Chapter Summaries

After surviving the absorption of a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring, Ning Buhui gained new skills and discovered a Soul Bone inside the Void Mantis. He absorbed it, reached level 28, and left the Rotten Wood Marsh with Bibi Dong advising him to stabilize his cultivation.

• Ning Buhui survived absorbing the Void Mantis's Soul Ring, raising his Soul Power to level 26 and gaining two second Soul Skills.
• Ning Buhui explained his new and strengthened Soul Skills to Bibi Dong, who praised their defensive and control abilities.
• Ning Buhui salvaged the Void Mantis's remains and found a twenty-thousand-year Space-Rending Right Arm Bone hidden in its body.
• Bibi Dong told Ning Buhui to absorb the Soul Bone, and he endured its pain to gain Void Rending Slash.
• Ning Buhui tested Void Rending Slash, learned that it ignored physical defenses, and reached level 28; Bibi Dong told him to refine his cultivation after they returned.

After returning to Spirit Hall, Ning Buhui stabilized his rapidly increased Soul Power and developed three self-created Soul Skills. He tested them against Hu Liena, impressing Bibi Dong, who offered to teach him orthodox combat techniques.

• Bibi Dong ordered Ning Buhui to rest after the journey and focus on physical training instead of cultivating his Soul Power.
• Ning Buhui settled into a routine of physical training, library research, and practicing control until his foundation stabilized.
• Ning Buhui devised and practiced Mountain Suppressing Falling Strike, Spinning Pagoda Strangulation, and Soul-Suppressing God-Devouring using the Nine Hell Soul-Suppressing Pagoda.
• Bibi Dong arranged a test at the training ground, where Ning Buhui used his pagoda to block Hu Liena's attacks and force her to retreat.
• Bibi Dong stopped the spar and told Ning Buhui to attend lessons with her every three days to learn orthodox combat techniques.

On his seventh birthday, Ning Buhui received gifts from Hu Liena, Xie Yue and Yan before exploring the Nine Hell Soul-Suppressing Pagoda’s second floor. He discovered its dense Soul Power and used old cultivation notes to make a controlled spiritual ripple, then resolved to keep developing Soul-Suppressing God-Devouring.

• Hu Liena, Xie Yue and Yan celebrated Ning Buhui’s seventh birthday with osmanthus cake, a short blade and a wooden figure.
• Ning Buhui entered the newly unlocked second floor of the Nine Hell Soul-Suppressing Pagoda and found its Soul Power was at least five times denser than the outside world’s.
• Ning Buhui maintained his training routine while devoting more time to cultivating on the pagoda’s second floor.
• Ning Buhui found a Soul Saint’s notes explaining how Tool Martial Soul users could project their intent before reaching the Soul Saint realm, and copied them for study.
• Ning Buhui made a faint, controlled spiritual ripple from the tip of his pagoda, scattering Soul Power mist less than half a meter away.

Ning Buhui saw how Whale Rubber had become part of Spirit Hall’s mission-point system, then supported Yan in a spar against Xie Yue. His skill impressed Xie Yue and Hu Liena, and he was invited to spar with them again as he considered his place in the Golden Generation.

• Ning Buhui learned that Spirit Hall had added Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue to the Mission Hall exchange list, and Zhou Qing said refining it had strengthened his body.
• Yan asked Ning Buhui to support him while he sparred with Xie Yue, who had refined Whale Glue and was testing himself for a possible Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Ning Buhui used Butterfly Dance Flowing Radiance and Vine Armor Spring Life to enhance Yan and blunt Xie Yue’s attacks, while calling out openings for Yan.
• Xie Yue tested Ning Buhui directly with Moon Blade Phantom, but Ning Buhui calmly evaded the blades as Yan counterattacked with Lava Body and drove Xie Yue back.
• Xie Yue ended the spar and praised Ning Buhui, while Hu Liena arrived and remarked that Xie Yue’s possible ten-thousand-year Fourth Soul Ring might challenge Ning Buhui’s vine armor.
• Xie Yue and Yan asked Ning Buhui to spar with them again, and Ning Buhui thought he might eventually join the Golden Generation if he raised his Soul Power Level.

Ning Buhui reconsidered his Third Soul Ring and chose to pursue a Wind Thunder Winged Tiger for the speed and explosive power he lacked. With Bibi Dong’s support, he trained intensely toward level thirty and ended the chapter one step away from breakthrough.

• After noticing Yan’s speed disadvantage in a spar, Ning Buhui decided that speed was more important to him than the defense and mental abilities of a Yin Yang Demon Fox.
• Ning Buhui found a description of the Wind Thunder Winged Tiger and asked Bibi Dong to help him hunt one for his Third Soul Ring.
• Bibi Dong warned Ning Buhui that the beast lived in dangerous Thunderstorm Canyon, but agreed to help and told him to break through to level thirty first.
• Ning Buhui committed to entering the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament and reorganized his training around cultivation, physical techniques, and combat skills.
• After three months of hard training, Ning Buhui reached level twenty-nine and stood one step away from level thirty.

After more than a month of intense cultivation, Ning Buhui entered Deep Meditation and broke through to level thirty. Bibi Dong arranged an expedition to find the Wind Thunder Winged Tiger for his Third Soul Ring, and Ning Buhui prepared to leave with her.

• Ning Buhui cultivated obsessively until he entered Deep Meditation and unconsciously spent five days meditating.
• Ning Buhui awoke at level thirty, and the deacons told him Bibi Dong had ordered them to guard his room.
• Yan and Xie Yue met Ning Buhui, learned of his breakthrough, and took him to eat; Hu Liena then shared that her Soul Power had reached level thirty-eight.
• Ning Buhui told Bibi Dong about his Deep Meditation, and she explained that it had strengthened his foundation and saved him time refining his cultivation.
• Bibi Dong gave Ning Buhui intelligence about a Wind Thunder Winged Tiger in Sunset Forest and scheduled their departure for the day after tomorrow.
• Ning Buhui gathered supplies for the journey and hoped to obtain his Third Soul Ring smoothly.

Ning Buhui and Bibi Dong traveled to Sunset Forest to search for a Wind Thunder Winged Tiger for his Third Soul Ring, and Bibi Dong confirmed that his body could withstand a Soul Ring of up to about fifteen thousand years. A massive beast tide separated them, and Ning Buhui headed south alone while Bibi Dong prepared to hold off the most dangerous Soul Beasts.

• Ning Buhui felt that his breakthrough to level thirty had strengthened his body and estimated he could absorb a Soul Ring between thirteen and fifteen thousand years old.
• Bibi Dong examined Ning Buhui and confirmed his estimate, while warning that finding a suitable Wind Thunder Winged Tiger might prove difficult.
• On the third day, Ning Buhui and Bibi Dong entered Sunset Forest on foot and set out toward Thunderstorm Canyon.
• Ning Buhui and Bibi Dong sensed a beast tide approaching, and Bibi Dong judged that more than a dozen powerful Soul Beasts were among the herd.
• Bibi Dong summoned her Soul Devouring Spider Emperor Martial Soul and told Ning Buhui to head south alone and leave signals for her to follow.
• Ning Buhui promised not to disappoint Bibi Dong and ran south through the woods.

Ning Buhui struggled to survive as a beast tide swept through the forest, fighting off Soul Beasts while fleeing toward the south. Badly wounded and nearly out of Soul Power, he hid in a narrow rock crevice, cleaned up inside the Nine Hell Soul-Suppressing Pagoda, and went to sleep until the tide passed.

• Ning Buhui used the Nine Hell Soul-Suppressing Pagoda and his Soul Skills to fend off Soul Beasts as he ran from the beast tide.
• Ning Buhui was struck by a charging One-Horned Savage Bull, then disabled other attacking beasts and continued through the forest.
• Ning Buhui fell into a gully, killed a gray-black mastiff, and marked a nearby tree before staggering onward with an injured leg.
• Ning Buhui squeezed into a narrow crevice between two rocks as the beast tide rumbled past outside.
• Ning Buhui washed, changed clothes, ate dried meat, and went to sleep inside the Nine Hell Soul-Suppressing Pagoda.

After surviving the beast tide, Ning Buhui waited in a hidden cave for Bibi Dong but was attacked by four mercenaries seeking his valuables. He defeated them and, at Bibi Dong’s command, killed them, leaving him to face his first killing.

• Ning Buhui recovered from his injuries, marked trees for Bibi Dong, and hid in a cave to wait for her.
• Four mercenaries searching for a Soul Ring found Ning Buhui and demanded his valuables.
• Ning Buhui revealed his Nine Hell Soul-Suppressing Pagoda and defeated the four attackers with his Soul Skills.
• Bibi Dong emerged from the forest and told Ning Buhui to finish the mercenaries.
• Ning Buhui used Void Rending Slash to kill all four mercenaries.

Ning Buhui and Bibi Dong rested after surviving the beast tide, then discussed their battles and the powerful Soul Beasts involved. At daybreak, they reached Thunderstorm Canyon, where signs of Wind Thunder Winged Tigers lay across the scorched ground.

• Ning Buhui told Bibi Dong how he survived the beast tide and defeated four greedy attackers, and he explained how he had learned to use Butterfly Suppresses the Nether Spring to interrupt Soul Skills.
• Bibi Dong praised Ning Buhui and described fighting five Ferocious Beasts near the hundred-thousand-year level while guiding the beast tide north.
• Bibi Dong said she and Ning Buhui would rest overnight and head for Thunderstorm Canyon at daybreak.
• Ning Buhui and Bibi Dong traveled through the rocky, wind-lashed canyon approach as thunder and lightning grew louder and brighter.
• Bibi Dong and Ning Buhui reached Thunderstorm Canyon and found scorched ground, massive claw marks, and a tuft of blue-violet fur.

Ning Buhui and Bibi Dong pursued the Wind Thunder Winged Tiger through Thunderstorm Canyon, where it used traps to exhaust and nearly kill them. Ning Buhui lured it out with mint, and after Bibi Dong restrained it, Ning Buhui killed it and a black Soul Ring appeared.

• Ning Buhui and Bibi Dong followed the tiger’s tracks through several traps before a thunderstorm struck the grove and they barely escaped.
• Ning Buhui recalled that Wind Thunder Winged Tigers liked mint and persuaded Bibi Dong to use it as bait.
• Ning Buhui gathered mint, and he and Bibi Dong hid near bundles they placed along the tiger’s path.
• The Wind Thunder Winged Tiger emerged for the mint, and Bibi Dong trapped it with Spider Web Restraint.
• Ning Buhui killed the bound tiger with Void Rending Slash, and a black Soul Ring rose above its corpse.

Ning Buhui discovered that the Wind Thunder Winged Tiger had dropped an External Soul Bone and absorbed its fifteen-thousand-year Soul Ring, reaching level thirty-four. He then began absorbing the wing bone and, after six hours of intense pain, slowly sat up.

• Ning Buhui saw a pair of translucent wings emerge as an External Soul Bone beside the Wind Thunder Winged Tiger's corpse.
• Bibi Dong identified the wings as the tiger's External Soul Bone and told Ning Buhui to absorb the Soul Ring first.
• Ning Buhui absorbed the fifteen-thousand-year Soul Ring through his Nine Hell Soul-Suppressing Pagoda and rose from level thirty to level thirty-four.
• Ning Buhui absorbed the wing bone, enduring severe pain as it grew from beneath his shoulder blades.
• After six hours, Ning Buhui's pain subsided, and he slowly sat up while Bibi Dong waited beside a fire.

Ning Buhui discovered that his new External Soul Bone had given him wings with flight, wind and lightning attacks, and short-range teleportation. He also explained his two new Soul Skills and improved abilities to Bibi Dong before sleeping, and they planned to return the next day.

• Ning Buhui tested his new wings, learned to fly, and discovered they could attack with wind and lightning and teleport up to thirty paces.
• Ning Buhui named the wings the Wind Thunder Wings and found that repeated spatial jumps rapidly consumed his Soul Power.
• Ning Buhui explained that Wind Thunder Wing Shadow enhanced a teammate while Thunder Prison Imprisons Wind trapped and suppressed enemies in an area.
• Ning Buhui reported that his first- and second-ring Soul Skills had grown stronger, and Bibi Dong told him to sleep before their return the next day.

Ning Buhui returned to Spirit City, tested his newly acquired Soul Skills and unlocked the tower’s third floor. After telling Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan about his journey and revealing his External Soul Bone, he convinced them to let him join a mission.

• Ning Buhui tested his Wind Thunder Wings and Thunder Prison Imprisons Wind on the journey back to Spirit City.
• Ning Buhui discovered that obtaining his Third Soul Ring had unlocked the tower’s third floor, but the concentrated Soul Power soon overwhelmed his meridians.
• Ning Buhui reunited with Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan at the training grounds and recounted the beast tide, bandits, and hunt for the Wind Thunder Winged Tiger.
• Ning Buhui told the three that his Third Soul Ring was fifteen thousand years old, then revealed his External Soul Bone and demonstrated its teleportation ability.
• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan agreed that Ning Buhui could join them on a carefully chosen mission, and the four headed to the mission hall.

Ning Buhui, Hu Liena, Yan, and Xie Yue selected a B-rank mission to hunt a Mist-Hidden Shadow Wolf pack in the Mist Swamp Forest and prepared for their trip. They planned to leave the day after tomorrow, while Ning Buhui intended to speak with Bibi Dong before departing.

• Hu Liena rejected Yan’s proposal to hunt an eight-thousand-year Vigorous Vajra Ape and chose a mission for a forty-five-hundred-year Mist-Hidden Shadow Wolf and four young wolves.
• Xie Yue warned that the Mist Swamp Forest’s poor visibility and disrupted Spiritual Detection would favor the wolf pack, but the four agreed the mission would test their teamwork.
• Ning Buhui, Hu Liena, Yan, and Xie Yue registered the mission and assigned roles, with Xie Yue holding off the pack leader, Yan guarding the front, and Hu Liena tracking enemies in the mist.
• Hu Liena set the departure for the day after tomorrow and reminded Ning Buhui to tell Bibi Dong about the mission.
• Ning Buhui adjusted his clothes to accommodate his Wind Thunder Wings, packed supplies, and fell asleep thinking about the hunt.

Ning Buhui discussed the Mist-Hidden Shadow Wolves mission with Bibi Dong, who advised him on combat, concealed abilities, and preserving the alpha’s materials. He set out with Hu Liena, Yan, and Xie Yue, and the team began their journey toward the Mist Swamp Forest.

• Bibi Dong told Ning Buhui that the mission would provide real combat experience and advised him to keep his Control System Soul Skill and Wind Thunder Wings hidden unless needed.
• Bibi Dong instructed Ning Buhui to ensure the alpha’s shoulder bone and mane remained intact, and Ning Buhui relayed the instructions to Xie Yue.
• Ning Buhui advised Xie Yue to leave the younger wolves alive so the alpha would reveal itself, and Xie Yue agreed to follow his signal.
• Hu Liena, Yan, Xie Yue, and Ning Buhui left Spirit City and traveled west toward the Mist Swamp Forest, following Xie Yue’s planned route.
• At a roadside rest, merchants warned the group that hunters had vanished in the forest, and the team discussed the wolf king’s age and possible intelligence.

Xie Yue, Hu Liena, Yan, and Ning Buhui reached the Mist Swamp Forest, rested overnight, and entered at dawn to track the Mist-Hidden Shadow Wolves. They found the wolf den and confronted its nearly five-thousand-year-old alpha, which spotted Ning Buhui and howled for the young wolves as Xie Yue made his move.

• Xie Yue decided the group would camp outside the forest, and Ning Buhui cooked skewers that Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan enjoyed.
• At dawn, Xie Yue led the group into the forest, where Ning Buhui used his senses and knowledge of Soul Beasts to find a safe route and follow wolf tracks.
• Hu Liena used Fox Charm to distract the patrolling young wolves while the group passed them and reached the den.
• The group found the alpha wolf, and Ning Buhui used Butterfly Dance Flowing Radiance and Wind Thunder Wing Shadow to enhance Xie Yue, Yan, and Hu Liena.
• The alpha wolf opened its eyes, fixed its gaze on Ning Buhui, and howled to summon the young wolves as Xie Yue moved.

Xie Yue, Hu Liena, Yan, and Ning Buhui fought a pack of mist wolves in the swamp forest, defeating the lead wolf and gathering materials from its corpse. They left the clearing after deciding that the wolf's Soul Ring was unsuitable for any of them and set out toward Spirit City.

• The lead wolf attacked Hu Liena, then used the mist to conceal itself as Xie Yue wounded its forepaw and four younger wolves surrounded the group.
• Yan, Hu Liena, and Xie Yue fought the younger wolves while Ning Buhui maintained support skills, but the lead wolf exploited the opening to charge him.
• Ning Buhui blocked the lead wolf with his tower and used Wind Thunder Wing Shadow to teleport clear, then Xie Yue and the others regrouped against the remaining wolf.
• The lead wolf howled and charged Xie Yue, but Static Counterattack halted its attack long enough for Xie Yue to strike it down with Shattered Moon Impact.
• Xie Yue collected the lead wolf's shoulder bone and mane, and the group left its unsuitable Soul Ring unclaimed before heading back toward Spirit City.

On the journey back, Ning Buhui and his teammates reviewed their mistakes and successes in the wolf battle, including how Ning Buhui’s support skills strengthened the group. They agreed to rest after completing the mission, then pursue a grade-A mission once Xie Yue obtained his Fourth Soul Ring.

• Yan broke the silence at the camp and prompted the team to discuss how their mistakes had nearly led to disaster.
• Xie Yue, Hu Liena, Ning Buhui, and Yan each acknowledged where they had failed to watch or protect their teammates during the fight.
• Hu Liena and Xie Yue noted that the team’s plan had drawn out the lead wolf and that Static Counterattack had briefly paralyzed it.
• Yan, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena described how Ning Buhui’s support skills improved their strength, speed, and ability to fight.
• Xie Yue proposed taking an easier grade-A mission after he obtained his Fourth Soul Ring, and the team agreed to rest first.
• Ning Buhui memorized the lessons from their discussion before falling asleep by the fire.

After returning to Spirit City and turning in their mission, Ning Buhui entered the newly opened third floor of the Nine Hell Soul-Suppressing Pagoda. He discovered a vast cultivation space filled with rare herbs and learned he could use its resources to advance his plans, while leaving the story with his intention to help Dugu Bo and find ways to share the herbs.

• Xie Yue, Hu Liena, Yan, and Ning Buhui turned in the Dusky Blue Wolf materials, completed their mission, and went their separate ways.
• Ning Buhui remembered that absorbing his Third Soul Ring had opened the pagoda's third floor and teleported there to explore it.
• Inherited memories revealed that the third floor held a fertile herb garden, a powerful cultivation array, and a cultivation speed adjustable up to ten times the normal rate.
• Ning Buhui discovered numerous rare plants, including the immature Chaos Azure Lotus, and found a furnished bamboo house with no sign of a previous owner.
• Ning Buhui decided to seek an opportunity to tell Dugu Bo about an herb that could benefit his poison arts and considered using the pagoda's herbs to strengthen his allies and secure future resources.