Recaps

Huo Yuhao discovered that the emerald metal in the cave was likely uranium and realized the cave’s radiation was draining the soul power of its visitors. After Ju Zi and Zi Mu began digging under the Hypnotic Tapir’s influence, Huo Yuhao approached the beast while deciding to spare it until he could return for its Soul Ring.

• Huo Yuhao entered the cave with Ju Zi and Zi Mu, spotted the Hypnotic Tapir, and noticed the beasts’ bones around it.
• Huo Yuhao identified the cave’s energy fluctuations as radiation from the metal, which slowly depleted soul power.
• Ju Zi and Zi Mu began digging, but Ju Zi’s memory faltered under the Hypnotic Tapir’s Mental Suggestion.
• Huo Yuhao turned invisible and approached the Hypnotic Tapir, planning to return for it when he could obtain a fourth Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuhao broke off a piece of emerald ore and explained that it might be uranium, though the continent lacked the knowledge and resources to make a weapon from it.
• The Hypnotic Tapir rose as Huo Yuhao turned toward it, irritated that it had not stayed passive.

Huo Yuhao discovered that the Hypnotic Tapir was using Mental Suggestion against the others, but his presence frightened it into fleeing. After a Golden Tiger nearly killed the Tapir and Huo Yuhao finished it off, he decided to absorb its Soul Ring that night rather than risk losing it.

• The Hypnotic Tapir tried to use Mental Suggestion to turn Huo Yuhao, Ju Zi, and Zi Mu against one another, but Ju Zi recognized the mine's soul-power-draining effect and she and Zi Mu left the cave.
• Huo Yuhao's glare terrified the Hypnotic Tapir, which fled through another passage after realizing its hypnosis had failed.
• The Hypnotic Tapir emerged near a Golden Tiger, which attacked and badly wounded it before Huo Yuhao drove the tiger away with Soul Shock.
• Huo Yuhao ended the dying Hypnotic Tapir's life, and its purple Soul Ring appeared.
• After discussing the risk of the Soul Ring dissipating with Tian Meng, Huo Yuhao told the Ice Empress he would absorb his fourth Soul Ring that night.

Huo Yuhao absorbed the Snow Empress’s Snow Dan and gained her support for his God-Making Plan in exchange for helping protect the Far North. Meanwhile, Jing Hongchen dealt with the aftermath of the attack on Illustrious Virtue Hall and began suspecting Huo Yuhao was connected to the Body Sect.

• The Snow Empress agreed to merge with Huo Yuhao, and he absorbed her Snow Dan as the Ice Plain shattered around them.
• Huo Yuhao’s Ultimate Ice evolved toward the Snow Empress’s level, and she agreed to support his God-Making Plan if he helped the Far North.
• The Snow Empress warned the Ice Empress that humans or the absence of their strongest guardians could threaten the Far North.
• Long Xiaoyao told Jing Hongchen that the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo had self-detonated, and Jing Hongchen mourned the damage and his dead aide.
• The Sun Moon Emperor imposed a limited punishment on Jing Hongchen, who declined the princes’ offers of support and planned to use Huo Yuhao’s Soul Tool Machine to replace the ruined workbenches.
• Jing Hongchen recalled that Huo Yuhao’s First Martial Soul was his eyes and suspected he belonged to the Body Sect, then erupted with killing intent.

Jing Hongchen suspected Huo Yuhao of helping the Body Sect attack Illustrious Virtue Hall, but Huo Yuhao redirected his suspicions toward a missing Level 8 Soul Engineer. The Snow Empress and Ice Empress then appeared to declare Huo Yuhao a member of the Northern Land, leaving Jing Hongchen eager to win his favor.

• Jing Hongchen asked Lin Jiayi to find Huo Yuhao, then questioned him about the attack on Illustrious Virtue Hall and his body martial soul.
• Jing Hongchen accused Huo Yuhao of possibly belonging to the Body Sect, but Huo Yuhao argued that he had neither access to the hall's layout nor reason to remain at the academy after the attack.
• Huo Yuhao suggested that the most suspicious accomplice would be someone who disappeared after the attack, prompting Jing Hongchen to suspect a missing Level 8 Soul Engineer he had trusted.
• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress appeared, identified Huo Yuhao as belonging to their Northern Land, and told Jing Hongchen to treat him well.
• Jing Hongchen's suspicions of Huo Yuhao were dispelled, and he resolved to show goodwill toward Huo Yuhao and the Northern Land; Huo Yuhao returned to the teaching building, pleased by the Snow Empress's intervention.

Huo Yuhao secured the Snow Empress’s support and decided to remain in the Sun Moon Empire, while Jing Hongchen learned the imperial family planned a banquet that could draw Illustrious Virtue Hall’s students away. At the Body Sect, a blue-haired girl named Huo Qiu’er joined and insisted that Huo Yuhao was still alive.

• The Snow Empress agreed to support Huo Yuhao and asked him to help protect the Far North when it faced a future crisis.
• Huo Yuhao told the Snow Empress and Ice Empress that he intended to stay in Sun Moon because he believed fate awaited him there.
• Jing Hongchen received Emperor’s orders granting resources for Illustrious Virtue Hall’s repairs and inviting up to 150 students to a palace banquet, which he suspected a prince had arranged to recruit them.
• Du Busi returned to the Body Sect angry over the failed attempt to seize the soul beast embryo, then approved a blue-haired girl’s entry after she passed the trial.
• The girl said she had joined the Body Sect to find Huo Yuhao, rejected Du Busi’s claim that he was dead, and introduced herself as Huo Qiu’er.

Huo Yuhao and Xuan Ziwen successfully tested a soul tool machine that engraved Class 2 core arrays, while Huo Yuhao explored adapting the Snow Empress’s techniques into spear-based moves of his own. When the Royal Family’s banquet came up, Xiao Hongchen offered Huo Yuhao an invitation, and Huo Yuhao agreed to attend.

• Xuan Ziwen, Ju Zi, Ke Ke, and Zi Mu tested a soul tool machine that successfully engraved a Class 2 core array, and Xuan Ziwen praised Huo Yuhao’s idea.
• Huo Yuhao used the Snow Empress’s Emperor Sword to carve metal and told the Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Tian Meng that he wanted to develop his own spear-based techniques.
• Ke Ke learned that Ju Zi had an invitation to the Royal Family’s banquet, while Huo Yuhao had not received one.
• Xiao Hongchen entered the laboratory, offered Huo Yuhao an invitation to the banquet, and Huo Yuhao agreed to go with him and Meng.

Huo Yuhao attended a banquet at the Sun Moon Imperial Palace, where he observed the royal family’s rivalries and learned that Crown Prince Xu Tianran had reached Titled Douluo cultivation despite his apparent disability. He asked Tian Meng to lend him power so he could examine Xu Tianran’s legs.

• Huo Yuhao traveled to the Imperial Palace with Jing Hongchen and the Hongchen siblings, suggesting that Mingdu would need wider roads as soul-powered vehicles became common.
• Huo Yuhao entered the banquet hall with Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen and learned that someone had specifically requested his presence.
• The princes arrived, and Huo Yuhao recognized Ju Zi pushing Crown Prince Xu Tianran’s wheelchair.
• Huo Yuhao used Simulation to avoid kneeling before the Sun Moon Emperor, then watched the emperor endorse the empire’s ambition to conquer the continent.
• The Snow Empress revealed that Xu Tianran had reached Titled Douluo cultivation, and Huo Yuhao asked Tian Meng to lend him power so he could inspect Xu Tianran’s legs.

Huo Yuhao secretly discovered that Xu Tianran was not only disabled but also unable to perform sexually, and he realized the secret could be useful without revealing that he knew it. At the banquet, Xu Tianran sensed Huo Yuhao’s mockery and left, while Huo Yuhao learned of the Crown Prince’s ties to the Holy Spirit Cult and plans to seize power.

• Huo Yuhao used Tian Meng’s Spiritual Power to confirm that Xu Tianran had no legs and discovered another secret about him, which made Huo Yuhao struggle to suppress his laughter.
• Huo Yuhao decided to keep Xu Tianran’s secret hidden and use it for his own purposes, while also noticing that the Sun Moon Emperor appeared ill.
• The Third Prince apologized to Xiao Hongchen and asked him and Huo Yuhao about Xu Sheng, whom he believed was a member of the Royal Family.
• Xu Tianran confronted the Third Prince and spoke with Huo Yuhao, then left after sensing what he thought was mockery in Huo Yuhao’s eyes.
• Xu Tianran told Ju Zi that he planned to become Prince Regent and establish the Holy Cult as the state religion, while the Imperial Preceptor offered to eliminate his rivals.
• Huo Yuhao withdrew his Spiritual Detection and privately mocked Xu Tianran for his disability and his association with the Holy Spirit Cult.

At the imperial banquet, Huo Yuhao learned more about the Sun Moon Empire’s succession struggle and refused Ju Zi’s attempt to recruit him for Crown Prince Xu Tianran. After uncovering Xu Tianran’s ties to the Holy Spirit Cult, Huo Yuhao decided to remain in the empire and pursue a plan involving He Caitou.

• Huo Yuhao joked with Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen about the princes, then learned that the Seventh Prince could not inherit the throne because he lacked the Xu family’s hereditary martial soul.
• Xiao Hongchen explained that the Third Prince and Fifth Prince had joined forces, while the Hongchen Family planned to avoid openly backing any prince; Huo Yuhao’s suggestion that they need not support anyone struck Xiao Hongchen deeply.
• Ju Zi admitted she served Crown Prince Xu Tianran and invited Huo Yuhao to join him, but Huo Yuhao declined and said he would remain at the Illustrious Virtue Hall.
• On the teaching building roof, Huo Yuhao reviewed what he knew: Xu Tianran could not father children, and the Holy Spirit Cult secretly supported him as a hidden Titled Douluo.
• Huo Yuhao told the Ice Empress, Snow Empress, and Tian Meng that he wanted to stay in the Sun Moon Empire to bring down Xu Tianran and the Holy Spirit Cult, and they agreed to support him.
• Huo Yuhao thought of He Caitou and declared that he knew what to do.

Huo Yuhao advanced Soul Tool research and mathematics at Sun Moon Academy while preparing the Star Luo Empire to benefit from his discoveries. As Shrek's exchange students arrived, he was surprised to find Ning Tian and Wu Feng among them.

• Huo Yuhao and the Illustrious Virtue Hall completed a Level 7 Soul Tool Machine that mass-produced Level 3 Soul Tool workbenches, but Jing Hongchen and Xuan Ziwen identified soul-power costs that prompted them to prioritize Sealed Milk Bottle research.
• Huo Yuhao reached level fifty, hunted the Holy Spirit Cult in Mingdu, and introduced mathematics classes at Sun Moon Academy.
• Before the Star Luo students returned home, Huo Yuhao gave Li Hui beginner textbooks and a letter for Jiujiu, along with principles for the Soul Tool Machine and Sealed Milk Bottle.
• Huo Yuhao saw off Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen as they left for Shrek Academy, where Meng planned to bring Wang Dong a gift.
• Xuan Ziwen told Huo Yuhao that Soul Tool Machine research had stalled at Level 4 production and that he would be teaching Shrek's exchange students.
• Xuan Ziwen brought Ning Tian and Wu Feng into the Third Laboratory, where they recognized Huo Yuhao and exclaimed, "It's you!"

Huo Yuhao watched Xuan Ziwen test Ning Tian and Wu Feng as Soul Engineers, and Ning Tian impressed Xuan Ziwen with a creative multifunctional core array. Wu Feng failed and resisted his advice to return to Shrek, prompting Huo Yuhao to confront her.

• Ning Tian and Wu Feng recognized Huo Yuhao, while Xuan Ziwen announced that both would have to pass his test to study in his laboratory.
• Ning Tian used a ranked Azure Light Glazed Blade to engrave a titanium-gold core array with three compatible functions, while Wu Feng produced an ordinary Level 3 array.
• Ning Tian explained that her multifunctional design suited her role as a support-type Soul Master, and Xuan Ziwen passed her while warning her to conceal her valuable engraving knife.
• Xuan Ziwen failed Wu Feng, criticized her lack of aptitude for soul engineering, and advised her to withdraw from the exchange and return to Shrek.
• Wu Feng objected to Xuan Ziwen's authority, then turned toward Huo Yuhao when he asked whether she was going to throw a tantrum upon seeing him again.

Huo Yuhao confronted Wu Feng over her weak soul-engineering skills while Xuan Ziwen questioned how she had earned her Level 3 rank and why she had transferred to the Soul Tool Department. Xuan Ziwen accepted Ning Tian as his student and allowed Wu Feng to accompany her into the laboratory, while Huo Yuhao reminded Wu Feng that he had grown far stronger since they last met.

• Huo Yuhao criticized Wu Feng's Core Array work and warned that Xuan Ziwen would decide whether she could study in the Third Laboratory.
• Ning Tian admitted she had used her martial soul to help Wu Feng pass the Level 3 Soul Engineer assessment and explained that Wu Feng had followed her into the Soul Tool Department.
• Xuan Ziwen accepted Ning Tian as his student, assigned Wu Feng to self-study, and allowed her to enter the laboratory when accompanied by Ning Tian.
• After Xuan Ziwen left, Ning Tian noticed Huo Yuhao's Level 5 Soul Engineer badge, and Huo Yuhao said he expected to reach Level 6 soon.
• Wu Feng challenged Huo Yuhao and released her martial soul, but Huo Yuhao overwhelmed her with his chilling aura and made her agree to get along with him.

At the Illustrious Virtue Hall, Xuan Ziwen sought Ning Tian’s support to break through to Level 9, while Jing Hongchen saw a chance to draw the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect closer. Huo Yuhao reunited with Fan Yu and He Caitou but refused to help Shrek copy Sun Moon’s blueprints, then revealed his plan to gain influence and expand Sun Moon’s power without starting a war.

• Jing Hongchen warned the senior Soul Engineers about choosing sides and instructed Lin Jiayi to oversee the Shrek exchange students’ education.
• Xuan Ziwen told Jing Hongchen that Ning Tian could boost a Soul Engineer’s level and planned to seek her help with his Level 9 breakthrough.
• Huo Yuhao introduced Ning Tian and Wu Feng to the Third Laboratory, where he defended his Soul Guidance Game Console and its future potential.
• Huo Yuhao visited Fan Yu and He Caitou, reunited with them, and refused Fan Yu’s request to use Spiritual Detection to copy Sun Moon’s advanced blueprints.
• Huo Yuhao told the Ice Empress that he would keep Sun Moon’s technological advantage and pursue expansion without war by gaining a high position in Sun Moon.

Huo Yuhao agreed to take Ning Tian and Wu Feng to the Jingyang Mountain Range to hunt for their fifth soul rings, hoping to find a rare mental-attribute soul beast for himself. Xuan Ziwen began considering whether support-type soul masters could help Level 8 Soul Engineers overcome the barrier to Level 9, while Ju Zi recognized the political stakes and decided to inform the Crown Prince.

• Xuan Ziwen asked Huo Yuhao about Ning Tian's Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and considered using her support abilities to help him reach Level 9 Soul Engineer.
• Huo Yuhao cautioned Xuan Ziwen that Ning Tian might lack the soul power to assist him and reminded him that she was an exchange student, so Xuan Ziwen offered to take her and Huo Yuhao soul-ring hunting instead.
• Ju Zi realized that support-type soul masters might help create Quasi-Level 9 Soul Engineers and decided the Crown Prince needed to know about the possibility.
• Huo Yuhao asked Qian Duoduo for permission to take Ning Tian and Wu Feng soul-ring hunting, and Qian Duoduo approved after seeing Huo Yuhao's strength.
• Huo Yuhao told Ning Tian and Wu Feng to prepare their flying soul tools, and the three set off for the Jingyang Mountain Range.

Huo Yuhao took Ning Tian and Wu Feng into the Jingyang Mountain Range, where he demonstrated his strength and offered to teach them about soul tools. During a battle with a five-thousand-year Golden Tiger, he guided Ning Tian to apply her support skills directly to Wu Feng’s soul tool, revealing a new path for her as an all-round soul engineer.

• Huo Yuhao reassured Ning Tian and Wu Feng that he had no plans to harm them, then led them into the Jingyang Mountain Range.
• Huo Yuhao repelled a Golden Tiger with a single blow and warned the girls that metal-attribute soul beasts were strengthened in the mountains.
• Ning Tian asked Huo Yuhao to teach her and Wu Feng about soul tools, and he described himself as an all-rounder who used soul tools to cover his martial soul’s weaknesses.
• Huo Yuhao sent Ning Tian and Wu Feng to fight a five-thousand-year Golden Tiger while he watched and prepared to intervene.
• Huo Yuhao guided Ning Tian to apply her support skills directly to Wu Feng’s soul tool, allowing Wu Feng to kill the Golden Tiger with a powerful strike.
• Huo Yuhao told Ning Tian that she could become an all-round soul engineer.

Huo Yuhao helped Ning Tian discover that her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda could strengthen soul tools, then took her and Wu Feng into the Jingyang Mountain Range to search for suitable soul beasts. The chapter ended with a huge pack of Golden Wolves surrounding them as Huo Yuhao prepared to face the threat rather than flee.

• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection Sharing to help Ning Tian establish a soul power connection with a Soul Guidance Ray, allowing her to strengthen it with her soul skills.
• Ning Tian recognized the discovery's importance to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, and Huo Yuhao explained how enhanced soul tools could give support soul masters more offensive power and initiative.
• Huo Yuhao took Ning Tian and Wu Feng into the Jingyang Mountain Range in the All-Terrain Detection Soul Tool, and Ning Tian said she wanted a defensive soul skill for her fifth soul ring.
• After nightfall, Huo Yuhao spotted a pack of at least a hundred Golden Wolves, including three ten-thousand-year Golden Wolf Kings, surrounding the summit.
• Wu Feng urged Huo Yuhao and Ning Tian to escape, but Huo Yuhao put away the vehicle and said the soul beasts were suited to them.

Huo Yuhao defeated a pack of golden wolves, claimed a new fifth soul skill, and helped Ning Tian obtain the Silvermoon Wolf King’s soul ring. He discovered that Mental Sensitivity could also become Mental Exile, trapping someone in an unnaturally prolonged moment, and tested it on Wu Feng.

• Huo Yuhao and the girls chose the black wolf as his target and the Silvermoon Wolf King as Ning Tian’s, then prepared to face the approaching pack.
• Ning Tian amplified Huo Yuhao, who revealed his hundred-thousand-year soul ring and attacked the wolves with his ice weapon, Cold Glint.
• The black wolf’s Mental Sensitivity let the pack dodge Huo Yuhao’s spear, but his Ice Explosion Technique killed the black wolf while sparing the Silvermoon Wolf King for Ning Tian.
• Huo Yuhao absorbed the black wolf’s soul ring and gained Mental Sensitivity, while Ning Tian absorbed the Silvermoon Wolf King’s ring and gained Attribute Amplification.
• Huo Yuhao used Mental Sensitivity on Wu Feng at three hundred times amplification, leaving her frozen in place for five minutes of perceived time and revealing the skill’s terrifying application as Mental Exile.

Huo Yuhao used Mental Exile on Wu Feng, then negotiated with Ning Tian for secrecy and future help from the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect. With Electrolux, he entered the Undead Demiplane and endured a painful reconstruction that turned his Ice Seal Plane into a true plane.

• Huo Yuhao used Mental Exile on Wu Feng, leaving her clinging to Ning Tian, and decided to keep the skill's uses secret.
• Ning Tian thanked Huo Yuhao for his attribute amplification and revealed she was the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect's heir.
• Huo Yuhao asked Ning Tian and Wu Feng to conceal his strength and sought a future promise of her help with negotiations involving her sect.
• Huo Yuhao arranged for Ning Tian to try amplifying Xuan Ziwen's Soul Power, then took the group to camp outside the Jingyang Mountain Range.
• Huo Yuhao entered the Undead Demiplane with Electrolux and saw its undead creatures, including a bone dragon that obeyed Electrolux.
• Electrolux used the demiplane's spatial power to transform Huo Yuhao's Ice Seal Plane into a true plane, and Huo Yuhao inspected it after enduring the painful process.

Huo Yuhao and Ning Tian discovered how her support abilities could enhance Soul Tools, leading Illustrious Virtue Hall to let her assist Xuan Ziwen in a Pseudo-Level 9 assessment. Xuan Ziwen successfully engraved a Level 9 Soul Tool core array, prompting Shrek and Illustrious Virtue Hall to reconsider the value of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect and its support Soul Masters.

• Ning Tian’s amplification made Wu Feng’s Soul Tool attack rival a Soul King’s full-power strike, and Ning Tian worried about her sect’s future ties with Illustrious Virtue Hall.
• Ning Tian explained her Soul Skill’s effect on Soul Tools to Fan Yu and began studying under Xuan Ziwen, eventually advancing to Level 5 Soul Engineer.
• Jing Hongchen and Lin Jiayi discussed Xuan Ziwen’s planned assessment and the potential strategic value of support Soul Masters.
• Xuan Ziwen began his Pseudo-Level 9 assessment with Ning Tian’s assistance, while Fan Yu, Qian Duo Duo, and Elder Wu observed.
• Xuan Ziwen completed the Level 9 Soul Tool engraving successfully, and Huo Yuhao remarked that Xuan Ziwen should thank him too.

Xuan Ziwen’s breakthrough led the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect to pursue cooperation with the Illustrious Virtue Hall, while Ning Tian was ordered to keep the deal secret from the academy. At a Sun Moon Academy combat assessment, Ji Juechen used his monthly challenge to target Huo Yuhao.

• Fan Yu and Qian Duoduo discussed using Support System Soul Masters to help Soul Engineers break through, while Jing Hongchen sent confidential letters to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• Jing Hongchen awarded Xuan Ziwen a special Level 9 Soul Engineer badge and concealed that support had aided his breakthrough.
• Ning Tian told Wu Feng that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect planned to cooperate with the Illustrious Virtue Hall and ordered her not to tell the academy.
• Ke Ke invited Ju Zi and the others to watch the Practical Soul Tool Department’s combat assessment, and Huo Yuhao explained that Ke Ke’s vehicle was a Soul Tool car.
• At the assessment, Ji Juechen used his monthly challenge opportunity and pointed his sword toward Huo Yuhao, choosing him as his opponent.

Ji Juechen challenged Huo Yuhao to a match, and Huo Yuhao accepted after learning he could not refuse. Huo Yuhao defeated Ji Juechen by freezing and disarming him, but Ji Juechen vowed to keep seeking his instruction.

• Ji Juechen named Huo Yuhao as the opponent he wanted to challenge, and Lin Jiayi went to summon him.
• Huo Yuhao recalled that Ji Juechen had marked him as a future opponent, while Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen warned that Ji Juechen would relentlessly pursue anyone he challenged.
• Lin Jiayi told Huo Yuhao that Jing Hongchen had ordered him to accept Ji Juechen's challenge, so Huo Yuhao entered the arena.
• Huo Yuhao charged at Ji Juechen, vanished using his abilities, and blocked Ji Juechen's sword strike with Cold Gleam.
• Huo Yuhao froze Ji Juechen's sword to the spear and knocked it away, prompting Ji Juechen to admit defeat.
• Huo Yuhao said his fighting intent was pragmatism, but Ji Juechen thanked him and promised to seek his instruction again.

Huo Yuhao agreed to help He Caitou take revenge and become Sun Moon Emperor, but sensed that He Caitou had briefly intended to kill him. Later, Huo Yuhao followed Ghost Nana from the academy and confronted her outside a building in Mingdu, accusing her of having ties to the Holy Spirit Cult.

• Huo Yuhao watched Nana defeat a sixth-year Soul Engineer and recognized that she had used Soul Power, which he suspected linked her to the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Huo Yuhao reasoned that the Holy Spirit Cult might fund itself through a large chamber of commerce and decided to investigate Mingdu's trading organizations.
• He Caitou asked Huo Yuhao to help him avenge his family and promised to become Sun Moon Emperor; Huo Yuhao agreed, while privately considering him a potential puppet ruler.
• After He Caitou left, Huo Yuhao realized that he had briefly emitted killing intent and feared their former friendship had broken beyond repair.
• Huo Yuhao followed Nana from the academy to a building in Mingdu, where she put on a hood and veiled bamboo hat before he knocked it away and accused her of connections to the Holy Spirit Cult.

Huo Yuhao captured Nana, learned that the Holy Spirit Cult had forced her to serve by imprisoning her parents’ souls, and brought her to infiltrate its branch altar. He entered the underground hall disguised as the Holy Son and struck down the Second Holy Spirit, leaving the First Holy Spirit and the elder facing him.

• Huo Yuhao defeated Nana’s Ghost-based defenses and used a soul contract to question her about the Holy Spirit Cult’s branch altar.
• Nana told Huo Yuhao that the cult had killed her parents and imprisoned their souls to force her into service, and she asked him to rescue them.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to attack the branch altar and instructed Nana to help him enter without warning its core members.
• Nana used a secret signal to get Huo Yuhao past the courtyard guard, then claimed he was the Holy Son to the altar’s attendants.
• The attendants led Huo Yuhao and Nana underground to the First Holy Spirit, the Second Holy Spirit, and the elder.
• The Second Holy Spirit transformed into a skeleton and attacked, but Huo Yuhao extinguished its soul flames and scattered its bones.

Huo Yuhao infiltrated a Holy Spirit Cult branch altar by posing as its Holy Son, then killed its leaders and freed the souls imprisoned in their banner. After sending eight former Holy Servants to report the cult’s secrets to a Star Luo princess, he examined the Branch Altar Elder’s corpse and considered whether becoming undead could offer another path to eternal life.

• Huo Yuhao killed Second Holy Spirit and convinced the Branch Altar Elder and Great Holy Spirit that he was the Holy Spirit Cult’s Holy Son.
• Huo Yuhao questioned the branch altar leaders, learned that its members served the Myriad Souls Elder and that the cult’s businesses were controlled by the Deputy Cult Leader through the Xishui Alliance, but could not uncover the Main Altar’s location.
• Huo Yuhao shattered the Holy Spirit Banner, allowing its vengeful spirits to devour the Branch Altar Elder and Great Holy Spirit before he purified the freed souls.
• Nana and seven other former Holy Servants pledged to follow Huo Yuhao, and he sent them to the Star Luo capital with a letter and card for a princess.
• Huo Yuhao found that the Branch Altar Elder had been like a living corpse and wondered whether undead transformation could grant eternal life, while the Snow Empress explained that soul beasts faced death through heavenly tribulation.

Huo Yuhao explored the Undead Demiplane, learned from Electrolux about the limits of undead immortality, and decided to infiltrate the Holy Spirit Cult as its Holy Son. He accepted that destroying the cult from within might require him to sacrifice part of his conscience.

• Huo Yuhao surveyed the Undead Demiplane's undead inhabitants, while Electrolux explained that necromancers could still exhaust their life force and souls.
• Huo Yuhao said he respected the pioneers who studied death and regretted that he could not examine how soul rings and soul power dissipated after death.
• The Second Holy Spirit rose as a black skeleton, and Electrolux explained that its newly formed soul was incomplete.
• Huo Yuhao considered how the Undead Demiplane and Ice Seal Plane could help him escape powerful enemies and support risky plans.
• Huo Yuhao told his companions he planned to infiltrate the Holy Spirit Cult by becoming its Holy Son and destroy it from within.
• Huo Yuhao told Electrolux he was prepared to give up some of his conscience to carry out his plan.