Recaps

Wangcai accepted a mission to recover the Mund family's stolen treasure, while he and Loa realized Yilikasi was using the mission to target Loa, a soul mutant. Loa's Destruction Divine Clone broke through to Middle God, and the pair prepared to leave, confident he could face Yilikasi.

• Wangcai learned that the Mund family offered eight billion Nether Stones to recover a treasure that could help fuse Profound Mysteries, then signed up for the mission.
• Wangcai told Loa about the mission, and they suspected Yilikasi had arranged it to target Loa because he was a soul mutant.
• Loa revealed that the Mund family had genuinely lost the treasure and that he wanted it to aid his own progress.
• A week later, Loa's Destruction Divine Clone broke through to Middle God in the mountains, and the two clones merged before he flew back toward Kapa City.
• Loa told Wangcai that his three-element Divine Power fusion now gave him hundredfold amplification, and Wangcai asked whether he could defeat Yilikasi.

Loa and Qilin left Kapa City while Yilikasi prepared to capture Loa, a rare living soul mutant. Yilikasi ordered Karuoso and Will to bring Loa back alive with his soul undamaged.

• A prefectural soldier mocked two men at Kapa City's gate for hoping to rise in status by attaching themselves to a Five-Star Demon.
• Karuoso reported to Yilikasi that Loa and Qilin had left the city and that Loa's courtyard was empty.
• Yilikasi insisted that all three of Loa's bodies had to be confirmed together before the trap was sprung.
• Karuoso questioned Yilikasi's plan, and Yilikasi overwhelmed him with a vision of darkness before warning him not to pry.
• Yilikasi ordered Karuoso to take Will, capture Loa alive, and avoid damaging his soul.

Loa and Wangcai lured Karuoso into revealing that their target was in Flame of the Dead City, then accepted his invitation to travel together. Karuoso believed he was leading Loa into an ambush, while Loa recognized the trap and wondered what Yilikasi would do next.

• Loa and Wangcai spotted Karuoso approaching and agreed to meet him at a settlement tavern.
• At the tavern, Karuoso offered information about the target in exchange for a larger share of the mission reward.
• Loa bargained with Karuoso and learned that the target had been seen selling spoils in Flame of the Dead City.
• Karuoso paid the bill and invited Loa and Wangcai to travel in his metal wolf, and Loa accepted.
• Karuoso privately believed Will, Mobis, and he would ambush Loa in Flame of the Dead City, while Loa silently realized the trap had closed around Karuoso.

Karuoso confirmed to Yilikasi that Loa’s original body and divine clones were traveling together, prompting Yilikasi to lure Loa toward a planned capture. After Karuoso led Loa to Flame of the Dead City with false information, Loa and his companions flew north separately toward the supposed target, aware that Karuoso was plotting against them.

• Karuoso reported Loa’s bodies to Yilikasi, who promised him a soul treasure as a reward and contacted Will.
• Karuoso met Loa and Wangcai in Flame of the Dead City, where they witnessed a Lowgod being killed in a Deathmatch Arena.
• Karuoso told Loa that the target had left for Undead Sacred Mountain, concealing that Will was waiting along the route.
• Loa suggested that they fly separately to widen their search, and Karuoso agreed after deciding not to reveal his suspicions.
• Loa and Karuoso headed north in separate metal lifeforms, while Wangcai warned Loa that Karuoso was plotting against them.

Loa, Wangcai, and Karuoso pursued Tos’s metal phoenix after discovering it in the Undead Realm, seeking to recover what Tos had taken. Mobis struck Tos and forced the phoenix toward the ground, but Tos recovered before Mobis’s second punch descended.

• Loa ordered the metal flying boat and Karuoso’s metal dire wolf to close in on the fleeing metal phoenix.
• Wangcai hurled a Lightning Spear at the phoenix, forcing Tos to intercept it with a flaming saber.
• Karuoso told Tos that he had taken something he should not have, and Mobis launched an attack from the metal dire wolf.
• Mobis’s first punch overwhelmed Tos’s saber and drove him and the metal phoenix toward the ground.
• Tos pulled the phoenix out of its dive, but Mobis immediately brought down a second punch.

Loa killed Tos with a silent soul attack and secured the marked Space Ring before Karuoso could claim it. After negotiating over the bounty, Loa exposed Karuoso’s hidden plan and demanded that the person waiting nearby reveal himself.

• Mobis damaged the metal phoenix, and Karuoso poisoned Tos with a dagger while emerging from his shadow.
• Tos tried to destroy the ring, but Loa annihilated his soul before he could crush it.
• Wangcai evaded Mobis’s gravity field, seized the ring from Tos’s corpse, and delivered it to Loa.
• Loa found the Mund Family’s marked ring and demanded security for Karuoso’s promised bounty share, prompting Karuoso to offer up to five billion nether stones for it.
• Loa accused Karuoso of waiting for an accomplice sent by Yilikasi, while Karuoso inwardly urged Lord Will to appear.

Loa and Wangcai survived Will’s ambush, and Wangcai recognized Will as Yilikasi’s clone. Yilikasi’s original body learned that his scheme had been exposed and raced toward them, intent on devouring Loa’s soul.

• Will ambushed Loa and Wangcai with a poisonous arrow, then killed Karuoso for jeopardizing Yilikasi’s plan.
• Will promised Mobis the soul treasure, but Wangcai unleashed Evil-Suppressing Divine Thunder that burned Mobis and dispersed the poisonous mist.
• Wangcai recognized Yilikasi’s soul fluctuations in Will, and Loa realized Yilikasi had targeted him to obtain Soul Mutation by devouring his soul.
• Loa identified Will as Yilikasi’s Six-Star Demon clone, and Will revealed his obsession with acquiring Soul Mutation before preparing another attack.
• Yilikasi’s original body learned through the clone’s memories that Loa had uncovered his identity and sped toward the battlefield to devour him.

Loa fused wind, lightning, and destruction divine power to defeat Yilikasi’s clone and escape with Wangcai. Yilikasi’s original body arrived too late, then headed southwest after realizing something.

• Loa sent the weakened Wangcai away while Yilikasi’s clone trapped him with repeated volleys of arrows.
• Loa fused his three divine powers, creating a blue-black wind space that suppressed Yilikasi’s clone and destroyed its arrows.
• Yilikasi’s clone tried to break through the wind space with its strongest Death Law arrow, but the barrier swallowed it.
• Loa used Lightning Three-Magnetic Abyss Thunder Burial to destroy Yilikasi’s clone and recovered its Space Ring and High Godhead.
• Loa took Wangcai and fled, and ten minutes later Yilikasi’s original body arrived at the ravaged battlefield.
• Yilikasi’s original body realized Loa had escaped and flew southwest.

Loa and Wangcai secretly returned to Kapa City, killed Kagong Mund to unlock his Space Ring, and found the Low-Grade Soul Treasure inside. The city's defensive Magic Array then activated, trapping them beneath its barrier.

• Loa and Wangcai flew back to Kapa City, planning to enter through a hidden opening Loa had made while repairing the city's defensive Magic Array.
• They slipped into the city through the opening, changed their appearances, and made their way to the Mund Family manor.
• Loa killed Kagong Mund with his Destruction Divine Clone, causing the ownership mark on the Space Ring to disappear.
• Loa claimed the ring and discovered it contained a Low-Grade Soul Treasure that could temper the soul and aid comprehension.
• Kapa City's defensive Magic Array activated, raising a barrier over the city.

Loa and Wangcai escaped Kapa City while Yilikasi pursued them, and they turned to fight in the wasteland. After hundreds of exchanges, Yilikasi admitted Loa had forced him to reveal his trump card and raised his blood sword to use it.

• Loa used a hidden array backdoor to open a gap in Kapa City's barrier, but Yilikasi caught up as Loa and Wangcai escaped.
• Wangcai transformed into a hundred-meter lightning Qilin and struck Yilikasi with Evil-Suppressing Divine Thunder, which Yilikasi countered with a dark vortex.
• Loa stopped fleeing and attacked Yilikasi with Wind Threads Turn to Dust, then fought him across the wasteland and mountains.
• Yilikasi grew alarmed as Loa's amplified divine power and ability to anticipate his strikes wore him down through hundreds of exchanges.
• Yilikasi halted the fight, praised Loa, and raised his blood sword to unleash his trump card.

Loa and Wangcai survived Yilikasi’s strongest sword strike, but Yilikasi restored his strength by devouring three passing Four-Star Fiends. Loa began absorbing the Soul Treasure while trying to stall Yilikasi, who started explaining the secret behind his power.

• Yilikasi unleashed his four-profound-mystery Blood Devouring-Soul-Shadow God-Slaying Slash, and Loa met it with Magnetic Abyss Thunder Burial.
• Wangcai’s Auspicious Omen absorbed the strike’s soul attack, while Loa’s defense blunted its physical force; both Loa and Yilikasi suffered severe wounds.
• Yilikasi devoured three Four-Star Fiends who arrived at the battlefield, using their divine power and souls to heal himself and recover much of his strength.
• Loa considered the danger as Wangcai joked about self-destruction, and Loa began absorbing the Soul Treasure for a final attempt.
• Loa asked Yilikasi how he had devoured the Fiends, and Yilikasi agreed to explain while Loa stalled for time.

Yilikasi revealed that the Soul Devouring Clan could steal souls and their law insights, and that he planned to use his final full devouring to obtain Loa’s Soul Mutation. As their battle turned against Loa and Yilikasi severed his left arm, Loa closed his eyes and entered a mysterious state.

• Yilikasi explained that he had devoured a wounded Seven-Star Demon and Will, and said he had saved his last use of his clan’s full ability for Loa.
• Loa stalled Yilikasi while a Soul Treasure sharpened his thoughts and loosened the fusion points among his laws, but the central point remained closed.
• Yilikasi resumed attacking, overpowering Loa’s Magnetic Abyss Thunder Burial and driving him through the wasteland, mountains, and Nether River valley.
• Yilikasi exploited a brief falter in Loa’s defense and severed his left arm.
• Loa ignored his wound, closed his eyes, and sank into a mysterious state while Wangcai called to him through Soul Transmission.

Loa realized he had misunderstood the relationship between wind, thunder, and destruction, and united them as the universe’s motion and stillness. He forged a new sword intent, Great Annihilation · Return to the Void, and reached a deeper understanding of the Great Dao.

• Loa repeatedly failed to combine Wind Trace, Thunder Light, and the Path of Destruction in his Soul Space.
• Loa recalled how he had first understood wind and thunder as forces of vitality, then realized he had wrongly treated them as fuel for destruction.
• Loa understood wind as flow and thunder as eruption, together embodying motion and life, while destruction represented stillness and the end of existence.
• Loa brought the wind-thunder light and destructive energy together, forming a sword intent that balanced motion and stillness.
• Loa named the sword strike Great Annihilation · Return to the Void as the chaos in his Soul Space dispersed and he gained clarity of the Great Dao.

Loa unleashed Great Annihilation · Return to the Void and erased Yilikasi, a Seven-Star Demon, along with his divine power and soul. Wangcai watched in disbelief as Yilikasi vanished, leaving behind a High Godhead and a Space Ring.

• Yilikasi attacked the wounded, motionless Loa with his strongest Blood Devouring, Soul-Shadow God-Slaying Slash.
• Loa opened a rift in space and released Great Annihilation · Return to the Void, which erased Yilikasi's sword attack and soul strike.
• Yilikasi's blood sword shattered when it touched Loa's sword light, which then entered his body and caused his divine power and soul to return to silence.
• Yilikasi's body faded into motes of light and disappeared, leaving a High Godhead and a Space Ring behind.
• Wangcai watched Yilikasi vanish and shouted that Loa was amazing.

As Loa’s airship traveled toward Ghost Soul Prefecture, reports revealed that Yilikasi’s killer had defeated him head-on, while Saint and Anita discussed their daughter’s safety. A bandit gang ambushed the airship, and Wangcai went to face them.

• Loa and Wangcai continued their journey toward Ghost Soul Prefecture, reflecting on the years since Yilikasi’s death and wondering about events on the Yulan Continent.
• Saint learned that Yilikasi had died after unleashing his strongest attack, and Anita urged him to bring their daughter home from Kapa City.
• A bandit gang led by a dark-faced Highgod attacked Loa’s airship with a Flame Phoenix, which Wangcai destroyed with a Thunder Qilin.
• The bandits mocked Wangcai and charged after he insulted their leader, while Loa watched from the airship.
• Wangcai erupted with purple-gold lightning and vanished as the bandits rushed toward him.

Selena intervened when a bandit gang attacked Wangcai and Loa, then fought alongside Wangcai to drive the bandits away. After warning them to avoid future trouble, Selena departed, leaving Wangcai wondering whether her concern always sounded like an insult.

• Selena descended into the bandits and blasted their attackers aside, then challenged their dark-faced leader when he ordered another assault.
• Selena and Wangcai fought together, killing or incapacitating most of the bandits while Loa remained aboard the flying boat.
• Selena saved Wangcai from a flank attack, and the two coordinated their lightning strikes until the remaining bandits fled.
• Wangcai objected when Selena teased him for chasing the retreating bandits, then Loa thanked her and learned her name.
• Selena warned Wangcai and Loa to avoid dangerous encounters before leaving in a streak of lightning, and Wangcai asked Loa whether she always spoke that way.

Selena intervened when the Cloudmist Bandit Group attacked a caravan, but Kalis betrayed the caravan and struck her from behind, turning the fight against them. As Selena and the gravely wounded Mambo faced the bandits’ chiefs, a bolt of purple-gold lightning struck and an unknown voice addressed her.

• Selena spotted the Cloudmist Bandit Group attacking a caravan and joined the battle, helping Mambo and Kalis push the bandits back.
• Kalis revealed himself as the bandits’ fourth chief and stabbed Selena with a Dark Element attack while binding Mambo with Shadow Bind.
• The gaunt chief struck Mambo with a Death Law beam, and the bandits killed the caravan guards as Selena struggled to defend herself.
• Selena fought on despite her wounds and flew to Mambo’s side, but he urged her to escape while the bandits prepared to attack them.
• A bolt of purple-gold lightning blasted the third chief away and dispersed the death beam as an unknown voice asked Selena how she had ended up in such a sorry state.

Wangcai arrived as Selena and the caravan survivors faced four Highgods, healed Selena, and confirmed Mambo could not be saved. After Wangcai stood between Selena and a barrage of soul attacks, he emerged unharmed, leaving the bandit chiefs shocked by his strength.

• Wangcai reached Selena, removed the darkness toxin from her wound, and healed her with his purple-gold thunder divine power.
• Wangcai checked Mambo and said the death law had reached his brain and left him beyond saving.
• Wangcai dismissed the chief's threat, while Selena joined him with her saber ready to fight.
• The second chief ordered more than eight hundred bandits and the four chiefs to unleash soul attacks at Wangcai and Selena.
• Wangcai pulled Selena behind him and took the full barrage without injury, astonishing Kalis and the chief.

Wangcai and Selena defeated the Cloudmist Bandit Group, though the first chief escaped their immediate fight. Loa killed him from his flying vessel and greeted Selena as they met again.

• Wangcai unleashed Evil-Suppressing Divine Thunder, killing Kalis and the second and third chiefs while Selena cut down the bandits.
• The first chief used the second chief as a shield, then attacked Wangcai with his Death Whip as Selena continued fighting the remaining bandits.
• Wangcai transformed into a lightning Qilin and pierced the first chief with a Spear of Judgment, but the chief forced Wangcai back and fled.
• Wangcai stopped Selena from pursuing the first chief and said he would not escape.
• Loa arrived in a Metal Flying Vessel and killed the fleeing first chief with a bolt of sky-blue lightning.
• Loa greeted Selena, saying they had met again.

After Loa invited Selena to travel with them to Ghost Soul Prefecture, she accepted and bantered with Wangcai about their next encounter with bandits. The three began sorting the Cloudmist Bandit Group’s loot, while Loa silently watched Selena and Wangcai grow more comfortable with each other.

• Selena felt embarrassed about insulting Loa earlier, and Wangcai teased her until she snapped back at him.
• Loa invited Selena to travel with them to Ghost Soul Prefecture, and she accepted after acknowledging her mistake in letting Kalis ambush her.
• Selena said she would take the lead if they encountered bandits, and Wangcai agreed to back her up.
• Loa watched Selena and Wangcai’s playful exchange in silence as the atmosphere between them grew subtle.
• Wangcai dumped the Cloudmist Bandit Group’s Space Rings onto the table, and Selena began helping him sort them.

Wangcai and Selena counted the Cloudmist Bandit Group’s spoils, totaling nearly eighty billion Nether Stones, but Selena refused her share. They then inspected the caravan’s cargo, and Selena discovered valuable Netherbone flowers and ghostweed.

• Wangcai and Selena examined the bandits’ Space Rings and found that the four chiefs alone possessed more than sixty billion Nether Stones.
• Wangcai calculated the total value of the bandits’ money and remaining goods at nearly eighty billion Nether Stones.
• Wangcai offered Selena half the spoils, but she refused because he had rescued her and she had already helped him in battle.
• Wangcai promised to treat Selena to a feast at the next settlement, and she accepted.
• Selena inspected a cargo ring taken from Mambo’s Space Ring and found Netherbone flowers and ghostweed.

Selena explained how the Sea of Ruins produced Soul Treasures and Soul Beasts, and why Netherbone Flowers and Ghostweed were used to make incense that lured them. Her original body learned that the Reese Family’s shipment included rare high-grade plants and ordered Haina to inform the lord, while Loa and the others continued toward Ghost Soul Prefecture.

• Selena explained that souls were drawn into the Eye of the Ruins, where their essence could form Soul Treasures under the death law.
• Loa revealed that he had come to Ghost Soul Prefecture seeking Soul Treasures, and Selena described their rarity and benefits.
• Selena’s original body told Haina that her Lightning Divine Clone had found high-grade Netherbone Flowers and Ghostweed in the Reese Family’s shipment, and Haina went to report it to the lord.
• Selena explained that Soul-Attracting Incense made from the plants could lure powerful Soul Beasts, whose Soul Crystals strengthened souls.
• Selena warned that excessive incense could attract deadly Soul Beast Kings and said Kailuosa Adonis strictly regulated its use.
• Loa considered the opportunities in Ghost Soul Prefecture as Selena examined the shipment and then changed the subject while they continued their journey.

Kailuosa destroyed the Reese Family to enforce Ghost Soul Prefecture’s restrictions on high-grade netherbone flowers and ghostweed, while Edmund Howa prepared to challenge him after reaching prefecture lord strength. The chapter ended with Selena learning that the captured shipment belonged to her friend and looking forward to Wangcai’s reaction to its value.

• Kailuosa obliterated the Reese Family’s estate and warned Howa City’s residents not to grow or transport large quantities of high-grade netherbone flowers and ghostweed without authorization.
• Edmund Howa told his grand elder to keep the Howa Family quiet and suspend material shipments until he refined a middle-grade soul treasure and reached prefecture lord strength.
• Edmund declared that he intended to take Kailuosa’s position and rule Ghost Soul Prefecture by the strength of his own fist.
• Haina gave Selena a report about the Reese Family’s destruction and told her Kailuosa had said the captured shipment belonged to her friend.
• Selena accepted that her father would not claim the shipment and looked forward to Wangcai learning how much it was worth.

Loa, Wangcai, and Selena traveled toward Adonis City, discussing cultivation before stopping to watch two Seven-Star Demon-level fighters clash. As the life-law swordsman weakened, he fled toward their vessel, and Loa suspected he meant to involve them in the battle.

• Wangcai and Selena played cards aboard the vessel until Loa scolded them for neglecting their cultivation.
• Loa told Wangcai and Selena to focus on improving their strength as they neared Ghost Soul Prefecture.
• A surge of divine power revealed two powerful fighters battling ahead, and Selena explained that experts from many prefectures hunted souls in the Sea of Ruins.
• Loa, Wangcai, and Selena watched a horned axe wielder fight an elf-like swordsman wielding the Law of Life.
• When the swordsman's life aura dimmed and he was wounded, he fled toward Loa's vessel, and Loa suspected he was trying to drag them into the fight.

Loa killed Yas’s Life Divine Clone with one sword strike after the elf tried to use him as a distraction from Talos. Loa continued toward Adonis City while Talos fled the area, and Yas realized his clone and its fortune were gone.

• Yas’s Life Divine Clone attacked Loa with a soul strike, but Loa was unaffected and killed him with Great Annihilation · Return to the Void.
• Talos stopped advancing, surrendered his axe, and watched Loa return to his Metal Flying Vessel and depart for Adonis City.
• Talos decided Loa must be a concealed prefect-level expert, then traveled toward Adonis City by a different route in his metal rhinoceros.
• Wangcai asked about the Seven-Star Devil’s loot, and Loa explained that he could not open the Space Ring while Yas’s other Divine Clones remained alive.
• Yas felt his Life Divine Clone’s death, grieved the loss of its possessions, and angrily wrecked his tea table.