Chapter Summaries

Lan Yuxuan, a prince aligned with Spirit Hall, advised Dai Yao on which academies to consider for the upcoming All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament. Dai Yao chose Oakland Academy, whose talented student could strengthen his chances of advancing.

• Lan Yuxuan told Dai Yao that Bishop Ferdinand had sent him and explained that Spirit Hall had support among the kingdoms and duchies.
• Dai Yao told Lan Yuxuan that he planned to enter the tournament in the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Lan Yuxuan advised Dai Yao to avoid six academies and described the strengths and weaknesses of the remaining options.
• Lan Yuxuan explained that Oakland Academy was the strongest option and had a young genius eligible for another tournament.
• Dai Yao decided to travel to Oakland Academy, and Lan Yuxuan assured him Spirit Hall would keep him safe.

Dai Yao examined the Chaos Cyan Lotus and discovered that it could nurture Spirit Rings, raise their age, and protect him with an invincible defensive skill. After a day of cultivation, he drank poisoned tea and realized someone was trying to kill him.

• Dai Yao noted that Dai Mubai had left the Star Luo Empire and waited for Zhu Zhuqing to return before departing himself.
• Dai Yao examined the Chaos Cyan Lotus and discovered it had nurtured two Thousand-Year Spirit Rings and raised his original First Spirit Ring to a Thousand-Year Spirit Ring.
• Dai Yao activated the Chaos Cyan Lotus's Second Spirit Skill and learned it created an invincible defense that lasted until his Soul Power ran out.
• Dai Yao returned to cultivating beneath the waterfall and planned to leave the Star Luo Empire with Zhu Zhuqing.
• Dai Yao drank tea after nightfall, suffered intense abdominal pain, and realized the tea was poisoned.

Dai Yao survived a deadly poisoning and discovered that Zhu Tao, acting on the Empress’s orders, had come to assassinate him. He blocked Zhu Tao’s first strike with the Chaos Cyan Lotus and prepared to counterattack, with his survival still uncertain.

• Dai Yao used the Chaos Cyan Lotus to purge the poison and realized he needed to remain vigilant.
• Dai Yao considered whether Dai Yaming’s mother or the Empress’s faction had ordered the poisoning.
• Zhu Tao revealed himself as the assassin, explaining that the Empress had ordered him to kill Dai Yao in exchange for a Spirit Bone.
• Zhu Tao attacked Dai Yao with his Netherworld Shadow Leopard and the Spirit Bone skill Dark Night Thrust.
• Dai Yao summoned the Chaos Cyan Lotus and blocked the attack, revealing his Twin Martial Souls and two Thousand-Year Spirit Rings.
• Dai Yao calculated that he had enough Soul Power for one more attack and prepared to use his First Spirit Skill, the God Slaying Spear.

Dai Yao fought off Zhu Tao, who had been ordered by the Empress to kill him, and used the God Slaying Spear to tear the Spirit Bone from Zhu Tao’s left arm before killing him. The academy’s night watchers arrived as Dai Yao collapsed from the Spirit Skill’s heavy drain, leaving the mastermind’s identity unknown.

• Dai Yao realized Zhu Tao was not a professional assassin and stalled him by asking who had ordered the attack.
• Zhu Tao began preparing his Fourth Spirit Skill, but the academy’s night watchers appeared in the distance.
• Dai Yao summoned the God Slaying Spear and used its law of Decomposition against Zhu Tao.
• The Spirit Bone in Zhu Tao’s left arm broke free and fell to the ground as Zhu Tao screamed in pain.
• Dai Yao pierced Zhu Tao with the God Slaying Spear, causing him to disintegrate, then collapsed from exhaustion.

After surviving an assassination and evading the Night Watcher’s scrutiny, Dai Yao decided that he and Zhu Zhuqing had to leave the Star Luo Empire immediately. With Lan Yuxuan’s help, they departed in disguise among a group of decoy carriages.

• Dai Yao found the assassin’s Spirit Bone, hid it in the lake, and concealed the attack from the Night Watcher, who searched the house before leaving without confronting him.
• Feng Wutong arrived after sensing a surge of Soul Power, but Dai Yao brushed off her questions and sent her away.
• Zhu Zhuqing returned with her Second Spirit Ring, and Dai Yao told her they would leave the Star Luo Empire that night.
• Dai Yao and Zhu Zhuqing disguised themselves as commoners and met Lan Yuxuan, who arranged eight carriages, including seven decoys.
• Dai Yao and Zhu Zhuqing boarded the real carriage and left the academy, passing through the imperial city gates and heading down the road.

Feng Wutong discovered that Dai Yao and Zhu Zhuqing had left Star Luo Academy, and she feared Dai Yao had gone without even considering her a friend. She found his letter explaining their departure and promising to seek a cure for her Martial Soul’s side effects, then composed herself after reading it.

• Feng Wutong brought lunch to Dai Yao’s cultivation ground and found him missing from the waterfall and the cave, which had transformed into a forest.
• Feng Wutong found Dai Yao’s Small Wooden House empty and believed he had left without saying goodbye.
• Feng Wutong noticed a letter addressed to her on the table and read that Dai Yao and Zhu Zhuqing had departed for the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Dai Yao’s letter thanked Feng Wutong for their three years together, explained that her Heart Fire kept her from joining them, and promised to seek a solution to her Martial Soul’s side effects.
• Feng Wutong tidied the house and poolside, then tied her hair into a high ponytail.

Dai Hengyu learned that Dai Yao had survived an assassination and uncovered Zhu Tao as the likely attacker, while helping conceal Dai Yao’s departure for Spirit Hall. After the news leaked, the Fifth Elder realized Dai Yao had already left and set out to intercept him as a powerful bishop awakened in Spirit Hall.

• Dai Hengyu’s Shadow Guard reported that Dai Yao had left the city safely under Spirit Hall’s protection and revealed that Dai Yao had survived an attack by a likely Soul Ancestor.
• The Shadow Guard told Dai Hengyu that a Spirit Bone’s Soul Power had been detected in the lake and identified Zhu Tao as the sole suspect in the assassination.
• Dai Hengyu ordered the Shadow Guard to keep the news of Dai Yao’s departure concealed and returned Dai Yaming’s withdrawal documents so he could cause Dai Weisi trouble.
• After the news leaked, the Fifth Elder ordered his subordinate to bring Dai Yao from the academy, then learned that Dai Yao had disappeared several days earlier.
• The Fifth Elder deduced that Dai Hengyu had helped Dai Yao escape, ordered the imperial family to be informed, and flew out to intercept his nephew.
• At Spirit Hall, the portly bishop opened his eyes.

Dai Yao and Zhu Zhuqing traveled toward Wu Pass while escaping the Star Luo Empire, and Dai Yao gave Zhu Zhuqing a Spirit Bone. They crossed the border into the Heaven Dou Empire, but a sudden light behind them hinted that trouble was still close.

• Dai Yao learned from the coachman that they were a day and night from Wu Pass after ten days of nonstop travel.
• Dai Yao reassured Zhu Zhuqing that he could help Feng Wutong with her Martial Soul side effects and gave Zhu Zhuqing Zhu Tao's Spirit Bone.
• Dai Yao and Zhu Zhuqing reached Wu Pass, passed the soldiers' inspection, and crossed out of the Star Luo Empire.
• Dai Yao put an arm around Zhu Zhuqing and kissed her after they crossed the gate.
• The sky on the Star Luo Empire's side suddenly lit up as their carriage continued onward.

The Fifth Elder captured Dai Yao and Zhu Qing at Wu Pass and tried to persuade Dai Yao to return to the White Tiger Family. As the Fifth Elder prepared to take them to the Stele Forest, Dai Yao sensed the familiar power of Platinum Bishop Ferdinand.

• The Fifth Elder sealed Wu Pass and learned from a soldier that Dai Yao and Zhu Qing were in a departing carriage.
• The Fifth Elder crushed the carriage with his Soul Power and captured Dai Yao and Zhu Qing.
• Dai Yao asked the Fifth Elder to spare Zhu Qing, but Zhu Qing insisted on sharing his fate as his fiancée.
• The Fifth Elder promised Dai Yao a chance to compete for the throne if he returned to the family, but Dai Yao believed returning would mean death.
• Dai Yao sensed the familiar power of Platinum Bishop Ferdinand in his palm.

Dai Yao confronted the Fifth Elder over the White Tiger Family’s abandonment of him, then fled toward the Heaven Dou Empire when Bishop Ferdinand intervened. Ferdinand stayed behind to hold off the Fifth Elder, who summoned his eight Spirit Rings for their duel.

• Dai Yao challenged the Fifth Elder to explain why he could not leave the empire safely like Dai Mubai, and he condemned the family for abandoning him.
• The Fifth Elder rejected Dai Yao’s grievances and tried to seize him, so Dai Yao called for Ferdinand’s help.
• Ferdinand’s intervention broke the Fifth Elder’s attack, allowing Dai Yao and Zhu Zhuqing to glide down and escape toward the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Ferdinand faced the Fifth Elder and used a promised duel to keep him from pursuing Dai Yao.
• The Fifth Elder accepted Ferdinand’s challenge and released his eight Spirit Rings.

Dai Yao escaped Wu Pass with Zhu Zhuqing and traveled to Heaven Dou Imperial City, where he sought an academy through Spirit Hall. At Oakland Academy, the arrogant representative of the newly formed Heaven Dou Royal Battle Team arrived to demand an audience with the principal.

• Fifth Elder and Bishop Ferdinand fought a destructive battle above Wu Pass, and Dai Yao and Zhu Zhuqing fled amid the chaos.
• Dai Yao and Zhu Zhuqing traveled to Heaven Dou Imperial City with Spirit Hall’s help, leaving the Star Luo Empire behind.
• Dai Yao met Platinum Bishop Salas, who offered to arrange admission to an academy or invite him to join the Spirit Hall team.
• Dai Yao and Zhu Zhuqing arrived at Oakland Academy and found students discussing the Royal Battle Team’s challenge.
• A noble representative of the Royal Battle Team insulted Oakland’s students and demanded to see the principal.

Dai Yao and Zhu Zhuqing visited Oakland Academy, where a Heaven Dou Royal Academy nobleman challenged the students and insulted Zhu Zhuqing. Zhu Zhuqing entered the arena to fight him herself, and the duel began with the nobleman identifying himself as Xue Buhui.

• Dai Yao toured Oakland Academy with Zhu Zhuqing and found it inferior to Star Luo Royal Academy.
• At the Soul Arena, a nobleman from Heaven Dou Royal Academy taunted Oakland students after defeating one of them.
• Xue Buhui propositioned Zhu Zhuqing and insulted Dai Yao when he intervened.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked to fight Xue Buhui herself, and Dai Yao agreed after learning he was rank twenty-sixth.
• Zhu Zhuqing stepped into the arena, and the referee began the duel as Xue Buhui introduced himself as a rank-twenty-sixth Battle Soul Master with a Snow Leopard Martial Soul.

Zhu Zhuqing defeated Xue Buhui in a brief duel at Oakland Academy, revealing her extraordinary strength and earning the students’ admiration. She left with Dai Yao, and they arrived at the Principal’s Office with the Square-mouthed and Broad-nosed Man secretly following them.

• Zhu Zhuqing revealed her Martial Soul and challenged Xue Buhui, whose soul power and thoughts were chilled by her presence.
• Zhu Zhuqing overpowered Xue Buhui’s Spirit Skill, broke through his defense, and knocked him out of the Duel Arena.
• The students cheered Zhu Zhuqing, while the Square-mouthed and Broad-nosed Man recognized her as a candidate for the Oakland Battle Team.
• Zhu Zhuqing ignored the crowd and happily followed Dai Yao, then asked for his opinion of her performance.
• Dai Yao and Zhu Zhuqing reached the Principal’s Office as the Square-mouthed and Broad-nosed Man followed them secretly.

Dai Yao and Zhu Zhuqing enrolled at Oakland Academy after proving their talent to its principal. They agreed to join the Oakland Battle Team for its coming challenge against the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team.

• Dai Yao presented Principal Salas's recommendation letter, but the principal insisted that applicants needed sufficient talent.
• Zhu Zhuqing revealed two yellow Spirit Rings and said she was an eleven-year-old level twenty-two Soul Master, impressing the principal with her ability.
• Dai Yao said his Soul Power was level twenty-three, and the principal welcomed both of them to Oakland Academy and offered them support.
• Feng Qianli told the principal that Zhu Zhuqing had defeated a Heaven Dou Royal Academy Soul Master in a single move during a Duel.
• Feng Qianli explained that Oakland Academy lacked enough members for its battle team, and Dai Yao agreed to join it for the tournament.

Dai Yao and Zhu Zhuqing joined the Oakland Battle Team as its members feared an upcoming duel with the powerful Heaven Dou Royal Battle Team. After learning about the team’s reluctance to fight, Dai Yao confronted Dai Yuan Yi when he flirted with Zhu Zhuqing, leaving the others alarmed by the pressure of his Sacred White Tiger Spirit.

• Feng Qianli described the Heaven Dou Royal Battle Team’s members and warned that Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan made them formidable opponents.
• Dai Yao recognized Ye Lingling’s Nine Heart Begonia as a major threat but kept his knowledge to himself.
• Feng Qianli showed Dai Yao and Zhu Zhuqing the academy’s tournament flags and declared that he would defend Oakland’s honor.
• The Oakland Battle Team members reacted with relief and disappointment when Zhu Zhuqing joined, since her arrival let an Agility-Attack Soul Master quit.
• Feng Qianli woke Dai Yuan Yi, who rushed to introduce himself to Zhu Zhuqing, and Dai Yao stepped between them and warned him to stop.

Dai Yao and Zhu Zhuqing joined the Oakland Battle Team as it prepared for a difficult match against the Heaven Dou Royal Battle Team. After Feng Qianli assigned the team’s strategy and Dai Yao and Zhu Zhuqing spent the night discussing the contest, Platinum Bishop Salas and Ning Fengzhi arrived to watch.

• Feng Qianli introduced the Oakland Battle Team members, and Dai Yao and Zhu Zhuqing revealed their Martial Souls, Soul Power Levels, and ages.
• Feng Qianli assigned the team’s match strategy, tasking Dai Yuan Yi with stopping Yu Tianheng and Dai Yao and Zhu Zhuqing with facing Yu Feng and Osler.
• Dai Yao considered the team’s chances and relied on the possibility that he and Zhu Zhuqing could use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, the Hell White Tiger.
• Dai Yao and Zhu Zhuqing talked in their shared room about their unfamiliar, welcoming surroundings and the next day’s match.
• Platinum Bishop Salas and Ning Fengzhi arrived at Oakland Academy to watch the match, surprising those who heard they were coming.

Ning Fengzhi explained the rare Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul to Ning Rongrong while he and Salas watched the match venue. In the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team's resting room, Yu Tianheng prepared his teammates to face Oakland Academy seriously, and Qin Ming sent them out to win.

• Ning Fengzhi told Ning Rongrong that the Nine Heart Begonia could heal an entire group and had only one inheritor per generation.
• Salas said he had come to see someone but did not reveal who, while Ning Rongrong suspected he was plotting something.
• Yu Tianheng assigned the Shi Brothers to face Feng Qianli and warned the team not to underestimate Oakland Academy.
• Qin Ming praised Yu Tianheng, criticized Yu Feng's frivolity, and included Ye Lingling in the team's strongest lineup.
• Qin Ming sent the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team to compete and told them to win for the empire.

Dai Yao joined the Oakland Battle Team for its opening match against the Royal Fight Team, choosing to hide his strength so he could judge his teammates. Both teams gathered in the arena as the competition was about to begin.

• Dai Yao arrived at the rest room with Zhu Zhuqing and encountered Dai Yuan Yi, whose teasing remark angered Zhu Zhuqing.
• Dai Yao decided to conceal his strength and assess Oakland's abilities rather than replace Dai Yuan Yi against Yu Tianheng.
• Feng Qianli encouraged the Oakland Battle Team to do its best despite expecting defeat, and the team entered the arena together.
• Dai Yao and Zhu Zhuqing drew cheers from Oakland supporters, while Ning Fengzhi praised Dai Yao and Salas anticipated the surprise his Thousand-Year Spirit Ring would cause.
• The Royal Fight Team entered the arena, and Yu Tianheng's presence made the Oakland students tense before Ning Fengzhi addressed the crowd.
• The teams faced each other with Oakland eager to fight and the Royal Fight Team looking down on them, while Yu Feng turned away disdainfully.

The Oakland Battle Team faced the Royal Fight Team, whose superior coordination and strength put most of Oakland at a disadvantage. Zhu Zhuqing and Dai Yao disrupted the Royal Fight Team’s expectations, and Ye Lingling’s healing saved Yu Feng from being knocked out by Dai Yao.

• Both teams released their Martial Souls, and Dai Yao held back his own while planning to use his Self-Created Soul Skill.
• Yu Tianheng easily shattered Dai Yuan Yi’s Sword Qi, the Shi Mo brothers pressured Feng Qianli, and Dugu Yan’s presence unsettled Luo Feng.
• Zhu Zhuqing overwhelmed Osler with her speed and icy aura, forcing him to retreat and admit he could only keep her occupied.
• Yu Feng mocked Dai Yao, but Dai Yao used Explosive Step and Eight Extremes Collapse to strike him out of the sky.
• Ye Lingling healed Yu Feng before Dai Yao could land another blow, allowing Yu Feng to recover and fly back into the air.

The Royal Fight Team turned the battle around by targeting Oakland’s support and unleashing a coordinated assault. Luo Ling sacrificed herself to empower Dai Yuan Yi, but Yu Tianheng defeated his decisive sword strike, leaving Oakland close to defeat.

• Yu Tianheng ordered Yu Feng to attack Luo Ling and Shi Mo to block Dai Yao, disrupting Oakland’s attempt to reach Ye Lingling.
• Yu Feng defeated Dou Yu and continued toward Luo Ling as the Royal Fight Team launched a coordinated attack.
• Luo Ling used her Second Spirit Skill to pour her Soul Power into Dai Yuan Yi, then was knocked out of the arena by Yu Feng.
• Dai Yuan Yi unleashed his Self-Sacrificing Sword against Yu Tianheng, who countered with Thunderous Fury and survived with Ye Lingling’s support.
• Dai Yuan Yi collapsed from exhaustion, leaving only Dai Yao, Zhu Zhuqing, Feng Qianli, and Luo Feng against the untouched Royal Fight Team.