Recaps

Gu Mingyuan protected Tang Ya from Shrek, won the Soul Engineer competition, and established a sect in Ming Capital while the Holy Spirit Cult maneuvered to reshape the Seven Great Sects. The arc ended with Shrek preparing a delegation for the Sect Assembly as the Body Sect pursued the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo.

• Huo Yuhao discovered Tang Ya in disguise, while Shen Heng challenged him to prepare for the Level Three competition and its Flash Space Ring prize.
• Gu Mingyuan arrived at the academy, defeated Zimu in a fight, and later accompanied Nana and Tang Ya to the Holy Spirit Cult’s altar, where he seized control of its Saint Spirits and freed Nana’s parents’ souls.
• Huo Yuhao helped Ju Zi and Keke test an All-Terrain Detection Soul Tool, while Xuan Zi found Tang Ya and learned that the Cult’s Brand had grown into her Heart Meridian.
• Zhongli Wu and Zhang Peng intercepted Xuan Zi as he tried to take Tang Ya away, then forced him to suspend Shrek’s active operations against the Cult for one year.
• Huo Yuhao defeated a Gray-Eyed Bei, gained the Weakening Light Soul Skill, and heard Yu Xiaogang promise to find immortal herbs in the Sunset Forest.
• Gu Mingyuan beat Huo Yuhao in the Level Three Soul Engineer Tournament with an Armor-Piercing Cannon, then escaped an Imperial Inspection Team inquiry when Wu Zhu intervened.
• Gu Mingyuan proposed a new Seven Great Sects selection and began forming the Myriad Manifestations Sect, while the Holy Spirit Cult secured support for a public Sect Assembly.
• Gu Mingyuan recruited Lin Yan and Jiang Wenzhou for his sect, while the Body Sect planned an operation in Ming Capital to pursue the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo and Shrek prepared its delegation.

Gu Mingyuan secured the God-Sealing Platform during the Body Sect’s attack on Mingde Hall, while Tang San took over a young boy’s body. The arc ended with the Snow Empress considering Gu Mingyuan’s proposal as the warehouse battle trapped Tang San, Huo Yuhao, and Shrek’s leaders.

• Gu Mingyuan purified imprisoned souls with Electrolux’s help, and a beast soul’s essence formed his second soul ring.
• At the sect selection, Lu Li won the Seventh Arena for the Myriad Manifestations Sect, and Wu Zhu later placed first in the soul tool competition.
• Gu Mingyuan defeated Body Sect fighters Wang Yanfeng, Chen Lü, and Long Aotian in the young disciples’ matches.
• Tang San took control of Huo Yuhao, then used the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s power to erase an eight-year-old boy’s soul and possess his body.
• As the Body Sect attacked Mingde Hall, Gu Mingyuan stole the God-Sealing Platform and discovered the Snow Empress’s presence within it.
• The Ice Empress entered the platform, found the imprisoned Snow Empress, and persuaded her to hear Gu Mingyuan’s proposal to preserve her soul.
• Du Busi’s attack left Mingde Hall’s warehouse in ruins, while Zhongli Wu and several Level 9 Soul Engineers blocked the exits and trapped Tang San, Huo Yuhao, and Yan Shaozhe.

Gu Mingyuan made the Snow Empress his soul spirit, escaped Mingde Hall, and raced to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to claim its treasures. Tang San arrived to take control of the garden, but Gu Mingyuan wounded his Divine Soul, escaped, and began exposing his return to the world.

• Gu Mingyuan defeated the Snow Empress, then helped her become a tangible soul spirit and tested her possession of the White Demon.
• Kong Deming confronted Shrek and the Body Sect over the attack on Mingde Hall and the missing hundred-thousand-year embryo, while Tang San revealed his identity to the Sea God Pavilion elders.
• Gu Mingyuan escaped Mingde Hall using No Such Person and traveled to Sunset Forest, where Youyou set trials before allowing him to take herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Gu Mingyuan passed Youyou’s trials and selected several medicinal treasures as Huo Yuhao arrived and failed to convince her that he belonged to the Tang Sect.
• Tang San reached the garden with Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe, proved to Youyou that he had left the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record there, and demanded that Gu Mingyuan surrender his herbs.
• Gu Mingyuan refused Tang San’s demand, fought off Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe with the Snow Empress and White Demon, and struck Tang San’s Sea God Phantom hard enough to wound his Divine Soul.
• Gu Mingyuan escaped through the Poison Miasma and left Sunset Forest using No Such Person, then began publicly claiming that Tang San was the reincarnated Sea God and that Shrek intended to unite the continent.