Chapter Summaries

Zhang Lexuan and the Shrek Inspection Corps entered the Departed Soul Mountain Ravine to hunt the Evil Soul Master Ming Zhao, but they fell into a mental trap that drove the disciples into a frenzy. As Zhang Lexuan tried to restrain them, she noticed a thick fog spreading around the group.

• Twelve Shrek Inspection Corps elites, led by Zhang Lexuan and accompanied by Xuan Zi, traveled into the ravine to kill Ming Zhao.
• The moonlight vanished beneath heavy clouds, and the group realized they had entered an enemy trap.
• The Soul Rings revealed grotesque faces and ghostlike shapes in the trees, terrifying the disciples.
• A female Soul Emperor lost control and attacked the jungle and her teammates, prompting other disciples to panic and lash out.
• Zhang Lexuan tried to restrain the frenzied disciples, then froze when she saw thick fog spreading around them and suspected a mental attack.

Zhang Lexuan and the Shrek Inner Court disciples were trapped in a jungle where an unseen mental attack drove them toward madness. Funeral and wedding processions emerged from opposite sides of the mist, leaving the survivors confronted by horrifying ghostly figures.

• Zhang Lexuan realized a mental attack had been causing her teammates to lose their reason, and she knocked out several disciples to stop them fighting.
• The mist shifted, and mournful funeral wailing rose from deeper in the jungle as a procession appeared ahead.
• Zhang Lexuan saw that their escape route was blocked by red mist and heard wedding music coming from behind them.
• A funeral procession of paper figures carrying a black coffin emerged from the white mist, with a deathly pale woman seated atop it.
• A procession of women in red carrying a bridal sedan chair emerged from the red mist, and two disciples collapsed after seeing the figures.

Zhang Lexuan watched eleven Shrek Inner Court disciples die in a supernatural ambush, then used her Blood Moon to destroy the ghostly procession and avenge them. Exhausted and barely conscious, she was confronted by a mysterious newcomer who mocked her desire for revenge.

• The phantom coffins and bridal sedan chairs trapped and killed the eleven Inner Court disciples, while Zhang Lexuan accidentally struck two of her teammates with attacks that passed through the apparitions.
• Zhang Lexuan blamed Xuan Zi for failing to help and, left alone among the ghosts, resolved to fight them herself.
• Zhang Lexuan transformed with her Seventh Soul Skill and unleashed her Eighth Soul Skill, Blood Moon, vaporizing the ghostly procession and scorching the surrounding ground.
• After saying she had avenged her teammates, Zhang Lexuan collapsed from exhaustion as footsteps approached through the forest.
• A mysterious figure applauded Zhang Lexuan and mocked her obsession with revenge.

Ming Zhao captured Zhang Lexuan and used a ghostly wedding ritual to turn her into his ghost bride before vanishing without a trace. Xuan Zi arrived at the ruined woodland too late and found no clues to what had happened.

• Ming Zhao pinned Zhang Lexuan down and summoned a ghostly bridal sedan chair to force her into a supernatural wedding.
• Ming Zhao's red silk bound Zhang Lexuan and dragged her into the sedan chair, where human-fat candle flames burned away her body and soul.
• Zhang Lexuan merged with the ghost bride and called Ming Zhao her husband before they both disappeared with the female ghosts.
• Xuan Zi rushed to the ruined woodland after Zhang Lexuan stopped responding and realized he had arrived too late.

After killing Zhang Lexuan and eleven Shrek Inner Court disciples, Ming Zhao reached Heaven Dou City and reflected on how his yin-yang fate and twin Martial Souls had made him a powerful Evil Soul Master. He planned to grow into the Death God Douluo and pursue upcoming opportunities as Huo Yuhao’s story approached.

• Xuan Zi raged after Ming Zhao escaped, then admitted his guilt and set off to report what had happened.
• Ming Zhao settled in Heaven Dou City after wiping out Zhang Lexuan and eleven Shrek Inner Court disciples at Departed Soul Mountain Ravine.
• Ming Zhao assessed his gains: he had reached Soul Power Level seventy-nine, and his Soul Ring Configuration had grown to five black and two red.
• Ming Zhao recalled his ultimate yin and ultimate yang origins, his twin Martial Souls, and the massacre that made him an Evil Soul Master.
• Ming Zhao left the restaurant, confident that light and other forces could not suppress him, and resolved to seize treasures and opportunities as Huo Yuhao’s story began.

Ming Zhao traveled toward Star Luo City while evading Shrek Academy’s pursuit, intending to exploit Huo Yuhao’s luck to obtain treasures. He left a ghostly spy to watch Huo Yuhao and continued to Star Luo City in hopes of finding the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife.

• Ming Zhao disguised himself before leaving Heaven Dou City, anticipating Shrek Academy’s retaliation for the deaths of its disciples.
• Xuan Zi reported the massacre to the Sea God Pavilion, which punished him and issued a kill order for Ming Zhao with a fifty-thousand-year Soul Bone as the bounty.
• Ming Zhao evaded Shrek’s searchers by hiding his evil aura and slowly traveled toward Star Luo City while refining the fallen disciples.
• Ming Zhao reached the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion and saw Huo Yuhao living in the woodshed after Huo Yun’er’s death.
• Ming Zhao decided to keep Huo Yuhao alive so he could steal the opportunities his luck brought, and left a ghostly shadow to spy on him.

Ming Zhao planted a spy near Huo Yuhao, secretly bought the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife, and discovered its curse could feed his cultivation. After absorbing its sinister power through the night, he broke through to rank eighty.

• Ming Zhao left a paper figure spy beside Huo Yuhao and predicted Huo Yuhao would soon break through to rank ten.
• Ming Zhao discreetly learned that the Starlight Auction House would hold a soul-tool auction and attended without revealing his identity.
• Ming Zhao bought the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife for its two-hundred-thousand Gold Soul Coin starting price.
• Ming Zhao realized the knife's curse converted life force into sinister power that could nourish him and his ghosts.
• Ming Zhao absorbed the curse's power through the night, weakening it and breaking through from rank seventy-nine to rank eighty.

After reaching level eighty, Ming Zhao followed Huo Yuhao to the Star Dou Great Forest and intercepted the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm before it could sacrifice itself to him. The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm considered Ming Zhao instead, and Ming Zhao revealed his Twin Martial Souls.

• Ming Zhao decided the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s Million-Year Soul Ring suited his unclaimed Water Vengeful Spirit Martial Soul better than Ghost Bride.
• Huo Yuhao left the Duke's Mansion for the Star Dou Great Forest, and Ming Zhao followed him while keeping watch through a paper figure.
• After Huo Yuhao entered the forest alone and killed a Wind Baboon, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm appeared and discovered both Huo Yuhao and Ming Zhao.
• Ming Zhao knocked Huo Yuhao unconscious and urged the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to sacrifice itself to him instead.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm examined Huo Yuhao and Ming Zhao, then asked to see Ming Zhao’s Martial Soul.
• Ming Zhao revealed Ghost Bride and Water Vengeful Spirit, stunning the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm with his Twin Martial Souls.

Ming Zhao persuaded the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to sacrifice himself despite Ming Zhao’s status as an Evil Soul Master. After the sacrifice, Ming Zhao gained a million-year Soul Ring for his Water Vengeful Spirit Martial Soul, upgraded several rings on his Ghost Bride Martial Soul, and opened his eyes with vastly increased mental power.

• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm hesitated between sacrificing himself to weak but ordinary Huo Yuhao or powerful but dangerous Ming Zhao.
• Ming Zhao argued that Soul Masters and Soul Beasts alike followed the rule that the weak became prey, convincing the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to choose strength and revenge.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sacrificed himself to Ming Zhao and celebrated his escape from the Star Dou Great Forest’s persecution.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm crushed two of his ten seals, changing Ming Zhao’s Ghost Bride Soul Rings from five black and two red to two black and five red.
• Ming Zhao gained the Water Vengeful Spirit’s First Soul Ring and four hundred-thousand-year-level Soul Skills: King of Ten Thousand Ghosts, Ghost God Vision, Resentful Soul Assault, and Other Shore Abyss.

Ming Zhao learned what he gained from the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's sacrifice, then left the Star Dou Great Forest without the expected Electrolux appearing. Half a month later, he traveled north to obtain an Eighth Soul Ring from the mermaid Sea Princess.

• Ming Zhao explained that his Martial Soul's traits had shaped the four Soul Skills produced by the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's Soul Ring, and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm revealed that he could open a blank Martial Soul slot for an ice-attribute Soul Ring.
• Ming Zhao introduced himself as an eighteen-year-old level-eighty Quasi-Soul Douluo with the Ghost Bride and Water Vengeful Spirit Martial Souls, delighting the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
• Ming Zhao discovered that Electrolux had not appeared in his Sea of Consciousness and left the Star Dou Great Forest, while Huo Yuhao was later rescued by Bei Bei and Tang Ya and joined their party.
• Huo Yuhao obtained Petrifying Gaze from a four-hundred-year-old Medusa and joined Shrek as a Tang Sect disciple.
• Half a month later, Ming Zhao traveled through the frozen north to seek the mermaid Sea Princess, Li Ya, as his Eighth Soul Ring.

Ming Zhao traveled to the Ice Sea to hunt the mermaid princess Li Ya for his Eighth Soul Ring, despite the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s warnings about the Sea Princess Clan. After confirming Li Ya’s likely feeding grounds from information he had gathered, he possessed his Water Vengeful Spirit Martial Soul and entered the sea to search for her.

• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm warned Ming Zhao that hunting a Hundred-Thousand-Year Sea Princess could make the entire Ice Sea his enemy, but Ming Zhao dismissed his fear.
• Ming Zhao recalled his Soul Ring plans and the information he had gathered about Li Ya, including the sea chart and her likely movements.
• Ming Zhao confirmed that Li Ya was probably foraging four hundred nautical miles northwest of the Ice Sea coast.
• Ming Zhao summoned and possessed his Water Vengeful Spirit Martial Soul, then leaped into the Ice Sea and sped toward Li Ya’s feeding grounds.

Ming Zhao tracked down the mermaid princess Li Ya and prepared an ambush after confirming no other powerful Soul Beasts were nearby. He launched a ghostly procession that surrounded her and attacked, leaving Li Ya braced to fight the Soul Master hunting her.

• Ming Zhao sent his Water Vengeful Spirit puppets to search the waters where Li Ya was active.
• On the second day, the ghosts found Li Ya singing on an iceberg, and Ming Zhao ordered them to check the area for other powerful Soul Beasts.
• After confirming the area was clear, Ming Zhao used Red and White Colliding Calamities and Night Parade of a Hundred Ghosts to send his ghostly procession toward Li Ya.
• The procession shattered Li Ya's iceberg and struck her with spiritual attacks as it surrounded her.
• Li Ya recognized the attackers as a Soul Master's method of hunting Soul Beasts and prepared to fight.

Li Ya attacked Ming Zhao with a powerful mental song, but he revealed that he had poisoned the sea and turned her companions into evil spirits. As the ghost fish accused and attacked her, Li Ya could only apologize.

• Li Ya used her Mermaid Duet to shatter Ming Zhao's water ghosts and female ghosts, opening cracks in his domain.
• Ming Zhao revealed that the sea had become filthy and that he had already killed Li Ya's companions.
• Li Ya grieved for her friends and vowed to avenge them, while Ming Zhao raised their corpses as loyal evil spirits.
• Ming Zhao taunted Li Ya with the ghost fish, and they cursed her for abandoning them.
• The ghost fish swarmed Li Ya and tore at her as she apologized.

After killing Li Ya, Ming Zhao absorbed her Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone, reaching Soul Douluo level eighty-three and gaining powerful mental abilities. He left the Ice Sea and headed toward the continent with his new strength.

• Ming Zhao killed Li Ya and her companions, then turned Li Ya into a Water Vengeful Spirit under his control.
• Li Ya led Ming Zhao to a secluded underwater cavern where he absorbed her Soul Ring over a week, reaching level eighty-two.
• Ming Zhao absorbed Li Ya's left arm Soul Bone over three days and advanced to level eighty-three.
• Ming Zhao examined the four abilities he gained: Soul-Seizing Strike, Soul Scream, Mermaid Duet, and Mermaid's Blessing.
• Ming Zhao returned his eight Soul Rings to his body and swam toward the continent.

Ming Zhao reached the Ice Sea coast and planned to exploit the beast tides by drawing powerful Sea Soul Beasts and Soul Masters into a deadly conflict at Dongyang City. As he headed there with Li Ya, the city was already surrounded by gathering Sea Soul Beasts, and a panicked guard arrived with a report.

• After Li Ya helped him evade the Sea Princess’s search, Ming Zhao reached the coast and saw Sea Soul Beasts flooding a fishing village.
• Ming Zhao decided to use the beast tides to gather powerful souls and flesh for his Hundred Ghosts.
• He chose Dongyang City as his target, expecting the Sea Princess to send hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts and the Sun Moon Empire to deploy a Level 9 Soul Engineer.
• Li Ya told Ming Zhao she could make Dongyang City appear to be the place where she died, drawing her mother there to seek revenge.
• Ming Zhao set off for Dongyang City with Li Ya, while Sea Soul Beasts gathered on the seabed outside the city.
• A panicked guard rushed into the city lord’s study to report the approaching danger.

Dongyang City prepared to face a beast tide led by three powerful Sea Soul Beasts, while Ming Zhao realized his plan had drawn Li Ya’s sister Lijing into the battle. As the attack began, he reconsidered targeting Lijing and turned his attention to the two lesser beasts beside her.

• The city lord learned that three hundred-thousand-year Sea Soul Beasts had appeared and ordered Dongyang City’s defenses activated and reinforcements requested.
• Soldiers held the northern wall as Lijing, a dark red crab, and a deep blue lobster confronted them from a towering column of water.
• Ming Zhao identified Lijing as Li Ya’s older sister and considered killing her and their mother, but Li Ya answered with reverent obedience.
• Ming Zhao realized Lijing had come because he had truly killed Li Ya, and worried that killing Lijing would provoke the six-hundred-and-twenty-thousand-year Sea Princess.
• Lijing ordered the attack, and tens of thousands of Sea Soul Beasts charged Dongyang City as Ming Zhao focused on the crab and lobster.

As Lijing unleashed a towering tsunami against Dongyang City, Ming Zhao secretly harvested the battlefield’s dead and strengthened his hundred ghosts into a legion of Soul Emperor-level fighters. Dongyang City’s defenders fired every remaining shell in a final counterattack as the wave shattered the walls, and the resulting explosions engulfed the battlefield.

• Ming Zhao concealed his domain and harvested the flesh and souls of the dead, while Li Ya interfered with Lijing’s senses to aid him.
• Ming Zhao’s hundred ghosts grew stronger until even the weakest reached Soul Emperor-level strength.
• Lijing joined the hundred-thousand-year shrimp soldiers and crab generals in sending a nearly hundred-meter wave toward Dongyang City.
• The lord of Dongyang City ordered the defenders to fire every remaining shell as the tsunami reached the walls.
• The tsunami swept away the city’s defenders, while their shells fell among the Sea Soul Beasts and detonated in a massive blast.

Lijing and the surviving Sea Soul Beasts fled after the Class 8 Fixed Soul Cannon Shell destroyed Dongyang City and devastated their forces. Ming Zhao then let his hundred ghosts devour the dead, aiming to cultivate a true malevolent ghost as the ghosts grew to Soul Saint strength.

• The Class 8 Fixed Soul Cannon Shell obliterated Dongyang City and killed its hundreds of thousands of inhabitants, while fewer than five percent of the Sea Soul Beasts survived.
• Lijing emerged from the sea, wounded but alive because the shrimp soldier and crab general had shielded her from the blast.
• Lijing mourned her little sister and the Ice Sea’s losses, then departed with the surviving Sea Soul Beasts.
• After Lijing left, Ming Zhao’s Red and White Colliding Calamities Domain revealed itself, and his hundred ghosts began devouring the battlefield’s resentful spirits and souls.
• The resentful spirit of Dongyang City’s lord glared at Ming Zhao before Zhang Lexuan consumed his soul and destroyed it.
• Ming Zhao watched his hundred ghosts absorb the dead beings’ souls and negative emotions, then laughed as they reached Soul Saint strength.

After defeating the Sea Soul Beasts, Ming Zhao and his ghosts plundered Dongyang City and left before reinforcements arrived. Wang Yiheng buried the dead and led the Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps in a month-long campaign against Sea Soul Beasts, while the Sea Princess avoided escalating the conflict into war with the Sun Moon Empire.

• Ming Zhao’s hundred ghosts reached Soul Saint or Soul Douluo strength, and Ming Zhao gained two cultivation levels and eight red Soul Rings.
• Ming Zhao’s ghosts collected Soul Bones, Soul Tools, metals, treasures, and nearly three million Gold Soul Coins from the ruins of Dongyang City before he led them away.
• Wang Yiheng and the arriving Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps found Dongyang City destroyed, bowed to the dead, and gathered the remains for burial.
• Wang Yiheng vowed to avenge the hundreds of thousands killed and rallied nearly a thousand Soul Engineers to fight the Sea Soul Beasts.
• Over the following month, the Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps patrolled the coast and killed Sea Soul Beasts that came ashore, driving them into the deep sea.
• The Sea Princess stayed silent after learning that Lijing’s tsunami had destroyed a human city, since she could not challenge the entire Sun Moon Empire.

Ming Zhao reflected on the destruction of Dongyang City and returned to the Douluo Continent, pleased with how he had manipulated the Ice Sea into attacking. In Heaven Dou City, he planned to claim the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, while his ghosts searched the declining Sunset Forest for it.

• The Sea Princess accepted Lijing's belief that her daughter's killer had died with Dongyang City, though she suspected the true culprit might still be alive.
• Ming Zhao returned to the Douluo Three Kingdoms and celebrated the destruction of Dongyang City, while the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm feared his ruthless methods.
• Ming Zhao assessed his strength and went to Heaven Dou City to pursue the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and its Immortal Herbs.
• Ming Zhao sent eighty-eight ghosts into the Sunset Forest to search for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well while he monitored them remotely.
• Ming Zhao judged that Tang San had probably made no arrangements at the well, but wondered how he would overcome the Jade Phosphor Seven Absolutes Flowers' poison array.