Chapter Summaries

Li Chang'an defeated Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan during Qian Renxue’s inspection of Heaven Dou Royal Academy, giving her grounds to interfere in the academy’s affairs. Before leaving, he secretly planted Soul Power in Xue Beng and then shared an intimate moment with Qian Renxue in their carriage.

• Li Chang'an used the Eastern Emperor Bell to overwhelm Yu Tianheng, then neutralized Dugu Yan’s poison with realgar liquor and knocked her out of the arena.
• Li Chang'an defeated two more opponents before Meng Shenji stopped the battles, and Qian Renxue announced she would report the academy’s problems to the Emperor and seek reforms.
• Qian Renxue departed with her team after meeting Prince Wang and Xue Beng, while Li Chang'an secretly planted a strand of his Soul Power in Xue Beng.
• Li Chang'an explained to himself that he could use the planted Soul Power to kill Xue Beng if Qian Renxue failed to take the throne.
• In the carriage, Qian Renxue thanked Li Chang'an and offered to help him once more, but resisted his suggestion that they become intimate there.

Li Chang'an returned to Spirit City after meeting Bai Xue and giving her the iron-smelting technology, then planned a Valentine's Day outing with Bibi Dong. His plans became complicated when Muxi and his Senior Sister also invited him to the same exhibition.

• Li Chang'an met Bai Xue at a hotel, spent the night with her, and gave her the promised iron-smelting technology after she reported that her plans had succeeded.
• Li Chang'an returned to Spirit City and learned that the next day was its once-every-four-years Valentine's Day.
• Li Chang'an chose the Soul Master Souvenir Exhibition Hall and persuaded Bibi Dong to accompany him the next morning.
• Muxi invited Li Chang'an to the same exhibition, but he took her tickets and arranged to go with her in the afternoon.
• Li Chang'an's Senior Sister knocked on his door and invited him to the exhibition the next morning.

Li Chang'an arranged a full day of outings at the Soul Master Memorial Museum so he could spend time with Bibi Dong, Muxi, and Hu Liena on Valentine's Day. After visiting the museum with Bibi Dong and Muxi, he used the Eastern Emperor Bell to return to his room and prepare for his evening date with Hu Liena.

• Li Chang'an paid the museum boss fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins to keep the museum open all day and have its staff pretend not to recognize him.
• Li Chang'an brought Bibi Dong breakfast and spent the morning touring the museum with her before they ate barbecue together.
• Li Chang'an changed clothes and used green tangerine peel to mask Bibi Dong's fragrance before taking Muxi to barbecue and the museum.
• Li Chang'an watched Muxi leave, used the Eastern Emperor Bell's Space Break ability to return to his room, and changed clothes for his next outing.
• Li Chang'an met Hu Liena, who asked whether they should go eat barbecue, and he began the museum guide routine again.

After shopping with Hu Liena, Li Chang'an walked her back, kissed her, and promised they could date when he turned sixteen. Back at the hotel, he reviewed his System and realized he needed to become famous through Soul Arena battles and major tournaments to overcome his points shortage.

• Li Chang'an declined Hu Liena's invitation to spend the night together, saying he needed to visit his returning parents, but offered to walk her back.
• Li Chang'an bought Hu Liena flowers and told her he would make her his girlfriend when he turned sixteen.
• Li Chang'an kissed Hu Liena before leaving her at her lodging, while using his Mental Power to check that nobody he knew was nearby.
• Back at the hotel, Li Chang'an checked his System and worried that advancing his strength had made its fruits and upgrades too expensive.
• Li Chang'an decided that Soul Arena matches and nationwide competitions could earn him points by drawing large audiences and making him famous.

Ling Chang'an used the Pangu Axe's overwhelming aura to frighten the Rakshasa God's lingering will into stopping its interference with his teacher's mind. He entered the Rakshasa Tower to reach her, then began clearing the first floor with his Critical Hit Three-Strike Axe.

• Ling Chang'an summoned the Pangu Axe, which suppressed the Rakshasa God's lingering will and earned him repeated point bonuses.
• Ling Chang'an ordered the purple mist to stop disrupting his teacher's state of mind, and it agreed but said it could not grant her inheritance directly.
• The purple mist told Ling Chang'an that his teacher was on the second floor, then sent him to the first floor of the Rakshasa Tower.
• Ling Chang'an found his Soul Power and soul skills sealed and faced more than a dozen powerful black baboon-like beasts.
• Ling Chang'an used his Critical Hit Three-Strike Axe to split through two baboons in a single attack.

Ling Chang'an cultivated in the Rakshasa God’s hidden space, reaching level fifty and forcing Xia Ji to compensate him before he left for the second floor. There, he found Bibi Dong struggling against a horde of black creatures.

• Xia Ji and Ba Che Dan brought Ling Chang'an to the hidden cultivation space and left him there for two days.
• Ling Chang'an’s Soul Core absorbed Heaven and Earth Essence at an extreme rate, raising his Soul Power to level fifty in one day.
• Xia Ji begged Ling Chang'an to leave after he depleted much of the space’s refined essence, but Ling Chang'an demanded compensation for leaving early.
• Ling Chang'an used his Stare-and-Poop skill to make Xia Ji surrender another treasure, then took the teleportation array to the second floor.
• Bibi Dong fought a horde of black stone-like creatures while injured and unable to use Soul Power or soul skills.

Ling Chang'an defeated the Red-Eyed Baboons and the first-floor overseers, Xia Ji and Bachedan, using his axe and a system-granted skill. He demanded the promised reward: two days of cultivation in a place rich in Heaven and Earth Essence.

• Ling Chang'an killed six Red-Eyed Baboons with his Critical Hit Three-Strike Axe, then held the remaining baboons at bay despite his injured arms.
• Xia Ji and Bachedan introduced themselves as the first-floor overseers and offered to double Ling Chang'an's reward if he defeated either of them.
• Ling Chang'an accepted their challenge and learned that the reward was two days of cultivation in the densest Heaven and Earth Essence, equivalent to two years of hard cultivation.
• Ling Chang'an used Stare-and-Poop to make Xia Ji and Bachedan crouch and poop, then punched both into a wall while they were vulnerable.
• Ling Chang'an stopped the brothers' emotional exchange and ordered them to take him to cultivate once they finished pooping.

Bibi Dong struggled to break through the stone men on the second floor until Li Chang'an arrived, rescued and healed her, and tested the defenses himself. He left Bibi Dong with a plan to manipulate the stone men into an unstable formation and collapse it by breaking one point.

• Bibi Dong fought the stone men but could not create an opening wide enough to reach the third-floor entrance.
• Li Chang'an arrived, carried Bibi Dong away from the advancing stone men, and covered her with his robe.
• Li Chang'an gave Bibi Dong a leaf from the Hundred Fragrance Herb, and it healed her wounds.
• Li Chang'an attacked the stone men with the Pangu Axe, but they quickly filled the gaps he made.
• Li Chang'an proposed shaping the stone men into an unstable parallelogram so that one broken point would make the formation collapse.

Li Chang'an escaped an illusion and found Bibi Dong trapped in a scene of her deepest trauma. He entered her illusion, comforted her, and challenged the men who had hurt her, causing the illusion to collapse.

• Li Chang'an rejected an illusion of Bibi Dong and used a mantra to return to the grassland.
• Li Chang'an found Bibi Dong suffering in her own illusion and persuaded Zi Wu to let him enter, despite the risk of being trapped.
• Li Chang'an entered the illusion and found Bibi Dong facing Yu Xiaogang and Qian Xunji as they accused and tormented her.
• Li Chang'an held Bibi Dong, reassured her that she was not at fault, and condemned Yu Xiaogang and Qian Xunji.
• Bibi Dong's illusion collapsed as Li Chang'an comforted her.

Ling Chang'an reshaped the stone men’s formation to collapse it, allowing him and Bibi Dong to clear the second floor and receive a reward that increased each of their Soul Rings’ ages by ten thousand years. On the third floor, an illusion separated them and revealed Ling Chang'an’s deepest desires, leaving him confronted by a seductive vision of Hu Liena and other women.

• Ling Chang'an reshaped the stone men into a parallelogram and destroyed the central stone man, causing the formation to collapse.
• Ling Chang'an took Bibi Dong’s hand and led her to the exit before the stone men reformed.
• The trial voice awarded both challengers a ten-thousand-year increase to the age of every Soul Ring they possessed.
• Ling Chang'an and Bibi Dong entered the third floor, where a voice instructed them to escape an illusion within one hour.
• Bibi Dong explained that they had to overcome the desire or fear represented by the illusion, and the scene changed after Ling Chang'an looked at her.
• Ling Chang'an found himself alone in a golden hall filled with women from his life, where Hu Liena knelt and beckoned him seductively.

Li Chang'an and Bibi Dong confronted the hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast Thousand Transformations, which changed forms to attack them. After they subdued it, Thousand Transformations offered to sacrifice itself as Li Chang'an's soul ring, leaving him unsure what to make of the offer.

• Bibi Dong agreed to help Li Chang'an subdue Thousand Transformations and protected him from a barrage of steel spines.
• Thousand Transformations changed from a giant cactus into an eagle and then a golden dragon, but Bibi Dong's domain restricted its attacks.
• Thousand Transformations transformed into a fast green bird and rushed toward Li Chang'an, prompting Bibi Dong to release her Soul-Devouring Spider Emperor martial soul.
• Li Chang'an used the Eastern Emperor Bell to evade the bird and briefly stun it, allowing Bibi Dong to pierce and subdue Thousand Transformations.
• Thousand Transformations offered to sacrifice itself as Li Chang'an's soul ring, and Li Chang'an wondered why it had agreed so readily.

After clearing the third floor of the Rakshasa Tower, Li Chang'an and Bibi Dong returned to the desert and learned that a mysterious Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast lived there. Li Chang'an decided he wanted the beast as his Soul Ring.

• Bibi Dong recovered from the illusion, and Li Chang'an reassured her that he would always stay by her side as they let their relationship develop naturally.
• Li Chang'an learned that only Soul Masters above Soul Saint rank could enter the fourth floor, but he and Bibi Dong received a one-level increase to their Mental Power as the third-floor reward.
• Li Chang'an and Bibi Dong returned to an oasis in the northeastern Heaven Dou Empire, where Bibi Dong sensed a terrifying killing intent in the desert.
• Bibi Dong recalled ancient records describing Thousand Transformations, a long-unseen Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast capable of many transformations.
• Li Chang'an told Bibi Dong that he wanted Thousand Transformations as his Soul Ring.

Li Chang'an accepted Thousand Transformations' sacrifice, reached level fifty-three, and absorbed the Soul Beast's Hundred-Thousand-Year Head Soul Bone. After stabilizing his cultivation, he demonstrated that the Soul Bone let him transform into Bibi Dong.

• Li Chang'an agreed to Thousand Transformations' sacrifice and promised to restore his freedom if he became a god.
• Thousand Transformations sacrificed himself, leaving behind a Head Soul Bone that Bibi Dong kept for Li Chang'an.
• The sacrifice raised Li Chang'an to level fifty-three, and Bibi Dong gave him the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bone to absorb.
• Li Chang'an absorbed the Soul Bone, gained another level and a half, and spent half a day stabilizing his cultivation with Bibi Dong's guidance.
• Li Chang'an transformed his appearance and voice to match Bibi Dong, then told her his Soul Bone could do much more.

Li Chang'an demonstrated the Thousand Transformations Soul Beast’s soul skills to Bibi Dong, showing how he could disguise himself, transform his Martial Spirit, and create perfectly controlled clones. As they flew back to Spirit City, Bibi Dong opened up about her lingering pain, and Li Chang'an promised to always stay by her side.

• Li Chang'an copied Bibi Dong’s appearance, aura, and Soul Rings to demonstrate his Head Soul Bone’s disguise skills.
• Li Chang'an used his fifth Soul Ring to transform the Pangu Axe into a longbow and then a Gatling gun, firing bullets condensed from Soul Power.
• Li Chang'an created two Mirror Image Doppelgangers and explained how he could divide his Soul Power between them without waste.
• Li Chang'an dismissed his clones and took Bibi Dong’s hand as they set off for Spirit City.
• Bibi Dong thanked Li Chang'an and admitted that she still struggled to move on from her past.
• Li Chang'an promised Bibi Dong that he would always be with her, and she accepted his words with a smile.

After returning to Spirit City, Li Chang'an spent time with Muxi and Hu Liena while preparing for another trip, though he reassured Muxi and hid his plans from Hu Liena. He left the academy intending to accompany Xiao Wu to Shrek Academy, observe Tang San and the other Children of Destiny, and deal with Yu Xiaogang.

• Bibi Dong returned to Papal Hall to handle her duties, and Li Chang'an went to Spirit Hall Academy.
• Li Chang'an ate with Muxi, who served him food and worried that she had done something wrong when he said he would leave for a while.
• Li Chang'an comforted Muxi and promised to be careful, without telling her the reason for his trip.
• Li Chang'an waited for Hu Liena after her combat class and decided not to tell her that he planned to leave again.
• Li Chang'an invited Hu Liena to dinner and planned to accompany Xiao Wu to Shrek Academy, where he intended to observe Tang San and the other Children of Destiny and cripple Yu Xiaogang.

Li Chang'an went to the Worship Hall to persuade Golden Crocodile Douluo to support his plan to use Soul Guidance Illumination Lamp profits to recruit commoner Soul Masters. The chapter ended with Golden Crocodile Douluo wagering that he would support Li Chang'an's policies if Li Chang'an could interest him with a new board game.

• Li Chang'an learned that Golden Crocodile Douluo opposed his commoner recruitment plan because he doubted Spirit Hall could afford the subsidies.
• Li Chang'an confirmed that Golden Crocodile Douluo was in Spirit City and went to the Worship Hall to speak with him.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo explained his concerns about the plan, and Li Chang'an offered to play him a different board game.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo promised to stop opposing the proposal and support Li Chang'an's future policies if the game interested him.

Li Chang'an introduced mahjong to Golden Crocodile Douluo and two other Worship Hall elders, winning a fortune while building ties with them. After missing his plans with Hu Liena, he apologized and explained his absence, just as Muxi entered the classroom with lunch.

• Li Chang'an explained mahjong's rules to Golden Crocodile Douluo and two other worshippers, forbidding the use of Mental Power to probe the tiles.
• Li Chang'an and the elders played for much of the day, and he won one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins before Golden Crocodile Douluo challenged him to return tomorrow.
• Li Chang'an apologized to Hu Liena for leaving her waiting, promised to have dinner with her every night, and gave her limited-edition rouge.
• Li Chang'an told Hu Liena that he had gone to the Worship Hall to persuade Golden Crocodile Douluo to support his commoner subsidy plan, and Hu Liena comforted him.
• Muxi entered the classroom carrying a lunchbox and looking for Li Chang'an.

Muxi saw Li Chang'an and Hu Liena together and fled, believing their closeness meant he had another girlfriend. Li Chang'an persuaded Hu Liena to accept Muxi, then searched for Muxi and found her by the lake, where he began pretending he had rushed to find her.

• Muxi brought Li Chang'an lunch, saw him with Hu Liena, dropped the food, and ran away in tears.
• Hu Liena realized Muxi also liked Li Chang'an and asked whether she was his girlfriend too.
• Li Chang'an admitted that Muxi was his girlfriend, recounted how they had grown close in the Star Dou Great Forest, and assured Hu Liena that she had been his first and most important girlfriend.
• Hu Liena accepted Li Chang'an's reassurance and urged him to check on Muxi, so he searched the academy with his Mental Power.
• Li Chang'an used the Eastern Emperor Bell to appear near Muxi by the lake, then messed up his clothes and pretended he had run around looking for her.

Ling Chang'an reconciled with Muxi after admitting he still had feelings for Hu Liena, and promised to speak with her. Three days later, he brought Hu Liena and Muxi together for a meal, where Hu Liena welcomed Muxi and the awkward meeting began to ease.

• Ling Chang'an found Muxi by the lake and apologized for lying, admitting that he still had feelings for Hu Liena.
• Muxi forgave Ling Chang'an and expressed her anger by poking a drawing of him in the dirt.
• Ling Chang'an explained that he and Hu Liena were not officially together and promised Muxi he would choose her if Hu Liena could not accept her.
• Three days later, Ling Chang'an, Hu Liena, and Muxi met in a restaurant private room near Spirit Hall Academy.
• Hu Liena introduced herself as Nana, and she invited Muxi to sit down and eat.

Ling Chang'an reconciled Hu Liena and Muxi, then visited Spirit Hall’s research institute to fund and assign projects before preparing to leave for the Sunset Great Forest. He planned to take the Immortal Herbs there and see how Tang San’s fate would change without them.

• Hu Liena asked Muxi to call her Sister, and the two women questioned Ling Chang'an about whether he loved anyone else.
• Ling Chang'an visited Spirit Hall’s research institute and approved further gunpowder research with Yang Liming.
• Ling Chang'an told Yang Liming to offer bounties and support Soul Masters who found Soul Tools in ruins.
• Ling Chang'an assigned five years of projects, including steam power, assembly-line standards, Grade Two Soul Tool Cannons, and civilian looms.
• Ling Chang'an took the institute’s latest technologies and set out for the Sunset Great Forest to pursue the Immortal Herbs and test what Tang San would become without them.