Chapter Summaries

Yu Tianxin bet Yu Tianheng that he could bring Ye Lingling into the team, then persuaded Yu Luomian to arrange a marriage proposal. Meanwhile, Lu Leng returned to the hotel and found Zi Nü waking from a nightmare, where she embraced him and said she had missed him.

• Yu Tianxin proposed a roundabout way to recruit Ye Lingling and bet Yu Tianheng the captaincy that he could bring her into the team.
• Yu Tianxin returned to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and told Yu Luomian he agreed to the marriage arrangement.
• Yu Luomian agreed to seek his elder brother's approval and send someone to propose marriage to Ye Lingling's family.
• Lu Leng returned to the hotel after cultivating and heard Zi Nü struggling in her sleep.
• Lu Leng went to wake Zi Nü, but she opened her eyes, recognized him, and threw herself into his arms.

After Zi Nü woke from a nightmare and cried in Lu Leng’s arms, she insisted on sleeping beside him again and revealed how frightened and isolated she had been before following him. Lu Leng began to suspect the Soul Fighting Arena had conditioned her to serve men, then wondered how she kept entering his locked room unnoticed.

• Zi Nü cried in Lu Leng’s arms for half an hour, and Lu Leng comforted her before sending her to sleep alone.
• The next morning, Lu Leng found Zi Nü in his bed again, and she said she felt safe with him and was afraid to sleep alone.
• Lu Leng realized Zi Nü knew little about ordinary life and suspected the Soul Fighting Arena had trained her to obey and please men.
• Lu Leng discovered he had locked his room from the inside, but could not explain how Zi Nü had entered without disturbing him.
• Lu Leng recalled the service manager calling Zi Nü mischievous and inspected the bracelet that restricted her from leaving the Soul Fighting Arena without his permission.

Lu Leng learned more about Zi Nü’s mysterious ability before Count Ye Xingzhi approached him with a valuable ginseng root and a request to meet. Lu Leng left the conversation with the gift in Zi Nü’s hands and an invitation to visit the Count’s Mansion in three days.

• Zi Nü told Lu Leng she could sometimes move to places by thinking of them, and explained that the Soul Fighting Arena’s bracelet kept her from leaving.
• Lu Leng continued Soul Fighting and reached more than thirteen thousand points and 105 consecutive victories.
• Ye Xingzhi introduced himself as an imperial Count and revealed that he had investigated Lu Leng’s fabricated identity.
• Ye Xingzhi offered Lu Leng a five-thousand-year-old Nine-Grade Ginseng King, claiming it could dispel the baleful aura from prolonged Life-and-Death Soul Fighting.
• Lu Leng questioned Ye Xingzhi’s motives and refused to accept a gift without knowing the reason for it.
• Ye Xingzhi gave the jade box to Zi Nü and invited Lu Leng to discuss his request at the Count’s Mansion in three days.

Lu Leng investigated the vicious aura affecting him and freed Zi Nü from her bracelet, then learned Ye Xingzhi had ties to Xue Qinghe and visited his run-down mansion. The chapter ended with Ye Xingzhi seeing Lu Leng unmasked and discovering how young he was.

• Lu Leng suspected the bead he had absorbed was causing his vicious aura and decided to study Zi Nü’s ability to absorb evil energy.
• Lu Leng broke Zi Nü’s bracelet, but she chose to stay with him, so he planned to observe her secret.
• Lu Leng continued winning Soul Fighting matches until Qian Renxue sent him a letter linking Ye Xingzhi to Xue Qinghe.
• Lu Leng realized powerful figures might be watching him and decided to leave Heaven Dou City eventually, but he went to visit Ye Xingzhi the next day.
• Ye Xingzhi welcomed Lu Leng into his modest Count’s Mansion, asked him to remove his mask, and reacted with surprise at his youth.

Ye Xingzhi asked Lu Leng to marry into the Ye Family, explaining that he wanted his daughter Ling'er to have a secure future. Lu Leng questioned why Ye Xingzhi had chosen him, and Ye Xingzhi said he had watched Lu Leng's soul battles and believed he was strong enough.

• Ye Xingzhi explained how his family had lost its marquis title and feared its rank would decline further without merit.
• Ye Xingzhi described how his ambition had caused him to neglect his late wife and daughter Ling'er, and said he wanted to ensure Ling'er could live well.
• Ye Xingzhi asked Lu Leng to marry into the Ye Family, promising that Lu Leng would remain in charge and that their children would bear the Lu surname.
• Lu Leng questioned the proposal and said he could not marry someone he did not know.
• Ye Xingzhi said he chose Lu Leng because he was strong, meticulous, and had won every soul battle decisively.

Lu Leng discovered that Ye Xingzhi had chosen him as a husband for Ye Lingling to help preserve the Ye Family, and he and Ye Lingling realized they were already classmates. The chapter left them discussing the marriage plan while Ye Xingzhi went to receive visitors from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

• Ye Xingzhi praised Lu Leng's strength and potential, then insisted that Lu Leng would agree to marry his daughter.
• Ye Lingling appeared, and she and Lu Leng recognized each other as classmates who had helped one another at the academy.
• Ye Xingzhi told Ye Lingling that Lu Leng was the future husband he had chosen for her, leaving her shocked and embarrassed.
• A servant announced that members of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had come to visit, and Ye Xingzhi sent Lu Leng and Ye Lingling to the back courtyard.
• Ye Lingling told Lu Leng that her father had sought a marriage alliance to protect the Ye Family's estate from powerful clans seeking to absorb it.

Ye Lingling asked Lu Leng how he felt about the marriage arrangement, but he avoided answering and left her hurt. They then went to the front courtyard, where Ye Xingzhi was arguing with Yu Tianxin and a middle-aged man over the proposed marriage.

• Ye Lingling questioned Lu Leng about her father's marriage proposal, revealing her growing affection for him.
• Lu Leng could not determine whether he liked Ye Lingling and pretended not to hear her question, dimming her hopes.
• An angry voice from the front courtyard interrupted them, and Lu Leng and Ye Lingling hurried there.
• Ye Lingling found Ye Xingzhi facing Yu Tianxin and a middle-aged man in a tense argument.
• Yu Tianxin greeted Ye Lingling and said he had come at Ye Xingzhi's invitation to formally ask for her hand in marriage.

Yu Tianxin proposed marriage to Ye Lingling, but she declared Lu Leng her fiancé, and Lu Leng confirmed it. Enraged, Yu Tianxin attacked him, leaving the confrontation poised to begin.

• Yu Tianxin insisted that Ye Lingling should accept his proposal, while Ye Xingzhi weighed him against Lu Leng.
• Ye Lingling rejected Yu Tianxin and identified Lu Leng as her fiancé by linking her arm through his.
• Lu Leng confirmed he was the Ye Family's future son-in-law, despite Yu Tianxin threatening him and offering him another chance to retract his answer.
• Yu Tianxin ordered a Seventh Elder to hold Ye Xingzhi and the others back, then challenged Lu Leng to a fight.
• Yu Tianxin lunged at Lu Leng with a punch, while Ye Xingzhi judged that Yu Tianxin would not last one move against him.

Lu Leng decisively overpowered Yu Tianxin and battled the Seventh Elder, whose speed and defensive strength forced Lu Leng to use his soul skills. As the Elder tried to flee with Yu Tianxin, Lu Leng caught up and appeared behind him for a final attack.

• Lu Leng caught Yu Tianxin's fist, broke his hand, and kicked him down while evading the Seventh Elder's swift strike.
• Lu Leng mocked the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and clashed blades with the Seventh Elder, cutting through his dragon scales as the Elder tried to deflect his precise attacks.
• The Seventh Elder unleashed Dragon's Fury, but Lu Leng split its lightning with Drawing Sword Slash.
• The Seventh Elder used Blue Lightning Divine Dragon Dash to grab Yu Tianxin and escape, but Lu Leng struck at them with Thunderous Might and chased them with Swallow Return Flash.
• The Seventh Elder blocked Lu Leng's Drawing Sword Slash with Thunder Shield, but Lu Leng used the second stage of Swallow Return Flash to appear behind him and shout, "Die!"

Lu Leng left the Count's Mansion after sparing the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's Seventh Elder, then found Zi Nü being abused by three beast women at a restaurant. He struck Tiger Girl down after Zi Nü called him Master.

• Lu Leng severed one of Seventh Elder's wings, but he let the elder escape after Ye Xingzhi warned him about the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's retaliation.
• Lu Leng left the Count's Mansion and returned to the inn, where he discovered Zi Nü was gone.
• Lu Leng found Zi Nü at a restaurant, surrounded by Tiger Girl, leopard girl, and dog girl, who had covered her in food and were threatening to scar her face.
• Lu Leng realized that Zi Nü's nightmares might come from being bullied by the women, and he seized the sharp bone as Tiger Girl prepared to cut her.
• Zi Nü called Lu Leng Master, and he slapped Tiger Girl hard enough to send her crashing to the ground.

Lu Leng punished the maids who had tormented Zi Nü, then confronted Yu Chengxian, a powerful Soul Sage who threatened to kill him and claim Zi Nü. Zi Nü began explaining how she had been rejected by her family and bullied at the Soul Fighting Arena.

• Lu Leng slapped the three maids and urged Zi Nü to retaliate, but she was too frightened to act.
• Lu Leng sent two maids to fetch help and stayed with Zi Nü, who clung to him while he cleaned her up.
• Yu Chengxian arrived, struck his own maid Tiger Girl for failing to fight back, and threatened to kill Lu Leng and take Zi Nü.
• Zi Nü told Lu Leng that Yu Chengxian was a level seventy-five Soul Sage from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and a rare Ruby Badge holder.
• Zi Nü explained that her family cast her out after her mutated martial soul awakened, and that other beast girls later began bullying her at the Soul Fighting Arena.

Zi Nü told Lu Leng about the ten years of bullying she endured, and he promised to protect her. After Yu Chengxian targeted Lu Leng and Lu Leng advanced to Sapphire rank, the two accepted a Life-and-Death Match, while Zi Nü asked Lu Leng not to kill Yu Chengxian if he won.

• Zi Nü described how the Soul Fighting Arena had allowed others to bully her for ten years, and Lu Leng vowed no one would hurt her again.
• Yu Chengxian ordered Leopard Girl to arrange a Life-and-Death Match against Lu Leng, but learned Lu Leng’s lower rank made the designation impossible.
• After learning of Lu Leng’s winning record, Yu Chengxian decided to challenge him as soon as he reached Sapphire rank and vowed to destroy him.
• Lu Leng told Zi Nü he would advance to Sapphire rank, then won ten Life-and-Death Matches the next day and received the badge.
• Yu Chengxian sent Lu Leng a challenge letter, which Lu Leng accepted, and Zi Nü asked him to spare Yu Chengxian if he won.

Lu Leng prepared to fight Yu Chengxian in a heavily publicized Life-and-Death Soul Fighting match, while considering how Zi Nü might become normal. As spectators and powerful observers gathered, Zhang Jiuri worried over Lu Leng’s growing record of cross-level victories.

• Zi Nü explained that Yu Chengxian carried the gray, cold aura she wanted to devour, and Lu Leng promised to kill him and let her try an Immortal Herb so she could become normal.
• Lu Leng waited in the VIP lounge as the Soul Fighting Arena publicized his challenge against the level-seventy-five Ruby Badge holder Yu Chengxian and drew a packed crowd.
• A man called Second Uncle angrily learned that Lu Leng had agreed to the match, while his young companion doubted Lu Leng could survive against a Soul Saint.
• Xue Qinghe accompanied Xue Ye and Xue Ke to watch the match, and Xue Ye rebuked Xue Ke for acting restless.
• Zhang Jiuri’s anxiety returned as he learned that Lu Leng was a level-forty Purple Gold Soul Fighter who kept winning cross-level challenges.

Lu Leng entered a life-and-death match against Yu Chengxian, the level-seventy-five Ruby Badge holder from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. After both revealed their Martial Souls, Lu Leng used Wind and Thunder Movement to appear behind Yu Chengxian and slash at him, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Zhang Jiuri and the other Soul Masters expected Yu Chengxian to kill Lu Leng, while Ye Xingzhi appeared haggard after unsuccessful negotiations with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• The host introduced Lu Leng and Yu Chengxian before their match, and Zi Nü tearfully urged Lu Leng to return alive.
• Lu Leng promised Zi Nü he would come back, then entered the arena and exchanged taunts with Yu Chengxian.
• Yu Chengxian revealed his Evil Desire Demonic Dragon Martial Soul and seven Soul Rings, while Lu Leng summoned his Zhan Luo blade.
• Lu Leng charged Yu Chengxian and used Wind and Thunder Movement to vanish and slash at him from behind.

Lu Leng fought Yu Chengxian, whose dragon armor and demonic soul skills pushed him into a dangerous battle. Lu Leng adapted to Yu Chengxian’s attacks and ended the chapter striking his dragon claw with a strengthened Drawing Sword Slash.

• Yu Chengxian revealed his dragon armor and launched Demonic Dragon Entanglement and Demonic Dragon Claw at Lu Leng from opposite sides.
• Lu Leng used Swallow Return Flash to escape, causing Yu Chengxian’s attacks to collide and vanish in an explosion.
• Yu Chengxian unleashed Evil Dragon Demonic Shadow, concealing himself from Lu Leng’s Spiritual Power while attacking repeatedly.
• Lu Leng dodged the hidden claws and gradually learned their patterns, conserving Soul Power as the spectators watched.
• Yu Chengxian feinted with one claw and attacked with the other, but Lu Leng anticipated the move and struck it with a charged Drawing Sword Slash, overpowering him.

Lu Leng severed Yu Chengxian’s hand and repeatedly battered through his defenses with Drawing Sword Slash, forcing the furious Soul Sage to reveal his wings and transform into a twenty-meter black dragon. The chapter left Lu Leng facing Yu Chengxian’s full Martial Soul Avatar in the arena.

• Lu Leng cut off Yu Chengxian’s dragon claw and chopped it apart, revealing that it had been a human hand.
• Yu Chengxian used his Dragon Armor to form a replacement claw, and Lu Leng recognized that the armor had become thinner.
• Lu Leng repeatedly struck Yu Chengxian with Drawing Sword Slash, wearing down the lightning defense created by Dragon’s Fury.
• Xue Qinghe watched Lu Leng’s strength with solemn interest while Xue Ye praised him, unaware of the true nature of his soul rings.
• Yu Chengxian revealed his wings to evade Lu Leng’s attack, then activated his Seventh Soul Skill and transformed into a twenty-meter black dragon.

Yu Chengxian unleashed his Martial Soul Avatar and overwhelmed Lu Leng with relentless lightning, while spectators feared for Lu Leng’s life and Xue Qinghe wondered whether to intervene. Lu Leng revealed his Thunderclap Wings, an External Soul Bone, just as Yu Chengxian summoned a devastating arena-wide lightning attack.

• Yu Chengxian transformed into his Evil Desire Demonic Dragon Martial Soul Avatar, prompting Xue Ye to ask whether the life-and-death match could be stopped.
• Xue Qinghe considered saving Lu Leng but feared exposing his identity, while Prince Xue Xing and Xue Beng argued over Lu Leng’s chances.
• Yu Chengxian bombarded Lu Leng with lightning, forcing him to dodge repeatedly and rapidly spend his Soul Power.
• Lu Leng revealed his Thunderclap Wings, stunning Yu Chengxian and the spectators with the sight of an External Soul Bone.
• Yu Chengxian used Dragon's Might to gather lightning over the entire Soul Fighting Arena and prepare an attack that left Lu Leng nowhere to dodge.

Lu Leng and Yu Chengxian unleashed a lightning duel that devastated the Soul Fighting Arena, then Yu Chengxian gained the advantage as Lu Leng’s Soul Power ran low. Lu Leng survived Yu Chengxian’s attacks and destroyed his demonic dragon with Wind Scroll Remnant Thunder.

• Lu Leng drew the thunderclouds and lightning toward himself, and he and Yu Chengxian exchanged attacks that wrecked the arena and killed several spectators.
• The lightning faded, leaving both fighters exhausted, and Yu Chengxian attacked Lu Leng with Evil Dragon Demonic Shadow.
• Yu Chengxian’s claw split Lu Leng’s mask, revealing his lips to Xue Qinghe, who recognized him as Lu Leng.
• Yu Chengxian struck Lu Leng with his tail and sent him crashing into the ground, then pursued him with Demonic Dragon Breaks Prison.
• Lu Leng evaded the demonic dragon’s bite and used Wind Scroll Remnant Thunder to tear the dragon apart from within.

Lu Leng revealed a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and killed Yu Chengxian with the Evil God Slash, then escaped the arena before his exhausted state became clear. Xue Ye and Prince Xue Xing recognized the danger of provoking him, while Zi Nü comforted him; the next morning, Lu Leng found her in his bed again.

• Lu Leng revealed his Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and used the Evil God Slash to freeze Yu Chengxian before his body decayed into dust.
• The host declared Lu Leng the winner, and Lu Leng returned to the waiting room and changed his mask while the spectators remained stunned.
• Xue Ye marveled at Lu Leng's strength, while Prince Xue Xing ordered Xue Beng to stop investigating him and warned him against approaching such a powerful figure.
• Zi Nü embraced Lu Leng, easing the violent hostility left by his soul skill, and told him she was happy he had returned.
• The next morning, Lu Leng found Zi Nü asleep in his arms and wondered how she kept appearing in his bed unnoticed.

Lu Leng gave Zi Nü the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower in hopes of resolving the strange effects of her mutated martial soul. After absorbing it, Zi Nü’s martial soul transformed, and she said its oppressive feeling was gone for good.

• Lu Leng decided that Zi Nü’s behavior and strange martial soul needed to be addressed, and gave her the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower.
• Zi Nü absorbed the Immortal Herb while Lu Leng stood guard.
• Purple qi formed a strange barrier around Zi Nü, hiding her aura and distorting the light around her.
• Zi Nü’s ears and tail changed, and a purple feline martial soul appeared behind her.
• Zi Nü awoke covered in grime, washed, and changed into fresh clothes.
• Zi Nü told Lu Leng that her mutated martial soul’s problem was completely resolved and its suppressed feeling had disappeared.