Chapter Summaries

After collecting his newly forged Black Ruler, Xiao Yan agreed to spar with Tang San on the academy’s Back Mountain. Before they could fight, Xiao Yan’s rabbit hunting enraged Xiao Wu, and Tang San’s attempt to defend him made her run away in tears.

• Xiao Yan collected the finished Black Ruler and paid the Blacksmith Shop Owner another Gold Soul Coin toward the remaining balance.
• Tang San challenged Xiao Yan to a spar on the academy’s Back Mountain, and Xiao Yan agreed to meet him that afternoon.
• Xiao Yan used Explosive Step to catch and kill a wild rabbit, then told Xiao Wu he planned to cook it.
• Xiao Wu became furious that Xiao Yan had killed a rabbit and prepared to attack him.
• Tang San stopped Xiao Wu and offered her some of his Spicy Rabbit Head, prompting her to run off sobbing.

Xiao Yan and Tang San sparred on Nuoding Academy's Back Mountain, where Xiao Yan's speed and flames overwhelmed Tang San's techniques. After defeating him, Xiao Yan let Tang San resolve to improve and returned to the academy.

• Tang San revealed his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul and challenged Xiao Yan, who answered with his Emperor Flame Martial Soul.
• Xiao Yan broke free of Tang San's Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon and struck him back despite Tang San's Mysterious Jade Hand.
• Tang San bound Xiao Yan with Blue Silver Grass Entanglement, but Xiao Yan's azure flames burned the grass to ash.
• Tang San attacked with hidden needles and evaded Xiao Yan with Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, but Xiao Yan dodged the needles and pursued him.
• Xiao Yan used Suction Palm to pull Tang San in and struck him with Eight Extremes Collapse, sending him sprawling.
• Tang San admitted defeat and vowed to surpass Xiao Yan, who told him he could keep trying before returning to the academy.

After reaching rank twenty in Soul Power, Xiao Yan traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest to find a fire-attribute Soul Beast and obtain a Soul Ring. At an inn outside the forest, he crossed paths with Huo Wu and the Blazing Fire Academy team before planning to head toward the forest’s western desert.

• Xiao Yan reached rank twenty after two years of cultivation, while his relationship with Tang San remained distant and Xiao Wu continued to resent him.
• Xiao Yan traveled by carriage for seven days and stopped for the night in a lively town outside the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xiao Yan entered an inn and noticed Huo Wushuang leading six Blazing Fire Academy students, including his sister Huo Wu.
• Huo Wu sensed that Xiao Yan had an unusually strong fire-attribute aura and smiled at him, then told Huo Wushuang what she had noticed.
• Xiao Yan planned to cross the forest’s outskirts and reach its western desert, where fire-attribute Soul Beasts could be found.

Xiao Yan traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest in search of a trace of heavenly flames and reached its western desert. After finding only weak soul beasts, he was ambushed by a huge thousand-year snake wrapped in red flames.

• Xiao Yan left town at dawn and followed a map through the Star Dou Great Forest toward its western desert.
• Xiao Yan crossed the harsh desert, using its fierce fire energy to speed his cultivation and finding few soul beasts worth fighting.
• Xiao Yan killed a ten-year Yellow Sand Scorpion that had been hiding beneath the sand.
• A massive creature burst from the sand and lunged at Xiao Yan, who escaped with Explosive Step.
• Xiao Yan saw that his attacker was a huge red-flamed snake with savage diamond-shaped pupils and an apparent cultivation of at least a thousand years.

Xiao Yan fought the Blood-Red Flame Python, which swallowed him, but his green flames protected him inside its belly. He discovered the blood-red flames were a heavenly flame and began absorbing them to make them his second soul ring.

• The Blood-Red Flame Python attacked Xiao Yan with lava pillars and its tail, but he dodged and struck its head with the Black Ruler.
• The python swallowed Xiao Yan, whose green flames shielded him from the blood-red flames inside its belly.
• Xiao Yan recognized the blood-red flames as a heavenly flame parasitizing the python and realized he had the advantage inside its body.
• Xiao Yan overpowered the blood-red flames with his green lotus core flame and declared that he would make them his second soul ring.
• Xiao Yan captured the blood-red flames and began drawing them into his body.

Xiao Yan refined the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame, gained a second soul ring and two skills, then encountered an injured student from Blazing Fire Academy in the desert. After learning the student's teammates were poisoned, he agreed to go see if he could help.

• Xiao Yan erased the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame’s consciousness and absorbed it, forming his second soul ring and learning Blowing Flame Palm and Purple Cloud Wings.
• Xiao Yan discovered the fused flame had turned yellow, tested his new wings, and set out for Nuoding Academy.
• Xiao Yan found an injured man in the desert, gave him water, and initially refused his request for help.
• The man revealed that he was from Blazing Fire Academy and that Yellow Sand Scorpions had poisoned his teammates.
• Xiao Yan recognized the academy and agreed to follow the man to his team.

Xiao Yan encountered the poisoned Blazing Fire Academy team and drove off their Yellow Sand Scorpion attackers with the myriad beast spirit flame and his martial arts. As Huo Wu and the others marveled at his strength, the scorpion leader counterattacked with poisonous gas.

• Xiao Yan introduced himself to Huo Yu, then spotted the Blazing Fire Academy team surrounded by Yellow Sand Scorpions on a nearby dune.
• Huo Wu held the poisoned team back from fighting while Huo Wushuang and the others defended themselves against the scorpions.
• Xiao Yan landed between the team and the scorpions, then used the myriad beast spirit flame to scatter the beasts and killed one with Eight Extremes Collapse.
• Huo Yu returned to Huo Wushuang and Huo Wu, explaining that he had brought Xiao Yan after finding no other help.
• Huo Wu and the team were shocked that Xiao Yan had killed a hundred-year soul beast despite being called a Soul Grandmaster.
• The scorpion leader, nearing a thousand years of cultivation, sprayed foul pale-yellow gas toward Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan defeated the lead Yellow Sand Scorpion and used his heavenly flame to cure Huo Wushuang and Huo Wu of the scorpion venom. Huo Wu invited him to join Blazing Fire Academy, but he declined and left, intent on pursuing his own ideas about Soul Master cultivation.

• Xiao Yan burned away the scorpions’ poison attack, killed their leader, and drove the remaining Yellow Sand Scorpions into the desert.
• Xiao Yan used a yellow flame to purge the scorpion venom from Huo Wushuang and Huo Wu.
• Huo Wu introduced herself and invited Xiao Yan to join Blazing Fire Academy, praising its legacy as one of the Five Elemental Academies.
• Xiao Yan declined because he was studying at Nuoding Academy and wanted to explore combining extreme individual cultivation with balanced team tactics.
• Huo Wu thanked Xiao Yan and offered to help him in the future, and Xiao Yan bid farewell and walked away.

Tang San tested the ghost vine soul ring’s Parasite skill, and Grandmaster explained its strengths and vulnerability to fire. The chapter left Tang San questioning whether his first two entangling soul skills were redundant.

• Tang San obtained a roughly six-hundred-year-old ghost vine soul ring, gaining the Parasite skill and tougher Blue Silver Grass.
• Mang Tianchi suggested arranging a spar between Tang San and Xiao Yan, and Grandmaster agreed to let him arrange it.
• Grandmaster examined Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass and watched him use Parasite to bind a tree.
• Grandmaster claimed Tang San could restrain soul masters up to ten levels stronger, then demonstrated that fire could burn through the Blue Silver Grass.
• Tang San asked whether his future soul rings should provide fire resistance, then questioned why both of his first two soul rings granted entangling skills.

Grandmaster advised Tang San to keep cultivating Blue Silver Grass and leave his hammer without soul rings, while Xiao Yan developed a way to counter Tang San’s hidden weapons. Mang Tianchi brought the two students together for a friendly spar, leaving them poised to fight.

• Grandmaster told Tang San to rely on his teammates and hidden weapons for offense, and forbade him from adding soul rings to his hammer.
• Grandmaster told Tang San that Mang Tianchi wanted him and Xiao Yan to spar, then took him to eat before they went to meet the Dean.
• Xiao Yan returned from the desert, tested his stronger suction, and used Blowing Flame Palm to shatter a vase as practice for repelling Tang San’s hidden weapons.
• Wang Sheng told Xiao Yan that Mang Tianchi wanted to see him, and Xiao Yan went to the Dean’s office and ate the lunch Mang Tianchi had prepared.
• Mang Tianchi arranged a friendly spar between Xiao Yan and Tang San, and the two met him and Grandmaster on the playground.

Xiao Yan sparred with Tang San and challenged Grandmaster’s ban on Tang San using his hidden weapons. After countering Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass and escaping his paralysis, Xiao Yan used his wings and Blowing Flame Palm to send Tang San’s hidden weapons flying back at him.

• Xiao Yan insisted Tang San be allowed to use his hidden weapons, and Grandmaster permitted the spar to begin.
• Tang San charged Xiao Yan with Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, but Xiao Yan’s punch sent him staggering backward.
• Tang San used Entanglement, but Xiao Yan burned the Blue Silver Grass away with his flames.
• Tang San caught Xiao Yan with Parasitism, numbing him with the vines’ poison, then attacked with hidden weapons.
• Xiao Yan revealed his wings, broke free of the vines, and flew toward Tang San.
• Xiao Yan used Blowing Flame Palm to repel Tang San’s hidden weapons back toward him.

Xiao Yan defeated Tang San in a spar by melting his Hidden Weapons and countering his concealed Godly Zhuge Crossbow with Blowing Flame Palm. Tang San was left with a bolt in his arm, and Grandmaster angrily blamed Xiao Yan as Xiao Yan defended himself.

• Tang San deflected his returning Hidden Weapons with Mysterious Jade Hand and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, then attacked Xiao Yan with a barrage of weapons.
• Xiao Yan sent out tiny yellow flames that melted Tang San’s Hidden Weapons before they could hit him.
• Xiao Yan charged at Tang San with the Black Ruler, but Tang San burned away the Blue Silver Grass vines and fired a Godly Zhuge Crossbow.
• Xiao Yan used Blowing Flame Palm to send the crossbow bolts flying back, and one bolt pierced Tang San’s left arm and dragged him across the ground.
• Grandmaster helped Tang San up and accused Xiao Yan of injuring him too severely, while Xiao Yan argued that Tang San had attacked first.

After Xiao Yan defeated him, Tang San withdrew to Nuoding Academy's Back Mountain to reconsider his cultivation and began doubting his blue silver grass martial soul and Grandmaster's theories. Grandmaster found him and, after hearing Tang San wanted to switch to his hammer martial soul, shouted that the idea was nonsense.

• Xiao Wu rushed to Tang San after seeing his injury, but he stopped her from confronting Xiao Yan before passing out.
• After waking, Tang San asked to enter seclusion and went to the Back Mountain, convinced that losing to Xiao Yan had exposed the weakness of his hidden weapons.
• Over two days, Tang San questioned his blue silver grass martial soul, his soul rings, and Grandmaster's theories, and considered cultivating his black hammer instead.
• Grandmaster brought Tang San food and asked what he had been thinking about.
• Tang San told Grandmaster he wanted to abandon blue silver grass for the hammer, and Grandmaster rebuked him.

Grandmaster urged Tang San to keep cultivating Blue Silver Grass before adding soul rings to his second martial soul, restoring Tang San’s confidence in his future strength. Tang San remained wary of Xiao Yan’s potential despite Grandmaster’s dismissal of him.

• Grandmaster warned Tang San that cultivating his second martial soul too soon would cost him the chance to gain powerful soul rings later.
• Grandmaster suggested Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass might be unusual because his parents’ strong, different martial souls had produced twin martial souls.
• Tang San accepted Grandmaster’s advice and resolved to raise his soul power before cultivating his second martial soul.
• Grandmaster criticized Xiao Yan’s soul-ring choices and claimed Xiao Yan lacked a good teacher, but Tang San argued that Xiao Yan might achieve great things.
• Tang San recalled Xiao Yan’s confident promise to leave him behind, which continued to unsettle him.

Three years later, Xiao Yan traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest to seek a heavenly flame or hunt a soul beast for his next soul ring. Meanwhile, Tang San and Xiao Wu arrived in Suotuo City to apply to Shrek Academy.

• Xiao Yan cultivated with the Heavy Xuan Ruler strapped to his back, suppressing his apparent soul power while strengthening his body.
• Xiao Yan demonstrated his mastery of six layers of hidden force in Eight Extremes Collapse by striking a tree and blasting apart its trunk.
• Xiao Yan reached a town near the Star Dou Great Forest and recalled his teacher's warning never to trust others with his back.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu entered Suotuo City, where Xiao Wu complained about Grandmaster insisting that Tang San apply to Shrek Academy.

After graduating from Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy, Xiao Yan entered Star Dou Great Forest to seek a powerful soul beast or heavenly flame for his third soul ring. He discovered an injured ten-thousand-year Ghost Tiger, while a blond-haired youth and two old men entered the forest’s mixed region.

• Xiao Yan graduated from Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy and planned to obtain his third soul ring before choosing an academy.
• Xiao Yan entered Star Dou Great Forest and searched the outer region for a strong soul beast or heavenly flame.
• After finding no suitable target during the day, Xiao Yan sensed an approaching presence and concealed himself in a tree.
• Xiao Yan spotted an injured Ghost Tiger over three meters long and realized it was a ten-thousand-year soul beast.
• A blond-haired youth wearing a golden-swan robe entered the mixed region with an old man carrying a golden snake lance and a hulking red-haired old man.

Xiao Yan killed a ten-thousand-year Ghost Tiger after using the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame to disrupt its Soul Power, then encountered a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear. Deep in the Lake of Life, a silver-white figure noticed a fluctuation in the golden flame and called for Di Tian.

• Xiao Yan dodged the ten-thousand-year Ghost Tiger's attacks by removing the Heavy Xuan Ruler and using his purple wings to take flight.
• When the Ghost Tiger continued pursuing him, Xiao Yan used the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame to disrupt its Soul Power and struck it with Eight Extremes Collapse, killing it and forming a black Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Xiao Yan realized the heart flame could force a Soul Beast's soul from its body and leave it vulnerable to a soul-shattering attack.
• Xiao Yan detected a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear approaching and recognized it as a powerful Soul Beast capable of challenging a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Deep in the Lake of Life, a silver-white figure sensed a fluctuation in the golden flame, warned that Xiao Yan must not find the place yet, and summoned Di Tian.

In the Star Dou Great Forest, Xiao Yan attacked a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear and combined Eight Extremes Collapse’s Hidden Force with a heavenly flame to inflict devastating injuries. The bear remained alive, leaving Xiao Yan poised to decide whether to claim it as his third soul ring.

• Beneath a lake, the Silver-White Figure sent Di Tian to drive away a human in the Mixed Region without killing him, suspecting the visitor had caused a fluctuation in a golden flame.
• Xiao Yan identified the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear as the beast that had wounded a Ten-Thousand-Year Ghost Tiger and considered taking it as his third soul ring.
• Xiao Yan used the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame to disrupt the bear’s soul, then rushed in with Eight Extremes Collapse.
• An azure heavenly flame appeared around Xiao Yan’s fist as he struck the bear and unleashed six powerful blasts of Hidden Force.
• Xiao Yan found the bear severely wounded, with one forearm and shoulder destroyed, but still alive.

Xiao Yan absorbed the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear’s soul ring and right palm bone, gaining powerful golden claws. Elsewhere in the forest, Di Tian appeared near a blond man absorbing his sixth soul ring and wondered whether they were the humans Gu Yuena had sent him to drive away.

• Xiao Yan burned the wounded Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear to death and absorbed its purple soul ring.
• Xiao Yan discovered the bear’s rare right palm bone and fused it with his right hand.
• Xiao Yan tested the fused claws by slicing a rock apart and carving five deep gouges into a cliff.
• Di Tian emerged from a rift near a blond man absorbing his sixth soul ring and wondered whether the three humans were the ones Gu Yuena had sent him to drive away.

Beast God Di Tian confronted Qian Renxue, disguised as Xue Qinghe, while she absorbed her sixth soul ring in the Star Dou Great Forest. He battled her protectors Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo, overwhelming them and revealing the vast gap in their power.

• Di Tian appeared beside Qian Renxue and ordered her group to leave the forest within one incense stick's time.
• Snake Lance Douluo She Long and Porcupinefish Douluo challenged Di Tian and activated their martial soul avatars when his black mist attacked them.
• Di Tian struck the two Titled Douluos with black flames, stopping their charge and leaving them wounded.
• Di Tian darkened the sky and pinned Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo beneath his immense pressure.
• Snake Lance Douluo realized Di Tian's power rivaled that of the Great Enshrined as Di Tian stood revealed as the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King and lord of the Star Dou Great Forest.