Recaps

Huo Yuhao returned to the Sun Moon Academy, where Xuan Ziwen celebrated becoming a Level 9 Soul Engineer and Ning Tian prepared for the Illustrious Virtue Hall assessment. After Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan forced him into sparring, Huo Yuhao defeated both of them and learned that Jing Hongchen wanted him at the Illustrious Virtue Hall.

• Huo Yuhao returned to the academy and discussed his new spatial magic and Mental Sensitivity with the spirits in his mind.
• Xuan Ziwen revealed his promotion to Level 9 Soul Engineer and told Ning Tian to prepare for the Illustrious Virtue Hall assessment.
• Xuan Ziwen directed Wu Feng to transfer to the Practical Soul Tool Department because she could not enter the Illustrious Virtue Hall with Ning Tian.
• Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan barged into the laboratory and pressured Huo Yuhao into sparring at the Trial Grounds.
• Huo Yuhao defeated Jing Ziyan, then disarmed Ji Juechen with Soul Shock and won their rematch.
• Jing Ziyan told Huo Yuhao that Jing Hongchen had summoned him to the Illustrious Virtue Hall.

After defeating Ji Juechen, Huo Yuhao realized his Body Martial Soul eyes needed protection and devised offensive and defensive Soul Goggles. At Illustrious Virtue Hall, he met Ning Yue, agreed to train Ning Tian in combat as a soul engineer, and learned of the Hall’s dangerous stockpile of Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shells.

• Huo Yuhao reflected that Ji Juechen’s single-minded sword style was easy to counter, then recognized that sword intent could threaten his vulnerable eyes.
• Huo Yuhao decided to develop dual-use offensive and defensive Soul Goggles and borrowed Jing Hongchen’s helmet-type Soul Tool to study.
• Ning Yue introduced himself as Ning Tian’s elder cousin, tested Huo Yuhao’s amplification of soul tools, and asked him to train Ning Tian as a soul engineer; Huo Yuhao agreed.
• Jing Hongchen explained that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect had sent five direct disciples to assist Illustrious Virtue Hall for three years in exchange for three Level 9 Soul Tools and half of the resulting production.
• Jing Hongchen revealed plans to multiply Illustrious Virtue Hall’s Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell reserves and admitted he intended to pass off duds to the sect.
• Huo Yuhao left with Jing Hongchen’s helmet and worried about the danger posed by the shells stored near the center of Mingdu.

Ning Tian became a formidable Level 5 Soul Engineer, while Huo Yuhao learned that Electrolux possessed a dangerous divination ability capable of affecting even gods. Xu Jiujiu received Huo Yuhao’s warning about the Holy Spirit Cult and prepared to alert the empire, as a mysterious godlike figure decided to stop Electrolux from contacting the Child of Fortune.

• Ning Tian defeated an opponent with her soul tools, and Huo Yuhao praised her progress as she planned a future for the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• Huo Yuhao reflected on why Sun Moon Empire students relied on cultivation pills, then discussed his investigations into the Xishui Alliance and the power of undead magic with Electrolux.
• Electrolux revealed that Great Turtle Divination could bind mortals and gods with absolute certainty, but warned that its uncontrollable effects could sacrifice its caster; Huo Yuhao said he still wanted to learn it.
• Nana and her companions delivered Huo Yuhao’s letter to Xu Jiujiu, who learned that the Holy Spirit Cult had more than twenty Titled Douluo and was colluding with the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xu Jiujiu agreed with Nebula Douluo that the Star Luo Empire should unite with Douling, Tianhun, and Shrek Academy against the threat, then went to inform Imperial Brother.
• Wang Dong wondered why Support System Class Three students were being called to the Soul Tool Department and said he wanted to see Huo Yuhao, while a mysterious figure vowed to prevent Electrolux from contacting the Child of Fortune.

After a year at Sun Moon Academy, Huo Yuhao saw Ju Zi leave to assist the Crown Prince in pursuing revenge against the Star Luo Empire. Wang Dong arrived and invited Huo Yuhao to visit her home, the Clear Sky Sect, leaving him uneasy about what awaited him.

• Huo Yuhao tested his Frost Bone Dragon in the ice seal plane, where the Ice Empress subdued it and Electrolux warned that Huo Yuhao could not yet control or summon it into reality.
• Ju Zi told Ke Ke, Zi Mu, and Xuan Ziwen that she had passed her graduation assessment and was leaving Sun Moon Academy to assist the Crown Prince in the Imperial City.
• Huo Yuhao escorted Ju Zi to the academy gates, warned that her plan was unlikely to succeed, and exchanged grilled fish and oranges with her before she departed.
• After Ju Zi left, Huo Yuhao told the Ice Empress he would not let their friendship stop him from opposing Ju Zi if she stood in his way.
• Wang Dong arrived at Sun Moon Academy, questioned Huo Yuhao about Ju Zi, and invited him to visit her family at the Clear Sky Sect during the holiday.
• Huo Yuhao accepted Wang Dong's invitation, then felt an ominous premonition about the visit.

Wang Dong brought Huo Yuhao to the secluded Clear Sky Sect, where her Second Dad Tai Tan tested him with overwhelming spiritual pressure and the castle’s strange, hostile atmosphere made him uneasy. After Wang Dong was secretly put to sleep by her First Dad, a golden light reached Huo Qiu’er in Heaven Dou City, while Huo Yuhao realized he had walked into a trap and began planning how to face Tang San.

• Wang Dong led Huo Yuhao from Sun Moon Academy toward the Clear Sky Sect, explaining that her family had invited him and warning him not to reveal she was a girl.
• Wang Dong guided Huo Yuhao through the clouds to Clear Sky Castle, where Tai Tan subjected him to intense spiritual pressure before inviting them inside.
• Huo Yuhao sensed oppressive forces in the castle, learned Wang Dong had never met her parents, and grew wary of the sect’s unusual atmosphere.
• On the third floor, Wang Dong confronted her Second Dad, but her First Dad used Soul Power to make her lose consciousness, and a golden light shot from the Golden Trident on her forehead.
• Huo Qiu’er sensed the golden light in Heaven Dou City, took a Flying Soul Tool from Vina, and left the Body Sect’s training grounds.
• Alone in the cold jade room, Huo Yuhao struggled on the frost jade bed and recognized the invitation as a trap involving Tang San.

Huo Yuhao was trapped in the Cold Jade Room when the ten-thousand-year frost jade marrow triggered the sealed powers in his body and blocked his escape. Electrolux outwitted the Clear Sky Sect’s Guardian Spirit to help save him, and Huo Yuhao prepared to smash his way out as two powerful experts approached.

• Huo Yuhao suspected the Clear Sky Sect had invited him with ulterior motives, then an unexplained force knocked him onto the ten-thousand-year frost jade marrow and triggered the powers sealed inside him.
• Huo Yuhao found that the room’s spatial restrictions prevented him from using magic or retrieving items, so he activated Mental Exile and used his spiritual power to control the rampaging forces.
• Electrolux entered the Cold Jade Room and spoke with the Clear Sky Sect’s Guardian Spirit, who claimed Huo Yuhao’s own greed had caused his crisis.
• Electrolux pretended to sacrifice his remnant soul to save Huo Yuhao, then revealed he was burning the Guardian Spirit’s power instead and used it to suppress Huo Yuhao’s rampaging soul power.
• Huo Yuhao regained contact with Tian Meng and the others, learned that two powerful experts were approaching, and discovered that the divine sense still prevented him from using Space Magic.
• Huo Yuhao lifted the ten-thousand-year frost jade marrow bed and hurled it at the doorway, then prepared to break through the window with his left arm.

Huo Yuhao escaped the Clear Sky Sect after its leaders tried to seize him and eliminate Electrolux, the remnant soul within him. He and the Ice and Snow Empresses blasted Tai Tan with an ice explosion and entered the Ice Seal Plane, but Tai Tan forced his way into the closing Spatial Gate.

• Niu Tian and Tai Tan learned that a divine presence wanted Huo Yuhao captured or made to forget what had happened, and Tai Tan rushed to the Cold Jade Room.
• Huo Yuhao detonated the Ten-Thousand-Year Frost Jade Marrow bed to escape the destroyed room, while Electrolux revealed that a powerful being had been watching him and began eradicating its surveillance.
• Tai Tan pursued Huo Yuhao through the cloudmist and sent Warhawks after him, interrupting his attempt to finish the Spatial Magic Array.
• Huo Yuhao and the Ice and Snow Empresses froze the cloudmist and hundreds of Warhawks, then detonated the ice crystals around Tai Tan in a powerful attack.
• Huo Yuhao and the Ice and Snow Empresses entered the Ice Seal Plane, but Tai Tan's giant ape form jammed the Spatial Gate before it could close.

Huo Yuhao escaped Tai Tan’s attack and learned from Electrolux that a divine sense tied to Wang Dong had been watching them, possibly targeting Electrolux. After waking in the Ice Seal Plane, Huo Yuhao suspected the god behind it was connected to the Clear Sky Sect and ended the chapter recalling a dream about his father and why he could not become a god.

• Tai Tan forced his way into the Ice Seal Plane, but Huo Yuhao, the Ice and Snow Empresses, the Frost Bone Dragon, and the Warhawks drove him back and shut the Spatial Gate.
• Tai Tan returned to Clear Sky Castle, where Niu Tian told him that Wang Dong’s father would make her forget the incident and that they should repair the castle.
• A blue-haired girl watched the Clear Sky Sect from a Warhawk King, while Huo Yuhao slept in the Ice Seal Plane.
• Electrolux told Huo Yuhao that a divine sense had watched him and his companions, resided within Wang Dong, and had targeted Electrolux; Huo Yuhao suspected the god was Tang San.
• Huo Yuhao recalled a dream in which Dai Hao told him he could become the White Tiger Duke but not a god, because even a god had his own son.

After recovering in the Ice Seal Plane, Huo Yuhao devised a plan to infiltrate the Holy Spirit Cult and lure its leaders into the Undead Demiplane. He left to begin his mission, determined to confront the unseen watcher when he grew strong enough.

• Huo Yuhao learned that his soul power had risen to rank fifty-six and discussed trapping enemies in the Ice Seal Plane or Undead Demiplane.
• Huo Yuhao proposed luring the Holy Spirit Cult's leaders into the Undead Demiplane and imprisoning them, but Electrolux warned that Evil Soul Masters could grow stronger there and escape using spatial power.
• Huo Yuhao said he would use the demiplane as an execution ground, entering it to eliminate the Evil Soul Masters before any could become powerful enough to escape.
• Electrolux suggested that absorbing the Holy Spirit Cult's soul power could rapidly strengthen Huo Yuhao and help the Snow Empress achieve godhood, while privately concealing his true theory about a slaughter-related law.
• Electrolux entered a brief slumber, and Huo Yuhao left the Ice Seal Plane to infiltrate the Holy Spirit Cult as its Holy Son.
• Huo Yuhao sensed the unseen watcher, addressed it with a mocking greeting, and vowed to find it himself.

Huo Yuhao abandoned his plan to trap the Holy Spirit Cult and decided to use Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shells to destroy it. After learning that Jing Hongchen had arranged a fifty-thousand-year-old Evil Eye Tyrant for his future sixth Soul Ring, Huo Yuhao considered how to use Illustrious Virtue Hall’s weapons against the cult.

• Huo Yuhao realized that Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shells could let him eliminate the Holy Spirit Cult’s strongest members without first trapping them.
• Wang Dong woke refreshed from a vivid but forgotten dream, asked about Huo Yuhao, and accepted Niu Tian’s claim that her roommate was not at Clear Sky Castle.
• Huo Yuhao asked Jing Hongchen about the Xishui Alliance, and Jing warned him to avoid the dangerous underground organization linked to the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Jing Hongchen offered Myriad Souls Douluo two high-level Defensive Soul Tools in exchange for a fifty-thousand-year-old mental-attribute Evil Eye Tyrant for Huo Yuhao’s sixth Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuhao eavesdropped on the deal and decided that Illustrious Virtue Hall’s Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shells could make destroying the Holy Spirit Cult easier.

Huo Yuhao prepared his Soul Tools and met He Caitou, who secretly disguised himself to visit the Imperial City and grapple with his desire to avenge his murdered family. Huo Yuhao then accompanied Jing Hongchen toward the Evil Demon Forest to obtain his sixth Soul Ring, while noticing a possible key to deciphering the Illustrious Virtue Hall's secret Plan One documents.

• Huo Yuhao reviewed his Soul Tools, including his Soul Guidance Smoke, defensive goggles, and Huo Yun'er's White Tiger Dagger, before He Caitou asked him to go out in Mingdu.
• After Huo Yuhao declined, He Caitou disguised himself and went to a rooftop overlooking the Imperial City, where he vented his rage over his family's deaths and his inability to kill the ailing Sun Moon Emperor in time.
• He Caitou returned toward the Sun Moon Academy, while Huo Yuhao went to Jing Hongchen's office to prepare for a nighttime trip to the Evil Demon Forest for a mental-attribute Soul Beast.
• Huo Yuhao considered how He Caitou might inherit the throne and become an ally of Jing Hongchen, then used Spiritual Detection and recognized a book that could help him decipher documents about Plan One.
• Jing Hongchen invited Huo Yuhao to leave with him and test his strength, and Huo Yuhao agreed.

Huo Yuhao traveled with Jing Hongchen to the Evil Demon Forest and killed a fifty-three-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant. After absorbing its soul ring, he gained the Mental Illusion skill and prepared to combine it with his other abilities.

• Jing Hongchen flew Huo Yuhao to the Evil Demon Forest and said he would find a suitable Evil Eye Tyrant for him to hunt.
• Myriad Souls Elder and Jing Hongchen drove a fifty-three-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant toward Huo Yuhao, then watched as Huo Yuhao fought it alone.
• Huo Yuhao overcame the Evil Eye Tyrant's Spiritual Force Field and Evil Eye Gaze, then saw through its Mental Illusion and killed it.
• Huo Yuhao collected the Evil Eye Tyrant's soul-origin crystal but refrained from absorbing its power while Jing Hongchen and Myriad Souls Elder watched.
• Huo Yuhao absorbed the soul ring and gained Mental Illusion as his sixth soul skill.

Huo Yuhao acquired the Mental Illusion soul skill and learned of the Holy Spirit Cult’s ominous plans for the upcoming tournament in Mingdu. After reflecting on his own intent, he visited Jing Hongchen to propose a deal.

• Huo Yuhao concealed his Mental Illusion skill from Jing Hongchen and listened as Myriad Souls Douluo discussed the Evil Eye Tyrant’s bloodline and the Holy Spirit Cult’s plans for the tournament.
• Several months later, Lin Jiayi announced a new tournament format with sect teams, individual elimination matches, and seven-on-seven battles, while the Hongchen Siblings were named as two of Sun Moon Academy’s reserved team members.
• Huo Yuhao suspected the Holy Spirit Cult would benefit from chaos at the tournament and wondered whether it planned to attack the gathered teams in Mingdu.
• Ji Juechen challenged Huo Yuhao, endured his Soul Shock but was injured, and asked about Huo Yuhao’s intent; Huo Yuhao decided to pursue his own intent.
• Huo Yuhao visited Jing Hongchen in the Illustrious Virtue Hall and proposed that they make a deal.

Huo Yuhao negotiated his withdrawal from the Sun Moon Academy team by promising Jing Hongchen that the Northern Land Family would support the Hongchen Family during the emperor’s succession. After the exchange students departed, Huo Yuhao revealed that he planned to investigate the Holy Spirit Cult and Sun Moon Imperial Family, hunt evil soul masters, and enter the tournament as a sect of his own.

• Huo Yuhao told Jing Hongchen he would represent the Northern Land Family instead of the Sun Moon Academy in the tournament.
• Huo Yuhao promised the Hongchen Family support from the Northern Land Family and the Northern Douluo during the new emperor’s succession, and Jing Hongchen agreed to let him leave.
• Jing Hongchen changed the main-team selection to five slots and invited Huo Yuhao to visit the Hongchen Family residence after the tournament.
• Huo Yuhao said he would investigate the Holy Spirit Cult and Sun Moon Imperial Family while hunting evil soul masters.
• After bidding farewell to He Caitou and the other exchange students, Huo Yuhao declared that he would enter the tournament representing himself as a sect of one.

Huo Yuhao suspected the Sun Moon Empire planned to make a move during the Youth Soul Master Tournament, so he sought information about the Xishui Alliance in Mingdu. After finding one of its underground black markets, he used an Illustrious Virtue Hall Level 6 Soul Engineer badge to gain entry and began making contact with the alliance.

• Huo Yuhao considered the Sun Moon Empire’s growing military strength and the possibility that it would use the tournament to attack the continent’s other powers.
• Huo Yuhao searched Mingdu for information about the Xishui Alliance, but ordinary residents and vendors refused to discuss it.
• Huo Yuhao investigated Mingdu’s black markets and learned that the Xishui Alliance was the largest of the city’s three major underground powers.
• Huo Yuhao discovered a Xishui Alliance black market beneath an ordinary building, where Soul Kings guarded the entrance and dangerous figures operated below.
• Huo Yuhao showed a guard his Illustrious Virtue Hall Level 6 Soul Engineer badge and entered the underground market.

Huo Yuhao explored the Underground Black Market, learned that the Sun Moon Imperial Family planned to tighten rare-metal controls, and used an illusion to stop a young Soul Engineer from being cheated. He sensed a familiar Evil Soul Master aura and headed toward it.

• Huo Yuhao observed a buyer pay more than five times the official price for a small piece of mithril and learned that the Royal Family planned to tighten rare-metal controls.
• Huo Yuhao noticed a stallholder preparing to cheat a young Level 2 Soul Engineer by disguising coarse cold iron beneath a layer of adamantine.
• Huo Yuhao used Mental Sensitivity and Mental Illusion to make the boy experience the scam before it happened, prompting him to reject the purchase and flee.
• Huo Yuhao reflected on the soul power needed to maintain several Soul Skills at once.
• Huo Yuhao sensed a familiar Evil Soul Master aura at the far end of the black market and walked toward it.

Huo Yuhao tracked the Holy Spirit Cult’s aura to an underground fighting arena in the Xishui Alliance Black Market, where evil soul masters killed challengers while gamblers wagered. After Huo Yuhao challenged the ring holder, he swiftly crippled the Evil Soul Master youth, and the Nether Thunder Douluo rushed in as Huo Yuhao invoked a gray flame.

• Huo Yuhao traced an evil soul master’s aura to the Black Market’s underground fighting arena and identified a powerful presence in a nearby room.
• A blond-haired youth explained that challengers fought Xishui Alliance ring holders for rare metals, while losers could be killed; Huo Yuhao then entered the arena and issued a challenge.
• The Nether Thunder Douluo sent his disciple, an Evil Soul Master Soul Emperor and Level 6 Soul Engineer, to fight Huo Yuhao, but ordered him to keep the challenger alive for possible recruitment.
• Huo Yuhao evaded the youth’s Energy-Gathering Destruction Cannon, seized him, and shattered his left knee before he could use his soul skills.
• The Nether Thunder Douluo rushed from his room when Huo Yuhao’s gray flame threatened to consume the youth’s head, and Huo Yuhao asked whether the Xishui Alliance would interfere with the match.

Huo Yuhao defeated and killed the Xishui Alliance’s champion, then let Nether Thunder Douluo mistake his soul-destroying power for proof that he was the Holy Spirit Cult’s prophesied Holy Son. He arrived at a meeting with the cult’s Deputy Cult Leader and discovered that its Holy Maiden was his acquaintance, Ma Xiaotao.

• Huo Yuhao used gray Undead Magic flames to destroy the evil soul master youth, and Nether Thunder Douluo declared him the winner.
• Nether Thunder Douluo offered Huo Yuhao rare metals and urged him to reveal his power, then identified him as the Holy Spirit Cult’s Holy Son.
• Huo Yuhao claimed he had come to cooperate with the Xishui Alliance and revealed a gray soul ring, prompting Nether Thunder Douluo to welcome him as the Holy Son.
• The Holy Spirit Cult’s Deputy Cult Leader and elders gathered in a hotel VIP room to meet the supposed Holy Son.
• Huo Yuhao entered the room and recognized the Holy Maiden, Ma Xiaotao, as an acquaintance.

Huo Yuhao infiltrated the Holy Spirit Cult by presenting himself as its prophesied Holy Son and demonstrating his ability to summon undead. He secretly spared the two commoners the cult forced him to use, then learned the cult was preparing a major conspiracy to carry out after the tournament.

• Huo Yuhao met Deputy Cult Leader, Ma Xiaotao, and the Holy Spirit Cult elders, who scrutinized him as a possible counterfeit Holy Son.
• Huo Yuhao revealed his gray soul ring and claimed his martial soul was the Holy Necromancer, convincing Deputy Cult Leader that he was the Holy Son.
• Ma Xiaotao brought two commoners to the VIP room, and Huo Yuhao summoned skeletons that dragged them through a spatial gate.
• Deputy Cult Leader praised Huo Yuhao's power and announced that Holy Spirit Cult elders would gather at the Main Altar for his ceremonies.
• Huo Yuhao secretly returned the two men alive near the hotel and told them not to walk down dark alleys at night.
• Huo Yuhao, Ice Empress, and Snow Empress discussed the cult's temporary suspension of activity and its conspiracy, which would emerge after the tournament.

Ye Xishui tortured a man to strengthen the Death God Tower while the Holy Spirit Cult prepared a Spirit Ascension Ceremony for Huo Yuhao. Huo Yuhao watched the ceremony expose the cult’s soul-binding method, then walked toward the altar as its newly welcomed Holy Son.

• Ye Xishui killed a man and fed his resentful soul into the Death God Tower, then heard that the Deputy Cult Leader had found a Holy Son with soul-controlling and summoning powers.
• Ye Xishui told Long Xiaoyao that the Holy Spirit Cult aimed to clear evil soul masters’ names by helping the Sun Moon Empire unify the continent.
• Huo Yuhao arrived at the ceremony among more than four hundred evil soul masters and sensed Long Xiaoyao and another Limit Douluo watching from the darkness.
• Feng Ling subjected the Holy Servants to the Spirit Ascension Ceremony, and Huo Yuhao recognized that a powerful figure had placed a restriction on their souls.
• Feng Ling announced Huo Yuhao as the Holy Son, and he walked toward the altar while another youth watched with jealousy.

Huo Yuhao evaded the Holy Spirit Cult’s curse and faced Yan Feng in a public duel, using undead magic to defeat the Bone Dragon Soul Saint and cement his status as Holy Son. The cult embraced him, while Huo Yuhao secretly remained intent on destroying it.

• At the Spirit Ascension Ceremony, Huo Yuhao used Soul Freeze to avoid the Curse Stele’s attack, while Electrolux removed the curse and concealed the change from the mysterious powerhouse.
• Yan Feng challenged Huo Yuhao at the Spirit Welcoming Ceremony, and cult leader Zhongli Wu approved the duel so the assembly could witness the Holy Son’s power.
• Huo Yuhao used Death Lash against Yan Feng, then summoned the Frost Bone Dragon through the Gate of the Undead and left Yan Feng badly injured.
• Zhongli Wu and the Evil Soul Masters praised Huo Yuhao as their Holy Son, and Huo Yuhao declared that he would lead them to the summit while privately planning their destruction.

Huo Yuhao impressed the Holy Spirit Cult with his undead-summoning abilities and arranged to travel with three Evil Soul Masters to the Star Dou Great Forest. After secretly rescuing a man condemned for Ye Xishui’s daily execution, Huo Yuhao resolved to accelerate his hunt against the cult.

• Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao recognized Huo Yuhao’s unusual abilities, while Zhongli Wu grew eager to see what his undead army could become.
• Zhongli Wu tested Huo Yuhao’s age and learned that consuming souls accelerated his cultivation; Huo Yuhao agreed to travel with Zhongli Tian, Zhongli Di, and Zhongli Ren to seek powerful beast spirits.
• Zhongli Wu explained that the cult’s daily execution supplied vengeful spirits for Ye Xishui’s soul tool, which he hoped would become a level 10 soul tool.
• When Zhongli Tian brought a farmer to Ye Xishui, Huo Yuhao secretly pulled the man through a Gate of the Undead and gave him a peaceful dream before he died.
• After Ye Xishui noticed the man had died smiling, Huo Yuhao told the Ice Empress and Snow Empress that he was running out of patience and wanted to speed up the hunt.

Huo Yuhao planned to hunt the Holy Spirit Cult’s members from the lower ranks upward while attending a meeting about the cult’s tournament schemes. He left the meeting determined to exploit the cult’s scattered strongholds, then killed two members at an isolated outpost.

• Huo Yuhao decided that targeting lower-ranking Evil Soul Masters would attract less attention than killing the cult’s elders, while still allowing him to pursue both plans.
• Feng Ling announced the Holy Spirit Cult’s plan to support the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy in the Youth Soul Master Tournament, and Huo Yuhao agreed to compete only from the semifinals onward.
• The elders discussed an Underground Soul Engineer Tournament intended to profit from gambling and gain control of rare metal mines, and Huo Yuhao called Mingdu a “human mine.”
• Huo Yuhao visited a Holy Spirit Cult stronghold and learned that its two members were preparing to leave for the Star Luo Empire.
• Huo Yuhao killed the branch altar elder and the holy servant, then told the Ice Empress that he would eliminate the cult’s inconspicuous strongholds one by one.

Huo Yuhao lured the Zhongli Three Brothers into the Undead Demiplane, intending to kill them and absorb their souls. After hunting several Evil Soul Masters around Mingdu, he left the brothers trapped inside with the Ice and Snow Empresses closing in.

• Huo Yuhao killed his fifth Evil Soul Master of the week, burned the victim’s collection of human bones, and decided to target higher-ranking members of the Holy Spirit Cult.
• At the Green Hotel, Huo Yuhao intimidated Jili when the young Evil Soul Master questioned his nightly trips, while Zhang Peng stopped him from attacking Jili.
• The Zhongli Three Brothers offered to escort Huo Yuhao to the Star Dou Great Forest, and Huo Yuhao told them to wait at a branch altar on Mingdu’s eastern outskirts.
• At the destroyed altar, the Zhongli brothers encountered Huo Yuhao, the Ice Empress, and the Snow Empress, then fled after their beast souls were frozen and destroyed.
• Huo Yuhao met the injured brothers in their path and persuaded them to enter his Undead Demiplane, where the Ice and Snow Empresses joined him and he revealed his intent to claim their souls.

Huo Yuhao lured the Zhongli Three Brothers into the Undead Demiplane and killed them, absorbing their soul power while reflecting on whether evil was truly innate. Ye Xishui discovered that the brothers and many other Evil Soul Masters had died and suspected someone was targeting the Holy Spirit Cult, so she and Long Xiaoyao went to Mingdu.

• Huo Yuhao trapped the Zhongli Three Brothers in the Undead Demiplane, where the Frost Bone Dragon and the Ice and Snow Empresses attacked them.
• The Frost Bone Dragon killed Zhongli Di, the Ice Empress froze Zhongli Ren, and Zhongli Tian detonated himself before the blast injured the dragon.
• Huo Yuhao absorbed the brothers' soul power, reached level sixty-three, and discussed bloodlines and the origins of evil with Electrolux and the others.
• Huo Yuhao left for the Star Luo Empire to warn Jiujiu and the others about the Sun Moon Empire and Holy Spirit Cult's plans.
• Ye Xishui noticed that the Zhongli Three Brothers and many other Evil Soul Masters had died, concluded that someone was targeting the Holy Spirit Cult, and left for Mingdu with Long Xiaoyao.