Chapter Summaries

Grant settled Su Lin and his companions in a residence in Rhode Town near the Soul Hunting Forest. The next morning, Su Lin entered the forest with Xiao Wu, Sean, and the guards to seek battles with Soul Beasts.

• Sean, a dependable Soul Master born in Wealth Village, joined Su Lin's convoy as it traveled northwest toward the Soul Hunting Forest.
• Grant found a well-kept courtyard residence in Rhode Town and showed Su Lin its view of the forest, which Su Lin liked.
• Grant left early the next morning, and Su Lin entered the forest with Xiao Wu, Sean, and the guards.
• Su Lin consulted his year-old map and directed the group deeper into the forest toward the Hundred-Year Soul Beast zone.
• Sean spread the guards around the group to watch for danger while leaving the fighting to Su Lin, who set off alongside Xiao Wu.

Su Lin tested Pikachu against Soul Beasts in the Soul Hunting Forest and confirmed that Pikachu could gain experience from only his first ten battles within a period. He decided to use weaker beasts for his own training and camp overnight before returning to town the next morning.

• Su Lin stopped Sean from attacking an Ironback Wild Boar and sent Pikachu to defeat it with an electric attack.
• Su Lin and the guards continued through the forest, where Pikachu battled a succession of Soul Beasts and gained experience.
• After Pikachu defeated his twelfth Soul Beast over five hundred years old, Su Lin confirmed that only the first ten battles yielded experience.
• Su Lin decided to fight weaker Soul Beasts himself while reserving Pikachu for stronger opponents.
• Su Lin told Sean to make camp, and the guards set up tents and built a fire in a sheltered clearing.

Su Lin explained to Xiao Wu that he avoided killing Soul Beasts because he did not need their Soul Rings and believed all living beings were equal. Their camp was then surrounded at night by a pack of Night Shadow Ghost Wolves, including what appeared to be its wolf king and queen.

• Xiao Wu asked Su Lin why he had spared most of the Soul Beasts they encountered, and he said killing them was unnecessary and would cause needless slaughter.
• Xiao Wu heard something approaching and warned Su Lin, who called Uncle Sean and ordered the guards back to camp.
• Sean gathered the twelve guards into a defensive circle and activated his Iron-Spined Cheetah Martial Soul.
• Night Shadow Ghost Wolves emerged from the surrounding forest, and Sean identified them as a dangerous pack that was strengthened by the darkness.
• Su Lin spotted two larger wolves among the pack and recognized them as its likely wolf king and wolf queen.

Su Lin, Sean, Xiao Wu, the guards, and Pikachu fought a powerful Night Shadow Ghost Wolf pack in the Soul Hunting Forest. Pikachu defeated the nine-hundred-year wolf king, and the survivors prepared to recover the wolves’ valuable carcasses.

• Sean recognized the nine-hundred-year wolf king and seven-hundred-year wolf queen, but Su Lin assigned Pikachu to fight the king while Sean faced the queen and Xiao Wu helped the guards.
• Sean and the guards killed several wolves as Pikachu lured the wolf king away and Sean wounded the wolf queen.
• Xiao Wu used Waist Bow to knock away a wolf that broke through the guards’ formation and attacked Su Lin.
• The guards and Xiao Wu defeated the ordinary wolves, while Sean killed the wolf queen at the cost of injuries to himself and the guards.
• Pikachu defeated the wolf king after exploiting its weakness to lightning, gained 20 experience points, and returned to Su Lin, who recalled him into his Poké Ball.
• Sean arranged to have the wolf carcasses made into winter clothes, while Su Lin pointed out that Sean’s abdominal wound still needed attention.

After their disastrous first day of training, Su Lin brought the injured team back to Rhode Town, where he studied Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track and rested with Xiao Wu. He decided to keep future training safer by hunting only in areas with three-hundred- to five-hundred-year-old beasts.

• Su Lin's group left the Soul Hunting Forest with two enormous wolf corpses, and onlookers mistook the injured Sean for a powerful Soul Elder.
• Back at the residence, Su Lin studied Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track while Xiao Wu leaned on his shoulder and fell asleep.
• Su Lin finished memorizing the manual's techniques and reflected on how naturally Xiao Wu gained Soul Power and Soul Skills.
• Sean brought Su Lin and Xiao Wu lunch and reported that the three badly injured men would recover after about a month of rest.
• Su Lin chose to keep the team's next training sessions within safer areas and avoid venturing deeper into the forest.

Seven months later, Su Lin had reached Soul Power level 15 and developed Thunderbolt Mode, which he tested in a fight against a Wind-Patterned Cheetah. He defeated and paralyzed the beast, leaving it alive but unable to resist.

• Su Lin activated Thunderbolt Mode and prepared to attack a roughly two-hundred-year-old Wind-Patterned Cheetah as Pikachu watched.
• Su Lin ambushed the cheetah, but it dodged his opening strike and turned to face him.
• Su Lin exchanged rapid attacks with the cheetah, using Thunderbolt Mode and Electric Arc to wear down its movements.
• When the cheetah lunged at his throat, Su Lin grabbed its neck fur and paralyzed it with Electric Arc.
• Su Lin used Xiao Wu’s Soft Skill techniques to throw the weakened cheetah into the mud, then pressed his palm to its brow and paralyzed it completely.

After defeating a two-hundred-year-old Wind-Patterned Cheetah, Su Lin received a letter from Grant telling him to leave for Heaven Dou City. He realized Grant had spent months using his connections to secure him a place at Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s affiliated intermediate academy, and the chapter left him overwhelmed by a kindness he felt he could never repay.

• Su Lin recovered from using Thunderbolt Mode and admired that he had defeated the Wind-Patterned Cheetah on his own.
• Sean arrived with a sealed letter from Grant, delivered from the post station in town.
• Su Lin read Grant’s letter and learned that he and Sean were to leave for Heaven Dou City immediately.
• Sean explained that Heaven Dou Royal Academy had an affiliated intermediate academy, and Su Lin realized Grant had been arranging his enrollment.
• Su Lin reflected on Grant’s care and sacrifices and felt that he could never repay his kindness.

Su Lin explained that Grant had arranged for him and Xiao Wu to attend an academy in Heaven Dou City, where powerful Soul Masters could expose her as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. After a night of worry, Xiao Wu appeared at the residence the next morning instead of leaving, leaving Su Lin bewildered.

• Su Lin told Xiao Wu they would leave for Heaven Dou City the next morning and explained Grant's academy arrangements.
• Xiao Wu became distressed when she realized Heaven Dou City's Titled Douluo could detect her, then withdrew to her room.
• Su Lin recognized the danger to Xiao Wu and thought they would have to part for a while rather than risk her life.
• Xiao Wu spent the night torn between leaving Su Lin and staying somewhere she could be discovered.
• At dawn, Su Lin found Xiao Wu's room empty and assumed she had left, but then saw her chatting with Sean at the garden entrance.

Su Lin and Xiao Wu traveled toward Heaven Dou City, but a landslide stopped their carriages near Holy Soul Village. Su Lin secretly ran to the village’s back mountain after recognizing it as Tang San’s hometown.

• Su Lin questioned whether Xiao Wu should travel with him and considered hiding her in the Pokémon Space to conceal her Soul Beast presence.
• A landslide blocked the road, so Sean estimated that clearing it would take until the next day and suggested staying in Holy Soul Village.
• Su Lin chose to camp near the blockage, and Pikachu went to help the guards break up rocks while Xiao Wu worked on the tents.
• Su Lin told Xiao Wu he would look for water, then activated Thunderbolt Mode and ran toward Holy Soul Village.
• Su Lin reached the village and stealthily made his way to its back mountain.

Su Lin found Ah Yin’s Blue Silver Emperor grass seed hidden behind a waterfall and brought it into his Pokémon Space. There, he spoke with her faint consciousness and claimed to be the Beast God’s successor, promising to lead humans and Soul Beasts toward coexistence.

• Su Lin used the Poké Ball to detect a high-quality Soul Beast and followed its signal to a cave behind a waterfall.
• Su Lin found Ah Yin’s Blue Silver Emperor grass seed growing in a sunlit stone chamber.
• Su Lin returned to Xiao Wu at dusk and told her he had gotten lost in the mountains.
• Su Lin entered the Pokémon Space that night and found Ah Yin’s Blue Silver Grass had grown brighter.
• Su Lin spoke with Ah Yin’s weak consciousness, claimed to be the Beast God’s successor, and promised to bring humans and Soul Beasts together.

Su Lin persuaded Ah Yin to stay hidden by warning her that the Rakshasa God's successor threatened her and Tang Hao, and promised to help her reunite with her family later. The next morning, after a landslide was nearly cleared, Su Lin took Xiao Wu toward a nearby mountain stream.

• Su Lin told Ah Yin that the Rakshasa God's successor had learned about her and offered to contract with her and cultivate together in exchange for helping her return to her family.
• Ah Yin asked Su Lin to send Tang Hao a message, but he refused and pointed out that Tang Hao might not protect other Soul Beasts.
• Su Lin asked Ah Yin how to conceal the presence of his transformed hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast friend from Titled Douluo experts.
• Su Lin decided to postpone absorbing the hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone until his contract with Ah Yin could reduce the risk.
• After waking to a crash outside the carriage, Su Lin and Xiao Wu saw Sean and the guards clearing the landslide.
• Su Lin took Xiao Wu toward the nearby mountain stream.

Su Lin planted an ancient inheritance scroll for Xiao Wu to find, and she secretly recognized its method for concealing a transformed Soul Beast’s presence. The group reached Suotuo City on their way to Heaven Dou City, where a lavish convoy bearing the seven-story pagoda emblem passed their hotel.

• Su Lin and Xiao Wu found a wooden box containing an ancient scroll, and Xiao Wu pretended she could not read its Soul Beast Clan inheritance script.
• Xiao Wu privately recognized that the scroll’s opening lines described a cultivation method for concealing a transformed Soul Beast’s presence.
• Su Lin’s group continued their journey toward Heaven Dou City and arrived in Suotuo City half a month later.
• Xiao Wu marveled at Suotuo City’s busy streets, and Su Lin explained that Heaven Dou City’s night markets stayed open until dawn.
• Su Lin and Xiao Wu waited in the Lumière hotel lobby as a convoy of more than thirty carriages bearing a seven-story pagoda banner passed outside.

Su Lin and Xiao Wu spent a day exploring Suotuo City after spotting a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect convoy, and Su Lin searched for a storage Soul Tool. The chapter ended with him unable to find a single shop selling Soul Tools in the central commercial district.

• Sean noticed a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect convoy, and a hotel receptionist explained that it carried monthly supplies between the sect and the Balak Kingdom's merchant association.
• Su Lin and Xiao Wu slept at the Lumière, then decided to spend the following day exploring Suotuo City with Sean and the guards.
• Su Lin stopped Xiao Wu from following Sean and the guards, and the two set out together with a map of the city's districts.
• Su Lin led Xiao Wu through the commercial district while looking for a storage Soul Tool, but they found no shops selling Soul Tools.
• Pikachu squeaked that he did not know where any Soul Tool shops were.

Su Lin and Xiao Wu encountered Ma Hongjun outside Flender's shop, where Ma Hongjun insulted Xiao Wu and Pikachu knocked him down. Su Lin and Xiao Wu fled, while Flender rushed outside to find Pikachu still beating Ma Hongjun.

• Xiao Wu suggested visiting a small Soul Master supply shop, but Su Lin recognized it as Flender's shop and called it a rip-off.
• Ma Hongjun confronted Su Lin for insulting his master's shop, then made a lewd offer to Xiao Wu.
• Su Lin held Xiao Wu back and sent Pikachu flying into Ma Hongjun, who was knocked down and scratched across the face.
• Su Lin led Xiao Wu into a deserted alley and explained that they had fled to avoid Flender, while Xiao Wu admired his knowledge.
• Pikachu kept attacking Ma Hongjun until he called for help, and Flender ran out of the shop to find him on the ground.

Flender failed to catch Pikachu after it escaped his attack, then learned from Ma Hongjun about Su Lin and Xiao Wu. Su Lin took Xiao Wu to the Suotuo City Spirit Hall Branch and reported that Zhao Wuji was hiding at Shrek Academy, where the deacon learned the academy had a history of suppressed death cases.

• Flender’s Soul Saint pressure startled Pikachu, which escaped into an alley before he could grab it.
• Flender helped Ma Hongjun up, heard his account of the children, and told him to go inside the shop.
• Su Lin recalled Pikachu with its Poké Ball, then took Xiao Wu toward the city center instead of continuing their search for a Storage Soul Tool.
• At the Spirit Hall branch, Su Lin reported that Zhao Wuji was at a village academy called Shrek, and guard admitted him to speak with deacon Luo Nan.
• Luo Nan checked Zhao Wuji’s portrait, while his assistant found that Shrek Academy had been involved in several death cases that the administrative office had suppressed.

Su Lin reported Zhao Wuji’s hideout to Spirit Hall and received a storage ring as a reward before setting out with Xiao Wu and Sean toward Heaven Dou City. They joined the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s caravan for a safer journey, while Su Lin worried that Sean’s confidence might invite trouble.

• Su Lin told Luo Nan about Zhao Wuji’s hideout and asked whether Spirit Hall sold Soul Tools, then accepted a first-tier storage ring as his reward.
• Su Lin returned to the Lumière Hotel with Xiao Wu, attuned to the ring, and stored his money pouch and their bundle inside it.
• The next morning, Sean and the guards joined Su Lin and Xiao Wu, and the party prepared to travel north toward Heaven Dou City.
• At the northern gate, Sean noticed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s caravan heading the same way and decided to follow it for protection.
• Sean kept the party behind the caravan as other travelers gathered in its wake, while the sect’s guards allowed them to follow in accordance with Ning Fengzhi’s policy.

Su Lin grew increasingly uneasy while traveling with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect convoy and decided to leave it at Sanming Town. Before they could part ways, bandits ambushed the convoy and its followers, and Pikachu shielded Su Lin’s group from a deadly volley of arrows.

• In the convoy’s carriage, a young man asked a young woman to marry him when they returned to Heaven Dou City, and she agreed.
• Su Lin’s unease intensified as the convoy crossed the Desolate Gold Plains, so he told Sean they would leave the convoy at Sanming Town.
• As the road narrowed into a valley, bandits ambushed the convoy and Sean warned Su Lin that attackers were blocking the road.
• Su Lin called Pikachu, which formed an Electroweb to protect their carriage, Sean, and the guards from the arrows.
• The volley killed many unprotected travelers following the convoy.

Su Lin’s party and a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect convoy were ambushed by Shi Kusou and a force of powerful bandits. As the attackers prepared to overwhelm the convoy, Su Lin decided to join the fight and protect Sean and Xiao Wu.

• Sean recognized the arrows fired at the convoy as military crossbow bolts, while the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect escorts formed a shield wall and protected the carriages.
• Ning Cheng and Song Yuan confronted the bandits, and Shi Kusou revealed himself as a Soul King with a Bone-Eroding Poison Scorpion Martial Soul.
• Song Yuan activated her Blazing Frenzied Ape Martial Soul, while Ning Cheng used his Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda to strengthen her.
• Shi Kusou ordered his men to attack, revealing five Soul Elders and a Soul Ancestor among the six fighters behind him.
• Su Lin told Sean and Xiao Wu to stay close and chose to join forces with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect against the bandits.

Pikachu interrupted the bandits’ assault on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s defensive line, giving Song Yuan a chance to challenge Shi Kusou. The battle remained unresolved, with Song Yuan barely holding her own against Shi Kusou while Pikachu struggled to suppress the poison spider Soul Ancestor.

• Shi Kusou led his bandits in a charge against the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s defensive line as Ning Cheng and Song Yuan prepared to fight.
• Pikachu struck the poison spider Soul Ancestor with a bolt of golden lightning, knocking him away and disrupting the attack.
• Song Yuan tried to finish the poison spider Soul Ancestor, but Shi Kusou intercepted her with his scorpion tail and forced her to redirect her blow.
• Song Yuan charged Shi Kusou with her third Soul Skill, and the two clashed with flames, poisonous mist, scorpion spines, and Soul Skills.
• Ning Cheng’s enhancement and Song Yuan’s fire helped her hold her ground, but Shi Kusou’s attacks and duplicates kept her from breaking through.
• Pikachu continued battling the poison spider Soul Ancestor, who adapted to its electrical attacks and denied it a chance to keep up the pressure.

Su Lin’s Pikachu battled Han Zheng’s poison techniques until Ning Cheng’s boosts restored its strength, speed, and Soul Power. As Han Zheng charged at Su Lin, Pikachu prepared to face him with renewed power.

• Pikachu countered Han Zheng’s first and second Soul Skills with lightning, while Shi Kusou struggled against Song Yuan.
• Han Zheng trapped Pikachu in his Fourth Soul Skill, the Netherworld Heavenly Net, and its strength began to fade under the poison.
• Su Lin called Pikachu back, then asked Ning Cheng whether his boosts could be applied to it.
• Ning Cheng boosted Pikachu’s strength, speed, and Soul Power as Han Zheng rushed toward Su Lin.
• Pikachu regained its strength, leaped onto Su Lin’s shoulder, and faced Han Zheng wrapped in a crackling lightning membrane.