Recaps

Gu Mingyuan broke Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen's fusion skill to secure Shrek Academy's tournament victory, while Ma Xiaotao's condition worsened. As the teams returned to their lodgings, the Body Sect planned to approach Gu Mingyuan outside the city, and the Sun Moon team secretly moved the God-Sealing Platform out of Star Luo City.

• Gu Mingyuan struck the flaw in Red Dust Attachment, defeating Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen and winning the final for Shrek Academy.
• Xu Sanshi, Bei Bei, Cao Jinxuan, and Zhou Sichen helped the exhausted Gu Mingyuan off the arena, while Huo Yuhao watched silently.
• Ma Xiaotao's dark power erupted, and Xuan Zi sealed her Martial Soul and ordered her taken back to the academy for treatment.
• Xu Jiawei ended the tournament and announced that the awards would be presented privately at the palace the next morning.
• Du Busi decided to seek Gu Mingyuan after the team left Star Luo Empire and told Lang Ya and Yu Tao to keep watch on Gu Mingyuan and Huo Yuhao.
• Elder Ma sent an intelligence report on Gu Mingyuan to Mingde Hall and arranged for the God-Sealing Platform to leave Star Luo City secretly while decoy convoys departed through other gates.

The Holy Spirit Cult confirmed it could use Gu Mingyuan’s blood and Brand for Spatial Guidance, and prepared a plan to abduct him during a clash between the Body Sect and Xuan Zi. After the Shrek team’s subdued celebration, Xuan Zi returned and decided to escort Gu Mingyuan and Huo Yuhao separately from the rest of the group.

• Xu Jiawei let the three convoys leave and ordered a secret search for their true route, while noting that Du Busi was moving outside Star Luo City.
• Feng Ling verified that the blood recovered from the arena belonged to Gu Mingyuan and ordered the Holy Spirit Cult to prepare a death file and wait for a chance to seize him.
• At the Shrek group’s celebration, Wang Yan remembered the fallen Chen Zifeng and Yao Haoxuan, while the injured Gu Mingyuan, Bei Bei, and Xu Sanshi remained distant from one another.
• Zhang Lexuan showed Wang Yan the royal family’s report on the Body Sect’s movements and warned that Huo Yuhao might also be targeted.
• After returning from Shrek, Xuan Zi arranged for the Royal Guards to escort the group to the border, then decided to take Gu Mingyuan and Huo Yuhao with him while Zhang Lexuan and Wang Yan led the others home.

Xuan Zi took Gu Mingyuan and Huo Yuhao along a secluded route back to Shrek, but Du Busi and two Body Sect experts intercepted them and demanded that one of the boys join the sect. Xuan Zi refused and fought Du Busi while the other experts searched for a way through his defenses, leaving Yu Xiaogang to weigh his options.

• Gu Mingyuan learned that someone was using the Holy Spirit Mark to recalibrate his spatial coordinates, but he told Electrolux to leave it in place for now.
• Xu Jiawei gave Wang Yan the championship rewards, and the Shrek delegation began its return journey under a Royal Guard escort.
• After the group reached the border, Xuan Zi took Gu Mingyuan and Huo Yuhao away from the main road, where Du Busi, Lang Ya, and Yu Tao intercepted them.
• Du Busi offered Shrek compensation if Gu Mingyuan joined the Body Sect, then declared that he would take at least one of the two boys; Xuan Zi refused to surrender either of them.
• Du Busi attacked Xuan Zi, while Lang Ya and Yu Tao tried to find a way past his protective barrier; Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection was shredded by the clash.
• Yu Xiaogang considered Du Busi's demand and began weighing his options.

As Du Busi overwhelmed Xuan Zi and threatened to seize the boys, Yu Xiaogang used the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s spiritual power to reveal himself and urge Xuan Zi to protect Huo Yuhao. Yu Xiaogang then turned his attention to Gu Mingyuan, still harboring resentment over his earlier rejection.

• Xuan Zi unleashed his Godly Taotie Bull Martial Soul Avatar, but Du Busi held him in place while Yu Tao tried to break through his barrier and grab the boys.
• Yu Xiaogang asked the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to lend him spiritual power, warning that Xuan Zi might have to choose which boy to save.
• Huo Yuhao begged the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to help his teacher, and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm agreed to empower Yu Xiaogang’s remnant soul.
• Yu Xiaogang appeared above Huo Yuhao and told Xuan Zi to protect him, identifying himself as Tang San’s teacher.
• Yu Xiaogang declared Huo Yuhao his final disciple and said Shrek would risk its future if it failed to protect him, strengthening Xuan Zi’s resolve to value the boy.
• Yu Xiaogang ignored the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s warning to withdraw and looked toward Gu Mingyuan, remembering the boy’s earlier rejection and insult.

As Xuan Zi prioritized protecting Huo Yuhao, Lang Ya and Yu Tao exploited the gap to isolate Gu Mingyuan during the battle with Du Busi. The Holy Spirit Cult activated a spatial array to abduct Gu Mingyuan, and Electrolux warned him just as the space beneath him twisted.

• Yu Xiaogang urged Xuan Zi to prioritize Huo Yuhao and let the Body Sect take Gu Mingyuan, while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm withdrew the projection.
• Xuan Zi pulled Huo Yuhao into his closest protection and left Gu Mingyuan in a separate barrier, which Gu Mingyuan noticed without protest.
• Lang Ya disrupted Gu Mingyuan's barrier as Yu Tao attacked it, forcing Xuan Zi to divide his attention while Du Busi kept pressing him.
• Yu Tao dragged the cracked barrier more than thirty meters from Xuan Zi, while Lang Ya interfered with Xuan Zi's attempt to intervene.
• A Holy Spirit Cult elder activated the receiving array, and Feng Ling ordered the cult to bring Gu Mingyuan in.
• As Yu Tao prepared to break the barrier, Gu Mingyuan's Holy Spirit Mark heated up and the space beneath him twisted; Electrolux warned that the spatial force was taking him away.

Gu Mingyuan chose to let the Holy Spirit Cult’s spatial guidance take him away rather than return to Shrek, and a corpse substituted for him when the transfer completed. The others believed he might have died in the explosion, while Huo Yuhao concealed that he knew Gu Mingyuan had escaped.

• Gu Mingyuan refused Electrolux’s offer to sever the spatial mark and asked him to protect his Sea of Spirit as he accepted the Holy Spirit Cult’s pull.
• As Xuan Zi tried to protect Gu Mingyuan from Du Busi and Yu Tao, Gu Mingyuan vanished and an identical body appeared in his place.
• The substitute exploded, concealing Gu Mingyuan’s spatial transfer; the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm told Huo Yuhao that Gu Mingyuan was alive, but Huo Yuhao kept it secret.
• Xuan Zi and Du Busi searched the blast site but found no trail, and Xuan Zi gathered the bloodied remains while fearing Gu Mingyuan was dead.
• Huo Yuhao told Xuan Zi he could not see what happened and suggested the blast resembled the Corpse Explosion connected to Death’s Hand.

After Gu Mingyuan vanished in a staged corpse explosion, Xuan Zi blamed himself while Du Busi condemned Shrek and left to pursue another lead. Gu Mingyuan was revealed to have been transported to an underground chamber, where Feng Ling met him and asked if he was hurt.

• Du Busi accused Xuan Zi and Shrek of failing to protect Gu Mingyuan, then left with Lang Ya and Yu Tao to mobilize the Body Sect's intelligence network.
• Yu Xiaogang told Huo Yuhao to deny responsibility for Gu Mingyuan's disappearance, while Huo Yuhao stayed silent about the anomaly he had sensed.
• Xuan Zi gathered the remains into a metal box and searched the crater for traces of spatial power as Huo Yuhao watched.
• Gu Mingyuan arrived in an underground stone chamber as the transport array and its crystals collapsed.
• Feng Ling supported Gu Mingyuan with her Soul Power and asked where he was hurt.

Feng Ling brought Gu Mingyuan to a transit point, recruited him as a Holy Cult prodigy, and gave him a chance to investigate an anomaly in her soul. Meanwhile, Xuan Zi told the Sea God Pavilion that Gu Mingyuan had vanished after a third party intervened, then asked Huo Yuhao to release someone.

• Feng Ling destroyed the transit array, gave Gu Mingyuan black clothes, and named him one of the Holy Cult's prodigies.
• Electrolux sensed a possible foreign restraint in Feng Ling's soul and told Gu Mingyuan that the All-Seeing Heavenly Eye might help investigate it later.
• Xuan Zi brought Huo Yuhao to an emergency Sea God Pavilion meeting and reported that Gu Mingyuan had disappeared after a spatial distortion made his body explode.
• Xuan Zi admitted that he had protected Huo Yuhao and left Gu Mingyuan behind during the clash with Du Busi, then asked Huo Yuhao to let someone out.

Yu Xiaogang manifested in Shrek Academy’s Sea God Pavilion and arrogantly listed his credentials to the hostile elders. Meanwhile, Feng Ling brought Gu Mingyuan to the Holy Spirit Cult’s Main Altar, where he met Zhongli Wu, Yan Feng, and Tang Ya.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm used its spiritual power to manifest Yu Xiaogang before the Sea God Pavilion elders.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed to be Shrek Academy’s founder and the teacher of Tang San and several other gods.
• Feng Ling led Gu Mingyuan through a hidden entrance into the Holy Spirit Cult’s underground Main Altar.
• Feng Ling asked Gu Mingyuan whether he wanted to become a Holy Son before bringing him to meet Zhongli Wu and the cult’s elders.
• Gu Mingyuan saw Yan Feng and Tang Ya in the council hall, and Tang Ya reacted with hostility when she recognized him.

Mu En challenged the spirit claiming to be Yu Xiaogang and questioned how a Soul King could have survived for ten thousand years. He examined Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Spirit for signs of possession, while the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm concealed himself and the Ice Empress; Mu En found Huo Yuhao’s consciousness intact and only Yu Xiaogang’s remnant soul on the surface.

• Mu En stood and demanded proof that the phantom was Yu Xiaogang, while the pavilion elders took cautious positions.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed his face, his ties to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and his teachings of Tang San proved his identity.
• Tang San sneezed in the Divine Realm and suspected the God of Destruction might be involved, while Xiao Wu worried about their daughter.
• Mu En pointed out that academy records placed Yu Xiaogang’s cultivation at no higher than Soul King and asked how he had survived ten thousand years.
• Mu En told Huo Yuhao to relax and allowed him to inspect his Sea of Spirit; the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm hid the Ice Empress and their auras.
• Mu En found Huo Yuhao’s spiritual essence intact and saw only Yu Xiaogang’s remnant soul in the area he examined.

Mu En refused to accept Yu Xiaogang as Shrek’s ancestor despite confirming that his remnant soul was real, while Yu Xiaogang threatened to expose Shrek as ungrateful. At the Holy Spirit Cult, Gu Mingyuan earned a place on the core training list and used stories about Tang San to challenge Tang Ya’s condemnation of her own life-draining powers.

• Mu En confirmed that Yu Xiaogang was a genuine remnant soul but did not acknowledge him as an ancestor.
• Yu Xiaogang demanded that Mu En and the Shrek elders bow to him and threatened to tarnish Shrek’s reputation.
• Zhongli Wu placed Gu Mingyuan on the Holy Spirit Cult’s core training list and invited him to compete for the Holy Son title in three years.
• Zhongli Wu questioned Gu Mingyuan about founding a Tang Sect and struck Tang Ya when she tried to interrupt.
• Gu Mingyuan recounted how Tang San destroyed Slaughter City after taking its inheritance and used the Eight Spider Lances to drain others.
• Gu Mingyuan compared Tang San’s devouring powers with Tang Ya’s Blue Silver Grass and argued that she had followed her founder’s example.

Gu Mingyuan secured permission from Zhongli Wu to study Soul Tools in the Ming Capital, while planning how to use the Holy Spirit Cult’s resources for his own goals. Zhongli Wu assigned Tang Ya to accompany him and warned her that the Cult would erase what she cared about if she continued to resist.

• Gu Mingyuan mocked Tang Ya and the Tang Sect, then argued that the Holy Cult should make its killings seem deserved.
• Zhongli Wu set a three-year timetable for selecting the Holy Son and Holy Maiden, and Gu Mingyuan asked to study Soul Tools in the Ming Capital.
• Zhongli Wu approved the plan and said the Cult would create a new identity and disguise for Gu Mingyuan.
• Gu Mingyuan privately considered his plans involving the Snow Empress embryo, Feng Ling, and Du Busi before Zhongli Wu told him to choose an escort.
• Gu Mingyuan chose Tang Ya to accompany him, and Zhongli Wu ordered her to learn from him and threatened to erase her memories if she kept resisting.

Yu Xiaogang’s remnant soul appeared in the Sea God Pavilion, forced Shrek’s elders to acknowledge him, and secured Huo Yuhao the academy’s support as a core disciple. After the elders turned on Xuan Zi, Yu Xiaogang admitted privately that he had no real training plan for Huo Yuhao and advised him to focus on his Spirit Eyes.

• Shrek’s elders verified that the remnant soul was Yu Xiaogang, then bowed and apologized to him.
• Yu Xiaogang scolded the elders for mistreating Huo Yuhao and demanded that they train him properly.
• Yan Shaozhe made Huo Yuhao a core disciple of both departments and promised the academy would support his cultivation.
• Huo Yuhao left the Sea God Pavilion, while Yan Shaozhe, Xian Lin'er, and the other elders cornered Xuan Zi.
• Yu Xiaogang told Huo Yuhao to leave his second Martial Soul empty for now and focus on cultivating his Spirit Eyes.

Gu Mingyuan and Tang Ya entered Mingde Hall under false identities, where Xuan Ziwen tested Gu Mingyuan’s Soul Tool skills and assigned them work. At Sea God Pavilion, Mu En questioned Xuan Zi about the incident that had left Gu Mingyuan in danger, and asked where it happened.

• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm told Huo Yuhao to follow Brother Lu’s training plan and promised to explain how to write it.
• Gu Mingyuan and Tang Ya passed inspection at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and descended to Mingde Hall’s underground laboratory.
• Tang Ya challenged Gu Mingyuan over his decision to bring her, but fell silent when he told her to return to the Main Altar.
• Gu Mingyuan made a level-two Energy-Gathering Ray Core for Xuan Ziwen, who corrected its design and assigned Gu Mingyuan to study rare metals and core-array topology.
• Xuan Ziwen ordered Tang Ya to learn the materials on the laboratory’s first bookshelf and assist Gu Mingyuan without touching tools.
• At Sea God Pavilion, Xuan Zi explained to Mu En why he had shifted his protection to Huo Yuhao, and Mu En asked where the incident had occurred.

After Gu Mingyuan disappeared during the attack at the border, Huo Yuhao returned to the academy and faced questions from Zhou Sichen and Cao Jinxuan. Ma Xiaotao revealed that Gu Mingyuan had briefly eased her Evil Fire, while Huo Yuhao began requesting cultivation resources, including medicines to awaken Bingbing.

• Mu En ordered Xuan Zi to lead him to the place where Gu Mingyuan disappeared after finding only traces of flesh and clothing at Falling Eagle Ridge.
• Huo Yuhao told Zhou Sichen and Cao Jinxuan that the Body Sect had intercepted them and Gu Mingyuan went missing, but he avoided answering their questions about the explosion.
• Cao Jinxuan pulled Zhou Sichen away from Huo Yuhao, then looked back at him, leaving Huo Yuhao uneasy about what would happen next.
• Ma Xiaotao told Yan Shaozhe that Gu Mingyuan had briefly eased the agitation and loss of control caused by her Evil Fire, and Yan Shaozhe sent the information to the Sea God Pavilion.
• Huo Yuhao wrote down Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's requested cultivation resources, including medicines intended to wake Bingbing.

Jing Hongchen proposed a student exchange between Shrek Academy and Mingde Hall, securing Huo Yuhao for the first group in return for Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen studying at Shrek. As the exchange approached, Huo Yuhao learned he would hunt for his third Soul Ring in the Sun Moon Empire and asked Yu Xiaogang whether he should go.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm advised Huo Yuhao to request ice-attribute resources from Shrek, and Yu Xiaogang asked him to request a catalogue of soul-nourishing treasures.
• Gu Mingyuan passed the Level Three Soul Engineer assessment under Xuan Ziwen's supervision and continued studying spiritual-defense and elemental-isolation arrays.
• Jing Hongchen decided to visit Shrek after reviewing the visiting trainees' records and considering the Holy Spirit Cult's growing interest in Soul Tools.
• Jing Hongchen and Mu En agreed to an exchange sending Huo Yuhao and other Shrek students to Mingde Hall while Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen joined Shrek's Inner Court.
• Yan Shaozhe arranged for Fan Yu to lead the group and oversee Huo Yuhao's third Soul Ring hunt in the Sun Moon Empire.
• Huo Yuhao learned he was going on the exchange and asked Yu Xiaogang whether he should go.

Huo Yuhao learned that Shrek Academy was delaying the rest of Yu Xiaogang’s soul-nourishing materials, while Gu Mingyuan discovered that the Cult planned to capture a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and sought a way to claim its unwanted Soul Ring. The chapter ended with Feng Ling reacting to Gu Mingyuan’s revelation that he had a Second Martial Soul.

• Yu Xiaogang complained that the academy had not delivered the promised materials, while Yan Shaozhe ordered the remaining supplies delayed in batches.
• Yu Xiaogang approved Huo Yuhao’s exchange trip to the Sun Moon Empire, and Huo Yuhao began preparing his Soul Tools and study notes.
• Feng Ling told Gu Mingyuan that the Cult planned to capture a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in about two months and explained that its Soul Ring would go unused.
• Gu Mingyuan asked Electrolux whether he could obtain the Soul Ring through a willing sacrifice, and Electrolux proposed preserving an untainted wisp of the beast’s remnant soul.
• Gu Mingyuan called Feng Ling again to request that the Cult leave a remnant soul for him, then revealed that his Second Martial Soul was unusual, prompting Feng Ling to interrupt him.

Gu Mingyuan returned to the Holy Spirit Cult to prove he could control a Beast Soul and earn the chance to claim a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring. Feng Ling and the elders tested him with a nearly dead Grayback Wolf whose core consciousness had been mostly stripped away.

• Feng Ling told Gu Mingyuan that the Holy Spirit Cult had selected a Hundred-Thousand-Year Nether Swamp Wolf and required him to prove his Beast Soul control in person.
• Huo Yuhao left Shrek Academy with He Caitou and Fan Yu for the Sun Moon Empire, while Yu Xiaogang remained frustrated about the delayed medicinal ingredients.
• Gu Mingyuan obtained leave from Xuan Ziwen, promised Tang Ya her share of cultivation resources, and returned to the Holy Spirit Cult's Main Altar.
• Feng Ling, Zhang Peng, and Ten Thousand Soul Douluo presented Gu Mingyuan with a crippled Grayback Wolf for his test.
• Ten Thousand Soul Douluo extracted most of the Grayback Wolf's soul, leaving a dim remnant anchored in its body, and challenged Gu Mingyuan to make it move.

Gu Mingyuan demonstrated that he could precisely control a remnant Beast Soul, impressing Feng Ling and the Ten Thousand Soul Douluo and earning a place in the planned trip to the Evil Demon Forest. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao and the Shrek exchange delegation reached Maple Leaf City and began their journey to Ming Capital with the Sun Moon students.

• Gu Mingyuan used the Demon's Contract and the All-Seeing Heavenly Eye to make the Grayback Wolf obey spoken commands, astonishing Feng Ling, Zhang Peng, and the Ten Thousand Soul Douluo.
• Gu Mingyuan claimed he could maintain control for three minutes and said he could try controlling a Hundred-Thousand-Year Beast Soul if the elders first subdued it while preserving its connection to its body.
• Feng Ling reserved the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring for Gu Mingyuan and ordered him to remain at the Main Altar until Zhang Peng prepared traps and formations for their trip to the Evil Demon Forest.
• Yan Shaozhe and Fan Yu brought the Shrek exchange delegation to Maple Leaf City, where Yan Shaozhe and Jing Hongchen confirmed the exchange terms.
• Jing Hongchen flew Fan Yu, Huo Yuhao, and the students toward Ming Capital inside a golden light barrier, and Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection was torn apart by the rushing air outside.

Huo Yuhao arrived at Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and prepared for its entrance assessment while worrying that its instruments might detect the souls within him. Meanwhile, Gu Mingyuan learned that Zhongli Wu could control Feng Ling through a foreign power in her soul, then watched the Holy Spirit Cult begin its hunt for the Hundred-Thousand-Year Nether Swamp Wolf Emperor.

• Huo Yuhao arrived in Ming Capital with Fan Yu and Jing Hongchen, received academy materials from Lin Jiayi, and was sent to the entrance physical assessment.
• Huo Yuhao asked the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm whether the assessment instruments could detect him, and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm decided to watch the tests before his turn.
• Gu Mingyuan asked Electrolux about Feng Ling, and Electrolux confirmed that a hidden foreign power in her soul could let someone control her Martial Soul and threaten her life.
• Zhang Peng showed Zhongli Wu's party where the Nether Swamp Wolf Emperor lived and explained that they had to break through its wolf packs first.
• Zhang Peng and the Ten Thousand Soul Douluo defeated the outer wolves and confronted the Nether Swamp Wolf Emperor, while Zhongli Wu held back so the cult could weaken it without risking its Beast Soul.

The Holy Spirit Cult captured the exhausted Wolf Emperor and prepared it for Gu Mingyuan to obtain its hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao struggled to learn the Sun Moon academy’s Soul Tool theory, and the chapter ended as Zhongli Wu left the weakened Wolf Emperor for Gu Mingyuan to act.

• Zhongli Wu and the Holy Spirit Cult elders subdued the Wolf Emperor, restrained it, and dragged it out of the mire alive.
• Huo Yuhao sketched Soul Tool arrays from memory, then began studying under Shen Heng and working to rebuild his foundations in the Sun Moon academy’s theory.
• Yu Xiaogang urged Huo Yuhao to keep studying and told him he could crush his senior brother with Soul Tools.
• Feng Ling showed Gu Mingyuan the mutilated Wolf Emperor and said its hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring would be his to secure.
• Electrolux told Gu Mingyuan to wait until the Wolf Emperor’s Beast Soul was nearly stripped away before acting.
• Zhongli Wu extracted most of the Wolf Emperor’s Beast Soul into a vessel, leaving a wisp connected to its body, then told Gu Mingyuan it was his turn.

Gu Mingyuan sacrificed the Gray-backed Wolf Emperor to gain a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and the Hand of the Kingkiller. After testing its Blood Curse, he concealed a newly acquired talent that let his physical attacks harm souls and other nonphysical targets.

• Gu Mingyuan used the All-Seeing Heavenly Eye and Electrolux's guidance to make the Gray-backed Wolf Emperor's remains initiate the sacrifice.
• The sacrifice raised Gu Mingyuan to level forty and gave him a Hundred Thousand Year red Soul Ring.
• Gu Mingyuan summoned the Hand of the Kingkiller and discovered it inflicted a Blood Curse and could trigger Sin Mark Sealing to interrupt an enemy's Soul Skill.
• The system awarded Gu Mingyuan the gold talent Douluo's Most Steadfast Materialist Warrior, which let his physical attacks harm souls and other nonphysical targets.
• Zhongli Wu ordered a guard to test the artifact, and Gu Mingyuan's shallow cut kept bleeding despite Soul Power and ordinary medicine.

Gu Mingyuan earned the title of Heavenly Demon Holy Son after controlling a dying Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast’s sacrifice, then left to hunt for his fourth Soul Ring. At Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, Huo Yuhao spotted a familiar black-haired girl and called out to her as Teacher Xiao Ya.

• Zhongli Wu named Gu Mingyuan the Heavenly Demon Holy Son and ordered his ability kept secret.
• Zhongli Wu ordered the Ten Thousand Soul Douluo to kill everyone who had helped guard, transport, or prepare the experiment site.
• Feng Ling took Gu Mingyuan toward the Evil Demon Forest to hunt his fourth Soul Ring.
• Shen Heng corrected Huo Yuhao’s Level Three Soul Tool design and told him to prioritize a reliable finished product.
• Huo Yuhao recognized a black-haired girl carrying blueprints in the academy corridor and called her Teacher Xiao Ya.

Huo Yuhao recognized Tang Ya at Shrek Academy, but she denied knowing him and fled behind a restricted door, leaving him convinced something was wrong. In Evil Demon Forest, Gu Mingyuan absorbed a White Jade Mammoth's Soul Ring, became a Soul Ancestor, and gained Sunken Jade Force Field.

• Huo Yuhao caught Tang Ya in the corridor and told her that Brother Bei had been looking for her, but the Holy Spirit Cult's Brand frightened her into hiding their reunion.
• Tang Ya denied knowing Huo Yuhao, threatened to call the disciplinary teachers, and escaped into the Advanced Experiment Building.
• Huo Yuhao asked the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm why Tang Ya had rejected him, and it advised him not to alert anyone while they investigated.
• Feng Ling led Gu Mingyuan and a team into Evil Demon Forest to hunt a White Jade Mammoth for his fourth Soul Ring.
• Gu Mingyuan killed the White Jade Mammoth, absorbed its black Soul Ring, reached level forty, and gained the fourth Soul Skill Sunken Jade Force Field.

Gu Mingyuan tested his new Soul Ring, received a seemingly useless talent, and transferred it to Tang San before returning to the academy. Tang Ya told him that Huo Yuhao had recognized her, leaving Gu Mingyuan to ask what had happened.

• Gu Mingyuan tested how his third Soul Ring amplified his Sunken Jade Force Field, and Feng Ling explained the Cult's plans to support him, Yan Feng, and Tang Ya while warning him about the danger of his hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• After claiming his fourth Soul Ring talent, Gu Mingyuan drew The Wine to Celebrate Is Ready for You and transferred it to Tang San in the Divine Realm.
• Tang San began humming an unfamiliar celebratory song after the talent transfer suddenly put him in an inexplicably good mood.
• Gu Mingyuan returned to Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and gave Tang Ya the preserved flesh of the Nether Swamp Wolf Emperor.
• Tang Ya told Gu Mingyuan that Huo Yuhao had recognized her near the Experiment Building, and that she had denied her identity and sent him away.