Chapter Summaries

Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin discussed Chen Feng's talent, safety, and possible future with Ning Rongrong, while Gu Rong resisted sending Rongrong away from the sect. The chapter ended with the adults divided over whether Rongrong should attend Nuoding Academy.

• Ning Fengzhi reunited with Ning Rongrong, who admitted she had missed him before running out of the Council Hall in embarrassment.
• Ning Fengzhi dismissed the others and told Gu Rong about Chen Feng's abilities and his Spirit Evolution Theory.
• Chen Xin said he planned to mentor Chen Feng and observe his sword training whenever the boy returned to the sect.
• Ning Fengzhi proposed matching Ning Rongrong with Chen Feng and sending her to Nuoding Academy, but Gu Rong refused to let her leave the sect.

Ning Fengzhi decided to postpone sending Ning Rongrong away and planned to use Chen Feng’s Foundation Building Method to establish a partnership with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. At Spirit Hall, Bibi Dong ordered the method distributed and requested future manuscripts from Nuoding City be brought directly to her.

• Gu Rong persuaded Ning Fengzhi to wait until Chen Feng returned before deciding whether Ning Rongrong should leave the sect.
• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong discussed how Chen Feng’s thesis could shift the continent’s balance of power and give Spirit Hall greater influence.
• Ning Fengzhi proposed selling Lightning Yuan Stones to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan if its members adopted the attribute path, and Chen Xin and Gu Rong agreed the stones could become useful merchandise.
• Ghost Douluo reported that Chen Feng was related to Chen Xin, friends with Yu Xiaogang, and connected to the three children with Innate Full Soul Power.
• Bibi Dong told Ghost Douluo to stop investigating the children and Nuoding City, bring her future manuscripts from there, and spread the Foundation Building Method throughout Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Dong ordered Ghost Douluo to summon Nana when she was ready for her third spirit ring so she could personally help Nana obtain a Foundation Ring.

Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian discussed helping Xiao Gang and sending Yu Tian Xin to Thunder Academy to follow the attribute path. As Nuoding Academy’s semester ended, Chen Feng planned to visit Sacred Soul Village and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with Tang San and Xiao Wu, while the author’s note considered future female leads.

• Yu Luomian reported the operation to Yu Yuanzhen, and the brothers discussed Xiao Gang’s martial soul and his past with Erlong.
• Yu Yuanzhen asked Yu Luomian to offer Xiao Gang the clan’s help and chose Yu Tian Xin to follow the attribute path at Thunder Academy, while Yu Tian Heng stayed on the bloodline path.
• After a year of practicing sword forms, Chen Feng lost another sparring match to Xiao Wu, leaving Tang San stronger than Xiao Wu and Xiao Wu stronger than him.
• Chen Feng recalled how he and the other Work-Study Students defeated Xiao Chenyu’s bullies, after which Grandmaster’s warning stopped further trouble and the students were spared academy labor.
• Chen Feng invited Xiao Wu to visit Sacred Soul Village with him during the break before he went to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Tang San arrived with gifts for his father.

Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Chen Feng returned to Sacred Soul Village, where they found Tang Hao still at home and watching over Tang San. Tang Hao warned Chen Feng about Spirit Hall and asked him to help Tang San awaken his martial soul so he could revive someone.

• Xiao Wu insisted on joining Tang San and Chen Feng on their trip to Sacred Soul Village, and the three left Nuoding City together.
• Tang San arrived home and was surprised when Tang Hao answered him instead of having left a letter behind.
• Tang Hao dismissed Tang San's gifts but accepted his affection, then sent him to deliver a box of kitchenware to Old Zhang's Family.
• After Tang San left, Tang Hao asked Chen Feng to keep Tang San away from Spirit Hall and prevent others from learning about his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang Hao asked Chen Feng to continue helping Tang San awaken his martial soul so Tang San could gain the power to bring someone back to life.

Chen Feng explained the conditions under which Xiao Wu’s mother might be resurrected, giving Xiao Wu hope and persuading her to keep training by making her his benchmark. He then returned home to visit Old Jack and asked him about the circumstances of finding Chen Feng as a child.

• Chen Feng told Tang Hao he would help awaken Tang San’s martial soul and do his best to pursue resurrection, and Tang Hao went into the inner room.
• Xiao Wu asked about resurrection, and Chen Feng explained that it would require the preserved body and soul, plus powerful soul skills to restore the body and return the soul.
• Xiao Wu realized her mother might meet those conditions and urged Chen Feng to cultivate diligently; Chen Feng got her to agree that he would train hard if she surpassed him in Soul Power.
• Tang Hao overheard Chen Feng’s scheme and called him cunning as he lay down to sleep.
• Chen Feng returned home, greeted Old Jack, and asked whether he remembered how he had found Chen Feng.

Chen Feng learned from Old Jack’s letter that his blood relative had abandoned him while losing their sanity and had warned against killing people with an entirely black Sword Spirit. He suspected the Demonic Sword caused madness by devouring souls and concluded that he should avoid the Yin Sword and find a way to awaken the Yang Sword.

• Chen Feng asked Old Jack about the circumstances in which he had been found, and Old Jack brought out a letter left with him.
• Chen Feng read that his relative had been losing their sanity and warned that a child who awakened an entirely black Sword Spirit must never kill people.
• Old Jack explained that he had withheld the letter because Chen Feng awakened a different Spirit, and Chen Feng reassured him that there was no trouble.
• Chen Feng reasoned that the Demonic Sword’s soul-devouring power caused its wielders to become insane, especially after killing humans.
• Chen Feng guessed that awakening the Yang Sword might require the blood of a Soul Master with an extremely yang-type Spirit, such as a light-element Spirit.

Chen Feng returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and met Ning Rongrong after she collided with him outside the Council Hall. He left the servant’s punishment unresolved as he defended the man and prepared to continue to Sword Douluo.

• Chen Feng decided to focus on resolving his martial soul’s problems before pursuing the difficult awakenings of the Yin Sword and Yang Sword.
• Chen Feng left Tang San and Xiao Wu behind and traveled safely to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where he entered using his Seven Kill Token.
• Old Meng guided Chen Feng to the Council Hall and revealed that he had been secretly protecting him for Ning Fengzhi.
• Ning Fengzhi greeted Chen Feng and sent him to see Sword Douluo, who had been waiting for him.
• Ning Rongrong collided with Chen Feng, then ordered the servant to stand in a corner as punishment after the servant took the blame.
• Chen Feng objected that the servant had done nothing wrong and needed to guide him.

Chen Feng challenged Ning Rongrong for blaming a servant after she had knocked him over, then used a staged accusation about a Gold Soul Coin to show her how it felt to be falsely blamed. Ning Rongrong’s guardians left them to settle the matter, and Chen Feng gave her a chance to clear her name through the servant’s testimony.

• Chen Feng told Ning Rongrong that she was at fault and tossed a Gold Soul Coin down to demonstrate how easily someone could be accused without proof.
• Ning Rongrong angrily scattered her own Gold Soul Coins on the ground, and Chen Feng accused her of stealing them.
• Ning Rongrong cried for help, bringing Gu Rong and Chen Xin to the scene; Chen Feng explained what had happened.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin led Gu Rong away so Chen Feng and Ning Rongrong could resolve the dispute themselves.
• Chen Feng asked the servant to testify for Ning Rongrong, and the servant agreed.

Chen Feng confronted Ning Rongrong about her spoiled behavior and the danger it posed to her future companions, leaving her in tears. Gu Rong then ordered Chen Feng to go coax her back.

• Chen Feng told Ning Rongrong that her status and talent could not make up for her selfishness and lack of courage as a Support System Spirit Master.
• Ning Rongrong defended her Rank Nine innate soul power and potential to evolve her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, but Chen Feng challenged her to prove she could face danger and stand by her companions.
• Ning Rongrong could not refute Chen Feng, broke down crying, and ran to her room.
• Chen Feng asked Ning Fengzhi if he was satisfied, and Ning Fengzhi admitted the confrontation was his plan before quickly leaving to avoid Gu Rong.
• Gu Rong accused Chen Feng of helping bully Rongrong, then ordered him to go coax her back.

Chen Feng went to comfort Ning Rongrong after criticizing her, then explained how her behavior could undermine others’ trust and urged her to take responsibility. Ning Rongrong began to recognize the need to change, though she still did not know how.

• Gu Rong and Chen Xin asked Chen Feng to comfort Ning Rongrong, and he agreed.
• Chen Feng went to Ning Rongrong’s room, took a key from her maids, and entered despite her order to stay out.
• Ning Rongrong angrily told Chen Feng to leave, but eventually sat with him and asked why he had come.
• Chen Feng told Ning Rongrong that people would not trust her if she kept acting as she had, and contrasted genuine bonds with relationships built on profit.
• Ning Rongrong admitted she did not know what to do, and Chen Feng advised her to take responsibility for her actions as a future leader.

Chen Feng helped Ning Rongrong reconcile with Ning Fengzhi and then went to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Library to pursue his research. Ning Rongrong chose to train until she felt worthy of standing beside Chen Feng before seeking him out again.

• Ning Rongrong apologized to Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong for her past willfulness and asked her father to guide her cultivation.
• Ning Fengzhi praised Chen Feng for helping Rongrong and offered him access to the sect’s Library using Chen Xin’s Seven Kill Token.
• Ning Rongrong declined to go to school with Chen Feng, saying she wanted to become qualified to stand behind him first.
• Chen Feng entered the Library to research Tool Spirits, spirit rings and spirit bones, and a new classification of Spirit Master roles.
• Chen Feng decided that defensive Spirit Masters should protect their team’s core and called the role Shield Guard.

Chen Feng studied soul rings to understand how they influenced Spirits and inherited traits, developing a theory that Soul Power had a frequency. He ended the chapter wondering whether human cultivation approached a frequency between humans and Soul Beasts, and wrote “God” as the possible value.

• Chen Feng searched the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Library for the origins of Tool Spirits but found no records.
• Chen Feng concluded from examples in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan that parents’ soul rings could alter descendants’ genetic material.
• Chen Feng reasoned that soul rings changed Spirits through Soul Power, then proposed that Soul Power was a form of energy with radiation.
• Chen Feng replaced “nature” with “frequency” in his notes and theorized that changing human Soul Power frequency might allow humans to condense soul rings.
• Chen Feng rejected the idea that humans would ultimately become Soul Beasts and wrote “God” between the two as a possible target frequency.

Chen Feng developed the Spirit Power Frequency Hypothesis to explain cultivation bottlenecks, spirit rings, Soul Beast sacrifices, and transformations into human form. He concluded that cooperative Soul Beasts might let soul masters advance without being hunted, and planned to test his ideas with a spectrum experiment.

• Chen Feng proposed that gods possessed a special Soul Power frequency that resonated with the Douluo Plane, while other frequencies faced restrictions.
• Chen Feng reasoned that level-ten bottlenecks marked the minimum energy needed for a soul master's Soul Power frequency to shift, and that spirit rings enabled the shift.
• Chen Feng hypothesized that Soul Beast age reflected energy intensity, making higher-aged spirit rings harder to absorb but more powerful if the frequency shift succeeded.
• Chen Feng concluded that a cooperative living Soul Beast could blend its Soul Power with a soul master's, explaining Spirit Beast Sacrifice and offering a way to advance without hunting.
• Chen Feng theorized that powerful Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts could alter their Soul Power frequency to take human form, and noted that he would test the world's spectrum with a prism.

Chen Feng developed an “eight” model to explain how humans, Soul Beasts, and gods advanced through different Soul Power frequencies, while noting that the theory still needed experimental verification. After planning to study spirit rings and Xiao Wu’s ability to condense them, he collapsed while preparing to sleep.

• Chen Feng realized his Spirit Power Frequency Hypothesis explained many phenomena and began refining it to account for the differences between humans, Soul Beasts, and gods.
• Chen Feng replaced his branching “person” model with an “eight” model, proposing that Soul Beasts could transform into humans near the hundred-thousand-year stage but could not cross into godhood because a force blocked the path.
• Chen Feng stored his drafts and planned experiments with Tang San’s biological-type spirit and Xiao Wu’s spirit-ring condensation ability.
• Chen Feng concluded that his theories about Soul Power and spirit rings remained incomplete and needed experiments to verify them.
• Chen Feng stood up to bathe and sleep, but his vision went black and he collapsed unconscious.

Chen Feng woke after exhausting himself while using the Ten Thousand Year Spirit Condensing Jade, and Chen Xin confiscated the pendant despite Chen Feng’s protests. Chen Feng concealed his theory about the Dao, told Ning Fengzhi he was developing a Soul Master role classification system, and asked him to prepare a clear triangular crystal for an experiment.

• Chen Xin explained that the Ten Thousand Year Spirit Condensing Jade could help its owner approach the Dao at the cost of their essence, energy, spirit, and lifespan, then took Chen Feng’s pendant for safety.
• Chen Feng woke and pleaded to keep the pendant, but Chen Xin refused after seeing how pale and exhausted he looked.
• Ning Fengzhi asked what Chen Feng had done, and Chen Feng said he was developing a clearer classification system for Soul Master roles.
• Chen Feng asked Ning Fengzhi to prepare a palm-sized, colorless, transparent triangular crystal for his dispersion experiment, and Ning Fengzhi agreed.

While recuperating at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Chen Feng planned experiments to test whether spirit power behaved like a wave and developed a new system for classifying Soul Master roles. He left the chapter still resting under supervision, with his proposed classifications ready to organize into a thesis.

• Chen Feng rested under Ning Rongrong’s supervision and asked her to find out when he could move freely again.
• Chen Feng considered why his prism experiment had shown no unusual spectrum and planned to seek spirit-power-sensitive material for a Double-Slit Interference Experiment.
• Chen Feng planned to keep using his Spirit Power Frequency Model to explain Soul Master advancement and hoped Xiao Wu could assist with future soul-ring research.
• Chen Feng classified melee Soul Masters as vanguards, divided them into shield guards, warriors, and sharp blades, and proposed calling energy-projecting Soul Masters Archers.

Chen Feng completed a new Spirit Master classification system and urged Ning Fengzhi to recruit Shield Guards for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. He argued that the Clear Sky Sect’s seclusion created an opportunity to expand, leaving Ning Fengzhi to consider whether the sect should advance rather than remain defensive.

• Chen Feng defined Archers as Biological Spirit Masters with exceptional Soul Power control and completed his classifications for Shield Guards, Sharp Blades, Warriors, Archers, Assassins, Controllers, and support roles.
• After Ning Rongrong checked on him with Ning Fengzhi, Chen Feng’s restrictions were lifted, though he still could not recover his Jade Pendant.
• Chen Feng submitted his thesis, “On the New Spirit Master Classification System,” and Ning Fengzhi praised it as a guide to Spirit Master development.
• Chen Feng pointed out that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect needed Shield Guards, and Ning Fengzhi named the Elephant Armored Sect and the Defense Clan as possible sources.
• Ning Fengzhi said the Defense Clan’s ties to the Clear Sky Sect made recruitment inappropriate, but Chen Feng argued that the Clear Sky Sect had abandoned its subordinate clans and urged the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to seize the opportunity to expand.

Chen Feng proposed that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect recruit the abandoned Four Clans with Tang Hao’s approval. Ning Fengzhi agreed with his plan, and Chen Feng argued Tang Hao would likely consent because he felt guilty toward the clans.

• Chen Feng and Ning Fengzhi independently wrote “Tang Hao” on their palms as the person they should approach about the Four Clans.
• Chen Feng explained that the clans’ resentment after seven years of abandonment made them open to recruitment, but Tang Hao’s approval would give the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect a proper justification.
• Chen Feng argued that Tang Hao would likely agree because helping the Four Clans would improve their lives and ease his guilt toward them.
• Chen Xin and Gu Rong wondered whether Chen Feng was actually Ning Fengzhi’s son.

Chen Feng proposed recruiting the Min Clan by teaching its members to become Archers, allowing them to attack without suffering the level cap caused by offensive spirit rings. After the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect agreed to pursue his plan, Chen Feng prepared to return to Nuoding Academy to seek permission to recruit the four clans.

• Ning Fengzhi explained that Bai He had rejected every attempt to recruit the Min Clan because of his stubborn pride.
• Chen Feng suggested that the Min Clan could gain offensive abilities as Archers without adding attack-type spirit rings, and Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong enthusiastically supported the plan.
• Chen Feng gave his thesis to Ning Fengzhi to publish after the four clans had been settled and planned to ask Haotian Buddha for permission to recruit them.
• Ning Rongrong asked Chen Feng not to forget her, and they promised to write letters and sealed it with a pinky swear.

Chen Feng returned to Nuoding City and asked Xiao Wu about the process of creating Self-Condensed Spirit Rings, explaining his theory that Soul Masters might advance without hunting Soul Beasts. Xiao Wu was moved by his idea, which reminded her of her mother’s death, and the chapter ended with Chen Feng’s research still at the hypothesis stage.

• Chen Feng returned to the academy after treating Old Meng to a meal and learned that Tang San had gone to practice forging with Tang Hao.
• Chen Feng advised Wang Sheng to choose the Gold Attribute for his first Foundation Ring, and Wang Sheng accepted the recommendation.
• Chen Feng took Xiao Wu to their training grove and asked her about Self-Condensed Spirit Rings.
• Chen Feng explained his theory that Soul Masters could strengthen their Soul Power without killing Soul Beasts by finding the right method.
• Xiao Wu wondered aloud why Chen Feng had not been born earlier, thinking of how her mother might have been saved.