while the Divine Realm’s present whereabouts remained unknown.

• Yin Hongye told Destruction God King that no one on Douluo Continent could sense the Divine Realm after Dai Yuhao ascended, and Destruction learned that the Divine Realm had ignored the Abyss Invasion.
• Destruction God King explained that he had tried to expand the Divine Realm, then seized control from Tang San and later ended the civil war when he recognized the threat of Spacetime Turbulence.
• The Golden Dragon King pointed out that the Goddess of Life had also intervened against Destruction, and she admitted she had watched events unfold until Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong sought her help.
• The Goddess of Life said she had used the Tree of Life to divine a certain-death omen, and Yin Hongye challenged her for not divining the situation earlier.
• Yin Hongye mocked Destruction and Life for failing to think ahead, while the Golden Dragon King claimed his strength gave him a super-intelligence.

Yin Hongye challenged the Goddess of Life over her failure to support the Destruction God King, then asked how divine positions and resurrection worked. Before departing, he suggested that the pair could create a child able to inherit both life and destruction, leaving them reconciled and pondering the possibility.

• Yin Hongye accused the Goddess of Life of failing to stand by the Destruction God King during the conflict, while the Golden Dragon King claimed the God of Destruction had ambushed him.
• The Destruction God King’s Seven Original Sin Gods attacked and subdued Zhou Weiqing, who denied launching the sneak attack.
• Yin Hongye asked the Destruction God King about condensing divine positions through the Universe Will and whether the God Kings could resurrect.
• Yin Hongye proposed that the Goddess of Life and Destruction could use their bloodlines and the Tree of Life to create a child capable of bearing destruction; the Goddess of Life realized she had been wrong.
• The Goddess of Life apologized to the Destruction God King, and the two departed together as points of light.
• The Destruction God King of the later era questioned Tang San about whether he had anticipated the spacetime turbulence and deliberately delayed events.

Yin Hongye and the others recovered from the life tide and destruction tide on Devil Island, then sailed back to the North Sea Legion. They arrived to find Chen Xinjie waiting, while the Destruction God King continued questioning Tang San in another era.

• The Destruction God King accused Tang San of concealing knowledge of the crisis and the Abyss Plane, but Tang San could not explain himself.
• The Destruction God King and the Goddess of Life discussed Yin Hongye’s method for conceiving a child and the slim chance it would succeed.
• Di Qiuer, Na’er, Qian Renxue, and Yin Hongye awakened after absorbing the life tide and destruction tide, and Yin Hongye said Di Qiuer needed a Two-Word Battle Armor before entering the Abyss.
• Yin Hongye and the others boarded a warship and sailed from Devil Island toward the North Sea Legion.
• Yin Hongye and his companions reached the North Sea Legion, where Chen Xinjie greeted them and Yin Hongye asked whether the Ghost Emperor was there.

Yin Hongye dismissed Chen Xinjie’s inquiry into stolen ammunition, while Xu Tianran ordered Huo Yuhao hunted after learning he had disappeared. Back in Mingdu, Yin Hongye used tribulation lightning to forge metal for his Four-Word Battle Armor and noticed someone had brought out a dangerous device.

• Chen Xinjie confronted Yin Hongye about more than two hundred missing Fixed-Installation Soul Cannon shells, and Yin Hongye told him to investigate while criticizing Shen Yue’s command.
• Xu Tianran learned that Huo Yuhao had vanished and ordered a nationwide warrant to arrest him and kill him once identified.
• Yin Hongye killed Evil Soul Masters when dissatisfied with Mingdu’s lightning, then used blood-red tribulation bolts to forge metal for his Four-Word Battle Armor.
• Yin Hongye explained to Mu Hongchen and Qian Renxue how suitable god-rank metal was fused with Three-Word Battle Armor before its core arrays were inscribed anew.
• Yin Hongye noticed people had brought out a dangerous device, and Mu Hongchen remarked that it would make collecting compensation difficult.

Yin Hongye and Mu Hongchen saw a Godslayer Soul Missile headed toward Shrek Academy but decided the academy could defend itself, prompting Mu En to warn Yan Shaozhe that Shrek must adapt to Soul Tools. Yin Hongye then prepared to forge Metal-attribute Heavenforged Metal for Mu Hongchen, who wanted it focused entirely on attack.

• Yin Hongye identified a Godslayer Soul Missile in transit toward the Former Site of the Evil Demon Forest and refused to intervene because he believed Shrek Academy was the target.
• Mu Hongchen and Yin Hongye argued that Shrek Academy and its powerful residents could handle the threat, while Qian Renxue questioned their indifference.
• Mu En rebuked Yan Shaozhe for dismissing Soul Tools and warned that Shrek Academy would fall behind if it refused to adapt.
• Yin Hongye offered to make Mu Hongchen Heavenforged Metal, and Mu Hongchen requested the Metal Attribute with all its power devoted to attack.

Yin Hongye forged Heavenforged Metal and explained how Huo Yuhao would eventually kill the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord, prompting the Tyrant Lord to set out to kill Huo Yuhao first. In the Far North, Huo Yuhao worried about the future threat as the Ice and Snow Emperors encountered Bibi Dong.

• Yin Hongye forged more Heavenforged Metal and said he would build a three-hundred-meter mecha and test it in Dou Ling.
• Yin Hongye told Di Qiuer how Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong killed the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord, and the Tyrant Lord decided to kill Huo Yuhao before that could happen.
• Huo Yuhao heard the Heavenly Screen's account while traveling through the Far North, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm urged him to grow stronger and obtain his Second Martial Soul.
• The Ice and Snow Emperors encountered Bibi Dong beneath an icy cliff in the Far North.

The Ice Empress and Snow Empress defeated Bibi Dong when she refused to reveal the Earth Dragon Gate’s location, sealing her in an icy coffin. In another era, Huo Yuhao lost his chance to obtain the Ice Empress as his second martial soul, while Yin Hongye discussed his Divine Craftsman certification and forging prices with Zhen Hua.

• Bibi Dong attacked the Ice Empress and Snow Empress, but their Far North domains overwhelmed her despite her Undying Body.
• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress froze Bibi Dong inside an icy coffin after she insisted that the Earth Dragon Gate did not exist in their era.
• The Ice Empress and Snow Empress raced past Huo Yuhao, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm told him that the Ice Empress had been the second martial soul he found for him.
• Zhen Hua called Yin Hongye to confirm that he had completed Heavenly Forging and said he would visit Mingdu to certify him as a Divine Craftsman.
• Yin Hongye suggested raising Heavenly Forging prices, and Zhen Hua ended the call after telling him to wait in Mingdu.

Yin Hongye demonstrated Heavenly Forging to Zhen Hua, who completed the process and recognized Yin Hongye as a Divine Craftsman. Yin Hongye gave Mu Ye the Secret of the Body in exchange for a feast, then recounted Heaven Dou's fall, leaving Vina shaken and the Heaven Dou emperor determined to act before Dou Ling.

• Yin Hongye dismissed hidden Holy Spirit Cult spies as he led Zhen Hua to the Ascension Platform.
• Yin Hongye forged Heavenforged Metal using Heavenly Forging, and Zhen Hua praised his skill and declared him a Divine Craftsman.
• Yin Hongye gave Mu Ye the Secret of the Body, and Mu Ye agreed to prepare him a feast when he next visited Heaven Dou City.
• Mu Ye and Yin Hongye recounted Heaven Dou's defeat and Princess Vina's plea to Huo Yuhao for help.
• Vina struggled to accept Heaven Dou's failure to recover, while the Heaven Dou emperor resolved to act before Dou Ling.

The Heavenly Soul Empire decided to flee across the sea and establish a new empire after learning that Dou Ling had restored its own. On the Heavenly Screen, Yin Hongye and Zhen Hua agreed to raise Heavenly Forging prices, while Mu Hongchen demonstrated his metal-controlling abilities and Yin Hongye explained the War God Temple.

• Heaven Dou officials argued over Dou Ling’s restoration, and a general persuaded the emperor to prepare a fleet and claim the Dou Ling Continent as the Heaven Soul Continent.
• Yin Hongye proposed tripling the price of Heavenly Forging, and Zhen Hua agreed to match the higher rates.
• Mu Hongchen explained Mechanical Conversion and showed how he transformed metal into different Soul Tools, leaving Xiao Hongchen stunned by his descendant’s abilities.
• Yin Hongye led Mu Hongchen, Qian Renxue, Di Qiuer, and Na'er west and described the War God Temple’s combat ranks, duties, and rewards.
• Qian Renxue compared the War God Temple to Slaughter City, and Yin Hongye joked that even she had turned toward good.