Chapter Summaries

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.

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.