Chapter Summaries

After an intimate reunion with Jia Youcai, Yan Lingzhuo recalled how Ling Tianjue’s incarnation blinded her and implanted two mysterious eyes. She eventually regained a distorted form of sight, but the eyes’ purpose remained ominous.

• Yan Lingzhuo kissed Jia Youcai possessively, then remembered the attack that had left her blind.
• At a remote exchange point, Ling Tianjue’s incarnation trapped Yan Lingzhuo inside a gray barrier and overwhelmed her.
• The figure implanted two strange eyeballs in Yan Lingzhuo’s sockets, leaving her unconscious and bleeding.
• Yan Lingzhuo woke at home unable to see, while her mother promised that her father was seeking a cure.
• After twenty days of torment and nightmares, Yan Lingzhuo’s sight returned in a blurry, distorted form through the implanted eyes.

After sharing an intimate evening, Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo settled into quiet companionship, but he woke to find her eyes open in an unnatural sleep and recognized signs of the King of Destruction, Eye of Calamity Saracaron. Yan Lingzhuo fell back into normal sleep, while Jia Youcai remained shaken and wondered why its power appeared in her.

• Yan Lingzhuo sought Jia Youcai's reassurance, and they bathed together after making love.
• Yan Lingzhuo asked to stay with Jia Youcai as they prepared and ate a simple meal together.
• Jia Youcai read a book while Yan Lingzhuo noticed an old booklet titled Abyssal Gaze: Collected Accounts of Several Phenomena and Rumors.
• During the night, Jia Youcai awoke and saw Yan Lingzhuo's eyes moving beneath her lids before opening unnaturally as she slept.
• Jia Youcai recognized the destructive power as traces of the King of Destruction, Eye of Calamity Saracaron, and watched as Yan Lingzhuo's eyes closed again.

Yan Lingzhuo woke with no memory of her frightening episode the night before, while Jia Youcai concealed his worry and cared for her. After realizing her Soul Power had reached level seventy, Yan Lingzhuo decided to seek her Seventh Soul Ring in the Star Dou Great Forest, and Jia Youcai agreed to go with her.

• Yan Lingzhuo woke in Jia Youcai's arms with no memory of her eerie awakening, and he reassured her that her restless night had been only a dream.
• Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo shared breakfast, and he reflected on how the destructive power in her eyes had raised her Soul Power from level sixty-five to level seventy.
• Yan Lingzhuo told Jia Youcai she had reached level seventy and needed to obtain her Seventh Soul Ring, the Martial Soul Avatar.
• Yan Lingzhuo proposed searching for a suitable Soul Beast in the Star Dou Great Forest, and Jia Youcai agreed, confident he could protect her.

After preparing for three days, Yan Lingzhuo and Jia Youcai traveled into the Star Dou Great Forest, heading toward Red Crystal Lake. Yan Lingzhuo drove off a nearly twenty-thousand-year Poison Marsh Python, and the pair stopped to find a safe place to spend the night.

• Yan Lingzhuo and Jia Youcai left town and flew to the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• After replenishing their supplies, Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo followed a map toward Red Crystal Lake, avoiding dangerous beast territories and driving off several attacks.
• A nearly twenty-thousand-year Poison Marsh Python ambushed Yan Lingzhuo in a swamp, but she dodged its strike and attacked it with her spirit skills.
• Yan Lingzhuo's flames wounded and frightened the Poison Marsh Python, which fled into the swamp.
• Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo continued through the forest, repelled further probing attacks, and began looking for a safe place to stay as night fell.

Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo encountered a battle between Snake Lance Douluo She Long and the Titan Giant Ape deep in the Star Dou Great Forest. She Long wounded the ape and seized a chance to flee, but a mysterious pink figure appeared and kicked him in the abdomen.

• Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo followed powerful Soul Power fluctuations to a valley and saw the Titan Giant Ape fighting She Long.
• The Titan Giant Ape overwhelmed She Long with its strength and Gravity Domain, while She Long recalled how his team had been destroyed in the forest.
• She Long unleashed his eighth spirit ability, Thunderous Might, scorching the Titan Giant Ape's palm and briefly disrupting its Gravity Domain.
• She Long used the opening to flee, but a pink phantom appeared in his path and struck his abdomen with a kick.

Wu Qingxuan defeated She Long and crushed a Soul Douluo’s Soul Rings to absorb their energy, then sealed the wounded Titled Douluo for later. As Er Ming carried She Long into the forest, Wu Qingxuan noticed Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo watching from the ridge.

• Wu Qingxuan appeared and left She Long shattered and barely alive, stunning Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo on the ridge.
• Wu Qingxuan crushed a surviving Soul Douluo’s eight Soul Rings and absorbed their energy to strengthen her cultivation.
• Wu Qingxuan decided not to absorb She Long yet because she and Er Ming needed time to digest the energy they had already taken in.
• Wu Qingxuan bound and sealed She Long, then told Er Ming to keep him until they could absorb his Soul Rings later.
• Er Ming carried She Long toward a concealed cave, and Wu Qingxuan turned her attention to Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo.

Wu Qingxuan stopped Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo in the Star Dou Great Forest and challenged them to injure her or force her back if they wanted to leave. Jia Youcai attacked with his demonic sword and Dark Energy, but Wu Qingxuan easily countered him and struck his abdomen.

• Wu Qingxuan blocked Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo, then identified Yan Lingzhuo's level seventy bottleneck and warned them about entering the forest's core region.
• Wu Qingxuan offered to let them leave if they could injure her or make her take one step back.
• Jia Youcai accepted the challenge and attacked Wu Qingxuan with his demonic sword, using Teleportation to strike from behind.
• Wu Qingxuan deflected Jia Youcai's sword with a branch and used Teleportation to evade his Dark Energy attacks.
• Jia Youcai pressed his attack with two sword slashes, but Wu Qingxuan bent backward to evade the second and kicked him in the abdomen.

Wu Qingxuan effortlessly defeated Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo, countering their attacks with precise strikes and Teleportation. Jia Youcai shielded Yan Lingzhuo from her fall and stood to face Wu Qingxuan again, desperate for a way to overcome her.

• Wu Qingxuan swept Jia Youcai off his feet and criticized his openings and crude use of strength.
• Jia Youcai used a clone and Teleportation to launch a pincer attack, but Wu Qingxuan stopped the clone, evaded the real Jia Youcai, and struck his shoulder and upper back.
• Yan Lingzhuo unleashed her Right Arm Spirit Bone Skill, Net Flame Meteor Shower, but Wu Qingxuan Teleported through the attack, struck her, and hurled her toward the ground.
• Jia Youcai caught Yan Lingzhuo with his back, took the impact, and placed her somewhere safe before standing between her and Wu Qingxuan.
• Jia Youcai considered his attacks and defenses against Wu Qingxuan but could not find a way to defeat her.

Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo fought Wu Qingxuan, but she repeatedly evaded and overpowered them. Jia Youcai unleashed his Self-Created Soul Skill, Abyssal Echo, and its sound waves and skeletal hands closed in on Wu Qingxuan.

• Jia Youcai teleported behind Wu Qingxuan and attacked, but she blocked his fist and struck him through the smoke with a kick.
• Jia Youcai activated his Seventh Spirit Ability, Fallen Angel True Body, and launched a series of aerial attacks, but Wu Qingxuan caught his ankle and slammed him into the ground.
• Wu Qingxuan swung Jia Youcai into the charging Yan Lingzhuo, leaving both injured before they stood together to attack her.
• Yan Lingzhuo fired a stream of flames while Jia Youcai summoned shadow hands, but Wu Qingxuan teleported through both attacks.
• Jia Youcai flew into the air and summoned his Self-Created Soul Skill, Abyssal Echo, sending soul-shocking sound waves and skeletal hands toward Wu Qingxuan.

Jia Youcai exhausted his abilities trying to harm Wu Qingxuan, then tricked her into lowering her guard and grazed her with a hidden arrow. He and Yan Lingzhuo fled after winning their promised chance to leave, while Wu Qingxuan realized how he had outmaneuvered her.

• Jia Youcai spread the Eternal Night Curtain and attacked Wu Qingxuan with phantom clones, but she entered her Void state and became immune to his assaults.
• Jia Youcai pretended to surrender after his Soul Power ran low, and Wu Qingxuan left the Void state when she believed the fight was over.
• Jia Youcai imitated Snow Woman's voice to startle Wu Qingxuan, then used a concealed Shadow Metal Arrow to graze her thigh.
• Jia Youcai revealed his feigned exhaustion, thanked Wu Qingxuan, and fled at full speed with Yan Lingzhuo.
• Wu Qingxuan realized Jia Youcai had manipulated her with a staged surrender and the imitated voice.

Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo tried to escape, but Da Ming and Er Ming captured them and brought them to Wu Qingxuan’s secluded valley. Wu Qingxuan ordered her maidservants to clean them up for an extra dish that night.

• Da Ming appeared and trapped Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo beneath his pressure as Wu Qingxuan pretended not to intervene.
• Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo began merging their Martial Souls, but Da Ming used his Slow Domain and fired a powerful beam at them.
• Jia Youcai broke off the fusion and shoved Yan Lingzhuo aside, and both evaded the beam but were thrown down by its shockwave.
• Er Ming seized Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo and carried them with Da Ming and Wu Qingxuan to her valley residence.
• Wu Qingxuan ordered her maidservants to take the captives away, clean them up, and prepare them as an extra dish.

Wu Qingxuan reassured Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo that they were guests, then served dumplings and revealed that the filling was human flesh. Jia Youcai recognized the meal as a warning and possible test, while Yan Lingzhuo recoiled in horror.

• Maidservants escorted Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo to separate treehouses to bathe, change, and tend their wounds.
• Wu Qingxuan welcomed them to a meal beside the emerald pool and said Da Ming and Er Ming had only invited them as guests.
• Yan Lingzhuo tasted a dumpling and asked what its unusual filling was.
• Wu Qingxuan said the dumplings contained human flesh, and Yan Lingzhuo spat out her bite and retched.
• Jia Youcai refrained from eating and reasoned that soul beasts viewed human soul masters as food just as humans hunted them.
• Jia Youcai called the meal fine hospitality and said they would remember the generous gift, while Wu Qingxuan feigned curiosity about whether it suited their tastes.

Wu Qingxuan received reports of a surge in Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Beast hunts and left to join Di Tian's meeting about the growing human threat. Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo explored the secluded valley and found Snake Lance Douluo She Long imprisoned in a sealed cave.

• Wu Qingxuan reviewed lists of Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Beasts hunted or missing from the Star Dou Great Forest and grew concerned about organized human incursions.
• A summons called Wu Qingxuan, the Sky Azure Bull Python, and Titan Giant Ape Er Ming toward the Lake of Life for Di Tian's meeting.
• After the powerful spirit beasts departed, Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo began exploring the valley while attendant maids followed them at a distance.
• Jia Youcai sensed Soul Power and led Yan Lingzhuo to a vine-hidden cave sealed with pink light.
• Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo saw the battered, restrained Snake Lance Douluo She Long inside, and Jia Youcai addressed him from outside the cave.

Jia Youcai urged the imprisoned She Long to escape with him and asked him to fight the Clear Sky Alliance in return. She Long accepted, and Jia Youcai began using a flaw in the cave seal to reach him.

• Jia Youcai found She Long demoralized and learned that breaking the seal outright would kill him and draw attention.
• She Long admitted that five years earlier he had allowed a Moonlight Jade Rabbit over fifty thousand years old to be killed for a young soul master.
• Jia Youcai offered to free She Long if he agreed to fight the Clear Sky Alliance, and She Long accepted.
• Jia Youcai passed his hand through the pink barrier and told She Long to reach for him.
• She Long touched Jia Youcai's fingertips, and the pink patterns on his arm flared as energy spread up Jia Youcai's arm.

Jia Youcai partially transferred She Long’s seal, helping him escape the cave while taking on some of the restraints himself. She Long fled into the forest as Jia Youcai stayed behind with Yan Lingzhuo, and the chapter ended with a powerful aura arriving in the valley.

• Jia Youcai interrupted the seal transfer when maids approached, suffering backlash but weakening the restraints on She Long.
• She Long knocked out the maids and escaped through the cave’s closing light curtain, then Jia Youcai stayed behind to draw attention while She Long fled.
• Jia Youcai reassured Yan Lingzhuo that She Long would honor their agreement, and she vowed to face whatever came with him.
• About half an hour later, a powerful aura arrived in the secluded valley as She returned.

Wu Qingxuan confronted Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo after they helped She Long escape, then ordered Er Ming to attack them. Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo fused into Sacred Flame Godzilla, which traded blows evenly with Er Ming and began healing its damaged armor.

• Wu Qingxuan returned and demanded that Jia Youcai answer for helping She Long escape and injuring her people.
• Jia Youcai admitted responsibility and shielded Yan Lingzhuo while Wu Qingxuan ordered Er Ming to attack.
• Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo fused into Sacred Flame Godzilla before Er Ming's strike could overwhelm them.
• Sacred Flame Godzilla and Er Ming exchanged powerful blows, staggering each other in their first clash.
• Sacred Flame Godzilla's sacred flames began repairing the damage to its cheek as Er Ming roared in anger.

Er Ming and Sacred Flame Godzilla traded heavy blows in a fierce close-quarters fight. Er Ming redirected Sacred Flame Godzilla’s breath attack, forced its jaws shut, and hurled it several meters away, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Sacred Flame Godzilla lunged for Er Ming’s neck, but Er Ming struck its cheek and Sacred Flame Godzilla countered with a tail-whip that weakened Er Ming’s follow-up elbow strike.
• Er Ming caught Sacred Flame Godzilla’s forelimbs, avoided its snapping jaws, then headbutted its lower jaw and kicked its abdomen before retreating to make space.
• Er Ming charged and leaped at Sacred Flame Godzilla, but Sacred Flame Godzilla dodged, knocked Er Ming off balance, and bit into its upper arm.
• As Sacred Flame Godzilla prepared to fire its breath, Er Ming twisted its head aside and struck it, sending the blue-white beam into the ground and blasting a large crater.
• Er Ming clamped Sacred Flame Godzilla’s jaws shut, causing the remaining energy to detonate in its throat, then used its waist and arms to hurl Sacred Flame Godzilla several meters away.

Er Ming and Sacred Flame Godzilla continued their brutal close-quarters battle, with both fighters repeatedly knocking each other down and Sacred Flame Godzilla burning Er Ming’s abdomen with a focused beam. Wu Qingxuan stopped Da Ming from intervening, and Er Ming recovered and mounted Sacred Flame Godzilla to hammer his vulnerable nape and the back of his head.

• Er Ming used his Gravity Domain to disrupt Sacred Flame Godzilla’s movements and struck him before his energy attack had fully formed.
• Sacred Flame Godzilla’s point-blank explosion blasted Er Ming’s hands, but Er Ming pummeled Godzilla’s head and kicked him onto his back.
• Sacred Flame Godzilla rose first, knocked Er Ming down, and struck him with a flaming stomp attempt and a tail lash before burning his abdomen with a compressed beam.
• Da Ming moved to check on Er Ming, but Wu Qingxuan stopped him and judged that Er Ming’s injuries were not serious enough to end the fight.
• Er Ming forced himself up, charged Sacred Flame Godzilla, climbed onto his back, and began striking the vulnerable nape and rear of his head.

Er Ming and Sacred Flame Godzilla traded brutal attacks before launching their ultimate techniques against each other. Sacred Flame Godzilla’s flames went out and its body dissolved just before its beam could hit Er Ming, leaving Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo collapsed in the valley.

• Sacred Flame Godzilla broke Er Ming’s grip, bit his arm, and threw him to the ground.
• Er Ming restrained Sacred Flame Godzilla’s jaws and diverted its destructive breath into a rock wall, but Sacred Flame Godzilla knocked him down and battered him repeatedly.
• Er Ming retreated and gathered spiritual energy while Sacred Flame Godzilla charged its Atomic Breath: Full-Power Charge.
• Er Ming fired Titan Sky Cannon as Sacred Flame Godzilla unleashed its full-power beam, and the attacks collided above the valley.
• Sacred Flame Godzilla’s beam began to overpower Er Ming’s, but its flames went out and its body dissolved into motes of light.
• Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo appeared among the motes and fell to the ground.

Wu Qingxuan searched the battlefield for Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo while Da Ming spread its Slow Domain across the Secluded Valley. Their search was interrupted by Bear Lord, who transformed into his human form, Dark Gold Fangs, and greeted Wu Qingxuan.

• Wu Qingxuan used Da Ming's Slow Domain to search the valley for Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo, who remained hidden beneath leaves and mud.
• Er Ming collapsed to rest after the battle, while Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo held still to avoid detection.
• Heavy footsteps approached from the eastern forest, drawing Wu Qingxuan, Da Ming, and Er Ming's attention.
• Bear Lord entered the Secluded Valley and looked over the wrecked battlefield before fixing his gaze on Wu Qingxuan.
• Bear Lord transformed into a human named Dark Gold Fangs and asked Wu Qingxuan whether an intruder had caused trouble.