Chapter Summaries

Ye Lei let Luo Yun equip the Soul Tool Bone Armor, then took the group back to Banyan City while the Elder Hall elders discussed how to target them. At Rong University, Ye Lei found eight enormous statues on campus and froze in shock.

• Ye Lei confirmed the Soul Tool Bone Armor was safe, and Luo Yun equipped it, gaining protection comparable to a peak six-ring Defense-type Soul Master.
• The Elder Hall elders reviewed footage of Ye Lei's group and considered separating them, identifying Luo Yun as their weakest member.
• Ye Lei and the others returned to Banyan City, where Song Yang's group split off to take their parents home.
• Ye Lei reached Rong University with the others and saw eight enormous humanoid stone pillars bearing carved figures.

Ye Lei and his teammates returned to Rongcheng University during the citywide Martial Soul Awakening and found statues of themselves commemorating their championship. Ye Lei proposed using the statues’ Soul Power Arrays to purify newly awakened Martial Souls, and six teammates activated their arrays.

• Ye Lei and the others entered Rongcheng University and saw enormous statues modeled after the eight members of their team.
• The president explained that the statues honored the team for winning the first National Advanced Academy Competition.
• Ye Lei learned that the children’s Martial Soul awakenings had been normal but their aptitudes were average.
• Ye Lei suggested that children stand beneath statues suited to their Martial Souls so the Soul Power Arrays could purify them.
• Six teammates, excluding Song Yang and Weng Yunling, infused their statues’ arrays with Soul Power and activated them.

The Martial Soul Awakening ceremony continued after Ye Lei and the others empowered the statues, and several promising children were recruited into the Eight Soul Suppressors. As the ceremony ended, Ye Lei explained that the one child missing from the registration forms was Song Yang’s younger brother, who would arrive soon.

• Elemental phenomena appeared around the statues, leaving patterns on their foreheads after Ye Lei and the others finished injecting Soul Power.
• Ye Lei and the others selected several children for special training in the Eight Soul Suppressors, and Huang Xiaoshu took them to headquarters to register.
• The counselors and principal completed the remaining awakenings with help from Ye Lei and the others, ending the ceremony by evening.
• Counselor Little Li noticed that Song Yu Fan was missing from the awakening forms, and the principal prepared to call his parents.
• Ye Lei stopped the principal and said Song Yu Fan would arrive soon because he was Song Yang’s younger brother.

Song Yu Fan came to Rongcheng University to awaken his Martial Soul, and the ceremony revealed a Raging Savage Crocodile King. Song Yang recognized it as the same kind of enemy he had fought before.

• The principal and counselor left Ye Lei in charge of registering Song Yu Fan’s newly awakened Martial Soul.
• Song Yang and Weng Yunling brought Song Yu Fan to Rongcheng University, where they found statues of Song Yang and Weng Yunling on campus.
• Ye Lei welcomed Song Yu Fan and began the Martial Soul awakening ceremony after Song Yang gave his approval.
• Song Yu Fan awakened a golden-winged Raging Savage Crocodile King Martial Soul.
• Song Yang identified the Martial Soul and remarked that enemies had met on a narrow road.

Song Yu Fan awakened the Raging Savage Crocodile King with level-nine Innate Soul Power and was assigned to his brother Song Yang as a disciple. When Song Yang showed him his Soul Rings, their bloodline suppression overwhelmed Song Yu Fan, and Ye Lei intervened to protect him.

• Song Yu Fan awakened the Raging Savage Crocodile King, surprising Ye Lei and Song Yang because of their past conflicts with Savage Crocodiles.
• Song Yu Fan's Innate Soul Power tested at level nine, and Ye Lei assigned him to Song Yang as his disciple.
• Song Yang told Song Yu Fan about his Martial Soul and promised to help him find a suitable Soul Beast for his first Soul Ring.
• Song Yang revealed his six Soul Rings, and the bloodline pressure made Song Yu Fan tremble and nearly kneel.
• Ye Lei shielded Song Yu Fan with his Soul Power and kicked Song Yang away, warning him that his pressure could kill his younger brother.

After accidentally overwhelming Song Yu Fan, Song Yang apologized, and Ye Lei took the boy and the other children to Jinrong Grand Hotel. There, Ye Lei began planning a new generation of Eight Soul Suppressors and gave five children rings filled with cultivation resources.

• Ye Lei kicked Song Yang into a fountain, and Song Yang dried himself with his Howling Sea Domain before apologizing to Song Yu Fan for releasing his pressure.
• Song Yu Fan reassured Song Yang that he was fine, and Ye Lei carried him toward the school gates to treat him to a feast.
• Han Nuan contacted Huang Xiaoshu and asked her to bring the children registered with the Eight Soul Suppressors to Jinrong Grand Hotel.
• Ye Lei gathered the five children at Jinrong Grand Hotel and told them the group would train them to become invincible among their peers.
• Ye Lei gave each child a Storage Soul Guiding Ring containing fifty square meters of space and cultivation resources sufficient to reach the Soul Grandmaster realm.

Ye Lei discovered that a string of incidents in Yancheng, where people decayed into bloodwater, was connected to Fifth Elder Xue Yuan. The chapter ended with Xue Yuan soaking in blood and judging that her efforts were still insufficient.

• Over the month, Song Yu Fan and four other children advanced in cultivation, and the Han couple reached the Soul Emperor level.
• Strange incidents across Huaxia left victims melting into foul-smelling bloodwater, terrifying local residents.
• Ye Lei witnessed a young man’s arm decay into bloodwater and found a report linking similar incidents to Yancheng.
• Ye Lei recognized that Xue Yuan’s Bloodthirsty Mandarin Ducks martial soul could explain the incidents and recalled seeing her use bloodwater before.
• In Yancheng, Xue Yuan soaked in a bathtub of scarlet blood and said it was still not enough.

Xue Yuan ordered Stone Figurine to leave with her and Blood Wash Rongcheng, while Ye Lei investigated a mysterious affliction that turned people’s bodies into bloodwater. He tried to save two infected girls at Eight Soul Suppressors headquarters, but his life energy failed, and the girls’ arms began to burn under his flames.

• Xue Yuan called Stone Figurine and ordered him to accompany her to Blood Wash Rongcheng.
• Han Nuan told Ye Lei that two girls’ arms were rotting despite showing no Soul Power Fluctuation, and Ye Lei rushed to Eight Soul Suppressors headquarters.
• Ye Lei used Blue Silver Domain on the girls’ arms but found that his life energy could not purify them.
• Ye Lei sent red spheres of light into the infected arms, evaporating the bloodwater and melting infected muscle and bone.
• Huang Xiaoshu used her Third Soul Skill, Begonia Pollen, on the girls’ arms.

Ye Lei, Han Nuan, and Song Yang confronted Xue Yuan and Stone Figurine as they attacked civilians in Jiahe City. Xue Yuan revealed that she had poisoned Song Yang’s parents, leaving him enraged and threatening to tear her apart.

• Huang Xiaoshu healed two girls’ damaged arms, refused their payment, and went to cultivate while Ye Lei and Han Nuan discussed how to counter Xue Yuan’s decay skill.
• Ye Lei and Han Nuan sensed familiar powerful auras and rushed to Jiahe City Square, where Xue Yuan and Stone Figurine were attacking young people.
• Song Yang confronted Xue Yuan and Stone Figurine, but Xue Yuan blocked his attacks with her Bloodthirsty Sky Dome soul skill.
• Han Nuan knocked Xue Yuan and Stone Figurine away, and Ye Lei helped the wounded Song Yang recover enough to keep fighting.
• Stone Figurine revealed Song Yang’s unconscious parents trapped in a stone cage, and Xue Yuan said she had poisoned them.
• Song Yang threatened to tear Xue Yuan apart if she harmed his family.

Song Yang and Ye Lei confronted Xue Yuan and the Stone Figurine, while Song Yang’s younger brother revealed that their parents had vanished. As over a hundred enemies surrounded the square, Ye Lei hinted that he had allies of his own.

• Song Yang entered Bloodline Boiling after Xue Yuan taunted him about his parents, and the Stone Figurine laughed along with her.
• Song Yu Fan rushed out to attack the Stone Figurine, but it caught his fist and slammed him into the ground before Xue Yuan tried to reach for him.
• Ye Lei protected Song Yu Fan with a tortoiseshell formation and pulled him away with a vine; Song Yu Fan told Song Yang that their parents had disappeared after he was restrained by a mark.
• Song Yang comforted Song Yu Fan and vowed to show the enemies the true power of the Savage Crocodile.
• More than a hundred black-clad experts appeared around the square, and Ye Lei assessed their strength with his Mental Hunting Ground.
• Xue Yuan mocked Ye Lei’s group for being outnumbered, but Ye Lei replied that they were not the only ones with numbers.

Xue Yuan ordered her black-clad subordinates to massacre the civilians in Banyan City’s square, but Ye Lei’s companions arrived and began cutting down the attackers. Xue Yuan took two women hostage to stop Ye Lei, but her demand was interrupted by his question.

• Xue Yuan ordered her hundred or so black-clad subordinates to kill the civilians, and they attacked the crowd in the city square.
• Ye Lei’s unseen companions struck back, killing and disabling groups of black-clad men with their powers.
• Five figures appeared behind Ye Lei, and the civilians recognized them as the Eight Soul Suppressors and called for them to drive Xue Yuan out of Banyan City.
• Xue Yuan and the Stone Figurine seized two women as hostages and threatened to kill them if Ye Lei intervened.
• Ye Lei asked, “Then what?” leaving Xue Yuan confused.

Ye Lei provoked Xue Yuan while Luo Yun protected the two women she held captive, who turned out to be Ye Lei’s mother, Tang Yunqing, and Han Nuan’s mother, Lin Shuwan. After breaking free and driving off the Stone Figurine, the two women attacked Xue Yuan, leaving the fight underway.

• Ye Lei taunted Xue Yuan and advanced, making her tighten her grip on the two hostages.
• Luo Yun used the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda to shield the captives as Tang Yunqing struck Xue Yuan and escaped her grasp.
• Lin Shuwan blasted the Stone Figurine backward with her Phantom Shadow Burst, then joined Tang Yunqing in retreating from their captors.
• Tang Yunqing and Lin Shuwan unleashed soul bone skills against Xue Yuan.

Song Yang used his domains, Luo Yun’s support, and his Soul Bone skills to overwhelm Xue Yuan and Stone Figurine, but Xue Yuan’s blood-feather attack poisoned his right arm. Ye Lei’s Blue Silver Overlord Spear severed the arm, leaving Song Yang’s fate uncertain.

• Luo Yun enhanced Ye Lei and the other Soul Emperors while Song Yang unleashed his domains and attacked Xue Yuan and Stone Figurine with Raging Waves.
• Xue Yuan and Stone Figurine activated their Martial Soul Avatars, and Stone Figurine shielded Xue Yuan from Song Yang’s Soul Bone attack.
• Stone Figurine took the brunt of Song Yang’s assault as Xue Yuan escaped and sent a blood-red feather into Song Yang’s right arm.
• Song Yang’s right arm began to decay, and Ye Lei’s Blue Silver Overlord Spear severed it.

Ye Lei revealed that Xue Yuan’s feathers could dissolve those they struck into bloody water, then claimed the soul bone that emerged from Song Yang’s severed arm. Xue Yuan launched another attack on Ye Lei and his companions, who faced her with the Flame Lord Martial Soul.

• Ye Lei healed Song Yang’s wound and explained that Xue Yuan’s feather had corrupted his severed arm into bloody water.
• A soul bone emerged from the bloody water, and Stone Figurine identified it as a rare treasure.
• Xue Yuan ordered her surviving black-clad men to seize the soul bone, but Ye Lei killed the first attackers and stored it in the System Space.
• Xue Yuan threatened Ye Lei and launched her Corrupting Feathers at him and his companions.
• Ye Lei replaced the Blue Silver Emperor with scorching heat and a massive Flame Lord behind him.

Ye Lei endured Xue Yuan’s attacks with his Thousand Jun Flame Armor and explained that his evolved flames countered her corrosive ability. He and his allies then charged the enemy, leaving Han Nuan to fight Xue Yuan while Ye Lei confronted Stone Figurine.

• Xue Yuan attacked Ye Lei’s Thousand Jun Flame Armor with her Corrupting Feathers and Bloodthirsty Red Feathers, but the armor held.
• Ye Lei restored his damaged armor, drew his twin blades, and ordered his brothers to charge.
• Ye Lei confronted Stone Figurine in its Martial Soul Avatar form while Han Nuan fought Xue Yuan in her Bloodthirsty Mandarin Ducks Martial Soul Avatar form.
• Ye Lei’s evolved flames resisted Xue Yuan’s corrosion, while Han Nuan’s Extreme Ice attribute and powerful soul treasures allowed her to challenge Xue Yuan.

Han Nuan and Ye Lei overwhelmed Xue Yuan, Stone Figurine, and the Fifth Elder’s forces in the city square. Stone Figurine summoned a meteor toward the unconscious Song Family Couple, but Ye Lei broke free of his restraint and trapped Stone Figurine in magma.

• Xue Yuan used her Bloodthirsty Incarnation and Bloodthirsty Feather Blades, but Han Nuan shattered the attack with her Ice Phoenix Demon Howl.
• Ye Lei challenged Stone Figurine as Ba Zhenhun’s members suppressed the Fifth Elder’s black-clothed men.
• Stone Figurine summoned a meteor toward the Song Family Couple and used Stone Press Kill to restrain Ye Lei.
• Ye Lei shattered the Stone Press Kill and trapped Stone Figurine’s feet in scorching magma.

Ye Lei overwhelmed Stone Figurine by shattering his meteor soul skill and striking him with Sea Devouring Demon God Kill, leaving him mangled in a crater. A masked man in black watched from a distant rooftop and condemned the fighters.

• Ye Lei blasted Stone Figurine's Fallen Bedrock Star with Crimson Demon Dark Flame Brake and Thousand Jun Meteor Blaze Break, then absorbed its fragments into his own attack.
• Ye Lei expanded the meteor's reach with Myriad Ant Falling Flame Break and trapped Stone Figurine beneath it.
• Stone Figurine activated three Amplification Skills to defend himself, but Ye Lei destroyed the meteor and revealed his next attack was not meant to defeat him with it.
• Ye Lei used Sea Devouring Demon God Kill, which drove Stone Figurine into a crater and left him mangled.
• A tall man in a black robe and mask watched from a high-rise rooftop and called the fighters trash.

Ye Lei crippled Stone Figurine while preparing supplies to restore his injuries, and Han Nuan controlled Xue Yuan with her soul skills. An enraged black-robed man appeared in the sky, and Xue Yuan recognized him as her lord.

• Ye Lei left the badly injured Stone Figurine alive while taking control of the city square and requested restorative medicine and treasures from the system.
• Xue Yuan grew furious at Stone Figurine's defeat and attacked Han Nuan in the sky.
• Han Nuan used Evil Gloom to affect Xue Yuan despite her closed eyes, then trapped her in an illusion with Illusion.
• An angry roar broke Xue Yuan out of the illusion, and she saw a black-clothed man hovering nearby and called him her lord.

A masked black-robed man appeared as the mastermind behind Xue Yuan and the Ten Great Elders, then killed the Stone Figurine and Xue Yuan for their failures. Ye Lei and the others launched an attack on him.

• Xue Yuan recognized the black-robed man as her lord and realized his aura surpassed that of the Ten Great Elders.
• The black-robed man killed the wounded Stone Figurine with his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Halberd.
• The black-robed man seized Xue Yuan, drained her Soul Power, and killed her.
• Ye Lei identified the man as their enemy and called on his companions to attack together.
• Chen Sican used Wind God's Descent and summoned six Winged Dragon Clones.

The black-robed man overwhelmed Ye Lei and the others, wounded Song Yang, and escaped after promising to return when Ye Lei was stronger. Back at the Eight Soul Suppressors headquarters, the group began restoring Song Yang’s severed arm.

• Ye Lei, Qiao Na, and the others attacked the black-robed man with their strongest Soul Skills, but he shattered every attack without injury.
• The black-robed man summoned phantom halberds and wounded Song Yang in the back as the group tried to defend themselves.
• Ye Lei failed to stop the black-robed man, who vanished and taunted him before leaving.
• The group settled the civilians, arranged for the bodies to be taken away, and returned to the Eight Soul Suppressors headquarters.
• Ye Lei brought out medicine and Song Yang’s Savage Crocodile’s Raging Right Arm Bone, and Huang Xiaoshu helped them begin restoring Song Yang’s severed arm.