Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ming killed the Void Burrowing Beast with Spatial Stripping and absorbed its Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring despite its remnant soul trying to possess him. He reached Level 33 and gained a third Soul Skill that, together with Space Shift, gave him a way to survive as long as he had Soul Power and was not surrounded.

• Jiang Ming used Spatial Stripping to kill the Void Burrowing Beast, then drew in its Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Jiang Ming endured the ring’s freezing spatial Soul Power as it tore and healed his meridians.
• The Void Burrowing Beast’s remnant soul attacked Jiang Ming’s Sea of Consciousness and tried to seize his body.
• Jiang Ming overpowered the beast’s remnant with his unusually strong soul and absorbed its soul fragments.
• Jiang Ming finished absorbing the Soul Ring, rose to Level 33, and gained his third Soul Skill.

Nuoke asked Yu Xiaogang about Jiang Ming because the City Lord's Mansion wanted to develop the cemetery at the western mountain and feared provoking Jiang Ming if he was alive. Yu Xiaogang insisted Jiang Ming was dead and advised them to wait five years or proceed, leaving Nuoke to decide whether the city would delay its plans.

• Yu Xiaogang studied Martial Soul theory and dismissed Nuoke's question about Jiang Ming, whom he blamed for challenging his advice.
• Yu Xiaogang praised Tang San for acquiring his second Soul Ring and learning the Parasite soul skill.
• Nuoke explained that the City Lord's Mansion wanted to turn the western mountain cemetery into a tourist attraction but feared disturbing Jiang Ming's ancestors if he returned.
• Yu Xiaogang said Jiang Ming was almost certainly dead and suggested waiting two more years or proceeding based on the near-zero chance that he had survived alone.
• Nuoke thanked Yu Xiaogang and left, while Yu Xiaogang returned to his book and reflected on Tang San's future and Jiang Ming's presumed fate.

Jiang Ming returned to Nuoding City to entrust Jiang Tao with caring for his parents’ graves before leaving to search for a powerful spatial-attribute Soul Beast. A year later, Xiao Yu assumed Jiang Ming was dead and ordered the West City Cemetery demolished.

• Jiang Ming reunited with Jiang Tao and asked him to continue tending his parents’ graves while he was away.
• Jiang Ming gave Jiang Tao a pouch of Gold Soul Coins to help with his son Jiang Zheng’s upcoming marriage.
• Jiang Ming explained that he had absorbed the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, reached Soul Power level 40, and needed to search for a spatial-attribute Soul Beast for his fourth Soul Ring.
• A year later, Xiao Yu learned that Jiang Tao alone had visited the Jiang Family Cemetery and that no one had heard from Jiang Ming for five years.
• Xiao Yu concluded that Jiang Ming was dead and ordered the West City Cemetery demolished in three days.

Xiao Chenyu ordered the West City Cemetery demolished, brutally driving away the people who tried to protect it. A year later, Jiang Ming returned to find his parents’ graves replaced by a pavilion, his grief and suppressed killing intent evident.

• Xiao Chenyu arrived at the cemetery with armed men and claimed the City Lord’s Mansion had approved its demolition.
• When the commoners refused to leave, Xiao Chenyu’s men attacked them and began smashing gravestones.
• Jiang Tao tried to shield the Jiang family graves, but Xiao Chenyu broke a gravestone and kicked Jiang Tao until his leg broke.
• Xiao Chenyu mocked Jiang Ming and ordered the workers to continue; by sunset, the cemetery had been leveled and its remains carted away.
• One year later, Jiang Ming returned to Nuoding City and found a pavilion where his parents’ graves and the cemetery had been.

Jiang Ming returned to his parents’ burial ground after years of searching for a spatial Soul Beast and found the graves replaced by a pavilion and luxury garden. He confronted the garden’s manager, Qin Aotian, and demanded to know who had authorized the construction and where the graves had gone.

• Jiang Ming recalled how he had become a level-45 Soul Ancestor at thirteen after years of dangerous cultivation and searching for a compatible spatial Soul Beast.
• Jiang Ming found his parents’ graves missing and a pavilion standing where the cemetery had been.
• Jiang Ming went to the Landscape Garden at the mountain’s foot and demanded to speak with the person in charge.
• Qin Aotian appeared, revealed himself as the City Lord’s Wife’s younger brother and a two-ring Soul Grandmaster, then ordered Jiang Ming to leave.
• Jiang Ming demanded details about the land, construction, and his parents’ graves, while Qin Aotian laughed at his threat.

Jiang Ming confronted Qin Aotian over the fate of his parents’ remains and revealed his overwhelming Soul Ring configuration. After Qin Aotian admitted the City Lord’s Mansion ordered the land cleared, Jiang Ming killed him with Space Compression.

• Qin Aotian bragged that the City Lord’s Mansion had approved construction on the land where Jiang Ming’s parents were buried.
• Jiang Ming revealed four Soul Rings—yellow, purple, black, and black—terrifying Qin Aotian with his two Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings.
• Jiang Ming asked where his parents’ remains were, and Qin Aotian confessed they had been crushed during the construction of a tourist attraction ordered by the City Lord’s Mansion.
• Jiang Ming activated Space Compression and flattened Qin Aotian alive, silencing his screams within the spatial ripples.

Jiang Ming crushed Qin Aotian and destroyed the pavilion built over his parents’ former burial place, then confronted the City Lord’s Mansion over its treatment of the families whose graves it had displaced. He entered a banquet and revealed four Soul Rings, including two black ones, leaving Xiao Chen and the other guests stunned.

• Jiang Ming used his fourth Soul Ring to crush Qin Aotian into a thin sheet of paper.
• Jiang Ming compressed the pavilion built over his parents’ former burial site into a sphere and shattered it.
• At the City Lord’s Mansion banquet, Xiao Chen, Liu Feng, Ling Tian, and Qin Yue praised the scenic area and dismissed the complaints of the displaced families.
• Xiao Chenyu announced that he had invited Tang San and Xiao Wu, prompting the guests to praise their talent.
• Jiang Ming arrived at the banquet, challenged the guests for offending a thirteen-year-old Level 45 Soul Master, and revealed four Soul Rings, including two black ones.

Jiang Ming confronted Xiao Chen over the destruction of his ancestral grave and killed Xiao Chenyu, then slaughtered the guards Xiao Chen summoned. With Xiao Chen, Liu Feng, and Ling Tian preparing to fight, Jiang Ming remained surrounded by enemies in the City Lord's Mansion.

• Xiao Chen tried to greet Jiang Ming, who asked who had struck the first shovel when his ancestral grave was demolished.
• Xiao Chenyu proudly admitted that he had done it, and Jiang Ming used Space Tear to cut him into pieces.
• Jiang Ming reminded Xiao Chen that the Xiao Clan had destroyed his ancestral grave, and Xiao Chen recognized him and ordered the guards to surround him.
• Xiao Chen urged Liu Feng and Ling Tian to join the fight, and they released their Martial Souls alongside Qin Yue and Ling Feng.
• Jiang Ming attacked the surrounding guards with Space Compression and Space Tear, killing more than half of them while the survivors fled to the corners.

Jiang Ming overwhelmed Xiao Chen, Qin Yue, Ling Tian, and Liu Feng in the City Lord’s Mansion with his spatial soul skills. After killing Ling Tian, he confronted Liu Feng over his role in demolishing the cemetery.

• Xiao Chen, Qin Yue, Ling Tian, and Liu Feng attacked Jiang Ming from four directions, but Jiang Ming froze their strikes by stripping away the space around him.
• Jiang Ming sent Xiao Chen’s Wolf Collapse Cannon bullets back through a Spatial Shift, leaving Xiao Chen badly wounded.
• Jiang Ming tore off both of Ling Tian’s wings and crushed him with Space Compression until he became dust.
• Liu Feng begged Jiang Ming for mercy and offered him the Liu Clan’s wealth, but Jiang Ming reminded him that he had taken part in demolishing the cemetery.

Jiang Ming killed Liu Feng, Liu Long, Xiao Chen, and Qin Yue in the hall, unmoved by their pleas or threats. Qin Yue warned him that her cousin Qin Ming was a level-sixty-three Soul Emperor, but Jiang Ming said he would kill him too.

• Liu Feng begged Jiang Ming to spare Liu Long, but Jiang Ming flattened Liu Feng into a sheet of paper and sliced Liu Long in half.
• Jiang Ming compressed Xiao Chen into a sphere and shattered it after Xiao Chen pleaded for him to spare his wife.
• Qin Yue warned Jiang Ming that her cousin was a level-sixty-three Soul Emperor and urged him to let her go.
• Jiang Ming said he would kill Qin Ming too, then used Space Compression to kill Qin Yue.

Jiang Ming massacred the Xiao Clan’s City Lord’s Mansion, destroyed its memorial tablets, and added Qin Ming to his death list. Meanwhile, Tang Hao met Tang Yuehua to discuss Tang San and Spirit Hall, before the Nuoding Academy group discovered the fresh carnage at the mansion and realized the killer might still be inside.

• Jiang Ming crushed Qin Yue into a ball, destroyed the Xiao Clan ancestors’ memorial tablets, and left the City Lord’s Mansion.
• Jiang Ming recalled Qin Yue’s mention of Qin Ming and wrote his name onto the death list.
• Tang Hao met Tang Yuehua at Moonlight Pavilion and learned that Tang San had reached Rank 29 at twelve.
• Tang Yuehua told Tang Hao that Spirit Hall had been expanding its influence across the Heaven Dou Empire, and Tang Hao vowed to destroy it.
• Tang Hao returned to Nuoding City to watch over Tang San before his journey to Shrek Academy.
• Tang San, Xiao Wu, Yu Xiaogang, and their companion arrived at the blood-soaked City Lord’s Mansion and realized the killer might still be inside.

Tang San, Xiao Wu, Yu Xiaogang, and Nuoke found the Xiao Clan slaughtered and discovered that Jiang Ming had taken revenge for his family’s demolished ancestral graves. When Yu Xiaogang challenged him to seek justice through the authorities, Jiang Ming revealed a Soul Ring configuration that shattered Yu Xiaogang’s theories.

• Tang San, Xiao Wu, Yu Xiaogang, and Nuoke entered the City Lord’s Mansion and found the Xiao Clan dead, with no obvious wounds.
• Jiang Ming arrived, and Tang San recognized him and explained that the Xiao Clan had destroyed Jiang Ming’s family cemetery.
• Jiang Ming told Nuoke he had spared him because he had not been involved in demolishing the cemetery or disturbing the graves.
• Yu Xiaogang condemned Jiang Ming’s killings and insisted that he should have reported the Xiao Clan to the authorities.
• Jiang Ming revealed four Soul Rings—yellow, purple, black, and black—and Yu Xiaogang protested that they contradicted his theory.

Jiang Ming humiliated Yu Xiaogang and castrated him in the City Lord's Mansion, then left to pursue the remaining members of the Liu and Ling Clans and find a healer for Jiang Tao. Tang San and Xiao Wu were freed from Jiang Ming's Soul Power suppression and decided to treat Yu Xiaogang before fleeing Nuoding City.

• Tang San saw Jiang Ming's four Soul Rings and realized their existence might let him break the Soul Ring limits too.
• Jiang Ming slapped Yu Xiaogang, mocked his helplessness, and crushed his pride by refuting his theories through sheer power.
• Jiang Ming used Space Tear to castrate Yu Xiaogang, then suppressed Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Nuoke when they tried to resist.
• Jiang Ming spared Tang San and Xiao Wu, left Yu Xiaogang unconscious, and planned to deal with the Liu and Ling Clans and find a healer for Jiang Tao.
• After Jiang Ming departed and his suppression faded, Tang San and Xiao Wu decided to stop Yu Xiaogang's bleeding and leave Nuoding City overnight.

Tang San told Flender how Jiang Ming had mutilated Yu Xiaogang, and a healing Soul Emperor confirmed that the injury could not be reversed. Tang San visited Yu Xiaogang, who lay awake and unresponsive, while Flender struggled with his anger and his feelings for Liu Erlong.

• Tang San graduated from Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy with Xiao Wu after deciding to seek help from Grandmaster's Soul Saint-level brother at Shrek Academy.
• Tang San recounted Jiang Ming's attack and unusual Soul Ring configuration to Flender and the others at Shrek Academy.
• A level-sixty-three healing Soul Emperor said Yu Xiaogang's wound had healed but the destroyed part could not regenerate.
• Tang San went to Yu Xiaogang's bedside and found him staring blankly at the ceiling without responding.

Yu Xiaogang urged Flender to help him destroy Jiang Ming by branding him an Evil Soul Master, while Shrek’s group recalled their past encounters with Jiang Ming. In Spirit City, Bibi Dong sent Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation to investigate the massacre in Nuoding City, suspecting Evil Soul Masters were responsible.

• Yu Xiaogang blamed Jiang Ming’s unusual Soul Rings on Evil Soul Master methods and demanded that Flender help him get Jiang Ming killed; Flender agreed.
• Dai Mubai recalled that Jiang Ming had defeated him four years earlier with only one Soul Ring, and Flender declared Jiang Ming an enemy of Shrek Academy.
• Tang San remembered Jiang Ming’s chilling gaze from five days earlier and believed their conflict was not over.
• Bibi Dong read a report that City Lord Xiao Chen’s household and the Liu and Ling Clans had been wiped out in Nuoding City, leaving nearly a thousand dead.
• Bibi Dong sent Xie Yue, Hu Liena, and Yan to investigate the massacre and suggested that confronting the culprits could help them break through to Level 50.
• Xie Yue and Hu Liena judged that powerful Soul Masters, possibly Evil Soul Masters, had carried out the massacre.

Bibi Dong sent Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and the third member of Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation to investigate the slaughter in Nuoding City, while Xue Ye ordered Xue Qinghe to lead an imperial investigation. Xue Qinghe set out with elite guards and encountered six young Soul Masters waiting outside Heaven Dou City.

• Bibi Dong ordered Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and the third member of their group to investigate Nuoding City and execute any Evil Soul Master they found, then privately hoped Yu Xiaogang was safe.
• Xue Ye heard General Ge Long assess that the massacre of Xiao Chen’s household might have been carried out by a Soul King-level Evil Soul Master.
• Xue Ye assigned Xue Qinghe to investigate the killings and ordered him to find and execute the culprit.
• Xue Qinghe left Heaven Dou City with forty elite imperial guards, including two Soul Ancestor commanders.
• Xue Qinghe encountered six young men and women with Soul Master auras waiting beside their horses outside the city gates.

Xue Qinghe met the Imperial Fighting Team on the road to Nuoding City and agreed to let Qin Ming and his students accompany his convoy. He explained what made an Evil Soul Master dangerous as the group continued toward the city.

• Xue Qinghe encountered Dugu Yan, Qin Ming, and the Imperial Fighting Team while traveling to Nuoding City.
• Qin Ming asked to bring his students along, saying they could learn from seeing an Evil Soul Master and that he had a personal connection to the Nuoding City incident.
• Xue Qinghe agreed, and the Imperial Fighting Team joined his convoy.
• Yu Tianheng asked Xue Qinghe about Evil Soul Masters, and Xue Qinghe distinguished them from powerful Soul Masters with evil-looking Martial Souls.
• Xue Qinghe explained that Evil Soul Masters gained power by killing people and Soul Masters, and Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan reacted with disgust.

Xue Qinghe and the Imperial Fighting Team entered Nuoding City to investigate the massacre and learned from Jiang Tao that thirteen-year-old Jiang Ming had killed the Three Great Families in revenge for their desecration of his family’s ancestral graves. The revelation left Qin Ming and the team in stunned silence as Xue Qinghe recognized Jiang Ming’s name.

• As they traveled toward Nuoding City, Dugu Yan and the others discussed the massacre and feared that an Evil Soul Master or powerful group was responsible.
• Xue Qinghe entered the silent city with Qin Ming, the Imperial Fighting Team, and the Imperial Guard, then ordered the guards to search for survivors and investigate without bias.
• The Imperial Guard brought Jiang Tao before Xue Qinghe, and Jiang Tao explained that City Lord Xiao had destroyed his family’s ancestral burial ground and abused them when they sought justice.
• Jiang Tao revealed that Jiang Ming had returned, killed those responsible, and wiped out the Three Great Families in revenge.
• Xue Qinghe recognized Jiang Ming’s name but gave little explanation, while Qin Ming and the Imperial Fighting Team reacted in silence to the account of the desecrated graves.

As Qin Ming sought to arrest Jiang Ming and Xue Qinghe defended him, Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation arrived and claimed authority to take him away. Jiang Ming appeared amid the standoff, sent Jiang Tao home, and calmly faced both sides as Yan prepared to confront him.

• Qin Ming accused Jiang Ming of massacring the Three Great Families and declared that he would arrest him, while Xue Qinghe argued that Jiang Ming’s actions were justified vengeance.
• Xie Yue, Yan, and Hu Liena arrived with Spirit Hall deacons and announced that Spirit Hall would take Jiang Ming into custody, escalating the conflict with Xue Qinghe and Qin Ming.
• Jiang Tao protested that the Three Great Families deserved their fate, but neither Qin Ming, Xue Qinghe, nor Spirit Hall’s representatives answered him.
• Jiang Ming appeared behind Jiang Tao, told him to go home, and faced Qin Ming and Spirit Hall’s representatives without showing fear.
• Yan activated Flame Lord and challenged Jiang Ming, who calmly confirmed that he had killed the Three Great Families.

Jiang Ming rejected Spirit Hall’s offer to recruit him and revealed that he had once encountered Hu Liena and Xie Yue six years earlier. He overwhelmed Yan and broke up Xie Yue and Hu Liena’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill, leaving both unconscious with serious wounds.

• Hu Liena recognized Jiang Ming from a meeting outside the Star Dou Great Forest six years earlier, and Xie Yue remembered him as well.
• Yan attacked Jiang Ming with his fourth Soul Skill, Blazing Prairie Fist, but Jiang Ming caught the flaming punch barehanded and crushed Yan’s fist.
• Xie Yue and Hu Liena used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Demon Charm, to ensnare the people nearby, but Jiang Ming remained unaffected.
• Jiang Ming used Space Tear to shatter Demon Charm and knock Xie Yue and Hu Liena out of their fusion, leaving them unconscious with wounds across their chests.