Chapter Summaries

Madara entered the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt a Spirit Beast for his second spirit skill, hoping to find one with mental-control abilities suited to Sharingan genjutsu. After spotting an apparent ambush and later finding several factions gathered around two fighting Spirit Beasts, he began sneaking up on a lone scout to learn what was happening.

• Madara prepared his ninja tools and traveled alone into the forest, killing several Soul Masters who tried to attack him.
• Madara discovered a bloodied campsite and recognized it as bait for an ambush, then retreated before the hidden Soul Masters could catch him.
• The bearded ambush leader ordered his group to keep watch for more victims instead of pursuing Madara.
• Madara continued deeper into the forest, considering a spiritual-type Spirit Beast with mental-control abilities as the source of his second spirit skill.
• Madara found two Spirit Beasts fighting as several rival groups of Soul Masters waited nearby, and he began sneaking toward a lone cloaked scout to gather information.

Madara captured Meng Yiran and forced her to explain that a strange Spirit Beast had fallen from a crack in the sky and was fighting a Crimson Serpent. He moved closer to observe the battle, and Meng Yiran followed despite his orders to stay behind.

• Madara ambushed Meng Yiran, recognized her, and revealed that her grandfather, the Dragon Duke, was hiding nearby.
• Madara intimidated Meng Yiran into explaining that a giant-eyeball Spirit Beast had appeared from a black crack and made anyone who attacked it dizzy.
• Meng Yiran told Madara that the strange Spirit Beast had begun fighting the Crimson Serpent, which was nearly eight hundred years old.
• Madara headed toward the battle to inspect the Spirit Beast, and Meng Yiran followed him despite being called dead weight.

Madara identified the giant-eyed Spirit Beast’s genjutsu-like wave as the ability he wanted for his second spirit ring, then charged into the hidden Spirit Masters to clear the area. After defeating them, he detected another presence nearby and called it out.

• Madara intimidated Meng Yiran into silence and watched the Crimson Serpent battle the giant-eyed Spirit Beast.
• Madara saw the giant eye’s wave halt the Crimson Serpent and decided to claim the ability for his second spirit ring.
• Madara charged at the hidden Spirit Masters, striking the first group with ninja tools and severing their arms as he passed.
• Madara used Fire Release: Great Dragon Fire Technique to overwhelm the remaining Spirit Masters, then killed the survivors with his Kunai.
• Madara sensed someone still hiding nearby and called them out, startling Meng Yiran.

Madara faced Scarface, a level 33 Three-ring Soul Master, and unleashed his weighted training gear and the first two Eight Gates to match his opponent’s strength. After trading attacks and narrowly avoiding Scarface’s Earth Splitting Slash, Madara caught his breath as the fight’s momentum shifted in his favor.

• Scarface encountered Madara and threatened to kill him, while Madara welcomed the chance to fight a Three-ring Soul Master.
• Madara dropped his weighted iron blocks and opened the Gates of Opening and Healing, astonishing Meng Yiran, Snake Grandma Chao Tianxiang, and Dragon Duke.
• Madara charged Scarface, blocked his Blade Aura with his fan, and struggled as Scarface repeatedly fired the stamina-efficient attack.
• Madara threw ninja tools and used Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Claw Crimson to turn them into a fiery barrage.
• Scarface used Earth Splitting Slash to open a chasm beneath himself and evade Madara’s attack.
• Madara shattered the Blade Auras pressing against his fan and regained his breath as Scarface lost the initiative.

Madara fought Scarface, a three-ringed Soul Master, and overcame his stronger opponent through relentless close combat. After Scarface’s desperate charge gave Madara an opening, Madara killed him with a Kunai, leaving Meng Yiran stunned.

• Madara’s scythe and War Fan overwhelmed Scarface, who struggled to defend himself despite his three rings.
• Scarface used his third spirit skill to escape Madara’s killing blow, then pressed forward with Blade Aura and Earth Splitting Slash.
• Scarface cut Madara’s cheek, prompting Madara to charge into the fight with renewed excitement.
• Madara discarded his weapon after clashing with Scarface, seized the wrist holding Scarface’s blade, and stabbed him through the heart with a Kunai.
• Scarface collapsed, and Meng Yiran stared at Madara in shock.

Madara defeated the Crimson Serpent and the Great Eye, then gave the serpent to Meng Yiran while preparing to absorb the Great Eye’s spirit ring. Meng Yiran guarded him as Dragon Duke and Snake Grandma watched from hiding.

• Madara ignored Meng Yiran’s warnings and charged into the battle between the Crimson Serpent and the Great Eye.
• Madara wounded the Crimson Serpent, resisted the Great Eye’s genjutsu, and turned its attack back on it.
• Madara defeated both Spirit Beasts, leaving the Crimson Serpent near death and severing the Great Eye’s tentacles.
• Madara gave the Crimson Serpent to Meng Yiran and killed the Great Eye to obtain its spirit ring.
• Madara began absorbing the ring while Meng Yiran guarded him and Dragon Duke and Snake Grandma observed from the shadows.

Madara absorbed the Crimson Serpent's soul ring and demonstrated his genjutsu to Dragon Duke before rejecting Snake Grandma's attempt to make him her granddaughter's live-in son-in-law. After Madara called Meng Yiran too weak and left, she vowed revenge and began absorbing the serpent's ring despite its danger.

• Madara absorbed and tamed the spiritual-type soul ring, then used its genjutsu on Dragon Duke, who broke free and praised the skill.
• Snake Grandma proposed that Madara marry Meng Yiran, but Madara refused and called her too weak.
• Dragon Duke and Snake Grandma threatened Madara, while Madara warned that he had powerful backing and pointed to the Crimson Serpent.
• Meng Yiran ordered her grandfather to let Madara go, vowed to take revenge, and watched him leave.
• Meng Yiran vented her anger by killing the Crimson Serpent, then began absorbing its soul ring despite exceeding her limit.

Madara returned to a campsite of predatory Soul Masters to test his Second Spirit Skill and slaughtered the group with his weapons and Sharingan. He left the surviving Tiger Martial Soul boss cornered and facing an illusion of despair.

• Madara returned to the campsite, where the Soul Masters surrounded him and the boss ordered them to attack.
• Madara deflected their ranged Spirit Skills and killed several attackers with swift strikes from his sickle.
• Madara used his Second Spirit Skill on the Dog Martial Soul master, freezing him with a terrifying illusion before killing him.
• The remaining Soul Masters fled as Madara continued cutting them down, while the boss tried and failed to stop their retreat.
• Madara called out to the fleeing boss and unleashed an illusion of despair.

Madara found his old Battle Armor in a shop and reclaimed it, leaving with the armor on his body and the shop's guards too afraid to stop him.

• Madara left the forest after defeating the nearby Soul Masters and returned to town.
• Madara entered a shop to look for defensive equipment but sensed a familiar presence drawing him toward a storeroom.
• Madara recognized a battered suit of Battle Armor and paid the clerk a bag of Gold Soul Coins for it.
• Madara put on the armor, cleaned away its rust and dirt with his power, and declared that he had returned.
• The clerk tried to take back the Battle Armor, so Madara threatened him and threw him aside before walking past the frightened guards.

Madara recovered his stolen Gold Soul Coins from a gang of pickpockets and found a nine-tailed red fox in their cage. When Pan Chui attacked him, Madara easily defeated him, and Pan Chui’s captain arrived and began speaking to Madara.

• A man in sunglasses stole Madara’s Gold Soul Coins, but Madara held him and drove off the man’s accomplices with his Soul Power and Chakra.
• Madara recovered his coins and kicked the sunglasses-wearing man into a shop entrance.
• Madara discovered a nine-tailed red fox in the dropped cage and recognized something familiar about it.
• Pan Chui accused Madara of stealing the fox and attacked him with his hammer, but Madara blocked the blow and kicked Pan Chui away.
• Pan Chui’s bearded captain stopped him, scolded him, and warmly asked Madara what he should call him.

Madara joined Li Jia’s Lone Soul Hunting Group after agreeing to Li Jia’s invitation, provided that no one else competed with him for opponents in battle. At the group’s shabby courtyard, Madara met its members and alarmed them when his bloodlust flared at Lisa’s teasing.

• Li Jia stopped Pan Chui from confronting Madara, explained that Pan Chui had mistaken him for one of the thieves, and apologized.
• Li Jia invited Madara to dinner and asked him to join the Lone Soul Hunting Group; Madara accepted on the condition that he would never have to compete for opponents.
• Pan Chui reluctantly apologized to Madara, and Li Jia led him to the group’s small courtyard.
• Lisa teased Madara, and he released an aura of bloodlust that made Old Fury fear he might attack her.
• Li Jia introduced Madara as the group’s new member, and the gathered members reacted with mixed expressions.

Madara met the Lone Soul Hunting Group’s core members and discovered how a Food System Soul Master’s steamed bun could accelerate both Soul Power and Chakra recovery. He kept the unusual red Nine-Tails fox Li Jia gave him, then fell asleep unaware that the fox had opened its blood-red eyes.

• Li Jia introduced Madara to the group’s core members, and Madara’s calm response to Li Jia’s strong pat made the others reconsider his strength.
• Li Jia showed Madara the group’s captured Snow Foxes, and Madara claimed the unusual red Nine-Tails fox after learning it had been found in their den.
• At dinner, Old Fury gave Madara a Recovery Steamed Bun, and Madara discovered that it hastened his recovery of both Soul Power and Chakra.
• Madara reflected that he planned to leave the group eventually and intended to repay Li Jia for the fox before falling asleep.
• The caged red Nine-Tails fox opened its blood-red eyes while Madara slept.

Madara discovered that the red fox had gained the Nine-Tails’ origin power and trapped him in its mental world. As the fox attacked, Madara stopped its enormous claw with one hand and prepared to fight back.

• Madara pretended to sleep as the red fox escaped its cage, then grabbed it and tried to throw it to the floor.
• The fox’s attack drew Madara into a dim mental space, where it appeared as a colossal creature and threatened him.
• Madara recognized the fox’s connection to Kurama and concluded that it had gained the Nine-Tails’ origin power while retaining its own genjutsu ability.
• The fox boasted that it could use its full strength in its mental world and reached to crush Madara.
• Madara stopped the fox’s claw with his palm and began pushing it back, ready to demonstrate the Uchiha’s power.

Madara defeated a red fox that had gained Kurama’s origin and used his Sharingan to make it his pet. The next morning, he introduced the subdued fox, Nine Nether, to the Soul Hunting Group as Kurama.

• Madara forced the fox to explain that seven years earlier it had received the origin of a senior Spirit Beast in a red ball of light.
• Madara wondered what had happened in the Shinobi World after his death and realized the fox was not Kurama.
• Madara invaded the fox’s spiritual body with his Sharingan and declared that it was now his pet.
• The fox revealed that its name was Nine Nether and that it was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, then fought Madara again.
• The next morning, Madara brought the listless Nine Nether to breakfast and introduced it to the Soul Hunting Group as Kurama.
• Lisa tried to pick up Kurama, but he snapped at her, while the group joked over breakfast.

The Lone Soul Hunting Group accepted a mission to protect a young Soul Master seeking her third soul ring, while Madara questioned Li Jia about what he was hiding. The group met their client at the town gate and learned that the hunt would involve a dangerous thousand-year Spirit Beast territory.

• Li Jia told the group that a client had bought all their Snow Foxes and wanted to hire them for another mission.
• Madara arrived without supplies, then confronted Li Jia and used his Sharingan to press him about the mission’s hidden details.
• Li Jia admitted to Madara that the client had demanded protection for a Soul Master and had paid far above market price for the Snow Foxes.
• Madara reluctantly trusted Li Jia after recognizing his sense of responsibility, and the group headed to the town gate to meet their employer.
• The group met a veiled young girl with blue hair, who said she needed help obtaining her third soul ring.
• Li Jia and the others were alarmed by the danger of hunting a thousand-year Spirit Beast, while Madara watched calmly and the girl took note of him.

Madara and his group encountered a thousand-year Golden Armored Jade Poison Scorpion in the Star Dou Great Forest. As the Spirit Beast overwhelmed the Soul Masters, Ye Lingling used her Nine Heart Begonia to heal the wounded.

• Madara sensed two hidden experts nearby, while Ye Lingling introduced herself to him and said he reminded her of someone.
• Old Fury noticed the group had encountered no low-level Spirit Beasts, and Madara and Ye Lingling moved to the front as tremors approached.
• A thousand-year Golden Armored Jade Poison Scorpion emerged, and Old Fury warned that its venom could kill even a Soul Elder.
• Madara's kunai and shuriken failed to pierce the scorpion's shell, and the melee Soul Masters were injured as they tried to hold it back.
• Ye Lingling summoned her Nine Heart Begonia and restored the badly wounded Soul Masters with its healing light.

The Soul Hunting Group fought the Golden Armored Jade Poison Scorpion, but Madara took over the battle after it attacked Lisa. Madara battered the beast and flung it into a crater, leaving Ye Lingling to realize her healing skill was useless to him.

• Li Jia used his spear skills to hold off the Golden Armored Jade Poison Scorpion while the Soul Hunting Group recovered.
• Lisa struck the scorpion with Charm Strike, but it quickly recovered and charged at her.
• Madara stopped the scorpion with his scythe and kicked it away from Lisa, then rejected Ye Lingling's healing light.
• Madara faced the scorpion alone, cracked its pincers with his scythe, and caught its tail stinger.
• Madara swung the scorpion around and hurled it into the ground, creating a large crater.

After years of fighting with the Soul Hunting Group, Madara returned to Jeno City as a Three-ring Soul Master with the ability to replicate spirit skills. He confronted Jerry at the Jie Nuo Grand Soul Fighting Arena and prepared to make his name resound again.

• Madara dismissed Ye Lingling’s fame and support abilities, then helped her obtain a spirit ring before they parted with her suggesting they would meet again.
• Over the following years, Madara fought at the front of the Soul Hunting Group and grew stronger, gaining his Third Spirit Skill, Replication.
• Madara returned to the Jie Nuo Grand Soul Fighting Arena in Jeno City, accompanied by his fiery fox and recalling his promise to Jerry.
• Jerry failed to recognize Madara until Madara showed his badge and identified himself as the Blood Pupil Asura.
• Madara revealed his purple Third Spirit Ring, shocking Jerry, and declared that he would make his name resound through the arena again.

Madara returned to the Jie Nuo Grand Soul Fighting Arena and overwhelmed every opponent, then left with Jerry to challenge arenas across the empire. After becoming known as the Soul Fighting King, he headed for Suotuo City, where a reply from Nuo Ding Junior Academy promised him a reunion with Tang San.

• Madara returned to the Jie Nuo Grand Soul Fighting Arena and defeated his first opponent with a single punch.
• Madara won seven consecutive matches, while Jerry profited as his partner and manager.
• Jerry told Madara he was resigning, and Madara decided to challenge Soul Fighting Arenas across the empire.
• Madara swept through more than a dozen arenas in under three months, rising through the ranks without a loss or draw.
• Madara traveled toward Suotuo City after learning from Nuo Ding Junior Academy that he could meet Tang San again.

Madara encountered Dai Mubai on the outskirts of Suotuo City and beat him after Dai Mubai charged at him without using his White Tiger Martial Soul. Madara then went to the Soul Fighting Arena, where he anticipated the battle ahead and thought of screams and the scent of blood.

• Dai Mubai vented his frustration in the outskirts of Suotuo City until Madara shouted at him and called him trash.
• Dai Mubai attacked Madara, who met his tiger claw with a punch and drove him back without giving him a chance to use Martial Soul Possession.
• Madara overwhelmed Dai Mubai, knocked him down, and told him to seek revenge at the Soul Fighting Arena.
• Dai Mubai clenched his hands and repeated Madara's challenge as Madara walked away.
• After dinner, Madara went to participate in soul fights, dismissed Jerry's question about preparing, and anticipated the screams and scent of blood.