Chapter Summaries

Clear Sky entered a team battle with two terrified, inexperienced teammates against the notorious Blood Axe and Muscle Tank. As the crowd mocked the mismatched lineup, Clear Sky told his teammates to stand behind him and protect themselves, then faced the two champions alone.

• Blood Axe and Muscle Tank appeared as the reigning team-battle champions, one armed with a spiked shield and the other with a giant axe.
• Clear Sky stood with Big Steamed Bun, a frightened food-type Soul Master, and a girl with Weakness Grass, while the crowd jeered at their weak lineup.
• Blood Axe and Muscle Tank mocked Clear Sky's teammates and challenged him, as the spectators demanded the trio be crushed.
• Big Steamed Bun broke down in fear, and the girl despaired at the prospect of being killed in the arena.
• Clear Sky turned to his teammates, ordered them to stand behind him and protect themselves, then faced Blood Axe and Muscle Tank.

Clear Sky effortlessly deflected Blood Axe’s charge with one finger, sending him crashing into the arena barrier and leaving the crowd stunned. Muscle Tank then attacked in a fury, and Clear Sky met his shield with a bare-handed punch.

• Blood Axe charged Clear Sky while Muscle Tank used Shocking Stomp to send a shock wave toward him and his teammates.
• Clear Sky flicked Blood Axe’s battle-axe aside with one finger, sending Blood Axe flying into the arena barrier and crippling him.
• The crowd and Muscle Tank froze in disbelief as Clear Sky remained calm and untouched.
• Muscle Tank abandoned defense and attacked Clear Sky with his second Soul Skill, Shield Heavy Crush.
• Clear Sky turned aside and drove his right fist toward Muscle Tank’s incoming shield without using a Soul Ring.

Ling Feng crushed Muscle Tank’s shield and sent him flying with a single punch, then checked in at the Star of Suotuo Hotel and gained a slight increase in spiritual power. After Tang San and Xiao Wu told him that Canghui Academy had used illusions to unsettle their team, Ling Feng dismissed the tactic as meaningless before absolute power.

• Ling Feng shattered Muscle Tank’s thorn-spiked shield and blasted him into the arena barrier, leaving the crowd stunned.
• Ling Feng calmly left the platform as the audience erupted into chants of “Hao-Tian,” while his two teammates realized he had saved them.
• Ling Feng checked in at the Star of Suotuo Hotel and received a slight increase in spiritual power.
• Xiao Wu complained that Canghui Academy had used mental tricks before their team battle, and Tang San explained that they were illusions meant to unsettle opponents.
• Ling Feng said that illusions were empty delusions before absolute power.

Canghui Academy unleashed a Seven-in-One Fusion Skill that instantly incapacitated two Clear Sky Team members and trapped the arena in a powerful illusion. The masked black-clad fighter remained unaffected and shattered the illusion with beams of purple light from his eyes, leaving Canghui's seven members horrified.

• Canghui Academy's seven members activated their Seven-Colored Illusion, and two Clear Sky Team members collapsed at once.
• Spectators and VIPs believed the mental fusion skill would defeat the remaining black-clad fighter.
• The Canghui captain ordered his team to strengthen the illusion and overwhelm the fighter within it.
• The black-clad fighter stood motionless in the illusion for ten seconds, showing no sign of confusion or surrender.
• The fighter opened his eyes and fired purple beams that pierced the illusion, breaking it apart and revealing Canghui's seven members recoiling in terror.

Ling Feng used his Purple Demon Eye and mental power to shatter Canghui Academy’s Seven-Colored Illusion Barrier with a single word. The seven members were left gravely injured and crippled, while a black-robed figure in the VIP seats reacted with shock.

• Ling Feng’s Purple Demon Eye pierced the illusion, provoking the Canghui captain to order his team to unleash their full power.
• The seven Canghui members poured their Soul Power into the formation, intensifying the Seven-Colored Illusion Barrier.
• Ling Feng pressed his hand toward the stage and said, “Disperse,” unleashing mental power that destroyed the barrier.
• The seven Canghui members collapsed, vomited blood, and suffered Martial Soul backlash that crippled them and badly damaged their souls.
• A black-robed figure in a VIP box violently crushed the wooden armrest beneath his hand.

After Ling Feng crippled the Canghui Seven Monsters, he checked in at the Soto Great Soul Arena lounge and advanced to Soul Power level 17. An arena manager paid him his prize money and warned him that his next opponents, the Suotuo Guardians, had a powerful inherited Martial Soul.

• Ling Feng crushed the Canghui Seven Monsters' seven-in-one fusion skill, shattered their Martial Souls, and left all seven crippled.
• The spectators erupted in cheers, while VIP guests and Canghui's backstage competitors watched Ling Feng with fear and awe.
• Ling Feng entered his private lounge and checked in, raising his Soul Power to level 17.
• An arena manager presented Ling Feng with gold cards worth at least five thousand Gold Soul Coins, including his team-match prize money.
• The manager warned Ling Feng that his next opponents, the Suotuo Guardians, were a long-established team with a core attacker who had awakened a powerful inherited Martial Soul.

Ling Feng led the Clear Sky Team into a match against the Guardian Team and defeated its three Soul Elders without summoning his Martial Soul. After receiving the Silver Soul Badge, he tossed it to his terrified teammate and headed for the arena’s center to sign in, ignoring the surviving Guardian’s threat that the Imperial Fighting Team would deal with him.

• Ling Feng ignored a five-thousand-Gold-Soul-Coin card and walked with his two frightened teammates toward the ring as the crowd cheered for Clear Sky.
• The Guardian Team’s three Soul Elders released their Beast Martial Souls and Soul Rings, and the bald captain called Ling Feng’s teammates trash and ordered his men to attack them.
• Ling Feng appeared beside the Violent Bear Soul Elder and crushed his arm before kicking him into the protective shield.
• Ling Feng struck the Iron Armored Rhinoceros Ox Soul Elder’s weak point and stamped the bald captain’s face, defeating all three Guardians.
• The referee declared Clear Sky Team the winner, and Ling Feng casually tossed the Silver Soul Badge to the food-type boy.
• Ling Feng headed toward the center of the arena to sign in while the surviving Guardian threatened him with the Imperial Fighting Team.

Ling Feng won the Silver Soul Badge match, gained a level and the temporary Asura Blood Sea Illusion, then drew the attention of Qian Renxue and the Imperial Fighting Team. After declaring that their blood should give his hammer decent color, he left the arena, while Qian Renxue resolved to make him her first stepping stone toward the throne.

• Ling Feng signed in on the bloodstained arena floor, rose to peak level 19, and received the temporary Asura Blood Sea Illusion.
• The referee declared the Clear Sky Team the winner and announced that they would face the Imperial Fighting Team in the finals.
• Ling Feng detected Qian Renxue probing him from the VIP box and cracked the reinforced crystal with his counterattack.
• Qian Renxue ordered Yu Tianheng, Dugu Yan, and the Shi Mo brothers to crush Ling Feng in the next match at any cost.
• Ling Feng removed his mask, silenced the spectators with his gaze, warned that the Imperial Fighting Team’s blood should color his hammer, and vanished from the arena.
• Qian Renxue watched Ling Feng leave and declared that he would become her first stepping stone on the road to the throne.

Qian Renxue and the Imperial Fighting Team reacted to Clear Sky’s killing intent before the team brutally defeated its opponents. Dugu Yan provoked Clear Sky, and Qian Renxue ordered the team to prepare a combined attack for the final the next day, while Clear Sky looked forward to facing them.

• Qian Renxue examined the cracked crystal wall and recognized the pure killing intent that had frightened Yu Tianheng and drawn Dugu Yan’s attention.
• Yu Tianheng led the Imperial Fighting Team into the arena and ordered them to crush their opponents to demonstrate their strength to Clear Sky.
• Shi Mo and Shi Mo, Osler, and Dugu Yan killed the opposing team’s seven Soul Elders with a charge, claw strikes, and poison.
• Dugu Yan taunted Clear Sky’s hiding place, but a flash of his scarlet eye made her recoil, and Yu Tianheng stepped in front of her.
• Qian Renxue ordered the Imperial Fighting Team to use their combined skills and kill Clear Sky in the final the next day.
• Hidden in the shadows, Clear Sky thought the team’s fusion skill would provide enough check-in points and looked forward to the coming fight.

The Imperial Fighting Team argued over their fear of Ling Feng before Qian Renxue ordered a coordinated plan to kill him in the final match. Meanwhile, Ling Feng prepared to check in at the arena, where the system promised a breakthrough and a powerful second Soul Ring, despite warning of the opponents’ dangerous fusion skill.

• Yu Tianheng berated Dugu Yan for recoiling from Ling Feng, while Dugu Yan insisted his gaze showed he saw them as prey.
• Qian Renxue assigned the Imperial Fighting Team roles in a plan to trap and kill Ling Feng, and threatened Dugu Yan if she backed down.
• Ling Feng cultivated in his hotel suite as the Asura Blood Talisman absorbed the battle intent and killing thoughts gathering around the arena.
• The system detected an exceptional energy field and previewed a level-twenty breakthrough, a thousand-year second Soul Ring, and other rewards, but warned of rule-conflict risks from the Imperial Fighting Team’s fusion skill.
• Ling Feng watched the final showdown announcement and vowed to use the next day’s check-in to crush the Imperial Fighting Team.

Ling Feng checked in at the Soto Great Soul Arena, broke through to peak level twenty, and gained a clue to a powerful second Soul Ring. After absorbing a fragment of the Imperial Fighting Team’s rule power, his Asura Blood Talisman mutated, and he turned his attention toward Qian Renxue and the team.

• Ling Feng absorbed the arena’s battle intent and resentment through the Asura Blood Talisman, then completed his check-in at the blood-soaked central platform.
• The check-in shattered Ling Feng’s rank-nineteen limit and raised his Soul Power to peak level twenty, while his black Soul Ring absorbed the arena’s lingering baleful energy.
• Ling Feng received a clue to a juvenile Netherworld Purple Lightning Python in the Star Dou Great Forest’s Death Swamp and chose it as his future second Soul Ring.
• A golden rule fragment from the Imperial Fighting Team’s Ring Fusion skill attacked Ling Feng’s transforming talisman, but the Sign-In System crushed and fused it, giving his Asura Blood Sea Illusion a weak mental-imprisonment effect.
• Ling Feng blamed the Imperial Fighting Team and Qian Renxue for the rule fragment, unleashed his new power across the arena, and prepared to test his second Soul Skill against the Soul Elders.

Suotuo City gathered at the Soto Great Soul Arena to watch Imperial Fighting Team face Ling Feng, Tang San, and Xiao Wu. As the match was about to begin, Ling Feng detected a hidden source of Angel Divine Power and shattered the arena’s golden bell, sending its fragments toward the VIP and referee seats.

• Huyan Zhen and Dugu Bo arrived at the arena and voiced their support for Imperial Fighting Team and Dugu Yan.
• Yu Tianheng and the other six members of Imperial Fighting Team entered the arena, and Yu Tianheng blasted a lightning crater into the ground while demanding that Clear Sky appear.
• Ling Feng, Tang San, and Xiao Wu emerged as the opposing team, prompting Dugu Yan to taunt them and secretly direct Angel Holy Judgment at Ling Feng through her poison.
• Ling Feng sensed concentrated Angel Divine Power coming from the white-robed referee and noticed a blond figure in the VIP seats.
• Ling Feng challenged Imperial Fighting Team to fight and crushed the golden bell with an unseen force, sending its fragments toward the VIP and referee seats.

Ling Feng shattered Dugu Yan’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison with a single casual hammer swing, while the old servant protecting Qian Renxue erased the golden bell fragments aimed at her. The stunned arena watched Yu Tianheng step forward and challenge Ling Feng.

• The hunched servant swept away every fragment from the shattered bell before any could reach Qian Renxue.
• Dugu Yan unleashed her poison and Qian Renxue’s hidden Angel Holy Judgment at Ling Feng, but Ling Feng tore through both with a hammer swing.
• Dugu Yan froze in shock as the spectators and watching elders reacted to Ling Feng’s strength.
• Yu Tianheng shielded Dugu Yan, summoned a lightning halberd, and declared that he would fight Ling Feng.

Ling Feng fought Yu Tianheng with his black hammer, stacking Chaotic Cloak force until his sixth strike shattered Yu Tianheng’s Thunder Dragon Claws and sent him flying. As Ling Feng faced a priest-class Angel Divine Sense, Shi Mo and Shi Mo trapped him in a Black Tortoise Barrier pincer attack.

• Yu Tianheng attacked Ling Feng with his Thunder Dragon Claw, but Ling Feng met it with his black hammer and held the blow back.
• Ling Feng used successive Chaotic Cloak strikes, forcing Yu Tianheng to retreat and then breaking through his Thunderous Might.
• Yu Tianheng unleashed his Thunder Dragon Claw Soul Skill, while Qian Renxue, her old servant, and a silver-robed priest reacted to Ling Feng’s hammer and its dark red bloodlight.
• Ling Feng’s sixth strike shattered Yu Tianheng’s phantom dragon claws and blasted him backward, breaking his Dragon Transformation.
• Shi Mo and Shi Mo seized the opening and closed a Black Tortoise Barrier around Ling Feng from every direction.

Ling Feng unleashed his Earth-Shaking Blast, destroying the Black Tortoise brothers’ shields and leaving them and the other opponents injured. As he stood amid the ruined arena, Yu Feng launched a furious surprise attack from above.

• Ling Feng resisted the priest’s mental intrusion and the violent clash of powers inside him as the Black Tortoise brothers closed in.
• Ling Feng drove his hammer into the shattered pit, infused it with the Asura Blood Talisman, and activated his first soul skill, Earth-Shaking Blast.
• The blast swept across the arena, extinguished the brothers’ shields and gravity field, and sent them crashing into the wall.
• Ling Feng stood amid the dust and looked over the injured Black Tortoise brothers, Yu Tianheng, and Dugu Yan.
• Yu Feng abandoned defense and dove at Ling Feng, aiming his beak and talons at Ling Feng’s head to avenge Dugu Yan.

Ling Feng used a desperate hammer strike to drive Yu Feng away, but the attack left him badly injured and exhausted. As he knelt in the arena, Osler launched a deadly sneak attack at his back.

• Ling Feng attacked Yu Feng with a blood-flamed hammer, forcing him to evade and sending the weapon crashing into the arena wall.
• Dugu Yan cried out for Yu Feng as Yu Tianheng watched in shock.
• Ling Feng collapsed to one knee, spat blood, and struggled to breathe after exhausting his strength.
• Osler emerged from the shadows and thrust his corrosive claws toward Ling Feng's back.
• Tang San shouted a warning as Osler's claws closed in on Ling Feng.

Ling Feng survived Osler’s sneak attack by awakening the Purple Demon Eye, dodging and knocking the assassin away with a single strike. As the priest’s murderous intent continued to erode the power inside him, Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan used a self-destructive secret art to fuse lightning and poison into a sphere aimed at Ling Feng.

• Osler’s claws struck Ling Feng, but residual angelic power burned him and disrupted his Ghost Leopard Martial Soul.
• Ling Feng’s Purple Demon Eye awakened under the priest’s attack, allowing him to evade Osler and break several of his ribs with a backhand elbow.
• Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan overcame their fear and began combining lightning and serpent poison through a dangerous secret art.
• Grandmaster recognized their unstable fusion and warned that it could kill them, but Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan formed a destructive purple-and-green sphere and sent it rolling toward Ling Feng.

Ling Feng survived Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan’s destructive pseudo-fusion attack by finding and passing through its hidden weakness, causing the dragon to explode back upon the Imperial Fighting Team. He was left gravely injured and motionless beneath rubble as the arena filled with smoke and destruction.

• Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan combined lightning and poison into the Azure Heaven Thunder Dragon, a desperate pseudo-fusion skill that threatened to destroy Ling Feng.
• The divine official’s killing intent was briefly disrupted, allowing the Asura blood talisman fragment to condense into a blood-diamond mark that blocked it.
• Ling Feng used his Purple Demon Eye to spot a dark fissure between the dragon’s unstable cores and charged into the attack.
• Ling Feng slipped through the dragon’s hidden weakness and burst out through its brow, rupturing the pseudo-fusion’s balance.
• The dragon exploded, engulfing the Imperial Fighting Team’s side of the arena in lightning and poison and swallowing Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan.
• The blast hurled Ling Feng into a crumbling wall, leaving him charred and motionless beneath rubble with a shattered hammer handle in his hand.

Ling Feng awakened a desperate variation of the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer and used Frenzied Dance! Hurricane Hammer! to confront Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan’s runaway pseudo-Fusion Skill. Yu Tianheng’s final self-detonation blasted Ling Feng through the stands, leaving his fate unknown, while Yu Tianheng crashed onto the arena, apparently defeated.

• Ling Feng, trapped between the destructive storm and a divine-sense needle, recalled Tang Hao’s hammer technique and adapted it into a frenzied spinning attack.
• Ling Feng manifested his Clear Sky Hammer shadow and spun up a black hurricane that diverted and ground against the lightning-poison storm.
• Ling Feng unleashed the eighty-first strike, Frenzied Dance! Hurricane Hammer!, and drilled into the pseudo-Fusion Skill’s destructive core.
• Yu Tianheng’s remaining dragon shadow self-detonated, breaking through the hammer hurricane and blasting Ling Feng through the crumbling stands.
• Yu Tianheng crashed onto the arena, charred and motionless, while Ling Feng remained buried in rubble with his survival uncertain.

Ling Feng survived Yu Tianheng’s self-detonation and defeated the Imperial Fighting Team, earning the arena’s acclaim as the Hammer King. As the crowd celebrated, Ling Feng fixed his gaze on the adjudicating divine official, whose killing intent had drawn Qian Renxue’s furious attention.

• The adjudicating divine official’s killing-intent needle suffered backlash, and Qian Renxue erupted in anger when she sensed its sacred power targeting Ling Feng.
• Ling Feng rose from the rubble, gravely wounded but alive, with the Asura Blood Diamond and his unyielding battle intent sustaining him.
• Ling Feng saw Yu Tianheng near death, Dugu Yan unconscious and gravely wounded, and Osler buried beneath debris, leaving the Imperial Fighting Team defeated.
• The spectators roared for Ling Feng and hailed him as the Hammer King of Shrek and the Soto Great Soul Arena.
• Ling Feng turned his exhausted gaze toward the VIP seats and the adjudicating divine official.