Chapter Summaries

Ye Han met four exceptional classmates in Dai Zhirou’s unusually small class, while Dai Ruoshan revealed that the class had been created to bind Ye Han to the Star Luo Empire through friendship and favors. The chapter ended with Dai Ruoshan arranging to auction a hundred-thousand-year soul bone and provide another as part of Dai Zhirou’s dowry.

• Yan Bing'er, Yuan Die, Xu Hao, and Lou Hai introduced their Martial Souls and soul levels to Ye Han and Dai Zhirou.
• Dai Zhirou told the students that their class had ten members, with five more due to arrive within a few days.
• Dai Ruoshan and the emperor watched the class and discussed using Ye Han’s engagement to Dai Zhirou and his classmates to strengthen his ties to the imperial family.
• Dai Ruoshan ordered the emperor to announce the auction of a hundred-thousand-year soul bone so Ye Han would understand the value of the imperial family’s favor.
• Dai Ruoshan said he would also contribute a soul bone from his collection to Dai Zhirou’s dowry, and the emperor agreed that family bonds would further bind Ye Han to them.

Dai Zhirou arranged a two-on-two training battle for Ye Han and the four students, then led them to the seed-team training ground. There, Ye Han learned that Dai Weisi was ten and Zhu Zhuyun was to be engaged to him, helping him pinpoint the timeline.

• Dai Zhirou split Yan Bing'er and Yuan Die into the Red Team and Xu Hao and Lou Hai into the Blue Team, while Ye Han explained that he would act as their medic.
• Dai Zhirou led the group to the seed-team training ground, where Zhu Li recognized her and showed fear of his former tormentor.
• Yuan Die and Lou Hai learned that Dai Zhirou was the empire's Grand Princess, and Ye Han heard that she had beaten many of the older students when they were children.
• Dai Weisi greeted Dai Zhirou as his sister, and Zhu Zhuyun joined them; Dai Zhirou said the two would soon be engaged.
• Ye Han concluded that Dai Mubai had just turned four and Tang San was one year old.

Dai Zhirou sent Ye Han to referee a match between Yan Bing'er and Yuan Die and Xu Hao and Lou Hai. Yan Bing'er and Yuan Die won decisively, and Ye Han treated the injured fighters and gave the girls Soul Wine to restore their Soul Power.

• Dai Zhirou led Yan Bing'er, Yuan Die, Xu Hao, and Lou Hai to Ground Five and told Ye Han to referee their match.
• The four students released their martial souls, and Xu Hao boosted Lou Hai while Yuan Die took to the air.
• Yuan Die and Yan Bing'er used mental attacks to leave Lou Hai dazed, then Yan Bing'er charged through his thorn barrage with her Flame Armor.
• Yuan Die enchanted Lou Hai and kicked him out of the field while Yan Bing'er knocked Xu Hao away.
• Ye Han gave Xu Hao and Lou Hai healing drinks, then handed Yan Bing'er and Yuan Die Soul Wine to restore their Soul Power.

Dai Zhirou switched the teams to force Yan Bing'er, Yuan Die, Xu Hao, and Lou Hai to adapt without planning. Yan Bing'er used Ice Armor Possession on Xu Hao and hurled him into Lou Hai’s Needle Bomb Chariot, leaving both fighters sent flying.

• Dai Zhirou gave the four Soul Masters half an hour to reflect on their previous battle before arranging another match.
• Dai Zhirou paired Yan Bing'er with Xu Hao against Yuan Die and Lou Hai, then ordered them to improvise without time to plan.
• Lou Hai activated Needle Bomb Chariot and rolled rapidly toward Yan Bing'er and Xu Hao.
• Yuan Die used Mental Impact to interrupt Xu Hao’s attempt to buff Yan Bing'er.
• Yan Bing'er cast Ice Armor Possession on Xu Hao, grabbed him, and threw him into Lou Hai’s rolling attack.
• The collision sent Xu Hao and Lou Hai flying, and Yan Bing'er caught Xu Hao as his ice armor shattered.

Yan Bing'er won the second training match with an improvised aerial maneuver, and Dai Zhirou reviewed the team’s mistakes. Dai Fengling arrived with five young Soul Masters, including Yang Bubai, and introduced Qi Ling and Long Zixuan to Ye Han as his nephew and niece, prompting them to call him Grandpa Ye Han.

• Yan Bing'er kicked Lou Hai out of the arena, then used Xu Hao as a stepping stone to tackle Yuan Die and win the match.
• Xu Hao joked that Yan Bing'er needed a brick instead of a support partner, and the group shared Ye Han’s wine.
• Dai Zhirou criticized Xu Hao and Lou Hai’s defensive tactics and Yuan Die’s failures to react, while praising Yan Bing'er.
• Dai Fengling arrived with five teenagers, and Yang Bubai recognized Dai Zhirou as his mentor.
• Dai Fengling thanked Ye Han for helping the War King recover, then introduced Qi Ling and Long Zixuan as her nephew and niece; they greeted him as Grandpa Ye Han.

Ye Han met the remaining members of Dai Zhirou’s squad, then confronted Little Lion King after the young noble challenged him over living in the Princess Mansion. The chapter ended with Ye Han thrusting at Little Lion King, who relied on his Soul Power and mocked the attack.

• Dai Zhirou introduced Qi Ling, Long Zixuan, Yang Bubai, Zhan Tianxia, and Luo Zifeng, completing her ten-member squad.
• After Dai Zhirou left to report to the dean, nearby teams gossiped about Ye Han living in the Princess Mansion and Dai Zhirou’s marriage prospects.
• Little Lion King approached Ye Han and demanded to know whether he lived in the Princess Mansion, then threatened to teach him a lesson.
• Xu Hao stepped in, revealed that he was the Young Master of the Xu Family, and offered to defend Ye Han, but Ye Han insisted he could handle Little Lion King himself.
• Little Lion King punched at Ye Han, who drew a longsword and thrust toward his chest; Little Lion King claimed his Soul Power would stop the attack without a Soul Skill.

Ye Han exposed Little Lion King's supposedly indestructible defense, then was crippled by Zhu Xia's surprise kick. After healing with a green gourd, Ye Han attacked Zhu Xia and left him badly wounded.

• Ye Han secretly switched to the Seven Sha Sword and pierced Little Lion King's defense, then pretended his ordinary sword had done it.
• Little Lion King attacked Ye Han in anger, and Zhu Xia kicked Ye Han from behind, shattering his lower spine.
• Ye Han healed himself with a green gourd, stood up, and attacked Zhu Xia with his sword.
• Ye Han used repeated rapid movements to throw off Zhu Xia's balance, then stabbed him through the abdomen and kicked him down.

Ye Han fought back after Zhu Xia injured him, preventing a Healing Soul Master and an instructor from treating Zhu Xia without answering for their favoritism. Dai Zhirou returned, brutally subdued the instructor, and heard Ye Han explain that Zhu Xia had nearly crippled him.

• Ye Han cut the Healing Soul Master's neck when he tried to heal Zhu Xia, then warned him not to interfere again.
• Ye Han used three gourds to restore his Soul Power and challenged Zhu Xia's claim that he had attacked him by accident.
• An instructor arrived and ordered Zhu Xia treated, then tried to capture Ye Han without investigating what had happened.
• Dai Zhirou returned, seized the instructor with her scorpion tail, and slammed him repeatedly into the bluestone pavement.
• Dai Zhirou asked Ye Han what had happened, and he told her Zhu Xia had nearly crippled him.

Dai Zhirou nearly killed Zhu Xia after he attacked Ye Han, but Ye Han healed him and set steep fees for future treatment of the Zhu Family. Dai Zhirou dismissed Qi Ling, Luo Zifeng, and Zhan Tianxia from her class, while Dai Fengling took them toward another class.

• Dai Zhirou struck Zhu Xia with her scorpion tail and left him close to death.
• Ye Han healed Zhu Xia, then ordered him to tell the Zhu Family that future treatments would cost them dearly.
• Dai Zhirou praised Ye Han's teammates who had stood by him and invited them to a welcome feast at the Princess Mansion.
• Dai Zhirou dismissed Qi Ling, Luo Zifeng, and Zhan Tianxia for failing to support Ye Han.
• Dai Fengling reprimanded the three and told them to follow her to another class.

Ye Han visited the Star Luo Emperor with Dai Zhirou and learned about the Soul Wine Tree kept in the palace, which he considered as a possible source for his third soul ring. He met the emperor and the imperial family’s Titled Douluo, the Evil Eye Douluo, and the chapter ended with the old ancestor urging the couple to have a child.

• Dai Zhirou told Ye Han that her father kept a fifteen-hundred-year-old Soul Wine Tree in the palace, and Ye Han considered using it for his third soul ring before deciding not to risk angering the emperor.
• Dai Zhirou took Ye Han to meet her father, where they also encountered the Evil Eye Douluo, the emperor’s grandfather and the Star Luo imperial family’s only Titled Douluo.
• Ye Han offered the emperor ten gourds of wine made with his soul skill, and the emperor accepted them after tasting their fragrance.
• When the Evil Eye Douluo asked whether Ye Han had brought him a gift too, Dai Zhirou gave him the wine she had received from Ye Han.
• The Evil Eye Douluo said he cared less about wine than about holding a fifth-generation great-grandson.

The Emperor gave Ye Han a Hundred Thousand Year Sword Dragon Mirror Beast right leg bone, and Evil Eye Douluo gifted him a larger Space Soul Tool. Ye Han refined the bone in Dai Zhirou’s bedroom, gaining two powerful soul skills and a major boost in strength.

• The Emperor revealed that he had bought Ye Han a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, and Dai Zhirou identified it as a Sword Dragon Mirror Beast right leg bone worth one million Gold Soul Coins.
• Ye Han accepted the soul bone and a thirty-cubic-meter Space Soul Tool from Evil Eye Douluo, then left with Dai Zhirou for her former residence in the palace.
• Dai Zhirou introduced Ye Han to her maid Xiao Wei and told her to prepare a room and keep watch while he refined the bone.
• Ye Han refined the soul bone and gained Myriad Swords Return and the ability to summon two Sword Qi Clones.
• Ye Han felt his body and combat power greatly strengthened, leaving him confident he could face a Soul King head-on.

After learning that Snake Princess and Snake Manor were safe at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ye Han and Dai Zhirou prepared to visit them. Ye Han left the imperial palace after secretly destroying the Emperor’s Soul Wine Tree to obtain a soul ring, and Dai Zhirou asked what soul skill he had gained as they fled.

• The Twin Snake Brothers told Ye Han and Dai Zhirou that Snake Manor had joined the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and that Snake Princess invited them to visit.
• Dai Zhirou agreed to ask the Emperor for permission to travel, and she and Ye Han went to the Imperial Supreme Hall.
• Ye Han slipped away to the brewing courtyard while Dai Zhirou spoke with the Emperor.
• After Dai Zhirou left the hall, Ye Han hurried her away, and the Emperor discovered that Ye Han had chopped down his Soul Wine Tree.
• Ye Han told Dai Zhirou that his Soul Power had reached level thirty and that the tree had suited him; as they ran from the Emperor, Dai Zhirou asked about his new soul skill.

Ye Han explained his powerful third soul skill to Dai Zhirou as they left Star Luo City with the Twin Snake Brothers, while Evil Eye Douluo allowed their journey to continue under hidden protection. Meanwhile, Zi Xia confronted and killed Eagle Mask, whose warning whistle alerted others, before agreeing to return with the black-robed scythe wielder.

• Ye Han described how his third soul skill, All Are Drunk, I Alone Am Sober, incapacitated nearby enemies with wine fragrance, and Dai Zhirou began devising ways to use it in combat.
• Ye Han and Dai Zhirou met the Twin Snake Brothers and left the city, while Evil Eye Douluo reassured the worried emperor that a powerful expert was watching over them.
• Eagle Mask recognized Taishi Ming among the departing group and realized that he had leaked information about Tiger Mask’s death.
• Zi Xia confronted Eagle Mask, and a hooded figure wielding a blood-red scythe emerged from a black vortex and split Eagle Mask’s head in two.
• Eagle Mask’s hidden whistle sent out a warning, but Zi Xia agreed to return with the black-robed figure after learning that a powerful expert was following her friends.

Ye Han and Dai Zhirou encountered a slave-catching caravan and learned how deeply the trade was tied to the empire, strengthening Ye Han’s resolve to grow powerful enough to change things. After the caravan passed, She Hai found two identical little girls hiding by the road, while the caravan’s gloved man reported that the twins had escaped.

• Kong Qi recognized the White Eagle Face Mechanism’s signal and went to a hidden room to relay the news.
• The caravan’s clan chief warned his young men not to target anyone in the imperial city, while the gloved man quietly slipped toward the rear.
• She Hai told Ye Han and Dai Zhirou that the black-covered carriages belonged to a slave-catching team, and Ye Han saw a captive woman inside one of them.
• Dai Zhirou explained that the royal family profited from the slave trade, and Ye Han resolved to become strong enough to stop it.
• She Hai investigated a faint cry and found two identical little girls hiding near the road.
• The gloved man told the clan chief that the twin girls had escaped.

Ye Han refused to return the twins Yilian and Yixue to their captor, but learned they were claimed as goods by the War King's Mansion. The Old War King overheard the accusation and vowed to investigate whoever was abusing his name, while Ye Han ordered She Hai and She Tian to kill the man.

• A patriarch learned that Yilian and Yixue had escaped and set off with an attendant to find them.
• Ye Han and Dai Zhirou questioned the twins, while She Hai and She Tian suspected someone had used their escape to draw the group into a trap.
• Ye Han vowed not to hand Yilian and Yixue back, and the twins clung to him when their captor appeared.
• A man claimed the twins were wanted by the War King's Mansion, prompting Ye Han to suspect the Old War King was involved.
• The Old War King overheard Ye Han's accusation, denied any interest in children, and vowed to investigate the misuse of his name.
• Ye Han ordered She Hai and She Tian to kill the man who demanded the twins.

She Hai and She Tian defeated the Ling Family patriarch with their poison skills, while Ye Han destroyed the patriarch’s attack. Ling Qiqi revealed that he had engineered the Ling Family’s downfall to avenge his sister, then the dying patriarch seized him by the throat.

• She Hai and She Tian confronted the Ling Family patriarch, and Ye Han shattered his Falling Rocks skill with Myriad Swords Return.
• She Hai bound the patriarch and trapped him in a Serpent Array while She Tian poisoned him until he collapsed.
• Ling Qiqi stabbed the patriarch in the chest after pretending to support him.
• Ling Qiqi confessed that he had arranged for the Ling Family’s destruction to avenge his younger sister and revealed Dai Zhirou’s role in the family’s fate.
• The patriarch seized Ling Qiqi by the throat as Ling Qiqi welcomed death.

Ye Han and Dai Zhirou left Ling Qiqi and the old man to settle their thirteen-year grudge, which ended with both of them dead. They took in Yilian and Yixue after learning their parents had sold them, then began awakening the girls’ martial souls and discovered Yilian had catlike mutations.

• Ye Han and Dai Zhirou left Ling Qiqi and the old man to face each other, and both died as their thirteen-year grudge ended.
• Ye Han and Dai Zhirou learned Yilian and Yixue’s parents had sold them and promised not to send them home.
• Dai Zhirou used her awakening stones to awaken Yilian’s martial soul, which appeared as a large upright cat.
• Yilian developed cat ears, heterochromatic eyes, and sharp canine teeth as a result of a martial soul mutation.
• Ye Han and Dai Zhirou petted Yilian after she lowered her head beneath Ye Han’s hand.

Yilian and Yixue awakened identical Spirit Cat with Heterochromatic Eyes martial souls and each revealed Innate Level Six Soul Power. She Hai and She Tian agreed to guide the sisters, who might become a cultivation pair like the Twin Snake Brothers.

• Dai Zhirou tested Yilian, whose crystal ball revealed Innate Level Six Soul Power.
• Yixue awakened the same martial soul as Yilian, with her eye colors reversed, and also possessed Innate Level Six Soul Power.
• Ye Han woke to find Yilian and Yixue sleeping on his legs, then teased them while Dai Zhirou scolded him for sitting on her.
• Ye Han introduced the sisters to She Hai and She Tian and asked the brothers to guide them.
• She Hai and She Tian agreed to help the sisters, though they frowned at the girls' cat ears and heterochromatic eyes.

Ye Han and Dai Zhirou brought the twin cat-eared girls downstairs, where several groups of influential travelers eyed them. When a group of young men tried to claim Dai Zhirou and the girls, Ye Han attacked them, leaving the inn’s guests stunned.

• She Hai and She Tian warned Ye Han that the twin girls’ unusual appearance could attract dangerous attention, but Ye Han and Dai Zhirou refused to hide them.
• At breakfast, several groups of young men and their elders eyed Dai Zhirou and the twins, though a Young Sect Master warned his companions that Dai Zhirou was too powerful to provoke.
• Several arrogant young men blocked Ye Han’s group and demanded that Ye Han move aside so they could take Dai Zhirou and the twins.
• Ye Han punched one attacker in the stomach, broke another’s leg, and kicked a third away before telling them not to block his path.
• The young man with Peach Blossom Eyes watched in shock and remarked that Ye Han was even more arrogant than he was.

Ye Han killed Peach Blossom Eyes after he provoked him, while the young man's older brother escaped with Instant Flash Shift. Ye Han replenished his Soul Power, and the Fire Leopard Sect Young Sect Master wondered whether Ye Han had used a soul bone.

• Ye Han and his companions ate breakfast after beating up several men, and the waiter warned them that a Soul Emperor from a local Soul Master family might come after them.
• Dai Zhirou recognized the Fire Leopard Sect Young Sect Master as Little Leopard, while Peach Blossom Eyes leered at her and provoked Ye Han.
• Ye Han unleashed Myriad Swords Return, and Peach Blossom Eyes's older brother fled while the swords broke through his protective shield and killed Peach Blossom Eyes.
• The older brother escaped with Instant Flash Shift, and Ye Han drank three gourds of Soul Wine to restore his depleted Soul Power.
• The Fire Leopard Sect Young Sect Master speculated that Ye Han had used a soul bone after seeing him break a Soul King's defensive skill without releasing his Martial Soul or soul rings.