Chapter Summaries

Long Zhanye followed the Zhongli Brothers to hunt a soul beast and discovered that Zhongli Ren used a soul-sealing staff to control a beast’s soul, raising his suspicions that the brothers were Evil Soul Masters. Their bait roused a massive Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, and Long Zhanye faced a foe powerful enough to threaten even a Title Douluo.

• The Zhongli Brothers told Long Zhanye to help them corner and kill a swift soul beast hidden in an underground burrow.
• Zhongli Ren went ahead and released a blood-red, mouse-like soul from his staff to lure the creature out.
• Long Zhanye recognized the released soul as a soul beast’s spirit and deduced that Zhongli Ren’s Level 8 Soul Tool sealed and controlled souls.
• The earth shook as a furious beast emerged from the burrow beneath an ancient tree.
• Long Zhanye recognized the beast as a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear over ten thousand years old, whose strength could rival a Title Douluo.

The Zhongli brothers lured Long Zhanye toward a ten-thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, intending to use him as bait while they attacked from behind. Long Zhanye recognized their scheme and weighed the danger as they prepared to confront the beast.

• Zhongli Ren provoked the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, then narrowly retreated from its sweeping claw strike as it stayed inside its cave.
• Zhongli Ren whistled to summon Zhongli Tian and Zhongli Di, who told Long Zhanye to help surround the beast.
• Long Zhanye followed the brothers while considering how to escape their company and coveting the bear's Soul Ring for his Qilin Arm.
• Zhongli Tian instructed Long Zhanye to help block the bear from the front while the other brothers circled behind it.
• Long Zhanye agreed outwardly but realized the Zhongli brothers meant to use him as cannon fodder.

Long Zhanye discovered that the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear was a weakened mother protecting two newborn cubs, and he decided to keep the Zhongli Brothers from harming them. He lured the three Evil Soul Masters away by claiming he had found two stronger bears, and they prepared to check his story.

• Long Zhanye used his Double Pupil to see that the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear had just given birth and was guarding its two newborn cubs inside the burrow.
• Moved by thoughts of his own mother, Long Zhanye resolved to protect the mother bear and her cubs from the three Evil Soul Masters.
• When Zhongli Tian announced that he was about to attack, Long Zhanye told him to wait and claimed there were two Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bears over fifty thousand years old fifteen kilometers to the northwest.
• Zhongli Di asked if Long Zhanye's claim was true, while Zhongli Ren suspected he was lying and Zhongli Tian threatened to kill him if he was.
• Long Zhanye calmly said they could find out by going to look.

Long Zhanye followed the Zhongli Brothers to two enormous Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bears after helping a wounded mother bear and her cubs escape the Evil Soul Masters. As Zhongli Tian unleashed a tortured Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear Beast Spirit to attack the pair, Long Zhanye recalled that the species was rare because it could barely reproduce.

• Long Zhanye watched the Zhongli Brothers leave to hunt the bears, then followed them after checking that the mother bear and her cubs were safe.
• Zhongli Tian revealed his eight Soul Rings and summoned a blood-red Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear Beast Spirit, whose presence filled Long Zhanye with fear and despair.
• The group found two Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bears over ten meters tall, and Zhongli Tian and the brothers praised Long Zhanye for leading them to such powerful prey.
• Long Zhanye asked Zhongli Tian about the promised Soul Rings, and Zhongli Tian agreed that the bears' rings would go to Long Zhanye while their souls went to the Evil Soul Masters.
• Zhongli Tian's Beast Spirit charged at the two bears, and Long Zhanye recalled Elder Gu's explanation that Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bears were rare because they had almost no ability to reproduce.

Long Zhanye recalled how rare it was for Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bears to reproduce as Zhongli Tian and his brothers attacked a male bear. Long Zhanye used a Chaos Qi illusion to make the brothers believe he was holding off the female while he watched from hiding.

• Long Zhanye remembered Elder Gu's explanation that Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bears were solitary, had infrequent estrus periods, and rarely produced offspring.
• Zhongli Tian ordered an attack, then vanished as his blood-colored Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear Beast Spirit struck the male bear.
• Zhongli Di and Zhongli Ren joined Zhongli Tian in surrounding and attacking the male Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, while Zhongli Tian ordered Long Zhanye to hold off the female.
• Long Zhanye opened his Heavenly Eye, spread Chaos Qi across the battlefield, and sent a Sixth Soul Skill illusion to fight the female while his true body hid in a tree.
• The Zhongli Brothers' senses were restricted by the mist, but they saw the illusion battling the female and focused on attacking the male.

The Zhongli Brothers used countless Beast Spirits to trap and exhaust a male Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, but it feigned weakness and fatally wounded Zhongli Ren. The bear then charged at Zhongli Tian and Zhongli Di, intent on killing the Evil Soul Masters who had harmed its mate.

• The Zhongli Brothers sent their Beast Spirits to attack the male Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear and used a blood-colored barrier to trap it.
• The bear fought off the spirits as the brothers continued wearing it down, and its fur and right claw became bloodied.
• The bear pretended to weaken, luring the Zhongli Brothers into lowering their guard as they began withdrawing their Soul Power.
• The bear suddenly struck Zhongli Ren across the chest, inflicting five deep wounds.
• The bear lunged at Zhongli Tian and Zhongli Di, enraged by their attack on its mate.

Zhongli Ren died and Zhongli Di was badly injured as Zhongli Tian and Zhongli Di fought the male Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear. Long Zhanye kept the female bear occupied while concealing his strength, and the men eventually killed the male bear, leaving its fate and their next move uncertain.

• Zhongli Tian and Zhongli Di used their Nether Domain Snakes to attack the poisoned Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, which threw Zhongli Ren into them and killed him.
• The two men released the Nether Ghost Tiger and Ghost Shadow Leopard Emperor, then used their eighth Soul Rings to knock the bear down and press their attack.
• Long Zhanye kept his Puppet circling and provoking the female Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear while hiding his true strength and considering whether the Evil Soul Masters would betray him.
• Zhongli Tian and Zhongli Di killed the male Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, but Zhongli Di suffered a serious arm injury.

Long Zhanye concealed his true condition while the Zhongli Brothers fought the female Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, waiting for an opportunity to secure its Soul Ring. After the brothers demanded his help, he struck the wounded bear with a Level 7 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannonball, leaving it helpless as their beast souls attacked it.

• Long Zhanye let his Puppet take a severe-looking wound so Zhongli Tian and Zhongli Di would trust him, then secretly withdrew it while remaining unharmed.
• Zhongli Tian and Zhongli Di struggled against the female Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear as Long Zhanye watched, waiting for both sides to weaken.
• Zhongli Tian shouted at Po Hongchen to join the fight, and Long Zhanye pretended to rise in pain before firing a Level 7 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannonball at the bear.
• The explosion blasted the female Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear back and knocked Zhongli Tian and Zhongli Di down with the shockwave.
• The Zhongli brothers sent the Ghost Shadow Leopard Emperor and Nether Ghost Tiger to tear into the weakened bear as it continued to struggle.

Long Zhanye watched Zhongli Tian extract the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bears’ souls, then revealed he had never been injured and claimed their Soul Rings. He left Zhongli Tian realizing that Long Zhanye had been manipulating them from the beginning.

• Zhongli Tian extracted the souls of the two slain Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bears into his staff while Long Zhanye studied his technique.
• Long Zhanye asked Zhongli Tian for the bears’ Soul Rings, and Zhongli Tian and Zhongli Di reluctantly agreed to give them up after noticing Long Zhanye was unharmed.
• Long Zhanye stored the bears’ roughly fifty-thousand- and sixty-thousand-year Soul Rings, intending to absorb them later in a safe place.
• Long Zhanye sat beside Zhongli Tian and asked how he controlled Beast Souls, leaving Zhongli Tian shocked as he realized Long Zhanye’s injuries and weakness had been an act.

Long Zhanye forced Zhongli Tian to reveal the Evil Soul Masters’ Beast Soul control secret and took his staff, then killed Zhongli Di and seized all three Level 8 Soul Tools. He spared Zhongli Tian only on condition that he follow him, and the two walked away together.

• Zhongli Tian revealed the secret art for controlling Beast Souls after Long Zhanye threatened him with a Level 7 Fixed Soul Cannon.
• Long Zhanye demanded Zhongli Tian’s staff and the two other staffs, and Zhongli Tian surrendered his own.
• Zhongli Di refused to yield and threatened Long Zhanye, who killed him with the Demon-Breaking Sword.
• Zhongli Tian knelt and begged for his life, and Long Zhanye took all three Level 8 Soul Tools.
• Long Zhanye ordered Zhongli Tian to come with him, and the wounded man followed him into the distance.

Long Zhanye brought Zhongli Tian to a basin housing over five thousand Cyclopes and Twin Cyclopes, intending to wipe out the entire horde. He prepared a blood-scented funnel to drive them through one exit at night, while Zhongli Tian secretly waited for a chance to kill him.

• Long Zhanye showed Zhongli Tian the Cyclops-filled basin and declared that the whole horde was his target.
• Long Zhanye explained that he would ambush the Cyclopes when they emerged at night, while Zhongli Tian silently plotted to kill him and reclaim his belongings.
• Long Zhanye used his Heavenly Eye Martial Soul to sense Zhongli Tian's intended attack but concealed that he knew about it.
• After about two hours, Long Zhanye spread Gold Wolf King blood around the basin, leaving one funnel-shaped gap to channel the Cyclopes toward an ambush.

Long Zhanye prepared an elaborate Soul Tool trap at the basin’s exit, planning to force the Cyclopes out and kill them in large numbers. He ordered the injured Zhongli Tian to create a disturbance behind the herd, while the Cyclopes began funneling toward the trapped passage.

• Long Zhanye placed seven Pseudo Sun Moon God Needles above the basin’s exit and arranged two Level 7 and more than thirty Level 6 Fixed Soul Cannons into a linkage device.
• Zhongli Tian watched Long Zhanye’s preparations and grew furious, blaming him for failing to help during the hunt that killed Zhongli Tian’s brothers.
• Long Zhanye told Zhongli Tian to circle around behind the Cyclopes and drive them out, and Zhongli Tian reluctantly agreed out of fear.
• Night fell, and the Cyclops tribe began moving toward the exit to hunt.
• The Cyclopes avoided the nearby Gold Wolf King’s aura and found the funnel-shaped passage, unaware it was Long Zhanye’s death trap.

Long Zhanye used explosions and the Pseudo Sun Moon God Needles to slaughter Cyclopes pouring from their nest, then turned their corpses into bombs with the forbidden Corpse Explosion Technique. After replenishing his Soul Power, he detonated the linked corpses and retreated to safety as the battle continued.

• Linked Soul Bombs exploded at the exit, and Zhongli Tian threw Cyclopes into the panicked herd to drive it forward.
• Long Zhanye fired the seven Pseudo Sun Moon God Needles into the Cyclopes as they rushed through the exit, killing more than twelve hundred in under fifteen minutes.
• With his bombs and traps exhausted, Long Zhanye calculated that he needed more corpses and Soul Rings to improve his chances of achieving the Secret Spirit Bone Technique.
• Long Zhanye used the Corpse Explosion Technique taught by Masked Douluo to link nearly a thousand Cyclops corpses, replenishing his Soul Power with six level-seven compressed Milk Bottles.
• Long Zhanye detonated the linked corpses while the Pseudo Sun Moon God Needle kept firing, then retreated several hundred steps to watch from a safe place.

Long Zhanye used Corpse Explosion to kill over three thousand Cyclops, then collected their souls to refine a Secret Spirit Bone Left Arm. After absorbing it and taking a roughly sixty-five-thousand-year soul ring as his seventh, he remained amid the battlefield with thousands of other soul rings left to consider.

• Long Zhanye saw that Zhongli Tian had died in the chain of explosions, which had left over three thousand Cyclops corpses across the basin.
• Long Zhanye judged that more than three thousand Cyclops still remained, including the elderly and young, so the population was not at risk of extinction.
• Long Zhanye placed the three Staffs in a triangular formation and collected the dead Cyclops' souls into the gems atop them.
• Long Zhanye used the gathered energy to refine and absorb a silver-gray Secret Spirit Bone Left Arm that granted him two skills.
• Long Zhanye found a roughly sixty-five-thousand-year soul ring among the corpses and successfully absorbed it as his seventh soul ring.

Long Zhanye raised the ages of his Soul Rings using energy from thousands of Cyclopes, then absorbed two Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear Soul Rings into his second Martial Soul. The God of Sin announced that he had passed the Six Trials of Sin and granted him a divine artifact, the Soul-Absorbing Tablet.

• Long Zhanye finished raising his Soul Rings, revealing that several had gained golden patterns and reached extraordinary ages.
• Long Zhanye released two Soul Rings from the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear and absorbed them simultaneously into his second Martial Soul.
• After four hours, Long Zhanye completed the absorption, and his second Martial Soul gained three new Soul Rings.
• Medusa announced that Long Zhanye had passed the Six Trials of Sin and awarded him ten percent affinity with the God of Sin, one God-Bestowed Soul Ring, and the right to use the Soul-Absorbing Tablet.
• Long Zhanye received the gray-black Soul-Absorbing Tablet and sensed the powerful force within it.

Long Zhanye’s Double Pupil and Heavenly Eye evolved, greatly expanding his perception and Mental Power. After meditating for half a month, he condensed a Spleen Soul Core and then hurried back toward Ming Capital to honor his promise to Xiao Hongchen in the tournament finals.

• Long Zhanye suffered a violent surge of dizziness, and silver-white light burst from his Heavenly Eye before his Double Pupil and Heavenly Eye evolved.
• Long Zhanye discovered that his enhanced Double Pupil could perceive everything within a hundred li and that his Mental Power had grown to a level comparable to a Title Douluo.
• Long Zhanye meditated among the corpses and gradually compressed his Mental Power into his spleen for fifteen days.
• On the sixteenth day, Long Zhanye completed his Spleen Soul Core, giving him Mental Power comparable to that of a rank ninety-five Super Douluo.
• Long Zhanye realized the tournament was underway, spread his Supersonic Bionic Wings, and flew toward Ming Capital to help Xiao Hongchen in the finals.

Long Zhanye searched Mingyue Hotel for his fellow Body Sect disciples and discovered Long Aotian, Vina, Wang Yanfeng, and the others in Room 309. After they mistook him for a threat, he revealed his identity and reunited with them inside the room.

• Long Zhanye learned that the tournament had reached its round-robin stage and searched Mingyue Hotel for the Body Sect disciples.
• At Room 309, Long Zhanye sensed familiar auras, while Vina sensed his powerful Mental Power and warned the others.
• Long Aotian stopped Wang Yanfeng from rushing outside and led the group to confront the masked stranger.
• Long Zhanye removed his hood and mask, and Vina recognized him as Zhanye before the other disciples welcomed their junior brother.
• Long Zhanye entered Room 309 with his fellow Body Sect disciples, and they began sharing the emotions of their reunion.

Long Zhanye reunited with his fellow Body Sect disciples and explained that he had joined Mingde Hall to learn soul tool technology and strengthen their sect. He gave them eight Sun Moon God Needles for the competition and proposed placing them around the sect afterward, leaving Wang Yanfeng confused about his plan.

• Wang Yanfeng, Vina, Chen Lü, and Gu Tong questioned Long Zhanye about his return, and Long Aotian explained that their team was competing under the alias Snow Demon Sect after the explosion.
• Long Zhanye said he had spent nearly four years at Mingde Hall, learned soul tool technology, and advanced close to the Soul Saint level.
• Long Zhanye confirmed that he had joined Mingde Hall to improve himself and help the Body Sect overcome its weakness in modern soul tool technology.
• Long Zhanye displayed seven Pseudo Sun Moon God Needles and one true Class Nine Sun Moon God Needle, explaining their power and coordinated use.
• Long Zhanye gave all eight Soul Tools to the sect and suggested placing them in eight directions above the Body Sect after the competition, leaving Wang Yanfeng puzzled.

Long Zhanye met with his fellow Body Sect members, giving them defensive weapons, Sealed Milk Bottles, and a Spirit Bone while explaining why he could not compete for the sect. He reaffirmed his determination to take revenge on Shrek himself, even as Long Aotian promised to help him.

• Long Zhanye revealed seven Pseudo Sun Moon God Needles and explained that he could not compete for the Body Sect because he had promised Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy one match.
• Long Zhanye gave his senior brothers and sisters seven Level 6 Sealed Milk Bottles and offered Vina a forty-thousand-year Spirit Bone.
• Vina refused to accept the Spirit Bone as repayment, reminding Long Zhanye that the Hundred Thousand Year Head Spirit Bone had been Shrek's compensation to him.
• Long Aotian told Long Zhanye that the Great Elder had recovered and the sect master had reached the peak of rank ninety-eight.
• Long Zhanye said he still sought revenge on Shrek, and Vina apologized that the Body Sect could not readily help him.
• Long Aotian vowed to help destroy Shrek after reaching Limit Douluo, but Long Zhanye insisted the grudge was his to settle personally.

Long Zhanye ambushed a group of Shrek students at Mingyue Hotel, knocking them unconscious and abducting four women for Masked Douluo. Dai Huabin and Zhou Sichen were left to seek help, unaware that the missing students had been taken away.

• Long Zhanye waited at Mingyue Hotel for Shrek students, planning to capture five young women for Masked Douluo.
• Dai Huabin and six companions emerged from their room, and Long Zhanye covered the corridor in Chaos Qi.
• Long Zhanye fired his Weakening Ray, knocking three students unconscious, then shot down the Lan Luoluo twins.
• Long Zhanye secretly carried away the four unconscious women while Dai Huabin and Zhou Sichen struggled to see through the fog.
• The Chaos Qi dispersed, leaving Dai Huabin, Zhou Sichen, and the unconscious Xie Huanyue behind as they hurried to report the attack.