Recaps

After returning to Mingdu from the battle against six Titled Douluos, Lu Ren learned that Electrolux had awakened and agreed to help seal the Snow Empress’s origin when Lu Ren was ready to absorb her power. Jing Hongchen then delivered a hundred-thousand-year dark-and-mental-attribute soul bone, and Lu Ren learned that Emperor Xu Tianran had supported the hunt and wanted to meet him.

• Lu Ren and Ji Juechen returned safely to their courtyard, where Jing Ziyan dragged the badly injured Ji Juechen to the medical room for treatment.
• Lu Ren sensed powerful holy energy around Ye Guyi’s room, left her undisturbed in deep meditation, and returned to his own room.
• Electrolux emerged from Lu Ren’s Sea of Consciousness, judged that Lu Ren was close to Soul Saint, and agreed he could seal the Snow Empress’s origin when Lu Ren absorbed her power.
• Nana told Lu Ren that Jing Hongchen had returned with the hundred-thousand-year soul bone, and Lu Ren found it belonged to an Evil Eye Tyrant with dark and mental attributes.
• Jing Hongchen explained that Xu Tianran had authorized and supported the hunt because Lu Ren had helped the Sun Moon Empire defeat Shrek Academy and wanted to meet him.
• Lu Ren asked whether Xu Tianran was truly interested in meeting him after granting him such a valuable soul bone.

Lu Ren absorbed the Hundred Thousand Year Evil Eye Tyrant Head Soul Bone, broke through to Soul Saint, and received the Ten Shadows Technique. The Snow Empress returned after the Ice Empress summoned her, ready to hear how Lu Ren could make her his Soul Spirit.

• Jing Hongchen agreed to pass Lu Ren's willingness to cooperate on to Xu Tianran and asked Lu Ren about his granddaughter Meng Hongchen.
• Lu Ren asked the Ice Empress to summon the Snow Empress, then returned to his room to absorb the Hundred Thousand Year Head Soul Bone.
• The Soul Bone broke Lu Ren through the Level 70 bottleneck and gave him the Mental Immunity and Double Mental Casting Soul Skills.
• The system rewarded Lu Ren with the Ten Shadows Technique and stated that reaching Titled Douluo would unlock Six Eyes and Limitless.
• The Snow Empress arrived and asked Lu Ren whether he could make her his Soul Spirit immediately.

Lu Ren made the Snow Empress his Soul Spirit with Electrolux sealing most of her origin power, and the fusion raised him to level seventy-three. After seven days, Lu Ren left his room to check on the badly injured Ji Juechen and found Jing Ziyan asleep beside his bed.

• Electrolux explained that he could seal the Snow Empress's origin power during the Soul Spirit fusion, protecting Lu Ren and hiding her from Heavenly Tribulation until the seal gradually lifted.
• The Snow Empress agreed to become Lu Ren's Soul Spirit after learning the contract could help her avoid Heavenly Tribulation and continue growing.
• Electrolux sealed the Snow Empress's origin power as Lu Ren completed the fusion, enduring severe physical strain while his seventh orange Soul Ring formed.
• The fusion raised Lu Ren to level seventy-three and increased his Spiritual Power to forty thousand, while the Snow Empress joined the Ice Empress in his Sea of Consciousness.
• After learning the fusion had taken seven days, Lu Ren remembered his plan to treat Ji Juechen and went to his room, where he found Jing Ziyan asleep beside the still-bedridden Ji Juechen.

Lu Ren healed Ji Juechen, accepted Bei Bei as a hostage against Mu En, and agreed to shelter children ostracized for their evil Martial Souls. He laid out a plan for the Spirit Pagoda to support and educate them while building a more self-sufficient organization, then left to subjugate shikigami.

• Lu Ren used the Reverse Cursed Technique to heal most of Ji Juechen's injuries while leaving him unconscious, and Kurourushi returned with the unconscious Bei Bei after abducting him from Shrek Academy.
• Kurourushi reported that its cockroach scouts had found no sign of Mu En leaving Shrek Academy, and Lu Ren had Nana arrange for Bei Bei to be imprisoned under Soul Saint guard and kept alive as leverage.
• Nana told Lu Ren that ostracized children with evil Martial Souls were vulnerable to recruitment by the Holy Spirit Cult and asked whether the Spirit Pagoda could take them in.
• After discussing the organization's finances, Lu Ren agreed to shelter the children and explained that acceptance, guidance, and education could prevent them from becoming Evil Soul Masters.
• Lu Ren told Nana to teach the children self-control and require them to contribute through work, and Nana agreed to establish a contribution system.
• Lu Ren left the courtyard to work on his cultivation and subjugate the shikigami of the Ten Shadows Technique.

Lu Ren subdued Mahoraga by building up Projection Sorcery’s speed and overwhelming it with a barrage of Black Flashes before its adaptation could catch up. He summoned Mahoraga as his loyal Shikigami and explained its adaptive limits to Snow Empress and Ice Empress.

• Snow Empress accepted that Lu Ren would need to confess to her to borrow her power, and Lu Ren explained that Ice Empress’s contribution had prevented the first Mahoraga’s defeat from counting as a subjugation.
• Lu Ren summoned Mahoraga again, evaded it while stacking Projection Sorcery’s speed, and met its accelerated charge with a devastating high-speed strike.
• Lu Ren battered Mahoraga with hundreds of Black Flashes per second until its body shattered, successfully subduing it.
• Lu Ren summoned Mahoraga as its master, and it stood loyally by his side.
• Snow Empress identified the Dharma Wheel’s adaptation mechanism, and Lu Ren explained that Mahoraga had to be killed with an overwhelming burst before it could adapt.

Lu Ren summoned Mahoraga in an isolated plain and tried to tame it with help from the Ice Empress and Snow Empress. After the Ice Empress's Ultimate Ice failed to stop Mahoraga, Lu Ren and the Ice Empress destroyed it with a Pure Love Cannon, but the kill did not count as taming it.

• Lu Ren traveled to the borderlands and summoned Mahoraga after taming the other Ten Shadows Shikigami.
• The Ice Empress and Snow Empress judged Mahoraga's strength, and Lu Ren asked the Ice Empress to help him use a Pure Love Cannon.
• Mahoraga cut through the Ice Empress's ice barrier with the Sword of Extermination, then adapted to her Ultimate Ice and broke free.
• Lu Ren confessed his love to the Ice Empress, combined her power with his own, and blasted Mahoraga apart with Maximum Technique: Uzumaki.
• Lu Ren found no contractual connection to Mahoraga and realized the assisted kill had not tamed it, while the Snow Empress questioned the Ice Empress about the confession.

Lu Ren doubled Mahoraga’s adaptation speed by sacrificing Ice Emperor’s Protection, but failed to improve its durability. As he investigated Ye Guyi’s growing sacred power, Electrolux identified a Divine Fragment that might have awakened through her bloodline, and Lu Ren went to test the Soul Spirit Contract on the children in his care.

• Lu Ren traded away Ice Emperor’s Protection to double Mahoraga’s adaptation speed, then confirmed that its Wheel responded to attacks much faster.
• Lu Ren returned to Mingdu and found the Holy Spirit Cult and Shrek inactive while he built up Cursed Spirit reserves and watched the children learn Soul Power.
• Lu Ren noticed that Ye Guyi’s holy light had intensified enough to disturb his Cursed Energy, and Electrolux sensed a Divine Fragment in her room.
• Lu Ren and Electrolux suspected Ye Guyi had awakened a Divine Fragment through Bloodline Reversion connected to Qian Renxue.
• Lu Ren went to meet the children and test the Soul Spirit Contract, while Nana began telling him how they were progressing.

Lu Ren helped Xiao An form a Soul Spirit Contract with a Grade 2 Cursed Spirit, proving that Cursed Spirits could provide Soul Rings without hunting Soul Beasts. He gave Nana the contract and a cultivation method for children with Evil Martial Souls, then left her to guide them and spread both methods.

• Nana told Lu Ren that children with Evil Martial Souls suffered nightmares and uncontrollable urges to devour lives, then introduced Xiao An, whose Vengeful Spirit Martial Soul had devoured his grandfather's soul.
• Lu Ren reassured Xiao An that his Martial Soul did not make him evil and offered him a Soul Ring through a Soul Spirit Contract.
• Lu Ren bonded a Grade 2 vengeful Cursed Spirit with Xiao An, giving him a translucent Soul Ring and raising his Soul Power to level eleven.
• Lu Ren realized Cursed Spirits could become Soul Spirits and provide Soul Skills, creating a way for Soul Masters to obtain Soul Rings without hunting Soul Beasts.
• Lu Ren gave Nana the Soul Spirit Contract scroll and a cultivation booklet that taught people with Evil Martial Souls to grow stronger by absorbing negative emotions instead of taking lives.
• Nana vowed to teach the children and spread Lu Ren's methods, while Lu Ren told the Ice Empress and Snow Empress he would help the Spirit Pagoda give overlooked people dignity and hoped to bring them eternal life.

Lu Ren presented the mature Soul Spirit Contract to Jing Hongchen, explaining how it could transform Soul Master cultivation and strengthen the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Engineers. Jing Hongchen was convinced of its potential and prepared to support Lu Ren’s effort to present it to Xu Tianran in exchange for the resources needed to implement it.

• Lu Ren visited Jing Hongchen at the Illustrious Virtue Hall and asked to meet Xu Tianran to discuss a promising new technology.
• Lu Ren revealed three orange Soul Rings and explained that they came from a cooperative agreement with a Ferocious Beast, not from killing it.
• Lu Ren summoned a harmless Grade 3 Cursed Spirit and described how Soul Spirits could provide Soul Rings, grow alongside their hosts, avoid heavenly tribulations, and fight with Soul Tools.
• Jing Hongchen recognized that Soul Spirits could secure the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Beast resources and greatly increase the combat power of its Soul Engineer legions.
• Lu Ren assured Jing Hongchen that the contract had been successfully tested and was mature, and Jing Hongchen agreed to support his proposal if the empire provided the resources he wanted.

Lu Ren demonstrated the Soul Spirit Contract to Jing Hongchen, whose amazement at Xiao An’s black, roughly nine-hundred-year Soul Ring led him to hurry Lu Ren toward an audience with Xu Tianran. As Nana agreed to lead the Spirit Pagoda, the Snow Empress and Ice Empress revealed that Nana’s devotion had given Lu Ren his first Faith Power and urged him to establish the organization.

• Lu Ren summoned Ice Empress to demonstrate a Soul Spirit to Jing Hongchen, then agreed to show him a child’s Soul Spirit at his courtyard.
• Nana helped Xiao An reveal his translucent black Soul Ring and summon his gentle Vengeful Spirit Soul Spirit, astonishing Jing Hongchen with its age and compatibility.
• Jing Hongchen learned that the Soul Spirit Contract had a success rate above ninety-five percent when Lu Ren’s people performed it, and insisted on taking Lu Ren to meet Xu Tianran.
• Lu Ren told Nana she would become the Spirit Pagoda’s master, and she accepted the responsibility as someone who had pledged to follow him.
• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress identified the presence Nana had given Lu Ren as Faith Power and urged him to establish the Spirit Pagoda to gather more.

Lu Ren recognized Nana’s pure Faith Power as the foundation for his future self-created godhood and resolved to establish the Spirit Pagoda across the continent. He prepared Nana to lead the organization, and the two set out with Jing Hongchen to meet Xu Tianran and discuss its official recognition.

• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress explained that Nana’s unwavering faith had given Lu Ren his first strand of pure Faith Power, and Lu Ren saw the Spirit Pagoda as a path to creating his own divine position.
• Lu Ren told Nana she would be the Spirit Pagoda’s first master and persuaded her to accompany him to the Imperial Palace despite her fear of meeting Xu Tianran.
• Nana accepted the responsibility, promised to lay the Spirit Pagoda’s foundation, and said goodbye to the children as Lu Ren urged them to continue cultivating.
• Jing Hongchen met Lu Ren and Nana, learned that Nana would lead the Spirit Pagoda, and said Xu Tianran had agreed to receive them after canceling a military meeting.
• Jing Hongchen warned Lu Ren not to summon his Soul Spirits before Xu Tianran, then led Lu Ren and Nana toward the Imperial Palace using Flying Soul Tools.

Lu Ren, Nana, and Jing Hongchen presented the Soul Spirit System to Xu Tianran, who sought to recruit Lu Ren after hearing its promise for the Sun Moon Empire. Zhongli Wu offered Lu Ren the title of Holy Son to bring the technology under the Holy Spirit Cult, but Lu Ren rejected him and condemned the cult.

• Jing Hongchen brought Lu Ren and Nana before Xu Tianran, where Lu Ren noted the emperor’s powerful defenses and saw Zhongli Wu standing beside him.
• Jing Hongchen explained that Soul Spirits let Soul Masters obtain growing Soul Rings without killing Soul Beasts, and pledged his position on the system’s potential.
• Lu Ren said Xu Tianran needed a suitable Soul Master to witness a contract, so Xu Tianran sent a guard to find candidates and asked about Nana’s role.
• Nana introduced herself while suppressing her fear and hatred of Zhongli Wu, and Lu Ren explained that she conducted Soul Spirit Contracts with a success rate above ninety-five percent.
• Zhongli Wu invited Lu Ren and Nana to join the Holy Spirit Cult, offering Lu Ren the title of Holy Son and promising the cult would help spread the Soul Spirit System.
• Lu Ren rejected Zhongli Wu’s offer, denounced the Holy Spirit Cult, and accused him of trying to obtain the Soul Spirit Contract for nothing.

Lu Ren rejected Zhongli Wu and the Holy Spirit Cult, while Xu Tianran backed him and promised to separate the Soul Spirit System from the cult. Nana then demonstrated the Soul Spirit Contract in the palace, helping three Soul Masters break through to Soul Ancestor; Xu Tianran reacted with excitement.

• Lu Ren dismissed Zhongli Wu’s attempt to recruit him and dispelled the Level 98 Super Douluo’s Soul Power pressure with his Spiritual Power.
• Xu Tianran reprimanded Zhongli Wu, backed Lu Ren, and later promised to promote the Soul Spirit System separately from the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Xu Tianran brought three Level 40 Soul Masters to the hall for a demonstration, and Lu Ren prepared three Grade 1 Cursed Spirits for Nana.
• Nana used the Soul Spirit Contract to give the three Soul Masters fourth Soul Rings, and each advanced to Level 41 without hunting a Soul Beast.
• Nana reported that all three contracts were stable and had no side effects, and Xu Tianran praised Lu Ren’s achievement.

Lu Ren demonstrated that Soul Spirits could operate Soul Tools and negotiated with Xu Tianran to establish the Spirit Pagoda. Xu Tianran appointed Nana its master and ordered construction to begin, while Lu Ren pledged that the new organization would transform the Sun Moon Empire's strength.

• Lu Ren explained that Soul Spirits could evolve, be inherited, and provide Soul Masters with multiple Soul Rings, then showed how they could use Soul Tools independently.
• A Fire Tiger Soul Master directed his Flame Cursed Spirit to activate a Defensive Soul Tool while he fired an offensive Soul Guidance Ray Gun, impressing Xu Tianran and the assembled officials.
• Lu Ren and Xu Tianran agreed to establish the Spirit Pagoda, with imperial funding and support in exchange for military cooperation and safeguards for the Soul Spirit Contract.
• Lu Ren secured the Spirit Pagoda's independence, tax exemption, land in Mingdu, and legal privileges, then declared that Nana would lead it instead of himself.
• Xu Tianran appointed Nana the Spirit Pagoda's first master and ordered Jing Hongchen to recruit one hundred thousand workers and complete its headquarters within six months.

After securing imperial approval to establish the Spirit Pagoda, Lu Ren invited Jing Hongchen and his family to join, gaining the Hongchen Family’s support. Zhongli Wu then confronted Lu Ren and tried to recruit him into the Holy Spirit Cult, but Lu Ren refused and said he might reconsider only if the cult abandoned its evil methods.

• Jing Hongchen questioned how Xu Tianran had approved the Spirit Pagoda project, and Lu Ren explained that the emperor saw its soul spirit system as a path to uniting the continent.
• Lu Ren invited Jing Hongchen, the Hongchen Family, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen to join the Spirit Pagoda and help build and lead its research efforts.
• Jing Hongchen pledged his family’s loyalty to the Spirit Pagoda and promised to ask his grandchildren whether they wanted to join.
• Lu Ren sensed Zhongli Wu hiding nearby, and Zhongli Wu emerged and said he wanted to speak with him privately.
• Zhongli Wu argued that Lu Ren’s power and methods resembled those of Evil Soul Masters, but Lu Ren denied his accusations and refused to join the Holy Spirit Cult unless it changed its ways.

Lu Ren rejected Zhongli Wu’s attempt to recruit him, prepared the courtyard for a possible Holy Spirit Cult attack, and checked on Ji Juechen before Ye Guyi awakened her Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul. The chapter ended with Ye Guyi vowing to become an angel who protected only Lu Ren.

• Lu Ren resisted Zhongli Wu’s threats, and Zhongli Wu withdrew after warning that Lu Ren would eventually need the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Lu Ren told Jing Hongchen he would handle the Holy Spirit Cult himself, then returned to the courtyard and entrusted Nana with leading the Spirit Pagoda.
• Lu Ren warned Nana of a possible attack, strengthened the courtyard’s defenses, and asked the Snow Empress to protect its residents.
• Lu Ren checked on the recovered Ji Juechen, who held Jing Ziyan’s hand and promised not to die before catching up to Lu Ren.
• Ye Guyi’s Martial Soul evolved into the Six-Winged Angel, and she thanked Lu Ren before vowing to fight for him and protect only him.

After Ye Guyi emerged from seclusion with her evolved Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul, Lu Ren set out with her and Ji Juechen to hunt the Holy Spirit Cult. Soon after they left, Wuyun arrived to take Nana, but the Snow Empress intervened and seized him with ultimate ice.

• Ye Guyi received an angelic blessing, and Lu Ren made her pay Nana for the roof she had damaged before inviting her to hunt the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Lu Ren warned Ye Guyi that the cult had two Level 99 Limit Douluos, then agreed that she and Ji Juechen could join him in targeting weaker opponents.
• Lu Ren, Ye Guyi, and Ji Juechen flew out to attack the Holy Spirit Cult’s forces.
• Wuyun arrived at the courtyard, identified himself as a seventh-ranked member of the Holy Spirit Cult’s Offering Hall, and demanded that Nana come with him.
• The Snow Empress appeared, froze Wuyun’s dark power, and caught him in a Frost Hand.

The Snow Empress captured Wuyun after he came to abduct Nana on Zhongli Wu’s orders, then kept him helplessly imprisoned and tormented him while waiting for Lu Ren to return. Wuyun remained at her mercy, desperate for relief and terrified of what would happen next.

• The Snow Empress seized Wuyun, crushed him into the courtyard paving, and forced him to explain that Zhongli Wu had sent him to abduct Nana.
• Wuyun tried to attack the Snow Empress, but she froze his Soul Power, feathers, and body before releasing him back into his chair.
• The Snow Empress ordered Nana to serve Wuyun tea, then repeatedly made him drink while refusing his requests to use the toilet.
• The Snow Empress played a Spiritual Power training game and ignored Wuyun as he pleaded and tried to sneak out.
• The Snow Empress told Wuyun to behave and wait until Lu Ren returned, leaving him trapped and desperate.

Lu Ren, Ye Guyi, and Ji Juechen attacked a Holy Spirit Cult base while its four powerful Worships were away. Ye Guyi apologized to Lu Ren with a kiss, then joined the assault, where her holy power devastated the Evil Soul Masters as Lu Ren summoned radiant undead.

• Lu Ren learned from Kurourushi that four powerful Holy Spirit Cult members were away from the base and would return later that night.
• Ye Guyi questioned Kurourushi after it admitted to eating humans, and Lu Ren explained that it had only eaten enemies and that he controlled it.
• Lu Ren teased Ye Guyi about making her apology sincere, and she kissed the corner of his mouth, leaving him flustered.
• Lu Ren ordered Ji Juechen to guard the perimeter while he and Ye Guyi entered the base to kill its Evil Soul Masters.
• Ji Juechen killed the guards outside, while Ye Guyi's Angel Domain weakened the Evil Soul Masters and her Angel Dance slew three Soul Douluo.
• Lu Ren opened an Undead Gate and sent golden-patterned skeleton soldiers with the Radiance Attribute against the remaining Evil Soul Masters.

Lu Ren and his allies destroyed a Holy Spirit Cult stronghold, then discovered that four powerful offerings had returned and learned that Sleep Demon Douluo was searching for Nana. Lu Ren planned to attack the five gathered enemies, assigning Ji Juechen to contain Sleep Demon Douluo while Ye Guyi supported him against the offerings.

• Lu Ren summoned Death Knights, Skeleton Soldiers, and cursed spirits to slaughter the Evil Soul Masters guarding the stronghold, while Ye Guyi purified the lingering evil Soul Power.
• After Kurourushi warned that four people were returning, Lu Ren recalled his forces and withdrew with Ye Guyi and Ji Juechen to observe from the forest.
• Second Worship, Third Offering, and two other offerings arrived and found the stronghold’s defenders dead; Lu Ren identified their strength as two Rank 96s and two Rank 97s.
• Sleep Demon Douluo arrived and told the offerings that Seventh Worship Wuyun had gone to capture Nana alive for the Soul Spirit Contract secret.
• Lu Ren explained Sleep Demon Douluo’s illusion abilities and assigned Ji Juechen to keep him occupied, while Ye Guyi stayed beside Lu Ren to weaken the other enemies with her holy attribute.
• Lu Ren charged toward the five Holy Spirit Cult members, beginning the planned attack.

Lu Ren and Ye Guyi fought the Holy Spirit Cult’s Offerings, using Kurourushi’s domain and Lu Ren’s Cursed Speech to create an opening for Ye Guyi to badly wound the Fourth Offering. As the Second Worship and Third Offering attacked Ye Guyi, Lu Ren summoned Mahoraga for its first battle.

• Lu Ren arrived at the courtyard with Kurourushi, who trapped the Fifth Offering inside its Domain Expansion: Womb Profusion.
• Lu Ren used Cursed Speech to cramp the legs of the Second Worship, Third Offering, and Fourth Offering and drive sand into their eyes, giving Ye Guyi an opening to attack.
• Ye Guyi struck the Fourth Offering with her Sun Holy Sword, breaking his defenses and severely wounding him with holy light.
• The Fourth Offering animated Lu Ren’s shadow, but Lu Ren escaped into the air and warned Ye Guyi how the shadow abilities worked; Ye Guyi’s holy power dispelled the shadow attacking her.
• The Second Worship and Third Offering charged Ye Guyi, and Lu Ren summoned Mahoraga beneath her as the two Offerings unleashed their strongest attacks.

Lu Ren, the Ice Empress, Ye Guyi, and their allies fought the Holy Spirit Cult’s offerings, and Mahoraga adapted to the Second Worship’s attacks before killing him with two strikes of the Sword of Extermination. The Third Offering faced Mahoraga next, recoiling in fear and regretting that he had joined the Holy Spirit Cult.

• The Ice Empress used Eternal Frozen Domain to slow the offerings and shield Mahoraga while Lu Ren protected Ye Guyi from the Second Worship’s soul-shaking bell attack.
• Mahoraga adapted to the Netherworld Funeral Bell’s sonic attacks and charged the Second Worship, while the Fourth Offering’s shadow replica failed to stop its Sword of Extermination.
• The Ice Empress interrupted the Third Offering’s attack, and Ye Guyi expanded her holy domain to suppress the offerings without reaching Kurourushi.
• Mahoraga broke through the Second Worship’s defenses and killed the Rank 97 Evil Soul Master with two strikes of the Sword of Extermination.
• Lu Ren ordered Mahoraga to continue, and the Third Offering stepped back in fear and regretted joining the Holy Spirit Cult.

The Third Offering recalled how Shrek Academy branded him an evil soul master after his duel with Mu En, leading to his family’s slaughter and his joining the Holy Spirit Cult. As Lu Ren incapacitated the Fourth Offering, the Third Offering accepted defeat and challenged the righteousness of those who hunted evil soul masters.

• The Third Offering remembered challenging Mu En, being labeled an evil soul master by Shrek Academy, and losing his family before Old Ghost Zhongli rescued him and brought him into the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Lu Ren boosted his abilities by swallowing Cursed Spirit Orbs while the Fourth Offering spotted an opening and rushed toward Ye Guyi through the shadows.
• Lu Ren intercepted the Fourth Offering and knocked him unconscious with a Black Flash, shattering his eighth soul skill and defenses.
• The Third Offering realized his side could not win and laughed as he questioned whether those called evil soul masters were truly guilty or merely branded for their dark martial souls or for offending the powerful.

The Third Offering recounted how Shrek had branded him an Evil Soul Master and destroyed his family, then admitted that he had later killed over a thousand innocents. Lu Ren offered him a chance to atone and join the Spirit Pagoda, but the Third Offering burned away his soul; the Fourth Offering then surrendered himself to Lu Ren.

• The Third Offering described how Shrek had accused him of harming innocents, leading to the slaughter of his family and his joining the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Lu Ren asked whether the Third Offering had harmed innocents, and the Third Offering admitted he had killed at least a thousand people in the Star Luo Empire and Sun Moon Empire.
• Lu Ren condemned the Third Offering's attacks on uninvolved people, expressed sympathy for his suffering, and offered him a chance to join the Spirit Pagoda and help change the world.
• The Third Offering declined, ignited his Origin Flame, and destroyed his soul while expressing regret that he could not have met Lu Ren sooner.
• The Fourth Offering revealed that he had awakened during their conversation, then asked Lu Ren to kill him and promised not to attack him or Ye Guyi.

Lu Ren and Fourth Offering discussed the battle and the Holy Spirit Cult’s dead-end path while Fifth Offering broke free of Kurourushi’s domain. When Fifth Offering charged at Lu Ren, Lu Ren stunned him, and Fourth Offering struck him with shadow spikes.

• Fourth Offering explained that Lu Ren’s protection of Ye Guyi had concealed his strength and that the group had feared a desperate self-detonation.
• Fourth Offering admitted that he shared Third Offering’s grievances against the world and Shrek, but said he would not betray the Holy Spirit Cult because Old Ghost Zhongli had saved his life.
• Kurourushi was hurled from his domain after Fifth Offering broke it, and Fifth Offering emerged badly wounded but eager to fight.
• Fifth Offering learned that Second Worship and Third Offering were dead, then charged at Lu Ren with blood blades and his ninth Soul Skill.
• Lu Ren struck Fifth Offering with Spiritual Shock, and Fourth Offering used his ninth Soul Ring to pierce him with shadow spikes.