Chapter Summaries

While Tang San absorbed his second soul ring, Ling Qing interrogated and killed Zheng Shuo, then searched his belongings and found a Shadow Mercenary Group token and a crude treasure map. The chapter left the map’s location unknown, with Ling Qing hiding it back in Zheng Shuo’s shoe.

• Ling Qing used his Sharingan to expose Zheng Shuo’s false name and learned that Zheng Shuo had followed them because they carried Space Soul Tools.
• Ling Qing killed Zheng Shuo after deciding not to leave a dangerous enemy alive, frightening Ling Ren with his cold demeanor.
• Ling Qing wiped blood from the Scythe of Severance and searched Zheng Shuo’s corpse, finding money and tokens for Spirit Hall and the Shadow Mercenary Group.
• Ling Qing discovered a foul-smelling treasure map in Zheng Shuo’s shoe and hid it there again without telling Ling Ren or Tang San.

Ling Qing and Kong Weiyang exchanged attacks in the Douluo Arena, but Kong’s control skills failed to restrain Ling Qing or his Scythe of Judgment. Both fighters remained wary of the other’s abilities, leaving the match at a stalemate.

• Kong Weiyang opened with Shadow Thorn, but Ling Qing evaded it and tested the spike with the Scythe of Judgment.
• Ling Qing attacked Kong’s black-mist barrier repeatedly, while Ling Wu spotted the mist secretly attaching itself to the weapon.
• Kong activated Shadow Soul Seizing Technique, but Ling Qing’s weapon spirit dispelled the black mist and prevented him from taking control of the Scythe of Judgment.
• Kong used Shadow Mimicry Technique as Ling Qing dodged and interrupted it with Judgment, whose blade light triggered its shattering effect and cut Kong’s hair.
• Ling Qing nearly stepped into Kong’s shadow while attacking, escaped with his Second Soul Skill, and both fighters continued cautiously as the battle stalled.

Li Qing defeated Yan by evading his attacks until Yan exhausted his Soul Power, then accepted Yan’s challenge to fight again head-on in two days. At Spirit Hall Academy, Li Qing learned that his victory had spread among the students and began Mimicry Cultivation in an environment filled with weapons and Killing Aura.

• Yan activated his Granite Rock skill, but Li Qing evaded his attacks with Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track and let him waste Soul Power chasing him.
• After twenty minutes, Yan unleashed Blazing Flame Ray, and Li Qing used Instant Hell Shadowless Slash to defeat him; Yan admitted he was unconvinced but accepted Li Qing’s offer of a rematch in two days.
• Yan returned to his dormitory, recognized that he had misused his strengths and underestimated Li Qing, and vowed to show his true strength in their next fight.
• At afternoon class, Li Qing heard that his victory and thousand-year spirit ring were being discussed; Hu Liena’s seductive voice made him uncomfortable.
• A teacher led Li Qing to a weapon-filled Mimicry Cultivation area, where the surrounding blood qi and Killing Aura made his blood churn.

Li Qing spent the day practicing Water Walking on the river behind Nuo Lan Academy and finally learned to walk, run, and jump across the water. That evening, he met Xiao Wu and Tang San in the cafeteria and compared their Soul Power levels.

• Li Qing completed his morning workout, then went to the river to practice controlling Chakra through his feet.
• Li Qing repeatedly fell into the river while learning how much Chakra he needed to support himself and balance on the water.
• After nearly six hours of practice, Li Qing mastered Water Walking and completed the second stage of Spiraling Sphere training.
• Li Qing joined Xiao Wu and Tang San for dinner and explained that Water Walking improved control over Soul Power.
• Tang San said he had reached level fifteen, Li Qing said he was also level fifteen, and Xiao Wu announced that she was level sixteen.

Li Qing cultivated in the Myriad Soldiers Extreme Domain and, through enlightenment, evolved his Slaughter Domain into its complete version. When the new school week began, Yu Shaofei brought the class to the training field for interclass sparring, where Faco healed Li Qing.

• Mo Yu led Li Qing to an underground private room, where he trained by gradually increasing the Killing Aura and contemplating the meaning of weapons and slaughter.
• On the third day, Li Qing entered enlightenment and understood that slaughter was good when used to protect others and evil when done for its own sake.
• Li Qing's Judgment Scythe resonated, and his prototype Slaughter Domain evolved into the complete version, which strengthened him and allies while suppressing opponents.
• Li Qing finished his three days of cultivation and returned to class, where Yu Shaofei led the students to the training field for interclass sparring.
• Faco healed Li Qing with his Soul Power, and Li Qing thanked him, prompting the other students to do the same.

Li Qing bought rare metals and asked Blacksmith Master Ren Yuan to forge his mech armor, explaining how powered armor differed from traditional armor. Ren Yuan was so inspired by Li Qing’s explanation that he broke through a cultivation bottleneck.

• Liu Dabao took Li Qing to the Blacksmith Association’s second floor, where Li Qing selected Azure Spirit Gold, Spirit Illusion Dark Iron, and Mithril.
• Liu Dabao brought Li Qing to meet Blacksmith Master Ren Yuan, whom Li Qing asked to forge the armor shown in his blueprints.
• Ren Yuan questioned why Li Qing wanted armor that seemed impractical for a Soul Master, and Li Qing explained that mech armor had its own power system.
• Li Qing spoke about mech armor and its potential for an hour, inspiring Ren Yuan to break through from level sixty-nine.

Ling Ren joined Nuo Lan Academy after Li Qing and his companions arranged a work-study position for him. At a dormitory gathering, Ling Ren discovered he could not see Li Qing’s soul, and Xiao Wu volunteered to be examined next.

• Ling Ren bid farewell to his parents’ gravestone, and the group returned to Nuo Lan Academy.
• Tang San told Master about Ling Ren, while Xiao Wu asked Xiao Chenyu for help; Xiao Chenyu arranged a work-study position for Ling Ren.
• The Seven Dormitory residents held a welcome gathering, where Ling Ren revealed that purifying undead spirits raised his Soul Power to level seventeen.
• Ling Ren used the Book of the Dead to examine Li Qing but could not see his soul, leaving both of them confused.
• Xiao Wu asked Ling Ren to examine her soul next.

Ling Qing, Tang San, and Ling Ren dealt with the unconscious mercenaries and prepared to leave the Soul Hunting Forest after Ling Ren gained his second Soul Skill. When the mercenary groups blocked the forest’s only exit, the three masked men walked straight toward them.

• Ling Qing searched the unconscious men, finding a few coins and banknotes hidden in their shoes.
• Ling Ren finished absorbing his Soul Ring and gained Soul Roar, a skill that instilled spiritual fear and weakened opponents.
• Ling Ren checked the eight men for resentment; Ling Qing killed those with heavy resentment, crippled others, and spared Cai Xukuan and three more men.
• Ling Qing warned Cai Xukuan not to do evil again, then left with Tang San and Ling Ren.
• The three avoided the Brute Bear Mercenary Group and the Shadow Mercenary Group until they found the groups blocking the Soul Hunting Forest’s only exit.
• Ling Qing, Tang San, and Ling Ren put on their masks and strode out, drawing the mercenary groups’ attention.

Li Qing discovered that the Tumbled Stone Forest formed a Sealing Magic Array and analyzed it to find its central eye. When he channeled Soul Power into the central Stone Pillar, a pitch-black opening appeared beneath him, startling Liu Lin.

• Li Qing compared the runes on several Stone Pillars and found that most carried identical patterns resembling runes from Ling Ren's Book of the Dead.
• Li Qing realized the pillars' arrangement formed a Sealing Magic Array and used the Replication Eye to analyze it.
• Li Qing spent the afternoon and evening analyzing the array, then identified the tallest Stone Pillar at the forest's center as its eye.
• Li Qing reached the central Stone Pillar and channeled Soul Power into it, causing a pitch-black opening to appear beneath his feet.
• Liu Lin woke with a look of shock when the opening appeared.

After Tang San absorbed a millennium spirit ring and gained a new ability, Ling Qing, Tang San, and Ling Ren continued searching the forest for suitable Spirit Beasts. When an unseen beast evaded their detection and blocked their escape, they finally got a clear look at it.

• Ling Qing buried Zheng Shuo, then guarded Tang San while he absorbed a millennium spirit ring; Tang San gained two Soul Power levels and the Parasite skill, along with invisible energy-absorbing Spores.
• Ling Qing, Tang San, and Ling Ren traveled deeper into the forest, but after three days they found no Spirit Beasts suitable for Ling Qing or Ling Ren and debated whether to approach the dangerous central region.
• A Spirit Beast roared nearby without appearing to Ling Qing’s mental detection or Sharingan, so Ling Qing told the others to retreat if anything went wrong.
• Ling Qing, Tang San, and Ling Ren fled when the creature roared closer, but it appeared directly in their path; Tang San pulled Ling Ren back with Blue Silver Grass.
• The three finally saw the Spirit Beast clearly.

Ling Qing discovered that Ling Ren was rapidly losing his hair and devised a plan with Tang San and Xiao Wu to ease his worries and encourage him. The plan began with praise for Ling Ren’s training progress, then moved toward a staged reveal intended to show him how strong his body had become.

• Ling Qing found Ling Ren collecting his fallen hairs and realized he had lost a tenth of his hair in just over ten days.
• Ling Qing told Tang San and Xiao Wu about Ling Ren’s balding, and they laughed before helping him devise a rescue plan.
• Ling Qing praised Ling Ren’s running progress and suggested he would soon teach him cultivation methods.
• Ling Qing praised Ling Ren’s muscles and credited his physique to his own perseverance, while privately trying to ease his guilt.
• Xiao Wu spilled water on Ling Ren’s clothes, and Tang San told him to change outside, setting up the plan’s next step.

Ling Qing sparred with Tang San and won after using his evolved Sharingan and a mental attack. At the village entrance, Ling Ren excitedly told Ling Qing that he had succeeded in cultivating the method Ling Qing taught him.

• Ling Qing used his Sharingan to track Tang San during their spar, but his first prediction missed when Tang San changed his speed.
• Ling Qing and Tang San exchanged attacks until Ling Qing used a shout to distract Tang San and struck him with Mental Shock.
• Tang San was stunned for only 0.3 seconds by Ling Qing's mental attack, and Ling Qing reached his face before he recovered, winning the spar.
• Ling Qing told Tang San that his eyes had evolved and that the mental attack came from his second Martial Soul.
• Xiao Wu urged Ling Qing and Tang San to return, and they encountered an excited Ling Ren at the village entrance.
• Ling Ren told Ling Qing that he had succeeded in cultivating the method Ling Qing taught him, leaving Ling Qing shocked.

Ling Qing challenged Tang San to a sparring match to test his recent progress and combat projection screen. Their fight began on a mountaintop, where Ling Qing used his strength and Spirit Shield Skin to counter Tang San’s techniques and struck him with a headbutt.

• Ling Qing went to the blacksmith shop and asked Tang San to spar, but Xiao Wu volunteered before Tang San agreed to fight.
• Ling Qing, Tang San, and Xiao Wu went to a mountaintop, where Ling Qing removed the iron weights from his legs and chose to fight without his Scythe of Severance.
• Ling Qing opened with a punch, and Tang San blocked it with his jade-white left hand.
• Ling Qing grabbed Tang San and tried to fling him, but Tang San used Blue Silver Grass to break free and attack.
• Ling Qing seized the vines, swung himself behind Tang San, and hit him in the back with a Rocket Headbutt.

Li Qing fought Gulu with the fourth Inner Gate open, using his speed and scythe to wound the Abyss goblin. Gulu transformed into a faster, stronger form and attacked, while Li Qing evaded with his second soul skill.

• Li Qing opened the fourth of the Eight Inner Gates and blocked Gulu's spinning claw attacks with the Scythe of Severance.
• Li Qing hurled Gulu into the air and used Instant Hell Shadowless Slash to strike him repeatedly, drawing green blood.
• Gulu erupted with power and transformed into a larger, more muscular form with curved claws and enormous fangs.
• Gulu rushed at Li Qing at nearly twice his former speed, and Li Qing used his second soul skill to vanish from the attack.

Ling Qing’s Slaughter Domain resisted Ling Wu’s escalating Soul Power pressure until a golden vortex inside Ling Qing began absorbing energy uncontrollably. With Ling Wu’s help, Ling Qing stabilized the vortex, broke through to Level 26, and left Ling Wu weakened but curious about the phenomenon.

• Ling Wu increased his Soul Power pressure to Level 44, forcing Ling Qing’s embryonic Slaughter Domain to cling to his body as Ling Qing neared his limit.
• The golden vortex in Ling Qing’s dantian suddenly absorbed Soul Power and Chakra from his body and the surrounding area, prompting Ling Wu to stop his pressure.
• Ling Qing sat down to control the vortex, and Ling Wu used his Soul Power to stabilize it while instructing Ling Qing to compress its energy.
• Ling Qing stabilized the enlarged golden energy mass and broke through the Level 25 bottleneck to reach Level 26.
• Ling Wu withdrew his hand, weakened by the effort, and said he could not yet explain what had happened; Ling Qing thanked him with a deep bow.

Ling Qing resisted the woman in white’s charm, but she ensnared him with black energy chains until Liu Lin arrived and freed him. Liu Lin led Ling Qing out of the stone forest without explaining the woman’s identity or their history.

• The woman in white tried to charm Ling Qing, but his sapphire-blue pendant restored his focus and he ran away from her.
• The woman in white sent a black energy chain after Ling Qing, and he broke it with the Scythe of Severance.
• The woman in white formed five chains that bound Ling Qing and dragged him toward her.
• Liu Lin arrived and burned away the chains with a flame, freeing Ling Qing.
• The woman in white taunted Liu Lin about revenge, and Liu Lin led Ling Qing outside to talk.

Ling Qing, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Ling Ren returned to Holy Soul Village, where Tang San learned that Tang Hao had left. After dinner, Ling Qing and Ling Ren encountered a strange figure outside their house in the middle of the night.

• Ling Qing and Tang San reached Holy Soul Village with Xiao Wu and Ling Ren, and Old Jack welcomed them home.
• Old Jack told Tang San that Tang Hao had left and handed him a message, leaving Tang San disappointed.
• Ling Qing and Ling Ren returned to their shabby home, while Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Ling Ren shared a meal cooked by Ling Qing.
• Ling Qing reassured Tang San about Tang Hao and claimed he had seen Tang Hao secretly watching Tang San at the blacksmith shop.
• A noise on the roof woke Ling Qing and Ling Ren, who rushed outside and saw a black figure hanging upside down from a tree.

Li Qing cultivated in the Myriad Soldiers Extreme Domain, where his Slaughter Domain blocked the Killing Aura and gradually grew as he advanced into the middle region. The headmaster granted him permission to cultivate there beyond regular classes, and the chapter ended as he and Yan prepared for their rematch.

• Mo Yu warned Li Qing about the dangerous Killing Aura and the limits of each region in the Myriad Soldiers Extreme Domain.
• Li Qing summoned his Judgment sickle, suppressing nearby students’ Martial Souls, while Mo Yu sensed Li Qing’s Slaughter Domain.
• Li Qing withdrew his Domain and advanced into the middle region, adapting to the Killing Aura and gradually moving closer to Xie Yue’s position.
• Li Qing’s Slaughter Domain began to develop during cultivation, and Mo Yu decided to report the discovery to Liu Qianxin.
• Liu Qianxin confirmed that Li Qing had formed a Domain and allowed him to cultivate in the Myriad Soldiers Extreme Domain outside regular classes.
• Li Qing and Yan met for their rematch after class, with their classmates following to watch.

Li Qing and Yan faced Xie Yue, Hu Liena, Sun Chuantao, and Xu Yu in a two-against-four match, relying on offense to overcome the opposing team’s control and support. Li Qing eliminated Xu Yu and countered Sun Chuantao’s attack, while Yan remained locked in a fight with Xie Yue and Hu Liena.

• Xie Yue asked Yu Shaofei to let his group and Nana's group face Li Qing and Yan, but Yu Shaofei refused, so the four students prepared to fight them together.
• Li Qing told Yan to target Hu Liena and Xu Yu while he handled the rest, and both sides released their martial souls when Yu Shaofei began the match.
• Yan charged forward and endured Xie Yue’s blade attacks, but Xu Yu enhanced Xie Yue’s weapons and halted Yan’s advance.
• Li Qing used Instant Prison and Shadowless Slash to appear beside Xu Yu and force him out of the match.
• Without Xu Yu’s support, Yan pushed toward Hu Liena while Sun Chuantao attacked Li Qing, who evaded him with Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track and taunted him.
• After Sun Chuantao insulted his family, Li Qing stopped dodging, caught the Ringed Great Blade through its circular opening with his Scythe of Judgment, and redirected it toward Sun Chuantao.

Ling Qing struggled with whether to interfere with Qian Renxue’s plans, then accepted a mission from her and traveled toward Heaven Dou City with Wu Jian. The chapter ended after their group spent thirteen days on the road, with Ling Qing cooking for Qian Renxue while Huang Wenxin and others traveled ahead under the shadow of Ling Qing’s wanted notice.

• Ling Qing asked Qian Renxue whether she planned to make her next move against the Heaven Dou Royal Family, and she confirmed the plan while telling him to focus on cultivating and giving him a mission.
• Qian Renxue left for Heaven Dou City with Ailaso, and Ling Qing wondered whether he himself could change the future.
• Xue Ye’s selected banquet chefs departed Kus City, including Huang Wenxin, who worried about Ling Qing’s wanted notice; Liu Lin declined to join them and left the city.
• Ling Qing, still wanted for poisoning and Gu Xiang’s death, followed the group toward Heaven Dou City with Wu Jian, who made him walk as endurance training.
• During the thirteen-day journey, Ling Qing cooked meals for Qian Renxue because she said his food had spoiled her palate.