Chapter Summaries

Xiao Tianyang uncovered Ghost Demon’s attempt to use blood and a Remnant Soul to break through his limits, then led his Soul Beasts in attacking the hidden enemy. After Ghost Demon was captured, Xiao Tianyang revealed that he had taken Ghost Demon’s Remnant Soul, and Ghost Demon recognized him as Shenwu Rakshasa.

• Xiao Tianyang pieced together the clues and sent Dragon Ghost to deliver a top-secret telegram to Mingzhu.
• Xiao Tianyang led everyone back to the valley’s center and ordered Big White to smash through the ground, exposing Ghost Demon.
• Xiao Long'e, Dragon Ghost, Dragon Peng, and the others attacked Ghost Demon until he fell wounded on the ice.
• Xiao Tianyang confronted Ghost Demon and explained that he had exposed his attempt to use blood and a Remnant Soul to break through his limits.
• Ghost Demon recognized Xiao Tianyang as Shenwu Rakshasa after Xiao Tianyang reminded him that his Remnant Soul had been taken.

Xiao Tianyang killed Ghost Demon's clone in the Extreme North and revealed that he had uncovered Ghost Demon's scheme to heal his injuries and break through using blood and Remnant Souls. He led his group to rendezvous with Lobster, while Ghost Demon's severely injured main body remained trapped in seclusion and unable to flee safely.

• Xiao Tianyang explained that Ghost Demon had split his main body into two clones, and Big White beheaded the clone after Xiao Tianyang declared that he would come for Ghost Demon's main body.
• Xiao Tianyang ordered the corpse burned and led his group to meet Lobster, assuring Dragon Ghost that Ghost Demon's main body could not escape before they arrived.
• Xiao Tianyang reasoned that Ghost Demon had incited slaughter to gather blood and Remnant Souls, hoping to recover from his injuries and break through his limits.
• Xiao Tianyang recalled that Ghost Demon had plotted against his own people and decided he had to die before he could threaten Xiao Tianyang or those around him.
• Ghost Demon remained severely injured and hidden, knowing that fighting Xiao Tianyang or fleeing into Lobster's reach could get him killed.

At the Immovable Ice Mountain, Xiao Tianyang told his Spirit Beast Legion that their enemy had to die today and sent them to force him out. Big White’s strike cracked open the mountain, revealing Ghost Demon, while Dragon Peng organized the team’s attack.

• Xiao Tianyang gathered Big White and the others, declared his grudge against the enemy, and ordered them to force him out while he watched.
• Big White used the Sawtooth Blade to slash toward the Immovable Ice Mountain, opening a crack at its base.
• Dragon Ghost sensed a figure moving inside the crack and warned the others that Ghost Demon was emerging.
• Dragon Peng assigned Big White to lead the attack, arranged support and retreat-blocking roles, and prepared Dragon Ghost for a possible one-strike kill.

Xiao Tianyang captured Ghost Demon, whose parasitic Martial Soul let him transfer fatal injuries to a host, and revealed that he had already arranged for Bo Saixi to hunt the demon's other doppelgänger. Bo Saixi found and killed the doppelgänger in the southern sea, recognizing the plan as Xiao Tianyang's style.

• Xiao Tianyang explained that Ghost Demon's Ghost Demon Scarecrow Martial Soul could hide parasites in hosts and transfer fatal injuries to them.
• Xiao Tianyang confronted the captured Ghost Demon, who relied on another doppelgänger, and revealed that someone in his territory was already pursuing it.
• Bo Saixi flew on Xiao Tianyang's Soaring Cloud Flying Sword to the southern sea and located Ghost Demon's injured doppelgänger.
• Bo Saixi attacked the doppelgänger and killed him, then remarked that the plan seemed like Xiao Tianyang's style.

Ghost Demon escaped just as Xiao Tianyang was about to kill him, leaving Xiao Tianyang furious and worried that the fugitive might threaten Divine Might. Xiao Tianyang sent Big White and the others to hunt Ghost Demon down and vowed that he would die wherever he fled.

• Xiao Tianyang realized that Bo Saixi had dealt with Ghost Demon's other avatar and prepared to kill Ghost Demon's main body.
• As Xiao Tianyang swung his blade, Dragon Peng and Dragon Ghost reacted to a sudden danger, but Ghost Demon escaped using a technique that injured two figures and left blood on Xiao Tianyang's face.
• Xiao Tianyang ordered Big White and the others to search within a little over a hundred kilometers and bring back Ghost Demon's head.
• Big White and the others dispersed to hunt Ghost Demon while Xiao Tianyang remained behind, concerned that Ghost Demon might target Divine Might.
• Xiao Tianyang vowed that Ghost Demon would die even if he fled to the ends of the earth or another planet.

After Ghost Demon’s defeat, Xiao Tianyang received a delayed quest reward and ordered Dragon Peng’s team to purge the remaining Evil Soul Masters in the Extreme North. The region returned to normal, and Xiao Tianyang resumed his routine while the Heaven Sealing Stone’s unexplained reward remained on his mind.

• Dragon Peng returned first, and Xiao Tianyang learned that completing [Wolfish Ambition] would reveal the coordinates of a Heaven Sealing Stone within a month.
• Dragon Peng presented seven Soul Bones recovered from the Demonic Cult’s Third Elder, and Xiao Tianyang ordered them stored away.
• Xiao Tianyang assigned Dragon Peng, Lobster, Dragon Armor, Dragon Blade, and Long Yi to hunt Evil Soul Masters in the Extreme North.
• The team hunted down hidden Evil Soul Masters while the Snow Empress and Ice Empress expanded their treatment efforts and restored the region to normal.
• Xiao Tianyang returned to his usual routine and began giving combat lessons to Xiao Longyu and the other humanoid Soul Beasts.

Xiao Tianyang considered how to use his new Void Shuttle Beast Soul Bone while the Extreme North settled after the Evil Soul Masters’ defeat. Snow Empress and Ice Empress visited him and questioned whether Big White and the others were truly Soul Beasts rebuilding themselves.

• Xiao Tianyang reviewed his rewards, including three Exotic Fire Martial Souls and a roughly six-hundred-thousand-year-old Void Shuttle Beast Left Leg Bone with two spatial skills.
• After spending days trying to devise tactics that combined the Soul Bone with his other abilities, Xiao Tianyang received Snow Empress and Ice Empress in his cave.
• Xiao Tianyang asked whether the Extreme North had faced any new trouble, and Snow Empress said it had returned to normal after repeated inspections.
• Ice Empress said Big White and the others lacked the Martial Soul and Soul Ring traits expected of Soul Beasts rebuilding themselves.

Xiao Tianyang explained that the transformed members of the Spirit Beast Legion were still Soul Beasts and revealed that a Humanoid Transformation Pill had let them skip the usual cultivation process. The Snow Empress and Ice Empress learned why they had not yet acquired soul rings, but Xiao Tianyang had not explained that choice by the chapter’s end.

• The Ice Empress asked how the Spirit Beast Legion’s members had become human, but the Snow Empress stopped her from pressing Xiao Tianyang for details.
• Xiao Tianyang decided he could trust the Snow Empress and Ice Empress with the secret and said the Spirit Beast Legion already knew about it.
• Xiao Tianyang showed the sisters a Humanoid Transformation Pill and explained that it could let a Soul Beast skip rebuilding itself through cultivation.
• The Ice Empress described the usual transformation and cultivation process, and Xiao Tianyang confirmed her explanation.
• The Snow Empress asked why the transformed Soul Beasts had not acquired soul rings, and Xiao Tianyang said they had followed his suggestion.

Xiao Tianyang explained that Soul Beasts should build on their natural strengths rather than imitate human combat styles, then outlined a training plan for them. Snow Empress and Ice Empress heard the plan, while Soul Beasts across Deep Pool Fortress responded to his speech with a show of support.

• Xiao Tianyang asked Snow Empress to compare the strengths of humans and Soul Beasts, then argued that Soul Beasts should use their own advantages instead of copying humans.
• Xiao Tianyang's speech inspired the Soul Beasts outside the cave, who knelt toward him and shouted in unison at Deep Pool Fortress.
• Xiao Tianyang explained that the training plan would cover defense, endurance, stamina, Combat Skill, and specialization.
• Xiao Tianyang distinguished Combat Skills from Soul Skills and described how Soul Beasts could specialize according to their strengths while improving their weaknesses.
• Xiao Tianyang offered Snow Empress and Ice Empress his notes and invited them to stay for lessons.

Xiao Tianyang taught Snow Empress and Ice Empress a new lesson, then spent three hours giving them extra guidance. He let the sisters stay in his cave to cultivate, where Snow Empress secretly watched him as he entered meditation and Ice Empress fretted over her Humanoid Transformation Pill.

• Snow Empress and Ice Empress agreed to cultivate in seclusion after returning, and Xiao Tianyang began a new lesson suited to their understanding.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress quickly followed the lesson and raised incisive questions that impressed Xiao Tianyang.
• After class, the sisters returned to the cave, where Xiao Tianyang answered their questions for three hours.
• Xiao Tianyang invited the sisters to stay and cultivate in the cave, then entered a deep meditative state.
• Ice Empress noticed Snow Empress staring at Xiao Tianyang, while Snow Empress urged her to keep quiet and reminded her that he might take back her Humanoid Transformation Pill.

Ice Empress impulsively swallowed the Humanoid Transformation Pill and became a human young lady, while Snow Empress teased her about her haste and her questions about Xiao Tianyang. Snow Empress then took her own pill and transformed, leaving both sisters in human forms as Snow Empress’s growing feelings for Xiao Tianyang remained unspoken.

• Ice Empress swallowed the Humanoid Transformation Pill and immediately transformed into a human young lady.
• Snow Empress scolded Ice Empress for taking the pill impulsively, and Ice Empress teased Snow Empress about staring at Xiao Tianyang.
• Snow Empress avoided Ice Empress’s questions, while her thoughts revealed that she had begun to feel drawn to Xiao Tianyang.
• Snow Empress gazed at Xiao Tianyang, swallowed her own Humanoid Transformation Pill, and transformed into a more refined human form.

Snow Empress and Ice Empress sensed a powerful presence descending on the continent, and Xiao Tianyang connected it to the Heaven Sealing Stone and a new Million Year Spirit Beast. The system triggered the [Tyrant] mission and granted Xiao Tianyang advance rewards, while his allies left the cave to protect him and secure the surrounding area.

• Snow Empress and Ice Empress sensed that something extraordinary had fallen onto the continent, and Snow Empress recalled a similar aura appearing in the southern ocean thirty-two years earlier.
• Xiao Tianyang concluded that another Million Year Spirit Beast had emerged, likely because of the Heaven Sealing Stone, and the system triggered the [Tyrant] mission to stop the destructive Soul Beast.
• The system issued Xiao Tianyang advance rewards, healing his injuries, increasing his Soul Power cultivation by seven levels, and granting him an eighth Soul Ring.
• Xiao Longyu led Big White and the others out of the cave after confirming Xiao Tianyang was strengthening himself, and they prepared to protect him without disturbing him.

Xiao Tianyang reached level eighty after the system’s boost and used its compensation to create a custom million-year Soul Ring with two enhancement skills. As he began absorbing it, the ring’s immense pressure overwhelmed Ice Empress, Snow Empress, and many of the guards outside the cave.

• Xiao Longyu told Ice Empress and Snow Empress to stay behind, and Snow Empress suspected that the sensations from thirty-two years earlier and now were both caused by million-year Spirit Beasts.
• Xiao Tianyang’s strength rose steadily for three hours until the system stopped boosting him at level eighty.
• Xiao Tianyang chose custom all-around enhancement Soul Skills, one powerful but brief and one weaker but longer-lasting, as compensation for the system error.
• The system created a one-million-year Soul Ring, and Xiao Tianyang chose to endure its painful absorption so he could adapt to the changes in his body.
• The Soul Ring’s pressure battered Ice Empress and Snow Empress and knocked half of the Soul Beast guards outside the cave to the ground.

Xiao Tianyang absorbed the Million Year Spirit Ring, gained new abilities and a Void Shuttle Beast left leg bone, and emerged in a newly transformed body. After showing Snow Empress and Ice Empress preserved Spirit Rings, he prepared to leave for a dangerous battle against the newly born million year Soul Beast.

• Xiao Tianyang completed his advancement, gained three minor Soul Power levels, two Eighth Spirit Ring skills, and the Void Shuttle Beast Left Leg Bone.
• Ice Empress remarked that Xiao Tianyang had gained a masculine scent, and Snow Empress asked whether he was a Soul Beast who had rebuilt his cultivation.
• Xiao Tianyang denied being a rebuilt Soul Beast and showed the sisters Crystal Balls containing preserved Spirit Rings.
• Xiao Tianyang invited Snow Empress and Ice Empress to keep cultivating and use his books while he was away.
• Ice Empress asked to accompany Xiao Tianyang, but he refused because the battle ahead was too dangerous, and Snow Empress understood that he intended to confront the newly born million year Soul Beast.

Xiao Tianyang prepared to leave Deep Pool Fortress for the Central Plains and gave Snow Empress and Ice Empress swords and manuals suited to their fighting styles. After teasing Ice Empress and sharing an awkwardly tender moment with Snow Empress, he left the sisters to practice.

• Xiao Tianyang told Xiao Longyu to leave two people guarding Deep Pool Fortress and take the strongest Soul Beasts south with him.
• Xiao Tianyang gave Snow Empress the Floating Snow sword and Ice Empress the Ice Soul sword, along with manuals for their swordsmanship.
• Snow Empress thanked Xiao Tianyang and nearly bowed, but he took her hand and stopped her, leaving them in an awkwardly intimate moment.
• Ice Empress interrupted them, then became embarrassed when Xiao Tianyang teased her about her chest and pointed her sword at him.
• Xiao Tianyang caught Ice Empress's blade between two fingers, advised the sisters to keep practicing, and left.

Xiao Tianyang took Big White and the others aboard the Somersault Cloud and headed for the Star Dou Great Forest to confront a million-year Soul Beast. Dragon Peng identified their enemy as the Purgatory Tyrant and began explaining its history, leaving Xiao Tianyang to wonder whether it had caused the forest’s enormous decline.

• Xiao Tianyang gathered Big White and the others on the Somersault Cloud and warned them to hold on as it sped toward the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xiao Tianyang explained that they faced a million-year Soul Beast and would have no geographical advantage in the coming battle.
• Dragon Peng recognized the enemy as the Purgatory Tyrant and warned that the fight would be exceptionally difficult.
• Big White dismissed the threat, but Xiao Tianyang rebuked it and asked Dragon Peng to explain what he knew.
• Dragon Peng said the Star Dou Great Forest had once been much larger and filled with powerful beings, prompting Xiao Tianyang to suspect that the Purgatory Tyrant had caused its decline.

Dragon Peng told Xiao Tianyang that the Purgatory Tyrant had once led a devastating war, though it did not know how the conflict ended. As the group reached their destination, Xiao Tianyang prepared to face the Tyrant and ordered everyone else to keep its subordinates from interfering.

• Dragon Peng explained that the Purgatory Tyrant had commanded powerful Soul Beasts in a war that devastated much of the Star Dou Great Forest, but admitted it knew nothing about the war’s conclusion.
• Xiao Tianyang concluded that the Purgatory Tyrant had fought an opposing force and that the history of the conflict had been deliberately erased after some agreement with humanity.
• Xiao Tianyang reflected that he had used books to teach Big White to treat fighting as competition rather than slaughter, and decided he needed to guide it instead of letting it imitate his own path.
• The group reached their destination before Xiao Tianyang could resolve every uncertainty, though he had estimated the Purgatory Tyrant’s past and potential strength.
• Xiao Tianyang ordered everyone to await his instructions and keep the Purgatory Tyrant’s former subordinates from interfering in his battle, and the others agreed.

Xiao Tianyang found Da Ming and Er Ming fighting five Soul Beasts near the lake where the [Heaven Sealing Stone] was supposed to land. He sent Dragon Peng and Lobster to rescue them and draw out the Purgatory Tyrant, and the chapter ended as Lobster charged into the surrounding forest.

• Dragon Ghost spotted fighting ahead, and Xiao Tianyang used his Mental Power to identify Da Ming and Er Ming among the combatants.
• Xiao Tianyang ordered Dragon Peng and Lobster to attack the five Soul Beasts, hoping to protect his friends and draw out the Purgatory Tyrant.
• Dragon Peng and Lobster struck the enemies, blasting three powerful Soul Beasts away and breaking through the others' attacks.
• Da Ming and Er Ming were bewildered by their rescuers, whom they could identify as neither humans nor Soul Beasts.
• As movement stirred in the bushes, Dragon Peng told Da Ming and Er Ming to leave, then split up with Lobster to search the area.
• Lobster charged into the forest with his meteor hammer, flattening trees and shattering boulders in a huge explosion.

Xiao Tianyang confronted the million-year Soul Beast Purgatory Tyrant, which had taken the mysterious stone that had helped it break through. After Purgatory Tyrant refused to give it up, Xiao Tianyang attacked, and their battle began.

• Da Ming ordered Er Ming to retreat from the battlefield, sensing danger around them since the stone fell from the sky.
• Xiao Tianyang unleashed his aura and struck the forest, forcing the hidden Purgatory Tyrant to reveal itself.
• Xiao Tianyang identified Purgatory Tyrant as a million-year Soul Beast and recognized the multicolored stone it carried as his item.
• Purgatory Tyrant refused to return the stone, saying it had enabled its breakthrough and belonged to whoever found it.
• Xiao Tianyang drew the Congyun Blade and attacked Purgatory Tyrant with Invincible, beginning their fight.

Xiao Tianyang used a powerful slash and the Purgatory Tyrant’s pride to expose its weakness, then struck it down with a concealed attack. The wounded Purgatory Tyrant was left furious over Xiao Tianyang’s tricks, setting the stage for their fight to continue.

• Xiao Tianyang judged that his strengthened slash could force the Purgatory Tyrant to reveal its strength, though it probably could not wound it.
• The Purgatory Tyrant took Xiao Tianyang’s first slash rather than dodge, and Xiao Tianyang noticed its hands trembling.
• Xiao Tianyang followed with “Break the Cauldrons and Sink the Boats,” while the Purgatory Tyrant attacked with magma chains that Xiao Tianyang’s defenses and Congyun Blade defeated.
• Xiao Tianyang used Void Blink to close in and slash the Purgatory Tyrant, sending it crashing to the ground and leaving it badly wounded.
• The Purgatory Tyrant roared in anger because Xiao Tianyang had exploited its personality weaknesses with two traps.