Chapter Summaries

Zhang Fei and She Long searched the Sunset Forest for a powerful soul beast suitable for Zhang Fei’s third soul ring and found an adult Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear estimated to be within his limit. She Long began fighting it, intending to cripple the bear without killing it.

• Zhang Fei and She Long entered the Sunset Forest and agreed to seek a strength-type dragonkin soul beast around four thousand years old, or another powerful beast if necessary.
• For twelve days, they searched the thousand-year soul beast territory and rejected several strong beasts as too young.
• She Long found signs of a ferocious bear-type soul beast, and he and Zhang Fei followed its tracks to a clearing.
• They discovered an adult Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear feeding on a soul beast’s carcass, and She Long estimated its age at no more than four thousand years.
• She Long attacked the bear with his snake lance, but it turned and blocked the strike with its claws, forcing him to unleash his rank-ninety-four power.

Zhang Fei killed the dark gold terrorclaw bear and absorbed its soul ring, gaining an external soul bone and a powerful second soul skill. After testing his new strength and reaching level twenty-two, he left for Heaven Dou City with She Long.

• She Long weakened the dark gold terrorclaw bear, allowing Zhang Fei to kill it with his spear and claim its soul ring.
• Zhang Fei absorbed the purple soul ring and endured its violent energy until he refined it.
• Zhang Fei gained an external soul bone on his right hand, named it the Sky-Rending Claw, and learned that it boosted his attack and penetration.
• She Long tested Zhang Fei's soul power, which had risen to level twenty-two, and Zhang Fei revealed his second soul skill, Dark Gold Dragon Claw Hand.
• Zhang Fei demonstrated the combined power of his soul skill and Sky-Rending Claw before he and She Long headed back to Heaven Dou City.

After returning from Sunset Forest with a dark gold terrorclaw bear soul ring and the Sky-Rending Claw external soul bone, Zhang Fei attended a palace victory banquet with Xue Qinghe. Ning Rongrong coaxed him away from the hall, and they ended up in the Imperial Garden.

• She Long reported that Zhang Fei had absorbed a 3,500-year-old dark gold terrorclaw bear soul ring and reached rank twenty-two.
• Zhang Fei showed Xue Qinghe his Sky-Rending Claw, and Xue Qinghe warned him to keep the external soul bone secret.
• Xue Qinghe brought Zhang Fei to the palace banquet hosted by Xue Ye, where Zhang Fei saw Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, Ning Rongrong, and Dugu Bo.
• Ning Rongrong interrupted Zhang Fei while he ate and persuaded him to leave the banquet with her.
• Zhang Fei and Ning Rongrong slipped through a covered corridor into the Imperial Garden.

Zhang Fei beat Xue Beng after the prince insulted him and Xue Qinghe in the imperial palace. The chapter ended with Prince Xue Xing arriving and accusing Zhang Fei of committing violence.

• Xue Beng blocked Zhang Fei and Ning Rongrong, then mocked Zhang Fei’s orphan background and made insinuations about his relationship with Xue Qinghe.
• Zhang Fei slapped Xue Beng twice for insulting the Crown Prince, then defeated the prince’s attendants when they attacked him.
• Zhang Fei beat Xue Beng, striking him for his insults and for insulting Xue Qinghe.
• Xue Qinghe, Prince Xue Xing, Xue Ye, Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, Dugu Bo, and others arrived, and Prince Xue Xing accused Zhang Fei of violence in the palace.

After Xue Beng insulted Zhang Fei and Xue Qinghe, Xue Ye punished him and ordered him to apologize. Zhang Fei settled into self-motivated training, then learned that his afternoons would be spent fighting at the Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena.

• Xue Qinghe checked whether Zhang Fei had hurt his hand, then condemned Xue Beng for insulting them both.
• Xue Ye made Xue Beng apologize to Zhang Fei, confine himself for three months, copy the Imperial Laws one hundred times, and pay ten thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Xue Qinghe comforted Zhang Fei after the banquet and walked back with him to the Crown Prince's Residence.
• Zhang Fei began waking early to train and kept up the routine for about half a month.
• She Long changed Zhang Fei's training plan, keeping morning exercises and sending him to the Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena in the afternoons for combat experience.

Zhang Fei went to the Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena to test himself against opponents closer to his level after enduring daily sparring with She Long and Pufferfish. He registered as Dragon Travels the World, signed up for a one-on-one sparring match, and entered the arena to face the three-win Soul Grandmaster Iron Mountain.

• Zhang Fei learned that he had to earn a Gold Soul Fighting Badge and finished his morning training before heading to the Great Soul Arena.
• Zhang Fei registered with the alias Dragon Travels the World, declaring his Golden Dragon Martial Soul, age nine, and level twenty-two Soul Power.
• Zhang Fei signed up for a one-on-one sparring match and waited in the competitors' lounge.
• A staff member told Zhang Fei that his opponent was Iron Mountain, a level-twenty-six Soul Grandmaster with an Ironback Ape Martial Soul and three consecutive wins.
• The announcer introduced Iron Mountain and Zhang Fei to the crowd as the competitors entered the arena.