Chapter Summaries

After four years of training in Spirit Hall, Ye Kai unlocked the Super Healer System and prepared to awaken his Martial Soul. Hu Liena and Qian Renxue joined him at the ceremony, where Ye Kai entered the awakening array and began sensing his Martial Soul.

• Ye Kai unlocked the Super Healer System, whose panel showed an unawakened Tree of Life Martial Soul and a quest to complete his awakening.
• Hu Liena came to fetch Ye Kai and escorted him to the awakening ceremony, teasing him along the way.
• At Spirit City's central square, Ye Kai greeted Xie Yue and Yan and reunited with Qian Renxue, who had returned for his ceremony.
• After the Bishop called his name, Ye Kai entered the Martial Soul Awakening Array and began sensing his Martial Soul as golden light surrounded him.

Ye Kai awakened the God-level Tree of Life with Innate Full Soul Power and received healing skills and traits from the system. After Qian Renxue departed with a marked sachet for future teleportation, Hu Liena claimed a marked jade pendant and hurried Ye Kai to meet Bibi Dong.

• Ye Kai summoned the Tree of Life and tested at Innate Full Soul Power.
• Ye Kai used the Novice Gift Pack to obtain Teleportation, Cleanse Heaven and Earth, system access, and 10,000 Healer Points, then inspected his Martial Soul’s four traits.
• Qian Renxue declined to meet Bibi Dong, and Ye Kai gave her a sachet marked for teleportation before she left with Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupine Douluo.
• Hu Liena asked Ye Kai for a teleportation mark, kissed his cheek, and pulled him toward Bibi Dong.

Ye Kai told Bibi Dong that he wanted to delay getting his First Soul Ring while pursuing the Healing path, and argued that his years of physical training could let him absorb a ring beyond the recorded limit. Bibi Dong agreed to test his strength against Xie Yue and Yan at the Training Field.

• Bibi Dong recalled finding Ye Kai as a toddler and bringing him to Spirit Hall with Hu Liena.
• Ye Kai checked his System Panel and learned that his body could potentially absorb a soul ring of up to 1,200 years, though doing so would cause immense pain.
• Ye Kai said he did not want a soul ring yet, and explained that his Healing skills would be of limited use at the early academies.
• Bibi Dong stopped Ye Kai from mentioning Yu Xiaogang and realized her attachment to him had weakened as Ye Kai brought warmth into her life.
• Ye Kai argued that physical conditioning could raise a Soul Master's soul-ring limit and offered to spar with Xie Yue and Yan.
• Bibi Dong sent Hu Liena to fetch Xie Yue and Yan and took Ye Kai to the Training Field.

Ye Kai sparred with Yan and defeated him despite having no Soul Ring, then suggested adding body-tempering classes at Spirit Academy. Bibi Dong set aside the academy proposal and asked Ye Kai about his future plans.

• Ye Kai chose Yan as his sparring partner to test his strength against Yan’s Flame Lord Martial Soul.
• Ye Kai’s Wooden Wall withstood Yan’s lava attack, and Ye Kai then used his speed and strength to overpower Yan in close combat.
• Ye Kai shattered Yan’s Granite Rock defense with a kick and stopped a final punch just before Yan’s face.
• Ye Kai healed Yan’s arm, earning 6,000 Healer Points, and Yan accepted the loss.
• Ye Kai proposed body-tempering classes for Spirit Academy, and Bibi Dong asked what he planned to do in the future.

Ye Kai proposed absorbing older Soul Rings with body training and Healing Soul Masters, and Bibi Dong approved experiments on prisoners or Fallen. He then explored the System Mall, learned how Healer Points and unrestricted God Positions worked, and began considering physical combat techniques.

• Ye Kai told Bibi Dong he planned to temper his body and absorb five-thousand-year and ten-thousand-year Soul Rings, then suggested using Healing Soul Masters to help people withstand older rings.
• Bibi Dong assigned Elders Gui Ju to investigate Ye Kai's proposed experiments and promised him a reward if the method worked.
• Ye Kai declined Hu Liena's lunch celebration, went to the Library, and arranged to report to Bibi Dong at Pope's Hall after training.
• Ye Kai learned that Healer Points could be earned by treating injuries or completing random Healing Missions, and that they could buy or upgrade God Positions.
• Ye Kai found that the System Mall offered only healing and support items, so he considered using physical techniques, the Eight Gates Formation, and his healing ability to improve his combat strength.

Ye Kai studied the Eight Gates Formation and tested how many gates he could open, while Bibi Dong investigated Soul Ring ages and struggled with the Rakshasa God’s malicious influence. After Ye Kai injured himself opening the fifth gate, he explained his training to Bibi Dong, who confirmed his meridians were healing unusually fast.

• Ye Kai identified the acupoints for the Eight Gates and returned to the Training Field to test the formation.
• Bibi Dong ordered Ghost Douluo to take Nana, Xie Yue, and Yan to hunt Fallen, and told Chrysanthemum Douluo to compile Spirit Hall Soul Ring ages and childhood training histories.
• The Rakshasa God’s voice taunted Bibi Dong about her feelings toward Ye Kai, and she erupted in anger, wrecking the Pope’s Hall.
• Ye Kai arrived at the Pope’s Hall, learned Bibi Dong had been arguing with someone, and entered to clean up the damage.
• Ye Kai opened the first five gates, tested his enhanced speed and strength, and damaged the Training Field before stopping.
• Ye Kai told Bibi Dong about the Eight Gates and his rapid recovery, and she inspected his torn but healing meridians before he fled to arrange dinner.

Ye Kai used his Purification Domain to weaken the Rakshasa corruption in Bibi Dong, though it exhausted his Soul Power. After dinner, Bibi Dong kept him in her bedchamber for the night, where he considered buying a Gravity Amulet with his Healer Points.

• Ye Kai learned Hu Liena was away on a mission with Ghost Douluo and two others, then returned to find Bibi Dong handling official business.
• Ye Kai used his Purification Domain on Bibi Dong, briefly easing the Rakshasa Divine Power's influence before his Soul Power ran out.
• Bibi Dong caught Ye Kai as he weakened, and he explained that he had used his domain to help her relax.
• Ye Kai served Bibi Dong dinner, then she insisted he sleep in her bedchamber and tried to bathe him before he escaped.
• Ye Kai checked his 16,000 Healer Points and considered buying a Gravity Amulet to improve his body tempering.

Ye Kai spent the night in Bibi Dong’s embrace, then left early to train and test a new conditioning method using Five Gates. After he returned to Pope’s Hall, Bibi Dong warned him not to use his domain on her for now because she still depended on the Rakshasa God and did not want it to learn of his ability.

• Bibi Dong pulled Ye Kai into bed and held him until morning, while he carefully slipped away before she woke.
• At the Training Field, Ye Kai opened Five Gates, found the strain easier to manage, and began using the state to strengthen his physique.
• Bibi Dong woke to find Ye Kai gone, learned he had eaten breakfast and left her a meal and note, then enjoyed the food he had prepared.
• After finishing his morning exercise, Ye Kai returned to Pope’s Hall and told Bibi Dong he was going to the Library.
• Bibi Dong told Ye Kai not to use his domain on her for now, and he understood that she wanted to keep the Rakshasa God from discovering his ability.

After two months of training, Ye Kai welcomed Hu Liena back from a mission against the Fallen and spent a day exploring Spirit City with her. He taught her a Soul Power control exercise, but their lesson ended with Hu Liena pinning him to a tree and kissing him.

• Ye Kai raised his soul ring age limit to 1,000 years (1,500 years), completed tree-climbing and water-treading training, and continued practicing the Spiral Pill and Eight Gates Formation.
• Ghost Douluo returned with Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan after they captured seven Fallen, and Bibi Dong praised their mission and Hu Liena's progress.
• Hu Liena embraced Ye Kai, then reported her gains to Bibi Dong before leaving Pope's Hall.
• Ye Kai joined Hu Liena for a stroll around Spirit City, carried her shopping bags, and accompanied her to dinner.
• Ye Kai demonstrated tree-climbing Soul Power control to Hu Liena at the training ground and explained how it could reduce soul skill consumption.
• Hu Liena pinned Ye Kai against a tree and kissed him, raising her favorability to 90 and leaving him stunned.

Ye Kai joined the secret experiment to test whether a Healing Soul Master could help a level 20 subject absorb a thousand-year Soul Ring, then explored his Lord of Plants talent in the Soul Hunting Forest. He asked Ghost Douluo to let him fight the approaching Gale Demon Wolves and charged toward their Wolf King.

• Bibi Dong summoned Zhang Lingyu to assist with the planned Soul Ring experiment, while the subjects were prepared and placed under strict guard.
• On the journey through the Soul Hunting Forest, Ye Kai used Lord of Plants to share plants’ vision and concluded he could discreetly scan plants within three kilometers.
• Ye Kai asked Ghost Douluo to let Soul Beasts approach so he could test his combat skills and earn points by fighting and healing them.
• Ye Kai detected a pack of fourteen Gale Demon Wolves, including a roughly nine-hundred-year-old Wolf King, through the plants.
• As the wolves began to surround the group, Ye Kai left the others and charged straight at the Wolf King.

Ye Kai defeated a pack of Gale Demon Wolves and helped Ghost Douluo test whether Zhang Lingyu could heal someone absorbing a Soul Ring beyond the normal limit. The prisoner survived absorbing the nine-hundred-year Wolf King's Soul Ring, and Ghost Douluo praised Ye Kai for sparing the other wolves.

• Ye Kai defeated the Gale Demon Wolves, broke the Wolf King's leg, and spared the pack by leaving them unable to fight.
• Ye Kai healed the other wolves and released them, while the system explained that healing creatures under ten thousand years earned no Healer Points.
• Ghost Douluo had the prisoner absorb the Wolf King's nine-hundred-year Soul Ring while Zhang Lingyu treated him, and the prisoner survived after Zhang Lingyu used about thirty percent of his Soul Power.
• Ghost Douluo let the prisoner leave, then explained that Spirit Hall would still capture him and praised Ye Kai for avoiding needless slaughter.

On the way back to Spirit City, Ye Kai weighed the growing gap between Soul Beasts and humanity and decided that Soul Spirits offered the best near-term path to improving their relations. He headed for Heaven Dou City to visit Qian Renxue, while recording observations that could inform reforms after the Spirit Hall Empire unified the continent.

• Ye Kai concluded that Soul Tools and Dou Armor required technology he did not yet have, so he planned to use Soul Spirits to ease tensions between humans and Soul Beasts and postponed experimenting with Soul Cores.
• A Spirit Hall deacon reported that the mission was complete, and Ye Kai understood that the experimental subject had been eliminated.
• Ye Kai decided to visit Qian Renxue in Heaven Dou City and teach her political maneuvering, and Ghost Douluo approved the trip and assigned two Soul Sages to escort him.
• Ye Kai traveled on foot with weights and a Gravity Amulet, training as he went and treating injured villagers for Healer Points.
• Ye Kai recorded his observations and drafted possible pilot policies for after the Spirit Hall Empire unified the continent, while recognizing that God King Tang would have to be dealt with first.

Ye Kai resolved his inner conflict and decided to test the four-year-old God King Tang rather than kill him without cause. He changed course for Holy Soul Village, reaching Nuoding City after traveling through Balak Kingdom and Fasinuo Province.

• Ye Kai confronted Black Ye Kai, reaffirmed his moral boundaries, and merged with his other self, improving his Spiritual Power.
• The system rewarded Ye Kai for resolving his inner demon by unlocking a living-creature-capable System Space merged with his Storage Soul Tool.
• Ye Kai decided to test God King Tang and set out for Holy Soul Village, prepared to cooperate if Tang passed or kill him if he failed.
• Ye Kai traveled west through villages, used Soul Power to speed his journey, and sent Pope Teacher a letter from Suotuo City asking about Shrek Academy and Zhao Wuji.
• Ye Kai crossed into Fasinuo Province and reached Nuoding City after five more days of travel.

Ye Kai prepared a cautious plan to find Ah Yin and kill Big Hammer with Qian Daoliu’s help, then set out for Holy Soul Village. He reached the Blue Silver Forest and encountered Ah Yin, while Big Hammer’s location remained unconfirmed.

• Ye Kai bought commoner's clothes and planned to locate Ah Yin, check whether Big Hammer was nearby, summon Qian Daoliu and the Imperial Supporters, and take Ah Yin and her bones during the attack.
• Ye Kai exchanged for Aura Concealment Talismans, equipped himself and his two Soul Saint guards, and hurried toward Holy Soul Village while using Lord of Plants.
• The Blue Silver King sensed Ye Kai’s Ultimate Life and invited him to the Blue Silver Forest, saving him the search for Ah Yin.
• Ah Yin revealed herself as an eighty-thousand-year Soul Beast, and Ye Kai stopped his guards from attacking so they would not alert Big Hammer.

Ye Kai met the Blue Silver King, agreed to assess Ah Yin’s condition, and found her barely alive in a hidden chamber beneath a waterfall. He then reached Holy Soul Village at sunrise, where he prepared to test Tang San’s reaction to having his secret cultivation technique discovered.

• The Blue Silver King asked Ye Kai to nourish Ah Yin with his Tree of Life Martial Soul and offered to become Ye Kai’s soul ring in return.
• Ye Kai entered the hidden chamber behind the waterfall and found Ah Yin weakened by a restriction and her lost origin power, but left without helping her so Tang Da Chui would not notice.
• Ye Kai marked the ground near the waterfall for a future return, then headed south with his two guards toward Holy Soul Village.
• Ye Kai concealed his guards’ auras and approached Holy Soul Village, expecting to find Tang San practicing the Purple Demon Eyes at sunrise.
• Ye Kai planned to judge Tang San by whether he reacted with hostility after Ye Kai discovered his cultivation secret.

Ye Kai secretly approached Tang San’s training spot and caught him practicing techniques from his previous life, then posed as a passerby named Might Guy to learn about him. Tang San invited Ye Kai home, while Ye Kai reflected that Tang San’s family and future inheritance were about to be taken from him.

• Ye Kai sent his two companions into the village to find lodging and went to observe Tang San training.
• Tang San revealed that he had practiced the Mysterious Heaven Skill and other techniques in his previous life, then noticed Ye Kai watching him.
• Tang San mistook Ye Kai for a girl, became flustered when Ye Kai stood close, and backed away warily.
• Ye Kai introduced himself as Might Guy, claimed to be four, and asked about Tang San’s Martial Soul and footwork.
• Tang San hid the nature of his techniques and invited Ye Kai to his house to talk.
• Ye Kai considered how Tang San’s mother, father, Martial Soul, techniques, and inherited Soul Bones were soon to be lost.

Ye Kai met Tang San and Tang Hao in Holy Soul Village, then returned to Spirit City to report Tang Hao’s whereabouts to Qian Daoliu. Qian Daoliu mobilized the Worships to pursue Tang Hao, while Bibi Dong learned why Ye Kai had rushed to the Worship Hall.

• Ye Kai visited Tang San’s home, where Tang Hao secretly scrutinized him as Ye Kai gave Tang San some misleading information about Soul Masters.
• Ye Kai suggested Tang San visit a supposed lecture at Nuoding Academy, then left Holy Soul Village and ordered his guards to wait in Nuoding City.
• Ye Kai used Mana Recovery Potions to teleport back to Spirit City and reported his suspicions about Tang Hao to Qian Daoliu.
• Qian Daoliu had Golden Crocodile Douluo summon the other Worships, confirmed Ye Kai recognized Tang Hao from a portrait, and led them to pursue him.
• Bibi Dong confronted Ye Kai for not visiting her first, then accepted his explanation that he had reported Tang Hao’s trail.

Ye Kai returned to Nuoding City, prepared to help the elders capture Tang Hao, and recruited the Blue Silver King to break the restriction around Ah Yin. Tang Hao was ambushed by Qian Daoliu and six other Titled Douluo, who closed in to prevent his escape.

• Bibi Dong allowed Ye Kai to return to Holy Soul Village to investigate the powerful Life Energy he had sensed, and Ye Kai used teleportation to travel back to Nuoding City.
• Ye Kai ordered two Soul Saint guards to give a martial soul knowledge lecture with Nuoding Academy, then cultivated with the Blue Silver King while waiting for Qian Daoliu and the elders.
• When battle auras erupted near Holy Soul Village, Ye Kai visited Ah Yin's stone chamber, sensed that her restriction was too strong for him to break, and brought the Blue Silver King to help.
• Tang San asked Tang Hao for permission to attend the lecture, and Tang Hao agreed before leaving him a letter and setting out after feeling uneasy.
• Qian Daoliu and six other Titled Douluo attacked Tang Hao, and the six elders formed an encirclement to stop him from escaping.

Tang Hao fought Qian Daoliu and the Imperial Supporters, then rushed to the waterfall after discovering Ye Kai had taken Ah Yin. Qian Daoliu killed Tang Hao while Ye Kai escaped, but Ah Yin awakened and began questioning Tang Hao’s neglect and attack.

• Tang Hao used the Great Sumeru Hammer and detonated soul rings to fight Qian Daoliu and the Imperial Supporters, but they weakened his attacks.
• Ye Kai nourished Ah Yin with Life Energy, carried her away from the stone chamber, and teleported from the waterfall as Tang Hao approached.
• Tang Hao detonated Ah Yin’s hundred-thousand-year soul ring and attacked Ye Kai, but his blow struck the waterfall and nearby hills instead.
• Qian Daoliu stabbed Tang Hao through the heart and struck again to ensure he was dead.
• Ah Yin recalled years of neglect in the stone chamber and saw Tang Hao detonate her ring and attack the child carrying her.

Ye Kai cared for Ah Yin while traveling to Silves City, where she awakened and confronted him about Tang Hao and Spirit Hall’s investigation. After Ye Kai revealed that Tang Hao may have known her identity long before she confessed, Ah Yin broke down and questioned Ye Kai’s motives, and he offered to return her Soul Bone and take her somewhere safe.

• Ye Kai reached Silves City with Ah Yin and wondered why her recovery had slowed, while Ah Yin secretly grew attached to his care.
• Ye Kai received a letter from Bibi Dong threatening to make him practice with her when he returned to Spirit City.
• Ah Yin reached out to Ye Kai with her branches, and he used Life Energy before she finally spoke to him through Spiritual Power.
• Ah Yin asked about Tang Hao and Ye Kai revealed that Tang Hao might already be dead and that Spirit Hall’s investigation suggested he had known her identity early on.
• Ah Yin realized Tang Hao may have deceived her for years and asked whether Ye Kai planned to take her soul ring.
• Ye Kai offered to return Ah Yin’s Soul Bone and send her to the Blue Silver Forest, the Star Dou Great Forest, or a Treasure Basin, insisting he wanted to help her escape the lies.