Recaps

Xu Zhengyang realized Zhongli Wu had placed a Soul Seal in his Martial Soul, but explained that he had anticipated the move and accepted it to avoid provoking the Holy Spirit Cult. He left Electrolux stunned by his plan to keep the Cult and the Sun Moon Empire cooperating while he quietly grew stronger.

• After returning from the Holy Spirit Cult, Xu Zhengyang celebrated obtaining the Tang Sect cultivation methods and considered how he could restore the missing parts of the Mysterious Heaven Technique.
• Electrolux warned Xu Zhengyang that Zhongli Wu had likely placed a Soul Seal on his Martial Soul, and Xu Zhengyang explained how he had deduced the leader's plan.
• Xu Zhengyang told Electrolux that his visit had also been intended to assess the Holy Spirit Cult and preserve its fragile cooperation with the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xu Zhengyang described how he had urged Zhongli Wu to improve the Cult's public image and focus on external enemies rather than provoking the Sun Moon Imperial Family.
• Xu Zhengyang rejected controlling others with Soul Seals and explained that trust and shared interests were the stronger foundations for alliances.
• Electrolux questioned whether Xu Zhengyang could tolerate the Cult's crimes, then offered to help with the Soul Seal and marveled at Xu Zhengyang's cold rationality.

Xu Zhengyang heard Electrolux’s tragic past and took him as his master, gaining guidance in necromancy and cultivation. He began practicing the Mysterious Heaven Technique and Purple Demon Eye, successfully capturing his first wisp of purple qi at dawn.

• Electrolux recounted how betrayal and revenge turned him from the Child of Light into the Holy Necromancer before his soul came to Xu Zhengyang.
• Xu Zhengyang declared that he would protect his family and forge his own path, and Electrolux warned him that the Sun Moon Empire, the Holy Spirit Cult, and Shrek Academy could all target him.
• Electrolux asked Xu Zhengyang to become his disciple, and Xu Zhengyang accepted as Electrolux’s only student.
• Electrolux praised Xu Zhengyang’s rationality and unusual powers, then advised him to cultivate the Mysterious Heaven Technique and Purple Demon Eye alongside learning necromancy.
• Xu Zhengyang practiced the Mysterious Heaven Technique and felt it improve the flow of his Soul Power through blocked meridians.
• At dawn, Xu Zhengyang used his three eyes to capture his first wisp of purple qi and added daily Purple Demon Eye cultivation to his routine.

Over two and a half years, Xu Zhengyang strengthened his cultivation, developed his Soul Engineer skills, and helped transform the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy and its team. He left the Soul Seal Zhongli Wu had planted in place, keeping it under control while he continued to grow.

• Xu Zhengyang gave Jing Hongchen and Xu Tianyuan copies of the hidden weapon blueprints, but kept the Tang Sect’s most important secret arts to himself.
• Xu Zhengyang reached Soul King rank fifty, advanced his Mysterious Heaven Technique and Purple Demon Eye, opened three of the eight extraordinary meridians, and raised his Devil Tiger’s Eye soul bone to the Ten Thousand Year level.
• Xu Zhengyang’s weapons research earned him standing in the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Legion, which developed rifles, sniper rifles, and light artillery based on his work.
• The Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy expanded Martial Soul training and new departments, while Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and their teammates advanced rapidly under the reformed training system.
• Electrolux taught Xu Zhengyang the framework of Necromancy, and Xu Zhengyang learned to use Divine Sense Shock through the Devil Tiger’s Eye and Purple Demon Eye.
• Xu Zhengyang and Electrolux detected Zhongli Wu’s Soul Seal and kept it in place, since removing it could alert Zhongli Wu that they could counter it.

After breaking through to rank fifty, Xu Zhengyang asked Jing Hongchen to help him obtain a powerful tiger-type Soul Ring. In the Jingyang Mountain Range, the group found a forty-six-thousand-year-old Golden Tiger King, and Xu Zhengyang insisted on absorbing its Soul Ring despite Jing Hongchen’s warning.

• Xu Zhengyang told Jing Hongchen he had reached rank fifty and requested a top-quality tiger-type Soul Ring around forty thousand years old; Jing Hongchen agreed to lead the hunt and accepted Dragon-Patterned Black Gold for the teachers involved.
• Jing Hongchen promised Xu Zhengyang the academy’s support and offered him a teaching position—and the possibility of succeeding him—if he led the team to victory in the next Soul Master Tournament.
• A week later, Jing Hongchen, Xuan Ziwen, Ma Rufeng, and Xu Zhengyang entered the Jingyang Mountain Range with a Detection Soul Tool developed by Jing Hongchen.
• The group used the device to avoid many Soul Beasts and searched for three days before finding a rare Golden Tiger King, estimated to be forty-six thousand years old.
• Xu Zhengyang demanded the Golden Tiger King’s Soul Ring, arguing that his physical strength had reached the Soul Sage level; Jing Hongchen warned that the age exceeded the safe limit for a fifth Soul Ring, then agreed to help him.

Jing Hongchen, Ma Rufeng, and Xuan Ziwen defeated the Golden Tiger King, and Xu Zhengyang absorbed its forty-six-thousand-year Soul Ring without using the secret medicine. After surviving the three-day ordeal, he gained new strength and abilities, then received Jing Hongchen’s permission to leave alone for a planned training trip.

• Jing Hongchen, Ma Rufeng, and Xuan Ziwen surrounded and defeated the Golden Tiger King with their Soul Tools.
• Xu Zhengyang refused Jing Hongchen’s secret medicine and insisted on absorbing the Golden Tiger King’s Soul Ring using his own strength and hidden trump cards.
• As Xu Zhengyang absorbed the Soul Ring, his External Soul Bones appeared, and his Devil Tiger’s Eye devoured the Golden Tiger King’s spiritual attack through Necromancy.
• After three days of painful tempering, Xu Zhengyang completed the absorption, reached Soul Power rank fifty-three, advanced his Mysterious Heaven Technique and Purple Demon Eye, and strengthened his body.
• The group found no Soul Bone in the Golden Tiger King, and Xu Zhengyang asked Jing Hongchen to let him travel alone for experience.
• Jing Hongchen reluctantly approved Xu Zhengyang’s trip and told him to return within a year.

Xu Zhengyang returned to the Sunset Forest to locate the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, using a detection Soul Tool to find its protected core. He reached a deadly field of jade phosphorus seven-absolute flowers and prepared to overcome Tang San’s poisonous barrier with Soul Tools.

• Xu Zhengyang left Jingyang Mountain Range with a detection Soul Tool borrowed from Jing Hongchen, then returned home to Dongyang City before traveling north to the Sunset Forest.
• Xu Zhengyang entered the poisonous miasma and used the detection Soul Tool to locate a dense cluster of Soul Beasts near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Xu Zhengyang protected himself with spear intent as he advanced through the increasingly toxic miasma, then broke through to spear astral Qi under pressure.
• Xu Zhengyang flew above the poisonous clouds and saw the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well surrounded by a vast formation of jade phosphorus seven-absolute flowers.
• Xu Zhengyang recognized the formation as a defense Tang San had established and said Soul Tools could counter the poisonous mist.