Chapter Summaries

Quan Yi tested how much soul power pressure he could withstand before absorbing a Soul Ring, while Quan Li evaluated his combat skills and raised the pressure step by step. Quan Yi endured pressure up to Level 82, but his body and meridians were nearing their limits as the test continued.

• Quan Yi and Quan Li sparred with their fists, and Quan Li pointed out that Quan Yi’s techniques were forceful but lacked experience against stronger opponents.
• Quan Li began testing Quan Yi’s limits with soul power pressure, which had no effect until it reached Level 50.
• Quan Yi started circulating his soul power at Level 57 and summoned his Martial Soul and Soul Rings when the pressure reached Level 77.
• Quan Li was surprised by Quan Yi’s Martial Soul and its unusual dark-gold aura, then increased the pressure to Level 80.
• Quan Yi insisted on continuing the test, and the pressure at Levels 81 and 82 bent his body and pushed his meridians toward their limit.

Quan Yi opened the Du Meridian while enduring Quan Li’s soul power pressure, greatly improving his body and soul power. Three months later, he and Quan Li searched Sunset Forest for a suitable Fourth Soul Ring, and after two weeks in its inner area they roasted an eight-thousand-year-old Heavy Earth Boar.

• Quan Yi pushed through Quan Li’s Soul Douluo-level pressure and opened the Du Meridian, discovering a new soul power circulation route.
• Quan Yi felt his physical abilities and soul power improve, and realized he could use the same method to seek out other Hidden Meridians.
• Three months later, Quan Yi and Quan Li entered Sunset Forest to find Quan Yi’s Fourth Soul Ring, and Quan Yi kept pace with Quan Li as they traveled.
• After two weeks in the forest’s inner area without finding a suitable Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast, Quan Li killed an eight-thousand-year-old Heavy Earth Boar.
• Quan Yi roasted the Heavy Earth Boar’s ribs over a large bonfire while Quan Li eagerly waited to eat.

Quan Yi and Quan Li cooked and ate Soul Beast meat to attract a powerful beast, then Quan Yi killed a twenty-thousand-year Dragon Flame Beast to claim it as his Fourth Soul Ring. After exhausting most of his soul power, Quan Yi recovered some of it with his Soul Power Crystal.

• Quan Yi finished roasting the ribs, and he and Quan Li ate the Soul Beast meat, which replenished their energy.
• Quan Li sensed a powerful aura approaching, and Quan Yi spotted a roughly twenty-thousand-year Dragon Flame Earth Beast with his Telescope.
• Quan Yi chose the Dragon Flame Earth Beast for his Fourth Soul Ring, and Quan Li promised to keep other Soul Beasts away.
• Quan Yi flew toward the beast and used his Fire Immunity Attribute to pass through its Flame Dragon Breath.
• Quan Yi enhanced his Scorching Ray and pierced the beast’s brain, killing it with one strike.
• Quan Yi landed beside the corpse, noted that the attack had drained most of his soul power, and used his Soul Power Crystal to recover more than half of it.

Quan Yi began absorbing the Dragon Flame Beast’s twenty-thousand-year Soul Ring while Quan Li protected him. After the absorption seemed to stabilize, Quan Yi suddenly began trembling, leaving Quan Li alarmed.

• Quan Li crushed the eight-thousand-year Wind Chasing Wolf alpha and drove its pack away with his overwhelming strength.
• Quan Yi drank Green Bamboo Brew, prepared himself, and began absorbing the Dragon Flame Beast’s twenty-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Quan Yi used his Mental Power and altered Soul Power Cultivation Method to guide the vast energy through his body, while his Du Meridian absorbed much of it.
• After five or six hours, Quan Yi’s aura calmed, and Quan Li thought the most dangerous stage had passed.
• Quan Yi suddenly began trembling violently, and Quan Li wondered what had gone wrong.

Quan Yi’s absorption of the Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring triggered the Dragon Flame Beast’s Soul Tremor, forcing him to fight its remnant soul inside his Spiritual Space. He devoured the weakened beast and woke after surviving the crisis.

• Quan Yi’s Soul Power circulation fell into chaos when the Dragon Flame Beast’s remnant soul attacked his Spiritual Space with Soul Tremor.
• Quan Yi’s separated consciousness stabilized his Soul Power while his main Mental Body confronted the beast.
• Quan Yi and the Dragon Flame Beast battered each other, weakening their Mental Bodies until Quan Yi began to prevail.
• Overcome by hunger, Quan Yi bit and devoured the Dragon Flame Beast’s remnant soul, restoring and strengthening his Mental Body.
• Quan Yi stopped trembling, and after half an hour he opened his eyes as a brief red glow faded from them.

Quan Yi survived the Dragon Flame Beast’s mental attack while absorbing its Soul Ring, gaining a powerful Fourth Soul Skill and a major boost to his strength. He and Quan Li recognized that future Soul Ring absorption would require attention to mental strength as well as physical limits.

• Quan Yi reassured Quan Li that he had overcome the Dragon Flame Beast’s spirit body and eaten what remained of it.
• Quan Li warned that powerful Soul Beasts could attack the mind and said future Soul Ring absorption must account for Quan Yi’s Mental Limit.
• Quan Yi revealed that his Fourth Soul Skill, Dragon Flame's Fury, increased his flame power, Soul Power, attack power, defense, and strength by two hundred percent.
• Quan Yi told Quan Li that he had reached Soul Power level forty-five and a half, attributing the increase to the Hidden Meridians opened during the Limit Test.

After Quan Yi defeated the Twenty-Thousand-Year Dragon Flame Beast, he absorbed its Right Arm Bone and gained four Soul Power levels, reaching Rank 49. He told Quan Li that the Spirit Bone had also improved his Physical Quality enough to let him contend with a Soul Saint.

• Quan Yi suggested celebrating by eating the Dragon Flame Beast, but Quan Li stopped him and revealed the beast had produced a Right Arm Bone.
• Quan Yi accepted the Spirit Bone from Quan Li and began absorbing it beside the beast’s corpse.
• After absorbing the Spirit Bone through the night, Quan Yi awakened at sunrise with a surge of confidence and pride.
• Quan Yi told Quan Li that the Spirit Bone had raised him to Rank 49, four levels higher than before.
• Quan Yi explained that the Spirit Bone’s greater benefit was its improvement to his Physical Quality, which now let him contend with a Soul Saint.

Quan Yi discovered that his Right Arm Bone granted him the powerful Fury of Hell skill, while Quan Li confirmed that Quan Yi had become the Quan Family’s second-strongest fighter. The chapter also recounted how the family’s firearms and explosives let them launch a devastating surprise attack on the Thousand Leaf Willow Family.

• Quan Yi explained that Fury of Hell amplified fire-attribute Spirit Masters, weakened others, and drove everyone but him toward uncontrollable rage.
• Quan Li praised the skill and judged Quan Yi to have Spirit Saint-level strength, second only to Yun Qiong in the Quan Family.
• Quan Yi credited his progress to the family’s support, while Quan Li reflected on how Quan Yi’s inventions had helped the family advance its weapons production.
• Quan Li and Yun Qiong led the Quan Family’s attack on the Thousand Leaf Willow Family, with Quan Yue and Su Ling’er directing a bombardment from a hundred Giant Cannons.
• Yun Qiong dropped a ten-ton Black Gunpowder Bomb into the Liu Family’s Core Area, and the explosion gave the Quan Family control of the battlefield.

After absorbing the Spirit Bone, Quan Yi discovered that activating his Hidden Meridians helped him digest food and strengthen his body. He decided to remain in Sunset Forest to train and pursue his Fifth Soul Ring, and Quan Li agreed under conditions.

• Quan Yi and Quan Li ate Dragon Flame Beast meat, and Quan Yi used his Hidden Meridians to digest repeated meals and absorb their energy until his body reached its limit.
• Quan Yi realized that the Du Meridian regulated his internal organs and improved his physical training.
• Quan Yi asked Quan Li to let him stay in Sunset Forest to train, hunt for high-grade soul beast meat, and cultivate while seeking his Fifth Soul Ring.
• Quan Li agreed to Quan Yi's plan but required him to write home monthly and learn the family's Mental Power Cultivation Method before Quan Li left.

Quan Li taught Quan Yi the first stage of the Quan Family’s Mental Power Cultivation Method, demonstrating how to shift Steel between hard and fluid states. Quan Yi learned that mastering the technique would improve his mental power and complete Quan Li’s combat system, and he eagerly prepared to begin training early.

• Quan Li revealed that he had created a Mental Power Cultivation Method by combining mental training with his control over Steel and Sharpness.
• Quan Li demonstrated Steel flowing like liquid, changing into weapons, and exploding after striking a piece of wood.
• Quan Li explained that the first stage required keeping condensed Steel soft and flowing to strengthen mental power.
• Quan Yi realized the technique could combine with flow to conserve Soul Power and shift Steel between defense and attack.
• Quan Li told Quan Yi to reduce Soul Power loss in the soft state to half the rate of the hard state, adding that completing the stage would bring his mental power to Spirit Saint level.
• Quan Li said Quan Yi could begin early because his mental power matched a spirit emperor’s, and Quan Yi eagerly accepted the challenge.

Quan Yi and Quan Li finished smoking their meat and left Sunset Forest for Taiyun Town. After nearly alarming a patrol squad with their enormous loads, they accepted Captain Zhao’s offer to guide them to a warehouse.

• Quan Li explained the second stage of mental cultivation to Quan Yi and told him to focus on completing the first stage.
• Quan Yi spent more than a week smoking the mountain of meat, then he and Quan Li carried their supplies out of Sunset Forest.
• Captain Zhao’s patrol squad heard approaching tremors, and Captain Zhao warned the members to prepare for danger.
• Quan Yi used his voice to tell the squad that he and Quan Li were not Soul Beasts, and the patrol members lowered their weapons.
• Captain Zhao offered to lead Quan Yi and Quan Li to an empty warehouse, then left his patrol squad to guide them into Taiyun Town.

Quan Yi settled into Warehouse No. 3 in Taiyun Town and began adapting his training to the strength he gained from his Fourth Soul Ring and Soul Bone. After exhausting his Mental Power while practicing Turning Strength into Softness, he used Green Bamboo Brew to ease his headache and recover.

• Quan Yi paid Captain Zhao two hundred Gold Soul Coins to rent Warehouse No. 3 for a year, and Quan Li praised him before leaving for home.
• Quan Yi moved his smoked meat into the warehouse and made it his residence for the night.
• Quan Yi ran at full speed outside the warehouse, but the wind from his training shook the building, so he stopped and decided he needed heavier training equipment.
• Quan Yi ate smoked Twenty Thousand Year Soul Beast Meat, then practiced turning his Soul Power from a stable membrane into a liquid-like state.
• Quan Yi's Mental Power ran out and gave him a splitting headache, so he drank Green Bamboo Brew, which eased the pain and helped his Mental Power recover and progress.

Huo Wu and Huo Wuxie found two Ring Spirit Beasts while searching for her Third Soul Ring. Huo Wu insisted on absorbing the older beast, risking her life because she wanted to keep up with Quan Yi.

• After two weeks of searching, Huo Wuxie urged Huo Wu to stop for the day, but she kept scanning the forest as they headed back to camp.
• Huo Wu spotted two Ring Spirit Beasts, and Huo Wuxie explained that their Ring of Rejection would make an ideal control and defensive skill for her.
• Huo Wuxie identified one beast as over two thousand five hundred years old and the other as over one thousand six hundred years old, then prepared to capture the younger one.
• Huo Wu stopped Huo Wuxie and declared that she wanted to absorb the older beast, arguing that her physical conditioning and the beast’s mild nature gave her a chance to survive.
• Huo Wuxie angrily warned Huo Wu that the older Soul Ring could kill her, but she insisted that she needed its greater boosts to keep up with Quan Yi.

Huo Wu risked absorbing a two-thousand-five-hundred-year soul ring to grow strong enough to stand beside Quan Yi, and Huo Wuxie reluctantly agreed to let her try. As Huo Wu neared collapse from the pain, her Fire Shadow Martial Soul suddenly grew larger and shone with dazzling light.

• Huo Wu explained to Huo Wuxie that she had spent years preparing to absorb a soul ring beyond her safe limit so she could become stronger.
• Huo Wuxie captured two Ring Spirit Beasts, then agreed to Huo Wu's request despite his fears.
• Huo Wu killed the two-thousand-five-hundred-year Ring Spirit Beast and began absorbing its purple soul ring after resting.
• The soul ring's power flooded Huo Wu's meridians with unbearable pain, and she struggled to stay conscious.
• Huo Wu resolved not to die before achieving her dreams, and her Fire Shadow Martial Soul grew larger and blazed with light.

Huo Wu survived absorbing a 2,500-year Soul Ring as her Fire Shadow Martial Soul underwent a Second Awakening, transforming her body and greatly increasing her power. Afterward, she discovered she could activate an ability that doubled her combat strength, leaving her confident she could match her brother.

• As Huo Wu neared death during the Soul Ring absorption, her Fire Shadow Martial Soul and body began a Second Awakening, drawing in the ring's energy and transforming her.
• Huo Wuxie and Huo Wushuang watched anxiously as Huo Wu's aura and body grew stronger over the course of an hour.
• Huo Wu opened her eyes after successfully absorbing the 2,500-year Soul Ring, and Huo Wuxie checked that she was unharmed.
• Huo Wu's height increased to around one meter seventy-nine, and her Fire Shadow Martial Soul grew into a giant phantom over four meters tall.
• Huo Wu discovered she could control a new ability that doubled her combat strength and said she could now match her brother.

After absorbing her third Soul Ring and undergoing a Silver-level Martial Soul Second Awakening, Huo Wu gained a powerful self-boost and a vast repelling skill. She returned to the Wooden Cabin eager to see Quan Yi, but he remained away, deeply occupied with training near Sunset Forest.

• Huo Wu absorbed her more-than-2,500-year Soul Ring, reached Soul Power Level 33, and awakened a one-hundred-percent combat boost that elevated her Fire Shadow Martial Soul to the top tier.
• Huo Wu told Huo Wuxie that her Third Soul Skill, Defying Flame Ring, could repel opponents across a 120-meter diameter and expand to 240 meters when boosted.
• Huo Wu and Huo Wuxie left the Star Dou Great Forest, and Huo Wu returned to the Wooden Cabin a week later to find Quan Yi's long letter waiting instead of Quan Yi.
• Huo Wu read Quan Yi's account of his training and experiences, then hid a tear in his pillow as she missed him.
• Quan Yi trained for three months near Sunset Forest, using six thousand kilograms of Iron Essence weights and eating three to four hundred jin of meat daily.
• Quan Yi completed the first stage of Mental Power cultivation and reached the Spirit Saint stage.

After advancing his Mental Power to the Spirit Saint level, Quan Yi entered Sunset Forest alone to hunt Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts and test his strength. His elemental perception revealed an extremely pure Fire Element fluctuation deep in the forest.

• Quan Yi's Mental Power reached the Spirit Saint level as he sensed his Mental Power and Soul Power beginning to merge.
• After finding that his Soul Beast Meat was nearly gone, Quan Yi set out for Sunset Forest at dusk to hunt and test his strength.
• At the forest entrance, Quan Yi summoned his Blazing Sun Gauntlets and used Dark Flame Power and Fire Spirit Body to conceal himself as he flew into the inner ring.
• Unable to find prey by sight alone, Quan Yi used his heightened sense of elemental fluctuations to locate several Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts, but rejected them as inedible.
• As Quan Yi prepared to leave, he sensed an extremely pure and intense Fire Element fluctuation.

Quan Yi followed powerful opposing Fire and Ice energies into a poisonous mountain and discovered a divided hot spring at their source. After hearing a powerful Soul Douluo cry out in agony below, he reached the spring while remaining concealed.

• Quan Yi sensed intense Fire and Ice energies near the Forest Center and decided to investigate despite the danger.
• Quan Yi avoided the poisonous mountain miasma by flying above it, then entered the protected area and found a peaceful landscape within.
• Quan Yi heard a human cry and sensed a powerful Soul Douluo suffering near the foot of the mountain.
• Quan Yi concealed himself and flew toward the mountaintop as the Soul Douluo continued screaming.
• Quan Yi found a pool divided into milky-white and vermilion water, where extreme Ice and Fire energies clashed.

Quan Yi endured the hot spring’s extreme cold by strengthening his flames, then explored the rare medicinal plants growing around it. As he prepared to leave, an old man with an emerald snake arrived at the mountain hollow while Quan Yi remained unaware of him.

• Quan Yi used the blazing aura to strengthen his flames until they drove the Extreme Cold Aura from his Elemental Body.
• Quan Yi realized the hot spring could help improve his Martial Soul and decided he wanted to claim the territory, though he feared its unknown Soul Douluo.
• Quan Yi illuminated the spring’s surroundings and examined the abundant medicinal plants, including an octagonal white flower and a red cabbage-like plant at the boundary between the two spring pools.
• A tiny emerald-green figure secretly watched Quan Yi, then darted away without being noticed.
• Quan Yi continued memorizing the plants as the rhythmic wailing stopped, and a gaunt old man with glowing green hair and pupils appeared at the edge of the hollow with the emerald snake coiled on his shoulder.

Quan Yi encountered Dugu Bo guarding the Medicine Garden, then hid as Dugu Bo collapsed in pain. After rejecting the chance to attack him while he was helpless, Quan Yi experienced a breakthrough and reached Level 50.

• Dugu Bo investigated an intruder in the Medicine Garden and found Quan Yi, who vanished into the surrounding space.
• Dugu Bo searched the hot spring area, found no intruder, and collapsed as his suppressed pain overwhelmed him.
• Quan Yi recognized Dugu Bo and considered attacking him while he was defenseless, but rejected the idea.
• Quan Yi reflected on his growing cruelty, underwent a transformation, and broke through to Level 50.