Recaps

Hu Yanbo attacked Azure Crocodile King with his soul technique, expecting to kill the Initial King through repeated strikes. Azure Crocodile King recognized him from Blade Mantis King's bounty and stalled until Blade Mantis King arrived and trapped Hu Yanbo.

• Hu Yanbo found Azure Crocodile King harvesting ghost soul crystals and attacked it with Void Lotus.
• Azure Crocodile King recognized Hu Yanbo from Blade Mantis King's bounty notice and secretly requested reinforcements.
• Azure Crocodile King focused on evading and defending while Hu Yanbo pursued it with Teleportation and repeated soul attacks.
• Blade Mantis King arrived with another figure, froze the space, and told Hu Yanbo, "Human King... found you."

Hu Yanbo wounded Azure Crocodile King and recognized his new opponent as Blade Mantis King, a King Rank limit powerhouse who had come seeking the Divine Envoy Inheritance Crystal. Realizing that his mercy toward Blood Fang King had exposed him to pursuit, Hu Yanbo chose to fight and secretly called for help from Human Race King Rank powerhouses in the Nether God Secret Realm.

• Hu Yanbo shattered his black lotus into spatial blades and used them to grievously wound Azure Crocodile King with a soul attack.
• Hu Yanbo retreated while identifying the upright mantis as Blade Mantis King of the Blade Chi Clan, a King Rank limit powerhouse.
• Blade Mantis King asked Hu Yanbo for his name and whether he carried the Divine Envoy Inheritance Crystal.
• Hu Yanbo realized that sparing Blood Fang King had led to Blade Mantis King's pursuit and regretted underestimating the dangers of King Rank combat.
• Hu Yanbo resolved to fight and sent requests for aid to Human Race King Rank powerhouses throughout the Nether God Secret Realm.

Hu Yanbo fought Blade Mantis King, whose attacks repeatedly shattered Hu Yanbo’s Divine Body while he burned his Divine Power. Under the pressure, Hu Yanbo transformed Void Lotus into a Peak Secret Technique that struck through Blade Mantis King’s defenses, and the Prepayment System confirmed that Hu Yanbo had completed a fight to the death.

• Blade Mantis King questioned Hu Yanbo about the Divine Envoy Inheritance Crystal, then attacked him with a space-cutting blade strike.
• Hu Yanbo countered with Void Lotus, briefly disrupting Blade Mantis King’s soul, but Blade Mantis King suppressed the attack and began burning his Divine Power.
• Blade Mantis King charged Hu Yanbo repeatedly, while Mo Lao King maintained the Space Lockdown and Hu Yanbo’s G9-Class Metal Battle Armor absorbed much of the damage.
• As his Divine Body weakened, Hu Yanbo realized Blade Mantis King’s soul defenses briefly faltered during his attacks and refined Void Lotus through each collision.
• Hu Yanbo’s transformed Void Lotus bloomed inside Blade Mantis King’s Divine Body, annihilated one percent of his soul, and forced him to retreat from his attack.
• The Prepayment System confirmed Hu Yanbo had completed the fight-to-the-death condition and made one prepayment available.

Hu Yanbo used an advance on the first stage of the Void Evolution Divine General Inheritance to gain a soul-amplitude technique, then advanced his Space Law comprehension while fighting Blade Mantis King and Mo Lao King. After turning Mo Lao King’s chains against Blade Mantis King and breaking his attack, Hu Yanbo prepared to strike back.

• Hu Yanbo secured an advance on the first stage of the Void Evolution Divine General Inheritance and began gaining its soul-amplitude method.
• Hu Yanbo used his new abilities to evade Blade Mantis King’s lethal thrust, prompting Blade Mantis King to call Mo Lao King into the fight.
• Hu Yanbo advanced his Peak King Space Law comprehension and continued dodging both Kings’ attacks while absorbing the inheritance.
• Hu Yanbo used nine Silver Space Blades to seize control of Mo Lao King’s chains and redirect them toward Blade Mantis King.
• Blade Mantis King slashed the chains aside, leaving himself briefly off balance as Hu Yanbo declared that it was his turn.

Hu Yanbo used his control over the sealed space and his Void Divine Power to kill Azure Crocodile King and incapacitate Mo Lao King. Blade Mantis King, unable to fight or escape, chose self-destruction and vowed that the Demon Race would avenge him.

• Hu Yanbo sent Void Divine Power into Azure Crocodile King and annihilated his soul.
• Hu Yanbo struck Mo Lao King with Soul Annihilation, destroying more than half of his divine body and leaving him unconscious.
• Mo Lao King lifted the Space Lockdown and called for Blade Mantis King, but Hu Yanbo maintained the Sealing and struck him again.
• Blade Mantis King realized Hu Yanbo had trapped them, declared that the Demon Race would seek revenge, and self-destructed.

Hu Yanbo escaped Blade Mantis King’s self-detonation after defeating the two Demon Race experts, and the arriving Human Race rescuers found him holding the incapacitated Mo Lao King. After Hu Yanbo explained his victory, they bestowed on him the title Soul Annihilation King, marking his rise as a feared ultimate King Rank expert.

• Blade Mantis King detonated himself, but Hu Yanbo teleported beyond the blast and took the sleeping Mo Lao King with him.
• Blade Mantis King’s final warning about the human called “Bo” reached Demon Race experts, who feared that he and Mo Lao King had been killed.
• Human Peak King and ultimate King Rank experts arrived, saw the destruction, and found Hu Yanbo unharmed with Mo Lao King in his hand.
• Hu Yanbo thanked the rescuers and said he had made a breakthrough, adding that Blade Mantis King would have been enslaved if he had not detonated himself.
• Blood Blade King and the other experts named Hu Yanbo Soul Annihilation King, and Hu Yanbo accepted the title.

Yuan Huang was astonished by Hu Yanbo’s rapid rise, and Lord Huang Jian instructed him to nurture his disciple as a potential future Universe Venerable or greater. The Hongmeng Alliance’s Venerables watched the fragmentary battle recording and agreed to invite Hu Yanbo as a three-star member.

• Yuan Huang learned that Hu Yanbo had killed Blade Mantis King, captured King Mo Lao, and earned the title Soul Annihilation King.
• Lord Huang Jian praised Hu Yanbo’s potential and told Yuan Huang to guide and nurture him.
• Venerable Yezheng informed the assembled Venerables that Hu Yanbo had forced an ultimate Demon Race King to his death.
• The Venerables watched a brief recording that ended with the Demon cursing Hu Yanbo before a burst of white light obscured the battle.
• The Venerables agreed that Hu Yanbo qualified for immediate three-star Hongmeng Alliance membership.

Hu Yanbo hurried to hunt down Demon Hand King before news of his strength reached him, while considering how to make the most of King Mo Lao despite the enormous cost of reviving him. He began devising a new soul-enslavement technique and ended with a sudden idea for using the sleeping Peak King expert.

• Hu Yanbo used Divine Kingdom Teleportation to reach a secluded location near Demon Hand Star, then flew toward Demon Hand King's hiding place aboard the Yunmo Star Ship.
• Hu Yanbo realized that reviving King Mo Lao would cost far more than the roughly 26 billion Hunyuan Units he had gained from the battle.
• Hu Yanbo considered leaving King Mo Lao to recover naturally, but rejected waiting hundreds of millions of years and resolved to research a powerful Soul Enslavement Secret Art.
• Hu Yanbo compared the Black Lotus's soul-destroying power with Illusionists' subtle methods of control and concluded that he could develop another way to suppress an opponent's will.
• Hu Yanbo suddenly had a new idea for putting the sleeping King Mo Lao to use.