Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan suppressed the curse’s Soul Power disturbance with Ling Hua’s help, then learned she had devised a potion to manage it when she was away. He left to gather the costly ingredients and look for Rare Metal at the Blacksmith Association.

• Lin Xuan gave Ling Hua clothes and an undergarment so she could bathe while he suppressed the curse’s disturbance.
• Ling Hua embraced Lin Xuan and used Mind Communication to calm his restless Soul Power as they slept.
• Ling Hua gave Lin Xuan a prescription for a potion she had developed to keep his curse from interfering with him when she was absent.
• Lin Xuan left the inn for the Blacksmith Association to seek the spiritual medicines and Rare Metal for his Battle Armor.

Lin Xuan went to the Star Luo City Blacksmith Association to sell Alloy but first had to pass a forging assessment because his badge was not valid there. After earning a new badge and presenting a large batch of Alloy for appraisal, he saw the celebrated Master Lin emerge surrounded by blacksmiths.

• Lin Xuan asked to sell Alloy, learned he needed a Level Three blacksmith badge, and requested assessments for three levels at once.
• While waiting, Lin Xuan heard that Master Lin was a young forging prodigy who had apparently entered the Spirit Forging realm, but stayed out of the crowd to avoid attention.
• Shi Hao led Lin Xuan to the Forging Room for his assessment and later praised his perfect results.
• Lin Xuan registered for a Blacksmith Badge and placed a large pile of Alloy on the counter for appraisal.
• A group of blacksmiths emerged from the rear, praising Master Lin as they surrounded a young girl.

Lin Xuan sold Spiritual Alloy to Chang Gongyan at the Blacksmith Association, then searched Star Luo City for spirit medicine and learned an auction might have the Radiant Spirit Fruit he needed. Returning to his inn at dusk, he stopped a black-robed figure who had bumped into him.

• Lin Yuhan passed Lin Xuan as she entered a nearby side hall, while he shifted away to avoid her.
• Chang Gongyan introduced himself as the Blacksmith Association president and asked Lin Xuan about his supposed master.
• Lin Xuan exchanged five Spirit Forging alloys for Star Luo Coins and traded the rest for Rare Metals, receiving a large Storage Soul Tool as well.
• Lin Xuan bought spirit medicine but could not find a thousand-year Radiant Spirit Fruit, so a shop clerk directed him to an auction at the Star Luo Arena the next day.
• Lin Xuan returned to his inn at dusk, and after a black-robed figure bumped into him in the alley, he called for them to wait.

Lin Xuan caught a golden-haired cat-eared girl who had stolen his Storage Soul Tool and forced her to return it. After releasing her and leaving her some Gold Soul Coins, he left her crying in the alley, where she vowed to have him imprisoned.

• The black-robed figure evaded Lin Xuan’s grab with catlike speed, but Lin Xuan used Gravity Control to capture them and demanded his Storage Soul Tool.
• The figure attacked Lin Xuan with a mental technique, and the clash revealed a golden-haired girl with black cat ears.
• Lin Xuan searched the girl for the stolen item, and she finally produced his Storage Soul Tool and began sobbing.
• Lin Xuan released the girl, left her Gold Soul Coins, and walked away as she threatened to throw him in prison.

Lin Xuan returned to find Ling Hua turning his room into a potion laboratory, and he helped her process medicinal herbs before persuading her to sleep. The next day, they watched Long Yue overwhelm the Lingyun Team in a one-against-seven exhibition match, while Lin Xuan also considered Ling Hua’s identity and worried about the missing Dai Yun’er.

• Lin Xuan found Ling Hua purifying medicinal herbs with newly purchased glass instruments and learned she had spent all the money he had given her.
• Lin Xuan noticed Ling Hua’s name seemed familiar, helped her extract the herbs, and pulled her away from her work so she would rest.
• At the tournament venue, Dai Yueyan discussed how Dai Yun’er had secretly left the palace and remained missing somewhere in Star Luo City.
• Long Yue faced the Lingyun Team in a one-against-seven exhibition match as the crowd cheered for the King of Monsters.
• Long Yue’s Martial Soul pressure froze the opposing Soul Masters, and he defeated all seven in less than half a minute.

Lin Xuan attended a sealed-bid treasure assembly, bid on a Thousand-Year Radiant Spirit Fruit and Qian Yuan Stone, and returned to the inn with Ling Hua. As Ling Hua prepared a potion, Lin Xuan discovered Dai Yun’er sneaking around outside his room and caught her when she reacted to the smell of roast chicken.

• After the tournament opening ceremony, Lin Xuan and Ling Hua went to a treasure assembly and Lin Xuan bid twice the market price on a Thousand-Year Radiant Spirit Fruit.
• Lin Xuan found a raw Qian Yuan Stone and offered a seven-metal alloy with about a ninety-percent fusion rate in exchange for it.
• Lin Xuan and Ling Hua returned to the inn after a large meal, and Ling Hua began preparing a potion with the spirit fruit.
• Lin Xuan pondered how to meet the Holy Dragon Douluo and ask him to remove Ha Luosa’s Curse, then noticed his snacks had disappeared.
• Dai Yun’er hid outside Lin Xuan’s room after sneaking in to steal food, and Lin Xuan detected her when she swallowed at the smell of his roast chicken.

Ling Hua completed a potion that suppressed the curse afflicting Lin Xuan, and Lin Xuan agreed to help Dai Yun'er leave Star Luo City in exchange for her arranging a meeting with the Holy Dragon Douluo. The next morning, Ling Hua disguised Dai Yun'er with a Human Skin Mask as they prepared to leave.

• Ling Hua finished a golden potion, and Lin Xuan tested it and found that it suppressed his Curse Power.
• Dai Yun'er gave Lin Xuan her name as Huo Yun'er, but Lin Xuan recognized her as the Star Luo Empire's princess and pressured her to keep quiet.
• Dai Yun'er promised to arrange a meeting with the Holy Dragon Douluo if Lin Xuan helped her leave Star Luo City and visit a nearby town.
• Lin Xuan agreed to help Dai Yun'er, and the two bickered over the roast chicken she had eaten.
• The next morning, Lin Xuan woke Dai Yun'er, and Ling Hua applied a Human Skin Mask while Lin Xuan added fake freckles to her disguise.

Dai Yun'er, Lin Xuan, and Ling Hua arrived in a town where children had been disappearing. After learning that Xiao Yue and a local couple’s son were missing, they waited for the boy’s father to explain what had happened.

• Dai Yun'er led Lin Xuan and Ling Hua out of Star Luo City and toward the town she had visited before.
• Lin Xuan noticed that few young women were on the streets and overheard a mother warning her child about monsters.
• Dai Yun'er found Xiao Yue’s house empty, and a girl in the neighboring house refused to answer questions about her.
• A distressed woman told Dai Yun'er that Xiao Yue had disappeared several days earlier.
• Lin Xuan asked a nearby couple about the town, and the man invited them inside after his wife broke down over their missing son.
• The man returned from comforting his wife and began explaining the strange disappearances.

Lin Xuan and Dai Yun'er investigated the disappearance of children in town and learned that bandits, not soul beasts, were suspected. Their meeting with the town chief was interrupted by two Criminal Division men, and Dai Yun'er and Lin Xuan fought the young man who tried to touch Ling Hua.

• Lin Xuan questioned Li Yao about the missing children, then went with Dai Yun'er and Ling Hua to meet the town chief.
• The town chief said children around ten years old had been disappearing for about a week and that bandits had been caught stealing children; he identified Xiao Yue as a recent disappearance.
• Two men from the Criminal Division arrived and said they would keep watch and capture the thieves that night.
• The young man tried to lift Ling Hua's veil, so Lin Xuan kicked him away and shielded her.
• Dai Yun'er kicked and slapped the young man after he threatened them, and he claimed his father was Shen Mingxiao, Star Luo City's deputy city lord.

Dai Yun'er took charge of Lu Yu's investigation into a group abducting people around Star Luo City, and Lin Xuan suspected the Holy Spirit Cult was behind the disappearances. When an explosion drew them out at night, Lin Xuan found Dai Yun'er fighting a Wolf Tribe Girl beside an unconscious child.

• Dai Yun'er revealed her identity, took over the arrest, and ordered Lu Yu to explain the disappearances.
• Lu Yu described the organized kidnappings and said the abductors had Soul Masters among them; Lin Xuan suspected they were conducting experiments for the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Dai Yun'er insisted on staying to wait for the abductors, and Lin Xuan, Ling Hua, and Dai Yun'er watched the town overnight.
• An explosion sounded, and Dai Yun'er rushed toward it while Lin Xuan followed with Ling Hua.
• Lin Xuan found Dai Yun'er fighting a Wolf Tribe Girl near an unconscious child and recognized the girl.

Lin Xuan and Dai Yun'er discovered that Setsuna, a wolf-like beast-person, had been protecting a captured child from criminals. After the child was returned and Lu Yu's men captured the attackers, Lu Yu revealed that Dai Yun'er had run away.

• Lin Xuan and Dai Yun'er fought Setsuna, whose wolf form was strengthened by unusual ice-blue vitality, until Ling Hua calmed her with her scent.
• Setsuna explained that bad people were involved and that she had been trying to save the boy; Ling Hua soothed her to sleep, and Lin Xuan took her along to find Lu Yu.
• Lu Yu reported that more than a dozen criminals had been captured, including an Evil Soul Master, and said reinforcements from Star Luo City were expected by dawn.
• Lin Xuan returned the unconscious boy to his grateful parents, then hurried back to Lu Yu.
• Lu Yu told Lin Xuan that Dai Yun'er had run away.

Lin Xuan rushed to the Evil Soul Masters’ mountain base to rescue Dai Yun’er and the kidnapped children. He defeated the armored Soul Emperor, and Dai Yun’er was left wondering what Lin Xuan looked like beneath his mask.

• Lu Yu told Lin Xuan that Evil Soul Masters were kidnapping children for experiments and that Dai Yun’er had gone to their mountain base, so Lin Xuan set off to help her.
• Before leaving, Lin Xuan asked Ling Hua to stay safe, and Setsuna said she would protect her; Ling Hua then asked Setsuna whether she had escaped from the base.
• At the base, the middle-aged man ordered his underlings to pack up their equipment and discovered that the black-clad figure guarding the children was an afterimage.
• Dai Yun’er lured the man into the forest, but his Battle Armor and wide-area attack brought her down and left her unable to evade his next strike.
• Lin Xuan arrived, cut apart the giant bear paw with his sword, and killed the man with his Azure Sword Lotus.
• Lin Xuan urged Dai Yun’er to hurry back to the children, and she asked when he would remove his mask; he teased that she might have to wait in line.

Lin Xuan, Ling Hua, Setsuna, and Dai Yun'er rescued the children from a Holy Spirit Cult experimental base and recovered its vitality-fusion records. After returning to town, Dai Yun'er told Lin Xuan why she had risked everything to deliver Xiao Yue’s birthday gift, and the two watched the sunrise together.

• Setsuna subdued the remaining men while Ling Hua freed the imprisoned children and showed Lin Xuan the base’s experimental records.
• Lin Xuan learned that the base had been researching the fusion of soul beast and human vitality, and Ling Hua hinted that Setsuna might reveal another use for the research.
• Lu Yu arrived with Star Luo City guards and asked to take Setsuna into custody, but Dai Yun'er refused and helped reunite Xiao Yue with her birthday necklace.
• A powerful figure watched Dai Yun'er and the others leave from a tree in the forest.
• On the rooftop at dawn, Dai Yun'er explained that she had come to deliver Xiao Yue’s gift for her dying wet nurse, Aunt Yun, and Lin Xuan comforted her.
• Dai Yun'er leaned against Lin Xuan and asked whether his mask and name were fake, but he only told her to guess.

Long Yue interrupted Lin Xuan and Dai Yun'er, but a rift opened and dragged Lin Xuan, Dai Yun'er, and Ling Hua into Dragon Valley. Tong Yu investigated the disturbance and encountered a little girl who stirred a troubling memory, while the three travelers arrived safely in Dragon Valley.

• Long Yue ordered Dai Yun'er to return to the palace and challenged Lin Xuan, who prepared to fight him.
• A Space Rift opened beside Lin Xuan, Dai Yun'er, and Ling Hua, and a Seven-Colored Light seized and dragged them inside.
• Long Yue recognized the aura of Dragon Valley, and Tong Yu arrived to investigate its unexpected appearance near Star Luo City.
• Tong Yu saw a little girl in a nearby room, felt a familiar unease, and gently asked her name.
• The Seven-Colored Light carried Lin Xuan, Dai Yun'er, and Ling Hua safely through the void and set them down in Dragon Valley.
• Lin Xuan found his Soul Power suppressed, and Dai Yun'er recognized the desolate hills as Dragon Valley.

Lin Xuan, Dai Yun'er, and Ling Hua traveled through Dragon Valley, where Ling Hua’s aura attracted Dragon Clouds and Dai Yun'er gained strength from them. After weeks of exploring, Dai Yun'er discovered a True Dragon Corpse, leaving the group facing a major find.

• Dai Yun'er explained that Dragon Valley suppressed Soul Power and that Dragon Clouds could strengthen visitors and add dragon aura to their bloodlines.
• Dai Yun'er failed to attract the Dragon Clouds, but Ling Hua drew many of them down and guided them to Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan discovered that his Pupil Power rejected the Dragon Clan’s Bloodline Power, so he let Dai Yun'er absorb the Dragon Clouds instead.
• A thunderclap sounded after Lin Xuan called the Dragon Clan a flaw, and Dai Yun'er excitedly warned him to be careful what he said in Dragon Valley.
• Lin Xuan carried the exhausted Ling Hua through the valley and made her rest while the group continued exploring.
• Dai Yun'er used her Spiritual Eye Skill to show Lin Xuan a Flame Giant Dragon corpse still burning with Crimson Gold Flame, which he recognized as a True Dragon Corpse.

Lin Xuan and Dai Yun'er found a living Crimson Gold Dragon Egg protected by a Fire Dragon Corpse and its dragon souls. After Lin Xuan cleared a path through the dragon souls, he sent the Startling Swan Sword toward the egg, but the sword began to hum as it entered the flames.

• Dai Yun'er showed Lin Xuan the Fire Dragon Corpse and the light beneath it, and Lin Xuan identified the light as a living Crimson Gold Dragon Egg.
• Lin Xuan used the Startling Swan Sword and Dai Yun'er's Mental Probe to lure dragon souls away and destroy them, while Dai Yun'er absorbed their Dragon Soul Energy.
• After Dai Yun'er became too full to absorb more energy, Lin Xuan left her by a rock and approached the dragon corpse through its scorching flames.
• Lin Xuan sent the Startling Swan Sword toward the Crimson Gold Dragon Egg, but the sword began to hum, alarming him.

Lin Xuan took the Crimson Gold Dragon Egg, awakening the Fire Dragon Soul, and fled with Dai Yun'er and Ling Hua as it rained fiery meteors down on them. They escaped the attack, but the Fire Dragon Soul finished condensing and roared behind them.

• Lin Xuan used the Startling Swan Sword to retrieve the Crimson Gold Dragon Egg from the flames.
• The Fire Dragon Soul awakened, and Lin Xuan fled with the egg before taking Dai Yun'er along and asking her to store it in her Soul Tool.
• Lin Xuan found Ling Hua, pulled her into his arms, and ran with both girls as the Fire Dragon Soul summoned fiery meteors.
• Dai Yun'er used Mental Detection and Sharing to help Lin Xuan dodge the meteors until they left their range.
• Dai Yun'er teased Lin Xuan about being younger, but the Fire Dragon Soul finished condensing and roared behind them.

Lin Xuan, Dai Yun'er, and Qian Gu Ling Hua escaped the Fire Dragon Soul by entering the Dragon Tomb, where the Crimson Gold Dragon Egg was revealed to be dying. Qian Gu Ling Hua proposed a Life Contract that could let Soul Masters grow alongside living Soul Beasts.

• Lin Xuan led Dai Yun'er and Ling Hua into the Dragon Tomb, where holding the Crimson Gold Dragon Egg protected them from the dragons' oppressive aura.
• The Fire Dragon Soul pursued them but stayed above the Dragon Tomb instead of descending after them.
• Lin Xuan sensed that the dragon egg was alive but close to death, and Ling Hua proposed a way to save it.
• Ling Hua revealed her real name, Qian Gu Ling Hua, and Lin Xuan shared his identity with her.
• Qian Gu Ling Hua explained her Life Contract, a technique meant to link Soul Masters and living Soul Beasts through their vital energy and souls.

Lin Xuan and Qian Gu Ling Hua finally succeeded in forming a Life Contract with the Fire Dragon Egg, despite the Curse and the clashing vitality. The Little Fire Dragon’s consciousness entered Lin Xuan, and the egg fused into him, while Dai Yun'er watched the pair kiss.

• Lin Xuan’s attempts to draw vitality from the Crimson Dragon Egg repeatedly failed because the Curse disrupted the process.
• Qian Gu Ling Hua urged Lin Xuan to try her 123rd magic array design, and he agreed after she joined him and calmed the turmoil with her natural affinity.
• Lin Xuan fused his vitality with the Fire Dragon Egg’s golden vitality, awakening the Little Fire Dragon’s consciousness and hearing it call him “Daddy.”
• Lin Xuan formed a Soul Contract with the Little Fire Dragon, which took shape above his Heart Lake as the egg fused into his body and left a fiery dragon mark on his chest.
• Dai Yun'er watched Lin Xuan and Qian Gu Ling Hua continue kissing after the contract succeeded, then surprised Lin Xuan by staring at him from close range.

Lin Xuan discovered that the unborn Fire Dragon King could share its Crimson Gold Profound Flame with him, then the Dragon God Remnant Soul summoned him and his companions. After Dai Yun'er and Qian Gu Ling Hua fainted, Lin Xuan greeted the Dragon God.

• Qian Gu Ling Hua recorded Lin Xuan and the Fire Dragon Egg's completed Life Contract while Lin Xuan reassured Dai Yun'er that he only liked her.
• Lin Xuan examined the egg's recovering Life Origin and realized it would take five or six years to hatch without life-rich treasures or a blessed land.
• Lin Xuan manifested the Fire Dragon King's Crimson Gold Profound Flame, and Dai Yun'er burned her hand after reaching out to touch it; Lin Xuan healed her.
• A Seven-Colored Light transported Lin Xuan, Dai Yun'er, and Qian Gu Ling Hua to a vast pit before a Seven-Colored Dragon Soul, where the two women fainted.
• Lin Xuan recognized the Dragon God Remnant Soul, laid the women down, and bowed to introduce himself.