Chapter Summaries

After Du Bai and Bibi Dong drove off the soul beasts, Bibi Dong insisted on sleeping alone while Du Bai kept watch. Reflecting on his poor aim with the AK-47 Fire Qilin, Du Bai resolved to practice shooting on soul beasts starting the next day.

• Du Bai and Bibi Dong finished clearing the low-level soul beasts, and Du Bai asked whether Bibi Dong was okay.
• Bibi Dong refused to share the tent with Du Bai and decided to stand watch, but Du Bai persuaded her to rest while he took the night watch.
• Du Bai put a soundproof cover over Bibi Dong's tent, and Bibi Dong felt warmed by his consideration.
• Du Bai realized that his inexperience with guns had made him miss many soul beasts despite the AK-47 Fire Qilin's enhanced accuracy in Weapon Martial Soul True Body.
• Du Bai resolved to practice shooting on soul beasts and train until he could master his firearms.

Du Bai opened the Level 80 Soul Douluo Gift Pack and received a Shocking Gold Card, which promised a Soul Beast Sacrifice based on how much his chosen feat shocked others. He stored the card to consider later and trained with his AK-47 Fire Qilin martial soul while keeping watch over Bibi Dong.

• Du Bai stood guard over the sleeping Bibi Dong until dawn and opened his Level 80 Soul Douluo Gift Pack.
• The gift pack gave Du Bai a Shocking Gold Card that would reward him with a Soul Beast Sacrifice, potentially up to one million years old, for completing a shocking feat.
• Du Bai considered revealing his black soul rings or twin martial souls, but decided he could not yet choose a feat likely to earn the greatest reward.
• Du Bai put the Shocking Gold Card into his Storage Space and used his AK-47 Fire Qilin True Body to scan the surroundings and familiarize himself with his martial soul.

Du Bai and Bibi Dong set out through Sunset Forest, with Du Bai secretly planning to reach the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well while improving his shooting. The chapter left them testing the Fire Qilin AK’s unusual Soul Power consumption as Du Bai killed a Scarlet Leaf Python.

• Bibi Dong thanked Du Bai for the soundproof barrier and suggested they take turns keeping watch, and Du Bai agreed.
• Du Bai and Bibi Dong washed, ate, packed up camp, and began traveling through Sunset Forest toward his undisclosed destination.
• Du Bai kept his Fire Qilin Martial Soul Avatar active, then explained that it consumed little Soul Power until he fired it.
• Du Bai spotted a seven-hundred-year Scarlet Leaf Python and shot it dead with the Fire Qilin, though he lamented that several bullets had missed.

Du Bai practiced using his newly awakened Fire Qilin martial soul as a gun while traveling with Bibi Dong, explaining its bullets and long-range attacks to her. He injured numerous soul beasts as targets, improving his firearm skills, while Bibi Dong watched in disbelief.

• Du Bai missed several shots at a motionless seven-hundred-year Scarlet Leaf Python, and he told Bibi Dong he needed practice to master his changed martial soul.
• Du Bai explained that his Fire Qilin was a gun that fired powerful bullets, though Bibi Dong remained puzzled by the weapon.
• Du Bai leered at Bibi Dong, and she caught his thoughts and glared at him.
• Du Bai and Bibi Dong continued through the forest as Du Bai practiced on soul beasts, injuring many and accidentally killing some.
• Du Bai's firearm proficiency increased as he continued using the Fire Qilin with his Seventh Soul Skill.

Du Bai used his Sixth Soul Skill to defeat a ten-thousand-year Scarlet Scale Leopard, then continued searching with Bibi Dong for a fifty-thousand-year soul beast. Meanwhile, the Soul Hunting Dream Team took advantage of injured beasts to help three clients find soul rings, but Captain Wang Ye threatened the clients when they demanded refunds.

• Du Bai's Sixth Soul Skill boosted his firing, and he riddled the charging Scarlet Scale Leopard with bullets until it collapsed unconscious.
• Du Bai declined the leopard's ten-thousand-year soul ring, and he and Bibi Dong resumed searching for a fifty-thousand-year soul beast.
• Du Bai's wounded but spared soul beasts made hunting easier for teams in Sunset Forest, and the Soul Hunting Dream Team helped three newly promoted soul masters obtain soul rings.
• The team's fourth client demanded a refund after noticing the wounded beasts were easy to hunt, and the other clients joined in.
• Wang Ye refused to lower the agreed price and threatened the clients when they kept arguing.

Soul Masters in Sunset Forest took advantage of injured Soul Beasts, and Meng Yiran obtained a seven-hundred-year Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent Soul Ring. She demonstrated her new second Soul Skill, Ensnaring Profundity, to her grandparents.

• Wang Ye seized a wounded seven-hundred-year Ghost Vine from a boy who had been about to kill it, and ordered his newly advanced teammate to absorb its Soul Ring for extra payment.
• Soul Master teams across Sunset Forest hunted injured Soul Beasts that had appeared in unusual numbers.
• Dragon Duke Meng Shu and Snake Grandma Chao Tianxiang found a crippled seven-hundred-year Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent suited to Meng Yiran's Serpent Cane martial soul.
• Meng Yiran killed the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent and successfully absorbed its Soul Ring.
• Meng Yiran demonstrated Ensnaring Profundity, whose phantom serpent constricted a tree and pulled her backward through the air.

Meng Yiran explained her new Second Soul Skill, Ensnaring Profundity, before Dragon Duke Meng Shu captured a badly wounded seven-hundred-year-old Man Faced Demon Spider. He revealed it would have been a better fit for her than the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent she had already absorbed, then crushed the spider in frustration as Shi Nian led Canghui Academy’s students through Sunset Forest.

• Meng Yiran described how Ensnaring Profundity bound opponents and briefly increased her speed and let her fly, earning praise from Dragon Duke Meng Shu and Snake Grandma Chao Tianxiang.
• Dragon Duke Meng Shu spotted a shadow in the forest, released his martial soul, and returned with a nearly dead Man Faced Demon Spider.
• Meng Shu explained that the spider’s seven-hundred-year cultivation made it especially suitable for Meng Yiran, and he and Chao Tianxiang regretted that she had already absorbed the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent’s soul ring.
• Meng Shu consoled Meng Yiran by praising her new skill, then smashed the Man Faced Demon Spider with his dragon-headed cane.
• Shi Nian led Canghui Academy’s students through Sunset Forest on a training expedition.

Shi Nian led Canghui Academy’s seven students through Sunset Forest, where they fought wounded soul beasts and practiced teamwork. After hearing the aftermath of a fierce battle, he found Du Bai and Bibi Dong beside a dead thirty-thousand-year Phoenix Pattern Demon Python and asked to buy its gallbladder, while Du Bai recognized him as the dangerous illusion specialist Shi Nian.

• Shi Nian watched Zhang Jingyang, Zhu Zizhang, and the other Canghui Academy students defeat a wounded thousand-year tiger soul beast through coordinated attacks.
• Shi Nian led the students onward to find a campsite as evening fell, then changed course after hearing sounds nearby.
• Shi Nian found Du Bai and Bibi Dong standing beside the corpse of a thirty-thousand-year Phoenix Pattern Demon Python, with a spirit bone visible in its body.
• Shi Nian asked Du Bai and Bibi Dong to sell him the python’s gallbladder, while Du Bai identified Shi Nian and recalled his Remnant Dream martial soul and Illusionary Wisdom Spirit Bone.

Du Bai and Bibi Dong thwarted Shi Nian’s illusion and attacked him after discovering he was after the Phoenix-Tailed Demon Python’s torso soul bone. As Shi Nian fled, Du Bai slowed him with Raging Waves Destructive Strike and forced him to use a Death Substitute Puppet.

• Shi Nian asked to buy the Phoenix-Tailed Demon Python, while Du Bai exposed its thirty-thousand-year torso soul bone and drew Shi Nian’s greedy attention.
• Shi Nian used his Nightmare soul skill to trap Du Bai and Bibi Dong in an illusion as Du Bai fired his Barrett Destroyer at him.
• Bibi Dong activated True World and shattered the illusion, revealing that Shi Nian had fled and his seven Canghui Academy students were unconscious.
• Bibi Dong pointed out Shi Nian’s fleeing figure, and Du Bai aimed his Barrett Destruction Sniper Rifle and used Raging Waves Destructive Strike to slow him by ninety percent.
• Shi Nian sensed the incoming danger and summoned a Death Substitute Puppet, pouring Soul Power into it until it took on his appearance.

Shi Nian escaped after Du Bai and Bibi Dong defeated him, then planned to blame them for his students’ fate and the lost Soul Bone. Du Bai and Bibi Dong regrouped after exhausting their power, and Du Bai offered her a Great Returning Pill.

• Shi Nian used a Death Substitute Puppet to escape Du Bai’s Raging Waves Destructive Strike and fled, abandoning his seven students.
• Shi Nian stopped to recover, deciding to report that Du Bai and Bibi Dong had nearly silenced him and his students over the Soul Bone.
• Du Bai regretted that Shi Nian had escaped, while he and Bibi Dong recovered from the heavy Soul Power and spiritual energy they had spent.
• Du Bai thanked Bibi Dong for breaking Shi Nian’s illusion with True World, and Bibi Dong said they were together.
• Du Bai asked Bibi Dong if she wanted a Great Returning Pill.

After defeating the Phoenix-Tailed Demon Python, Du Bai offered its body Spirit Bone to Bibi Dong and tried to trade it for the External Spirit Bone: Six-Winged Purple Light Wings. Bibi Dong kept the new Spirit Bone and let Du Bai retain the External Spirit Bone, leaving their fake marriage arrangement intact.

• After recovering their Soul Power, Du Bai used his AK-47 Fire Qilin and Qilin bayonet to retrieve the Phoenix-Tailed Demon Python's body Spirit Bone without touching its venomous corpse.
• When Du Bai offered the Demon Python Body Spirit Bone to Bibi Dong, she accepted it despite his secret hope that she would refuse.
• Du Bai asked to trade the External Spirit Bone: Six-Winged Purple Light Wings for the Demon Python Body Spirit Bone, but Bibi Dong refused and said she wanted to keep their fake marriage arrangement.
• Du Bai insisted he was only pretending to be Bibi Dong's husband because of the External Spirit Bone, while privately hoping she would understand that he liked her.

Du Bai and Bibi Dong camped in Sunset Forest after defeating Shi Nian, and Du Bai explained the temporary soul rings on his second Martial Soul. As Bibi Dong grew more comfortable with him, Du Bai seized a chance to touch her shoulder, unaware that she could hear his thoughts.

• Du Bai and Bibi Dong left the unconscious Canghui Academy students behind and found a campsite in Sunset Forest.
• Bibi Dong asked why Du Bai's second Martial Soul had eight soul rings, and he explained that the Perishable Soul Rings would disappear after fourteen days.
• Bibi Dong reflected on how stifling her past with Yu Xiaogang had been and how free she felt with Du Bai.
• Du Bai noticed Bibi Dong's troubled expression, moved beside her, and patted her shoulder while secretly enjoying the contact.
• Bibi Dong heard Du Bai's thoughts but chose to ignore his lecherous delight and thanked him gently.

Du Bai opened the Level 79 Soul Douluo Gift Pack and obtained four Purification Talismans that could remove negative effects and briefly grant immunity to control and suppression. Elsewhere in Sunset Forest, the boy whose Ghost Vine had been stolen chased the injured Demon Tumor Tree, hoping to claim it as his second Soul Ring.

• Du Bai waited for midnight, then opened the Level 79 Soul Douluo Gift Pack inside the System's Storage Space.
• Du Bai received four Purification Talismans and learned they could remove negative effects, control, and suppression while granting three seconds of immunity.
• Du Bai decided to save the talismans for a critical moment rather than give two to Bibi Dong.
• In Sunset Forest, the boy whose Ghost Vine had been stolen found the badly injured Demon Tumor Tree that Du Bai had crippled earlier.
• The boy chased the poisonous tree despite being poisoned and suffering diarrhea, determined to make it his second Soul Ring.

Yu Chenglong killed a badly wounded seven-hundred-year-old Demon Tumor Tree and began absorbing its spirit ring through his martial spirit, Nightmare. The chapter revealed how the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan dismissed him because his martial spirit resembled Yu Xiaogang’s supposedly useless Three Puffs.

• Yu Chenglong chased the fleeing Demon Tumor Tree through the forest, determined to make it his spirit ring.
• Little Dream, Yu Chenglong’s Nightmare martial spirit, collided with the tree and gave him a chance to catch it.
• Yu Chenglong stabbed the Demon Tumor Tree until it died, then began guiding Nightmare to absorb its spirit ring.
• The narration explained that Yu Chenglong came from a branch family of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and had hoped to awaken a dragon martial spirit.
• Yu Chenglong’s family and clan members scorned his Nightmare because it resembled Yu Xiaogang’s Three Puffs, and he endured years of ridicule.

Yu Chenglong and Nightmare absorbed the Demon Tumor Tree’s seven-hundred-year soul ring, gaining a powerful poison-based second soul skill and strengthening their first. Yu Chenglong resolved to keep proving that Nightmare was not useless.

• Yu Chenglong’s Nightmare successfully absorbed the Demon Tumor Tree’s seven-hundred-year soul ring, and its strength and sinister aura increased.
• Yu Chenglong and Nightmare tested Green Tumor Poison Mist and found that its toxicity had increased by eighty percent.
• Nightmare used its second soul skill, Demon Tumor Bomb, to destroy an ancient tree and spread a large, potent poisonous haze.
• Yu Chenglong recognized that the new skill could drain opponents’ Soul Power and inflict severe physical symptoms, making his chosen path seem promising.
• Yu Chenglong and Nightmare celebrated their newfound strength, with Yu Chenglong determined to continue proving Nightmare was not useless.

Yu Chenglong planned to use his improved soul skills to earn resources in the Soul Fighting Arena, then thanked the unseen expert who had injured the soul beasts that let him hunt the Demon Tumor Tree. While examining the Demon Tumor Tree's corpse, he discovered a skull soul bone and began fusing it.

• Yu Chenglong planned to strengthen his foundation and use his poison mist skills to defeat opponents and earn resources in the Soul Fighting Arena.
• Yu Chenglong thanked Du Bai, whom he regarded as his benefactor, for injuring the soul beasts and giving him the chance to hunt the Demon Tumor Tree.
• Yu Chenglong spotted a flash of green light in the Demon Tumor Tree's corpse and dissected it with his dagger.
• Yu Chenglong found and retrieved a dark-green Demon Tumor Tree skull soul bone.
• Yu Chenglong asked Nightmare to keep watch, then touched the soul bone to his head and began fusing it.

Yu Chenglong successfully fused the Demon Tumor Tree skull soul bone, gaining stronger poison abilities and a new gaze skill, then vowed to repay the hidden benefactor he believed had helped him. Meanwhile, Du Bai and Bibi Dong headed toward the center of Sunset Forest, while Shi Nian was stopped by the Peerless Dragon Snake couple and claimed his seven students had been eaten by soul beasts.

• Yu Chenglong fused the Demon Tumor Tree skull soul bone, evolving his poison skill and gaining Demon Tumor Eye Gaze at the cost of one-fifth of his Soul Power per use.
• Yu Chenglong thanked the dead Demon Tumor Tree and the hidden expert he believed had given him the soul ring and soul bone, and he resolved to recognize the expert by his distinctive attacks.
• Du Bai and Bibi Dong set out toward the central region of Sunset Forest, where powerful soul beasts and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well were located.
• Shi Nian fled through Sunset Forest after resting, but Meng Shu, his wife, and their granddaughter blocked his way.
• Meng Shu questioned Shi Nian about his missing students, and Shi Nian claimed soul beasts had eaten them as he asked to be allowed to leave.

Shi Nian tricked Dragon Duke Meng Shu and Snake Grandma Chao Tianxiang into pursuing Du Bai and Bibi Dong by telling them about a thirty-thousand-year Magic Python Spirit Bone. As Du Bai and Bibi Dong entered the quiet central region of Sunset Forest, Bibi Dong warned that a dangerous soul beast might be nearby.

• Shi Nian claimed a Phoenix Pattern Demon Python had produced a thirty-thousand-year body bone and that two Soul Douluos had killed his students.
• Dragon Duke Meng Shu and Snake Grandma Chao Tianxiang grew interested in the spirit bone and decided to seek out the pair, bringing Meng Yiran and forcing Shi Nian to guide them.
• Yu Chenglong overheard the plan, hoped the pair were his benefactors, and left rather than risk getting caught in a Soul Douluo battle.
• Du Bai and Bibi Dong continued toward the central region of Sunset Forest without knowing they were being pursued.
• Bibi Dong noticed the forest had fallen completely silent and warned Du Bai that a terrifying soul beast could be nearby.

Du Bai and Bibi Dong encountered a fifty-five-thousand-year Evil Dragon Winged Mosquito in Sunset Forest and fought it together. Bibi Dong brought the wounded Soul Beast down, and she urged Du Bai to kill it because its attributes might suit him.

• Du Bai suspected they had entered the territory of a powerful Soul Beast and summoned his Barrett Destroyer for protection.
• A giant mosquito ambushed Du Bai, but he used his Phantom Gun skill to evade the attack and wound it with three shots.
• Bibi Dong attacked the Evil Dragon Winged Mosquito with her Death Spider Web and Blood Sucking Spider Thorn skills.
• Bibi Dong's web bound the mosquito, and her spider thorn drained its Soul Power and life force until it weakened.
• Bibi Dong told Du Bai to finish off the fifty-five-thousand-year Soul Beast, saying its attack and agility attributes might suit him.

Du Bai killed the fifty-five-thousand-year Evil Dragon Winged Mosquito and absorbed its soul ring for his AK-47 Fire Qilin. He gained the first soul skill, Mosquito's Wrath, and left Bibi Dong feeling closer to him.

• Du Bai released his AK-47 Fire Qilin and prepared to kill the weakened Evil Dragon Winged Mosquito while Bibi Dong stepped aside.
• Bibi Dong heard Du Bai’s thoughts about loving only her and was moved by his declaration of devotion.
• Du Bai fired twenty bullets into the mosquito’s head, killing it and producing a black soul ring.
• Du Bai absorbed the soul ring, and his Soul Power rose slightly.
• Du Bai told Bibi Dong that he had gained Mosquito's Wrath and offered to show her the skill next time.