Chapter Summaries

Dai Fei awakened in the Star Luo imperial mausoleum, gained the Sacred Beast White Tiger’s inheritance, and killed the guards sent to eliminate him. Dai Weisi learned that Dai Fei had returned to life and set out for the mausoleum, determined to kill him again.

• Dai Fei remembered that Dai Weisi had poisoned him and buried him, then vowed to avenge his death.
• The Sacred Beast White Tiger made Dai Fei its successor, transformed his Evil Eye White Tiger Martial Soul, and gave him the Geng Metal Sacred Art.
• Dai Fei broke out of his coffin, discovered his Soul Power had risen to level thirty, and killed the guards who tried to stop him.
• Dai Fei left the mausoleum and vowed to settle accounts with Dai Weisi.
• A guard told Dai Weisi that Dai Fei had returned to life and the mausoleum guards were dead.
• Dai Weisi ordered preparations to kill Dai Fei and went to the imperial mausoleum.

Dai Fei traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain his third Soul Ring after deciding he was not yet strong enough to confront Dai Weisi. The Star Luo Emperor discovered Dai Fei’s empty tomb and ordered the empire’s borders sealed as Dai Fei began fighting a powerful Shadow Demon Tiger.

• Dai Fei left the imperial mausoleum for the Star Dou Great Forest, delaying his revenge on Dai Weisi until he had grown stronger.
• The Star Luo Emperor and Dai Weisi found Dai Fei’s coffin empty and discovered the guards dead, each killed by a single blow.
• The Star Luo Emperor ordered the Star Luo Empire’s borders sealed and suspicious people investigated.
• Dai Fei entered the forest to hunt a thousand-year tiger-type Soul Beast for his third Soul Ring.
• Dai Fei found a nine-thousand-year Shadow Demon Tiger, subdued it with his Sacred Beast White Tiger Martial Soul, and attacked with his White Tiger Sky-Rending Claw.

Dai Fei killed a nine-thousand-year Shadow Demon Tiger, absorbed its Soul Ring, and gained his third Soul Skill, White Tiger Geng Metal Roar. He then entered the battlefield at Xuantian City, slaughtered Heaven Dou soldiers to strengthen his Geng Metal Sacred Art, and began fighting a Heaven Dou Soul King general.

• Dai Fei killed the Shadow Demon Tiger and absorbed its nine-thousand-year Soul Ring, reaching level thirty-five and becoming a Soul Elder.
• Dai Fei gained White Tiger Geng Metal Roar, an area attack that used sound waves infused with Geng Metal Qi to injure and stun enemies.
• Dai Fei traveled to Xuantian City and charged into a Heaven Dou formation, killing soldiers and absorbing their killing intent to grow stronger.
• Dai Fei pursued fleeing Heaven Dou soldiers with White Tiger Wind Shadow Step and killed dozens with golden arrows of Geng Metal Qi.
• A Heaven Dou Soul King general confronted Dai Fei, and Dai Fei dodged the general’s spear attack before striking back with a golden fist shadow.

Dai Fei slaughtered Heaven Dou Empire soldiers and killed a Soul King general, then absorbed the battlefield's slaughter Qi and advanced to level thirty-nine. As Heaven Dou and Star Luo commanders investigated the mysterious white-tiger warrior, Dai Fei hid in a cave and prepared to reach level forty.

• Dai Fei killed the general with his White Tiger attacks, absorbed the general's slaughter Qi, and pursued the retreating Heaven Dou soldiers.
• Dai Fei left the battlefield at night to refine the slaughter Qi he had gathered.
• Xue Feng ordered an investigation after learning a white-tiger warrior had routed Heaven Dou forces, and heard that Star Luo Empire officials also did not recognize him.
• Dai Tianxiong ordered an investigation into whether the warrior was Dai Fei after hearing rumors that the second prince's corpse had disappeared.
• Dai Fei reached level thirty-nine in a hidden cave and said he was close to breaking through to level forty.

Xue Ye and the Star Luo Emperor investigated a mysterious white-tiger warrior who had killed Heaven Dou soldiers, with the Star Luo court suspecting he might be Dai Fei. Dai Weisi grew afraid that Dai Fei had survived and ordered his men to find and kill the warrior.

• Xue Ye ordered a Soul Emperor to capture the mysterious warrior alive after ministers linked him to the Star Luo Empire’s Dai Family.
• The Star Luo Emperor and his ministers considered whether the warrior was connected to Dai Fei’s vanished corpse, while Dai Weisi urged a thorough investigation.
• The Star Luo Emperor ordered stronger defenses and dismissed the court without settling the warrior’s identity.
• Dai Weisi privately feared the warrior might be Dai Fei and told his aide to find the man in black and kill him, whether or not he was his brother.

Dai Fei entered Suotuo City under a disguise and registered as the bounty hunter Geng Metal to hunt powerful opponents and gather killing Qi. He found Black Fiend in a hidden valley and began battling the level 60 Evil Soul Master.

• Dai Fei disguised himself and entered the Shadow Pavilion, where he chose a bounty on Black Fiend, an Evil Soul Master accused of slaughtering villages.
• Dai Fei registered under the codename Geng Metal and received a scroll describing Black Fiend’s hideout.
• Dai Fei avoided the traps around Black Fiend’s valley and launched a surprise attack inside the wooden house.
• Black Fiend revealed five Soul Rings and level 60 Soul Power, while Dai Fei used his White Tiger Martial Soul and Geng Metal techniques to break through his defenses.
• Black Fiend unleashed his Fifth Soul Skill, Bloodthirsty Frenzy, and charged at Dai Fei, who answered with his Third Soul Skill, White Tiger Geng Metal Roar.

Dai Fei killed Black Fiend and refined his Slaughter Qi to break through to level forty, becoming a Soul Ancestor. He collected the fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins for the bounty and set out for the Star Dou Great Forest to find his Fourth Soul Ring.

• Dai Fei killed Black Fiend with a sharp blade and absorbed the Evil Soul Master's dense Slaughter Qi.
• Dai Fei refined Black Fiend's Slaughter Qi and broke through to level forty, then tested the increased power of his White Tiger Sky-Rending Claw.
• Dai Fei carried Black Fiend's head to the Shadow Pavilion in Suotuo City, shocking the bounty hunters and staff who had doubted he could complete the mission.
• The Shadow Pavilion steward confirmed Black Fiend's identity and gave Dai Fei a card containing fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Dai Fei stored the card in his Soul Tool Ring and left for the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt for his Fourth Soul Ring.

Dai Fei entered the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt a ten-thousand-year tiger-type Soul Beast for his fourth Soul Ring. After fighting off a Silver Moon Sect squad and defeating a nineteen-thousand-year Army-Breaking Tiger, he left the beast dying in the forest.

• Dai Fei spent a week searching the forest’s inner region for a ten-thousand-year tiger-type Soul Beast.
• Dai Fei found a nineteen-thousand-year Army-Breaking Tiger and watched a five-person Soul Hunting squad approach it.
• Dai Fei attacked the squad captain as the Army-Breaking Tiger disrupted their trap, and the injured Silver Moon Sect members fled after the captain used a smoke-releasing Soul Tool.
• Dai Fei released his Martial Soul and fought the Army-Breaking Tiger in a fierce battle.
• Dai Fei used White Tiger Geng Metal Roar and White Tiger Sky-Rending Claw to strike the Army-Breaking Tiger down, leaving it dying.

Dai Fei absorbed the Army-Breaking Tiger’s Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, overcoming its violent power and resentment to reach Soul Ancestor level forty-three and gain his fourth Soul Skill. Afterward, he discovered a hidden cave containing a Soul Bone at least ten thousand years old and left the Star Dou Great Forest with it.

• A group of Soul Masters tried to ambush Dai Fei while he began absorbing the Army-Breaking Tiger’s Soul Ring, but he killed them all.
• Dai Fei used the Geng Metal Sacred Art and his White Tiger Martial Soul to withstand the Soul Ring’s assault on his body, meridians, and soul.
• Dai Fei suppressed the Army-Breaking Tiger’s resentment and absorbed the Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, reaching Soul Power level forty-three.
• Dai Fei gained the fourth Soul Skill, White Tiger Army-Breaking Kill, a powerful single-target attack.
• After eating the Army-Breaking Tiger and finding no Soul Bone, Dai Fei followed a strange presence into a hidden cave and discovered a Soul Bone at least ten thousand years old.

Dai Fei accepted all eight available Soul King bounties and learned that a mysterious organization might be supporting the targets. He began his hunt by confronting Crimson Flame Demon in a burned-out village.

• Dai Fei selected eight Soul King bounty missions, including targets such as Dark Crow, and collected their information from the bartender.
• The bartender told Dai Fei that the Soul Kings might belong to a mysterious organization seen gathering in Sunset Canyon on a full-moon night.
• Other bounty hunters learned that Dai Fei had taken every Soul King mission and questioned whether he could survive the hunt.
• Dai Fei traveled to a burned-out village to find Crimson Flame Demon and called him out.
• Crimson Flame Demon leaped from the ruins, laughing that another person had come to die.

Dai Fei defeated and killed the Crimson Flame Demon, absorbed his power of slaughter, and raised his Soul Power to the peak of level forty-three. A Spirit Hall demon-hunting squad found the corpse and, unable to identify the killer, left to report their discovery.

• The Crimson Flame Demon attacked Dai Fei with fire skills, but Dai Fei dodged and shattered his attacks with White Tiger techniques.
• Dai Fei revealed his four Soul Rings, including a black Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, and killed the Crimson Flame Demon with White Tiger Army-Breaking Kill.
• Dai Fei absorbed the Crimson Flame Demon's power of slaughter, raised his Soul Power to the peak of level forty-three, and set off for his next target, Venomous Scorpion.
• A Spirit Hall demon-hunting squad arrived at the ruins and recognized the Crimson Flame Demon's corpse.
• The squad concluded that a powerful Soul Master had killed the Crimson Flame Demon and left to report the incident to the deacon.

The Spirit Hall deacon investigated the bounty hunter Geng Metal after Crimson Flame Demon’s death and tried to arrange a meeting at the Shadow Pavilion. Meanwhile, Dai Fei continued his hunt under the alias Geng Metal, killed Dark Crow and the remaining Soul Kings, and returned to collect his rewards as the deacon set out to meet him.

• The Spirit Hall deacon questioned the Demon Hunting Squad about Crimson Flame Demon’s death, then visited the Shadow Pavilion and asked for information about Geng Metal.
• The bartender told the deacon that Geng Metal wore a black mask and robe, had killed Black Fiend, and had taken missions against several Soul Kings.
• Dai Fei attacked Dark Crow’s hideout, learned that Dark Crow knew his identity as the second prince of the Star Luo Empire, and killed him before he could reveal more.
• Dai Fei hunted down the remaining Soul Kings, refined their Slaughter Qi, and raised his Soul Power to level forty-seven.
• After hearing that all eight targets were dead, the Spirit Hall deacon headed to the Shadow Pavilion to meet Geng Metal.

Dai Fei returned to the Shadow Pavilion with the heads of eight Soul Kings, then rejected a Spirit Hall deacon’s invitation to join the organization. As the deacon ordered him followed, Dai Fei planned to seek the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and visit his younger brother before going to Heaven Dou City.

• Dai Fei presented the eight Soul King heads at the Shadow Pavilion and collected a reward of four hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• The Spirit Hall deacon invited Dai Fei to join Spirit Hall, but Dai Fei refused and said he preferred to go his own way.
• The deacon hid his anger and let Dai Fei leave, then privately called him an ungrateful fool.
• Dai Fei decided to seek the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in Sunset Forest to improve his strength and reclaim his place as the next crown prince of the Star Luo Empire.
• Dai Fei resolved to visit his younger brother before heading to Heaven Dou City, while the deacon ordered a subordinate to monitor him.

Dai Fei watched Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun return to Shrek Academy after visiting a brothel, then attacked them in the darkness. He wounded Dai Mubai by breaking through his defensive Soul Skill, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Dai Fei surveyed the dilapidated Shrek Academy and spotted Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun approaching.
• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun left a brothel in Suotuo City and talked about their evening as they headed back to the academy.
• Dai Fei recognized Oscar at the academy and decided to punish Dai Mubai, his younger brother and rival for the Star Luo Empire's crown prince position.
• Dai Fei used White Tiger Wind Shadow Step to ambush Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun, aiming a Geng Metal Qi blade at Dai Mubai's throat.
• Dai Mubai released his Evil Eye White Tiger Martial Soul and used White Tiger Protection Barrier, but Dai Fei pierced the shield and wounded him.

Dai Fei ambushed Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun, then revealed himself as Dai Mubai’s supposedly dead second brother and declared his claim to the Star Luo Empire’s throne. After Dai Fei left, Dai Mubai resolved to become stronger while he and Ma Hongjun returned to the academy, and Dai Fei headed for Heaven Dou City.

• Ma Hongjun attacked Dai Fei with his Phoenix Soul Skills, but Dai Fei overpowered him and knocked him unconscious after pulling back a potentially fatal strike.
• Dai Mubai fought Dai Fei to protect Ma Hongjun, but Dai Fei broke through his defenses and injured him.
• Dai Fei removed his mask, and Dai Mubai recognized him as his supposedly dead second brother.
• Dai Fei accused Dai Mubai of abandoning him, announced he would take the Star Luo throne, and threatened Dai Mubai and Dai Weisi before leaving.
• Ma Hongjun woke up and asked why Dai Fei had spared them; Dai Mubai offered him cultivation resources and took him back toward the academy.
• Dai Mubai resolved to grow stronger, while Dai Fei set out for Heaven Dou City.

Dai Fei accepted a caravan leader’s commission to defeat bandits in exchange for a chest of high-quality spirit herbs. After easily subduing the bandits and collecting his reward, he left, and the caravan realized he might be the famous Geng Metal Hunter.

• Dai Fei heard bandits attacking a caravan and initially prepared to pass by.
• The caravan leader offered Dai Fei its most valuable goods if he defeated the bandits, and Dai Fei accepted after spotting a chest of spirit herbs.
• Dai Fei used his Geng Metal Soul Power and swift attacks to defeat the bandit leader and subdue the rest of the bandits.
• The caravan leader gave Dai Fei the high-quality spirit herbs, which he stored in his storage ring.
• Dai Fei introduced himself as “Geng Metal” and vanished, prompting the caravan to wonder if he was the famous Geng Metal Hunter.

Dai Fei cultivated with the spirit herbs and reached level forty-eight, then killed an Evil Soul Master and advanced to level forty-nine. Later, he intervened when a nobleman whipped a mother and daughter, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Dai Fei refined the spirit herbs with the Geng Metal Sacred Art and increased his cultivation to level forty-eight.
• Dai Fei found an Evil Soul Master draining villagers’ blood essence, killed him, refined his killing Qi, and reached level forty-nine.
• Dai Fei encountered a nobleman whipping a mother and daughter and appeared before him to slap him.

Dai Fei rescued a mother and daughter from a noble youth, then beat the youth and his men when they came after him. The baron Adrian Barlow ordered a larger force to capture Dai Fei, who remained confident as they surrounded him.

• Dai Fei slapped the noble youth for threatening a mother and daughter, then told them to leave town.
• The injured youth ordered his underlings to inform his father, Baron Adrian Barlow, who vowed revenge and began making plans.
• The next day, the baron's men tracked down Dai Fei and confronted him outside an inn.
• Dai Fei quickly defeated the men who tried to arrest him.
• Adrian Barlow arranged a sham trial and sent his private guard to capture Dai Fei.
• The baron's forces surrounded Dai Fei, who dismissed them as too weak to stop him.

Dai Fei slaughtered the baron’s guards and Soul Masters, prompting Baron Adrian Barlow to summon the Six-Ring Soul Emperor Black Eagle. Dai Fei wounded Black Eagle in their fight and staggered him with a sonic Soul Skill, but Black Eagle remained alive and continued resisting.

• Dai Fei killed the guards and Soul Masters sent to capture him, while some survivors returned to Baron Adrian Barlow.
• Baron Adrian Barlow summoned Black Eagle, a level-sixty-one Soul Emperor, to capture Dai Fei.
• Black Eagle attacked Dai Fei, but Dai Fei blocked his strike and wounded him with White Tiger Sky-Rending Claw.
• Black Eagle used his wings to attack from behind, but Dai Fei dodged and struck him with White Tiger Geng Metal Roar.
• Black Eagle spat blood, then used his Soul Power to recover from the sonic attack and stabilize his injuries.

Dai Fei killed Black Eagle, refined his Slaughter Qi, and broke through to level 50, though he still needed a Soul Ring to unlock his seal. He then stormed the baron's residence to settle the score, appearing before the baron and his son as the baron tried to bargain for his life.

• Dai Fei pierced Black Eagle's defenses and killed him, then extracted Slaughter Qi from the corpses.
• Dai Fei refined the Slaughter Qi with the Geng Metal Sacred Art and advanced from level 49 to level 50, but noted he still needed a Soul Ring to unlock his seal.
• Dai Fei set out for the baron's residence, while the baron and his son expected Black Eagle to return victorious.
• A guard reported that Black Eagle had been killed, and the baron ordered the residence's defenses strengthened.
• Dai Fei burst into the hall and confronted the baron, who offered him a pardon and loyalty deal; Dai Fei rejected the offer and appeared before him.