Chapter Summaries

Ye Lei unleashed a stack of Soul Skills and overwhelmed the Heavy Armored Fire Dragon King in the Land of Fire. The chapter ended with Ye Lei severing both of the dragon king’s arms and mocking him.

• The Heavy Armored Fire Dragon King attacked Ye Lei, but Ye Lei reshaped the surrounding cliffs and absorbed the dragon king’s power.
• Ye Lei activated multiple Soul Skills and began charging his eighth Soul Skill, while the Heavy Armored Fire Dragon King rushed to interrupt him.
• Han Keqin kicked the Flame Sky Phantom Spirit Beast into the Heavy Armored Fire Dragon King’s path, giving Ye Lei time to finish charging.
• Ye Lei struck the Heavy Armored Fire Dragon King with flames, poison, and a Soul Bone skill, repeatedly damaging his armor and sending him stumbling backward.
• Ye Lei caught the Heavy Armored Fire Dragon King’s wrists, snapped both arms, and severed them with flaming slashes before taunting him.

Ye Lei and Han Keqin defeated the three Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts in the Forbidden Land of Fire, but Ye Lei collapsed into a coma after killing them. In Huaxia, the Wolf King learned of their deaths and resolved to reveal the Forbidden Land of Fire’s deepest secret to Ye Lei.

• The Heavy Armored Fire Dragon King attacked Ye Lei, who wounded him and trapped him with hidden Blue Silver Emperor seeds while Han Keqin overpowered the Crimson Rock Giant Elephant and the Flame Sky Phantom Spirit Beast.
• Ye Lei unleashed a massive poisoned flaming meteor that devastated the Fire Canyon and left all three Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts barely alive.
• Ye Lei killed the three Soul Beasts with the Purgatory Blade, then collapsed unconscious as his Soul Skills ended.
• Han Keqin collected the three Soul Bones, Soul Rings, and Beast Souls, then left the Forbidden Land of Fire carrying the comatose Ye Li.
• In Huaxia, the Wolf King learned that the three old fellows were dead and decided to tell Ye Lei the secret he had guarded for a hundred years.

After waking from five days of exhaustion, Ye Lei considered the danger of his sixth Soul Ring and the powerful spoils he had brought back from the Forbidden Land of Fire. He left his frozen home to find food for himself and Han Nuan, and the lively city reaffirmed his belief that the Eight Soul Suppressors’ work was worthwhile.

• Ye Lei woke after five days and realized his sixth Soul Ring’s berserk state carried severe drawbacks that could leave the Eight Soul Suppressors unable to stop him.
• Ye Lei saw the Soul Beast spoils from the Forbidden Land of Fire and resolved never to return there.
• Ye Lei found that Han Nuan’s meditation had frozen the house, so he went out to find food for them.
• Ye Lei walked through the lively city and felt that protecting ordinary people made the cost of becoming stronger worthwhile.

Ye Lei saw a civilian Soul Fighting Arena and decided to build a safer, better-organized arena and a school to train Soul Masters from childhood. After discussing the plans with Han Nuan over a late-night meal, they planned to seek headquarters’ approval the next day and aim to finish both projects by year’s end.

• Ye Lei watched a civilian arena match and decided to establish a large underground Soul Fighting Arena with defensive Soul Tools and organized competitions.
• Ye Lei realized Soul Masters needed training from an early age and conceived of founding a dedicated academy.
• Ye Lei secretly guided a struggling contestant during the match, helping him defeat his opponent with a Second Soul Skill.
• Ye Lei bought food for Han Nuan, then told her about his plans while they ate.
• Ye Lei and Han Nuan agreed to present the Soul Fighting Arena and academy plans at headquarters and prepare to build them after receiving approval.

After completing five days of grueling physical training, Lin Wei and the others began a lesson meant to help them understand their companions’ abilities through combat. Song Yu Fan arranged for the students to spar against him in two groups, while Huang Xiaoshu arrived as their healer.

• Lin Wei and the others finished five days of intense training and used their first day off to recover, though they refused their parents’ pleas to quit.
• Song Yu Fan rewarded the students’ determination by adding five points to each of their evaluation sheets.
• Lin Wei questioned the need for a lesson on getting to know companions, but Song Yu Fan challenged their confidence in one another and ordered them to split into two groups of five for combat training against him.
• Song Yu Fan released his powerful aura, forcing Lin Wei and the others to their knees as they realized the sparring could leave them injured.
• Huang Xiaoshu introduced herself as codename Begonia and demonstrated her five-ring healing ability, revealing herself as the Eight Soul Suppressors’ chief healing officer.

Song Yu Fan fought Lin Wei’s first five-man team, demonstrating the gap between his strength and theirs as he quickly incapacitated several members. The battle continued with Lin Wei unconscious and the remaining teammates still facing Song Yu Fan.

• Lin Wei chose his team to fight first so the other group could observe Song Yu Fan and plan against him.
• Song Yu Fan charged without waiting for a signal, slapped Lin Wei hard enough to knock out a tooth, then kicked him away.
• Song Yu Fan evaded Xiao Jia’s sticky water spheres, struck down the airborne Agile Attack System Soul Master, and knocked the other Agile Attack System Soul Master to his knees.
• Lin Wei recovered and grabbed Song Yu Fan so Xiao Jia could bind them together, then carried Song Yu Fan into the air and dived toward the arena floor.
• Song Yu Fan used his Fourth Soul Skill, Shattered Fang Earth Split Formation, at close range, knocking Lin Wei unconscious; the support-type Soul Master saved Lin Wei’s life.

Song Yufan’s group defeated two teams in training, while Huang Xiaoshu healed the injured students. Meanwhile, Ye Lei’s proposals moved forward as construction began on a new Soul Master School, and Lin Wei woke to regret his fighting strategy.

• The remaining three members of the first opposing team surrendered, and Huang Xiaoshu healed the injured students, though he could not wake those who had passed out.
• Song Yufan ambushed the Support-type Soul Master in the second match, helping his group defeat the five-person team.
• Lin Wei woke beside the fighting platform, remembered how close he had come to dying, and regretted choosing close combat instead of a battle of attrition.
• Ye Lei’s proposals gained support from Ye Corporation’s shareholders, Han Group took charge of construction, and news of the new Soul Master School spread across the country.
• Lin Wei tore off his bandages, saw the scars covering his body, and lay back down in dismay.

Ye Lei opened Ring Master Academy to commoner students, and Luo Yun drove off the Chen Family Patriarch when he protested the admissions policy. The first students enrolled and were assigned to academies and classes, but they still faced a qualifying examination one month later.

• Ye Lei and Ye Junqing chose to admit commoner students aged ten to twelve with Soul Power Level 20 or higher, waiving tuition for the first year.
• The Chen Family Patriarch came to Banyan City to confront Ye Lei, but Luo Yun slapped him and threatened the Chen Family’s business with the Luo Family’s influence.
• Children from across the country arrived to register, and more than five hundred applicants were rejected for being too young or having insufficient Soul Power.
• Ye Lei and the other members of Eight Soul Suppressors organized the admitted students into seven departments and classes, with a further examination scheduled one month later.
• The school opened its Soul Fighting Arena and required every student to take part in at least two monthly matches.

Ye Lei began his work as dean of the Fire Department at the Eight Soul Suppressor Affiliated Soul Master School and laid down strict rules for his students. As classes approached, the new teachers prepared for their first lessons with advice from Huang Xiaoshu.

• The school assigned deans and vice deans across its departments, made Ye Lei dean of the future Soul Tool Department, and appointed his father as principal.
• Ye Lei arrived at the Fire Department lecture hall with four teachers and warned students that three unexplained absences or early departures would result in expulsion.
• Zhang Ning and the other teachers introduced themselves after Ye Lei left, then prepared to write their lesson plans.
• Huang Xiaoshu advised her former students that teaching Soul Master cultivation and combat techniques would be easier than teaching ordinary school subjects.
• Song Yang, exhausted from memorizing lesson plans, discussed his Water Department teaching schedule with Huang Xiaoshu.

Xiao Wuxue secured the Night Douluo’s help to try to revive his younger brother Wuchen in a powerful body and began carrying out his revenge. He killed the Puppet Second Elder, took his soul bones, and left the Second Dwelling Hall in ruins.

• Xiao Wuxue begged the Night Douluo to revive Wuchen, and the Night Douluo agreed to try if Xiao Wuxue obtained a powerful complete body.
• With the Night Douluo’s support, Xiao Wuxue prepared to pursue his revenge.
• Xiao Wuxue attacked the wounded Puppet Second Elder in the Second Dwelling Hall and severed his arm.
• The Puppet Second Elder used his Eighth Soul Skill, but Xiao Wuxue blocked it with the Eighth Elder’s Void Aspect soul bone.
• Xiao Wuxue killed the Puppet Second Elder, took his two soul bones, and destroyed the Second Dwelling Hall before leaving.

A package containing two severed heads and a letter from Xiao Wuxue arrived at Ye Corporation, confirming his intent to take revenge on Ye Lei. Ye Lei and his team prepared to find Xiao Wuxue and settle the matter in their next battle.

• A receptionist discovered a blood-soaked package at Ye Corporation, and Ye Lei's group arrived with the police.
• Ye Lei opened the package and found the heads of the Puppet Second Elder and a former member of his high school badminton club.
• Ye Lei warned the Eight Soul Suppressors that one of them might be targeted, especially Luo Yun.
• Ye Lei read the letter and identified Xiao Wuxue as the sender, realizing Xiao Wuxue was determined to kill him.
• Ye Lei and his team vowed to find Xiao Wuxue before he could kill more innocent people.

Xiao Wuxue attacked the Soul Master School to avenge his brother, and Ye Lei and the others fought to protect the Water Department students. Xiao Wuxue survived their combined assault, and Jing Hang charged at him as the battle continued.

• Xiao Wuxue killed the academy guards and headed for the largest gathering of students.
• Song Yang shielded the Water Department students from Xiao Wuxue’s crushing pressure and confronted him.
• Ye Lei kicked Xiao Wuxue, but Xiao Wuxue announced he would make the school’s students die with his brother and spread a dark domain across the arena.
• Weng Yunling fought Xiao Wuxue in the darkness until attacks from Ye Lei and others broke his domain and forced him to endure their combined assault.
• Ye Lei realized Xiao Wuxue had absorbed multiple Soul Bones, and Jing Hang charged at him in a burst of purple lightning.

Jing Hang and the others overwhelmed Xiao Wuxue with layered restraints and prepared to kill him, but a Level 96 Night Douluo arrived and shattered their defenses. Night Douluo declared that he had come to take Xiao Wuxue away and kill Ye Lei’s group, leaving them facing a far stronger enemy.

• Jing Hang powered up and defeated Xiao Wuxue despite his Titled Douluo status and energy-absorbing Fourth Soul Skill.
• Jing Hang trapped Xiao Wuxue in Thunder Fortress while Ye Lei and Qiao Na added their domains and control skills.
• Ye Lei sensed a powerful approaching Titled Douluo, but Qiao Na launched her Eighth Soul Skill at the immobilized Xiao Wuxue.
• Night Douluo arrived, blocked Qiao Na’s attack, shattered the barriers, and blasted the group away with his aura.
• Night Douluo revealed that he had come to retrieve Xiao Wuxue and kill Ye Lei’s group, while Xiao Wuxue realized he was unlikely to survive.

Xiao Wuxue tried to save himself by attacking Luo Yun, but Night Douluo intervened and began overwhelming the defenders. Ye Lei trapped Night Douluo and his allies inside the Pitch-Black Barrier to give the teachers time to evacuate the students, but Night Douluo summoned two hundred Evil Spirit Bodies and continued to injure Ye Lei.

• Xiao Wuxue charged at Luo Yun, whose Eighth Soul Skill repelled him and shattered his arm, before Chen Sican tried to strike him down.
• Night Douluo stopped Chen Sican with his halberd and attacked him with his Fourth Soul Skill, Blood Demon Dance; Wu Peng’s Void Mirror swapped Chen Sican with Jing Hang, who blocked the attack with three shields.
• Ye Lei pulled Night Douluo, Demon King Douluo, and Xiao Wuxue into his Pitch-Black Barrier and used all four of his domain abilities to hold them back while others evacuated the students.
• Night Douluo summoned two hundred Evil Spirit Bodies, and Chen Sican was sent to escort students to safety while Han Nuan took over as the main control-type Soul Master.
• Inside the barrier, Night Douluo wounded Ye Lei with his Night Blood Demon Halberd while Ye Lei kept Demon King Douluo and Xiao Wuxue sealed and restrained.

Ye Lei fought Night Douluo inside his pitch-black domain, using his Demon King True Body and poisoned vines and bone spikes to exploit Night Douluo’s Dragon Scale Armor. Night Douluo recognized Ye Lei’s limits within the domain and prepared to use his Evil Spirit Bodies to overwhelm him.

• Night Douluo attacked Ye Lei with his dark-red halberd, but Ye Lei released his Demon King True Body and seized the weapon.
• Ye Lei kicked Night Douluo, tearing his robe and exposing Dragon Scale Armor that resisted the blow.
• Ye Lei filled the domain with poisoned vines and bone spikes, trapping Night Douluo and attacking while relying on his ability to avoid fatal injuries there.
• Ye Lei tracked his time inside the domain because it blocked Luo Yun’s support and would eventually drain his Soul Power.
• Night Douluo realized Ye Lei was weakened inside the domain and planned to use his Evil Spirit Bodies, whose power the barrier could not strip away.

Ye Lei and the Eight Soul Suppressors fought Night Douluo’s group while Chen Sican contained the Evil Spirit Bodies. Han Nuan trapped Xiao Wuxue with an illusion and helped expose him to her newly unlocked Ninth Soul Skill, leaving his fate unresolved.

• Night Douluo broke Ye Lei’s black barrier with his Martial Soul Avatar, allowing the Eight Soul Suppressors to attack his companions.
• Han Nuan fought Xiao Wuxue while Song Yang engaged Demon King Douluo, and Chen Sican carried Evil Spirit Bodies to the Far North Land’s inner sea.
• Han Nuan used her Eye of Illusion to stun Xiao Wuxue with visions of his family, setting him up for Jing Hang and Chen Sican’s Wind Lightning Annihilation Rift Profound Tribulation.
• Xiao Wuxue broke free of the illusion and turned to defend against the Wind Lightning attack, exposing his back to Han Nuan.
• Han Nuan revealed that she had reached the Titled Douluo realm and prepared to strike Xiao Wuxue with her Ninth Soul Skill.

Han Nuan killed Xiao Wuxue with her Ninth Soul Skill, and Ye Lei annihilated Xiao Wuxue’s soul before the Night Douluo could reclaim it. The Night Douluo revealed that his grudge against Ye Lei began centuries ago, while Ye Lei resolved to bring him down.

• Xiao Wuxue’s Demon Dragon Barrier shattered, and Han Nuan struck him with Mysterious Tribulation Phoenix Feather Frost Thorn Fall.
• A surge of Night Power briefly restored Xiao Wuxue’s movement, but his Ninth Soul Skill could not stop Han Nuan’s attack, which froze him and sealed his soul.
• Ye Lei’s Soul-Annihilation Array destroyed Xiao Wuxue’s soul, preventing it from returning to the Night Douluo.
• The Night Douluo realized Ye Lei had erased Xiao Wuxue’s soul and explained that he needed the souls of the Elder Hall’s twelve elders for his plan.
• Ye Lei locked a Soul Seizing Array onto the Night Douluo, who declared that their grudge had begun centuries earlier.
• Ye Lei dismissed the Night Douluo’s claim as irrelevant and vowed to uproot the culprit endangering the people across the country.

Demon King Douluo and Night Douluo escaped Ye Lei’s Soul Seizing Array and began planning to rebuild their forces, while Ye Lei uncovered historical and prison records that linked the elders to past events. Ye Lei convened the Eight Soul Suppressors to discuss the clues.

• Demon King Douluo rescued Night Douluo from Ye Lei’s attack, and the two fled to Mongolia, where the Soul Seizing Array’s connection was severed.
• Night Douluo ordered Demon King Douluo to fill a vacancy in the ten-person soul fusion array and hunt twenty Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts and one hundred Soul Beasts above the fifty-thousand-year level within five months.
• Demon King Douluo set off with ten Evil Spirit Bodies to hunt Soul Beasts under threat of being killed if he failed.
• In Banyan City, Ye Lei installed advanced defensive Soul Tools and searched historical documents and national police archives for clues about Night Douluo’s group.
• Ye Lei found records of Spiritual Energy appearing four hundred and fifty years earlier and a prison break twenty-five years earlier that likely involved Demon King Douluo and Puppet Second Elder.
• Ye Lei convened a meeting attended by the key members of Eight Soul Suppressors, including the three Special Squads and recruited members.

Ye Lei connected the ancient disappearance of Soul Power and Soul Beasts to a man-made seal, while the group detected a disturbance in the Arctic Circle and chose to monitor it rather than intervene. Ye Junqing recalled that Old Master Ye’s Ye Li Ji might reveal what happened centuries ago, and Ye Lei returned to his laboratory to find a way to sever the Night Douluo’s control over Evil Spirit Bodies.

• Ye Lei told Song Yang and Jing Hang that Soul Power had descended worldwide 450 years earlier and that a man-made seal had caused it and the Soul Beasts to disappear 430 years ago.
• Chen Sican detected an Arctic Circle Soul Power fluctuation consistent with a battle between a Titled Douluo and a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, along with ten Evil Spirit Bodies.
• Ye Lei concluded that the Night Douluo had sent Evil Spirit Bodies to hunt Soul Beasts with the Demon King Douluo, and Jing Hang and the others decided not to intervene unless they came to Huaxia.
• Ye Junqing remembered that Old Master Ye’s Ye Li Ji recorded more than five hundred years of Ye Family history and might explain what happened 450 years ago.
• Ye Lei returned to his laboratory to develop a way to sever the connection between the Evil Spirit Bodies and the Night Douluo.

After two exhausting days in the laboratory, Ye Lei returned home, ate dinner, and prepared to cultivate so he could reach Level 90 and absorb his final soul ring. The evening ended with Ye Lei and Han Nuan sharing an intimate moment in the bathtub.

• Ye Lei returned to the villa after carving more than a hundred high-intensity core formations and found Han Nuan had ordered takeout.
• Ye Lei ate, rested, and reflected on his plan to cultivate the Flame Demon King Martial Soul to Level 90 after reaching Level 88 by absorbing the Dragon King's Eye Head Bone.
• Ye Lei saw Han Nuan dressed in a cat-themed outfit and got a nosebleed.
• Ye Lei carried Han Nuan into the bathtub, and the two became intimate.