Chapter Summaries

The eight children planned to hunt a thousand-year Savage Crocodile for the second trial, while Lin Xin’s formation impressed Jing Hang. Shi Haoyue found the beast and was badly wounded, but Gu Yan rescued her and began holding it off as the three-minute countdown started.

• The group learned they had to find and kill a thousand-year Savage Crocodile, then planned to scout with Gu Yan and Shi Haoyue while the others advanced in formation.
• Jing Hang praised Lin Xin’s battle plan and decided he wanted to take her as his disciple.
• Shi Haoyue found the Savage Crocodile, but it countered her attack and wounded her before she could escape its tail strike.
• Gu Yan pulled Shi Haoyue clear of the tail strike, then attacked the Savage Crocodile with Exploding Golden Feathers as the countdown began.

Gu Yan and the other seven participants defeated the thousand-year Savage Crocodile just before the second trial’s deadline. The third trial required them to endure against a level 25 Soul Grandmaster, and they discovered the examiner was their senior.

• Gu Yan joined the other six participants to fight the Savage Crocodile, while Shi Haoyue questioned Gu Yan about her Soul Rings.
• The eight participants combined their Soul Skills and defeated the Savage Crocodile with only two seconds left on the clock.
• The mechanical voice announced that the third trial would test them against a level 25 Soul Grandmaster for the time it took an incense stick to burn.
• Song Yang revealed that the examiner had been simulated based on him, prompting Chen Sican to tease him and Ye Lei to separate them.
• After the break, a tall examiner carrying a large blade emerged from the forest, and the eight participants recognized him as their senior.

The eight students faced Song Yang in the third assessment, but his overwhelming strength quickly incapacitated several of them. Lin Xin realized they had to survive until the incense burned out, while Jiang Zixuan was struck down and ejected from the virtual world.

• Lin Xin and Gu Yan identified Song Yang as a powerful member of the Eight Soul Suppressors, alarming Li Kaihao and the others.
• Song Yang knocked Wang Luhe unconscious with a flick to her forehead, then swept seven students away with his crocodile tail, badly injuring Li Kaihao.
• Lin Xin noticed the incense above Song Yang and concluded the students needed to hold out for ten minutes, then used her Tough Earth Dragon Scales to face his attack.
• Jiang Zixuan tried to sneak up on Song Yang with his Flame Clone, but Song Yang struck him with a Water Element blade and followed with Sea Suppressing Soul Slaying Slash.
• Song Yang's attack killed Jiang Zixuan inside the virtual assessment, and the device ejected him into the auditorium.

Five founding members of Eight Soul Suppressors recruited promising students from the assessment as disciples. The chapter ended with Ye Lei offering Zhang Kai and Jiang Zixuan places as his students.

• After Jiang Zixuan and the other students were ejected from their simulation pods, the dean moved students who had laughed at them to the front of the assessment line.
• Han Nuan recognized Ice Phoenix bloodline in Shi Haoyue’s Martial Soul, demonstrated her Four-Winged Ice Phoenix, and accepted Shi Haoyue as her disciple.
• Jing Hang revealed his Thunderous Mammoth Martial Soul and took Lin Xin as his disciple, then called Shi Tou to show her around.
• Qiao Na invited Wang Luoluo to become her disciple, and Wang Luoluo eagerly accepted.
• Ye Lei offered Zhang Kai and Jiang Zixuan silver cards and invited them to become his disciples.

Ye Lei took on two new disciples during the assessment, where Zhang Kai discovered that his apparent child-sized senior sister, Zhang Ning, was a Level 43 Battle Soul Sect. After recruiting more students, Ye Lei left Banyan City and Eight Soul Suppressors in his allies’ care while he entered seclusion to strengthen his Flame Demon King Martial Soul.

• Ye Lei gave silver cards to Jiang Zixuan and Zhang Kai, accepted them as disciples, and arranged for their registration at Eight Soul Suppressors.
• Zhang Ning introduced herself as Ye Lei’s first disciple, revealing her Level 43 cultivation and leaving Zhang Kai stunned.
• Weng Yunling hurried back to help Yu Xi choose a fourth Soul Ring after Yu Xi broke through.
• The assessment continued, and Chen Sican and Luo Yun each took a disciple while Song Yang continued searching for a suitable first disciple.
• Ye Lei announced that he would enter the Forbidden Land of Fire for three months, leaving Banyan City and Eight Soul Suppressors under his companions’ management.
• Song Yang warned that the Elders, especially the possibly Titled Douluo Great Elder, could threaten the group while Ye Lei was away.

Ye Lei took Zhang Ning and Jiang Zixuan to the Forbidden Land of Fire for two months of cultivation, aiming to advance his Flame Demon King Martial Soul and help his disciples grow. After revealing Jiang Zixuan’s hidden potential, Ye Lei lured nearby Soul Beasts toward the children to begin their training.

• Ye Lei told Zhang Ning and Jiang Zixuan he would take them to the Forbidden Land of Fire and set goals for their cultivation during two months away from school.
• Ye Lei flew with the children to Jiyinluosi Island, explained the island’s ruined state, and teleported them past police waiting outside the airport.
• The three entered the Forbidden Land of Fire, where dense Fire Element energy filled the air, and Ye Lei explained that the children would hunt low-level Soul Beasts and use Fire Attribute immortal herbs to improve their cultivation.
• Ye Lei revealed that Jiang Zixuan’s Fire Wolf Martial Soul concealed the potential to awaken as a Blazing Flame Wolf Demon, which could emerge after he absorbed a 5,500-year Demon Flame Wolf Soul Ring at the Four Rings Soul Ancestor realm.
• Ye Lei spread fresh Soul Beast blood across the ground and began meditating, then told Zhang Ning and Jiang Zixuan to fight the Hundred-Year Soul Beasts drawn toward them.

Zhang Ning and Jiang Zixuan fought twenty Hundred-Year Soul Beasts and absorbed their Beast Souls, while Ye Lei protected them. After killing a ten-thousand-year Crystal Rock Fire Spirit Boa, Ye Lei gave Zhang Ning its Soul Ring and an additional forty-thousand-year Soul Ring, leaving her with powerful cultivation resources.

• Ye Lei concealed his aura and let Zhang Ning and Jiang Zixuan face twenty Hundred-Year Soul Beasts on their own.
• Zhang Ning and Jiang Zixuan killed the Soul Beasts in a competition, then divided the Beast Souls so Zhang Ning received twelve and Jiang Zixuan received eight.
• Ye Lei sensed a ten-thousand-year Crystal Rock Fire Spirit Boa approaching underground and bound and killed it from afar with his Soul Skills.
• Ye Lei collected the Crystal Rock Fire Spirit Boa's Soul Ring and Beast Soul, gave Zhang Ning the ten-thousand-year Soul Ring, and presented her with a forty-thousand-year Soul Ring.

Ye Lei gave Zhang Ning a forty-thousand-year Soul Ring suited to her future sixth ring and led the children from the outer region of the Forbidden Land of Fire toward its inner region. Meanwhile, the Wolf King learned of their arrival and decided to meet them himself.

• Ye Lei explained that the forty-thousand-year Soul Ring came from an Explosive Magma Beast and was a good fit for Zhang Ning's future sixth Soul Ring, though he had absorbed its Beast Soul.
• The Wolf King learned that three humans had entered his territory and that the Soul Douluo among them had swiftly killed a ten-thousand-year Crystal Rock Fire Spirit Boa.
• The Wolf King ordered his subordinates to prepare as he went to meet the humans personally.
• After the children absorbed five Beast Souls each in the outer region, Ye Lei led them toward the inner region to help them adapt gradually to stronger Soul Beasts.
• Ye Lei began looking for prey, intending to use high-level Soul Beast meat to benefit the children's cultivation.

Ye Lei found a pack of Crimson Demon Claw Wolves at the ruined altar and launched an attack, intent on obtaining a suitable Soul Ring for Jiang Zixuan. He unleashed his powerful Martial Souls and Soul Skills against the pack, killing several wolves as the battle continued.

• Zhang Ning reached level 44 after absorbing twelve hundred-year Beast Souls and one Ten-Thousand-Year Beast Soul, while she and Jiang Zixuan stayed put despite feeling bored.
• Ye Lei discovered about twenty-five Crimson Demon Claw Wolves at the altar and provoked them; their howls brought the pack to forty-five wolves, led by a seventy-thousand-year Wolf King.
• Five Crimson Demon Claw Wolves charged Ye Lei, who bound them with Blue Silver Emperor Vines and scattered the pack with Dark Flame Meteorfall.
• Ye Lei killed several Ten-Thousand-Year Crimson Demon Claw Wolves using his Martial Soul skills and physical attacks.
• A thirty-thousand-year Crimson Demon Claw Wolf attacked with Claw Rend Earth, but Ye Lei countered with Lava Skeleton Prison and killed it along with several nearby wolves.

Ye Lei fought off the Crimson Demon Claw Wolves, then returned to find the Wolf King trying to approach Jiang Zixuan. After the Wolf King surrendered, he explained that he wanted to thank Ye Lei for killing the former Dragon Emperor and allowing him to become king of the Forbidden Land of Fire.

• The Crimson Demon Claw Wolf King used Crimson Demon Berserk to strengthen the surviving wolves, but Ye Lei activated Dark Flame Molten Bone and charged into the pack.
• Jiang Zixuan met the red-armored Wolf King, who recognized Jiang’s Demonic Flame Wolf Martial Soul and touched his chin.
• Ye Lei returned and struck the Wolf King, sending Jiang Zixuan and Zhang Ning flying with the shockwave.
• Ye Lei attacked the Wolf King with his Hellfire Twin Blades, but the Wolf King knelt and surrendered before Ye Lei could kill him.
• The Wolf King told Ye Lei he wanted to thank him for killing the former Dragon Emperor, which had let him take the throne of the Forbidden Land of Fire.

Ye Lei agreed to let Jiang Zixuan train with the Wolf King for a month in exchange for immortal herbs and other treasures, while warning the Soul Beasts not to harm his disciple. Ye Lei then used two rare fire-attribute herbs to strengthen Zhang Ning, whose dangerous reaction left him focused on protecting her meridians.

• The Wolf King revealed that Jiang Zixuan's Martial Soul would evolve again and offered to guide him for a month; Ye Lei accepted after the Wolf King swore an oath and gave him three immortal herbs.
• Ye Lei gave Jiang Zixuan a third Soul Ring and five Beast Souls, then warned him to contact Ye Lei if anyone threatened him.
• After the meal, the Wolf King took Jiang Zixuan toward the Forbidden Land of Fire's core, where he beat Giant Bear and warned him not to harm the child or his companions.
• Ye Lei checked Jiang Zixuan's vital signs and examined the pouch, finding the rare Burning Fire Dragon Heart Grass and Scorching Heavenly Lotus.
• Ye Lei gave Zhang Ning a small leaf from each herb, then used his Blue Silver Domain's life energy to stabilize her as the herbs' power caused her severe pain.

Zhang Ning used two immortal herbs to reach Soul Power Level 50, then absorbed a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring and broke through to Level 53. She gained a powerful group-control Fifth Soul Skill, and Ye Lei planned to find her a Soul Bone to make up for her lack of offensive power.

• Zhang Ning reached Soul Power Level 50 after absorbing the immortal herbs.
• Ye Lei told Zhang Ning to absorb the Crystal Rock Fire Spirit Boa’s Soul Ring while the herbs’ effects remained.
• Zhang Ning smoothly absorbed her Fifth Soul Ring and advanced to Soul Power Level 53.
• Zhang Ning revealed that her Fifth Soul Skill, Fire Spirit Flame Lock, was a powerful group-control skill with venom.
• Ye Lei planned to ask the Wolf King for a decent Soul Bone to give Zhang Ning stronger offensive abilities.

Ye Lei used the immortal herbs to raise his Flame Demon King Martial Soul to level sixty-six, then promised Zhang Ning a different way to grow stronger. Meanwhile, Han Nuan returned home and learned her parents were staying at the Ye Family Ancestral Residence, so she flew there to join them.

• Ye Lei absorbed two leaves from each immortal herb, gaining three Soul Power levels and purifying his body and Martial Soul attributes.
• Ye Lei told Zhang Ning that repeating the herbs would be useless and proposed finding her an offensive Soul Bone from a tiger- or bear-type Soul Beast.
• Ye Lei led Zhang Ning through the Forbidden Land of Fire, hunting ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts and steadily increasing their Beast Souls.
• Han Nuan found her home empty, called Lin Shuwan, and learned her parents were staying with her future mother-in-law at the Ye Family Ancestral Residence.
• Han Nuan flew toward the Ye Family Ancestral Residence, where her parents and Ye Lei's parents had been spending their time shopping and socializing while the two fathers sparred.

Zhang Ning, now a level-54 control-type Battle Soul King, defeated a ten-thousand-year Fire Spirit Tiger and claimed its Soul Ring and Beast Soul. After more than a month of secluded cultivation in the Forbidden Land of Fire, the Wolf King returned with five high-grade Fire Attribute Soul Bones, including one suited to Zhang Ning.

• Ye Lei lured a ten-thousand-year Fire Spirit Tiger toward Zhang Ning so she could practice using her Fifth Soul Ring.
• Zhang Ning used her Flame King Vine skills and whip to bind, poison, and kill the Fire Spirit Tiger.
• Zhang Ning stored the tiger's Soul Ring and Beast Soul, proposing that the Soul Ring be saved for Li Zhi, and Ye Lei approved.
• Ye Lei continued cultivating with Zhang Ning and Jiang Zixuan in the Forbidden Land of Fire for over a month.
• The Wolf King returned Jiang Zixuan unharmed with top-grade Fire Attribute immortal herbs and five Soul Bones, including a sixty-thousand-year Crimson Flame Demon Tiger Left Leg suited to Zhang Ning.

Zhang Ning absorbed a sixty-thousand-year soul bone and advanced to Level 57 while Ye Lei considered the challenges of absorbing his system-granted soul ring. The Wolf King hired Ye Lei to roast meat for a month in exchange for rare treasures, and Ye Lei planned to strengthen the Eight Soul Suppressors after their seclusion ended.

• Zhang Ning absorbed the Left Leg Soul Bone, raising her Soul Power to Level 57.
• Ye Lei noted that his Soul Power had reached Level 67 and considered how difficult it would be to find soul beasts powerful enough for his later breakthroughs.
• The Wolf King asked Ye Lei to roast meat, rejected a raw tiger-type soul beast leg, and paid him a deposit of herbs, Beast Souls, and soul bones to cook for him daily for a month.
• Ye Lei planned to renovate the Eight Soul Suppressors headquarters and expand its mission and reward system after the two months of seclusion.
• The Wolf King warned Ye Lei that the meat was burning, pulling him out of his uneasy thoughts.

The Great Elder absorbed a 400,000-year soul beast and became Demon King Douluo, then ordered Second Elder and Eighth Elder to join him in attacking Banyan City in a month. In the Forbidden Land of Fire, the Wolf King offered Ye Lei and his companions a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Soul each, leaving them thrilled.

• The Great Elder absorbed his ninth soul ring and reached the Titled Douluo realm, naming himself Demon King Douluo.
• Demon King Douluo ordered Second Elder and Eighth Elder to accompany him to bathe Banyan City in blood and kill Ye Lei and his allies in a month.
• Demon King Douluo absorbed the remaining power of the dead soul beast, then returned to his territory with its 400,000-year Soul Bone.
• Ye Lei scolded the Wolf King for eating all the ingredients they had gathered, but the Wolf King offered to replace them with treasures.
• The Wolf King offered Ye Lei and his two companions a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Soul each, and they eagerly accepted the prospect.

The Wolf King gave Ye Lei a Hundred-Thousand-Year Beast Soul and asked to leave the Forbidden Land of Fire with him, and Ye Lei agreed. Zhang Ning and Jiang Zixuan advanced their cultivation and absorbed new soul rings while Ye Lei intensified his training to prepare for the Flame Demon King’s Seventh Soul Skill.

• Three Gale Divine Eagles brought the Wolf King three blood-red treasure pearls, and he offered Ye Lei a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bone as well.
• The Wolf King asked to travel with Ye Lei to Banyan City, and Ye Lei agreed after the Wolf King promised not to harm people in the human world.
• Zhang Ning and Jiang Zixuan each absorbed a quarter of the Hundred-Thousand-Year Beast Soul, and Jiang Zixuan used a small piece of an immortal herb to stabilize his body.
• Zhang Ning absorbed a forty-thousand-year Explosive Magma Beast soul ring, while Jiang Zixuan absorbed a higher-age Crimson Demon Claw Wolf soul ring to strengthen his Third Soul Skill.
• The Wolf King sent refined Soul Power into Ye Lei, Zhang Ning, and Jiang Zixuan, and Ye Lei began meditating with the remaining Beast Soul to raise his Flame Demon Martial Soul’s cultivation.

Ye Lei broke through level 70 and absorbed a system-provided Soul Ring from a seven-hundred-thousand-year Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, gaining a new Domain and his Seventh Soul Skill. The seclusion ended as Zhang Ning and Jiang Zixuan witnessed the power of his transformation.

• Zhang Ning and Jiang Zixuan fought Soul Beasts outside during Ye Lei’s seclusion and gathered suitable Beast Souls for later use.
• Ye Lei broke through level 70, and the Wolf King recognized the dark aura of the Soul Ring as belonging to a seven-hundred-thousand-year Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
• Ye Lei absorbed the blood-black Soul Ring, using his Sixth Soul Skill, Demon King Fission, to endure its destructive power while the Wolf King guarded him.
• Ye Lei’s absorption released a blast that sent the Wolf King flying and formed a barrier that trapped Zhang Ning and Jiang Zixuan outside.
• Ye Lei gained the Demon King Domain and the Seventh Soul Skill, Demon King True Body, then withdrew the Domain and revealed that the Soul Ring had become wreathed in purple flames.

After five days of body tempering in the Forbidden Land of Fire, Ye Lei and his companions returned to Banyan City, where a new mission awaited the Soul Hunting Squad. At headquarters, Zhang Ning and Jiang Zixuan registered their Soul Power, and Lin Shuwan was stunned by their exceptional levels.

• The Wolf King brought Ye Lei to the Forbidden Land of Fire’s volcanic core for final body tempering while Zhang Ning and Jiang Zixuan trained at the outskirts.
• Ye Lei spent the final five days of secluded training tempering his body, while the Wolf King hunted and prepared food for the group.
• Ye Lei and the others returned to Banyan City, where Zhang Ning’s communicator announced a new mission for their Soul Hunting Squad.
• Ye Lei left with the Wolf King to handle his identity, while Zhang Ning took Jiang Zixuan to Eight Soul Suppressors headquarters to update their records.
• Zhang Ning tested at Level 63, and Jiang Zixuan tested at Level 43, astonishing Lin Shuwan.

Zhang Ning reunited with her Soul Hunting Squad and led them into a national forest park to hunt a Twenty-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. The squad cornered a Crimson Shadow Ghost Tiger, and Zhang Ning revealed her Six-Ring Soul Emperor strength as the battle continued.

• Zhang Ning met the squad at the City Defense Company and learned that Song Yu Fan had reached the Soul King realm while the others had reached the Four-Ring Soul Ancestor level.
• Zhang Ning and the seven squad members departed with her father, Zhang An, and entered the restricted depths of the national forest park to attract a Twenty-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• The squad drew a Crimson Shadow Ghost Tiger, and Zhang Ning identified its Soul Ring as a suitable fit for Wu Peng.
• The Crimson Shadow Ghost Tiger attacked Zhang Ning, who evaded it through a Void Mirror, and the squad surrounded the beast and adapted their tactics to its speed.
• Zhang Ning revealed six Soul Rings and restrained the tiger with her Fifth Soul Skill while Cui Ling poisoned it and Song Yu Fan and Yu Xi attacked.
• Shi Tou transformed and unleashed his Fourth Soul Skill as the Crimson Shadow Ghost Tiger broke free, leaving the battle unresolved.