Chapter Summaries

Lu Leng awakened a fearsome Martial Soul and Innate Soul Power Level 21, but Hu Liena reported his talent to Bibi Dong despite his warning. Bibi Dong had Lu Leng seized for Spirit Hall, and he was left being carried away after his attempt to flee failed.

• Lu Leng awakened a powerful saber Martial Soul and revealed Innate Soul Power Level 21 during a secret test conducted by Hu Liena.
• Lu Leng warned Hu Liena not to tell Spirit Hall about him, but she returned to report his talent to Bibi Dong.
• Bibi Dong ordered Hu Liena and Yue Guan to bring Lu Leng to Spirit Hall, saying she would keep him there by any means necessary.
• Lu Leng packed his belongings and tried to escape, but Bibi Dong and her companions caught him outside Lu Mansion.
• Ju Yueguan carried Lu Leng away as he lamented that he had been too late to flee.

Bibi Dong forcibly recruited Lu Leng as her disciple and brought him to Spirit Hall, where he revealed the immense power of his Martial Soul, Zhan Luo. The chapter ended with Bibi Dong assigning him two months of Soul Power control training after assessing his attacks.

• Hu Liena revealed that she had brought Lu Leng into contact with Spirit Hall, and Bibi Dong ordered him to become her disciple.
• Lu Leng concealed his reluctance and agreed to go with Bibi Dong to Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Dong publicly announced Lu Leng as her disciple and threatened to execute the clan of anyone who harmed him, while Qian Daoliu dismissed him as no threat to Qian Renxue.
• Lu Leng summoned his Martial Soul, Zhan Luo, and attacked Bibi Dong, who blocked his first two strikes before his lightning-powered third strike forced her to exert herself.
• Bibi Dong judged that Lu Leng had a God-level Martial Soul but poor Soul Power control and assigned him two months of training.

Lu Leng trained under Bibi Dong until he mastered his Soul Power, then traveled to the Star Dou Forest to obtain his first Soul Ring. He successfully absorbed a roughly seven-thousand-year ring from a Thousand Jin Charging Elephant.

• Bibi Dong spent two months teaching Lu Leng to control his Soul Power, and he learned to concentrate it into a powerful strike.
• Bibi Dong took Lu Leng and Chrysanthemum Douluo to the Star Dou Forest and chose a Soul Beast aged between five and seven thousand years for his first Soul Ring.
• Lu Leng asked for a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, but Bibi Dong refused and explained that his first ring should not endanger his future growth.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo captured a roughly seven-thousand-year-old Thousand Jin Charging Elephant, and Lu Leng killed it with Zhan Luo.
• Lu Leng absorbed the elephant’s purple Soul Ring despite the intense pain and emerged successful, telling Bibi Dong that it felt like soaking in a hot spring.

After absorbing his first soul ring, Lu Leng revealed his Drawing Sword Slash and used Yan’s challenge to test it. He defeated Yan with one strike, while Hu Liena watched from hiding.

• Lu Leng explained that Drawing Sword Slash temporarily granted him immense strength and armor-piercing power, and Bibi Dong approved of the skill.
• Hu Liena resented Bibi Dong’s attention to Lu Leng, and Yan decided to confront him on her behalf.
• Yan attacked Lu Leng with his Flame Lord martial soul and second soul skill, Granite Rock.
• Lu Leng revealed his purple soul ring and struck Yan with Drawing Sword Slash, sending him flying and making him spit blood.

After injuring Yan, Lu Leng trained under Bibi Dong for a month and improved his combat skills. He secretly followed her to a mountain pavilion, realized she was grieving over Yu Xiaogang on Qixi Festival, and decided to win her over before returning with food and calling for help.

• Lu Leng defeated Yan with a strike that left him badly injured, then warned him before Hu Liena helped Yan up.
• Bibi Dong declined to punish Lu Leng and trained him through sparring, helping him master his Soul Power and Drawing Sword Slash over the following month.
• Bibi Dong ended their training early and went alone to a mountain pavilion, where she stared into the distance through the night.
• After overhearing maidservants discuss Qixi Festival, Lu Leng guessed that Bibi Dong was thinking about Yu Xiaogang and resolved to protect her and make her depend on him.
• Lu Leng returned carrying an awkward assortment of food and begged Bibi Dong for help, interrupting her thoughts.

Lu Leng tried to lift Bibi Dong’s spirits with a hotpot dinner, and she gave him a storage ring as thanks. The next day, she took him to the Star Dou Forest to hunt his second Soul Ring, which Lu Leng hoped would be over ten thousand years old.

• Lu Leng prepared hotpot for Bibi Dong, who enjoyed the meal before sinking back into thoughts of Yu Xiaogang.
• Bibi Dong gave Lu Leng her old storage ring and promised to take him to hunt his second Soul Ring the next day.
• Lu Leng discovered that his Soul Power had risen to level twenty-two.
• Bibi Dong led Lu Leng and their third companion deeper into the Star Dou Forest, where she judged a ten-thousand-year Blazing Fire Bear too weak for his second Soul Ring.

Lu Leng encountered a sixteen-thousand-year-old Thunderclap Extinction Swallow, which Bibi Dong judged suitable for his second soul ring despite its age exceeding the limit. Lu Leng chose to absorb it, and the chapter left him enduring the soul ring’s destructive energy as Bibi Dong and Chrysanthemum Douluo watched.

• Bibi Dong rejected several soul beasts before a lightning-wreathed eagle attacked the group.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo tried to restrain the Thunderclap Extinction Swallow, but it vanished from his barrier and struck at Lu Leng.
• Bibi Dong punched the swallow into the ground, and she identified it as a sixteen-thousand-year-old beast whose speed and power suited Lu Leng.
• Lu Leng ignored the risk of absorbing a soul ring two thousand years above the limit and killed the swallow with one slash.
• Lu Leng absorbed the swallow’s soul ring, and its violent energy ravaged his body as he struggled to withstand it.

Lu Leng survived the painful emergence of the Thunderclap Wings, an External Soul Bone that granted him flight, increased speed, and the Thunderous Might skill, while he also described his Swallow Return Flash technique. Two months later, with his Soul Power at level twenty-three and Spirit Academy approaching, he spotted Hu Liena and two others leaving Spirit City and decided to follow them.

• Bibi Dong and Chrysanthemum Douluo watched as Lu Leng endured the growth of a pair of feathered wings from his back.
• Bibi Dong identified the wings as a rare External Soul Bone, and Lu Leng tested his flight and discovered its speed boost and Thunderous Might skill.
• Lu Leng named the External Soul Bone the Thunderclap Wings and explained how his Swallow Return Flash attacked in two stages.
• Over the next two months, Lu Leng mastered the wings and reached Soul Power level twenty-three as autumn and his entry into Spirit Academy approached.
• Lu Leng saw Hu Liena and two others heading out of Spirit City and decided to follow them.

Lu Leng joined Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan on their trip to Star Dou Forest to find Hu Liena a third soul ring, despite Yan's objections. After reaching the forest, the group encountered a thousand-year Pink Peach Fox that suited Hu Liena's martial soul.

• Lu Leng caught up with Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan and asked to accompany them to Star Dou Forest.
• Xie Yue explained that Hu Liena had reached level thirty and needed her third soul ring, and Lu Leng joined their journey.
• Lu Leng's sightseeing and frequent stops stretched their trip to four days, frustrating Yan, Hu Liena, and Xie Yue.
• Xie Yue assigned the group positions as they entered the forest's outer region, and Hu Liena told Lu Leng not to fight any soul beasts.
• The group spotted a thousand-year Pink Peach Fox, which Hu Liena recognized as a suitable soul beast for her Demon Fox martial soul.

Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan were trapped by a pair of powerful fox soul beasts, leaving Hu Liena helpless as the beasts overwhelmed them. Just as a Bloodthirsty Red Fox struck at Hu Liena, Lu Leng intervened with Draw—Blade—Slash.

• Xie Yue, Hu Liena, and Yan agreed on a plan to attack the Pink Peach Fox while Lu Leng watched from the sidelines.
• Hu Liena used Fox Charm to stun the Pink Peach Fox, and Yan and Xie Yue rushed in to attack it.
• The Pink Peach Fox broke free of Hu Liena’s control and turned Xie Yue and Yan against each other while a three-thousand-year-old Bloodthirsty Red Fox ambushed Hu Liena.
• The Bloodthirsty Red Fox knocked Hu Liena down, and Xie Yue and Yan were badly wounded as they fought under the foxes’ control.
• Hu Liena urged Lu Leng to escape, but the Bloodthirsty Red Fox raised its claws to strike her neck.
• Lu Leng appeared above Hu Liena and called out Draw—Blade—Slash.

Lu Leng killed the Bloodthirsty Red Fox and helped Hu Liena obtain its mate’s two-thousand-year soul ring. Hu Liena absorbed it and gained an External Soul Bone tail, while Xie Yue and Yan woke up after Lu Leng treated their injuries.

• Lu Leng killed the Bloodthirsty Red Fox and wounded the Pink Peach Fox with a lightning strike.
• Hu Liena finished off the Pink Peach Fox and absorbed its purple soul ring while Lu Leng guarded her.
• Hu Liena endured a painful change and gained a reddish-pink fox tail as an External Soul Bone.
• Lu Leng accidentally saw Hu Liena’s exposed skin when the tail tore through her pants, embarrassing her.
• Hu Liena asked after Xie Yue and Yan, and Lu Leng said he had treated them before they woke up.

After Hu Liena and the others returned safely to Spirit Hall, Bibi Dong praised Lu Leng and arranged for Hu Liena to enroll him at Spirit Academy. On enrollment day, Lu Leng made pink milk tea, shared it with Hu Liena, and brought the first cup to Bibi Dong.

• Lu Leng led Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan back to Spirit City, where Hu Liena told the others how she had obtained a spirit bone and how Lu Leng had saved them.
• Hu Liena lay awake thinking about Lu Leng, then angrily denied that she might like him when she remembered how he had teased her.
• Bibi Dong praised Lu Leng after hearing Hu Liena's account and told Hu Liena to take him to enroll when Spirit Academy opened three days later.
• Hu Liena tried Lu Leng's milk tea and took a large serving, while Lu Leng named the drink Pink Love.
• Lu Leng brought a cup of milk tea to Bibi Dong before going to enroll and called it the first cup of milk tea in autumn.

Lu Leng enrolled at Spirit Academy after demonstrating that he was a level-twenty-three Soul Master at six and a half, and Bibi Dong assigned him to the Sacred Class. Hu Liena explained the path to becoming Spirit Hall’s Holy Son or Holy Maiden, leaving Lu Leng intent on pursuing the Holy Son position.

• Hu Liena brought Lu Leng to the Academic Affairs Office, where Director Sols tested his Soul Power and confirmed he was level twenty-three.
• Sols recommended that Lu Leng enter the intermediate academy, but Hu Liena said Bibi Dong had ordered him placed in the Sacred Class.
• Hu Liena explained that the Sacred Class prepared students to become the Holy Son and that she had not yet earned the Holy Maiden title.
• Hu Liena told Lu Leng that candidates had to become Soul Kings before age twenty and rank first in Spirit Academy for six consecutive years.
• Lu Leng resolved to aim for the Holy Son position and realized how demanding its requirements were.

Lu Leng learned how difficult Hu Liena’s six-term Spirit Academy ranking streak had been and began to admire her, while Hu Liena showed him to his private dorm room. The next morning, Lu Leng arrived at Sacred Class and was mocked by its students as Bibi Dong’s plan to temper his arrogance began.

• Lu Leng told Hu Liena he sincerely considered her strong, and she was surprised and pleased by his admiration.
• Hu Liena showed Lu Leng his private dorm room, then escorted him back after dinner; Lu Leng’s room was 023, while hers was 007.
• Lu Leng slept late and reached Sacred Class at the last moment, where the beautiful teacher and the students were waiting.
• A golden-haired student and others mocked Lu Leng for being a child, while Hu Liena worried about how he would handle the trial.
• Hu Liena understood that Bibi Dong had sent Lu Leng to Sacred Class to curb his arrogance and help him recognize that stronger people existed, though Bibi Dong feared the trial could break him.
• The narration revealed that Bibi Dong had once intended to raise Lu Leng as an emotionless, obedient weapon, but ordinary moments with him had influenced her decision.

Lu Leng joined Sacred Class, challenged the students who mocked him, and accepted a duel with Xiong Rige. After learning Xiong Rige’s age, Soul Power, and ranking, Lu Leng questioned whether he was really that strong.

• Lu Leng stood up to the blond student who mocked him, and Mimis stopped them from fighting in class.
• Mimis introduced herself as Lu Leng’s homeroom teacher and seated him beside Hu Liena after the class learned he was six and a half.
• Lu Leng listened to Mimis’s lesson and noted that Sacred Class had only twenty-three students, all elites of Spirit Academy.
• After class, the blond student, Xiong Rige, challenged Lu Leng to meet him at the arena, and Lu Leng agreed.
• Hu Liena, Yan, and Xie Yue told Lu Leng that Xiong Rige was Demon Bear Douluo’s grandson, was fifteen, had level thirty-five Soul Power, and ranked fifty-ninth at Spirit Academy.
• Lu Leng questioned whether Xiong Rige was really that strong, leaving Hu Liena, Yan, and Xie Yue speechless.

Six-year-old Lu Leng headed to the arena to challenge Xiong Rige, drawing a huge crowd after revealing his level twenty-three Soul Power. As Xiong Rige attacked with his Third Soul Skill, spectators doubted Lu Leng could withstand the stronger opponent, and the fight's outcome remained unknown.

• Hu Liena worried that Lu Leng's victory would bring more challenges and that a loss could harm the young boy psychologically.
• News of Lu Leng's challenge spread through the academy, and a massive crowd gathered to watch.
• Lu Leng and Xiong Rige announced their levels and martial souls, astonishing spectators when Lu Leng revealed he was level twenty-three at age six.
• Xiong Rige summoned his Blood Fiend Demonic Bear and its three soul rings, while spectators judged that his advantages made victory certain.
• Xiong Rige launched his Third Soul Skill, Blood Fiend Claw, as Lu Leng had yet to reveal his martial soul.

Lu Leng defeated Xiong Rige with a single sword strike, revealing the strength and speed of his soul skills to the academy. Mimis learned that Lu Leng was the Pope’s disciple, while Zi Qingyang tried to use her recent breakthrough to Soul Sage as a reason to take over her class.

• Lu Leng combined Drawing Sword Slash with Swallow Return Flash and sent Xiong Rige crashing off the arena without visibly activating his soul rings.
• Medical instructors treated Xiong Rige, whose arms were limp and chest was caved in, while students and Hu Liena watched in shock.
• A purple-haired woman learned from the hawk-eyed man that Lu Leng had one purple and one black soul ring.
• Lu Leng explained that he had combined the first two stages of Swallow Return Flash with Drawing Sword Slash to make his attack seem impossibly fast.
• Mimis watched Lu Leng’s fight from the Academic Affairs Office, where Zi Qingyang revealed that Lu Leng was the Pope’s disciple.
• Zi Qingyang suggested that Mimis take time off after becoming a Soul Sage so he could oversee her class, but Mimis refused.

After learning of Lu Leng’s exceptional talents, Mimis decided to train him and spent two weeks testing his abilities. She concluded that his physique exceeded her expectations and planned even harsher training.

• Mimis rejected Zi Qingyang’s criticism and left with Lu Leng’s file after learning about his innate soul power and God-level Martial Soul.
• After Lu Leng won his sparring match, Mimis visited his dormitory, reviewed his file, and questioned him while preparing a personalized cultivation plan.
• The next morning, Mimis began training Lu Leng in the Advanced Mimicry Training Room and tested his Soul Power recovery speed and capacity.
• For half a month, Mimis used Lu Leng’s free time for training and recorded his results.
• After finding that Lu Leng’s physique exceeded her expectations, Mimis tore up her old records and decided to create a harsher plan.

After a month of training with Mimis, Lu Leng was told to enter the Spirit Academy Power Rankings and aim for the top hundred. He registered and received his first match assignment, discovering that he would face a girl around his age.

• Mimis explained that Lu Leng's God-level Martial Soul strengthened his body and could help him absorb increasingly older soul rings, then began updating his training plan daily.
• Mimis left on a business trip and assigned Lu Leng to reach the top hundred of the Spirit Academy Power Rankings.
• Lu Leng went to the arena hall, registered for a match, and learned the ranking and points system.
• Lu Leng saw that Jin Zhengyang had held the top rank for five years and realized he needed to defeat him within nine months to become the Holy Son.
• Lu Leng followed his token's notice to Arena No. 29 and faced a girl about his age.

Lu Leng rapidly climbed the academy strength rankings by winning every match with a single strike, while Dudu expanded his fan club. After fifty-seven consecutive victories, he reached 99th place, just behind Yan.

• Dudu introduced herself as the president of Lu Leng’s three-member fan club, and Lu Leng returned to competing.
• Lu Leng won ten matches in one day and rose to 2,180th place, then won ten more the next day to reach 1,097th.
• Dudu brought six new fans to cheer for Lu Leng and began charging membership fees for autographs.
• Lu Leng defeated Zhao Hu, ranked 822nd, without visibly activating his soul rings.
• Over the next three days, Lu Leng continued winning and reached 99th place with fifty-seven consecutive victories, while his fan club grew to over a hundred members.