Chapter Summaries

Tie Li drove three Heavy Thunder Sect core disciples away from the Lightning Pool after overpowering them, then investigated a strange mark on a nearby Thunderstone. The mark appeared when he touched the stone with his lightning, and he recalled that Wind Thunder Sect core disciples bore special marks on their martial souls.

• Tie Li cultivated beside the Lightning Pool for three months, tempering his Purple Thunder Hammer with lightning.
• Three Heavy Thunder Sect core disciples confronted Tie Li, but retreated beyond the Lightning Pool’s boundary and attacked him there.
• Tie Li defeated the three disciples with his Thunder Hammer, seriously injuring them and forcing them to flee down the mountain.
• Tie Li touched the Thunderstone at the one-hundred-meter boundary with his lightning and made a strange mark appear.
• Tie Li recalled from Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s secret records that every Wind Thunder Sect core disciple had a special mark on their martial soul.

Tie Li discovered that Thunderstones could permanently strengthen his Purple Thunder Hammer with marks, absorbing three before reaching his martial soul’s limit. After the Heavy Thunder Sect sent its core disciple Zhou Yi to challenge him, Tie Li faced a powerful opponent with the same Purple Thunder Hammer.

• Tie Li struck three Thunderstones with his Purple Thunder Hammer and gained three different marks that increased his lightning attribute by ten percent each.
• Tie Li realized his martial soul could withstand only three marks and traced his ability to absorb them to its mutations and soul beast aura.
• The Heavy Thunder Sect’s Sixth Elder ordered Zhou Yi to teach Tie Li a lesson after the sect’s disciples returned injured.
• Tie Li resumed cultivating near the Lightning Pool, then saw Zhou Yi arrive with two Heavy Thunder Sect disciples.
• Zhou Yi challenged Tie Li, revealing a level forty-nine cultivation and a Purple Thunder Hammer martial soul matching Tie Li’s.

Tie Li defeated Zhou Yi in a hammer duel, then drove off another Heavy Thunder Sect disciple who tried to stall him. After Zhou Yi returned gravely injured, the Sixth Elder summoned Wu Dong, a powerful core disciple, to confront Tie Li.

• Tie Li overwhelmed Zhou Yi in a clash between their Purple Thunder Hammers, then knocked him unconscious with his eighth consecutive strike.
• A Thunder Roar Blade Soul Ancestor tried to delay Tie Li while the other disciple carried Zhou Yi away, but Tie Li broke through the lightning nets and let them escape.
• The Sixth Elder blamed Zhou Yi's defeat for damaging the Heavy Thunder Sect's reputation and ordered Wu Dong to be brought to him.
• Wu Dong, a thirty-six-year-old core disciple with Soul Power Level 54, arrived at the Law Enforcement Hall.

Wu Dong of the Heavy Thunder Sect went to the Wind Thunder Sect ruins to avenge his junior brother Zhou Yi, where he fought Tie Li. Though Wu Dong wounded Tie Li with his spear, Tie Li’s powerful Black Lightning and strengthened defenses limited the damage, and the battle continued.

• Wu Dong left the Heavy Thunder Sect for the Wind Thunder Sect ruins, intending to teach Tie Li a lesson without killing him and to investigate the Lightning Pool.
• Zhao Tianhe noticed Wu Dong’s arrival and realized that, unlike the previous Heavy Thunder Sect disciple, he was a Soul King.
• Wu Dong confronted Tie Li over his defeat of Zhou Yi, and both summoned their martial souls and soul rings.
• Tie Li’s Thunder Hammer clashes with Wu Dong’s Unlit Hornscale Spear, and Tie Li’s rapid kicks send Wu Dong flying and leave him bleeding.
• Wu Dong struck Tie Li with his fourth soul skill, piercing his Thunder Armor and wounding his abdomen, but Tie Li’s Black Lightning dispelled the golden lightning and kept him from being seriously harmed.
• Wu Dong acknowledged Tie Li’s strength but declared that Tie Li could not defeat him.

After a devastating clash with Wu Dong, Tie Li recovered in Thunderclap City and broke through his Soul Power bottleneck. As he recuperated, Lei Xiaokai secretly approached him to test his strength, revealing that a Martial Soul Hall deacon had sent him.

• Wu Dong and Tie Li unleashed their strongest attacks, injured each other, and left the mountain in opposite directions.
• Zhao Tianhe found the injured Tie Li and carried him down the mountain for treatment, while Wu Dong returned to the Heavy Thunder Sect and reported the fight to the Sixth Elder.
• Zhao Tianhe brought Tie Li to Thunderclap City, where City Lord Lei Yan arranged treatment with a powerful healing-type soul master.
• Tie Li's Soul Power broke through level forty-three during the battle, and after seven days he had largely recovered but stayed to check for hidden injuries.
• Tie Li caught Lei Xiaokai sneaking toward his room and learned that Brother Qi, a deacon at the Main Martial Soul Hall in Thunderclap City, had sent the boy to test him.

Tie Li and Zhao Tianhe discovered that Spirit Hall was investigating them after Tie Li was tested by a deacon. Bishop Boliya identified Tie Li’s Thunderstone mark as the Wind Thunder Sect’s inheritance mark and ambushed them as they fled Thunderclap City.

• Tie Li told Zhao Tianhe that a Spirit Hall deacon had secretly tested him, and Zhao Tianhe began investigating while telling Tie Li to recover.
• Boliya brought students from Soya Intermediate Soul Master Academy to the City Lord's Mansion and demanded to see Tie Li.
• Boliya pressured Tie Li into summoning his martial soul and spotted the Thunderstone mark, then left with his students.
• Zhao Tianhe decided to leave Thunderclap City with Tie Li, but Boliya and seven Soul Emperors ambushed them on the road.
• Boliya accused Tie Li of being an inheritor of the Wind Thunder Sect because of the mark on his martial soul.

Tie Li fled from Boliya and Spirit Hall’s forces while Zhao Tianhe tried to hold them back. After being wounded and surrounded, Tie Li used his soul bone to break free and escaped into Thunder Prison Forest, with three Soul Emperors pursuing him and coveting the bone.

• Boliya ordered her subordinates to cripple Tie Li and bring him back while she fought Zhao Tianhe, and Tie Li fled as Zhao Tianhe tried to hold off the attackers.
• Three Soul Emperors caught up with Tie Li, but he used their attacks and knockback to keep escaping before they finally wounded and surrounded him.
• Tie Li prepared to resist rather than let the Soul Emperors cripple him, then revealed his right leg soul bone and used its Ten Thousand Jun Mountain-Shaking Strike against the defense-type Soul Emperor.
• Tie Li borrowed the force of the defense-type Soul Emperor’s blocked strike to launch himself away, while the three pursuers began eyeing his Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone for themselves.
• Tie Li escaped into Thunder Prison Forest, and the three Soul Emperors chased him into the dangerous forest.

Tie Li escaped the Soul Emperors pursuing him through Thunder Prison Forest with help from lightning-attribute plant-type soul beasts, then reached Valley Gorge City to seek treatment for his injuries. After buying spiritual ingredients, he began a medicinal bath at an inn while Boliya remained focused on capturing the Wind Thunder Sect's inheritor disciple.

• Tie Li fled into Thunder Prison Forest, where a Thunder Vine and other lightning-attribute plant-type soul beasts recognized his aura and helped him escape the pursuing Soul Emperors.
• Boliya decided not to pursue Tie Li openly and instead planned to find the three Soul Emperors sent after him.
• After fleeing for more than ten days, Tie Li reached Valley Gorge City and decided to buy spiritual ingredients to treat his injuries.
• Tie Li bought ingredients at the black market and a merchant association, then returned to his inn after a clash erupted behind him at the black market.
• Tie Li dissolved the spiritual ingredients in a wooden barrel with his electricity and began a medicinal bath to heal his injuries.

Tie Li recovered from his injuries and encountered Zhu Zhuqing hiding from pursuers in his room. After he killed the men who attacked them, Tie Li and Zhu Zhuqing fled to another inn, where the innkeeper offered them one room.

• Tie Li absorbed the medicinal power of the Sky Blue Fruit, White Nether Fruit, and medicinal bath, then rested until his injuries healed.
• Zhu Zhuqing hid in Tie Li's room while evading pursuers, and Tie Li recognized her.
• Four men broke into the room and threatened Zhu Zhuqing, so Tie Li revealed his four-ring cultivation and attacked them.
• Tie Li killed the four pursuers with his hammer and lightning, then left the inn with Zhu Zhuqing before authorities arrived.
• Tie Li and Zhu Zhuqing reached an inn in the southwestern district, where the innkeeper asked if they wanted one room.

Tie Li traveled with Zhu Zhuqing to Suotuo City while avoiding Boliya, who planned to hunt him for his Soul Bone. After parting ways with Zhu Zhuqing, Tie Li entered the Star Dou Great Forest in search of an External Soul Bone, where he heard a battle break out nearby.

• Tie Li gave Zhu Zhuqing two healing Spirit Herbs for one hundred Gold Soul Coins and decided not to return to Heaven Dou Royal Academy because he feared Boliya would target him for his Soul Bone.
• Boliya killed the surviving Soul Emperor from his group and guessed that Tie Li might be heading for Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Tie Li accompanied Zhu Zhuqing to Suotuo City, where she found that Shrek Academy was gone and suspected Dai Mubai had gone to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Tie Li and Zhu Zhuqing parted ways, and he rested in Suotuo City before setting out for the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Tie Li entered the forest at dawn and heard a tiger-type Soul Beast fighting nearby, apparently against a Soul Master family seeking Soul Rings.

Tie Li escaped a Rending-Claw Wolf pack and continued hunting soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest. After killing several beasts and defeating a flock of Dark Demon Bone Vultures, he encountered a group of Soul Masters who wanted the Earthburst Rat he had slain and coveted the vultures’ valuable bone wings.

• Tie Li escaped the Rending-Claw Wolves after their Wolf King opened a gap in the pack’s encirclement.
• Over the following days, Tie Li fought his way deeper into the forest and killed his eighth thousand-year soul beast, an Iron-Armed Ape.
• Two thousand-year and six hundred-year Dark Demon Bone Vultures attacked Tie Li, who killed the six smaller vultures and both thousand-year leaders.
• A thousand-year Earthburst Rat ambushed Tie Li from underground, but he killed it with his right leg bone soul skill.
• A group of Soul Masters arrived seeking the dead Earthburst Rat, and their leader showed interest in the valuable Dark Demon Bone Vulture remains.

Tie Li killed a group of Wind Thunder Sect enemies and met two members of the Breaking Clan, who offered him help. After discovering a soul bone inside a Dark Demon Bone Vulture, he returned to White Ground to use its lightning-attributed soul beasts to temper away the bone’s darkness attribute.

• A middle-aged man demanded both Dark Demon Bone Vultures from Tie Li, but a Breaking Clan man killed him with a Soul-Breaking Spear, and Tie Li killed the other four men.
• Two members of the Breaking Clan recognized Tie Li as a Wind Thunder Sect legacy disciple and offered him support, sharing the location of their hiding place.
• Tie Li found a soul bone inside a Dark Demon Bone Vulture and decided to return to White Ground to gradually temper away its darkness attribute with lightning.
• Tie Li traveled without entering any cities, sold the vulture’s bone wings, and reached White Ground, where its lightning-attributed plant-type soul beasts welcomed him.
• Tie Li sensed a summons from White Ground’s inner circle, took out the soul bone, and sat down to contain it with Soul Power before beginning the tempering process.

Tie Li cultivated in White Ground, discovered a Thunderstone resembling the ones at the Wind Thunder Sect’s abandoned grounds, and continued purifying the dark attribute in his soul bone. At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Zhi Lin and Bai Baoshan learned that Boliya had targeted Tie Li for his soul bone and locked him up until the Chief returned; Tie Li’s meditation ended with his Soul Power flowing more smoothly.

• Tie Li used his growing affinity to investigate White Ground’s inner circle and found a Thunderstone identical to the ones near the Lightning Pool.
• Zhi Lin captured Boliya near Heaven Dou Royal Academy and tortured him until he admitted Tie Li bore the Wind Thunder Sect’s inheritance mark.
• Bai Baoshan questioned why Boliya had come alone, and Zhi Lin forced him to reveal that he wanted the soul bone on Tie Li’s body.
• Bai Baoshan ordered Boliya held until the Chief returned.
• Tie Li cultivated in White Ground as the dark attribute in his soul bone dissolved, and a spiritual pressure triggered a fluctuation from the mark on his Purple Thunder Hammer.
• After the pressure vanished, Tie Li felt his Soul Power flow more smoothly and harmonize with the lightning around him.

Tie Li emerged from deep meditation with black lightning, a level 46 Soul Power, and a newly absorbed soul bone that gave him bone wings. He sought out the Breaking Clan and told Yang Wudi what he knew, leaving the clan leader visibly shaken and asking whether Tie Li was certain.

• Tie Li woke from deep meditation, found his Soul Power had risen to level 46, and absorbed the lightning-infused soul bone, gaining bone wings.
• After recovering, Tie Li visited the Breaking Clan's hiding place and insisted on meeting its clan leader.
• Yang Wudi tested Tie Li with his aura, recognized him as a Wind Thunder Sect inheritance disciple, and offered to help him.
• Tie Li revealed what he knew about the Breaking Clan's situation, and Yang Wudi reacted with agitation before asking if the information was certain.

Tie Li persuaded Yang Wudi to help the Wind Thunder Sect obtain immortal herbs from Sunset Forest, and the Breaking Clan set out with him. In the forest, they encountered Shrek Academy’s group and learned they had entered Waterheart Land, where a special soul beast could provide an External Soul Bone.

• Tie Li told Yang Wudi that immortal herbs were in Sunset Forest and asked the Breaking Clan for help, and Yang Wudi agreed to go with him.
• Yang Wudi, Tie Li, and a Soul-Breaking Spear Soul Sage traveled to Sunset Forest to find the herbs.
• Tie Li recognized Flender, Zhao Wuji, and three Shrek students, who discussed finding ten-thousand-year herbs and leaving Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji led the Shrek group away without greeting Tie Li, while Ma Hongjun recalled their humiliation at the academy.
• The Soul Sage explained that the Shrek group might have entered Waterheart Land, where a special soul beast could yield an External Soul Bone, and Yang Wudi dismissed it as less valuable than immortal herbs.

Yang Wudi, Tie Li, and the old man found the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Yang Wudi fought Dugu Bo and negotiated access to its treasures in exchange for treating Dugu Bo’s poison. The chapter ended with Yang Wudi proposing to use Tie Li’s lightning martial soul and blood to help cure Dugu Bo and protect Dugu Yan from the poison.

• Yang Wudi broke Dugu Bo’s poison formation and led Tie Li and the old man to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Dugu Bo confronted the group, and Yang Wudi fought his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor form while Tie Li watched from a distance.
• Yang Wudi revealed that Dugu Bo’s poison was harming him and would also affect Dugu Yan, then offered to treat them in exchange for the precious herbs.
• Yang Wudi told Dugu Bo that Tie Li’s lightning martial soul could be tempered by the well’s extreme attributes, letting his blood help counter the poison.
• Dugu Bo recognized Tie Li as an inheritor disciple of the Wind Thunder Sect, and Yang Wudi warned him not to exploit Tie Li for his blood.

Yang Wudi used the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to temper Tie Li’s lightning martial soul while preparing antidotes for Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan. He consumed the Silk Gauze Jade-Skin Flower, broke through his martial soul’s bottleneck, and left Dugu Bo’s treatment dependent on whether Dugu Bo would accept his bold plan.

• Yang Wudi brought Tie Li to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and gave him pills so he could begin tempering his body with its opposing forces.
• Yang Wudi studied Dugu Bo’s poisonous blood and prepared an antidote for Dugu Yan while Tie Li endured the painful ice-and-fire lightning tempering.
• Yang Wudi consumed the Silk Gauze Jade-Skin Flower, rising from level eighty-one to level eighty-four and breaking through the Soul-Breaking Spear’s bottleneck.
• An elder used a pill’s Soul Power to pull Tie Li back from the brink of collapse, and Yang Wudi said Tie Li needed more tempering before consuming an immortal herb.
• Yang Wudi told the elder that Dugu Bo’s treatment depended on his courage, while Dugu Bo checked Dugu Yan and confirmed that the antidote caused no problems.

Dugu Bo accepted Yang Wudi’s plan to use two extreme immortal herbs to transform his body and poison arts, then entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to undergo the treatment. As Yang Wudi used the well’s power to strengthen Tie Li, a hidden treasure from Wind Thunder Sect emerged and Tie Li’s Soul Power began rising rapidly.

• Dugu Yan received a spirit bone from Dugu Bo and prepared to lead her team against Shrek Academy at the Great Soul Arena in Heaven Dou City.
• Yang Wudi offered Dugu Bo two detoxification methods and proposed using the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot to transform him.
• Dugu Bo swallowed the two immortal herbs and leapt into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to refine them.
• Yang Wudi sent spring water into Tie Li, triggering his lightning bone wings and the power Wind Thunder Sect had left within him.
• Yang Wudi gave Tie Li a Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and two drops of condensed spring water, awakening the Dark Thunder Demon Dragon King’s Inner Core as Tie Li’s Soul Power surged.

Tie Li endured the destruction of his Purple Thunder Hammer and awakened the top-tier Quake Dragon Hammer Martial Soul. Dugu Bo gained a mild immortal herb for Dugu Yan, while Tie Li emerged stronger but still needed to absorb his fifth soul ring to restore his Soul Power Level.

• Dugu Bo emerged from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with his Soul Power Level at rank ninety-four and his poison arts transformed.
• Dugu Bo told Yang Wudi not to intervene as Tie Li's Purple Thunder Hammer shattered under the force of his lightning.
• Tie Li endured the lightning, and the power released by the markings on his hammer calmed it and reshaped his martial soul.
• Dugu Bo asked Yang Wudi for an immortal herb for Dugu Yan, and Yang Wudi gave him a mild one with advice to use Tie Li's essence blood to neutralize its poison.
• Tie Li's martial soul transformed into the top-tier Quake Dragon Hammer, and he awoke with his Soul Power Level still at rank fifty.

Tie Li agreed to return to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and wait until Dugu Bo helped him obtain a fifth Soul Ring, while Yang Wudi prepared an antidote and returned to the Breaking Clan. At the academy, Dugu Yan told Dugu Bo that Tang San had countered her poison, and he promised to teach her a stronger one.

• Dugu Bo and Yang Wudi advised Tie Li to cultivate at Heaven Dou Royal Academy before attempting to reclaim the Wind Thunder Sect's former lands, and Tie Li agreed to return there.
• Yang Wudi used Tie Li's blood and medicinal herbs to make an antidote, then headed back to the Breaking Clan while Dugu Bo returned to the academy with an immortal herb for Dugu Yan.
• After Shrek Academy defeated Heaven Dou Royal Academy's First Team, its members reflected on the loss and on Zhu Zhuqing's strained relationship with Dai Mubai.
• Dugu Bo arrived at the academy and took Dugu Yan aside, then she told him Tang San had neutralized her Jade Phosphorous Serpent poison with realgar wine.
• Dugu Bo showed curiosity rather than hostility toward Tang San and promised to teach Dugu Yan a more potent serpent poison.