Recaps

Lin Yang used his second Soul Skill, Flesh Thorns, to defeat a bandit ambush and frighten the survivors into surrendering. He left the caravan after it reached Pelagi City and accepted twice the agreed payment from Phil.

• Lin Yang revealed two Yellow Soul Rings as the bandits attacked the caravan.
• Lin Yang unleashed Flesh Thorns, which pierced and drained the bandits while protecting the guards.
• The one-eyed bandit leader charged Lin Yang with his second Soul Skill, but thorny vines burst from his body and killed him.
• The remaining bandits surrendered, and Lin Yang told Phil to handle them as he saw fit.
• The caravan entered the Star Luo Empire and later reached Pelagi City, where Lin Yang accepted double payment and parted ways with Phil.

Lin Yang traveled toward the Heavenly Calamity Mountains to find Gengjin Sword Bamboo for his second Soul Ring, but a slave-catching caravan stopped him and its mysterious master tried to force him into the carriage. Lin Yang revealed his overwhelming strength, and the young guard prepared to fight as a three-ring Soul Elder.

• Lin Yang set out from Pelagi City for the Heavenly Calamity Mountains, hoping to find Gengjin Sword Bamboo to strengthen his Nichirin Blade Martial Soul.
• After seven uneventful days, Lin Yang smelled blood from a caravan and suspected it was a Slave-Catching Band.
• The caravan's mysterious master invited Lin Yang to ride along, but he refused and tried to leave.
• A young guard blocked Lin Yang and threatened him, while the master ordered the guards to capture him without damaging his face.
• Lin Yang caught the guard's spear and twisted it apart, revealing his superior physical strength.
• The young guard summoned a Bronze Shield and revealed three Soul Rings as he prepared to attack Lin Yang.

Lin Yang killed a Soul Elder guard and refused Dai Ziming’s offer to serve him, then faced Dai Ziming after the man revealed himself as a Five-Ring Soul King. The chapter ended with Lin Yang recognizing that Dai Ziming’s White Tiger Soul Skill suggested he belonged to the Star Luo Imperial Family.

• Lin Yang defeated and killed the rank-thirty-four guard with his Blood Thorn Strangulation Soul Skill.
• Dai Ziming offered Lin Yang wealth and status if he submitted, but Lin Yang refused and called himself no one’s dog.
• Dai Ziming unleashed a crushing pressure that forced the guards to their knees, while Lin Yang remained standing.
• Lin Yang destroyed the carriage with his Flesh Thorns, revealing Dai Ziming and his five soul rings.
• Dai Ziming used White Tiger Fierce Light Wave to shatter Lin Yang’s attack, and Lin Yang recognized the Soul Skill as one associated with the Star Luo Imperial Family.

Lin Yang fully awakened his Demon God Body and fought Dai Ziming, a Soul King, but was badly wounded despite cutting Dai Ziming’s face. As Lin Yang’s Soul Power ran low, the Blue Silver Emperor secretly replenished it, giving him a chance to continue.

• Lin Yang entered Complete Ghostification, transforming his body and greatly enhancing his combat abilities.
• Dai Ziming activated his White Tiger martial soul, but Lin Yang used Sun Breathing, First Form: Dance Flash to slash his cheek.
• Dai Ziming attacked with his tiger claws, and Lin Yang countered with his Bright Red Nichirin Sword and Sun Breathing, Eighth Form: Solar Wheel Haze.
• Dai Ziming used White Tiger Sky-Splitting Roar to stun Lin Yang, then tore open his chest and severed his left forearm.
• Lin Yang bound Dai Ziming with blood-red brambles before Soul Power shattered them, and he retreated while severely injured and running low on Soul Power.
• The Blue Silver Emperor secretly sent Soul Power into Lin Yang to help him recover.

Lin Yang defeated Soul King Dai Ziming through a carefully planned deception, then had Ah Yin kill Dai Ziming’s guards. He spared the women imprisoned in covered cages and remained alive but severely wounded and drained.

• Lin Yang regenerated his severed arm and organs, then fought Dai Ziming again as Dai Ziming abandoned his earlier contempt and used his Soul Skills.
• Lin Yang used his blood and the Invisibility illusion to conceal his survival, tricking Dai Ziming into believing he had died after the White Tiger Heaven-Breaking Thrust struck him.
• When Dai Ziming approached the dropped Soul Bone, Lin Yang attacked with the Nichirin Blade and severed his head.
• Lin Yang explained his strategy and admitted he was nearly out of Soul Power, sustained by Blue Silver’s continuous supply.
• At Lin Yang’s request, Ah Yin used the Blue Silver Domain and Blue Silver Thorn Array to kill Dai Ziming’s guards and spare the women in the cages.

Lin Yang defeated Dai Ziming, freed the captive girls, and used Invisibility to give them false memories before taking Xiao Wu with him. As they traveled into the evening, Xiao Wu explained how she had ended up in the Star Luo Empire and trusted that Lin Yang would not kill her.

• Lin Yang absorbed Dai Ziming's remains, took his storage bracelet, and refined the Soul Bone he had recovered.
• Lin Yang freed the girls in the black-covered carriages and implanted false memories that they had been rescued by an unknown expert wielding a hammer and a red Soul Ring.
• Lin Yang sent the girls toward the nearest city while Xiao Wu stayed with him and questioned him about his strength and their destination.
• Xiao Wu explained that she had fled Nuoding City, enrolled in an academy in the Star Luo Empire, and been captured after offending a noble boy who reported her to Dai Ziming.
• Lin Yang said he needed a Soul Ring, but Xiao Wu insisted he would not kill her and asked about Grandma Su Xi's injuries; Lin Yang said she had recovered.

Lin Yang and Xiao Wu entered the Heavenly Calamity Mountains to find a Gengjin Sword Bamboo, and Lin Yang stole one from the heart of a vast bamboo forest. As they fled its enraged inhabitants, they reached a deep ravine, where Xiao Wu used her Waist Bow to help them cross.

• Lin Yang and Xiao Wu traveled from Heavenly Calamity Town into the mountains and found a Gengjin Sword Bamboo estimated to be five thousand five hundred years old.
• Lin Yang used his abilities to approach and cut down the Gengjin Sword Bamboo, then carried it away as its Soul Ring began to form.
• The Gengxin Bamboo Forest attacked Lin Yang and Xiao Wu with a storm of sharpened leaves as they raced to escape.
• Lin Yang carried the sword bamboo and Xiao Wu to a wide ravine, then leaped toward the opposite side with her under his arm.
• As their momentum began to fade over the abyss, Xiao Wu activated her First Soul Skill, Waist Bow.

Xiao Wu saved Lin Yang from falling into a ravine, but he rescued her in turn and then absorbed a five-thousand-year Soul Ring from the Gengjin Sword Bamboo. He emerged stronger with a new Soul Skill and the external Soul Bone Concealed Edge, while recognizing that he would need to hide his rare treasures.

• Xiao Wu used herself as a fulcrum to send Lin Yang safely across the ravine, and Lin Yang pulled her back from the abyss.
• Lin Yang began absorbing the Gengjin Sword Bamboo's five-thousand-year Soul Ring as his second Soul Ring while Xiao Wu stood guard.
• Xiao Wu discovered that Lin Yang's Soul Rings were both purple and realized he had concealed his true configuration.
• Lin Yang completed the absorption, reached Soul Power level twenty-seven, gained the Armor Break Soul Skill, and strengthened the Soul Rings on his Demon God Body Martial Soul.
• Lin Yang revealed the external Soul Bone Concealed Edge, which could store and release a full-power strike, and Xiao Wu warned him to keep it hidden.

Lin Yang parted ways with Xiao Wu, but she secretly followed him and reunited with him after going hungry in the forest. He then offered to teach her the Transparent World, an ability that could conceal her Soul Beast identity, and Xiao Wu eagerly agreed to learn.

• Lin Yang and Xiao Wu left Heavenly Calamity Town, and he gave her money and directions to Vark City before continuing toward the Reis Kingdom alone.
• Three days later, Xiao Wu emerged from hiding at Lin Yang’s camp and ate the roasted meat he had prepared.
• Xiao Wu rested in Lin Yang’s carriage while he meditated and considered what to do next.
• Lin Yang demonstrated the Transparent World and explained that it could hide Xiao Wu’s Soul Beast presence even from a Titled Douluo.
• Xiao Wu confidently asked to learn the ability, and Lin Yang warned her that mastering it would be difficult.

Lin Yang trained Xiao Wu in Wind Breathing after she proved incompatible with Sun Breathing, and their harsh journey to Suotuo City greatly strengthened her. The pair arrived in the prosperous city and cleaned up after settling their carriage.

• Xiao Wu failed to practice Sun Breathing safely, so Lin Yang taught her the basic Breathing Styles and found that she suited Wind Breathing.
• Xiao Wu quickly reached the Constant State and began developing a fighting style of her own through sparring with Lin Yang.
• Lin Yang pushed Xiao Wu through severe training and healed her injuries with his Soul Bone Skill, while she continued to improve and reached Soul Power level sixteen.
• Lin Yang and Xiao Wu arrived in Suotuo City after a journey that took nearly a month, and Lin Yang arranged good care for their horse.
• Lin Yang and Xiao Wu bathed, changed into clean clothes, and prepared to explore the city.

Lin Yang and Xiao Wu settled in Suotuo City and registered for individual and two-on-two Soul Fighting at the Soto Great Soul Arena under false identities. They finished the chapter ready to begin competing, with Xiao Wu having advanced to rank seventeen.

• Lin Yang and Xiao Wu ate at a restaurant and explored Suotuo City while Lin Yang decided to stay there until he reached rank thirty and to train Xiao Wu in the Transparent World.
• Xiao Wu tricked Lin Yang into biting a very sour candied hawthorn, and he privately resolved to get revenge.
• Lin Yang cultivated through the night with Crimson Interval and Concealed Edge while Ah Yin's Blue Silver Domain enveloped him.
• Lin Yang and Xiao Wu moved into a rented courtyard, then went to the Soto Great Soul Arena and registered using the false names Blade Ghost and Charming Rabbit, including as the two-on-two team Gui Mei Blade Rabbit.
• The staff tested their Soul Power, confirming Lin Yang was rank twenty-seven and Xiao Wu had advanced to rank seventeen.

Lin Yang and Xiao Wu entered the Life-and-Death Zone, where Lin Yang quickly killed his first opponent, Gan Kang. Afterward, Xiao Wu said she was ready for her own fight.

• Lin Yang and Xiao Wu signed the Life-and-Death Battle Contract and entered the Third Sub-Arena's Life-and-Death Zone.
• Lin Yang warned Xiao Wu not to waste sympathy on the contestants, and she gathered her resolve before following him to the rest area.
• The announcer introduced Gan Kang, a seven-win Soul Grandmaster, as Lin Yang's opponent in the seventh one-on-one match.
• Gan Kang charged at Lin Yang, but Lin Yang seized his head and smashed him into the platform, killing him instantly.
• The announcer declared Blade Ghost the winner, and Lin Yang returned to Xiao Wu and asked if she was ready for her match.

Xiao Wu defeated Xiong Li in the life-and-death arena using her Breath of Softness techniques, then learned Lin Yang expected her to fight their upcoming two-on-two match alone. After registering their rewards, they headed to the Eighth Branch Arena, where Xiao Wu meditated while they waited for their match.

• Xiao Wu entered the arena and faced Xiong Li, a powerful Great Strength Bear Soul Master who tried to lure her into a close-range attack.
• Xiao Wu used Breath of Softness, Fifth Form: Gale, Wheel Dance, then struck Xiong Li with Third Form: Bone Shatter, Single Strike, knocking him unconscious.
• Xiao Wu declined to continue the fight, and the host declared her the winner as the crowd cheered.
• Lin Yang told Xiao Wu she might have to handle their two-on-two fight alone, prompting her to accuse him of taking revenge over a sour hawthorn.
• Lin Yang and Xiao Wu registered their points and rewards, then went to the Eighth Branch Arena for their two-on-two match.
• While they waited after drawing lots, Xiao Wu meditated to restore her Soul Power.

Lin Yang left Xiao Wu to face the two Soul Grandmasters of Tiger Leopard alone, forcing her to confront the danger of a real fight. After nearly being killed by Cheng Hu, Xiao Wu became furious and activated her Demon Slayer Mark.

• Lin Yang told Xiao Wu that Cheng Hu and Jin Bao were hers to face, then left the arena as their one-against-two match began.
• Cheng Hu and Jin Bao attacked Xiao Wu together, but she evaded their coordinated assault and knocked Jin Bao unconscious with a kick.
• Cheng Hu rushed at Xiao Wu with a lethal claw strike, and she narrowly dodged, suffering a bloody wound on her neck.
• Cheng Hu revived Jin Bao, while Xiao Wu realized that the fight carried no mercy and confronted the brothers about her injury.
• Xiao Wu's anger and heartbeat surged, a rabbit-shaped black marking appeared on her cheek, and she activated her Demon Slayer Mark.

Xiao Wu awakened her Demon Slayer Mark during a life-or-death team match and defeated the Tiger and Leopard Brothers, winning the Gui Mei Blade Rabbit Team’s debut. The next day, Lin Yang gave her a rest while he went looking for medicinal herbs and whale rubber.

• Lin Yang watched Xiao Wu’s Demon Slayer Mark appear and knew the pressure of the match had pushed her past her limits.
• Xiao Wu used the mark’s enhancement to break Cheng Hu’s arms and slam him headfirst into the stage, killing him.
• Xiao Wu sensed the real Jin Bao among his duplicates and shattered his chest and spine with a triple strike.
• The announcer declared the Gui Mei Blade Rabbit Team the winners, and the crowd cheered for Xiao Wu’s codename, “Charming Rabbit.”
• Lin Yang healed Xiao Wu’s neck wound, and the next morning gave her an extra day off after noticing she had slept poorly.
• Xiao Wu went shopping while Lin Yang visited clinics and merchant associations to buy medicinal herbs and whale rubber.

Lin Yang trained Xiao Wu in the Breath of Softness and explained how she could work toward the Transparent World, then gave her a medicinal bath and whale rubber to strengthen her body. The next morning, he set a plan for Xiao Wu to build up her Great Soul Arena record while continuing her cultivation.

• Lin Yang sparred with Xiao Wu, criticized her movements and breathing, and explained the precision needed to reach the Transparent World.
• Lin Yang gave Xiao Wu whale rubber and prepared a medicinal bath, instructing her to use her Breathing Style and then take the rubber with a cold-water soak afterward.
• Xiao Wu used the bath and whale rubber while Lin Yang cultivated and slowly tempered his External Soul Bone with Soul Power.
• The next morning, Xiao Wu reported that her body felt stronger and her Soul Power circulated more smoothly after taking the whale rubber.
• Lin Yang told Xiao Wu to take daily medicinal baths, use whale rubber every three days, and pursue individual matches at the Great Soul Arena until she earned a Bronze Soul Fighter badge.

Xiao Wu and Lin Yang built formidable records in the Great Soul Arena, gaining strength and attracting unwanted attention from powerful groups. Lin Yang paused their matches after driving off a noble’s recruitment efforts, while Xiao Wu neared level twenty, Lin Yang reached level twenty-nine, and Concealed Edge fully merged with his Nichirin Blade.

• Xiao Wu and Lin Yang quickly earned Bronze Soul Fighter badges, then dominated increasingly difficult matches as Blade Ghost and Charming Rabbit.
• Over two months, Lin Yang won all forty-eight individual matches, Xiao Wu won all forty-six, and their pair recorded seventeen wins and one draw; Xiao Wu’s poison-stained draw nearly killed her and left one opponent dead and the other gravely wounded.
• Their success earned them Silver Soul Badges and attracted recruitment attempts from nobles, wealthy magnates, and Great Soul Arena insiders, so Lin Yang stopped their matches to avoid further trouble.
• After a noble retaliated against their refusals, Lin Yang left a Soul Ancestor’s head beside the noble’s bed, frightening him into abandoning his efforts and discouraging further harassment.
• Xiao Wu reached level nineteen at age seven, Lin Yang reached level twenty-nine at age eight while posing as twelve, and Concealed Edge completely merged with the Nichirin Blade after three months of nightly harmonization.

Lin Yang successfully fused his yellow and purple Soul Rings, creating a powerful cutting effect that wrecked his room. After Xiao Wu declined to go shopping and chose to cultivate, Lin Yang went to replace the damaged furnishings and found a shop he suspected belonged to Flender.

• Lin Yang fused his yellow and purple Soul Rings after more than two months of attempts, and their cutting force sliced the room into pieces.
• Xiao Wu rushed in to investigate the noise, called Lin Yang a freak, then decided to cultivate instead of going shopping with him.
• Lin Yang cleared the wreckage into his Soul Tool Bracelet, told Ah Yin he was leaving, and went to buy replacement furnishings.
• Lin Yang spotted a Soul Power mark on a secluded shop and recognized the fleeing Ma Hongjun, whom he suspected was going to vent his Evil Fire.
• Flender worried that his disciple Ma Hongjun's defective Fire Phoenix Martial Soul and recurring Evil Fire had no easy remedy.

Lin Yang bought a plate crystal from Flender after bluffing that he was a student of Qin Ming at Heaven Dou Royal Academy. He left with a plan to send Xiao Wu to Shrek Academy if she could not master the Transparent World by the time he reached level thirty.

• Lin Yang found the plate crystal in Flender's shop and refused to pay more than two hundred Gold Soul Coins.
• Flender suspected Lin Yang was the Great Soul Arena fighter Blade Ghost, but Lin Yang denied it and claimed to be Qin Ming's student.
• Lin Yang mentioned Qin Ming's work at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and Flender agreed to sell him the crystal for two hundred Gold Soul Coins.
• Lin Yang left the shop with the plate crystal and considered Shrek Academy as a possible refuge for Xiao Wu.
• Lin Yang planned to build a relationship with Dugu Bo to obtain immortal herbs and avoid provoking him over Xiao Wu's Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone.

Lin Yang discovered the deadly hair gold inside a plate crystal and gave Xiao Wu three pieces after warning her not to misuse them. A month later, Xiao Wu reached rank twenty, while Lin Yang considered how to hide the over-limit Soul Rings his unusual martial soul required.

• Lin Yang smashed the plate crystal and showed Xiao Wu how its hair gold could unfold into powerful threads when infused with Soul Power.
• Xiao Wu asked for three hair gold pieces, promised not to use them carelessly, then blushed and fled to cultivate after Lin Yang held her hand.
• Lin Yang replaced the cabinet he had damaged while demonstrating the hair gold.
• A month later, Xiao Wu reached rank twenty, and Lin Yang set her second Soul Ring at nine hundred and ninety-nine years to avoid drawing attention.
• Lin Yang resolved to raise the age of his Demon God Body's first Soul Ring when absorbing his third Soul Ring so he could use Invisibility to conceal his unusual Soul Rings.

Lin Yang and Xiao Wu traveled toward the Star Dou Great Forest so Lin Yang could find a third Soul Ring, while he continued training Xiao Wu on the way. At the forest’s center, Da Ming sensed Xiao Wu’s presence and stopped Er Ming from leaving to retrieve her before she entered their territory.

• Lin Yang told Xiao Wu he had broken through and planned to go to the Star Dou Great Forest; she asked to come along to see Da Ming and Er Ming.
• Before they left Suotuo City, Lin Yang revealed he had bought their courtyard so Xiao Wu could return whenever she wished.
• Lin Yang and Xiao Wu traveled by carriage for ten days, with Lin Yang guiding her Breathing Style training as they headed for the Star Dou Great Forest.
• After resting in a town near the forest, Lin Yang and Xiao Wu prepared to continue their journey.
• At the Lake of Life, Da Ming sensed Xiao Wu’s presence, but told Er Ming to wait until she entered their territory rather than risk attracting powerful humans.

Lin Yang and Xiao Wu entered the Star Dou Great Forest to search for a suitable soul beast, but a roar from Er Ming triggered a beast tide and sent Xiao Wu back to check on him. After a fruitless first day, Lin Yang found a nine-thousand-year red gold beast the next morning, only for another powerful roar to frighten it away.

• Lin Yang and Xiao Wu traveled into the Star Dou Great Forest, where Lin Yang searched for a soul beast at least nine thousand years old.
• Er Ming's roar stirred the forest into a beast tide, and Xiao Wu left Lin Yang to check on him.
• Lin Yang searched through the chaos but found no suitable soul beast before nightfall.
• Lin Yang used Invisibility to check on Xiao Wu and saw her with the two forest overlords, who treated her cautiously.
• The next morning, Lin Yang found a nine-thousand-year red gold beast suited to his Nichirin Blade Martial Soul, but a roar from a ten-thousand-year soul beast made it flee.

Lin Yang found an injured Golden Lion-Tiger Beast and attacked it, hoping to obtain its Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring. Though his Nichirin Blade inflicted severe wounds, the beast remained dangerous, so Lin Yang activated his Slash Domain to press the fight.

• Lin Yang reached the Golden Lion-Tiger Beast’s territory and saw it bluff its way through a standoff with a lesser dragon-type Soul Beast.
• After the lesser dragon Soul Beast fled, Lin Yang revealed himself and the Golden Lion-Tiger Beast lunged at him.
• Lin Yang used Complete Ghostification and Crimson Interval to block the beast’s attack, then severed half of its paw with Sun Breathing, Second Form: Blue Heaven.
• Lin Yang relentlessly attacked, cutting the beast’s tail and opening a wound along its back, while the beast’s strikes left him badly injured.
• Lin Yang fused his yellow and purple Soul Rings and activated the pseudo-domain Slash Domain, filling the area around him with cutting slashes.

Lin Yang defeated the ten-thousand-year Golden Lion-Tiger Beast and began absorbing its Soul Ring. After overcoming the beast’s spiritual imprint, he discovered that his spiritual power had broken through into a new realm and formed a spiritual world centered on a sunlike core.

• Lin Yang used Slash Domain and Sun Breathing’s Twelfth Form to defeat the Golden Lion-Tiger Beast.
• Lin Yang asked Ah Yin to guard him, then absorbed the beast’s black Soul Ring inside its cave.
• Lin Yang’s Demon God Body devoured the Soul Ring’s energy while his mind entered a chaotic space.
• Lin Yang defeated the Golden Lion-Tiger Beast’s spiritual imprint with one slash and absorbed the pure spiritual power it left behind.
• The chaotic space collapsed, and Lin Yang found himself in his spiritual world, where a sunlike spiritual core marked his breakthrough.

Lin Yang assessed his spiritual power and redirected the energy nurturing his demon god body's third Soul Ring into strengthening its first Soul Ring, giving it the Invisibility skill greater power. After absorbing the rings, he discovered that his Nichirin Blade had gained blade light and tested his new Sharpness Soul Skill.

• Lin Yang placed himself at the beginning of the Spirit Sea Realm and judged Shi Nian's spiritual power to be far more advanced.
• Lin Yang used the energy nurturing his demon god body's third Soul Ring to raise its first Soul Ring from three thousand to eleven thousand years, leaving the third Soul Ring at two hundred years.
• Lin Yang absorbed his Soul Skills and gained six Soul Rings, while the Nichirin Blade's Martial Soul Origin grew stronger after absorbing the Golden Lion-Tiger Beast's Soul Ring.
• Lin Yang dropped Crimson Interval and watched its sharpened blade pierce the ground, then swung it to release a streak of golden blade light into the cave wall.
• Lin Yang tested his third Soul Skill, Sharpness, which could increase his attack power by as much as three hundred percent.