Recaps

Toji used his vitality and words to revive Kong Deming, convincing him that his Soul Tool path had not been wrong and claiming he could prove its potential himself. Ju Zi identified Toji as the Heavenly Tyrant, and Kong Deming recognized him from a top-secret file.

• Toji poured his Bloodline Power and the Blade of Life's Watch's vitality into Kong Deming to heal his body and spirit.
• Toji told Kong Deming that his defeat by Huo Yuhao came from his limited cultivation, not from the failure of the Soul Tool path.
• Kong Deming awoke, rekindled by Toji's words, and demanded to know who could wield Soul Tools to defeat Huo Yuhao.
• Toji said he could prove it, and Kong Deming wondered why Toji's face seemed familiar.
• Ju Zi introduced Toji as the Heavenly Tyrant who had killed Xu Tianran and saved the empire from tyranny.
• Kong Deming recognized Toji from a top-secret file and reacted with shock and bitter realization.

Toji convinced Kong Deming to upgrade four Soul Tools to Level 10 so he could use them to defeat Huo Yuhao and prove the power of Soul Tools. After Kong Deming agreed, Toji’s Bloodline Power and the Blade of Life’s Watch restored him enough to leave his life-support pod and begin work in his laboratory.

• Kong Deming realized Ju Zi had used him to secure the throne and that Toji was a deterrent against his power.
• Toji asked Kong Deming to upgrade four of his Soul Tools to Level 10, declaring that he would use them to kill Huo Yuhao before the world.
• Kong Deming enthusiastically agreed to devote his knowledge and the empire’s resources to forging Toji a set of Level 10 Soul Guidance armaments.
• Toji’s Bloodline Power and the Blade of Life’s Watch rapidly restored Kong Deming, who left his life-support pod after three days and returned to his laboratory.
• Kong Deming prepared to work on Toji’s Chain of a Thousand Miles, Playful Cloud, Soul Liberation Blade, and fourth Soul Tool.

Toji explained to Kong Deming why he supported the Sun Moon Empire rather than the Heaven Dou Empire, arguing that unification and technological progress mattered more than national loyalty. He then asked Kong Deming to help upgrade the Soul Liberation Blade into something closer to a divine artifact.

• Kong Deming discovered that Toji's Soul Tools were powered by Bloodline Power and learned their cores self-destructed to prevent anyone from studying them.
• Kong Deming asked why Toji, despite his ties to the Heaven Dou Empire and the Body Sect, supported the Sun Moon Empire and had stayed out of previous wars.
• Toji said he felt no loyalty to the Heaven Dou Empire and believed the Sun Moon Empire had a better chance of unifying the continent and advancing Soul Guidance Technology.
• Toji explained that the Soul Liberation Blade had absorbed his Bloodline Power and the life essence of powerful beings, including divine beasts.
• Toji asked Kong Deming to help modify the Soul Liberation Blade so it could become more versatile and approach the level of a true divine artifact.

Kong Deming agreed to upgrade Toji’s weapons into peak Level 10 masterpieces, while Ju Zi told Toji that Huo Yuhao’s strength was turning the war against the Sun Moon Empire. Toji teased Ju Zi about his own power and kissed her in the imperial study.

• Kong Deming examined the Soul Liberation Blade and promised to upgrade it and three other Soul Tools into weapons capable of slaying gods.
• Ju Zi reviewed the Star Luo Empire’s advances and told Toji that Huo Yuhao had turned the tide of the war.
• Ju Zi said she trusted Toji to be stronger than Huo Yuhao despite Huo Yuhao’s Level 99 cultivation.
• Toji held Ju Zi’s hand and lifted her chin as she argued that his fighting strength had little to do with his Level 98 rank.
• Toji stopped pretending to be uncertain and kissed Ju Zi.

Toji and Ju Zi gave in to their passion in the imperial study. At the Ming Dou Mountain Range, the Sun Moon Empire withdrew after Huo Yuhao turned the battle around, and Dai Hao thanked him for saving the Star Luo Empire.

• Toji kissed Ju Zi and carried her to the imperial couch, where they became intimate.
• The Sun Moon Empire's army dismantled its Soul Tool arrays and withdrew from the Ming Dou Mountain Range.
• Huo Yuhao watched the retreat from the fortress tower beside Tang Wutong.
• Dai Hao thanked Huo Yuhao for defeating the enemy and recovering the lost territory, while Huo Yuhao looked at him with complicated emotions.

Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong met Emperor Xu Jiawei after helping defend Star Luo, and Huo Yuhao was appointed the empire’s Nation-Protecting Imperial Preceptor. He accepted the honor as a means to protect those he cared for, leaving Star Luo’s rulers hopeful that he would help the empire resist the Sun Moon Empire.

• Tang Wutong eased the tension between Huo Yuhao and Dai Hao by praising Star Luo’s soldiers for their bravery.
• An imperial guard summoned Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong to the palace, where Xu Jiawei thanked them for saving Star Luo.
• Xu Jiawei bestowed on Huo Yuhao the title of Nation-Protecting Imperial Preceptor, authority equal to a regent, a fief, a share of imperial revenue, and access to the treasury.
• Huo Yuhao said that titles and status mattered less to him than protecting his people and preserving his path, but accepted Xu Jiawei’s trust.
• The ministers congratulated Huo Yuhao, and Star Luo’s leaders took hope from his appointment.

Huo Yuhao accepted Xu Jiawei’s appointment as imperial preceptor, giving the Star Luo Empire hope while preparing for his final battle. In Mingdu, Kong Deming spent six months transforming Toji’s Soul Tools with his Bloodline Power and revealed their new abilities, leaving two weapons still to be explained.

• Huo Yuhao accepted Xu Jiawei’s appointment as imperial preceptor and resolved to prepare himself for the battle ahead.
• Kong Deming spent half a year reforging four Soul Tools in the Sun Moon Empire’s core laboratory.
• Kong Deming showed Ju Zi and Toji the transformed Playful Cloud, whose power increased with the wielder’s strength.
• Kong Deming explained that the Chain of a Thousand Miles could connect to other Soul Tools and extend its attacks across theoretically infinite distances.
• Kong Deming revealed that the Soul Liberation Blade could cut through defenses and tear apart souls.

Kong Deming completed four Level 10 Soul Tool armaments for Toji, including the Inverted Spear of Heaven, and Toji set his sights on Huo Yuhao. On the Subduing Dragon Plain, Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong pushed back the Sun Moon Empire’s forces, but Huo Yuhao sensed an unfamiliar, overwhelming Bloodline Power as he prepared to attack.

• Kong Deming explained that the Inverted Spear of Heaven could interrupt and annihilate active energy-based skills and effects.
• Kong Deming credited Toji’s Bloodline Power with making his ultimate Soul Tools possible, while Toji inspected the finished armaments and vowed to defeat Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong held back the Sun Moon Empire’s army and prepared to break through its final defensive perimeter.
• Huo Yuhao detected a vast, ferocious Bloodline Power at the edge of his Spiritual Power perception as he gathered Ultimate Ice for an attack.

Toji ambushed Huo Yuhao with the Blade of Life's Watch, nearly killing him, and Tang Wutong retaliated with the Golden Dragon Spear. Toji survived her attack and destroyed her golden dragon, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Toji appeared behind Huo Yuhao and stabbed him through the spot where his heart had been with the Blade of Life's Watch.
• Huo Yuhao shifted his vital organs to survive, then struck Toji with a blast of Spiritual Power.
• Tang Wutong summoned the Golden Dragon Spear and sent a golden dragon after Toji, slamming him into the ground.
• Huo Yuhao realized Toji had survived Tang Wutong's attack as dark red blade lights erupted from the dust.
• Toji shredded Tang Wutong's golden dragon and stood amid its golden energy, resting the Soul Liberation Blade on his shoulder.

Toji wounded Huo Yuhao with a surprise attack, lifting the Sun Moon Empire’s morale and frightening the Star Luo Empire’s troops. Though injured, Huo Yuhao insisted on facing Toji alone as a trial of strength and a step toward ascending to the Divine Realm.

• Toji emerged from the smoke after piercing Huo Yuhao’s chest with his emerald blade and tearing apart the golden dragon.
• The Sun Moon Empire’s soldiers cheered Toji’s attack and renewed their offensive, while the Star Luo Empire’s soldiers panicked at Huo Yuhao’s injury.
• Marshal Dai Hao recognized that Huo Yuhao had met a formidable opponent in Toji.
• Huo Yuhao told Tang Wutong to leave Toji to him, explaining that he had moved his heart to limit the damage and that his wound was minor.
• Huo Yuhao challenged Toji to a contest of strength and skill with his God Level Spiritual Power, and Tang Wutong understood he needed to face the trial alone.

Huo Yuhao and Toji faced each other in a cleared battlefield as both empires withdrew their forces. Huo Yuhao revealed his God Level Spiritual Power and attacked Toji after his Spiritual Detection failed to sense him.

• Tang Wutong withdrew from the duel, and Dai Hao ordered the Star Luo forces to clear the battlefield.
• Kong Deming ordered the Sun Moon Empire forces to retreat and leave Huo Yuhao and Toji alone.
• Huo Yuhao revealed nine Soul Rings and his God Level Spiritual Power, while Toji responded with excitement and prepared to fight.
• Huo Yuhao used the Pupils of Asura to scan Toji but found no trace of his energy or life signs.
• Huo Yuhao unleashed a concentrated blast of God Level Spiritual Power at Toji's position.

Toji used the Soul Liberation Blade to shred Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Power and endured Spiritual Shock without mental injury, leaving Huo Yuhao struggling to counter his speed. Huo Yuhao summoned Liya and layered weakening and confusion Soul Skills over the battlefield, but Toji kept moving without slowing.

• Toji shifted aside and used the Soul Liberation Blade to tear apart Huo Yuhao’s God Level Spiritual Power.
• Toji charged Huo Yuhao and was struck by Spiritual Shock, but stood up unharmed, revealing his immunity to pure mental damage.
• Toji used explosive changes of direction to attack from Huo Yuhao’s flank, overwhelming his ability to track and react.
• Huo Yuhao summoned Liya and used Mermaid Duet, Dual Casting to amplify mental interference across the battlefield.
• Huo Yuhao targeted Toji with Single-Target Weakening and Group Confusion, but Toji’s blurred shadow did not slow down.

Huo Yuhao’s mental attacks failed against Toji, forcing him to use ice and physical Soul Skills to hold off the close-range assault. He tracked Toji after a spatial shift, but Toji’s Level 10 Soul Tool, the Chain of a Thousand Miles, struck toward his wrist.

• Toji resisted Huo Yuhao’s mental interference and closed in with the Soul Liberation Blade.
• Huo Yuhao unleashed Octagonal Omnidirectional Stab, forcing Toji back with a sphere of ice spikes.
• Huo Yuhao amplified his ice and attacked with Dark Gold Dreadclaw, but Toji vanished through a spatial shift.
• Huo Yuhao’s Mermaid’s Control failed, so he used Detection Enhancement to locate Toji’s Bloodline Power.
• Toji fired the Chain of a Thousand Miles toward Huo Yuhao’s wrist as Huo Yuhao prepared his next attack.

Huo Yuhao used Ice Bear King Xiaobai and his Ultimate Ice abilities to stop Toji’s Chain of a Thousand Miles and trap him in an Absolute Zero Domain. Toji destroyed the domain with the Inverted Spear of Heaven and launched another attack, leaving Huo Yuhao preparing to defend himself again.

• Huo Yuhao summoned Ice Bear King Xiaobai, who knocked the Chain of a Thousand Miles off course as Huo Yuhao unleashed Ice Bear Blizzard.
• Huo Yuhao sealed Toji inside an Absolute Zero Domain made of deep-blue ice.
• Toji used the Inverted Spear of Heaven to destroy the domain and emerged unharmed.
• Toji mocked Huo Yuhao’s technique as a petty trick, and Huo Yuhao was shaken by the blade’s power.
• Toji sent the Chain of a Thousand Miles toward Huo Yuhao again, and Huo Yuhao prepared to summon Ice Bear King Xiaobai to block it.

Toji ambushed Huo Yuhao with the Inverted Spear of Heaven, nullifying his defenses and suppressing his powers. As Mermaid Princess Liya was bound and Ice Bear King Xiaobai was gravely wounded, Huo Yuhao unleashed a massive spiritual storm.

• Toji used the Chain of a Thousand Miles as a feint, then appeared behind Huo Yuhao and stabbed him with the Inverted Spear of Heaven.
• The Inverted Spear of Heaven erased Huo Yuhao's spiritual barriers, wounded him, and suppressed his Soul Power, spiritual abilities, and Soul Skills.
• Mermaid Princess Liya attacked Toji to protect Huo Yuhao, but Toji bound her with the Chain of a Thousand Miles.
• Ice Bear King Xiaobai struck at Toji, who shattered Xiaobai's forelimb with a punch and gravely wounded her Soul Spirit form.
• Huo Yuhao erupted with a powerful spiritual storm from the God Level spiritual power that remained within him.

Huo Yuhao expelled the Inverted Spear of Heaven with his Spiritual Origin and launched a close-combat assault on Toji, but Toji evaded his strongest palm strike and slammed him into the ground. Badly injured, Huo Yuhao kept fighting as Toji overwhelmed him with brutal counters, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Huo Yuhao unleashed his Spiritual Origin, forced the Inverted Spear of Heaven from his shoulder, and struck at Toji with Sovereign's Descent.
• Toji dodged Huo Yuhao's palm, seized his wrist, and smashed him into the ground, leaving him gravely injured.
• Huo Yuhao used telekinetic force to push Toji back, then rose and charged him again.
• Toji planted the Soul Liberation Blade and fought Huo Yuhao barehanded, evading his attacks and landing powerful counters.
• Toji broke Huo Yuhao's ribs, stopped his kick, knocked aside his grappling attempt, and brought a knife-hand strike toward his neck.

Huo Yuhao was brutally overwhelmed by Toji in close combat despite using his full strength and teleportation to escape. As Toji’s beating drove Huo Yuhao toward unconsciousness, a cold, otherworldly presence erupted from within him and a soul-freezing blade cry rang across the battlefield.

• Huo Yuhao fought Toji with everything he had, but his attacks barely marked Toji while Toji inflicted severe injuries on him.
• Toji battered Huo Yuhao as the Star Luo Empire’s soldiers pleaded for him to keep fighting and the Sun Moon Empire’s forces cheered.
• Tang Wutong held back from intervening because Huo Yuhao had asked to fight alone, even as she watched him suffer.
• Huo Yuhao used Teleportation to escape several hundred meters, but Toji caught up immediately, seized his collar, and resumed striking his face and head.
• As Huo Yuhao neared unconsciousness, a cold presence burst from within him and a clear, chilling blade cry sounded across the battlefield.

Huo Yuhao wielded the Morning Dew Knife and wounded Toji with the Dragon Rain Gathering Dance Knife Technique, forcing Toji to take the fight seriously. As Toji launched another attack, Huo Yuhao unleashed the Light of Time and Space, slowing the world around him.

• Huo Yuhao summoned the Morning Dew Knife and drew strength from its resonance with Tang Wutong's Light Dragon God Butterfly Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao struck Toji seven times with the Dragon Rain Gathering Dance Knife Technique, leaving frost-covered wounds on Toji's body.
• Toji suppressed the knife's chilling power, retrieved the Soul Liberation Blade, and declared that the warm-up was over.
• Toji charged Huo Yuhao with the Inverted Spear of Heaven as Huo Yuhao activated the Light of Time and Space with the Pupils of Asura.

Huo Yuhao used the Light of Time and Space to freeze Toji, but Toji nullified it with the Inverted Spear of Heaven. Huo Yuhao's Ghost Carving Divine Knife nearly killed Toji, who deflected it, then struck Huo Yuhao while he was exhausted.

• Huo Yuhao froze time and space around Toji with the Light of Time and Space and prepared a fatal attack.
• Toji touched the frozen field with the Inverted Spear of Heaven and nullified the Light of Time and Space.
• Toji thrust the Inverted Spear of Heaven toward Huo Yuhao's heart, forcing Huo Yuhao to unleash the Ghost Carving Divine Knife.
• Toji used the Soul Liberation Blade to deflect the Ghost Carving Divine Knife, narrowly avoiding its lethal strike.
• Huo Yuhao staggered from exhaustion, and Toji's blade pierced his flesh.

Toji brutally mutilated Huo Yuhao after stabbing him through the heart with the Inverted Spear of Heaven. Huo Yuhao lost consciousness in a pool of blood, while Toji looked over his helpless body.

• Toji pierced Huo Yuhao's heart with the Inverted Spear of Heaven, draining his life and power.
• Huo Yuhao grabbed the blade, but Toji dragged it down through his chest and abdomen.
• Toji repeatedly stabbed Huo Yuhao's legs with the Blade of Life's Watch, destroying his ability to stand or move.
• Huo Yuhao fell to his knees and called out for Wu tong before Toji severed his left arm with the Soul Liberation Blade.
• Toji severed Huo Yuhao's right arm, leaving him unconscious and barely alive in a pool of blood.

Toji killed Huo Yuhao and faced Tang Wutong as she transformed in grief and attacked him. After Toji disarmed her and nearly cut her down, Tang Wutong unleashed her Martial Soul Avatar and charged again.

• Toji stabbed Huo Yuhao through the forehead with the Inverted Spear of Heaven, killing him and destroying his soul’s origin.
• Tang Wutong witnessed Huo Yuhao’s death, awakened her Dragon God wings, and attacked Toji with the Golden Dragon Spear.
• Toji knocked the Golden Dragon Spear from Tang Wutong’s hands and swept his Soul Liberation Blade toward her neck.
• Tang Wutong dodged the blade, then activated her Martial Soul Avatar and charged at Toji with dragon claws.

Toji overwhelmed Tang Wutong, and her desperate call summoned her father, the Sea God Tang San, to the battlefield. Tang San condemned Toji and began restoring Huo Yuhao, whose wounds started healing before the chapter ended.

• Toji dodged Tang Wutong's attack and slapped her, sending her crashing beside Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao saw Tang Wutong wounded and tried in vain to rise, while Tang Wutong realized they could not defeat Toji alone.
• Tang Wutong unleashed her Ninth Soul Skill, Sea God's Descent, and called for her father.
• Tang San appeared in a pillar of golden light and judged Toji's power to be evil and in need of purification.
• Tang San used the Sea God Trident to heal Huo Yuhao, regenerating his wounds and severed limbs.

Tang San revived Huo Yuhao and urged him and Tang Wutong to use Martial Soul Fusion against Toji, while the Destruction God King argued that Toji’s divinely forged body could overwhelm them. The chapter ended with Tang San and the Destruction God King facing off in the Divine Realm as Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong prepared to fight together.

• Tang San restored Huo Yuhao’s body, life force, and soul, then warned him and Tang Wutong that only Martial Soul Fusion gave them a chance against Toji.
• Tang San’s projection vanished, and Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong reunited before summoning their Soul Rings and preparing to combine their powers.
• In the Divine Realm, the Destruction God King accused Tang San of breaking the rules by intervening in the mortal realm.
• Tang San defended his rescue as a limited projection that did not alter the war’s course and argued that Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong could challenge Toji through their fusion.
• The Destruction God King explained that Toji’s body had been forged to divine heights through mortal effort and warned that physical strength at its extreme could overcome techniques and higher-level opponents.

Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong fused their Haodong Power into a form that reached the God Level threshold, while Toji welcomed the pressure as a chance to break through his own bottleneck. The fused Huo Yuhao appeared before Toji as a divine opponent, and Toji realized their battle had entered a new stage.

• The Destruction God King told Tang San that Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong’s fusion would serve as a whetstone for Toji, whose physical strength and combat skill followed a dangerous path toward greater power.
• Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong joined hands and amplified their Haodong Power, reaching the pinnacle of the mortal world and alarming the armies on the Subduing Dragon Plain.
• Toji welcomed their God Level pressure because it loosened the bottleneck before Level 99 and brought him closer to a breakthrough.
• Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong fused completely as golden light and Ultimate Ice transformed Huo Yuhao into a divine figure.
• The fused Huo Yuhao crossed a thousand meters and appeared before Toji, whose pupils contracted as he sensed the opponent’s new power.

Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong's fused form battled Toji, but their attacks failed to stop him from breaking through to Level 99, Limit Douluo, with three Soul Cores. They unleashed their final Martial Soul Fusion Skill, the Golden Road, and believed it had defeated him when it engulfed him.

• Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong's Hammer of the Heavenly Emperor clashed with Toji's Soul Liberation Blade and shattered, injuring them through the backlash.
• Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong's Mind Storm barely affected Toji, whose power surged as he broke through to Level 99, Limit Douluo, and formed three Soul Cores.
• Toji thanked Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong for serving as worthy whetstones, while they resolved to launch one final attack.
• Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong burned their souls to unleash Withering Amidst Radiance -- Golden Road, which swallowed Toji and froze him in golden light.
• Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong thought they had defeated Toji when he stood motionless inside the light.