Chapter Summaries

Dai Tu discovered that he was the illegitimate son of White Tiger Duke Dai Hao, and Zhu Ye led the White Tiger Army to kill the villagers who protected him. After watching Arin and the villagers die, Dai Tu awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and vowed revenge.

• Dai Tu sensed blood near Konoha and found the villagers bound and surrounded by the White Tiger Army.
• Zhu Ye revealed that Dai Tu was Dai Hao’s illegitimate son and demanded that the villagers hand him over.
• Dai Tu surrendered himself to protect the villagers, but Zhu Ye broke his promise and ordered their execution.
• Zhu Ye killed Arin after she refused to blame Dai Tu, then threatened to torture him and burn Konoha.
• Dai Tu watched the massacre and awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, swearing that everyone responsible deserved to die.

Dai Tu slaughtered Zhu Ye and the White Tiger Army soldiers after they killed the villagers and Arin, but Mangekyo backlash left him near death. Electrolux stabilized his eyes and evolved his Tree of Life martial soul before his remnant soul entered Dai Tu, leaving him to continue his path.

• Dai Tu erased Zhu Ye after killing the soldiers who accompanied him.
• Dai Tu broke down beside Arin’s corpse and remembered the people and warmth he had lost.
• Dai Tu suffered severe pain and Soul Power backlash as his Mangekyo threatened to consume him.
• Electrolux sensed Dai Tu’s killing intent, intervened, and soothed his damaged body and eyes.
• Electrolux infused Dai Tu’s sapling with light, evolving it into a Tree of Life to balance the Mangekyo.
• Electrolux warned Dai Tu not to let destruction consume him, then entered his brow as golden light.

After the massacre in Konoha, Dai Tu buried Arin and the villagers, then awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and the Tree of Life. In the God Realm, the God of Destruction and Goddess of Life watched him and recognized the balance between his powers.

• Dai Tu woke beside Arin and realized the massacre had not been a dream.
• Dai Tu dug and marked graves for the villagers and soldiers, burying fifty-three bodies.
• Dai Tu awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and Tree of Life, whose powers raised his Soul Power to the threshold of Rank 20.
• The God of Destruction and Goddess of Life observed Dai Tu from the Castle of Destruction.
• The God of Destruction said Dai Tu's life and destruction powers had formed a balance they had pursued for hundreds of millions of years.

The God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life found Dai Tu uniquely able to balance their opposing powers and offered him their inheritance. Dai Tu accepted because mastering both laws might let him revive the dead, but demanded that the gods leave his choices and vengeance to him.

• The God of Destruction proposed making Dai Tu their successor, while the Goddess of Life worried that the trials would worsen his suffering.
• The God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest and appeared before Dai Tu in a frozen moment.
• Dai Tu asked whether becoming a god could bring the dead back to life, and the God of Destruction said deities could not directly reverse death.
• The Goddess of Life suggested that mastering life and destruction might let Dai Tu reach the boundary between life and death.
• Dai Tu accepted their inheritance on the condition that the gods would not interfere with his choices or his vengeance.

Dai Tu received the Marks of Life and Destruction and became the dual inheritor tasked with completing nine God Trials. Knowing the White Tiger Duke Mansion would hunt him and that he was still weak, he began considering the Body Sect as a source of protection.

• The Goddess of Life and the God of Destruction gave Dai Tu their inheritance marks and warned him that he must complete nine trials or suffer a backlash against his soul.
• The gods vanished, and Dai Tu resumed moving through the forest with the two marks and his martial souls intact.
• Dai Tu resolved to grow strong enough to revive everyone in Konoha, defeat the White Tiger Duke Mansion, and complete the trials.
• Dai Tu considered seeking protection from Shrek Academy or another empire but rejected both options.
• Dai Tu recalled the Body Sect and its powerful, exclusive members as a possible refuge from the White Tiger Duke Mansion.

Dai Tu tested how his evolved Mangekyō Sharingan had transformed his first soul skill into Kamui and decided to seek a thousand-year soul ring. While searching the Star Dou Great Forest, he encountered Beibei and Tang Ya pursuing a Nether Flame Cat toward the stream.

• Dai Tu considered traveling to the Body Sect but decided to grow stronger and obtain his second soul ring first.
• Dai Tu tested his evolved first soul skill, discovering that Kamui granted intangibility, absorption, and spatial attacks.
• Dai Tu chose to seek a thousand-year soul ring and ventured deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Dai Tu recognized Beibei and Tang Ya chasing a roughly fifteen-hundred-year Nether Flame Cat toward the stream.
• Beibei warned Tang Ya that the cat would become faster in water as Dai Tu blocked its escape route.

Dai Tu used his Mangekyo’s intangibility and precise insight to withstand the Nether Flame Cat’s attacks, then trapped it with Wood Spirit Entanglement. Beibei and Tang Ya realized Dai Tu possessed two martial souls as the bound soul beast struggled.

• The Nether Flame Cat charged Dai Tu, but its claws and nether flames passed through him harmlessly as he activated Kamui: Intangibility.
• Dai Tu analyzed the cat’s weaknesses and evaded its next pounce with a precisely timed step.
• Dai Tu used Wood Spirit Entanglement to block the cat’s tail and bind its body while draining its Soul Power.
• Beibei and Tang Ya recognized the plant-type soul skill and concluded that Dai Tu had twin martial souls.

Dai Tu killed a fifteen-hundred-year Nether Flame Cat with his Mangekyo and Wood Spirit Entanglement, then rejected Beibei and Tang Ya’s invitation to join Shrek Academy. He left them knowing he intended to pursue his own path.

• Dai Tu used Wood Spirit Entanglement to drain the Nether Flame Cat’s Soul Power, then twisted it to death with Kamui.
• Dai Tu saw a purple thousand-year soul ring rise from the Nether Flame Cat’s corpse and learned that Beibei and Tang Ya were students of Shrek Academy.
• Dai Tu told Beibei and Tang Ya that he had no family or faction and confirmed that he possessed Twin Martial Souls.
• Beibei invited Dai Tu to join Shrek Academy, but Dai Tu rejected the offer and criticized its training as inadequate for creating true powerhouses.
• Beibei accepted Dai Tu’s refusal and told him he could seek him out at Shrek Academy if he changed his mind or needed help.

After absorbing the Nether Flame Cat’s thousand-year soul ring, Dai Tu reached level twenty-three and traveled to Heaven Dou City in search of the hidden Body Sect. He found no trace of it and ended the chapter weary beside the city’s crowds.

• Dai Tu reflected on Huo Yuhao’s fate and resolved to grow strong enough to change it before absorbing the Nether Flame Cat’s soul ring.
• Dai Tu used the Tree of Life and Mark of Destruction to endure the thousand-year ring’s energy and advanced to level twenty-three.
• Dai Tu spent two months traveling to Heaven Dou City, defeating three groups of bandits and reaching level twenty-five.
• Dai Tu searched Heaven Dou City for the Body Sect, but an old mercenary and the books he consulted revealed no information about it.
• Dai Tu left a bookstore at night and felt exhausted as he watched the crowds, still unable to find the Body Sect.

Dai Tu entered Heaven Dou City's Death Arena as Black Eye to draw powerful pursuers and gain protection through fame. He won ten consecutive matches, ending with a five-ring Soul King, and left the arena's crowd roaring his name.

• Dai Tu registered at the Death Arena by offering the arena a share of his winnings instead of the required deposit.
• Dai Tu defeated Venom Scorpion with Kamui: Distortion, earning his first victory as Black Eye.
• Dai Tu remained in the arena and defeated successive opponents using his Mangekyō Sharingan, Kamui, and Wood Spirit Entanglement.
• Dai Tu won ten straight matches, killing a five-ring Soul King in his final bout.
• The crowd showered Dai Tu with coins and chanted Black Eye's name as he stood among his ten defeated opponents.

After winning ten consecutive Death Arena battles, Dai Tu recovered in a secluded alley and met Wang Changbi, a member of the Body Sect who recognized Dai Tu’s eye-based Body Martial Soul. Dai Tu followed Wang Changbi to the sect’s hidden mountain compound in Heaven Dou City.

• The one-eyed old man offered Dai Tu a lucrative partnership after his ten straight victories, but Dai Tu refused and left the Death Arena.
• The one-eyed old man ordered his people to investigate the mysterious fighter known as Black Eye.
• After recovering his Soul Power in an alley, Dai Tu was approached by Wang Changbi, who revealed that his Long Arm was a Body Martial Soul.
• Wang Changbi invited Dai Tu to join the Body Sect, saying it would welcome and protect him, and Dai Tu agreed to follow him.
• Wang Changbi led Dai Tu through an ordinary courtyard house to the Body Sect’s hidden buildings on the mountainside, where Dai Tu asked if it was the sect.

Wang Changbi brought Dai Tu to the Body Sect, where Sect Master Du Busi welcomed him as family and asked to see his eye Martial Soul. Dai Tu demonstrated Kamui: Distortion, revealing its terrifying power and leaving Du Busi eager to learn more about his Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Wang Changbi led Dai Tu through the Body Sect’s hidden, ordinary-looking courtyards and introduced him to Sect Master Du Busi.
• Du Busi welcomed Dai Tu into the Body Sect as family and promised to protect him and the other members.
• Du Busi asked Dai Tu to demonstrate his eye Martial Soul, and Dai Tu warned that his soul skill might hurt him.
• Dai Tu used Kamui: Distortion on Du Busi, twisting his chest and cracking the outer layer of his Soul Power armor before the attack dissipated.
• Du Busi recognized the attack’s spatial and erasure-like power, and Dai Tu identified his eyes as the Mangekyō Sharingan.

Dai Tu demonstrated his Mangekyō Sharingan’s Amaterasu, forcing Du Busi to tear away his own flesh to stop the black flames. Du Busi declared that Dai Tu’s Body Martial Soul had undergone the highest-grade Gold-Grade Awakening.

• Wang Changbi realized Dai Tu’s first soul skill had cracked Du Busi’s Soul Power armor and recognized him as a monster.
• Du Busi asked Dai Tu to show his strongest eye ability, and Dai Tu used his second soul skill, Amaterasu, on Du Busi’s shoulder.
• Du Busi tried several methods to extinguish the flames, but they consumed Soul Power and resisted his defenses.
• Dai Tu explained that the flames would burn until the target was destroyed unless he extinguished them himself.
• Du Busi tore the burning flesh from his shoulder, then healed the wound with Soul Power.
• Du Busi praised Dai Tu’s spatial skill and flames of law, and declared that Dai Tu’s Body Martial Soul had achieved a Gold-Grade Awakening.

Dai Tu revealed his Gold-Grade awakened Sharingan and his second martial soul, the Tree of Life, prompting Du Busi to take him as his personal disciple and pledge the Body Sect’s protection. After Dai Tu explained his bloody past and feud with the White Tiger Duke Mansion, Du Busi vowed to confront the Star Luo Empire rather than let anyone harm him.

• Dai Tu recognized that his Mangekyō Sharingan resembled a Gold-Grade second awakening, and Du Busi declared him his personal disciple.
• Dai Tu revealed the Tree of Life as his second martial soul, leaving Du Busi and Wang Changbi stunned by his twin martial souls and abilities.
• Du Busi swore to protect Dai Tu and give him whatever resources or support he needed.
• Dai Tu told Du Busi that he was Dai Hao’s illegitimate son, that the White Tiger Duchess had destroyed his village, and that he had killed her brother and fifty White Tiger soldiers.
• Du Busi vowed to fight the White Tiger Duke Mansion and even the Star Luo Empire if they threatened Dai Tu.

Du Busi accepted Dai Tu as his personal disciple, pledged to protect him and help him grow strong enough to take revenge on the White Tiger Duke Mansion, and gave him generous resources without demanding repayment. After seven days of cultivation at the Body Sect, Dai Tu was training beneath a secluded waterfall when Du Busi’s two personal disciples came looking for him.

• Du Busi declared Dai Tu his personal disciple and promised to kill anyone from the White Tiger Duke Mansion who came after him.
• Dai Tu formally greeted Du Busi as his teacher, and Wang Changbi welcomed him as the Body Sect’s new junior brother.
• Du Busi ordered Wang Changbi to bring Dai Tu a Millennium Whale Shark and a monthly supply of pills, explaining that the sect gave its disciples support before asking for anything in return.
• Dai Tu consumed the Whale Shark and pills under Du Busi’s supervision, raising his Soul Power to level twenty-six while exploring Body Martial Soul cultivation with minimal interference.
• Seven days later, Dai Tu was cultivating beneath a secluded waterfall when Du Busi’s two personal disciples came looking for him.

Dai Tu met his senior disciples Long Aotian and Vina, who welcomed him warmly into the Body Sect and promised to stand against his enemies. Their acceptance began to ease his wariness, and the chapter left him surrounded by people who regarded him as family.

• Dai Tu reflected on his recent cultivation and the balance between the Marks of Life and Destruction.
• Long Aotian and Vina arrived to meet Dai Tu after hearing about his Twin Martial Souls and Gold-Grade Awakening.
• Long Aotian praised Dai Tu's awakening and physical constitution, while Vina offered him pastries and tea.
• Vina told Dai Tu that the Body Sect was his home and that its members were his family.
• Dai Tu asked whether he was trouble, and Long Aotian vowed that the sect would face his enemies alongside him.

Dai Tu accepted Long Aotian and Vina’s support, then discovered that his Life and Destruction marks had given him two simultaneous trials. He resolved to begin with the healing task while seeking a chance to complete the killing task, as Zhu Yue sat troubled in the White Tiger Duke Mansion.

• Long Aotian and Vina offered Dai Tu help with cultivation, supplies, and his revenge, and Dai Tu thanked them warmly.
• After they left, Dai Tu examined the Mark of Life and Mark of Destruction and discovered trials requiring him to heal ten soul masters above level twenty-five and kill ten Fallen Ones within six months.
• Dai Tu decided to pursue the healing trial first and look for information about Fallen Ones through the Death Arena or Mercenary Guild.
• In the Star Luo Empire, Zhu Yue sat in the White Tiger Duke Mansion study with untouched, cold tea.

Zhu Yue learned that her brother Zhu Ye and fifty White Tiger Army soldiers had died while hunting Dai Hao’s illegitimate son, who had escaped Konoha and displayed powers far beyond his known abilities. She was left fearing that the boy was a dangerous genius who could threaten her sons.

• Zhu Yue recalled that she had sent Zhu Ye and fifty soldiers to destroy Konoha and kill Dai Hao’s illegitimate son.
• After two months without news, Zhu Fu reported that the soldiers were dead, Zhu Ye was missing, and Konoha had been reduced to ruins.
• Zhu Fu found Zhu Ye’s blood and traces of strange black flames and powerful golden vines, suggesting the boy had used extraordinary abilities.
• Zhu Fu concluded that the boy might possess mutated or evolved martial souls, and Zhu Yue feared he could threaten her sons.

Zhu Yue ordered a continent-wide hunt for Dai Hao’s illegitimate son, offering a million Gold Soul Coins for his capture or death. Meanwhile, Dai Tu and Long Aotian found a village massacred by Evil Soul Masters and confronted the surviving victims’ captors.

• Zhu Yue learned that Dai Hao’s twelve-year-old son had Twin Martial Souls and the strength of a four-ring Soul Ancestor, then ordered Zhu Fu to issue a million-Gold-Soul-Coin bounty for him.
• Zhu Yue gave Zhu Fu a Zhu Clan token and ordered him to mobilize the clan’s hidden assets in the Heaven Dou Empire to find the boy.
• Dai Tu and Long Aotian arrived at Baili Slope and found a villager’s corpse hanging at the entrance to a silent village.
• Dai Tu entered the village with Long Aotian and saw that Evil Soul Masters had slaughtered nearly all its residents.
• Dai Tu and Long Aotian reached the ancestral hall, where Bloodhand Li Hun threatened to use a surviving villager’s eight-year-old daughter as nourishment for his cultivation.

Long Aotian and Dai Tu rescued a village from Li Hun and the Holy Spirit Cult’s Evil Soul Masters, but Dai Tu healed each defeated enemy only to kill them with Kamui: Distortion. Dai Tu healed Li Hun last, and Li Hun desperately tried to convince him he was still injured.

• Long Aotian burst into the ancestral hall and knocked Li Hun into a wall before swiftly defeating all thirteen Evil Soul Masters.
• Dai Tu entered, healed a wounded Evil Soul Master with the Tree of Life, then killed him with Kamui: Distortion.
• Dai Tu repeatedly healed and killed the surviving Evil Soul Masters while the villagers watched in horror and Long Aotian looked on uneasily.
• Dai Tu healed Li Hun’s injuries, and Li Hun panicked and claimed he was still not better.