Chapter Summaries

Yi Chen discovered giant insects attacking the villagers and confronted the mysterious power behind the mountain. After its leader struck his mental world and fled with black-clad figures, Yi Chen lured the insects toward burned talisman ashes and set them ablaze.

• Yi Chen resisted the short, stocky man's soul imprint, learned that the Demon Dragon Race drew power from the mountain, and decided to deal with the village threat.
• Yi Chen reached the valley's end and saw giant insects devouring the rock strata as villagers screamed and attacked their own families.
• A white-robed woman ordered the black-clad men to kill everyone while centipedes advanced into the village and the insects consumed their victims.
• A middle-aged illusory figure demanded to know which school Yi Chen belonged to, then nearly shattered Yi Chen's mental world before vanishing.
• Yi Chen healed himself, watched the black-clad figures flee, and burned talisman paper to draw the insects toward its ashes, where they burst into pale blue flames.

Yi Chen woke after Xue'er rescued him from the black eagle and the collapsing mountain, and learned that he was in an illusion realm at the foot of the Spirit Beast Mountain Range. After changing clothes, he set off to train, but Xue'er asked him to come with her because she wanted to ask him something.

• Yi Chen fought the black eagle to rescue the little girl, and the azure light carried him into the mountain summit before the peak collapsed into the lava.
• Yi Chen woke in a room, recalled that someone had rescued him, and discovered his chest had healed.
• Xue'er introduced herself and told Yi Chen they were at the foot of the Spirit Beast Mountain Range.
• Yi Chen told Xue'er he was a Titled Douluo from the Douluo Continent and had fled there to escape someone trying to kill him.
• Yi Chen changed into clean training clothes and picked up a longsword, but Xue'er asked him to come with her because she had something to ask.

Yi Chen demonstrated the strength of his new technique to Xue'er before they were ambushed by masked attackers. He fought to protect her, but the chapter ended with Yi Chen bloodied and urging Xue'er to flee while she refused to leave him.

• Yi Chen tested his strengthened technique while Xue'er watched and praised him.
• Masked figures surrounded a man and a woman, and Xue'er ordered Yi Chen to kill the attackers.
• Yi Chen and Xue'er fought the black-clad cultivators, but the attackers overwhelmed them with their numbers.
• A man with azure light around him wounded Yi Chen with his claws, and Yi Chen struck him back.
• When an attacker charged at Xue'er, Yi Chen fought on until the black-clad figures fell.
• Yi Chen told Xue'er to leave, but she insisted that they would face death together.

Yi Chen fought off the black-clad men, but Lian Yi ambushed him, took Xue'er, and killed her. Gravely wounded, Yi Chen unleashed a terrifying aura and faced Lian Yi's strongest attack as the surrounding forest and ground were torn apart.

• Yi Chen used feints and powerful strikes to defeat the black-clad men who charged him.
• Lian Yi emerged from the treetops, wounded Yi Chen, and seized Xue'er.
• Xue'er recognized Lian Yi, who claimed she belonged to him and killed her.
• Lian Yi kicked Yi Chen into two trees, leaving a bone protruding from his chest.
• Yi Chen released a terrifying aura and offered to spare Lian Yi if he begged for mercy.
• Lian Yi refused and unleashed his strongest attack, shattering trees and cracking the ground.

Yi Chen killed Lian Yi and used his blood to revive Xue'er, then fled into the woods while injured. Three masked Peak Douluo subordinates found Lian Yi's corpse and confronted Yi Chen, who attacked despite his weakened state.

• Lian Yi erupted in flames and burned to ashes after Yi Chen defeated him, while Xue'er lay gravely wounded nearby.
• Yi Chen apologized to Xue'er, gave her his blood, and revived her; she recognized him and embraced him.
• Yi Chen left Xue'er behind and ran into the woods, using his soul power to heal his injuries.
• Three men in bronze armor and silver masks examined Lian Yi's corpse, identified his fatal injuries, and pursued Yi Chen.
• Yi Chen ambushed the three Peak Douluo men with a flying sword, then charged one of them as they counterattacked with their sabers.

Yi Chen fought off a group of black-robed pursuers despite his injuries, using his unusual strength and powers to kill them. As another group arrived searching for him, Yi Chen hid behind the bushes.

• Three black-robed men attacked Yi Chen and demanded that he surrender, but he refused and fought back with his dagger.
• Yi Chen used a surprise attack to knock one pursuer unconscious, then killed another and broke through the third man's saber to strike him down.
• Gray mist engulfed one of the remaining pursuers, leaving him bloodied and dead after a streak of green lightning emerged from his body.
• Yi Chen used a wooden rod and pale red flames to destroy the leader, then killed another pursuer by draining his Soul Power.
• Yi Chen found no Peak Douluo markings on the bodies, wiped away the blood, and hid when another group of black-robed men arrived searching for him.

Yi Chen ambushed the Dark Council assassins in the woods and confronted three more enemies who had followed him. After killing their tall, thin leader, he ordered the last assassin to clean up the battlefield, eager for a chance to break through to Titled Douluo.

• Yi Chen watched the Dark Council search the valley, then attacked and killed three assassins.
• Two more assassins and their tall, thin leader emerged from the woods and recognized Yi Chen.
• Yi Chen punched the leader into a tree, breaking his breastbone and snapping the trunk.
• The tall, thin assassin challenged Yi Chen, who rushed forward and pierced his heart.
• Yi Chen ordered the surviving assassin to clean up the battlefield.

Yi Chen escaped the Dark Council assassins and encountered a mysterious white-haired elder in a river, where he restored his strength and learned that his soul power had greatly increased. The elder revealed that he knew Yi Chen’s identity and hinted that he wanted to take him as a disciple.

• Yi Chen carried the dead red-clad woman deeper into the forest after confirming she was dead.
• A large hand dragged Yi Chen beneath a river, where he found a white-haired elder in green robes meditating.
• Yi Chen absorbed gentle soul power in the river and discovered his Soul Ring had changed after he killed Dark Council assassins, raising his soul power to more than triple its former level.
• Yi Chen approached the elder and accused him of being a Spirit Hall member who was holding him captive.
• The elder said he had investigated Yi Chen, named him correctly, and praised his bearing before expressing a desire to take him as his disciple.

Yi Chen reluctantly kowtowed to the white-robed elder, who claimed him as a disciple and tried to assess his potential. Yi Chen’s awakening shattered the elder’s Soul Ring barrier, and the elder left after finding Yi Chen’s aura too weak to challenge him.

• Yi Chen rejected the white-robed elder’s demand that he become his disciple, suspecting the elder was unreliable, but decided to play along until he learned where he was.
• The white-robed elder revealed he was a Cloud Mist Sect elder and sect master, then ordered Yi Chen to kneel at the altar and show his soul power.
• The elder activated his cultivation technique and Soul Ring to form a purple barrier around Yi Chen as Yi Chen prepared for the ceremony.
• After the elder forcibly turned him around, Yi Chen kowtowed and acknowledged him as his master.
• Yi Chen’s blood and soul power surged, and a tiger’s roar shattered the barrier, sending Yi Chen and the elder flying out.
• The elder prepared to punish Yi Chen, but stopped when Yi Chen’s aura proved weak and left.

After the white-robed old man vanished, Yi Chen returned home still unsure where he was or what his martial soul was. The next morning, a young man brought him food on the village captain’s orders, leaving Yi Chen puzzled by their unexpected kindness.

• The white-robed old man stumbled away, the barrier disappeared, and Yi Chen returned home after threatening to settle the score if he could not get back.
• Yi Chen spent the night dwelling on the mountain’s events and his unknown martial soul before falling asleep.
• A skinny young man entered Yi Chen’s home and ordered him to eat the food he had brought.
• Yi Chen refused to share the meal with the young man and said he had a master.
• The young man explained that the captain had ordered him to make sure Yi Chen did not go hungry, then left him with food.
• Yi Chen sat down and ate, still confused about why the villagers were helping him.

Yi Chen endured a strange eruption of black blood, then fought back against a young man who had threatened him. Outside, he found himself surrounded by Fallen Ones of the Demon Dragon Race demanding his Soul Ring, and he seized the young man by the neck.

• Yi Chen discovered pinholes across his body as black blood poured from his wounds, then found the room's door locked.
• The young man kicked open the door, threatened Yi Chen with a knife, and mocked him over a woman.
• Yi Chen kicked the young man down and left the room, then found a crowd of Fallen Ones of the Demon Dragon Race waiting outside.
• The Bald Man demanded Yi Chen's Soul Ring, while the young man and the Fallen Ones tried to keep Yi Chen from leaving.
• Yi Chen rejected their demand, seized the young man by the neck, and made him spit blood, shocking the crowd.

Yi Chen killed several men while forcing the survivors to submit, then let a grieving young man leave. Meanwhile, a mysterious man in black cultivated deep in the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Yi Chen killed a young man, frightened the Bald Man and the others, and demanded that they serve under him.
• The Bald Man selected two thin young men, but Yi Chen killed them both and dismissed the burly man's protest.
• Yi Chen took Soul Rings from three men and disposed of their bodies, while the survivors followed him.
• A young man said he wanted to avenge his dead master, surrendered his last Soul Ring, and left as the Bald Man and the old man followed.
• Deep in the Star Dou Great Forest, a mysterious man in black sat cross-legged and cultivated.

Yi Chen confronted the mysterious man as his life faded, but the man absorbed black energy and unleashed forces that raised a palace and formed a soul-sealing formation. Yi Chen restrained him, though the man still struggled when he saw Yi Chen’s unfamiliar face.

• The dying mysterious man awakened after five hundred years, and Yi Chen said he had fought the Fallen One and would stop the man from releasing it.
• The mysterious man attacked Yi Chen, who struck him down and watched his strength dwindle into an aged shell.
• The mysterious man seized and absorbed black energy, then struggled against the force controlling him as Yi Chen tried to communicate with him.
• A wisp of black energy escaped and merged with a stone stele, raising a palace and transforming the land into a soul-sealing formation.
• Yi Chen told the restrained mysterious man, “Don’t move. We meet again,” but the man saw an unfamiliar face and tried to break free.

Yi Chen fought a mysterious man amid a vision of black energy destroying the world, then learned he was inside a formation. The man entered a palace to meet someone after overpowering Yi Chen and crushing his arm, leaving Yi Chen bleeding and struggling to resist.

• Yi Chen tried to communicate with the mysterious man, who unleashed black energy and declared that he would destroy the world.
• Yi Chen used his folding fan to scatter the black energy, and a burly middle-aged man explained that they were inside a formation.
• The burly middle-aged man said their last stronghold lay ahead, where grotesque undead creatures wandered through the black fog.
• The mysterious man dispelled the fog, opened the palace doors, and stepped inside as the others screamed.
• Yi Chen attacked the mysterious man, but he caught Yi Chen's wrist, crushed his arm until it bled, and said he was going to see someone.

Yi Chen followed the mysterious man's instructions into the palace, where he witnessed the black mist attack the man and learned it was a powerful mental spell. The mysterious man then appeared outside the gates, declared his operation had failed because Yi Chen had left the palace, and vanished.

• Yi Chen found a half-devoured corpse at the palace entrance and confronted the mysterious man, who said he needed to borrow Yi Chen's life and pressed Talisman Paper onto his arm.
• The mysterious man told Yi Chen to remain behind the palace gates for three days, even if he died of thirst or starvation, and Yi Chen prepared to follow his instructions.
• Yi Chen entered the palace and saw the black mist surge past him toward the mysterious man, then dissolve into smoke inside the passage.
• Yi Chen realized the mist was a powerful mental attack spell and felt fortunate he had fled instead of resisting it.
• The mysterious man reappeared outside the gates, said Yi Chen had ruined his plan by leaving the palace, and vanished.

Yi Chen acquired a physical body after his virtual world collapsed and woke in a cave, where he encountered a blue-robed young man. The young man hinted at a conflict with powerful hypocrites, and Yi Chen demanded to know what he knew.

• Yi Chen suffered intense pain as his body formed, and the voice in his mind said the physical body was payment before sending him into unconsciousness.
• Yi Chen awoke alone in a cave and examined its strange, apparently metallic rock walls.
• A blue-robed young man appeared beside Yi Chen, and Yi Chen took a defensive stance and demanded to know who he was.
• The young man claimed he had deliberately escaped his former confinement and insulted the people pursuing them, provoking Yi Chen's anger.
• Yi Chen considered striking first to avoid being captured and tortured, then threatened the young man until he answered his questions.

Yi Chen defeated the young man in blue, who escaped using a Demon Dragon Hall talisman, and then traveled to the hall’s mountain. After sensing a strange fluctuation and finding ancient cultivators’ remains on the summit, Yi Chen left for the town, where a guard mistook him for a ghost.

• Yi Chen stabbed the young man in blue and warned him not to provoke him again, but the injured man staggered away.
• The young man in blue broke his leg in a flash flood, then used a Demon Dragon Hall jade talisman to teleport away.
• Yi Chen flew toward the Demon Dragon Hall and sensed a mysterious fluctuation near its mountain.
• Yi Chen found preserved corpses and bones on the summit but detected no souls or other signs of life.
• Yi Chen returned toward town, where a caravan guard cried out and fled after seeing him.

Yi Chen entered Ten Thousand Demons Manor after killing a young man who attacked him with Soul-Devouring Miasma. As he drove into the city, a panicked woman ran into the manor estate, prompting guards to report that trouble had started again.

• A young man attacked Yi Chen with Soul-Devouring Miasma, but Yi Chen killed him with a hidden strike after the fight left him badly injured.
• Yi Chen discovered the city gate bore the name Ten Thousand Demons Manor and drove his donkey cart into the city.
• Yi Chen suspected Ten Thousand Demons Manor was connected to Demon Dragon Hall and continued toward the city.
• A petite woman in a powder-blue gown hurried past Yi Chen and rushed into the manor estate.
• The guards worried that a troublemaker had injured more of their men and ordered someone to report to the manor lord.

Yi Chen confronted a middle-aged man from Ten Thousand Demons Manor, who attacked him after Yi Chen refused to take him seriously. After the man killed his donkey, Yi Chen fought back and destroyed the man's soul, but the man warned that Yi Chen was doomed because their side could extract his aura and memories.

• Yi Chen sensed that Ten Thousand Demons Manor suppressed his spiritual sense and suspected it hid a secret.
• The middle-aged man threatened Yi Chen and boasted that he would soon ascend to the Purgatory Realm.
• The middle-aged man attacked Yi Chen and killed his donkey, provoking Yi Chen's fury.
• Yi Chen fought the middle-aged man with the Slaughter Blade, blood mist, and twelve phantoms before recognizing him as a clone.
• Yi Chen used the God-Slaying Spear to destroy the middle-aged man's soul.
• The middle-aged man said they could not destroy Yi Chen's primordial spirit but could extract his aura and memories, then warned that he was doomed.

Yi Chen was sent into a strange desert realm, where cultivators appeared overhead and bizarre creatures threatened him. He realized the animals were monsters, but remained trapped as an old crow landed nearby.

• The middle-aged man destroyed Yi Chen's clone, captured his ruined body in a painting scroll, and took him away after a white pearl wounded him.
• Yi Chen awoke in an endless desert and watched cultivators fly overhead before they concealed him with a barrier.
• A strange bird attacked Yi Chen, but injured itself by striking its head against a wall and then weakened.
• Yi Chen spotted a snow-white rabbit and slapped its back, only to find another rabbit with a black fur ring gripping his ankle.
• Yi Chen realized the bird and rabbit were monsters and could not move as the rabbit continued chewing chaos and an old crow landed on a willow branch.