Chapter Summaries

Tang Shan reunited with his brother Su Yuntao, but both initially mistook each other for impostors and fought before confirming their identities. Su Yuntao’s implausible adventures and sudden breakthroughs left Tang Shan questioning his understanding of cultivation, and the chapter ended with Su Yuntao explaining that his anger at Tang Shan’s arrival had awakened his transformed force.

• Tang Shan attacked Su Yuntao after deciding the unfamiliar man claiming to be his brother was an impostor, and Su Yuntao broke through to transformed force while countering him.
• Tang Shan and Su Yuntao recognized each other after their exchange revealed their shared combat instincts, then verified their identities with Xue Qinghe’s help.
• Su Yuntao explained that a Soul Hunting team had betrayed him over a hundred-year Man Faced Demon Spider left leg bone, and a wolf pack had rescued him while he was badly wounded.
• Su Yuntao recounted how he gained the Soul Bone, lived and hunted with the wolves, and attained sudden enlightenment, leaving Tang Shan astonished by his luck.
• Tang Shan asked how Su Yuntao had reached transformed force, and Su Yuntao said he had broken through when anger over Tang Shan’s arrival made his qi and blood surge.

Su Yuntao returned to Heaven Dou City and recounted how battles and deadly encounters had strengthened him, while Tang Shan watched him break through again. After Golden Crocodile Douluo revealed he had become a Limit Douluo, he asked Tang Shan to help him seek permission to take Su Yuntao as his disciple.

• Su Yuntao reassured Tang Shan that their father was safe, then described his battles in Great Soul Arenas and his dangerous experiences with Soul Hunting Groups.
• Su Yuntao said he planned to stay with Tang Shan and their father for a while before wandering the continent, and his Slaughter cultivation entered its threshold as he resolved to treat the continent as his battlefield.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo appeared after Su Yuntao left and told Tang Shan that he had broken through to Limit Douluo.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo asked Tang Shan to pass along his request to take Su Yuntao as a disciple, and Tang Shan noted that Su Yuntao also studied under Chen Zhan.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo learned that Chen Zhan was a Soul Emperor and wondered why he had never heard of him.

Su Yuntao accepted Golden Crocodile Douluo as his master, then left to travel after Tang Shan defeated him. Tang Shan departed with Golden Crocodile Douluo to hunt a powerful soul beast, while Gu Yue and Bi Ji arrived in Heaven Dou City seeking him and Qian Daoliu prepared for Tang Shan’s arrival at Death Canyon.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo took Su Yuntao as his disciple, trained him for a month, and watched him lose to Tang Shan before he resumed his travels.
• Xue Qinghe discussed the Star Luo Empire’s martial souls with Tang Shan, then saw Tang Shan and Golden Crocodile Douluo depart for the soul beast hunt.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo sensed a powerful expert in Heaven Dou City and assured Tang Shan that Xue Qinghe was protected before Tang Shan began cultivating during their journey.
• Gu Yue and Bi Ji reached Heaven Dou City, learned that a powerful human expert had left, and entered the city to seek Tang Shan and contact the child of the plane.
• Qian Daoliu arrived at Death Canyon and told Qian Jun and Demon Subduing Douluo that Tang Shan would attempt to absorb the prehistoric soul beast inside.

Golden Crocodile Douluo brought Tang Shan to Death Canyon to hunt a mysterious soul beast, revealing that the Spirit Hall used the evil soul beast gathering place as a trap for evil soul masters. As the target approached, Qian Daoliu prepared to watch the fight and urged Tang Shan not to disappoint him and Xiao Xue.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo explained that the mysterious soul beast was connected to the Tai Tan skeleton from which Tang Shan's external soul bone came.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo shattered the mist with a roar, exposing Death Canyon and its terrifying evil soul beasts.
• Tang Shan realized the Spirit Hall had arranged Death Canyon as a layered trap to identify and eliminate evil soul masters who came seeking soul rings.
• A huge soul beast approached, crushing ancient trees and sending the other creatures fleeing in fear.
• Qian Daoliu guarded the canyon's exit and identified the approaching beast as a mutant Golden Behemoth, anticipating Tang Shan's encounter with it.

Golden Crocodile Douluo brought Tang Shan to face a mutated Golden Behemoth whose soul ring might be suitable for him. Golden Crocodile Douluo fought the beast with his full strength and began crushing it, leaving its fate unresolved.

• Tang Shan saw the Golden Behemoth, and Golden Crocodile Douluo explained that he had rescued it and kept it until a suitable candidate could absorb its soul ring.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo attacked the approaching Golden Behemoth, which tore through space with its claws and lunged at him and Tang Shan.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo left Tang Shan behind a soul power barrier and met the Golden Behemoth in battle, trading powerful blows with it.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo overpowered the Golden Behemoth with his body and qi, blood, and soul power as their fight devastated the forest.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo pressed an enormous golden crocodile claw onto the weakened Golden Behemoth, forcing it into the earth and breaking its bones.