Chapter Summaries

After the System awakened, Han Yu planned to leave Nuoding Academy and find a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast to fulfill its mission. He began disciplining Tang San and Xiao Wu in class, and Xiao Wu challenged his account of their absences.

• Yu Xiaogang tried to stop Dean of Studies Han Yu from punishing Tang San, but Han Yu insisted that Tang San and Xiao Wu had repeatedly skipped class.
• The System finished binding and tasked Han Yu with obtaining a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring for his fourth ring within half a year in exchange for a second Martial Soul and an upgrade.
• Han Yu considered searching for a suitable Soul Beast to persuade into sacrificing itself, while keeping Xiao Wu as a dangerous fallback because Tang Hao protected her.
• Han Yu asked Martial Soul Branch Hall master Alto to watch for information about Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.
• In class, Han Yu ordered Tang San and Xiao Wu outside and threatened expulsion, citing their twenty-eight absences and repeated disrespect toward teachers.
• Xiao Wu refused to accept the punishment, claiming they had been delayed by the Grandmaster's training and had asked for leave.

Han Yu challenged Tang San’s faith in Yu Xiaogang’s theories, then beat Yu Xiaogang unconscious after he stormed into the Academic Affairs Office. Dean Pei Feng backed Han Yu and told him that Alto had news of a rampaging Hundred-Thousand-Year Fire Cloud Crane in the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Han Yu questioned Tang San’s loyalty to Yu Xiaogang and pointed out flaws in Yu Xiaogang’s Martial Soul theories, but Tang San left with Xiao Wu still defending his teacher.
• Yu Xiaogang confronted Han Yu in the Academic Affairs Office and flipped his desk, so Han Yu summoned his Martial Soul and overpowered him.
• Han Yu used Continuous Strike to beat Yu Xiaogang unconscious before Dean Pei Feng arrived and ended the incident without punishing Han Yu.
• Pei Feng told Han Yu that Alto had reported the Hundred-Thousand-Year Fire Cloud Crane was rampaging in the Star Dou Great Forest as if searching for something.

Han Yu went to the Star Dou Great Forest to seek the Hundred-Thousand-Year Fire Cloud Crane, hoping to obtain its soul ring and survive his system mission. He persuaded the beast that sacrificing itself to him could eventually let it become a Divine Beast, and the chapter ended before it answered.

• Pei Feng told Han Yu that the Fire Cloud Crane had reached the hundred-thousand-year level a thousand years earlier and encouraged him to study it as paid research leave.
• Han Yu traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest and entered the restricted Soul Beast Town using his advancement as an excuse.
• Han Yu followed the forest’s outer edge to the Fire Cloud Crane and shouted that he knew its Heavenly Tribulation was approaching and could help it.
• Han Yu explained that the Crane’s injuries would likely prevent it from surviving the tribulation and warned that transforming would leave it vulnerable to enemies.
• Han Yu offered to revive the Crane in the God Realm if it sacrificed itself to him, promising it could become a true Divine Beast.

Han Yu persuaded the Hundred-Thousand-Year Fire Cloud Crane to Sacrifice itself, promising to revive it in the God Realm. After absorbing the Soul Ring and gaining new rewards from his system, Han Yu fled deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest as powerful factions searched for him.

• Han Yu reminded the Fire Cloud Crane of its oath and promised to revive it after becoming a Divine Being, convincing it to Sacrifice itself.
• The Fire Cloud Crane began its Sacrifice, and its blood-red light drew the attention of experts across the continent, including Xue Qinghe, who ordered Snake Grandpa and Pufferfish Grandpa to find the recipient.
• Han Yu completed the absorption and received a red Soul Ring, a Soul Bone, a Fire Cloud Crane Hatchling, a Soul Guidance Ring, the Fallen Heart Flame, and a boost to Level 46.
• Han Yu stored the hatchling and Soul Bone, then fled deeper into the forest to absorb the Fallen Heart Flame and escape the approaching forces.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin confirmed that a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast had Sacrificed itself, then left as Chrysanthemum Ghost Douluo arrived and pursued them.

Han Yu absorbed the Hundred-Thousand-Year Fire Cloud Crane's Soul Bone and prepared to refine the Fallen Heart Flame. At Nuoding Academy, Yu Xiaogang blamed Han Yu for his injuries, prompting Tang San to plot a secret attack, while Han Yu reached level fifty and began absorbing the Heavenly Flame.

• Han Yu used the Fallen Heart Flame to compress his Soul Power, then began absorbing the Hundred-Thousand-Year Fire Cloud Crane's left arm bone in a hidden cave.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu found Yu Xiaogang injured in his dormitory, and Yu Xiaogang claimed Han Yu had beaten him after losing a debate.
• Tang San apologized to Yu Xiaogang and vowed to avenge him, but Yu Xiaogang stopped him from attacking Han Yu openly.
• Tang San secretly decided to ambush Han Yu with Hidden Weapons, while he and Xiao Wu left Yu Xiaogang Gold Soul Coins for treatment.
• After two days, Han Yu woke with his Soul Power at level fifty and began absorbing the Fallen Heart Flame, enduring its heat as it entered his body.

Han Yu survived refining the Heart Fire and recovered with Ye Lingling’s healing, discovering that he had fully refined the Heavenly Flames and reached Soul Power Level 50. After meeting Ye Lingling in the cave, he offered to help her obtain a Soul Ring and bring her to his academy, and they stayed behind to wait for a twenty-thousand-year Armored Boar to leave.

• Han Yu endured the Heart Fire’s pain until he lost consciousness, then gradually healed under a gentle power.
• Han Yu awoke to Ye Lingling’s scream, dressed after realizing the Heavenly Flames had burned his clothes, and introduced himself.
• Han Yu checked his status and learned that he had fully refined the Heavenly Flames and reached Level 50.
• Ye Lingling explained that Grandma Wu had drawn Soul Beasts away while protecting her, and that she had fled into the cave.
• Han Yu offered to help Ye Lingling obtain her third Soul Ring and attend his academy instead of going to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Han Yu and Ye Lingling decided to cultivate in the cave for a few days until the Armored Boar left.

Han Yu gave Ye Lingling a wisp of the Fallen Heart Flame’s Heart Fire to help her cultivate, then agreed to help her obtain a Soul Ring. They left the cave and headed toward Teak Spirit Vines in the Star Dou Great Forest, while Han Yu also planned to seek his fifth Soul Ring.

• Han Yu offered Ye Lingling a wisp of Sub-fire, and the system modified it to adapt safely to her plant-type body.
• Ye Lingling endured the Heart Fire’s pain as Han Yu placed it in her dantian and helped it establish itself there.
• After Han Yu recovered, he proposed helping Ye Lingling obtain a Soul Ring before seeking his own fifth Soul Ring.
• Han Yu advised Ye Lingling to aim for a healing plant-type Soul Beast and consider a Soul Ring of around fifteen hundred years.
• Ye Lingling said her family had learned of Teak Spirit Vines in the outer Star Dou Great Forest and offered to lead Han Yu to them.

Ye Lingling absorbed a Teak Spirit Vine soul ring while Han Yu guarded her, but Qin Li and three Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect disciples arrived and tried to take her. Han Yu drew Qin Li away from the vines and killed him with his mysterious finger snaps.

• Han Yu guarded Ye Lingling as she absorbed a Teak Spirit Vine soul ring, while injured soul beasts came to the vines for treatment.
• Qin Li and three Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect disciples arrived, and one of them recognized Ye Lingling’s Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul.
• Qin Li demanded that Han Yu hand over Ye Lingling, but Han Yu refused and led her away from the Teak Spirit Vine gathering area.
• Han Yu stopped to fight Qin Li and caused the elder to clutch his chest and collapse with a finger snap.
• The disciples buffed Qin Li, but Han Yu snapped his fingers again and made the elder spontaneously combust.

After Ye Lingling revealed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s centuries-long persecution of her family, Han Yu promised to protect her and took her to hunt for his own Soul Ring. The chapter ended as he began fighting a twenty-six-thousand-year-old Flame Fire Fierce Flying Bird.

• Han Yu killed Elder Qin, and Ye Lingling used her power to erase the three remaining Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect disciples.
• Ye Lingling explained that the Ning Family had hunted Nine Heart Begonia Soul Masters for nearly a thousand years to prevent the Martial Soul from breaking its inheritance limits.
• Han Yu reassured Ye Lingling that he would protect her, then left with her to avoid the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect learning of the killings.
• Three days later, Han Yu found a twenty-six-thousand-year-old Flame Fire Fierce Flying Bird and prepared to absorb its Soul Ring.
• Han Yu activated Treading Flame and attacked with Fire Cloud Waltz Staff as the bird rose and unleashed a sea of flames.

Han Yu defeated a Flame Fire Fierce Flying Bird and was confronted by three Clear Sky Sect disciples seeking its supposed Soul Bone and his valuables. After they attacked him, Han Yu prepared to end the fight with Fallen Heart Flame.

• Han Yu used his Fire Cloud Crane flames to defeat the Flame Fire Fierce Flying Bird, with Ye Lingling healing him afterward.
• Tang Li explained that he and Tang Xun and Tang Bing were searching for the person who absorbed a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, hoping to seize their Soul Bone for the Seventh Elder.
• Han Yu set off with the bird’s corpse to return to the cave, but Tang Li and his companions blocked his way and demanded a Soul Bone and valuables.
• Tang Xun threatened Ye Lingling, and the three Clear Sky Sect disciples summoned their Clear Sky Hammers and attacked Han Yu with Chaotic Cloak.
• Han Yu declared that he was done playing and prepared to use Fallen Heart Flame against the three Soul Kings.

Han Yu absorbed the Flame Fire Fierce Flying Bird’s Soul Ring, reached level fifty-four, and gained an External Soul Bone while the Clear Sky Sect searched for the people who killed Tang Li and the others. After Ye Lingling warned him that Seventh Elder Tang Lie was hunting them, Han Yu left the cave with her to escape the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Han Yu recovered in the cave while Ye Lingling guarded him, and the next morning Seventh Elder Tang Lie and Tang Wen investigated the scene where Tang Li and the others had disappeared.
• Tang Lie and Tang Wen followed footprints to the Flame Fire Fierce Flying Bird’s territory, then searched near Han Yu’s hidden cave without finding him or the missing corpse.
• Han Yu fought off the bird’s remnant soul while absorbing its Soul Ring, and Ye Lingling kept watch as Tang Lie ordered a sweeping hunt for the killers.
• By nightfall, Han Yu’s Soul Power had stabilized at level fifty-four, and he discovered that the Soul Ring had also given him an External Soul Bone in the form of fiery wings.
• Ye Lingling told Han Yu about Tang Lie’s search, so Han Yu took her hand and hurried out of the cave to leave the Star Dou Great Forest.

Tang San learned that Yu Xiaogang planned to send him and Xiao Wu to Shrek Academy after they graduated from Nuoding Academy. Meanwhile, Han Yu and Ye Lingling encountered Tang Lie near Soul Beast Town, and Han Yu stopped their pursuer with Heart Fire.

• Tang San told Xiao Wu he had been cultivating in the woods while searching for Han Yu, and she brought him to Yu Xiaogang to discuss graduation.
• Yu Xiaogang recommended Shrek Academy, explaining that it accepted gifted students under thirteen, and told Tang San and Xiao Wu to prepare for their graduation exams.
• Han Yu and Ye Lingling neared Soul Beast Town, where Tang Lie blocked their road and accused them of killing Li'er.
• Han Yu fled with Ye Lingling into the forest while Tang Lie pursued them with his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Han Yu released flames as he ran and used Fallen Heart Flame to form a Heart Fire inside Tang Lie, making him stop in pain.

Han Yu and Ye Lingling escaped Tang Lie with the help of Golden Crocodile Douluo, who punished the Clear Sky Sect elder for threatening his granddaughter. After returning to Soul Beast Town, Han Yu rented a carriage to take them back to the academy, though he distrusted the driver.

• Han Yu burned Tang Lie with the Heavenly Flames and fled with Ye Lingling, but the injured elder pursued them.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo shielded his granddaughter and deflected Tang Lie’s attack, allowing Han Yu and Ye Lingling to escape.
• Golden Crocodile severed Tang Lie’s right hand and ordered him to leave the forest, warning that Spirit Hall would target the Clear Sky Sect if its members returned.
• Han Yu and Ye Lingling returned to Soul Beast Town, rented rooms, and prepared a carriage for the journey to the academy.
• The carriage driver offered to speed up, and Han Yu warned him not to put his head inside without permission.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Han Yu awakens a juvenile Fire Cloud Crane, deciding to raise it despite the slow cultivation pace of soul beasts.
• They encounter a Soul Ring Carriage, a trap set by bandits to kill and rob Soul Masters.
• Han Yu and Ye Lingling are targeted, but Han Yu easily defeats the bandits, destroying the carriage.
• They arrive at Nuoding City, where Han Yu is recognized and respected by the guards.
• Han Yu and Ye Lingling arrive at Nuoding Academy, revealing it to be a Junior Soul Master Academy.

Character Developments

• Han Yu demonstrates his power and nonchalance in the face of danger, showing his confidence and calmness.
• Ye Lingling shows curiosity and surprise at the events unfolding, and later shock at the revelation of the academy's level.

Significant Themes

• The slow cultivation pace of soul beasts and the lack of interest in keeping them as pets on the Douluo Continent.
• The dangers and schemes faced by travelers, such as the Soul Ring Carriage trap.
• The importance of power and status, as seen in the guards' respect for Han Yu.

Character Interactions

• Han Yu and Ye Lingling interact as teacher and student, with Han Yu showing care for Ye Lingling's safety and comfort during the journey.
• Han Yu interacts with the guards, showing familiarity and respect, while the guards show deference to him.
• Han Yu's reaction to Ye Lingling's shock at the academy's level hints at his embarrassment and possible regret for not clarifying the academy's status earlier.

Han Yu returned to the academy with Ye Lingling, arranged for her to stay and teach, and disciplined Tang San for skipping class. Tang San vowed to kill Han Yu and waited near his dormitory, while the Ten Thousand Fires System ordered Han Yu to cripple Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass martial soul within a month.

• Han Yu brought Ye Lingling to Dean Pei Feng, who approved her as a teacher and assigned her a dormitory beside Han Yu’s.
• Han Yu reviewed complaints about Tang San and Xiao Wu’s absences and placed them on academic probation.
• Tang San demanded that Han Yu apologize to Yu Xiaogang, but Han Yu and the teachers rejected his accusations, and Tang San stormed out.
• The Ten Thousand Fires System gave Han Yu one month to cripple Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass martial soul, with the loss of his Second Martial Soul as the penalty for failure.
• Tang San hid near Han Yu’s dormitory and learned from Mo Hen that Ye Lingling was a new Healing-Type Soul Master with a begonia-flower martial soul.

Han Yu ambushed Tang San, burned and sealed his Blue Silver Emperor bloodline, and completed his mission before cultivating the Burning Art overnight. Tang San woke injured after a cultivation mishap, and Yu Xiaogang brought the new Healing-Type Soul Master Ye Lingling to treat him.

• Tang San attacked Han Yu with poisoned Hidden Weapons, but Han Yu caught the arrows and subdued him with the Heavenly Flames.
• Han Yu burned Tang San's Blue Silver Grass and sealed his Blue Silver Emperor bloodline, completing his mission while leaving Tang San alive.
• Han Yu cultivated the Burning Art overnight, reached Level 58 Soul Power, and suppressed it to Level 56.
• Tang San woke on the Seventh Dorm roof and injured his burned meridians when he circulated Soul Power, then fell onto Xiao Wu and lost consciousness.
• After Tang San woke in Yu Xiaogang's room, he asked Xiao Wu to find the new Healing-Type Soul Master, and Yu Xiaogang brought Ye Lingling to him.

Ye Lingling treated Tang San's severe injuries, then argued with him and Yu Xiaogang when they refused to pay her fee. After learning from Han Yu that Yu Xiaogang was not an academy teacher, she resolved to avoid them, while Yu Xiaogang planned to recruit her as Tang San's future teammate.

• Ye Lingling healed more than half of Tang San's injuries and asked Yu Xiaogang for five hundred Gold Soul Coins, but Tang San and Xiao Wu objected and she left without payment.
• Yu Xiaogang decided to recruit Ye Lingling as a future teammate for Tang San and claimed his theories could help her become a powerful healer.
• Ye Lingling told Han Yu about treating Tang San, and he revealed that Yu Xiaogang was an outcast of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan rather than an academy teacher.
• Han Yu warned Ye Lingling about Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, but she declined his offer to intervene over the unpaid fee.

Han Yu dismissed Yu Xiaogang’s attempt to recruit Ye Lingling, then Tang San tried to enlist her help and persuade her to join Shrek Academy. Ye Lingling rejected both requests and headed to class, leaving Tang San convinced he simply had not explained Shrek’s advantages well enough.

• Han Yu warned Ye Lingling about Yu Xiaogang, then mocked Yu Xiaogang’s theories and challenged him to debate their originality.
• Ye Lingling asked Han Yu about Yu Xiaogang, and Han Yu said the academy’s readers scoffed at his theories.
• Tang San recovered enough to walk but still felt pain while cultivating, and he blamed Han Yu for his condition.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu went to Ye Lingling’s dormitory to ask her to treat him, but Ye Lingling refused and left for class.
• Tang San invited Ye Lingling to join Shrek Academy and claimed its top student had become Spirit Hall’s youngest elder, but Ye Lingling dismissed the claim and walked away.
• Xiao Wu suggested leaving the matter to Yu Xiaogang, while Tang San decided he had not explained Shrek Academy’s advantages clearly enough.

Yu Xiaogang confronted Ye Lingling over refusing to treat Tang San, but the academy’s teachers and students condemned him for demanding treatment after defaulting on the fee. Meanwhile, Han Yu presented his martial soul research at Spirit Hall, where scholars questioned his findings and conjectures.

• Yu Xiaogang barged into Ye Lingling’s classroom and demanded she stop teaching to treat Tang San.
• Mo Hen, Teacher Huang, and the students told Yu Xiaogang to leave, criticizing him for refusing to pay Ye Lingling’s five hundred Gold Soul Coins.
• Han Yu and Dean Pei Feng visited Spirit Hall in Nuoding City to publish Han Yu’s martial soul research.
• Han Yu explained his theory that Blue Silver Grass Soul Masters could become healers, citing the healing vines of the Blue Silver Grass clan’s king.
• Han Yu told the scholars that his conjectures about Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts and their Soul Rings and Soul Bones came from an ancient book, though he could not confirm them.

Han Yu decided to teach Yu Xiaogang a lesson after hearing that Yu had disrupted Ye Lingling’s class, and he left Yu naked and bound in Nuoding City’s square. Yu was arrested amid public ridicule, while Tang San rushed to seek help and Pei Feng disowned Yu on behalf of the academy.

• Lord Alto praised Han Yu’s theories and offered to recommend him as an instructor at Spirit Hall Academy, while Pei Feng told Han Yu he was free to leave when ready.
• Teacher Huang reported that Yu Xiaogang had interrupted Ye Lingling’s class and tried to take her away, and Han Yu decided to punish him.
• Han Yu checked that Ye Lingling was unharmed and considered forming his own team or academy after leaving Nuoding Academy.
• Han Yu drugged Yu Xiaogang with water, knocked him unconscious, and bound him naked to a pillar in Nuoding City’s square.
• The crowd mocked Yu Xiaogang, and city guards arrested him before Tang San could rescue him.
• Pei Feng told City Lord Xiao Zhan that Yu Xiaogang no longer had anything to do with the academy.