Recaps

Lu Ren explained why he trusted Zhang Peng and hinted that he could help him break through his Level 96 bottleneck, while Kurourushi continued hunting Shrek and Star Luo’s Titled Douluo in Star Luo City. Xuan Zi confronted Kurourushi, but as their battle turned against him, Kurourushi began its Domain Expansion: Coffin of the Iron Mountain.

• Lu Ren told Zhang Peng that he trusted him for his loyalty and hinted that he could help him advance beyond Level 96; Zhang Peng promised to cooperate and agreed to stay until the matter was over.
• Kurourushi killed three Shrek Titled Douluo and two Star Luo Guardian Douluo by ambushing them with its swarms and Festering Life Sword.
• Xuan Zi returned to Star Luo City and attacked Kurourushi, but Kurourushi’s slash split his Soul Power palm and its swarms let it escape his follow-up strike.
• Xuan Zi used Gravity Control to pin Kurourushi and the cockroach swarms, but Kurourushi formed a hand seal and began its Domain Expansion, Coffin of the Iron Mountain.

Kurourushi trapped Xuan Zi in Womb Profusion and severely wounded him before Xuan Zi shattered the domain and escaped. Du Busi stopped Xuan Zi from killing Kurourushi, defeated his weakened rival, and declared that Huo Yuhao belonged to the Body Sect.

• Kurourushi expanded Womb Profusion, where his guaranteed-hit attacks and insect eggs tore through Xuan Zi's defenses and drained his power.
• Xuan Zi smashed open Kurourushi's domain with a powerful soul power strike and escaped as Kurourushi's technique burned out.
• Du Busi appeared and struck Xuan Zi away, allowing Kurourushi to flee, then dismissed Xuan Zi's accusations of aiding the cockroach.
• Xuan Zi challenged Du Busi, but Du Busi unleashed his Martial Soul Avatar and beat the weakened Xuan Zi into submission.
• Du Busi said he protected only the Body Sect and claimed Huo Yuhao as one of its members because of his Spirit Eyes Body Martial Soul.

Du Busi abducted Xuan Zi while the battered Shrek survivors tried to escape Star Luo City, but the Snow Empress blocked their retreat. As the group turned back and chased Kurourushi, Lu Ren detonated the corpses prepared along their route, trapping them in a massive explosion.

• Du Busi defeated the remaining resistance and carried Xuan Zi away, while Shrek and Star Luo’s Guardian Douluo argued over responsibility for the deaths in the city.
• Yan Shaozhe led Wang Dong'er, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao toward safety and regrouped with Xian Lin'er and the surviving Shrek elders.
• The Snow Empress appeared in a frozen domain, killed a Shrek Titled Douluo who challenged her, and forced the group to turn back toward Star Luo City.
• The Shrek group found Kurourushi behind a row of corpses, and Kurourushi fled as Yan Shaozhe and the others pursued it.
• Lu Ren remotely triggered the Corpse Explosion Technique, detonating the corpses and engulfing the Shrek group in a chain of explosions.

Lu Ren’s ambush devastated Shrek’s remaining forces, leaving Yan Shaozhe and a few survivors trapped between his allies and the Snow Empress. As Yan Shaozhe unleashed his Phoenix Descends skill, Lu Ren exposed its hidden escape mechanism, leaving him horrified that his secret had been revealed.

• Kurourushi’s corpse explosions shattered Shrek’s defenses and killed most of its remaining fighters while Yan Shaozhe shielded Huo Yuhao and the other children.
• Lu Ren, Jing Hongchen, Zhang Peng, and the Snow Empress closed in on the trapped survivors, and the Snow Empress nearly killed a wounded Super Douluo with a single palm.
• Du Busi returned with the battered Xuan Zi and demanded that Shrek surrender Huo Yuhao, but Yan Shaozhe and the other elders refused.
• The attackers overwhelmed Shrek’s last defenders, and the Snow Empress froze Xian Lin'er to death after Zhang Peng defeated her in battle.
• Yan Shaozhe unleashed Phoenix Descends, but Lu Ren revealed that he could escape through his Phoenix True Flame and later rebuild his body, shocking Yan Shaozhe with his knowledge of the secret.

The Snow Empress and Lu Ren crushed Shrek’s remaining fighters, and Xuan Zi pleaded for the children’s lives before Lu Ren promised to spare them and had Kurourushi devour him. Lu Ren claimed Shrek’s darkness-attribute Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, then discovered the battlefield was strewn with the fallen elders’ Soul Bones.

• The Snow Empress froze Yan Shaozhe in his Phoenix True Body and shattered him with an Emperor’s Palm.
• Lu Ren killed Xiao Xiao with an unseen attack, leaving Wang Dong’er and Huo Yuhao terrified as Xuan Zi shielded them.
• Xuan Zi knelt and begged Lu Ren to spare Wang Dong’er and Huo Yuhao, and Lu Ren agreed while demanding the wagered Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.
• Xuan Zi handed Lu Ren a darkness-attribute Soul Bone, which delighted Lu Ren because it contained abundant Cursed Energy.
• Lu Ren summoned Kurourushi, which cut Xuan Zi’s throat and devoured him before spitting out six Soul Bones.
• Lu Ren spotted Soul Bones among the fallen Shrek elders and realized their corpses had left a fortune on the battlefield.

After Shrek Academy’s expedition was nearly wiped out, Lu Ren spared Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong’er and wrestled with the guilt of killing Xiao Xiao. Du Busi defended Lu Ren’s decision to strike first, condemned Shrek’s cheating and hollow talk of glory, and the survivors began dividing the Soul Bones as Wang Dong’er left with Ma Xiaotao.

• Lu Ren offered the scattered Soul Bones for division, then spared Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong’er despite their terror.
• Du Busi told Lu Ren that killing his enemies had been necessary but urged him to remember the innocent lives he had taken, and Lu Ren gained a small increase in Spiritual Power during enlightenment.
• Huo Yuhao asked Lu Ren why he opposed Shrek and had spared him in the Far North, but Lu Ren ignored him while collecting Soul Bones.
• Du Busi explained that Shrek had provoked its downfall and accused Huo Yuhao of secretly helping his teammates cheat, then mocked Shrek’s claims of glory.
• Wang Dong’er asked what would happen to her, and Lu Ren let her leave with the unconscious Ma Xiaotao.
• Lu Ren offered the collected Soul Bones to the others, Du Busi took three for the Body Sect, and Zhang Peng deferred to the Snow Empress.

Lu Ren and his allies divided the spoils from their victory over Shrek, while the Snow Empress left without taking any Soul Bones. After the group separated, Lu Ren used a month of Star Luo City’s negative emotions to help Zhang Peng break through his cultivation bottleneck, bringing the trip to a successful end.

• The Snow Empress declined to take any Soul Bones, and Zhang Peng chose three Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones before returning Lu Ren’s offer of the dark-attribute Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.
• Jing Hongchen selected four Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones, promised Lu Ren a suitable Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, and left to return to the Sun Moon Empire.
• Lu Ren collected the remaining Soul Bones, while Du Busi took Huo Yuhao away to show him the world beyond Shrek.
• Lu Ren told Zhang Peng he had prepared an opportunity for him and released a Cursed Spirit filled with negative emotions gathered from Star Luo City.
• Zhang Peng absorbed the Cursed Energy, loosened his Level 96 bottleneck, and set out with Lu Ren for the Sun Moon Empire.

After the massacre in Star Luo City, Xu Jiawei ordered the empire to protect itself while Mu En learned that Shrek’s expeditionary force had been annihilated and Huo Yuhao had left with the Body Sect. Shrek retreated from the front lines, leaving Mu En to face its uncertain future and Wang Dong’er wondering whether he would seek revenge on Lu Ren.

• Xu Jiawei heard that Shrek’s people and the cockroach monster had vanished, then ordered martial law, repairs, compensation, and secrecy while the Star Luo Empire watched events unfold.
• Wang Dong’er struggled to carry the unconscious Ma Xiaotao toward Shrek, then fired a Clear Sky Sect distress signal when she could go no farther.
• Several days later, Wang Dong’er told Mu En and Tai Tan that Shrek’s leaders and disciples had been killed, while Ma Xiaotao remained in a coma.
• Tai Tan judged that Lu Ren had planned the massacre carefully, and Mu En learned that Du Busi had taken Huo Yuhao away to the Body Sect.
• Mu En said Shrek had lost its strength to fight and would retreat behind the scenes; Tai Tan left after confirming that Wang Dong’er would continue studying there.

Zhang Peng told Zhongli Wu that Ma Xiaotao had become an Evil Soul Master, prompting the Holy Spirit Cult to prepare an attack on Shrek. At the Hongchen Family residence, Lu Ren sent Kurourushi to Shrek to abduct Bei Bei during the coming chaos and use him as leverage against Mu En.

• Zhang Peng returned to Mingdu, met Zhongli Wu, and revealed that he was close to breaking through to level 97.
• Zhang Peng told Zhongli Wu that Ma Xiaotao had become a twenty-year-old Soul Saint with an Evil Fire Phoenix Martial Soul mutated to possess the Ultimate Fire attribute.
• Zhongli Wu ordered the Holy Spirit Cult to seize Ma Xiaotao at Shrek and declared that she would become its future Saintess.
• Zhang Peng left the meeting pleased that the Holy Spirit Cult’s attack would further weaken Shrek and damage its reputation.
• Lu Ren ordered Kurourushi to lurk near Shrek and abduct Bei Bei during the fighting, warning it to keep him alive as leverage against Mu En.

Lu Ren absorbed two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones, reaching Rank 69, and tested his Domain Expansion against the Ice Empress’s Eternal Frozen Domain. Worried that Mu En could counter his domain, he sought more realistic practice, and the Snow Empress offered to take him to a deserted wasteland for a full-strength spar.

• Lu Ren absorbed the dark-attribute Right Arm Soul Bone, rose from Rank 63 to Rank 66, and dismissed its two offensive Soul Skills as less useful than his Cursed Techniques and Binding Vows.
• Lu Ren’s Domain Expansion overwhelmed the Ice Empress’s Eternal Frozen Domain, though her domain briefly neutralized its sure-hit effect; he concluded that Douluo domains could resist his technique.
• Lu Ren absorbed Xuan Zi’s earth-attribute Torso Bone and reached Rank 69, while leaving the incompatible light-attribute Soul Bone in his Storage Soul Tool.
• Lu Ren worried that Mu En’s domain-like Sovereign’s Descent could counter his Domain Expansion and resolved to unlock the Ten Shadows Technique and Mahoraga after reaching Soul Saint.
• Lu Ren and the Ice Empress repeatedly practiced domain battles in his cramped room, but she complained that the space and her need to limit her strength made the training ineffective.
• The Ice Empress recommended sparring with the Snow Empress instead, and the Snow Empress arrived and offered to take Lu Ren to a deserted wasteland outside the city.

The Holy Spirit Cult attacked Shrek Academy, seized Ma Xiaotao, and abducted Bei Bei, leaving the dying Mu En to entrust the academy to Song Yunzhi and prepare to pursue his remaining goals. Outside Mingdu, Lu Ren tested his domain against the Snow Empress and revealed that he feared a future confrontation with Mu En, while the Snow Empress offered to help despite her weakened origin.

• Zhongli Wu led the Holy Spirit Cult's attack on Shrek Academy, and Mu En repelled the force at the cost of more of his remaining life essence; Ma Xiaotao was taken.
• Mu En named Song Yunzhi the next Sea God Pavilion Master, told her and Lin Huiqun to guard Shrek, and declared that he would try to recover Ma Xiaotao and make Lu Ren pay.
• Elder Zhuang reported that Bei Bei had been abducted from the Golden Ancient Tree without a struggle, and Mu En refused to let the other elders pursue him.
• Mu En went to the Golden Ancient Tree to ask the ancestors for strength before taking action.
• Lu Ren's domain was overwhelmed by the Snow Empress's domain, and she explained that his greater domain mechanics could not overcome her superior cultivation.
• Lu Ren told the Snow Empress he was preparing for a possible battle against Mu En, and she offered to fight beside him despite her damaged origin; she then asked when he would reach Titled Douluo.

Lu Ren refused to risk making the Snow Empress his Soul Spirit before he was strong enough, then released more than fifteen hundred Cursed Spirits to gather Cursed Energy across the continent. The surge drew Mingdu’s Holy Spirit Cult fighters to him, and after Lu Ren slaughtered them, the survivors mistook him for their legendary Holy Son.

• Lu Ren proposed becoming the Snow Empress’s Soul Saint host, but she refused, warning that the fusion could kill them both and bring her Heavenly Tribulation early; Lu Ren concealed his plan to help her recover with ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow.
• After the Snow Empress and Ice Empress left, Lu Ren returned to Mingdu and dispatched more than fifteen hundred Cursed Spirits across the continent to absorb Cursed Energy and send most of it to him.
• The Cursed Energy surge exposed the Holy Spirit Cult’s hidden fighters in Mingdu, who rushed toward Lu Ren, believing they had found the pure darkness origin they coveted.
• Lu Ren killed the approaching Evil Soul Masters with Invisible Slashes and Positive Energy, overwhelming their attacks and preventing the survivors from escaping.
• As the remaining Evil Soul Masters revered Lu Ren, they declared that he must be the legendary Holy Son and urged him to seek out the Holy Emperor.

Lu Ren learned from the Ice Empress that the Holy Spirit Cult’s followers possessed faith power, so he decided to investigate the mysterious Holy Emperor while preparing to face Mu En. After Nana gave him a map of the cult’s Mingdu bases, he raided its largest underground stronghold and forced a surviving guard to guide him and answer questions.

• Lu Ren killed the remaining Evil Soul Masters at the first site, but the dying elder praised the Holy Emperor and refused to explain who he was.
• The Ice Empress sensed faith power among the Holy Spirit Cult, leading Lu Ren to suspect a god might stand behind the cult and decide to investigate.
• Lu Ren visited Nana’s courtyard, learned Ye Guyi had been in Deep Meditation for a month, and received a detailed map of Holy Spirit Cult bases in Mingdu.
• Lu Ren entered the cult’s largest underground base, killed one guard who resisted, and ordered the survivors to lead him to records about the Holy Emperor and explain the base.
• One guard tried to silence his companion for threatening to reveal cult secrets, so Lu Ren killed him with Spiritual Power; the remaining guard chose his life over loyalty and agreed to talk.

Lu Ren learned that Zhang Peng was cultivating in the Holy Spirit Cult’s underground base beneath Mingdu, then faced the Zhongli brothers with the Ice Empress. By combining her power with his Cursed Technique, he destroyed the brothers and blasted a tunnel through the base, leaving the pair to consider how much stronger their new attack could become.

• Lu Ren questioned an Evil Soul Master, learned that the Holy Spirit Cult’s senior fighters had left Mingdu and Zhang Peng was guarding the base’s deepest area, then killed his informant.
• The Zhongli brothers confronted Lu Ren, and he summoned the Ice Empress, whose presence alarmed them enough to prepare their strongest combined attack.
• Lu Ren strengthened his Cursed Technique by revealing information and persuaded the Ice Empress to pour all her power into him by declaring his love for her.
• Lu Ren fired Maximum: Uzumaki, which he dubbed the Pure Love Cannon, overpowering the brothers’ attack, killing them, and blasting a vast tunnel through the underground base.
• The Ice Empress questioned how Lu Ren had amplified her power, and he explained that their combination could grow stronger with further development.

Lu Ren destroyed a Holy Spirit Cult base and obtained a book revealing that the cult’s Holy Emperor was based on Tang San’s historical deeds. He concluded that the Evil Soul Masters’ faith was reaching Tang San in the Divine Realm, leaving the Ice Empress shocked by his connection to the cult.

• Lu Ren questioned Zhang Peng about the Holy Emperor after destroying the underground base, and Zhang Peng explained that the figure was based on distorted history.
• Zhang Peng gave Lu Ren a book about the Holy Emperor and urged him to leave before Zhongli Wu and the Holy Spirit Cult’s main force returned.
• Lu Ren returned to the Hongchen residence, advised Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen during their training, and read the book in his room.
• Lu Ren recognized the book’s account of Slaughter City’s destruction as a distorted version of Tang San’s deeds.
• Lu Ren explained to the Ice Empress that the Holy Emperor was Tang San and that the Holy Spirit Cult’s followers’ faith reached him in the Divine Realm.

Lu Ren focused on cultivation and cursed spirit techniques while Zhongli Wu returned to find the Holy Spirit Cult’s Mingdu bases destroyed and looted. Seven days later, Ji Juechen challenged Lu Ren, and their domains collided as their duel began.

• Lu Ren considered how he might obtain a suitable seventh soul ring, then resumed cultivation while Ice Empress stood guard.
• Zhongli Wu returned to Mingdu after capturing Ma Xiaotao and discovered that every Holy Spirit Cult base had been ransacked and its guards killed; he ordered an investigation and planned to inform Xu Tianran.
• For seven days, Lu Ren cultivated and practiced Cursed Spirit Manipulation while Zhongli Wu searched Mingdu for the culprit.
• Meng Hongchen told Lu Ren that Ji Juechen had come to see him, and Lu Ren learned Ji Juechen had reached level seventy-two after gaining a seventh soul ring and soul bone.
• Ji Juechen challenged Lu Ren, and Lu Ren agreed to test his anti-domain cursed spirits against Ji Juechen’s domain.
• Ji Juechen opened with a sword attack that cut Lu Ren’s Blood Armor, then both fighters activated their domains: Hall of Ten Thousand Swords Returning to Dust and Malevolent Shrine.

Lu Ren defeated Ji Juechen’s domain with an anti-domain cursed spirit and revealed he had hundreds more. After Ji Juechen reported that the Xishui Alliance was gathering forces in Mingdu, Lu Ren set out with him to confront the threat.

• Ji Juechen challenged Lu Ren with his complete Hall of Ten Thousand Swords Returning to Dust domain, which suppressed Lu Ren’s sure-hit effect.
• Lu Ren sent an anti-domain specialized cursed spirit through Ji Juechen’s domain, creating a breach that let Malevolent Shrine strike Ji Juechen and shatter the domain.
• Lu Ren defeated Ji Juechen, then showed him hundreds of anti-domain specialized cursed spirits.
• Ji Juechen told Lu Ren that he had killed the Evil Soul Masters who invaded the courtyard and that the Xishui Alliance was gathering forces at a hidden location in Mingdu.
• Lu Ren scolded Ji Juechen for delaying the warning, then left with him to confront the Xishui Alliance’s forces.

Lu Ren reassured Nana that she and her companions could rely on him, named their growing organization the Spirit Pagoda, and learned that Xu Tianran had taken the throne and was pressuring Mingdu’s factions. As the Holy Spirit Cult remained their main target, Nana reported that several of its elders had left Mingdu, leaving Nangong Wan and a few other powerful figures to guard the Xishui Alliance.

• Ji Juechen told Lu Ren that Ye Guyi remained in deep meditation and described her powerful Holy Attribute Soul Power; he also reported that Jing Hongchen was hunting a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in the Evil Demon Forest.
• Lu Ren confronted Nana about concealing the Xishui Alliance’s attack, then reassured her that companions should ask one another for help and praised the intelligence she had gathered.
• Lu Ren named Nana’s organization the Spirit Pagoda, and Nana reported that Xu Tianran had ascended the throne and begun pressuring the Ordinary Alliance and the Aodu Chamber of Commerce.
• Lu Ren said his group would avoid provoking Xu Tianran while focusing on the Holy Spirit Cult, and Nana told him the Ordinary Alliance had identified which Holy Spirit Cult elders were absent from the Xishui Alliance.

Lu Ren and Ji Juechen infiltrated a Holy Spirit Cult stronghold and encountered Masked Douluo and Heavenly Centipede Douluo Nangong Wan. Lu Ren charged Nangong Wan while Ji Juechen engaged Masked Douluo, and Lu Ren’s Black Flash struck Nangong Wan after a brief immobilization.

• Lu Ren learned from Nana’s intelligence that the Xishui Alliance’s leader, Nangong Wan, was the Holy Spirit Cult’s second elder, then asked Ji Juechen to accompany him to a cult stronghold.
• On the way, Lu Ren warned Ji Juechen about the danger posed by Titled Douluo-level Evil Soul Masters, while Ji Juechen confirmed he could still use his domain.
• Masked Douluo and Heavenly Centipede Douluo Nangong Wan emerged from the black mist and challenged Lu Ren and Ji Juechen.
• Lu Ren assigned Masked Douluo to Ji Juechen and attacked Nangong Wan with Piercing Blood, but Nangong Wan blocked the beam with a poisonous mist shield.
• Lu Ren rushed Nangong Wan, immobilized him with a command, and landed a Black Flash punch on his face.

Lu Ren and Ji Juechen fought Nangong Wan and Masked Douluo in the ruins outside Mingdu, using their unusual abilities to overwhelm the two Titled Douluos. Lu Ren activated his mental domain, Overload, and pursued the wounded Nangong Wan, leaving the battle unresolved as he launched a rain of blood arrows.

• Lu Ren struck Nangong Wan with Black Flash, smashing his face and sending him crashing through the ruins before Nangong Wan recovered and recognized Lu Ren’s immobilizing ability.
• Ji Juechen used his sword to interrupt Masked Douluo, then trapped him inside his domain, Hall of Ten Thousand Swords Returning to Dust.
• Nangong Wan transformed into his Heavenly Centipede Avatar and used poison mist and its massive body to keep Lu Ren at a distance, while Masked Douluo struggled against Ji Juechen’s sword attacks.
• Lu Ren struck Nangong Wan’s avatar with Piercing Blood and Supernova, breaking through its protective Soul Power, but Nangong Wan countered with poison mist and tried to flee.
• Lu Ren activated his mental domain, Overload, which let him use multiple Cursed Techniques at once, then combined Blood Wings with Projection Sorcery to pursue Nangong Wan and fire a barrage of blood arrows at him.

Lu Ren defeated Nangong Wan, forced him to reveal that four more Titled Douluos and nearly a hundred Evil Soul Masters were converging to attack the Aodu Chamber of Commerce and the Ordinary Alliance, then killed him. As reinforcements approached, Lu Ren faced the prospect of fighting them while Ji Juechen remained occupied with Masked Douluo.

• Nangong Wan unleashed his ninth Soul Skill, but Lu Ren dodged the poisonous mist and overwhelmed him with speed and strength until his Martial Soul Avatar collapsed.
• Nangong Wan begged for his life and told Lu Ren that four Titled Douluos and nearly a hundred elite Evil Soul Masters were on their way.
• Nangong Wan revealed that Xu Tianran had provided the Holy Spirit Cult with the Sun Moon Empire's intelligence network, and that the cult planned to attack the Aodu Chamber of Commerce and the Ordinary Alliance to find the Holy Attribute Soul Master.
• Lu Ren decided Nangong Wan was too dangerous to leave alive and killed him by using Reverse Cursed Technique to purify his body.
• Masked Douluo urged Nangong Wan to hold out for reinforcements while Ji Juechen continued pressing him within the sword domain.

Lu Ren and Ji Juechen killed Nangong Wan and Masked Douluo, but Myriad Souls Douluo and Abomination Douluo arrived with more Holy Spirit Cult reinforcements approaching. Lu Ren began preparing a counterattack while Ji Juechen bought him time.

• Lu Ren entered Ji Juechen's domain and killed Masked Douluo after Ji Juechen withdrew to conserve his strength.
• Lu Ren sensed reinforcements approaching, and Myriad Souls Douluo and Abomination Douluo arrived, intent on killing them and attacking the Ordinary Alliance and Aodu Chamber of Commerce.
• Abomination Douluo charged through the ruins while Myriad Souls Douluo attacked from range, but Lu Ren's Supernova explosions wounded Abomination Douluo.
• Lu Ren summoned a specialized defense Cursed Spirit to block Myriad Souls Douluo's giant banner, then began forming Cursed Spirit Orbs and asked Ji Juechen to buy him a minute.

Lu Ren swallowed Cursed Spirit Orbs to stack powerful combat enhancements, then faced all four evil Titled Douluo after Netherworld Douluo and Nether Thunder Douluo arrived. He unleashed Cursed Speech and his Open Domain, Blood River Nine-Phase Life, leaving Myriad Souls Douluo’s domain collapsing as the blood rivers destroyed his Vengeful Spirits.

• Lu Ren swallowed Cursed Spirit Orbs, activating one-hundred-percent boosts to his attributes and a further two-hundred-percent increase after five minutes of combat.
• Abomination Douluo struck Ji Juechen, but Rainbow Dragon shielded him while Smallpox Deity trapped Abomination Douluo inside its domain.
• Netherworld Douluo and Nether Thunder Douluo arrived, and Netherworld Douluo’s Netherworld Sword wounded the Specialized Defense Giant before Lu Ren shattered the sword with Cursed Speech.
• Lu Ren activated Blood River Nine-Phase Life, an Open Domain whose blood rivers spread across a thousand-meter radius and poisoned those within it.
• Myriad Souls Douluo transformed into the Myriad Souls Banner and raised his Wraith Domain, but Lu Ren’s Anti-Domain Cursed Spirits opened breaches that let the blood rivers flood in.
• The blood rivers dissolved Myriad Souls Douluo’s Vengeful Spirits and broke his domain, leaving his hundred-year reserve of souls being ground away.

Lu Ren killed Myriad Souls Douluo, Nether Thunder Douluo, and Netherworld Douluo with his domain and blood manipulation, while Abomination Douluo escaped the Smallpox Deity's domain and destroyed the cursed spirit. The chapter ended with Abomination Douluo facing Lu Ren, who remained ready to fight.

• Lu Ren used Blood River Nine-Phase Life to reverse the three Evil Soul Masters’ blood flow, then killed Myriad Souls Douluo and absorbed the Cursed Energy released by his death and the banner’s wronged souls.
• Nether Thunder Douluo attacked with a Level 9 Soul Tool, but Lu Ren overloaded and destroyed it with Spiritual Power; his shields could not protect him from the domain’s sure-hit blood manipulation.
• Lu Ren burst Nether Thunder Douluo’s blood vessels from within, killing him, then cut the poisoned and weakened Netherworld Douluo in half with a blood sword.
• Lu Ren withdrew his domain after killing three of the Holy Spirit Cult’s elders, while Abomination Douluo broke free of the Smallpox Deity’s domain and killed the Special Grade Cursed Spirit.
• Abomination Douluo saw Lu Ren standing among the corpses, still in peak condition, and prepared to face him.

Lu Ren defeated six Holy Spirit Cult elders, then returned with Ji Juechen as the cult learned of the massacre and assigned its Offering Hall to investigate. The cult ordered its members to keep a low profile while its leaders prepared to respond.

• Lu Ren killed Abomination Douluo with a barrage of Black Flashes, completing the slaughter of six Titled Douluo-level Evil Soul Masters.
• Lu Ren told Ji Juechen that six of the Holy Spirit Cult’s eight great elders were dead and warned that powerful offerings and other threats remained.
• Lu Ren and Ji Juechen collected the elders’ Storage Soul Tools, concealed the bodies and traces, and headed back to check on Ye Guyi.
• At Holy Spirit Cult headquarters, Zhongli Wu learned that six elders had died and ordered Sleep Demon Douluo to keep the cult low-profile while investigating the deaths through the Offering Hall.
• Three Offering Hall powerhouses accepted Zhongli Wu’s request to investigate, while he vowed to make the killer pay.