Chapter Summaries

Ye Xishui tried to recruit Ye Qing into the Holy Spirit Cult as its Grand Supreme Elder, while Long Xiaoyao opposed the plan out of guilt over the cult’s violence. Ye Qing agreed to join temporarily, making clear that he could leave whenever he wanted.

• Ye Xishui realized Evil Nightmare Douluo had risen from below Soul Saint cultivation to Limit Douluo strength in only thirty years and suspected he had a major secret.
• Ye Xishui offered Ye Qing the title of Grand Supreme Elder and access to the Holy Spirit Cult’s resources, but Ye Qing questioned why he would need their protection.
• Long Xiaoyao told Ye Qing to leave because he feared the Holy Spirit Cult’s growing power would bring suffering across the continent.
• Ye Xishui asked Long Xiaoyao to help her one last time, and he reluctantly agreed.
• Ye Qing interrupted their discussion and said joining was his own choice; he then agreed to join the Holy Spirit Cult temporarily, saying he could leave whenever he wished.

Ye Qing joined the Holy Spirit Cult as Evil Nightmare Douluo and was named its Grand Supreme Elder, equal in standing to Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao. Ye Xishui introduced him to the cult’s assembled leaders and announced his new position.

• Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao welcomed Ye Qing into the Holy Spirit Cult as its Grand Supreme Elder and granted him access to its resources.
• Ye Qing followed Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao into the cult’s underground headquarters and saw its corpses, blood pools, and soul-binding apparatus.
• Ye Xishui released her aura, prompting the Holy Spirit Cult’s residents to kneel and greet her and Long Xiaoyao.
• Zhongli Wu, Feng Ling, the remaining elders, and the other enshrined gathered before Ye Xishui, Long Xiaoyao, and Ye Qing.
• Ye Xishui announced to the assembled cult members that Evil Nightmare Douluo was their new Grand Supreme Elder, equal to her and Long Xiaoyao.

Ye Qing claimed that Lord Asura God had granted him his immense power and declared the deity to be the Holy Spirit Cult’s Holy Emperor. His revelation left Ye Xishui and the cult’s senior members eager to learn more about their supposedly forgotten divine patron.

• The Holy Spirit Cult’s members knelt to greet Ye Qing as Grand Supreme Elder, and he ordered them to rise.
• Ye Qing told the cult that a deity’s blessing had made him a Limit Douluo before the age of fifty and sent him as God’s Emissary.
• Ye Qing named Lord Asura God as the Holy Spirit Cult’s Holy Emperor, shocking the cult members who had regarded that title as symbolic.
• Ye Xishui questioned Ye Qing about the Holy Emperor, while Zhongli Wu and the other senior members bowed and asked him to explain.
• Ye Qing claimed that Lord Asura God had bestowed his cultivation, privately reasoning that his strength and puppet were tied to Tang San.

Ye Qing claimed that Tang San was both Sea God and Asura God, the Holy Spirit Cult’s Holy Emperor, and urged the cult to spread his name for divine rewards. He left the cult members stunned and tempted by the promise of power.

• Ye Qing rejected Zhongli Wu’s doubts and told the Holy Spirit Cult to honor and promote its Holy Emperor.
• Ye Qing recounted how Spirit Hall persecuted Evil Soul Masters and revealed that Asura God had ruled Slaughter City.
• Ye Qing claimed Tang San inherited Asura God’s godhood before becoming Sea God and freed Evil Soul Masters by destroying Slaughter City.
• Ye Qing identified Tang Ya as the Blue Silver Saintess, the former Tang Sect leader and Tang San’s successor, then linked Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul and spider abilities to Evil Soul Masters.
• Ye Qing urged the cult to make Asura God the continent’s supreme deity in return for Tang San’s blessings and the possibility of becoming gods.
• Dong Qianqiu opened a spatial rift and left with Ye Qing as the Holy Spirit Cult members considered his promises.

Ye Qing planned to turn the Holy Spirit Cult’s promotion of Tang San as the Asura God against his Sea God faith, while plotting an unofficial history that would restore Spirit Hall’s reputation. After questioning the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign’s inaction, Ye Qing considered targeting the powerful soul beast to strengthen his spiritual power.

• Ye Qing reasoned that the Holy Spirit Cult’s spread of Tang San’s Asura God identity would clash with Shrek’s Sea God worship and poison Tang San’s faith.
• Ye Qing planned an “Asura God Autobiography” that would expose Tang San and help revive support for Spirit Hall.
• Ye Qing questioned why the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign had not intervened when Ye Xishui tried to recruit him.
• The Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign stayed hidden because he feared fighting Ye Qing, Long Xiaoyao, and Ye Xishui at once.
• Ye Qing set his sights on the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign as a way to improve his spiritual power.

Ye Qing and the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign sensed each other across the Evil Demon Forest but both held back from fighting. He asked Long Xiaoyao to help him study the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Tools, leaving open the possibility of secretly pursuing Illustrious Virtue Hall technology.

• Ye Qing met the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign’s gaze from afar, and both chose not to start a fight because of their circumstances.
• Long Xiaoyao emerged alone and warned Ye Qing not to provoke the ruler of the Evil Demon Forest.
• Long Xiaoyao explained that Ye Xishui had sent him to ask whether Ye Qing needed resources from the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Ye Qing asked Long Xiaoyao to arrange access to the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Tool knowledge and keep his identity hidden while he studied.
• Long Xiaoyao said the cult could arrange for Ye Qing to study through the imperial family, but it had no ties to the Illustrious Virtue Hall.

Ye Qing studied Soul Tool fundamentals in Mingdu to support his plan to create armor combining Soul Bone Armor and Battle Armor. After examining a Level 1 Charging Core Array, he sensed an important secret behind Soul Tools but could not grasp the fleeting insight, while Electrolux studied the array alongside him.

• Long Xiaoyao reconsidered his hostility toward Ye Qing after noticing he lacked the blood-soaked aura of other Evil Soul Masters, though he reserved judgment until Ye Qing harmed innocents.
• At Ye Xishui's arrangement, Nether Thunder Douluo accompanied Ye Qing to Mingdu, where he studied Soul Guidance Technology at the Xishui Alliance headquarters.
• Ye Qing focused on understanding Core Arrays rather than becoming a Soul Engineer, since he intended to use Soul Tool principles to develop armor combining Soul Bone Armor and Battle Armor.
• Ye Qing studied the Level 1 Charging Core Array and realized the essence of Soul Tools held an important secret that could aid his Soul Armor research.
• Ye Qing struggled to recover his fleeting inspiration as Electrolux stared at the same array, and the beings within Ye Qing left him undisturbed.

Ye Qing experimented with Level 1 core arrays and theorized that their patterns were copied from the hidden lines within Soul Rings, making Soul Tools artificial versions of Soul Skills. He left the chapter eager to test his hypothesis and develop Soul Armor.

• Ye Qing carved and activated eight Level 1 core arrays over three days, studying the effects each produced.
• Ye Qing showed the array patterns to Electrolux and said he needed more practical tests to confirm his guess.
• Ye Qing summoned his Martial Soul and noticed intricate patterns hidden within his seven blood-red Soul Rings.
• Ye Qing concluded that core arrays likely reproduced Soul Ring patterns and that the arrays’ effects corresponded to Soul Skills.

Ye Qing and Electrolux discovered patterns resembling Core Arrays inside Soul Rings and Soul Bones, making Ye Qing’s Soul Armor concept feasible. They began studying the Sun Moon Empire’s Core Arrays so they could develop and build the armor.

• Ye Qing reasoned that Soul Bones could be linked through External Soul Bones and assembled into Soul Bone Armor, with Core Arrays engraved on spirit alloy to create Soul Armor.
• Electrolux agreed that Soul Rings contained complex patterns, and he and Ye Qing found similar patterns inside a ninety-thousand-year Torso Bone.
• Electrolux told Ye Qing that Soul Armor could be made, and Ye Qing asked him to help develop and manufacture it.
• Ye Qing and Electrolux began studying the Sun Moon Empire’s Core Arrays, while Electrolux planned to optimize them further.

Ye Qing spent three years studying the Sun Moon Empire’s Core Arrays and Soul Tool blueprints, reaching Level 7 Soul Engineer while Electrolux developed a forging method for Soul Armor materials. The chapter ended with Ye Qing preparing to test Electrolux’s new Spirit Forging technique.

• Ye Qing abandoned his plan to visit the Illustrious Virtue Hall after concluding that learning its Core Arrays would be more useful than studying its Soul Tools.
• Ye Qing studied Core Arrays and advanced Soul Tool blueprints for three years, reconsidering his earlier assumption that Electrolux could improve on them without first examining existing designs.
• Ye Qing reached Level 7 Soul Engineer, amassed rare metals, and watched Electrolux simulate forging methods for spirit alloys.
• Electrolux gave Ye Qing a Spirit Forging technique combining Sacred Demon Continent artifact forging with the Spirit Forging Method, explaining that it could reach ten thousand refinement life creation but not Soul Forging without special metals or alloy experiments.
• Ye Qing received the technique and prepared to try forging with it.

After three years researching soul armor in Mingdu, Ye Qing resumed his original appearance, assessed the threats he might face, and prepared to break through after reaching rank eighty. He realized the expected exchange program between Shrek Academy and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy had never happened, while Mu En remained alive and retired.

• Ye Qing left the Xishui Alliance, changed back into his original appearance, and reflected on his soul armor research and the dangers posed by the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape.
• Ye Qing decided to rest after three years of work and concluded that Mu En had not arranged an exchange program between Shrek Academy and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Ye Qing sensed that his soul power had reached rank eighty and planned to obtain a soul ring before breaking through.
• Mu En retired after Ye Qing went to the Sun Moon Empire, while Jing Hongchen accepted Xiao Hongchen's loss of the Sword of Judgment as a worthwhile trade for his reputation.

The chapter followed Xiao Hongchen and Huo Yuhao’s advances after the tournament, then showed Ye Qing preparing to hunt a powerful mermaid for his next Soul Ring. It left Ye Qing heading toward the Mermaid Clan with the six-hundred-thousand-year Sea Princess as his target.

• Xiao Hongchen began cultivating with the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, aiming to reach Soul Saint and challenge Ye Qing at the next tournament.
• Huo Yuhao became a level-sixty-three Soul Emperor with the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s support, left the Tang Sect, and chose to stay with Ning Tian.
• Wang Dong'er reached level sixty-eight, while the other Shrek students’ cultivation progressed at more ordinary rates.
• Ye Qing returned to the Holy Spirit Cult’s headquarters as Evil Nightmare Douluo and set his sights on the Sea Princess and the Mermaid Clan for his Eighth Soul Ring.

After returning to the Holy Spirit Cult, Ye Qing found its members had done nothing to spread Tang San’s name, so he began planning to act himself. He discovered Tang Ya had become a remarkably powerful Evil Soul Master and considered cultivating her into another formidable enforcer.

• Ye Qing returned to the Holy Spirit Cult after three years away and found its members had made no effort to spread the Asura God’s name.
• Ye Qing concluded that Ye Xishui had not interfered with his earlier instructions, while Nether Thunder Douluo had been too intimidated to ask him for guidance.
• Ye Qing visited Zhongli Wu, who was observing Tang Ya after she drank her soup.
• Zhongli Wu praised Tang Ya’s talent, explaining that her Dark Blue Silver King could absorb many kinds of nourishment and had helped her reach a bottleneck at level seventy.
• Ye Qing recognized Tang Ya’s potential as a future powerful enforcer and glanced at Zhongli Wu as he considered how to cultivate her.

Ye Qing persuaded Zhongli Wu that Tang Ya could become the Blue Silver Emperor by absorbing a powerful Blue Silver Emperor’s Soul Ring and Soul Bone, and encouraged him to help her reach nine rings first. Zhongli Wu rewarded Ye Qing with a Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell, while Ye Qing revealed that the hidden Blue Silver Emperor was in the Sun Moon Empire.

• Ye Qing told Zhongli Wu that Tang Ya could ascend as Blue Silver Emperor by taking the Soul Ring and Soul Bone of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor.
• Zhongli Wu agreed that Tang Ya needed to reach nine rings first and would need a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring as her eighth ring.
• Zhongli Wu gave Ye Qing a Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell called the Heavenly Meteor as thanks.
• Ye Qing accepted the weapon and considered using it as a trump card against the Sea Princess Clan.
• Ye Qing assured Zhongli Wu that the Blue Silver Emperor was hidden in the Sun Moon Empire and would be available once Tang Ya reached nine rings.

Ye Qing gave Zhongli Wu the Asura Judgment Codex and used a map to travel toward the Ice Sea with Dong Qianqiu. Zhongli Wu sent nearly the entire Holy Spirit Cult across the continent to slaughter people and spread the Asura God's name.

• Ye Qing handed Zhongli Wu the Asura Judgment Codex, and Zhongli Wu agreed to spread the Holy Emperor's name through the book.
• Ye Qing obtained a map of the Douluo Continent, memorized several locations, and headed northwest toward Haiyue City.
• Ye Qing reached the Ice Sea riding Dong Qianqiu, who smashed through the ice and startled the people of Dongyang City.
• Zhongli Wu dispatched Feng Ling, the six great elders, and other Evil Soul Masters to slaughter across the continent and spread the Asura God's name.
• Zhang Peng joined several Evil Soul Master offerings in taking action.

The Holy Spirit Cult launched coordinated attacks across the Douluo Continent to spread the Asura God’s name, but instead fueled terror and suspicion that Tang San was behind both the cult and Shrek. Copies of the Asura Judgment Codex spread through bards, while Xu Tianran encouraged the growing conflict to weaken Shrek and advance the Sun Moon Empire’s ambitions.

• The Holy Spirit Cult sent more than three hundred Evil Soul Masters in sixteen teams to stage attacks across the continent, killing relatively few people while spreading panic and the Asura God Ideology.
• The cult spared the Sun Moon Empire from direct killings and had already informed Xu Tianran of its plans after Zhongli Wu became the empire’s imperial preceptor.
• Xu Tianran supported the attacks because he hoped the conflict between Shrek and the Holy Spirit Cult would weaken Shrek and remove an obstacle to the Sun Moon Empire’s unification.
• The Douluo Three Kingdoms and Shrek Academy were stunned when the cult declared that it worshipped Asura God Tang San, whom people knew as the Sea God who had led Shrek.
• Copies of the Asura Judgment Codex circulated after the attacks, and bards began reading its accusations against Tang San to commoners across the continent.
• Xu Tianran’s agents and the Holy Spirit Cult also sent bards to spread the codex, while others joined to earn money.

Ye Qing’s plan to weaken Tang San’s standing unfolded as the Holy Spirit Cult spread its Asura Judgment Codex and the Sun Moon Empire used it to attack the Douluo Three Kingdoms. Public arguments turned into a cycle of doubt, denunciation, and violence, while the Holy Spirit Cult’s God’s Emissaries secretly killed Tang San’s loyal defenders for cultivation.

• Ye Qing expected distrust of Tang San to grow gradually as the Holy Spirit Cult’s crimes spread, weakening the faith that supported Tang San’s godhood.
• Most people across the Douluo Continent rejected the cult’s claims, but citizens of the Sun Moon Empire embraced the Asura Judgment Codex as ammunition against their enemies.
• Sun Moon keyboard warriors used the codex to mock the Sea God’s followers, and some people of Douluo began questioning whether Tang San was behind the Holy Spirit Cult.
• People who had defended Tang San turned on his remaining loyalists, and wavering believers switched sides while viciously attacking those who stayed faithful.
• The Holy Spirit Cult’s God’s Emissaries secretly murdered steadfast Tang San believers, both eliminating rivals and improving their cultivation.

The Holy Spirit Cult’s attacks devastated the Anti-Tang Warriors and Shrek’s Inner Court, while Mu En gathered Titled Douluo to retaliate. The cult withdrew before they could strike, and the three empires’ rulers quietly hoped Shrek and the cult would weaken each other.

• The Holy Spirit Cult’s night attacks broke the isan Army and gave the Anti-Tang Warriors a major victory.
• Shrek’s Inner Court students and a Soul Douluo teacher suffered heavy casualties while intervening against the cult’s attacks.
• Mu En organized nearly thirty Titled Douluo with the three empires to hunt down the Evil Soul Masters.
• Zhongli Wu withdrew to the Evil Demon Forest, while the cult’s branch altars went into hiding and Mu En’s forces were barred from entering the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xu Tianran and the three empires’ rulers allowed Shrek and the Holy Spirit Cult to weaken each other, wary of Shrek’s power and influence.

Zhongli Wu reflected on Evil Nightmare Douluo’s strategy and the Holy Spirit Cult’s new standing, then considered how the Demon Soul Bone Shark King suggested its leader had divine backing. Convinced that following Evil Nightmare Douluo could help him break through to Limit Douluo and perhaps become a god, Zhongli Wu resolved to obey his instructions.

• Zhongli Wu and the Holy Spirit Cult’s elders praised Evil Nightmare Douluo’s strategy for building the cult’s influence without confronting Shrek directly.
• The elders celebrated the Holy Spirit Cult’s chance to operate openly, though most cared more about indulging their desires than spreading Asura God’s faith.
• Zhongli Wu compared the Demon Soul Bone Shark King with his Bone Dragon King and concluded that only a god could have created or empowered it.
• Zhongli Wu became convinced that Evil Nightmare Douluo had a connection to a god and could offer him a path to greater power.
• Zhongli Wu resolved to follow Evil Nightmare Douluo’s instructions in hopes of reaching Limit Douluo and becoming a god.

Ye Qing studied lich refinement while traveling through the Ice Sea and planned to combine it with soul ring inscription to create a new kind of lich. The Sea Princess learned that a powerful stranger was nearby and went to meet him, leaving their encounter ahead.

• Ye Qing chose the Sea Princess as the target for his eighth soul ring and planned to refine her into a lich rather than a berserker puppet.
• Electrolux refused to handle the refinement himself and offered to teach Ye Qing, who spent more than ten days studying the technique.
• Ye Qing proposed that he and Electrolux combine soul ring inscription with magic runes to refine a new kind of lich.
• A mermaid reported to the Sea Princess that a powerful stranger was nearby, searching for something but harming none of the merfolk.
• The Sea Princess decided to personally negotiate with the stranger and ordered the young mermaid to lead the way.