Chapter Summaries

Qian Daoliu learned that Qian Renchuan had written two influential martial soul books and praised his grandson’s talent. He ordered Qian Xunji to let Qian Renchuan pursue his ambitions without interference, while Qian Renchuan had already returned to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt for a soul ring.

• Qian Daoliu rushed to the Pope's Palace after reading Qian Renchuan’s books and demanded that Qian Xunji confirm who had written them.
• Qian Xunji confirmed that Qian Renchuan had compiled both books after studying in the Scripture Repository for over half a year.
• Qian Xunji explained that Spirit Hall had made “Fundamentals of Martial Soul” compulsory at its academy and planned to distribute copies across the continent.
• Qian Xunji told Qian Daoliu that Qian Renchuan had reached level thirty and had set off for the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt for a soul ring.
• Qian Daoliu praised Qian Renchuan as a peerless prodigy and instructed Qian Xunji to support him and never restrict his choices.

Qian Daoliu realized Qian Renchuan faced serious danger in the Star Dou Great Forest and went to protect him personally. Meanwhile, the Spirit Academy adopted Qian Renchuan’s books as textbooks, and his classmates learned that his work had been published.

• Qian Xunji told Qian Daoliu that Qian Renchuan had entered the Star Dou Great Forest with two Soul Douluo instructors instead of the elders.
• Qian Daoliu rebuked Qian Xunji for allowing Qian Renchuan to travel without stronger protection and set out to guard him himself.
• The Spirit Academy’s senior instructors praised Qian Renchuan’s books and made Fundamentals of Martial Soul mandatory for younger students, with Ten Laws of Martial Soul Evolution as an elective for older students.
• Zhang Meng, Zhao Mang, and Li Yan were astonished when they received Qian Renchuan’s newly published textbook and learned it had become required classroom material.

Qian Renchuan’s martial-soul theories astonished his classmates and convinced Qian Renxue that Spirit Hall no longer needed Yu Xiaogang. After reaching Blackstone Town with two Soul Douluo escorts, Qian Renchuan checked into a hotel just before Liu Erlong and Blue Tyrant Academy arrived at the same place.

• Qian Renchuan’s classmates praised his rank 30 soul power and his book, while Qian Renxue realized his theories could help Spirit Hall win over commoner soul masters.
• Qian Renchuan traveled to Blackstone Town with Ivan and Huo Sisi, then chose to rest at a hotel before entering the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Liu Erlong led Blue Tyrant Academy students to Blackstone Town on their first soul-hunting trip and agreed to stay at a nearby hotel.
• Qian Renchuan learned that Ivan and Huo Sisi had booked three Heaven-Grade Rooms, but Liu Erlong’s group entered the hotel lobby as he prepared to go upstairs.

Qian Renchuan and his two Soul Douluo guards checked into a hotel, where Liu Erlong recognized their strength and chose to avoid a conflict. As Liu Erlong wondered whether Qian Renchuan came from a hidden family, a conflicted man watched Blackstone Town from the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Liu Erlong asked the hotel owner for ten premium rooms, but learned that Qian Renchuan and his companions had booked them all.
• Ivan and Huo Sisi revealed traces of their power when Liu Erlong's students challenged them, and Liu Erlong stopped her students from provoking the pair.
• Liu Erlong apologized to Qian Renchuan, who left for his room with Huo Sisi and Ivan guarding him.
• Liu Erlong told her students that both guards were Soul Douluo-level experts, then accepted the remaining basic rooms.
• Liu Erlong speculated that Qian Renchuan might belong to one of the Eight Great Hidden Families and decided to keep her distance.
• A conflicted man stood beneath a tree outside Blackstone Town and gazed toward the town.

Belial planned to use a beast tide in the Star Dou Great Forest to kill Qian Renchuan on Bibi Dong’s orders. Elsewhere, Huo Yuhao continued searching for the Emperor Auspicious Beast while Qian Renchuan received soul power from Qian Renxue and Huo Yuhao’s cultivation.

• Belial recalled that Bibi Dong had ordered him to trigger a beast tide and assassinate Qian Renchuan, and he resolved to obey despite the danger of betraying the Pope.
• Huo Yuhao looked at a drawing of Qian Renchuan, Qian Renxue, and himself, and told the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm that they were his siblings.
• Huo Yuhao insisted that he would keep searching for the Emperor Auspicious Beast, then ignored the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s questions about Bingbing and the Snow Empress to cultivate.
• Qian Renchuan prepared to sleep in his hotel room in Blackstone Town, but the system announced that Qian Renxue and Huo Yuhao’s deep cultivation had triggered tenfold soul power returns.

Qian Renchuan entered the Star Dou Great Forest with Huo Sisi and Ivan to find a Thousand Jun Ant over five thousand years old for his next soul ring. As they searched the middle region, a mysterious man who had killed a King Kong Baboon infant headed toward them while its enraged troop rampaged through the forest.

• Qian Renchuan checked his System Panel, saw his accumulated soul power rising as Qian Renxue and Huo Yuhao cultivated, and went to sleep.
• Qian Renchuan, Huo Sisi, and Ivan entered the Star Dou Great Forest and headed for the middle region to find a suitable Thousand Jun Ant.
• Ivan warned Qian Renchuan and Huo Sisi that they had entered a dangerous area where ten-thousand-year soul beasts could appear.
• The trio found traces of an eight-thousand-year-old snake, but Qian Renchuan rejected it and told them to search for large ant nests instead.
• A man in black killed a King Kong Baboon infant, provoking its troop to rampage, then carried the corpse toward Qian Renchuan and his companions.

Qian Renchuan, Ivan, and Huo Sisi discovered a tortured King Kong Baboon infant in the Star Dou Great Forest, triggering a beast tide. As they tried to flee, Soul Beasts surrounded them, leaving the trio in extreme danger.

• Ivan found a strong smell of blood, and the group discovered a King Kong Baboon infant hanging from a tree, disemboweled and tortured to death.
• Qian Renchuan recognized that the infant’s death could enrage its pack and spark a beast tide, so he urged Ivan and Huo Sisi to retreat.
• Roars erupted throughout the forest, and the ground shook as Soul Beasts charged toward the group.
• A three-thousand-year Black-Armored Giant Lizard attacked, and Ivan killed it instantly with his Lightning Wind Leopard Martial Soul and third Soul Skill.
• More than a dozen Soul Beasts surrounded Qian Renchuan, Ivan, and Huo Sisi from every direction.

Huo Sisi and Ivan fought to escort Qian Renchuan through a beast tide that appeared to be a deliberate attempt on his life. They carved a path through the forest, but Bloodthirsty Golden Eagles dived toward Qian Renchuan while his protectors were occupied.

• Huo Sisi summoned her Blazing Demon Fox martial soul and revealed her Soul Douluo strength as Qian Renchuan activated his Skin martial soul and displayed two thousand-year soul rings.
• Huo Sisi and Qian Renchuan found their way blocked by Bloodthirsty Demon Bears, while Bloodthirsty Golden Eagles circled overhead and left them trapped between threats above and below.
• Ivan suspected someone had triggered the beast tide to kill Qian Renchuan after discovering a tortured King Kong Baboon corpse.
• Huo Sisi and Ivan charged into the beast tide, using powerful soul skills to fight through the soul beasts as Qian Renchuan followed.
• Bloodthirsty Golden Eagles began diving at Qian Renchuan while Huo Sisi and Ivan were too engaged in battle to notice his danger.

Qian Renchuan, Ivan, and Huo Sisi fought their way through increasingly powerful Soul Beasts, but the King Kong Baboon troop caught up and trapped them. The chapter ended with twenty-seven adult King Kong Baboons surrounding them alongside a tide of other beasts, leaving no clear escape.

• Qian Renchuan used his soul skills to kill a Golden Eagle and a Gale Wolf while Ivan and Huo Sisi fought nearby.
• The three formed a formation and battled through waves of Soul Beasts as the attackers grew stronger and Ivan and Huo Sisi were injured.
• Qian Renchuan asked how far they had retreated, and Ivan said they had covered less than five li because the beasts were blocking their way.
• A series of earth-shaking crashes approached, and Ivan recognized the sound as the King Kong Baboon troop catching up.
• A forty-thousand-year King Kong Baboon and twenty-six more adult King Kong Baboons charged out of the forest as other Soul Beasts surrounded Qian Renchuan, Ivan, and Huo Sisi.

Liu Erlong’s Blue Tyrant Academy party was driven into the Star Dou Great Forest’s middle region by the beast tide and discovered Qian Renchuan and his companions fighting a vast horde. As dozens of ten-thousand-year King Kong Baboons approached, Liu Erlong weighed whether to help them or flee.

• A raging beast tide pushed Liu Erlong and the Blue Tyrant Academy party into the middle region, where they survived attacks from thousand-year soul beasts.
• Liu Erlong led the party toward the sounds of battle, hoping to find human allies amid the beast tide.
• The party spotted Qian Renchuan and his companions fighting the soul beasts, and the instructors were shocked by Qian Renchuan’s two purple soul rings.
• Liu Erlong recognized the danger posed by dozens of approaching ten-thousand-year King Kong Baboons and hesitated over whether to intervene.
• An instructor urged Liu Erlong to retreat while Qian Renchuan’s group held the beasts’ attention.

Liu Erlong led Blue Tyrant Academy’s Soul Emperor instructors into the beast tide to rescue the others, while Qian Renchuan seized a chance to kill a ten-thousand-year King Kong Baboon and absorb its Soul Ring. The chapter ended with Huo Sisi stunned as Qian Renchuan began absorbing the ring beside the corpse.

• Liu Erlong rejected an instructor’s suggestion to abandon the three surrounded cultivators and ordered the Soul Emperors to follow her into the battle.
• The King Kong Baboons overwhelmed Ivan and closed in on the group, but Liu Erlong and six Blue Tyrant Academy instructors arrived and held back the beasts.
• Liu Erlong warned that they needed to break through the horde, while Huo Sisi suspected someone had deliberately lured the beasts there.
• Qian Renchuan asked Huo Sisi to badly wound a ten-thousand-year King Kong Baboon, then exchanged points for the Immovable Wisdom King Shield and Time Acceleration Device.
• Huo Sisi’s eighth Soul Skill critically wounded the baboon, and Qian Renchuan finished it with his Dark Gold Dreadclaw.
• Qian Renchuan sat beside the corpse and began absorbing its black Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, leaving Huo Sisi dumbfounded.

Qian Renchuan absorbed a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring amid the beast tide, surviving the dangerous process behind a golden barrier that repelled two King Kong Baboons. Belial chose to wait for the defenders to tire, while Huo Yuhao sensed rhythmic tremors elsewhere in the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Qian Renchuan sealed himself inside the Immovable Wisdom King Barrier, accelerated time within it, and used the System to strengthen his body as he absorbed the ten-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Two ten-thousand-year King Kong Baboons attacked Qian Renchuan, but the golden barrier repelled them and let Ivan and Huo Sisi continue fighting.
• Liu Erlong wondered about Qian Renchuan's identity after witnessing his strength, unusual Soul Rings, and powerful barrier.
• Belial considered attacking Qian Renchuan but stayed hidden, expecting the beast tide to exhaust the defenders' Soul Power.
• Huo Yuhao sensed faint, rhythmic tremors through the ground as he prepared to leave the area in search of the Emperor Auspicious Beast.

Huo Yuhao rushed toward a beast tide in the Star Dou Great Forest and discovered Qian Renchuan refining his third soul ring inside an unbreakable golden barrier. The others remained under siege as Huo Yuhao realized his big brother was absorbing a ten-thousand-year soul ring.

• Huo Yuhao sensed the soul beasts running wild and hurried toward the disturbance, protected from attacks by Di Tian's Reverse Scale.
• Qian Renchuan's golden barrier withstood repeated attacks while Ivan, Huo Sisi, Liu Erlong, and the Blue Tyrant Academy Soul Emperors struggled against the beast tide.
• Qian Renchuan endured the King Kong Baboon's resentment as his third soul ring gradually settled at the ten-thousand-year level.
• Belial noticed Huo Yuhao approaching the battlefield and wondered why a child was alone in the forest's middle region.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection and recognized Qian Renchuan inside the barrier, realizing his big brother was absorbing a ten-thousand-year third soul ring.

Huo Yuhao dropped into the Star Dou Great Forest battlefield and used the Reverse Scale’s draconic pressure to stop a beast tide and drive it away. Belial recognized him as the missing Qian Yuhao, the Pope’s third son, and was left baffled by his power over the soul beasts.

• Huo Yuhao watched his eldest brother absorb a ten-thousand-year soul ring and wondered why he had been absent from the history he remembered.
• Huo Yuhao saw Ivan on the verge of death beneath a King Kong Baboon’s fist and leaped down to intervene.
• Huo Yuhao exposed the Reverse Scale, causing the soul beasts around the battlefield to collapse in terror.
• Huo Yuhao ordered the soul beasts to scram, and they fled, leaving the battlefield devastated.
• Belial recognized Huo Yuhao as the missing Qian Yuhao and wondered why he could command the beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest.

Huo Yuhao reunited with Qian Renchuan after driving away the Beast Tide, while Qian Renchuan completed his breakthrough to level thirty-four. As Belial launched a surprise attack, Qian Renchuan stepped in front of Huo Yuhao to protect him.

• Huo Yuhao revealed himself to Ivan and learned that Qian Renchuan was absorbing a genuine Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Ivan told Huo Yuhao that the group had been surrounded by a Beast Tide after finding a young King Kong Baboon's corpse.
• Qian Renchuan absorbed the Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring and rose from level thirty to level thirty-four.
• Qian Renchuan woke and happily reunited with Huo Yuhao amid the devastated forest.
• Belial attacked Qian Renchuan with his Sixth Soul Skill, and Qian Renchuan moved in front of Huo Yuhao to shield him.

Qian Daoliu arrived just in time to save Qian Renchuan and Qian Yuhao, then killed Belial after he refused to reveal who had ordered the attack. The Spirit Hall Grand Priest recognized his surviving grandson Huo Yuhao, whose survival and rank-sixteen cultivation surprised him.

• Belial attacked Qian Renchuan and Qian Yuhao, but Qian Daoliu appeared and caught the sword with his bare hand.
• Qian Daoliu shattered Belial's martial soul, crippled him with golden sword shadows, and killed him when he refused to name his accomplice.
• Ivan and Huo Sisi recognized Qian Daoliu as Spirit Hall's Grand Priest and knelt before him, while Liu Erlong realized who he was.
• Qian Daoliu reassured Ivan and Huo Sisi that they would not be blamed and promised to uncover the person behind the plot.
• Qian Daoliu saw Qian Renchuan and Huo Yuhao, recognized his supposedly missing grandson, and was surprised that Huo Yuhao was alive and had reached rank sixteen.

Qian Daoliu discovered Qian Renchuan’s extraordinary level and tried to take Huo Yuhao back to Spirit Hall, but Huo Yuhao refused and fled deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest. After hearing how Huo Yuhao had stopped the beast tide with a single shout, Qian Daoliu was left astonished by all three of his grandchildren.

• Qian Daoliu examined Qian Renchuan and learned that he had reached level thirty-four and possessed a ten-thousand-year third Soul Ring.
• Qian Daoliu urged Huo Yuhao to return to Spirit Hall, but Huo Yuhao refused because he still had unfinished business in the forest.
• Huo Yuhao used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track to flee, and Qian Renchuan stopped Qian Daoliu from chasing him.
• Ivan and Huo Sisi told Qian Daoliu that Huo Yuhao had driven away hundreds of Soul Beasts, including a ten-thousand-year King Kong Baboon, with one shout.
• Qian Daoliu reconsidered his grandchildren’s extraordinary abilities and was left speechless with shock.

After Qian Daoliu departed from the clearing, Qian Renchuan reunited with Huo Yuhao, who had doubled back because he wanted to spend more time with his brother. Qian Daoliu secretly remained nearby to protect them, while Liu Erlong and her injured companions agreed to travel with the brothers to Blackstone Town.

• Qian Renchuan refused to return to Spirit Hall with Qian Daoliu, and Qian Daoliu thanked Liu Erlong for her help before vanishing.
• Qian Renchuan called Huo Yuhao out of the woods and explained that Qian Daoliu had noticed him hiding but had chosen not to interfere.
• Qian Daoliu secretly watched from a treetop, intending to escort his grandsons out of the Star Dou Great Forest because of the recent assassination attempt and a threatening aura nearby.
• Qian Renchuan asked why Huo Yuhao had returned, and Huo Yuhao's unspoken thoughts revealed that he wanted to walk with his brother longer.
• Qian Renchuan invited Huo Yuhao to travel with him, then thanked Liu Erlong and asked about her group's plans.
• Liu Erlong and her injured companions decided to return with Qian Renchuan and Huo Yuhao to Blackstone Town to recover.

Qian Renchuan used his remaining resources to give healing pills to the wounded, then sat with Huo Yuhao and listened to his account of the Star Dou Great Forest. Their conversation left Huo Yuhao convinced that Qian Renchuan had secretly suffered punishment for covering for him, while Qian Renchuan let the misunderstanding stand and began describing his time at Spirit Academy.

• Qian Renchuan checked his system panel and spent 1,200 System Points on Healing Pills for the wounded Huo Sisi, Ivan, Liu Erlong, and Blue Tyrant Academy Soul Emperors.
• After the injured people began absorbing the pills, Qian Renchuan invited Huo Yuhao to sit with him and share what had happened in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Huo Yuhao described his escape from a Netherwolf and his discovery of a Divine Ring, but concealed his encounters with Tang Hao's family, Di Tian, and the Silver Dragon King.
• Huo Yuhao asked whether Qian Xunji had punished Qian Renchuan for helping him leave, and Qian Renchuan dismissed the concern.
• Huo Yuhao assumed Qian Renchuan was hiding the punishment to spare him guilt, while Qian Renchuan chose not to correct him.
• Qian Renchuan began telling Huo Yuhao about spending over half a year in Spirit Academy's Scripture Repository and writing books on Martial Soul Theory.

Qian Renchuan told Huo Yuhao about his two books and demonstrated his third soul skill, Diamond Tyrant Body. Huo Yuhao and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm were stunned by Qian Renchuan’s unusually powerful soul rings, and Huo Yuhao’s punch rebounded off him.

• Qian Renchuan said his two books were still being printed and promised to give Huo Yuhao copies later.
• Huo Yuhao returned with fish, grilled them for Qian Renchuan, and decided to escort him and the others to Blackstone Town.
• Qian Renchuan revealed his purple, purple, and black soul rings, astonishing Huo Yuhao and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm with their ages.
• Qian Renchuan activated his third soul skill, Diamond Tyrant Body, covering his skin with dark-gold fascia.
• Qian Renchuan urged Huo Yuhao to punch him at full strength, and Huo Yuhao’s blow rebounded without moving him.