Recaps

Huo Yuhao built ties with the Hongchen family while navigating the Sun Moon Empire’s royal struggle and demonstrating his abilities. On a mountain expedition, a Hypnotic Tapir drew Ju Zi and the others toward a cave containing an unknown metal, which sparked Huo Yuhao’s interest.

• Huo Yuhao defeated Xiao Hongchen in a private match, revealed his twin martial souls, and agreed to represent the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy in the next tournament.
• After the Royal Family Disciplinary Team arrested Huo Yuhao and Xiao Hongchen, Huo Yuhao escaped his restraints and helped rescue Xiao Hongchen with Xu Sheng’s apparent intervention.
• Huo Yuhao revealed his role in the rescue, and Jing Hongchen offered him a reward while deciding to expel Wang Shaojie and report the incident to the Emperor.
• Huo Yuhao tested Xuan Ziwen’s All-Terrain Detection Soul Tool, impressed Ju Zi and Xuan Ziwen with his driving, and shared his ambitions for soul-tool technology.
• Ju Zi led Huo Yuhao, Ke Ke, and Zi Mu to the Jingyang Mountain Range to test equipment and search for rare metals, where Huo Yuhao defeated a Golden Tiger with his bare hand.
• At the camp, Huo Yuhao detected a mental-attribute Soul Beast, then followed Ju Zi, Ke Ke, and Zi Mu when they were led toward a supposed ore deposit.
• Huo Yuhao resisted the Hypnotic Tapir’s Mental Suggestion and followed it into a cave where unknown metal blocked his Spiritual Detection, while Ju Zi’s detector glowed green outside.

Huo Yuhao gained the Snow Empress’s support, advanced his soul-tool research, and built ties with the Sun Moon Empire’s rivals. After infiltrating and destroying a Holy Spirit Cult branch altar, he resolved to pose as the cult’s Holy Son and destroy it from within.

• Huo Yuhao entered the uranium-like ore cave, killed the Hypnotic Tapir, and decided to absorb its Soul Ring.
• The Snow Empress merged with Huo Yuhao and agreed to support his plans if he protected the Far North, while Jing Hongchen’s suspicion of Huo Yuhao eased.
• Huo Yuhao learned of Xu Tianran’s disability and Holy Spirit Cult ties, then chose to remain in Sun Moon and bring down the prince and the cult.
• Huo Yuhao helped Ning Tian and Wu Feng hunt Soul Rings, discovered how her support skills could enhance Soul Tools, and helped Xuan Ziwen reach Level 9 Soul Engineer.
• Ji Juechen challenged Huo Yuhao, who defeated him and earned his promise to seek instruction.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to help He Caitou seek revenge, then confronted Nana and learned the Holy Spirit Cult had enslaved her and imprisoned her parents’ souls.
• Huo Yuhao infiltrated the branch altar with Nana, killed its leaders, destroyed the Holy Spirit Banner, freed and purified trapped souls, and sent Nana and seven former Holy Servants to the Star Luo capital.
• Huo Yuhao examined the Undead Demiplane with Electrolux and decided to infiltrate the Holy Spirit Cult as its Holy Son, even if carrying out the plan cost him part of his conscience.

Huo Yuhao escaped the Clear Sky Sect’s trap, joined the Holy Spirit Cult under the guise of its Holy Son, and secretly began killing its members. After eliminating the Zhongli Three Brothers, he left for the Star Luo Empire to warn Jiujiu and the others, while Ye Xishui set out to investigate the deaths.

• Huo Yuhao was trapped in the Clear Sky Sect’s Cold Jade Room, but escaped Tai Tan into the Ice Seal Plane and learned that a divine presence within Wang Dong had targeted him.
• Huo Yuhao obtained a fifty-three-thousand-year-old Evil Eye Tyrant’s sixth soul ring, then negotiated with Jing Hongchen to enter the tournament as a sect of one while investigating the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Huo Yuhao entered the Xishui Alliance’s underground market, defeated an Evil Soul Master in its arena, and convinced Nether Thunder Douluo that he was the Holy Spirit Cult’s Holy Son.
• Huo Yuhao met Ma Xiaotao and the cult’s leaders, passed the Spirit Ascension Ceremony, and defeated Yan Feng with his undead powers while secretly planning to destroy the cult.
• Huo Yuhao secretly saved a farmer from Ye Xishui’s soul tool, then began killing members at inconspicuous cult strongholds as he pursued the Holy Spirit Cult’s plans.
• Huo Yuhao lured the Zhongli Three Brothers into the Undead Demiplane, where the Frost Bone Dragon and the Ice and Snow Empresses killed them, allowing Huo Yuhao to absorb their soul power and reach level sixty-three.
• Huo Yuhao left for the Star Luo Empire to warn Jiujiu and the others, while Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao headed to Mingdu after she noticed the cult’s members were being killed.

Huo Yuhao navigated the tournaments while trying to manage Du Busi’s planned raid and He Caitou’s revenge against the Sun Moon Emperor. The stretch ended with Huo Qiu’er defeating Shrek’s contestants until Ning Tian secured a bout for Shrek, and Long Aotian stepped forward to face them.

• Du Busi protected the defeated Tianyu Sect team from the Holy Spirit Cult, then killed the Sleep Nightmare Douluo and took his defensive soul tools.
• Huo Yuhao swept Jingming Academy, advanced to the round-robin tournament, and learned that attackers had killed the Holy Spirit Cult’s Eighth Elder and two venerables.
• Huo Yuhao recognized He Caitou in disguise and realized he had entered the Underground Soul Engineer Tournament to win the Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell for revenge.
• Huo Yuhao defeated Xu Tianzhen and later Gao Dalou, whom he offered to recommend to the Illustrious Virtue Hall, while Huo Qiu’er advanced through the Ordinary Alliance tournament.
• Huo Qiu’er defeated Number Fifty-Eight, endured Ye Guyi’s Holy Light Illumination, and was identified as the Golden Dragon Holy Maiden.
• He Caitou killed Mo Ke in the Xishui Alliance tournament, then told Huo Yuhao he still intended to use the Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell against the Sun Moon Emperor.
• He Caitou reunited with Uncle Xiao, who told him that officials including Xu Guozhong had joined the coup and that Jing Hongchen and the Illustrious Virtue Hall had refused to protect the Late Emperor.
• The quarterfinal draw set Shrek against the Holy Spirit Sect and the Tang Sect against Star Luo, but Star Luo forfeited, and Huo Yuhao searched for the missing He Caitou and secretly used Mental Suggestion on Ning Tian.
• Huo Qiu’er defeated Dai Huabin and Xie Huanyue in the Body Sect’s match against Shrek, but Ning Tian won her bout with an Invincible Shield and an enhanced cannon attack before Long Aotian challenged Shrek.