Recaps

Xu Huxiao rejected Orleans’s offer of the Soul Bone, then defeated her in the Great Soul Arena after her attack was stopped by his Force Shield. The fight left Orleans injured and frightened, and she realized she had pushed him too far and decided to seek Sister Yanran’s advice.

• Xu Huxiao refused to beg Orleans for the Soul Bone and left, while Yun Ji questioned Orleans about provoking him.
• Orleans used her uncle’s influence to arrange a match against Xu Huxiao at the Great Soul Arena.
• Orleans attacked with her Soul Skills, but Xu Huxiao blocked her strikes with Force Shields and prepared to end the match.
• Orleans slipped through a Force Shield with a localized shadow transformation and kicked Xu Huxiao’s crotch, dislocating her own ankle against his hardened body.
• Xu Huxiao seized Orleans with a dragon-shaped force, warned her to stop bothering him, and won the match.
• Orleans panicked and regretted driving Xu Huxiao to despise her, then decided to ask Sister Yanran for advice.

Shi Nian accepted a Shadow Dragon Hall contract to help assassinate an unnamed young Soul Grandmaster, while Borba revealed himself as the masked recruiter. Xu Huxiao learned that Lei Dao was crippled and no longer a serious threat, and Xu Yanran began advising Orleans on how to win Huxiao’s affection through marriage.

• Shi Nian agreed to assist Shadow Dragon Hall in killing a young Soul Grandmaster in exchange for one million Gold Soul Coins and help finding a stable job.
• Borba removed his evil ghost mask, revealing that he had recruited Shi Nian for the assassination plan.
• Lin Mengmeng told Xu Huxiao that Lei Dao had lost his Left Arm Soul Bone, fallen to roughly Soul Sage strength, and disappeared within the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s territory.
• Orleans cried to Xu Yanran about Xu Huxiao’s hostility, then admitted that she liked him and wanted him to treat her gently.
• Xu Yanran proposed that Orleans pursue a falling-in-love-after-marriage plan and offered to explain how to make Huxiao accept it.

Xu Huxiao learned that his parents had arranged his engagement to Orleans, Ghost Leopard Douluo's daughter, and initially refused so he could focus on cultivation. After seeing the Soul Bone sent with the engagement gifts, he agreed, and his mother began preparing a family banquet.

• Xu Huxiao considered Borba a possible threat but chose to prioritize cultivating and absorbing the Soul Bone's energy.
• Xu Bayan told Xu Huxiao that Orleans had proposed an engagement and handed him a brocade box and letter from her family.
• Xu Huxiao refused the engagement, but Xu Bayan insisted it was settled and nearly punished him before Ning Fengyu intervened.
• Ning Fengyu urged Xu Huxiao to consider Orleans's feelings and asked him to inspect the engagement gift.
• Xu Huxiao found the Left Arm Soul Bone from a Brown-Eyed Giant Demon Ape in the box and agreed to the engagement.
• Ning Fengyu began arranging a family banquet and told Xu Huxiao to treat Orleans well and make time for their relationship.

Xu Huxiao accepted Orleans’s Soul Bone and read her confession, then attended their engagement banquet and went on an awkward first date with her. After he spanked her as punishment, Orleans took it as a sign that he liked her and happily watched him leave.

• Xu Huxiao read Orleans’s letter confessing her feelings and apologizing, accepted the Soul Bone, and returned to his training.
• Xu Huxiao and Orleans’s families held their engagement banquet, then left the newly engaged pair alone together.
• Xu Bayan and Ning Fengyu secretly watched from a nearby guest room as Orleans tried to sweet-talk Xu Huxiao and apologize for her past behavior.
• Xu Huxiao told Orleans to bend over and spanked her, then hurried away from the pavilion.
• Orleans wondered whether Xu Huxiao’s punishment meant he liked her and spent the day happily imagining their growing relationship.

After refining a Soul Bone, Xu Huxiao gained a greatly enhanced defensive Soul Skill and absorbed another incomplete Soul Bone to strengthen himself further. Bibi Dong summoned him and Hu Liena for a month of special training, setting them a climb on the Angel Ascension Stairway before leading them to training in wisdom.

• Xu Huxiao finished refining the solidified Soul Bone energy, gained four Soul Power levels, and discovered that Shadow Counter-Spike Light Armor now defended against both physical and energy attacks.
• Xu Huxiao used the Five-Colored Heavenly Pearl to absorb the Brown-Eyed Giant Demon Ape's incomplete Left Arm Soul Bone, expecting it to help condense his final Blood-Essence Flower and perhaps grant gravity control.
• Bibi Dong summoned Xu Huxiao and Hu Liena to the Papal Palace for a month of special training, where Hu Liena congratulated Xu Huxiao on his engagement to Orleans with a forced smile.
• Bibi Dong assigned Hu Liena to reach the hundredth step and Xu Huxiao to reach the two-hundredth step of the Angel Ascension Stairway within a month, despite its increasing gravity and Soul Power drain.
• Bibi Dong led Xu Huxiao and Hu Liena onward, telling them she would teach them the most important part of their special training: wisdom.

Bibi Dong brought Xu Huxiao and Hu Liena to the Spirit Hall’s Collection Pavilion to study Yu Xiaogang’s book, the Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul. Xu Huxiao warned Hu Liena not to discuss Yu Xiaogang around Bibi Dong, then questioned the book’s logic and left, while Hu Liena remained behind thinking about him.

• Bibi Dong praised Yu Xiaogang’s wisdom and assigned Xu Huxiao and Hu Liena to study his Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul.
• Xu Huxiao used the Eye of Omniscience to learn that Bibi Dong still missed Xiao Gang, then privately told Hu Liena not to discuss Yu Xiaogang in front of Bibi Dong or anyone else.
• Xu Huxiao read about Martial Soul fusion and questioned the book’s conflicting claims about trash Martial Souls and trash Soul Masters.
• Xu Huxiao concluded that the book’s weaknesses could make readers blame themselves and that the Spirit Hall’s promotion could build Yu Xiaogang’s reputation, then left the Collection Pavilion.
• Hu Liena closed her book, sat in Xu Huxiao’s seat, and imagined him holding her while they read.

Xu Huxiao tested the Angel Ascension Stairway and climbed to its two-hundredth step, where his Soul Power was exhausted and he discovered the Angel Purification Power breaking it down. He sensed that his Yang Origin Soul Power was beginning to resist and might refine the purification mist as nourishment.

• Xu Huxiao stepped onto the Angel Ascension Stairway, sensed its sealed Martial Soul, doubled gravity, and increased Soul Power drain, then climbed the first hundred steps with ease.
• Xu Huxiao continued to the two-hundredth step as the gravity and Soul Power drain increased, finally exhausting his Soul Power.
• One Red-clad Bishop tested the stairs, confirmed they worked normally, and sent the other bishop to report Xu Huxiao's feat to the Pope.
• Xu Huxiao sat cross-legged on the two-hundredth step and used inner vision to observe the Angel Purification Power breaking down each new thread of Yang Origin Soul Power.
• Xu Huxiao recalled how his Yang Origin Soul Power had refined poison in the womb and sensed that it now wanted to resist and devour the purification mist.

Xu Huxiao emerged from an intense enlightenment on the Angel Ascension Stairway, where he learned to control his Yang Origin Soul Power as if it replaced his Martial Soul. After concealing the nature of his power from Bibi Dong, he tested the new state and activated a Soul Skill without Martial Soul Possession.

• Xu Huxiao’s Yang Origin Soul Power accelerated its recovery on the two-hundredth step as he experienced its repeated destruction and rebirth in a state of enlightenment.
• Bibi Dong arrived, recognized that Xu Huxiao was in a precious cultivation state, and stayed to protect him until he awoke.
• Xu Huxiao woke hungry, and Bibi Dong took him to the Papal Palace after ordering the two Red-clad Bishops to keep his experience secret.
• Xu Huxiao devoured the meal Bibi Dong provided, then told her that his strong physique explained his performance and hid his Soul Power mutation.
• After bathing at his new residence, Xu Huxiao reflected on how his enlightenment had let him control Soul Power without relying on his Martial Soul.
• Xu Huxiao entered that state again and manifested his second Soul Skill, Shadow Counter-Spike Light Armor, without Martial Soul Possession.

Xu Huxiao completed a month of training on the Angel Ascension Stairway, transforming his Yang Origin Soul Power and passing Bibi Dong’s assessment with Hu Liena. As Xu Huxiao left to finish tempering his Silver Body, Bibi Dong kept Hu Liena behind for a private conversation.

• Xu Huxiao trained on increasingly difficult steps until his Yang Origin Soul Power devoured the Angel White Mist and gained scorching heat and solidity, allowing it to form a golden greatsword.
• Hu Liena improved her Soul Power to level twenty-four and reached the two-hundredth step with Xu Huxiao’s help.
• Qian Daoliu prayed before the Angel Sacred Statue, unaware that one of its wings had turned blood-red as disturbing visions plagued him.
• Xu Huxiao and Hu Liena passed Bibi Dong’s physical and intelligence assessments and received Merit Points and Gold Soul Coins.
• Bibi Dong granted them three months off and said she would announce their next training phase afterward.
• Xu Huxiao headed to his family’s martial training ground, while Bibi Dong asked Hu Liena to stay for a private talk.

Bibi Dong confronted Hu Liena about her feelings for Xu Huxiao and vowed to break his engagement so they could be together. Hu Liena rejected that plan and set out to warn Xu Huxiao, who was considering his third Soul Ring before Yun Ji, Bao Jingjing, and Orleans arrived with food.

• Bibi Dong recalled her youth to Hu Liena, then recognized Hu Liena's affection for Xu Huxiao.
• Hu Liena admitted she loved Xu Huxiao but feared that pursuing him would make him hate her because he was engaged.
• Bibi Dong insisted she would have Elder Demon Bear annul the engagement and arrange one between Hu Liena and Xu Huxiao.
• Hu Liena left the Papal Palace determined to tell Xu Huxiao about Bibi Dong's plan.
• Xu Huxiao considered Soul Skills for his third Soul Ring and planned to search the Collection Pavilion for suitable Soul Beast information.
• Yun Ji, Bao Jingjing, and Orleans visited Xu Huxiao at the training ground and brought him food.

Xu Huxiao trained his Silver Body and visited Hu Liena, who told him Bibi Dong had forced an engagement between them. He promised to speak with Bibi Dong, then sent Hu Liena dinner, leaving her resolved not to make things difficult for him.

• Bao Jingjing, Yun Ji, and Orleans visited Xu Huxiao with food, and he promised to teach Orleans close-combat techniques in the mornings.
• Xu Huxiao completed Silver Body tempering and noticed that his vitality and blood had grown denser and better able to withstand his boosted strength.
• Luo Ming told Xu Huxiao that Hu Liena had invited him to her Courtyard, where she served him a badly cooked dinner before explaining Bibi Dong's arranged engagement.
• Hu Liena apologized and offered to persuade Bibi Dong to abandon the engagement, but Xu Huxiao comforted her and said he would handle the matter himself.
• After Xu Huxiao left, Luo Ming delivered a meal from Brocade Cloud Tower on his instructions, and Hu Liena vowed not to make things difficult for him.

Bibi Dong summoned Xu Bayan and Ao Miao to arrange an engagement between Hu Liena and Xu Huxiao, only to learn that Xu Huxiao was already engaged to Orleans. After bringing the three young people before her, she urged Hu Liena to consider claiming the love she wanted, while the others prepared to state their positions.

• Bibi Dong experienced another bout of dizziness and strange voices, then welcomed Xu Bayan and Ao Miao to the council chamber.
• Bibi Dong proposed Xu Huxiao’s engagement to Hu Liena, but Xu Bayan and Ao Miao objected because Xu Huxiao was already engaged to Orleans.
• Xu Bayan and Ao Miao asked to hear from the young people themselves, so Bibi Dong summoned Xu Huxiao, Hu Liena, and Orleans.
• Bibi Dong encouraged Hu Liena to treat the moment as her only chance to pursue the love she wanted and left the choice to her.
• Orleans revealed no surprise at the possibility of Xu Huxiao loving Hu Liena, while privately viewing her as a potential member of her alliance with Yun Ji and Bao Jingjing.
• Bibi Dong asked everyone to state their opinions but excluded Xu Huxiao from speaking first.

Orleans proposed that she and Hu Liena both become engaged to Xu Huxiao, and Hu Liena confessed that she loved him and agreed. After their parents debated and relented, Xu Huxiao accepted the dual engagements, leaving the arrangement settled despite his reservations.

• Orleans proposed that she and Hu Liena both become engaged to Xu Huxiao, but Ao Miao and Bibi Dong objected.
• Bibi Dong asked Hu Liena to choose, and Hu Liena confessed that she loved Xu Huxiao and wanted to become engaged to him.
• Ao Miao accused Xu Huxiao of deceiving Orleans, but Orleans and Hu Liena defended him and agreed to become engaged together.
• Xu Bayan insisted that the engagement between the Xu Family and Ao Family remain in place, and Orleans persuaded Ao Miao not to cancel it.
• Bibi Dong approved both engagements, and Xu Huxiao said he had no objections.

After Xu Huxiao’s engagement to Orleans and Hu Liena, he trained them and improved their cultivation methods, earning Ao Miao’s respect. Two months later, Xu Huxiao reached the Silver Body and began investigating how to perfect it, suspecting that condensing his third Blood-Essence Flower would let him complete Three Flowers Convergence.

• Xu Huxiao agreed to Ao Miao’s warning after becoming engaged to Orleans and Hu Liena, then intensified his training.
• Xu Huxiao taught Orleans and Hu Liena practical close-combat and evasion techniques while tailoring their meditation methods to their Martial Souls.
• Orleans gained a Soul Power level in one week, and Ao Miao was impressed that Xu Huxiao had reversed the effects of her forced growth.
• Xu Huxiao mastered the Silver Body, raising his normal strength above one thousand jin and his explosive strength beyond ten thousand jin.
• Xu Huxiao suspected that the third Blood-Essence Flower in his left palm was needed to achieve Three Flowers Convergence and perfect the Silver Body.

Xu Huxiao weighed ways to obtain more Soul Bones and decided to focus on cultivation while seeking opportunities through Spirit Hall. After a month of training, he and Hu Liena began Bibi Dong’s second-phase special training in the Black Prison, where they would serve as executioners for a month.

• Xu Huxiao considered possible Soul Bone sources, including the Blue Silver Emperor and Shi Nian, but chose not to take risks while his strength was growing.
• Xu Huxiao spent the next month cultivating and guiding Hu Liena and Orleans, while learning that Spirit City would host Bibi Dong’s Sect Re-selection Conference.
• Xu Huxiao and Hu Liena arrived at the Papal Palace after their three-month break and were led by a Red-clad Bishop to the Black Prison.
• Bibi Dong told Xu Huxiao and Hu Liena to serve as adjudicators and executioners in the Black Prison for a month to temper their minds and courage.
• Xu Huxiao and Hu Liena accepted the assignment, and Bibi Dong ordered Ghost Tiger, Ghost Fox, and Ghost Rat to treat them as ordinary execution personnel while ensuring their safety.

Xu Huxiao and Hu Liena began learning the duties of ordinary executioners in Black Prison, where the wardens’ disturbing behavior and brutal punishment chambers tested Hu Liena’s resolve. The wardens led them to the Corpse Cavern, the next part of their work, as Xu Huxiao suspected the test involved more than witnessing violence.

• Ghost Tiger welcomed Xu Huxiao and Hu Liena, then secretly treasured the tea and cushion Bibi Dong had used.
• Ghost Tiger assigned the two disciples standard executioner gear and led them through the First Layer of Purgatory.
• The wardens showed Xu Huxiao and Hu Liena a filthy punishment chamber where an executioner whipped a prisoner, and Hu Liena vomited.
• Hu Liena recovered and insisted that she and Xu Huxiao would complete Bibi Dong’s test.
• Ghost Tiger and the deputy wardens led the pair to a cave at the end of the corridor and introduced it as the Corpse Cavern.

Xu Huxiao and Hu Liena toured Black Prison, where dense death energy and a cavern of corpses revealed the grim work awaiting them. Xu Huxiao secretly protected Hu Liena with his Yang Origin Soul Power and discovered that Snotwater Snail jelly counteracted the death energy, but the wardens challenged them to eat it before beginning their duties.

• Xu Huxiao and Hu Liena saw the corpse-filled Corpse Cavern, and the wardens assigned them corpse carrying as part of their monthly assessment.
• Hu Liena weakened under Black Prison's death energy, so Xu Huxiao secretly used his Yang Origin Soul Power to dispel it and reassure her.
• The wardens led them to the Water Room, where Xu Huxiao identified the corpse-eating Snotwater Snails and learned their jelly could counteract death energy.
• Ghost Fox offered Xu Huxiao and Hu Liena Snot Jelly, but Xu Huxiao declined to eat it until the wardens finished explaining their assignments.
• Ghost Tiger explained their duties and taunted them by eating Snot Jelly himself; then bells rang through Black Prison as he led them toward their first meal.

Xu Huxiao confronted the Black Prison wardens’ attempt to intimidate him and Hu Liena through a prisoner’s harassment. He left Tang Xiaogang gravely injured, returned to Hu Liena’s side, and faced a stunned cafeteria.

• Xu Huxiao recognized that Bibi Dong’s assessment tested how her disciples responded to the wardens’ abuse of power, and decided to refuse their added labor and lay his cards on the table.
• Tang Xiaogang blocked Xu Huxiao and Hu Liena in the cafeteria, while the prisoners jeered and the wardens and Ghost-Masked Warriors allowed his harassment to continue.
• When Tang Xiaogang reached for Xu Huxiao, Xu Huxiao seized his hand, kicked him through tables and chairs, and crushed his lower body with a second attack.
• Xu Huxiao kept Tang Xiaogang alive for the moment, told Ghost Tiger he had only kicked aside trash, and returned to reassure Hu Liena as the cafeteria fell silent.

After Xu Huxiao injured Tang Xiaogang, Ghost Fox tried to use the Black Prison Code to coerce him and Hu Liena. Xu Huxiao produced the Pope's Order to turn the accusation back on the wardens, but Ghost Fox continued the special training by assigning them harsh executioner duties and living conditions.

• Ghost Fox had medical Ghost-Masked Warriors carry the injured Tang Xiaogang away for treatment, while Ghost Tiger brought Xu Huxiao and Hu Liena to a private room.
• Ghost Fox and Ghost Rat warned Xu Huxiao and Hu Liena that his actions had violated the Black Prison Code and could lead to punishment or failure in their assessment.
• Xu Huxiao reassured Hu Liena, then rejected Ghost Fox's threats and presented his Pope's Order.
• Ghost Tiger recognized the order, and Ghost Fox admitted the wardens had failed in their duty and that Xu Huxiao had not violated the code.
• Ghost Fox resumed the special training plan, requiring Xu Huxiao and Hu Liena to perform executions, cleaning, and corpse-carrying duties and live and eat like ordinary executioners.

Xu Huxiao rejected the wardens’ execution-based assessment and turned their attempt to extort Gold Soul Coins into a bargain using Merit Badges. The Gui brothers agreed to cooperate with him and Hu Liena, leaving Xu Huxiao in control of the training arrangements.

• Xu Huxiao refused the special training, challenged Ghost Tiger to report him to Bibi Dong, and Hu Liena realized the assessment also tested how they handled the wardens.
• Hu Liena backed Xu Huxiao, and Ghost Fox proposed easing their training in exchange for a large sum of Gold Soul Coins.
• Xu Huxiao rejected the wardens’ excuses for demanding money, then offered ten Merit Badges if they fully cooperated during the assessment.
• Ghost Tiger accepted Xu Huxiao’s offer and pledged the wardens’ cooperation, while Ghost Fox recognized that they had lost control of the negotiations.

Xu Huxiao secured the Gui Family brothers’ cooperation and began reviewing Black Prison records to choose prisoners for execution during his special training. After selecting six nobles and Soul Masters, including Tang Xiaogang, he ordered their immediate beheading, leaving Ghost Fox alarmed by the consequences.

• Ghost Fox and Ghost Rat agreed to cooperate with Xu Huxiao, and Ghost Tiger accepted a Merit Badge and promised the highest treatment for Xu Huxiao and Hu Liena.
• Xu Huxiao had Ghost Fox bring him the prisoners’ files and explained that Hu Liena could decide how to handle her own training.
• Xu Huxiao reviewed the files, marked six noble and Soul Master prisoners—including Tang Xiaogang, Jade Asura, and Bai Mu—for death, and rejected the harsh sentences imposed on commoners.
• Xu Huxiao told Ghost Fox to bring out the six selected prisoners for execution and declared that he had sentenced them to decapitation.
• Ghost Fox objected that the prisoners could not be killed.

Xu Huxiao persuaded Warden Ghost Fox to support his plan to execute selected noble and Soul Master prisoners, promising to protect the wardens’ positions. At the Black Prison’s Lava Purgatory, Xu took up the Bloodshadow Broadsword and beheaded Bai Mu, beginning the executions.

• Ghost Fox warned Xu Huxiao that executing nobles and Soul Masters could damage the Black Prison’s income and threaten the wardens’ positions, but Xu framed the executions as a way to strengthen the prison’s authority and raise future payments.
• Xu promised Ghost Fox that the wardens would keep their positions, ordered executions for the prisoners he had marked, and exempted selected commoners from punishment after they completed their sentences.
• Hu Liena chose to accompany Xu to the second level’s Lava Purgatory, where prisoners gathered to witness the executions.
• Xu arrived disguised as an executioner with an Ox-Head Ghost Mask and the Bloodshadow Broadsword, then read Bai Mu’s crimes and sentence.
• Bai Mu protested that his sentence was imprisonment, but Xu beheaded him before he could finish speaking.

Xu Huxiao executed six prisoners in Black Prison and then discovered that Hu Liena was afraid of him after witnessing the beheadings. Hu Liena overcame her fear and guilt enough to knock on his door, intending to apologize and accept punishment.

• Xu Huxiao beheaded Bai Mu and five other prisoners, while his Bloodshadow Broadsword grew sharper by devouring their blood.
• Xu Huxiao reviewed Ghost Rat's execution footage, agreed to send it to Bibi Dong, and settled into the Moonlight Suite with Hu Liena.
• Xu Huxiao offered to use his Yang Origin Soul Power to help Hu Liena meditate, but she avoided him because she feared him after the executions.
• Xu Huxiao returned to his room without explaining the executions, leaving Hu Liena distressed by the gap between her image of him and the executioner she had seen.
• Hu Liena reflected on Xu Huxiao's support, regretted rejecting him, and went to his door to apologize and accept punishment.

Xu Huxiao and Hu Liena reconciled after her apology, then continued their execution training and cultivation in Black Prison. After discovering that the Green Crystal Staff was absorbing death qi and transforming into a Green Crystal Demon Snake, Xu Huxiao entered the Silent Death Purgatory alone to accelerate his Soul Bone refinement and approach level thirty.

• Hu Liena apologized to Xu Huxiao for fleeing during the execution, and he lightly punished her at her request, clearing their awkwardness.
• Xu Huxiao found that Black Prison’s death qi accelerated his Yang Origin Soul Power and Soul Bone refinement, while the Green Crystal Staff absorbed the qi and began transforming into a Green Crystal Demon Snake.
• Xu Huxiao used his Yang Origin Soul Power to protect Hu Liena from death qi, and she later overcame her fear to carry out a beheading with the Bloodshadow Broadsword.
• Xu Huxiao and Hu Liena executed prisoners with a Path to Death every three days, sending recordings to Bibi Dong as part of their special training.
• After nine days, Xu Huxiao found that the first three levels no longer sped up his refinement, so he entered the fourth level, Silent Death Purgatory, alone to cultivate in denser death qi.

Xu Huxiao cultivated on the fourth level of Black Prison and awakened two Dark Suns in his spiritual space, allowing him to detect the purgatory and discover Ghost Douluo in a coffin. After Ghost Douluo caught him spying, Xu Huxiao identified himself and explained that Bibi Dong had sent him there for special training, leaving Ghost Douluo curious about his spiritual detection.

• Xu Huxiao cultivated amid Black Prison's death energy, strengthening his Yang Origin Soul Power and forming a Yin-Yang balance within his body.
• Two Dark Suns appeared in Xu Huxiao's spiritual space, and he used them to perceive much of Silent Death Purgatory.
• Xu Huxiao saw a seemingly lifeless Spirit Hall elder in a coffin, but the man opened his eyes and warned him against spying.
• The Eye of Omniscience identified the man as Gui Mei, Ghost Douluo, so Xu Huxiao prepared his father's token and the Pope's Order and waited for him.
• Ghost Douluo approached Xu Huxiao from behind and guessed that Bibi Dong had sent him to Black Prison for training.
• Xu Huxiao confirmed Ghost Douluo's guess, and Ghost Douluo asked how he had used spiritual power to detect his location.