Recaps

Lu Guan trained the Body Sect’s Essence and Breath techniques, combining them to intensify his spiritual-power tempering. Meanwhile, the Federation made Holy-Cleansing Spirit-Exorcising a routine operation against the Holy Spirit Cult, with Zi JI among its leaders.

• Lu Guan split his sea of consciousness with a condensed saber, endured its painful repair, and found that his spiritual power had grown denser.
• Lu Guan practiced the Breath method, which sharpened his focus and restored him from the strain of tempering his sea of consciousness.
• Lu Guan combined Breath with Essence and used the enhanced concentration to cleave his sea of consciousness again, screaming in pain.
• Shrek demanded a full campaign against the Holy Spirit Cult after Ha Luosa attacked Sea God Island and Zhuo Shi and Lan Muzi died.
• The Federation established Holy-Cleansing Spirit-Exorcising as a routine operation, led by Shrek and including Zi JI from the Star Dou Great Forest.

Qiangu Dongfeng arranged for Qiangu Zhangting to join the Federation’s campaign against the Holy Spirit Cult so he could build prestige and secure his succession as Spirit Pagoda Master. As Zhangting left the secret chamber, he encountered a silver-haired, silver-eyed girl.

• News that Zi JI would lead the Holy-Cleansing Spirit-Exorcising operation sparked speculation that the Federation was seeking reconciliation with soul beasts.
• Zhao Mingyu defended recruiting Zi JI as a way to draw soul beasts into the Federation and balance Shrek Academy’s growing influence.
• Qiangu Dongfeng ordered Qiangu Zhangting to join the operation and explained that he needed achievements to win support as the future Pagoda Master.
• Qiangu Dongfeng revealed that he had secretly arranged for Zhangting to find and defeat selected Holy Spirit Cult hideouts, creating a heroic reputation for him.
• Zhangting reluctantly agreed to report to Federation command headquarters, then encountered a silver-haired, silver-eyed girl as he left.

Lu Guan broke through to Level 40 and went to the Spirit Pagoda with Leng Yaozhu to choose a second soul spirit. The chapter ended as Leng Yaozhu unlocked the Soul Spirit Tower’s catalog for him.

• Qiangu Zhangting saw Gu Yue and briefly stared at her before leaving the Spirit Pagoda.
• Gu Yue considered using the Holy-Cleansing Spirit-Exorcising operation to improve the soul beasts’ standing, while Na'er complained that she had encountered a pervert.
• Lu Guan raised his spiritual power to one thousand points, broke through to Level 40, and decided to seek a second soul spirit.
• Lu Guan heard about the upcoming operation against the Holy Spirit Cult and visited Leng Yaozhu at the Spirit Pagoda.
• Leng Yaozhu recognized Lu Guan’s breakthrough and took him to the Soul Spirit Tower after none of the standard soul spirits caught his interest.

Leng Yaozhu brought Lu Guan, Gu Yue, and Na'er to challenge the Soul Spirit Tower, where Lu Guan hoped to obtain a ten-thousand-year soul spirit. The trio swiftly cleared the first eighteen floors, and ten-thousand-year soul beasts appeared as they reached the nineteenth floor.

• Leng Yaozhu explained the Soul Spirit Tower’s rules and said she would accompany Lu Guan, Gu Yue, and Na'er to test their cultivation.
• Gu Yue and Na'er joined them, and Na'er learned that Lu Guan had reached level forty and needed his second soul spirit.
• The four entered the tower, where Leng Yaozhu watched from the sidelines as three thousand-year Wind Baboons appeared on the first floor.
• Na'er defeated the Wind Baboons with her Golden Dragon Spear, and Gu Yue cleared the second floor with a fireball enhanced by wind.
• Lu Guan, Gu Yue, and Na'er swiftly defeated the thousand-year soul spirits on floors one through eighteen.
• Ten-thousand-year soul beasts appeared on the nineteenth floor.

Lu Guan fought through the Soul Spirit Tower’s ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts using his War Lord Demon Body and a new breathing method, defeating them with overwhelming physical control. After clearing the twenty-second floor, he learned that the next opponent was the Profound Suppression Bear, a Soul Beast he wanted to choose.

• Lu Guan pulled Na'er back and took on two ten-thousand-year Gale Demon Wolves, killing both in three breaths with his five weapons.
• Na'er praised Lu Guan, Gu Yue noticed his changed technique, and Leng Yaozhu admired his combat ability.
• Lu Guan continued up the tower, defeating the Iron-Armored Bolong, Red Flame Lion Pack, and Shadow Leopard across the next floors.
• Leng Yaozhu identified the twenty-third floor’s opponent as the Profound Suppression Bear, which Lu Guan had already set his sights on.

Lu Guan battled the Mystic Suppression Bear in a gravity field that grew stronger as its wounds fueled its baleful qi. When Na'er and Gu Yue joined the fight and restrained the bear, Lu Guan noticed the mist around the arena converging.

• Lu Guan entered the Beast Arena with Na'er and faced the Mystic Suppression Bear in twice-normal gravity.
• Lu Guan traded blows with the bear, which turned its injuries into baleful qi and increased the gravity field to three times normal.
• Lu Guan used Shadow Trace to evade the bear and attack its back, but the bear grew faster and stronger as its wounds multiplied.
• The bear blasted Lu Guan away under nearly four times normal gravity, prompting him to call for Na'er and Gu Yue's help.
• Na'er engaged the bear with her Golden Dragon Spear while Gu Yue attacked with ice blades and bound its limbs with Rock Chains.
• As the bear struggled against the chains, Lu Guan watched the surrounding mist converge and formed a new thought.

Lu Guan used the Profound Suppression Bear’s baleful qi to unleash Five Weapons: Profound Calamity, defeating the beast and absorbing it as a soul spirit. The bear submitted to Lu Guan’s War Lord Demon Body, and Leng Yaozhu discovered that it retained nearly all its strength after absorption.

• Lu Guan drew the Profound Suppression Bear’s baleful qi into his five weapons while Na'er retreated from the Core Circle.
• Lu Guan struck down the Profound Suppression Bear with the Baleful Qi Calamity Wheel, and the beast became a soul spirit.
• The Profound Suppression Bear turned hostile inside Lu Guan’s sea of consciousness, then submitted when it sensed the War Lord’s aura.
• The Profound Suppression Bear fused with the source of Lu Guan’s War Lord Demon Body as four soul rings appeared beneath him.
• Lu Guan summoned the five-meter-tall bear, and Leng Yaozhu realized it retained at least ninety percent of its former strength.

Lu Guan demonstrated his fourth Soul Skill, Baleful-Life Mark, which turned his injuries into marks that increased his power and accelerated his recovery. After returning to the Spirit Pagoda, he and the others encountered Qiangu Zhangting, who claimed to have captured a Holy Spirit Cult remnant.

• Lu Guan revealed that Baleful-Life Mark converted his wounds into demonic marks that strengthened him and sped up his healing.
• Leng Yaozhu led Lu Guan, Na'er, and Gu Yue back through the teleportation gate to the Spirit Pagoda lobby.
• Qiangu Zhangting arrived with a bound, bloodied man whom he identified as a Holy Spirit Cult remnant he had captured outside the city.
• Na'er told Gu Yue through their mental link that Qiangu Zhangting was the perverted lolicon she had mentioned, while Gu Yue regarded him with contempt.
• Lu Guan suspected something was strange about Qiangu Zhangting's capture because he knew Qiangu Dongfeng was allied with the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Na'er called Lu Guan her brother while saying goodbye, making Qiangu Zhangting friendlier toward him and leaving Lu Guan unsettled.

Lu Guan decided to forge Two-Word Battle Armor and called Steward Ning of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect to request rare metals for practice. The chapter ended with Lu Guan demanding a thousand units each of three metals after Steward Ning offered a hundred.

• Lu Guan decided his physical strength could handle Two-Word Battle Armor and returned to the Body Sect residence to prepare for Fusion Forging.
• Lu Guan called Steward Ning, the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s liaison, and requested large quantities of rare metals.
• Lu Guan chose Heavy Silver, Astral Gold, and Black Darkstone for their compatibility with his War Lord Demon Body, weapons, baleful qi, and Profound Suppression Bear Soul Spirit.
• Steward Ning offered a hundred standard units of each metal, but Lu Guan said that would not be enough for practice and forging the armor components.
• Lu Guan demanded a thousand units of each metal, leaving Steward Ning stunned.

Lu Guan studied Mu Chen’s notes and successfully created a Spirit Forging alloy through Fusion Forging. Meanwhile, Qiangu Zhangting captured Wang Zheng, a Holy Spirit Cult member, and summoned the authorities and reporters.

• Lu Guan persuaded Steward Ning to deliver rare metals from the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect for his forging work.
• Lu Guan studied Mu Chen’s notes on Fusion Forging and prepared to use his War Lord insights to combine metals.
• Steward Ning delivered the metals, and Lu Guan spent dozens of days forging in the Body Sect’s underground room.
• Wang Zheng waited at a secret Holy Spirit Cult base in Luoming City, but Qiangu Zhangting arrived with Spirit Pagoda elites and captured him.
• Qiangu Zhangting ordered his subordinates to notify the Federation, the City Defense Army, and reporters about the arrest.
• Lu Guan completed a Spirit Forging alloy whose three metals had blended together and developed a pulsing spiritual presence.

After two and a half months of forging, Lu Guan finished more than a hundred spirit forging alloys, including eight with fusion rates above ninety percent. He saw Qiangu Zhangting gaining fame for arresting Holy Spirit Cult members and ordered Na Nali to expose the cult’s operations to the Federation military and local City Defense Armies.

• Lu Guan successfully forged an alloy with a ninety-percent fusion rate and stored it with the other finished metals.
• Lu Guan finished two and a half months of forging, using nearly all three thousand portions of rare metals to produce more than a hundred alloys, including eight top-grade pieces and one divine base metal.
• Lu Guan read news praising Qiangu Zhangting for arresting Holy Spirit Cult members and becoming known as the Spirit Exorcist.
• Lu Guan suspected Qiangu Dongfeng was secretly helping the Holy Spirit Cult stage the arrests to boost Qiangu Zhangting’s reputation.
• Lu Guan contacted Na Nali and told her to anonymously send the Federation military and local City Defense Armies lists of Holy Spirit Cult operations that could be leaked to Qiangu Dongfeng.

Lu Guan leaked the Holy Spirit Cult’s expendable targets to undermine Qiangu Zhangting’s chance to gain prestige, then sought help from Zhen Hua in designing Two-Word Battle Armor. After Luo Tianming measured Lu Guan’s unusual martial soul, he returned home and told Luo Guixing to treat Lu Guan respectfully if they ever met.

• Na Nali promised Lu Guan she would warn the Federation about the Holy Spirit Cult’s missions, and Lu Guan assured her the leak would not be traced to her.
• Lu Guan decided to expose the cult’s disposable pawns so Federation forces could earn credit and prevent Qiangu Zhangting from standing out.
• Lu Guan called Zhen Hua and asked him to help arrange a Two-Word Battle Armor design, then brought his high-fusion alloys to the Blacksmith Association.
• Zhen Hua introduced Lu Guan to seventh-rank Mecha designer Luo Tianming, who discovered the case held exceptionally refined spirit-forging alloys, including divine foundation metal.
• Lu Guan revealed his four-eyed, six-armed martial soul, and Luo Tianming took measurements for armor suited to his extra arms and wings.
• Luo Tianming asked his son Luo Guixing whether he knew Lu Guan, then told him to be respectful if they ever met.

Lu Guan continued forging rare metals while the Federation and Shrek scored widespread victories against the Holy Spirit Cult, ruining Qiangu Dongfeng’s plan to build Qiangu Zhangting’s reputation. Ghost Emperor admitted he had traded away the exposed cult bases and dismissed Dark Hummingbird’s suspicions of Na Nali, calling Dark Bell loyal.

• Lu Guan received another thousand portions of three metals from Steward Ning and continued forging despite his shortage of spirit forging alloy.
• Qiangu Dongfeng raged over Federation Daily reports that the military and Shrek teams had captured cultists before Qiangu Zhangting could claim the credit.
• Qiangu Dongfeng accused Ghost Emperor of giving him a compromised list, but Ghost Emperor blamed his slow response and ended the call.
• Ghost Emperor suspected Qiangu Dongfeng was using the complaint to demand more cultists and continued handling Holy Spirit Cult affairs.
• Dark Hummingbird reported that more than a dozen Federation bases had been exposed and accused Na Nali of being a mole.
• Ghost Emperor revealed that he had traded away the bases and told Dark Hummingbird that Dark Bell was loyal to the Holy Spirit Cult.

After more than half a year of preparation, Lu Guan began fusing with his custom Two-Word Battle Armor at the Body Sect compound. The armor started assembling around him as Zhen Hua, Luo Tianming, and Lin Zheng watched.

• Zi JI gained an official Federal Parliament seat, and the Federation designated the Sunset Forest as the Ferocious Beasts' second habitat.
• Lu Guan spent more than half a year collecting high-fusion-rate alloys and preparing his Battle Armor with Luo Tianming and the eighth-rank manufacturer Lin Zheng.
• Zhen Hua, Luo Tianming, and Lin Zheng gathered at the Body Sect compound to witness Lu Guan try on his completed armor.
• Lu Guan activated his War Lord Demon Body, revealing four eyes and six hands as his baleful Qi cracked the ground.
• Lu Guan commanded the armor to come, and its divine-base-metal breastplate fastened onto his chest before the remaining components flew toward him.

Lu Guan completed his Two-Word Battle Armor, Xuan Rong, during a gathering with Zhen Hua and the two grandmasters. When two Holy Spirit Cult assassins attacked Zhen Hua, Mu Ye emerged from hiding and revealed that the assault was a trap.

• Lu Guan finished equipping his Two-Word Battle Armor and named it Xuan Rong.
• Zhen Hua, Lin Zheng, and Lu Guan celebrated the armor's completion in the courtyard.
• Two Holy Spirit Cult assassins shattered the Soul Guidance Array and attacked Zhen Hua from behind.
• Mu Ye appeared in dark golden armor and crushed one assassin's bone rapier with a golden hand.
• Lu Guan revealed that Na Nali had warned him of the assassination plan and that Mu Ye had waited in hiding as part of their trap.
• One assassin fled over the courtyard wall while the other tried to escape with a blood technique, and a woman's voice called out, “Starlight, heed my summons!”

Xu Xiaoyan and Mu Ye helped repel an attack by the Holy Spirit Cult, but An Ming escaped by splitting into child and mother bodies. Lu Guan pursued An Ming’s weaker child body alone to test his newly formed Xuan Rong Battle Armor, and the two prepared to fight.

• Xu Xiaoyan restrained An Ming with Star Wheel Chain, allowing Mu Ye to cleave the apparent attacker in two.
• Lu Guan stopped Mu Ye from pursuing the fleeing black smoke, and Mu Ye realized the smoke was a decoy while An Ming’s mother body escaped through a drainage channel.
• Lu Guan pursued An Ming’s child body, intending to test Xuan Rong against the six-ring Soul Emperor.
• An Ming reached an alley by an abandoned dye works and planned to escape Heaven Dou City and rebuild his strength by harvesting souls and blood.
• Lu Guan landed in front of An Ming, who coated his claws in black blood and attacked with Blood Puppet Soul-Rending Claw.

Lu Guan fought An Ming in his Xuan Rong Battle Armor, but An Ming sacrificed his sixth Soul Ring and blood essence to summon the Great Blood Puppet Hand. Lu Guan braced beneath the crushing attack and activated Baleful-Life Mark.

• Lu Guan blocked An Ming’s Blood Puppet Soul-Rending Claw with his Five Weapons and used Little Nightmare’s Spiritual Deterrence to disrupt him.
• Lu Guan used Threefold Gravity and the First Five Forms of the War Lord Heart Method to suppress An Ming.
• An Ming detonated his sixth Soul Ring and sacrificed his blood essence to form the Great Blood Puppet Hand.
• The Great Blood Puppet Hand slammed Lu Guan into a crater and began damaging his armor and body.
• Lu Guan endured the attack and activated Baleful-Life Mark.

Lu Guan used his Baleful-Life Mark and Five Weapons: Profound Calamity to pressure An Ming, then killed him with a Nightmare Wraith summoned by Nightmare Lure. In the Underground Cave, Mu Ye captured An Ming’s wounded Main Body alive after the offshoot’s death weakened him.

• Lu Guan endured An Ming’s crushing attack until his injuries activated the Baleful-Life Mark, then launched Five Weapons: Profound Calamity.
• An Ming used the great blood puppet hand to block Lu Guan’s strike and believed he had survived the attack.
• A Nightmare Wraith appeared behind An Ming and pierced his chest with Blood Puppet Soul-Rending Claw.
• Lu Guan revealed that Nightmare Lure had summoned the wraith, which destroyed An Ming’s heart before dissipating.
• An Ming’s Main Body felt the offshoot’s death while fighting Mu Ye in the Underground Cave.
• Mu Ye sealed An Ming’s remaining power and captured him alive.

After Mu Ye captured Holy Spirit Cult elder An Ming, An Ming poisoned himself to escape interrogation, but Holy Spirit Douluo Ya Li revived him. Ya Li then asked to take Lu Guan as her godson.

• Lu Guan returned safely to the Body Sect courtyard after chasing down a Titled Douluo, and Zhen Hua and Xu Xiaoyan checked on him.
• Mu Ye brought the captured An Ming to the courtyard, but An Ming released deadly poison from his body and appeared to die.
• Zhen Hua summoned Ya Li, who used her healing ability to purge the poison and restore An Ming's heart and blood vessels.
• Mu Ye sealed An Ming's meridians and jaw after Ya Li revived him.
• Ya Li asked Mu Ye for permission to take Lu Guan as her godson.

Ya Li asked Lu Guan to become her godson after sensing a powerful affinity between their life-based abilities, but he declined. She gave him a healing pendant before leaving the Body Sect courtyard.

• Ya Li told Mu Ye she wanted Lu Guan as her godson, not to take him away from the Body Sect.
• Lu Guan realized Ya Li's Wish Angel Martial Soul resonated with his Seed of Life and rejected the idea of calling her and Yun Ming his parents.
• Ya Li asked Lu Guan if he was refusing because of his birth parents, but he shook his head and stayed silent.
• Ya Li accepted Lu Guan's decision and gave him a Winged Pendant containing three uses of her healing light.
• Lu Guan accepted the pendant after Mu Ye told him to take the gift, and Ya Li nodded to Zhen Hua and Mu Ye before leaving.

After Mu Ye captured An Ming, the Federation took the Holy Spirit Cult elder into custody and called in Han Tianyi to extract his memories. Han Tianyi discovered a hidden Holy Spirit Cult branch altar beneath the Sunset Mine Vein near Heaven Dou City and continued searching for its defenses.

• Zhen Hua handed the captured An Ming over to Zhou Tong, director of the Heaven Dou City Federation Special Operations Bureau, and soldiers restrained and drugged him.
• Ya Li invited Lu Guan to visit her at Sea God's Pavilion in Shrek City before returning to the academy.
• Zhou Tong brought Han Tianyi to the maximum-security prison to interrogate An Ming by extracting his memories.
• Han Tianyi saw memories of Lu Guan defeating An Ming and his offshoot, then found the Holy Spirit Cult's hidden branch altar beneath the Sunset Mine Vein.

Han Tianyi discovered a Holy Spirit Cult branch altar beneath the Sunset Mine Vein, but the Ghost Emperor detected his soul search and struck him with a severe backlash. Chen Xinjie reached the abandoned altar too late, then encountered Di Tian in Sunset Forest, where Di Tian concealed a mysterious mark on his hand.

• Han Tianyi's soul search reached the Ghost Emperor, who destroyed his psychic phantom and caused An Ming's head to burst.
• Han Tianyi warned Zhou Tong that the Holy Spirit Cult had a branch altar beneath the Sunset Mine Vein, three hundred li northwest of Heaven Dou City.
• Chen Xinjie led Federation forces to the mine, but Zhou Tong found the altar deserted and the cultists gone.
• Chen Xinjie pursued the fleeing Evil Soul Masters into Sunset Forest, where Di Tian emerged and subdued them.
• Di Tian told Chen Xinjie that he was watching over the Poison Miasma, then revealed a faint white mark on his hand after Chen Xinjie left.

Di Tian failed to pass through Sunset Forest’s seven-colored Poison Miasma and suspected the force that stole the Golden Dragon King’s and Silver Dragon King’s bloodline origins was hidden beneath it. At the Body Sect, Mu Ye confronted Lu Guan about his knowledge of the Holy Spirit Cult, then discussed how Body Martial Souls might combine with Soul Tools.

• Di Tian entered the Poison Miasma but became trapped wandering within it, and concluded that his Master's deduction about a hidden force beneath Sunset Forest might be correct.
• After everyone else left the Body Sect courtyard, Mu Ye asked Lu Guan how he had known the Holy Spirit Cult was plotting to assassinate Zhen Hua.
• Lu Guan claimed he had a trustworthy contact inside the Holy Spirit Cult but refused to reveal their identity, alarming Mu Ye.
• Mu Ye warned Lu Guan to stay on the right path and promised to purge his own ranks if Lu Guan ever turned to evil; Lu Guan assured him the cult could not fool him.
• Lu Guan asked about Mu Ye's research into combining Body Sect cultivation with Soul Tools, and explained that Body Sect disciples could withstand Soul Tools' physical demands better than ordinary Soul Masters.

Mu Ye explained to Lu Guan his plan to fuse Soul Tools into the body and awaken consciousness in machinery, revealing that he had already succeeded once. Meanwhile, Ya Li returned to Sea God Island after saving An Ming, and Yun Ming questioned whether her sacrifice had been justified.

• Mu Ye rejected Lu Guan’s idea of using the body merely to carry Soul Tools and proposed implanting Soul Guidance Cores and machinery into flesh and bones.
• Mu Ye told Lu Guan that Blood Qi and spiritual power could assimilate machinery into the body and potentially give Soul Tools consciousness and souls.
• Lu Guan asked whether Mu Ye’s idea was feasible, and Mu Ye affirmed that it was, recalling that he had succeeded years earlier.
• Ya Li returned to Sea God Island, and Yun Ming sensed that she had used her Angel True Body and depleted her vitality to save An Ming.
• Ya Li told Yun Ming that An Ming had helped the Federation destroy a major Holy Spirit Cult branch in the Sunset Mine Vein, but Yun Ming asked what if the rescue had achieved nothing.

Yun Ming reassured Ya Li after she regretted saving an Evil Soul Master, while Lu Guan realized he could strengthen his Five Weapons by fusing them with rare metals. Mu Ye embraced the idea and took Lu Guan to the Body Sect storeroom to begin testing.

• Yun Ming explained that saving the Evil Soul Master had cost Ya Li some of her life force, and Ya Li promised not to act without thinking again.
• At the Body Sect, Mu Ye warned Lu Guan that he was not ready to fuse a Soul Tool core with his body.
• Lu Guan summoned Ge and considered strengthening his Five Weapons with rare metals and high-grade alloys.
• Mu Ye agreed that Lu Guan's companion weapons could be used to test whether Martial Soul-derived objects could fuse with metals.
• Mu Ye took Lu Guan to the storeroom to find metals for their experiments and suggested they could ask Zhen Hua for alloys.