Chapter Summaries

Ye Lei learned that his soul bone collection progress had reached 80% because he had obtained the Hell Scythe Right Arm Bone, but the sixty-thousand-year soul bone was in the Mirror World. He accepted a timed mission to retrieve it and received an invisibility potion to get past the Elder Hall soldiers guarding the entrance.

• Ye Lei questioned the system and learned the Hell Scythe Mantis had left him a sixty-thousand-year Hell Scythe Right Arm Bone with an unknown skill.
• The system issued a side quest requiring Ye Lei to enter the Mirror World that night, evade the Elder Hall soldiers, and retrieve the soul bone before it fell into their hands.
• Ye Lei accepted the mission despite worrying that the Seventh Residence Hall soldiers would recognize and overpower him.
• The system gave Ye Lei an invisibility potion that would last two hours and placed it in the System Space.

Ye Lei used invisibility potions to sneak into the Star Dou Great Forest and retrieve the Fan Huang Bone, but Fen Tianyan and the instructors discovered the theft and pursued him with powerful attacks. Ye Lei fled toward the exit while still invisible, realizing his escape was becoming a dangerous battle.

• Ye Lei drank a potion that made his body invisible, coated his Vantablack outfit and mask with another potion, and left the dormitory for the Teleportation Array.
• Han Nuan's soul-ring absorption chilled the girls' dormitory, forcing Luo Yun, Weng Yunling, and Qiao Na into the hallway, where they decided to meditate and grow stronger.
• Ye Lei reached the Hell Scythe Mantis's corpse and overheard Fen Tianyan and the instructors discussing the soul beast and the Fan Huang Bone.
• Ye Lei attacked Fen Tianyan and the instructors with Flame Stream Meteor, then used Blue Silver Grass to drag the soul bone away.
• Fen Tianyan ordered the instructors to bombard the forest and unleashed his Blazing Fire Dive and Six Paths of Blazing Flames soul skills as Ye Lei raced toward the exit.

Ye Lei was injured while escaping Fen Tianyan and Huang Tianwei, who demanded his soul bone and tried to force him into the Elder Hall. He fought back with his Soul Hunting Cannon and shattered the instructors’ combined shield, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Ye Lei escaped Fen Tianyan’s flaming lion attack, but the blast’s shockwave injured him and dispelled his invisibility.
• Fen Tianyan offered to spare Ye Lei if he handed over the soul bone and joined the Elder Hall, but Ye Lei refused.
• Huang Tianwei led twenty instructors in attacking Ye Lei, and they formed a Martial Soul Combination Skill shield against his Heatwave Fire Dragon.
• Ye Lei fired a Beast Soul from the cannon with Twin Blades Flash, breaking the instructors’ energy shield.

Ye Lei used the newly released Human-Faced Spider Emperor's Left Leg Bone to fight Fen Tianyan and the instructors, then escaped through the vortex and Teleportation Array. Fen Tianyan emerged too late and found Ye Lei gone.

• Fen Tianyan broke the instructors' energy shield and attacked Ye Lei with his First Soul Skill, Crimson Flame Claw Strike.
• The system released twenty percent of Ye Lei's seal, and Ye Lei countered Fen Tianyan's flaming claws with Spider Emperor Purple Light Slash.
• Ye Lei tricked Huang Tianwei and the instructors with a vanished lava pillar, then trapped them behind stone walls and struck them with two lava pillars.
• Ye Lei used Primordial Power to reach the vortex, knocked aside two soldiers, and escaped through the Teleportation Array.
• Fen Tianyan and the instructors emerged from the vortex and found the soldiers down and the Teleportation Array still flashing.

Ye Lei escaped Fen Tianyan and returned to Rong University, where the system resealed his Soul Power after he retrieved the Purgatory Flame Sickle right-arm soul bone. He learned that the system could bind only to him, then saw Han Nuan emerge from the girls' dormitory after absorbing her third soul ring.

• Fen Tianyan raged after Ye Lei escaped and threatened to tear him apart if they met again.
• Ye Lei reached Rong University through a Teleportation Array and thanked the system for temporarily unsealing his Soul Power during the fight.
• The system resealed Ye Lei's Soul Power, leaving him with two yellow soul rings.
• The system explained that it could bind to only one person in its lifetime, and Ye Lei vowed to complete its missions until he died.
• Han Nuan absorbed her third soul ring and appeared in the air as an Ice Phoenix.

Han Nuan completed absorbing her third Soul Ring, then mistook Ye Lei for an intruder and injured him with ice blades. Ye Lei explained that he had retrieved the Hell Scythe Right Arm Bone from the Mirror World, though Fen Tianyan’s group had pursued him.

• Han Nuan finished absorbing her third Soul Ring and emerged with two pale purple Soul Rings and one black Soul Ring.
• Ye Lei tried to greet Han Nuan from a dormitory balcony, but she threw five ice blades at him, and he fell and hurt his waist.
• Han Nuan realized the shadow she had attacked was Ye Lei and helped him up, apologizing for mistaking him for a stranger.
• Ye Lei revealed the Hell Scythe Right Arm Bone and said he had retrieved it from the Mirror World after the Elder Hall found it.
• Ye Lei told Han Nuan that Fen Tianyan’s group had chased him during his escape, leaving her stunned.

Ye Lei explained to Han Nuan how he escaped after stealing a Soul Bone, then gave her three Soul Rings for her roommates. Han Nuan returned to find Luo Yun and the others cultivating outside their dorm, and Luo Yun asked whether she had finished absorbing the rings.

• Han Nuan scolded Ye Lei for charging into danger alone, and he explained that his released seals and Soul Bones had helped him escape from Fen Tianyan and the instructors.
• Ye Lei and Han Nuan noticed it was 1:00 a.m., and he reminded her to rest before military training.
• Ye Lei gave Han Nuan three thousand-year Soul Rings to distribute among her roommates, then returned to bed and fell asleep.
• Han Nuan found Luo Yun and the other two roommates cultivating outside the dorm because of the cold from her Ice Phoenix martial soul.
• Luo Yun emerged from meditation and asked Han Nuan whether she had finished absorbing the Soul Rings.

Han Nuan showed Luo Yun, Qiao Na, and Weng Yunling her Soul Rings and gave them three thousand-year Soul Rings to absorb. The next morning, the instructor took students without Soul Rings to the Mirror World, but Luo Yun and the others said they did not need their first Soul Rings.

• Han Nuan summoned her Martial Soul and Soul Rings, and Luo Yun, Qiao Na, and Weng Yunling noticed her wings had grown larger.
• Han Nuan explained how her Soul Rings differed from normal Soul Ring absorption and gave the three girls a thousand-year Soul Ring each.
• After breakfast, Han Nuan saw that the chief instructor had become bald and continued military training.
• Fen Tianyan announced that instructors would take students without Soul Rings to the Mirror World to hunt for Soul Rings.
• When their instructor asked why they were staying behind, Luo Yun, Qiao Na, and Weng Yunling said they did not need their first Soul Rings.

Luo Yun, Qiao Na, and Weng Yunling told their instructor they no longer needed Soul Rings, then revealed their Martial Souls and were assigned to wait by the podium. Han Nuan gathered them with Ye Lei’s group, where Chen Sican stared at Luo Yun and then hit Jing Hang hard on the back.

• Luo Yun, Qiao Na, and Weng Yunling refused to go with their class to obtain First Soul Rings, angering their instructor.
• Luo Yun revealed her Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda and pale purple Soul Ring, while Qiao Na and Weng Yunling revealed their Hidden Sea Flower and Demon Ming Deer Martial Souls.
• The instructor sent the three girls to wait by the podium for Instructor Fen to take them through military training.
• Han Nuan flew to Ye Lei’s group, and the four girls later met up with Ye Lei and the others.
• Chen Sican stared at Luo Yun and Qiao Na, then slapped Jing Hang hard on the back, making him cough and curse.

Jing Hang and Chen Sican argued over staring at girls until Ye Lei broke them up, then revealed that Song Yang and Weng Yunling had been childhood sweethearts who started dating after receiving their Rong University acceptance letters. The group headed to the podium when the next military training class was announced.

• Jing Hang and Chen Sican traded insults and prepared to clash with their Martial Soul Phantoms until Ye Lei stopped them.
• Jing Hang and Qiao Na asked where Song Yang and Weng Yunling were, and Ye Lei and Han Nuan said the pair had gone for a walk around the track.
• Ye Lei told Chen Sican and Jing Hang that Song Yang and Weng Yunling had been together for over a month.
• Ye Lei explained that Song Yang and Weng Yunling had been childhood sweethearts who promised to date if they both entered Rong University, and that they had also helped matchmake Ye Lei and Han Nuan.
• The school broadcast called new students with soul rings to gather beneath the podium for their second military training class, and the group set off.

Song Yang was dragged away by Chen Sican and Jing Hang before the second military training lesson began. Fen Tianyan assigned the students to help third-year seniors hunt First Soul Rings, and the chapter ended with everyone stunned by Han Nuan's Third Soul Ring.

• The broadcast called freshmen with Soul Rings to the podium, where Song Yang arrived with Weng Yunling and Chen Sican and Jing Hang pulled him aside.
• Jing Hang assured Weng Yunling that they would return Song Yang unharmed, and Han Nuan reassured her that the two would not dare hurt him.
• Fen Tianyan announced a teamwork assessment in which the students would help ten third-year seniors hunt First Soul Rings, with rewards for the team that found the highest-aged Soul Ring.
• Ye Lei and seven others formed one team, while the remaining nine students formed the other; the seniors chose teams, leaving five to join Ye Lei's group.
• The nine-person team's members revealed white Soul Rings and Soul Power around Level 15, while Ye Lei's group displayed at least hundred-year Soul Rings and mostly purple thousand-year Soul Rings.
• Han Nuan revealed her Third Soul Ring, shocking everyone, including Fen Tianyan.

Han Nuan revealed a ten-thousand-year third soul ring, prompting Fen Tianyan to consider recruiting her into the Elder Hall while Ye Lei resolved to stop him. After Ma Tianming tried to force five seniors to switch teams, Ye Lei’s group drove them off and the seniors recognized Ye Lei as their leader.

• Han Nuan revealed her ten-thousand-year third soul ring, shocking Fen Tianyan, who secretly sent a soldier to carry out his plan to recruit her into the Elder Hall.
• Ye Lei noticed Fen Tianyan’s intentions and resolved to prevent him from taking Han Nuan, while his anger toward Fen Tianyan grew.
• Ma Tianming demanded that five seniors switch teams and threatened them when they refused.
• Ye Lei asked Fen Tianyan whether the teams could harm each other, then signaled Song Yang to send Ma Tianming and the others flying with his crocodile tail.
• As Ye Lei’s group escorted the seniors to the Teleportation Array, they explained that his Twin Martial Souls, expertise, and combat judgment made him their rightful leader.

Ye Lei led the upperclassmen into the Star Dou Great Forest and used his abilities to find a suitable Soul Beast for Chen Tian. Han Nuan instantly killed a thousand-year Lightning Bear, and Chen Tian began absorbing its Soul Ring.

• Ye Lei brought the group through the Teleportation Array and into the Star Dou Great Forest, where he scanned the five male upperclassmen's Martial Souls.
• Ye Lei gave three purple Soul Rings to the three upperclasswomen and asked Wang Bo and Chen Tian what kinds of First Soul Skills they wanted.
• Ye Lei used Flame Stream Meteor to draw out a 1,200-year Lightning Bear and told Chen Tian to prepare to claim its Soul Ring.
• Han Nuan used Ice Flash Thorn to freeze the Lightning Bear and destroy it from within.
• Ye Lei told Chen Tian he could absorb the Lightning Bear's pale purple Soul Ring, and Chen Tian sat down to begin absorbing it.

Ye Lei helped Wang Bo choose and obtain an Arrowfish Soul Ring while Chen Tian and Wang Bo began absorbing their rings. After the military-training task seemed complete, a Blade Water Monkey appeared, and Ye Lei told Song Yang that it would be suitable for his Second Soul Skill.

• Chen Tian began absorbing the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Soul Ring as Ye Lei explained the Kunpeng martial soul’s options to Wang Bo.
• Ye Lei chose a fast, powerful Arrowfish for Wang Bo and teleported the group to the inland sea.
• Jing Hang used Mammoth Body to subdue the Arrowfish, and Ye Lei brought it ashore for Wang Bo to absorb.
• Ye Lei said the group had found First Soul Skills for all five seniors and suggested they return to school after the absorptions finished.
• A Blade Water Monkey appeared, and Ye Lei learned that Song Yang had reached level 20 and told him his Second Soul Skill had been settled.

Ye Lei and his companions fought a Blade Water Monkey so Song Yang could obtain his second soul ring. After the group killed it, Ye Lei urged Song Yang to absorb the ring and become the third of their eight to reach the Soul Grandmaster realm.

• Song Yang told Ye Lei that his Soul Power had reached level 20, and Ye Lei identified the Blade Water Monkey as a suitable target for his second soul ring.
• Ye Lei attacked the Blade Water Monkey with his Flame Lord, then switched to Blue Silver Grass to restrain it.
• Han Nuan froze the bound Blade Water Monkey with her second Soul Skill, and Ye Lei kicked it toward Song Yang and Weng Yunling.
• Song Yang and Weng Yunling struck the Blade Water Monkey with their first Soul Skills, killing it.
• Ye Lei told Song Yang to absorb the soul ring, predicting it would grant him an unexpected Soul Skill and make him the third of their group to reach the Soul Grandmaster realm.

Song Yang began absorbing a Soul Ring while Ye Lei urged the others to cultivate for their upcoming military trials. Ye Lei also exposed the Elder Hall’s violent methods, shaking the group’s trust, and planned to help the Nine-Person Group after the Soul Ring absorptions were complete.

• Ye Lei encouraged Song Yang to absorb the Blade Water Throat’s Soul Ring and said he could become the third of their group to reach Soul Grandmaster.
• Ye Lei told the others to cultivate toward level 20 and warned them that they might face one-on-one fights against their instructors.
• Ye Lei described Instructor Fen Tianyan’s strength and revealed that the Elder Hall secretly eliminated people who refused to join it.
• Ye Lei recounted how the Elder Hall had targeted him and how an Evil Soul Master drained three police officers’ blood with a Soul Skill.
• The others were shocked and began doubting the Elder Hall, while Ye Lei said they would help the Nine-Person Group after Song Yang and the seniors finished absorbing their Soul Rings.
• Ye Lei sat down to meditate and cultivate.

Han Nuan revealed Ye Lei’s hidden strength and explained that the Elder Hall had been trying to kill him. Ye Lei admitted he had concealed his power to protect his classmates, then chose to abandon the system’s third task and face the Elder Hall openly, leaving his Flame Lord’s Soul Power set at Rank 40.

• Han Nuan told Chen Sican and Jing Hang that Ye Lei had Rank 64 Soul Power, a Blue Silver Emperor with six powerful Soul Rings, and a Flame Lord with ten-thousand-year Soul Rings and three Soul Bones.
• Han Nuan explained that Ye Lei had already been this strong when Douluo-fication began and had awakened the Flame Lord on the second day.
• Ye Lei interrupted Han Nuan and revealed that Huang Tianwei had abandoned the group and intended to use the Hell Scythe Mantis to kill him.
• Ye Lei said he had sealed most of his strength to keep his classmates from being implicated, but would stop hiding it because the Elder Hall might attack after military training.
• Ye Lei asked the system about abandoning the third task, accepted its punishment, and had his Blue Silver Grass set to Rank 64 Soul Power and his Flame Lord to Rank 40.

After abandoning the third mission, Ye Lei had his Soul Power seal unsealed and told his companions about his level 64 strength and the Elder Hall’s crimes. He left them ready to support him, then summoned both of his Martial Souls to show them his power.

• Ye Lei chose to abandon the third mission, and the system unsealed his Soul Power, telling him to break the seal himself.
• Chen Sican asked whether Ye Lei was truly a level 64 Soul Emperor, and Ye Lei explained how he had awakened Blue Silver Grass with six ten-thousand-year Soul Rings.
• Ye Lei described discovering that the Elder Hall kidnapped people and drained their life force to raise its subordinates’ cultivation, then concealed the victims’ deaths.
• Chen Sican believed Ye Lei and promised that he and the others would support him.
• Ye Lei released Blue Silver Grass and the Flame Lord, each with two yellow Soul Rings, to show his companions.

Ye Lei revealed the Blue Silver Emperor and his powerful Soul Rings, then demonstrated his Human-Faced Spider Emperor Soul Bone skill. He flew off to hunt a fifty-thousand-year Soul Beast for Jing Hang, and five minutes later Luo Yun spotted someone returning from across the bank.

• Ye Lei released his Blue Silver Grass and Flame Lord Martial Souls, shattered their yellow Soul Rings, and revealed their stronger rings, including a hundred-thousand-year ring.
• Han Nuan was suppressed by the Flame Lord, while Qiao Na’s Hidden Sea Flower was suppressed by the Blue Silver Emperor; Ye Lei explained the Blue Silver Emperor’s power over Plant-type Martial Souls.
• Ye Lei used Spider Emperor Purple Light Slash to cut down trees and kill several Soul Beasts.
• Ye Lei told Jing Hang that he would hunt a fifty-thousand-year Soul Beast suited to him so Jing Hang could gain a Soul Bone for protection against the Elder Hall’s expected attack.
• Ye Lei flew away on the Flame Lord, and five minutes later Luo Yun spotted a figure approaching from across the bank.

Ye Lei returned from hunting with four defeated soul beasts and helped Jing Hang claim a soul ring and a lightning-type soul bone. After the system announced that soul bone collection was complete and unlocked the Soul Bone Shop, Ye Lei began absorbing the Hell Scythe Right Arm Bone into his Flame Lord Martial Soul.

• Luo Yun and the others spotted Ye Lei arriving exactly five minutes later with four soul beasts in tow.
• Ye Lei identified the fifty-thousand-year Flash Thunder Demonic Tiger as a suitable soul beast for Jing Hang and gave him a dagger to finish it.
• Ye Lei compressed the tiger’s soul ring with the Soul Ring Collector and used his Blue Silver Domain to boost everyone’s cultivation.
• The system announced 100% soul bone collection progress and unlocked the Soul Bone Shop, while a fifty-thousand-year Lightning Flash Thunderous Head Soul Bone emerged from the tiger.
• Jing Hang began absorbing the head soul bone, and Ye Lei pressed the Hell Scythe Right Arm Bone against his Flame Lord’s right arm to absorb it.