Chapter Summaries

Ye Lei’s dragon-slaying techniques broke through Third Elder’s strongest soul skill, while Han Nuan and the others defeated the Skeletal Green Dragons and pressured Eighth Elder. Third Elder and Eighth Elder escaped the battle, leaving their test of Ye Lei in failure.

• Third Elder’s Skeletal Green Dragons clashed with Ye Lei’s Blade Lights, which weakened his Eighth Soul Skill.
• Ye Lei used Annihilation Dragon Fiend against Third Elder and severed a Skeletal Green Dragon with Asura.
• Han Nuan froze the injured Skeletal Green Dragon with Ice Torrent and destroyed it with her Left Leg Soul Bone Skill.
• Ye Lei charged Third Elder as Song Yang, Chen Sican, and Jing Hang drove Eighth Elder into a disadvantage.
• Third Elder used Jian Feng’s corpse to hinder Ye Lei, while Eighth Elder escaped in smoke made from his zither’s sound.

After the Eight Soul Suppressors drove off the Third and Eighth Elders, Ye Lei’s group treated the wounded and began reorganizing the city’s defenses and recruiting new members. The chapter left Banyan City fortified, with the boys assigned to guard its borders and the girls responsible for the city itself.

• The Third Elder escaped with the Eighth Elder and discovered that all four of his subordinates had died, while Ye Lei had destroyed Jian Feng’s soul beyond revival.
• Ye Lei’s group searched for Lie Huo’s body and learned that Weng Yunling and Qiao Na had blasted it away, along with the ninety-thousand-year Torso Soul Bone he carried.
• Huang Xiaoshu arrived and used her Nine Star Begonia Martial Soul to heal the fighters and injured civilians throughout the damaged area.
• Ye Lei and Huang Xiaoshu arranged with Rongcheng Eighth Middle School to recruit talented junior high students into the Eight Soul Suppressors.
• The Ye Clan and Han Clan equipped Banyan City with Soul Guide Crystal Shields, and the four boys took up positions along the city’s borders while the four girls guarded the city.

Eight Soul Suppressors began recruiting students from Rongcheng Eighth Middle School, putting the first-year newcomers through a series of demanding tests. Ye Lei raised the third test’s pressure to Level 45, leaving 120 students to face the spiritual power and practical combat stages.

• Ye Lei and the other Eight Soul Suppressors set up a two-day recruitment assessment with five stages for students from Rongcheng Eighth Middle School.
• A senior used his pressure to silence the first-year students, and the students began the Soul Power and Martial Soul tests.
• Han Nuan tested students under her Level 30 frigid aura while Huang Xiaoshu rescued and treated those who collapsed; the first two stages eliminated 125 of 500 first-year students.
• Ye Lei applied Level 35 scorching Soul Power pressure to the 375 students who passed the first two stages, and many withdrew or collapsed.
• Ye Lei increased the pressure to Level 40, reducing the group to 125, then raised it to Level 45, leaving 120 students to proceed to spiritual power testing and practical combat.

He Ming examined the hundred remaining students in the fourth stage by using his Ancient Pipa to attack their minds with music. With Luo Yun boosting him and Han Nuan ordering the difficulty raised, He Ming unleashed his Third Soul Skill against the entire field.

• After Ye Lei announced a five-minute break, he appointed He Ming to examine the students in the mental power test.
• He Ming revealed his three Soul Rings and began playing his Ancient Pipa, forcing the students to defend their minds against his music.
• Some students tried to block the music by sealing their hearing, but He Ming intensified his playing and his mental power still reached them.
• After more than five minutes, Han Nuan told Luo Yun to increase the difficulty, and Luo Yun boosted He Ming with her Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• He Ming replenished and amplified his power, then used his Third Soul Skill, Stunning Melody, to interfere with the entire field.

During the fourth assessment, a 2A-class flying beast tide attacked Banyan City, but Ye Lei told He Ming to continue testing the freshmen while the others handled the threat. Blue Silver Grass - Cages protected the students as the attackers were repelled.

• He Ming continued using his Third Soul Skill to test the freshmen while Zhang Ning and the others replenished his spiritual power.
• Strange roars alerted Ye Lei and Song Yang, and Ye Lei identified a 2A-class beast tide approaching through Banyan City's aerial defenses.
• Ye Lei told He Ming to continue the assessment, and He Ming resumed playing the Ancient Pipa.
• Nearly a hundred flying soul beasts rushed toward the field, frightening the freshmen.
• A bird-type soul beast attacked a group of girls, but a Blue Silver Grass - Cage shielded them, and the beast was frozen and shattered.
• Blue Silver Grass - Cages protected the freshmen across the field from the attacking soul beasts.

Ye Lei and the Eight Soul Suppressors slaughtered the flying Soul Beasts attacking the protected first-year students, then killed the exposed Tiger Armored Beetle and crushed the remaining thousand-year beasts. Ye Lei continued searching for the other hidden leaders of the beast tide but could not find them.

• The Eight Soul Suppressors defended the first-year students and killed the flying Soul Beasts with their Martial Soul control and weapons.
• Ye Lei searched for the beast tide's leaders and punched the ground, forcing a twenty-thousand-year Tiger Armored Beetle into the open.
• Ye Lei trapped the Tiger Armored Beetle in a Blue Silver Grass - Cage and killed it with Blue Silver Emperor spikes.
• Ye Lei used the Demon God Seal to crush the airborne thousand-year Soul Beasts toward the ground, and Song Yang cut them apart with a Water Tornado.
• Some first-year students began absorbing Beast Souls as Ye Lei searched for three more hidden Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts but found nothing.

Ye Lei wiped out the Soul Beast horde with his eighth Soul Skill while the recruitment assessment concluded with twenty first-year students passing the fourth stage. Zhang Zetao and the other adults accepted Ye Lei’s offer to join the Eight Soul Suppressors and were set to examine the finalists.

• Ye Lei released his eighth Soul Skill, killing the Soul Beasts below fifty thousand years old across the school grounds.
• Ye Lei ordered Manager Zhang to transport the Soul Beast corpses and stored their Soul Rings and Beast Souls for later distribution.
• The fourth-stage assessment ended with twenty students remaining, while the eighty eliminated students had also improved their cultivation under pressure.
• He Ming joined the others after the assessment, and Zhang Zetao’s group appeared bruised and uneasy after losing another team battle to the eight children.
• Ye Lei invited Zhang Zetao and the others to join the Eight Soul Suppressors, and they accepted.
• Zhang Zetao’s group and the eight children were assigned to examine the twenty first-year students in the final assessment.

After returning to Eight Soul Suppressors, Ye Lei and the others sorted their spoils before he discovered that he had to write a graduation thesis. He was stunned by how quickly college had passed, but recovered and decided he could handle the thesis.

• Ye Lei and the others returned to Eight Soul Suppressors and sorted their Beast Souls and soul rings into the warehouse records.
• Ye Lei returned home and found Han Nuan working on her 2027 graphic design graduation thesis.
• Ye Lei realized that he had missed much of college and had little idea what to write for his own thesis.
• Han Nuan said she would ask their teacher for an extension on Ye Lei's submission deadline.
• Ye Lei cheered up and decided he could write the thesis, then turned his thoughts to cooking for Han Nuan.

Ye Lei assigned Song Yang and Jing Hang to oversee City Security and Ocean Management, then gave them responsibility for a new restaurant specializing in nourishing Soul Beast meat dishes. Before they left, he asked whether they had written their graduation theses.

• Ye Lei summoned Song Yang and Jing Hang and offered them the two Eight Soul Suppressors subsidiaries, City Security and Ocean Management.
• Ye Lei explained that experienced managers and twenty new recruits would help run the subsidiaries, leaving Song Yang and Jing Hang to oversee them.
• Ye Lei served dishes made from Soul Beasts and described his plan for a restaurant featuring meat with nourishing effects.
• Song Yang and Jing Hang understood that Ye Lei intended to launch a distinct restaurant business using the organization's Soul Master resources.
• Ye Lei gave Song Yang and Jing Hang contracts for the restaurant, which would use the Eight Soul Suppressors brand and was expected to begin trial operations by the end of next month.
• Ye Lei stopped Song Yang and Jing Hang as they were leaving and asked whether they had written their graduation theses.

Ye Lei and his allies established two Eight Soul Suppressors subsidiaries while continuing their work and cultivation. Meanwhile, Ye Junqing confronted a descendant of Ye Tingfeng’s illegitimate daughter who came demanding recognition and money, and the man left vowing to exploit the Ye Family name elsewhere.

• Ye Lei arranged for Rongcheng City Security Co., Ltd. and Rongwei Marine Co., Ltd. to open, and twenty students joined them under Song Yang and Jing Hang.
• Chen Sican continued hunting Soul Beasts for hotel orders, while Song Yang trained toward Soul Douluo and searched for a suitable Eighth Soul Ring.
• Ye Lei and the others remained unaware that descendants of Ye Tingfeng’s illegitimate children had begun visiting the Ye Family Ancestral Residence to claim ties to the family.
• Wang Yao arrived at the ancestral residence with a hammer and demanded to see Ye Lei, hoping to gain recognition and benefit from the Ye Family’s status.
• Ye Junqing punched Wang Yao away from the gates, and Wang Yao decided to use the Ye Family name to seek money elsewhere.

Wang Yao left the Ye Family Ancestral Residence and went to a restaurant backed by powerful owners, planning to use his Ye Family connections to eat without paying. After he ordered and devoured a Sixty-Thousand-Year Black Fish set meal, the staff stopped him, and he was left facing Song Yang and Jing Hang.

• Wang Yao left the Ye Family Ancestral Residence and headed for the city center to claim money and resources from Ye Family businesses.
• Wang Yao entered a newly opened restaurant and ordered a 6+ Black Fish set meal, unaware that it contained meat from a Sixty-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• After learning the meal's value, Wang Yao decided to dine and dash, then ate all the food and left without paying.
• A young girl blocked Wang Yao at the door, and he shoved and attacked her before she used her whip and Soul Power to fight back.
• Song Yang and Jing Hang appeared and blocked Wang Yao, who warned them that the Ye Family was behind him.

Wang Yao tried to dine and dash at the Ye Family’s restaurant, claiming the family would protect him, but Ye Lei arrived and exposed him as a distant relative. After threatening to kill him, Ye Lei forced Wang Yao to choose between becoming free labor or facing his great-grandfather, and Wang Yao was dragged inside to work.

• Song Yang and Jing Hang cornered Wang Yao after he tried to leave without paying for an expensive meal.
• Ye Lei arrived and recognized Wang Yao as the cousin his father had mentioned.
• At Ye Lei’s order, Zhang Ning beat Wang Yao while he continued claiming the Ye Family would avenge him.
• Ye Lei revealed that he was the Eldest Young Master of the Ye Family and rejected Wang Yao’s claim to family support.
• Ye Lei threatened to send Wang Yao to meet their great-grandfather, so Wang Yao surrendered and agreed to clean the restaurant’s back kitchen.
• Zhang Ning dragged Wang Yao into the restaurant as its new free labor.

Ye Lei began upgrading the Eight Soul Suppressors’ weapons with newly acquired Soul Beast materials while Wang Yao paid for dining and dashing by working at Song Yang’s restaurant. The chapter ended with Wang Yao returning home exhausted and angrily confronting his father.

• Zhang Ning made Wang Yao clean the restaurant’s back kitchen and wash a huge pile of dishes.
• Ye Lei returned to Eight Soul Suppressors headquarters and planned new equipment for the team, including upgrades for Han Nuan, Lao Chen, and the Wolf King.
• Ye Lei began modifying Han Nuan’s ice-blue fan into a modular weapon.
• Song Yang gave Wang Yao a Ten-Year Beast Soul as payment for one day’s labor and ordered him to work at the restaurant for six more days.
• After closing, Song Yang went home and planned to hunt more Soul Beasts for the restaurant’s ingredients.
• Wang Yao returned home, overturned the ashtray in front of his father, and went to his room while ignoring his father’s shouting.

Song Yang fought his way through the sea to claim a 70,000-year Wrathful Sea Devouring Heaven Beast Soul Ring and began raising his Fifth Soul Ring to 100,000 years. Meanwhile, Jing Hang traveled to Haicheng to seek a Purple Lightning Sacred Armor Bear for his own Soul Ring.

• Ye Lei finished adjusting the Eight Soul Suppressors’ weapons and gave Song Yang two new skills for his upcoming hunt.
• Song Yang swam alone to the territory of the 250,000-year ocean overlord and was attacked by three 70,000-year Sea Soul Beasts and dozens of weaker beasts.
• Song Yang killed the 20,000-year attackers and collected their Beast Souls, then defeated the three 70,000-year Sea Soul Beasts.
• Song Yang drew the Wrathful Sea Devouring Heaven Beast’s Soul Ring to raise his Fifth Soul Ring toward the 100,000-year level.
• Jing Hang went to Haicheng to hunt a Purple Lightning Sacred Armor Bear and strengthen his Sixth Soul Ring.

Song Yang absorbed a 70,000-year Soul Ring, broke through to level 79, and gained his second hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring. He then confronted the 250,000-year Abyssal Evil Dragon Whale, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Song Yang's Soul Power reached level 79 as the black fragments of his Fifth Soul Ring transformed into his second hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• The Abyssal Evil Dragon Whale emerged and attacked Song Yang for killing its subordinates.
• Song Yang declared that he would take the whale's Soul Ring and Soul Bone, then transformed into a golden crocodile to fight it barehanded.
• Song Yang struggled against the whale's greater cultivation but used his human form's agility to evade attacks and counterattack.

Song Yang tested his newly strengthened Fifth Soul Skill against the Abyssal Evil Dragon Whale, combining it with his Soul Bone ability in a devastating ocean attack. The Abyssal Evil Dragon Whale’s response remained to be seen.

• Jing Hang flew to Haicheng with Qiao Na to search for another Purple Lightning Sacred Armor Bear.
• Chen Sican considered using his wealth to improve his and Luo Yun’s Soul Rings, prioritizing Luo Yun’s support abilities.
• Song Yang ended his Martial Soul Avatar and unleashed his hundred-thousand-year Fifth Soul Skill, Raging Waves, against the Abyssal Evil Dragon Whale.
• The Abyssal Evil Dragon Whale countered with Abyssal Evil Dragon's Wrath, forming a black-purple demonic dragon from abyssal aura and seawater.
• Song Yang used his left-arm Soul Bone skill, Devouring Wheel Annihilation, to shatter the demonic dragon and send a swarm of Whirltooth Light Wheels into his Water Tornadoes.

Jing Hang and Qiao Na fought the island’s Purple Lightning Sacred Armor Bear to obtain its soul ring, after it killed and devoured a forty-thousand-year black tiger. Jing Hang provoked the bear and reflected its lightning breath while Qiao Na caught it in her restraints and prepared another attack.

• The Purple Lightning Sacred Armor Bear killed a black tiger and ate its head, ruining Jing Hang’s chance to collect its Beast Soul and soul ring.
• Jing Hang charged the bear in his purple mammoth form, and Qiao Na used Hidden Sea Illusion to disorient it.
• The bear recovered and attacked Jing Hang with lightning breath, but he blocked it with Thunderous Sacred Armor Shield and reflected the beam back.
• While Jing Hang drew the bear’s attention, Qiao Na bound its limbs and neck with Hidden Sea Imprisonment.
• Qiao Na used Sea Thorn Sky Flower to grow a Hidden Sea Flower on the bear’s back.

Jing Hang and Qiao Na defeated a sixty-thousand-year-old Purple Lightning Sacred Armor Bear and discovered that it had produced a soul bone. Jing Hang claimed the find could help him break through his current bottleneck, while he still needed to find a suitable Eighth Soul Ring.

• Qiao Na slowed the Purple Lightning Sacred Armor Bear with her skills, and Jing Hang struck its head with his twin hammers.
• Jing Hang battered the bear with Thunderous Trample and Purple Lightning Burst Flash, but it fled after he injured its crotch.
• Qiao Na trapped the bear with Hidden Sea Annihilation Array, allowing Jing Hang to kill it with Heavenly Elephant's Wrath.
• Jing Hang and Qiao Na extracted the bear's Soul Ring, then heard bones crack in its right arm and found a soul bone.
• Jing Hang anticipated that the soul bone would help him break through his bottleneck, though he still needed a suitable Eighth Soul Ring.

Jing Hang absorbed the Purple Lightning Sacred Armor Bear’s Soul Ring, Beast Soul, and right-arm Soul Bone while Qiao Na guarded him against a seventy-thousand-year Soul Beast approaching the island. Elsewhere, Song Yang fought the Abyssal Evil Dragon Whale in the deep sea and used his Golden Crocodile Demon Breaker to purify its Abyssal Energy.

• Jing Hang took the bear paw Soul Bone, extracted the Purple Lightning Sacred Armor Bear’s Soul Ring, and began absorbing them with the Beast Soul Qiao Na gave him.
• Jing Hang endured the clashing energies as the Soul Rings and Soul Bone merged, while the Beast Soul helped his meridians withstand the process and pushed his Soul Power toward Soul Douluo.
• Qiao Na detected a seventy-thousand-year Soul Beast heading toward the island to claim the dead Purple Lightning Sacred Armor Bear’s territory and hoped Jing Hang would finish absorbing everything soon.
• The Abyssal Evil Dragon Whale blasted Song Yang into the seabed and launched Evil Demon Abyss Annihilation against his Emperor Crocodile Armor Shield Formation.
• Song Yang used Golden Crocodile Demon Breaker from his left-leg Soul Bone to purify the Abyssal Energy leaking through his cracked defense.

Song Yang fought the Abyssal Evil Dragon Whale, escaping its Abyss Rift only after Ye Lei’s propulsion Soul Tool failed and a Crocodile Bomb ruptured the rift. Song Yang activated two domains to turn the ocean battlefield into land and launched a counterattack, leaving the battle underway.

• The Abyssal Evil Dragon Whale opened an Abyss Rift that shattered Song Yang’s Sixth Soul Skill and pulled him toward it.
• Song Yang used Ye Lei’s High-Speed Propulsion Soul Tool to flee, but it malfunctioned and its propellers failed under the rift’s suction.
• Song Yang anchored himself with his weapon and threw a Crocodile Bomb into the rift, whose explosion ruptured it and injured the Abyssal Evil Dragon Whale.
• Song Yang activated Slaughter Sea Barrier and Raging Domain, isolating the seawater and transforming the battlefield into land.
• The Abyssal Evil Dragon Whale dismissed Song Yang’s attempt to drain the sea, and Song Yang surged forward with waves and water blades to attack.