Chapter Summaries

Ye Kai settled Ah Yin into a room, gave Hu Liena the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, and planned how to use the remaining treasures and recruit allies for Spirit Hall. After Hu Liena absorbed the herb and felt her Spiritual Power increase, Ye Kai carried her to bed and took advantage of the moment.

• Ye Kai prepared a sparse room for Ah Yin, but she blocked the door with Blue Silver Grass and kept him with her before sending him to Hu Liena.
• Ye Kai gave Hu Liena the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, and she drank its liquid and began refining it.
• Ye Kai assigned several rare herbs to Chrysanthemum Douluo, Guimei, Pope Teacher, and Ning Fengzhi, while deciding to keep others for later.
• Ye Kai planned to bring the three single-attribute clans and several academies under his influence and considered using Canghui Academy to build the Spirit Pagoda.
• Hu Liena's Spiritual Power surged after absorbing the herb, and Ye Kai carried her to bed after she embraced him.

Ye Kai returned to Spirit City with Hu Liena and asked Bibi Dong to summon Qian Daoliu so they could discuss the problems with Qian Renxue’s Kingdom Usurpation Plan. The chapter ended with Ye Kai proposing that an unknown Worship Hall elder be sent to support the plan.

• Hu Liena woke up in Ye Kai’s room, and Ah Yin teased her about her swollen lips from the night before.
• Ye Kai asked Hu Liena when Bibi Dong would return, and a guard summoned Hu Liena to Pope’s Hall.
• Ye Kai and Hu Liena went to Pope’s Hall, where Bibi Dong asked them to report on their journey.
• Ye Kai asked Bibi Dong to summon Qian Daoliu because the Kingdom Usurpation Plan had encountered problems.
• After Qian Daoliu arrived, Ye Kai explained that Qian Renxue’s plan needed Worship Hall’s support and suggested sending one of its lesser-known elders.

Ye Kai advised Qian Daoliu to send Light Feather Douluo to assist Qian Renxue in Heaven Dou City, then accepted three soul bones recovered from Tang Hao. He outlined ways for Light Feather Douluo to meet Qian Renxue convincingly, while Hu Liena remained troubled by Ye Kai’s private matter with Ah Yin.

• Ye Kai recommended Light Feather Douluo over Azure Phoenix Douluo as the elder to send to Heaven Dou City, and Qian Daoliu went to summon him.
• Ye Kai stopped Hu Liena from telling Bibi Dong about Ah Yin until the matter was resolved.
• Qian Daoliu offered Ye Kai three of four available soul bones, and Ye Kai chose the Head Bone, Torso Bone, and Left Hand Bone.
• Light Feather Douluo agreed to help Qian Renxue and asked Ye Kai what he should do.
• Ye Kai suggested that Light Feather Douluo arrange a dramatic meeting with Qian Renxue during an inspection tour or after a staged attack.

Ye Kai explained Ah Yin’s Soul Spirit contract to Bibi Dong and proposed exchanging three Soul Bones taken from Tang Hao for a spiritual skull bone for Hu Liena. Bibi Dong approved the exchange and kept the Soul Spirit matter secret for now, while Rakshasa hinted at a future God Test that would trouble her.

• After Qian Daoliu left, Hu Liena told Bibi Dong that Ye Kai had hidden a woman, and Ah Yin appeared before them.
• Ye Kai explained his Soul Spirit contract, while Rakshasa’s words stirred Bibi Dong’s dark desires and hinted at a future God Test.
• Ye Kai used his Purification Domain to calm Bibi Dong, who ordered him to keep the Soul Spirit matter secret until they had observed it for a few years.
• Ye Kai asked to trade three of Tang Hao’s Soul Bones for Spirit Hall’s sixty-thousand-year spiritual skull bone for Hu Liena, and Bibi Dong agreed.
• Outside Pope’s Hall, Hu Liena questioned Ye Kai about the trade, and he told her he wanted to help her grow stronger.

Ye Kai treated Hu Liena’s hidden injuries and impurities, then fell asleep after exhausting his Soul Power and Spiritual Power. While he rested, Ah Yin explained her past to Hu Liena, who learned Tang Hao had been behind the former Pope’s death and heard that Ah Yin was content to stay by Ye Kai’s side.

• Ye Kai told Hu Liena he would check her for hidden injuries, and she misunderstood before agreeing to his examination.
• Ye Kai used his Soul Power to heal Hu Liena and cleanse her body, leaving her with minor injuries treated and impurities expelled.
• After Hu Liena went to bathe, Ye Kai grew exhausted, and Ah Yin comforted him until he fell asleep on her lap.
• Ah Yin reassured Hu Liena that she would not compete with her for Ye Kai and revealed that she was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Ah Yin told Hu Liena how Tang Hao had plotted against her and how Ye Kai had rescued her, leaving Hu Liena shocked to learn Tang Hao was connected to the former Pope’s death.

After two years of training in Spirit City, Ye Kai learned to control and absorb life force, then traveled with Ah Yin to find Tang San and Xiao Wu. In a village near Nuoding City, they spotted Xiao Wu, whom Ah Yin recognized as a familiar Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

• Over two years, Ye Kai reached Rank 38, developed Life Control, and learned to convert some foreign life force into his own.
• Ye Kai asked Ah Yin to accompany him to see Tang San awaken his martial soul, and she agreed so she could settle things with him.
• Bibi Dong offered Ye Kai a Silent Extinction Squad as guards, but he chose to take two Soul Saints instead.
• After reaching Nuoding City, Ye Kai checked the spirit-awakening routes and followed a Spirit Hall deacon toward nearby villages.
• Ah Yin spotted Xiao Wu waiting for her spirit awakening and sensed that she was a familiar Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

Xiao Wu pretended to undergo a martial soul awakening ceremony, revealed her Innate Full Soul Power, and declined the Spirit Hall deacon’s invitation. After meeting Ye Kai and happily accepting his carrots, she was invited to travel with him to Nuoding City Junior Soul Master Academy.

• Xiao Wu summoned her Soft Bone Rabbit martial soul during the ceremony and pretended to reveal Innate Full Soul Power.
• Xiao Wu declined the Spirit Hall deacon’s offer to join Spirit Hall, and he issued her martial soul certification and instructed Village Chief Tom to send her to the junior academy in three months.
• Xiao Wu approached Ye Kai, introduced herself, and eagerly ate the carrots he offered her.
• Ye Kai told Old Tom that he was a student at Nuoding City Junior Soul Master Academy and offered to take Xiao Wu there early.
• Old Tom happily agreed, and Xiao Wu was told to pack her things and go with Ye Kai.

Ye Kai and Xiao Wu traveled toward Holy Soul Village, where Xiao Wu peppered him with questions and challenged him to a fight. After Ye Kai defeated her and healed her with his Tree of Life Martial Soul, they continued walking together, with Xiao Wu questioning his claim that she was his.

• Xiao Wu asked Ye Kai questions as they traveled, while Ah Yin recognized her as the daughter of an old friend and wondered what had happened to her mother.
• Ye Kai challenged Xiao Wu to fight over whether she would call him Brother, and he easily countered her attacks until she landed painfully on her buttocks.
• Ye Kai healed Xiao Wu with Life Energy, and she agreed to call him Brother Kai after discovering he was a Healing Soul Master.
• Xiao Wu promised to protect Ye Kai, but he teased that he should protect her and stroked her rabbit ears, making her blush and protest.
• Xiao Wu questioned Ye Kai when he called her his Xiao Wu, and they continued toward Nuoding City.

Ye Kai waited in Holy Soul Village while Su Yuntao awakened the children’s martial souls, and Ah Yin confirmed that Tang San had inherited the Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline. Ah Yin plotted to ruin Tang San’s future, but Tang San misread what he saw and returned to the Spirit Hall.

• Ye Kai detected a soul power signature approaching Holy Soul Village and explained to Xiao Wu that he wanted to find poor children willing to become Work-Study Students.
• Su Yuntao arrived and gathered the village children at the Spirit Hall, while Ye Kai sent Xiao Wu ahead and stayed behind with Ah Yin.
• Ah Yin sensed Tang San’s Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline and confirmed that he was her child, then planned to take revenge on the soul occupying his body.
• After awakening his martial soul, Tang San sensed Ah Yin nearby, but she pinned Ye Kai against a wall to hide herself from him.
• Tang San used his Purple Demon Eyes, mistook Ah Yin for a predatory noble, and returned to the Spirit Hall to look for potential subordinates.

At Tang San’s Martial Soul awakening, Xiao Wu mistook his familiar aura for proof that he was Ye Kai’s child, while Ah Yin revealed that Tang San’s elder had stolen her Essence Blood. Ye Kai, Xiao Wu, and Ah Yin returned to Nuoding City, where Ye Kai took Xiao Wu to eat.

• Tang San dismissed Xiao Wu’s attention and resolved to use his talents and Tang Sect methods to rise in the world.
• Ah Yin told Ye Kai her plan to unsettle Tang San by making him suspect their connection, and Ye Kai proposed changes to it.
• Xiao Wu told Ye Kai she had found his child, and Ah Yin explained that Tang San carried her aura because his elder had stolen her Essence Blood.
• Ah Yin emerged from Ye Kai’s body and explained that she was recovering there after being injured by Tang San’s elder.
• Ye Kai urged everyone to leave before dark, and the group returned to Nuoding City.
• Ye Kai took Xiao Wu to a restaurant, where she eagerly began eating the meal.

Xiao Wu was comforted by Ah Yin after choking at dinner and mistaking her kindness for her mother’s, who had died. Ye Kai told her that if her mother’s soul remnants remained, Xiao Wu might revive her after becoming a god, and urged her to cultivate harder.

• Ye Kai wiped food from Xiao Wu’s face and warned her to eat slowly, but Xiao Wu choked while eating.
• Ah Yin gave Xiao Wu water and patted her back, prompting Xiao Wu to call her mother and sob about missing her own mother.
• Ye Kai recalled that Xiao Wu’s mother had sacrificed herself to Pope Teacher and reasoned that telling him about Xiao Wu could put her in danger.
• Ye Kai explained that Xiao Wu might revive her mother if soul remnants remained and she became a god, leaving Xiao Wu hopeful but discouraged by the conditions.
• Ye Kai urged Xiao Wu to work hard, promising that he and Ah Yin would help her pursue the power needed to bring her mother back.

Ye Kai helped Xiao Wu resolve to cultivate and become a god so she could revive her mother, then made plans to leave her alone to condense her own Soul Ring. While arranging a house and taking Xiao Wu and Ah Yin shopping in Nuoding City, he ended the outing with Ah Yin secretly choosing revealing clothes.

• Ye Kai encouraged Xiao Wu to cultivate, then told her he and Ah Yin would leave temporarily so she could condense her Soul Ring without him watching.
• Ye Kai took Xiao Wu and Ah Yin around Nuoding City, sent guards to find a house and furniture, and visited Spirit Hall to collect his monthly subsidy.
• Xiao Wu snatched Ye Kai’s ten Gold Soul Coins and insisted on keeping them safe so he could buy her carrots.
• Ye Kai took Xiao Wu and Ah Yin to a clothing shop, where Xiao Wu picked out many pink outfits while Ah Yin memorized styles she liked.
• Ah Yin asked the shopkeeper for revealing clothes and returned blushing after choosing outfits she imagined wearing for Ye Kai.

Ye Kai, Ah Yin, and Xiao Wu settled into a house together, where Xiao Wu joined them in bed and feared Ye Kai would leave her behind. Ye Kai promised he would always care for her, while she secretly planned to use their absence to condense her First Soul Ring.

• Ye Kai followed Ah Yin and Xiao Wu to a prepared house with a Mimetic Cultivation Room.
• Ah Yin sent Xiao Wu to bed, but Xiao Wu later joined Ye Kai and Ah Yin, and the three slept together.
• The next morning, Ye Kai made breakfast while Ah Yin watched him and Xiao Wu slept beside him.
• Xiao Wu rushed into Ye Kai's arms, worried he and Ah Yin no longer wanted her after she interrupted them.
• Ye Kai promised Xiao Wu he would not abandon her and said he and Ah Yin would return within ten days.
• Xiao Wu made Ye Kai pinky swear, intending to use their absence to condense her First Soul Ring.

Ye Kai secretly followed Xiao Wu as she absorbed her first Soul Ring, then helped Ah Yin nourish the Blue Silver Grass in Blue Silver Forest as she prepared to carry out her plan. He later met Tang San in Holy Soul Village, where Ah Yin appeared briefly and left him wondering who she was.

• Ye Kai secretly followed Xiao Wu and watched her absorb a hundred-year Soul Ring and test her First Soul Skill, Waist Bow.
• Ah Yin visited the ruins of her former prison, then asked Ye Kai to use his Life Energy to nourish the Blue Silver Grass in Blue Silver Forest.
• Ah Yin looked toward Holy Soul Village with hatred and said it was time to prepare her plan.
• Ye Kai met Tang San while he cultivated on the back mountain, and Tang San recognized him as Might Guy.
• Ah Yin appeared before Tang San in a blue outfit, then vanished before he could speak to her.
• Tang San told Ye Kai that Tang Da Chui had left him a letter instructing him to find someone at Nuoding City Junior Soul Master Academy.

Tang San and Ye Kai met after Tang San awakened his martial soul, and each concealed his strength while sizing the other up. Ye Kai left with Ah Yin, who warned him about Tang San, while Tang San returned to Old Jack’s house and prepared to go to Nuoding City.

• Tang San apologized to Ye Kai for the dusty room, then claimed his Eye Martial Soul was merely a mutation of Blue Silver Grass and said he had innate level-ten soul power.
• Ye Kai told Tang San that his Tree Martial Soul had innate level-seven soul power and that he was nearing level twenty, then left for Nuoding City.
• Tang San sensed a familiar bloodline presence and saw a flash of blue before returning to Old Jack’s house.
• Old Jack told Tang San they would sell carrots in the city and then travel to Nuoding City, and Tang San went back to cultivating.
• Ah Yin caught up with Ye Kai and warned him that Tang San was vigilant and scheming; Ye Kai said Tang San had little chance to cause trouble because he had taken many of Tang San’s opportunities.
• Ye Kai reflected that Oscar had been found and brought to Spirit City, where two Food System Soul Douluo were competing to teach him, while Ma Hongjun remained missing.

Ye Kai and Ah Yin returned to Nuoding City, where Ye Kai reunited with Xiao Wu and planned to target Yu Xiaogang. Xiao Wu revealed that she had obtained her First Soul Ring, and she and Ye Kai agreed to spar the next day.

• Ye Kai and Ah Yin returned to their courtyard, where Ye Kai found Xiao Wu cultivating in his bedroom.
• Xiao Wu joined Ye Kai in the kitchen, and the three of them shared a meal together.
• Ye Kai decided to damage Yu Xiaogang’s reputation at Nuoding Academy because of his grudge against him.
• Xiao Wu told Ye Kai she had obtained her First Soul Ring after finding two hundred-year Soul Beasts fighting over territory.
• Ye Kai assigned Xiao Wu the dishes as punishment for going after a Soul Ring without him, and they agreed to spar with a wager for the next day.

Ye Kai defeated Xiao Wu's Waist Bow-based Supple Skill and advised her against using it on boys. He then planned training to strengthen her Spiritual Power and physical abilities, leaving Xiao Wu with a new path for developing her combat skills.

• Xiao Wu used Waist Bow and her Supple Skills to try to throw Ye Kai, but he countered her and flung her onto his back.
• Xiao Wu gave up the sparring match, and Ye Kai told her she would handle the housework; Ah Yin urged him to reassure her.
• Ye Kai warned Xiao Wu to use her Supple Skills less around boys, and Ah Yin explained why as they exchanged strange looks at him.
• Ye Kai assessed the weaknesses in Xiao Wu's Soul Skills and decided to train her Spiritual Power through Tree Climbing, Water Treading, and Spiral Pill.
• Ye Kai planned physical training to improve Xiao Wu's offense and help her develop stronger versions of Eight Stage Throw.

Ah Yin explained human intimacy to Xiao Wu and teased her about her feelings for Ye Kai. She then arranged for Xiao Wu to watch her and Ye Kai together, leaving Xiao Wu newly curious about adult relationships.

• Ah Yin warned Xiao Wu not to use the Supple Skill casually on boys, and Xiao Wu tearfully promised not to risk Ye Kai abandoning her.
• Ah Yin explained boundaries around physical contact and teased Xiao Wu about having little rabbits with Ye Kai, making Xiao Wu blush and protest.
• Xiao Wu asked Ah Yin what she had felt with Ye Kai in Holy Soul Village, and Ah Yin described it as something shared by people who truly loved each other.
• Ye Kai gave Xiao Wu a training plan, and Ah Yin pulled him aside and proposed being intimate while Xiao Wu watched.
• Xiao Wu secretly watched Ah Yin and Ye Kai, marveling at the details and feeling as if she had grown up.

After three months of training, Ye Kai brought Xiao Wu to enroll at Nuoding Academy, where they witnessed Tang San meet Yu Xiaogang and become his disciple. Yu Xiaogang then noticed Ye Kai’s immense strength and considered recruiting him as well.

• Ah Yin continued teasing Tang San in Holy Soul Village, refusing to explain who she was until he became stronger.
• Ye Kai took Xiao Wu, now at Level 13, to enroll at Nuoding Academy and reminded her to stand up to anyone who bullied her.
• At the academy entrance, Ye Kai saw Tang San get sent flying before Yu Xiaogang stepped in.
• Tang San showed Yu Xiaogang Tang Hao’s letter, and Yu Xiaogang agreed to teach him while keeping Tang Hao’s affairs secret.
• Yu Xiaogang noticed he could not sense Ye Kai’s Soul Power and decided that the powerful boy would make another promising disciple.

Ye Kai enrolled Xiao Wu at Nuoding Academy and arranged for her to have a private dormitory. Yu Xiaogang tried to recruit Ye Kai as his disciple, but Ye Kai rejected him, kicked him aside, and left after warning him to stay away.

• Yu Xiaogang repeatedly interrupted Ye Kai and Xiao Wu, trying to persuade Ye Kai to become his disciple.
• Ye Kai enrolled Xiao Wu at Nuoding Academy and paid Director Su to arrange a private dormitory for her.
• Ye Kai warned Xiao Wu not to listen to Yu Xiaogang and told her to find him if Yu Xiaogang bothered her.
• Yu Xiaogang continued pitching himself as Ye Kai's teacher, but Ye Kai dismissed his advice and exposed his low Soul Power level.
• Yu Xiaogang grabbed Ye Kai's shoulder, so Ye Kai kicked him into the landscaping and threatened to beat him whenever he appeared again.
• Yu Xiaogang silently resolved to make Tang San force Ye Kai to regret humiliating him.