Chapter Summaries

Chu Jin and his allies dismantled the Blood-Bone Behemoth’s blood-formation nodes while Qian Renxue and Qin Yue kept Blood Butcher occupied. After Blood Butcher taunted Chu Jin with his father’s broken spear, the Overlord Army’s momentum broke through a threshold, and Chu Jin stood ready to fight back.

• Blood Butcher appeared atop the Blood-Bone Behemoth, and Chu Jin identified its blood threads and ordered Qin Yue to hold it off while he and Qian Renxue searched for the blood pool.
• Qin Yue engaged the behemoth as Chu Jin’s group destroyed the first two bone-pillar nodes, weakening the monster while Qian Renxue held Blood Butcher back.
• Blood Butcher unleashed his fifth soul skill at Qian Renxue, but Chu Jin used Xiao Jin and the Overlord Army’s combined momentum to interrupt him and let her escape the attack.
• Blood Butcher taunted Chu Jin with his father’s broken Dragon-Patterned Spear, but Chu Jin resisted losing control and exposed the third node beneath Blood Butcher’s feet.
• Chu Jin and Qian Renxue destroyed the third node, Qin Yue shattered the behemoth, and Chu Jin survived Blood Butcher’s strike as the Overlord Army broke through and he prepared to fight back.

Chu Jin and the Spirit Hall team destroyed Blood Butcher’s blood array, defeated the Bloodfang Group, and avenged Chu Jin’s parents. After the Overlord Army transformed and Chu Jin’s power advanced to level twenty-one, he held a memorial for his parents and set out to move forward.

• Chu Jin identified the final blood array node, while Qian Renxue flew to destroy it and Qin Yue held back the evil soul masters.
• Blood Butcher attacked Chu Jin and threatened the civilians, but Chu Jin and Xiao Jin disrupted his attacks as the Overlord Army rallied around them.
• Qian Renxue destroyed the final bone pillar, severing Blood Butcher’s connection to the blood pool and weakening him.
• Chu Jin and Qian Renxue severed Blood Butcher’s arm, then Chu Jin killed him before he could self-destruct; Spirit Hall accounted for all seventy-three Bloodfang members.
• Chu Jin recovered his parents’ Dragon-Patterned Spear and Light Feather Badge, and the Overlord Army transformed to share mental resistance and battlefield perception as Chu Jin reached level twenty-one.
• Three days later, Chu Jin held a cenotaph ceremony for his parents, told them Blood Butcher was dead, and left with Qian Renxue.

Seven days after the River Valley Town mission, Chu Jin returned to Spirit City and began attending Spirit Hall Academy while continuing his Consecration Hall training. After Yan challenged his right to exceptional resources, Chu Jin agreed to a match in three days, leaving their rivalry set to be tested in the Soul Arena.

• Chu Lie reforged Chu Jin’s broken Dragon-Patterned Spear and Light Feather Badge into a heart-protecting mirror and tied it to his chest.
• Yue Guan told Chu Jin that he would attend Spirit Hall Academy in the mornings while continuing to train at the Consecration Hall in the afternoons.
• Chu Jin introduced himself to Beginner Elite Class One, where the students learned about his level, martial souls, and role in killing Blood Butcher.
• Yan challenged Chu Jin over his privileged training resources and proposed a match; Chu Jin wagered that the loser would keep quiet for three months, and they set the match for three days later.
• Hu Liena predicted that Yan might lose because Chu Jin did not fight opponents on their strongest terms.
• Golden Crocodile gave Chu Jin a thousand-jin heavy halberd to train with, telling him to make the eight-hundred-jin weapon feel lighter before the match.

Yan and Chu Jin fought in a Spirit Academy sparring match, with Yan relying on his Flame Lord Martial Soul and Chu Jin countering with his Double Pupils, Heavy Halberd, and Xiao Jin. The fight ended the chapter with Chu Jin spotting a weakness in Yan’s defenses and Xiao Jin preparing to unleash Holy Dragon Soul Suppression.

• Qian Renxue told Hu Liena that Chu Jin would win because Yan did not understand the Double Pupils.
• Yan attacked with his Flame Lord Martial Soul, but Chu Jin used his Double Pupils and Heavy Halberd to read and deflect his strikes.
• Yan used Hell Magma Rush, and Chu Jin broke through the flames by striking a weak point in their Soul Power.
• Yan activated Granite Rock and flooded the arena with magma, forcing Chu Jin to summon Xiao Jin.
• Xiao Jin resisted the flames, and Chu Jin emerged from the fiery waves to face Yan’s next attack.
• Chu Jin spotted a brief gap in the Soul Power around Yan’s right leg, and Xiao Jin prepared to activate Holy Dragon Soul Suppression.

Chu Jin defeated Yan by exploiting his weakness and won the right to use the fire-attribute cultivation room, then agreed to Xie Yue’s challenge to command a makeshift team against Xie Yue and Hu Liena. The five-on-five match was set for the next afternoon, with Chu Jin choosing his four teammates overnight.

• Chu Jin used Xiao Jin’s mental soul skill to stun Yan, struck his weakened knee, and knocked him out of the arena with a halberd blow.
• Yan challenged Chu Jin to fight again without his first soul skill, but conceded after Xie Yue pointed out how little he knew about Chu Jin’s other abilities.
• Chu Jin accepted three months’ access to the fire-attribute cultivation room but gave Yan half of its daily time.
• Chu Jin tested Xiao Jin in the cultivation room, recording its fire-energy absorption before stopping when it reached its limit.
• Xie Yue challenged Chu Jin to a five-on-five command test against a team led by Xie Yue and Hu Liena, and Chu Jin accepted.

Chu Jin assembled four low-level junior students into a temporary team and used their complementary martial souls and growing trust to defeat Xie Yue, Hu Liena, and their stronger teammates. After the victory, Xie Yue acknowledged Chu Jin’s battlefield ability, while the exhausted juniors celebrated their unexpected win.

• Chu Jin chose Zhao Yan, Su Tong, Lin Ling, and Qing He for his team and assigned each a simple role in countering Xie Yue and Hu Liena.
• During the match, Zhao Yan blocked Xie Yue’s Moon Blades, Su Tong disrupted their return paths, and Lin Ling interrupted Hu Liena’s Charm while Qing He healed Zhao Yan.
• Chu Jin’s commands and the team’s successful coordination built their trust, strengthening the Overlord Army as they held their formation against the senior students.
• Chu Jin and his teammates interrupted Xie Yue and Hu Liena’s martial soul fusion, then eliminated their three supporting teammates from the platform.
• Chu Jin’s team defeated Hu Liena and disarmed Xie Yue, and the referee declared them the winners.
• Xie Yue praised Chu Jin’s battlefield ability, while Hu Liena complained that Xiao Jin had targeted her.

Bibi Dong proposed naming Chu Jin a Holy Son candidate, but Chu Jin argued that the title should be decided through an open tournament in two years. The meeting approved the tournament and his candidacy, and Yue Guan began planning Chu Jin’s second soul ring.

• Bibi Dong proposed making Chu Jin a Holy Son candidate, prompting a dispute between the Papal Hall and Worship Hall over his training and qualifications.
• Chu Jin told the gathered leaders that he was not yet worthy of the title and proposed a Holy Son Tournament in two years, open to eligible young soul masters from across Spirit Hall and its affiliated groups.
• Qian Daoliu and Bibi Dong approved the tournament, named Chu Jin the first candidate, and allowed others to qualify through military merit and academy assessments.
• Qian Renxue congratulated Chu Jin after the meeting and said she would not compete for the position.
• Yue Guan gave Chu Jin a list of forty-two possible soul beasts for his second soul ring, and Xiao Jin bit the illustration of the Light-Eating Dragon Lizard.

Chu Jin chose a seventeen-hundred-year Light-Eating Dragon Lizard as Xiao Jin’s next soul beast, hoping its devouring ability would support long-term growth and battlefield endurance. He traveled to Sunset Forest with Golden Crocodile and Qian Renxue, where they found the beast waiting in a light-drained valley and it began pulling Xiao Jin toward its maw.

• Chu Jin chose the Light-Eating Dragon Lizard for its potential to turn absorbed enemy energy into nourishment, and the council approved the hunt despite the risks of a seventeen-hundred-year soul ring.
• Golden Crocodile and Qian Renxue joined Chu Jin on the expedition, while Yue Guan warned them that the beast could release stored energy from its light sac.
• The three traveled to the southwestern region of Sunset Forest, where the surrounding light began to fade and Xiao Jin sensed the Light-Eating Dragon Lizard nearby.
• Chu Jin followed the flow of energy into a barren valley, where a force dragged Xiao Jin and pulled Chu Jin several meters forward.
• A huge maw and two golden-yellow eyes emerged from the darkness as the Light-Eating Dragon Lizard confronted them.

Chu Jin, Qian Renxue, and Xiao Jin defeated a Light-Eating Dragon Lizard by overloading its light sac and striking its exposed core. After recovering from their injuries, Chu Jin began absorbing the soul ring that rose from the beast’s corpse.

• Golden Crocodile identified the Light-Eating Dragon Lizard as roughly seventeen hundred years old and left Chu Jin and Qian Renxue to fight it.
• Chu Jin and Qian Renxue tested the beast’s devouring range and learned that its light sac processed swallowed energy through a vulnerable connection.
• Xiao Jin distracted the dragon lizard while Qian Renxue fed it repeated Angel Light Blades until its light sac became unstable.
• Chu Jin, Qian Renxue, and Xiao Jin exploited the beast’s weakness, ruptured its light sac, and killed it with attacks to its abdomen and head.
• Golden Crocodile advised Chu Jin to recover before absorbing the roughly one-thousand-seven-hundred-and-thirty-year soul ring.
• After half an hour of rest, Chu Jin sat beside the corpse as the purple soul ring descended toward him.

Chu Jin and Xiao Jin endured the Light-Eating Dragon Lizard soul ring’s devouring instinct and gained the second soul skill, Sacred Dragon Devouring Essence. After testing its ability to absorb and return energy, they discovered Xiao Jin’s limit and watched it overfill itself and collapse.

• The Light-Eating Dragon Lizard soul ring drained Chu Jin’s Soul Power, so he guided its energy into Xiao Jin and used his Heavy Halberd to disrupt the devouring vortex.
• Xiao Jin’s Twelve-Winged Sacred Dragon bloodline overwhelmed and devoured the Light-Eating Dragon Lizard’s phantom, stabilizing the purple soul ring and raising Chu Jin to level twenty-three.
• Chu Jin identified his second soul skill as Sacred Dragon Devouring Essence, which could absorb certain energy attacks and use the stored power for recovery, growth, or counterattacks, but not mental attacks, poison, curses, or physical attacks.
• Qian Renxue tested Xiao Jin’s ability with Angel Light Blades, and Xiao Jin swallowed the attacks before combining their energy into a powerful breath attack.
• When Qian Renxue increased the attacks to Soul Elder High Rank, Xiao Jin struggled to absorb them and overfilled itself until it collapsed onto its back.

Chu Jin and the Worship Hall tested Xiao Jin’s Sacred Dragon Devouring Essence, identifying its strengths, limits, and resistance to spiritual control. Afterward, Chu Jin discovered that devoured energy could aid his meditation and sensed an unusual rhythm in Xiao Jin’s sleeping body.

• Yue Guan organized a public test in which Xiao Jin showed the strongest compatibility with light, weaker results with fire, lightning, and wind, and the poorest compatibility with ice.
• Xiao Jin failed to eat Xie Yue’s Moon Blade but drained some of the Soul Power attached to it, then resisted Hu Liena’s spiritual Charm with its Holy Dragon Soul Suppression.
• Golden Crocodile’s Soul Ancestor-level palm seal exceeded Xiao Jin’s limit, though Sacred Dragon Devouring Essence weakened it before the remaining force knocked Xiao Jin into a wall.
• Chu Jin noticed that energy from Xiao Jin’s devouring slightly accelerated his meditation and recorded the feedback effect.
• Chu Jin sensed a regular current of energy in Xiao Jin as it slept, resembling the rhythm of meditation, and quietly focused his spiritual perception on it.

Xiao Jin revealed that it had secretly cultivated for a year, and its independent training began feeding Soul Power back to Chu Jin. Over the next half year Chu Jin reached level twenty-nine, while Qian Renxue was summoned to the Angel Temple and a sealed box bearing the Heaven Dou Imperial Family's Xue Clan emblem was brought inside.

• Chu Jin caught Xiao Jin pretending to sleep after it finished secretly cultivating and learned that it had imitated his meditation since obtaining its first soul ring.
• The system activated Xiao Jin's independent cultivation ability, which devoted seventy percent of its energy to its own growth and fed thirty percent back to Chu Jin.
• Xiao Jin demonstrated its cultivation to Yue Guan and Golden Crocodile, and Chu Jin's Soul Power growth rate increased as they trained together.
• Over the next half year Chu Jin advanced to level twenty-nine, Xiao Jin grew to nearly the size of an adult tiger, and Yan, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena also made progress.
• Qian Daoliu summoned Qian Renxue to the Angel Temple, where worshippers carried in a sealed wooden box bearing the Heaven Dou Imperial Family's Xue Clan emblem.