Chapter Summaries

After visiting Spirit Hall, Ye Xinyu returned to the academy and agreed to watch Xiao Wu's challenge match against Xiao Chenyu's group, offering only to provide support. The sides met at the back mountain, where Xiao Chenyu proposed a three-on-three contest, and Xiao Wu accepted.

• Ye Xinyu left Spirit Hall feeling safer after revealing that her mother was connected to it, then ate two portions of food before returning to the dormitory.
• Xiao Wu reminded Ye Xinyu that they had agreed to challenge Xiao Chenyu and his group, and Ye Xinyu agreed to watch and help her recover.
• Ye Xinyu and Xiao Wu arrived at the back mountain, where more than twenty upper-year students had gathered.
• Xiao Chenyu, warned by his father not to provoke Ye Xinyu because of her Spirit Hall token, offered a three-on-three match.
• Xiao Wu accepted Xiao Chenyu's terms and asked which of his students would go first.

Tang San and the work-study students faced Xiao Chenyu’s group in a series of fights, with Tang San stepping in against Ling Feng to test himself. After Tang San turned Ling Feng’s charge against him, he followed up with a strike to Ling Feng’s back.

• Liu Long battered Wang Sheng with his Ruyi Staff, but Wang Sheng seized him and won by throwing him with a back suplex.
• Xiao Chenyu sent Ling Feng, a level 11 Raven Martial Soul master, to fight the next round.
• Tang San arrived and volunteered to face Ling Feng, explaining that he wanted to see how he compared with others.
• Tang San revealed his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul and used Blue Silver Entanglement to catch Ling Feng as he charged.
• Tang San grabbed Ling Feng’s wrist, flung him away, and followed with a punch to his back, while Ye Xinyu recognized his unusual combat abilities.

After Tang San demonstrated his precise combat instincts, Xiao Wu defeated Xiao Chenyu, but her victory ended in grief when her mother's comb broke. Ye Xinyu carried the sleeping Xiao Wu back to the dormitory and sent Tang San to try to repair it.

• Tang San defeated Ling Feng in three seconds through precise timing and control, leaving Ye Xinyu impressed by his fighting skill.
• Xiao Wu challenged Xiao Chenyu again and defeated him with her first soul skill, Waist Bow.
• Ye Xinyu noticed Xiao Wu's clothing had been slashed and then saw that Xiao Wu's comb had broken in two.
• Xiao Wu broke down over the damaged comb, and Ye Xinyu held her until she fell asleep after the others left.
• Ye Xinyu gave the broken comb to Tang San to repair, then carried Xiao Wu to the dormitory and asked Wang Sheng and the others to bring food and fresh carrots.

Ye Xinyu repaired Xiao Wu’s keepsake comb and learned that a mysterious woman had been living in her Spiritual Sea. The woman admitted she had once planned to take over Ye Xinyu’s body but now wanted to train her instead.

• Tang San brought Ye Xinyu a sturdy refined-iron replacement for Xiao Wu’s broken comb, and Ye Xinyu scolded him for making it.
• Ye Xinyu repaired Xiao Wu’s wooden keepsake comb and left it by her pillow for when she woke.
• Wang Sheng and the other students brought a huge supply of carrots for Xiao Wu, using all the money left after buying food.
• A mysterious woman spoke to Ye Xinyu from inside her Spiritual Sea and asked her to become her disciple.
• The woman admitted she had once tried to seize Ye Xinyu’s body but had been blocked by a treasure that concealed Ye Xinyu’s aura.

Ye Xinyu negotiated with the soul fragment Rakshasa, who offered her a divine inheritance and promised her stored treasures in exchange for help rebuilding her body. She arranged to meet Xiao Chenyu’s father about selling Hundred-Year Soul Beast meat, then returned to find Tang San and Xiao Wu embracing.

• Ye Xinyu challenged the soul fragment’s claim about her talent, and Rakshasa offered to cultivate her as a successor in exchange for help reconstructing her physical body after she became a god.
• Rakshasa revealed that she was an evil god named Rakshasa and said her divine artifact and other possessions would belong to Ye Xinyu if she accepted the deal.
• Xiao Wu woke, saw that Tang San had repaired her comb, and threw herself into his arms; Tang San froze but subconsciously held her waist.
• Xiao Chenyu invited Ye Xinyu to dine at his father’s home, and Ye Xinyu asked whether anyone in Nuoding City bought Hundred-Year Soul Beast meat.
• Xiao Chenyu agreed to arrange a visit with his father for the weekend, and Ye Xinyu planned to sell chicken-type soul beasts to save money for immortal herbs.
• Ye Xinyu returned to Dormitory Seven and froze when she saw Tang San and Xiao Wu hugging.

Ye Xinyu explored the Chaos Pearl space and learned a method for condensing soul beasts’ energy into Essence Soul to speed up cultivation. She asked whether she could use the method on others, hinting at plans to build her own faction.

• Xiao Wu pulled away from Tang San when Ye Xinyu entered, then stopped trying to explain their embrace as Ye Xinyu began meditating.
• The Rakshasa God urged Ye Xinyu to reconsider killing Xiao Wu, but Ye Xinyu rejected the suggestion and entered meditation.
• In the Heaven Dou Empire, a handsome boy ordered Ghost Leopard to prepare for a visit to recruit Ye Xinyu for Spirit Hall and to keep the news from Spirit City.
• Ye Xinyu returned to the Chaos Pearl space and saw that its plants, soul beasts, and vital energy had grown stronger.
• The Rakshasa God revealed that more than a hundred Hundred-Year Soul Beasts lived within ten li and taught Ye Xinyu about condensing their energy into Essence Soul.
• Ye Xinyu declined to use the Essence Soul method for herself but asked whether it could be used to help other people.

Ye Xinyu refined a Silvermoon Wolf’s soul energy under the Rakshasa God’s guidance, then went to City Lord Xiao’s manor to sell soul beast meat and offer an essence crystal. She left the crystal with Xiao Jifeng and departed after completing her first deal.

• Ye Xinyu killed a Silvermoon Wolf, and the Rakshasa God instructed her to refine its corpse and soul ring with her fire.
• After two days of practice, Ye Xinyu met Xiao Jifeng and negotiated a price for edible soul beast corpses.
• Ye Xinyu showed Xiao Jifeng several soul beast corpses, which his servants weighed at four hundred and sixty-four kilograms.
• Xiao Jifeng paid Ye Xinyu five thousand Gold Soul Coins for the meat.
• Ye Xinyu left an essence crystal with Xiao Jifeng as a gift and departed from the manor.

After leaving the City Lord's Manor, Ye Xinyu returned to the academy and was summoned to Spirit Hall by Su Yuntao. Two visitors questioned her about her token and mother, then asked her to reveal her martial soul.

• Ye Xinyu refused Xiao Jifeng's banquet invitation, and Xiao Jifeng scolded Xiao Chenyu for his lack of progress.
• Ye Xinyu rejected the Rakshasa God's advice to cultivate by devouring soul beasts, saying she feared becoming consumed by the pursuit of power.
• Su Yuntao found Ye Xinyu at the academy and hurried her to Spirit Hall, where two men were waiting.
• The masked man challenged Ye Xinyu's story about her mother, but she showed them her Spirit Hall token.
• The handsome youth asked Ye Xinyu to release her martial soul, and she revealed her white wings and pale purple soul ring.

The beautiful youth tested Ye Xinyu’s healing soul skill and offered to take her away, believing she had identified Ye Xinyu’s mother as Lingyuan Douluo. Ye Xinyu refused to leave without her mother’s permission, prompting the youth to reveal that his own mother had once forced him away from home.

• The beautiful youth examined Ye Xinyu’s unusual Martial Soul and confirmed that her first soul ring was a thousand-year one.
• Ye Xinyu used her first soul skill on the beautiful youth, whose recovery was remarkably strong despite consuming only thirty percent of Ye Xinyu’s Soul Power.
• The beautiful youth offered to train Ye Xinyu personally, but Ye Xinyu refused to leave without her mother’s permission.
• The beautiful youth suspected that Lingyuan Douluo was Ye Xinyu’s mother and promised to take her to meet her.
• Ye Xinyu continued to refuse, and the beautiful youth angrily revealed that his own mother had sent him away as a child.

Ye Xinyu refused to leave the academy with the beautiful youth, whom she suspected was Qian Renxue, and offered a secret about Poison Douluo’s Immortal Grade Herbs in exchange for help strengthening her mother, Lingyuan. The youth agreed to investigate, promising herbs for both Lingyuan and Ye Xinyu if the secret proved true.

• The beautiful youth tried to persuade Ye Xinyu that her mother had abandoned her, but Ye Xinyu insisted she would only listen to her mother and stay at the academy.
• Ye Xinyu offered a secret she had overheard in exchange for her mother leaving Spirit Hall, then learned the youth believed her mother was a Titled Douluo.
• Ye Xinyu revealed that Poison Douluo occupied a treasured place in Sunset Forest containing rare Immortal Grade Herbs and asked that one be saved for her mother.
• The beautiful youth agreed to investigate and promised an Immortal Grade Herb for Lingyuan and another for Ye Xinyu if the secret was true.
• Ye Xinyu hoped Spirit Hall would take the herbs, strengthen her mother, and prevent Tang San and the others from becoming a threat.

Ye Xinyu received medicinal herbs from the stunningly beautiful youth, who decided she wanted to take her as a younger sister. After emerging from seclusion with greatly enhanced physical strength, Bibi Dong ordered preparations for a Soul Hunt Action and sent someone to protect a girl in Nuoding City.

• The stunningly beautiful youth gave Ye Xinyu herbs for medicinal baths and promised to send someone to collect her later.
• After Ye Xinyu left, the stunningly beautiful youth told the masked man she felt close to her and wanted to take her as a younger sister.
• Bibi Dong emerged from seclusion after fusing Pangu's Essence Blood and demonstrated her enhanced strength to Yue Guan and his companion.
• Bibi Dong ordered Yue Guan and his companion to investigate the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python, declaring she would launch the Soul Hunt Action within three years.
• After the system reported that Tang San's fortune had declined by thirty percent, Bibi Dong ordered a tall woman to go to Nuoding City and protect the girl there.

Ye Xinyu proposed building a force of loyal Soul Masters in Nuoding City, offering Xiao Chenyu’s family Essence Souls and Soul Rings in exchange for their support. She named the independent organization Soul Hall, and Xiao Chenyu went to ask his father whether he would join.

• A Spirit Hall subordinate accepted a mission and flew away in a flaming bird form.
• Xiao Chenyu brought Ye Xinyu ten thousand Gold Soul Coins for an Essence Soul and asked whether she had more to sell.
• Ye Xinyu asked Xiao Chenyu to find filial children under twelve with a foundation in Soul Power.
• Ye Xinyu explained that she wanted to cultivate Soul Masters to protect herself and her mother and gain influence within Spirit Hall.
• Ye Xinyu gave Xiao Chenyu five more Essence Souls and offered stronger ones if his father agreed to support her plan.
• Ye Xinyu named her proposed organization Soul Hall, and Xiao Chenyu left to consult his father.

Ye Xinyu began recruiting Nuoding City's Work-Study Students and unaffiliated soul masters into Soul Hall by offering generous allowances, food, and cultivation resources. Wang Sheng and the other students showed interest, and the chapter ended with Wang Sheng asking what Ye Xinyu hoped to gain from her offer.

• Ye Xinyu asked Xiao Chenyu to recruit young soul masters for Soul Hall, promising food and allowances while warning against recruiting ingrates.
• Xiao Chenyu asked what position he could receive if he joined, and Ye Xinyu jokingly suggested reserving a Hall Master position before telling him to consult his father.
• Ye Xinyu asked Wang Sheng and the other students about their prospects after graduation, and they explained that most expected to return to village life.
• Ye Xinyu offered Work-Study Students monthly allowances, meat for their families, and access to cultivation resources if they joined Soul Hall.
• Wang Sheng said he would join if Soul Hall existed, then asked Ye Xinyu what she gained from making such generous offers.

Ye Xinyu offered Wang Sheng and the other commoner students generous support in return for complete obedience, then planned to recruit young commoner soul masters. After breaking through to Rank 14, she learned that nearly a thousand potential recruits had been found around Nuoding City and insisted on keeping the subsidies high.

• Ye Xinyu told Wang Sheng and the others to consider her offer overnight before deciding whether to follow her.
• Ye Xinyu meditated and neared a breakthrough while planning to recruit young commoner soul masters.
• Ye Xinyu broke through to Rank 14, and Xiao Chenyu told her his father had agreed to her terms.
• Xiao Chenyu reported that nearly a thousand commoner soul masters under twenty had been found near Nuoding City and gave Ye Xinyu the money for the essence souls.
• Ye Xinyu ordered Xiao Chenyu to invite all eligible recruits and willing upper-grade students to gather at the academy's back mountain.
• Ye Xinyu refused Xiao Chenyu's suggestion to reduce subsidies, saying she wanted loyal members who valued the organization.

Ye Xinyu arranged for Director Su to teach the Soul Masters she planned to sponsor and gathered Xiao Chenyu’s followers to recruit them into Soul Hall. She laid out the benefits and strict loyalty requirements, then left them to decide whether to join.

• Ye Xinyu teased Xiao Wu about her closeness with Tang San before class began.
• Ye Xinyu asked Director Su to teach the Soul Masters she planned to sponsor and offered him one thousand Gold Soul Coins a month.
• Director Su agreed to teach them when he had time.
• Ye Xinyu arrived at the back mountain and found fifty or sixty people gathered with Xiao Chenyu.
• Ye Xinyu explained Soul Hall’s allowances, resources, rewards, and membership requirements, then invited those willing to join to stay.

Ye Xinyu recruited commoner students into her group, but Xiao Wu confronted her for poaching her followers and excluding her and Tang San. Ye Xinyu explained why she had not invited Xiao Wu and left the choice to join open.

• Ye Xinyu learned that most noble students had not come, while a group of commoners agreed to follow her.
• Xiao Wu arrived with Wang Sheng and challenged Ye Xinyu for recruiting her followers; Wang Sheng admitted he had revealed the plan after Xiao Wu stopped him.
• Ye Xinyu warned Wang Sheng not to betray her again, and Xiao Wu argued that Xiao Chenyu had already agreed to be her boss.
• Xiao Wu accused Ye Xinyu of excluding her and Tang San, and Ye Xinyu explained that she was supporting poor commoners and had not wanted to restrict Xiao Wu's freedom.
• Ye Xinyu told Xiao Wu she would not object if Xiao Wu still wanted to join.

Ye Xinyu smoothed over Xiao Wu’s suspicion by giving her an allowance, then hired Tang San to forge training weights and possibly weapons. Tang San accepted the order, unaware that Ye Xinyu intended the work to delay his cultivation.

• Xiao Wu apologized after Ye Xinyu explained why she had not invited the Work-Study Students, and Ye Xinyu gave Xiao Wu one hundred Gold Soul Coins to supervise their training.
• Tang San questioned why he and Xiao Wu had been excluded, and Ye Xinyu said she had been busy and had not found a chance to explain.
• Ye Xinyu asked Tang San to forge one thousand sets of training weights, paid him one thousand Gold Soul Coins in advance, and requested the first one hundred sets within a month.
• Ye Xinyu also asked Tang San to try making weapons for ordinary people, and Tang San left for the blacksmith’s shop.
• Ye Xinyu privately planned to use the large order to keep Tang San occupied and delay his cultivation.

Ye Xinyu planned to use Tang San’s hidden weapons and prepare for a future conflict between Spirit Hall and the empires while building her own organization. After she left the training grounds, a young girl entered Worship Hall and was asked why she had returned.

• Ye Xinyu decided Tang San was no longer a major threat and planned to focus on weakening the empires before a future war.
• Bibi Dong sneezed in Pope’s Palace, wondered why she felt unwell, and resumed refining Pangu’s Essence Blood.
• Xiao Wu apologized to Ye Xinyu for getting angry, then hurried after Tang San when Ye Xinyu teased her.
• Ye Xinyu told the recruits to swear loyalty, gave Xiao Chenyu money to distribute allowances, and promised him an essence core each semester for managing them.
• A young girl entered Worship Hall, where a figure beneath the Six-Winged Angel statue asked why she had come back.

Qian Renxue asked Qian Daoliu for more people to help her seize the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well from Dugu Bo, while Qian Daoliu urged her to reconcile with Bibi Dong. Ye Xinyu learned that Xiao Chenyu’s father had gathered hundreds of people for her and planned to inspect them that afternoon.

• Qian Renxue asked Qian Daoliu for additional help dealing with Dugu Bo at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Guang Ling volunteered to accompany her.
• Qian Daoliu urged Qian Renxue to meet Bibi Dong, but Qian Renxue refused to forgive her and left the Enshrined Hall.
• Qian Daoliu told the other Enshrined that Bibi Dong had helped Spirit Hall and might have grown powerful enough to rival him, and said they should help her when it benefited Spirit Hall.
• Ye Xinyu finished cultivating and estimated that her soul power would reach level fifteen within four months, though she was running low on medicinal herbs.
• Xiao Chenyu told Ye Xinyu that his father had gathered hundreds of people for her, and she decided to inspect them that afternoon before the academy bell called them to class.

Ye Xinyu discovered that Lingyuan had been assigned to her class as a practical combat teacher to watch over her and her cultivation. She asked Lingyuan to help secure Spirit Hall’s approval for her planned group, then revealed it might include over a thousand people.

• Xiao Chenyu warned Ye Xinyu that a powerful new teacher had been transferred into her class.
• Lingyuan entered the classroom as the new practical combat teacher, and Ye Xinyu recognized her as someone who had helped raise her.
• After class, Lingyuan explained that Ye Xinyu’s mother had sent her to watch over Ye Xinyu and her cultivation.
• Ye Xinyu asked Lingyuan whether she could keep Spirit Hall from interfering with the team she planned to form.
• Lingyuan agreed to use her influence if the group was not too large, and Ye Xinyu revealed it could number over a thousand people.
• Lingyuan Douluo was shocked and warned that a force of that size could rival the Upper Three Sects and would require substantial funding.