Chapter Summaries

Tian Chen, Li Kai, and Zhang Ping made camp in the Soul Hunting Forest, where Tian Chen shared valuable Purple Jade Fruits with his companions. As night fell, Zhang Ping insisted on helping Tian Chen keep watch, while Li Kai went to cultivate and was set to take the second watch.

• Li Kai chose a sheltered campsite and spread medicine around it to mask their scent and repel small creatures.
• The group pitched their tents, gathered firewood, ate, and extinguished their campfire to avoid attracting powerful Soul Beasts.
• Tian Chen gave Li Kai and Zhang Ping a Purple Jade Fruit, and Li Kai recognized its value while Zhang Ping savored hers.
• Tian Chen began keeping watch and told Li Kai and Zhang Ping to cultivate before Li Kai took over in the second half of the night.
• Zhang Ping offered to keep watch with Tian Chen, and he agreed while Li Kai entered his tent to cultivate.

After Li Kai broke through to rank ten, Tian Chen and Zhang Ping escorted him deeper into the Soul Hunting Forest to find a Soul Ring. They discovered a Black-Horned Mountain Boar fighting a Black-Scaled Python, and Tian Chen identified the boar as a suitable match for Li Kai.

• Li Kai broke through to rank ten, and Tian Chen promised to help him find a Soul Ring the next day.
• At dawn, Tian Chen, Zhang Ping, and Li Kai set out deeper into the Soul Hunting Forest, fighting off attacks from Soul Beasts along the way.
• Tian Chen sensed blood and heard two Soul Beasts fighting, so the three cautiously approached the battlefield.
• They saw a Black-Scaled Python constricting a Black-Horned Mountain Boar, which wounded the python with its horn.
• Tian Chen recognized the boar as having a little over three hundred years of cultivation and told Li Kai to prepare to obtain it as his Soul Ring.

Tian Chen ambushed the weakened Black-Horned Mountain Boar with a powerful Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone skill and had Li Kai kill it. After the group carried the corpse to a secluded place, Tian Chen prepared to absorb its Soul Ring despite being exhausted.

• The Black-Horned Mountain Boar killed the Black-Scaled Python, but Tian Chen and his companions prepared to hunt the exhausted boar.
• Tian Chen used his Earth Array Thrust Soul Bone skill to skewer and immobilize the Black-Horned Mountain Boar, draining nearly all his Soul Power.
• Tian Chen ordered Li Kai to kill the boar and move its corpse, while Zhang Ping covered the nearby blood smell.
• Li Kai killed the helpless boar, and Li Yuan watched Tian Chen from a tree before disappearing.
• Tian Chen, Li Kai, and Zhang Ping ran for an hour, then stopped at a secluded spot so Tian Chen could absorb the boar's Soul Ring.

Li Kai absorbed his first Soul Ring while Tian Chen planned how to build his power and protect his grandfather. After Li Kai succeeded, Tian Chen told him and Zhang Ping they would head deeper into the Soul Hunting Forest to compete for first place.

• Tian Chen assigned Zhang Ping to keep watch while Li Kai absorbed the Black-Horned Mountain Boar's Soul Ring.
• Zhang Ping kept watch from a treetop as Tian Chen recovered his Soul Power and considered his plans to recruit allies and protect his grandfather.
• Li Kai successfully absorbed the Soul Ring, gained Martial Soul Possession, and respectfully thanked Tian Chen.
• Tian Chen told Li Kai and Zhang Ping that they would head deeper into the Soul Hunting Forest the next day and fight for first place.

Tian Chen’s team spent several days hunting weaker Soul Beasts, and Li Kai acquired his first Soul Ring and Soul Skill. On the fifth day, Tian Chen decided they would conserve their strength and target the other teams, aiming to win the academy’s Soul Bone prize.

• Tian Chen led Li Kai and Zhang Ping along the boundary of the Soul Hunting Forest, where they killed seven Hundred-Year Soul Beasts over three days.
• Li Kai used his new Boar Charge Soul Skill to kill an approximately eighty-year-old Voidbright Demon Leopard.
• Tian Chen considered how Li Kai and Zhang Ping could help him defeat Xie Yue’s trio, while he planned to face Xie Yue and Hu Liena himself.
• Tian Chen told Li Kai and Zhang Ping that they would stop hunting Soul Beasts and spend the next two days defeating other teams.
• Tian Chen dismissed Li Kai’s concern that attacking other teams might break the rules and ordered the group to conserve their Soul Power and stamina.

Tian Chen and his companions prepared to leave the Soul Hunting Forest but followed a sudden clash and discovered Xie Yue, Hu Liena, and Yan fighting an Ice and Fire Demon Tiger. The chapter ended with Tian Chen watching for a chance to strike the finishing blow.

• Tian Chen decided to leave the Soul Hunting Forest if he could not find Xie Yue's group within another hour.
• A powerful clash sounded nearby, and Tian Chen led Li Kai and Zhang Ping toward it.
• Hu Liena had persuaded Xie Yue and Yan to hunt more Soul Beasts so they could beat Tian Chen's record.
• Yan fought the Ice and Fire Demon Tiger to buy time for Hu Liena and Xie Yue to use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, suffering severe injuries.
• Tian Chen recognized the tiger and waited for an opportunity to land the finishing blow.

Hu Liena and Xie Yue used Demon Charm to badly wound the Ice and Fire Demon Tiger, but their fusion skill ended before they could defeat it. As Tian Chen rushed to attack, the tiger launched an unexpected strike at Hu Liena's group, and Tian Chen intervened with Invincible Golden Body.

• Hu Liena and Xie Yue fused into Demon Charm, suppressing the Ice and Fire Demon Tiger and cutting it with their circular blades.
• Demon Charm ended after thirty seconds, leaving Hu Liena and Xie Yue exhausted while the tiger remained alive.
• Hu Liena called for their teacher to intervene, but Li Yuan stopped the Soul King and said he would take responsibility.
• Tian Chen, Li Kai, and Zhang Ping charged the wounded tiger, which fired ice and fire spheres at Hu Liena's group.
• Tian Chen moved in front of Hu Liena and activated Invincible Golden Body to withstand the attack.

Tian Chen trapped and brutally killed the Ice and Fire Demon Tiger with help from Zhang Ping and Li Kai, deliberately making it die in hatred to improve the chance of producing a Soul Bone. The tiger left behind two Yellow Soul Rings, and Tian Chen withdrew his bloodied claw.

• Tian Chen charged the weakened Ice and Fire Demon Tiger while its attacks drained the protection of his Invincible Golden Body.
• Tian Chen called on Zhang Ping and Li Kai to attack, then trapped the tiger in his Earth Array Cage variant Soul Skill.
• Zhang Ping and Li Kai struck the immobilized tiger, leaving it grievously wounded and unable to fight.
• Tian Chen crushed the tiger's head after tormenting it, and two Yellow Soul Rings appeared from its corpse.
• Li Yuan warned a Soul King teacher not to covet Tian Chen's apparent Soul Bone Skill.

After Tian Chen’s team won the trial, Li Yuan led them to collect their rewards while Hu Liena struggled to thank Tian Chen for saving her. Tian Chen brushed her off, leaving his plan to keep her interested unresolved.

• Tian Chen searched the Ice and Fire Demon Tiger’s carcass for a Soul Bone but found none.
• Li Yuan arrived, and Li Kai proudly announced that he had obtained his first soul ring.
• Li Yuan’s group left the Soul Hunting Forest and reached the camp, where Chen Ying took the unconscious Yan for treatment.
• Li Yuan told Hu Liena and Xie Yue that Tian Chen’s team had won and that the junior class would have three days off.
• Hu Liena tried to speak to Tian Chen, but he feigned impatience and left with Li Yuan to see the dean.

Tian Chen awarded the trial’s Soul Bone to Li Kai after deciding it did not meet his standards. Back in Spirit City, he resumed cultivating and planned to reach level thirty before turning twelve so he could begin his plans at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Tian Chen told Li Kai and Zhang Ping that one of them could have the Soul Bone because it was not good enough for him.
• Tian Chen opened the box, identified the incomplete left arm bone as strength-type, and gave it to Li Kai to absorb.
• Tian Chen and his companions returned to Spirit City, where Zhang Ping headed toward her village outside the city.
• Tian Chen returned to his family manor, bathed, ate, and resumed cultivating after finding that Tian E was absent.
• Tian Chen planned to reach level thirty before turning twelve and then take Tian E to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to meet Dugu Bo.

Tian Chen spent nearly a year improving his combat skills and approaching the Level 20 bottleneck while Hu Liena’s attitude toward him softened. Unable to break through after several days of cultivation, he went to the Soul Hunting Forest with Meng Tao to fight Soul Beasts.

• Tian Chen trained at Spirit Hall Academy and in the Soul Hunting Forest, reaching Level 19 and gaining combat experience.
• Hu Liena stopped picking fights with Tian Chen and began starting conversations with him.
• Nearly a year later, Tian Chen failed to break through to Level 20 and left home to clear his head.
• Tian Chen traveled toward the Soul Hunting Forest with Meng Tao, a flying-type Soul Master above Level 60.
• Tian Chen entered the forest with Meng Tao, dismissing the hastily assembled teams and preparing to fight Soul Beasts.

Tian Chen traveled to the Soul Hunting Forest with Meng Tao to hunt a Hundred-Year Soul Beast for his first Soul Ring. He killed the Scarlet Fire Monkey troop’s leader with his Golden Crocodile Possession and Death Roll.

• Tian Chen and Meng Tao flew toward the forest’s center, where Tian Chen spotted a Scarlet Fire Monkey troop led by a beast with just over a hundred years of cultivation.
• Tian Chen removed his fox-fur outer layer, told Meng Tao to set him down near the troop, and activated Martial Soul Possession as he landed.
• The Scarlet Fire Monkeys attacked, and Tian Chen used his first Soul Skill, Golden Crocodile Possession, to boost his attack, defense, and strength.
• Tian Chen slaughtered the Ten-Year Scarlet Fire Monkeys and charged the troop’s leader.
• Tian Chen seized the leader, spun into a Death Roll, tore off its arms, and smashed its head with his tail.

After pushing himself through hours of Soul Beast battles, Tian Chen felt his bottleneck loosening and expected to reach rank twenty soon. On his way back to Spirit City, he rescued Zhang Ping and offered her work at his house, leaving her to decide whether to accept.

• Tian Chen hunted hundred-year Soul Beasts until his Soul Power was depleted, repeatedly recovering as he tried to loosen his bottleneck.
• After fourteen to sixteen hours of combat, Tian Chen decided to return to Spirit City with Meng Tao and expected to break through to rank twenty that night.
• Meng Tao and Tian Chen encountered Zhang Ping and three other Soul Masters struggling against a hundred-year Mandala Snake.
• At Tian Chen's instruction, Meng Tao killed the Mandala Snake, saving Zhang Ping and her companions.
• Tian Chen offered Zhang Ping a job tidying his room for ten Gold Soul Coins a month and told her she could decide later.
• Tian Chen returned to Meng Tao's back, and they flew toward Spirit City.

After Tian Chen broke through to level 20, he prepared to travel with Tian E to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain his second soul ring. He left for the forest still determined to absorb a thousand-year ring despite Tian E’s objections.

• Tian Chen reached level 20 after less than an hour of cultivation and spent the night consolidating his breakthrough.
• Tian E recognized Tian Chen’s progress, and the two discussed cultivation over a long breakfast.
• Tian Chen and Tian E left Spirit City by carriage for the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Tian Chen tried to persuade Tian E to let him absorb a thousand-year second soul ring, but Tian E refused and joked that Tian Chen should give him a great-grandson first.
• Tian Chen kept his plan to absorb a thousand-year soul ring but stopped arguing with Tian E during the journey.

Tian Chen and Tian E entered the Star Dou Great Forest to search for a suitable Soul Beast for Tian Chen’s next Soul Ring. They passed on a promising Scale Armor Beast, leaving Tian Chen to wait for a better opportunity and plan for the little fox to be his first companion.

• Tian Chen and Tian E reached the town near the Star Dou Great Forest and then hurried to the forest without speaking about their earlier disagreement.
• Tian E warned Tian Chen about the dangers and explained the forest’s zones and Soul Beast habitats as they traveled toward the mixed zone.
• Tian Chen considered the Thousand-Year Soul Beasts in the mixed zone better choices than the beasts found near the forest’s edge.
• Tian Chen and Tian E encountered several unsuitable Soul Beasts before finding an approximately eight-hundred-year-old Scale Armor Beast.
• Tian Chen rejected the Scale Armor Beast despite Tian E’s persuasion because he did not want a Hundred-Year Soul Ring as his Second Soul Ring.

Tian Chen and Tian E encountered three Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bears in the Star Dou Great Forest’s mixed zone. Tian Chen wanted their Soul Rings, so Tian E transformed into his Martial Soul Avatar and attacked the bears while intending to leave them alive.

• Tian E sensed danger, released his Martial Soul, and drove the nearby battling Soul Beasts away with his pressure.
• Tian Chen recognized the approaching Soul Beasts as a thirty-thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear and its two younger offspring.
• Tian Chen asked Tian E to cripple all three bears but keep them alive so he could pursue the younger bears’ Soul Rings.
• Tian E activated Martial Soul Avatar and charged the giant crocodile at the leading Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear.

Tian E defeated three Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bears and crippled them for Tian Chen, who killed them to provoke their hatred and improve his chances of obtaining a Soul Bone. Tian Chen then secretly began absorbing a thousand-year Soul Ring, leaving Tian E unable to stop him and hoping the fusion would succeed.

• Tian E crippled the two thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bears and defeated the ten-thousand-year bear after blocking its Dark Gold Dreadclaw.
• Tian Chen denied that he planned to absorb the bears' Soul Rings, then repeatedly stabbed the three-thousand-year bear until it died and formed a purple Soul Ring.
• Tian Chen killed the remaining two bears, leaving three Soul Rings in the clearing, and asked Tian E to check the corpses for Soul Bones.
• Tian E went to inspect the ten-thousand-year bear, and Tian Chen activated Martial Soul Possession and began absorbing the dim purple thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Tian E realized Tian Chen had started the fusion, isolated him from the surrounding environment with his Soul Power, and sat nearby to guard him.

Tian Chen absorbed a thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear Soul Ring and gained a defensive Soul Skill. Tian E then found a ten-thousand-year right arm bone and an External Soul Bone among the bears, which Tian Chen took but decided to absorb later.

• Tian Chen endured the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear Soul Ring's power for over six hours, and his body grew stronger as he absorbed it.
• Tian Chen gained a defensive Soul Skill, and Tian E teased him before leading him to examine the bear corpses.
• Tian E found a ten-thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear right arm Soul Bone and handed it to Tian Chen.
• Tian Chen asked Tian E to inspect the other bears' paws, and Tian E found an External Soul Bone in one of them.
• Tian Chen identified the External Soul Bone as one that could inherit the Terrorclaw Soul Skill, but decided to wait until he was stronger before absorbing it.

After returning to Spirit City with two powerful Soul Bones stored away, Tian Chen headed to the Soul Fighting Arena to test his abilities. Hu Liena welcomed him and offered to guide him, but their tour ended with an accidental collision.

• Tian Chen and Tian E returned to Spirit City after Tian Chen obtained a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear Soul Ring and two Soul Bones, which he stored for later.
• Tian Chen left the carriage and went to register for soul fights at the Soul Fighting Arena, while Tian E let him go home alone.
• Hu Liena recognized Tian Chen, learned that he had reached level twenty, and offered to show him around the arena.
• Tian Chen followed Hu Liena toward a subsidiary arena, and they accidentally bumped heads when she stopped and turned around.

Tian Chen comforted Hu Liena before entering the Spirit City Great Soul Arena to face Zhang Lei. He revealed a purple Thousand-Year Soul Ring as his second Soul Ring and charged at Zhang Lei, beginning the match.

• Tian Chen gently rubbed Hu Liena's forehead, and she blushed before encouraging him to go to his match.
• Tian Chen entered the fighting platform, where the referee introduced him and his opponent, Zhang Lei, who had nine consecutive victories.
• Tian Chen and Zhang Lei activated their Martial Soul Possessions, revealing Zhang Lei's Gale Demon Wolf.
• Tian Chen displayed a purple Thousand-Year Soul Ring as his second Soul Ring, stunning Zhang Lei, the referee, and the spectators.
• Tian Chen activated Golden Crocodile Body Protection and charged at Zhang Lei.