Chapter Summaries

After learning how Wang Sheng had suffered under Wang Yue and the academy’s neglect, Li Han healed him and decided to confront the Wang Clan. Disguised and carrying a Third-Class Token, Li Han entered the clan compound as Wang Zhong prepared to retaliate against Wang Sheng.

• Sun Yi carried the unconscious Wang Yue back to the Wang Clan, and Wang Sheng urged Li Han to leave Exotic Beast City for his safety.
• Wang Sheng revealed that Wang Yue had bullied him for a year and that the academy’s teachers had ignored his pleas for help.
• Li Han gave Wang Sheng an Essence Nourishing Pill that healed his injuries, then promised to resolve his troubles and left using Smoke-Drifting Steps.
• Li Han learned about the Wang Clan’s strength, disguised himself, and used Yu Xiaogang’s Third-Class Token to gain entry and request a meeting with Wang Zhong.
• As Wang Zhong agreed to let Wang Lang punish Wang Sheng, Li Han entered the main hall and challenged the clan; Wang Zhong’s expression changed when he saw the token.

Li Han confronted the Wang Clan over its plan to target Wang Sheng and his friend, then challenged Wang Zhong to test his strength. He blocked Wang Zhong’s fourth Soul Skill with the Dark Iron Flying Shield and struck him into a wall, leaving Wang Zhong badly injured.

• Wang Zhong returned the Third-Class Token to Li Han and asked about his faction, while Li Han used his Divine Sense to overwhelm Wang Lang and pressure Wang Zhong.
• Li Han explained that one of the two Soul Masters Wang Zhong intended to pursue was his student and the other his prospective unofficial disciple, and Wang Zhong proposed a contest to settle the dispute.
• Li Han agreed to withstand Wang Zhong’s fourth Soul Skill without using a Soul Skill of his own, and Wang Zhong attacked with Gray Wolf Howling Moon Wave.
• Li Han summoned the Dark Iron Flying Shield and emerged unharmed after blocking Wang Zhong’s attack.
• Li Han struck the shield with his Elephant Armor Skill, sending Wang Zhong crashing into a wall and spitting blood.

Li Han defeated Wang Zhong and persuaded the Wang Clan to back down, while Wang Zhong secretly planned to target Wang Sheng later. Li Han then arranged for his teacher to pass the Elephant Armor Skill to Wang Sheng, who vowed to repay Li Han’s kindness.

• Li Han defeated Wang Zhong with one punch, and Wang Zhong conceded and promised to keep Wang Yue from provoking Li Han’s student.
• After Li Han left, Wang Zhong told Wang Lang to endure the loss for now and secretly seek a chance to kill Wang Sheng.
• Li Han told Wang Sheng that the Wang Clan had backed down and asked whether he would endure great pain to cultivate a body-tempering technique.
• Wang Sheng agreed to keep Li Han’s teacher and the technique secret, and Li Han’s teacher used spiritual power to pass the nine layers of Elephant Armor Skill into his mind.
• Wang Sheng thanked Li Han and promised to stand by him whenever he was needed.

Li Han joined Meng Yiran for a two-person battle at the Great Soul Arena after easily winning his solo match. Their fight against Gao Bo and Liu Yu began with Meng Yiran and Liu Yu clashing while Li Han charged through Gao Bo’s flames.

• Meng Yiran complained that Li Han planned to compete in a solo battle before their two-person match, and he agreed to support her afterward.
• Li Han won his solo match with a single move, then met Meng Yiran and headed with her to the two-person arena.
• The host introduced Li Han and Meng Yiran as the Soul Breaker Duo and announced their opponents, Gao Bo and Liu Yu of the Exotic Beast Academy.
• Meng Yiran explained that Liu Yu was a rival and Gao Bo was Liu Yu’s admirer; Li Han agreed to fight for the prize money.
• When the match began, Meng Yiran attacked Liu Yu with her Serpent Cane, and Liu Yu countered with her Twin Blades.
• Gao Bo attacked Li Han with Flame Jet, but Li Han split the flames with his Gold-Devouring Thunder Spear and charged through them.

Li Han and Meng Yiran used a coordinated attack to defeat Liu Yu and Gao Bo in the doubles match. After collecting his winnings, Li Han declined Meng Yiran’s invitation to dinner and left.

• Gao Bo warned Liu Yu that Li Han was troublesome, while Li Han and Meng Yiran quietly planned their attack.
• Li Han shattered Liu Yu’s blade winds and used his extended Gold-Devouring Thunder Spear to create an opening for Meng Yiran.
• Meng Yiran struck Liu Yu and Gao Bo with her poisoned Snake Blade, leaving them weakened and securing the Soul Breaker Duo’s victory.
• Liu Yu blamed Gao Bo and stormed off, while Li Han earned four hundred Gold Soul Coins that night.
• Meng Yiran invited Li Han to dinner, but he refused and walked away, leaving her furious.

Li Han rose to Silver Soul Fighter rank after half a month of victories in the Great Soul Arena and decided to leave Exotic Beast City. Yan, a young Spirit Hall Soul Elder, noticed Li Han’s strength and challenged him, while Meng Yiran tried to persuade Li Han to stay.

• Li Han advanced to level 28, earned substantial prize money, and wondered why Xiao Wu had not come to find him.
• Yan and Xu Ding visited the Great Soul Arena, where Yan spotted Li Han defeating two level 29 Soul Grandmasters alongside Meng Yiran.
• Supervisor Zhao explained that Li Han had won every match, including three against lower-ranked Soul Elders, and speculated that he came from the Dragon-Snake Family.
• Yan chose Li Han as his opponent and offered him five thousand Gold Soul Coins to accept the match.
• Li Han told Meng Yiran that he planned to leave Exotic Beast City, and she urged him to stay or join the Dragon-Snake Family or Exotic Beast Academy.

Li Han accepted a paid challenge from Spirit Hall disciple Yan, who was revealed to be a member of Spirit Hall's Golden Generation. After gaining the Wisdom King Art from the system, Li Han faced Yan in the ring and stopped his full-strength punch without moving.

• Li Han accepted five thousand Gold Soul Coins to fight a Spirit Hall disciple at the Great Soul Arena in Exotic Beast City.
• The host introduced Li Feiyu and Yan, a twelve-year-old Soul Elder from Spirit Hall Academy, as the final match's contestants.
• Li Han recognized Yan and received the Wisdom King Art as a system reward, considering a trip to Slaughter City to find baleful energy for cultivation.
• Yan demanded that Li Han remove his mask, then activated his Flame Lord Martial Soul and charged with a powerful punch.
• Li Han met Yan's punch with his own fist without summoning his Martial Soul, knocking Yan back several steps while remaining in place.

Li Han countered Yan’s first two Soul Skills with his Gold-Devouring Thunder Spear and broke Yan’s stone-armored defense. Yan unleashed his third Soul Skill, Hellfire, but Li Han knocked every incoming fireball aside, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Yan used Hell Magma Rush, but Li Han blocked the blast and counterattacked with his spear.
• Yan activated Granite Rock and charged Li Han with his magma-covered stone arm.
• Li Han shattered Yan’s stone arm with a powerful spear thrust and sent him flying.
• Xu Ding recognized Li Han’s strength, considered recruiting him into Spirit Hall, and grew wary when he doubted that would work.
• Yan unleashed Hellfire, turning the platform into a field of magma and sending fireballs at Li Han.
• Li Han smashed the fireballs aside with his spear, astonishing Yan and the audience.

Li Han defeated Yan with the disguised Soul Skill Azure Dragon Break, then refused Xu Ding’s offer to join Spirit Hall Academy. Xu Ding pursued him outside Exotic Beast City and threatened to kill him, while Li Han secretly prepared an Array Disk.

• Li Han used Azure Dragon Break to knock Yan unconscious and win the Soul Fighting match.
• Xu Ding confronted Li Han at the Great Soul Arena, but Supervisor Zhao and the crowd stopped him from escalating the dispute.
• Li Han refused Meng Yiran’s offer to stay at the Dragon-Snake Family’s home and left Exotic Beast City while sensing he was followed.
• Xu Ding emerged from the shadows and offered Li Han a place at Spirit Hall Academy, promising to make him part of the Spirit Hall Golden Generation.
• Li Han rejected Xu Ding’s offer, and Xu Ding threatened to kill him.

Li Han lured Xu Ding into a secluded arena and used the Wood Barrier Formation to attack the Soul Emperor from hiding. Xu Ding's defenses held against the formation's assault, but his Soul Power rapidly dwindled as he tried to find Li Han and escape.

• Xu Ding threatened to kill Li Han, but Li Han challenged him to fight and revealed that the area was deserted.
• Xu Ding awakened his Rock Turtle martial soul and attacked Li Han with Earth Split Impact, destroying a tree as Li Han dodged.
• Li Han activated the Wood Barrier Formation, which made the surrounding trees attack Xu Ding while Li Han disappeared from sight.
• Xu Ding used Rock Turtle Possession to withstand the branches, then deployed Rock Turtle Shield against Li Han's Wood Kill barrage of leaf daggers and wooden arrows.
• Xu Ding realized the relentless formation was draining his Soul Power and used Ten Thousand Rock Blast while searching for Li Han.

Li Han fought Xu Ding, a Soul Emperor, using formations, talismans, and sword techniques before Xu Ding trapped him in a Gravity Domain. Xu Ding discovered Li Han’s hidden Heavenly Thunder Bamboo Martial Soul and two Thousand-Year Soul Rings, but Li Han revealed his Wind-Thunder Wings and counterattacked.

• Xu Ding used his Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Skill to destroy Li Han’s Wood Barrier Formation, forcing Li Han to recall its damaged flags.
• Li Han used Smoke-Drifting Steps and Fireball Talismans to break Xu Ding’s Rock Turtle Shield, then wounded his fist with an Azure Origin Sword Ray.
• Xu Ding activated his sixth Soul Skill, Gravity Domain, and forced Li Han to the ground under crushing gravity.
• Li Han released his Heavenly Thunder Bamboo Martial Soul and two Thousand-Year Soul Rings, astonishing Xu Ding, who became greedy for his supposed Soul Bones.
• As Xu Ding charged to kill him, Li Han spread his Wind-Thunder Wings, resisted the domain, and thrust his Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords toward Xu Ding.

Li Han defeated and killed Xu Ding in a fierce battle outside Exotic Beast City, then fled before other Soul Masters arrived. The next day, Yan learned of Xu Ding’s death and wondered who was backing Li Han.

• Xu Ding attacked Li Han, but Li Han used his Wind-Thunder Wings and sword skills to evade him and wound him despite the Gravity Domain.
• Xu Ding used Ten Thousand Rock Blast, but Li Han survived the explosion and countered with the Heavenly Thunder Bead and Giant Sword Technique.
• Li Han killed Xu Ding, searched his corpse, burned it, and left the area.
• Soul Masters found the ruined battlefield and reported the death to the Bishop.
• Yan learned that Xu Ding had died and angrily questioned who supported Li Han.

Meng Yiran’s family learned that Spirit Hall suspected Li Feiyu of killing Xu Ding, while Li Han returned to Nuoding Academy and prepared for a long journey. After reaching level thirty and leaving Xiao Wu behind, he entered Sunset Forest to seek a ten-thousand-year Purple Thunder Roc for his third Soul Ring.

• Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang told Meng Yiran that Spirit Hall suspected Li Feiyu had killed Xu Ding, and they urged her to befriend Li Feiyu.
• Yan recovered and vowed to find and kill Li Feiyu for injuring him and killing his teacher.
• Li Han returned to Nuoding Academy, reunited with Xiao Wu, and planned to visit Slaughter City and the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well after strengthening himself.
• After breaking through level thirty, Li Han gave Xiao Wu his Heavenly Thunder Bamboo Leaves, promised to return, and left Nuoding Academy.
• Li Han entered Sunset Forest seeking a ten-thousand-year Purple Thunder Roc, then trapped one in a Wood Barrier Formation and attacked it with the Giant Sword Technique.

Li Han absorbed a ten-thousand-year Purple Thunder Roc Soul Ring, overcame its soul tremor, and completed his first cultivation reset. His Heavenly Thunder Bamboo evolved into Ten Thousand Year Golden Thunder Bamboo, producing a new stalk alongside it, and he prepared to refine the golden stalk into Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords.

• Li Han absorbed the Purple Thunder Roc's ten-thousand-year Soul Ring, endured its energy, and advanced to level thirty-five.
• The Purple Thunder Roc's soul tremor attacked Li Han, but he used the Soul-Nurturing Wood Bead and defeated it with a Divine Sense sword.
• Li Han completed his cultivation reset, gaining a black third Soul Ring and greatly strengthening his three Soul Skills.
• His Heavenly Thunder Bamboo evolved into Ten Thousand Year Golden Thunder Bamboo, and a new Heavenly Thunder Bamboo stalk appeared beside it.
• Li Han realized he could refine the Golden Thunder Bamboo into genuine Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords and began preparing to do so.

Li Han successfully refined the Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords and tested their power by killing a Three-Eyed Demon Wolf. He planned to subdue the injured Nine-Tailed Fox, which he found being hunted, and ended the chapter approaching it.

• Li Han refined the Ten Thousand Year Golden Thunder Bamboo into the Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords, then used the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo as their scabbard.
• Li Han considered gathering immortal herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well to strengthen himself before entering Slaughter City.
• Li Han discovered a three-thousand-five-hundred-year Nine-Tailed Fox fleeing from a twelve-thousand-year Three-Eyed Demon Wolf.
• Li Han used Extreme Thunder Prison and the Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords to kill the Three-Eyed Demon Wolf, then refined its corpse into a Soul Crystal.
• Li Han approached the battered Nine-Tailed Fox, intending to subdue it with his Insect Control Technique.

Li Han rescued a young Nine-Tailed Fox, bound it to him as a spirit pet named Silver Moon, and had her lead him to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well. After crossing Dugu Bo’s poisonous mist with Poison-Avoiding Pills, he reached the spring and found its yin-yang waters before him.

• Li Han healed the wounded Nine-Tailed Fox with pills and persuaded her to accept him as her master in exchange for Spirit Feeding Pills.
• Li Han inscribed a Spirit Pact on the fox, named her Silver Moon, and gave her more pills.
• Li Han asked Silver Moon to find a poisoned formation near medicinal herbs, and she led him toward it.
• Li Han identified the site as the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and suspected Dugu Bo was away.
• Li Han and Silver Moon took Poison-Avoiding Pills, crossed the poisonous mist, and reached the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

Li Han harvested the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well’s medicinal ingredients, refined Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Pills, and used one to temper his body and advance his cultivation. When he went to help the endangered Nine-Tailed Fox, he found that it had swallowed Ah Yin’s soul fragment and was fusing with it.

• Li Han harvested the Immortal Herbs and other mature medicinal ingredients from the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Li Han refined three Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Pills and swallowed one before entering the well to cultivate.
• Li Han reached the final stage of the Elephant Armor Skill, began cultivating the Wisdom King Art, and gained two Soul Power levels.
• Li Han sensed the Nine-Tailed Fox was in danger and hurried to find it wrapped in Blue Silver Grass and unconscious.
• Li Han discovered that the Nine-Tailed Fox had swallowed Ah Yin’s soul fragment, and their souls appeared to be fusing.

Li Han watched Silver Moon awaken after merging with Ah Yin’s remnant soul, gaining a human form, greater cultivation, and some Blue Silver Emperor abilities. Silver Moon fell asleep after reverting to fox form, and Li Han sensed Dugu Bo returning.

• The system announced Silver Moon’s awakening and sealed the Dry Blue Ice Flame inside Li Han’s brow until he grew strong enough to wield it.
• Silver Moon explained that she had merged with Ah Yin’s resentful remnant soul and gained its memories, a temporary human form, ten-thousand-year cultivation, and Blue Silver Emperor abilities.
• Silver Moon returned to Nine-Tailed Fox form, fell asleep, and Li Han picked her up while considering how to obtain an As-You-Will Treasure Pouch.
• Li Han sensed a venomous presence entering and realized that Dugu Bo had returned.

Dugu Bo found Li Han at the plundered Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well while carrying his poisoned granddaughter, Dugu Yan. Li Han used his Evil-Warding Divine Thunder to imprison the venom in Dugu Yan’s body, leaving her stable as Dugu Bo watched.

• Dugu Bo rushed Dugu Yan to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well after her Jade Phosphorous Serpent Venom flared up.
• Dugu Bo found the herbs missing and confronted Li Han, who identified Dugu Yan’s illness and claimed he could cure both her and Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Bo tested Li Han with Jade Phosphorous Serpent Venom, but Li Han blocked it with the spring water and proved he could withstand its effects.
• When Dugu Yan’s poison caused her to convulse, Li Han stopped Dugu Bo from worsening it and asked permission to treat her.
• Li Han sent Evil-Warding Divine Thunder into Dugu Yan and formed it into a cage that imprisoned her venom, restoring her to a calm, steady state.

Li Han made a deal with Dugu Bo to cure him and Dugu Yan in exchange for the As-You-Will Treasure Pouch and the valley’s herbs. After Li Han refined three pills, Dugu Yan took one and began expelling her poison.

• Li Han told Dugu Bo that he had only temporarily trapped the poison and negotiated payment for fully curing him and Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Bo agreed to give Li Han the As-You-Will Treasure Pouch and all the valley’s herbs if he cured them, while warning him not to play tricks.
• Li Han used herbs, including a leaf of the Aromatic Silk Beauty, to refine three pills in the Black Demon Cauldron.
• Dugu Bo made Li Han swallow his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Core as a safeguard, and Li Han asked to borrow it for half a year after Dugu Bo recovered.
• Dugu Bo gave Dugu Yan one pill, and she swallowed it while groggy before convulsing and spitting out corrosive black blood.