Chapter Summaries

Tang San gained a powerful second soul ring and learned that the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had also given him a hidden third martial soul, while Bibi Dong and Di Tian reacted to the sudden changes. Ye Xinyu left her residence and set up a stall near an academy, where an orange-haired girl approached her.

• Bibi Dong saw Tang San's Fortune rise from 120 to 200 and demanded to know who had helped him.
• Di Tian found only the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's empty husk and ordered a search for its spiritual body.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm told Tang San that its sacrifice granted him three spiritual soul skills, power to strengthen his soul rings, and a hidden ultimate-ice martial soul.
• Tang San decided to keep his soul rings looking weak to avoid Spirit Hall's attention and planned to visit the Far North later.
• Ye Xinyu left her residence, set up a stall outside an academy, and watched an orange-haired girl approach with a red-haired youth following her.

Ye Xinyu watched Hu Liena and Yan discuss the upcoming tournament and Hu Liena’s impressive cultivation, then deliberately hit Yan with a jade box to get Hu Liena’s attention. After Yan confronted her, Ye Xinyu played the frightened child and won Hu Liena’s protection.

• Hu Liena told Yan to focus on cultivation and warned him that Dai Weisi had reached level 43 after his Martial Soul evolved toward the Light White Tiger.
• Ye Xinyu recognized Hu Liena and worried that her own Soul Power was advancing more slowly despite her Innate Full Soul Power and immortal herbs.
• When Hu Liena and Yan passed without stopping, Ye Xinyu threw a jade box at Yan, who grabbed her by the collar.
• Ye Xinyu claimed she had not eaten in three days and had hit Yan by accident, prompting Hu Liena to make Yan put her down.
• Ye Xinyu threw herself into Hu Liena’s arms and called Yan a bad person, while Hu Liena rebuked him for frightening a child.

Hu Liena took pity on Ye Xinyu and offered to help her, but the two misunderstood each other over Ye Xinyu’s family and the price of her wares. After learning that Ye Xinyu was an eight-and-a-half-year-old level 24 Support-type Soul Master with the Emerald Swan martial soul, Hu Liena offered to recommend her to Pope Bibi Dong.

• Hu Liena mistook Ye Xinyu’s story about her deceased parents for a life of hardship and offered to take her in.
• Hu Liena bought all of Ye Xinyu’s Essence Souls for a hundred Gold Soul Coins, while Ye Xinyu had meant to ask for a thousand.
• Hu Liena noticed Ye Xinyu’s Soul Tool and asked about her martial soul and cultivation.
• Ye Xinyu revealed that she was eight and a half, level 24, and possessed the mutated Emerald Swan martial soul.
• Ye Xinyu said an herb given as payment had raised her Soul Power to level 20, and Hu Liena offered to show her to Pope Bibi Dong once her teacher returned.

Hu Liena and Yan learned about Ye Xinyu’s unusual soul rings and skills over a meal, and Hu Liena promised to introduce her to Bibi Dong when her teacher returned. Ye Xinyu left to go back to cultivating, while the author’s closing note described plans for her martial soul’s two forms.

• Yan told Ye Xinyu that Hu Liena’s teacher was the Pope, and Hu Liena took Ye Xinyu to a private restaurant room.
• Ye Xinyu revealed her white-winged martial soul and its thousand-year first soul ring, surprising Hu Liena and Yan.
• Ye Xinyu explained that a Soul Seed had transformed into her second soul ring and described her restorative and attribute-boosting skills.
• Hu Liena said Ye Xinyu’s first soul ring would not harm her because immortal herbs and the Soul Seed had remedied its flaw, then promised to recommend her to Bibi Dong.
• After they ate, Ye Xinyu declined Hu Liena’s offer to walk her home and left to cultivate.

Hu Liena and Yan discussed recruiting Ye Xinyu as a Support-type Soul Master for their tournament team, but Hu Liena wanted to consult Elder Ju first. Meanwhile, Bibi Dong returned to the Pope's Palace and considered the soul beasts she had failed to capture before discussing Di Tian's possible retaliation with Lingyuan and Yue Guan.

• Hu Liena wondered where she had seen Ye Xinyu before, and Yan suggested inviting the young Soul Master onto their team.
• Yan argued that Ye Xinyu's recovery, enhancement, and flight abilities could help the team, while Hu Liena said they should wait for Elder Ju's opinion.
• Bibi Dong regretted missing the chance to capture two soul beasts, especially the Soft Bone Rabbit whose ability might benefit her daughter.
• Lingyuan and Yue Guan asked Bibi Dong whether Di Tian would retaliate for the deaths of his subordinates.
• Bibi Dong said Di Tian might not dare attack and that Qian Daoliu and the Worship Hall could help stop him, though she did not want to reveal her strength to Qian Daoliu.

Bibi Dong warned Yue Guan and Gui Mei never to target Tang San again, explaining that the Clear Sky Sect was too powerful for Spirit Hall to provoke before its plans were complete. Hu Liena then recommended a talented orphan girl to Bibi Dong, whose expression darkened when Gui Mei questioned the girl’s story.

• Bibi Dong confronted Yue Guan and Gui Mei for giving Tang San a ten-year Soul Ring despite her orders not to interfere with him.
• Bibi Dong revealed that the Clear Sky Sect had ten Titled Douluo and said Spirit Hall would focus on infiltrating the Heaven Dou Empire before confronting its rivals.
• Bibi Dong rejected the idea of exposing the Clear Sky Sect’s strength and described the plan to seize both empires with Xiao Xue’s help.
• Hu Liena entered and recommended an eight-year-old girl with level 24 Soul Power who had recently lost her mother and lived by selling jade stones.
• Gui Mei questioned whether the girl was telling the truth, and Bibi Dong darkened at the thought that the girl had gotten close to her disciple.

Hu Liena revealed that a gifted young girl lived in Spirit City, but Bibi Dong refused to let her fetch the girl and disclosed that Lingyuan had raised her. The discussion turned to the upcoming Soul Master Tournament, and the chapter ended when Ghost Leopard arrived with news of changes among the Heaven Dou Empire’s participants.

• Hu Liena told Yue Guan and Gui Mei that the girl was an eight-year-old, two-ring Soul Master with a thousand-year first soul ring.
• Bibi Dong stopped Hu Liena from bringing the girl to the hall, then revealed that Lingyuan had raised her and claimed her as her own.
• Hu Liena asked Lingyuan whether the girl could join the academy team for the tournament in the Heaven Dou Empire, but Bibi Dong said she was too young.
• Ghost Leopard arrived and told Bibi Dong that the Heaven Dou Empire’s tournament participants had changed.

Bibi Dong learned that Qin Ming could threaten Spirit Hall’s chances in the Soul Master Tournament and debated whether Ye Xinyu should compete. After returning to her daughter, she gave Ye Xinyu a strength-type left arm soul bone.

• Ghost Leopard warned Bibi Dong that Heaven Dou Academy had registered Qin Ming, a level fifty-three Soul Master who was within the tournament’s age limit.
• Bibi Dong considered allowing Ye Xinyu to compete but worried that revealing her daughter would attract attention from the major powers.
• Bibi Dong decided to let Ye Xinyu choose whether to enter the tournament.
• Bibi Dong found Ye Xinyu meditating and teased her for visiting Spirit Hall Academy and trying to see the Pope.
• Bibi Dong presented Ye Xinyu with a strength-type left arm soul bone.

Ye Xinyu absorbed the Hundred-Thousand-Year Titan Giant Ape Left Arm Bone that Bibi Dong had given her, and her Soul Power rose by four ranks during the process. Bibi Dong explained that the Pope had killed the Titan Giant Ape and awarded her the soul bone, leaving Ye Xinyu stunned.

• Bibi Dong teased Ye Xinyu about the soul bone's weight, then told her to absorb it.
• Ye Xinyu absorbed the Titan Giant Ape Left Arm Bone as Bibi Dong watched over her.
• Ye Xinyu's Soul Power rose by four ranks, and the soul bone formed a gilded armguard around her left arm.
• Bibi Dong confirmed that the soul bone came from the Hundred-Thousand-Year Titan Giant Ape and described finding it during a fight in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Ye Xinyu worried that Pope Bibi Dong would come after them, so Bibi Dong revealed that the Pope had killed the Titan Giant Ape and given her the soul bone.
• Ye Xinyu froze in disbelief when Bibi Dong explained what had happened.

Ye Xinyu learned that Bibi Dong had traded both their futures to Spirit Hall for the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, while Ice Empress remained trapped in Tian Meng’s cocoon in the Far North. The chapter left Ye Xinyu preparing to obtain her third Soul Ring and Tian Meng explaining how Ice Empress’s pursuit had led to his capture.

• Bibi Dong told Ye Xinyu that they both belonged to Her Majesty and could not leave Spirit Hall after receiving the Soul Bone.
• Ye Xinyu protested that she and Bibi Dong could have obtained Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beasts themselves, but Bibi Dong insisted the Soul Bone would raise Ye Xinyu’s potential.
• Ye Xinyu revealed that absorbing the Soul Bone had raised her Soul Power to level thirty, and Bibi Dong promised to take her to obtain her third Soul Ring.
• In the Far North, Ice Empress struggled inside Tian Meng’s cocoon and demanded to know why he had captured her.
• Tian Meng revealed that he had separated his Spiritual Origin from his body to escape Di Tian, then said Ice Empress’s pursuit had driven him into the sea and eventually led to his capture.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm tried to persuade Ice Empress to join his plan to help Tang San become a god, but she rejected him and accused him of using her. The chapter ended with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm threatening to kill her if she refused to cooperate.

• Ice Empress demanded that Sky Dream Ice Silkworm release her, threatening to kill Tang San and scatter his soul if she had to break free herself.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm proposed that Ice Empress become Tang San's third martial soul and help him ascend to the God Realm.
• Tang San learned that his Blue Silver Grass carried an aura of royalty, while Ice Empress recognized Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's plan as a gamble with her life.
• Ice Empress refused to sacrifice herself, arguing that she could survive for thousands of years and had a chance to overcome her next tribulation.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm revealed a murderous glint and said he would kill Ice Empress if she would not cooperate.

Tian Meng threatened Ice Empress into becoming Tang San’s Wisdom Soul Ring, but Ice Empress feigned surrender and self-destructed her Spiritual Origin to kill Tang San and doom Tian Meng. Tian Meng wrapped Tang San in golden threads and fled the blast as a woman on a nearby snowfield saw the explosion.

• Tian Meng threatened Ice Empress with death unless she sacrificed herself as Tang San’s soul ring.
• Ice Empress agreed to release her Spiritual Origin, but Tian Meng refused to open the cocoon until she did.
• Ice Empress suddenly expanded and self-destructed her Spiritual Origin, declaring that Tang San’s death would leave Tian Meng with nothing to rely on.
• Tian Meng wrapped Tang San in golden threads and fled as Ice Empress’s explosion tore through the cave.
• A woman in snow-white gauze saw the emerald-green mushroom cloud and panicked.

Tang San survived the Ice Empress’s explosion and, with Tian Meng, found a rare Vermilion Eye Ice Toad as a candidate for his third martial soul. The chapter ended with Tian Meng urging Tang San to strengthen himself and leave the Far North, while the author’s note suggested the Ice Empress might have survived with Snow Empress’s help.

• Tang San emerged from the snow badly injured but alive, and Tian Meng admitted that the Ice Empress had resisted his plan and self-destructed.
• Tang San asked about a soul bone, but Tian Meng warned that returning would bring the Ice Jade Scorpion Clan and Snow Empress’s allies after them.
• Tang San spotted a concealed Vermilion Eye Ice Toad, and Tian Meng recommended it as a suitable candidate for his third martial soul.
• Tian Meng explained that the toad’s ice attribute suited him and could help Tang San contend with the powerful woman who had killed Xiong Jun and forced Di Tian back.
• Tian Meng urged Tang San to complete his third martial soul and leave the Far North before Spirit Hall took an interest in him.
• The author noted that Snow Empress might have saved the Ice Empress, who could have retained a small portion of her soul origin.

Bibi Dong sent Ye Xinyu to join Spirit Hall’s delegation for the All-Continent Elite Soul Master Academy Tournament, explaining that the rankings would affect Spirit Hall’s resources. Ye Xinyu traveled with Hu Liena’s team, who planned to rely on her recovery abilities if needed.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm recognized that Snow Empress would hunt him to avenge Ice Empress and warned someone to avoid Cold Poison while hunting.
• Bibi Dong told Ye Xinyu to travel with Spirit Hall’s tournament team and cautioned her not to reveal her hundred-thousand-year soul bone.
• Lingyuan Douluo offered to secretly protect Ye Xinyu, but Bibi Dong declined because she trusted her daughter to keep a low profile.
• Hu Liena waited with the Spirit Hall students at the gates of Spirit City, and Ye Xinyu joined them before their carriages departed.
• Hu Liena told Ye Xinyu that her sustained recovery abilities could help keep the team at peak condition between tournament matches.

During the journey to the Soul Master Tournament, Ye Xinyu learned why strong Support-type Soul Masters were rare and speculated that Bibi Dong had invested in her to develop a powerful battlefield healer. Hu Liena and Xie Yue asked about Ye Xinyu’s abilities so they could plan their tactics.

• Ye Xinyu questioned how Spirit Hall could lack Support-type Soul Masters, and Yan explained their scarcity, slow cultivation, and vulnerability.
• Ye Xinyu attributed her rapid growth and unusual abilities to her mutated Martial Soul, while Hu Liena warned Yan not to bully her.
• Ye Xinyu reasoned that Bibi Dong had given her a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone to train her into a high-level support and resolved to protect Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue from Yu Xiaogang and Tang San.
• Xie Yue and Hu Liena asked Ye Xinyu to explain the effects of her soul skills so they could plan the team’s tactics.

Hu Liena warned Ye Xinyu to hide her identity and stay safe because her rare support abilities and rapid growth could make her a target. After Ye Xinyu described her defensive third soul skill, Yue Guan entered the carriage and examined her.

• Ye Xinyu explained that her first soul skill restored condition by percentage and that she had reached level thirty-two.
• Hu Liena told Ye Xinyu to use another name in Heaven Dou City, cover her face, stay behind Yan, and flee or surrender if threatened.
• Ye Xinyu revealed that her third soul skill created a shield capable of withstanding several ordinary Soul Masters' fourth soul skills.
• Xie Yue's startled outburst drew Yue Guan into the carriage, where he examined Ye Xinyu and mocked her for covering her chest.

Yue Guan examined Ye Xinyu’s cultivation and realized that her unusual Soul Rings could draw dangerous attention if she competed in the tournament. He was left deciding whether to let her participate or reveal the book he had been considering making public.

• Yue Guan reassured Ye Xinyu that he had no interest in her Soul Bone and recognized that His Majesty had high hopes for her.
• Ye Xinyu described her Soul Skills, and Yue Guan deduced that her third Soul Ring came from a fifteen-thousand-year Soul Beast.
• Ye Xinyu revealed her martial soul and Soul Rings, including a strangely golden second ring and a black third ring.
• Yue Guan worried that Ye Xinyu’s unusual Soul Rings would attract assassination attempts if she entered the tournament, while keeping her out could hurt the team’s chances.

On the way to the tournament, Ye Xinyu wondered whether Tang San had devoured the source of Spirit Hall’s martial souls and reflected on Hu Liena’s feelings for him. In Suotuo City, Yu Xiaogang told Tang San that he would only watch the tournament, not compete, and Tang San became interested in its soul bone prize.

• Yue Guan told Xie Yue and Yan to cultivate on the journey and reach level 40 before the finals, then left the carriage.
• Ye Xinyu considered how quickly Xie Yue and Yan had advanced and suspected Tang San had devoured the source of their martial souls.
• Hu Liena noticed Ye Xinyu spacing out, and Ye Xinyu wondered how Hu Liena could love Tang San after he had devoured her.
• Tang San asked Yu Xiaogang why they did not stay with Flender, but Yu Xiaogang said they would discuss it in a few years.
• Yu Xiaogang invited Tang San to watch the upcoming tournament and explained that its champion would receive a soul bone.
• Tang San asked whether he could compete, but Yu Xiaogang said he was ineligible and should only watch this time.

Tang San persuaded Yu Xiaogang to secure him a place in the competition by revealing his Blue Silver Grass could provide battlefield detection and team sharing. Meanwhile, Ye Xinyu joined the group’s roadside camp and watched Yan deny having feelings for Hu Liena even as he offered her roasted rabbit.

• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang that his second Blue Silver Grass soul ring granted Spiritual Detection and Spiritual Sharing, and Yu Xiaogang agreed he could compete as a support-type soul master.
• Yu Xiaogang privately considered using Tang San’s Twin Martial Souls to benefit his clan and hoped to obtain a soul bone in return.
• Yue Guan stopped the traveling group near a valley as evening fell, and Ye Xinyu woke from the bumpy carriage ride and went to the campfire.
• Ye Xinyu encouraged Yan to confess his feelings, but Yan told Hu Liena he saw her only as a good friend and then offered her a roasted rabbit leg.

Ye Xinyu prepared a seasoned roast rabbit that delighted Hu Liena and drew Gui Mei and Yue Guan away with most of it. Yan watched Hu Liena and Ye Xinyu grow closer, while Xie Yue urged him to confess his feelings, but Yan admitted he was afraid of rejection.

• Ye Xinyu took Hu Liena's plain skewer and began preparing a rabbit with seasonings from her Soul Tool.
• Ye Xinyu served Hu Liena a rabbit leg, and Hu Liena praised the delicious food.
• Gui Mei tasted the rabbit, then took the remaining meat and left with Yue Guan, claiming they were going to search for soul beasts.
• Hu Liena said Ye Xinyu's cooking would make the coming days enjoyable, and Yan grew jealous of their closeness.
• Xie Yue urged Yan to confess to Hu Liena, but Yan said he feared rejection and wanted to keep seeing her as a friend.