Chapter Summaries

After Dugu Yan absorbed her fourth soul ring and reached level forty-four, Tian Chen told Dugu Bo that his grandfather and Third Grandpa were returning to take him to the Star Dou Great Forest before searching the Far North. Tian Chen suspected they might be seeking a hundred-thousand-year snow lotus instead of a ten-thousand-year ginseng king, and he and Dugu Yan left for Heaven Dou City.

• Tian Chen reflected on how three years of fighting soul beasts had strengthened his combat instincts and prepared him for Slaughter City.
• Tian Chen told Dugu Bo that his grandfather and Third Grandpa were searching for a rare ginseng king and would reach Heaven Dou City in about three days.
• Tian Chen suspected that the treasure in the Far North might actually be a hundred-thousand-year snow lotus connected to the Snow Empress.
• Dugu Yan completed her fourth soul ring and reached level forty-four, becoming a Soul Ancestor.
• Tian Chen and Dugu Yan set off for Heaven Dou City, while Dugu Bo agreed to accompany them later to the Star Dou Great Forest.

Tian Chen and Dugu Yan left Sunset Forest for Heaven Dou City, but a Soul Master squad fleeing a King Kong Baboon tried to draw the beast toward them. Tian Chen recognized the Blue Tyrant Academy badges and reacted angrily to the squad leader’s attempt to endanger them.

• Tian Chen declined Dugu Yan’s suggestion to try creating a Secret Method Soul Bone from a colony of Qian Jun Ants, and the two continued toward Heaven Dou City.
• Tian Chen killed a Mandala Snake that attacked them while a cautious Jade Sea Spirit Ape fled.
• Tian Chen sensed a Soul King and his group fighting a thousand-year King Kong Baboon, as well as a powerful hidden presence nearby.
• Three boys, a girl, and their middle-aged leader fled the fight with the baboon pursuing them; Tian Chen saw their Blue Tyrant Academy badges and realized the leader was steering the beast toward him and Dugu Yan.

Yin Shu tried to lure a King Kong Baboon toward Tian Chen and Dugu Yan so he could escape with his students, but Tai Tan appeared and subdued the beast. Tai Long prepared to claim its Soul Ring, while Dugu Yan revealed that Dugu Bo was her grandfather.

• Yin Shu attacked the King Kong Baboon and tried to lead it toward Tian Chen and Dugu Yan while his students fled.
• Dugu Yan recognized Yin Shu's intent, but Tian Chen stopped her from attacking him.
• Tai Tan arrived and knocked the King Kong Baboon unconscious with a single slap.
• Tai Tan told Tai Long to kill the beast and absorb its Soul Ring, and Tai Long obeyed.
• Tai Tan recognized Dugu Yan's Jade Phosphorus Snake Martial Soul, and Dugu Yan confirmed that Dugu Bo was her grandfather.

Tian Chen returned to Heaven Dou City with Dugu Yan, where she brought him to Ye Lingling and confronted him about his relationships with both women. He confessed that he would not give either of them up, and the chapter ended with Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan accepting the situation despite their jealousy.

• Tai Tan warned Yin Shu that Dugu Bo was not someone to provoke and suggested the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan might protect him.
• Tian Chen and Dugu Yan entered Heaven Dou City, and Tian Chen worried about facing Ye Lingling and deciding who would help awaken his bloodline.
• Dugu Yan led Tian Chen to Ye Lingling’s flower shop, where Ye Lingling greeted them as though she had expected them.
• Tian Chen admitted he had deceived both women and said he would not give either of them up.
• Ye Lingling said she had come to terms with sharing Tian Chen, while Dugu Yan showed her jealousy when he casually touched Ye Lingling’s ankles.

Tian Chen spent three days with Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan at their secluded flower shop before his grandfather Tian E and Third Grandpa Xia Hong arrived. Tian E said Tian Chen had to awaken his bloodline before obtaining his Fifth Soul Ring, and Xia Hong suggested they return to the Sunset Forest.

• Tian Chen stayed at the flower shop with Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan while he waited for his grandfather to return.
• Xia Hong and Tian E appeared at the shop, and Tian Chen introduced Ye Lingling as his girlfriend.
• Dugu Yan complained that Tian Chen had pursued Ye Lingling despite already being with her, and Tian E accepted Ye Lingling into the family.
• Tian Chen asked Tian E when they would seek his Fifth Soul Ring, but Tian E said they first had to awaken Tian Chen's bloodline.
• Xia Hong suggested they return to the Sunset Forest, easing the awkward moment for Tian Chen.

Tian E and the group arrived at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and found Dugu Bo badly wounded by a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. Tian E revealed his Demon-Breaking Domain, which erased the tiger’s domain, while the beast considered retreating.

• Tian E, Xia Hong, and the others reached the valley and found it shrouded in a powerful, evil domain.
• Dugu Bo escaped the valley with injuries and warned the group that a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger nearing sixty thousand years of cultivation had attacked him.
• Dugu Yan checked on Dugu Bo as the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger emerged and prepared to attack the group.
• Xia Hong offered to fight alongside Tian E, but Tian E chose to face the tiger alone.
• Tian E released his Demon-Breaking Domain, dispelling the tiger’s domain, and explained its power to Tian Chen.

Tian E pursued the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger after it tried to flee, and Tian Chen considered the tiger’s unusual abilities and potential rewards. Tian E defeated and captured it, leaving Tian Chen to decide what to do with the soul ring and the bead it would leave behind.

• Tian Chen recognized that the Golden Crocodile King Martial Soul’s Demon-Breaking Domain could suppress opponents with domains.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger fled using its wind ability, then escaped Tian E’s first spatial restraint by tearing open space.
• Tian E caught up with the tiger, and both sides launched attacks while the tiger tried to draw him into its strange black-hole space.
• Tian E shattered the black hole before it formed, using the warning Tian Chen had given him.
• Tian E sealed the space around the exhausted Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and broke its bones with a strike to its neck, sending it into the valley.

Tian Chen killed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and began fusing with the black bead it left behind. The bead’s evil power clashed with his Golden Crocodile King bloodline, and the chapter ended with Tian Chen, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling trapped inside a cocoon as Tian E arranged for help.

• Tian Chen killed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger with his Dark Gold Dreadclaw, and a strange black bead appeared instead of a Soul Ring.
• Tian Chen took the bead and explained that an ancient book described it as a crystallization of the tiger’s bloodline.
• Tian Chen used his blood to fuse with the bead, whose freezing, evil power spread through his body and triggered his Golden Crocodile King bloodline.
• Tian Chen lost control, seized Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, and the three were enveloped by a gray-black cocoon.
• Tian E reassured Dugu Bo that Dugu Yan would be fine, then told Xia Hong to bring several women from a nearby village.

Tian Chen survived the fusion with the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s power and woke with his Soul Power at rank fifty-six. He discovered that his Martial Soul had changed and that he had gained an External Soul Bone resembling the Evil God Hook.

• Tian Chen’s bloodline resisted and gradually fused with the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s origin power as its black Soul Ring entered the cocoon.
• Tian Chen briefly regained consciousness, saw Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, then lost awareness again.
• Tian Chen woke in the wooden house near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and learned from Tian E that Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling were resting nearby.
• Tian Chen released his transformed Martial Soul, revealing pure black scales, wings, and Soul Power at rank fifty-six.
• Xia Hong and Dugu Bo recognized the hooked tail as an External Soul Bone, and Tian E confirmed it.

After absorbing the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's pearl, Tian Chen gained an External Soul Bone, three new attributes, and two domains, astonishing Tian E and the others. He returned to the wooden house and sat beside the injured Ye Lingling, overcome with guilt.

• Tian Chen discovered that the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger had given him an External Soul Bone with two Soul Skills and had greatly strengthened his body.
• Tian Chen tested his control over wind, lightning, and ultimate evil, which had become his Martial Soul's primary attribute.
• Tian Chen manifested the Golden Crocodile King bloodline crystal and Demon-Breaking Domain, revealing that he possessed two domains as a fifteen-year-old Soul King.
• Tian E sent Tian Chen to check on Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling while he, Xia Hong, and Dugu Bo went to search for Soul Bones.
• Tian Chen returned to the wooden house, entered Ye Lingling's room first, and held her bruised hands as guilt and pain filled him.

After recovering from her injuries, Ye Lingling agreed to bring Tian Chen to Barak City at the end of the year to meet her grandfather. Dugu Yan joined them, and after the two women spoke privately, Tian Chen left while Dugu Yan planned to cultivate in seclusion.

• Tian Chen used the gold of life to heal Ye Lingling’s bruises as she woke.
• Ye Lingling asked Tian Chen to accompany her to Barak City to meet her grandfather, and he agreed while planning to visit Suotuo City and confront Dai Mubai.
• Dugu Yan entered the room, and Ye Lingling offered to treat her injuries.
• Dugu Yan sent Tian Chen outside and warned Ye Lingling to keep him from pursuing other women.
• Dugu Yan told Ye Lingling she intended to enter seclusion and cultivate after gaining a benefit from Tian Chen.

After adapting to his mutated Martial Soul, Tian Chen left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Ye Lingling and traveled to Barak City. The chapter ended with Ye Lingling leading him toward her home near Barak Academy.

• Tian Chen discovered that his mutated Martial Soul had an instinctive ability to control soul force and considered making a Secret Method Soul Bone again.
• Tian E told Tian Chen to return to Spirit City after his business and visit the Great Enshrined, Qian Daoliu.
• Tian Chen and Ye Lingling left Sunset Forest with Tian E and Xia Hong, then separated from them in Heaven Dou City and continued by carriage.
• During the journey, Tian Chen and Ye Lingling grew intimate, and the carriage reached Barak City four days later.
• Tian Chen paid the entrance fee and walked through Barak City with Ye Lingling, who said her home was near Barak Academy.

Tian Chen and Ye Lingling arrived at the Ye Family estate and discovered that A Ruisi and the Balak Academy dean were pressuring Ye Xu to join the royal family and marry Ye Lingling. Tian Chen summoned the Spirit Hall hall master for support, while the dean revealed his level seventy-five Sun Flower Martial Soul and threatened Ye Xu.

• Ye Lingling recognized A Ruisi's convoy outside the estate and learned that the Balak Academy dean had come with him.
• Tian Chen gave a golden token to a guard and ordered him to summon the Spirit Hall hall master in Barak City.
• Ye Lingling led Tian Chen to the reception hall, where they saw A Ruisi and his followers confronting Ye Xu.
• A Ruisi demanded that Ye Xu become a royal retainer and agree to Ye Lingling's marriage to him, but Ye Xu rejected both demands.
• The Balak Academy dean stepped forward, displayed his seven Soul Rings and Sun Flower Martial Soul, and released his Soul Power against Ye Xu.

At Barak Academy, A Ruisi tried to force Ye Xu to agree to his marriage with Ye Lingling by threatening him with the kingdom’s Soul Masters. Ye Lingling returned with Tian Chen, who challenged A Ruisi and left him unconscious after shattering his martial soul.

• Luo Ke attacked Ye Xu with poisonous mist, but Ye Xu dispelled it with his Nine Heart Begonia martial soul as their Soul Masters faced off.
• A Ruisi displayed his powerful forces and pressured Ye Xu to agree to the marriage before Ye Lingling returned.
• Ye Lingling entered the hall hand in hand with Tian Chen and declared that she would never marry A Ruisi.
• A Ruisi threatened Tian Chen, who answered with a threat of his own.
• A Ruisi attacked Tian Chen with his Sun Flower, but Tian Chen seized and shattered it with his crocodile claw, leaving A Ruisi injured and unconscious.

Tian Chen released his mutated Martial Soul and revealed a terrifying Evil God Domain while fighting Luo Ke and the Balak Kingdom’s forces. He protected Ye Lingling from Luo Ke’s attack, but the battle escalated when Luo Ke ordered the others to attack the Ye Family.

• Tian Chen’s hair and eyes changed, and he revealed five Soul Rings, including two Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings, while struggling to control the evil thoughts magnified by his Martial Soul.
• Luo Ke ordered his followers to kill the Ye Family members and attacked Tian Chen with his Sun Flower Martial Soul.
• Ye Lingling warned Tian Chen, and he used the Evil God Domain and Dark Gold Protective Shield to withstand Luo Ke’s petals.
• Tian Chen’s domain darkened the hall and drained Soul Power and vitality, alarming Luo Ke.
• Luo Ke called for a group attack, and a Lightning Falcon Soul Emperor rushed at Tian Chen.

Tian Chen used his Demon-Suppressing Domain and Evil Demon Transformation to defeat the Lightning Falcon Soul Emperor, then unleashed Dark Demon Evil Thunder against Luo Ke and the Soul Kings attacking the Ye Family. His attack brought down the marble hall, leaving the battle obscured by dust and smoke.

• Tian Chen activated the Demon-Suppressing Domain, grounding the Lightning Falcon Soul Emperor and stopping his flight.
• Tian Chen tore apart the Lightning Falcon Soul Emperor’s wings with his claws and Wind Blades, then killed him by crushing his head.
• Tian Chen’s bloodline triggered savage negative emotions, but he used his Fifth Soul Skill, Evil Demon Transformation, to increase his attributes and clear the effects.
• Tian Chen locked onto Luo Ke and the Soul Kings with his Mental Power and formed Dark Demon Evil Thunder from wind, lightning, and evil attributes.
• Tian Chen’s Dark Demon Evil Thunder exploded across the hall and collapsed the marble structure.

Tian Chen’s Dark Demon Evil Thunder devastated the courtyard and left only Luo Ke and a Giant Rock Turtle Soul Emperor fit to fight. Ye Xu rejected Luo Ke’s threat and declared that he and Ye Lingling no longer needed to remain in the Balak Kingdom, but the king arrived with powerful soldiers and blocked their way.

• The smoke cleared to reveal a deep crater, dead and badly wounded soul masters, and only Luo Ke and the Giant Rock Turtle Soul Emperor still able to fight.
• The Giant Rock Turtle Soul Emperor admitted that Tian Chen’s attack had badly injured him, while Luo Ke wondered whether Tian Chen could really be only a Soul King.
• Luo Ke accused Ye Xu of making an enemy of the Balak Kingdom, and Ye Xu replied that he and Ye Lingling could find a home elsewhere.
• Ye Xu decided to leave the kingdom, but a crowned middle-aged man entered with silver-armored soldiers, including a Soul Saint, and threatened to keep them from leaving alive.

Luo Si ordered his forces to attack Tian Chen, but Pa Lun’s Dark Demon Tiger Martial Soul was suppressed by Tian Chen’s ultimate evil attribute. The battle was interrupted by Amaterasu, a Platinum Bishop of Spirit Hall, who arrived and respectfully greeted Tian Chen as Young Master.

• Luo Si questioned Luo Ke about the ruined courtyard and ordered General Pa Lun to join Luo Ke in capturing Tian Chen’s group.
• Pa Lun released his Dark Demon Tiger Martial Soul, but Tian Chen’s presence suppressed it and left Pa Lun unable to move.
• Luo Si ordered his soldiers to attack, and Luo Ke led them in surrounding Tian Chen.
• A giant with a three-eyed appearance landed in the manor, shaking the ground and scattering the nearby trees.
• The giant identified himself as Amaterasu, Platinum Bishop of Spirit Hall, and bowed to Tian Chen while presenting a token.

Tian Chen recognized Amaterasu as the Barak City Spirit Hall head and ordered him to eliminate Luo Si and his men. After Luo Ke offered information about two royal Soul Bones in exchange for his life, Tian Chen left with Ye Lingling and ordered Amaterasu to kill him, while Ye Xu accepted his granddaughter’s relationship with Tian Chen.

• Tian Chen identified Amaterasu’s Martial Soul as a dark-attribute Cyclops and confirmed that he led the Barak City Spirit Hall Main Hall.
• Tian Chen ordered Amaterasu to kill Luo Si and the others, and Amaterasu crushed Luo Si and the Soul King soldiers with his fifth Soul Skill.
• Luo Ke offered to reveal the location of two Soul Bones belonging to the Balak Kingdom’s royal family, but Tian Chen showed no interest in sparing him.
• Tian Chen left the courtyard with Ye Lingling and ordered Amaterasu to kill Luo Ke.
• Ye Xu decided not to interfere with Tian Chen and Ye Lingling, accepting that his granddaughter would choose her own future.

Ye Lingling brought Tian Chen to her private courtyard, where they spent the evening together before being summoned to the hall. There, Bishop Amaterasu presented Tian Chen with two Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones, including one from an Azure Vine.

• Ye Lingling worried about the gap between her cultivation and Tian Chen's, but he comforted her and she took him to her secluded begonia-filled courtyard.
• Ye Lingling showed Tian Chen her loft, and they spent the afternoon and evening together there.
• Servants summoned Tian Chen and Ye Lingling to the hall, where Bishop Amaterasu and Nuo'a, the Balak Kingdom's king, were waiting.
• Amaterasu admitted that he had helped place Nuo'a on the throne and now intended to remove him, then ordered him to leave.
• Nuo'a presented Tian Chen with a box containing two incomplete Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones: a dark-attribute right arm bone and an emerald-green left arm bone from an Azure Vine.