Chapter Summaries

Song Yang chose to kill Phantom Night Sea Emperor rather than seize the deep-sea treasure and flee. After cutting through its defenses and entering its mouth, he resisted its corrosive black liquid and began attacking it from within.

• Song Yang decided to fight Phantom Night Sea Emperor for the deep-sea treasure despite the danger.
• Song Yang evaded the Emperor's tentacles and repeatedly slashed them with the Emperor Crocodile Sea Suppressing Blade.
• Phantom Night Sea Emperor exposed its mouth while attacking with all twelve tentacles, and Song Yang charged toward it.
• Song Yang used Devouring Wheel Annihilation to sever two tentacles and plunged into the Emperor's mouth.
• Song Yang activated his Sixth Soul Skill to withstand the corrosive black liquid, then slashed wildly inside Phantom Night Sea Emperor's body.

Song Yang killed the Phantom Night Sea Emperor and claimed its Beast Soul before discovering that the mysterious deep-sea treasure was a bone fragment from an unknown Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. After Ye Lei instructed him to protect himself and keep searching, Song Yang stored the fragment and continued exploring.

• Song Yang repeatedly used Emperor Crocodile Shatter to find the Phantom Night Sea Emperor's brain and Beast Soul inside its enormous body.
• Song Yang took the Phantom Night Sea Emperor's Beast Soul and escaped through its skin as its corpse sank away.
• Song Yang approached the deep-sea treasure and discovered it was a fragment of bone from an unknown Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Song Yang sent Ye Lei an image of the fragment, received instructions to protect himself and search for more fragments, then stored it and continued exploring.

Song Yang followed a blood scent into the depths of the sea, searching for the remains of a fallen Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and its valuable Soul Bone. He found a gigantic whale corpse on the seabed.

• Song Yang examined a dense white bone fragment and concluded it came from a fallen Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Song Yang descended deeper, following the blood scent and fighting through sea Soul Beasts that blocked his way.
• Song Yang killed a school of Blood-Patterned Great White Sharks and collected their Beast Souls.
• Song Yang reached a clearer stretch of water and found a gigantic whale corpse on the seabed.

Song Yang searched the corpse of a hundred-thousand-year whale-type Soul Beast and recovered its Beast Soul and Whale Rubber. He found its Hundred-Thousand-Year Torso Soul Bone, learned the beast’s name was Dragon Abyss Soul Devouring Whale, and began absorbing it as it drained his Soul Power, life force, and spiritual power.

• Song Yang descended to the whale’s corpse and confirmed that a bone fragment he had found came from the wound in its abdomen.
• Song Yang cut into the whale’s skull and retrieved its Beast Soul and Whale Rubber, but realized he had missed the chance to obtain its Soul Ring.
• Song Yang used his Soul Power and Howling Sea Domain to draw the whale’s unmanifested Soul Bone out of its torso.
• Song Yang touched the dark-gold bone, saw visions, and recognized the name Dragon Abyss Soul Devouring Whale.
• Song Yang pressed the Torso Soul Bone to his chest and began absorbing it, but it fastened itself to him and started consuming his Soul Power, life force, and spiritual power.

Song Yang absorbed the Hundred-Thousand-Year Demon Whale Torso Soul Bone, raising his Soul Power from Level 63 to Level 67 and learning the names of its two skills. After destroying a Country M nuclear submarine that had been monitoring him, he sensed three approaching auras, including two he recognized.

• Song Yang used his domains and Soul Power to resist the resentment inside the Hundred-Thousand-Year Torso Soul Bone while absorbing the Whale Rubber and Hundred-Thousand-Year Beast Soul.
• Song Yang completed the absorption, broke through to Level 67, and learned that the bone was the Demon Whale Torso Soul Bone of Soul Devouring Dragon's Roar.
• Song Yang collected usable materials and the Dragon Abyss Soul Devouring Whale's eyes, then refined the energy in his body and began comprehending the bone's two skills.
• Song Yang spotted a nuclear submarine observing him and concluded that Country M's military had tracked him to the area.
• Song Yang used his Fifth Soul Skill, Raging Waves, to tear the nuclear submarine apart with a Water Tornado.
• Song Yang sensed three auras approaching and greeted the familiar Ninth Elder, inviting him to show what he could do.

Song Yang confronted Ninth Elder, Sea Wing, and Sea Dragon after absorbing the Hundred-Thousand-Year Torso Soul Bone, confident in his transformed strength. As the three attacked him, he unleashed a powerful soul-bone skill, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Song Yang taunted Ninth Elder and said his new strength would let him face the three opponents.
• Sea Wing attacked Song Yang with phantom sea serpents, but Song Yang tore them apart and struck with thirty-five consecutive slashes.
• Sea Wing transformed his martial soul into an Illusory Sea Nether Dragon and called for help.
• Ninth Elder and Sea Dragon revealed their martial souls and attacked Song Yang with their Martial Soul Avatars.
• Song Yang gathered Water Element energy and unleashed Dragon Soul Whale Breaker, summoning a demon whale that charged at the three enemies.

Song Yang overwhelmed the Ninth Elder, Sea Dragon, and Sea Wing, then trapped the fleeing trio with another hundred-thousand-year soul skill. Sea Wing charged toward the descending whale phantom as Sea Dragon desperately called for him to return.

• Song Yang’s torso soul skill blasted open Sea Wing’s chest and shattered the Ninth Elder and Sea Dragon’s Martial Soul Avatars.
• The Ninth Elder and Sea Dragon decided to retreat, and Sea Wing followed them.
• Song Yang gathered Soul Power and seawater energy to unleash Dragon Roar Whale Soul Rebirth Abyss.
• The skill’s barrier trapped the three men, and an enormous Dragon Abyss Soul Devouring Whale phantom dove toward them.
• Sea Wing charged at the phantom despite Sea Dragon shouting for him to come back.

Song Yang used his Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bone to defeat the whale phantom, but the attack left the Ninth Elder and Sea Dragon missing and drained his Soul Power. He began recovering and strengthening himself in the deep sea, while Ye Lei cultivated in Banyan City.

• Sea Wing sacrificed himself by charging into the Dragon Abyss Soul Devouring Whale phantom, and the resulting explosion knocked the Ninth Elder and Sea Dragon unconscious and sent them into the deep sea.
• Song Yang collapsed onto the seabed after the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Skill exhausted his Soul Power.
• Song Yang used the Howling Sea Domain to absorb Water Element energy and searched for the Ninth Elder and Sea Dragon, but sensed no sign of life from either.
• Song Yang abandoned his plan to save the Beast Souls and absorbed nearly a hundred of them to increase his strength.
• Ye Lei cultivated with all his might in Banyan City.

The Ninth Elder and Sea Dragon escaped the wreckage of their battle with Song Yang, while Song Yang remained too weak to pursue them. In Huaxia, the Tenth Elder, Demon Buddha, prepared to attack Banyan City in two months and believed Ye Lei would fall to his plan.

• The Ninth Elder and Sea Dragon crawled out from under the ocean rubble and fled after the battle that killed Sea Wing and cost their side three thousand lives.
• Song Yang sensed the two escaping elders but let them go because his Soul Power had not recovered.
• Ye Lei saw Song Yang's location marker disappear, assumed the communicator was damaged, and returned to meditating on his stalled progress toward Level 76.
• Demon Buddha meditated in his Elder Ten Residence Hall, where his seven Soul Rings and Formless Demon Buddha Martial Soul revealed his formidable strength.
• Demon Buddha prepared to lead troops against Banyan City in two months and believed his plan would defeat Ye Lei.

The Tenth Elder led a force of Soul Master soldiers into Banyan City and ordered them to slaughter its people, drawing Ye Lei and the Eight Battle Souls into battle. Ye Lei confronted the Tenth Elder, but his Spider Web Restraint could not touch the elder, who mocked him.

• The Tenth Elder marched into Banyan City with two trusted subordinates and one hundred Soul Master soldiers.
• The soldiers burned, looted, and killed commoners throughout the city while the Tenth Elder watched from a truck.
• Ye Lei arrived with the Eight Battle Souls and killed several soldiers with his Blue Silver Emperor Vines.
• The Tenth Elder revealed his Formless Demon Buddha Martial Soul and challenged Ye Lei to surrender or face the city's destruction.
• Ye Lei and the Tenth Elder clashed, and the Tenth Elder evaded Ye Lei's Spider Web Restraint before taunting him.

Ye Lei and his companions fought the Tenth Elder and his Soul Sage subordinates, with Ye Lei engaging the elder while the others struggled against their opponents. The battle was interrupted when a flood surged down the street, carrying the golden phantom of a colossal creature.

• The Tenth Elder attacked Luo Yun, but Chen Sican blocked him with his Wind God Dual Blades and shielded Luo Yun from the blast that sent them flying.
• Ye Lei ordered the others to handle the soul master soldiers and confronted the Tenth Elder himself, relying on enhanced defense and blade techniques.
• Weng Yunling and Jing Hang fought the Tenth Elder's two Soul Sage subordinates, with Jing Hang holding his ground and Weng Yunling forced to defend against the Ring Saber wielder.
• A flood surged down the street, and the Tenth Elder and his subordinates stared in shock at the golden phantom of a colossal creature within it.

Song Yang returned to Banyan City and rescued Weng Yunling from the Tenth Elder’s forces, revealing his transformed Howling Sea Emperor Crocodile and overwhelming strength. He faced the Dual-Blade Man, who activated his Martial Soul Avatar as Song Yang revealed a blood-red seventh Soul Ring.

• Song Yang’s golden crocodile form sent a flood through the street, killing the Soul Master soldiers and knocking the Dual-Blade Man, the Tenth Elder, and the Zen Staff Man aside.
• After the flood receded, Ye Lei recognized Song Yang, who had returned from two months of training.
• Song Yang helped Weng Yunling up and confronted the Dual-Blade Man for bullying his wife.
• The Dual-Blade Man attacked with his Ring Sabers, but Song Yang struck one with his bare fist and sent him crashing to the ground.
• The Dual-Blade Man activated his Seventh Soul Skill, Buddha Slayer Avatar, while Song Yang summoned his altered Howling Sea Emperor Crocodile and revealed his seven Soul Rings, including a blood-red seventh ring.

Song Yang revealed his Seven-Ring Soul Sage strength and used his Hundred-Thousand-Year Torso Soul Bone to counter the dual-blade man. The chapter ended as Song Yang unleashed Dragon Soul Whale Breaker against the man’s charging attack.

• Ye Lei realized Song Yang had become a Seven-Ring Soul Sage with a Hundred-Thousand-Year Seventh Soul Ring.
• Song Yang transformed into his Emperor Crocodile Martial Soul Avatar, revealing new spikes and a powerful ferocious-beast aura.
• The dual-blade man began charging his Sixth Soul Skill, Buddha Slaying Dragon Destroying Slash.
• Song Yang shifted from his Martial Soul Avatar into an armored human form, and Ye Lei’s detector revealed that he possessed four Soul Bones, including two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bones.
• Song Yang unleashed Dragon Soul Whale Breaker from his Demon Whale Torso Soul Bone, disrupting the dual-blade man’s attack.

Song Yang used his Demon Whale Torso Soul Bone and overwhelming close-combat strength to fight the dual-bladed man while his wife blocked Tenth Elder’s attack. As Tenth Elder tried to send another subordinate against Song Yang, Jing Hang stepped in to stop the relay battle.

• Song Yang’s whale phantom devoured the dual-bladed man’s Buddha Slaying Dragon Destroying Slash, and Song Yang explained that his Soul Skills gained a devouring effect from his hundred-thousand-year Demon Whale Torso Soul Bone.
• Song Yang pressed the dual-bladed man in close combat, using strength gained after hunting a hundred-and-fifty-thousand-year Golden Crocodile King.
• Tenth Elder attacked Song Yang with Myriad Buddhas Paying Homage to the Ancestor, but Song Yang’s wife countered it with Deer Horn Demon Ming Array.
• Song Yang struck the dual-bladed man with Emperor Crocodile Shatter, then taunted Tenth Elder for trying to ambush him.
• Tenth Elder ordered the Zen Staff Man to fight Song Yang, but Jing Hang blocked him and raised his Purple Gold Thunder Dragon Hammers.

Song Yang challenged Tenth Elder to a fight after months of battling sea soul beasts. He revealed that his Golden Eyes could see through Tenth Elder’s illusion skill, leaving Tenth Elder to summon his Formless Demonic Armor.

• Zen Staff Man recognized the threat posed by Jing Hang’s Thunderous Mammoth martial soul and Purple Gold Thunder Dragon Hammer.
• Song Yang said he had spent two months fighting sea soul beasts and challenged Tenth Elder to sharpen his skills.
• Tenth Elder relied on his First Soul Skill, Magic Light Illusion, to nullify Song Yang’s punch, but the blow struck him anyway.
• Song Yang revealed that the Golden Eyes inherited from his hundred-fifty-thousand-year Golden Crocodile King soul ring could see through demonic-type soul skills.
• Tenth Elder activated his Second Soul Skill, Formless Demonic Armor, and covered himself in purplish-red armor and a featureless mask.

Song Yang used his Golden Crocodile King Soul Bone to break through the Tenth Elder’s Formless Demonic Armor and wound him. The Tenth Elder retaliated with a group-control Soul Skill that trapped Song Yang, Jing Hang, Ye Lei, and the others.

• Song Yang charged the Tenth Elder, but their punch exchange sent Song Yang back and let dark Soul Power invade his body.
• Song Yang activated Golden Crocodile Demon Breaker, whose golden light weakened the Tenth Elder’s armor and let him land two powerful kicks.
• The Tenth Elder’s Formless Demonic Armor exploded, and Song Yang followed with a Divine Crocodile Tail Sweep that wounded him.
• The Tenth Elder used Four Directions Prison Suppression to trap Song Yang with demonic chants and a restraining formation.
• Jing Hang rushed to help Song Yang but was trapped too, and the Tenth Elder’s formations then seized Ye Lei and the others.
• Ye Lei realized the Tenth Elder was an assault-type Battle Soul Master skilled in control, not the Agile Attack System Soul Master he had assumed.

Ye Lei and the others struggled under the Tenth Elder’s Four Directions Prison Suppression, while Song Yang found a way for Ye Lei and Han Nuan to counterattack with their skull bone skills. Jing Hang then joined their assault by using his lightning skill to pin down the Tenth Elder.

• The Tenth Elder’s Sixth Soul Skill tormented Ye Lei’s group with immense spiritual power, leaving the weaker members unable to fight back.
• The Tenth Elder struck Jing Hang, who discovered that being knocked away did not free him from the locking Soul Skill.
• The Tenth Elder attacked Song Yang, who used his Golden Eyes to identify a way to break the formation and told Ye Lei to use his skull bone.
• Ye Lei and Han Nuan unleashed Crimson Demon’s Eye and Ice Phoenix Evil Gloom Tribulation at the Tenth Elder.
• Jing Hang fired Purple Lightning Burst Flash from behind the Tenth Elder to seal his movements as the two attacks struck.

Ye Lei and Han Nuan broke the Tenth Elder’s control with a coordinated lightning and spiritual attack, forcing him to use Manifestation of Heaven and Earth. Song Yang then trapped him with Golden Fire Demon Breaking Blast and detonated the golden energy, destroying both his giant form and Martial Soul Avatar.

• Jing Hang’s lightning pillar missed the Tenth Elder but paralyzed him by filling the area with lightning energy.
• Ye Lei and Han Nuan struck the Tenth Elder’s mind with spiritual attacks, disrupting his Four Directions Prison Suppression and freeing their allies.
• The Tenth Elder activated Manifestation of Heaven and Earth, enlarging himself and boosting his combat power.
• Song Yang charged Elder Shi and used Golden Fire Demon Breaking Blast to bind and suppress the Tenth Elder.
• Song Yang detonated the golden energy, annihilating the Tenth Elder’s enlarged form and collapsing his Martial Soul Avatar.

Song Yang crippled the Tenth Elder with his Golden Fire Demon Breaking Blast, and Ye Lei confronted the elder’s two Soul Sage subordinates with the pressure of the Crimson Demon Skeleton Emperor. The Tenth Elder realized the fight was turning against them and decided to retreat.

• Song Yang shattered the Tenth Elder’s defensive Soul Skills with his finishing kick and sent him crashing to the ground, badly wounded.
• The Twin-Blade Man and the Zen Staff Man unleashed their Fifth Soul Skills after seeing the Tenth Elder injured.
• Ye Lei stepped forward to face the Twin-Blade Man, drew his Hellfire Twin Blades, and charged at him.
• The two Soul Sages attacked Ye Lei with their Dharma Appearances, but the Crimson Demon Skeleton Emperor’s pressure overwhelmed them.
• The Tenth Elder concluded that he could not continue fighting and decided that retreat was best.

Ye Lei used Explode Ring to strike down the Zen Staff Man and force the Tenth Elder and Twin Blade Man to flee. After the battle, Song Yang gave Ye Lei a rare Beast Soul and suggested they spar.

• Ye Lei shattered his hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring to empower his Hellfire Twin Blades and attack the three fleeing enemies.
• The Tenth Elder pulled the Twin Blade Man and Zen Staff Man toward a dark rift, but Ye Lei struck the Zen Staff Man and destroyed his Dharma Appearance and weapon.
• The Tenth Elder escaped with the Twin Blade Man as the rift closed, and Ye Lei decided not to pursue them.
• Song Yang gave Ye Lei the Beast Soul of a ninety-eight-thousand-year Phantom Night Sea Emperor for his Seventh Soul Ring.
• Ye Lei questioned Song Yang about his two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bones, and Song Yang challenged him to spar.