Chapter Summaries

Xia Liang met Xue Qinghe for tea, learned that Xue Qinghe wanted his support in the imperial rivalry, and discussed the resonance between their Martial Souls. Xue Qinghe proposed they become sworn brothers, leaving Xia Liang to consider the unexpected offer as he left.

• Xia Liang joined Xue Qinghe for tea and suspected the tea might be drugged, but drank it because he was immune to poison.
• Xue Qinghe studied the resonance between her disguised Swan Martial Soul and Xia Liang’s Skeleton Martial Soul, suspecting his Martial Soul had unusual potential.
• Xue Qinghe explained that he wanted to build a good relationship with Xia Liang because the Empire Academy talent’s political support mattered; Xia Liang promised to support him over Xue Xing and Xue Beng.
• Xia Liang pointed out that their Martial Soul resonance could lead to a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Xue Qinghe said their bond could resemble the alliance between the Star Luo Imperial Family and the Zhu Family.
• Xue Qinghe proposed that they become sworn brothers, but told Xia Liang he could think it over; Xia Liang left the office considering the suggestion.

Xia Liang planned to use his new bond with Xue Qinghe to gain access to Spirit Hall resources and search Death Canyon for a Shadow Lord, while Qian Renxue continued her secret cultivation in the imperial palace. The chapter ended with an informant reporting Xia Liang’s origins to Qian Renxue.

• Xia Liang hoped to befriend Qian Renxue through Xue Qinghe so he could seek help from the Worship Hall and Death Canyon’s guardians.
• Xia Liang decided to study Tang San’s manuscript and develop a Meditation Method before finding a way into Death Canyon.
• Qian Renxue entered her hidden chamber, dropped her Xue Qinghe disguise, and cultivated using the Brilliant Gold Stone Bed.
• Qian Renxue lamented that her infiltration mission had left her at level fifty-eight despite her innate level-twenty Soul Power.
• An aged informant told Qian Renxue that Xia Liang had awakened his Martial Soul in Guowan Village eight years earlier, and Qian Renxue asked Uncle Xue to continue the report.

After investigating Xia Liang's rise from a crippled Skeleton Martial Soul, Qian Renxue realized his Martial Soul Fusion Skill could expose that her Swan Martial Soul concealed her identity. She decided to reveal herself and recruit him, while ordering Uncle Xue to prepare poison to keep him from betraying her secret.

• Qian Renxue heard Uncle Xue report Xia Liang's history and concluded that his theoretical knowledge had helped him develop his Martial Soul.
• Qian Renxue warned Uncle Xue that Xia Liang could infer her identity from the resonance between his Skeleton Martial Soul and her Swan Martial Soul.
• Qian Renxue rejected killing Xia Liang and decided to reveal herself to win him over as Qian Renxue.
• Qian Renxue ordered Uncle Xue to make potent poison that Xia Liang would be forced to take as a safeguard against him exposing her identity.
• Qian Renxue told Uncle Xue to keep the investigation and her plans secret, especially from that woman, then returned to the Brilliant Gold Stone Bed to consider her decision.

Qian Renxue revealed to Xia Liang that she was Spirit Hall’s young mistress disguised as Xue Qinghe and demanded his loyalty, but he rejected her attempt to control him with poison. They reconciled by agreeing to protect each other’s secrets, and Qian Renxue promised him access to Death Canyon and Spirit Hall facilities.

• Qian Renxue led Xia Liang into a hidden chamber and revealed her identity and plan to take control of the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Xia Liang asked for time to consider her demand, then said he would follow her as his sworn elder brother and Martial Soul partner.
• Qian Renxue offered Xia Liang a poison pill, but he seized it remotely and crushed it, warning that coercion would destroy their trust and threaten their chance of developing a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Qian Renxue relented and agreed not to poison him, while Xia Liang promised to keep her identity secret.
• Xia Liang asked to cultivate in Death Canyon, and Qian Renxue promised to give him a Spirit Hall Elder’s Token in a few days.
• After Xia Liang left, Qian Renxue calmed herself through meditation and resolved to challenge him in a spirit battle.

Qian Renxue secretly arranged to have Xia Liang watched after he left the palace, while Xia Liang chose not to expose her and returned to cultivating. At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Dugu Yan reunited with him and revealed that the Immortal Herbs had evolved her Martial Soul into the Jade Phosphor Serpent Queen.

• Qian Renxue explained to Uncle Xue that Uncle She would follow Xia Liang and kill him if he tried to expose her, and she planned to judge his loyalty over the next few days.
• Xia Liang returned to his palace bedroom without alerting Great Emperor Xue Ye, remained wary of being watched, and later returned safely to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Xia Liang cultivated in the mountain cave Mimetic Field and planned to enter Death Canyon after receiving the Elder's Token to strengthen his Soul Power.
• Dugu Yan met Xia Liang at the academy, embraced him, and learned that he had sworn brotherhood with the crown prince.
• Dugu Yan displayed her evolved Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul, which had awakened a Dragon Species Bloodline and become the top-grade Jade Phosphor Serpent Queen.

Dugu Yan awakened her Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul into the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor and prepared to leave for spirit battle training in Suotuo City. Xia Liang received an Elder’s Token from Xue Qinghe and entered Death Canyon, where the chapter left him walking among bones and bloodstains.

• Dugu Yan showed Xia Liang her evolved Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor form, which gave her dragon poison, flight, scaled armor, and a Soul Power level of forty-three.
• Dugu Yan challenged Xia Liang to a spirit battle, but Yu Feng arrived with Qin’s order for the team to travel to Suotuo City for training.
• Xia Liang told Dugu Yan their match could wait until after training, and she kissed his cheek before heading to the training grounds.
• Xue Qinghe gave Xia Liang the Elder’s Token and warned him about the dangerous Spirit Hall Soul Masters in Death Canyon.
• Twenty days later, Xia Liang showed the token at Death Canyon’s entrance and proceeded into the canyon past bones, bloodstains, and the smell of rotting corpses.

Xia Liang entered Death Canyon and found that its darkness and death aura greatly strengthened his Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul and aided his cultivation. After three days meditating in a graveyard, he encountered a Spirit Hall Soul Emperor dragging a Soul Master’s corpse, who asked whether Xia Liang belonged to Spirit Hall.

• Xia Liang entered Death Canyon, where the undead and dense death aura stirred his Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul.
• Xia Liang noticed a Soul Saint following him at a distance and guessed that Qian Renxue had sent the expert to monitor and protect him.
• Xia Liang summoned roughly five hundred Black-Purple Ghost Fire clusters to search Death Canyon for Soul Beasts like the Shadow Lord.
• Xia Liang spent three days cultivating in a graveyard, where the death aura rapidly strengthened his Soul Power and Martial Soul Origin.
• A middle-aged Spirit Hall deacon arrived dragging a Soul Master’s corpse, asked Xia Liang if he was a Spirit Hall Soul Master, and Xia Liang handed him a token.

Xia Liang used Cixue's Elder's Token to secure solitude in Death Canyon and advanced to rank forty-nine after a month of cultivation. While investigating a Death Demon Spider for his fifth Soul Ring, he noticed its unusually colored foreleg bone and suspected it was a Soul Bone Rudiment.

• Xia Liang showed a Spirit Hall soul emperor Cixue's Elder's Token and asked to be left undisturbed in his cultivation ground.
• After a month in Death Canyon, Xia Liang advanced from rank forty-eight to rank forty-nine and considered pursuing the Shadow Lord for his fifth Soul Ring.
• Xia Liang heard a noise, spotted a Death Demon Spider, and dodged its attack with Spatial Jump before striking back with his Skeleton Right Arm.
• The Death Demon Spider escaped the blow with its webbing, and Xia Liang used Bone Observation to see that its left foreleg bone was Black-Purple while the rest of its skeleton was white.
• Xia Liang suspected the differently colored bone was a Soul Bone Rudiment and considered testing the idea by killing the spider.

Xia Liang killed a Death Demon Spider, devoured its undead, and took the poison-attribute Soul Bone it dropped. When five Soul Masters arrived, he teleported away, leaving them to suspect he had taken something valuable.

• Xia Liang used Susanoo's Bow to kill the fleeing Death Demon Spider with a Black Flame arrow.
• Xia Liang devoured the spider's undead, strengthening his Martial Soul and slightly increasing his Soul Power.
• Xia Liang used X-ray Vision to find and remotely retrieve the Death Demon Spider's twenty-thousand-year left arm bone, intending to save it for Dugu Yan.
• Five Soul Masters appeared as the spider's Ten-Thousand Year Soul Ring emerged, and Xia Liang teleported five li away before rushing toward the entrance of Death Canyon.
• The white-clothed man questioned why Xia Liang had fled without absorbing the Soul Ring, while the heavily made-up woman dismissed his suspicion.

After Xia Liang killed the Death Demon Spider and escaped, the beast’s intended hunters suspected he had taken a ten-thousand-year soul bone and organized a search. Xia Liang was caught in their golden detection net, and the white-clothed man identified him as the fugitive.

• The white-clothed man told Brother Mo and the others that Xia Liang might have taken a ten-thousand-year soul bone, and they decided to pursue him for stealing Axin’s intended soul ring.
• Brother Mo sent Axin and Old Gao to create a Heaven and Earth Net with Axin’s Golden Bow and Old Gao’s wind abilities.
• Axin and Old Gao spread detection nets across a ten-li area, using the arrows’ shared perception to search for Xia Liang.
• Xia Liang headed toward Death Canyon’s entrance while using food-type soul skills to conceal his aura and block mental detection.
• Xia Liang’s Black-Purple Ribs deflected the arrows that struck him, but he entered the golden net formed by the arrows that landed around him.
• Old Gao recognized Xia Liang through the net and announced that he had found him.

Xia Liang confronted five Spirit Hall elites who tried to seize the Death Demon Spider Left Arm Bone and killed them all, destroying their bodies and devouring their souls. After gaining enough Soul Power to reach level 50, he collected their possessions and headed for Death Canyon’s entrance, still concerned that Demon Bear Douluo’s clan might have secretly protected the burly man.

• Xia Liang stopped fleeing when the five Soul Masters cornered him, but they ignored his Elder’s Token and demanded the Death Demon Spider soul bone.
• Xia Liang revealed the Left Arm Bone, then ambushed the Heavily Made-up Woman and killed the burly man and tall thin man with his bone skills.
• The white-clothed man attacked Xia Liang, who killed him with Bone Transformation Susanoo’s Ten-Fist Sword and sealed his undead spirit.
• Xia Liang used Susanoo’s Bow to kill Axin, then killed the injured Heavily Made-up Woman and devoured the group’s souls.
• Xia Liang’s Soul Power rose from level 49 to level 50; he gathered the group’s Storage Soul Tools and soul bone, checked for witnesses, and left toward the entrance of Death Canyon.

Xia Liang returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, learned that Tang Hao had beaten Dugu Bo over Tang San’s injuries, and promised to help him seek revenge once he became stronger. After Xia Liang revealed that he had reached the Rank Fifty bottleneck, Dugu Bo agreed to help him hunt a fifth Soul Ring in Death Canyon.

• Xia Liang found Dugu Bo bruised and swollen at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and healed him with a medicinal leaf.
• Dugu Bo explained that Tang Hao had beaten him after Dugu Yan badly injured Tang San during a Soul Battle.
• Xia Liang promised to help Dugu Bo defeat Tang Hao after reaching the Soul Saint realm, and Dugu Bo was moved by his loyalty.
• Xia Liang revealed that he had reached the Rank Fifty bottleneck and asked Dugu Bo to help hunt a Shadow Lord for his fifth Soul Ring.
• Xia Liang planted the Blue Silver Emperor Seedling near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Dugu Bo carried him toward Death Canyon.

Xia Liang and Dugu Bo reached the Death Canyon Core Area to hunt a fifty-thousand-year Shadow Lord, but the Soul Beast dragged Xia Liang into an Alien Space where his Space Attribute was suppressed. Xia Liang wounded the Shadow Lord with the Bone Transformation Susanoo and unveiled its powerful new form, while Dugu Bo froze the surrounding area with Time Solidification to try to protect him.

• Xia Liang used the Bone Dragon Dagger to teleport himself and Dugu Bo into a secluded part of Death Canyon, then followed his ghost fires toward the Shadow Lord.
• Xia Liang and Dugu Bo found the Shadow Lord in a dark Stone Forest and learned that it had at least fifty thousand years of cultivation; Dugu Bo urged Xia Liang to abandon the hunt, but Xia Liang considered absorbing its Soul Ring.
• The Shadow Lord seized Xia Liang and vanished with him into an Alien Space, while Dugu Bo transformed into the Jade Scale Serpent Emperor and activated Time Solidification across the area.
• Xia Liang survived the Shadow Lord's crushing grip with his Black-Purple Ribs, then used the Bone Transformation Susanoo and Undead Domain to wound its soul and escape its grasp.
• Xia Liang fused his four Soul Rings and transformed the Bone Transformation Susanoo into its twelve-meter Half-Body Humanoid Form, wielding the Spiral Spear as he prepared to fight the Shadow Lord.

Xia Liang fought the fifty-thousand-year Shadow Lord in its Alien Space until Dugu Bo rescued him and helped bring the beast down. Xia Liang absorbed its soul ring and gained the fifth soul skill, Dark Territory, which created an Alien Space connected to the Undead Domain.

• Xia Liang used the Bone Transformation Susanoo and its Spiral Spear to injure the Shadow Lord, but the stronger beast repeatedly damaged his construct as he healed it with the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone.
• Dugu Bo froze time with Time Solidification, freed Xia Liang from the Shadow Lord's Alien Space, and petrified the beast with Medusa's Gaze.
• Xia Liang attacked the Shadow Lord with the Spiral Spear and Bone Transformation Susanoo, killed it, and sealed its soul within the Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul.
• Xia Liang absorbed the Shadow Lord's fifty-thousand-year soul ring in a cave while Dugu Bo guarded him, completing the process in three hours.
• Xia Liang learned that his fifth soul skill, Dark Territory, could create an Alien Space connected to the Undead Domain and draw himself or others inside.

Xia Liang absorbed the Shadow Lord’s fifty-thousand-year Soul Ring and External Eye Bone, gaining enhanced perception and new Space Attribute abilities. He then developed a Virus Attribute Shiny Haunter and searched Ah Yin’s memories for the Blue Silver King’s location so he could investigate whether its cultivation could strengthen the Blue Silver Emperor Seedling.

• Xia Liang discovered that Shadow Territory’s Alien Space could preserve Haunter origins and let him virtualize, then suffered through the absorption of the Shadow Lord’s External Eye Bone.
• Xia Liang awakened an External Eye Bone that extended his X-ray Spiritual Perception to five hundred meters and let him use Space Attribute skills through his vision; he reached level fifty-six and gave two Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones to Dugu Bo for Yan Yan.
• Xia Liang transferred the Shadow Lord’s corpse into the Alien Space, then later devoured it, strengthening his Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul and its Susanoo’s Claw and Ten-Fist Sword.
• A Haunter absorbed the Snow-Colored Swan Kiss and awakened a Virus Attribute, becoming a Shiny Haunter with powerful growth potential that could command the stored Haunter origins.
• Xia Liang decided to search for the eighty-thousand-year Blue Silver King and used his Spiritual Power to examine the Blue Silver Emperor Seedling’s memories for its location.

Xia Liang altered the Blue Silver Emperor Seedling’s memories to make Tang Hao and Tang San its enemies and learned the location of the Blue Silver King’s forest. At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Dugu Bo recognized Xiao Wu as a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast while she hid behind Tang San.

• Xia Liang used his Spiritual Power and fourth Soul Skill to rewrite the Blue Silver Emperor Seedling’s memories, making himself its rescuer and Tang Hao and Tang San its enemies.
• Xia Liang discovered the Blue Silver King’s location in an Ancient Forest and meditated to recover before returning to Dugu Manor.
• After finding Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan absent, Xia Liang went to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and learned that Shrek Academy had come for an exchange.
• At the Teaching Committee, Prince Xue Xing demanded that the Shrek group endure five minutes against Dugu Bo to prove their talent.
• Dugu Bo recognized Tang San and hesitated to confront him because he feared Tang Hao’s retaliation.
• Tang San shielded Xiao Wu from Dugu Bo, who realized that the scorpion-braided woman was a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Rabbit Soul Beast.

After Shrek Academy left Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Dugu Bo secretly pursued Xiao Wu, hoping to seize her as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. He abducted her during a walk with Tang San, prompting Tang San to seek help while Tang Hao prepared to kill Dugu Bo.

• Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhi Lin defended Shrek Academy against Dugu Bo, but Flender led the group away from Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and Qin Ming resigned.
• Dugu Bo confirmed Xiao Wu was a transformed Soul Beast after Xia Liang described seeing a rabbit energy form around her.
• Flender and Yu Xiaogang revived Shrek Academy at Blue Tyrant Academy, where Dugu Bo secretly watched Xiao Wu and planned to abduct her.
• Tang San promised Xiao Wu that nobody would abduct her again, but Dugu Bo seized her while Tang San picked a white daisy.
• Tang San ran back to Shrek Academy to seek help, while Tang Hao decided Dugu Bo had to die.

Xia Liang discovered that Tang Hao was fighting Dugu Bo over Xiao Wu and sent his Haunters to help. Dugu Bo and Tang Hao traded powerful attacks, and the chapter ended with Tang Hao’s six Clear Sky Hammers striking the Jade Scale Dragon Emperor’s head.

• Xia Liang tested the Shiny Haunter’s Black Poison Mist and sent his Haunters to train near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Xia Liang sensed a battle nearby and identified Dugu Bo fighting Tang Hao, with Xiao Wu unconscious in a collapsed cave.
• Xia Liang decided to support Dugu Bo and set off with a hundred Haunters.
• Dugu Bo and Tang Hao fought fiercely as Dugu Bo used the Jade Scale Dragon Emperor and Sand Poison Domain against Tang Hao’s Clear Sky Hammer.
• Dugu Bo coiled around Tang Hao and injected him with Dragon Emperor Poison, but Tang Hao counterattacked with six Clear Sky Hammers and cracked the Jade Scale Dragon Emperor’s skull.

Tang Hao nearly killed Dugu Bo, but Xia Liang intervened with a soul-targeting arrow and joined with Dugu Bo through Undead Possession. The chapter ended with Tang Hao facing Dugu Bo transformed into a massive Black-Purple Armored Giant Dragon.

• Tang Hao trapped Dugu Bo with gravity and attacked with Clear Sky True Body, but Dugu Bo escaped underground and countered with Time Solidification and Jade Phosphorous Divine Light.
• Tang Hao detonated two Soul Rings to break free and clashed with Dugu Bo’s attack, devastating the battlefield and leaving both fighters weakened.
• Xia Liang survived the blast, transformed Bone Transformation Susanoo into Armor Form, and fired a Soul Reaping arrow that injured Tang Hao’s soul.
• Tang Hao rushed to kill the exhausted Dugu Bo, but Xia Liang evaded his hammer with Dark Territory and teleported to Dugu Bo’s side.
• Xia Liang used Demonic Eye Soul Seizure and Undead Possession to fuse with Dugu Bo and activate the Jade Scale Dragon Emperor Martial Soul Avatar.
• Dugu Bo became a Black-Purple Armored Giant Dragon over forty meters long as Tang Hao returned to the battlefield.

Xia Liang and Dugu Bo defeated Tang Hao, but Flender, Liu Erlong, and Yu Xiaogang intervened with the Golden Saint Dragon. After their clash, Xia Liang killed Tang Hao, devoured his undead soul, and collected his Soul Bones, leaving Yu Xiaogang to notice what had happened.

• Xia Liang's Armored Jade Scaled Dragon Emperor struck Tang Hao and blasted apart his Clear Sky Hammer, leaving him severely wounded and unable to move.
• Flender, Liu Erlong, and Yu Xiaogang formed the Golden Saint Dragon, while Tang San rescued Tang Hao and pulled Xiao Wu from beneath the boulder.
• The Golden Saint Dragon clashed with the Armored Jade Scaled Dragon Emperor, which prevailed before Xia Liang's depleted Spiritual Power forced it to dissolve.
• Xia Liang landed with the unconscious Dugu Bo, pinned Tang Hao down, and killed him with Bone Dragon Thrust.
• The Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul devoured Tang Hao's vengeful ghost, and Xia Liang stored Tang Hao's five fallen Soul Bones and severed Right Arm Bone in the Alien Space.
• Yu Xiaogang noticed Xia Liang beside Tang Hao's remains and turned around with the Golden Saint Dragon.