Chapter Summaries

Lin Chuan explained Xiao Wu’s past to Ah Yin and arranged to expose Tang Hao’s crimes while preparing a trap for Tang San and Yu Xiaogang in the Soul Hunting Forest. As Tang San and Yu Xiaogang entered the forest, Yu Xiaogang pointed out bamboo soul beasts as possible Soul Rings for Tang San.

• Lin Chuan told Ah Yin that Xiao Wu was Ah Rou’s daughter and had entered human society to avenge her mother, and Ah Yin recalled her old friendship with them.
• Lin Chuan asked Zhang Lexuan about spreading the recordings of Tang Hao’s deeds, and she said she had distributed the Image-Recording Stones and expected the news to spread within three days.
• Lin Chuan told Ah Yin she would soon see the outsider occupying her child’s body and could extract the Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline from him.
• Lin Chuan arrived at the Soul Hunting Forest ahead of Tang San and Yu Xiaogang and set up traps, keeping a Goblin Summoning Card as his hidden trump card.
• Tang San and Yu Xiaogang entered the Soul Hunting Forest, and Yu Xiaogang identified a Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo and a nearly three-hundred-year-old Lone Bamboo as possible soul beasts for Tang San.

Yu Xiaogang took Tang San into the Soul Hunting Forest to search for a poison-attribute Soul Beast, keeping Lone Bamboo as a fallback. Lin Chuan held Ah Yin back from taking Tang San’s Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline until nightfall, while Ah Yin misread his gesture as affection; deeper in the forest, Yu Xiaogang noticed the lack of Soul Beasts but dismissed it.

• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San to search deeper for a poison-attribute Soul Beast and keep the hundred-year Lone Bamboo as a fallback.
• Lin Chuan asked Ah Yin to wait until nightfall before extracting Tang San’s Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline so Tang San could endure his plans for the forest.
• Ah Yin blushed as Lin Chuan held her hand and imagined that he might be attracted to her.
• Lin Chuan guessed that Ah Yin was persuading herself she had fallen for him and welcomed the possibility.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San found no Soul Beasts deeper in the forest, and Yu Xiaogang assumed they had recently been hunted down.

Yu Xiaogang reassured Tang San that a powerful ally was protecting them, believing Tang Hao was nearby, while Lin Chuan and Ah Yin mocked his confidence because Tang Hao was dead. When a pack of Soul Beasts surrounded Yu Xiaogang and Tang San, Yu Xiaogang summoned Luo Sanpao and unleashed his first Soul Skill.

• Tang San sensed that the forest was unnaturally quiet and warned Yu Xiaogang that someone might be plotting against them.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed a powerful person was protecting them, and Tang San admired his teacher's supposed connections.
• Lin Chuan and Ah Yin watched from the shadows and mocked Yu Xiaogang for believing Tang Hao was still alive.
• Yu Xiaogang heard a disturbance ahead, recognized it as a possible beast tide, and hurried away with Tang San to buy time for Tang Hao to appear.
• Nearly thirty Soul Beasts surrounded them, so Yu Xiaogang summoned Luo Sanpao while Tang San prepared his Hidden Weapons.
• Yu Xiaogang used his first Soul Skill, Fart Like Thunder, Earth-Shattering Luo Sanpao, filling the area with foul-smelling yellow gas.

Yu Xiaogang’s first Soul Skill excited the surrounding Soul Beasts instead of repelling them, leaving him trapped as Tang San fled into a tree. Yu Xiaogang prayed for Tang Hao to rescue him while Tang San waited for the supposed hidden protector to intervene.

• Yu Xiaogang used his first Soul Skill, whose smell delighted the Soul Beasts and drove them to charge at him and Tang San.
• Tang San killed several charging Soul Beasts with Hidden Weapons, but the remaining beasts only grew more frenzied.
• After running out of Hidden Weapons, Tang San used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track to evade the beasts and climb a tree.
• Yu Xiaogang begged Tang San to help him escape, but Tang San pretended to search for an opening and asked why their hidden protector had not acted.
• Yu Xiaogang feared the approaching Apes in Heat and silently begged Tang Hao to appear and save him.

Yu Xiaogang was overwhelmed by the Soul Beasts while Tang San watched from a tree, torn between guilt and self-preservation. Lin Chuan transformed into a Qilin and spurred the beasts to intensify their attack, leaving Tang San to consider fleeing.

• Yu Xiaogang silently hoped Tang Hao would appear, but the Soul Beasts pinned him down and tormented him until he broke down crying.
• Tang San watched from the tree and decided not to help, telling himself he would avenge Yu Xiaogang later.
• Ah Yin closed her eyes while Lin Chuan watched the scene, condemned Tang San for abandoning his teacher, and transformed into a Qilin.
• Lin Chuan roared at the Soul Beasts, prompting them to torment Yu Xiaogang even more fiercely.
• Tang San sensed a stronger Soul Beast approaching and began justifying leaving Yu Xiaogang behind so he could survive and avenge him.

Lin Chuan knocked Tang San out of a tree, leaving him to be beaten alongside Yu Xiaogang by the Soul Beasts. After they were left unconscious, Ah Yin extracted Tang San’s Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline and rose to level eighty-nine, while Lin Chuan promised to keep Tang San alive for her to kill later.

• Lin Chuan shot Tang San out of a tree with an icy-blue beam, and the Soul Beasts immediately attacked him.
• Tang San threatened the Soul Beasts with his hidden weapons, but they ignored him and beat him alongside Yu Xiaogang for three hours.
• The Soul Beasts left Tang San and Yu Xiaogang unconscious, and Lin Chuan praised their shared misfortune.
• Ah Yin emerged and used Blue Silver Emperor vines to extract Tang San’s Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline.
• Ah Yin’s Soul Power rose from level eighty-six to level eighty-nine, and Lin Chuan promised she could kill Tang San herself in the future.

Ah Yin kissed Lin Chuan and whispered something that left him anticipating six years in the future. He then brought unconscious Yu Xiaogang and Tang San to a cave, summoned five goblins, and ordered them to attend to the pair; after the goblins slapped them awake, Yu Xiaogang saw Tang San's swollen face and began to gloat.

• Ah Yin embraced and kissed Lin Chuan, whispered to him, and returned to the Heaven and Earth Great World.
• Lin Chuan bound unconscious Yu Xiaogang and Tang San, dragged them into a cave, and summoned five goblins with a Goblin Summoning Card.
• Lin Chuan ordered the goblins to wake Yu Xiaogang and Tang San and give them a proper reception, then left the cave.
• Two goblins slapped Yu Xiaogang and Tang San until they woke with badly swollen faces.
• Yu Xiaogang saw Tang San's ragged clothes and swollen face and began to gloat.

After the Goblins beat Yu Xiaogang and Tang San unconscious, Lin Chuan left them in the Soul Hunting Forest and outfitted Tang San with six Ten-Year Soul Bones and a Lone Bamboo Soul Ring. He planned to return to Nuoding Academy after giving Tang San a Blue Silver Pole soul skill.

• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San woke to the Goblins, recoiled at their appearance, and vomited, prompting the Goblins to attack them.
• Two hours later, Lin Chuan entered the cave and praised the Goblins for beating Yu Xiaogang and Tang San.
• Lin Chuan told the Goblins to stay in the Soul Hunting Forest, and they thanked him before leaving.
• Lin Chuan found Yu Xiaogang and Tang San unconscious and badly injured, then bought six Ten-Year Soul Bones from the System Shop.
• Lin Chuan fused the six Soul Bones into Tang San and gave him a Ten-Year Lone Bamboo Soul Ring, intending for its soul skill to be Blue Silver Pole.

Lin Chuan left after anticipating the power of his Blue Silver Pole Vault Soul Skill, while Yu Xiaogang and Tang San woke to discover that both had been mutilated. The chapter ended with the two despairing over their injuries and their futures.

• Lin Chuan praised his Blue Silver Pole Vault and left to return to Nuoding Academy.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San woke three hours later, embraced, and cried over what had happened to them.
• Yu Xiaogang tried to comfort Tang San and urged him not to give up on life.
• Tang San pointed out that Yu Xiaogang had been mutilated, and Yu Xiaogang broke down in despair.
• Yu Xiaogang noticed Tang San had suffered the same injury, and Tang San screamed as he realized it too.