Chapter Summaries

Team Twenty-Five, a women’s team of Elemental Fox Soul Masters, prepared to face Team Thirty as Zhou Qing explained their Martial Soul’s unusual evolution and cultivation limits. Sky Dream Ice Silkworm then revealed that the Elemental Foxes’ ancestor had suffered a flawed evolution after a failed theft, leaving the foxes unable to reach higher realms.

• Zhong Dingxiu drew the lots and selected Team Twenty-Five and Team Thirty for the first match of the fifth round.
• Zhou Qing explained that Elemental Foxes transformed according to their environment after reaching a thousand years of cultivation, and that Elemental Fox Martial Souls evolved according to the attribute of their third Soul Ring.
• Zhou Qing told Tang San and Xiao Wu that Elemental Foxes and their Martial Soul users had unusually slow cultivation and that no known Elemental Fox Soul Master had reached the Soul King realm.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm spoke privately to Zhou Qing, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Romantina, revealing that Elemental Foxes had inherited a flawed evolution after their ancestor failed to steal a chicken.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm explained how Elemental Foxes acquired Silver Dragon Blood and why they seemed unable to advance after transforming, while Zhou Qing suspected some could eventually adapt and cultivate further. After Team Thirty defeated Team Twenty-Five, Zhou Qing and his companions helped the injured opponents, who were scheduled to face Team 18 next.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm recounted how the Elemental Fox Ancestor secretly kept Silver Dragon Blood, refined it with its offspring, and spread Elemental Foxes across the continent.
• Zhou Qing reasoned that transformed Elemental Foxes might eventually adapt to their bodies and discover new cultivation methods, and wondered whether other Soul Beasts had also hidden Silver Dragon Blood.
• Zhong Dingxiu declared Team Thirty the winner after Team Twenty-Five and most of Team Thirty were left unable to fight.
• Zhong Dingxiu drew Team Twenty-Five as the team that would face Team 18 in the second half, and Zhou Qing led his companions in helping the injured team off the field.
• Mo Hen brought a Nuoding Academy teacher to treat Team Twenty-Five's injuries, and the captain questioned whether Zhou Qing and his companions were really children.

Team 18 and Team Twenty-Five prepared for their match as Zhou Qing and Bu Yi assigned tactics based on each sister’s elemental abilities. The chapter ended with Bu Yi questioning how Tang San, whose Martial Soul was Blue Silver Grass, could move so quickly.

• Zhou Qing assigned Team 18’s roles and ordered Tang San, Romantina, and Qingzhu Zhu to target Bu Wu and Bu Liu first.
• Zhou Qing explained Team Twenty-Five’s strengths, including Bu Wu’s healing ability and Bu Liu’s power to interrupt an opponent’s Soul Power.
• Bu Yi ordered Bu Er to target Mo Hen and Bu Si and Bu Qi to target Romantina.
• Bu Yi assigned Bu Wu to heal her sisters, Bu Liu to protect her, and Bu San to engage Tang San and Qingzhu Zhu.
• Bu Yi wondered how Tang San could be so fast despite having Blue Silver Grass as his Martial Soul.

Team 18 fought the Bu sisters, with Qingzhu Zhu’s speed and Xiao Wu’s strength disrupting their formation while Zhou Qing and Tang San kept other opponents occupied. Bu San and Bu Qi turned toward Romantina, who frightened Bu San with her strange expression as she charged.

• Bu Yi rejected Bu Qi’s suggestion to go easy on Team 18, and Zhong Dingxiu started the battle.
• Qingzhu Zhu used her speed to wound Bu Wu, while Xiao Wu struck Bu Yi and Zhou Qing joined the attack against her.
• Tang San hit Bu Er’s ankle with a Gold Soul Coin, leaving her to contend with Mo Hen, as Bu Liu and Bu Si guarded the injured Bu Wu.
• Bu San abandoned her pursuit of Qingzhu Zhu and charged toward Romantina, while Bu Qi also engaged the staff-wielding support soul master.
• Romantina shoved Bu Qi away with her Phoenix Wutong Staff and unnerved Bu San with her wide-eyed, drooling expression.

Bu Yi and the Bu siblings fought Zhou Qing, Romantina, and Tang San in the arena. Romantina’s strange fighting style distracted Bu San long enough for Tang San to knock her unconscious, leaving Bu Qi to face the team alone.

• Zhou Qing struck Bu Yi while she was occupied with Xiao Wu, and Bu Yi staggered backward.
• Romantina drove Bu Qi back, then used her Phoenix Wutong Staff to hook Bu San and pull her close.
• Romantina hugged Bu San and shouted that she would never submit, while Bu San’s weak lightning only caused her to enjoy the sensation.
• Bu San tried to break free, but her distraction let Tang San strike the back of her neck and knock her unconscious.
• Tang San noted Romantina’s bizarre behavior and told Zhou Qing he would have to handle her himself.

Xiao Wu and Zhou Qing worked together to defeat Bu Yi, and their team overwhelmed Team Twenty-Five. The battle ended with Bu Si and Bu Liu surrounded, leaving their team no chance to recover.

• Bu Yi watched Romantina's behavior with shock, while Romanyac dismissed his daughter to Dales and worried aloud about her future.
• Zhou Qing charged Bu Yi and struck her, then used his momentum to throw Xiao Wu at her.
• Xiao Wu dodged Bu Yi's defense with her scorpion-tail braid, swung her into the air, and slammed her face-first into the ground.
• Xiao Wu defeated Bu Er, while Mo Hen and Wang Sheng helped take down Bu Wu and left Bu Si and Bu Liu exposed.
• Tang San, Qingzhu Zhu, Xiao Wu, Zhou Qing, and Mo Hen surrounded Bu Si and Bu Liu, sealing Team Twenty-Five's defeat.

Team 18 defeated Team Twenty-Five, and Bu Yi then accepted the Nuoding Academy Dean’s offer to join the academy as a teacher. Bu Yi and her sisters planned to travel with the dean to hunt Soul Beasts, while the tournament’s next match was set for half an hour later.

• Bu San surrendered to Zhong Dingxiu, giving Team 18 the victory, while Romantina clung to her until Xiao Wu pulled her away.
• Nuoding Academy’s Healing System Soul Master treated the injured competitors, and Bu Wu helped restore Bu Yi with Life Energy.
• Bu Yi asked Xiao Wu about her improvised move, then asked whether Nuoding Academy needed teachers.
• The Nuoding Academy Dean invited Bu Yi and her companions to join the academy, and Bu Yi accepted on behalf of herself and her sisters Bu Liu and Bu Qi.
• The dean offered to take Bu Yi, Bu Liu, and Bu Qi to the Soul Hunting Forest near the Balak Kingdom so they could hunt for Soul Rings.

Bu Yi explained that she wanted to teach at Nuoding Academy for both the chance to spar with Zhou Qing and his companions and the security of a stable job. The chapter ended with Zhou Qing congratulating her as she prepared to join the academy.

• Xiao Wu guessed that Bu Yi wanted to teach at Nuoding Academy so she could spar with Zhou Qing and the others.
• Bu Yi said she hoped to spar with them and noted that Dai Mubai might oppose their joining the Star Luo Royal Academy Team.
• Qingzhu Zhu realized Zhou Qing, Tang San, and Xiao Wu had caused Dai Mubai's swollen face.
• Bu Yi explained that, at twenty-eight and nearing the limits of her cultivation, she wanted stable work for herself and her sisters.
• Zhou Qing congratulated Bu Yi on becoming a Nuoding Academy teacher.

Team Eighteen refused to heal Team Thirty, escalating tensions before their battle. Zhou Qing assessed the injured opponents and assigned matchups, leaving Team Eighteen ready to fight as the preparation period began.

• Team Thirty's captain demanded treatment from Team Eighteen, but Zhou Qing refused, and the captain threatened them.
• Xiao Wu cursed at Team Thirty, prompting Zhong Dingxiu to warn both teams against insults and killing.
• Zhou Qing assessed Team Thirty's fast White Wolf Soul Elder and asked Qingzhu Zhu whether she could interfere safely; she confidently agreed.
• Tang San planned to target the injured Soul Grandmasters with Gold Soul Coins to worsen their wounds.
• Zhou Qing judged that Team Thirty's injured Swallow Soul Master was weakened and asked Wang Sheng to fight him; Wang Sheng accepted.

Zhou Qing and his companions began their arena battle while concealing their Martial Soul abilities, and Qingzhu Zhu used her acceleration skill to strike Team Thirty's captain. Watching from the sidelines, Dai Mubai misread Zhu Zhuqing's choices as a sign she planned to flee with Zhou Qing and grew furious at the thought of his fiancée with another man.

• Zhou Qing assigned Mo Hen to handle the injured Soul Masters and support Wang Sheng, while he planned to face Team Thirty's captain with help from Xiao Wu and Romantina.
• Zhou Qing claimed that experimenting with Martial Soul Fusion Skills had caused problems with his and his companions' Martial Souls, and Mo Hen warned them against attempting such experiments alone.
• When Zhong Dingxiu started the battle, Tang San charged using Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, while Qingzhu Zhu used Netherworld Swift Shadow to rush Team Thirty's formation and strike its captain.
• Dai Weisi learned from Zhu Zhuyun that Qingzhu Zhu's first Soul Skill increased her speed, and he questioned why she had chosen an acceleration skill for her Hell Spirit Cat Martial Soul.
• Dai Mubai watched Qingzhu Zhu fight and became convinced that Zhu Zhuqing had chosen an acceleration skill because she meant to escape with Zhou Qing, which made him angry.

Zhou Qing used a powerful strike to knock out the Team Thirty Captain, prompting Zhong Dingxiu to eliminate him and defend Team 18 from accusations of favoritism. The remaining fighters continued, while Dai Mubai remained furious over Zhu Zhuqing's speed-focused First Soul Skill.

• Dai Mubai interpreted Zhu Zhuqing's speed-boosting First Soul Skill as her abandoning their shared fate, while Zhu Zhuqing ignored him and disrupted Team Thirty's fighters.
• Romantina used Spiritual Impact to stagger the Team Thirty Captain, then collapsed from the strain.
• Zhou Qing struck the Team Thirty Captain with his Yongchun technique, sending him toward Zhong Dingxiu and revealing a burst of immense power.
• Zhong Dingxiu protected the Team Thirty Captain from the strike, declared him eliminated, and warned the crowd against accusing him of favoring Team 18.
• The Team Thirty Captain protested, but Zhong Dingxiu blasted him into the crowd; the man later returned and knelt to thank him.
• Xiao Wu mocked the Team Thirty Captain, and Zhou Qing told her not to provoke him.

Team 18 won the match, and Tang San received the Crescent Bracelet while Zhou Qing took charge of the team’s prize money. The Star Luo Royal Academy team invited the winners to challenge its students, but they refused, and Dai Mubai confronted Zhu Zhuqing as she prepared to leave.

• Team 18 defeated Team Thirty, and Tang San accepted the Crescent Bracelet containing The Moon Shines Brightly in the Twelve Towers.
• Tang San gave Zhou Qing the Gray Pouch and agreed that Zhou Qing would distribute the Gold Soul Coins and provide an itemized account.
• Zhong Dingxiu invited Team 18 to challenge Star Luo Royal Academy’s students, but Mo Hen, Wang Sheng, Zhou Qing, Tang San, Romantina, and Xiao Wu declined.
• Dai Mubai stopped Qingzhu Zhu after the spectators dispersed and asked why she had come, while Dai Weisi invited her to travel with them to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

Qingzhu Zhu chose to leave Nuoding City with Mother Zhu and the Star Luo Royal Academy Team, while Zhou Qing encouraged her to confront Dai Mubai and pursue freedom. After Mo Hen learned of her background and her Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Zhou Qing, he compared their relationship to a romance novel, and Zhou Qing reflected on the tangled ways love and social status shaped Soul Masters’ lives.

• Qingzhu Zhu declined Dai Weisi’s offer and said she would return to Star Luo City with Mother Zhu.
• Zhou Qing suggested that Qingzhu Zhu leave with the Star Luo Royal Academy Team, and she decided to face Dai Mubai rather than keep avoiding him.
• Dai Weisi wondered why Qingzhu Zhu listened to Zhou Qing, while Zhu Zhuyun concealed that they shared a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Mo Hen led the group away from Nuoding Plaza and asked Zhou Qing if his connection with Qingzhu Zhu was a real-life version of Commoner and Noble Love.
• Zhou Qing considered how unequal status and strength could twist love, recalling Bibi Dong, Yu Xiaogang, and Liu Erlong.

Zhou Qing divided the tournament prize among the group and celebrated their victory at a banquet hosted by City Lord Xiao. There, the group noticed Dales and questioned why he had remained in Nuoding City.

• Zhou Qing warned himself not to pursue Qingzhu Zhu and joked to Mo Hen that he was only six.
• At the Nuoding Money House, Zhou Qing divided 240,000 Gold Soul Coins into six shares and gave Wang Sheng a Soul Card containing his 40,000-coin payment.
• The Lord of Nuoding and the vice city lord brought Zhou Qing and his companions to Xiao Manor for a victory banquet, where City Lord Xiao praised Mo Hen and pulled him aside to discuss Xiao Chenyu.
• Zhou Qing and Tang San spotted Dales at the banquet, and Xiao Wu called Xiao Chenyu, Liu Long, and Ling Feng over to ask why Dales had not escorted the Star Luo Royal Academy Team out of Nuoding City.

At Xiao Manor’s banquet, City Lord Xiao and Dales announced a Friendly Tournament to be held every three years, with prizes and tuition support for eligible champions. Zhou Qing saw the plan as a bid for investment and influence, while recognizing how much freedom the two city lords had to pursue it.

• Xiao Chenyu told Xiao Wu and Zhou Qing that Dales had mentioned a friendly gathering and making connections with City Lord Xiao.
• Xiao Wu criticized Dales, and Xiao Chenyu, Liu Long, and Ling Feng hurried away after she dismissed them.
• Zhou Qing told Romantina that the other nobles likely did not know her, leaving her dejected.
• City Lord Xiao and Dales announced a triennial Friendly Tournament, with generous prizes and tuition subsidies for champion team members of the appropriate age.
• Dales proposed expanding the tournament to nearby cities, building competition venues, and earning income, while Zhou Qing suspected the plan also served the city lords’ ambitions.

After the Soul Bone uproar, Zhou Qing criticized City Lord Xiao's new tournament plan before the Star Luo Royal Academy Team traveled to Heaven Dou Royal Academy for a friendly match. The Star Luo team quickly defeated Yu Tianheng's substitutes, who mistook their lack of coordination for flawless teamwork.

• Zhou Qing warned Wang Sheng that City Lord Xiao's tournament plan showed he enjoyed gambling with the city's stability.
• Xiao Lang and Dales agreed to a partnership, and the banquet ended.
• Four days after leaving Nuoding City, Dai Weisi's Star Luo Royal Academy Team arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and met the Education Commissioners and Yu Tianheng's substitute team.
• Meng Shenji questioned Zhong Dingxiu about the Star Luo team's youth and its direct entry to the tournament Finals, and Zhong Dingxiu defended the privilege.
• The Star Luo team fought without communicating or coordinating, but defeated Yu Tianheng's substitutes in barely three minutes.
• Yu Tianheng lay defeated and concluded that the Star Luo team's coordination was terrifying, believing he had failed to make Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

After the Star Luo Royal Academy Team defeated Yu Tianheng’s team, Meng Shenji suspected a hidden spirit-system Soul Master had enabled their coordination, while Zhong Dingxiu kept the team’s secret. Zhou Qing, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Romantina returned to their individual training and research, with Romantina making progress in cultivation and exploring spiritual illusions.

• Meng Shenji suspected a Star Luo Royal Academy Team member had used an undetectable spiritual skill to coordinate the team, and Zhong Dingxiu challenged Heaven Dou Royal Academy to uncover the secret.
• Zhou Qing studied in the libraries, researched vibrations and Bloodline Power, led students in Broadcast Gymnastics, and observed nature while considering his next Soul Ring attribute.
• Tang San spent most of his time in the Forge Workshop researching Soul Tool Core Formations and forging a special weapon, postponing his Martial Soul Fusion Skill research with Zhou Qing.
• Xiao Wu refereed student sparring at Nuoding Academy’s new arena, where she stopped heated fights by beating both opponents and fostering mutual camaraderie.
• Romantina improved her cultivation by calming her mind and meditating with help from the Spiritual Power Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, while experimenting with Spiritual Detection to create immersive illusions.

Zhou Qing studied Bu Yi’s Elemental Fox transformation to understand the principles of Martial Soul Evolution and how his own Blood Circulation System might evolve. After hearing his theory, Bu Yi recognized his unusual insight and called him a Theoretical Grandmaster of Martial Soul cultivation.

• Xiao Wu told Zhou Qing that Bu Yi’s Martial Soul had transformed into an Elemental Fire Fox after she obtained her Third Spirit Ring.
• Zhou Qing explained his theory that Martial Souls grew toward adulthood and could break their limits through evolution, and he hoped to master that process himself.
• Zhou Qing found Bu Yi sparring with Bu Er, Bu San, and Bu Si, and saw the flames produced by her transformed Martial Soul.
• Zhou Qing asked Bu Yi about absorbing her Third Spirit Ring, while Bu Yi and Xiao Wu teased him.
• Zhou Qing told Bu Yi that he wanted to study her Martial Soul’s transformation, and Bu Yi praised him as a Theoretical Grandmaster of Martial Soul cultivation.

Bu Yi described how absorbing her Third Spirit Ring differed from her first two, leading Zhou Qing to consider how a Martial Soul could draw Soul Ring energy directly and change the absorption process. The chapter left her explaining that the ring had settled around her Martial Soul and been absorbed painlessly in only three minutes.

• Bu Yi questioned whether Zhou Qing's Martial Soul was a brain, and he explained how Tool and Beast Martial Souls developed as their Soul Masters grew.
• Zhou Qing reflected on Xiao Wu's unusual Martial Soul Avatar and wondered whether her bloodline affected the changes from Secondary Soul Ring Refinement.
• Bu Yi entered Martial Soul Possession and described how the Third Spirit Ring's energy had entered her Martial Soul differently from the energy of her first two rings.
• Zhou Qing explained how Soul Ring energy normally entered a Soul Master's body and considered whether controlling that energy could make powerful rings easier to absorb.
• Bu Yi said her Third Spirit Ring had been absorbed completely in three minutes, without pain or energy passing through her Martial Soul into her body.

After Bu Yi absorbed her third soul ring in minutes, she described energy forming a core within her martial soul and changing its form and attributes. Zhou Qing wondered whether bloodline inheritance formed the basis of martial souls, while Xiao Wu revealed that her parents had researched changing bloodlines by refining special substances.

• Bu Yi absorbed her third soul ring in less than three minutes, with its excess energy entering a core within her martial soul.
• Zhou Qing reasoned that martial souls might be inherited through genetic material and that bloodline factors could form their true core.
• Bu Yi explained that the ring energy circulated through her martial soul, gathered into a core, and then spread to transform it.
• Xiao Wu compared the process to Soul Beasts refining special ores or herbs to alter their bloodlines and said her parents had researched it.
• Zhou Qing asked Xiao Wu how bloodlines could be altered, and she explained that Soul Beasts refined special substances with Soul Power.
• Xiao Wu confirmed that she had a father, and Zhou Qing recalled that he had entered the core region of the Star Dou Great Forest and never returned.