Chapter Summaries

Lin Shuwan showed Ye Qingyu the special combat gear and Hellfire Twin Blades her father had made for her, then explained the academy’s task point system. She left Ye Qingyu in the wilderness to confront a wanted gang, with a mission worth ten thousand points, and offered to intervene if needed.

• Lin Shuwan led Ye Qingyu into a secret depot chamber and explained that her late father had made her a combat uniform with a fire-attribute release device powered by a hundred-thousand-year Beast Soul.
• Ye Qingyu took the Hellfire Twin Blades from the wall and felt her martial soul respond to them.
• Lin Shuwan explained how students earned and spent task points, then arranged for Ye Qingyu’s mission to be worth ten thousand points.
• Ye Qingyu arrived in the wilderness wearing her combat uniform and carrying the blades and a Service Pistol.
• Lin Shuwan told Ye Qingyu that the ten gang members were wanted criminals and said she could call for backup or leave the gang for Lin Shuwan to handle.

Lin Shuwan sent Ye Qingyu into the forest at night to attack a gang, taking advantage of her dark-attribute abilities and newly acquired soul bone. Ye Qingyu found the gang’s cabin and a kidnapped woman, then launched her attack while Zhang Ning’s squad prepared to protect the hostage.

• Lin Shuwan explained that night suited Ye Qingyu’s abilities and pushed her out of the van to begin the mission.
• Zhang Ning and the other Soul Hunting Squad members watched Ye Qingyu from the trees and discussed their role as her bodyguards.
• Ye Qingyu used her soul bone’s enhanced speed and vision to locate a concealed cabin and observe the gang’s shift changes.
• Ye Qingyu saw gang members bring a struggling person in a sack to the cabin and realized the gang had kidnapped a woman.
• Ye Qingyu killed the guard outside the cabin with a black feather, and Zhang Ning ordered Wu Peng to protect the hostage from the battle.
• Ye Qingyu used her Second Soul Skill to kill another gang member as he emerged from the cabin.

Ye Qingyu attacked a gang hideout, rescued the kidnapped girl with Wu Peng's help, and fought the gang members. She destroyed the cabin and killed several attackers, while the gang boss and the remaining men were left to face her assault.

• The gang boss ordered his men to ransom a kidnapped girl after abusing her, but an attacker killed the guard and removed the hostage from the cabin.
• Ye Qingyu appeared behind the gang boss, dodged his dagger, and kicked him to the ground, while Wu Peng brought the hostage to safety.
• The gang boss revealed his four Soul Rings and ordered his men to capture Ye Qingyu, but she flew above their attacks and restrained seven gang members.
• Ye Qingyu struck the gang boss with her Endless Demonic Flames, setting him on fire and triggering an explosion that destroyed the cabin.
• Ye Qingyu attacked the restrained gang members with her Phoenix Wings and killed several of them with her Second Soul Skill.

Ye Qingyu fought Black Boss after discovering he was a Soul King rather than the Four-Ring Soul Ancestor described in the mission intelligence. She defeated him with her Soul Bone Skill and Black Moon Dragon Slaying Slash, leaving him dead.

• Ye Qingyu was struck by Black Boss and learned that he had five Soul Rings and had reached the Soul King realm.
• Zhang Ning and her teammate watched from the trees as Ye Qingyu activated her Phoenix Overlord Body and attacked Black Boss with the Purgatory Blade.
• Ye Qingyu overwhelmed Black Boss with flame slashes, then used her Shadow Sky-Rending Slash to inflict delayed, severe wounds.
• Ye Qingyu's two Purgatory Blades merged into a red horse-chopping saber, and a black phantom resembling Young Master Ye appeared behind her.
• Ye Qingyu unleashed Black Moon Dragon Slaying Slash, shattered Black Boss's shield, severed both his arms, and killed him.

Ye Qingyu defeated Black Bull with the Purgatory Blade but collapsed after unleashing its sealed Blood Kill Qi. A black-robed Soul Sage then cornered her, until her grandfathers Ye Junqing and Han Keqin arrived and revealed themselves as powerful Titled Douluos.

• Ye Qingyu realized she had drawn on the Purgatory Blade’s sealed Blood Kill Qi to defeat Black Bull, then collapsed from exhaustion.
• Zhang Ning sensed another enemy near the ruined cabin as a black-robed Soul Sage emerged and pursued Ye Qingyu.
• The Soul Sage used his Star Compass to pin Ye Qingyu down while Zhang Ning stopped Wu Peng and Cui Ling from intervening.
• A giant red figure struck the Soul Sage and sent him crashing through the forest, then Ye Junqing and Han Keqin confronted him.
• Ye Qingyu recognized her two grandfathers as they revealed Titled Douluo-level power and overwhelmed the Soul Sage with their auras.

A group of black-robed remnants ambushed Ye Qingyu, Ye Junqing, Han Keqin, and Lin Shuwan, hoping to kill the girl and restore Dark Night. Lin Shuwan protected Ye Qingyu and routed the attackers while the black-robed Soul Sage fled, only to find that others were waiting along his escape route.

• The black-robed Soul Sage recovered from his injuries, summoned two black-robed Soul Douluo, and revealed that dozens of Soul Emperor reinforcements surrounded the group.
• Lin Shuwan appeared to protect Ye Qingyu and warned that the attackers would not harm her.
• The black-robed fighters attacked, but Lin Shuwan poisoned and overwhelmed the Soul Emperors while Ye Junqing and Han Keqin fought the three stronger enemies.
• The black-robed Soul Sage fled into the forest as Lin Shuwan continued protecting Ye Qingyu.
• Lin Shuwan told Ye Qingyu that a group was waiting on the Soul Sage's only escape route and that he would not get away.

Wu Peng trapped the black-robed Soul Sage in his Myriad Phenomena Void Domain, and the Soul Hunting Squad surrounded him before he could escape. After the fighting ended, Ye Qingyu learned that her strike with the Hellfire Twin Blades had been her father’s signature technique, the Five Ultimate Dragon-Slaying Techniques.

• Wu Peng used his Myriad Phenomena Void Domain to trap the black-robed Soul Sage in the forest and blocked his escape.
• The black-robed Soul Sage attacked Wu Peng, but the attack passed through him; Wu Peng refused the Soul Sage’s offer to let him go.
• A red vine restrained the Soul Sage as Zhang Ning, Song Yu Fan, Shi Tou, and the rest of the Soul Hunting Squad descended and surrounded him.
• The Soul Hunting Squad released their Martial Souls and attacked the black-robed Soul Sage together.
• Ye Junqing and Han Keqin defeated the two Soul Douluo, while Ye Qingyu asked Lin Shuwan about the powerful strike she had unleashed with the Hellfire Twin Blades.
• Ye Junqing explained that the strike was the Fire Department’s secret art, the Five Ultimate Dragon-Slaying Techniques, which had been her father’s signature technique.

Ye Qingyu learned more about her father’s Five Absolutes Dragon-Slaying Art and the limits of the blades he left her. At a Sea Prison, Song Yang stopped a mass breakout, killed two rioting prisoners, and hunted down and killed the escaped Soul Douluo before returning to guard the prison.

• Ye Junqing told Ye Qingyu that her father created the Five Absolutes Dragon-Slaying Art and was a powerful Twin Martial Soul genius.
• Han Keqing explained that Ye Qingyu’s Purgatory Blades were keys to summoning the Myriad Dragon Flame Blade and that using it would drain her until she reached seven rings.
• At the Sea Prison, a Soul Douluo broke free and released other prisoners while Song Yang warned them to return to their cells.
• Song Yang killed two prisoners with a thin burst of water vapor, and the remaining rioters retreated to their cells as the Soul Douluo escaped.
• Song Yang caught the Soul Douluo near the coastline and killed him with his Fifth Soul Skill, Raging Waves, before returning to the Sea Prison.

Ye Qingyu transferred to the Fire Department, where her powerful family connections stunned her new classmates during a game of “You Have, I Don't.” After meeting her classmates, she learned that her grandfather had already chosen several teammates for the cohort’s training in the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Han Keqin arranged a class meeting to help Ye Qingyu settle into the Fire Department’s Assault-type Class One.
• During “You Have, I Don't,” Ye Qingyu revealed that her grandmothers were Soul Saints and that her grandfather was a Titled Douluo, leaving Huang Yu and the other students speechless.
• Ye Qingyu introduced herself as a Level 49 Battle Soul Sect with the Magic Flame Sky Phoenix martial soul and greeted Class Monitor Huang Yu and vice Class Monitor Gu Qinghan.
• Han Keqin announced the cohort’s outdoor training in the Star Dou Great Forest and told the Class Monitors to submit their team lists the next day.
• Han Keqin took Ye Qingyu to dinner and told her he had chosen Song Jin Nian, Jing Yao, and several others as her teammates.

Ye Qingyu and Han Keqin assembled an eight-person team for the academy’s two-day outdoor training, which would award mission points for hunting Soul Beasts. As the assessment was about to begin, Ye Qingyu considered whether the training might help her break through to Five-Ring Soul King.

• After dinner, Ye Qingyu chose Huang Yu as a teammate, and Han Keqin agreed to add him while the academy filled the remaining spots.
• The next morning, Han Keqin brought the students together and completed Ye Qingyu’s eight-person team with Huang Yu, Gu Qinghan, Jing Yao, Song Jin Nian, Luo Tianyu, Chen Wenxi, and another teammate.
• Han Keqin gave the team the training rules, and Huang Yu explained that their mission points would depend on the Soul Beasts they hunted and be divided evenly among them.
• Luo Tianyu introduced himself and Chen Wenxi to Ye Qingyu, while Chen Wenxi teased Song Jin Nian about losing to Ye Qingyu and being punished by his father.
• Jing Yao told Ye Qingyu that their families had been friends for years, leaving Ye Qingyu wondering about her mother’s ties to the Song and Chen families.
• The teachers called the students to assemble, and Ye Qingyu anticipated that the coming assessment could help her reach Five-Ring Soul King.

Ye Qingyu’s squad gathered equipment and entered the Star Dou Great Forest for their two-day training mission. After landing in a dangerous canyon near the forest’s border, Ye Qingyu proposed a risky plan to quickly earn points, and the group split up to hunt Soul Beasts.

• Huang Yu and Gu Qinghan borrowed a Soul Tool Energy Replenisher and a Crimson Katana while the other six squad members used their own equipment.
• Chen Wenxi introduced herself as a level 41 Support-type Battle Soul Sect master, and Luo Tianyu revealed his level 43 Wind God Pterosaur Martial Soul.
• Song Jin Nian asked Ye Qingyu to help him hunt a roughly six-thousand-year Soul Beast for his fourth Soul Ring, and she agreed.
• The eight members teleported into a canyon near the borders of the Star Dou Great Forest and the Sunset Forest, where Luo Tianyu used wind to help everyone land safely.
• Ye Qingyu proposed a risky plan to gain points quickly, then split the squad into three teams, sending Gu Qinghan and Luo Tianyu toward the outskirts while she led the others deeper to hunt thousand-year Soul Beasts.

Gu Qinghan and Luo Tianyu stole Soul Beast kills from rival squads to rapidly raise their team's score, while Ye Qingyu's group hunted stronger prey. When a fast Purple Light Leopard threatened to escape, Huang Yu revealed powerful long-range abilities and killed it, leaving his teammates impressed by his strength.

• Gu Qinghan and Luo Tianyu split from the main group, ambushed rival squads, and each killed three Hundred-Year Soul Beasts, earning their team 600 points.
• Han Nuan refused to intervene despite students' complaints, while Ye Qingyu's team climbed past 2,000 points by combining their hunts with Gu Qinghan and Luo Tianyu's stolen kills.
• Ye Qingyu and the other six struggled to catch a 3,000-year Purple Light Leopard because their group lacked an Agile Attack System Soul Master.
• Huang Yu marked the fleeing Purple Light Leopard with his first Soul Skill, then struck and detonated it with his third Soul Skill, killing it with a powerful arrow.
• Song Jin Nian praised Huang Yu's strength, and Lin Qile used the Hell Locking Demon Ring to retrieve the Purple Light Leopard's remains.

After their points rose to 2,600, Ye Qingyu’s team recovered and set out to find Song Jin Nian a suitable Fourth Soul Ring. Luo Tianyu accidentally provoked a 7,300-year Dark Demon Bear, wounded it, and led it back to the group, where the team prepared to fight.

• Ye Qingyu’s team rested until all eight members had recovered, then continued deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt a Soul Beast for Song Jin Nian.
• Song Jin Nian explained that he wanted a powerful single-target attack skill, and Ye Qingyu identified bear-, tiger-, or dragon-type Soul Beasts with the right attributes as suitable targets.
• Luo Tianyu flew ahead to scout and accidentally struck a 7,300-year Dark Demon Bear with his signal orb instead of luring the Black Fur Tiger he had found.
• Luo Tianyu used his Third Soul Skill to wound the Dark Demon Bear in the abdomen, then fled back to the team as the enraged beast pursued him.
• The Dark Demon Bear charged at Gu Qinghan, and Chen Wenxi enhanced the team with the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda’s Strength and Speed skills.

Song Jin Nian and his companions killed the 7,300-year Night Demon Bear so he could claim its Soul Ring as his Fourth Soul Ring. After the team began retreating, they realized the bear had been a mother and a powerful Soul Beast was charging toward them.

• Gu Qinghan, Ye Qingyu, Song Jin Nian, and their companions attacked the Night Demon Bear while Lin Qile's illusion and Song Jin Nian's Soul Bone Skill restrained it.
• Ye Qingyu, Gu Qinghan, Huang Yu, and the others battered the Night Demon Bear until Song Jin Nian killed it with his Third Soul Skill, Savage Fury.
• Song Jin Nian extracted the Night Demon Bear's Soul Ring and stored it, then the team felt the forest shaking nearby.
• The team saw trees shaking in the direction the Night Demon Bear had come and realized another powerful Soul Beast was approaching.
• Ye Qingyu ordered a retreat, carried Song Jin Nian and Jing Yao into the air, and the rest of the team fled, suspecting the Night Demon Bear had been a mother.

Ye Qingyu and her companions fled a 20,000-year Night Demon Bear after their communicators failed, until they reached a strange battlefield where she drew the Purgatory Blades and unleashed the Black Moon Dragon Slaying Slash. A mysterious Demon King awakened and intervened, leaving everyone but Ye Qingyu unconscious as the bear was pierced by the slashes.

• The Night Demon Bear’s dark beam severely injured Jing Yao, and Ye Qingyu carried her as the group fled from the pursuing beast.
• Ye Qingyu discovered their communicators were damaged and that the Night Demon Bear had around 20,000 years of cultivation.
• Qiao Na and Han Nuan learned the group was in danger, but Han Nuan believed someone at the site of a battle from fifteen years earlier would protect Ye Qingyu.
• The group reached a strange clearing of dark-red pillars and blue-gold crystals, where the Night Demon Bear hesitated before attacking again and knocking several members unconscious.
• Ye Qingyu drew the two Purgatory Blades and unleashed the Black Moon Dragon Slaying Slash as the Night Demon Bear launched its strongest attack.
• A voice declaring itself the Demon King’s echoed through the clearing, froze space, and knocked everyone unconscious except Ye Qingyu while the slashes pierced the bear.

After defeating the Night Demon Bear, Ye Qingyu was left powerless and faced an attack from a black-robed Soul Sage, but a red-haired phantom on a throne intervened and revealed himself as Demon King Douluo. The Soul Sage redirected his attack toward Ye Qingyu and her companions, and the chapter ended as Demon King Douluo changed the course of his blue-gold spear and blood splashed across Ye Qingyu’s face.

• Ye Qingyu defeated the Night Demon Bear with the Black Moon Dragon Slaying Slash, exhausting her Soul Power as her companions lay unconscious.
• A black-robed Soul Sage appeared, killed the Night Demon Bear, and prepared to sacrifice Ye Qingyu to restore the Elder Hall.
• Demon King Douluo appeared as a red-haired phantom and struck the black-robed Soul Sage, shattering his Soul Rings.
• The black-robed Soul Sage transformed into a black giant fiend, then twisted away from Demon King Douluo’s spear and charged toward Ye Qingyu and her companions.
• Demon King Douluo redirected the spear as the black-robed Soul Sage attacked, and blood splashed across Ye Qingyu’s face.

Ye Lei revealed himself to Ye Qingyu as her long-lost father after rescuing her and helping her break through to Soul Emperor. He explained why he remained trapped in the forbidden ground and gave her the Blue Silver Overlord Spear, leaving Ye Qingyu stunned by their sudden reunion.

• The red-haired phantom killed the black-robed Soul Sage and asked Ye Qingyu whether her mother belonged to the Han Family.
• Ye Lei awakened the Purgatory Blades, explained their power, and used energy from the stone pillars to heal Ye Qingyu and her companions while raising Ye Qingyu to Level 51.
• Ye Lei revealed that he was Ye Qingyu's father, and Ye Qingyu connected his claims to the weapons and techniques her family had told her about.
• Ye Lei explained that he could not leave the Myriad Dragon Sealing Magic Array without reviving the sealed Night Douluo, and said he had injured the Night Douluo fifteen years earlier.
• Ye Lei warned Ye Qingyu not to draw the Hellfire Twin Blades unless necessary and gave her the Blue Silver Overlord Spear.
• Ye Lei asked Ye Qingyu what her name was, leaving her frozen with the spear in her hand.

Ye Lei reunited with Ye Qingyu, recognized her companions as the children of his old friends, and gave her powerful treasures before sending the group away. Ye Qingyu and her companions ended up in Ye Junqing’s office instead of returning to the academy.

• Ye Qingyu told Ye Lei that her grandmother had named her Qingyu, and Ye Lei said he missed home and wanted to see his family.
• Ye Qingyu introduced her seven companions, and Ye Lei recognized them as the children of his old friends.
• Ye Lei explained that damage to the Myriad Dragon Sealing Magic Array threatened the seal holding Night Douluo, then gave Ye Qingyu a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Soul Bone.
• Ye Lei summoned Snowball, who swallowed the black-robed Soul Sage’s corpse, and teleported Ye Qingyu, Snowball, and the seven unconscious children away.
• Ye Junqing was startled when the group appeared in his office, and Ye Qingyu greeted her grandfather.

Ye Qingyu reunited her family with Ye Lei through the Blue Silver Overlord Spear, then returned to the Star Dou Great Forest with her teammates to continue their mission. The chapter ended as the team prepared to hunt two Fire Attribute soul beasts so Huang Yu and Gu Qinghan could obtain soul rings.

• Snowball recognized Ye Junqing, and Ye Junqing identified the Blue Silver Overlord Spear and asked Ye Qingyu if she had seen her father in the forbidden area.
• Ye Qingyu told Ye Junqing, Han Nuan, and the others that Ye Lei had appeared as a remnant soul, prompting the three elders to rush off to find him.
• Ye Qingyu woke her teammates in Ye Corporation's office, explained that their team had 4,100 mission points, and revealed that their Soul Power had increased.
• Ye Qingyu used the Ye Family Order and her soul rings to intimidate an arrogant secretary, then led her team out of the office.
• Ye Qingyu and her seven teammates returned to the Star Dou Great Forest with Snowball and detected two Fire Attribute soul beasts roughly 4,500 years old.

Ye Qingyu divided her group to ambush two Crimson Flame Armored Beasts and seize the points from another team’s hunt. Her companions defeated both beasts and claimed their remains, leaving the rescued team with nothing but scraps.

• Ye Qingyu split her eight-person group into three teams and led them toward the two Crimson Flame Armored Beasts.
• Ye Qingyu’s group rescued a fleeing team by shielding them from the beasts’ fireballs and teleporting them away.
• Lin Qile, Jing Yao, and Song Jin Nian coordinated their attacks to weaken one Crimson Flame Armored Beast while Huang Yu supported them from range.
• Gu Qinghan killed the other Crimson Flame Armored Beast with her katana, and Huang Yu’s Third Soul Skill finished off the remaining beast.
• The rescued team returned to find Ye Qingyu’s group had taken the beasts’ usable parts and the 1,000 mission points.