Chapter Summaries

Tang Hao gave Wang Xingyu Tang San’s mother’s Soul Bone, then revealed that he knew Xiao Wu was a transformed Soul Beast and would not interfere with her and Tang San. The three friends agreed to separate for training, with Wang Xingyu planning to ask Da Ming and Er Ming about a place tied to the Goddess of Life’s inheritance.

• Tang Hao gave Wang Xingyu Tang San’s mother’s blue Soul Bone, which Tang San accepted was a better match for Wang Xingyu than for himself.
• Tang Hao told Xiao Wu that Tang San’s mother had been a Soul Beast and that he would not interfere with Xiao Wu and Tang San.
• Xiao Wu confessed that she was a transformed Soul Beast, and Tang San and Wang Xingyu told her they had known for a long time.
• Tang Hao said he would train Tang San, while Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu decided to improve their strength separately before meeting again in about four years.
• Wang Xingyu asked Tang Hao and Xiao Wu about places with strong life energy, and Xiao Wu suggested asking Da Ming and Er Ming when they reached the Star Dou Great Forest.

Wang Xingyu absorbed the Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone, gaining flight and healing abilities, then traveled with Xiao Wu to Holy Soul Village to visit Old Jack and his childhood home. After seeing the house where he first lived, Wang Xingyu left without going inside.

• Wang Xingyu absorbed the Soul Bone, rose to level forty-eight, and gained flight and powerful healing abilities.
• Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu parted from Tang San and Tang Hao, then flew toward the forest's core area.
• Xiao Wu returned with the Titan Giant Ape and told Wang Xingyu that Da Ming had sensed a vast life force far to the east, so they set off in that direction.
• Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu reached Holy Soul Village five days later and embraced Old Jack before helping with his chores.
• Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu swept leaves at Tang San's empty smithy, then Wang Xingyu visited his old home and left without entering.

Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu visited their old friends and prepared to leave the village, but Old Jack revealed the truth about Wang Xingyu’s parents before they departed. Wang Xingyu learned that a peace officer from Nuoding City had killed them, and he wondered at the deep feeling rising within him.

• Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu visited villagers and used Wang Xingyu’s Willow Shade Shelter to treat their ailments while Xiao Wu searched the hill for rabbits.
• The two visited the Nuoding City Spirit Hall Branch, the Iron Rock Mercenary Group, and Dean Fang, and Wang Xingyu left Godly Zhuge Crossbows with several of his old acquaintances.
• Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu told Old Jack they would leave the next day, then Wang Xingyu used his wings to take village children and Old Jack for flights.
• After Old Jack asked their real Soul Power Levels, Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu revealed they were level forty-eight and level forty-nine.
• Old Jack confessed that a three-ring peace officer from Nuoding City, not a Soul Beast, had killed Wang Xingyu’s parents.
• Wang Xingyu listened in silence and wondered whether the heavy feeling in his heart was instinct.

Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu broke into a family’s home to confront the couple who had killed Wang Xingyu’s parents, and Wang Xingyu used illusions and Life Drain to punish them. After killing the older son, he tested the younger boy and discovered that he, too, had bullied others.

• Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu entered the courtyard and found the couple arguing about the man’s infidelity.
• Wang Xingyu immobilized the man and restrained the woman, then used Life Drain and an illusion to make her admit she had killed a young couple years earlier.
• Wang Xingyu asked the man whether he remembered the victims, and the man dismissed them as ants before Wang Xingyu dragged him into an illusion of the people he had harmed.
• When the eight-year-old son spied through the door, Wang Xingyu killed him with a Sleeve Arrow.
• Wang Xingyu found the six-year-old hiding under a bed, initially spared him, then tested him with Illusion Creation and heard him admit to bullying others.
• Wang Xingyu concluded that every family member was a villain and withdrew the Blue Silver Grass from the younger boy.

After learning that Xiao Wu had reached level fifty, Wang Xingyu helped her develop the Rabbit Leap Meteor Soul Skill, and the pair used it to speed up their journey toward Longxing City. As they neared the city, Wang Xingyu spotted something below and asked Xiao Wu to stop.

• A guard discovered that the constable's family of four had been killed, with a strangely lush tree in their courtyard and a terrified wolfhound still alive.
• Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu set out for Longxing City in the Gulei Kingdom, traveling by secluded routes and avoiding Soul Beasts with Tang San's potion.
• Xiao Wu reached level fifty on the fourth night, and Wang Xingyu suggested a Soul Skill based on jumping through the air like a meteor.
• Xiao Wu created Rabbit Leap Meteor, which let her jump repeatedly in midair, change direction, and rely on an energy shield when she landed.
• Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu used their linked Blue Silver Grass and her new Soul Skill to travel faster, reaching the outskirts of Longxing City on the seventh evening.
• Wang Xingyu looked down from the sky and told Xiao Wu to stop.

Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu followed a group of armed men transporting villagers in cages, then helped Li Ping'an rescue them. Li Ping'an said the villagers were rumored to be destined as food for the lord of Longxing City, whom he knew had been level 49 the previous year.

• Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu followed seven private soldiers transporting villagers in cages and waited until night to confirm there were no reinforcements.
• Li Ping'an crept out of the bushes and stabbed a guard, then Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu killed the remaining guards and silenced the soldiers in their tent with a Godly Zhuge Crossbow.
• Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu introduced themselves under the names Feng Xiaotian and Huo Wu, and Li Ping'an explained that the prisoners came from a nearby village.
• Li Ping'an said the villagers were rumored to have been captured as food for the lord of Longxing City, and he estimated the lord had been level 49 last year.

Wang Xingyu, Xiao Wu, and Li Ping'an freed eight captives from a convoy and learned that people with Innate Soul Power were being taken across the Longxing City area. After the captives returned to their village, Li Ping'an invited the others to stay at his home as they prepared to investigate the city lord.

• Li Ping'an opened the cages, and Xiao Wu gave the rescued captives water while Wang Xingyu stopped the adults from bowing to them.
• The adults said the Longxing City city lord was rumored to eat captives and that the Spirit Hall Branch might be complicit.
• Li Ping'an explained that he had helped the captives because his father taught him people should help one another, and he kept his father's level a secret.
• Wang Xingyu learned that the captives included Soul Masters and children with Innate Soul Power, while ordinary people were left alone.
• The group reached a village at dawn, and Wang Xingyu left both carts with the rescued people.
• Li Ping'an invited Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu to stay at his house, and Wang Xingyu accepted.

Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu found a clue about a god in Li Family Village and stayed at Li Ping'an’s home. After an armed man attacked Wang Xingyu, Li Ping'an called him Dad, but the man insisted that he be called Uncle.

• Li Ping'an told Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu that a god had once saved the area, and suggested they ask Longxing City's collector of strange stories and old things for more information.
• Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu rested at Li Ping'an’s home, then woke around noon and helped with chores and meal preparations.
• As Wang Xingyu carried water back from the village well, a middle-aged man hurled a spear at him, and Xiao Wu stopped it with her Invincible Golden Body.
• Li Ping'an identified the attacker as his father, but the man corrected him and insisted that he be called Uncle.

Wang Xingyu learned that Li Yunzheng and Li Ping'an shared his belief in ordinary people’s importance and invited them to join the Tang Sect. Li Yunzheng refused at first, and Wang Xingyu revealed his and Xiao Wu’s strength to reassure them.

• Li Ping'an introduced Feng Xiaotian and Huo Wu to Li Yunzheng after they had helped rescue captives from Longxing City.
• Li Yunzheng explained that ordinary people were a nation’s foundation and compared their collective strength to wolves and ants.
• Li Ping'an described how competition over limited resources led to war, prompting Wang Xingyu to invite him and Li Yunzheng to join the Tang Sect.
• Wang Xingyu demonstrated the Godly Zhuge Crossbow and explained that ordinary people could use it to kill powerful Soul Masters.
• Li Yunzheng declined, but Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu released their Soul Rings to show their strength, leaving Li Ping'an stunned by Xiao Wu’s two black rings.

Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu joined Li Ping'an and Li Yunzheng in a plan to eliminate Longxing City’s corrupt city lord, Gu Kesi. They posed as captives and reached the city lord’s underground facility, where they subdued the guards and prepared to confront him.

• Li Ping'an agreed to join Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu on the condition that they eliminate Longxing City’s city lord, and Li Yunzheng agreed to accompany them.
• Li Yunzheng shared what he had learned about Gu Kesi, the Spirit Hall branch master, and the city lord’s private soldiers, and the group planned to infiltrate the manor while Li Yunzheng held off the branch master.
• Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu ambushed a new group of private soldiers, killed five with the Godly Zhuge Crossbow, and controlled the other five with Blue Silver Grass and an illusion.
• The controlled soldiers took Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu in a cage to an underground location near Longxing City, where a captain promised to bring them to Gu Kesi.
• After the soldiers mistook Xiao Wu for a man disguised as a woman, she kicked one guard into a wall while Wang Xingyu used Blue Silver Grass to control the others and opened the cage.

Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu ambushed Gu Kesi in his basement, but discovered that the lord of Longxing City had monstrous mouths and could devour people. Gu Kesi revealed his abnormal Soul Ring configuration and dragon-type Beast Martial Soul, leaving the pair facing a formidable Evil Soul Master.

• Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu pretended to be prisoners while Gu Kesi entered with the captain.
• Four disguised soldiers attacked Gu Kesi as another stabbed the captain, and Wang Xingyu fired his Godly Zhuge Crossbow at them.
• Gu Kesi survived the bolts, grew a mouth on his neck that ate Wang Xingyu's Blue Silver vine, and devoured a soldier's corpse with a mouth in his belly.
• Gu Kesi revealed five Soul Rings, including four thousand-year rings, and transformed with his dragon-type Beast Martial Soul.
• Xiao Wu struck Gu Kesi with Teleportation, Moonfall, and Invincible Golden Body, but Wang Xingyu pulled her away before Gu Kesi could grab her ankle.

Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu fought Gu Kesi in the secret chamber, countering his Black Dragon abilities and draining his Soul Power until Xiao Wu launched Rabbit Leap Meteor. Gu Kesi revealed a final hidden mouth in his abdomen and swallowed her, leaving Wang Xingyu shocked.

• Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu dodged Gu Kesi's Black Dragon Entanglement, and Xiao Wu attacked him with Waist Bow and Eight-Stage Throws.
• Gu Kesi stunned them with Black Dragon Roar and tried to trap them in an illusion, but Wang Xingyu's Head Soul Bone canceled the effect.
• Wang Xingyu used Blue Silver Grass and Life Drain while Xiao Wu maneuvered around Gu Kesi, gradually exhausting him.
• Xiao Wu launched Rabbit Leap Meteor at Gu Kesi, who opened a gigantic mouth in his abdomen and swallowed her.

Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu fought Gu Kesi until Xiao Wu escaped from his belly, but Gu Kesi’s Third Martial Soul knocked Wang Xingyu and himself unconscious. Wang Xingyu awoke in a soul battlefield shaped from his memories, where Gu Kesi revealed that he intended to kill him and claim his soul.

• Wang Xingyu used his Godly Zhuge Crossbow and Blue Silver Grass against Gu Kesi while Xiao Wu fought from inside his belly.
• Xiao Wu escaped by using Rabbit Leap Meteor and filled Gu Kesi’s open belly with stones from her Storage Soul Tool.
• Wang Xingyu transferred Xiao Wu’s Invincible Golden Body and Moonfall Soul Skills to himself and attacked Gu Kesi, who released a humanoid phantom that knocked them both unconscious.
• Li Yunzheng entered the chamber after the Spirit Hall Branch master was defeated and checked on Wang Xingyu while Xiao Wu explained what had happened.
• Wang Xingyu awoke beside Gu Kesi in a soul battlefield joining his former home’s courtyard with the underground chamber, and Gu Kesi revealed his Third Martial Soul was Soul.

On the soul battlefield, Wang Xingyu discovered that he could create weapons by imagining them and used modern firearms to overwhelm Gu Kesi. After killing Gu Kesi more than a hundred times, Wang Xingyu noticed his opponent’s thinking weakening and wondered whether victory would give him Gu Kesi’s abilities.

• Gu Kesi conjured a blade and stabbed Wang Xingyu, but the battlefield reset them to their starting positions afterward.
• Wang Xingyu realized he could summon imagined weapons, blocked Gu Kesi with a shield, and wounded him with a pistol.
• Wang Xingyu created a Gatling gun and repeatedly shot Gu Kesi, discovering that the weapons had to follow physics and that he needed to understand how they worked.
• Wang Xingyu killed Gu Kesi more than a hundred times, and Gu Kesi’s reactions and ability to think gradually deteriorated.
• Wang Xingyu wondered whether killing Gu Kesi would let him acquire everything Gu Kesi possessed.

Wang Xingyu woke after defeating Gu Kesi in the Soul Battlefield and learned from his memories how Gu Kesi had gained his Martial Souls and stolen Soul Power. He shared a legend and a riddle that could lead to the Goddess of Life’s legacy, then began considering what ordinary clue had been before them all along.

• Wang Xingyu woke from his two-day unconsciousness, reassured Xiao Wu, and explained that he had defeated Gu Kesi in the Soul Battlefield.
• Wang Xingyu recalled Gu Kesi’s memories, learning about his Soul Martial Soul, his stolen Martial Souls, and an evil technique for taking Soul Power and memories.
• Xiao Wu confirmed that Gu Kesi was dead, and Wang Xingyu ate before sharing the legend of a giant tree that had saved the land from monsters.
• Wang Xingyu recited a riddle about foreign enemies, two peoples sharing a river, and a nearby door, then interpreted it as a clue to peaceful coexistence between two races.
• Wang Xingyu began searching his memories of their journey for the ordinary sign that might reveal the giant tree’s legacy.

Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu activated a hidden passage beneath the broken statue and entered a forest filled with powerful beasts and a purer source of energy. They followed the Blue Silver Grass’s sense of a strong life presence deeper into the forest.

• Wang Xingyu buried Gu Kesi and decided to give Gu Kesi’s Head Soul Bone to Rongrong, while telling Xiao Wu to wait for her own Soul Bone.
• Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu dripped their blood onto the broken statue, activating a field of warped light that transported them away.
• Li Ping'an arrived as the pair vanished, catching the shovel Xiao Wu had thrown to him.
• Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu escaped a twenty-thousand-year-old blue tiger and learned that the forest’s creatures were powerful despite the absence of Soul Power.
• Wang Xingyu sensed a strong life presence ahead, and the two continued into the forest while Xiao Wu used her Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast presence to ward off weaker creatures.

Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu reached the Sacred Forest of Life and learned that they could attempt the Goddess of Life's trial. A deacon disqualified Wang Xingyu for killing people who could not fight back, and Xiao Wu angrily refused to take the trial without him.

• Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu met elves at the forest gate and explained how they had found the Sacred Forest of Life.
• An elf guided them through the gate, explained that the forest's energy was called Force, and brought them to the Ancient Tree of Life and its deacons.
• A male deacon said Wang Xingyu could not participate and that Xiao Wu barely qualified despite lacking the life attribute.
• The deacon accused Wang Xingyu of killing defenseless people, and Wang Xingyu defended his choices by citing the danger to those around him.
• Wang Xingyu accepted that he had lost the chance to take the trial, and Xiao Wu declared that she would not participate either.

Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu gained permission to take the Goddess of Life’s trials, and their fused Martial Souls raised Wang Xingyu’s assessment from Black Level Five to Red Level Eight. A mysterious green seed entered Wang Xingyu and transported him to an empty space, where a gentle voice greeted him as a traveler from another world.

• Lingxi offered to ask the High Priest to let Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu take the assessment, but the High Priest’s voice immediately granted them permission.
• Wang Xingyu touched the Ancient Tree of Life’s offshoot and received a Black Level Five assessment.
• Wang Xingyu linked his Martial Soul with Xiao Wu’s and fused their Martial Souls, causing the assessment’s light to rise from black to green across nine branches before settling at Red Level Eight.
• A green seed drifted from the Ancient Tree of Life and flew into Wang Xingyu’s forehead after he asked what it was.
• Wang Xingyu awoke in a boundless unfamiliar space, where a gentle female voice called him a traveler from another world.

Wang Xingyu met the Goddess of Life, learned why he could not inherit her Nine Trials, and received a mark granting him limited powers and access to her space. He returned to Xiao Wu and Lingxi, discovering that Xiao Wu had also received a trial mark and would take the trials with him.

• The Goddess of Life told Wang Xingyu that his talent was insufficient for her Nine Trials and that Destruction would also be needed for an inheritance.
• The Goddess of Life gave Wang Xingyu a mark with God-Level Healing, God-Level Purification, and the ability to communicate with her, though his current level was too low to use most of its powers.
• Wang Xingyu returned to Xiao Wu and Lingxi and explained that the mark let them teleport together by touching his forehead.
• Xiao Wu revealed a red leaf-shaped mark on her forehead, and Wang Xingyu concluded that she had been drawn into the trials with him.
• Lingxi watched Wang Xingyu with a complicated expression after learning he had met the Goddess of Life and seemed unimpressed by the Red Level Eight Trials.

Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu began the Goddess of Life’s First Trial, which tested Wang Xingyu’s conviction through a trolley-problem illusion. After they passed the first test, they entered a forest where poisoned people confronted an Evil Soul Master who claimed only he had the antidote.

• Lingxi started the trial, and Wang Xingyu found himself facing an illusion in which he had to choose whether to divert a runaway carriage from five people toward one.
• Wang Xingyu refused to divert the carriage, even when the five people became children, explaining to Xiao Wu that lives could not be weighed by numbers.
• The illusion vanished, and Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu appeared above a forest with their Soul Power restored.
• They landed between a poisoned group and an Evil Soul Master, who said he would withhold the antidote unless they let him go.