Chapter Summaries

Dai Mubai learned how the women’s cultivation and abilities had improved after absorbing immortal herbs and soul bones, then gathered with the others to hear their results. The group planned to arrange soul-ring hunts, while several members still awaited their turn to report.

• Dai Mubai asked Ning Rongrong, Shui Yue'er, and Shui Bing'er about their gains after they woke together, and they described their improved Soul Power, physical abilities, and new soul skills.
• Dai Mubai noted that Ning Rongrong had reached level fifty, Shui Yue'er level forty, Shui Bing'er the peak of level forty-nine, and Zhu Zhuqing had already reached level fifty, then proposed they acquire soul rings together.
• Dai Mubai and the four women joined Ma Hongjun, Oscar, Yang Pojun, Niu Zhen, Dai Lingling, and Bai Chenxiang in the front hall to discuss the results of their soul-bone absorption.
• Oscar reported that his Soul Power had reached level fifty after taking a Soul-Consolidating Pill, while Ma Hongjun described his level increase and Phoenix Explosive Strike soul-bone skill.
• Yang Pojun reported reaching level forty-nine and gaining the Riftgold Piercing Thrust skill from the Riftgold Demon Tiger Right Arm Bone.

After the team planned a half-month rest before hunting Soul Rings, Dai Mubai negotiated with Dai Tianxing to postpone state duties until he turned twenty-five and gave him an eighty-thousand-year Soul Bone. Dai Tianxing reluctantly agreed to Dai Mubai’s plan to enter Slaughter City after reaching rank sixty, promising to intervene if he remained trapped for more than three years.

• Niu Zhen, Bai Chenxiang, and Dai Lingling described their newly acquired Soul Bone skills and cultivation breakthroughs, and Dai Mubai scheduled a trip to the Star Dou Great Forest after half a month of rest.
• Dai Mubai visited Dai Tianxing in the Imperial Study and said he wanted to focus on cultivation rather than take over state affairs yet.
• Dai Tianxing agreed that Dai Mubai could postpone handling state affairs until he turned twenty-five.
• Dai Mubai gave Dai Tianxing an eighty-thousand-year light- and strength-attribute left arm Soul Bone, and Dai Tianxing offered him a chance to inspect Soul Bones in the national treasury.
• Dai Mubai announced that he planned to enter Slaughter City after breaking through rank sixty, and Dai Tianxing warned him of its dangers.
• Dai Tianxing agreed to Dai Mubai’s plan and promised to mobilize the army to destroy Slaughter City if Dai Mubai remained trapped there for more than three years.

Dai Mubai selected Soul Bones for Shui Yue'er and Oscar, discussed his plans to cultivate and enter Slaughter City, and organized the Crown Prince's Personal Army with the Heavenly Strategy Sect elders. The army’s three battalions were assigned commanders and equipment plans as recruitment and training were set to begin.

• Dai Mubai took a thirty-thousand-year water-attribute Left Leg Soul Bone and a Hundred-Spirit Flower Left Arm Bone from the royal treasury for Shui Yue'er and Oscar.
• Dai Mubai told Ning Fengzhi that he would focus on cultivation until age twenty-five and later enter Slaughter City after reaching rank sixty; Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo supported his plans.
• Ning Fengzhi said he and Sword Douluo would return to Heaven Dou City, and Dai Mubai advised the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to stay neutral while the Clear Sky Sect and Spirit Hall clashed.
• Dai Mubai gave Niu Gao two hundred million Gold Soul Coins to manage and asked him to expand the sect’s pill, forging, and construction businesses.
• Dai Mubai presented Hidden Weapon Blueprints to Lou Gao and announced a Crown Prince's Personal Army of at least ten thousand soldiers, organized into three battalions.
• Dai Mubai assigned Bai He to command the five-thousand-strong Divine Engine Battalion, Zhao Wuji to command the five-thousand-strong Black Armor Battalion, and Yang Wudi to command the Soul Master Assault Battalion.

Dai Mubai organized the Crown Prince’s Personal Army, distributed Soul Bones, and set out with ten companions to gain experience and find Soul Rings. The group left Star Luo City and began planning their route through the Star Dou Great Forest and the Frozen Forest.

• Dai Mubai assigned Senior Lou to provide equipment and Elder Niu to provide funds, while Zhao Wuji, Yang Wudi, and Bai He took charge of one hundred disciples for the Crown Prince’s Personal Army.
• Yang Wudi gave Dai Mubai five Tonghua Pills, which could heal severe injuries, regenerate severed limbs, and strengthen the body.
• During the next half month, Shui Yue'er and Oscar absorbed Soul Bones, while Dai Mubai and the elders established the army through recruitment and selection.
• Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, Shui Bing'er, Shui Yue'er, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, Yang Pojun, Niu Zhen, Dai Lingling, and Bai Chenxiang secretly left the Eastern Palace for the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Dai Mubai planned to obtain Soul Rings for the group in the Star Dou Great Forest before traveling north to Skywater City and the Frozen Forest for Shui Bing'er’s fifth Soul Ring.
• Dai Mubai told Oscar that a Soul Beast around twenty thousand years old would be a relatively safe choice for his fifth Soul Ring, and Oscar asked what type to seek.

Dai Mubai suggested a Mirror Shadow Beast as Oscar’s fifth Soul Ring, giving Oscar hope of gaining a copying ability, and warned the group to stay alert while hunting without elders. In the Star Dou Great Forest, Bai Chenxiang, Shui Yue'er, and Ning Rongrong obtained new Soul Rings, while Zhu Zhuqing’s hunt remained difficult because her target was rare and elusive.

• Dai Mubai told Oscar about the rare Mirror Shadow Beast and its ability to imitate Soul Skills, and Oscar eagerly chose it as his target.
• Dai Mubai urged Ma Hongjun, Yang Pojun, and Niu Zhen to reach rank fifty and reminded everyone that no elders would accompany their hunt.
• Bai Chenxiang obtained a fourth Soul Ring from a seven-thousand-year-old Gale-Splitting Eagle, gaining the Sky-Splitting Wings skill and reaching rank forty-two.
• Shui Yue'er absorbed a seven-thousand-year-old Jadewater Spirit Turtle's Soul Ring, reached rank forty-six, and gained Jade Wave Spiral.
• Ning Rongrong obtained a twenty-thousand-year-old fifth Soul Ring, reached rank fifty-two, and gained the Five-Day Attack skill.
• The group searched for a suitable fifth Soul Ring for Zhu Zhuqing, whose target needed to be a rare, well-hidden darkness- and speed-type Soul Beast.

After Zhu Zhuqing devoured a Shadow Ghost-Faced Spider and gained her fifth Soul Skill, Dai Mubai broke through to level sixty. He refused the group’s offer to accompany him into the Star Dou Great Forest’s core zone, deciding that only he and Zhu Zhuqing would seek his sixth Soul Ring.

• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing hunted a twenty-five-thousand-year-old Shadow Ghost-Faced Spider, which Zhu Zhuqing devoured with her Eight Spider Lances.
• Zhu Zhuqing absorbed the Soul Ring, reached level fifty-three, gained Nether Spider Kill, and evolved her Eight Spider Lances.
• Dai Mubai broke through to level sixty after months of combat and cultivation, while Niu Zhen, Yang Pojun, and Ma Hongjun neared level fifty.
• Dai Mubai said his sixth Soul Ring would require a Soul Beast from the Star Dou Great Forest’s core zone, and the others offered to accompany him.
• Dai Mubai refused their help, saying he and Zhu Zhuqing would enter alone because the core zone was too dangerous for the group.

Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dai Tianhu searched the Star Dou Great Forest for a suitable sixth Soul Ring until they encountered a sixty-five-thousand-year-old Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. Dai Mubai recognized it as a perfect match and chose to fight, despite Dai Tianhu warning that it rivaled a top-tier hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast.

• Dai Mubai sent Zhu Chengfeng back to protect the others while Dai Tianhu accompanied him and Zhu Zhuqing toward the core region.
• Dai Mubai's party searched for over half a month but rejected several Soul Beasts whose attributes or age did not suit his needs.
• Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dai Tianhu reached the depths of the forest, where darkness and enormous claw marks signaled danger.
• The three encountered a massive Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, which Dai Mubai recognized as an ideal Soul Ring target.
• Dai Tianhu warned that the tiger was too powerful for him to defeat alone, but Dai Mubai insisted they fight together because escape was no longer possible.

Dai Tianhu, Dai Mubai, and Zhu Zhuqing fought the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, but the beast’s strength forced it to unleash its Life and Death Arena. Dai Mubai was pulled into the arena with it, leaving Zhu Zhuqing behind.

• Dai Mubai gave Dai Tianhu and Zhu Zhuqing pistols to carry outside their Storage Soul Tools in case the Life and Death Arena made them unusable.
• Dai Tianhu transformed with his White Tiger Martial Soul and attacked the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, while Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing formed their Gengjin Hell White Tiger to assault it from the flank.
• Dai Tianhu and Dai Mubai fought the tiger for a quarter of an hour, suffering severe wounds until Dai Mubai gave Dai Tianhu a Tonghua Pill that restored him.
• Dai Tianhu and Dai Mubai continued trading blows with the tiger, using the pill and Dai Mubai’s recovery ability to outlast it until it began to lose ground.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger opened its Life and Death Arena and targeted Dai Mubai, who ended the fusion and pushed Zhu Zhuqing away before striking the beast with Two Forms Gengjin Divine Light.
• The black hole pulled both Dai Mubai and the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger inside, and Dai Mubai found himself standing on solid ground after emerging from the darkness.

Dai Mubai defeated the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger in the Life and Death Arena and claimed its Evil God Pearl. After returning to the Star Dou Great Forest, he swallowed the pearl and absorbed the tiger’s Soul Ring, triggering a violent struggle between the two powers inside him.

• Dai Mubai and the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger were reduced to cubs in the Life and Death Arena, where Dai Mubai killed the tiger with his pistols.
• Dai Mubai returned to the Star Dou Great Forest, seized the Evil God Pearl from the tiger’s corpse, and found that it had not produced a Soul Bone.
• Dai Tianhu asked Dai Mubai about the black hole, and Dai Mubai said he would explain later before absorbing the Soul Ring.
• After recovering, Dai Mubai swallowed the Evil God Pearl and drew the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s Soul Ring into himself.
• The Soul Ring’s power fused with the Evil God Pearl and caused the Dark Demon Evil Tiger to battle Dai Mubai’s Gengjin White Tiger Martial Soul within his body.

Dai Mubai survived three days of violent conflict between the Gengjin White Tiger and the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger within his body. He awakened the Dark Demon Evil Tiger as a second Martial Soul, gained its innate Soul Ring, and manifested an evolving external Soul Bone called the Evil God Hook.

• Dai Mubai endured the two tiger powers battling inside him until they vanished and the agony subsided.
• Zhu Zhuqing told Dai Mubai that he had been unconscious for three days and three nights and appeared not to have absorbed the Soul Ring.
• Dai Mubai discovered that his Gengjin White Tiger still had its original five Soul Rings, then sensed and summoned a second Martial Soul: the Dark Demon Evil Tiger.
• Dai Mubai summoned the Dark Demon Evil Tiger's innate black Soul Ring and felt a painful growth at his tailbone.
• Dai Tianhu noticed a three-meter bony tail with a hooked tip growing from Dai Mubai, who recognized it as the external Soul Bone called the Evil God Hook.
• Dai Mubai retracted the Evil God Hook and considered how the Evil God Pearl had turned the tiger's Soul Ring into his second Martial Soul and its innate Soul Ring.

Dai Mubai discovered that the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger had become his second Martial Soul, with its Soul Ring as an innate Soul Ring and the Evil God Hook as an External Soul Bone. As he examined his new abilities in the cave, the story shifted to the bored Evil God King sitting in the Divine Realm.

• Dai Mubai explained that the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and Gengjin White Tiger had clashed inside him and ended up coexisting as two Martial Souls.
• Dai Mubai told Dai Tianhu that the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's Soul Ring had become his second Martial Soul's innate Soul Ring, leaving him at rank sixty without a sixth Soul Ring.
• Dai Tianhu, Dai Mubai, and Zhu Zhuqing continued deeper into the forest, and Dai Tianhu later broke through to rank ninety-three while Dai Mubai absorbed the Soul Ring.
• Dai Mubai examined Evil God Possession, which transformed him into an Evil God form, and the Evil God Hook, which granted him the ability to drain Soul Power and life force.
• The narration shifted to the Divine Realm, where the Evil God King sat alone on his throne, weary of eternity.

The Evil God King noticed Dai Mubai’s evil power and considered him as a potential successor, but decided to observe him before approaching the Asura God. In the Star Dou Great Forest, Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing fought a Golden-Striped Black Tiger King, and Dai Mubai used the Evil God Hook to begin devouring its power.

• The Evil God King saw Dai Mubai through a water mirror and considered whether to pass his inheritance to him, then chose to wait rather than speak with the Asura God.
• After ten more days in the Star Dou Great Forest, Dai Tianhu led Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing to a Golden-Striped Black Tiger King estimated to be around seventy thousand years old.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing fused their Martial Souls into the Hell White Tiger and battled the Golden-Striped Black Tiger King for nearly half an hour.
• Dai Mubai seized an opening and pierced the Golden-Striped Black Tiger King’s spine with the Evil God Hook.
• Dai Mubai used Evil God Devouring to drain the beast’s Soul Power and life force as it struggled to escape.

Dai Mubai defeated the Golden-Striped Black Tiger King, absorbed its Soul Ring, and reached rank sixty-seven with his sixth Soul Skill, White Tiger Annihilation. After rejoining his companions, he learned that Niu Zhen, Yang Pojun, and Ma Hongjun had each gained a fifth Soul Ring, while Ma Hongjun also obtained a Soul Bone.

• Dai Mubai killed the Golden-Striped Black Tiger King and found a seventy-thousand-year right arm bone on its corpse.
• Dai Mubai absorbed the Golden-Striped Black Tiger King's Soul Ring, rose to rank sixty-seven, and gained the sixth Soul Skill White Tiger Annihilation.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing returned to camp, where Shui Bing'er, Shui Yue'er, and Ning Rongrong welcomed them anxiously.
• Dai Mubai told the group he had obtained a seventy-thousand-year sixth Soul Ring but kept his Second Martial Soul secret.
• Niu Zhen, Yang Pojun, and Ma Hongjun each gained a fifth Soul Ring and reached rank fifty-two.
• Ma Hongjun absorbed a Meteor Firebird Left Arm Bone, gained Phoenix Lie Yan Claw, and reached rank fifty-three.

Dai Mubai and his companions arrived in Skywater City, where he met Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er's family and helped their parents advance their Soul Power. The group prepared to travel to the Frozen Forest, while Dai Mubai joined the sisters and Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing for a visit to Skywater Academy.

• Dai Mubai led the group out of the Star Dou Great Forest and, after traveling for over ten days, reached Skywater City.
• Shui Bing'er introduced Dai Mubai to Shui Zihan, Lan Wanrou, and Lan Ningxin, and the family welcomed him and his companions.
• Dai Mubai gave Shui Zihan and his wives Soul-Consolidating Pills, helping the women advance to rank sixty-seven and Shui Zihan break through rank eighty.
• Dai Mubai and Shui Zihan agreed that the group would set out for the Frozen Forest in three days, and Dai Mubai advised Shui Zihan to use whale rubber to strengthen his physique.
• Dai Mubai, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing accompanied Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er to Skywater Academy, where they met Xue Wu.

Xue Wu joined Dai Mubai and Shui Bing'er’s group after Shui Bing'er invited her to become part of the family. The enlarged party traveled to the Frozen Forest and set out to search for Oscar’s Mirror Shadow Beast.

• Shui Bing'er asked Dai Mubai to let Xue Wu join them, and he agreed; Xue Wu left Skywater Academy and returned with the group to the Shui residence.
• Dai Mubai visited Xue Wu in her room that night.
• Two days later, Dai Mubai’s party departed for the Frozen Forest with Xue Wu and Shui Zihan, arriving at a nearby town on the fourth evening.
• Shui Zihan learned that a Mirror Shadow Beast had been seen near a glacial canyon in the forest’s northwest, though its age was unknown.
• The party entered the Frozen Forest the next morning, with Yang Pojun clearing the snowy path and the others taking up protective and scouting roles.

Dai Mubai’s group hunted Soul Beasts in the Frozen Forest, helping Oscar and Shui Bing'er gain new Soul Rings and abilities. They captured a seventy-thousand-year-old Ice Devil Fish for Shui Zihan and brought it ashore.

• Oscar killed the Mirror Shadow Beast, absorbed its Soul Ring and Image Head Soul Bone, reached level fifty-three, and gained the ability to copy Soul Skills at eighty percent power.
• Shui Bing'er killed a twenty-five-thousand-year-old Ice Crystal Beast with her Ice Rapid Cone and absorbed its Soul Ring, reaching level fifty-three and gaining Ice Phoenix Sword Rain.
• Dai Mubai and Shui Zihan found a nearly seventy-thousand-year-old Ice Devil Fish beneath a permanently frozen lake.
• Ma Hongjun melted an opening in the ice, and Shui Zihan lured the fish underwater while the group used Shui Bing'er's control skills to restrain it.
• Dai Mubai battered the Ice Devil Fish until the group captured it and brought it ashore.

After the group completed their Frozen Forest hunt, Dai Mubai arranged for everyone to split up while he went alone to temper himself. He brought Ning Rongrong to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect before setting out for Slaughter City, where Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong welcomed them.

• Shui Zihan absorbed the Ice Devil Fish's Soul Ring and took a Tonghua Pill, while Shui Yue'er absorbed its Torso Bone and gained the Devil Fish Body skill.
• Dai Mubai gathered everyone in Skywater City and assigned where they would stay or travel during his planned two- to three-year absence.
• The next morning, Shui Bing'er, Shui Yue'er, and Xue Wu stayed in Skywater City; Zhu Zhuqing led a group toward Star Luo City, while Dai Mubai carried Ning Rongrong toward Heaven Dou City.
• Dai Mubai and Ning Rongrong arrived at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong greeted them with surprise and delight.
• Dai Mubai told Ning Fengzhi that he planned to go to Slaughter City and had brought Ning Rongrong back to stay at the sect.

Dai Mubai told Ning Fengzhi about the Clear Sky Sect’s return to Heaven Dou City and gave him a Tonghua Pill, helping his Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda evolve into the Nine-Treasure Glazed Pagoda. He urged Ning Fengzhi to investigate the Blue Silver Forest for a suitable ninth Soul Ring, then prepared to leave for Slaughter City.

• Ning Fengzhi told Dai Mubai that Tang Xiao and Tang Hao had nearly clashed with Spirit Hall and that the Clear Sky Sect was preparing to emerge from seclusion.
• Dai Mubai announced he would leave for Slaughter City the next day and gave Ning Fengzhi a Tonghua Pill to help his Martial Soul evolve.
• Ning Fengzhi took the pill, and his Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda gained a fully formed ninth level, becoming the Nine-Treasure Glazed Pagoda.
• Dai Mubai suggested Ning Fengzhi seek the Blue Silver King in the Blue Silver Forest as a potential ninth Soul Ring, and Ning Fengzhi agreed to investigate discreetly.
• Ning Rongrong kept Dai Mubai awake through the night before he could set out.

Dai Mubai left the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and traveled to Slaughter City, where he killed eighteen tavern patrons to pass the entrance test. The server demanded that he drink Bloody Mary, but Dai Mubai attacked him before he could finish.

• Dai Mubai said goodbye to Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, Bone Douluo, and Ning Rongrong before flying east toward Slaughter City.
• Dai Mubai crossed the blood-colored mist and reached a ruined town, where he entered its only lit tavern.
• Dai Mubai learned that he had to kill the tavern patrons or be killed to enter Slaughter City.
• Dai Mubai used his White Tiger Golden Fiend Sword to kill all eighteen patrons without releasing his Martial Soul.
• The server told Dai Mubai that he had to drink Bloody Mary, and Dai Mubai struck at him with sword Qi.

Dai Mubai entered Slaughter City after killing one attendant and defeating Terror Knight Scott, then learned the city’s basic rules from a black-veiled guide. He began his stay in the outer city, confident in his abilities but aware that resisting its killing intent and surviving Hell Road would be his real test.

• Dai Mubai killed an attendant, destroyed the bar, and jumped into the hidden passage beneath it.
• Dai Mubai emerged before a black-armored legion and defeated Terror Knight Scott in a single clash.
• Scott gave Dai Mubai a skull token numbered 8981, and Dai Mubai entered Slaughter City.
• A black-veiled guide welcomed Dai Mubai and explained that he had twelve shichen to ask questions before becoming an unprotected official member.
• Dai Mubai learned that Soul Ring Soul Skills did not work in Slaughter City, while his other abilities remained available, and resolved to face its killing intent and Hell Road.