Recaps

Wuxin worried about the flaws in the Saints’ cultivation system and the frightening speed of his own growth, then discussed Cloth contests and a Specter’s attacks with Taurus Hasgard. The chapter ended with Earth Dark Star Niobe and an accomplice arriving to assassinate Wuxin.

• Wuxin concluded that Saints relied heavily on mental strength and Cloths to compensate for their cultivation system’s neglect of the body.
• Wuxin became alarmed by his rapidly accelerating Cosmo growth and the mysterious familiarity he felt with it.
• Hasgard encouraged Wuxin about the Cloth contest and recognized that Wuxin’s Cosmo had reached the Silver level.
• Wuxin asked Hasgard about an Apprentice Saint’s assassination, and Hasgard warned him that a hidden Specter might strike again.
• Wuxin set alarms in his hut, but Earth Dark Star Niobe and an accomplice arrived at night and identified him as their target.

Wuxin’s alarm foiled a Specter’s attempt to assassinate him, allowing El Cid to kill Terrestrial Darkness Star, though the second attacker escaped. The next morning, Manigoldo checked on Wuxin and took him to spar as he prepared for the Cloth contest.

• Terrestrial Darkness Star tried to poison Wuxin through a window, but Wuxin’s alarm woke him and drove both attackers to flee.
• El Cid and the Saints chased Terrestrial Darkness Star toward the sea, where El Cid cut him down before Wuxin arrived.
• Wuxin told El Cid that he had sensed two attackers, but admitted he could not be certain, and El Cid ordered the search to continue.
• Manigoldo visited Wuxin the next morning, checked that he was unharmed, and warned him not to underestimate his rivals in the upcoming Cloth contest.
• Manigoldo offered to spar with Wuxin, then paused at the training grounds to advise Apprentice Saints before sending them away.

Wuxin sparred with Manigoldo, losing ten rounds but learning lessons about baiting opponents and concealing finishing moves. He then challenged Saints across Sanctuary to build combat experience, and the day of the Cloth contest arrived with most Saints gathered at the arena.

• Manigoldo removed his Gold Cloth and sparred with Wuxin, matching his strength to Wuxin’s.
• Manigoldo baited Wuxin into an attack, then used Cancer Pincer Death Grip to throw him into a rock and taught him to draw out an enemy’s opening.
• Manigoldo struck Wuxin with Sekishiki Meikai Ha before Wuxin could counter, pulling his soul from his body and winning the round.
• Wuxin lost all ten rounds but learned from Manigoldo’s tactics before they ended their sparring.
• Wuxin challenged Saints throughout Sanctuary to gain combat experience, and his strength climbed to nearly three hundred thousand times the speed of sound.
• Most Saints gathered at the arena for the contest for the Cloth.

Wuxin defeated Saint Candidate number four in the Silver Cloth tournament despite taking a heavy blow and injuring his arms. After Ophiuchus Odysseus healed him, Wuxin returned to the stands to watch number five and number six fight.

• Wuxin entered the arena to face Saint Candidate number four, while Pope Sage and Sasha praised his growth and training.
• Number four used Earth Roar and Savage Collision to trap Wuxin in midair and strike him, leaving him badly hurt and exhausted.
• Wuxin endured the collision, then used Sekishiki Meikai Ha at close range to seize number four’s soul and win the bout.
• Ophiuchus Odysseus treated Wuxin’s injured arms, and Wuxin returned to the stands as number five and number six fought.

Wuxin defeated Number One and advanced to the final showdown against Number Two, whose rare dark-attribute powers let him hide and travel through shadows. Wuxin countered Number Two’s first surprise attack, but his Sekishiki Meikai Ha failed to reach Number Two once he retreated into the shadows.

• Numbers Five and Six withdrew from the contest after their injuries, leaving Wuxin with fewer competitors.
• Wuxin defeated Number One by countering her Storm Iron Cone and pinning her until the referee declared the match.
• Number Two defeated Number Four, setting up a final showdown with Wuxin.
• Manigoldo warned Wuxin not to give Number Two a fatal opening, and Wuxin said he would stay cautious.
• Wuxin anticipated Number Two’s shadow attack and struck him with an elbow before launching Sekishiki Meikai Ha.
• Number Two escaped into the shadows, where Wuxin’s Sekishiki could not reach him.

Wuxin defeated Number Two by capturing his soul with Sekishiki Meikai Ha, despite being pierced by a shadow spear. Number Two then awakened a powerful force within his soul that broke free of Wuxin’s technique and reunited with his body, releasing an aura of death from the Underworld.

• Wuxin and Number Two remained at a stalemate as both waited for the other to leave the shadows, while the Gold Saints discussed ways to counter the technique.
• Number Two used two shadow clones to draw Wuxin’s attention before attacking with a spear formed from the shadows.
• Wuxin endured the spear and struck Number Two’s real body with Sekishiki Meikai Ha, pulling his soul from his body.
• Number Two lamented his defeat and blamed Wuxin before surrendering to the other self he had suppressed.
• Number Two’s awakened power shattered Wuxin’s soul-binding technique, reunited his soul with his body, and filled the arena with an aura of death.

Wuxin defeated Number Two after the latter awakened the power of a Malefic Star, and Manigoldo and the other Gold Saints stopped him from escaping. After the battle, Wuxin was declared the Silver division winner and invited to choose a Cloth, leaving him before twelve silver Cloth boxes.

• Number Two awakened as a Malefic Star and attacked Wuxin, revealing that he had been one of the Specters present during the earlier assassination attempt.
• Manigoldo caught Number Two's spear and intervened, while Aries Shion used Crystal Wall to block Number Two's escape through the shadows.
• Number Two lunged toward Sasha, but Taurus Hasgard and Manigoldo stopped him, and Manigoldo burned him with Demonic Blue Flames.
• Manigoldo preserved Number Two's corpse so Sanctuary could suppress his resurrection, and the referee declared Wuxin the winner.
• Pope Sage congratulated Wuxin, and Sasha summoned twelve unclaimed silver Cloths for him to choose from.

Wuxin failed to win any of the twelve Silver Cloths until the Crateris Cloth abandoned Baker and chose him. To settle who would become its owner, Sasha and Pope Sage ordered Wuxin and Baker to fight in one hour.

• Wuxin's Cosmo failed to awaken any of the twelve Cloths, leaving him unable to claim a Silver Cloth.
• The Crateris Cloth left Baker, reassembled as a silver cup, and flew to Wuxin after resonating with his Cosmo.
• Baker leaped into the arena and angrily demanded the Crateris Cloth, while Wuxin took a defensive stance.
• Pope Sage proposed a contest to decide the Cloth's owner, and Sasha reluctantly approved the ruling.
• Manigoldo stopped Baker and Wuxin from fighting immediately and warned them that Saints could not kill each other in Sanctuary.
• Sasha announced that Wuxin and Baker would fight for the Crateris Cloth in one hour, and both accepted.

Wuxin recovered enough from his earlier wound to face Baker in the contest for the Crateris Cloth. Baker’s layered ice attacks culminated in a surprise punch that broke Wuxin’s ribs, and he raised his fist for another blow.

• Ophiuchus Odysseus healed Wuxin’s wound to roughly eighty percent and warned him to protect the fragile area.
• Wuxin returned to the arena, where Baker insisted the Crateris Cloth belonged to him and accused Wuxin of using an evil spell.
• Pope Sage and Sasha agreed that Baker seemed mentally shaken and that someone should speak with him after the match.
• Baker used Frozen Earth to hem Wuxin in, but Wuxin’s Demonic Blue Flames stopped the advancing ice.
• Baker followed with Ice Spear White Lotus and concealed himself among the falling spears before ambushing Wuxin, breaking several of his ribs.
• Baker called Wuxin an unwanted nuisance and raised his fist to strike again.

Wuxin defeated Baker with Sekishiki Meikai Ha and received the Crateris Silver Cloth from Sasha, becoming the new Crateris Silver Saint. After recovering from his injuries, he began communicating with the Cloth to learn its abilities.

• Wuxin caught Baker at close range and used Sekishiki Meikai Ha to pull his soul from his body, winning the duel.
• The referee declared Wuxin the winner, and Baker left the arena after his soul returned to his body.
• Sasha awarded Wuxin the Crateris Silver Cloth, which boosted his mental power, Cosmo, and protection.
• Wuxin celebrated with Tenma and the other Saints, then went to Odysseus for treatment of his injuries.
• After resting for several days, Wuxin communicated with the Cloth's spirit and began learning its special abilities.

Wuxin considered the Crateris Cloth’s abilities and resolved to save the Pisces Gold Saint as the Holy War drew closer. He climbed the Sacred Mountain to ask Manigoldo for help learning ice techniques, but Manigoldo dismissed the idea and urged him to focus on the power of death.

• Wuxin learned that the Crateris Cloth could preserve only its previous bearer’s imprint and could create Moonlight Holy Water that healed external injuries.
• Three days later, three Silver Saints sent back under Underworld control attacked Sasha, and Sanctuary dispatched Libra Dohko and Aries Shion to investigate in Italy.
• Wuxin worried that the Underworld’s advance attack could soon kill the Pisces Gold Saint, and he resolved to try to save him.
• On the way to the Cancer Temple, Wuxin met Taurus Hasgard, who was patrolling Sanctuary because Specters had become more active.
• Wuxin asked Manigoldo to introduce him to Aquarius Dégel so he could learn ice techniques from the Crateris imprint.
• Manigoldo argued that Wuxin should focus on mastering the power of death instead, and Wuxin challenged his boast that their blue flames could burn away ice.

Wuxin persuaded Sisyphus to consider strengthening Sanctuary’s defenses as the Holy War approached, then reached the Aquarius Temple with Manigoldo to ask Dégel for guidance in mastering ice. The chapter ended with Wuxin making his request to Dégel.

• Manigoldo reconsidered his confidence in his techniques after Wuxin warned him about the legendary previous Aquarius and explained that skill depended on the person using it.
• Wuxin urged Manigoldo to support stronger patrols, and Sisyphus overheard them at the Sagittarius Temple.
• Wuxin proposed that Gold Saints patrol in pairs because powerful enemies such as the 108 Malefic Stars and the Defiler threatened Sanctuary.
• Sisyphus praised Wuxin’s proposal and promised to relay it to His Holiness.
• Manigoldo introduced Wuxin to Dégel at the Aquarius Temple, where Wuxin asked for guidance in mastering the power of ice.

Dégel agreed to teach Wuxin the basics of ice and began training him to freeze a pool, while Wuxin worked out how to draw heat from water quickly enough. Meanwhile, Sage ordered the Gold Saints to patrol in pairs, and the new teams were formed.

• Dégel warned Wuxin that studying ice alongside death could divide his efforts, but agreed to teach him for three days after Wuxin explained ice would remain a secondary discipline.
• Dégel explained that ice formed as water lost heat, then assigned Wuxin the task of freezing the entire pool in his training room.
• Wuxin began extracting Cosmo from the water and realized he had to do so faster than the water absorbed Cosmo from the surrounding air.
• Sisyphus relayed Wuxin's suggestion to Sage, who ordered all Gold Saints to patrol in pairs and watch each other's backs.
• The Gold Saints discussed the order and formed their new teams.

Wuxin mastered the basics of ice power, learned Frozen Earth and Ice Spear White Lotus from the Crateris Cloth's imprint, and received an urgent summons to the Pope's Hall. The chapter left him heading to learn why Lady Sasha and His Holiness wanted to see him.

• Dégel taught Wuxin to create a heat-absorbing medium and explained how it produced freezing effects even without water.
• Wuxin left the Aquarius Temple, settled near the sea, and used his Cosmo to imitate water and freeze part of the sea.
• After nearly seven days of training, Wuxin mastered freezing air and learned Frozen Earth and Ice Spear White Lotus from the Crateris Cloth's imprint.
• Manigoldo urgently summoned Wuxin to the Pope's Hall because Lady Sasha and His Holiness wanted to see him.

Wuxin learned that Alone had awakened as Hades and left Tenma near death, with Tenma’s soul cast into the Underworld. Sasha and Sage assigned Wuxin to rescue him and gather material for a Demon-Subduing Rosary, but the divine Soapberry tree would only bear fruit when stimulated by Pegasus’s Cosmo.

• Wuxin saw Aries Shion dejected and found the Libra Cloth badly damaged as he passed through the Golden Temples.
• Sasha and Sage told Wuxin that Alone had awakened as Hades, destroyed his town, and cast Tenma’s soul into the Underworld.
• Sage asked Wuxin to enter the Underworld and rescue Tenma, and Wuxin accepted the mission.
• Sage revealed that a divine messenger had given Sanctuary instructions for making a Demon-Subduing Rosary to prevent Specters from resurrecting.
• Sage explained that the rosary required fruit from the divine Soapberry tree near Hell’s Great Waterfall of Blood, and that only Pegasus’s Cosmo could make it bear fruit.

Wuxin entered Yomotsu Hirasaka to find Tenma's soul and collect soapberry fruit, carrying a fragment of Tenma's Cloth to guide him. After learning that Dohko had died, he disguised himself as a Specter and entered the Underworld, where he landed among wandering corpses and ghosts.

• Pope Sage gave Wuxin a fragment of the Tenma Constellation Cloth and told him to find Tenma's soul before the Specters did.
• Wuxin opened a passage to Yomotsu Hirasaka, and Sasha wished him a safe journey and asked him to bring Tenma back.
• Sage told Wuxin that Dohko had died after fighting Kagaho and being ambushed by Minos, shocking Wuxin as he entered the passage.
• Wuxin arrived in Yomotsu Hirasaka, covered his Crateris Cloth with death energy to disguise himself, and intimidated a ghost guard into letting him pass.
• Wuxin leaped into the abyss and fell into the Underworld, where he struck the ground and blasted away the ghosts and walking corpses drawn to him.

Wuxin crossed the Sanzu River and searched the First Prison for Tenma, learning that the Specters were hunting his soul. He spotted Tenma breaking through a group of ghost officers, but Tenma mistook Wuxin for a Specter.

• Wuxin used the Pegasus Cloth fragment to locate Tenma and reached the Sanzu River.
• Wuxin gathered valuables from the dead and paid Charon to ferry him across the river.
• Wuxin learned from Charon that the Specters were searching the First Prison for Tenma’s soul so they could seal him away.
• Wuxin followed the Cloth fragment’s direction through the First Prison while avoiding ghost officers.
• Wuxin saw Tenma’s soul break through a group of ghost officers, and Tenma spotted Wuxin and feared he was a Specter.

Wuxin rescued Tenma in the Underworld, disguised him as a Specter, and explained that Tenma had to help make the divine Soapberry tree bear fruit. They evaded several patrols and reached the boundary between the First and Second Prisons.

• Tenma mistook Wuxin for a Specter and attacked, but Wuxin easily stopped his Pegasus Ryusei Ken and explained his death-energy disguise.
• Du Pont of the Terrestrial Inferiority Star demanded Tenma’s soul, and Wuxin pretended to comply while Tenma drew Du Pont’s attention with another attack.
• Wuxin struck Du Pont with Sekishiki: Demonic Blue Flames, killing him as the soul-burning flames consumed him.
• Wuxin disguised Tenma in death energy, then told him about the Demon-Subduing Rosary and the need to make the divine Soapberry tree bear fruit.
• Wuxin led Tenma deeper into the Underworld, bypassing eight ghost warden cordons before they reached the boundary between the First and Second Prisons.

Wuxin and Tenma entered the Second Prison, where Wuxin explained the purpose of Hell’s punishments and the strange, corrosive rain. After Lune learned Tenma had likely advanced, Pharaoh sent Cerberus after the messengers and mobilized the Second Prison to search for intruders.

• Wuxin and Tenma crossed the death-aura mist and entered the Second Prison, where dense, heavy rain battered them and harmed even Tenma’s soul.
• Wuxin told Tenma that the Underworld’s punishments repaid evil deeds and deterred wrongdoing, though he did not believe Hades should rule the human world.
• Lune learned that the Terrestrial Inferiority Star had been killed and that Tenma might have entered the Second Prison, so he ordered his Specters to keep searching and warned Pharaoh to capture Tenma.
• Pharaoh mocked Lune’s failure, summoned Cerberus, and let the hound devour the messengers who had delivered the news.
• Pharaoh calmed Cerberus with his harp and ordered the Specters and underworld guards to search the Second Prison for suspicious people.

Wuxin and Tenma evaded the Second Prison's patrols, but Pharaoh's hellhound, Cerberus, picked up their scent and pursued them. They reached a mysterious sunlit garden that Wuxin recognized as appearing far too early, then Cerberus attacked and Wuxin moved to fight him.

• Wuxin warned Tenma that fighting Specters in their territory would expose them to overwhelming reinforcements and concealed that Tenma's teacher, Dohko, had died in battle.
• Pharaoh's search of the Second Prison found no trace of Tenma, so he punished his Specter subordinates until Cerberus caught the faint scent of strangers beneath a rock.
• Cerberus followed the scent, while Wuxin sensed danger and hurried Tenma toward a light in the distance.
• Wuxin and Tenma discovered a sunlit garden amid the rain, and Wuxin realized it was appearing before its proper time.
• Cerberus ambushed the pair, and Wuxin dodged the hellhound's first attacks and prepared to counter its third head.

Wuxin and Tenma fled from Heavenly Beast Star Pharaoh into a protected garden, where a harpist stopped Pharaoh from entering. The garden’s unseen lord ordered Pharaoh and the other Specters to take their own lives in atonement, leaving Pharaoh protesting his loyalty to Lord Hades.

• Wuxin used Sekishiki: Demonic Blue Flames to burn Cerberus to ash, then tried to escape with Tenma as Pharaoh approached.
• Pharaoh struck Wuxin and Tenma with a sonic shock wave, injuring Wuxin and blasting them into the garden in the rain.
• A harpist who resembled Lyra Orphée appeared and warned Pharaoh not to cross the garden’s boundary, forcing him and the other Specters to remain outside.
• Pharaoh admitted he had pursued Wuxin and Tenma after they killed Cerberus, and he severed his own right leg when the harpist rebuked him for disturbing the lord’s peace.
• The harpist relayed the lord’s order for Pharaoh and the Specters to take their own lives in atonement, then challenged Pharaoh’s loyalty to Lord Hades when he hesitated.

Wuxin and Tenma encountered Orpheus, who had forced Heavenly Beast Star Pharaoh and his subordinates to die, and followed him into a hidden garden. The garden’s mistress recognized them as Athena’s Saints, leaving them to face an audience with a powerful figure who claimed to be half the master of the Underworld.

• Heavenly Beast Star Pharaoh killed his Specters and wardens, then tore out his own heart to atone before the garden’s master.
• Orpheus revealed armor unlike a Surplice, warned Wuxin and Tenma not to resist, and led them to meet his master.
• Wuxin and Tenma saw flower sprites serving a lady in black gauze at a white temple pavilion.
• The lady identified Wuxin and Tenma as Athena’s Saints despite their disguises, and they revealed their identities.

Wuxin and Tenma met a powerful black-veiled lady in the Underworld, who rewarded them with nectar and then tasked them with secretly obtaining a seed of the Searing Heart Spirit Flame from Hephaestus. She revealed that Wuxin, rather than Tenma, was the person she had chosen, and began explaining her view of fate.

• The black-veiled lady recognized Tenma as the current Tenma Constellation and learned that Athena's blessing had preserved his soul after Alone struck him.
• Wuxin explained that he had memory gaps and did not know which god supported him, while withholding the Sanctuary's plans.
• The lady gave Wuxin and Tenma nectar, strengthening Wuxin's Cosmo and raising Tenma from High Bronze to Silver Level.
• The lady demanded that they find Hephaestus in the Eighth Trench of the Seventh Prison and obtain a seed of the Searing Heart Spirit Flame, warning them not to ask why she wanted it.
• Wuxin questioned why the lady had chosen them, and she disclosed that Wuxin was her intended agent before asking whether he had heard of fate.

Wuxin and Tenma entered the Seventh Prison with help from Persephone, the Queen of the Underworld, and learned that she expected Wuxin to fulfill a task. As Pandora ordered a search for Tenma, the pair reached the First Trench, where Wuxin planned to send Tenma back to the human world while continuing alone.

• The lady in black gauze sent Wuxin and Tenma directly to the Seventh Prison and warned Wuxin that he could not leave the Underworld without her permission.
• Wuxin recognized the lady as Persephone, the Queen of the Underworld, and explained to Tenma why she might secretly oppose Hades.
• After Heavenly Heroic Star Lune reported Tenma missing, Pandora ordered the commanders of every Hell to search for him.
• Wuxin and Tenma evaded increased patrols with Wuxin's disguises and crossed the trenches toward the Great Waterfall of Blood.
• Wuxin told Tenma he would send him to the human world after they found the Soapberry fruit, then stay behind to fulfill Persephone's request.

Wuxin and Tenma were exposed by Heavenly Longevity Star Elhart and fought him and his ghost wardens. Wuxin brought Elhart down with Soul Burial Wave and pursued him with Demonic Blue Flames as Elhart struggled to move.

• Elhart sensed that Wuxin was alive and attacked him, but Wuxin countered with a surprise punch that shattered Elhart's Surplice.
• Wuxin used Sekishiki Meikai Ha, and Tenma followed with Pegasus Ryusei Ken, injuring Elhart after he split into bats to evade their attacks.
• Wuxin fought Elhart while Tenma battled the ghost wardens, and Wuxin dodged Elhart's Crimson Cross Ray.
• Elhart took to the air and sent a Crimson Storm of vampire bats toward Wuxin, who destroyed it with Sekishiki: Soul Burial Wave.
• Wuxin pursued the badly injured Elhart and prepared Demonic Blue Flames while Elhart struggled to rise.