Recaps

Madara broke through to Level 50 and told the Shrek Seven Devils he would leave to hunt for a Soul Ring. After a farewell feast, he and Tang San toasted beneath the moon before Madara’s departure the next day.

• Madara reached Level 50 after his battle with Titan and decided to hunt for a Soul Ring.
• Madara joined the Shrek Seven Devils for a meal and announced he would leave the next day to search for a Soul Ring.
• Ma Hongjun proposed a farewell feast, but the Shrek group got drunk while Madara remained standing.
• Madara looked back fondly on the group’s bonds and hoped they would grow strong together.
• Tang San joined Madara beneath the moon, and the two brothers shared a final toast before Madara left.

Madara traveled toward the Star Dou Great Forest and baited a gang of Soul Masters into trying to rob him. A group of young women led by Shui Bing'er defeated the outlaws, but Madara left without thanking them and continued toward town.

• Madara set off for the Star Dou Great Forest and reached the forest outskirts after only a few days of travel.
• Xie Yu and his companions surrounded Madara and tried to rob him, but Madara toyed with Xie Yu and deflected his attack.
• Shui Bing'er and her companions arrived, and Shui Yue'er objected to the outlaws’ behavior.
• Shui Bing'er used her Ice Phoenix’s First Spirit Skill, Ice Seal, to freeze several attackers, while Shui Yue'er diverted Xie Yu’s crab-claw strike.
• The young women defeated the outlaws, but Madara said he could have handled them himself and left for town.
• Shui Yue'er complained about Madara’s attitude, and Shui Bing'er comforted her.

Madara returned to the town and learned that the Hundred Beasts Hunting Group had taken over the Lone Soul Hunting Group’s base, then discovered its members threatening the Skywater Academy girls. He intervened to save Shui Bing’er and faced the group’s captain as the girls recognized him as the man they had saved that morning.

• Madara found the Lone Soul Hunting Group’s former base under the Hundred Beasts Hunting Group’s banner and learned that the group had defeated the Lone Soul Hunting Group a year earlier.
• Madara watched the new group’s base while the Hundred Beasts Hunting Group’s captain learned that the Skywater Academy girls were in town and sought revenge for his brother.
• The Hundred Beasts Hunting Group surrounded the girls, and its captain moved to attack Shui Bing’er after taunting them about killing his brother.
• Madara blocked the captain’s crab-claw attack with his blood-red Kunai and forced him back.
• Madara challenged the captain, while Shui Yue’er and Xue Wu recognized Madara as the man they had saved and Shui Bing’er worried about his chances against the Soul Emperor.

Madara fought the crab-clawed captain, then turned the battle against the captain and his allies with black-flamed ninja tools. After killing the captain, Madara told Shui Yue'er he had only repaid a debt, leaving her surprised by his indifference.

• The captain attacked Madara with his crab claws, but Madara dodged and defended against his strikes.
• The captain unleashed Water Cannon, and Madara shattered the torrent with Uchiha Rebound.
• The captain ordered his spirit masters to attack Madara together, while Shui Bing'er and the other Skywater Academy girls tried to help.
• Madara scattered ninja tools ignited with black flames, burning the attacking spirit masters and the captain.
• When the captain charged through the flames, Madara cut his throat with his scythe, killing him.
• Shui Yue'er thanked Madara for helping her, and Madara said he had repaid what he owed before turning away indifferently.

Madara defeated the Hundred Beasts Hunting Group, then accepted Shui Bing'er and her companions’ offer to join them on a soul-ring hunt in exchange for payment. He agreed to meet them the next morning and finally told them his name.

• Madara extinguished the Amaterasu flames after defeating the Hundred Beasts Hunting Group, while Shui Yue'er pressed him for his name.
• Madara left the women and went looking for a blacksmith to replace the ninja tools destroyed by his flames.
• Shui Bing'er and her companions found Madara at the blacksmith shop and invited him to help them hunt a soul ring for Xue Wu.
• Madara demanded payment, accepted Shui Bing'er's storage card containing ten thousand Gold Soul Coins, and ordered them to meet him the next morning.
• As Madara headed inside, Shui Yue'er asked his name again, and he answered, "Madara."

Madara escorted Shui Bing'er and the Skywater Academy girls into the forest to hunt Spirit Beasts, insisting they follow his safety rules despite their complaints. After clearing the nearby area, he left Shui Bing'er curious about the mysterious, promise-keeping bodyguard.

• Madara scolded Shui Yue'er and the other girls for arriving late and wearing perfume, and Shui Bing'er persuaded them to wash and change before setting out.
• Xue Wu challenged Madara's experience, and he claimed he had personally killed every Spirit Beast for his soul rings.
• Madara used his killing intent to deter hostile onlookers as the group left town, then led them through the forest while the girls struggled through the undergrowth.
• Xue Wu and Shui Bing'er noticed the forest had become unnaturally quiet, and Madara revealed he had already cleared out the nearby threats.
• Shui Bing'er praised Madara's strength, and he continued scouting ahead, leaving her intrigued by his character.

Madara and the Heaven Dou Academy girls found the Ice Soul Leopard that Xue Wu needed for her Fourth Spirit Ring. After Madara saved Xue Wu from its desperate counterattack and beat the beast nearly to death, he told her to absorb it so their agreement would be fulfilled.

• Madara sensed the Ice Soul Leopard approaching and halted the group as it charged at them.
• Madara dodged the leopard's pounce and kicked it away, then Xue Wu accepted his challenge to fight it herself.
• Xue Wu used her Snowflake Martial Soul and Spirit Skills to wound and trap the leopard in her Snow Shadow Whirlwind Array.
• The wounded leopard caught Xue Wu off guard with a desperate attack, but Madara pierced its claws with his blood-red Kunai and rescued her.
• Madara battered the leopard nearly to death and told Xue Wu to absorb it, fulfilling their agreement.

Madara discovered that the little boy he rescued had a sapling martial soul and became determined to protect him. When the boy’s pursuers attacked, Madara activated his powers and prepared to defeat them.

• Xue Wu killed the Ice Soul Leopard and began absorbing its thousand-year soul ring while Madara spoke with Shui Bing'er.
• Madara caught a small soul master sneaking toward them and stopped his scythe from striking the boy after Shui Bing'er called out.
• A scarred man demanded that Shui Bing'er hand over the boy, who pleaded for help and revealed his sapling martial soul.
• Madara recognized the sapling as a Wood Release-like power and vowed to protect the boy.
• The scarred man summoned more than a dozen soul masters to attack, and Madara activated Mangekyo, Sage Mode, and the Eight Inner Gates.

Madara named the nameless boy Mumu and entrusted him to Shui Bing'er and the others before continuing alone into the Star Dou Great Forest. He discovered that a cave was emitting red ripples that drove nearby Spirit Beasts mad, and entered despite the danger.

• Madara named the boy Senju, but Shui Bing'er and the others chose Mumu because of his wood Martial Soul.
• Madara announced that he would take Mumu as his disciple and asked Shui Yue'er and the others to escort him back to town while he ventured deeper into the forest.
• Madara killed a crazed gray wolf Spirit Beast, then fought off a pack of other maddened Spirit Beasts.
• Madara used Sage Mode to sense red ripples coming from a nearby cave and realized they were turning approaching Spirit Beasts feral.
• Madara entered the cave, found its floor covered in human bones, and followed the path deeper while suppressing his growing killing intent.

Madara touched a blood-red crystal in an abandoned trial site and was pulled into a strange space, where he fought its guardian, Kelder. After beating Kelder into submission, Madara learned the site tested potential successors to the Asura God, but he was plunged into darkness before he could learn where the active trial ground was.

• Madara found a blood-red crystal above a throne and was swallowed by its light when he touched it.
• Kelder appeared in a blood-red battlefield, and Madara attacked him before the guardian could explain himself.
• Madara's Kotoamatsukami failed against Kelder, so he used Susanoo, Uchiha Rebound, the Eight Inner Gates, and a Great Fireball to pummel him.
• Madara held his scythe to Kelder's neck, and Kelder identified himself as the guardian of an abandoned Asura God trial site.
• Kelder explained that successful candidates could inherit the Asura God's divine position and offered Madara benefits, but Madara lost consciousness before learning where the active trial ground was.

Madara underwent the Asura God’s Heart’s Trial, which tested whether he could control his killing intent rather than simply fight. He regained control after nearly killing a mother and her child, passed the trial, and demanded his reward from Kelder.

• Kelder’s voice sent Madara into a trial where he slaughtered elite soldiers and Spirit Beasts as his bloodlust grew.
• A bewitching voice urged Madara to follow his true heart, and he became consumed by killing intent and attacked a city.
• Madara raised his scythe against a little girl and her mother, but his conscience struggled against the killing intent controlling him.
• Madara broke free of the killing intent, regained control of himself, and caused the trial’s illusions to shatter.
• Kelder explained that the Heart’s Trial tested control over killing intent, confirmed Madara had passed, and Madara asked for his reward.

Madara passed the Asura God's Heart's Trial and received a God-Bestowed Spirit Ring, qualifying to pursue the god's inheritance. Kelder told him the true trial ground was the City of Slaughter, and Madara set out to find his disciple and ask his companions where it was.

• Madara confronted the Asura God without kneeling and declared that he would eventually surpass him.
• The Asura God gave Madara two streams of light; Madara absorbed one spirit ring and had another sealed until he reached level 60.
• The Asura God declared Madara qualified to inherit his godhood, and Madara found a new thirty-thousand-year spirit ring after waking.
• Madara asked Kelder where the true trial ground was, and Kelder revealed it was the City of Slaughter before throwing him out of the cave.
• Madara realized Kelder had not told him where the City of Slaughter was and decided to ask Shui Yue'er and the others while going to pick up his disciple.

Madara took Mumu away from the Skywater Academy group and tried to begin assessing his wood Spirit. He discovered Mumu had awakened at level ten despite Spirit Hall dismissing his Spirit as a waste, and planned to find him a suitable Spirit Ring.

• Madara reunited with Mumu and struggled to reassure his sensitive new disciple before leaving the Skywater Academy group with him.
• Shui Yue'er invited Madara to participate in the Continental Elite Soul Master Competition, but he refused.
• Madara warned Mumu to stay away from the casino, fearing he might develop a gambling habit like Hashirama.
• Madara led Mumu to an open space and asked him to show his Spirit, which produced weak-looking seedlings.
• Mumu told Madara he had been level ten upon awakening, but Spirit Hall had called his Spirit a Waste Spirit.

Madara summoned Kurama to train and watch over his new disciple, Mumu, and learned that Kurama had grown stronger by devouring other Spirit Beasts’ spirit rings. Kurama recovered its memories of Hashirama Senju, then supervised Mumu’s training; the chapter ended when the Fire Leopard Sect blocked Madara’s route.

• Madara summoned Kurama and defeated it when it attacked him, then demanded to know how it had grown so powerful.
• Kurama explained that devouring spirit rings had gradually awakened the source within its body, and Madara ordered Mumu to bind it with his martial soul.
• Mumu reached toward Kurama, triggering its memories of Hashirama Senju and making it flee up a tree in terror.
• Madara told Kurama that Mumu was his disciple and tasked Kurama with watching over him.
• Kurama supervised Mumu’s tree-climbing and water-walking practice as Madara led him onward.
• A disciplined group from the Fire Leopard Sect blocked the road and warned travelers to stay away.

Madara fought the Fire Leopard Sect Soul Masters after they blocked the road for an important visitor, overwhelming them and forcing most to flee. After learning why the road was closed, he continued ahead to confront the so-called great personage.

• Madara caught the delinquent youth’s attack, snapped his wrist, and slammed him to the ground.
• Madara fought off the Fire Leopard Sect Soul Masters, killing some and driving more than half to flee.
• Madara held a blood-red Kunai to the delinquent youth’s neck and demanded to know why the sect had blocked the road.
• The delinquent youth revealed that a great personage was coming to visit the Fire Leopard Sect and warned Madara not to interfere.
• Madara spared the delinquent youth and went on to meet the great personage.

Madara attacked the Fire Leopard Sect to find a worthy opponent and test his growing strength, while Xue Qinghe arrived as the sect’s honored guest. The old sect master shielded Xue Qinghe from Madara’s assault, and Huo Lie charged toward Madara to fight.

• Xue Qinghe arrived at the Fire Leopard Sect, where Old Sect Master Huo and Huo Lie welcomed him.
• A battered soul master reported that one intruder had broken through the sect’s interception team.
• Madara announced himself by sending five fire dragons crashing into the sect’s gathering, with one attack aimed at Xue Qinghe.
• Old Sect Master Huo protected Xue Qinghe, who emerged unharmed as Huo Lie rushed toward Madara.
• Madara prepared to fight Huo Lie and taunted him about playing with fire.

Madara fought Huo Lie, the Fire Leopard Sect’s Soul Saint, and overwhelmed him with black flames and a Blazing Tornado. As the fire tornado advanced toward the Fire Leopard Sect, someone angrily challenged Madara for attacking it.

• Huo Lie attacked Madara with his fire skills, but Madara blocked the flames and forced him to dodge a barrage of ninja tools.
• Madara fused his first and fifth spirit rings and unleashed black flames, which Huo Lie escaped using his speed-enhancing third spirit skill.
• Huo Lie rushed Madara in midair, but Madara’s azure giant arm seized him and slammed him into the ground.
• Huo Lie activated his Martial Soul Avatar, but Madara combined a copied Wind Vortex skill with Fire Release to engulf him in a Blazing Tornado.
• Madara watched the tornado advance toward the Fire Leopard Sect as someone shouted, “How dare you bully the Fire Leopard Sect!”

Madara fought the Fire Leopard Sect's old sect master, matching the Soul Douluo with Susanoo, spirit skills, and close combat. As both fighters neared exhaustion, Xue Qinghe ordered his guards to fire crossbow bolts at them.

• The old sect master attacked Madara at great speed, wounding him with his claws.
• Madara used Susanoo to withstand the old sect master's attacks and struck back with his azure giant arm.
• The old sect master activated his Martial Soul Avatar and unleashed his fifth spirit skill, but Madara's Susanoo emerged unharmed.
• Madara and the old sect master clashed their strongest attacks, then dismissed their avatars and continued fighting hand to hand as their power waned.
• Xue Qinghe ordered his guards to fire crossbow bolts at Madara and the old sect master.

Xue Qinghe persuaded Madara and the Fire Leopard Sect’s old sect master to end their fight, then asked Madara to retrieve a snow lotus from the Extreme North before Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation could claim it. Madara accepted in exchange for one promise and learned the route to the City of Slaughter as he left to complete the commission.

• Xue Qinghe stopped Madara and the old sect master’s fight with a volley of crossbow bolts and brought them to the Fire Leopard Sect’s discussion hall.
• Xue Qinghe asked the Fire Leopard Sect to send gifted youths to retrieve a snow lotus, revealing that Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation was pursuing it too.
• Madara insulted the Golden Generation and agreed to undertake the commission in exchange for one promise.
• Madara asked Xue Qinghe about the City of Slaughter, and the old sect master gave him directions north from Thousand Whispers Forest.
• The old sect master reflected that Madara reminded him of his younger self, while Madara left to complete the commission.

Madara headed north toward the Extreme North with Mumu and Kurama, while Huo Li asked to become his disciple and was rejected. A group of assassins ambushed Madara on the road, but he defeated them and was left wondering whether the empire or Spirit Hall had sent them.

• Madara left the Fire Leopard Sect with Mumu and Kurama and said they were bound for the Extreme North.
• Huo Li, the Fire Leopard Sect young sect master, asked Madara to take him as a disciple, but Madara said he was unqualified; Huo Li then declared he would enter the Continental Elite Soul Master Competition.
• Madara followed the map while Mumu practiced tree-running drills and Kurama teased him.
• More than a dozen black-clad assassins surrounded Madara, and their five-ring leader attacked him with Shadow Blade Flash.
• Madara cut down the attackers, gravely wounded their leader, and watched the man kill himself rather than reveal his organization.
• Madara wondered whether the empire or Spirit Hall had sent the assassins.

Madara and Mumu reached the Extreme North, where Madara subdued a Snow Titan and claimed its cave for the night. He ended the chapter warming himself with Amaterasu while Mumu and Kurama begged him to put out the dangerous flames.

• Mumu complained about the cold and the supply convoy mocked Madara for traveling without provisions, so Madara planned to take tents and fuel from them after dark.
• A Snow Titan emerged from a cave and roared at Madara, who ignored its threats and focused on using its cave for shelter.
• Madara beat the Snow Titan into submission and left it outside the cave as he brought Mumu and Kurama in for the night.
• Mumu asked Madara to light a fire, and Madara made a campfire with Amaterasu that frightened Mumu and Kurama into asking him to retract his divine power.

Madara and Mumu reached the last waystation before the depths of the Extreme North, where Madara reunited with Li Jia and confronted a group of thugs. After the men tried to demand a free meal, Madara brutally punished one and challenged the rest.

• Madara rode the Snow Titan with Mumu and Kurama, using the rough journey to push Mumu's training before stopping near signs of human activity.
• Madara entered the waystation and grabbed an attendant who recognized him, then learned the man belonged to the Lone Soul Hunting Group.
• Li Jia emerged from the kitchen, and Madara was relieved to find him alive.
• Several Soul Masters tried to provoke Madara into buying them a meal, so Li Jia led Mumu away while Madara agreed to treat them.
• Madara stuffed a Soul Master with meat, slammed his head onto the table, tore out his teeth, and asked the others, "Who else?"

Madara confronted the Golden Generation of Spirit Hall in a tavern and overwhelmed Yan with his black Amaterasu flames. The trio withdrew to pursue their important mission, while Madara wondered whether they would make worthy opponents.

• Yan, Xie Yue, and the fox Martial Soul user challenged Madara, revealing that all three were Spirit Kings.
• Yan attacked with a fire beast, but Madara matched his attack and then used black flames to consume the beast.
• Madara stopped the Amaterasu flames just before they reached Yan and warned the trio with a display of black fireballs.
• Xie Yue halted the enraged Yan and said the Golden Generation would remember the grudge, but Madara mocked them as they retreated.
• Mumu praised Madara, Kurama teased Mumu, and Madara wondered whether the Golden Generation had been holding back.

Madara left Mumu in Li Jia’s care and traveled into the Extreme North to find a Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus. When fleeing Spirit Beasts led him to a mysterious ice palace, he discovered the Snow Empress and Ice Empress inside and decided to investigate.

• Madara learned from Li Jia that the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus would bloom in five days, then left Mumu with him before setting out with Kurama.
• Madara and Kurama traveled through the Extreme North until fleeing Spirit Beasts alerted them to a terrifying presence.
• Madara used Sage Mode to approach an ice palace and spotted the Snow Empress and Ice Empress outside it.
• The Snow Empress sensed Madara’s presence, but he concealed his aura and avoided detection as she and the Ice Empress entered the palace.
• Madara noticed the palace’s aura resembled the cave where he had encountered the Asura God, then decided to investigate it with Kurama.

Madara and Kurama entered the Ice Palace, where a soul-chilling illusion nearly froze them before Madara escaped it with Amaterasu and his Mangekyo Sharingan. After finding the remains of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and fleeing a collapsing hall, they encountered the two Spirit Beasts waiting for them.

• Madara led Kurama into the Ice Palace and chose a side stairway instead of following the two Spirit Beasts down the central corridor.
• A soul-freezing illusion trapped Madara and Kurama, and Madara broke free by using Amaterasu and activating his Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Madara accidentally burned Kurama's tail with Amaterasu, then found remains that Kurama identified as belonging to a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• The side hall began collapsing, so Madara and Kurama fled before it crashed down behind them.
• The Giant Scorpion confronted them and accused Kurama of disgracing the Spirit Beast race by consorting with humans.