Chapter Summaries

Lin Li endured the Clear Ripples Lotus’s illusion, found comfort in Zhou Yurou, and helped her absorb a spirit ring that granted a powerful illusion ability. As Ye Lian led the group to seek more Soul Beasts, they encountered a Sacred Fire Azure Wolf and chose it as Wang Ming’s opportunity.

• Lin Li faced an illusion of Lin Yan and Bailan, rejected its accusation, and pulled a Clear Ripples Lotus from the pond.
• Zhou Yurou comforted Lin Li, then absorbed the lotus’s spirit ring and awakened the First Spirit Ability Gentle Breeze Brushing the Face.
• Zhou Yurou explained that her ability spread an illusion through fragrance, while Wang Ning revealed that his First Spirit Ability was Teleportation.
• Ye Lian led the group onward to find Soul Beasts for the others, and Lin Li sensed the Blood Fiend Demonic Phoenix reacting to a gray wolf.
• Ye Lian identified the wolf as a century-old Sacred Fire Azure Wolf and attacked it with her Fourth Soul Skill, Fox Demon's Wrathful Heart-Burning Roll.

Lin Li chased a Soul Beast called the Sinful Feather and absorbed its five-thousand-year Spirit Ring, gaining her second Spirit Ability and breaking through level twenty. Ye Lian found Lin Li in the inner region, and after confirming everyone had obtained a Spirit Ring, led the group out of the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Wang Ming killed the Sacred Fire Azure Wolf and absorbed its Spirit Ring while Lin Li waited for a suitable Soul Beast.
• Lin Li sensed a black swan-like Soul Beast and chased it into the forest, where it revealed its Evil and Dark powers before offering itself as her Spirit Ring.
• Lin Li absorbed the Sinful Feather's Spirit Ring in less than three breaths, gained her second Spirit Ability, and received the Demon God Body Tempering Method and Myriad Herbs Record from the system.
• Ye Lian found Lin Li near the inner region and hurried her back to the group, where Lin Li explained that her Martial Soul had drawn her to the Sinful Feather.
• After Wang Ming finished absorbing his Spirit Ring, Ye Lian led the group out of the Star Dou Great Forest and into their carriage.

On the journey back to Saint Er Junior Soul Master Academy, Lin Li recalled her painful past in Soul Town and decided to stay at the junior academy while planning to break Tang Hao’s record for reaching the Soul Grandmaster realm. The next morning, she received the Demon God Body Tempering Method and Myriad Herbs Record from the system, then went to the First Cafeteria to prepare for her new cultivation regimen.

• Zhou Yurou sensed Lin Li’s sorrow as they passed Soul Town, and Lin Li said the worst days were behind her.
• Lin Li told Zhou Yurou she would stay at Saint Er Junior Soul Master Academy but planned to reach Soul Grandmaster at six years and seven months old, before Tang Hao’s record.
• The group returned to the academy at night, where Ye Lian gave everyone three days off.
• The next morning, Lin Li received the Demon God Body Tempering Method and Myriad Herbs Record, learning that the body-tempering method required Soul Beast blood, medicinal baths, or relentless battles.
• Lin Li went to the First Cafeteria for a large meal and ran into Ling Xuan, who shrank back when she greeted him.

Lin Li bought expensive Gold Devouring Mantis blood to use in her body tempering and decided to seek herbs and materials in the Star Dou Great Forest instead. At the academy, a visiting couple recognized her as the girl who had beaten their son, while a mysterious woman watched them leave.

• Lin Li left Ling Xuan after finishing the meal and explored Saint Er City.
• Lin Li bought a barrel of ten-year Gold Devouring Mantis blood for seven Silver Spirit Coins from an old shopkeeper.
• Lin Li abandoned her plan to buy herbs and decided to visit the Star Dou Great Forest for materials.
• Lin Li returned to the academy and passed a man and woman who recognized her as the girl who had beaten their son, Xuan'er.
• The couple left without meeting the woman they had come to see, while a black-qipao woman watched from behind a banyan tree.

Lin Li used the Demon God Body Tempering Method to strengthen her physique, then returned to class and learned about Spirit Master combat styles. The chapter ended with Ye Lian asking the students which type of Spirit Master was most valuable on the battlefield.

• Lin Li endured an hour in a heated Soul Beast blood bath and felt her physique grow stronger, though she worried about the cost and attracting powerful forces’ attention.
• Three days later, Zhou Yurou told Lin Li that the Clear Ripples Lotus had raised her to level twelve and that she would receive a Gold Soul Coin each month.
• Lin Li sensed that Wang Ming’s Crimson Flame Azure Wolf had awakened a weak Sacred Attribute, which made the Blood Fiend Demonic Phoenix inside her recoil.
• Ye Lian taught the class about Spirit Master combat styles and Martial Soul Fusion Skills, then asked which type of Spirit Master was most valuable on the battlefield.

Ye Lian taught the class about Spirit Abilities, Martial Soul Fusion Skills, and Self-Created Soul Skills before announcing monthly practical combat lessons. Ling Xuan challenged Lin Li to a spar, determined to defeat her.

• Ye Lian explained that Spirit Masters had different roles and described the effects of Spirit Abilities and Martial Soul Fusion Skills.
• Ye Lian introduced Self-Created Soul Skills, prompting Lin Li to consider how Demon God Body Tempering could help her fight after her Soul Power ran out.
• Ye Lian announced monthly sparring classes and said she had already found Lin Li an opponent.
• Lin Li teased Zhou Yurou about sparring with the Class Monitor, while Zhou Yurou complained that Lin Li was being favored.
• Ling Xuan stood up and challenged Lin Li to a spar, vowing to defeat her.

Lin Li fought Ling Xuan in the school arena and was caught by his exhausting, deceptive control ability, then accepted the defeat. The match made Lin Li reconsider how a Control System Spirit Master should fight, and she urged Zhou Yurou to learn from Ling Xuan's tactics.

• Ling Xuan challenged Lin Li to a full-strength match at the school arena, where the crowd expected her to defeat him easily.
• Ling Xuan used the Demon Soul Spirit Tree to attack Lin Li, while Lin Li answered with her phoenix spirit abilities and destroyed his leaves.
• Ling Xuan revealed a second identical leaf and trapped Lin Li inside it before collapsing from exhaustion.
• Lin Li admitted defeat, and Ling Xuan said he had finally beaten her once as the crowd debated his tactics.
• At the Third Cafeteria, Lin Li told Zhou Yurou that Ling Xuan's successful control mattered more than whether his methods were honorable.

Zhou Yurou's pranks left several classmates eager for payback as Ye Lian began Class One's practical combat lessons. Rou'er and Wang Ming started the first match, and their opening spirit abilities left Lin Li judging their matchup.

• Zhou Yurou admitted to Lin Li that she had used her spirit ability to prank Rou'er, Wang Ning, Wang Ming, and Gao Zhuang.
• Ye Lian allowed Zhou Yurou's pranks to continue, while the Dean of Students taught Class One a Douluo script lesson.
• Ye Lian began practical combat class and ordered Rou'er and Wang Ming to fight in the arena.
• Rou'er activated Martial Soul Possession and attacked with Cat Shadow Void Shatter Strike, while Wang Ming used Holy Fire Blessing to strengthen himself.
• Lin Li recognized Wang Ming's ability as an augmenting skill and thought Rou'er's offensive ability gave her the advantage against him.

Lin Li watched Ling Xuan defeat Zhou Yurou and Rou'er before facing Huang He in a sparring match. After Huang He injured her with his Spirit Abilities, Lin Li unleashed her full-strength Phoenix Feather Repentance of the Sacred, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Rou'er defeated Wang Ming, and Ye Lian assigned Zhou Yurou and Ling Xuan to fight next.
• Ling Xuan restrained Zhou Yurou with his Martial Soul and sent her off the stage, then defeated Rou'er.
• Ye Lian introduced Huang He, a Silver Battle Soul Badge holder with a Blazing Claw Exploding Bear Martial Soul, as Lin Li's opponent.
• Lin Li activated Martial Soul Possession and Blood Phoenix Returns to Nest, while Huang He attacked with his Spirit Abilities and injured her.
• Lin Li rose into the air and unleashed Phoenix Feather Repentance of the Sacred as Huang He swung his Raging Bear Hammer at the falling feathers.

Lin Li defeated Huang He in a practical battle despite their difference in strength, then received blunt criticism from Ye Lian along with the other students. Afterward, Lin Li bought ingredients for six medicinal baths, resolving to strengthen her physique.

• Lin Li used her phoenix-feather abilities and a throw to defeat Huang He, who acknowledged her strength before leaving.
• Ye Lian criticized the students’ combat flaws and announced monthly sparring matches, requiring them to take practical battles seriously.
• Lin Li told Zhou Yurou that she still had not fully brought out her strength and reflected on her lack of combat experience.
• Zhou Yurou complained about the Class Monitor’s control abilities as she and Lin Li headed to the cafeteria.
• Lin Li went to a pharmacy, found the medicinal-bath ingredients expensive, then bought six doses for three Gold Soul Coins.

Lin Li received medicinal packets from Ning Lanlan and continued her cultivation while Ning prepared to return to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Two months later, Lin Li and Zhou Yurou said goodbye to Ning Lanlan on her last day at school, leaving her with gifts and mixed feelings about her departure.

• Ning Lanlan gave Lin Li medicine for replenishing blood and restoring energy before leaving to join her father, Ning Fengyin, and tell him she felt reluctant to leave her classmates.
• Lin Li used the medicinal bath and Ning Lanlan's herbs, then cultivated the Death God Art and Star Guidance Art over the following two months.
• Zhou Yurou told Lin Li that Ning Lanlan had withdrawn from school to return to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Lin Li chose her first Soul Beast-hunting dagger as a farewell gift.
• Zhou Yurou gave Ning Lanlan a hair ribbon, and Ling Xuan and the other students presented her with gifts.
• Lin Li gave Ning Lanlan her dagger and wished her a smooth cultivation path, and the class relaxed together that afternoon.

After vacation began, Lin Li returned to Soul Town Village to visit her parents’ graves, while Ye Lian confronted her brother Ling Che over the loss of her beloved and discussed Ling Xuan’s future. The chapter left Ye Lian determined that one of her students would eventually kill the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.

• Lin Li left Saint Er City for Soul Town Village and paid her respects at her parents’ graves.
• Ling Che visited Ye Lian and said Lin Li was suitable for Ling Xuan, prompting Ye Lian to reject the idea and accuse him of asking Xuan'er to sacrifice his love.
• Ling Che gave Ye Lian a forty-thousand-year Flame Dragon Right Arm Bone for her birthday and asked her to watch over Ling Xuan.
• Ye Lian revealed that Ling Xuan’s First Spirit Ability was Black Nether Dragon Vine and told Ling Che to bring him back to the clan grounds in six years.
• Ye Lian gave Ling Che a pearl for his sister-in-law and said she would return to the clan when ready, then vowed that one of her students would kill the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.

Lin Li cultivated with the Crown of Stars and met the new bishop of the Spirit Hall Main Hall, who offered compensation for her parents’ deaths. After learning that her Crown of Stars was tied to the Xu Clan of the Star Luo Empire, she considered how that connection could help her plans and honored her parents with camellias.

• Lin Li discovered that the Crown of Stars enhanced her Spiritual Power cultivation and gave her slight resistance to holy power.
• Lin Li planned to search the Star Dou Great Forest for older medicinal herbs, then found a bishop and Spirit Hall attendants visiting her parents’ graves.
• The bishop praised Lin Li’s talent, gave her compensation, and offered to help her as someone who had considered her father a brother.
• Lin Li learned from the system that the Star Crown was the inherited Spirit of the Xu Clan and that her Crown of Stars was its evolved form.
• Lin Li decided she could use the Spirit to pass as an Xu Clan member, while vowing that Ju Gui and the others would die.
• Lin Li burned the chrysanthemums and planted camellia seeds beside her parents’ gravestones.

Lin Li explored the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest, where she defeated a Mandala Snake and discovered rare medicinal herbs. She stored a Moonlit Starlight Grass and identified a poisonous Blood Maiden Crimson as she continued searching.

• Lin Li summoned the Blood Fiend Demonic Phoenix and used her first and second Spirit Abilities to defeat a nearly thousand-year-old Mandala Snake.
• Lin Li allowed the Blood Fiend Demonic Phoenix to devour the snake, advancing her First Spirit Ring to purple and raising her Soul Power Level from twenty-three to twenty-four.
• Lin Li found a hundred-year Moonlit Starlight Grass in a secluded valley and stored it in a gold box.
• Lin Li discovered Blood Maiden Crimson, a poisonous flower that could be combined with other ingredients to create the toxin Great Wedding Joy.

Lin Li stripped a valley of medicinal herbs, then witnessed a battle between a Blood-Colored Giant Tiger and a Thousand-Year Medusa in the Star Dou Great Forest. After both beasts died, she claimed a Medusa arm soul bone and returned to Soul Town Village as a storm gathered.

• Lin Li collected the valley’s herbs and planned to search Heaven Dou City for missing ingredients and information about the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Lin Li hid in a tree and watched a Blood-Colored Giant Tiger and a Thousand-Year Medusa fight until both beasts were mortally wounded.
• Lin Li summoned the Blood Fiend Demonic Phoenix and absorbed the beasts’ purple spirit rings, strengthening their color while suppressing her level.
• Lin Li found a 3,217-year-old Medusa Right Arm Bone with the Medusa Petrifying Palm skill and decided to save it for a future trade.
• Lin Li scavenged the beasts for medicinal materials, left the Star Dou Great Forest, and returned to her repaired home in Soul Town Village as thunder and rain arrived.

While waiting out the rain in Soul Town Village, Lin Li tried refining a potion and met teachers and students from Star Luo Imperial Academy. After leaving the village for Saint Er City, she encountered a lecherous man who approached her, and she threatened him to get lost.

• Lin Li used her phoenix cauldron to refine a body-tempering potion, though the result was nearly burnt, then rested through the rain.
• Lin Li met a group from Star Luo Imperial Academy, who asked to shelter in Soul Town Village and later lit incense for the graves before leaving.
• Lin Li decided to return to Saint Er Junior Soul Master Academy once the rain stopped, and cultivated while the storm lasted two days and nights.
• After the rain ended, Lin Li changed into cooler clothes and left Soul Town Village for Saint Er City.
• A lecherous man approached Lin Li on the road, and she warned him to get lost or she would pry open his skull.

Lin Li killed a man who tried to assault her, then struggled with the shock and guilt before seeking comfort from Ye Lian. A month later, she returned to class, where Zhou Yurou gave her a bottle of honey.

• A man tried to approach Lin Li, so she unleashed her Blood Fiend Demonic Phoenix and killed him with her spirit abilities.
• Lin Li vomited at the sight of the corpse, reminded herself that he deserved to die, and dissolved his body with Corpse Dissolving Powder.
• Lin Li went to Saint Er Junior Soul Master Academy and told Ye Lian she had killed someone, explaining what had happened while hiding details of her martial soul and spirit rings.
• Ye Lian reassured Lin Li that she had acted rightly and comforted her as she processed the killing.
• A month later, Lin Li returned to class, and Zhou Yurou gave her a bottle of Ning An Honey.

Ye Lian assessed her students’ Soul Power and announced that she would take them to Saint Er Grand Battle Soul Arena for their first experience of real Soul Master battles. Lin Li and Zhou Yurou discussed the dangers of the arena, then Lin Li offered to take her to the cafeteria.

• Lin Li accepted honey from Zhou Yurou as the class chatted before Ye Lian entered and scolded the students.
• Ye Lian had the students report their Soul Power levels, including Ling Xuan at level twenty-one, Zhou Yurou at level eighteen, and Lin Li at level twenty-five.
• Lin Li comforted Zhou Yurou about her slower progress and told her to compare herself with her past self.
• Ye Lian announced that the class would visit Saint Er Grand Battle Soul Arena that night to watch real Soul Master battles.
• Lin Li told Zhou Yurou that the arena’s fiercest matches were Life and Death Arena matches, and Zhou Yurou wondered whether people really died.
• Lin Li offered to take Zhou Yurou to the first cafeteria for Charcoal Grilled Tender Bone Rabbit.

Ye Lian took Class One to the Saint Er Grand Battle Soul Arena and warned the students about its dangers. After showing them the Hero Monument, she had them watch a brutal match that ended with a female Spirit Master defeating her opponent.

• Ye Lian led Class One to the Saint Er Grand Battle Soul Arena and told the students not to provoke anyone there.
• Manager Song welcomed Ye Lian and her students, showed them the Hero Monument, and guided them to a viewing platform.
• Ye Lian explained that the names on the Hero Monument belonged to Spirit Masters who had died in the arena, then directed the students to watch Arena Nine.
• A male Spirit Master trapped a female opponent in thorny vines, while Ye Lian warned the students that female Spirit Masters faced particular dangers in the arena.
• The female Spirit Master used Cherry Blossom Rain Dance to escape behind her opponent, struck him with Cherry Blossom Fox Claw, and pinned him down as she asked the referee to announce the result.

Lin Li watched several Great Soul Arena matches, including Cao Yang’s victory over the Blood Tiger Soul Master, and learned from Ye Lian how fighters used their abilities. The chapter ended as the Shadow Team and Victory Team were announced for a 7v7 team soul battle.

• Mei Yu won her match, and Lin Li realized that her opponent had deliberately thrown it without using his Third Spirit Ability.
• Lin Li watched a Silver Badge match and learned from Ye Lian about the Dragon Nether Plate martial soul and its abilities.
• The Blood Tiger Soul Master attacked Cao Yang, but Cao Yang used his Dragon Nether Plate’s spirit abilities to defeat him.
• Ye Lian urged Rou'er, Wang Ming, Ning Kun, and Zhang Sen to learn from the Blood Tiger Soul Master’s fighting style.
• A host announced the upcoming 7v7 team soul battle between the Shadow Team and the Victory Team.