Chapter Summaries

Bibi Dong gathered Hundred-Repelling Grass and other herbs while Ning Chengyi kept watch with their party in the Star Dou Great Forest. Li Qiuping arrived with reinforcements from the Fierce Wolf Group and surrounded them, then lit Beast-luring incense as the party prepared to defend itself.

• Bibi Dong treated injured Soul Masters as the party traveled deeper into the forest, and Ning Chengyi grew convinced she was not the woman he had once known.
• Bibi Dong found the red-cord-marked Hundred-Repelling Grass beneath a massive tree and carefully harvested it.
• Li Qiuping and five Soul Elders ambushed the resting party, with Li Qiuping revealing his interest in Miss Zhu.
• Old Zhao arranged the party into a defensive formation and ordered Old Xu to escort the children away.
• Li Qiuping lit Beast-luring incense as the five Soul Elders advanced.

Li Qiuping used Beast-Luring Incense to trap Old Zhao and the others in a coming beast tide, then tried to abduct Bibi Dong. Bibi Dong killed Third Uncle with one strike, and the group prepared to flee as the beast tide approached.

• Li Qiuping revealed the Beast-Luring Incense, prompting Old Zhao and the others to fight the Fierce Wolf Group and clear a path for the children.
• Old Xu and Old Zhao urged the children to escape while the beast tide’s roars drew closer.
• Li Qiuping confronted Bibi Dong and ordered Third Uncle to seize her.
• Bibi Dong revealed four Soul Rings and killed Third Uncle with a palm strike, terrifying Li Qiuping.
• The Fierce Wolf Group withdrew as the beast tide neared, and Old Zhao told Old Xu to lead the others toward a cliff.
• Bibi Dong returned unharmed and told Old Zhao to lead the way.

As a beast tide threatened the group at a cliff, Old Zhao and the others tried to get the children down to a cave while Bibi Dong and Ning Chengyi stayed behind to hold off the soul beasts. The chapter ended as a terrifying roar came from the forest with seven people still at the cliff's edge.

• Li Qiuping, crippled and abandoned, was found by a Pleasure Ape as soul beasts closed in on him.
• Old Zhao led the group toward a cliffside cave, where Old Xu began lowering the children one at a time.
• Old Zhao and the other adults chose to guard the rear while the children descended, and Ning Chengyi shared wine with them before they fought.
• Bibi Dong revealed her Soul Ancestor power and cut down a soul beast with her machete, astonishing Old Xu and the others.
• Ning Chengyi revealed a purple soul ring and stayed beside Bibi Dong to hold off the beasts as the remaining people descended.
• Bibi Dong sensed a great threat in the forest and urged everyone down, but seven people remained when an earth-shaking roar sounded.

Ning Chengyi and Bibi Dong escaped a thirty-thousand-year Blazing Demon Ape by plunging from a cliff into a river, but Bibi Dong was badly injured and began suffering violent swings between heat and cold. Ning Chengyi carried her to shelter and tried to find a way to treat her, ending by feeding her his blood.

• A Blazing Demon Ape attacked the group, and Bibi Dong ordered Old Zhao to lead the others down while she and Ning Chengyi remained behind.
• Ning Chengyi and Bibi Dong fought to survive the ape's attack, and Bibi Dong's martial soul manifestation made Ning Chengyi mistake her for Qian Xun.
• Bibi Dong grabbed Ning Chengyi and used the force of the ape's blow to fling them both off the cliff, while the others believed they had died.
• Ning Chengyi carried the unconscious Bibi Dong from the river to a sheltered cave, where her body alternated between burning hot and shivering cold.
• Ning Chengyi found no answer in his secret notes and gave Bibi Dong his blood in an attempt to help her.

Ning Chengyi endured Bibi Dong’s poison flare through the night, and she woke feeling guilty after realizing he had repeatedly used his blood to help her. After Fierce Wolf Group members searched nearby for a soul bone, Bibi Dong identified the Gold-Growing Vines as a clue, and Ning Chengyi discovered a concealed stone doorway.

• Ning Chengyi hid the cave and used his blood and Phantom Butterfly Spirit Tide to suppress Bibi Dong’s alternating bouts of heat and cold through the night.
• Bibi Dong woke in Ning Chengyi’s arms, explained that the Twin Spider Nether Flower had poisoned her for over a month, and felt guilty when she saw his wounded arm.
• Ning Chengyi overheard Fierce Wolf Group members searching for a soul bone and the missing young master, Li Qiuping.
• After the group left, Bibi Dong explained that the Gold-Growing Vines thrived near valuable treasures and could wither when a treasure exceeded what they could absorb.
• Ning Chengyi searched away from the group’s routes and found an ancient stone doorway hidden behind dried vines, then returned to wait for Bibi Dong.

Ning Chengyi and Bibi Dong entered a hidden chamber, where they found the Twin Spider Brightflower and used it to suppress Bibi Dong’s poison. As Bibi Dong struggled with the medicine’s effects, they discovered a rare mental-type Soul Bone, but the Fierce Wolf Group arrived outside the chamber.

• Ning Chengyi led Bibi Dong through a secret passage to a stone chamber containing the Twin Spider Brightflower.
• Bibi Dong could not approach the flower, so Ning Chengyi picked it, crushed it, and passed its medicinal liquid to her with his Soul Power.
• Bibi Dong’s poisons clashed violently, and Ning Chengyi used his Phantom Butterfly Spirit Tide to help stabilize her.
• Bibi Dong noticed a golden glow behind the stone platform and identified a roughly thirty- to forty-thousand-year-old Spirit Condensation Wisdom Skull.
• Bibi Dong sensed footsteps and shouts outside the stone chamber and warned Ning Chengyi that the Fierce Wolf Group had arrived.

Ning Chengyi and Bibi Dong fought off the Fierce Wolf Group as Ning Chengyi broke the rock around the Spirit Condensation Wisdom Skull. He freed the hundred-and-fifty-thousand-year Soul Bone, but the Beast-Luring Incense drew a new tide of Soul Beasts toward the chamber.

• Ning Chengyi spotted Li Huo and dozens of Fierce Wolf Group members approaching the concealed chamber, while Bibi Dong warned that her poison left her unable to endure a prolonged fight.
• Bibi Dong killed the first attackers when the stone door broke, then was badly injured by Li Huo as he led the group into the chamber.
• Ning Chengyi used his spear to crack open the rock around the Spirit Condensation Wisdom Skull while Bibi Dong held off the attackers.
• Ning Chengyi enveloped the Fierce Wolf Group in an illusion of attacking beasts and corpses, disrupting their formation long enough to shatter the last of the rocky shell.
• Ning Chengyi freed the hundred-and-fifty-thousand-year Spirit Condensation Wisdom Skull, and the remaining Beast-Luring Incense drew a roaring tide of Soul Beasts toward them.

Ning Chengyi risked his life to reclaim the Spirit Condensation Wisdom Skull from Li Huo, and Bibi Dong burned her divine power and poison to save him and escape. They reached a secluded cave, where both collapsed as the beast tide swept through the valley and Bibi Dong’s poison began its backlash.

• Li Huo attacked Ning Chengyi and tried to seize the Spirit Condensation Wisdom Skull, but Ning Chengyi used Phantom Butterfly Spirit Tide to pull the soul bone into his possession.
• As Li Huo moved to kill Ning Chengyi, Bibi Dong burned her Rakshasa divine power and unleashed the Death Spider Emperor’s strength to stop him.
• Bibi Dong drove back the Fierce Wolf Group and carried Ning Chengyi out of the chamber, while the beast tide forced Li Huo and his men to flee.
• Bibi Dong carried the injured Ning Chengyi through the forest and found a secluded cave as her borrowed power faded.
• Bibi Dong collapsed inside the cave, and the poison began its full backlash while Ning Chengyi remained unconscious with the golden soul bone against his chest.

Ning Chengyi absorbed the hundred-and-fifty-thousand-year Spirit Condensation Wisdom Skull, broke through to rank twenty, and recovered from his injuries while Bibi Dong drank his blood to suppress her poison. They remained trapped in the cave as the beast tide raged outside, and the Hehuan Ape King screamed in the battle between two Soul Kings.

• Bibi Dong lost control to the warring toxins and bit Ning Chengyi, whose blood briefly suppressed the poison.
• Ning Chengyi absorbed the Spirit Condensation Wisdom Skull, strengthened his Phantom Butterfly Spirit Tide, and broke through to rank-twenty Soul Grandmaster.
• The Hehuan Ape King and the Blazing Demon Ape clashed, while Li Huo led the wounded Fierce Wolf Group away from the fight.
• Bibi Dong regained consciousness as the Twin Spider Brightflower and Ning Chengyi's blood neutralized the toxins, then apologized for biting him.
• Ning Chengyi warned Bibi Dong that the beast tide and Li Huo still prevented their escape, and she asked whether he had absorbed the Wisdom Skull.
• The battle outside intensified, and the Hehuan Ape King let out a scream of agony.

Ning Chengyi rejected the injured thirty-thousand-year Blazing Demon Ape and instead absorbed a nine-thousand-year Black-Armored Spiral Rhino’s Soul Ring, gaining a second Soul Skill and reaching level twenty-three. Elsewhere, Li Huo vowed to take Zhu Qianxun and his wife hostage to lure Ning Chengyi and Bibi Dong out.

• A thirty-thousand-year Blazing Demon Ape killed the Hehuan Ape King, and Ning Chengyi gave up the chance to claim its Soul Ring after Bibi Dong warned that the strain could kill him.
• Ning Chengyi and Bibi Dong left their cave under cover of the Phantom Butterfly Spirit Tide and used Spiritual Detection to avoid the rampaging Soul Beasts.
• Bibi Dong weakened a wounded nine-thousand-year Black-Armored Spiral Rhino, and Ning Chengyi killed it with his first Soul Skill.
• Ning Chengyi absorbed the Rhino’s Soul Ring, gained the second Soul Skill Phantom Spear Strangulation, and advanced to level twenty-three.
• Li Huo found his ruined son Li Qiuping and planned to abduct Zhu Qianxun and his wife to draw out Ning Chengyi and Bibi Dong.
• Ning Chengyi suggested returning to Small Town, and Bibi Dong agreed with unease.

Li Huo held Old Zhu and his wife hostage and gave Zhu Qianxun and Ning Chengyi three days to submit to his demands. Hidden nearby, Ning Chengyi and Bibi Dong planned a rescue, with Bibi Dong focusing on recovery and Ning Chengyi preparing to recruit the grateful Soul Masters.

• Li Huo threatened the gathered Soul Masters and demanded Zhu Qianxun marry Li Qiuping and Ning Chengyi cripple his soul power and return to the Fierce Wolf Group within three days.
• Old Zhao, Old Xu, and the other elderly Soul Masters stood up for Old Zhu and his wife, but Li Huo threatened to kill the couple and anyone who helped them before leaving with his men.
• The Soul Masters knelt in grief and apologized to Old Zhu, who thanked them for standing by him and his wife.
• Ning Chengyi and Bibi Dong watched from hiding, and Bibi Dong said she could recover to Soul King in three days and keep Li Huo occupied while Ning Chengyi rescued the couple.
• Ning Chengyi revealed that he had a plan involving his second martial soul and the grateful Soul Masters, and Bibi Dong told him not to die.