Chapter Summaries

Dai Yao discovered that the Chaos Cyan Lotus’s third Spirit Skill let him teleport up to two thousand meters, then formed a Red Lotus with the power to evolve a fire-attribute Spirit. He sent it to Feng Wutong in Star Luo, where she received his letter and wept with joy.

• Dai Yao used the Chaos Cyan Lotus’s third Spirit Skill to teleport two thousand meters for only one percent of his Soul Power.
• Dai Yao formed a Red Lotus and considered giving it to a trustworthy fire-attribute Soul Master to strengthen the Oakland Battle Team.
• Dai Yao sent a letter through Spirit Hall’s channels to Feng Wutong at Star Luo Royal Academy.
• Feng Wutong worried that her worsening Heart Fire would prevent her from cultivating and recalled how much she missed Dai Yao.
• Feng Wutong received the letter from the Heaven Dou Empire, read it, and smiled through her tears.

More than a month later, Dai Yao and Dugu Yan pretended he was treating her toxins while flirting, and she asked him to help her grandfather, Dugu Bo. Dai Yao agreed to prepare medicine to detoxify Dugu Bo, though he remained wary of him.

• Dai Yao teased Dugu Yan about her short hair and learned that Shrek had been turned away from Heaven Dou Royal Academy and that Qin Ming had left with them.
• Dai Yao realized Shrek had likely moved on to Blue Tyrant Academy and wondered how their battle with Royal Fight Team had gone.
• Dugu Yan begged Dai Yao to treat Dugu Bo, explaining how painful it was to see her grandfather suffer from his toxins.
• Dai Yao agreed to treat Dugu Bo with specially prepared medicine taken for half a year, rather than using the green light he had used on Dugu Yan.

Dai Yao reunited with Feng Wutong, who had secretly traveled from Star Luo to Oakland despite suffering from her Martial Soul’s Heart Fire. The chapter ended with her asking him to make good on his promise to solve the side effects.

• Dai Yao recognized a visitor from Star Luo and met Feng Wutong at Oakland’s side gate.
• Dai Yao and Feng Wutong reminisced as he showed her around Oakland and his waterfall cultivation site.
• Zhu Zhuqing reunited with Feng Wutong and caught her when she suddenly collapsed from weakness.
• Zhu Zhuqing realized Feng Wutong had endured Heart Fire throughout her journey to the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Feng Wutong reminded Dai Yao that he had promised to solve her Martial Soul’s side effects.

Dai Yao gave Feng Wutong a Cockscomb Sunflower that cured her Heart Fire, then offered her a chance to evolve her martial soul with the Red Lotus in exchange for becoming his maid. By dawn, her Blazing Firebird had transformed into a Vermilion Bird, whose appearance stirred fire-attribute soul masters across the region and drew them toward Oakland Academy.

• Dai Yao gave Feng Wutong the Cockscomb Sunflower, and she swallowed it while Dai Yao and Zhu Zhuqing stood guard.
• Feng Wutong endured the herb's flames until her Heart Fire vanished and her Soul Power rose to rank thirty; she thanked Dai Yao and kissed his face.
• Dai Yao offered Feng Wutong martial soul evolution through the Red Lotus in exchange for becoming his maid, and she accepted without hesitation.
• Feng Wutong swallowed the Red Lotus, and its white flames transformed her Blazing Firebird into a Vermilion Bird as dawn broke.
• The Vermilion Bird phantom appeared above Oakland Academy, causing fire-attribute spirits across Heaven Dou Imperial City and Chihuo Academy to submit.
• Ma Hongjun felt his Evil Fire Phoenix Spirit tremble, and he and Oscar realized the phantom was above Oakland Academy as fire-attribute soul masters began gathering there.

Feng Wutong’s Martial Soul Evolution revealed a terrifying flame and a divine-level Vermilion Bird Spirit, while Dai Yao explained why she needed to conceal her identity and Red Lotus. The chapter ended with Feng Wutong asking how to address him as his maid, and Dai Yao telling her to call him young master.

• Feng Wutong thanked Dai Yao after her Martial Soul Evolution, and he covered her with a black robe when she noticed her changed appearance.
• Feng Wutong demonstrated a white flame that nearly overwhelmed Dai Yao and Zhu Zhuqing with its heat before she withdrew it.
• Feng Wutong revealed her Martial Soul, and Dai Yao recognized it as the divine-level Vermilion Bird rather than a Fire Phoenix.
• Dai Yao explained that Feng Wutong had to hide her identity and keep Red Lotus secret to reduce the danger of exposure.
• Feng Wutong asked how she should address Dai Yao as his maid, and he told her to call him young master.

Dai Yao brought Feng Wutong to Oakland Academy, where her beauty and noble bearing drew attention. After learning she was a fifteen-year-old Rank 30 Soul Master, Dai Yao arranged for her to prove herself for a place on the Oakland Battle Team.

• Dai Yao, Zhu Zhuqing, and Feng Wutong went to the cafeteria after spending the night together.
• Dai Yuan Yi asked Dai Yao to introduce him to Feng Wutong, but she responded coldly until Dai Yao said she might join the Oakland Battle Team.
• Dai Yuan Yi explained that Wutong would need to pass an assessment or defeat an official team member to join.
• Wutong said she was fifteen and had Rank 30 Soul Power, astonishing Dai Yuan Yi.
• Dai Yao said he would handle Wutong's enrollment, then meet Dai Yuan Yi at the team's Training Field for a sparring match.

Dai Yao brought Feng Wutong to the Oakland Battle Team and vouched for her ability to join, while Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang searched Oakland Academy for the fire-attribute soul master behind a fiery bird-shaped phantom. When the aura reappeared in the Soul Arena, the fire-attribute soul masters rushed toward it.

• Dai Yao introduced Feng Wutong to Feng Qianli and said she was strong enough to become an official team member despite not having her Third Spirit Ring.
• Feng Qianli warned that Feng Wutong might be in danger fighting the three-ring soul master Dai Yuan Yi, but Dai Yao insisted she could handle him.
• Huo Wu accused Oakland Academy of hiding the fire-attribute soul master whose bird-shaped phantom she had sensed, while Huo Wushuang tried to calm her.
• Oscar and Ma Hongjun discussed Huo Wu and Ning Rongrong until Ma Hongjun sensed the aura again and alerted the others.
• Huo Wushuang urged the fire-attribute soul masters to find the aura's owner and bring her to Chihuo Academy, as a clear cry rang out from Oakland's Soul Arena.

Feng Wutong used her evolved Vermilion Bird spirit to overwhelm Dai Yuan Yi in a soul battle, and her display attracted the attention of fire-attribute spirit masters. Dai Yuan Yi conceded, while Huo Wu resolved to recruit Feng Wutong for Chihuo Academy.

• Feng Wutong revealed her Vermilion Bird spirit, suppressing Dai Yuan Yi before the battle even began.
• Feng Wutong's Vermilion Bird Divine Fire melted Dai Yuan Yi's Sword Qi and forced him to use his third spirit skill to escape.
• Dai Yao noticed Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, and other fire-attribute spirit masters watching the battle, while Huo Wu decided to recruit Feng Wutong for Chihuo Academy.
• Dai Yuan Yi admitted defeat when Feng Wutong's divine fire pursued him through the air.
• Feng Wutong effortlessly recalled and extinguished her flames, astonishing Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang.

Feng Wutong defeated Dai Yuan Yi and drew Huo Wu’s attention, but rejected Huo Wu’s offer to join Chihuo Academy. When Huo Wu insulted Dai Yao and Oakland Academy, Feng Wutong angrily defended him and refused to leave his side.

• Feng Wutong defeated Dai Yuan Yi, who praised her strength and welcomed her to the Oakland Battle Team.
• Huo Wu approached Feng Wutong, introduced Chihuo Academy, and offered her a place and the dean’s personal tutelage.
• Feng Wutong showed little interest, and Huo Wu disparaged Oakland Academy and Dai Yao to persuade her to join.
• Feng Wutong angrily warned Huo Wu not to insult Dai Yao again and resolved not to leave his side.

Huo Wu challenged Dai Yao to a duel, wagering that Feng Wutong would leave with her if she won. Dai Yao countered by wagering that Huo Wu would become his maid if she lost, and the chapter ended as the match began with Huo Wu revealing her four Spirit Rings.

• Huo Wu regretted that Feng Wutong's talent was being wasted at Oakland Academy and challenged Dai Yao to step out from behind her.
• Feng Wutong called Dai Yao "Young Master" and remained at his side, shocking Huo Wu and the onlookers.
• Huo Wu demanded that Dai Yao release Feng Wutong and challenged him to fight, offering to take Wutong with her if she won.
• Dai Yao proposed that Huo Wu become his maid if she lost, and Huo Wu agreed after insisting they put the wager in writing.
• Feng Qianli refereed as Dai Yao and Huo Wu entered the Duel Arena, and Huo Wu began the match by revealing four Spirit Rings.

Dai Yao faced Huo Wu in the arena despite being a Soul Elder challenging a Soul Ancestor, and concealed his strength while enduring her attacks. Huo Wu began casting her Fourth Spirit Skill, giving Dai Yao the opening he had been waiting for.

• Huo Wu revealed her rank as a forty-one Soul Ancestor, and the spectators worried that Dai Yao could not defeat her.
• Dai Yao summoned his White Tiger Avatar and displayed a rare Thousand-Year Second Spirit Ring, revealing himself as Oakland’s genius Soul Master.
• Huo Wu used her Repelling Fire Ring to drive Dai Yao back, while he pretended to struggle and hid his true strength.
• Zhu Zhuqing, Oscar, and the fatty realized Dai Yao was concealing his strength as Huo Wu began casting her Fourth Spirit Skill.

Dai Yao defeated Huo Wu with a terrifying punch, then shielded her from her uncontrolled Fourth Spirit Skill, Huo Wu Yaoyang, using his hidden White Tiger Eight Wings. He freed her from their maid agreement and left her conflicted as she returned to Chihuo Academy with one of his feathers.

• Huo Wu began unleashing her Fourth Spirit Skill, but Dai Yao activated White Tiger Dark Gold Transformation and used Explosive Step and Eight Extremes Collapse to stop his punch beside her, making her concede defeat.
• Huo Wushuang warned that Huo Wu Yaoyang was about to explode, and Dai Yao covered Huo Wu with his White Tiger Eight Wings to protect her while concealing them from the crowd.
• After the blast, Dai Yao burned their agreement and told Huo Wu he had only wanted to teach her to respect the weak; Huo Wu abandoned her attempt to burn herself alive and accepted his words.
• Dai Yao sent the visiting soul masters away and returned to Oakland Academy with his companions, while Huo Wu left with Huo Wushuang carrying one of Dai Yao's feathers.

Huo Wu privately recalled Dai Yao saving her and vowed to surpass him, while Huo Wushuang worried over his promise to bring Feng Wutong to Chihuo Academy. Half a year later, Dai Yao had reached level thirty-nine but remained stuck at a bottleneck, so he decided to visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to absorb his External Soul Bone and seek a breakthrough.

• Huo Wu hid the feather she believed came from Dai Yao's Spirit Bone and resolved to make him her manservant once she grew stronger.
• Huo Wushuang decided not to force Feng Wutong to join Chihuo Academy and planned to leave the matter to his father.
• Over the next half year, Dai Yao advanced from level thirty-six to level thirty-nine, but failed to break through the bottleneck despite his training.
• Dai Yao considered taking the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum but feared it would interfere with the effects of the other Immortal Herbs.
• Dai Yao decided to visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and use the pressure of a Titled Douluo to absorb his External Soul Bone and reach the Soul Ancestor realm.

Ning Rongrong returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect after raising her Soul Power to level thirty-two, and she hurried to prepare herself when she learned Dai Yao had arrived. Dai Yao reunited with Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo, who were astonished to learn that he had reached level thirty-nine.

• Ning Rongrong told Ning Fengzhi she had gained five Soul Power levels in a year, and Sword Douluo confirmed she had reached level thirty-two.
• An attendant reported that the sect’s nine-pagoda-level honored guest had arrived, and Ning Fengzhi went to welcome Dai Yao personally.
• Ning Rongrong heard Dai Yao’s name, blushed, and left to wash and change, while Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo worried that she might fall for him.
• Ning Fengzhi thanked Dai Yao for giving the sect the Aromatic Silk Beauty, which had evolved his martial soul and raised his Soul Power to level eighty-three.
• Dai Yao revealed his three Spirit Rings and said he had reached Soul Power level thirty-nine, stunning Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo.

Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo discovered that Dai Yao had gained five ranks of soul power by absorbing a six-thousand-year Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear spirit ring. Dai Yao confirmed that he intended to seek a ten-thousand-year ring for his fourth spirit ring, then reaffirmed his determination to avenge his mother against the Star Luo Dai Family.

• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo warned Dai Yao that his rapid cultivation might have endangered his vitality, but Dai Yao assured them he had cultivated normally.
• Dai Yao explained that absorbing his third spirit ring had raised his soul power from rank thirty to rank thirty-five, and revealed that the ring was six thousand years old.
• Dai Yao identified the spirit beast as a Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear, whose powerful spirit ring explained his extraordinary gains.
• When Sword Douluo asked how Dai Yao had absorbed the ring, Dai Yao refused to reveal his method, keeping the Chaos Cyan Lotus secret.
• Ning Fengzhi guessed that Dai Yao planned to hunt a ten-thousand-year spirit beast for his fourth ring, and Dai Yao confirmed it.
• Dai Yao declared that he would return to Star Luo and avenge his mother's blood debt, regardless of any belated efforts by the Star Luo Dai Family to make amends.

Dai Yao asked Sword Douluo Chen Xin to use soul power pressure to help him break through his level-thirty-nine bottleneck before the Continental Soul Master Elite Tournament. After enduring immense pressure and releasing the Sacred White Tiger Spirit, Dai Yao finally broke through, but his back suddenly bulged.

• Dai Yao asked Chen Xin to pressure him so he could break through to level forty and strengthen the Oakland Battle Team before the tournament.
• Chen Xin increased the pressure from level forty to level forty-seven, while Dai Yao endured it and repeatedly attacked his bottleneck without releasing his Martial Soul.
• When Chen Xin raised the pressure to level forty-nine, Dai Yao released the Sacred White Tiger Spirit, easing the strain and revealing a spirit quality that astonished Chen Xin, Ning Fengzhi, and Bone Douluo.
• Dai Yao urged Chen Xin to continue, and Chen Xin raised the pressure past level fifty to level fifty-five as Dai Yao persisted through the pain.
• Dai Yao's level-thirty-nine bottleneck broke, but his back suddenly bulged, making Chen Xin, Ning Fengzhi, and Bone Douluo stare in shock.

Dai Yao broke through to level forty under Sword Douluo’s pressure and fully absorbed two External Soul Bones. He declined to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect but decided to save it during Spirit Hall’s future Soul Hunting Plan.

• Dai Yao broke through his level forty bottleneck as his soul power surged through his meridians.
• Dai Yao manifested eight white wings and claws on his left hand, revealing that he had fully absorbed two External Soul Bones.
• Dai Yao thanked Sword Douluo and explained to Ning Fengzhi that he trusted the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect more than Spirit Hall with the secret.
• Sword Douluo invited Dai Yao to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, but Dai Yao refused because he intended to use Spirit Hall’s power to avenge himself against the Star Luo Empire.
• Ning Fengzhi assured Dai Yao that he would remain their friend, and Dai Yao resolved to save the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect during the future Soul Hunting Plan.

Dai Yao accepted Sword Douluo Chen Xin’s challenge and unleashed his strongest attack, but Chen Xin effortlessly redirected it and nearly struck him down. Dai Yao recovered from the setback and prepared another attack, though Chen Xin was disappointed by its weaker aura.

• Chen Xin challenged Dai Yao to a spirit duel using only rank-forty Soul Power and his first three spirit skills, and Dai Yao eagerly accepted.
• Dai Yao released his External Soul Bones and used White Tiger Dark Gold Transformation with Tear Sky Claw, impressing Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo with its speed and power.
• Chen Xin used the Seven Kill Sword to deflect Tear Sky Claw, sending it into nearby palace buildings and leaving deep cracks in the ground.
• Dai Yao used his wings and Explosive Step to dodge Chen Xin’s counterattack, then apologized to Ning Fengzhi for the damage to the palace halls.
• After Ning Fengzhi told them to continue, Dai Yao shook off his dejection and gathered Soul Power in his right arm for another attack, but Chen Xin judged its aura inferior to Tear Sky Claw.

Dai Yao astonished Sword Douluo with his powerful self-created Eight Extremes Collapse, earning Chen Xin’s approval and being invited to call him Sword Grandfather. Ning Rongrong returned to the sect and persuaded Ning Fengzhi to discuss buying Tang San’s hidden weapons, while Dai Yao agreed to go with them to the academy.

• Dai Yao’s fivefold-compressed Eight Extremes Collapse shook the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Chen Xin recognized its power and hidden strength.
• Dai Yao explained how his technique compressed Soul Power, and Chen Xin praised his talent and invited him to call him Sword Grandfather.
• Ning Rongrong arrived and greeted Dai Yao, while Chen Xin and Bone Douluo worried over her growing closeness to him.
• Ning Fengzhi gave Dai Yao and Ning Rongrong hidden weapons, and Ning Rongrong urged her father to buy more for the sect’s support-type disciples.
• Ning Rongrong asked Ning Fengzhi to visit the academy and discuss hidden weapons with Tang San, and Dai Yao agreed to accompany them.

Dai Yao confronted Xiao Wu after realizing she was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and uncovered signs that her memories and past might have been manipulated. Her answers led him to suspect that Di Tian and other powerful Soul Beasts had sent Xiao Wu and Ah Yin into the human world to target exceptionally talented members of the Tang family.

• Tang San revealed the Clear Sky Hammer during his confrontation with the Titan Ape, while Dai Yao noticed Xiao Wu slipping away from the crowd.
• Dai Yao took Xiao Wu aside and questioned her about other Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, but she said she knew only herself, Da Ming, and Er Ming.
• When Dai Yao asked whether she knew Di Tian, Xiao Wu suffered severe pain and fainted as she tried to remember the name.
• Xiao Wu told Dai Yao she had received her work-study student quota from a recommendation form found on a dead soul master's body in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Dai Yao connected Xiao Wu and Ah Yin's journeys into the human world to Tang San and Tang Hao, then formed a terrifying new theory about Di Tian's plans.