Chapter Summaries

Ye Guyi tested Xu Zhengyang’s Tiger-Head Zhan Gold Spear and discovered that its dark curse had fused with his Martial Soul in an unusual balance. She could not remove it, but suspected it might eventually become a power Xu Zhengyang could use.

• Ye Guyi’s holy Soul Skills failed to affect the curse, while Xu Zhengyang’s spear autonomously repelled her attack with its White Tiger soul and Spear Intent.
• Ye Guyi explained that the curse had not infected Xu Zhengyang’s body or soul in the usual way and seemed controlled from deep within his soul.
• Xu Zhengyang revealed that he had destroyed the Soul Devouring Carving Knife after buying it at auction, and its curse had transferred to his Martial Soul.
• Ye Guyi concluded that she could not remove the curse with her current strength, though she might help if she reached the Soul Sage realm.
• Ye Guyi suggested the curse might eventually aid Xu Zhengyang and could combine with his Martial Soul’s power.

Xu Zhengyang followed a Holy Spirit Cult emissary to the cult’s hidden headquarters in the Evil Demon Forest, hoping to meet Tang Ya. As he entered its underground defenses, Zhang Peng ordered the cult to corrupt and recruit him rather than kill him, and the stone gate sealed behind Xu Zhengyang.

• After several days of cultivation, Xu Zhengyang opened his dormitory door to a black-robed man who offered to take him to the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Xu Zhengyang put on a Soul Tool hood, was carried away for a day, and arrived at a concealed gate in the Evil Demon Forest.
• The emissary left Xu Zhengyang at the entrance, and Xu Zhengyang stepped through the stone gate as a scorching Qi in his body resisted the evil aura.
• Zhang Peng, the Holy Spirit Cult’s Sixth Consecrator, told the emissary to monitor Xu Zhengyang and ensure he survived while the cult tried to corrupt and recruit him.
• Zhang Peng discussed Xu Zhengyang’s unusual potential and political connections, and learned that Tang Ya was still cultivating her Dark Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul.
• Xu Zhengyang descended into the headquarters past eerie blue flames, and the stone gate closed and sank out of sight behind him.

Xu Zhengyang descended into the Holy Spirit Cult’s undead formation, where the resentful spirits nearly overwhelmed him until Electrolux revealed himself from Xu Zhengyang’s Sea of Spirit and intervened. Electrolux explained his presence and warned that the purple lightning figure from the past might return, while the chapter left Xu Zhengyang facing the Cult’s mass enslavement of the dead.

• Xu Zhengyang resisted the toxins and black aura on the stairs, but the swelling desires and undead spirits began to overpower him.
• As Xu Zhengyang fought the undead with his Tiger-Head Zhan Gold Spear, a voice from his Sea of Spirit told him to stay still.
• Electrolux manifested, revealed that he was a remnant soul who had entered Xu Zhengyang during the lightning tribulation, and said he had helped keep Xu Zhengyang’s curse in balance.
• Electrolux explained that he had appeared to prevent the undead from controlling Xu Zhengyang and revealed that the purple lightning figure may have come from the God Realm and spared Xu Zhengyang’s life.
• Electrolux sensed an extremely evil presence and countless enslaved resentful spirits beneath the Holy Spirit Cult, calling the organization intolerable.

Xu Zhengyang survived the Holy Spirit Cult’s resentful-spirit stairway with Electrolux’s help and met Zhang Peng, the Sixth Consecrator. Zhang Peng seized Xu Zhengyang’s spear after learning it carried a curse, leaving Xu Zhengyang at his mercy.

• Electrolux explained that he had kept the curse on Xu Zhengyang’s Martial Soul under control and demonstrated necromancy by making the curse’s undead form consume the stairway’s resentful spirits and evil presence.
• Electrolux fell silent, and Xu Zhengyang continued down the stairs to an enormous hall, where the man in black who had brought him to the Holy Spirit Cult was waiting.
• The man in black led Xu Zhengyang to Zhang Peng, the Sixth Consecrator, who questioned him about seeking Tang Ya and how he had crossed the stairway.
• Zhang Peng threatened Xu Zhengyang for concealing a way to control resentful spirits, and Xu Zhengyang claimed his Martial Soul’s curse helped him withstand them.
• Zhang Peng reacted to Xu Zhengyang’s claim that his Martial Soul was cursed and used his power to pull the Tiger-Head Zhan Gold Spear from Xu Zhengyang’s hand.

Zhang Peng tested Xu Zhengyang’s cursed Martial Soul and discovered it could devour vengeful spirits, then revealed how much the Holy Spirit Cult knew about Xu’s past and ambitions. Zhang Peng tried to recruit him by offering the Cult’s methods, while Xu Zhengyang considered using the Cult’s hostility toward Shrek Academy for his own plans.

• Zhang Peng infused Xu Zhengyang’s Tiger-Head Zhan Gold Spear with dark energy and found that the curse on it resisted and balanced the energy.
• Zhang Peng sent a Soul Beast’s vengeful spirit into the spear, where it began to be devoured beyond Xu Zhengyang’s control.
• Zhang Peng identified himself as the Holy Spirit Cult’s Sixth Worshipper and Scorpion Tiger Douluo, then explained his theory that Xu’s curse granted him a devouring ability.
• Zhang Peng recited details of Xu Zhengyang’s background and guessed that Xu sought the Cult’s help to remove the curse or overcome his limits.
• Zhang Peng defended the Holy Spirit Cult’s cultivation methods and urged Xu to join, citing Tang Ya and Xu’s lack of a true cultivation inheritance.
• Xu Zhengyang concealed his true intentions and considered exploiting the conflict between the Holy Spirit Cult and Shrek Academy.

Zhang Peng tried to recruit Xu Zhengyang into the Holy Spirit Cult by exposing his spirit-devouring power as evidence that he was an Evil Soul Master. Xu Zhengyang resolved to exploit the cult’s mistaken belief while relying on Electrolux to protect him, as Zhang Peng reported his suspicions to Zhongli Wu.

• Zhang Peng warned Xu Zhengyang that his power made him an Evil Soul Master and that the Sun Moon Empire would punish him, then urged him to join the Holy Spirit Cult.
• After Zhang Peng left, Xu Zhengyang considered using his apparent resemblance to an Evil Soul Master to exploit the cult while planning to control or destroy it.
• Electrolux explained that he could break the Holy Spirit Cult’s soul brands and agreed to stabilize Xu Zhengyang’s soul, but warned him against reckless action.
• Zhang Peng told Zhongli Wu that Xu Zhengyang’s curse let him devour vengeful spirits and that he might have cultivated through methods like the cult’s.
• Zhongli Wu questioned whether Xu Zhengyang truly used methods similar to those of the Holy Spirit Cult.

Zhongli Wu met Xu Zhengyang, examined his cursed Martial Soul, and questioned his interest in Tang Ya and his opinion of the Holy Spirit Cult. Xu Zhengyang challenged the world’s judgments of the Cult and Evil Soul Masters, arguing that strength and reputation shaped what people considered righteous.

• Zhongli Wu introduced himself as the Holy Spirit Cult’s leader and inspected Xu Zhengyang’s Tiger-Head Zhan Gold Spear, discovering that its curse devoured the darkness from his Death God Demon Puppet.
• Zhongli Wu questioned Xu Zhengyang’s reasons for seeking Tang Ya, and Xu Zhengyang admitted he wanted to learn about the Tang Sect’s cultivation methods and secrets.
• Zhongli Wu offered Xu Zhengyang a chance to join the Holy Spirit Cult, then pressed him to explain how he viewed the Cult and Evil Soul Masters.
• Xu Zhengyang described the Cult’s infamous reputation but said that public judgments were not necessarily his own and that the world’s assessments were too extreme.
• Xu Zhengyang argued that strength and reputation determined who was seen as righteous, contrasting Shrek Academy’s influence with the Holy Spirit Cult’s image.
• Xu Zhengyang cited Shrek Academy’s intervention in the Star Luo Empire’s auction as an example of how its reputation made others accept its actions, while the same intervention by Zhongli Wu would provoke suspicion.

Xu Zhengyang explained to Zhongli Wu how the Holy Spirit Cult’s reputation could be reshaped through withdrawal from worldly affairs and by offering help to Soul Masters with poor talent or damaged Martial Souls. Zhongli Wu and Zhang Peng were impressed by his strategy, while Xu Zhengyang reflected on how Zhongli Wu’s recklessness had ruined the cult’s alliance with the Sun Moon Empire.

• Zhongli Wu accepted that his reputation would have made him an ineffective mediator and asked Xu Zhengyang how the Holy Spirit Cult could change its standing.
• Xu Zhengyang described how Shrek Academy’s graduates and political ties protected its reputation, then outlined how the Sun Moon Empire’s trade restrictions could fuel conflict among the three great empires.
• Xu Zhengyang argued that the label of Evil Soul Master was unfair and that other powers had blamed the Holy Spirit Cult for atrocities it had not committed.
• Xu Zhengyang urged the Holy Spirit Cult to abandon coercive control and withdraw from worldly affairs while offering help to Soul Masters burdened by weak Innate Soul Power or defective Martial Souls.
• Zhongli Wu and Zhang Peng were astonished by Xu Zhengyang’s plan, and Xu Zhengyang privately blamed Zhongli Wu’s recklessness for destroying the cult’s alliance with the Sun Moon Empire.

Xu Zhengyang analyzed the balance between the Holy Spirit Cult, the Sun Moon Empire, and Shrek Academy, then met Tang Ya as Zhongli Wu had arranged. He told her that Huo Yuhao and Bei Bei had revived the Tang Sect’s name, leaving Tang Ya visibly shaken.

• Xu Zhengyang warned Zhongli Wu that the Holy Spirit Cult, the Sun Moon Empire, and the Douluo Continent’s powers were in a fragile balance, and that conflict could benefit Shrek Academy.
• Zhongli Wu pressed Xu Zhengyang to join the Holy Spirit Cult, then arranged for him to meet Tang Ya while privately plotting to exploit Xu’s devouring ability.
• Zhongli Wu ordered Zhang Peng to secretly monitor Xu Zhengyang and his cultivation, hoping to use him to gain influence over the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xu Zhengyang entered Tang Ya’s room, where her black Blue Silver Grass attacked him before the escort identified him as the Cult Leader’s guest.
• Xu Zhengyang told Tang Ya that Huo Yuhao and Bei Bei had performed brilliantly in the Soul Master Tournament as Tang Sect disciples, and Tang Ya repeated their names in confusion and pain.

Xu Zhengyang traded the Sword of Judgment for Tang Ya’s copies of the Tang Sect’s secret arts and hidden-weapon blueprints. After he left, Zhongli Wu revealed that he planned to control Xu Zhengyang with a Soul Seal and use him as a pawn inside the Sun Moon Imperial Family.

• Xu Zhengyang persuaded Tang Ya to exchange the Tang Sect’s knowledge for the Sword of Judgment, after Zhongli Wu ordered her to cooperate.
• Tang Ya copied the Tang Sect’s secret manuals and hidden-weapon blueprints, and Xu Zhengyang stored them in his Soul Tool.
• Tang Ya asked Xu Zhengyang to remember the Tang Sect and its past glory, and he promised to show mercy to its members if he encountered them.
• Zhongli Wu took the Sword of Judgment from Tang Ya and rewarded her with a Soul Tool ring.
• Zhongli Wu told Zhang Peng that he had placed a Soul Seal on Xu Zhengyang and intended to make him a pawn inside the Sun Moon Imperial Family.

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.