Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian and Xiaotian hunted an eighty-thousand-year Void-Mark Spirit Sable, whose spatial abilities let it evade Yang Jian’s ambush. Yang Jian sent his spear after the beast and rode Xiaotian in pursuit.

• Yang Jian judged that he and Xiaotian could defeat the Void-Mark Spirit Sable despite its exceptional ability to escape.
• Xiaotian crouched in the grass while Yang Jian silently approached the sable.
• Yang Jian attacked with Rapid Lightning Speed, but the sable used Space Leap and vanished before his spear could hit it.
• Yang Jian tossed his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear into the air, and it pointed toward the southeast forest before flying off.
• Yang Jian ordered Xiaotian to follow the spear, and they raced after it.

Yang Jian pursued the Void-Mark Spirit Sable through the Star Dou Great Forest for half a month, wearing down both himself and his prey. He sensed the sable was near its limit and pushed on, believing the hunt would be decided that day.

• Yang Jian repeatedly tracked and ambushed the Void-Mark Spirit Sable as it used Space Leap to escape.
• After seven days of pursuit, Xiaotian grew exhausted, so Yang Jian sent him back to rest and continued alone.
• Yang Jian replenished his Soul Power with Dragon Ganoderma while chasing the sable, though his mental exhaustion continued to worsen.
• Over the next seven days, the Void-Mark Spirit Sable’s jumps grew shorter and less stable, and its fear and exhaustion became clear to Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian activated his third Soul Ring and accelerated after the weakened sable, determined not to let it escape.

Yang Jian pursued the Void-Mark Spirit Sable down a fog-filled cliff fissure, where an invisible barrier blocked his spiritual probing and halted his fall. He could not find the sable and wondered whether it had passed through the barrier.

• Yang Jian chased the Void-Mark Spirit Sable to a cliff edge and leaped after it into the fog below.
• After passing through the densest fog, Yang Jian saw a narrow fissure with unnaturally smooth, metallic cliff walls.
• Yang Jian opened his Heavenly Eye, but an unseen force cut off his spiritual probing below.
• Yang Jian's fall stopped when he struck an invisible barrier, which felt cold, hard, and slightly elastic.
• Yang Jian's Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear repeatedly struck the barrier without moving it, while Yang Jian searched for the missing sable.
• Yang Jian wondered whether the Void-Mark Spirit Sable had broken through the barrier.

Yang Jian used the Black Iron Token to pass through the hidden barrier into a secluded paradise. He found the exhausted Void-Mark Spirit Sable there and approached it with his spear.

• The Black Iron Token flew from Yang Jian’s Soul Tool and passed through the invisible barrier.
• Yang Jian followed the token through the barrier, with the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear entering ahead of him.
• Yang Jian found a lush, sunless paradise and saw the token flying toward a distant, shadowy structure.
• Yang Jian discovered the exhausted Void-Mark Spirit Sable lying in the grass.
• The Void-Mark Spirit Sable failed to stand, and Yang Jian walked toward it with his spear.

Yang Jian absorbed the Void-Mark Spirit Sable’s eighty-thousand-year Soul Ring, reached level sixty-five, and gained the spatial skill Space Leap. He used it to approach the mysterious black shadow, which turned out to be an ancient tower.

• Yang Jian killed the Void-Mark Spirit Sable and absorbed its eighty-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• The absorption raised Yang Jian from level sixty to level sixty-five and gave him the spatial power of his sixth Soul Skill, Space Leap.
• Yang Jian tested Space Leap and instantly traveled a hundred meters.
• Yang Jian repeatedly leaped toward the distant black shadow and saw that it was a towering, ancient black stone tower.

Yang Jian examined the Ancient Tower and its hidden ninth-level image, then touched the token and was pulled into an unfamiliar spiritual world. There, a bizarre being emerged from the white light before him.

• Yang Jian saw images of increasingly strange Soul Beasts on the Ancient Tower's nine levels but could not discern the ninth-level image.
• Yang Jian decided not to enter the tower and reached for the token floating before its gate.
• The token sent a surge of spiritual power into Yang Jian, dragging his consciousness away while his body froze in place.
• Yang Jian found himself in a vast white spiritual world that he could not control and suspected the token had brought him there.
• A roar sounded, and a massive being with a body of flowing golden radiance emerged before Yang Jian.

Yang Jian met the Beast God, a First-Level God whose inheritance had mistaken him for a Soul Beast and pulled him in. After Yang Jian pointed out that he was only a consciousness left behind in the lower realm, the Beast God demanded to know where the Soul Beast aura on him came from.

• The Beast God examined Yang Jian and wondered how a human had entered its inheritance, noting the dense Soul Beast scent on him.
• Yang Jian said he was fully human, and the Beast God explained that its Godhood Imprint had mistaken his aura for that of a Soul Beast.
• The Beast God introduced itself as the ruler of all beasts and a First-Level God, but Yang Jian showed no awe and refused to worship it.
• Yang Jian told the Beast God that it was only a consciousness left behind in the lower realm, provoking its anger.
• The Beast God dropped its playful manner and demanded that Yang Jian explain the Soul Beast aura on his body.

Yang Jian told the Beast God he had formed an Equal Contract with a Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff, prompting the god to ask for his help finding one capable of inheriting its Godhood. Yang Jian accepted the bargain for a great fortune, and the Beast God marked him so he could freely enter and leave the secret realm; Yang Jian then returned to reality before the Ancient Tower.

• Yang Jian confirmed that his Soul Beast aura came from an Equal Contract with a Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff, and the Beast God reacted with surprise and admiration.
• The Beast God asked Yang Jian to bring it the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff, but Yang Jian demanded a meaningful reward rather than the god's thanks.
• The Beast God promised a great fortune if Yang Jian found a Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff capable of inheriting its Godhood, and Yang Jian agreed.
• The Beast God placed a mark on Yang Jian that allowed him to enter and leave the secret realm freely, then its remaining consciousness vanished.
• Yang Jian returned to reality before the Ancient Tower and found that he could touch and hold the token without being drawn into the spiritual world.

Yang Jian left the secret realm and returned to the forest, where he reunited with Xiaotian and discovered that Xiaotian's father sensed the divine aura on him. Yang Jian led them toward the cliff entrance to show them the hidden realm.

• Yang Jian used the golden mark left by the Beast God to open the secret realm's barrier and stepped outside.
• Yang Jian used Space Leap to reach the cliff top and headed through the forest to find Xiaotian.
• Xiaotian heard Yang Jian approaching, rushed to greet him, and learned that he was unharmed.
• The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff King sensed the ancient divine aura on Yang Jian and questioned him with a growl.
• Yang Jian invited Xiaotian and the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff King to follow him and led them toward the secret realm's entrance.

Yang Jian brought Xiaotian and his father into the secret realm and introduced them to the Beast God, who was delighted to find a purebred Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff. The Beast God urged Yang Jian to give the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff the Beast God Token, but the token flew toward Xiaotian on its own.

• Yang Jian used his sixth Soul Skill to open a spatial rift and led Xiaotian and his father to the secret realm.
• Yang Jian’s golden mark opened the barrier, and the three entered the hidden paradise.
• Yang Jian led the two Soul Beasts to the Ancient Tower, where the Beast God appeared.
• Xiaotian and his father trembled under the Beast God’s presence, and the Beast God praised Xiaotian as a purebred Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff.
• The Beast God told Yang Jian to give the Beast God Token to the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff so the divine trial could begin.
• Yang Jian drew out the Black Iron Token, but it flew from his hand toward Xiaotian.

Xiaotian received the Beast God Token and began the inheritance trial in the Ancient Tower, while its father was granted the chance to train there. The Beast God revealed that Yang Jian’s fortune was the Beast God Domain, and Yang Jian left the secret realm after saying goodbye to Xiaotian.

• The Beast God Token entered Xiaotian, neutralizing the bloodline pressure, and the Beast God declared that reaching the top of the Ancient Tower would make Xiaotian the next Beast God.
• Yang Jian learned that Xiaotian’s father could remain in the secret realm and train in the tower, and the Beast God gave the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff King a golden light.
• The Beast God explained that the light on Yang Jian’s forehead granted him the Beast God Domain, which let him command weaker land beasts, suppress stronger ones, and understand them.
• Yang Jian thanked the Beast God and told Xiaotian he looked forward to roaming the continent together after its transformation.
• Yang Jian gave Xiaotian a final pat and decisively left the secret realm.

Yang Jian returned to the Extreme Alliance after gaining the Beast God Domain and recovering from his journey. Dugu Bo visited to congratulate him on reaching Soul Emperor and asked him to help Dugu Yan obtain a Soul Ring.

• Xiaotian entered the Ancient Tower to cultivate after the Beast God reassured it.
• Yang Jian tested the Beast God Domain, which made weaker Soul Beasts submit and drove stronger ones away.
• Yang Jian returned to the Extreme Alliance, rested overnight, and woke the next morning.
• Dugu Bo visited Yang Jian with Dugu Yan and gave him a medicinal liquid as a congratulatory gift.
• Dugu Bo told Yang Jian that Dugu Yan had reached level forty and asked him to help her obtain a Soul Ring.

Yang Jian agreed to help Dugu Yan hunt for her fourth Soul Ring and searched Sunset Forest for a poison-type beast suited to her control skills. He found a roughly four-thousand-year-old Purple Mist Poison Spider and led Dugu Yan toward it.

• Yang Jian agreed to take Dugu Yan Soul hunting, and Dugu Bo left them together.
• Yang Jian and Dugu Yan left the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and walked through Sunset Forest.
• Dugu Yan explained that she wanted a poison-type area-control Soul Skill for her fourth Soul Ring.
• Yang Jian used his spiritual power to search the forest for a suitable Soul Beast.
• Yang Jian found a roughly four-thousand-year-old Purple Mist Poison Spider and led Dugu Yan toward it.

Dugu Yan accompanied Yang Jian to hunt a Soul Ring and found that her poison no longer threatened her or her grandfather. Yang Jian effortlessly subdued a Purple Mist Poison Spider with his Beast God Domain, allowing Dugu Yan to kill it and claim its Soul Ring.

• Dugu Yan told Yang Jian that she could now fight and grow stronger without fearing the poison in her body, and he encouraged her.
• Yang Jian and Dugu Yan followed a scream to a cliff crevice, where they found a Purple Mist Poison Spider and agreed it would be Dugu Yan's target.
• The spider sprayed corrosive poison at Yang Jian, but he walked through it unharmed.
• The Purple Mist Poison Spider attacked Yang Jian, then fell and knelt before him under the Beast God Domain's suppression.
• Dugu Yan killed the trembling spider with her dagger, and its purple Soul Ring appeared.

After Dugu Yan became a Four-Ring Soul Ancestor, a Ten-Thousand-Year Purple Mist Poison Spider attacked her and Yang Jian. Yang Jian used the Beast God Domain to force the beast to kill itself, leaving its corpse behind.

• Dugu Yan absorbed her fourth Soul Ring and broke through to become a Four-Ring Soul Ancestor.
• A Ten-Thousand-Year Purple Mist Poison Spider attacked Dugu Yan and Yang Jian, seeking revenge for its offspring.
• Dugu Yan shielded Yang Jian with her Jade Phosphorous Purple Poison Array, but the spider swallowed the poison and overwhelmed her defense.
• Yang Jian released the Beast God Domain, suppressing the spider and forcing it to kneel.
• Yang Jian ordered the Ten-Thousand-Year Purple Mist Poison Spider to end its own life, and it pierced its head with one of its legs.

Yang Jian killed the Ten-Thousand-Year Purple Mist Poison Spider with a sentence, then found an External Soul Bone inside its corpse. He gave the rare Silk Sac Soul Bone to Dugu Yan, who caught it in astonishment.

• Dugu Yan watched in disbelief as Yang Jian made the Ten-Thousand-Year Purple Mist Poison Spider kill itself.
• Yang Jian cut open the spider's abdomen and found a purple Silk Sac inside.
• Yang Jian identified the Silk Sac as an External Soul Bone, and Dugu Yan explained how rare and valuable it was.
• Yang Jian asked whether Dugu Yan wanted it, then tossed her the Silk Sac.
• Dugu Yan caught the Silk Sac and felt it resonate with the Soul Power in her body.

Yang Jian gave Dugu Yan the Purple Mist Poison Spider’s External Soul Bone, and she absorbed it while he stood guard. Afterward, she awakened with a new power but seemed embarrassed to explain the Soul Skill it granted her.

• Dugu Yan tried to return the External Soul Bone, but Yang Jian insisted she keep it because he could not use it.
• Yang Jian teased Dugu Yan about where a spider’s silk-producing skill might emerge, and she blushed before accepting the Soul Bone.
• Yang Jian stood guard as Dugu Yan absorbed the Silk Sac, which fused with her tailbone over the course of two hours.
• Dugu Yan awakened and said the fusion felt good, while sensing a new power near her lower back.
• Yang Jian asked what Soul Skill she had gained, and Dugu Yan grew embarrassed and struggled to answer.

Dugu Yan explained that her soul skill emerged from her navel, and Yang Jian agreed to inspect it as a test. She activated the Purple Mist Spider Web, whose purple light began weaving into a large net.

• Dugu Yan clarified that the silk-like substance came from her navel, not her lower back.
• Dugu Yan impulsively asked Yang Jian if he wanted to see, and he agreed to assess her soul skill.
• Dugu Yan used her venom to make a hole in her clothes and expose her navel.
• Yang Jian briefly looked at Dugu Yan's navel before regaining his composure, while Dugu Yan noticed his reaction.
• Dugu Yan activated the Purple Mist Spider Web, sending purple light from her navel that expanded and intertwined into a net.

Yang Jian tested Dugu Yan’s new Soul Bone Skill and explained its strengths and weaknesses. Dugu Yan kissed his cheek to thank him, and they returned to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, where Dugu Bo noticed the hole in her clothes.

• Dugu Yan trapped Yang Jian in her Purple Mist Poison Spider web, but his poison immunity and golden light let him break free.
• Yang Jian assessed that Dugu Yan’s web could restrain most Soul Masters below Soul King level, though fire-element skills could counter it.
• Dugu Yan asked Yang Jian to close his eyes, then kissed his cheek and thanked him for giving her the External Soul Bone.
• Yang Jian touched the cheek she had kissed and followed Dugu Yan back to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Dugu Bo thanked Yang Jian, then froze when he noticed the hole in Dugu Yan’s clothes.

Dugu Bo noticed Dugu Yan’s damaged clothes and pressed her about what had happened with Yang Jian. She revealed that Yang Jian had given her an External Soul Bone, leaving Dugu Bo amazed and worried about how his family could repay him.

• Yang Jian left Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, while Dugu Bo noticed Dugu Yan’s flushed face and corroded shirt.
• Dugu Bo questioned Dugu Yan about the holes in her clothes, and she tried to evade his questions.
• Dugu Yan trapped Dugu Bo in a Purple Mist Spider Web produced by her External Soul Bone, and he broke free with his aura.
• Dugu Bo recognized the Soul Bone and asked whether Yang Jian had given it to her, which Dugu Yan confirmed.
• Dugu Bo reflected that Yang Jian had given his family two External Soul Bones and worried about repaying the growing debt of gratitude.