Chapter Summaries

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.