Chapter Summaries

Tang San gave Madara a Space Soul Tool after recovering from his injuries, and Madara set out to investigate the people who had hurt him. Meanwhile, Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin noticed Madara, and Ning Fengzhi examined a hidden weapon Tang San had made as they headed to see Rongrong.

• Tang San gave Madara a Space Soul Tool he bought by auctioning some of his hidden weapons, and Madara named it the Storage Ring.
• After leaving Tang San with Xiao Wu, Madara went to his group’s hideout and collected information on the academies in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.
• Madara ordered Kuang Xi and the others to investigate a family surnamed Tai, then rewarded Kuang Xi with the Self-Created Soul Skill Konoha Great Whirlwind.
• Chen Xin sensed Madara while Ning Fengzhi examined a hidden weapon made by Tang San and remarked that its creator was probably not simple.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin continued toward Rongrong, while Gu worried that she might be angry with him.

Madara trained Wang Zi'an to cut leaves with wind-attributed Soul Power, then rushed to Tang San, who was enduring Titan's oppressive aura under a wager. Madara attacked Tainuo and provoked Titan, leaving the two Soul Douluo and Madara poised to fight.

• Madara ordered Wang Zi'an to stop using his martial soul and practice cutting leaves with wind-attributed Soul Power.
• Madara found Tang San and Xiao Wu facing Titan, who was testing Tang San's endurance under a wager that would bind the loser to the other's family.
• Madara tried to intervene, but Zhao Wuji and the others explained that Tang San had agreed to endure Titan's pressure for the time it took an incense stick to burn.
• As Tang San struggled under Titan's aura, Madara broke free and struck Tainuo, smashing him into a building while declaring that wiping out the family would settle the matter.
• Titan activated his martial soul and revealed his eight soul rings, while Madara threatened to destroy him before the incense burned out.

Madara fought Titan, whose successive spirit skills pushed him to unleash the Fourth Gate and Susanoo. As Madara prepared an illusion to stop Titan, Tang San rushed in front of him with a hammer, leaving Titan stunned.

• Titan activated his First and Second Spirit Skills and overpowered Madara, who opened the Fourth Gate to keep up with him.
• Madara summoned Susanoo and clashed with Titan, sending him flying, but the fight continued as Titan charged again.
• Madara secretly enhanced his Second Spirit Skill to prepare the Tsukuyomi illusion while waiting for Titan to approach.
• Tang San saw Madara standing still, rushed into the battlefield, and swung a small black hammer to shield him.
• Titan recognized the hammer in Tang San's hand and was shocked.

Madara and Tang San’s fight with Titan was interrupted by Ning Fengzhi and two Titled Douluo, and Titan recognized Tang San as the Clear Sky Sect’s Young Master. Titan explained that Tang San’s father was the famous Clear Sky Douluo, leaving Tang San stunned by the truth about his father.

• A sword strike stopped Madara and Titan, and Ning Fengzhi arrived with Chen Xin and Gu Rong to end the confrontation.
• Titan recognized the Clear Sky Hammer in Tang San’s hand, then knelt and addressed him as the Young Master.
• The Grandmaster brought everyone to the academy reception hall while Ning Rongrong showed Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong around the academy.
• Titan apologized to Tang San for injuring him, and Madara and Titan competed over pulling Titan to his feet until Tang San interrupted them.
• Titan confirmed that Tang San carried the Clear Sky Hammer and that his father was Tang Hao, the famous Clear Sky Douluo, while Madara admitted he had known already.

After learning that Tang San was connected to the Clear Sky Sect, Tang San sought time to sort out his feelings, while Madara reassured him. Ning Fengzhi met with the brothers, negotiated to buy Tang San’s hidden weapons, and proposed that Madara marry Ning Rongrong; Madara rejected the idea outright.

• Titan told Tang San about his connection to the Clear Sky Sect, and Madara clarified that the Clear Sky Douluo had adopted him rather than making him a sect member.
• Tang San asked Titan for time alone, declined to join any sect, and left with Madara, who promised to protect him.
• Tang San and Madara met Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo, and Ning Fengzhi praised Madara’s strength and probed for Tang Hao’s whereabouts.
• Ning Fengzhi agreed to buy Tang San’s hidden weapons but could not obtain the secret of how to make them.
• Ning Fengzhi asked whether Madara was betrothed and proposed Ning Rongrong as a match, but Madara said he was not interested because women would slow his attacks.

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.