Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• During the village’s Martial Soul awakening, most children show ordinary or useless Martial Souls and no Soul Power. Tang San awakens Blue Silver Grass with level-five Innate Soul Power, but hides his second Martial Soul, a hammer.
• He asks the examiner, Su Yuntao, whether Blue Silver Grass can be cultivated. Su explains that it is possible but offers little practical use, then leaves.
• Village chief Old Jack offers Tang San the village’s sole work-study place at Notting City Junior Soul Master Academy, which could let him escape his abusive home. Tang San says he must ask his father’s permission, though he secretly knows Tang Hao will never agree.
• Old Jack leaves him a sugar cube as a small kindness. Before Tang San can take it, a dog steals it. Tang San also reveals a note he had planned to give Su Yuntao, offering a lifetime of service in exchange for help killing his father.
• Tang San recalls years of beatings, poor health, and a failed escape attempt that left a large scar. Convinced the academy place is his only chance, he decides to kill Tang Hao rather than ask permission.

Character developments

• Tang San moves from fearful, guarded endurance toward determined action. His Tang Sect training makes him conceal his hammer and keeps him wary of trusting others; his past as an assassin shapes his plan to kill Tang Hao.
• Old Jack shows compassion and practical courage, offering Tang San a route out while carefully avoiding actions that might provoke Tang Hao.
• Su Yuntao is dismissive of Blue Silver Grass but not deliberately cruel; he senses Tang San is withholding something and chooses not to press him.
• Tang Hao is presented through Tang San’s memories as violently abusive and potentially murderous.

Themes

• Abuse and powerlessness: Tang San is trapped by his father’s control and fears that seeking help could make things worse.
• Hope and escape: The work-study place represents a possible new life, but even a small disappointment—the stolen sugar—underscores how precarious his hopes are.
• Secrecy and distrust: Tang San’s training and dangerous circumstances prevent him from revealing his full abilities or asking openly for help.
• Survival becoming vengeance: Years of suffering turn endurance into a resolve to retaliate.

Character interactions

• Tang San cautiously questions Su Yuntao but hides his hammer and the note.
• Old Jack offers comfort and the academy opportunity, adapting his approach to avoid frightening Tang San.
• Tang San’s relationship with Tang Hao is defined by fear, beatings, and failed escape; he ultimately decides to act without his father’s consent.
• The dog’s theft of the sugar cube removes a small comfort and coincides with Tang San’s final commitment to his plan.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points

• Tang San prepares to assassinate his father, Tang Hao, whom he views as a violent and dangerous target. Following the Tang Sect’s principles, he plans carefully: he chooses the moment when Tang Hao is drunk and asleep, loads his Sleeve Arrow with three bolts coated in snake venom, and aims for his throat.
• Before the attempt, Tang Hao asks what Martial Soul Tang San awakened. When Tang San answers “Blue Silver Grass,” Tang Hao reacts with unusual recognition and pain, briefly lashing out before returning to his drinking and troubled muttering.
• Tang Hao’s bedroom ramblings reveal his inner turmoil: he invokes the God of Slaughter and struggles with murderous urges, guilt, and a longing for guidance.
• Believing Tang Hao asleep, Tang San fires all three bolts. Tang Hao catches them with one hand and, still barely awake, flicks them back along their path.
• The bolts strike Tang San in the throat and kill him. Tang Hao wakes fully, realizes the attacker was his son, and desperately pours Soul Power into the boy, but cannot revive him. He ends the chapter in anguish, crying, “Come back to life, my son!”

Character developments

• Tang San is shown as disciplined, analytical, and shaped by both Tang Sect teachings and years of fear. His careful planning cannot overcome the vast difference between his abilities and Tang Hao’s. He dies bewildered, unable to understand why his attack failed.
• Tang Hao is introduced as an abusive, drunken father, but his behavior is complicated by profound inner torment and grief. His reflexive defense kills Tang San; once he recognizes his son, his violence gives way to desperate remorse.

Character interactions

• Tang Hao’s question about Tang San’s Martial Soul briefly exposes a personal, emotional response beneath his drunkenness, though Tang San remains too afraid to explore it.
• The assassination attempt turns their strained father–son relationship into a fatal confrontation. Tang San treats Tang Hao as a target; Tang Hao reacts instinctively, then discovers that the person he killed is his son.

Significant themes

• The cost of violence: Years of abuse and fear culminate in an attempt on Tang Hao’s life and an irreversible tragedy.
• Skill versus power: Tang San’s meticulous preparation and technical expertise are powerless against Tang Hao’s superior strength and reflexes.
• Misunderstanding and tragic irony: Tang San’s plan assumes Tang Hao is helpless in sleep, while Tang Hao’s defense is automatic; each becomes the other’s killer without fully understanding what is happening.
• Guilt and inner conflict: Tang Hao’s invocations reveal a battle between murderous impulses and remorse, foreshadowing the catastrophe that follows.

Key plot points and events

• Grief and the Asura Evil God’s influence drive Tang Hao into madness after Tang San’s death. He accepts the god’s corrupting power, burns with sinister green flames, and destroys Holy Soul Village with a single hammer strike.
• Tang Hao heads to the waterfall cave hoping to reunite with Ah Yin, but finds her gone. A blue-gold leaf she gave him points toward the Star Dou Great Forest, so he follows it.
• Half a month later, Tang Hao finds Xiao Wu outside Ah Yin’s cave, holding a matching blue-gold blade of grass. Convinced it will lead him to Ah Yin, he demands that Xiao Wu reveal her location.
• Xiao Wu refuses. The Sky Azure Bull Python (Da Ming) and Titan Giant Ape (Er Ming) step in to protect her. Tang Hao attacks all three with his transformed, corrupted hammer.
• Da Ming blocks with a storm barrier, Er Ming braces with his enhanced body, and Xiao Wu teleports clear. The attack proves more dangerous than expected: its force also strikes the soul, catching Er Ming off guard.

Character developments

• Tang Hao becomes a deranged, immensely powerful servant of the Asura Evil God. His grief for Tang San and longing for Ah Yin are twisted into an urge to “purify” everything through slaughter.
• Xiao Wu remains playful but takes her guard duty seriously, standing between Tang Hao and the cave despite recognizing his strength.
• Da Ming and Er Ming act protectively toward Xiao Wu and confidently confront the intruder, though Tang Hao’s unusual soul-damaging attack threatens to overturn their advantage.

Significant themes

• Grief corrupted into violence: Tang Hao’s love and loss are redirected into indiscriminate destruction.
• The danger of power without reason: His new strength is paired with madness, making him unpredictable and cruel.
• Protection and loyalty: Xiao Wu, Da Ming, and Er Ming unite to defend the cave and one another.
• Appearance versus hidden threat: Tang Hao’s attack resembles a physical hammer blow, but carries a devastating soul attack as well.

Character interactions

Tang Hao treats Xiao Wu as an obstacle and threatens her unless she helps him find Ah Yin. Xiao Wu answers defiantly, while Da Ming and Er Ming place themselves between them and challenge him. Their standoff turns into a battle when Tang Hao attacks all three at once; Xiao Wu evades the blow, and the two beast kings attempt to withstand it.

Summary

Key plot points and events

• Tang Hao opens the battle with a powerful hammer strike that shatters the Sky Azure Bull Python’s wind-and-thunder shield and injures both Da Ming and Er Ming with its soul-shaking force. Er Ming tears apart the phantom attack, while both brothers quickly recover.
• Xiao Wu decides the fight must be moved away from the cavern, where her master is still in seclusion. She locks Tang Hao in her Void Burst Barrier domain, teleports him a thousand meters away, and escapes when his Slaughter Domain disrupts her further attempts.
• Da Ming and Er Ming join Xiao Wu’s assault. Er Ming charges through Tang Hao’s domain and strikes with Titan’s Wrath, Black Flame Heavy Fist, but Tang Hao meets the blow with his hammer and sends the giant ape flying.
• Xiao Wu exploits Er Ming’s attack to ambush Tang Hao with Waist Bow Point Kill. Her invincible state lets her pass through Tang Hao’s soul- and mind-attacking counter. The strike dents his chest, and she retreats before her protection expires.
• Da Ming follows with Thunder Judgment of Annihilation, blasting Tang Hao into the ground. Er Ming assumes the two attacks have nearly killed him, but Xiao Wu senses that something is wrong.
• Tang Hao emerges laughing, apparently unharmed apart from a red mark on his chest, with his Soul Power undiminished. The three beast allies are left stunned.

Character developments

• Xiao Wu shows tactical judgment and protectiveness: she moves the battle away from the cavern, coordinates her allies, and carefully withdraws rather than risk being vulnerable after her domain’s invincibility ends. Her close observation also makes her the first to suspect Tang Hao has survived.
• Da Ming remains composed and supports the team with a carefully prepared lightning strike, but is shaken when Tang Hao appears unaffected.
• Er Ming fights with ferocity, enduring Tang Hao’s mental assault and delivering a major blow. His defeat in their strength contest teaches him caution, though his confidence returns after Xiao Wu and Da Ming land their attacks.
• Tang Hao proves to be an exceptionally experienced fighter. His battle instincts let him react to Xiao Wu’s concealed threat, and his mastery of hammer techniques allows him to overpower Er Ming. His unexplained resilience makes him seem far more dangerous than the beasts expected.

Significant themes

• Instinct and experience in combat: Tang Hao’s body reacts before his conscious mind can interpret danger, demonstrating how battle experience can counter surprise.
• Teamwork and complementary abilities: The three allies combine Xiao Wu’s teleportation and ambush, Er Ming’s strength, and Da Ming’s lightning to create openings against a stronger opponent.
• The limits of power and timing: Xiao Wu’s invincibility is potent but temporary, so she must judge precisely when to attack and retreat.
• Uncertainty and misjudgment: The apparent success of the coordinated attack proves unreliable, ending the chapter on a cliffhanger about Tang Hao’s extraordinary durability.

Character interactions

• Xiao Wu checks on both brothers after their injuries, and they reassure her before agreeing to follow her plan.
• Xiao Wu taunts Tang Hao while teleporting him away, then coordinates with Da Ming and Er Ming to attack him together.
• Er Ming’s direct assault creates the distraction Xiao Wu needs for her kick, and Da Ming capitalizes on the resulting opening with his lightning attack.
• Er Ming celebrates the apparent victory, but Xiao Wu cautions the group; Tang Hao’s return immediately confirms her suspicion.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Tang Hao survives Xiao Wu’s Waist Bow and the Sky Azure Bull Python’s fully charged Thunder Judgment of Annihilation. Though the first attack injures him, his transformed body rapidly heals, while his Undying Black Bones and defensive Soul Bone Skills—Unyielding Demon Body and Diamond Protective Shield—help him withstand the thunder strike.
• Tang Hao uses Sky-Rending Hammer Force, vanishing into a white character and reappearing above the Sky Azure Bull Python. His Soul-Shattering Break shatters its partly formed Thunder Barrier and leaves it mentally stunned.
• As Tang Hao prepares a hammer blow that could finish the python, Xiao Wu intervenes. She binds him with invincible golden light and teleports him into a devastating headlong plunge. Tang Hao survives by activating his Undying Black Tortoise Shield.
• Er Ming, the Titan Giant Ape, follows with Titan Sky Shatter: Titan Meteor Shower, pouring dozens of destructive blows into the crater. Tang Hao emerges nearly unharmed, protected by his torso Soul Bone Skill, Slaughter God’s Black Demon Armor.
• Tang Hao immediately attacks again. Taking advantage of the python’s lingering mental disorientation, he breaks its Thunder Barrier and lands three successive hammer strikes. At his command, the blows detonate, leaving the Sky Azure Bull Python brutally mutilated and collapsing to the ground.

Character developments

• Tang Hao is revealed as a fully transformed Weird Soul Master, with enhanced healing, mutated Soul Power, black bones, and extraordinary defenses. His confidence and cruelty grow as he shrugs off attacks and turns the beasts’ protective responses against them.
• Xiao Wu demonstrates quick judgment and courage, saving the Sky Azure Bull Python at a critical moment by binding and teleporting Tang Hao.
• Er Ming responds to his brother’s peril with fury, unleashing a massive barrage. Despite his strength, he cannot stop Tang Hao from recovering and striking again.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python shifts from certainty that its killing move has worked to vulnerability and confusion. Its lasting mental damage leaves it unable to respond effectively to Tang Hao’s repeated attack.

Significant themes

• The danger of underestimating an opponent: The beasts assume Tang Hao’s movement will be too slow under their control domains, but they have not accounted for his full range of skills.
• Adaptation and layered defense: Tang Hao survives through the combined effects of transformation, healing, Soul Bones, and defensive skills—not any single ability alone.
• Protection and sacrifice: Xiao Wu and Er Ming risk themselves to protect the Sky Azure Bull Python, while Tang Hao deliberately exploits their concern.
• Overwhelming power and brutality: The chapter emphasizes the escalating, devastating force of combat, culminating in Tang Hao’s three-strike assault.

Character interactions

• Tang Hao taunts the beasts, particularly threatening the Sky Azure Bull Python to provoke the others.
• Xiao Wu warns the python and physically intervenes to save it.
• Er Ming reacts to Tang Hao’s attack on his brother with a furious counterattack, but Tang Hao survives and resumes his assault.

Plot points and events

• Tang Hao finishes off the Sky Azure Bull Python with his Seven Wounds Thunderclap Hammer, then turns on Xiao Wu and the Titan Giant Ape, demanding to know where Ah Yin is.
• Enraged by Da Ming’s apparent death, Er Ming summons his immense Flame Emperor Battle Axe and attacks. Tang Hao deflects the blow with technique, then batters Er Ming with a series of thunderous hammer strikes.
• Xiao Wu catches Tang Hao off guard with a cleverly timed, double-accelerated kick. Though she severely injures his chest, Tang Hao uses the Kong character to reappear behind the helpless Er Ming and resumes his assault.
• Xiao Wu shields Er Ming from a killing blow, while Da Ming reveals that he survived by concentrating his life force in his Dragon Orb. He releases the orb’s remaining power to summon the Annihilation Azure Dragon.
• During the dragon’s attack, Xiao Wu strikes Tang Hao’s neck and dislocates both his knees. Tang Hao retaliates, hurling her away, then uses his soul-bone abilities to restore and empower himself.
• Tang Hao meets the Annihilation Azure Dragon with his enlarged hammer, an exploding Soul Ring, and the Chaotic Wind Hammer Technique. After thirty-six chained blows, he destroys the dragon and its lightning. Da Ming collapses near death, and Xiao Wu is left in despair.

Character developments and interactions

• Tang Hao is shown as both brutally powerful and highly skilled: he counters Er Ming’s raw strength with technique, exploits the ape’s vulnerability, and continues fighting despite grievous injuries. His temporary power boosts let him overcome the dragon, but his injuries remain a serious cost.
• Xiao Wu proves resourceful and fiercely protective. She adapts her kick to Tang Hao’s expected defense, then risks herself again to protect Er Ming and cripple Tang Hao. Her grief deepens as she watches Da Ming spend his last strength and the dragon’s attack fail.
• Er Ming fights from rage and loyalty after believing Da Ming dead, but his forceful, less precise attack leaves him vulnerable to Tang Hao’s counter.
• Da Ming reveals his survival and makes a final sacrifice, using the Dragon Orb to unleash the Azure Dragon in a desperate attempt to save the others.
• The three companions’ bond is central: Xiao Wu tries to protect Er Ming, Da Ming entrusts his last power to her cause, and both beasts’ actions are driven by loyalty.

Significant themes

• Rage versus discipline: Er Ming’s fury gives him power but undermines his control; Tang Hao’s technique lets him redirect that strength.
• Sacrifice and loyalty: Da Ming gives up his remaining life force for his friends, while Xiao Wu repeatedly risks herself to protect them.
• Desperation and resilience: Every fighter continues despite grave wounds, but sheer determination cannot guarantee victory against overwhelming power.
• The cost of power: Tang Hao’s temporary enhancements and Da Ming’s Dragon Orb both draw on extraordinary reserves, with severe consequences for their users.

Plot points

• Tang Hao’s temporary surge of strength fades, leaving him badly injured. Before departing to reunite with Ah Yin, he realizes Xiao Wu is guarding a cave and attacks the rocky hill to reach whatever is inside.
• Xiao Wu teleports back and spends all her strength protecting the hill and cave with Invincible Golden Light. The barrier holds for three seconds before Tang Hao’s attack destroys the area—but Xiao Wu disappears at the last moment.
• Tang Hao finds Ah Yin and declares that he has killed their son, Little San, and intends to devour her so they can be “reunited.” Ah Yin is devastated and suspects he is telling the truth, but Xu Huxiao arrives with the unconscious Xiao Wu and the dying Da Ming and Er Ming.
• Xu orders Ah Yin to set aside her grief and use her life energy to stabilize the three beasts. Under his influence, she calms herself and obeys.
• Xu confronts Tang Hao. Despite Tang Hao’s immense hammer and murderous power, Xu attacks first, crushing much of his body with a single blow. Tang Hao revives, revealing that death only begins his transformation and that he grows stronger with each death.
• Recognizing the danger, Xu moves the fight away from Ah Yin and the others. Tang Hao unleashes his Clear Sky True Body and Eighth Soul Skill as the next clash begins.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Wu demonstrates fierce loyalty, sacrificing herself to protect her master’s seclusion and the others.
• Ah Yin is thrown into grief by Tang Hao’s claim about Little San, then suppresses her emotions when Xu commands her to save the injured.
• Xu Huxiao shifts from protector to opponent, calmly taking responsibility for confronting Tang Hao and deliberately drawing the battle away from the wounded.
• Tang Hao is now consumed by murderous madness. He sees Ah Yin as something to possess and devour, and treats Xu as an obstacle to be killed.
• The scene’s central interactions are Tang Hao’s cruel confrontation with Ah Yin, Xu’s commanding but protective relationship with Ah Yin, and the emerging battle between Xu and Tang Hao.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice and protection: Xiao Wu risks everything to shield the cave, while Xu prioritizes the safety of the wounded.
• Grief and corrupted love: Tang Hao’s talk of family reunion twists affection into possession and violence; Ah Yin’s love becomes anguish.
• Duty versus emotion: Ah Yin must put aside her shock to preserve lives.
• Endurance and escalating conflict: Tang Hao’s resurrection makes death a source of further power, setting up a prolonged contest against Xu’s confidence and hidden abilities.

Plot and key events

• Tang Hao unleashes the Ten Directions Demon God World-Destroying Hammer, sealing a 500-meter area and hammering it into a massive explosion.
• He assumes Xu Huxiao has been killed, but Xu emerges unharmed and immediately attacks with overwhelming speed and strength.
• Xu identifies himself as the pope of Spirit Hall’s personal disciple and declares that the Blue Silver Emperor and Soft Bone Rabbit belong to him. Tang Hao, already consumed by hatred of Spirit Hall over its past attack on him and Ah Yin, becomes determined to kill Xu.
• They fight: Tang Hao uses his hammer, Soul Skills, and Divine Slaughter’s Domain, but Xu counters him and continues to grow stronger. Xu also interrupts Tang Hao’s Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer before it can build power.
• Xu reproduces and improves the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes after watching Tang Hao use them. Tang Hao, outraged and humiliated, unleashes the techniques in full, only for Xu to break them with greater mastery.
• Tang Hao activates his Clear Sky True Body and Great Sumeru Hammer, but Xu meets him with a newly devised Great Sumeru Palm. Tang Hao is badly overpowered despite his defensive enhancements.
• Before Tang Hao can detonate his Ninth Soul Ring, Xu triggers nearly a hundred hidden-force strikes planted inside him. Tang Hao’s body explodes, leaving only his Undying Black Bone. Xu remarks, “Twice.”

Character developments

• Xu Huxiao is revealed as an exceptionally powerful fighter whose abilities exceed what his three Soul Rings suggest. His composure, adaptability, and talent for learning techniques mid-fight make him increasingly formidable.
• Tang Hao shifts from confident triumph to disbelief, frustration, and fury. His pride in the Clear Sky Sect’s techniques is wounded when Xu both copies and surpasses them; his final resort is cut off before he can use it.
• Tang’s hatred of Spirit Hall is reignited by Xu’s identity and by memories of the attack on Ah Yin.

Character interactions

• The battle is driven by mutual hostility: Tang sees Xu as a Spirit Hall enemy and supposed thief of his sect’s secret arts; Xu frames the fight as retaliation for Tang’s interference and threats.
• Their exchanges escalate from direct attacks to a contest over technique and mastery, especially when Xu uses the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes against their original wielder.
• Tang’s growing outrage contrasts with Xu’s calm, matter-of-fact demeanor throughout the confrontation.

Significant themes

• Adaptability and mastery: Xu learns from observation and refines what he copies, challenging the idea that inherited secrets guarantee superiority.
• Pride and humiliation: Tang’s attachment to his sect’s techniques and identity makes Xu’s imitation especially enraging.
• Escalating power and reversal: Tang begins as the apparent victor, but the fight steadily turns against him.
• Vengeance and possessiveness: Tang’s old grievance with Spirit Hall shapes his fury, while Xu’s claim over Ah Yin and the rabbit makes the conflict personal.

After defeating Tang Hao again, Xu Huxiao explained how combat enlightenment had let him create Source of Force Energy, a technique that continually amplified his attacks. Elsewhere, Ah Yin used stored life energy to heal Xiao Wu, who awoke and clung to her in relief.

• Xu Huxiao told Tang Hao that Source of Force Energy fused three palm forces and boosted his attacks roughly threefold.
• Xu Huxiao explained how Tai Chi-like force seeds stored and compressed force aura in his meridians and flesh, while he postponed trying to refine it into his bones.
• Ah Yin followed Xu Huxiao's orders and used the remaining life energy from the five Imperial Rank plants to heal Xiao Wu, the Titan Giant Ape, and the Sky Azure Bull Python.
• Xiao Wu woke, transformed from a rabbit into a little girl, and hugged Ah Yin while crying with relief.
• Ah Yin comforted Xiao Wu and found herself crying despite feeling emotionally empty.

Xiao Wu and Er Ming agreed to let Xu Huxiao make Da Ming his special soul ring in hopes of saving him, with Er Ming also accepting Xu Huxiao's demand that he acknowledge him as master. Xu Huxiao prepared to fight the resurrected Tang Hao again while promising to attempt Da Ming's recovery.

• Ah Yin told Xiao Wu and the newly awakened Er Ming that Da Ming's destroyed foundation meant he would die unless Xu Huxiao could rebuild it.
• Xiao Wu explained that becoming Xu Huxiao's special soul ring would cost Da Ming his freedom, and she and Er Ming agreed to try the method to save him.
• Xu Huxiao told Xiao Wu and Ah Yin that he would attempt to save Da Ming if Er Ming acknowledged him as master when Xu Huxiao reached level fifty.
• Er Ming agreed to stay and accept Xu Huxiao's terms, and Xiao Wu chose to wait with him for Xu Huxiao's return.
• Xu Huxiao judged that his power could rebuild Da Ming's foundation and planned to subdue both forest kings.
• Tang Hao resurrected at level 93 and challenged Xu Huxiao to fight again.

Tang Hao escalated his attack against Xu Huxiao by detonating Soul Rings, but Xu Huxiao adapted to the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes and turned Tang Hao’s own Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer into a palm technique. Xu Huxiao’s eighty-first strike killed Tang Hao again, and he prepared to end the fight quickly after the resurrection began.

• Tang Hao detonated his first three Soul Rings and attacked with the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes, but Xu Huxiao used his martial footwork and force-redirection techniques to counter him.
• Xu Huxiao turned Tang Hao’s spinning Kong Character Formula against him, while Tang Hao detonated two more rings to break free and badly injured himself.
• Tang Hao healed with Titan Overlord Body and detonated his sixth Soul Ring, but Xu Huxiao defeated his Po Character Formula strike and sent him flying.
• Tang Hao realized Xu Huxiao had been adapting the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer into a palm technique and accumulating power through consecutive strikes.
• Tang Hao detonated his seventh Soul Ring and tried to interrupt Xu Huxiao, but Xu Huxiao’s eighty-first Disorder Splitting Wind Palm pierced him and triggered his resurrection.
• Xu Huxiao judged the accumulated technique too slow compared with his Dragon Origin Wave and decided to finish Tang Hao quickly.

Xu Huxiao overwhelmed Tang Hao with the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms and killed him for the fourth time using Shock Force's Slaughter and Dragon Origin Wave. Their battle drove soul beasts from the Star Dou Great Forest’s middle zone, forming a small beast tide that forced Soul Masters and hunting teams to flee.

• Tang Hao revived at level 94, detonated his first four soul rings, and charged Xu Huxiao with a brute-force hammer strike.
• Xu Huxiao evaded Tang Hao’s attack, countered with the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, and battered him through a mountain.
• Xu Huxiao immobilized Tang Hao with Shock Force's Slaughter and destroyed him with Dragon Origin Wave, killing him for the fourth time.
• The battle’s clashes and killing intent sent soul beasts fleeing from the middle zone and sparked a small beast tide toward the outer forest.
• Old Chen warned three women that entering the Star Dou Great Forest was dangerous, then agreed to escort them elsewhere in exchange for their company.

Xu Huxiao shattered Tang Hao’s all-out hammer strike and killed him twice more in their brutal duel. Tang Hao revived for his final life at Level 96, and the two prepared to clash again.

• A-Qiang and the Clairaudience soul master fled as a vast beast tide surged toward them.
• Tang Hao used spatial confinement and four detonated soul rings to strike Xu Huxiao with the Demon-Slaying God-Slayer Hammer.
• Xu Huxiao’s Golden-Eyed Hulk form shattered the hammer and killed Tang Hao with a strengthened Golden Dragon Palm strike.
• Tang Hao revived and detonated five soul rings, but Xu Huxiao defeated him again in their head-on clash.
• Tang Hao revived for his last life at Level 96, and he and Xu Huxiao faced off amid opposing waves of killing intent and golden force.

Xu Huxiao survived Tang Hao’s self-sacrificial, deity-level strike by answering it with his strongest attack, though he was left badly injured. Meanwhile, a sealed being in Slaughter City sensed the fall of one of its own and continued preparing its servants for the coming black wheel great sun.

• Tang Hao detonated six Soul Rings and unleashed Sumeru Tyrant Annihilation, dying as his hammer descended on Xu Huxiao.
• Xu Huxiao fused Ah Yin and Xiao Wu’s Soul Power into himself, reaching the strength of a rank ninety-six Super Douluo.
• Xu Huxiao consumed his divine intent seed and met Tang Hao’s deity-level attack with Dragons Fight in the Wild.
• The clash carved a vast crater, but Xu Huxiao survived and began healing as he declared that Tang Hao’s strike had failed to kill him.
• In Slaughter City, a blood-armored man sensed that one of his own had fallen, struggled against the planar law chains binding him, and sank back into the blood pool.
• The Bloody Mary continued corrupting Slaughter City’s Soul Masters, turning them into servants of Asura.

The Titan Giant Ape found Green Goblin guarding the crater and learned that Xu Huxiao and Xiao Wu were recovering underground while the Sky Azure Bull Python needed medicinal herbs for treatment. As Xu Huxiao healed from his wounds, he examined a miniature Demon-Slaying God-Slayer Hammer left behind after the battle.

• The Titan Giant Ape reached the crater, discovered a human-shaped shaft, and watched Green Goblin emerge from it as a demon dragon.
• Green Goblin dodged the Titan Giant Ape's attacks while chattering until Xu Huxiao ordered them to stop and explained that Xiao Wu was safe but the Sky Azure Bull Python needed ten days of care.
• Xu Huxiao told the Titan Giant Ape to gather aged medicinal herbs and instructed Green Goblin to guard the Sky Azure Bull Python.
• The Titan Giant Ape entrusted its unconscious elder brother to Green Goblin and left to collect herbs from the forest.
• Underground, Xu Huxiao used his Golden-Eyed Hulk Martial Soul Possession to heal while wearing down traces of laws in his wounds.
• Xu Huxiao retrieved the Twin Dragon Rings and found a miniature Demon-Slaying God-Slayer Hammer inside a golden sphere.

Xu Huxiao safely stored the corrupting Law Hammer and discovered that the Eye of Omniscience could reveal the mysteries of the laws inside it. After receiving an initial understanding of strength, destruction, and slaughter, he put the hammer away and focused on healing so he could take in the Sky Azure Bull Python.

• Xu Huxiao learned that the Law Hammer could corrupt anyone who connected with it through Soul Power, spirit, or flesh, so he sealed it in a lead box.
• Xu Huxiao reasoned that the hammer's law power might strengthen his attacks if he could comprehend it without being corrupted.
• Xu Huxiao used the Eye of Omniscience to study the Law Hammer from a distance, keeping his attention on the system-granted eyes rather than the artifact.
• After roughly twelve hours, Xu Huxiao received a substantial understanding of the laws of strength, destruction, and slaughter.
• Xu Huxiao read the Law Hammer's newly changed, complaining item description, stored it, and resumed healing.

After recovering from his battle, Xu Huxiao emerged as the master of the newly feared Green Crystal Demon Dragon and traveled to Star Lake to save the dying Sky Azure Bull Python. He bestowed his fourth Monster Shrek Soul Ring on it, then transferred his consciousness into its body to begin rebuilding its life foundation.

• After recovering from his injuries, Xu Huxiao learned that Soul Masters had named a black demon dragon the new forest king and were avoiding the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xu Huxiao praised Green Goblin, ordered him to remain silent unless addressed, and examined his abilities as a 120,000-year-old Green Crystal Demon Dragon.
• Xu Huxiao restored Ah Yin and Xiao Wu, then traveled with them, Green Goblin, and the injured Titan Giant Ape to Star Lake in the forest's core region.
• Xu Huxiao examined the dying Sky Azure Bull Python and agreed to save it in exchange for the Titan Giant Ape's service.
• Xu Huxiao bestowed his fourth Soul Ring on the Sky Azure Bull Python, planted his Bloodline Dragon Banner, and transferred his consciousness into its body.
• The Golden-Eyed Sky Azure Bull Python swallowed the natural treasures and began rebuilding its life foundation.

Xu Huxiao rebuilt the shattered Sky Azure Bull Python's bloodline, transforming Da Ming into the Azure Sky Thunder Serpent and restoring his life. After Da Ming pledged loyalty, Xu Huxiao ordered him, Er Ming, and Xiao Wu to cultivate discreetly and gather intelligence on powerful Soul Beasts.

• Xu Huxiao used his own dragon bloodline, the Bloodline Dragon Banner, and Ah Yin's life energy to create new circulation pathways for the comatose Sky Azure Bull Python.
• After five days and nights, the Sky Azure Bull Python awoke, shed his dead skin in a thunderstorm, and transformed into an Azure Sky Thunder Serpent.
• Da Ming thanked Xu Huxiao for saving him and pledged to serve as his most loyal spear.
• Xu Huxiao learned that Da Ming had lost some cultivation but gained stronger dragon and lightning abilities, including a Thunder-Magnetic Domain.
• Xu Huxiao gave Da Ming the circulation method "Azure Sky Thunder Dragon Art Fundamentals" and the movement technique "Gecko Wall-Crawling."
• Xu Huxiao ordered Da Ming, Er Ming, and Xiao Wu to stay hidden, avoid unnecessary fights, and secretly compile information about Soul Beasts over fifty thousand years old.

Xu Huxiao erased Ah Yin’s memories at her request, assigned Green Goblin to hunt in Slaughter City, and headed to the Western Wilderness to pursue Wolf Bandit Yazi. In Noricia City, young nobles discussed the growing legend of Dragon Giant Hero, unaware that it was Xu Huxiao’s reputation spreading across the region.

• Ah Yin asked Xu Huxiao to erase her memories of human society, and he did so before naming her again and assigning her to cultivate with the Blue Silver Tribe.
• Xu Huxiao sent Green Goblin to Slaughter City, gave him the Tortoise Breath Skill, and urged him to develop his Evolutionary Slaughter ability there.
• Xu Huxiao reached Soul Ancestor rank forty-six and flew toward the Western Wilderness to hunt Wolf Bandit Yazi and obtain a soul ring for his Four Extremes Golden Dragon Claw martial soul.
• At a banquet in Noricia City, Ya Qing asked about the legend of Dragon Giant Hero, and Huo Qi and Meng Chen discussed the mysterious bandit hunter.
• Meng Chen said Dragon Giant Hero had reportedly destroyed nearly a dozen Wolf Bandit groups and left atop an enormous armored golden dragon.

At a ball in the Western Wilderness, Xue Ke and the others discussed the masked Dragon Giant Hero before turning to rumors about the Star Dou Great Forest. Tang Yuehua returned to her hotel suite, reflected on her disillusionment with the nobility, and began a new novel under her pen name, Yue Chen.

• Xue Ke said she admired Dragon Giant Hero for hunting the Wolf Bandits, while Huo Qi questioned the masked hero's motives.
• Meng Chen shifted the conversation to the battle in the Star Dou Great Forest, and the group moved on to other topics.
• Tang Yuehua declined Earl Wushan's invitation to dance and reminded her students about their excursion to Rainfall Marsh the next morning.
• Back in her suite, Tang Yuehua reflected on how powerful men had treated her as a possession and how those experiences had changed her.
• Tang Yuehua began a new novel titled 'Two Lives Reborn: Black Dragon Douluo's Contract Bride,' featuring a heroine named Bai Yuemei.