Chapter Summaries

Black and White Impermanence used their Soul Skills to trap Han Nuan, Jing Hang, and the others in a mist and seal their Soul Power. As Ye Lei rushed to help them, Song Yang remained behind to hold off the Demon Buddha Elder.

• Jing Hang raised lightning walls with Thunder City to deflect Black Impermanence’s Soul Hook Locks.
• Black Impermanence unleashed Forget Worry, sealing the six people’s Soul Power and preventing them from using their Soul Skills.
• Han Nuan and the others realized they were trapped in the mist and unable to escape or fight back.
• Ye Lei noticed the danger and asked Song Yang if he could hold off the Demon Buddha Elder alone.
• Song Yang told Ye Lei to go help the others, then activated his Martial Soul Avatar to keep the Demon Buddha Elder occupied.

Ye Lei broke Black Impermanence’s Forget Worry Realm and trapped Black and White Impermanence within his domain. Han Nuan and Yun Ning unleashed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Demon Frost Spear, against the pair.

• Ye Lei used the Four Fires Heaven Domain to clash with and shatter Black Impermanence’s Forget Worry Realm.
• Black Impermanence reinforced his domain and tried to stall while White Impermanence’s mist drained the trapped group’s lives.
• Ye Lei spread scorching Darkness Fire across the battlefield and raised a barrier that trapped Black and White Impermanence.
• The six people regained their Soul Power, and Han Nuan and Yun Ning combined theirs to summon a purple spear.
• Ye Lei sealed Black and White Impermanence’s retreat with stone walls, and Han Nuan and Yun Ning launched their Demon Frost Spear.

Black and White Impermanence used two undead souls to survive Han Nuan and the others’ Demon Frost Spear, which nearly broke through their defenses. The undead vanished after taking the attack, leaving Ye Lei and the others to realize how Black and White Impermanence had escaped death.

• Han Nuan and her allies struck Black and White Impermanence with the Demon Frost Spear, overwhelming their Soul Power Barrier.
• Black Impermanence summoned two humanoid phantoms from Yama Hall and placed them between the barrier and the incoming attack.
• The Demon Frost Spear exploded, blasting Black and White Impermanence through the outer barrier of Ye Lei's Four Fires Heaven Domain.
• Ye Lei and the others recognized the battered figures as Twin-Blade Man and the Martial Monk Zen Staff Man, the former guardians of the Demon Buddha Elder.
• Black Impermanence revealed that he had kept their souls, and the two undead bodies dissipated after taking the fatal blow.

After Han Nuan and Weng Yunling recovered, Ye Lei and the others attacked Black and White Impermanence and shattered the core of their Yama Hall. Though the pair were injured, White Impermanence summoned a phantom Yama Hall and unleashed another technique.

• Luo Yun restored Han Nuan and Weng Yunling after their Martial Soul Fusion Skill exhausted them.
• Ye Lei withdrew his domain, puzzled that it had shattered, while Black and White Impermanence recovered before the Yama Hall.
• The seven fighters attacked Black and White Impermanence, trapping them as their Soul Skills struck from all sides.
• Ye Lei and Han Nuan used spiritual Soul Bone Skills to attack the Yama Hall's core and shatter it, injuring the pair.
• White Impermanence summoned a phantom Yama Hall and used his Sixth Soul Skill, Order of Yin Souls, releasing a sinister energy.

Ye Lei and the others sensed the danger of White Impermanence’s Sixth Soul Skill and prepared to stop him. Meanwhile, the Demon Buddha Elder trapped Song Yang with his Sixth Soul Skill and vanished to attack, leaving Song Yang to summon his Emperor Crocodile True Form.

• Ye Lei and the others felt the sinister energy and rushed to prevent White Impermanence from using his move.
• The Demon Buddha Elder struggled to break through Song Yang’s defensive shield as Song Yang pressed him with his broadsword.
• The Demon Buddha Elder unleashed his Sixth Soul Skill, Four Directions Prison Suppression, trapping Song Yang between four Demon Buddha phantoms that attacked his soul.
• The Demon Buddha Elder summoned a three-headed, six-armed Buddha and used Demon Buddha Six Paths First Style, Blood Qi Ghost Concealment, to disappear and strike at Song Yang.
• Song Yang summoned his Seventh Soul Skill, Emperor Crocodile True Form, to face the attack.

Song Yang withstood Demon Buddha Elder’s attack while White Impermanence revealed that his Sixth Soul Skill had enhanced Demon Buddha Elder. As Black and White Impermanence attacked the rear line, Weng Yunling confronted White Impermanence with a destructive blast.

• Song Yang’s golden crocodile scales and Martial Soul Avatar let him break free of Demon Buddha Elder’s Soul Skill and endure his attack.
• White Impermanence told Ye Lei that his Sixth Soul Skill had targeted Demon Buddha Elder rather than himself.
• Ye Lei tried to reach Song Yang, but Black and White Impermanence blocked him and moved to attack the rear line.
• Jing Hang used Thunder Fortress to shield his teammates as White Impermanence charged them.
• Weng Yunling rushed at White Impermanence, and a violent explosion engulfed him.

Weng Yunling survived White Impermanence’s attack by using her Sixth Soul Skill, Demonic Gloom Reversal, and wounded him with its explosion. Song Yang broke the Demon Buddha Elder’s restraint with his Torso Soul Bone Skill and countered the elder’s attack, leaving their clash unresolved.

• White Impermanence thought Weng Yunling had self-destructed to kill him, but Demonic Gloom Reversal wounded him and she reformed from purple motes.
• White Impermanence realized the Elder Hall’s intelligence had not revealed Weng Yunling’s Sixth Soul Skill.
• The Demon Buddha Elder used his Second Style, Ten Thousand Ghosts, Thousand Traces, to attack Song Yang with dozens of copies.
• Song Yang unleashed Dragon Roar Whale Soul Rebirth Abyss, shattering the Four Directions Prison Suppression and stopping the Devil Scripture.
• Song Yang’s giant beast phantom collided with the Demon Buddha Elder’s sword phantoms as his aura took on the likeness of a ferocious Emperor Crocodile.

Ye Lei threatened Black and White Impermanence with a devastating attack, but the two tried to escape by targeting what they believed were weak points in the encirclement. Luo Yun revealed formidable defensive and control abilities, leaving White Impermanence trapped as an armed man approached, while Black Impermanence also faced trouble.

• Ye Lei warned Black and White Impermanence that they would not escape and summoned a destructive attack above them.
• Black and White Impermanence spotted apparent weaknesses in the encirclement and charged separately at Luo Yun and Qiao Na.
• White Impermanence used his Sixth Soul Skill, Order of Yin Souls, to empower his attack against Luo Yun.
• Luo Yun blocked White Impermanence with her crab-like soul bone and summoned a giant figure that seized him.
• A man carrying two short blades walked toward the trapped White Impermanence, while Black Impermanence was also in trouble.

Qiao Na and Jing Hang overpowered Black Impermanence by combining her fire-based soul bone attacks with his thunderous restraints. With Black and White Impermanence both restrained, their team stood poised to wipe them out.

• Black Impermanence charged Qiao Na with his Soul Reaping Rope, but she knocked it away and burned through his baleful energy with Flame of Soul Fire.
• Jing Hang trapped Black Impermanence in Thunderous Mud Swamp, paralyzing him with lightning.
• Qiao Na leaped into the air and prepared to strike the trapped Black Impermanence with Frenzied Soul Fire Wave.
• Black Impermanence attempted to use Impermanence Shadow, but Jing Hang launched him into the air with Thunderous Trample.
• Qiao Na’s Fire Soul Phantom waited above Black Impermanence as both he and White Impermanence were restrained.

Qiao Na, Chen Sican, and Jing Hang overwhelmed Black and White Impermanence, leaving them bound in midair as Ye Lei prepared a meteor attack. Song Yang faced the Demon Buddha Elder and began unleashing his strongest form, determined to defeat him again.

• Qiao Na shattered Black Impermanence’s Martial Soul Avatar, while Chen Sican battered White Impermanence with his twin blades.
• Jing Hang used Heaven-Shaking Elephant’s Wrath to launch Black Impermanence into the air, and a vine bound both enemies together.
• Ye Lei approached the trapped Black and White Impermanence as a massive meteor appeared above the plaza.
• Song Yang confronted the injured Demon Buddha Elder and challenged his eight-armed Buddha form.
• Song Yang released his seven Soul Rings, each coated in faint golden light.

Ye Lei and Han Nuan killed Black and White Impermanence, while Song Yang defeated and killed the Demon Buddha Elder. The civilians whose souls had been taken woke up in the damaged plaza building, confused about what had happened.

• Black and White Impermanence used Yama's Arrival to break free, but Han Nuan's ice powers slowed them while Ye Lei's meteor fragments and her Ice Cones destroyed their bodies and souls.
• The Demon Buddha Elder realized White Impermanence had died and attacked Song Yang with a powerful sword strike.
• Song Yang summoned the Emperor Crocodile Sea Suppressing Blade and unleashed Sea Howler's Raging Waves, washing away the Demon Buddha Elder's attack and killing him.
• The civilians regained consciousness in the plaza building and wondered how they had ended up in the women's restroom and why the building was damaged.

Five days after the battle with the Demon Buddha Elder, the Eight Soul Suppressors prepared to train Rongcheng Eighth Middle School's senior-year students. The students began their month-long special training with Han Keqin and Huang Xiaoshu introduced as instructors, unaware that the Eight Soul Suppressors were about to arrive.

• The Eight Soul Suppressors spent five peaceful days in Banyan City after the battle with the Demon Buddha Elder.
• Chen Sican asked when the group would leave to train the senior-year students, and Han Nuan explained that they had to wait for one more person.
• Ye Lei arrived at the headquarters and led the group out to surprise the students.
• The principal announced that Rongcheng Eighth Middle School's month-long special training had begun.
• Shu Ting introduced Han Keqin and Huang Xiaoshu as two of the ten special instructors, leaving the students wondering who the other eight would be.

Shu Ting began the senior students’ month-long training with a dramatic entrance by the Eight Soul Suppressors. The arrivals revealed the formidable ranks and Soul Rings of the team, leaving the students stunned.

• Shu Ting announced the training and called for the guests to make their entrance.
• A fighter jet flew over the field as eight figures descended, bringing snow, hail, wind, and rain with them.
• The eight landed on the podium, and their Soul Power sent some students flying.
• Huang Xiaoshu stepped forward and revealed five Soul Rings, surprising the students who knew him as their Chinese teacher.
• The masked Soul Suppressors displayed their Martial Soul Phantoms and Soul Rings, while the blue-haired girl revealed an Ice Phoenix and a red Soul Ring.

Ye Lei, one of the Eight Soul Suppressors, demonstrated his overwhelming Soul Ring configuration and began assessing the students who would undergo a month of special training. He challenged an indignant Soul Elder named Zhang Zetao to prove his understanding of his Martial Soul, the Silver Moon Lion.

• A crocodile-patterned boy revealed himself as a Soul Saint, and Ye Lei followed by displaying four black and three red Soul Rings as his life energy rapidly grew Blue Silver Grass across the field.
• Ye Lei introduced the Eight Soul Suppressors and announced that he would give the students special training for the coming month.
• Ye Lei sorted the students by cultivation level, revealing that fewer than ten were Three-Ring Soul Masters, nearly sixty were Great Soul Masters, and slightly over a hundred had one Soul Ring.
• Ye Lei placed eight young children beside the third-track students and told them their Martial Soul understanding was worse than the children's, provoking an angry response from Zhang Zetao.
• Zhang Zetao introduced himself as a Level 34 Agility-type Soul Master with a Silver Moon Lion Martial Soul, and Ye Lei grew curious about his abilities.

Xiao Peng, also called Wu Peng, sparred with Zhang Zetao to demonstrate the speed and strength of his Void Fierce Tiger martial soul. Zhang Zetao’s attacks failed against Wu Peng’s Void Escape, and he was left wounded as the spar continued.

• Chen Sican sent Xiao Peng to spar with Zhang Zetao, who protested that he had been matched against a child.
• Xiao Peng evaded Zhang Zetao’s opening strike with an afterimage and introduced himself as Wu Peng, a Rank 25 disciple of Wind Dragon.
• Chen Sican explained that Wu Peng’s Void Fierce Tiger gave him extraordinary speed and attack power, while Huang Xiaoshu offered to heal the injured students.
• Zhang Zetao used his First Soul Skill, Moon Dash, and attacked Wu Peng’s chest.
• Wu Peng used his First Soul Skill, Void Escape, causing Zhang Zetao’s attack to pass into another layer of space before clawing his back.
• Zhang Zetao countered with his Second Soul Skill, Silver Moon Claw, but Wu Peng sent him flying and left five claw marks across his chest.

Ye Lei ended the students’ defiance by having Wu Peng beat Zhang Zetao until he cried, then introduced himself and assessed the seven third-year students with three soul rings. After revealing that Li Zhi’s Martial Soul was really the Hell Scythe Mantis, Ye Lei arranged for Zhang Ning to spar with him.

• Wu Peng repeatedly knocked Zhang Zetao down until he begged for mercy and ran from the training ground in tears.
• Ye Lei had Huang Xiaoshu tend to Zhang Zetao, then asked the seven students who had challenged him if anyone else was unconvinced; they all shook their heads.
• Ye Lei introduced himself as a level seventy-six control-type Soul Sage and ordered students with soul rings to follow him while those without them went to the Mirror World.
• Chen Xin, Tang Zicheng, Hong Yang, Li Zhi, Lin Lin, Shi Yuan, and Gan Han stated their Martial Souls and demonstrated them to Ye Lei.
• Ye Lei told Li Zhi that his Martial Soul was the Hell Scythe Mantis and revealed his Flame Lord, then called Zhang Ning over to spar with Li Zhi.

Zhang Ning demonstrated her strength against Li Zhi in a spar, while Han Nuan led students into the Far North Land to hunt for Soul Rings. She encountered her parents chasing a Titan Snow Demon King and joined them as they prepared to attack it.

• Zhang Ning introduced herself as a Level 31 control-type Battle Soul Master and used her thorn-covered whip and Flame Vines to overwhelm Li Zhi in their spar.
• Han Nuan led forty students into the Far North Land, but found few suitable Soul Beasts for them.
• Han Nuan spotted a Hundred-Thousand-Year Titan Snow Demon King charging toward the students and sent them to hide before flying to intercept it.
• Han Nuan stunned the Titan Snow Demon King with her third eye and discovered that Ye Junqing and Tang Yunqing were pursuing it.
• Ye Junqing and Tang Yunqing explained that they had chased the Titan Snow Demon after it evolved from a ninety-thousand-year Soul Beast, then attacked its lower body as Han Nuan's control began to fade.

Zhang Ning defeated Li Zhi in a spar with her Firethorn Whip, and Ye Lei told her to continue having friendly matches with the other students. After receiving Nuan'er’s message, Ye Lei left for the Mirror World to hunt a one-hundred-thousand-year Titan Snow Demon King.

• Zhang Ning used the Firethorn Whip’s Eight Whip Consecutive Strikes to shatter Li Zhi’s Third Soul Skill and overwhelm his defense.
• Zhang Zetao arrived and watched Zhang Ning whip Li Zhi until Ye Lei called off the spar.
• Ye Lei told Li Zhi to seek treatment and said he would train the Three-Ring Soul Masters the next day.
• Ye Lei asked Zhang Ning to spar appropriately with the other students, then left after telling Huang Xiaoshu he was going to hunt a Titan Snow Demon King with one hundred thousand years of cultivation.
• Ye Lei thought the Titan Snow Demon King would be ideal for his father’s Seventh Soul Ring and decided to use the hunt to demonstrate his abilities.

In the Far North Land, Han Nuan, Ye Junqing, and Tang Yunqing struggled against the Titan Snow Demon King until Ye Lei arrived to assist them. Ye Lei trapped the beast in his Four Fires Heaven Domain and prepared to kill it so it could become his father's Seventh Soul Ring.

• Ye Junqing, Han Nuan, and Tang Yunqing found their Ice Attribute attacks ineffective against the Titan Snow Demon King's powerful defense.
• Han Nuan told her companions that she had called for help, while the students nearby worried that they would be trapped or killed.
• Ye Lei arrived on a Flame Lord wreathed in Black Fire, and his power melted the snow and turned the ground to lava.
• Ye Lei opened his Four Fires Heaven Domain, sealing the area in scorching heat and provoking the Titan Snow Demon King.
• The Titan Snow Demon King sensed mortal danger, realized Ye Lei had created the barrier, and turned to attack him.

Ye Lei used the Four Fires Heaven Domain to fight the Hundred-Thousand-Year Titan Snow Demon King and defended against its attacks before counterattacking. He wounded the beast and blasted its claw backward, leaving an opening in its defenses.

• The students recognized Ye Lei and believed he could save them from the Titan Snow Demon King.
• Ye Lei bombarded the Titan Snow Demon King with magma pillars and burning rocks inside the Four Fires Heaven Domain.
• The Titan Snow Demon King tried to break out by firing a beam at the domain’s center, but Ye Lei opened a gap so the attack passed through.
• The Titan Snow Demon King attacked Ye Lei with an icy beam, which Ye Lei blocked with his Thousand Jun Flame Armor.
• Ye Lei cut the Titan Snow Demon King with two crimson blade strikes, then used Purgatory Lava Break to blast its claw backward and expose an opening.