Chapter Summaries

An Chen and Yu Tianyao defeated the Thundercloud Mane Lion, and Yu Tianyao began absorbing its purple soul ring. Elsewhere, a white-clad man learned that the Thunder Wyrm had appeared and teleported away with the pale man, hoping to find an eighty-thousand-year-old wyrm.

• An Chen used shadowy arms and tentacles to restrain the pride of lions while Yu Tianyao helped kill the Thundercloud Mane Lion.
• Yu Tianyao sat beside the corpse and began refining its purple soul ring as An Chen recovered and kept watch with Big Ears.
• At the Continental Material Science Research Institute, the white-clad man learned that Lady Carl had survived but her hands were ruined.
• A messenger reported that the Thunder Wyrm had appeared in the Thunder Mountain Range, and the white-clad man asked the pale man to teleport them there.
• The white-clad man and the pale man vanished, hoping the Thunder Wyrm was an eighty-thousand-year-old wyrm.

An Chen and Yu Tianyao encountered a powerful white-robed man in the Thunder Mountain Range after Yu Tianyao absorbed a domain-type soul skill. As An Chen tried to escape with Yu Tianyao and Big Ears, the stranger petrified An Chen’s legs, leaving them trapped before a crushing wave of stone.

• Big Ears mimicked An Chen’s curses, and An Chen silenced it while Yu Tianyao finished absorbing his soul ring and gained a weak domain-type soul skill.
• A greenish-yellow light brought a pale, unconscious man and a burly white-robed man to the summit, where the stranger searched for something and then approached An Chen and Yu Tianyao.
• An Chen recognized the unconscious man as one of the group they had encountered earlier and fled with Yu Tianyao, but the white-robed man dispersed An Chen’s Black Fog and pinned them down with heavy pressure.
• An Chen used Rock Douluo’s gravity control to free them, then tried to shield Yu Tianyao and Big Ears from a pursuing wave of stone with an earthen wall.
• An Chen grabbed Yu Tianyao and attempted to escape through their shadow, but the white-robed man shot two rays that turned An Chen’s legs to stone as the stone wave broke through the wall.

An Chen was captured by a white-robed man and subjected to a purifying light, but escaped into the Shadow Space before it could kill him. There, he re-formed after eating Yu Tianyao’s stored meat, though he remained badly weakened.

• An Chen sent Yu Tianyao and Big Ears into his Shadow Space, then cut off his petrified legs and was engulfed by the stone wave.
• The white-robed man pulled An Chen from the rubble, tortured him with purifying light, and demanded to know where the Thunder Wyrm was.
• An Chen escaped into his Shadow Space, where the light faded because there was no sun and the shadows overwhelmed it.
• Yu Tianyao recognized An Chen’s voice and gave him the meat from his Storage Soul Tool.
• An Chen ate the meat and regained a human shape, then weakly cursed Big Ears for nearly getting him killed.

An Chen and Yu Tianyao escaped the white-clad man and returned from Sunset Forest, where An Chen spent a month recovering and learning how to digest the Shepherd Potion. He left to seek suitable targets and secretly check on Elder Chen in Spirit City, worried that the Spirit Hall might know about his abnormalities.

• An Chen recovered enough Soul Power to open a shadow door, and he and Yu Tianyao escaped from Thunder Mountain with Big Ears.
• As they traveled through Sunset Forest, An Chen replenished himself by absorbing Soul Beast flesh and suspected the white-clad man shared a Beyonder Pathway with several people he had met.
• An Chen reacted fearfully to sunlight and disguised himself in a gray robe before he and Yu Tianyao reached town, where locals crowded around Yu Tianyao with requests.
• An Chen stayed at Yu Tianyao's courtyard for a month, cultivating until his Soul Power reached rank fifty-five and concluding that grazing souls and abilities would help digest the Shepherd Potion.
• An Chen learned that Bibi Dong had returned to Spirit City and Spirit Hall had regained control, but, still lacking word from Elder Chen and fearing detection, he set out with Big Ears to find a chance to check on him.

An Chen learned that a battle involving a Thunder Wyrm may have caused the earthquake in Sunset Forest, then traveled to Xiliang City. There, the ragged man from the inn tried to scam him with a map, but An Chen countered with a strange soul-power-rich liquid.

• An Chen overheard soul masters speculate that a battle involving the Heaven Dou Imperial Family's Thunder Wyrm caused the earthquake in Sunset Forest.
• An Chen left the inn with Big Ears and traveled to Xiliang City.
• The ragged man from the inn found An Chen at another inn and offered him a map to an Ancient Soul Master Cave Abode.
• An Chen challenged the man's offer by claiming he had a cultivation-enhancing substance of his own.
• An Chen revealed a Small Jade Bottle containing black, foul-smelling liquid, and the old man stared at it in anticipation.

An Chen forced the old drunk to answer questions about the Thunder Wyrm and Spirit Hall, then learned that the Fallen Star Knight led one of six secretive churches. He left with Spirit City's status still unclear and the identities of the Four Horsemen revealed.

• The old drunk lured An Chen from the inn and restrained him, but An Chen broke free and trapped him with shadow tentacles.
• An Chen asked whether the Thunder Wyrm secret was true, and the old drunk confirmed it and explained that he had once been a Spirit Hall spy.
• The old drunk showed An Chen a receiver-only soul tool that intercepted Spirit Hall messages and said transmissions from Spirit City had stopped.
• An Chen asked about the Fallen Star Knight, and the old drunk identified him as the Material Truth Research Institute's leader.
• The old drunk named the six churches and revealed that the Four Horsemen were the Fallen Star Knight, Bewildering Desire, Falsehood, and Decay.

An Chen learned more about the six sects and the alliance that had attacked Spirit Hall, then tracked Birdman in the shadow world and saw her repeatedly revive while monsters pursued her. After dreaming of a blood moon and a strange ocean, he woke in Xiliang City and sensed someone approaching his bed.

• An Chen questioned the old drunkard about the six sects, learning that they had unique Self-Created Soul Skills and had allied to attack Spirit City.
• An Chen paid the old drunkard with diluted seven-colored medicinal liquid and continued toward Xiliang City, considering the Four Horsemen and the Matriarch.
• An Chen located Birdman in the shadow world and watched her die, revive, and resume flying as monsters chased her.
• An Chen rented a room in Xiliang City and dreamed of a blood moon, attacking umbilical cords, and a strange ocean beneath gray fog.
• An Chen woke in bed and sensed someone had entered his room and was approaching him.

An Chen followed a thief carrying a strange tree-root fragment, killed him, and was overwhelmed when the fragment transformed into binding branches and draining flames. After escaping Xiliang City with Big Ears, An Chen was confronted by two men who demanded he come before the four Knights and the Matriarch.

• An Chen followed a thief who had searched his inn and discovered a strange object in the thief’s box that stirred his spiritual intuition and sealed lump of rotten meat.
• An Chen killed the thief with a flame dagger, absorbed the man’s soul and ashes into a mask, then examined the box’s tree-root fragment.
• The fragment burst into emerald branches that rooted into An Chen and drained him with faint black flames, while two pursuers arrived at the alley.
• An Chen’s Shadow Servant died, and his true body fled Xiliang City with Big Ears before two men blocked his path.
• A man in white and gold told An Chen that the four Knights and the Matriarch were waiting for him, while the man in black attacked with a Soul Ring-powered sword strike.