Chapter Summaries

Ye Wen confronted Tang San after Tang San threw away the medicine he had prepared for a sick man. Ye Wen explained that the patient had consented to trying his carefully tested remedy, leaving Tang San with no grounds to stop him.

• Tang San accused Ye Wen of experimenting on the patient and threw away Ye Wen’s medicine.
• Ye Wen settled the patient back on the bed and began brewing a fresh batch of herbs.
• Ye Wen asked Tang San how many powerful Soul Masters would use their Soul Power to treat an ordinary sick person, and Tang San could not answer.
• Ye Wen admitted that he was testing the medicine, but explained that the patient had agreed and had little chance of receiving other treatment.
• Ye Wen told Tang San the remedy had been repeatedly tested as a cold medicine and would not kill the patient, leaving Tang San unable to object.

After Tang San left Ye Wen, Huo Yu'er arrived and confronted him for causing trouble for her boyfriend. The two Soul Grandmasters began fighting, with Tang San hoping to defeat her and claim authority at the academy.

• Tang San warned Ye Wen that he would watch him and left, while Xiao Wu followed him to his dilapidated home.
• Xiao Wu wondered why Tang San lived in such poor conditions, and Tang San hurriedly began cleaning the house for her.
• Huo Yu'er arrived, and Xiao Wu greeted her affectionately before Huo Yu'er asked Tang San whether he had caused trouble for Ye Wen.
• Huo Yu'er challenged Tang San for insulting Ye Wen, and both revealed their two yellow Soul Rings.
• Huo Yu'er punched at Tang San as he activated the Purple Demon Eye and resolved to defeat her and become the academy's new boss.

Tang San challenged Huo Yu'er and was decisively beaten despite using his Soul Skill and hidden weapons. He ended the chapter injured in his ruined home, while Xiao Wu went to stay at Ye Wen's house and Tang San wept alone.

• Tang San tried to bind Huo Yu'er with his First Soul Skill, but her vision-interfering ability let her strike him instead.
• Tang San relied on his hearing and unleashed hidden weapons, but Huo Yu'er dodged them and wounded him with one of his own knives.
• Tang San launched a larger hidden-weapon barrage, but Huo Yu'er blocked it with shields from her Storage Soul Tool.
• Huo Yu'er smashed Tang San with a shield and continued beating him after he stubbornly tried to fight back.
• Xiao Wu left to stay at Ye Wen's house, and Tang San cried alone in his ruined home, unable to understand his defeat.

After reaching Soul Grandmaster, Ye Wen awakened the wind element and began reconsidering his plans for his Second Soul Ring. He concluded that Nana’s martial soul might be connected to the Silver Dragon King and decided his next Soul Beast had to be at least a Sub-Dragon.

• Tang San recovered from his injuries and returned to the academy to seek extra training from Yu Xiaogang.
• Ye Wen hired people to handle market promotion and used Armament with Nana’s martial soul to accelerate his cultivation.
• Ye Wen reached level twenty and discovered he could manipulate the wind element.
• Ye Wen reasoned that his Second Soul Ring’s attribute must not conflict with Nana’s martial soul and considered choosing a wind-attributed Soul Beast.
• Ye Wen suspected Nana’s martial soul had the potential of a Silver Dragon and decided he needed to hunt at least a Sub-Dragon for his Second Soul Ring.

Ye Wen and Huo Yu'er visited Huo Rui to ask for help finding a six- or seven-hundred-year-old wind-attributed Sub-Dragon Soul Beast for Ye Wen's Second Soul Ring. Huo Rui agreed to search through her connections and planned to take them hunting in a couple of days.

• Ye Wen decided he needed help finding a dangerous Sub-Dragon Soul Beast and asked Huo Yu'er to approach Huo Rui.
• Ye Wen and Huo Yu'er arrived at the Huo Residence and saw Huo Rui training with two enormous iron weights.
• Huo Yu'er told Huo Rui that Ye Wen needed a wind-attributed Sub-Dragon Soul Beast, and Huo Rui promised to ask her friends about its whereabouts.
• Huo Rui invited Ye Wen and Huo Yu'er to stay with her until she could arrange the hunt.
• Ye Wen reflected that Huo Rui had refused Heaven Dou's offer of office but remained willing to fight if war broke out with Star Luo.

Ye Wen, Huo Yu'er, and Huo Rui traveled to the Great Star Dou Forest, but a stop in a remote city turned into a clash with the City Lord’s son and his guards. After revealing her Soul Douluo strength, Huo Rui considered asking Crown Prince Xue Qinghe to deal with the city’s corrupt officials.

• Ye Wen and his group set out for the Great Star Dou Forest without Huo Yu'er's parents, while Huo Rui used her connections to locate Soul Beasts for them.
• In a secluded city, the City Lord’s son insulted Huo Rui and threatened her, so she slapped him and sent him crashing through several walls.
• The city guards arrived and demanded that Huo Rui surrender, but she released her Soul Power and revealed her Soul Douluo cultivation.
• The Soul King leading the guards recognized Huo Rui’s strength, dismissed his Martial Soul, and knelt to apologize.
• Huo Rui condemned the gathered Soul Masters as filthy and considered writing to Crown Prince Xue Qinghe to address the city’s corrupt officials.

Huo Rui confronted the local City Lord after his son insulted her, then demanded money and two treasures as compensation. Ye Wen helped shape her demands and searched the family treasury for Soul Tools, while Huo Yu'er let him choose everything.

• The City Lord arrived, recognized Huo Rui as Earl Tianxin, and apologized for his son's behavior.
• Ye Wen whispered to Huo Rui, who demanded one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins and the right to choose two treasures from the family treasury.
• The City Lord agreed to the compensation and led Huo Rui's group to the treasury, secretly believing Ye Wen had caused the extra demand.
• Huo Rui found little of interest and let Ye Wen and Huo Yu'er choose treasures, but Huo Yu'er gave Ye Wen her share.
• Ye Wen promised to find Huo Yu'er better treasures when he grew stronger, leaving the City Lord impatiently enduring their affectionate exchange.

Ye Wen’s group entered the Great Star Dou Forest to hunt a Soul Beast, and Huo Yu’er used her scouting skill to locate a rare Four-Winged Sky Soaring Dragon. Huo Rui went to capture it so Ye Wen could judge its age, while Ye Wen and Huo Yu’er remained on guard.

• Ye Wen chose two Storage Soul Tools from the City Lord’s treasures, and his group traveled on without further noble interference.
• At a mountain in the Great Star Dou Forest, Ye Wen asked Huo Yu’er to scout with her Second Soul Skill, Eagle Eye.
• Huo Yu’er spotted a cyan, four-winged creature that Ye Wen identified as the rare Four-Winged Sky Soaring Dragon.
• Huo Yu’er could not count the creature’s Reverse Scales, so Huo Rui asked her for its location and sped off to inspect it.
• Ye Wen and Huo Yu’er joked briefly, then resumed watching their surroundings while Huo Rui pursued the Soul Beast.

Ye Wen and Huo Yu'er were ambushed by a pack of Wind Baboons while waiting for Huo Rui to return. They fought to hold out until help arrived, and Ye Wen killed the pack leader with his transforming armor.

• Huo Yu'er used her Second Soul Skill to check for nearby threats, while Ye Wen urged caution and looked for cover.
• Ye Wen spotted a Wind Baboon preparing to ambush them, summoned Nana's Martial Soul, and pulled Huo Yu'er clear of its wind blades.
• A pack of Wind Baboons surrounded them, so Ye Wen and Huo Yu'er prepared to fight until Huo Rui returned.
• Ye Wen fought the Wind Baboons with twin blades while Huo Yu'er shot them with her bow, killing many of the pack.
• The Wind Baboon leader charged Ye Wen, who blocked its attack and pierced its heart with a spike formed from his armor.

Ye Wen fought off the Wind Baboons to protect Huo Yu'er, then collapsed from exhaustion. After Huo Rui arrived and accepted him as Huo Yu'er's future husband, Ye Wen woke and eagerly checked the Four-Winged Sky Soaring Dragon's age for a suitable Soul Ring.

• Ye Wen fought the Wind Baboons while Huo Yu'er disrupted their attacks, and he kept her unharmed despite losing his weapons and Armament.
• The Wind Baboons fled, and Ye Wen collapsed after realizing Huo Yu'er was safe; Huo Yu'er caught him and tended his wounds.
• Huo Rui arrived, found Huo Yu'er unharmed, and accepted Ye Wen as her granddaughter's husband after seeing how he had protected her.
• Ye Wen woke, accepted Huo Rui's apology, and hurried to inspect the Four-Winged Sky Soaring Dragon's Reverse Scales to estimate its age.

Huo Rui brought the injured Ye Wen and the captured Four-Winged Sky Soaring Dragon to Soul Hunting Town, where her Soul Douluo strength kept greedy Soul Masters at bay. After recovering, Ye Wen absorbed his Second Soul Ring and reached level twenty-three before Huo Rui asked what Soul Skill he had obtained.

• Huo Rui carried the captured Four-Winged Sky Soaring Dragon and took Ye Wen and the others to Soul Hunting Town, where she frightened off Soul Masters who tried to steal it.
• Huo Rui found a healer for Ye Wen, and the group ate at a high-end restaurant while she kept the Soul Beast subdued.
• The next day, Ye Wen used Armament and absorbed the Four-Winged Sky Soaring Dragon's Soul Ring under Huo Rui and Huo Yu'er's watch.
• Ye Wen's Soul Power rose from level twenty to level twenty-three, and Huo Rui asked what Soul Skill he had obtained.

Ye Wen explained his Wind Element Control Soul Skill, returned to Nuoding Academy, and resumed his life there with Huo Yu'er. Meanwhile, Tang San trained obsessively under Yu Xiaogang's new plan to win Xiao Wu's attention by rescuing her from danger.

• Ye Wen told Huo Rui that his new Soul Skill let him control wind elements, and Huo Rui praised its potential.
• Ye Wen and his companions returned to Nuoding City, where Ye Wen and Huo Yu'er stayed at Nuoding Academy despite being eligible to graduate.
• Ye Wen accepted a medical text from local nobles and wondered why Xiao Wu had begun watching him, but Xiao Wu ran off when he questioned her.
• Ye Wen noticed Tang San cultivating intensely and keeping his distance from Xiao Wu, unaware that Huo Yu'er had humiliated him in front of her.
• Yu Xiaogang advised Tang San to become stronger and stage a heroic rescue to regain Xiao Wu's admiration.

Xiao Wu worried about staying close to Huo Yu'er and Ye Wen so she could continue cultivating around humans, while rejecting the idea of relying on Tang San. After Bu Le tried to lure her away, Xiao Wu drugged him, but Huo Yu'er intervened and pinned him down with arrows.

• Xiao Wu considered which academy Huo Yu'er and Ye Wen would attend and dismissed Tang San as a cultivation partner because she distrusted his motives and wanted to avenge her mother.
• Bu Le called to Xiao Wu in an alley and offered to take her to see goldfish.
• Xiao Wu pretended to be an innocent child, gave Bu Le a sedative-laced lollipop, and prepared to subdue him.
• Huo Yu'er shot arrows into Bu Le's limbs before Xiao Wu could use her Eight-Stage Drop.
• Xiao Wu acted frightened and clung to Huo Yu'er, who comforted her and said she would handle Bu Le.

Huo Yu'er attacked Bu Le for preying on girls and, after disabling him with arrows, made Xiao Wu deliver the final shot. The chapter left Xiao Wu implicated in Bu Le's death and bound more closely to Huo Yu'er.

• Huo Yu'er confronted Bu Le and aimed an arrow at his head, while Xiao Wu asked how she would deal with him.
• Bu Le summoned his martial soul and Soul Rings, but Huo Yu'er pierced his defensive Soul Skill and shot him repeatedly, leaving him helpless.
• Bu Le begged Huo Yu'er to spare him, but she continued firing until he was incapacitated.
• Huo Yu'er stopped before killing Bu Le and told Xiao Wu she could no longer let her go after she had witnessed her actions.
• Huo Yu'er guided Xiao Wu to draw the bow and kill Bu Le, pulling her into the crime with her.

Qian Renxue, disguised as Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, received a letter from Huo Rui describing nobles abusing a civilian and decided to intervene. She planned to use the trip to escape her duties and try to recruit Huo Rui, while Huo Rui remained unaware that her letter would draw her into a conflict with the nobles.

• Qian Renxue complained about her exhausting undercover mission after spending another day handling imperial affairs.
• A confidant delivered Qian Renxue a letter from Huo Rui, the specially monitored Earl Tianxin.
• Qian Renxue read that nobles had abducted a civilian girl and tried to protect one another after being defeated.
• Qian Renxue decided to uphold justice, leave the Crown Prince's Residence, and use the opportunity to recruit Huo Rui.
• Huo Rui remained willing to support the Heaven Dou Imperial Family in its future struggle with the nobles, but planned to avoid risking her life.

Ye Wen traveled beyond Fanuosi Province to expand his medicine business, but spent his free time wandering and sampling local food. After hearing that two Soul Masters were harassing women, he lost his appetite and went to handle business, leaving his subordinates to arrange visits with local nobles.

• Ye Wen traveled outside Fanuosi Province with bodyguards to promote his medicines, feeling surprised that Huo Yu'er had not insisted on joining him.
• Ye Wen explored the new city alone and ordered a local snack, warning the stall owner not to add fish mint.
• Ye Wen enjoyed the fried bean curd skin until he overheard people discussing two Soul Masters who had been harassing women at night.
• Ye Wen paid for his food and went to expand his medicine sales by seeking cooperation with local nobles, leaving the tedious arrangements to his subordinates.

Qian Renxue confronted Marquis Pietro over corruption in his province, then sensed evil Soul Power and went to stop two men from attacking a woman. Ye Wen killed the attackers and, after Qian Renxue witnessed him, demanded that she swear to keep the incident secret.

• Ye Wen learned he had to wait three days to meet the province’s leading Soul Douluo family and planned to seek other allies if the meeting failed.
• Qian Renxue rebuked Pietro for his family’s abuses, and Pietro promised to investigate while privately dismissing her demands.
• After leaving Pietro’s residence, Qian Renxue sensed two evil Soul Power signatures and followed them to two men attacking a woman.
• Ye Wen used his Void skill to kill the two attackers before Qian Renxue could strike.
• Ye Wen appeared behind Qian Renxue and asked her to swear on her martial soul not to reveal what happened, while Snake Lance Douluo stopped Porcupine Fish Douluo from intervening.

Ye Wen threatened Qian Renxue into swearing not to reveal the killings, then realized she was disguised as Xue Qinghe. After searching the dead men, he found a forbidden cultivation booklet that Qian Renxue destroyed, leaving Ye Wen to accept her explanation.

• Ye Wen warned Qian Renxue that his Wind Blade could kill her before she used her Soul Power, and demanded that she swear to keep the incident secret.
• Qian Renxue discarded her sword and swore by her Swan Martial Soul not to tell anyone what had happened.
• Ye Wen withdrew his Soul Power, then realized that the person before him was Xue Qinghe and worried about her Titled Douluo guards.
• Ye Wen searched the corpses of E Kao and Tian Ya and found a booklet hidden in one man's clothes.
• Qian Renxue burned the booklet, explaining that it contained a forbidden technique used by Fallen Soul Masters, and Ye Wen pretended to accept her explanation.

Ye Wen kept watch over the unconscious woman he had rescued while Qian Renxue questioned him and tried to recruit him. He recognized her identity as Xue Qinghe, fled before she could learn more, and resolved to protect her in the future if he became strong enough.

• Ye Wen explained that he stayed near the unconscious woman to keep anyone else from harming her, while Qian Renxue became more interested in him.
• Qian Renxue asked Ye Wen about his age and origins, but he refused to reveal his personal information.
• Ye Wen recognized Qian Renxue's identity and escaped with Flash Step as the rescued woman began to wake.
• Qian Renxue let Ye Wen go and stopped Snake Lance and Pufferfish from pursuing him.
• Ye Wen confirmed that Qian Renxue had not sent anyone after him and vowed to protect her once he was powerful enough.

Ye Wen visited Pietro to expand his medicine business and unexpectedly met Qian Renxue, who became interested in his work helping poor commoners. After Pietro gave Ye Wen nearly all the profits and full support for his channels, Qian Renxue stopped him outside the mansion to talk, considering him a potential ally in achieving great things.

• Ye Wen arrived at the City Lord's Mansion and ran into Qian Renxue, then entered with her to meet Pietro.
• Qian Renxue listened as Ye Wen negotiated over low-cost medicines and was impressed that copper soul coins could help save lives.
• Pietro mistook Qian Renxue's favorable reaction for approval of his concessions and gave Ye Wen nearly all the profits and full support from his channels.
• Ye Wen tried to leave after concluding the deal, but a burly man stopped him on Qian Renxue's behalf.
• Qian Renxue emerged and asked Ye Wen to have a proper chat, seeing his work as a benevolent undertaking and considering recruiting him as an ally.