Chapter Summaries

Ye Xinyu rebuffed Xie Yue’s bold courtship before she and the group continued their journey to Heaven Dou City. After arriving, she got permission to explore the city with Hu Liena and received a pouch of spending money from Yue Guan.

• Xie Yue asked Ye Xinyu to be his girlfriend, and she kicked him away after pretending she might agree.
• Xie Yue explained to Yan and the others that he considered Ye Xinyu an ideal partner because of her abilities, beauty, background, and cooking.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei discussed Ye Xinyu’s exceptional strengthening and Yue Guan confirmed that she belonged to His Majesty.
• After traveling for more than ten days, the group arrived in Heaven Dou City, where Yue Guan told them to rest.
• Ye Xinyu asked to explore with Hu Liena, and Yue Guan agreed, gave her one thousand Gold Soul Coins, and heard the others ask to go out too.

Hu Liena accompanied Ye Xinyu to a Heaven Dou City auction house so Ye Xinyu could sell an item without revealing her secret to Bibi Dong. The appraiser reacted with surprise to the purple-glowing sphere and asked where it came from.

• Hu Liena and Ye Xinyu left Spirit Hall to shop while Xie Yue and Yan stayed behind to meditate.
• Ye Xinyu told Hu Liena she wanted to sell some items, and Hu Liena guided her to a Heaven Dou City auction house.
• The two women covered their faces and asked the auction house to appraise Ye Xinyu’s item.
• The appraiser opened Ye Xinyu’s wooden box, examined the sphere inside, and asked where it came from.
• Hu Liena challenged the appraiser for asking about the item’s origin.

Ye Xinyu arranged to auction a Ten-Thousand-Year Essence Soul and gave Hu Liena two more Essence Souls for her and her brother. She left with the auction set for that night and her need for money still pressing.

• Ye Xinyu told the appraiser that the Ten-Thousand-Year Essence Soul could raise a Soul Master below Soul King by one level, and he set its reserve price at fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• The appraiser explained the auction fees and offered Ye Xinyu a place in the VIP section for the weekly finale auction that night.
• Hu Liena asked why Ye Xinyu was selling such a valuable item, and Ye Xinyu said she needed money to buy high-grade materials.
• Ye Xinyu gave Hu Liena two Essence Souls and told her to keep the gift secret.
• Ye Xinyu reminded Hu Liena that the Essence Souls were the same ones Hu Liena had previously taken from her.

Ye Xinyu gave Hu Liena her stored Essence Souls and learned which rival teams threatened Spirit Hall in the tournament. She urged Hu Liena to absorb nearly ten more Essence Souls and try to reach Soul King before the competition, despite the risk of destabilizing her cultivation.

• Ye Xinyu told Hu Liena to keep the hundred-year Essence Souls she had given her, explaining they could help her gain a level or two.
• Ye Xinyu asked about Spirit Hall's formidable opponents, and Hu Liena explained the academy's talent shortage and described the threats from Heaven Dou Royal Academy and Star Luo Royal Academy.
• Ye Xinyu asked whether a child with level twenty-five Soul Power before age twelve would count as a genius, but denied knowing anyone when Hu Liena asked.
• Hu Liena said her and Xie Yue's Martial Soul Fusion Skill, combined with Ye Xinyu's support skills, could secure their victory.
• Ye Xinyu gave Hu Liena nearly ten jade boxes of Essence Souls and urged her to absorb as many as possible to reach Soul King before the tournament.
• Ye Xinyu warned Hu Liena that absorbing so many Essence Souls would worsen the side effects, but said she could recover by consolidating her cultivation for a year after the competition.

Ye Xinyu advised Hu Liena to use a fast cultivation method that could raise her Soul Power by five ranks but required time to stabilize her foundation. After Hu Liena tested the method, Ye Xinyu disguised herself and left for the auction.

• Ye Xinyu explained that Hu Liena could reach Soul King quickly by consuming cultivation-boosting items, but would need to stabilize her foundation afterward.
• Hu Liena agreed to the risks, then returned to Spirit Hall with Ye Xinyu to rest before the auction.
• Yue Guan, Gui Mei, and Salas discussed whether to secure an auction item that could raise a Soul Master's cultivation and worried it might have hidden side effects.
• Hu Liena told Ye Xinyu that an afternoon trial with a ten-thousand-year item had raised her Soul Power by one and a half ranks, to rank forty-six.
• Ye Xinyu disguised herself, claimed to be Xie Yue, and showed her Spirit Hall token to the Temple Knights before leaving for the auction.

Ye Xinyu attended an auction in disguise, hoping to sell an item and find high-grade materials. After Bishop Salas used Spirit Hall’s influence to secure her Essence Soul, she competed with him for Profound Iron.

• Ye Xinyu entered the auction house in disguise and took a private room after presenting an iron plaque.
• Ye Xinyu spotted Yue Guan, Gui Mei, and an unfamiliar hook-nosed man on the third floor.
• The auctioneer Feixuan offered a ten-thousand-year Essence Soul, and Salas bid one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins while declaring Spirit Hall would obtain it.
• Ye Xinyu was frustrated when Salas’s intimidating claim stopped others from bidding on her Essence Soul.
• Ye Xinyu bid six thousand Gold Soul Coins for fifty kilograms of Profound Iron, then raised her bid to eleven thousand using her earlier auction proceeds.
• Salas raised the Profound Iron bid to twenty thousand Gold Soul Coins.

Ye Xinyu clashed with Salas over auctioned metals, then used a tearful act to make Yue Guan promise to give her the materials for making Soul Tools. Yue Guan took her back and warned her to be more careful, while Ning Fengzhi watched with interest.

• Ye Xinyu stopped bidding on one item, then bid twenty thousand Gold Soul Coins for refined gold before Salas outbid her.
• Ye Xinyu accused Salas of stealing her things and threatened to tell her mother, prompting Yue Guan to appear and Gui Mei to warn Salas that she was connected to His Majesty.
• Ye Xinyu admitted she wanted the metals to make Soul Tools using a blueprint she had found at a street stall.
• Yue Guan agreed to give Ye Xinyu two pieces of metal if she kept her cultivation up and did not go out alone again.
• Yue Guan led Ye Xinyu out through the back door, while Ning Fengzhi told Rongrong he suspected the girl was related to a Spirit Hall elder or worshiper.

After Ye Xinyu was brought back to Spirit Hall for sneaking out and provoking Bishop Salas, she demonstrated her Gravity Domain to the other students. Ning Fengzhi also planned to approach the girls who sold the ten-thousand-year essence soul, while placing his hopes for the future on Ning Rongrong.

• Ning Fengzhi told Gu Rong he had given up on obtaining the ten-thousand-year essence soul at auction, but had bribed someone to alert him if its sellers came to collect their money.
• Ning Fengzhi reasoned that the two young sellers might have more essence souls to sell and hoped to persuade them with a high price.
• Yue Guan brought Ye Xinyu back to Spirit Hall and ordered Hu Liena to keep her inside until the competition began.
• Ye Xinyu explained to Hu Liena and Yan that she had argued with Bishop Salas at the auction, then complained that she had been forcibly brought back.
• Ye Xinyu activated her Gravity Domain in the courtyard, making the students stagger under increased gravity, and explained that it came from her Titan Giant Ape Left Arm Bone.
• Xie Yue wondered whether Ye Xinyu's domain could combine with Hu Liena and Xie Yue's Demonic Charm, and Hu Liena said they could consider it the next day.

Hu Liena collected the proceeds from the auction and met Ning Fengzhi, who offered to buy any Essence Souls she still had. Back at Spirit Hall, Ye Xinyu accepted Salas's apology gift and decided she needed to speed things up.

• Ye Xinyu let Salas leave rare metals and a card containing one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins as an apology, then told him she had forgotten the previous day's incident.
• Hu Liena collected eighty thousand Gold Soul Coins from the auction house.
• Ning Fengzhi approached Hu Liena and offered fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins per Essence Soul, saying she could seek him out later.
• Gu Rong asked Ning Fengzhi whether Hu Liena would return, and Ning Fengzhi predicted she would contact him within a day or two.
• Ye Xinyu found Salas's gift at her door and decided to accelerate her plans.

Ye Xinyu experimented with making a Soul Tool, accidentally causing an explosion, then learned Ning Fengzhi wanted to buy Essence Souls in bulk. She tried to persuade Hu Liena to help sell them to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, but Hu Liena questioned whether Ye Xinyu was acting for Spirit Hall or for money.

• Ye Xinyu took Salas's money and tried carving runes into Profound Iron, triggering an explosion that filled her room with smoke.
• Hu Liena returned from the auction house and gave Ye Xinyu the money before telling her that Ning Fengzhi had offered fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins per Essence Soul with no limit on quantity.
• Hu Liena warned Ye Xinyu that selling Essence Souls to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would aid Spirit Hall's enemy and could be treated as betrayal.
• Ye Xinyu offered Hu Liena a growing share of the proceeds, eventually proposing thirty percent to persuade her to help.
• Ye Xinyu claimed the sale could ease Spirit Hall's funding problems, and Hu Liena asked whether she was truly motivated by Spirit Hall rather than greed.

Hu Liena confronted Ye Xinyu about selling Essence Souls to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, then learned Ye Xinyu could make more herself. Several days later, Hu Liena, her brother, and Yan reported breakthrough levels to Yue Guan and Gui Mei, with Hu Liena having reached level fifty.

• Hu Liena accused Ye Xinyu of selling valuable Essence Souls to a potential opponent and urged her to give any remaining stock to their teacher.
• Ye Xinyu said she had no Essence Souls left but could make more, then offered to teach Hu Liena how.
• Ye Xinyu claimed a god had taught her the method, and Hu Liena agreed not to reveal the secret to anyone, including the Pope.
• Several days later, Hu Liena, her brother, and Yan told Yue Guan and Gui Mei that all three had broken through.
• Hu Liena said she had risen from level forty-five to level fifty in five days and could wait until after the competition to obtain a soul ring.

Yue Guan and Gui Mei took Hu Liena to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain her fifth soul ring, leaving Salas to keep Ye Xinyu inside Spirit Hall. Ye Xinyu tried to go out and make money, but Salas stopped her under the Grand Elder’s orders.

• Hu Liena told Yue Guan and Gui Mei that medicine from her teacher had raised her Soul Power by five levels, though she needed a year to stabilize it.
• Gui Mei explained that Hu Liena needed a soul beast at least twenty-five thousand years old, so Yue Guan and Gui Mei chose the Star Dou Great Forest over Sunset Forest.
• Gui Mei ordered Salas to keep Ye Xinyu from leaving Spirit Hall while he and Yue Guan went to obtain soul rings.
• After Yue Guan and Gui Mei left, Ye Xinyu planned to sell Essence Souls and invited Zhang Ping to go out with her, but Zhang Ping declined because the competition was near.
• Ye Xinyu tried to leave despite Xu Yu’s warning, but Salas arrived and told her that the Grand Elder had forbidden her to go out.

Ye Xinyu arranged for Salas to sell her Essence Souls to Ning Fengzhi and encouraged her fellow students to rest before the competition. Meanwhile, Prince Xue Xing asked Dugu Bo to delay Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation, leaving Dugu Bo weighing the danger of facing Yue Guan and Gui Mei.

• Ye Xinyu persuaded Salas to broker the sale of twenty Essence Souls to Ning Fengzhi, promising him five percent of the proceeds and warning him not to accept less than the stated price.
• Ye Xinyu returned to the courtyard, learned that the other students had gone to watch the matches, and gave Zhang Ping and the others one thousand Gold Soul Coins to relax before the competition.
• Ye Xinyu returned to her room to continue experimenting with Soul Tools.
• Prince Xue Xing summoned Dugu Bo and asked him to delay Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation for a few days without killing them.
• Dugu Bo warned Prince Xue Xing that Yue Guan was already difficult to face and that Gui Mei’s presence made the task more dangerous.

Prince Xue Xing arranged for Dugu Bo and Vladimir to delay or attack Hu Liena and the other Spirit Hall students while they sought soul rings. Several days later, Salas and the remaining students learned that the missing team might be unable to compete if it failed to register by that night.

• Prince Xue Xing persuaded Dugu Bo to delay Hu Liena and her companions, and Dugu Bo agreed despite facing two Titled Douluo.
• After Dugu Bo left, Prince Xue Xing enlisted Vladimir, the Third Protector of the City of Slaughter, to assassinate or severely injure the students in exchange for fifty virgins.
• Salas waited for the missing students and explained that seeded teams still had to register before the competition began.
• Ye Xinyu realized that Hu Liena and the others might miss the tournament because she had encouraged them to seek soul rings.
• Salas led the students to the Soul Fighting Arena, where Ye Xinyu saw that the spectator area had been divided into sections for the different academies.

Ye Xinyu learned that Godwind Academy’s Feng Xiaotian was a level 46 Soul Ancestor, forcing her to compete despite wanting to avoid the tournament. She prepared to face him under the assumed name Liu Ruyan.

• Ye Xinyu asked Xu Yu about his support skills, and Zhang Ping explained the effects of his three soul skills.
• Salas returned with the draw and announced that their first opponents were Godwind Academy.
• Salas revealed that Godwind Academy had a level 46 Soul Ancestor, Feng Xiaotian, and said Ye Xinyu would have to compete because Xie Yue and the others were absent.
• Ye Xinyu told her teammates to hold their own until she dealt with Feng Xiaotian.
• Ye Xinyu put on a coat and veil and told the others to call her Liu Ruyan.

Ye Xinyu insisted on facing Feng Xiaotian alone despite being a level 32 Support-type Soul Master, and challenged him to a duel. Feng Xiaotian accepted after her taunts, while their teammates left the arena, leaving Ye Xinyu puzzled by their departure.

• Salas tried to stop Ye Xinyu from challenging Godwind Academy's main force, but she said she had her own plan.
• Ye Xinyu and her teammates entered the arena, and Ning Fengzhi recognized her while wondering why Spirit Hall's main forces were absent.
• Ye Xinyu mistook the masked Feng Xiaotian for King Lanling, then proposed a one-round duel and revealed she was level 32.
• Feng Xiaotian's teammates urged him to accept Ye Xinyu's challenge, and he agreed after she mocked him.
• Feng Xiaotian's six teammates walked down from the arena, and Ye Xinyu asked why they were leaving.

Ye Xinyu exploited the rules to leave Feng Xiaotian alone in the arena, then let Zhang Ping and the others attack him while Xu Yu supported them. After Feng Xiaotian overwhelmed the fighters and charged at Ye Xinyu, she charmed him into agreeing to forfeit; three figures then entered the arena, and Xue Qinghe worried about Yue Guan’s absence.

• Ye Xinyu declared the agreement to duel void after Feng Xiaotian refused, and the referee disqualified his teammates for leaving the arena.
• Feng Xiaotian revealed his four soul rings and attacked Zhang Ping and the others, while Xu Yu used two support skills on them.
• Feng Xiaotian knocked all five fighters back and rushed at Ye Xinyu and Xu Yu.
• Ye Xinyu charmed Feng Xiaotian into calling her Huo Wu and agreeing to leave the stage, angering Huo Wushuang.
• Xue Qinghe wondered whether something had happened to Yue Guan as three figures entered the arena and someone asked Nana why she was fighting while injured.

Hu Liena returned to the venue despite her weakened condition as the Spirit Hall match turned in their favor, but Prince Xue Xing disrupted Ye Xinyu’s control of Feng Xiaotian. Ye Xinyu then urged her teammates to defeat him themselves, offering them Gold Soul Coins as a reward.

• Hu Liena entered the venue with Yue Guan and Gui Mei, prompting Yue Guan to accuse Prince Xue Xing of scheming against Spirit Hall.
• Prince Xue Xing used his voice to clear Feng Xiaotian’s mind just as he was about to leave the arena, and Feng Xiaotian flew back up and broke Ye Xinyu’s control.
• Yue Guan told Ye Xinyu to finish Feng Xiaotian, but Ye Xinyu instead urged him to surrender and avoid injuries.
• Feng Xiaotian rejected Ye Xinyu’s offer after his teammates encouraged him to fight on.
• Ye Xinyu promised her teammates Gold Soul Coins if they defeated Feng Xiaotian, and they prepared to attack him.

Ye Xinyu’s team defeated Feng Xiaotian after she promised them rewards, and she tried to recruit him to Spirit Hall by offering to help perfect his self-created soul skill and give him a ten-thousand-year wind soul bone. After returning to the rest area, Ye Xinyu learned Hu Liena and the others were injured in an ambush, leaving her to compete in the next two or three matches.

• Ye Xinyu offered her teammates up to a hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins to fight Feng Xiaotian, and they overwhelmed him despite his resistance.
• Ye Xinyu asked Feng Xiaotian about his unfinished self-created soul skill, then offered to help perfect it if he joined Spirit Hall.
• Ye Xinyu promised Feng Xiaotian a ten-thousand-year wind soul bone and gave him time to consider the offer before she left the arena.
• Ye Xinyu handed the red card to Hu Liena’s group and told them to divide the money among themselves without fighting over it.
• Hu Liena told Ye Xinyu that their group had been ambushed and injured, so Ye Xinyu would have to fight in the next two or three matches.

Ye Xinyu helped Hu Liena recover and learned that a Bloodthirsty Bat Titled Douluo had attacked her group. At the Prince's residence, the Third Protector admitted his failed assassination attempt and demanded payment from Prince Xue Xing.

• Yue Guan reassured Ye Xinyu that Spirit Hall could protect her, but she remained wary of revealing her abilities.
• Ye Xinyu used her Soul Power to ease Hu Liena's injuries, then refused to heal Yan and Xie Yue because she had little Soul Power left.
• Back at Spirit Hall, Ye Xinyu learned that Yan had been injured protecting Hu Liena and that their attacker was a Titled Douluo with a Bloodthirsty Bat martial soul.
• Hu Liena returned, and Ye Xinyu stopped Yan from getting up to check on her.
• The Third Protector confronted Prince Xue Xing, explaining that another Titled Douluo had disrupted the attack and negotiating payment for his failed assassination attempt.