Chapter Summaries

Dai Mubai agreed to undergo a painful transformation so he could seek revenge on Xiao Yan, while Yu Xiaogang secretly used Soul Beast parts to graft a scaled claw onto him. Three days later, Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing arrived at the Treasure Pavilion for the Hundred Herbs Pavilion’s auction and settled into a luxurious private box.

• Dai Mubai chose to endure the mysterious figure’s procedure so he could kill Xiao Yan, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dai Weisi and reclaim what he had lost.
• The cloaked figure shattered Dai Mubai’s healed right arm and leg, then used medicine and Soul Beast parts to attach them as he pinned Dai Mubai down with Soul Power.
• Dai Mubai endured the agony until he lost consciousness, with his right hand transformed into a pitch-black, scaled claw.
• The mysterious figure revealed himself as Yu Xiaogang, whose right arm and leg had also been restored and whose body bore strange blue markings.
• Qian Baichuan invited Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing to the Hundred Herbs Pavilion auction, and they spent the next three days preparing at the Peaceful Restaurant.
• Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing arrived at the Treasure Pavilion, where Qian Baichuan welcomed them and led them to a third-tier private box before the auction began.

Tang San followed a mysterious call through the forest and met a speaking Blue Silver Grass Soul Beast that declared him the emperor of Blue Silver Grass. At the Treasure Pavilion auction, Xiao Yan studied the Star Luo Empire’s factions, then won the final lot, a seventy-thousand-year Jade Fire Golden-Eyed Beast’s horn.

• Tang Hao gave Tang San permission to follow the mental presence calling to him and waited as Tang San went deeper into the forest.
• Tang San found a blue vine with a human-like face, which called him its king and explained that his blood made him the emperor of Blue Silver Grass.
• Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing surveyed the Treasure Pavilion’s private rooms, and Zhu Zhuqing identified the Shi Family, Chen Family, and military factions.
• Sun Wan opened the auction with a captured five-thousand-year Shadow Wolf, and the lots that followed included Soul Beasts, slaves, and medicinal herbs.
• Xiao Yan observed rivalries among the Star Luo Empire’s factions and watched the Blood Coagulation Powder and Qi Gathering Pills spark fierce bidding.
• Xiao Yan bid 150,000 Gold Soul Coins for the Jade Fire Golden-Eyed Beast’s horn, and the other bidders backed down.

Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing investigated an evil presence in Star Luo City's slums and caught a cloaked man abducting commoners. The man recognized Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan did not know who he was.

• Xiao Yan bought the Jade Fire Golden-Eyed Beast's horn at auction and returned to the Peaceful Restaurant with Zhu Zhuqing.
• Xiao Yan stayed alert after sensing the crown prince's investiture assassination attempt might not be over, while he refined pills and Zhu Zhuqing managed their contacts.
• Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing heard that people had been disappearing from the western slums, including a young master of the Yang Family.
• Xiao Yan sensed an evil presence in an alley and followed it with Zhu Zhuqing into an abandoned part of the slums.
• Xiao Yan found a cloaked man using a blue-scaled dragon claw to draw Soul Power from three bound commoners.
• Xiao Yan broke into the ruined house to stop the man, who recognized him and greeted him with hatred.

Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing confronted a cloaked assailant experimenting on civilians, but he escaped after attacking Zhu Zhuqing. The attacker was revealed to be Yu Xiaogang, who had replaced his crippled arm with a dragon claw and vowed revenge on Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan fought the black-clad man, whose strength matched his and who suppressed the hidden force of Eight Extremes Collapse.
• The black-clad man attacked Zhu Zhuqing with lightning, but Xiao Yan shielded her with an ice wall while the attacker escaped.
• Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing found that the three civilians were dead, and one corpse showed sinister energy and emerging scales.
• Xiao Yan suspected the attacker was connected to the recent disappearances and considered Dai Mubai and Yu Xiaogang as possible culprits.
• Yu Xiaogang returned to his underground chamber, revealed his dragon-claw arm, and swore he would one day cut Xiao Yan open.

Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing left Star Luo City for Star Chasing City, but Dai Mubai ambushed them on the road in a half-human, half-beast form. Xiao Yan fought to restrain him, and Dai Mubai shattered two of Xiao Yan’s chains with a burst of Soul Power.

• Yu Xiaogang examined the transformed Dai Mubai and decided to fuel his hatred further.
• After half a month without finding the black-cloaked man, Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing decided to leave Star Luo City for Star Chasing City.
• A black-cloaked man watched Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing depart and followed their carriage.
• Dai Mubai revealed himself on the forest road and attacked Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Xiao Yan fought Dai Mubai with his Bone Spirit Cold Flame and tried to bind him with Netherworld Lock chains.
• Dai Mubai released a surge of Soul Power that shattered two of Xiao Yan’s chains.

Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing fought Dai Mubai, who had transformed through evil methods, until Xiao Yan knocked him down. Before Xiao Yan could finish him, a man in black attacked and escaped with Dai Mubai, leaving Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing to recover from the explosions.

• Dai Mubai transformed into a monstrous form, but Xiao Yan slowed him with his domain while Zhu Zhuqing struck at his neck.
• Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing wounded Dai Mubai, and Xiao Yan knocked him unconscious with a flame-covered punch.
• Dai Mubai blamed Xiao Yan for his condition and admitted he would become an Evil Soul Master to take revenge.
• A man in black attacked Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Yan intercepted the strike and shielded her from the ensuing explosions.
• The man in black escaped with Dai Mubai, and Zhu Zhuqing helped the injured Xiao Yan find a secluded place to recover.

Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing returned to the Spirit Hall Main Hall, where Xu Mu secretly ordered them watched, and both later broke through in cultivation. Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang rescued Dai Mubai and revealed his identity to him.

• Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing returned to the Spirit Hall Main Hall after concluding that Dai Mubai and the black-cloaked attacker had joined forces against them.
• Xu Mu welcomed Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing, then privately told an associate to watch their movements.
• Xiao Yan broke through to level 53, and Zhu Zhuqing also achieved a breakthrough.
• Yu Xiaogang carried the unconscious Dai Mubai to a hidden cave, gave him a blood-red pill, and helped him regain consciousness.
• Dai Mubai mocked Yu Xiaogang for hiding from Xiao Yan, and Yu Xiaogang pulled back his hood to reveal his face.

Yu Xiaogang revealed that he had fused with Soul Beasts to regain his strength and offered to make Dai Mubai powerful enough to kill Xiao Yan. Dai Mubai accepted his offer and followed him toward Spirit Hall.

• Dai Mubai recognized Yu Xiaogang and learned that his dragon claw and altered leg came from fused Soul Beast limbs.
• Yu Xiaogang told Dai Mubai that hatred for Xiao Yan had driven him to become a monster and seek revenge.
• Dai Mubai admitted he could not defeat Xiao Yan, and Yu Xiaogang promised to make him strong enough to surpass him.
• Yu Xiaogang revealed that he was an elder of Spirit Hall and offered Dai Mubai its resources and a place in his laboratory.
• Dai Mubai agreed to go with Yu Xiaogang, and the two set off through the mountain forest.

Yu Xiaogang brought Dai Mubai to Spirit Hall’s laboratory, where Bibi Dong promised him the power to take revenge on Xiao Yan. After three months of experiments, Dai Mubai survived a transformation that turned much of his body into a Soul Beast’s, and he set his sights on Xiao Yan.

• Yu Xiaogang took Dai Mubai into his laboratory, where Dai Mubai saw a dead experimental subject and learned that failed subjects were recycled.
• Bibi Dong offered Dai Mubai the strength to avenge himself, and he swore to serve her.
• Bibi Dong ordered Yu Xiaogang to produce results within three months, and Yu Xiaogang promised to make Dai Mubai a perfect weapon.
• After three months of experiments, Dai Mubai had transformed into a clawed, scaled humanoid Soul Beast while remaining conscious.
• Dai Mubai tested his strength by smashing into the chamber wall and declared that he was coming for Xiao Yan.

After three months of cultivation, Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing grew stronger while Xu Mu grew resentful of Xiao Yan’s success and plotted with Dai Wusi to seize his pill formulas. Dai Wusi and his adviser Zhou Wenyuan agreed on a scheme to target Xiao Yan indirectly.

• Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing emerged from three months of secluded cultivation, with Zhu Zhuqing reaching level fifty-five while Xiao Yan continued consolidating his foundation.
• Xu Mu learned that black-market prices for Xiao Yan’s pills had tripled and that Xiao Yan possessed higher-grade pill formulas.
• Xu Mu sent an anonymous letter about Xiao Yan’s pills to Dai Wusi’s city lord’s residence.
• Dai Wusi asked Zhou Wenyuan for advice, and Zhou urged him to exploit Xu Mu’s scheme to obtain Xiao Yan’s pill formulas.
• Dai Wusi agreed to Zhou Wenyuan’s plan to move against Xiao Yan indirectly.

Xiao Yan followed a mysterious White Tiger claw-print letter to a meeting place outside Star Chasing City, only to realize it was a diversion. While he was away, seven powerful attackers ambushed Zhu Zhuqing at the Spirit Hall Main Hall, and she fought back despite being outnumbered.

• Xiao Yan received a letter bearing a White Tiger claw print and suspected it was bait, but decided to go investigate alone while Zhu Zhuqing stayed behind with Qian Renxue's token.
• Xiao Yan waited nearly half a day at a ruined pavilion outside Star Chasing City, then realized the meeting was a trick and raced back toward the city.
• Seven intruders—six Soul Kings and a level sixty-seven Soul Emperor—surrounded Zhu Zhuqing in the courtyard and demanded that she surrender.
• Zhu Zhuqing attacked the Soul Kings, but their combined skills overwhelmed her and left her injured as they destroyed her Shadow Clones.
• Zhu Zhuqing used Netherworld Shadows Linked to strengthen a captured Shadow Clone, which cut off two of the Soul Emperor's fingers before he counterattacked.

Zhu Zhuqing was badly wounded by a Soul Emperor and six Soul Kings who had infiltrated the Spirit Hall Main Hall with Xu Mu’s help. Xiao Yan arrived just in time to save her from a final blow, gave her a pill, and sheltered her inside a Fire Lotus before facing her attackers.

• Zhu Zhuqing revealed Qian Renxue’s golden token, but the Soul Emperor mocked her and admitted that people inside Spirit Hall had helped the attackers enter.
• Xu Mu watched the fight from outside the courtyard and planned to obtain the pill formula, kill the witnesses, and cover up their disappearance with Dai Wusi’s help.
• The Soul Emperor used his Violent Bear Martial Soul to overpower Zhu Zhuqing, leaving her near death as the six Soul Kings blocked the courtyard exits.
• Xiao Yan struck the Soul Emperor with pale flames and ice crystals, then rushed to Zhu Zhuqing and fed her Qian Renxue’s Heaven Recovery Pill.
• Xiao Yan placed Zhu Zhuqing inside a protective Fire Lotus and told her to wait for him.

Xiao Yan fought six Soul Kings and a Soul Emperor while protecting the badly injured Zhu Zhuqing, using his cold-flame skills to disable the Ghost Soul King and wound the Soul Emperor. After healing himself with Blood Coagulation Powder, he attacked the Black Tortoise Soul King with his Soul Bone Skill, Immaculate Realm.

• Xiao Yan identified the seven attackers and used Cold Flame · Soul Armor before charging the Black Tortoise Soul King, then redirected his attack toward the Ghost Soul King.
• Xiao Yan used Cold Fire: Netherworld Lock to expose the Shadow Blade Soul King and immobilize the Ghost Soul King, but the Black Tortoise Soul King shielded his ally from Xiao Yan's spear.
• The Soul Emperor struck Xiao Yan with Violent Bear Earth Splitter, but Xiao Yan dodged the direct blow and noted that the Ghost Soul King remained weakened.
• Xiao Yan swallowed Blood Coagulation Powder, then hurled Green Lotus · Cold Heart Flame at the Soul Emperor, blasting him backward and covering him in frost.
• Xiao Yan seized the opening and charged the Black Tortoise Soul King, who activated Black Tortoise Shield Armor and Black Tortoise Protection as Xiao Yan gathered Immaculate Realm.

Xiao Yan used his Soul Bone skills and Everfrost Mausoleum to overcome the Soul Kings and the Soul Emperor pursuing him, killing the Black Tortoise Soul King and Gale Wolf Soul King. He lured the Mighty Ape Soul King and Blazing Fire Lion Soul King into a simultaneous attack, then thrust out his left hand as their attacks converged.

• Xiao Yan pierced the Black Tortoise Soul King's defenses with Demon-Breaking Light and killed him, then retreated from the remaining attackers.
• The Mighty Ape Soul King struck Xiao Yan, while the Blazing Fire Lion Soul King and Shadow Blade Soul King wounded him as he evaded their attacks.
• Xiao Yan released Everfrost Mausoleum and Soul Echo, suppressing his enemies and manifesting the Black Tortoise Soul King's defensive skill.
• Xiao Yan killed the Gale Wolf Soul King with ice spears and Eight Extremes Collapse, while the Soul Emperor's attack failed to catch him.
• Xiao Yan pretended to be exhausted and drew the Mighty Ape Soul King and Blazing Fire Lion Soul King into attacking together, then thrust out his left hand.

Xiao Yan killed the remaining Soul Kings and fought the Soul Emperor, using Everfrost Mausoleum and Netherworld Lock to overcome the stronger opponent. The Soul Emperor was gravely injured but still had enough strength to resist.

• Xiao Yan killed the Mighty Ape Soul King with Immaculate Realm and froze the Blazing Lion Soul King with Bone Spirit Cold Flame before shattering him.
• Xiao Yan used Everfrost Mausoleum to find the Shadow Blade Soul King, then killed him and the powerless Specter Soul King with an ice-crystal spear.
• The Soul Emperor transformed and attacked Xiao Yan with massive bear-paw strikes, but Everfrost Mausoleum slowed him and Xiao Yan evaded his blows.
• Xiao Yan bound the Soul Emperor with Netherworld Locks and struck him with Eight Extremes Collapse, injuring them both.
• The Soul Emperor survived Xiao Yan’s attacks and threatened to kill him.

Xiao Yan used his domain and final reserves of Soul Power to kill the Soul Emperor, completing his fight against seven attackers. As he faced Xu Mu, who had been hiding nearby, Xu Mu revealed his plan to kill Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing and cover it up.

• The Soul Emperor gathered his remaining strength for a final attack, but Xiao Yan anticipated his move and engulfed him in a pillar of intertwined flames.
• The Soul Emperor survived the blast long enough for Xiao Yan to approach and kill him with an ice-crystal spear.
• Xiao Yan surveyed the six other dead Soul Kings, took pills to recover, and called out the person hiding outside the courtyard.
• Xu Mu emerged, praised Xiao Yan's victory, and offered to kill him quickly if he handed over the pill formulas.
• Xu Mu explained that he had sent the Spirit Hall Main Hall Soul Masters out of the city and planned to report that Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing had died in an attack by unknown Soul Masters.
• Xu Mu admitted that he had prepared for Xiao Yan's death since his return to Star Chasing City and had used Dai Wusi's attack as a way to conceal his own involvement.

Xiao Yan used the Heaven Recovery Liquid to restore his strength and reveal that he had anticipated Xu Mu’s ambush, then fought the level-sixty-nine Soul Emperor. Despite deploying his Cold Flame domain and chains, Xiao Yan could not keep pace with Xu Mu and ended the chapter striking back with both Bone Spirit Cold Flame and Green Lotus Core Flame as Xu Mu attacked his throat.

• Xiao Yan drank Qian Renxue’s Heaven Recovery Liquid, rapidly healing his wounds and restoring his Soul Power.
• Xiao Yan told Xu Mu he had known he was hiding nearby and had waited for him to appear.
• Xu Mu revealed his Shadow Marten Martial Soul and six Soul Rings, then attacked Xiao Yan at high speed.
• Xiao Yan used Soul Armor, Everfrost Mausoleum, and Netherworld Lock to defend himself and restrain Xu Mu, but Xu Mu evaded the chains and wounded him.
• As Xu Mu lunged at Xiao Yan’s throat, Xiao Yan countered with a fist wreathed in Bone Spirit Cold Flame and Green Lotus Core Flame.

Xiao Yan endured Xu Mu’s attacks and used the Netherworld Locks to restrain him long enough to unleash the Earth Tier Dou Technique Radiant Heaven World-Burning Spear. The strike killed Xu Mu, leaving Xiao Yan gravely wounded and nearly out of Soul Power but still alive.

• Xiao Yan allowed Xu Mu to wound his face, then caught him in midair with the Netherworld Locks.
• Xu Mu used Shadow Burst to tear through the chains, but Xiao Yan blocked his escape and kept him trapped as they exchanged attacks.
• Xiao Yan endured repeated wounds while tightening the Netherworld Locks until Xu Mu’s assault faltered.
• Xiao Yan let Xu Mu stab through his abdomen, then held him in place and unleashed Radiant Heaven World-Burning Spear.
• The flames devastated Xu Mu, who died after voicing his regret, while Xiao Yan remained alive but too exhausted and injured to stand at first.

After killing Xu Mu, Xiao Yan escaped the Spirit Hall Main Hall with the unconscious Zhu Zhuqing and collapsed in an abandoned woodshed. Dai Wusi learned that Xu Mu and his men were dead, then ordered a citywide hunt for Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing, though the guards neglected the slums and abandoned buildings.

• Xiao Yan took Zhu Zhuqing from the burning courtyard and staggered through Star Chasing City to an abandoned woodshed, where he collapsed beside her.
• A scout told Dai Wusi that Xu Mu and seven of his men had been killed and that Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing were missing.
• Dai Wusi ordered the city guards to seal the gates and search Star Chasing City for the supposed assassin, secretly seeking Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing.
• City guards searched homes across the city, but they ignored the slums and abandoned buildings.

Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing hid from the city guards in an abandoned woodshed while recovering from their injuries. After Zhu Zhuqing woke, she explained that Dai Wusi would not dare openly oppose Spirit Hall, leaving them to wait for its main force to return.

• Xiao Yan woke from a nightmare, checked Zhu Zhuqing, and used medicine to treat his wounds as the city guards searched Star Chasing City.
• Dai Wusi angrily ordered the guards to widen their search and monitor the Spirit Hall Main Hall.
• Xiao Yan decided to remain hidden in the woodshed until Zhu Zhuqing woke and night fell.
• Zhu Zhuqing woke in the evening, and Xiao Yan told her that Dai Wusi had colluded with Xu Mu and sealed the city gates.
• Zhu Zhuqing reasoned that Dai Wusi would not openly oppose Spirit Hall and that its returning forces would make it safe for them.