Recaps

An Chen forced the old drunk to answer questions about the Thunder Wyrm and Spirit Hall, then learned that the Fallen Star Knight led one of six secretive churches. He left with Spirit City's status still unclear and the identities of the Four Horsemen revealed.

• The old drunk lured An Chen from the inn and restrained him, but An Chen broke free and trapped him with shadow tentacles.
• An Chen asked whether the Thunder Wyrm secret was true, and the old drunk confirmed it and explained that he had once been a Spirit Hall spy.
• The old drunk showed An Chen a receiver-only soul tool that intercepted Spirit Hall messages and said transmissions from Spirit City had stopped.
• An Chen asked about the Fallen Star Knight, and the old drunk identified him as the Material Truth Research Institute's leader.
• The old drunk named the six churches and revealed that the Four Horsemen were the Fallen Star Knight, Bewildering Desire, Falsehood, and Decay.

An Chen learned more about the six sects and the alliance that had attacked Spirit Hall, then tracked Birdman in the shadow world and saw her repeatedly revive while monsters pursued her. After dreaming of a blood moon and a strange ocean, he woke in Xiliang City and sensed someone approaching his bed.

• An Chen questioned the old drunkard about the six sects, learning that they had unique Self-Created Soul Skills and had allied to attack Spirit City.
• An Chen paid the old drunkard with diluted seven-colored medicinal liquid and continued toward Xiliang City, considering the Four Horsemen and the Matriarch.
• An Chen located Birdman in the shadow world and watched her die, revive, and resume flying as monsters chased her.
• An Chen rented a room in Xiliang City and dreamed of a blood moon, attacking umbilical cords, and a strange ocean beneath gray fog.
• An Chen woke in bed and sensed someone had entered his room and was approaching him.

An Chen followed a thief carrying a strange tree-root fragment, killed him, and was overwhelmed when the fragment transformed into binding branches and draining flames. After escaping Xiliang City with Big Ears, An Chen was confronted by two men who demanded he come before the four Knights and the Matriarch.

• An Chen followed a thief who had searched his inn and discovered a strange object in the thief’s box that stirred his spiritual intuition and sealed lump of rotten meat.
• An Chen killed the thief with a flame dagger, absorbed the man’s soul and ashes into a mask, then examined the box’s tree-root fragment.
• The fragment burst into emerald branches that rooted into An Chen and drained him with faint black flames, while two pursuers arrived at the alley.
• An Chen’s Shadow Servant died, and his true body fled Xiliang City with Big Ears before two men blocked his path.
• A man in white and gold told An Chen that the four Knights and the Matriarch were waiting for him, while the man in black attacked with a Soul Ring-powered sword strike.

An Chen survived a coordinated attack by two powerful hunters, but a sudden shriek and hidden parasites forced him to flee before he could learn why the religious alliance was targeting him. He escaped into a mountain forest, where he began feeling feverish and intensely itchy.

• An Chen blocked the black-clad man's sword strike, but the man cut off An Chen's head; An Chen regenerated and swallowed his severed head.
• The black-clad man and the white-and-gold man, who transformed into a lava ape, attacked together, but An Chen stopped their blows and incapacitated them with a wall, his powers, and a cane.
• An Chen tried to use a mask on the lava ape to learn why the religious alliance kept hunting him, but a black-smoke shriek disrupted him and he fled as a mass of flesh and blood.
• Vines grew inside An Chen and enormous roots trapped him, but he escaped through the shadows and continued fleeing until he reached a mountain forest.
• An Chen emerged behind a tree and walked away, then developed dizziness, heat, and an itch that worsened as he scratched.

An Chen survived a deadly illness by burning away the decay, but a group of pursuers caught and petrified his body. He escaped by severing his head and fleeing through the ground, while the pursuers struggled to locate him and Big Ears found him in the shadow space.

• An Chen tore off his rotting arm, then used his Fifth Soul Skill and an azure bull's corpse to purge the decay and restore his body.
• An Chen sensed that Birdman was nearby and hid, but a tree branch pierced his chest and roots pinned him as a deep yellow beam petrified his body.
• A white-and-gold-clad man and a winged woman confronted An Chen, while he sensed at least five pursuers and suspected they had infected him with a deadly illness.
• As black rays shot toward his head, An Chen snapped his neck, turned his head into blood, and escaped through the ground.
• The winged woman failed to sense An Chen's location, while another pursuer vanished and the white-robed man sank down in pain beside the swordsman.
• In An Chen's shadow space, Big Ears found his head, and An Chen ordered the fox to bring him his ring.

An Chen left his Shadow Space to hunt sheep and restore his strength, then was ambushed by the woman who could track him and her allies. He put two attackers to sleep, but a diamond-armored man resisted his flames and struck him down with a pink, desire-inducing light.

• An Chen replenished his Soul Power in Shadow Space and decided he needed to take out the tracking woman before confronting the others.
• An Chen went outside, dragged a flock of sheep into the shadows, and consumed them to restore his body.
• An Chen sensed an incoming attack, blocked a deep yellow beam with his blood-red cloak, and used his Darkflame Domain and black fog to trap and incapacitate two intruders.
• The birdwoman dispersed An Chen’s black fog with her sunlight ability and freed the two intruders from his shadow tentacles.
• A thin man in diamond armor charged An Chen through the flames, dislocated his arms, and knocked him down with a pink light that stirred desire in him.

An Chen survived the hunters’ attacks, killed all five pursuers, and used Grazing to take their souls and abilities. After viewing a fragment of the white-robed man’s memories through a mask, he learned about the Gaze of Myriad Splendors and recovered several durable items, but found no explanation for why the group had hunted him.

• The white-robed man petrified An Chen, but An Chen burst free and unleashed blood and black-fire storms that killed four pursuers and left the woman badly injured.
• An Chen attacked the surviving woman with a black-flamed sword, split her body, and devoured her soul to end her healing.
• An Chen used Grazing on all five hunters and discovered his limit had risen to six after he grew stronger by digesting his Potion.
• An Chen turned the white-robed man’s corpse into an ape mask and used it to view a fragment of the man’s memories, including the Fallen Star Knight giving him the Gaze of Myriad Splendors and two repulsion talismans.
• An Chen woke from the memory and retrieved the statue, an iron disc, an emerald necklace, and a crystal, while realizing the fragment did not explain why the hunters had targeted him.

Knight lost control during cultivation in Truth-Seeking City, but the institute's members used Ritual Magic to calm him. Meanwhile, An Chen tested the Diamond Mammoth's abilities, returned to Xiliang City struggling with the souls he had Grazed, and was approached by a youth offering a cure.

• Knight's Thunder Dragon Tai Tan martial soul erupted in the ruins of the Material Truth Research Institute, and an elder recognized that he was suffering cultivation deviation.
• The elder and the institute members prepared an altar and used Ritual Magic to quell Knight's lightning and suction; Knight collapsed after murmuring about his brother and sister-in-law.
• An Chen woke in a village, evaded the returning villagers, and tested the Diamond Mammoth's armor by jumping from a cliff before healing his broken bones.
• An Chen followed the mountain road back to Xiliang City, troubled by the six Grazed souls resisting inside him and by the murmurs in his ears.
• A youth in coarse hemp clothes approached An Chen, offered a free cure, and led him into the city.

An Chen followed a blue-faced youth to the Voice of Nature shop, where Grandmaster Shaw and the youth tried to scam him with soul-powered leaves. After killing them and extracting their memories, An Chen learned of the Listening Society and its man-eating fog, which reminded him of Xiangshi Valley.

• The blue-faced youth led An Chen to the shabby Voice of Nature shop and introduced him to Grandmaster Shaw.
• Grandmaster Shaw gave An Chen a leaf that caused faint whispers, then demanded a thousand Gold Soul Coins for a supposed remedy.
• An Chen seized Grandmaster Shaw and used a shadow tentacle to stop the youth from escaping.
• An Chen turned the youth into a mask and learned that he and Grandmaster Shaw had swindled people across several cities.
• An Chen examined Grandmaster Shaw's memories and discovered that the Listening Society sacrificed people to a man-eating fog resembling the fog at Xiangshi Valley.

An Chen rescued Steward Liu from two gray falcon Soul Masters and discovered they belonged to Return to the Ruins. He killed both attackers with ease, leaving Steward Liu stunned by how powerful he had become.

• After failing to find information about the Listening Society in Xiliang City, An Chen continued toward Spirit City and sensed a familiar Soul Power fluctuation along the road.
• An Chen recognized Steward Liu being pursued through the sky by two gray falcon Soul Masters and flew up to help him.
• An Chen struck down one falcon with a black-flaming spear, then learned from Steward Liu that the surviving pursuers were unfamiliar enemies.
• An Chen recognized the powder released by the attackers as a virus, burned it away, and identified the two men as members of Return to the Ruins.
• An Chen cleaved one attacker apart with a flaming broadsword, crushed the other with tenfold gravity, and burned him to ash.
• An Chen complained that he had not killed the men instantly, while Steward Liu stared at him in disbelief.

An Chen reunited with Steward Liu, cured him of a deadly poison, and stayed with him because pursuers were likely to arrive. That night, An Chen struck down several attackers, but a six-ringed man in a red robe appeared and identified Steward Liu as a Spirit Hall remnant.

• Steward Liu told An Chen that the Mysterious Faction had ambushed the Spirit Hall group and that hunters had pursued him after recognizing his Spirit Hall crystal ball.
• Steward Liu collapsed from a poison, and An Chen absorbed the pathogens, healed his wounds, and gave him medicinal liquid.
• An Chen warned Steward Liu that his pursuers might come, and the two stayed overnight beside the road.
• An Chen sensed viral particles in the air and covered Steward Liu with a protective film of black flame.
• An Chen used the black-clad man's golden longsword to slash into the woods, setting the attackers and surrounding trees ablaze.
• A red-robed man with six Soul Rings extinguished the flames and called Steward Liu a Spirit Hall remnant.

An Chen fought the red-clad man from Return to the Ruins, whose defenses and escape left An Chen without the answers he sought. After returning to Steward Liu and removing the enemy’s tracking mark, An Chen kept watch through the night, then left before Steward Liu set off for home.

• An Chen’s black flames reignited and killed the black-clad men, prompting the red-clad man to retreat and defend himself with floating stones.
• An Chen struck the red-clad man with sword energy, broke through his phantom turtle defense, and pursued him as he escaped, leaving behind a severed foot.
• An Chen collected the remaining bones and returned to Steward Liu, then burned away the mark the enemy had placed on him.
• An Chen stayed awake keeping watch through the night, and Steward Liu found him gone the next morning before setting off for his hometown.

Duke Yuezhuang learned that the red-clad man had been crippled by An Chen and went to the imperial palace, where he met Sect Master Ning. An Chen gathered rumors about Spirit Hall closing Spirit City, then grew shaken after hearing that a blood moon had appeared there.

• Duke Yuezhuang questioned the red-clad man about his defeat by An Chen and learned that An Chen wielded a sword martial soul with black flames.
• Duke Yuezhuang ordered his butler to deal with those who had heard the red-clad man's account, then traveled to the imperial palace.
• Duke Yuezhuang met Sect Master Ning and his two companions on the way through the palace.
• An Chen reached a busy village with Big Ears and listened to travelers discuss Spirit Hall's closed gates and a blood moon over Spirit City.
• An Chen recalled the blood moon incident in Tieyan City and spilled tea as his hand trembled.

An Chen investigated rumors about Spirit City, but a meteor’s impact drew him to a Gobi Desert crater where Soul Masters fought over a strange Soul Bone. He waited at the crater’s edge, planning to claim it after the others exhausted themselves.

• An Chen found no useful news about Spirit City and settled into an inn, where a meteor streaked past his window before a distant impact shook the building and left him and Big Ears missing.
• After more tremors interrupted his cultivation, An Chen took Big Ears and traveled through the shadows to the Gobi Desert, where a crowd had gathered around a crater.
• Four six-ring Soul Masters stopped fighting each other when the crowd grew, while onlookers said a Soul Bone from beyond the heavens lay inside the crater.
• A Blue-Clothed Youth cleared the smoke with his Azure Fan, seized the strange white bone, and drew the crowd into a chaotic battle as they tried to take it.
• An Chen arrived, watched the Soul Bone change hands, and waited at the crater’s edge for the fighting to leave him a chance to claim it.

An Chen killed the poisoned blue-robed youth after learning that his death would transfer a mark to someone nearby, then took his belongings and used a Netherworld Ganoderma pill to restore his Mental Power. A white-haired Soul Douluo guardian arrived at the battle pit, and An Chen watched from its edge.

• An Chen refused to help the blue-robed youth send a message unless he received a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, then agreed to accept a Netherworld Ganoderma pill instead.
• The blue-robed youth warned that his death would mark the nearest person, so An Chen brought over an eyeless, dying man as a fall guy.
• An Chen killed the blue-robed youth with his black-flamed sword, and the golden talisman marked the eyeless man instead.
• An Chen took two jade thumb rings, found five purple pills in a jade bottle, and swallowed one to replenish his Mental Power.
• An azure pillar rose from the pit, and a white-haired old man with eight Soul Rings arrived, crying out for the Third Young Master.
• An Chen recognized the old man as the blue-robed youth's guardian and watched from the edge of the pit.

The Soul Douluo elder killed two men while searching for the blue-robed youth, then seized the white Horn Bone and discovered he could not store it. As a blue-gold beam brought two newcomers into the pit, An Chen recognized the Fallen Star Knight who had arrived and disguised himself in the crowd.

• The elder questioned the people in the pit about the blue-robed youth, then killed the man with the giant bear Martial Soul and the man with the poisonous White Zhen Bird Martial Soul.
• The elder attacked the mud-covered man, knocked him unconscious, and picked up the white Horn Bone.
• A blue-yellow beam descended into the pit, weakening the elder's suppression and allowing the crowd to flee.
• The blue-gold light revealed a pale, exhausted man and the white-robed Fallen Star Knight, while the elder failed to put the Horn Bone into his Storage Soul Tool.
• An Chen recognized the Fallen Star Knight, changed his appearance, and hid among the crowd while suppressing his aura.

The Fallen Star Knight seized the Horn Bone from an old man and gave it to the Material Truth Research Institute, whose members built a room around it and performed a ritual. The Institute posted a bounty for An Chen, who evaded detection in disguise, while the ritual eventually caused a figure holding the Horn Bone to emerge from the room.

• The Fallen Star Knight subdued the old man, took his Horn Bone, and struck him with lightning as the survivors watched.
• The gray-clad old man confirmed the Horn Bone was the one the Institute sought, and the Institute members assembled a room and altar around it.
• The gray-clad old man announced a bounty for An Chen, offering two Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones for him alive.
• An Chen disguised himself as an ordinary-looking woman and avoided detection when the gray-clad old man searched the crowd.
• The Fallen Star Knight and the gray-clad old man waited through the night, then watched as a figure emerged from the room holding the Horn Bone.

Ulysses Gesaer arrived from the Tindalos Galaxy, recognized that An Chen could change his appearance, and warned Nangong Pojun, who trapped the crowd in a deadly lightning barrier before fleeing. After surviving and scavenging the battlefield, An Chen was caught by a teleportation force as Nangong Pojun and Ulysses returned.

• Ulysses Gesaer emerged from the room, met Nangong Pojun, and noticed An Chen's wanted portrait among the crowd.
• Ulysses spotted An Chen in disguise and warned Nangong Pojun that the criminal could change his appearance.
• Nangong Pojun summoned Tai Tan and sealed the area with lightning, then escaped with Ulysses and the research institute's people while the lightning killed many trapped spectators.
• An Chen hid in Shadow Space until the storm ended, then found a blood jade containing cultivation ingredients and the Millennium Dragon Scale Fruit, and searched the corpses for useful items.
• A weakened teleporter returned with Nangong Pojun and Ulysses, and a suction force pulled An Chen toward them as he tried to flee.

An Chen escaped Nangong Pojun by using a Shadow Servant, but Ulysses tracked him to an inn, where a mysterious attendant arrived and revealed that he and Ulysses knew each other. The attendant restrained An Chen while the two discussed Ulysses's grandfather and the being who had allowed Ulysses to travel.

• Nangong Pojun ordered Carl to carry off an unconscious man while the real An Chen escaped into the shadows, though Ulysses appeared to notice.
• An Chen fled far from the battlefield, changed his appearance, and entered a small town, but Ulysses appeared in his inn room and saw through his Shadow Servant disguise.
• An Chen switched places with the Shadow Servant and asked Ulysses what he wanted, but a monocled inn attendant arrived and walked into the room.
• The attendant and Ulysses greeted each other as old acquaintances, and the attendant restrained An Chen and made him sit at the table.
• The attendant asked whether Ulysses's grandfather was dead, and Ulysses said he expected him to die within the next few years.

An Chen learned about boon Pathways and was sent away by the attendant, then traveled to Qingxi City. There, reports of villagers dying in faint black flames troubled him, and he followed young residents heading to a church to pray to a newly heard-of God of Love.

• Ulysses explained that An Chen had advanced through Potions or Beyonder Characteristics, while boon abilities came from Outer Deities and required regular replenishment.
• The attendant said An Chen could seek a second Pathway by praying to Ulysses's Lord, but warned that Ulysses's strange body came from a Sequence ability.
• The attendant forced An Chen to switch places with a Shadow Servant a hundred li away, and the servant's collapse cost An Chen a large amount of stored flesh.
• An Chen traveled toward Qingxi City, replenishing his flesh from nearby Soul Beasts and noticing the city's guards seemed hastily assembled.
• In Qingxi City, An Chen heard that villagers across the Heaven Dou Empire and Star Luo Empire had burned to death in faint black flames.
• After hearing a bell summon young residents to pray to a God of Love, An Chen followed them toward the church.

An Chen investigated the Church of the God of Lust and discovered that its prayers filled the air with pink mist that put the congregation to sleep. The statue drew him into visions, and he awoke pinned beneath a tree with his heart missing.

• An Chen entered the church, sensed pink particles in the air, and suspected the God of Lust was connected to Undying Human Desire.
• The priest preached about the God of Lust, and An Chen grew drowsy as the church filled with pink mist.
• After the congregation fell asleep and the priest disappeared, the statue opened its eyes and An Chen was drawn into visions of a black insect burdened by possessions and a beautiful woman who killed him.
• An Chen broke free of the visions and woke beneath a tree whose roots pierced him and drained his blood, with a bloody hole where his heart had been.

An Chen endured an endless cycle of torture in a dark realm, recovered his memories, and absorbed the six figures who had tormented him. He awakened in a church with a newfound burden, while elsewhere a man with a monocle learned that only a sliver of An Chen’s future could be seen.

• An Chen was burned by a sunlike force that stripped away his memories and left him as a charred skeleton.
• A green light restored An Chen, but six figures repeatedly beat, dismembered, and ate him, restoring his body each time.
• After ten thousand years of suffering in his perception, An Chen remembered his name and devoured the six figures’ souls.
• An Chen recognized the ideas of guidance, redemption, and bearing the burden, then awakened inside the church as a priest turned to face him.
• At an inn, a man with a monocle asked whether the other man had seen An Chen’s future, and the purple-eyed man said he had glimpsed only a sliver.

An Chen killed Mokai’s uncle, learned about the Mother Tree of Desire, and gained two dream-related abilities. After reaching Arles City and completing his Shepherd Potion digestion, he cultivated to Level 58 before a disturbance outside interrupted him.

• An Chen pinned Mokai’s uncle, transformed him into a seven-colored mask, and destroyed the statue in the church.
• An Chen learned from the priest’s memories that the God of Lust was the Mother Tree of Desire and that the priest had recruited Mokai, but the priest’s reason for attacking him remained hidden.
• An Chen extracted the priest’s soul, Martial Soul, and Soul Skills, then gained the abilities to draw people into dreams and create a Dream Domain.
• An Chen left the church, traveled for five weeks, and reached Arles City, where Modili and Dongxi provided him with a Cultivation Room.
• An Chen’s system showed that his Shepherd Potion digestion was complete, and he cultivated until his Soul Power reached Level 58.
• A surge of Soul Power disrupted An Chen’s cultivation, so he went outside to investigate.