Chapter Summaries

Xu Huxiao chose to risk the elephant herd’s dramatically intensified energy infusion in hopes of transforming the Elephant King Soul Ring into a hundred-thousand-year red ring. As the pressure overwhelmed his body, he redirected energy into a temporary space around himself and endured its painful erosion.

• The elephant herd sharply increased its energy transmission, causing the Elephant King Soul Ring to grow more powerful and more dangerous for Xu Huxiao to absorb.
• Xu Huxiao considered using the Elephant King’s vibration frequency to ask the herd to slow down, but decided the increased infusion offered a chance to transform the ring faster.
• Xu Huxiao slowed his Twin Arms Martial Soul’s absorption and drew Soul Power into his dantian while allowing the herd’s energy to flow through his body.
• When his meridians and dantian filled, Xu Huxiao opened his Eight Extraordinary Meridians and used Dragon-Subduing Force Aura, protective armor, and External Energy Circulation to store excess energy around his body.
• The energy filled the space around Xu Huxiao, painfully eroding his body, and he activated the Silver Body stage of the Indestructible Diamond Divine Skill.

Xu Huxiao endured the mutation and absorbed the Elephant King’s Soul Ring, gaining a red Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and breaking through to Soul Elder. The chapter ended with Hu Liena and the others witnessing his breakthrough at dawn.

• Xu Huxiao’s Elephant King Soul Ring completed its transformation into a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Xu Huxiao used the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms and his martial arts to withstand and absorb the blood-colored Soul Ring energy.
• Xu Huxiao absorbed the mutated Soul Ring, broke through to Soul Elder, and gained a fourth Golden Sun taking shape in his dantian and brow.
• Xu Huxiao’s Golden Dragon Force Aura destroyed the Elephant King’s exhausted corpse as the surrounding giant elephants knelt before him.
• Hu Liena and the others saw Xu Huxiao’s red Soul Ring, and Hu Liena called him a one-of-a-kind genius.

Xu Huxiao returned from absorbing the Elephant King Soul Ring as a Soul Elder with a mutated Hundred Thousand Year third Soul Ring, astonishing his companions. As the group prepared to leave the canyon, he decided to fly Hu Liena, whose ankle injury was worse than it appeared, and invited Orleans to come with them.

• Xu Huxiao revealed his mutated Hundred Thousand Year third Soul Ring, and Gale agreed to discuss its origin after they returned.
• Orleans rushed to embrace Xu Huxiao, then teased Hu Liena for hesitating to approach him.
• Gui Mei secretly advised Xu Huxiao to hide his strength, but Xu Huxiao replied that he no longer needed to conceal himself as a fragile genius.
• Orleans led Hu Liena toward Xu Huxiao, but Hu Liena's injured ankle gave way and Xu Huxiao caught her.
• Xu Huxiao examined Hu Liena's ankle, found her meridians seriously injured, and said she needed medicine and two days of rest.
• Xu Huxiao prepared to fly Hu Liena to Yellow Sand City and invited Orleans to join them.

Xu Huxiao flew toward Yellow Sand City carrying Hu Liena, Orleans, Yun Ji, and Bao Jingjing in his enlarged Golden Dragon Arms. Left behind on the cliff, Yan, Xie Yue, and Ao Li'ao were assigned extra training by Gale.

• Orleans accepted Xu Huxiao's offer to fly with him, and he invited Yun Ji and Bao Jingjing to come along too.
• Xu Huxiao enlarged his Golden Dragon Arms, seated two women in each palm, and flew away with all four under a golden protective barrier.
• Ao Li'ao complained that Xu Huxiao had taken the team's women and left the men behind, while Yan vowed to train harder and Xie Yue noted that they had also left Teacher Borba behind.
• Gale told Ao Li'ao, Yan, and Xie Yue to carry the unconscious Borba, then turned Ao Li'ao's complaints into an order for the three to run around the city with heavy loads while Xu Huxiao supervised on a camel.
• Xie Yue accepted the punishment for the group, and Yan agreed to train seriously.

Gale explained why he gave Yan, Xie Yue, and Ao Li'ao extra training, urging them to pursue goals beyond catching up to Xu Huxiao. The group left the Lost Grand Canyon, while the Golden Rock Giant Elephants accepted their revived Elephant King’s departure and went in search of food.

• Gale told Yan, Xie Yue, and Ao Li'ao that Xu Huxiao’s achievements came from both talent and relentless hard work, and challenged them to examine their own effort.
• When the three questioned whether they could ever catch up to Xu Huxiao, Gale urged them to aim for Soul Sage, Title, or even God instead of living in Xu Huxiao’s shadow.
• Yan, Xie Yue, and Ao Li'ao renewed their fighting spirit and agreed to follow Gale’s training arrangements.
• Gale ordered the three to take turns carrying Teacher Borba as the group set out to leave the canyon, while Ghost Child watched and was impressed by Gale’s teaching.
• After the group departed, the Golden Rock Giant Elephants watched their revived Elephant King leave without anger, then followed the yellow sandstorm in search of Goldstone Iron Ore.

Xu Huxiao and Yun Ji treated Hu Liena’s injured meridians, while the four women stayed awake reminiscing about their flight with Xu Huxiao and teasing one another. Xu Huxiao meditated through the night, reviewed his Soul Skills, and focused on growing stronger.

• Xu Huxiao and Yun Ji used herbs, Healing Bubble, and Soul Power massage to treat Hu Liena’s damaged ankle meridians.
• Orleans tickled Bao Jingjing in the dark until Yun Ji warned them not to disturb Hu Liena’s injured foot.
• Hu Liena, Orleans, Yun Ji, and Bao Jingjing discussed why they could not sleep and recalled Xu Huxiao carrying them through the sky after his advancement.
• Yun Ji teased Bao Jingjing about Xu Huxiao’s unclothed appearance, embarrassing all four women and ending their conversation.
• Xu Huxiao meditated alone, checked his status through the Eye of Omniscience, and planned how to keep growing stronger.

Xu Huxiao reviewed his Martial Dao progress and concluded that he needed to focus on fusing the forces of the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms. He entered the Crystal Blue Dolphin’s simulated world to test Diamond Shock and began exploring how its Shock Force could complement his palms.

• Xu Huxiao calculated that absorbing a Soul Bone could complete the final Blood-Essence Flower in his right palm and help him advance into the Qi Intent Realm.
• Xu Huxiao resolved to refine and simplify his combat system, coordinating his Soul Skills with the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms rather than pursuing complicated abilities.
• Xu Huxiao decided to investigate Shock Force after gaining inspiration from the Golden Rock Giant Elephant Herd battle, then entered the Crystal Blue Dolphin’s virtual arena to test his new Soul Skills.
• Xu Huxiao used Diamond Shock in the simulation and observed that its spatial imprints could restrain and damage targets, but its range and force diminished with distance.
• Xu Huxiao repeatedly tested Diamond Shock until he found a possible connection between its Shock Force and the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms.

Xu Huxiao experimented with Diamond Shock and Golden Dragon Heavy Charge, then adapted the latter into armor for Little Golden Dragon so it could fight alongside him without disrupting his palm techniques. He left the Soul Skill virtual space after beginning to fuse two palm techniques and returned to his hotel room to sleep.

• Xu Huxiao tested a concentrated Diamond Shock and began exploring how to combine the skill with his palm techniques.
• Xu Huxiao activated Golden Dragon Heavy Charge, found its Shattering Heavy Strike effect slowed his punches, and decided it interfered with the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms.
• Xu Huxiao formed a Golden Dragon from his palm force and Yang Origin Soul Power, then gave it intelligence by summoning Little Golden Dragon into it.
• Xu Huxiao shaped Golden Dragon Heavy Charge armor around Little Golden Dragon and discovered it could serve as a combat clone within a hundred-meter range.
• Xu Huxiao dismissed the clone, worked further on fusing Shocking a Hundred Miles and Dense Clouds Without Rain, left the virtual space, and went to sleep in his hotel room.

Xu Huxiao explained his mutated Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring to Gale, who accepted the account and began writing a theory book based on it. Gale and Borba then planned the team’s next training, and Gale proposed the Death Desert as a training ground.

• Xu Huxiao attributed his Soul Ring mutation to the Golden Rock Giant Elephant Herd’s resurrection ritual, and Gale accepted the explanation without probing further.
• Xu Huxiao resumed studying Palm Force Fusion while Gale wrote pages of theory and planned a book called “The Nine Core Theories of Martial Soul Evolution Beyond Limits.”
• Borba visited Gale to discuss special training for the team, and they agreed that Xu Huxiao’s strength made ordinary Soul Arena training unsuitable.
• Borba spilled tea on a Map and pointed out the Death Desert’s harsh conditions and dangers.
• Gale realized that the Death Desert could serve as the team’s ideal training ground.

Gale and Borba planned a team cultivation journey through the Death Desert, which they organized as a race between two groups. Borba secretly intended to use the journey to kill Gale and Xu Huxiao and frame Gale, and the chapter ended as both groups departed from Yellow Sand City.

• Gale explained that the Death Desert could improve the team's stamina, survival skills, and Soul Power, then mapped a route between Spirit Hall outposts.
• Borba proposed splitting the team into competing groups, while secretly plotting to have Gale and Xu Huxiao killed in the desert and blamed on Gale.
• Gale announced the teams and competition rules, and Ao Li'ao, Yan, Xie Yue, and Orleans responded to the challenge.
• Gale delayed the departure for five days so Nana's injury could heal and several students could finish their running task.
• Gale and Borba led their groups out of Yellow Sand City, and Xu Huxiao anticipated facing Lei Dao, Shi Nian, and Borba.

Gale’s group continued its Soul Power cultivation journey through the Death Desert, learning about local Soul Beasts and sharing techniques that helped them win the third checkpoint race. The chapter ended with the group enjoying Bao Jingjing’s extraordinary roasted Giant Pincer Scorpions around their campfire.

• Gale explained the Death Desert’s Soul Beasts while the group camped on their fourteenth day in the desert.
• Xu Huxiao linked his Soul Power with Bao Jingjing and Yun Ji, helped them run faster, and led his group to win the third checkpoint race.
• Xu Huxiao shared his running techniques with Orleans’s group at the Spirit Hall Sub-Hall.
• Bao Jingjing seasoned and roasted Giant Pincer Scorpions, whose opened shells released colorful golden light and an enticing aroma.
• Xu Huxiao and the others praised Bao Jingjing’s cooking and ate the scorpions around the campfire.

Teacher Gale taught the students how to resist mental illusions and explained how their team could handle the Mirage Clam and Nightmare Dragon Lizard. He began discussing why the Soul Beasts paired together, leaving the question answered: ordinary Soul Beasts chiefly prioritize reproduction and continuation.

• Xie Yue asked Gale how Soul Masters below Soul King could defend against mental attacks, and Gale distinguished toxin-based illusions from pure mental control.
• Gale explained that a Soul Master could activate their Martial Soul through rapid Soul Power circulation to briefly break low- or mid-level illusions, while Xu Huxiao revealed he already had strong illusion immunity.
• Gale described how teammates could transfer Soul Power to help break illusions and explained that Bao Jingjing's Soul Skills could weaken mental control or counter mental toxins.
• Gale warned that the Mirage Clam and Nightmare Dragon Lizard's combined Mirage was dangerous but unsynchronized, allowing alert teammates to free one another and escape.
• Xie Yue asked why the two Soul Beasts had paired together, and Gale said ordinary Soul Beasts chiefly valued reproduction and continuation.

Gale explained how the Nightmare Dragon Lizard and Mirage Shellfish depended on each other, while Xu Huxiao reflected on survival and resolved to grow stronger. The group entered Sand City and fell into Shi Nian’s illusion, but Gale broke free and began helping the others as the ambush unfolded.

• Gale described how the Mirage Shellfish sheltered and fed the fragile Nightmare Dragon Lizard, which carried it across the desert in return.
• Xu Huxiao compared the Dragon Lizard’s dependence to an old mortgage from his previous life and resolved to grow strong enough to control his fate.
• After a night of rest, Xu Huxiao’s group reached Sand City, where Xu Huxiao recognized the site of the planned ambush.
• Shi Nian’s illusion confused the group, and Xu Huxiao pretended to be affected while he watched for the enemy.
• Xu Huxiao collided with Gale, whose eyes cleared; Gale realized they were under attack and restrained the students with Azure Demon Vines.
• Gale sent Soul Power into Xu Huxiao to help him break the illusion, then told him to help awaken Xie Yue and the others.

Gale and Xu Huxiao survived a coordinated ambush when Xiao Kong and Lin Mengmeng intervened, revealing that Demon Bear had secretly arranged protection for them. As the battle began, Xu Huxiao identified the masked Soul Sage Borba, his own instructor, as one of the attackers, and Gale shielded the squad while Xiao Kong and Lin Mengmeng fought the two agility attack Soul Sages.

• Gale shoved Xu Huxiao out of the way of a Red Lightning Needle and Black Snake Fang, but Xiao Kong appeared and cleaved both attacks apart.
• Lin Mengmeng dispelled Shi Nian’s illusion, and he and Xiao Kong brought the unconscious Xie Yue, Bao Jingjing, Yun Ji, and Ghost Child to Gale.
• Two masked agility attack Soul Sages and the masked Thunder Axe, later identified as Borba, confronted Xu Huxiao, Gale, Xiao Kong, and Lin Mengmeng.
• Xu Huxiao revealed his Hundred-Thousand-Year red third Soul Ring, and Borba explained that it was a mutated ring rather than proof of a Soul Bone.
• Xu Huxiao recognized Borba by his build and Thunderous Twin Axes, and Gale demanded that Borba stop and help defeat the assassins.
• Gale enclosed the squad in Azure Sky Maw Flower as Xiao Kong and Lin Mengmeng took control of the fight against the two agility attack Soul Sages.

Xu Huxiao assessed Lin Mengmeng’s powerful spiritual control skills as Lin and his allies overwhelmed the opposing team. Borba finally revealed himself and charged into battle, but a stun and Binding Amber stopped him cold while the two Agility Attack Soul Sages continued to resist.

• Xu Huxiao examined Lin Mengmeng’s Soul Skills and learned how his Five Auspicious Treasures, Binding Amber, Memory Probe, and Echoes of the Past supported and controlled the team.
• Lin Mengmeng used Red Moon Scan and Memory Probe to break Shi Nian’s illusions, injuring Shi Nian through repeated spiritual backlash.
• Two injured Agility Attack Soul Sages cursed Borba and urged him to join the fight, while Xiao Kong and Gale kept them under pressure.
• Borba dropped his disguise, entered his Tool Soul Avatar state, and charged with Thunder Vein Diamond Body and Thunderous Leaping Slash.
• Five Auspicious Treasures stunned Borba midair, sending him headfirst into a ring where Lin Mengmeng’s Binding Amber trapped him.
• Lin Mengmeng turned his attention to the two Agility Attack Soul Sages and challenged their mental fortitude.

Lin Mengmeng used Xu Huxiao’s information to expose the identities of Yaqi and Snake, turning the fight around: Snake died, and Yaqi fled badly wounded. As Xiao Kong attacked Borba, an unknown assailant struck at Xiao Kong with a crossing red-and-blue lightning slash.

• Lin Mengmeng named Yaqi and Snake and revealed their ties to the Shadow Dragon Hall, making both Soul Sages lose focus.
• Xiao Kong wounded Yaqi with Gale Reaper, and Yaqi escaped using his Crimson Slaughter Doppelganger Soul Bone skill.
• Lin Mengmeng and Gale trapped Snake with mental shocks and Binding Amber, then killed him with repeated Azure Demon Vine Soldier explosions.
• Xu Huxiao’s Eye of Omniscience had identified the two assassins and relayed their names and Martial Souls to Lin Mengmeng.
• Xiao Kong attacked Borba, but an unknown fighter launched a red-and-blue lightning cross slash at Xiao Kong’s back.

Xiao Kong, Lin Mengmeng, and Gale faced Lei Dao and Shadow Dragon Hall’s attack in Yellow Sand City, where Yu Yuanying tried to kill Xu Huxiao. Gui Mei intervened, severed Yu Yuanying’s arm, and pursued him as he fled through the darkness.

• Xiao Kong used Shifting Stars to escape Lei Dao’s ambush and counterattacked Borba with Thunderbolt Cross Slash.
• Lei Dao advanced through the Five Auspicious Treasures’ effects, then Shadow Dragon’s Realm of Everlasting Darkness trapped Xiao Kong, Lin Mengmeng, and Gale with shadow tentacles.
• Yu Yuanying appeared before Xu Huxiao’s Azure Sky Maw Flower and attacked it with Shadow Prison Slaughter while the others were unable to intervene.
• Gui Mei ambushed Yu Yuanying, severed his arm, and struck him from behind, but Yu Yuanying escaped the blow with his Shadow Demon Clone.
• Yu Yuanying identified Gui Mei as Ghost Douluo and withdrew his domain, then fled as Gui Mei pursued him with Hell Soul Devour.

Gui Mei used his concealed Ghost Martial Soul and Netherworld Death Qi to overwhelm Yu Yuanying, who survived by sacrificing one of his three lives and called for She Long. She Long prepared to join the fight, but Purple Scorpion Douluo recognized him, so he fled while denying his identity.

• Gui Mei exploited his hidden presence and Ghost Mei Shadow Devour to attack Yu Yuanying's body and soul, then struck him with Soul-Reaping Slash.
• Yu Yuanying survived the slash with his Head Soul Bone and escaped Gui Mei's next attack by detonating the flesh-and-blood clone from his ninth Soul Skill.
• Yu Yuanying continued fleeing while resisting the Soul-Eating Ghost Shadow and Netherworld Death Qi, then shouted for She Long to save him.
• She Long decided to join forces with Shadow Dragon to kill Gui Mei because Yu Yuanying had exposed his name and risked revealing his ties to Shadow Dragon Hall.
• Purple Scorpion Douluo recognized She Long as the Snake Lance Elder, prompting him to flee Sand City and deny that he was She Long.

Yu Yuanying unleashed a desperate attack and escaped the destruction of Sand City severely injured, while Gui Mei turned to the remaining Shadow Dragon Hall forces. After Shi Nian and Borba were killed, Xu Huxiao challenged Lei Dao, confident that his Golden Flame Silver Body could match the Soul Douluo despite his apparent Soul Elder level.

• Yu Yuanying drank crimson blood and used Moon-Inviting Eidolon Kill against Gui Mei’s self-destruction, escaping the blast with only a trace of Netherworld Death Qi remaining.
• Gui Mei deployed Night Parade of a Hundred Ghosts to surround Lei Dao, Borba, and their allies, while Borba begged for his life.
• Xu Huxiao revealed that Little Golden Dragon had killed Shi Nian and claimed his seven-colored Soul Bone.
• Gui Mei had Borba beheaded, and Xu Huxiao asked to fight Lei Dao himself.
• Xu Huxiao approached Lei Dao as Gale realized his strength might truly let him battle a Soul Douluo.

Xu Huxiao assessed his immense strength and speed before confronting Lei Dao, whom he had sworn to kill for participating in the kidnapping assassination of his father. Xu Huxiao reached his peak state as Lei Dao invoked Lightning Saber True Body, and both prepared to fight within Gui Mei’s domain.

• Xu Huxiao’s unified explosive methods gave his Golden Flame Silver Body 30,000 jin of strength, and Multiplication could raise his peak strength to 90,000 jin.
• Xu Huxiao relied on White-Ring Flash Shift to give him enough speed to face an Assault Soul Douluo like Lei Dao.
• Lei Dao mocked Xu Huxiao for challenging him, but Xu Huxiao revealed his identity as Xu Bayan’s son and declared that Lei Dao was on his kill list for the kidnapping assassination seven years earlier.
• Xu Huxiao advanced, released his full power, and forced open part of Gui Mei’s domain with his Golden Dragon Force Aura.
• Lei Dao manifested Lightning Saber True Body, carved out a domain with his saber aura, and vowed to kill Xu Huxiao before fighting his way out.
• Xu Huxiao took his fighting stance and told Lei Dao to die.