Chapter Summaries

Jiang Hai fought through the red rock pangolins in Jingyang Mountain and found their lair sealed behind valuable red rock iron mother. Xue Linglong arrived with the Red Rock Pangolin King defeated, and after Jiang Hai insisted that a hundred-thousand-year soul beast was nearby, she began refining the king’s left leg bone while he stood guard.

• Jiang Hai ambushed and killed three ten-thousand-year red rock pangolins, then hid in the Bronze Coffin to recover his soul power.
• Jiang Hai found a massive wall of red rock iron mother and deduced that the red rock pangolins’ lair lay behind it, but waited for Xue Linglong before proceeding.
• Xue Linglong arrived dragging the still-living Red Rock Pangolin King, whose cultivation exceeded eighty-three thousand years, and offered its soul ring as a possible fifth ring for Jiang Hai.
• Jiang Hai said he had sensed a hundred-thousand-year soul beast inside Jingyang Mountain, so Xue Linglong killed the Red Rock Pangolin King and took its complete left leg bone.
• Xue Linglong entered the Mystic Ice Coffin to refine the Red Rock Pangolin King's Left Leg Bone while Jiang Hai sealed the coffin and stood guard.

Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong defeated the Red Rock Pangolins in their lair after Xue Linglong gained two skills from the Red Rock Pangolin King's soul bone. The last pangolin exposed a hidden cavern containing a towering, hundred-thousand-year plant-type soul beast.

• Jiang Hai broke through to level fifty-six while Xue Linglong fused with the Red Rock Pangolin King's soul bone.
• Xue Linglong revealed her Iron Mastery skill and used the soul bone's Red Rock Pangolin Charge to attack the pangolins.
• Jiang Hai joined Xue Linglong in fighting the nearly hundred Red Rock Pangolins, and they killed every beast in the cavern.
• The last fifty-thousand-year Red Rock Pangolin smashed through a wall and was killed by a lightning-covered branch, exposing a hundred-thousand-year soul beast.
• Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong saw a several-thousand-meter purple tree with charred branches and lightning coursing over its trunk.

Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong discovered that the Magnetism Mother Tree was a recently tribulation-scarred ferocious beast whose weakened old body concealed a new one. Jiang Hai borrowed the Snow Empress’s strength and attacked the tree, but it trapped him in a thunder cage as a storm of lightning began descending over Jingyang Mountain.

• Jiang Hai recognized the enormous tree as a hundred-thousand-year Magnetism Mother Tree, and Xue Linglong identified it as a ferocious beast that had survived one heavenly tribulation.
• The Magnetism Mother Tree struck at Xue Linglong, but Jiang Hai blocked its scorched branch with the Bronze Coffin and ignited it with the flame of civilization.
• Xue Linglong explained that the tree’s old body had died in its recent tribulation and that a new body was growing inside it, then told Jiang Hai to cleave open the old body.
• Jiang Hai borrowed the Snow Empress’s power through the Bronze Coffin, forged Emperor Sword: Ice Extreme Peerless, and repeatedly struck the old body despite the tree’s tenfold magnetic gravity.
• The Magnetism Mother Tree trapped Jiang Hai in a thunder-rune cage, and a silver-purple lightning serpent plunged down above Jingyang Mountain’s summit.

Jiang Hai survived the Magnetism Mother Tree’s heavenly-thunder attack, defeated it, and claimed its Tree Heart, hundred-thousand-year soul ring, and Left Leg Soul Bone. He began assimilating the soul ring with the Tree Heart liquid sustaining his body, while Xue Linglong stayed beside him and refined the remaining liquid.

• Huo Yuhao and his companions witnessed the lightning over Jingyang Mountain, and Huo Yuhao worried that Jiang Hai and the Snow Empress might be in danger.
• Jiang Hai endured the Magnetism Mother Tree’s repeated thunderbolts by using nine Cicada Slough Clones, then located its true body and pierced it with his sword.
• Following Xue Linglong’s advice, Jiang Hai used Emperor Palm: Great Cold Without Snow to extinguish the Magnetism Mother Tree’s vitality and removed its Tree Heart.
• The Magnetism Mother Tree yielded a hundred-thousand-year soul ring and a Left Leg Soul Bone, and Jiang Hai drank half the Tree Heart liquid before offering the rest to Xue Linglong.
• Jiang Hai began assimilating the soul ring as the Tree Heart liquid healed the damage to his meridians, while Xue Linglong drank her share and refined it beside him.

After absorbing the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and the Magnetism Mother Tree's tree heart liquid, Jiang Hai awakened with level 57 soul power that had become half-liquid and carried a trace of heavenly tribulation power. He and Xue Linglong prepared to leave Jingyang Mountain, while Jiang Hai wondered whether his fifth Mystic Ice Coffin could strengthen the new attribute.

• Xue Linglong woke after absorbing half the tree heart liquid, reaching level 53 and gaining greatly enhanced vitality.
• Jiang Hai's soul power gradually condensed as the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring's energy and heavenly tribulation power flowed through him.
• Jiang Hai awakened after five days with level 57 soul power, half-liquid and half-gaseous, and a newly formed blood-red soul ring with a golden marking.
• Jiang Hai told Xue Linglong that his soul power had risen only one level, and showed her the purple arcs of heavenly tribulation power within it.
• Xue Linglong recognized the trace of heavenly tribulation power as a rare supreme attribute, and Jiang Hai wondered whether his fifth Mystic Ice Coffin could strengthen it.
• Jiang Hai said there was no reason to remain on Jingyang Mountain and proposed that they return.

Jiang Hai tested the two soul skills he gained from the Magnetism Mother Tree’s Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and gathered rare metals with Xue Linglong. They left Jingyang Mountain laden with treasures, while Jiang Hai resolved to grow stronger by hunting evil soul masters.

• Jiang Hai used Magnetic Field to send his lightning coffin crashing into the ground, then explained that the domain could alter gravity within a hundred meters.
• Jiang Hai demonstrated Ten Thousand Thunders Heavenly Prison, which trapped beings within its hundred-meter force field before striking them with nine bolts of heavenly thunder.
• Jiang Hai recognized that the purple lightning coffin strengthened his spiritual power and vowed to make evil soul masters repay what they owed him.
• Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong collected abundant precious metals from Jingyang Mountain, including roughly three kilograms of gold of life for Jiang Hai’s Lifebound Soul Tool.
• Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong returned through the Red Rock Pangolin’s tunnel with their haul, including Red Rock Iron Mother for Xue Linglong.

Jiang Hai repaired his damaged Vermilion Bird Wings and Soul Engineer Ring at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy while He Caitou and Nana watched. After He Caitou left, Nana questioned whether Jiang Hai was revealing the academy’s guarded techniques to a Shrek Academy student.

• Jiang Hai returned to the academy with Xue Linglong and went to the laboratory to see He Caitou.
• Jiang Hai asked He Caitou to bring Nana to the laboratory, then began repairing the Vermilion Bird Wings as they watched.
• Jiang Hai restored the wings’ frame and core array, impressing He Caitou and Nana with his precise control.
• Jiang Hai replaced the Soul Engineer Ring’s damaged face with purple qi from the east crystal and rebuilt its core array.
• Jiang Hai sent He Caitou away, and Nana asked whether teaching a Shrek Academy student Level 7 soul-tool techniques risked exposing the academy’s secrets.

Jiang Hai defeated Nana after she attacked him to protect her identity, then revealed his true appearance and offered a deal to destroy the Holy Spirit Cult. He proposed rescuing her parents’ souls if she served as bait to lure powerful Evil Soul Masters, leaving Nana to decide whether to trust him.

• Nana attacked Jiang Hai with her Soul Skills after he warned that the Illustrious Virtue Hall would believe him over her, but he evaded her strikes and caught her Lightfoot Blade.
• Nana used Wraith and the Blink Sword, forcing Jiang Hai to reveal his five Soul Rings and escape the binding with a Soul Skill.
• Jiang Hai identified the Blink Sword as Jing Hongchen’s work and asked to study it after Nana revealed its name.
• Jiang Hai showed Nana a black token, which she recognized as the mark of a Holy Spirit Disciple, and she knelt before him.
• Jiang Hai revealed that he was not a Holy Spirit Disciple and restored his true appearance, introducing himself as Jiang Hai.
• Jiang Hai offered to rescue Nana’s parents’ souls if she helped him lure powerful members of the Holy Spirit Cult, and Nana remained wary as he urged her to choose.

Jiang Hai recruited Nana to betray the Holy Spirit Cult in exchange for trying to rescue her parents’ souls, then led her to one of the cult’s Mingdu hideouts. He attacked the outpost, where its powerful defenders fought back, and the confrontation continued as Nana rushed to join him.

• Nana agreed to guide Jiang Hai to a Holy Spirit Cult branch, accepting the danger after learning he was the wanted Jiang Hai rescued by Dragon Emperor Douluo.
• Three days later, Nana left the academy and met Jiang Hai, who had announced he was entering seclusion to attempt a Level 8 Soul Engineer breakthrough.
• Nana led Jiang Hai to a black-roofed courtyard and warned him that a Holy Spirit Elder was inside.
• Jiang Hai dropped into the hideout and attacked its members, killing Dark Skeleton’s four summoned skeletons with a flash of bloody light.
• Nana put on a hood and bamboo hat and rushed toward the courtyard as Dark Skeleton warned King Skeleton and the others to attack.
• Jiang Hai sent his Bronze Coffin crashing into King Skeleton, knocking the giant skeleton into nearby buildings.

Jiang Hai destroyed a Holy Spirit Cult branch with Ten Thousand Thunders Heavenly Prison and recovered Nana’s parents’ souls. He and Nana fled as the inspection squad arrived, while a white-robed figure later discovered that Old Hun had been killed.

• Jiang Hai killed the branch’s holy servants and confronted Dark Skeleton, King Skeleton, and a white-robed elder as Nana revealed her hatred of the Holy Spirit Cult.
• The white-robed elder threatened to shatter Nana’s parents’ souls unless Jiang Hai surrendered the Heavenly Mandate Blade, so Jiang Hai used Ten Thousand Thunders Heavenly Prison to immobilize the group.
• Heavenly thunder killed Dark Skeleton and King Skeleton, and Jiang Hai severed the elder’s arm, seized the soul-summoning banner, and killed him.
• Jiang Hai collected the remaining corpses in his Purple Lightning Coffin, recovered Nana’s parents’ souls, and burned the compound before leaving with Nana.
• The inspection squad arrived and blamed the fire on heavenly thunder, and a white-robed figure later appeared and wondered who had killed Old Hun.

Jiang Hai helped Nana find her parents among the wraiths trapped in the Soul-Summoning Banner, and they regained enough clarity to become guardian spirits bound to her. He discovered that his flame of civilization could purify the other wraiths before they dispersed, strengthening his spiritual power, while Nana vowed to lure the Evil Soul Masters to him.

• Jiang Hai brought Nana to the Eight Treasures Tower, where Li Qingfeng sheltered them in a quiet room.
• Jiang Hai released the wraiths from the Soul-Summoning Banner, and Nana found her parents among them.
• Li Qingfeng explained that Nana's parents had lost their memories, but Nana's cries helped them regain their minds.
• Nana's mother used a special method to turn herself and Nana's father into guardian spirits connected to Nana's Martial Soul.
• Jiang Hai used his flame of civilization and Bronze Coffin engravings to purify the remaining wraiths, whose soul energy raised his spiritual power.
• Nana pledged to lure the Evil Soul Masters to Jiang Hai, and he told her to rest at the Eight Treasures Tower before the danger arrived.

Jiang Hai completed a powerful Flying Sword Case and left the Eight Treasures Tower with Nana to confront the Holy Spirit Cult. Nana drew out a Holy Servant who attacked her, but Jiang Hai killed him and fled Mingdu with her as a fiery-winged pursuer appeared.

• Jiang Hai spent a month researching soul tools while Nana recovered and adapted to her evolved martial soul.
• With Li Qingfeng's guidance, Jiang Hai completed a Flying Sword Case that wielded seven Level 7 flying swords and functioned as a Level 8 Soul Tool.
• Jiang Hai and Nana left the Eight Treasures Tower and headed toward Ming Seven Altar, where Seventeen spotted Nana and sent Nineteen to report to the Fifth Elder.
• Nana sensed Seventeen following her and deliberately led him away from Ming Seven Altar, then pretended that the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy had forced her to reveal the altar's location.
• Seventeen attacked when he sensed Jiang Hai nearby, but Jiang Hai struck him down with a blade and used gravity to stop his escape.
• Jiang Hai grabbed Nana and flew out of Mingdu as a pair of fiery-red wings appeared behind them.

Jiang Hai and Nana fled into Mogha Forest with the Holy Spirit Cult pursuing them, led by the Titled Douluo Fifth Elder. Jiang Hai used Cicada Slough Clones to mislead the pursuers and continued deeper into the forest with Nana.

• The Fifth Elder learned Seventeen had been killed and led seven Holy Spirit Cult disciples after Jiang Hai and Nana.
• Jiang Hai told Nana that a Titled Douluo was pursuing them, then flew with her to Mogha Forest to use its terrain and soul beasts to escape.
• The Fifth Elder and Soul Nine tracked the pair into the forest and split their forces to follow separate trails.
• The Fifth Elder destroyed an ice decoy, while Soul Nine kept pursuing the southwest trail despite signs that the targets had split up.
• Jiang Hai used five Cicada Slough Clones to confuse the pursuers, then sent another clone northwest and a second southwest before continuing with Nana.

Jiang Hai and Nana turned their apparent retreat into an ambush, killing Thirty-One and Twenty-Four despite Soul Nine’s control skills and Twenty-Four’s Martial Soul Avatar. Soul Nine transformed into his own Martial Soul Avatar and faced Jiang Hai as reinforcements approached.

• Soul Nine split his group to pursue the apparent trails, then discovered an ice sculpture and paused to sense the area.
• Nana ambushed Thirty-One with her Flying Sword Case while Jiang Hai attacked from hiding, destroying Thirty-One and letting the Bronze Coffin absorb his remains.
• Twenty-Four unleashed his Martial Soul Avatar and fought Jiang Hai, but Jiang Hai used Azure Light Flight to evade his blood-sword barrier and an ice-sculpture clone to kill him.
• Soul Nine transformed into a giant spider and warned that the Fifth Elder and the others were coming, while Jiang Hai prepared to fight him.

Jiang Hai and Nana defeated Soul Nine’s group, but Soul Nine’s fate-reversing skill nearly killed Jiang Hai before Time’s Second Hand saved him. As Jiang Hai and Nana fled, Thirteen’s pursuers found signs that Soul Nine and his companions had died and chose to wait for an elder.

• Jiang Hai and Nana combined their soul tools to break Soul Nine’s defenses and severely injure him.
• Soul Nine used Reverse Soul Fate to reflect Jiang Hai’s lethal attack, but Jiang Hai reversed time with Time’s Second Hand and killed Soul Nine with the Bronze Coffin.
• Jiang Hai and Nana escaped, while Jiang Hai considered the battle’s costs and the limits of his remaining defenses and soul tools.
• Thirteen’s group reached the battlefield, and Forty-Nine tracked the scents and concluded that Soul Nine and his companions had likely died.
• Thirteen decided that the group would wait for an elder rather than continue pursuing Jiang Hai and Nana.

Jiang Hai lured the Holy Spirit Cult’s Fifth Elder into a canyon and used his Hundred Thousand Year soul skill to trap him under repeated heavenly thunder strikes. As the final strike fell, Jiang Hai ignited fifty tons of buried gunpowder, engulfing the canyon in earthfire with the Fifth Elder still inside.

• The Fifth Elder learned from Thirteen that Soul Nine and two others had died, then used his Ten Thousand Souls Banner to turn the survivors into wraith-controlled fighters and pursued Jiang Hai.
• Jiang Hai buried barrels of gunpowder in a canyon and sent Nana away before recovering his soul power and waiting for the pursuers.
• The Fifth Elder confronted Jiang Hai, recognized his bronze coffin martial soul, and attacked after seeing his Hundred Thousand Year soul ring and Soul Douluo-level aura.
• Jiang Hai used Ten Thousand Thunders-Heavenly Prison to immobilize the pursuers and rain five bolts of heavenly thunder on the Fifth Elder, who shielded himself with wraiths from his banner.
• After the Fifth Elder survived the final thunder strike, Jiang Hai lit the buried gunpowder and hid in his bronze coffin as an enormous explosion swallowed the canyon.

Jiang Hai survived his gunpowder trap and fought the badly wounded Fifth Elder while Li Qingfeng stood by. After the Fifth Elder tried to seize control of Jiang Hai’s mind, the Glazed Heart Mirror protected him, and Jiang Hai killed the elder.

• Li Qingfeng entered the destroyed canyon and found the Fifth Elder alive, then confronted him over his ties to the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Jiang Hai crawled out from beneath the earth and told Li Qingfeng not to interfere in his fight with the Fifth Elder.
• The Fifth Elder’s damaged martial soul prevented him from completing his Martial Soul Avatar, and Jiang Hai attacked him with the Hand of Justice.
• The Fifth Elder trapped Jiang Hai with the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and used Soul Descent to invade his Sea of Consciousness.
• The Glazed Heart Mirror restrained the invading will, and Jiang Hai tore the Fifth Elder apart.

After killing the Fifth Elder, Jiang Hai survived the invading fragment of the Titled Douluo’s soul with help from Nana’s parents’ ghosts and decided to grow stronger before confronting the Holy Spirit Cult. He learned where several Four Symbols soul bones might be found and planned to investigate the Ordinary Alliance for a dragon-bloodline soul bone.

• Nana’s parents’ ghosts entered Jiang Hai and devoured the Fifth Elder’s soul fragment, freeing him from its influence.
• Jiang Hai acknowledged that luck and the Fifth Elder’s underestimation had enabled his victory, then decided to lie low, improve his strength, and continue seeking contact with the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Li Qingfeng reported leads on the White Tiger and Black Tortoise soul bones, while saying the Azure Dragon and Vermilion Bird bones remained unlocated.
• Nana revealed that the Ordinary Alliance might possess a soul bone carrying the Ancient Dragon Race’s bloodline, and Li Qingfeng explained the alliance’s connections to Mingdu’s underground world and the imperial family.
• Jiang Hai told the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect to pursue the White Tiger and Black Tortoise families while he investigated the Ordinary Alliance himself.
• Jiang Hai returned to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, while Nana and Li Qingfeng returned to the Eight Treasures Tower.

Zhongli Wu ordered the Holy Spirit Cult to investigate Wan Hun’s death and pursue the Demon Body, while Jiang Hai returned from seclusion as a Level 8 Soul Engineer and resumed guiding his students. After visiting Xuan Ziwen at Research Institute No. 13, Jiang Hai heard that Xuan wanted to exchange research findings on close-combat soul tools.

• Zhongli Wu ordered Netherworld, Abomination, Demon Maggot, and Nightmare Demon to find Wan Hun’s killer, then told Nether Thunder to exploit the Body Sect’s attack on the Illustrious Virtue Hall to recover the Demon Body and capture its young researcher.
• Jiang Hai returned to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, confirmed he had advanced to Level 8, and answered He Caitou’s soul-tool questions through the night.
• Jiang Hai guided the exchange students from Mingdu Second Academy, then returned to Research Institute No. 13 and checked in with Xue Linglong.
• Jiang Hai visited Xuan Ziwen, showed him Research Institute No. 13 and Divine Finger Douluo’s preserved body, and learned that Xuan wanted to exchange research findings on close-combat soul tools.

Jiang Hai and Xuan Ziwen negotiated an exchange of Soul Tool research, leading Jiang Hai to offer the Flying Sword Case blueprints in return for Xuan Ziwen’s help perfecting his secret Lifebound Soul Tool. Xuan Ziwen was stunned by Jiang Hai’s design for a human-centered Soul Tool intended to reach Level 9 or even God-Level.

• Xuan Ziwen offered to exchange his research results, including his Level 8 Remote Surveillance Soul Tool, for Jiang Hai’s Close-Combat Soul Tool research, explaining that he wanted to support Huo Yuhao and advance Soul Tools for ordinary people.
• Jiang Hai demonstrated his Flying Sword Case, and Xuan Ziwen recognized its eight flying swords, core arrays, and Yin-Yang Complementarity as features of a top-tier Level 8 Close-Combat Soul Tool.
• Jiang Hai offered Xuan Ziwen the Flying Sword Case blueprints in exchange for help perfecting a Soul Tool under a solemn oath of secrecy, and Xuan Ziwen agreed.
• Jiang Hai revealed the complex human-body core array for his Lifebound Soul Tool, while he drafted the Flying Sword Case blueprints.
• After studying the design, Xuan Ziwen asked what Jiang Hai intended to create, and Jiang Hai explained that his Human Soul Tool would integrate the human body with an Exoskeleton Mechanism made from Soul Bones and aim for Level 9 or God-Level.