Chapter Summaries

Zhao Mu and Heibai tested whether Heibai could absorb the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear Right Palm Bone, and both gained claws from the Soul Bone. The claws mutated into Darkborn Demon God Claws, leaving Zhao Mu eager to test whether Soul Bone absorption could benefit them both in reverse.

• Zhao Mu encouraged Heibai to focus on absorbing the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear Right Palm Bone, and Heibai began absorbing it.
• The Soul Bone’s energy flowed into Zhao Mu as well, giving him a phantom claw that could launch dark gold blades.
• Heibai emerged with the genuine Soul Bone on his right paw, while Zhao Mu suspected he had gained a simplified copy.
• Zhao Mu’s fourth Soul Ring caused both claws to turn black and evolve into Darkborn Demon God Claws.
• After confirming that the absorption had gone smoothly, Zhao Mu explained the shared Soul Bone effect and his theories to Dugu Bo.

Zhao Mu asked Dugu Bo about his Eighth Soul Ring and learned that it came from a Medusa, granting him the powerful Time Stasis skill. Zhao Mu decided to seek a Medusa Soul Ring at the dangerous Medusa Temple, and Dugu Bo agreed to accompany him while warning him to flee if they faced overwhelming danger.

• Zhao Mu asked Dugu Bo about his Soul Bone, and Dugu Bo offered to keep his twenty-thousand-year right arm bone until Zhao Mu had no better option.
• Dugu Bo told Zhao Mu that he had obtained his Eighth Soul Ring and head Soul Bone from a Medusa, and that the ring gave him the Time Stasis skill.
• Zhao Mu asked to hunt a Medusa for a Soul Ring, and Dugu Bo explained that Medusas gathered at the Sin Temple in the Extreme West.
• Dugu Bo agreed to travel with Zhao Mu to the Medusa Temple and said it held several Medusas over ten thousand years old, including one that had once been more than ninety thousand years old.
• Dugu Bo warned Zhao Mu that Medusas could petrify anyone who looked at their faces and that the Temple's statue was rumored to hold divine power.
• Dugu Bo asked Zhao Mu to promise that they would retreat immediately if they encountered overwhelming danger.

Zhao Mu and Dugu Bo visited the Wind Sword Sect to learn how Feng Bailong had mastered fighting without sight, hoping to prepare for the Medusa Temple. After Feng Bailong joined Spirit Hall, Zhao Mu and Dugu Bo continued toward their training, wondering how to strengthen their other senses within a month.

• Dugu Bo told Zhao Mu they needed to train themselves to navigate without sight before entering the Medusa Temple, where seeing a Medusa's face could turn them to stone.
• Dugu Bo and Zhao Mu visited the Wind Sword Sect, where Feng Bailong objected to being asked how to be blind, so Zhao Mu proposed a spar as an apology.
• Feng Bailong fought Dugu Bo with his remotely controlled sword and Eighth Soul Skill, but Dugu Bo endured the attack with the Green Phosphorus Mysterious Jiao and ended the spar unharmed.
• After Dugu Bo and Zhao Mu left, Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo urged Feng Bailong to join Spirit Hall, and Feng Bailong agreed.
• Dugu Bo and Zhao Mu concluded that Feng Bailong had strengthened his other senses by restricting his vision, and Zhao Mu worried they had only one month to train.

Zhao Mu and Dugu Bo encountered Meng Yiran and her grandparents after Zhao Mu killed the Shadow Leopard they were hunting. Zhao Mu demanded Meng Yiran’s Sound-Listening and Position-Identifying Technique, and the chapter ended with him challenging her claim that he was relying on Dugu Bo’s power.

• Zhao Mu killed a Shadow Leopard that had leapt from the bushes, ruining Meng Yiran and her companions’ hunt for a Soul Ring.
• Meng Shu recognized Dugu Bo as Poison Douluo, and he and Chao Tianxiang apologized before preparing to leave with their students.
• Zhao Mu called the group back and demanded that Meng Yiran hand over the Sound-Listening and Position-Identifying Technique.
• Meng Yiran objected, while Chao Tianxiang proposed a contest between the two youngsters to decide who would get the technique.
• Dugu Bo rejected the proposed rules, and Meng Yiran challenged Zhao Mu to compete with her.
• Zhao Mu retorted that borrowing power was part of strength and pointed out that Meng Yiran had several more years of cultivation than he did.

Zhao Mu and Dugu Bo obtained the Sound-Listening and Position-Identifying Technique from Meng Shu’s group and traveled to the Medusa Temple to hunt a Medusa for Zhao Mu’s Soul Ring. After waiting outside the Temple for ten days without seeing one emerge, they debated whether to risk entering despite the rumored divine power within.

• Zhao Mu revealed that he was an eight-year-old Soul Ancestor, shocking Meng Shu, Chao Tianxiang, and Meng Yiran.
• Meng Shu ordered Meng Yiran to recite the Sound-Listening and Position-Identifying Technique, and Zhao Mu and Dugu Bo obtained its training method.
• Zhao Mu and Dugu Bo traveled west with Heibai across the desert, practicing the technique while keeping their eyes covered near the Medusa Temple.
• Zhao Mu and Dugu Bo waited outside the Temple for ten days, but no Medusa emerged.
• Zhao Mu worried that the Medusas might use divine power, and Dugu Bo asked whether they should give up or enter the Temple.

Zhao Mu, Dugu Bo, and Heibai entered the Medusa Temple searching for a suitable soul beast, but were ambushed by its inhabitants. When a powerful Medusa failed to petrify or injure Zhao Mu, another tried to tempt him into opening his eyes, and Zhao Mu called on Heibai to attack.

• Zhao Mu proposed sending Dugu Bo and Heibai into the Temple while he waited outside, but they insisted he come along.
• The trio searched the vast Temple and found a central magma pool with a dignified Medusa statue before eleven Medusas attacked them.
• Heibai used Thunder Roar to stun the Medusas, while Dugu Bo said they were only a few thousand years old and warned that stronger Medusas might be waiting.
• A larger Medusa emerged from the magma and struck Zhao Mu with a steel fork, but he was unharmed despite being thrown into a wall.
• Another large Medusa wrapped Zhao Mu in her tail and tried to petrify him, then removed his blindfold and used a seductive sound to make him open his eyes.
• Zhao Mu resisted the Medusa's influence and ordered Heibai to use Darkborn Demon God Claw.

Zhao Mu, Dugu Bo, and Heibai fought the Medusas in the Temple after a ninety-thousand-year Medusa emerged from the Magma Pool. The battle left Dugu Bo and Zhao Mu attacking one fifty-thousand-year Medusa while Heibai confronted the powerful leader.

• Heibai killed a Medusa that had attacked Zhao Mu, and Dugu Bo poisoned another before the awakened Medusas swarmed them.
• Dugu Bo’s Jade Phosphorous Profound Dragon crushed the ten-thousand-year Medusa, but the Magma Pool shook and a ninety-thousand-year Medusa emerged with two fifty-thousand-year companions.
• Zhao Mu assigned Heibai to hold the ninety-thousand-year Medusa while Dugu Bo fought the other two, and Heibai’s enlarged Mount Tai Press knocked their opponent into the Magma Pool.
• Dugu Bo trapped the two fifty-thousand-year Medusas with Time Stasis and attacked one with poison, but the ninety-thousand-year Medusa broke free and tried to intervene.
• Heibai blocked the ninety-thousand-year Medusa’s rescue attempt, while Zhao Mu wounded the poisoned fifty-thousand-year Medusa and Dugu Bo finished her with a green beam.

Zhao Mu, Dugu Bo, and Heibai battled three Medusas in the Magma Pool until the survivors fused into a hundred-thousand-year Medusa and overwhelmed Heibai. As the fused Medusa cut off Zhao Mu and Dugu Bo’s escape, Zhao Mu considered another way to strengthen Heibai without using an Immortal Herb to obtain a fifth Soul Ring.

• Dugu Bo sensed that the ninety-thousand-year Medusa was still fighting Heibai, while a wounded fifty-thousand-year Medusa joined the battle against him.
• The three injured Medusas fused into one, raising their strength to the hundred-thousand-year level and giving the new Medusa six arms armed with weapons.
• Zhao Mu used his Second Soul Skill on Heibai, but the fused Medusa battered him with her weapons and briefly broke free of Dugu Bo’s Time Stasis.
• The Medusa fired Petrification Beams at Zhao Mu and Dugu Bo, who dodged and fled on the Jade Phosphorous Profound Dragon while Heibai tried to delay her.
• The Medusa flung Heibai aside, climbed out of the Magma Pool, and blocked Zhao Mu and Dugu Bo’s escape; Zhao Mu then considered another way to boost Heibai’s strength.

Zhao Mu and Dugu Bo fought Medusa with Heibai, using a desperate combination of powers and Dugu Bo’s poison to weaken her. The battle shifted when Zhao Mu realized Dugu Bo could petrify Medusa’s weapons, and Heibai kept her occupied while Dugu Bo’s attack began destroying them.

• Zhao Mu combined four forms while Dugu Bo replenished his Soul Power and spread his Ninth Soul Skill’s poison through the Medusa Temple.
• Heibai attacked Medusa recklessly as Zhao Mu swallowed an Immortal Herb to sustain the fusion, and Medusa wounded both Heibai and the Green Phosphorus Mysterious Jiao.
• Zhao Mu realized Medusa’s weapons might be vulnerable to Dugu Bo’s Medusa’s Gaze and told Dugu Bo to target them instead of Medusa.
• Dugu Bo petrified one of Medusa’s longswords with the Green Phosphorus Mysterious Jiao’s gaze, and the stone weapon shattered when it struck Heibai.
• Medusa turned on Dugu Bo, but Heibai pounced on her and kept her occupied.

Dugu Bo and Heibai nearly defeated Medusa, but the Temple transformed her into the God of Sin, who overwhelmed them. Heibai awakened the Demon God Iron-Eating Beast state and a mysterious force stirred within him as the chapter ended with him standing calmly before Medusa.

• Dugu Bo petrified Medusa’s final weapon, and her worsening poison left her unable to fight back.
• The Temple’s statue sent purple light into Medusa, transforming her into the God of Sin, Medusa.
• Medusa restrained Zhao Mu, Dugu Bo, and Heibai, then brutally beat Heibai.
• Zhao Mu’s Demonic Rhyme Seed sprouted, and Heibai broke free as the Demon God Iron-Eating Beast, though he charged Medusa recklessly and was repeatedly repelled.
• A mysterious voice urged Zhao Mu and Heibai to use their killing intent differently; Zhao Mu’s buried power resisted its pull, while Heibai’s power awakened and left him standing still.

Heibai killed Medusa after unleashing a terrifying killing-intent domain, leaving Zhao Mu and Dugu Bo to discover a golden-flecked 100,000-year Soul Ring. With Zhao Mu too depleted to absorb it safely, he searched Medusa’s corpse for another way to strengthen his spiritual power.

• Heibai unleashed his killing-intent domain and severed Medusa’s whip and head with the Darkborn Demon God Claw.
• Zhao Mu and Dugu Bo treated the weakened Heibai, while Medusa’s true self in the God Realm recognized Asura’s intervention and considered how her inheritance might survive.
• Zhao Mu and Dugu Bo discovered Soul Rings above the fallen Medusas, including a golden-flecked 100,000-year Soul Ring above the fused Medusa.
• Dugu Bo warned Zhao Mu that Medusa’s powerful mental impact and Zhao Mu’s exhausted condition made absorbing the Soul Ring nearly impossible.
• Zhao Mu decided that sufficiently strong spiritual power could let him absorb the Soul Ring and found a purple-glowing object on Medusa’s corpse.

Zhao Mu risked absorbing Medusa’s 100,000-Year Soul Ring while Heibai absorbed her Head Soul Bone, using Immortal Herbs to strengthen his spiritual power and endure the process. He survived and gained a fifth Soul Ring, but discovered that his Soul Power Level was still only fifty.

• Dugu Bo warned Zhao Mu that absorbing both Medusa’s Soul Bone and Soul Ring was dangerously risky, but eventually agreed to let him try.
• Zhao Mu gave Heibai the 100,000-Year Medusa Head Soul Bone to absorb, then consumed Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and Ziwei Soul-Deriving Grass to boost his spiritual power.
• Zhao Mu swallowed an Immortal Herb with pain-relieving effects and began absorbing Medusa’s 100,000-Year Soul Ring, enduring its violent energy and spiritual attacks.
• Heibai completed absorbing the Soul Bone, and its spiritual boost protected Zhao Mu from Medusa’s attacks until he absorbed the Soul Ring completely.
• Zhao Mu stood with five Soul Rings, including a blood-red ring with a golden sheen, but found that his Soul Power Level remained fifty.

After Zhao Mu absorbed the 100,000-Year Medusa Soul Ring without gaining Soul Power, Dugu Bo suspected he had a second, Body Martial Soul. Zhao Mu confirmed the theory and revealed his new time-based skills, then began testing the skills granted by his Medusa Soul Bone.

• Zhao Mu told Dugu Bo that his Soul Power remained at level fifty after he absorbed the 100,000-Year Medusa Soul Ring.
• Dugu Bo proposed that Zhao Mu had Twin Martial Souls, and Zhao Mu tested the idea by recalling Heibai, revealing a Body Martial Soul that he believed was his entire body.
• Zhao Mu demonstrated that his Medusa Soul Ring granted Time Freeze and the ability to alter a target's Time Flow Rate, which he could use to accelerate himself or slow an opponent.
• Zhao Mu showed Dugu Bo the Medusa's Gaze skill from his 100,000-Year Medusa Head Bone, petrifying the Temple's divine pillars, and Dugu Bo asked about the other Soul Bone skill.

Zhao Mu demonstrated his new Soul Bone skill, Matter Energy Recombination, then awakened his Body Martial Soul and gained a formidable new form. After his punch shook the decaying Medusa Temple into collapse, he and Dugu Bo raced for the exit while Heibai struggled to keep up.

• Zhao Mu used Matter Energy Recombination to make a stone exceptionally hard, then reduced it to powder, surprising Dugu Bo.
• Zhao Mu summoned Heibai alongside his Body Martial Soul, and Dugu Bo recalled that Body Martial Souls could undergo Awakening.
• As Zhao Mu examined his Martial Soul, it awakened into a black-scaled, weapon-patterned form that unleashed powerful killing intent.
• Zhao Mu punched the temple floor, making the weakened Medusa Temple shake and causing the Medusa Statue to fall into the Magma Pool.
• Dugu Bo urged Zhao Mu to escape on the Jade Phosphorous Profound Dragon, but Zhao Mu ran ahead and Heibai hurried after them as the temple collapsed.

Zhao Mu escaped the collapsing Medusa Temple after demonstrating his newly awakened strength, then returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Dugu Bo and Heibai. Heibai began eating the Nine-Heart Begonia and several other Immortal Herbs to prepare its fifth Soul Ring.

• Zhao Mu shattered a massive falling boulder with one punch as he, Dugu Bo, and Heibai fled the Medusa Temple, which collapsed behind them.
• Dugu Bo marveled at Zhao Mu's gains, including a 100,000-Year Soul Ring, a Soul Bone, and the discovery of his second Martial Soul.
• Zhao Mu, Dugu Bo, and Heibai returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after more than two months away.
• Heibai found that the Nine-Heart Begonia had bloomed, and Zhao Mu picked several mild, healing Immortal Herbs to combine with it for Heibai's fifth Soul Ring.
• Heibai ate the Nine-Heart Begonia and started devouring the other Immortal Herbs while Dugu Bo worried about whether its stomach could handle them.

Zhao Mu absorbed the Immortal Herbs into a fifth Soul Ring with Rapid Healing and Near-Death Rejuvenation, raising his Soul Power to level 60. Far away in Suotuo City, the Imperial Fighting Team battled Shrek, and Tang San’s tactics left Yu Tianheng’s team badly injured.

• Heibai devoured the Immortal Herbs, and Zhao Mu purified their energy to form a white fifth Soul Ring with Rapid Healing and Near-Death Rejuvenation.
• Rapid Healing restored Heibai’s injuries, and Zhao Mu’s Soul Power rose to level 60.
• At the Suotuo Great Soul Arena, Yu Tianheng’s five-member Imperial Fighting Team faced Shrek’s seven-member team, whose Hell White Tiger Martial Soul Fusion Skill forced a stalemate.
• Tang San used Blue Silver Grass to evade the Shi Brothers’ shields and direct Ma Hongjun’s flames at them, severely injuring both brothers.
• Yu Tianheng clashed with Dai Mubai, while Ma Hongjun countered Yu Feng and Tang San hurled Xiao Wu into the air to knock Yu Feng to the ground.

Tang San and the Shrek Team defeated five members of the Imperial Fighting Team, but Yu Xiaogang returned from investigating their opponents and rebuked the celebrating students for underestimating the team. The chapter ended with Yu Xiaogang challenging them to consider the Imperial Fighting Team’s true strength.

• Tang San restrained Ghost Leopard Osler, and Yu Tianheng launched a final attack before Shrek’s combined moves knocked him down and secured the team’s victory.
• Flender, Yu Xiaogang, and Zhao Wuji watched the match, while Yu Xiaogang headed backstage to investigate Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling.
• Doudou announced Shrek as the victors, and the Shrek members celebrated and argued about their contributions.
• Tang San noticed Yu Xiaogang had left, and Yu Xiaogang returned with a gloomy expression as the group praised their win.
• Yu Xiaogang scolded the Shrek Seven Devils for celebrating a victory over an incomplete Imperial Fighting Team and questioned whether they knew its true strength.

Yu Xiaogang brought Shrek to watch Ye Lingling fight seven Soul Ancestors alone, and she stunned them by knocking out their Control System fighter with one punch. When the remaining opponents attacked, Ye Lingling chose to take a Leopard Soul Master's strike head-on, leaving her badly wounded as her punch swung toward him.

• Tang San realized that Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling had not fought in the earlier match, and Yu Xiaogang led Shrek to a Soul Ancestor arena to watch Ye Lingling compete alone against seven opponents.
• Ye Lingling ignored the seven men’s crude taunts and knocked their Control System Soul Master off the platform with one barehanded punch.
• The six remaining Soul Ancestors summoned their Martial Souls, and Yu Xiaogang explained to Tang San how Ye Lingling had used their underestimation to eliminate the team’s Controller.
• Three Agility Attack System fighters moved in, but Ye Lingling stood her ground and punched a Leopard Soul Master as he struck her shoulder with his claws.
• Ye Lingling’s shoulder was torn open by the Leopard Soul Master’s attack, with deep gashes exposing bone as blood poured from the wound.

Ye Lingling eliminated six opponents by taking their attacks head-on, then revealed her Nine-Heart Begonia Martial Soul and healed her severe wounds. The Tiger Soul Master remained as her final opponent, while Shrek learned that her apparently Support System Martial Soul could also make her extraordinarily powerful.

• Ye Lingling traded injuries with the opposing Agility Attack System Soul Masters and knocked four opponents out of the arena.
• The Tiger Soul Master sent two Iron-Armored Rhino Soul Masters to wear Ye Lingling down, but she defeated them with repeated punches.
• After Ye Lingling spat up blood, the Tiger Soul Master declared that she was too injured to withstand his attack.
• Ye Lingling summoned her Nine-Heart Begonia, and Ning Rongrong identified it as a rare Support System Martial Soul with group-healing abilities.
• A petal merged into Ye Lingling and rapidly healed her wounds, leaving the Tiger Soul Master as her only remaining opponent.

After Ye Lingling’s rapid healing forced the Tiger Soul Master to surrender, the Shrek group went to watch another Imperial Fighting Team member compete. They discovered that captain Dugu Yan was a level-fifty-seven Soul King with a red fifth Soul Ring, just as one of her three opponents revealed himself to be a Soul Emperor.

• Ye Lingling healed her injuries, prompting the Tiger Soul Master to surrender and ending the match.
• Zhu Zhuqing watched Ye Lingling’s strength and longed to grow powerful enough to escape her family’s fate and choose her own life.
• Yu Xiaogang led the Shrek group to the Life and Death Gambling Arena, where he explained its deadly matches for Soul Masters above level fifty.
• Tang San learned that the Imperial Fighting Team’s captain, Dugu Yan, was a level-fifty-seven Soul King.
• Xiao Wu sensed that Dugu Yan’s red fifth Soul Ring lacked the aura of a Soul Beast, while Ma Hongjun spotted a Six-Ring Soul Emperor among Dugu Yan’s three opponents.