Chapter Summaries

Han Yuchen received a reward from Ma Xiunuo that included a clue to a Soul Fragment in the Star Dou Great Forest, then prepared to leave Nuoding Academy in search of it and a second soul ring. He said goodbye to Tang San and Xiao Wu and set off on his new journey.

• Sisi delivered Ma Xiunuo's thanks to Han Yuchen, along with a Condensing Jade Grass and a burned parchment map marked with a clue to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Han Yuchen's Star Atlas resonated with a symbol on the parchment, revealing a clue to the next Soul Fragment, and he gave half the herb to Tang San.
• Han Yuchen startled Xiao Wu by joking that she was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, making her fear that he had discovered her identity.
• Han Yuchen told Yu Xiaogang he would leave Nuoding Academy, and Yu Xiaogang gave him a map of the Star Dou Great Forest's outer regions.
• A week later, Han Yuchen said goodbye to Tang San and Xiao Wu at the academy gates and departed for the Star Dou Great Forest.

Han Yuchen reached Maple Forest Town, where the Luo Family’s servants were extorting the Liu family and trying to take Liu Yan away. After watching the attack unfold, he finished his meal and prepared to act.

• Han Yuchen traveled toward the Star Dou Great Forest and learned that the Luo Family had made Maple Forest Town oppressive and unsafe.
• Han Yuchen entered the nearly deserted Liu Family Inn and observed Shopkeeper Liu and his daughter, Liu Yan.
• Steward Luo demanded double protection money from Shopkeeper Liu and threatened to take Liu Yan to the Luo Family’s young master.
• Liu Yan struck Steward Luo’s hand away, and Shopkeeper Liu refused to surrender his daughter.
• Steward Luo ordered his servants to seize Liu Yan, and they knocked Shopkeeper Liu to the ground as Han Yuchen finished eating and calmly set down his tea.

Han Yuchen secretly used water and Soul Power to stop Steward Luo from attacking Liu Yan, forcing him and his servants to retreat. Liu Yan suspected Han Yuchen was responsible and confronted him, demanding to know who he was.

• As a Luo Family servant reached for Liu Yan, Han Yuchen flicked a drop of tea onto his wrist and numbed his hand.
• Steward Luo lunged at Liu Yan, but Han Yuchen covertly sent a thread of water at his ankle and made him fall face-first.
• Steward Luo blamed the inn, threatened Shopkeeper Liu that his young master would come tomorrow, and left with his servants.
• Shopkeeper Liu thanked Han Yuchen, while Liu Yan studied his actions and grew suspicious.
• Liu Yan sat at Han Yuchen's table and asked whether he had caused the strange incidents and who he was.

Liu Yan revealed that the Luo Family was targeting her family’s inn to seize a hidden ancestral cellar, and Han Yuchen agreed to help in exchange for the strange black crystal inside. After claiming the crystal, Han Yuchen prepared to face the Luo Family as their Young Master Luo Tian arrived at the inn the next morning.

• Liu Yan told Han Yuchen that the Luo Family wanted the inn because of something hidden beneath it, and asked him to help protect her family.
• Han Yuchen agreed to help only after seeing the cellar and its contents, so Liu Yan led him there at midnight.
• Han Yuchen sensed that the black crystal in the ancestral iron box was a corrupted creation of Solonsen and a valuable source for the Star Atlas.
• Han Yuchen took the crystal as payment and promised to settle the Luo Family’s problem before sunset the next day.
• Young Master Luo Tian arrived at the inn in the morning with men who shouted for the Liu Family to come out.

Han Yuchen effortlessly reflected Luo Tian’s powerful attack, breaking his arm and sending him crashing out of the inn. After revealing his thousand-year First Spirit Ring, Han Yuchen waited calmly for Luo Tian’s father to arrive and settle the matter.

• Luo Tian brought his servants to the Liu Family Inn and ordered them to kill Han Yuchen.
• Luo Tian charged Han Yuchen with his Giant Bear Charge, but Han Yuchen’s Restraint skill nullified the attack and reflected it at twice its power.
• Luo Tian broke his arm and was hurled out of the inn, while his servants and the townspeople watched in shock.
• Han Yuchen revealed his thousand-year First Spirit Ring, terrifying Luo Tian and his servants.
• Luo Tian sent his servants to fetch his father, and Han Yuchen asked Liu Yan to brew tea while he waited.

Han Yuchen confronted Luo Badao after defeating his son and used the Solonsen Pollution Crystal to threaten the Luo Family into submission. Luo Badao became torn between fear of Spirit Hall and his desire for the crystal, and the chapter ended as he considered killing Han Yuchen and the witnesses.

• Han Yuchen waited at the ruined inn for Luo Badao while Liu Yan and the townsfolk watched him in awe.
• Luo Badao arrived, found his son gravely injured, and challenged Han Yuchen, who said he had disciplined Luo Tian.
• Luo Badao revealed his Soul Ancestor strength and threatened to kill Han Yuchen and the Liu family.
• Han Yuchen showed Luo Badao the Solonsen Pollution Crystal and threatened to report his possession of it to Spirit Hall.
• Han Yuchen demanded half the Luo Family's wealth, an apology to Liu Yan, and the crystal, while Luo Badao considered killing everyone to keep it secret.

Han Yuchen used his Restraint skill to reflect Luo Badao’s fiery attack and kill him, then eliminated the remaining Luo Family thugs. After strengthening his divine soul and First Spirit Ring, he left Maple Forest Town and headed for the Star Dou Great Forest to reclaim his fragment.

• Luo Badao attacked Han Yuchen with Blazing Bear Paw, but Han Yuchen’s Restraint skill nullified the flames and reflected them at 200% power, killing Luo Badao.
• Han Yuchen killed the remaining core Luo Family thugs with Blade of Flowing Water, then collected a black crystal and Luo Badao’s money pouch.
• Han Yuchen absorbed the Solonsen Pollution Crystal, strengthening his divine soul and raising his First Spirit Ring’s age past five thousand years.
• Shopkeeper Liu and Liu Yan thanked Han Yuchen before he left Maple Forest Town, and Liu Yan gave him a hand-sewn sachet.
• Han Yuchen set out toward the Star Dou Great Forest, intending to reclaim his fragment.

Han Yuchen enjoyed a solitary feast beside a stream before a passing caravan was ambushed by bandits. He secretly broke the bandit leader’s bowstring, helping the guards turn the battle, then disappeared into the night.

• Han Yuchen prepared and enjoyed grilled fish and beef in a secluded stream valley.
• A lavish caravan passed by, and a young master mocked Han Yuchen for his plain clothes and humble camp.
• Bandits ambushed the caravan, quickly gaining the advantage over its guards.
• Han Yuchen watched from a tree and used a compressed drop of water to snap the bandit leader’s bowstring as he aimed at the guard captain.
• The captain wounded the bandit leader, the bandits’ formation collapsed, and Han Yuchen slipped away unseen.

Han Yuchen used Yulian to scout the Star Dou Great Forest and discovered that a Soul Master squad had been killed by a camouflaged Soul Devouring Ghost Vine. He identified the vine's abilities and weaknesses, leaving the deadly clearing exposed as a danger he could now handle.

• Han Yuchen entered the Star Dou Great Forest and spread his perception through underground water veins with Yulian.
• Han Yuchen sensed skeletons and rusted weapons in a nearby clearing and approached without revealing himself.
• Han Yuchen noticed that moisture was draining unusually fast beneath the clearing and traced the source to vines wrapped around an ancient tree.
• Han Yuchen tossed Soul-Power-infused roasted beef into the clearing to test the suspected trap.
• The vines attacked and drained the meat, and Han Yuchen identified them as an approximately 130-year-old Soul Devouring Ghost Vine with a weakness to extreme flames and sharp cutting attacks.

Han Yuchen lured a Black-Maned Demonic Pig and an Ironclad Rhinoceros into the Soul Devouring Ghost Vine colony, using them to intensify the battle and create a stronger scent of blood and Soul Power. After the Rhinoceros weakened, he waited to see whether a bigger Soul Beast would take the bait.

• Han Yuchen provoked a 300-Year Black-Maned Demonic Pig with a pebble carrying his aura and lured it into the Soul Devouring Ghost Vine colony.
• The Soul Devouring Ghost Vines overwhelmed the Black-Maned Demonic Pig, gradually draining its strength and Soul Power.
• Han Yuchen provoked an 800-Year Ironclad Rhinoceros and drew it to the clearing, where it attacked the vines to reach the trapped pig.
• The Ironclad Rhinoceros fought the vines for twenty minutes before they pierced its armor and weakened it.
• Han Yuchen decided the blood and Soul Power were enough and extended his perception to wait for a larger Soul Beast.

Han Yuchen manipulated a battle among four soul beasts, then used the Star Atlas to plunder their energy and extract talents. After setting out deeper into the forest toward his Soul Fragment, he found signs of a human soul-hunting party near Star Dou Town.

• Han Yuchen lured the Human-Faced Demon Ape into the fight between the Ironclad Rhinoceros and the Soul Devouring Ghost Vine, triggering a three-way battle.
• The Human-Faced Demon Ape killed the Ironclad Rhinoceros, then died in a self-destructive blast that also destroyed the Soul Devouring Ghost Vine and its mother vine.
• Han Yuchen activated the Star Atlas to plunder the four beasts’ origin energy, extracted Harden, Berserk, and Drain, and enhanced his body and Blade of Flowing Water.
• Han Yuchen headed deeper into the forest, following the pull of his Soul Fragment.
• Han Yuchen detected fresh human traces and identified a nearby party of one Soul Elder and four Soul Grandmasters, near Star Dou Town.

Han Yuchen entered Star Dou Town and used his Yulian Martial Soul to gather information about the eastern district, where he believed his Soul Fragment was located. When Gao Feng and his guards seized the Hunter's Home tavern, Han Yuchen remained behind and faced down a guard who ordered him to leave.

• Han Yuchen surveyed Star Dou Town, disguised himself in black clothes and a conical hat, and entered the Hunter's Home tavern to collect information.
• Han Yuchen used his Yulian Martial Soul to hear conversations throughout the tavern and learned that Gao Feng had claimed the eastern district to hunt a thousand-year Jade Eyed Fox.
• An Old Hunter warned that Ghost Fire and strange cries haunted the eastern district, where two teams had disappeared; Han Yuchen connected the reports to the Soul Fragment marked on his map.
• Gao Feng arrived with eight guards, announced that he had booked the tavern, and ordered everyone to leave within fifteen minutes.
• After the other patrons left, Han Yuchen stayed seated, and a guard struck his table and ordered him out; Han Yuchen calmly set down his cup.

Han Yuchen defeated Gao Feng and his men at Hunter's Home Tavern without revealing his Martial Soul, then left for the eastern district to claim the Jade Fox with Emerald Eyes. News of the mysterious Hat Guest spread through Star Dou Town as he entered the forest alone.

• A Gao Family thug tried to grab Han Yuchen, but Han Yuchen flicked a drop of wine that dislocated the man's wrist and sent him crashing through the tavern.
• Gao Feng confronted Han Yuchen, released his Fierce Flame Lion Martial Soul, and attacked with Flame Claw.
• Han Yuchen activated [Restraint], causing Gao Feng's Flame Claw to reverse course and burn Gao Feng with his own attack.
• Han Yuchen paid for his wine and told Gao Feng's men that he wanted the Eastern District's Jade Fox with Emerald Eyes, warning them not to interfere.
• The tavern's patrons found Gao Feng gravely injured, and rumors of the Hat Guest's single-move victory spread through Star Dou Town.
• Han Yuchen entered the forest path leading to the eastern district of the Star Dou Great Forest alone.

Han Yuchen recruited Meng Li and two hunters to guide him into the Star Dou Great Forest, agreeing to share Purple Cloud Saliva in exchange for their help and information about the Ghost Fire. After mapping the forest overnight, he led the group into it at dawn as the Gao Family prepared to pursue him.

• Han Yuchen waited in a tree for visitors, then met Meng Li and two young hunters who offered to guide him and deal with the Gao Family in exchange for Purple Cloud Saliva.
• Han Yuchen agreed on the condition that the hunters obey his commands, leave the Jade Eyed Fox’s territory and its contents to him apart from the herb, and tell him everything they knew about the Ghost Fire.
• Meng Li described the Ghost Fire’s green glow, its effect on nearby soul beasts, and its disorienting influence on people who approached it.
• Gao Feng ordered his family to send an elder and watch Han Yuchen, while Han Yuchen overheard the orders and resolved to eliminate the Gao Family’s pursuers.
• Han Yuchen mapped the area through its moisture network overnight, then met Meng Li and the others at dawn and led them into the forest.

Han Yuchen guided the Mengli Squad through the Star Dou Great Forest by sensing dangers the others could not detect. After his route saved them from a lethal vine trap and he exposed a concealed Shadow Leopard, Meng Li accepted Han Yuchen as the group’s leader.

• Meng Li chose Han Yuchen’s route through dense jungle instead of the suspiciously clear path, despite his team’s doubts.
• The squad heard screams and fighting from the clear path, and Monkey found a five-man team dead, drained by vines.
• Han Yuchen detected a hidden pursuer and revealed a Thousand-Year Shadow Leopard by striking it with a pebble.
• The Shadow Leopard sensed Han Yuchen’s overwhelming presence and retreated into the shadows.
• Meng Li bowed to Han Yuchen and asked where they should go next, yielding control of the squad.

Han Yuchen warned the Mengli Squad that the blue ghost fire was a deadly poison and helped them defeat a berserk Ironback Bear. After noticing a Gao Family scout flee, he led the squad toward the source of the ghost fire.

• The Mengli Squad resisted the blue lights’ pull after Han Yuchen identified them as a poison that provoked greed and madness.
• A berserk Ironback Bear attacked the squad, and Han Yuchen told Meng Li to lure it into a nearby swamp.
• Han Yuchen stirred the Water Vein beneath the swamp, trapping the bear so the squad could kill it with ranged attacks.
• Han Yuchen sensed a Gao Family scout fleeing from the area and decided to let the Gao Family witness his strength.
• Han Yuchen led the Mengli Squad toward the source of the deadly blue lights.

Han Yuchen protected the Mengli Squad from a Corrosive Poison Lizard by reflecting its venom and killing it with his Soul Skill. Meng Li harvested the Purple Cloud Saliva while Han Yuchen looked ahead to the greater treasure in the cave.

• The Mengli Squad reached the cave and found a Purple Cloud Saliva herb beside its entrance.
• A mutant Corrosive Poison Lizard emerged and dissolved the squad’s Soul Skills with its poisonous mist.
• The lizard’s venom melted Meng Li’s Rock Shield and badly corroded his arm.
• Han Yuchen’s Restraint talent nullified the lizard’s venom and reflected it at twice its power, leaving the beast badly wounded.
• Han Yuchen used Blade of Flowing Water to kill the lizard, and Meng Li harvested the Purple Cloud Saliva.

Han Yuchen led the Mengli Squad deeper into the forest and discovered that the Gao Family had trapped a Thousand-Year Jade Eyed Fox in a bamboo grove. He concealed himself nearby and waited for the battle to weaken both sides, preparing to intervene as the Soul Binding Net fell over the fox.

• Meng Li offered the Purple Cloud Saliva to Han Yuchen, but Han Yuchen told him to keep it and treat his wounds before following him.
• The Mengli Squad found Jade Eyed Fox tracks and signs that the Gao Family was nearby, while Han Yuchen used water vapor to locate their ambush in a valley.
• Han Yuchen ordered Meng Li and the others to make a noisy camp as a decoy, then silently slipped closer to watch the valley.
• Gao Yan and the Gao Family attacked the Jade Eyed Fox, and Illusion Breaking Incense dispelled its phantom clones.
• Gao Yan ordered the Soul Binding Net released as the injured Jade Eyed Fox ran out of room to escape, and Han Yuchen prepared to enter the fight.

Han Yuchen exploited the chaos around the berserk Jade Eyed Fox to reach the cave and reveal his overwhelming power. When he found the Starlight Ruse King's Soul Fragment, its activation awakened a monstrous presence beneath the valley.

• The Soul Binding Net failed when the Jade Eyed Fox's Spirit Shock triggered its mutation, and the fox tore free and began slaughtering Gao Family members.
• Han Yuchen signaled Meng Li, whose men attacked the Gao Family from behind while the fox kept their formation in disarray.
• Gao Feng realized Han Yuchen was heading for the cave, and Gao Yan and the remaining Soul Elders tried to block him.
• Han Yuchen activated Restraint, shattered the attacks, and killed two Soul Elders with Blade of Flowing Water before entering the cave.
• Han Yuchen found the Starlight Ruse King's Soul Fragment, but its sudden flare shook the valley and unleashed a dragon's roar that pinned everyone outside.
• A fissure opened before Han Yuchen, and a gigantic claw covered in lava-like scales began emerging from the darkness.

Han Yuchen used his divine soul’s resonance with the Star Fragment to purify and calm the ancient Earth Dragon corrupted by Solonsen’s Shadow Power. After the dragon withdrew and the valley’s pressure lifted, Han Yuchen turned his attention to the Gao Family.

• A colossal lava-scaled claw emerged from the fissure, and its pressure forced Gao Yan, the Mengli Squad, and the Jade Eyed Fox to the ground.
• The Star Atlas identified the creature as an ancient Earth Dragon corrupted by Solonsen’s Shadow Power, and Han Yuchen realized the Soul Fragment had been suppressing it.
• Han Yuchen reached for the Star Fragment and resonated with it, releasing a purifying light that calmed the dragon.
• The Earth Dragon withdrew into the fissure, the pressure faded, and the Jade Eyed Fox submitted to Han Yuchen.
• Han Yuchen turned toward the Gao Family with a cold gaze, preparing to deal with the unresolved conflict.