Chapter Summaries

Quan Yi confronted Sun Jie over his discrimination and defeated him with a single punch after Sun Jie attacked. After the crowd praised Quan Yi, he thanked Huo Wu for speaking up, but she objected to being called “senior sister.”

• Quan Yi accused Sun Jie of targeting him because he was a country person, and Huo Wu spoke up in Quan Yi’s defense.
• Sun Jie, unable to reverse the crowd’s opinion, summoned his Flame Finch Martial Soul and challenged Quan Yi to a fight.
• Sun Jie attacked with his Flame Claw, but Quan Yi dodged and knocked him unconscious with one punch.
• Sun Jie’s followers carried him away, while Quan Yi reassured them that Sun Jie was only unconscious.
• Quan Yi thanked Huo Wu for defending him, and she objected when he called her “senior sister.”

Quan Yi shared a meal with the Huo siblings after earning their respect with his strength, and they exchanged introductions. Huo Wushuang and Huo Wu learned that Quan Yi was six years old, already rank fifteen, and had absorbed a four-hundred-year Exploding Rhino soul ring; Huo Wu wondered if he had Innate Full Soul Power.

• Huo Wushuang clarified that Huo Wu was a new student, and Quan Yi apologized for mistaking her age.
• Quan Yi accepted Huo Wushuang's invitation to eat with him and Huo Wu, and the three went to the Dining Hall together.
• Huo Wushuang introduced himself and Huo Wu, and Quan Yi revealed that he was also six years old and a new student.
• Huo Wu asked about Quan Yi's First Soul Ring, and he said he had absorbed a four-hundred-year Exploding Rhino soul ring four months earlier.
• Huo Wushuang envied Quan Yi's rare soul ring, while Huo Wu reasoned that Quan Yi might have Innate Full Soul Power.

Quan Yi ordered his family to warn Sun Jie’s family and gather information about Yu Xiaogang, then suspected that Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang might possess a Martial Soul Fusion Skill. Huo Wu trained through the night after Quan Yi’s strength spurred her to improve, and the chapter ended when she met Quan Yi’s gaze in the dining hall the next morning.

• Huo Wu asked Quan Yi whether he had Innate Full Soul Power, and Huo Wushuang took her away after the answer unsettled her.
• Quan Yi asked Quan Ying to warn Sun Jie’s family and collect information about Yu Xiaogang and his writings.
• Quan Yi returned to the academy, practiced his fist techniques, and later speculated that Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang’s martial souls could form a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Huo Wu trained late into the night, driven by her determination to catch up with Quan Yi.
• The next morning, Quan Yi saw a listless Huo Wu in the dining hall, and their eyes met.

Quan Yi and Huo Wu grew closer as friends over breakfast, then agreed to visit the academy’s Simulated Environment Training Ground together. The chapter ended with Huo Wu arriving at the dormitory entrance to meet Quan Yi.

• Huo Wu invited Quan Yi to sit with her and told him she had reached rank thirteen.
• Quan Yi congratulated Huo Wu while eating, and her laughter lifted both their moods.
• Huo Wu asked to join Quan Yi’s visit to the Simulated Environment Training Ground, and he agreed.
• Quan Yi read about the Underground Flame Vein before heading to the dormitory entrance to meet Huo Wu.
• Huo Wu arrived in a formal red dress and nervously asked Quan Yi whether she was late.

Quan Yi and Huo Wu visited the Simulated Environment Training Ground, where Huo Wu explained how the academy’s Flame Vein had been diverted underground. They chose cultivation spaces at eighty degrees and began their first session.

• Quan Yi and Huo Wu walked together to the training ground while chatting about its origins.
• Huo Wu explained that powerful soul masters had diverted a Flame Vein underground to help train students for Blazing Fire Academy.
• Quan Yi and Huo Wu reached the underground passage and read the rules about noise, rising temperatures, and asking patrol teachers for help.
• Quan Yi and Huo Wu walked deeper past occupied and vacant cultivation caves as the temperature rose, stopping when Huo Wu reached her limit at eighty degrees.
• Quan Yi and Huo Wu agreed to cultivate for one hour, each marked a cave as occupied, and closed the door.

Quan Yi found that the Primary Academy’s Simulated Environment greatly accelerated his cultivation, and he discussed Blazing Fire Academy’s ambitions and development strategy with Huo Wu. He urged Huo Wu to attend Blazing Fire Academy, which he believed would offer her better prospects than other schools.

• Quan Yi meditated in the cave’s Simulated Environment and discovered that his Soul Power grew faster there than in the Quan Family basement.
• After an hour, Quan Yi estimated that he could reach rank twenty in about a year and leave the Cultivation Room satisfied.
• Quan Yi gave the overheated Huo Wu water, and they agreed to bring more on their next visit.
• On the way back, Quan Yi praised Blazing Fire Academy’s vision, explaining how its Primary Academy could attract, train, and retain talented Fire-attribute Spirit Masters.
• Quan Yi told Huo Wu that she should attend Blazing Fire Academy, and she agreed.

Huo Wu followed Quan Yi to the Training Ground to watch him exercise, then joined his workout and pushed herself to her limits. After Quan Yi cheered her through her final pull-ups, she fainted, and he caught her.

• Huo Wu persuaded Quan Yi to let her watch him train at the Training Ground.
• Quan Yi began his workout, and Huo Wu studied his movements before trying the exercises herself.
• Huo Wu completed forty Burpees and forty pull-ups, then continued training alongside Quan Yi.
• After two hours, Huo Wu struggled through her eighth set while Quan Yi cheered her on.
• Huo Wu finished her final ten pull-ups and passed out, and Quan Yi caught her in his arms.

Quan Yi cared for Huo Wu after her grueling training and decided to help develop her potential. As Huo Wu recovered, they declared each other rivals on the path to becoming the strongest, and she learned that Quan Yi’s restorative Soul Beast Meat cost a fortune.

• Quan Yi washed Huo Wu’s injured hands, bandaged them with strips torn from his shirt, and waited for her to wake.
• Huo Wu woke weak and thirsty, and Quan Yi helped her drink before she asked how long he had trained.
• Quan Yi said he had trained since age two because he wanted to become the strongest, and Huo Wu declared that she shared the same goal.
• Quan Yi and Huo Wu bumped fists and laughed together, but Huo Wu’s stomach soon rumbled with hunger.
• Quan Yi gave Huo Wu Hundred-Year Soul Beast Meat, whose restorative warmth began helping her recover.
• Huo Wu learned the meat cost several months of an ordinary family’s living expenses and realized how much Quan Yi spent on his daily meals.

Quan Yi convinced Huo Wu to train with him and taught her his post-workout stretches, deepening their trust and closeness. At the Dining Hall, Huo Wushuang found Huo Wu and confronted Quan Yi, suspicious that he had abducted his sister.

• Quan Yi offered to train Huo Wu with daily Soul Beast Meat, and Huo Wu agreed despite realizing he was trusting her with his secret.
• Quan Yi demonstrated his stretching routine and told Huo Wu to practice it after returning to the Dormitory.
• Huo Wu kept Quan Yi's torn shirt bandage, began calling him Xiao Yi, and invited him to call her Xiao Wu.
• Huo Wushuang arrived at the Dining Hall, relieved to find Huo Wu but angry at Quan Yi for taking her away.
• Huo Wu defended Quan Yi and pulled Huo Wushuang toward the food, while Quan Yi nervously watched them go.

Huo Wushuang apologized to Quan Yi for Huo Wu’s behavior and asked him to be patient with her, while Quan Yi gave Huo Wu Soul Beast Meat and left her to manage her own training. After returning to their dormitories, Quan Yi reconsidered his training plan, and Huo Wu painfully followed his stretching routine before falling asleep in the bath.

• Huo Wushuang learned that Huo Wu had injured her hands training with Quan Yi, apologized to Quan Yi, and asked him to tolerate his sister.
• Huo Wushuang left his untouched meal for Huo Wu, who ate it after he had gone.
• On the walk back to the Dormitory, Quan Yi gave Huo Wu a week’s supply of Soul Beast Meat and told her to rely on herself for cultivation.
• Quan Yi revised his training plan because simulated training could raise his Soul Power faster than his physical fitness improved.
• Huo Wu imitated Quan Yi’s stretches, endured the pain, and fell asleep in the bathtub after finishing them.

Huo Wuxie learned that Quan Yi was an Innate Full Soul Power genius and discussed Blazing Fire Academy’s plan to develop fire-attribute soul masters. Meanwhile, Huo Wu and Quan Yi became rival-friends as she began training in her own way and he continued studying martial soul knowledge.

• Xue Yuan told Huo Wuxie and Huo Wushuang that Quan Yi had a rare mutated Blazing Sun Gauntlets martial soul and Innate Full Soul Power.
• Huo Wuxie explained Blazing Fire Academy’s plan to develop varied fire-attribute soul masters and urged Xue Yuan to train the new students well.
• Huo Wushuang told Huo Wuxie that Huo Wu had been hurt in a match with Quan Yi but had become his friend, and Huo Wuxie decided to let their relationship develop naturally.
• Huo Wu observed Quan Yi’s training without disturbing him, then began her own routine of running, Burpees, meditation, and practicing her Soul Skills.
• Quan Yi read and critically analyzed martial soul research, becoming increasingly absorbed in the possibilities of Soul Beasts and martial souls.

Quan Yi learned more about Yu Xiaogang and asked Quan Ying to find him so they could discuss his theories. At Blazing Fire Academy’s entrance ceremony, Quan Yi and Huo Wu stood together as Dean Xue Yuan welcomed the new students and praised the academy.

• Quan Ying told Quan Yi about Yu Xiaogang’s background, low Soul Power, and current whereabouts in the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Quan Yi asked Quan Ying to locate Yu Xiaogang without disturbing him, so he could speak with him about his ideas.
• Quan Yi left the Quan Family Boutique after arranging an additional portion of Soul Beast Meat and taking Yu Xiaogang’s books and records with him.
• Quan Yi and Huo Wu met in their academy uniforms and joined the new students heading to the entrance ceremony.
• Dean Xue Yuan welcomed the students and described how the academy’s Simulated Environment Training Ground and teachers supported their education.

Quan Yi and Huo Wu were selected for Freshman Class One, the academy’s Talent Class, where they met their homeroom teacher and classmates. After introducing themselves and revealing their strength, the students received a written task about their desired cultivation direction.

• Xue Yuan encouraged the students during the academy’s reforms, then the upper-year students left the Training Ground while the freshmen stayed behind.
• Bai Yan announced the Freshman Class One roster, including Quan Yi, Huo Wu, Wan Sheng, and Wang Ying, and led the selected students to their classroom.
• Quan Yi found his seat beside Huo Wu, and Bai Yan introduced herself as a rank forty-four Soul Ancestor before having the students give self-introductions.
• Huo Wu revealed her rank thirteen One-Ring Soul Master strength, and Quan Yi followed by revealing his rank fifteen One-Ring Soul Master strength and dark yellow Soul Ring.
• Bai Yan asked the students to write their desired cultivation direction on the back of the papers on their desks before leaving.

Quan Yi and Huo Wu chose their cultivation directions and discussed their new teacher, Bai Yan. After the students left, Bai Yan reviewed their answers and began planning how to guide the class.

• Quan Yi wrote Power Attack System on his paper, while Huo Wu chose Control System and claimed it could counter his style.
• Quan Yi pointed out that Bai Yan had memorized the students’ names and faces, and he concluded that she was a responsible teacher.
• Quan Yi invited Huo Wu to train after class, and she agreed.
• Bai Yan reviewed the students’ answers and noted that most had chosen Power Attack System despite their Martial Souls’ differing strengths.
• Bai Yan kept Quan Yi and Huo Wu’s papers, saw them as future core members of the Blazing Fire Team, and vowed to meet the challenge of teaching them.

During his first class at Primary Academy, Quan Yi learned from Bai Yan that Soul Masters should choose cultivation paths suited to their Martial Souls, and he resolved to improve his fire control. Bai Yan then summoned Quan Yi and Huo Wu for combat training that afternoon, while Quan Yi invited Huo Wu to train with him at noon.

• Bai Yan asked the class about fire's characteristics, and Quan Yi answered that fire had high temperature and explosive force.
• Bai Yan explained that fire-attribute Soul Masters were not all suited to the Power Attack System, using her own shift to the Agility Attack System as an example.
• Quan Yi recognized that he had neglected his flame abilities and decided to train his Fire-attribute control at Blazing Fire Academy.
• Bai Yan asked Quan Yi and Huo Wu to meet her at the east Training Ground at two o'clock for Combat Training because they were stronger than their classmates.
• Quan Yi invited Huo Wu to train with him at noon, and she agreed.

Quan Yi and Huo Wu demonstrated their Martial Souls and First Soul Skills to Teacher Bai Yan, who then showed them her own power. After explaining that their next exercise would be to endure a fifteen-minute fight against her, Bai Yan demonstrated Flame Feather Assault.

• Quan Yi let Huo Wu rest beneath a tree until Teacher Bai Yan arrived at the Training Ground.
• Huo Wu demonstrated Flame Bullet, blasting apart a stone and earning Bai Yan’s praise.
• Quan Yi used Rhino’s Mark to cause an explosion inside a stone and explained the Soul Skill’s dangerous limits.
• Bai Yan warned Quan Yi to use Rhino’s Mark cautiously, then told him and Huo Wu to prepare to last fifteen minutes against her.
• Bai Yan suppressed her Soul Power to level twenty, assumed her Martial Soul form, and demonstrated Flame Feather Assault by embedding three feathers in a stone.

Quan Yi and Huo Wu faced Bai Yan’s combat assessment by coordinating their defenses and attacks. The chapter ended with Huo Wu trusting Quan Yi to protect her from the ground while she launched a Flame Bullet at Bai Yan in the air.

• Bai Yan set her power to level twenty and gave Quan Yi and Huo Wu fifteen minutes to prepare for their assessment.
• Quan Yi encouraged Huo Wu to fight and asked how many times she could use her Soul Skill before he shared his strategy with her.
• Quan Yi shielded Huo Wu from Bai Yan’s Flame Feather Assaults, deflecting the feather arrows with his hands.
• When Bai Yan circled them, Quan Yi and Huo Wu moved together to keep Huo Wu behind him and deny Bai Yan an opening.
• Bai Yan flew overhead to attack Huo Wu, but Huo Wu anticipated her and fired a Flame Bullet while relying on Quan Yi to cover the ground.

Quan Yi and Huo Wu worked together to resist Bai Yan’s aerial assault, and Huo Wu used a final flame bullet to catch Bai Yan off guard. The chapter ended as Bai Yan crossed her wings to block it, unaware that her choice would change the battle.

• Quan Yi and Huo Wu’s surprise attack failed when Bai Yan dodged Huo Wu’s fireball and began targeting her from the air.
• Quan Yi held his defensive position while Huo Wu used Flame Bullets to fend off Bai Yan’s repeated Flame Feather Assaults, rapidly exhausting her Soul Power.
• Huo Wu fired two Flame Bullets in succession, using the first explosion to conceal the second and disrupt Bai Yan’s flight.
• Quan Yi handed Huo Wu a small stone, and she gathered her remaining Soul Power to fire her final flame bullet at Bai Yan.
• Bai Yan crossed her wings to block the incoming flame bullet, making a mistake that changed the battle’s course.

Quan Yi and Huo Wu passed Bai Yan’s Combat Training by working together to land a final attack that forced Bai Yan to the ground. After praising their teamwork, Bai Yan ended the training, and Quan Yi carried the exhausted Huo Wu back toward the Dormitory.

• Quan Yi detonated Rhino's Mark on a stone just as it struck Bai Yan, but she survived with only scorched wings.
• Bai Yan landed and announced that Quan Yi and Huo Wu had passed the Combat Training.
• Huo Wu collapsed from exhaustion, and Quan Yi caught her and carried her in a princess carry.
• Bai Yan praised Quan Yi for standing by his teammate and commended Huo Wu's performance and final combo.
• Huo Wu credited Quan Yi for their success and recognized the importance of unity and cooperation.
• Bai Yan ended the training and left the Training Ground, and Quan Yi carried Huo Wu toward the Dormitory.

After their battle with Bai Yan, Quan Yi and Huo Wu realized how much they still had to learn and encouraged each other to keep striving. Quan Yi then tested his marked stones at the Training Ground and discovered that his Blazing Sun Gauntlets let him sense the position of every Rhino's Mark.

• Quan Yi carried Huo Wu to the girls' dormitory while thinking about his weaknesses in ranged attacks and mobility.
• Huo Wu and Quan Yi reflected on their difficult fight with Bai Yan and agreed that their journey as Soul Masters had only just begun.
• Quan Yi left Huo Wu at the dormitory entrance, where she watched him depart, then went to the Training Ground to test his marked stones.
• Quan Yi threw a stone without summoning his Martial Soul and found that it still exploded once it was fifty meters away from him.
• Quan Yi summoned the Blazing Sun Gauntlets and discovered he could sense the location and movement of every Rhino's Mark.