Chapter Summaries

Ye Lei trapped Fen Tianyan, another man, and Reformed Human No. 3 in his domain and used its suppression to overpower Fen Tianyan’s attacks. After recognizing Ye Lei’s Soul Bone and failing to use his Third Soul Skill, Fen Tianyan unleashed Explosive Slaughter.

• Ye Lei blocked Fen Tianyan’s attacks, then cast Spider Web Restraint and struck at him with Spider Emperor Purple Light Slash.
• The other man raised Giant Stone Forest to shield himself and Fen Tianyan, blocking Ye Lei’s Soul Bone attack.
• Ye Lei activated Four Fires Heaven Domain, trapping Fen Tianyan, the other man, and Reformed Human No. 3.
• Ye Lei drew twin blades and used Hell Scythe Flash, prompting Fen Tianyan to recognize the Soul Bone and accuse Ye Lei of stealing it.
• Ye Lei’s domain suppressed Fen Tianyan’s Martial Soul, causing his Lion King’s Roar to fail.
• Fen Tianyan’s aura surged as he activated his Second Soul Skill, Explosive Slaughter.

Ye Lei defeated Fen Tianyan and his companion after they revealed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Mad Lion Giant. With both men dead, Elder Hall's operation failed once again.

• Ye Lei dismissed Fen Tianyan's power-up and summoned a meteor with his Thousand Jun Torso Soul Bone skill.
• Fen Tianyan and his companion merged into the Mad Lion Giant and attacked Ye Lei with magma and flaming stone pillars.
• Ye Lei countered with Blue Silver Emperor soul skills, then unleashed his Purgatory Demonic Slash Soul Bone Combination Skill.
• The slash shattered the rock giant, and Ye Lei killed Fen Tianyan and his companion with the Hellfire Twin Blades.
• Elder Hall's operation ended in failure once again.

Ye Lei killed Fen Tianyan and another man, then examined the dead Reformed Human No. 3 and became furious over the signs of human experimentation. He disappeared with the bodies and evidence, while the Seventh Elder learned that two heads had been found near the military headquarters.

• Ye Lei searched Fen Tianyan and the other man, found their consecutive-numbered silver nameplates, and burned their bodies.
• Ye Lei crushed the nameplates, tied the two heads together with a Blue Silver Emperor Vine, and inspected Reformed Human No. 3's corpse.
• Ye Lei saw the Reformed Human's injuries and needle marks, blamed the Elder Hall for the human experimentation, and vanished with the bodies and scorpion tail.
• At Banyan City's military headquarters, the Elder's Special Assistant told the Seventh Elder that soldiers had found two heads impaled on a tree.
• The Seventh Elder asked whether the heads belonged to Tian and Di.

The Seventh Elder learned that Ye Lei had killed Tian, Di, and Reformed Human No. 3, and ordered the Elder Hall to accelerate its cultivation. At Rong University, Ye Lei revealed the Elder Hall’s human experiments and warned that its Reformed Humans could multiply without end.

• The Seventh Elder heard that Tian and Di’s heads and Reformed Human No. 3’s body had been found beneath a tree, and learned that the latter had died after his spine was torn in half.
• The Seventh Elder crushed his teacup, sent his special assistant away, and ordered everyone to accelerate their cultivation.
• The elder's special assistant relayed the Seventh Elder’s order over a walkie-talkie.
• At Rong University’s Duel Arena, Ye Lei told Song Yang and the others that Instructor Fen had brought back a modified combat weapon rather than two people.
• Ye Lei explained that the Elder Hall had conducted at least a hundred human experiments and that two Reformed Humans remained after he had dealt with two of the five experimental subjects.

Ye Lei decided to enter the Realm of Adversity alone, anticipating that the Elder Hall would send two stronger modified humans there. Meanwhile, the Seventh Elder prepared the realm for a recruitment operation under orders from a powerful black-robed man.

• Ye Lei told Song Yang, Chen Sican, and Jing Hang that he would enter the Realm of Adversity alone and urged them to prepare for an attack on their school.
• Luo Yun and two others predicted that Han Nuan would win the Academy Competition unless her brother-in-law took part, and Han Nuan blushed as she listened.
• The Seventh Elder reported to a black-robed man that the Realm of Adversity was ready for students from major schools to enter.
• The black-robed man ordered the Seventh Elder to recruit talented students and kill anyone who resisted joining the Elder Hall.
• The Seventh Elder accepted the order and vanished.

After winning the Academy Competition, Ye Lei and Han Nuan set off to represent their school in the Realm of Adversity. They arrived beneath a blood-red moon as a five-day free-for-all was announced.

• Ye Lei and Han Nuan joked together after Ye Lei defeated her in the competition final and carried her out of the arena.
• Ye Lei and Han Nuan entered a portal to the Realm of Adversity the next day.
• Han Nuan noticed that the Realm of Adversity resembled their world, and Ye Lei recognized the blood-red moon.
• A strange male voice announced that the contestants would compete in a five-day free-for-all, with defeated participants sent home and their points reset.

Ye Lei and Han Nuan entered the Realm of Adversity’s battle royale, where teams earned points by defeating monsters or other contestants. Ye Lei began his Honey Trap plan, and Han Nuan drew the attention of a five-person team.

• The Realm of Adversity announced the scoring rules and randomly teleported the 10,000 participants.
• Han Nuan asked why Ye Lei had been watching the sky, and he explained his suspicions about Blood Moon before proposing the Honey Trap stratagem.
• Ye Lei used Mental Hunting Ground to find targets while Han Nuan acted timid and helpless.
• Ma Ming and Chen Xueyi’s five-person team spotted Han Nuan alone, surrounded her, and offered to bring her onto their team.

Han Nuan and Ye Lei used a honey trap to eliminate rival teams and raise their score in the Realm of Adversity. After their successful run, Ye Lei began teaching Han Nuan to use her Feathers of Ice as hidden weapons.

• Han Nuan lured Lin Xuecheng and four other boys into an ambush, then escaped as Blue Silver Emperor Vines pierced and eliminated them.
• Ye Lei emerged from the darkness, praised Han Nuan's acting, and celebrated their plan's success.
• Over the next half day, Ye Lei and Han Nuan used the honey trap to eliminate several more teams and raise their team score to nearly 4,000.
• Ye Lei offered to teach Han Nuan a way to kill silently and asked her to give him some Feathers of Ice.
• Ye Lei raised a stone wall and explained that Han Nuan could use her Feathers of Ice as hidden weapons, following techniques from the Tang Sect Secret Arts.

Ye Lei demonstrated the Tang Sect hidden weapon technique Flickering Hand Arrow and explained how Han Nuan could use it alongside her First Soul Skill. He led her deeper into the Realm of Adversity, where he sensed elite monsters in the Elite Stone Forest and planned to teach her the technique while earning points.

• Ye Lei flicked ice-blue feathers into a stone wall without looking and told Han Nuan that Flickering Hand Arrow was the most basic hidden weapon technique.
• Ye Lei explained that Han Nuan should master Flickering Hand Arrow and Bat Wing Cycle to strengthen her First Soul Skill, and said her martial soul needed poison for Bat Wing Cycle’s full power.
• Han Nuan questioned whether an ice-and-poison soul beast existed, and Ye Lei assured her he could give her Ice Phoenix poison.
• Ye Lei concluded that the teams were still near the Realm of Adversity’s outskirts and led Han Nuan deeper inside.
• Ye Lei and Han Nuan reached the Elite Stone Forest, where Ye Lei sensed a group of elite monsters and headed toward them to farm points and teach her Flickering Hand Arrow.

Ye Lei and Han Nuan wiped out a gathering of elite monsters, sending their team’s points far ahead of the others. Afterward, Ye Lei looked forward to the next difficulty level and suggested finding another team to toy with.

• Ye Lei showed Han Nuan the Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track and the Flickering Hand Arrow as they approached the elite monsters’ gathering place.
• Ye Lei used stone spikes to ambush and kill several elite monsters, drawing the attention of the rest.
• Ye Lei unleashed his Hell Scythe Flash, reducing a large group of elite monsters to ashes.
• Han Nuan followed with her Feather of Ice and annihilated the remaining monsters.
• Ye Lei and Han Nuan’s points surged ahead of the other teams, and Ye Lei proposed targeting another team.

Ye Lei and Han Nuan hunted contestants in the Realm of Reversal, where the remaining students faced recruitment or death. Ye Lei continued killing monsters and wondered whether they were the same as soul beasts.

• Han Nuan understood that Ye Lei wanted to keep the coming battle from harming innocent contestants, then flew off to eliminate them early.
• Ye Lei saw the team points rapidly increase and guessed that Han Nuan was attacking contestants from the air.
• Ye Lei used his speed to attack in the opposite direction, crushing two contestants with a meteor and earning 200 points.
• Ye Lei observed that the monsters seemed no different from soul beasts.

Ye Lei disguised himself in black and began eliminating students in the competition. After killing two boys, he returned to Han Nuan, who was startled to see him in night clothes.

• Ye Lei decided to eliminate the participating students before facing Blood Moon and put on a black outfit and ghost mask.
• Two boys discussed their competition strategy when Ye Lei appeared and declared they were about to die.
• Ye Lei killed both boys with stone spikes, causing them to vanish in white light.
• A person asked the Seventh Elder to assign personnel for a mission planned for two days later, but the Seventh Elder said he would choose them later.
• Han Nuan searched for Ye Lei, then turned around when he appeared behind her in black gloves and night clothes.

Ye Lei and Han Nuan cleared the Elite Stone Forest before reaching Hell Marsh, where the heat forced Han Nuan to return. As Ye Lei explored alone, he recognized a familiar presence and discovered that Ye Xiaofeng was there, prompting him to prepare to settle their score.

• Ye Lei teased Han Nuan, and they playfully scuffled before she agreed to stop hunting contestants for the time being.
• Ye Lei and Han Nuan wiped out the monsters in the Elite Stone Forest and entered Hell Marsh, the Realm of Adversity's third level.
• Ye Lei protected Han Nuan from Hell Marsh's extreme heat with his Soul Power and told her to return to the Elite Stone Forest.
• Han Nuan flew back to the Elite Stone Forest while Ye Lei continued exploring Hell Marsh alone.
• A crimson beast attacked Ye Lei, who killed it with his greatsword and recognized Ye Xiaofeng's familiar aura.
• Ye Lei vowed to settle the score with Ye Xiaofeng.

Ye Lei confronted Ye Xiaofeng in the Realm of Adversity and accused him of helping cause their grandmother’s death and orchestrating Ye Lei’s campus bullying. As Ye Lei began to take revenge, the sky turned red and their confrontation escalated.

• Ye Lei vowed to finish what Ye Mojian had failed to do and kill Ye Xiaofeng.
• Ye Xiaofeng attacked a bespectacled follower who questioned the danger of the Realm of Adversity’s third level, dismissing him as a disobedient dog.
• Ye Xiaofeng cursed Ye Mojian and declared that he would reclaim the Ye Family’s power, but an unseen attacker struck him in the abdomen.
• Ye Lei appeared as the sky turned red and told Ye Xiaofeng that he would pay for what had happened three years earlier.
• Ye Lei accused Ye Xiaofeng and his parents of trying to kill his mother, causing their grandmother’s death, and arranging his campus bullying, then declared that Ye Xiaofeng did not deserve the Ye Family’s power.

Ye Lei confronted Ye Xiaofeng over their grandmother’s death and defeated the hundred attackers Ye Xiaofeng sent against him. He emerged unharmed from the meteor strike and stood over Ye Xiaofeng, who was stunned by his survival.

• Ye Lei spread magma across the ground and vowed to make Ye Xiaofeng’s family confess at their grandmother’s grave.
• Ye Xiaofeng pointed out that Neo was surrounded and offered three Jade Soul Coins to whoever eliminated him.
• Ye Lei calmly blocked the hundred attackers’ strikes with magma armor and unleashed his Thousand Armies Meteor Flame Break.
• The meteor crashed down, knocking Ye Xiaofeng to the ground and raising a cloud of dust.
• Ye Lei emerged unharmed and taunted Ye Xiaofeng, who demanded to know how he had survived.

Ye Lei confronted Ye Xiaofeng, revealed that he knew Ye Xiaofeng and his parents had caused Grandma’s death, and rejected Ye Xiaofeng’s claim to the Ye Family. Ye Xiaofeng attacked him, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Ye Lei summoned a black-red blade and told Ye Xiaofeng that his strength had surpassed that of the men who had attacked him.
• Ye Lei revealed a magma giant and four black soul rings, then warned Ye Xiaofeng not to look at him with contempt.
• Ye Lei told Ye Xiaofeng to inform Uncle and Aunt that they would get nothing from him.
• Ye Xiaofeng accused Grandma of favoring Ye Lei and said he had returned to take over the Ye Family.
• Ye Lei accused Ye Xiaofeng, Eldest Uncle, and Aunt of tampering with Grandma’s plane, causing her death three years earlier.
• Ye Xiaofeng dismissed the accusation, summoned three purple and one black soul rings, and launched his Third Soul Skill, Dark Profound Demonic Claw Strike.

Ye Lei defeated Ye Xiaofeng with help from Han Nuan, who arrived at the decisive moment and killed him with her Ice Flash Thorn. Afterward, Han Nuan questioned Ye Lei’s claim that he had only acted in self-defense.

• Ye Xiaofeng ambushed Ye Lei with his Hell Scythe Flash and tried to finish him with his Mysterious Wolf soul skills.
• Ye Lei trapped Ye Xiaofeng with Blue Silver Grass, but Ye Xiaofeng broke free using his Mysterious Wolf Demonic Armor.
• Ye Lei baited Ye Xiaofeng into attacking and punched him away with his Thousand Jun Flame Armor.
• Han Nuan struck the airborne Ye Xiaofeng with Ice Flash Thorn, killing him.
• Han Nuan confronted Ye Lei about his self-defense claim and his use of a meteorite.

Blood Moon prepared to kill Ye Lei as the Seventh Elder began a talent selection plan. On the fourth level of Hell Marsh, Blood Moon attacked a crowd of students, and Ye Lei countered to protect Han Nuan.

• Blood Moon received the Seventh Elder’s order to eliminate the remaining people and vowed to kill Ye Lei.
• The Seventh Elder ordered a hundred people to accompany him to Rong University for the talent selection plan.
• Ye Lei and Han Nuan crossed the third level of Hell Marsh and reached the blood-red fourth level, where students suddenly appeared.
• Blood Moon appeared beneath the red moon and attacked the crowd with his First Soul Skill, Half Moon.
• Ye Lei shielded Han Nuan with his armor and struck at the incoming crescents with his Spider Emperor Purple Light Slash.

Blood Moon attacked Ye Lei with a series of Soul Skills, but Ye Lei’s Blue Silver Spike Array held off his assault. Blood Moon then trapped several students and killed a girl, leaving the attack’s purpose unclear.

• Blood Moon used Blood Moon Slash, sending circular moon blades at Ye Lei from every direction.
• Ye Lei protected himself and another person with Blue Silver Spike Array, repeatedly blocking Blood Moon’s attacks.
• Blood Moon activated Blood Hell beneath Ye Lei and taunted him to come out and fight.
• After students shouted at him, Blood Moon trapped several boys with chains from the formation.
• A girl tried to free her companions, but a decaying arm pierced her chest and crushed her heart.

Ye Lei realized that the Fatal Protection Devices had been disabled and that the trial was a trap targeting him. He and Han Nuan attacked Blood Moon, severing his connection to the red moon and leaving the battle unresolved.

• Han Nuan asked why a girl who suffered a fatal injury had not been teleported away, and Ye Lei explained that the Fatal Protection Devices had been deactivated.
• Ye Lei concluded that the trial was a trap targeting him and identified Blood Moon's connection to the red moon as the source of his power.
• Ye Lei asked Han Nuan to distract Blood Moon while he attacked with his Blue Silver Overlord Spear.
• Han Nuan flew at Blood Moon and countered his Blood Moon Slash with Ice Flash Thorn as Blood Moon answered with his Sixth Soul Skill.
• A male voice activated Four Fires Heaven Domain and Thousand Jun Meteor Blaze Break, severing Blood Moon's connection to the moon as a meteor formed overhead.
• Ye Lei unleashed Purgatory Demonic Slash, and Han Nuan used Ice Phoenix Demonic Condensation to exploit Blood Moon's moment of panic.