Chapter Summaries

Song Yang and Weng Yunling fought the 270,000-year Demon God Thorn Dragon after it trapped them in its Demon God Domain. Song Yang protected his wife, countered the dragon’s ambush, and left it wounded by severing part of one tail.

• The Demon God Thorn Dragon unleashed its Demon God Domain, plunging the forest into darkness and swallowing Song Yang and Weng Yunling’s senses.
• Song Yang used his Golden Eyes to see through the darkness and shielded Weng Yunling with his Sixth Soul Skill.
• The Demon Dragon attacked Song Yang from behind, but Song Yang blocked its claw and turned to strike with his Fourth Soul Skill.
• Song Yang feinted with the Fourth Soul Skill, then used his Third Soul Skill to bite one of the Demon Dragon’s tails and make it bleed.

Song Yang and Weng Yunling used a moment of paralysis to attack the Demon Dragon, but his thick scales withstood their blows. The Demon Dragon unleashed Thorn Prison, trapping them in cages of deadly black thorns as they searched for a way to escape.

• The Demon Dragon tore his tail free from Song Yang’s bite, spraying corrosive blood across the ground.
• Song Yang used Golden Crocodile Demon Breaker to illuminate the Demon Dragon’s territory and briefly paralyze him.
• Weng Yunling struck the Demon Dragon with her Antler Spear and Deer Horn Magic Light, but his scales resisted her attack.
• Song Yang attacked the Demon Dragon’s joints with Whirltooth Light Wheels before the Demon Dragon recovered.
• The Demon Dragon cast Thorn Prison, trapping Song Yang and Weng Yunling in cages filled with lethal black thorns.

Song Yang used his strongest skills while Weng Yunling helped batter the Demon Dragon, whose defenses nearly collapsed under their attacks. Even after Song Yang’s Eighth Soul Skill stripped away most of its flesh, the Demon Dragon remained alive, and Song Yang launched another attack.

• Song Yang broke free of the Demon Dragon’s Thorn Prison with his Fifth Soul Skill, then used his Sixth Soul Skill to withstand Dragon Roar Fury.
• Weng Yunling teleported above the Demon Dragon, multiplied into twenty clones, and struck it with her Sixth Soul Skill, driving it into the ground.
• Song Yang activated his Martial Soul Avatar and Right Arm Soul Bone Skill before hitting the Demon Dragon with Dragon Soul Whale Breaker.
• Song Yang unleashed his Eighth Soul Skill, overwhelming the Demon Dragon’s Overlord Body and leaving it severely wounded but still alive.
• Song Yang formed a massive Whirltooth Light Wheel with his Left Arm Soul Bone Skill and swung it down toward the Demon Dragon.

Song Yang defeated the Demon Dragon and helped Weng Yunling absorb its Hundred-Thousand-Year soul ring, soul bone, and Beast Soul before returning to Banyan City. While the Eight Soul Suppressors’ leaders were away, Jing Hang faced an assault on the city by the Elder Hall and charged at Lei Ting.

• Song Yang killed the Demon Dragon, took its soul ring, soul bone, and Beast Soul, and escorted Weng Yunling out of the Dark Forbidden Zone.
• Song Yang drew Dark Attribute energy from the forbidden zone so Weng Yunling could absorb the Hundred-Thousand-Year soul ring and evolve her Martial Soul, then returned with her to Banyan City.
• Ye Lei planned to expand the Eight Soul Suppressors across the country after the Elder Hall lost public support, while Jing Hang remained on guard in Banyan City.
• Jing Hang saw strange phenomena in all four directions, sounded the city alarm, and ensured civilians entered underground shelters before confronting the attackers.
• Jing Hang repelled the Third Elder’s wind attacks, but the Third Elder and several others revealed themselves and attacked together.
• Jing Hang identified Lei Ting as the weakest target and charged at him with the Thunder King Saw.

Jing Hang defeated Lei Tian, Lie Huo, and Tie Wang as the two elders prepared to attack him. Qiao Na and Luo Yun wounded the elders, but a Dark Winged Dragon then charged at them from behind.

• Lei Tian, Lie Huo, and Tie Wang attacked Jing Hang, but Jing Hang broke through their defenses and blasted them away with lightning.
• Jing Hang’s lightning left Lei Tian dead and Lie Huo and Tie Wang badly injured and unable to fight.
• The Third Elder and Second Elder charged Jing Hang, but Qiao Na and Luo Yun struck them with their Eighth Soul Skills and injured them.
• A Dark Winged Dragon emerged from the shadows and charged at Jing Hang and the others from behind.

Jing Hang and his allies fought the Second and Third Elders, but the Demon Dragon Fourth Elder and Wind Dragon turned the battle against them. The Eight Soul Suppressors returned in force, leaving both sides poised for a decisive clash.

• Jing Hang attacked the Second Elder while restraining the Third Elder, breaking through the Second Elder's illusion and unleashing his Eighth Soul Skill against both elders.
• The Demon Dragon Fourth Elder appeared, blocked Jing Hang's attack, and sent him flying with a blow that broke his ribs.
• Wind Dragon revealed his corrupted soul rings and joined the three elders, while Lie Huo and Tie Wang closed in behind Jing Hang, Luo Yun, and Qiao Na.
• Ye Lei and the other members of the Eight Soul Suppressors returned, surrounding the enemy as both sides prepared to strike.

Song Yang and Han Nuan arrived with reinforcements, turning the battle against the elders in their favor. Han Nuan froze the Wind Dragon in place, and Qiao Na fired her strongest cannon at him.

• Song Yang, Han Nuan, and the others joined Jing Yang's side, evening the numbers against the elders.
• The Wind Dragon vanished and launched a surprise attack while Ye Lei's group tried to track him.
• Han Nuan was struck by the Wind Dragon's compressed wind cannons, but the attack revealed his location.
• Han Nuan froze the Wind Dragon with her Scorpion Ice Right Arm Soul Bone skill before he could escape.
• Jing Hang ordered Qiao Na to fire, and Qiao Na unleashed her Eighth Soul Skill at the frozen Wind Dragon.

Han Nuan, Luo Yun, Qiao Na, and Ye Lei fought to stop Wind Dragon and the Fifth Elder, and Luo Yun purified the darkness controlling Chen Sican. With Chen Sican restored, Ye Lei rallied his allies to counterattack the remaining Undead Elders.

• Han Nuan froze Wind Dragon and battered him with Ice Soul Bone attacks while Qiao Na’s cannons wounded him and Qiao Na’s vines dragged him toward Luo Yun’s purification ring.
• The Fifth Elder, Xue Yuan, tried to kill Wind Dragon, but Qiao Na sealed her powers and Ye Lei struck her with a meteor Soul Bone Skill.
• Luo Yun’s Mystic Transformation Demon Ring purified the Dark Element sustaining Wind Dragon, and a Mysterious Bird entered his forehead as he returned to Chen Sican.
• Luo Yun embraced Chen Sican, while Ye Lei and the others continued fighting the Undead Elders.
• Ye Lei called for a counterattack and badly wounded the Fourth Elder, then Chen Sican realized he had destroyed two buildings while controlled.

After Luo Yun healed and reunited with Chen Sican, he broke free of the Third Elder's control and killed him in a devastating attack. The Second Elder and Fourth Elder mourned their brother as Ye Lei and Jing Hang continued attacking them.

• Luo Yun healed Chen Sican, reassured him, and kissed him before they resolved to face their enemies together.
• Chen Sican cast off the black mist around his Soul Rings and attacked the Third Elder with his Wind abilities and Soul Bone skills.
• Chen Sican shattered the Third Elder's defense with Frenzied Wind God Slash, then killed him with Hurricane Storm Blade Slash.
• The Third Elder's Soul Rings vanished, and his Azure Dragon Halberd broke and lost its power.
• The Second Elder and Fourth Elder cried out over the Third Elder's death while Ye Lei and Jing Hang pressed their attacks.

Fifth Elder and Stone Figurine joined the battle against Ye Lei’s group, hoping to recover Third Elder’s Soul Bone, but Tie Wang sealed the remaining elders inside his Bronze Cauldron to protect them. Ye Lei and his allies launched a combined assault on the cauldron, leaving the trapped elders to realize it would soon break.

• Stone Figurine dug Fifth Elder out of the crater, and they saw Chen Sican brutally defeat Third Elder.
• Fifth Elder and Stone Figurine decided to fight and claim Third Elder’s Bone Annihilating Left Leg, but Chen Sican removed it first.
• Fifth Elder and Stone Figurine activated their Martial Soul Avatars and joined the battle, but they and the other elders struggled against Ye Lei’s group.
• Tie Wang used his Seventh and Eighth Soul Skills to shelter the elders inside a massive Bronze Cauldron.
• Jing Hang, Ye Lei, and Chen Sican attacked the cauldron with lightning, fire, and Wind Element light cannons, making it shake as the elders feared it would break.

Han Nuan, Song Yang, and Ye Lei’s group shattered Tie Wang’s Bronze Cauldron and surrounded the Elders and their allies. Ye Lei then severely injured Stone Figurine with a Soul Bone Skill and followed up with a magma punch.

• Han Nuan and Song Yang froze the Bronze Cauldron while Ye Lei’s flames heated it, leaving the trapped Elders caught between extreme heat and cold.
• The Bronze Cauldron cracked and exploded, blasting the Second Elder and the others into the open, where Ye Lei’s group surrounded them.
• The fighters split up: Chen Sican faced Tie Wang, Han Nuan and Qiao Na confronted Xue Yuan and the Fifth Elder, Jing Hang fought the Puppet Second Elder, and Song Yang and Weng Yunling took on the Puppet King and Lie Huo.
• Ye Lei charged Stone Figurine, broke through his defenses with the Nether Dragon Annihilation Spike, and struck the wound with Purgatory Lava Break, erasing more than half of Stone Figurine’s body.

Han Nuan and Qiao Na severely wounded Fifth Elder Xue Yuan, while Song Yang killed the Puppet King and Ye Lei annihilated the soul inside it. The Puppet King's death further weakened the Second Elder as his battle with Jing Hang continued.

• Han Nuan froze Xue Yuan in midair, and Qiao Na fired five beams from her Hidden Sea Flowers as Xue Yuan fell.
• Han Nuan struck Xue Yuan with her Extreme Ice Storm Shattering Profound Slash, breaking her defense and leaving her severely wounded.
• Song Yang trapped the Puppet King with a water tornado and golden chains, then destroyed its body with his Abyssal Evil Right Leg Soul Bone Skill.
• Ye Lei caught the Puppet King's exposed soul in his Soul Annihilation Array and annihilated it.
• The Second Elder felt the Puppet King's death during his fight with Jing Hang, and his strength declined as black blood poured from his face.

Second Elder unleashed his Explode Ring Eighth Soul Skill, trapping Ye Lei and the others inside a crimson curtain filled with powerful puppets and spiritual attacks. With Luo Yun’s protection lasting only two minutes, Ye Lei identified the six skulls sustaining the Hexagram Array and prepared to use Song Yang’s Slaughter-type Level 8 Soul Tool Cannon to break it.

• Second Elder detonated his Eighth Soul Ring to create a crimson Blood Illusion, then vanished with Fifth Elder, Fourth Elder, and their Evil Spirit Body subordinates.
• The red skulls’ strange roars disrupted the fighters’ minds, but Ye Lei restored their composure with Blue Silver Emperor vitality and Luo Yun shielded them from the crimson mist.
• Song Yang and the others discovered that the powerful blood puppets could not be killed with Soul Skills and that the crimson curtain had to be broken to escape.
• Ye Lei asked Song Yang to use the Slaughter-type Level 8 Soul Tool Cannon, which could seriously injure Second Elder at full output.
• Ye Lei explained that the array would collapse only if two of its six skulls were destroyed at the same time.

Qiao Na and Weng Yunling destroyed the Skeleton Hexagram Formation’s skulls, and Chen Sican sent Song Yang through a breach in the barrier. Song Yang found the elders’ underwater escape route and fired the Slaughter-type Level 8 Soul Tool Cannon at them, leaving the Ninth Elder and the Second Elder racing to evade it.

• Qiao Na and Weng Yunling unleashed their Eighth Soul Skills and destroyed both skulls, shattering the blood-red barrier around the formation.
• Chen Sican tore open a crack in the heavenly barrier with his Soul Bone Skill and flung Song Yang outside.
• Song Yang spotted the elders waiting at the river junction and realized the Ninth Elder was using a giant purple shark to carry them underwater.
• Song Yang aimed the Slaughter-type Level 8 Soul Tool Cannon at the shark and fired, sending a devastating shell through the river.
• The Second Elder sensed the approaching shot and urged the Ninth Elder to swim faster before it struck them.

Song Yang pursued Ninth Elder and the fleeing Evil Spirit Bodies through the Min River, killing Stone Figurine and Tie Wang while Sea Dragon and Sea Ghost tried to hold him back. Near the sea, Jing Hang trapped Ninth Elder with lightning and attacked, while Lei Tian moved to intercept the lightning bolt from the shark.

• Song Yang fired the Soul Tool Cannon at the fleeing group, and Stone Figurine intercepted its shell but was badly wounded.
• Song Yang struck Stone Figurine and his crocodile devoured him, then Tie Wang charged out to delay the pursuit.
• Song Yang defeated Tie Wang in fewer than three exchanges, and Sea Dragon and Sea Ghost appeared to slow him down.
• Ninth Elder swam toward the sea but was trapped by Jing Hang’s lightning-filled swamp and struck by Jing Hang’s Eighth Soul Skill.
• A lightning bolt shot from the shark toward Jing Hang, and Lei Tian activated his Martial Soul Avatar and Eighth Soul Skill to face it.

Jing Hang overpowered Lei Tian in their clash above the sea and killed him with his Holy Armor Lightning Bear Right Arm Soul Bone Skill. Lei Tian died without injuring Jing Hang, leaving Jing Hang victorious.

• Lei Tian summoned a thunder dragon with his Eighth Soul Skill and clashed with Jing Hang above the sea, damaging buildings along both shores.
• Lei Tian's thunder dragon gained the upper hand, and he boasted that he would kill Jing Hang to avenge Third Elder.
• Jing Hang activated Thunderous Mammoth True Body, strengthened his Eighth Soul Skill, and shattered Lei Tian's thunder dragon.
• Jing Hang struck Lei Tian with Bear Blade Thousand Lightning Slash, killing him in a burst of lightning and black mist.

Song Yang pursued the Ninth Elder and used the Destructive Soul Guidance Ray to kill him and the Fifth Elder, though the Ninth Elder managed to blast the injured Second Elder past Jing Hang’s blockade and into the sea. Chen Sican arrived as the Eight Soul Suppressors gathered, while the cannon that secured the kill was left unusable.

• Song Yang caught up with the Ninth Elder and tore into him in crocodile form, then cut through his water cannon attack.
• The Ninth Elder unleashed several soul skills, but Song Yang calmly counted down and evaded them.
• Song Yang’s Destructive Soul Guidance Ray struck the Ninth Elder and Fifth Elder, shattering their defenses.
• Before dying, the Ninth Elder used his water cannon to send the Second Elder past Jing Hang’s blockade and into the deep sea.
• Chen Sican arrived with the others, who saw the Ninth Elder and Fifth Elder floating dead in the Min River.
• The overloaded Level 8 Soul Tool Cannon caused a shockwave that drove civilians back into shelters and shattered nearby windows.

After the battle, Ye Lei prepared a new virtual-world assessment for Eight Soul Suppressors' expanded recruitment. The first group of students entered the Star Dou Great Forest to begin their test, but the assessment had only just started.

• Ye Lei found the Slaughter-type Level 8 Soul Tool Cannon ruined and discovered that its five eighty-thousand-year Beast Souls had been consumed.
• Three days later, Eight Soul Suppressors announced fifty admissions from Rongcheng Eighth Middle School and one special admission from each of five other middle schools.
• Ye Lei's staff installed eight assessment instruments at Rongcheng Eighth Middle School, where Huang Xiaoshu helped oversee the students and their safety.
• Ye Lei explained that groups of eight would complete timed virtual-world tasks and earn individual points, with the top fifty students admitted.
• Eight students entered a virtual version of the Star Dou Great Forest, introduced their martial souls and cultivation levels, and prepared to take the assessment.

Lin Xin led the eight students in their first assessment battle against a five-hundred-year Crimson Scorpion, while Jing Hang and Ye Lei watched and considered recruiting her. The group restrained the Soul Beast, but the battle remained underway.

• Jing Hang said he would take Lin Xin as his disciple if her points ranked in the top fifty, and Ye Lei suggested recruiting her directly after the assessment.
• The assessment announced that the first stage required the students to defeat a five-hundred-year Crimson Scorpion within five minutes.
• Lin Xin used her First Soul Skill, Earth-Shaking Rock Dragon, to raise a sturdy stone wall and block the Crimson Scorpion's fireballs.
• Lin Xin directed the group to attack, leading the charge while the Agile Attack System Soul Masters flanked the Crimson Scorpion.
• Wang Luoluo used Bronze Thorns to pin the Crimson Scorpion to the ground, and Zhang Kai's Universe Vajra Rings restrained its tail.

The children defeated the Crimson Scorpion in two minutes, and Wang Luhe healed Jiang Zixuan after he was injured. They passed the first assessment and were assigned a second challenge: survive for three minutes against the thousand-year Savage Crocodile.

• Shi Haoyue, Lin Xin, and the others attacked the Crimson Scorpion, but its fiery counterattack broke Wang Luoluo and Zhang Kai’s restraints.
• Li Kaihao and Jiang Zixuan struck the Crimson Scorpion’s pincers while Gu Yan pierced its eyes and Zhang Kai smashed one pincer with his flaming ring.
• Shi Haoyue decapitated the blinded Crimson Scorpion, ending the fight at the timer’s three-minute mark.
• Wang Luhe healed Jiang Zixuan, while Han Nuan praised her support ability and Qiao Na considered taking Wang Luoluo as her disciple.
• The assessors announced that the children had passed the first assessment and must survive three minutes against the thousand-year Savage Crocodile.