Chapter Summaries

Ye Lei and Han Nuan intervened when Ma Tianming’s group fled from a pack of soul beasts after choosing prey too powerful for them. Ye Lei killed one beast with his newly absorbed Hell Scythe skill, but the rest of the pack still pursued them.

• Jing Hang and the others began absorbing soul bones while Ye Lei absorbed the Hell Scythe Right Arm Bone.
• Han Nuan heard Ma Tianming’s group arguing as a fireball flew toward their camp, and she extinguished it with her First Soul Skill.
• Han Nuan woke Ye Lei and told him that Ma Tianming’s group was being chased by a powerful soul beast.
• Ye Lei and Han Nuan flew into the forest and saw Ma Tianming and his followers fleeing while the other nine struggled behind them.
• Ye Lei used Hell Scythe Flash to behead one pursuing soul beast, then stayed alert because an entire pack was chasing the group.

Ye Lei and Han Nuan intercepted the Frenzied Rhinoceros herd and slaughtered nearly all of it. Ye Lei defeated the Frenzied Rhinoceros King, leaving it pinned to a massive tree.

• The Soul Beast Detector identified the pursuers as a herd of Frenzied Rhinoceroses, and Ye Lei guessed Ma Tianming had provoked one of their young.
• Ye Lei and Han Nuan landed between the herd and the group of nine, telling them to flee toward the river.
• Ye Lei and Han Nuan used their soul skills to kill many Frenzied Rhinoceroses.
• Ye Lei trapped and impaled more of the herd with his Blue Silver Emperor skills, leaving the Frenzied Rhinoceros King as the main remaining target.
• The Frenzied Rhinoceros King used Frenzied Ferocity, but Ye Lei's Blue Silver Overlord Spear pierced it and pinned it to a massive tree.

Ye Lei killed the Frenzied Rhinoceros King and brought Qin Song and the others back to his Blue Silver Domain, where he helped them recover and gave them Soul Rings to raise their first Soul Ring’s age. He then confronted Ma Tianming and his four lackeys for fleeing when danger appeared.

• Ye Lei pierced the Frenzied Rhinoceros King with his Blue Silver Overlord Spear and killed it.
• Ye Lei led the nine survivors, including Qin Song, toward his temporary territory, with Qin Song following him fearfully as a lackey.
• Ye Lei found Ma Tianming and his four lackeys sitting in his Blue Silver Domain and used his power to make them leap up in pain.
• Ye Lei let the nine survivors meditate in the domain and gave each of them two white Soul Rings to raise their first Soul Ring’s age to a hundred years.
• Ye Lei called Ma Tianming and his lackeys cowards for running from danger, and Ma Tianming cursed back at him.

Ye Lei confronted Ma Tianming over his bullying and defeated him and his four lackeys with his soul skills and Flame Lord power. He spared them and sent them toward the forest exit, then planned to train with students from his year and build connections at Rong University.

• Ye Lei rebuked Ma Tianming, who ordered his four lackeys to attack him with daggers.
• Ye Lei bound the lackeys with Blue Silver Emperor Vines and flung them into the forest.
• Ma Tianming summoned his Fire Hyena Martial Soul and attacked Ye Lei with a flaming machete and a fireball, but neither harmed him.
• Ye Lei transformed the ground into lava, summoned the Flame Lord, and suppressed Ma Tianming's Martial Soul.
• Ye Lei shattered Ma Tianming's machete, warned him to behave at school, and threw him toward the forest exit.
• Ye Lei decided to train with students from his year and build connections at Rong University.

Ye Lei asked the system about completing his Soul Bone Armor and obtaining another martial soul, then absorbed the Hell Scythe Mantis’s soul ring and Beast Soul. He saw his soul bones begin forming connected armor, while Jing Hang announced that he had reached level 20 after absorbing a soul bone.

• The system told Ye Lei his Soul Bone Armor was 50% complete and explained that he could obtain up to five martial souls through quests and awakening opportunities.
• Ye Lei decided to keep his two current martial souls and leave any further awakenings to chance.
• Ye Lei absorbed the Hell Scythe Mantis’s soul ring and Beast Soul, raising the Flame Lord’s soul power to level 43.
• Ye Lei saw the Thousand Jun Torso Soul Bone, Hell Scythe Right Arm Bone, and Human Face Left Leg Bone extend and connect into armor.
• Jing Hang said he had finished absorbing his soul bone and reached level 20, while Song Yang asked who had a soul bone.

After absorbing his soul ring, Song Yang learned that Jing Hang had obtained a fifty-thousand-year soul bone and fainted when he saw Ye Lei’s four black soul rings. The group returned to the academy with hundreds of soul beast corpses, leaving the upperclassmen stunned by Ye Lei’s strength.

• Jing Hang excitedly showed Song Yang the fifty-thousand-year soul bone Ye Lei had helped him obtain.
• Song Yang saw Ye Lei’s four black soul rings, rolled his eyes, and fainted from shock.
• Weng Yunling rushed to Song Yang, and Ye Lei used his Blue Silver Emperor to reassure her and secure Song Yang on Jing Hang’s mammoth.
• After the group finished meditating, they returned to the academy together.
• Ye Lei dragged back hundreds of soul beast corpses and offered some to Chen Tian and the other upperclassmen to sell.

Ye Lei returned with his companions from the outer forest, shared Soul Coins with the senior students, and helped his friends cultivate before returning to his own training. Elsewhere, a researcher announced that the Soul Beast Serum Modified Human Plan had succeeded.

• Ye Lei and the others returned through the vortex, and Ye Lei dragged more than a hundred soul beast corpses to the Soul Beast Exchange Machine.
• Ye Lei divided Soul Coins among Chen Tian and the other seniors, then returned to school with his group.
• Ye Lei used the Blue Silver Domain to aid his companions' cultivation while training his Flame Lord Soul Power.
• A researcher injected a serum into a man, who transformed into a furred creature with bone claws and a purple scorpion tail.
• The researcher declared that he had completed the Soul Beast Serum Modified Human Plan for the Seventh Elder.

Fen Tianyan discovered that the energy surrounding Ye Lei’s group could repel and injure him, while Huang Tianwei reported that the Soul Beast Serum Plan was ready. Ye Lei sensed their threat and attacked Fen Tianyan with scorching pressure before ordering his companions to return to their classes.

• After returning to the school field, Fen Tianyan saw Ye Lei and his companions cultivating inside the Blue Silver Domain and praised their talent.
• Fen Tianyan reached toward the domain, but its strange energy knocked his hand away and frightened his Blazing Spirit Lion martial soul.
• Huang Tianwei told Fen Tianyan that the Serum Plan had succeeded, and Fen Tianyan ordered it carried out so they could force out and kill their target.
• Ye Lei sensed the men’s hostile intentions, vanished the Blue Silver Domain, and sent scorching pressure at Fen Tianyan, making him spit blood and collapse.
• Ye Lei telepathically told his sixteen companions to stop cultivating, and they returned to their class formations.

Military training ended, and Ye Lei promised Song Yang he would help him obtain a suitable Soul Bone. On Teachers’ Day, Ye Lei, Han Nuan, Song Yang, and Weng Yunling returned to Rongcheng Eighth Middle School, where Ye Lei reminisced about his school days with Han Nuan.

• Ye Lei woke the other sixteen and told them to stop cultivating and get up.
• Fen Tianyan gave an address, ending that day’s military training, and the group cultivated in their dorms over the following days.
• Song Yang asked Ye Lei for a Soul Bone, and Ye Lei promised to help him find one suitable for his Howling Sea Emperor Crocodile martial soul.
• Five days later, military training officially ended, and Ye Lei and the others began their first university class.
• Ye Lei, Han Nuan, Song Yang, and Weng Yunling took a cab to Rongcheng Eighth Middle School on September 10 to visit their teachers.
• Ye Lei held Han Nuan’s hand and told her that returning to campus had brought back beautiful memories.

Ye Lei returned to his former school with Han Nuan and their friends, but his visit was interrupted when a mutated fighter from Elder Hall attacked a girl on the sports field. Ye Lei stopped the attack and confronted the creature.

• Ye Lei, Han Nuan, and their friends agreed to have dinner with their old classmates after visiting Teacher Huang.
• Han Nuan went to the sixth floor to surprise Teacher Huang while Ye Lei walked to the elevated sports field.
• The sports field shook, and a three-meter-tall, mutated man bearing the Poison Dragon Legion emblem appeared beside a huge pit.
• The creature revealed its claws and scorpion tail, then thrust its tail toward a frightened girl's heart.
• Ye Lei blocked the attack with a crimson stone wall and challenged the creature, mocking Elder Hall for creating it.

Ye Lei confronted a modified man sent by the Poison Dragon Legion and trapped the school field inside his domain. After recognizing the man's wind blade as a soul beast ability likely granted by implanted serums, Ye Lei attacked with his Human-faced Left Leg Soul Bone skill.

• Ye Lei released his Flame Lord Martial Soul and ordered the students to evacuate while a few school punks stayed behind to record the fight.
• Ye Lei spread magma across the field and sealed it inside his Four Fires Heaven Domain.
• The unfamiliar man charged Ye Lei and struck his Thousand Jun Flame Armor with an emerald wind blade.
• Ye Lei suspected the Seventh Residence Hall had modified the man with soul beast serums and launched his Spider Emperor Purple Light Slash.

Ye Lei fought a transformed man who had been enhanced with Soul Beast serum and defeated him with his soul skills. Before dying, the man revealed that the Elder Hall's Seventh Residence Hall had experimented on five road robbers and turned their boss into the Elder Hall's lackey.

• Ye Lei used his soul skills to break through the strange man's defenses and force him to reveal himself.
• Ye Lei's attack struck the strange man, who shrank back to his ordinary appearance in the crater.
• Ye Lei recognized the man as one of the five road robbers from Wulin and demanded to know what had happened.
• The dying man said the Elder Hall's Seventh Residence Hall had taken the five robbers for human modification experiments using Soul Beast serums.
• The man revealed that the fourth robber had died and their boss had become the Elder Hall's lackey before he turned to dust.

Ye Lei learned that three Soul Beast Modified Humans remained and expected each to be more dangerous than the last. After dealing with the attacker, he gave a junior five soul rings and invited Teacher Huang to dinner with their former classmates.

• The dying man told Ye Lei that the Elder Hall had created three other Soul Beast Modified Humans before turning to dust.
• Ye Lei ended his soul skill and left the field, reasoning that the Elder Hall would use combat data to make the remaining modified humans harder to defeat.
• Ye Lei reassured a badminton club student that the attacker had been dealt with and gave him five soul rings for future use.
• Ye Lei greeted Teacher Huang and invited her to have dinner with their former classmates that night.

Ye Lei and Han Nuan took Teacher Huang to dinner at Jinrong Grand Hotel, where Han Nuan discovered that Teacher Huang had a Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul. The chapter left Teacher Huang with five soul rings and the hotel staff on alert as Ye Lei arrived.

• Han Nuan and Ye Lei invited Teacher Huang to dinner while Song Yang and Weng Yunling stayed behind to look around the school.
• Ye Lei and Han Nuan rode with Teacher Huang in a Mercedes-Benz and asked about her Martial Soul.
• Teacher Huang summoned her Nine Heart Begonia, and Ye Lei offered her five soul rings to absorb.
• Han Nuan showed Teacher Huang the soul rings Ye Lei had given her and demonstrated her Martial Soul Possession.
• Ye Lei led Han Nuan and Teacher Huang into Jinrong Grand Hotel, where the staff prepared to serve the young master.

Ye Lei hosted a high school reunion at the Jinrong Grand Hotel, where he arranged extravagant gifts for Teacher Huang Xiaoshu. The reunion was interrupted when Chen Tao kicked open the private-room door.

• The Jinrong Grand Hotel staff hurried to impress Ye Lei after learning the Ye Family's eldest young master had arrived.
• Ye Lei ordered the hotel's signature dishes for the reunion, which the students attended and greeted Huang Xiaoshu with gifts.
• Song Yang and Weng Yunling arrived with valuable teaching supplies for Huang Xiaoshu.
• Ye Lei had servers present Huang Xiaoshu with an expensive office chair and custom health-preserving tea packs.
• Chen Tao kicked open the private-room door, and Ye Lei recognized him with an icy greeting.

Chen Tao interrupted Ye Lei and the classmates’ gathering, demanding his diploma from Huang Xiaoshu and threatening them. Ye Lei stopped Chen Tao’s attack with ease, and Chen Tao was sent flying when he unleashed his first soul skill.

• Chen Tao barged into the private room and demanded that Huang Xiaoshu give him his high school diploma.
• Ye Lei mocked Chen Tao for breaking his promise to stay away from Class Ten, and Chen Tao threatened Ye Lei and Huang Xiaoshu.
• Chen Tao summoned his axe martial soul and charged at Ye Lei, who caught the axe between two fingers.
• Ye Lei told Chen Tao to submit a written self-reflection to the school’s Academic Affairs Office if he wanted his diploma.
• Chen Tao unleashed his First Soul Skill, Lava Blade, but Ye Lei’s pressure shattered its crimson light and sent Chen Tao flying.

Ye Lei revealed his overwhelming Soul Power after Chen Tao attacked him, then had Chen Tao thrown out and ordered Manager Zhang to punish him and his relatives. Ye Lei remained in Private Room 381 as the hotel prepared special food for his guests.

• Chen Tao used his First Soul Skill, Lava Blade, against Ye Lei, but a scorching force shattered the attack and sent Chen Tao flying.
• Ye Lei revealed four black soul rings, leaving Chen Tao and Huang Xiaoshu shocked.
• Ye Lei ordered the guards to drag Chen Tao out and summoned Manager Zhang.
• The guards threw Chen Tao outside, then dragged him to the underground parking lot, where his screams soon echoed.
• Manager Zhang barred Chen Tao and his relatives from hotels in Banyan City and ordered the kitchen to serve special dishes and desserts to the guests in Private Room 381.

After the gathering, Ye Lei arranged protection for Huang Xiaoshu and took Han Nuan for a walk, where she told him her Soul Power had reached level 36. Meanwhile, the Seventh Elder learned that the Soul Beast Modified Human project had succeeded with four of five subjects, but Test Subject No. 4 died after gathering combat data on Ye Lei.

• Ye Lei sent Huang Xiaoshu home with a driver and arranged guards to protect her.
• Ye Lei and Han Nuan went to the food street while Song Yang and Weng Yunling returned to school.
• Han Nuan told Ye Lei that her Soul Power had broken through to level 36, which they attributed to her Mimic Soul Ring and his Blue Silver Domain.
• The Seventh Elder's chief special assistant reported that Fen Tianyan's Soul Beast Modified Human project had produced four successful subjects out of five.
• The assistant told the Seventh Elder that Test Subject No. 4 had obtained combat data on Ye Lei, then perished without leaving a corpse.

The Seventh Elder learned that Test Subject Number Four had died but deemed the Soul Beast Modified Human experiment a success and ordered more subjects. At Rong University, Ye Lei taught Han Nuan about the Purple Demon Eyes and gave her a secret arts book, which she promised to keep hidden.

• The Seventh Elder learned that Test Subject Number Four had perished and ordered ten homeless people for the Soul Beast Modified Human project.
• Ye Lei asked Han Nuan whether she wanted to strengthen her Second Soul Skill and offered to teach her the Purple Demon Eyes.
• Ye Lei recited the Purple Demon Eyes method and described its three realms to Han Nuan.
• Ye Lei gave Han Nuan the Tang Sect Secret Arts book and warned her not to show it to outsiders.
• Han Nuan agreed to hide the book from outsiders, including Weng Yunling and the others.

Ye Lei gave Han Nuan the Tang Sect Secret Arts manual and explained which techniques she should learn. After teasing and making up with him, Han Nuan returned to the girls' dormitory while Ye Lei wrestled with his thoughts about her.

• Ye Lei warned Han Nuan to keep the Tang Sect Secret Arts manual secret from outsiders.
• Ye Lei told Han Nuan to learn the Purple Demon Eyes, Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, and Hundred Explanations of Hidden Weapon Techniques, explaining how the latter two could help her in battle.
• Ye Lei pinched Han Nuan's cheeks until she protested and hit his chest with her fists.
• Ye Lei apologized and rubbed Han Nuan's head, and she forgave him before heading to the girls' dormitory.
• Ye Lei watched Han Nuan leave and tried to shake off his improper thoughts about her.