Chapter Summaries

Jia Youcai gave Yan Lingzhuo three spirit bones to help her control the power released from her seal. After successfully absorbing them, Yan Lingzhuo gained new strength, but Jia Youcai told her she would have to suppress the sealed power on her own.

• Jia Youcai gave Yan Lingzhuo a Forty Thousand Year Left Arm Bone, a Ten Thousand Year Skull Bone, and a Ten Thousand Year Right Arm Bone, despite her repeated refusals.
• Yan Lingzhuo began absorbing the three spirit bones while Jia Youcai watched over her.
• Yan Lingzhuo's power erupted and cracked the ground, but she focused and gradually suppressed the turbulence.
• Yan Lingzhuo finished absorbing the bones and thanked Jia Youcai for helping her.
• Jia Youcai told Yan Lingzhuo that she had to control the sealed power herself from then on.

Yan Lingzhuo endured the violent power released by her broken seal, but her Soul Bones and body could not contain it. Jia Youcai finally absorbed the excess energy to save her, and he woke after the flames faded to find her alive but with her Soul Power still in disarray.

• Yan Lingzhuo agreed to suppress the power herself as the golden pattern on her chest began glowing and dark violet flames erupted around her.
• The four Soul Bones on Yan Lingzhuo's body filled with fire energy while her skin cracked and blood evaporated, and Jia Youcai hesitated to intervene.
• Yan Lingzhuo's Soul Power began circulating in a strange cycle and absorbing the flames, but her condition continued to worsen.
• Jia Youcai embraced Yan Lingzhuo and absorbed the excess fire energy into his own body, intending to return it to her later.
• Jia Youcai woke after the flames faded and found Yan Lingzhuo alive, but her Soul Power remained disordered.

Yan Lingzhuo recovered from the dangerous power inside her and refined it until she reached level 50 Soul Power. After absorbing a Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Beast’s Spirit Ring, she became a Soul King, while Jia Youcai wondered whether her power had come from an inheritance rather than a seal.

• Yan Lingzhuo woke beside Jia Youcai, who reassured her that the power inside her had settled and urged her to keep refining it.
• Over the next two days, Yan Lingzhuo refined the stored power, and Jia Youcai returned the portion he had absorbed; three days later, she reached level 50.
• Yan Tianxiong, Qing Yuexi, and Ghostly welcomed Yan Lingzhuo out of the Secret Realm, and Ghostly presented her with a gravely injured fire-attributed Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Beast.
• Yan Lingzhuo killed the Spirit Beast and absorbed its black Spirit Ring, steadily taming its power until she broke through to become a Soul King.
• The Yan Family celebrated Yan Lingzhuo’s success and warmly welcomed Jia Youcai, while Yan Lingzhuo expressed her gratitude to him.

After rebels seized the city, Spider San ordered a punitive expedition that massacred fighters and civilians alike to strengthen his cultivation and deter future revolts. Qian Renxue finally intervened to protect the innocent, and the expedition force surrounded her as a battle threatened to begin.

• The rebel coalition and soul beasts stormed the city, killed hundreds of soul masters, and scattered after completing their mission.
• The punitive expedition force entered the city and massacred rebels and civilians despite resistance from fighters armed with muskets and Godly Zhuge Crossbows.
• Spider San watched from the city wall as his Undead Formation consumed the dead to nourish Rakshasa and improve his cultivation.
• Qian Renxue, disturbed by the slaughter of civilians, confronted the expedition leader and demanded that he stop killing innocents.
• The expedition leader accused Qian Renxue of aiding the rebels and ordered his force to attack her, while Spider San watched with amusement.

Spider San ambushed Qian Renxue and fought her with the Demon Domain Spider Emperor's powers, while she countered with her Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul. The battle continued as Spider San broke through her defenses and launched a pair of blades of light.

• Spider San rushed to the battlefield after sensing Qian Renxue's angelic aura and attacked her from behind.
• Qian Renxue dodged Spider San's ambush and fought back, kicking him away before he returned with unpredictable movements.
• Spider San knocked Qian Renxue to the ground and trapped her in a net, but she broke free just before his Demon Domain Spider Emperor's legs could strike.
• Qian Renxue charged Spider San, but he blocked her sword with the phantom's spider legs and evaded her attacks using Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track and the Purple Demon Eyes.
• Spider San ensnared Qian Renxue with spider threads and attacked with a storm of spikes, shattering her light barrier as she fought them off.
• Spider San spotted an opening and fired two blades of light from his palms.

Qian Renxue awakened the Sacred Power within her Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul after Spider San brutally injured her, and the two fought back and forth with powerful attacks. The chapter ended with both wounded and driven back after her golden angel phantom clashed with his black skull.

• Spider San struck Qian Renxue with a cross-shaped blade, knocked her down, broke her arm, and beat her while taunting her.
• Qian Renxue awakened the Sacred Power within her Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul, healing her injuries and forcing Spider San back.
• Qian Renxue countered Spider San with sacred Sword Qi, burned away his spider silk, and shattered his black energy shields.
• Spider San sent black energy vortices at Qian Renxue, but she blocked them with a golden shield and wounded his shoulder with her sword.
• Qian Renxue summoned a golden angel phantom as Spider San formed a black skull, and their attacks collided, forcing both fighters back with injuries.

Qian Renxue battled Spider San after countering his Eight Desolations Blood Sacrifice with her World Purifying Sacred Domain. Spider San summoned the Blood Hell Demon, which injured Qian Renxue and resisted her attacks as she continued fighting it.

• Spider San unleashed Eight Desolations Blood Sacrifice, and Qian Renxue countered its draining effect with her World Purifying Sacred Domain.
• Spider San sent bloody tentacles against Qian Renxue, but she cut through them and struck the altar with a golden sword phantom.
• Spider San summoned the Blood Hell Demon from the altar, and it attacked Qian Renxue with its claws and a crimson beam.
• Qian Renxue wounded the Blood Hell Demon with Angel Light Blades, but it healed quickly and lashed at her with its chains.
• Qian Renxue fused her three Angel Light Blades into one enormous blade, which collided with the Blood Hell Demon's chain barrier.

Qian Renxue destroyed the Blood Hell Demon with her ultimate attack, then tried to escape after Spider San wounded her while she was weakened. As Spider San prepared to throw a black spear at her, Blue Silver Grass suddenly restrained his arm.

• Spider San empowered the Blood Hell Demon, which trapped Qian Renxue in a crimson vortex and bound her with chains.
• Qian Renxue unleashed Sword of Dawn and Ultimate Dawn, destroying the vortex and killing the Blood Hell Demon.
• Spider San mocked Qian Renxue’s depleted Soul Power and attacked her with black blades, leaving her badly wounded.
• Qian Renxue blinded Spider San with a flash of light and flew upward to escape.
• Spider San sensed her flight and formed a black spear, but a strand of Blue Silver Grass wrapped around his arm and stopped him.

Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo planned to continue traveling and training after she became a Soul King, but a spirit beast attack on the city revealed that Beast Spirit Hall was retaliating against soul masters who hunted protected beasts. Ghostly explained that the attackers had come to collect on Beast Spirit Hall’s Spirit Beast Insurance.

• Yan Lingzhuo sneaked into Jia Youcai’s room, thanked him for helping her become a Soul King, and spent the night with him.
• The next morning, Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo told Yan Tianxiong and Qing Yuexi that they planned to travel and train together.
• Alarms sounded as spirit beasts charged into the city, and Yan Tianxiong, Qing Yuexi, Jia Youcai, and Yan Lingzhuo reacted to the attack.
• Ghostly explained that Beast Spirit Hall protected insured spirit beasts and retaliated against soul masters who hunted them.
• Ghostly revealed that greedy soul masters had secretly hunted protected beasts, prompting the spirit beasts to come collect their debt.

Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo followed a spirit beast incursion to a manor, where Beast Spirit Hall agents punished soul masters who had violated the rules protecting spirit beasts. After the attackers left, Jia Youcai explained how the fragile agreements between humans and spirit beasts worked.

• Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo left the restaurant and followed the spirit beasts and agents toward a surrounded manor.
• A Beast Spirit Hall agent accused the manor's residents of secretly hunting protected spirit beasts and ordered the attack.
• The spirit beasts killed the resisting soul masters, while those who did not resist survived.
• Jia Youcai considered the rules governing spirit beast hunts, protected territories, and retaliation between the two sides.
• The agents and spirit beasts completed their mission and withdrew, and Yan Lingzhuo asked Jia Youcai if that was all.

Jia Youcai sought to test his new strength and ended up sparring with Yan Lingzhuo’s Grandpa Ghost, a Titled Douluo. His Immortal Black Flame briefly scorched Ghostly, who declared that the fight had only just begun.

• Jia Youcai summoned the Phoenix of Six Dou Hun and its hundred thousand year spirit bone to assess his strength before going to Qingfeng City.
• Jia Youcai asked Yan Lingzhuo to arrange a spar with her father, but she returned with Grandpa Ghost because her father was away.
• Jia Youcai tried to persuade Yan Lingzhuo to spar alongside him, but she escaped and encouraged Grandpa Ghost to test him.
• Ghostly flashed in close and attacked, while Jia Youcai evaded and activated his Phoenix Martial Soul.
• Jia Youcai launched Immortal Black Flame and then sent fireballs down on Ghostly from every direction.
• Jia Youcai detonated the fireballs, scorching Ghostly with flame fragments; Ghostly praised his skill and said the fight was only beginning.

Jia Youcai battled Ghostly, using his Phoenix flames and Undying Yan Armor to withstand the Titled Douluo’s attacks. Ghostly trapped him in Ghost Gate Pass and struck at his consciousness, leaving the sparring match unresolved as he held back to avoid endangering Jia Youcai.

• Ghostly used Giant Ghost Hand to block Jia Youcai’s Fire Rain from the Heavens and attack him.
• Jia Youcai dodged Ghostly’s first grab, then summoned Undying Yan Armor to withstand both Giant Ghost Hands.
• Jia Youcai’s armor absorbed Ghostly’s Soul Power and strengthened his flames, which pierced the purple wind walls and threatened Ghostly.
• Ghostly summoned Ghost Gate Pass, trapping Jia Youcai among sixteen stone gates whose hooks caught his armor.
• Ghostly filled the prison with black mist and used Ghost Cry Soul Devour, blurring Jia Youcai’s consciousness.
• Ghostly restrained his strength because he feared killing Jia Youcai, while the fight raised the question of whether Jia Youcai could reach Soul Sage and use his Martial Soul Avatar.

After Jia Youcai’s spar with Ghostly, he and Yan Lingzhuo persuaded her parents to let them travel together for training. As the pair went to pack, Qing Yuexi revealed a marriage contract between Yan Lingzhuo and another man.

• Ghostly ended the spar and praised Jia Youcai for holding out against him, then urged him to reflect on what he had learned.
• Jia Youcai reunited with Yan Lingzhuo, and they playfully teased each other on their way to the Yan Family’s main hall.
• Yan Tianxiong and Qing Yuexi welcomed Jia Youcai warmly, and he told them he wanted to travel outside to gain experience.
• Yan Lingzhuo insisted on joining Jia Youcai, and her parents agreed after he promised to protect her.
• Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo went to pack for their journey, while Qing Yuexi took out a marriage contract between Yan Lingzhuo and another man.

Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo traveled to Qingfeng City, bypassed the guards who denied them entry, and began exploring the city. At a teahouse, Jia Youcai overheard that Qingfeng City had recently become unsettled.

• Yan Tianxiong and Qing Yuexi decided to hide the marriage contract trouble from Yan Lingzhuo while she and Jia Youcai were away training.
• Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo traveled by Public Soul Power Vehicle for three days and two nights before reaching Qingfeng City.
• The city guards refused to let Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo enter without a pass, so Jia Youcai used his Six-Winged Fallen Angel Spirit ability to slip them inside through the shadows.
• Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo walked through the busy city streets and then sat down at a teahouse to ask about the city.
• Jia Youcai overheard a man say that Qingfeng City had not been peaceful lately.

Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo heard rumors of strange events at the mass grave west of Qingfeng City and set out to investigate. As they entered the fog, they spotted a white figure, but Jia Youcai revealed he had only been teasing Yan Lingzhuo.

• Jia Youcai listened to accounts of eerie happenings at the mass grave, and a tea house waiter warned him and Yan Lingzhuo to stay away.
• Jia Youcai persuaded the reluctant Yan Lingzhuo to leave Qingfeng City and investigate before dark.
• Jia Youcai led Yan Lingzhuo through thickening fog, telling her he had left markers along the way.
• Yan Lingzhuo spotted a white figure in the fog, and Jia Youcai shouted that it was a ghost to scare her.
• Jia Youcai laughed and admitted he had been teasing Yan Lingzhuo, who kicked his shin in anger.

Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo investigated eerie sounds in a mass graveyard and discovered a monster and undead emerging from the ground. Yan Lingzhuo’s Flame Breath burned through the attackers, while Jia Youcai suspected someone was controlling them.

• Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo found that the first white figure was a scrap of cloth, then heard sobbing deeper in the mass graveyard.
• The pair followed the sobbing and found a white figure kneeling at a grave, which revealed a blue-green monster’s face and attacked them.
• Yan Lingzhuo’s flames passed through the monster as decayed arms and undead crawled out of the earth around them.
• Jia Youcai told Yan Lingzhuo to take to the sky, and she used her First Spirit Skill, Flame Breath, to burn the undead and monster into black smoke.
• Jia Youcai flew into the air and suspected someone was secretly controlling the attackers.

Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo fought waves of evil creatures at the mass grave and discovered a tall, thin man controlling them with his Soul Reaping Lamp. Jia Youcai struck back with his spirit skills, leaving the man screaming as Soul Extinguishing Fire burned his soul and Spiritual Power.

• Yan Lingzhuo destroyed the remaining undead and the fanged, green-faced monster with Flying Fire Meteors, but the mass grave’s sinister aura returned.
• Black smoke formed into enormous figures that attacked Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo, so Jia Youcai created a Darkness Domain while Yan Lingzhuo burned many figures with Burning Ember Fire Feather.
• Jia Youcai found a black glow controlling the figures and confronted a tall, thin man wielding the Soul Reaping Lamp.
• Jia Youcai used Original Sin Gaze to make the man turn his black mist against the figures and disrupt his Soul Power circulation.
• Jia Youcai unleashed Soul Extinguishing Fire, which began burning the man’s soul and Spiritual Power.

Jia Youcai interrogated a Nether Hall member investigating the area, but the man was killed before he could finish revealing his orders. Jia Youcai fought Nether Hall expert Su Moyin, wounded him, then escaped with Yan Lingzhuo.

• Jia Youcai captured the tall, thin man and learned that he was an outer member of Nether Hall sent to investigate the area for an ancient—.
• Su Moyin emerged from the shadows and killed the tall, thin man before he could finish explaining his mission.
• Su Moyin attacked Jia Youcai with a battle axe, but Jia Youcai countered with Abyssal Echo and paralyzed him with painful memories.
• Jia Youcai used God Slaying Demon Sword to pierce Su Moyin's defenses and inflict a deep, decaying wound.
• Jia Youcai flew away with Yan Lingzhuo before Su Moyin could retaliate.

Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo escaped the monsters and searched Qingfeng City for the soul bone, but made no progress. In the Star Dou Great Forest, Tang San fought three ninety-thousand-year Thousand Jun Ants with help from Yu Xiaogang, Tang Hao, and Tang Xiao, leaving the last ant trapped by Yu Xiaogang's Golden Dragon.

• Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo flew above the deadly fog and landed safely in Qingfeng City.
• Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo spent several days searching the city for the soul bone without finding a lead.
• Tang San decided to hunt three ninety-thousand-year Thousand Jun Ants for their soul rings, despite Yu Xiaogang and Tang Hao questioning the risk.
• Yu Xiaogang, Tang Hao, and Tang Xiao attacked the Thousand Jun Ants while Tang San joined the fight with his Blue Silver Emperor.
• Tang Hao and Tang Xiao smashed one Thousand Jun Ant, and Yu Xiaogang's Golden Dragon seized another as it tried to flee.

The Snow Empress arrived in the canyon to stop Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, Tang Hao, and Tang Xiao from killing the Thousand Jun Ants, declaring that they had violated the soul beasts’ pact. She attacked the four and revealed a soul-ring configuration that shocked them, leaving the confrontation poised to escalate.

• An extreme chill and blizzard swept into the canyon as the Snow Empress appeared among the fleeing soul beasts.
• The Snow Empress accused Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, Tang Hao, and Tang Xiao of violating the pact and resolved to punish them while protecting the Thousand Jun Ants.
• Yu Xiaogang tried to explain, but the Snow Empress condensed the falling snow into Ice Cones and launched them at the four.
• Yu Xiaogang raised an earthen wall to block the Ice Cones, while he, Tang Hao, and Tang Xiao activated their nine soul rings.
• The Snow Empress displayed nine soul rings, seven of them red Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings, and Tang San, Tang Hao, Tang Xiao, and Yu Xiaogang reacted with shock.