Chapter Summaries

Fang Xuan took Ye Lingling to the Noble Restaurant, where he feasted at her expense and attracted the jealousy of the students around them. When Long Aotian confronted him and demanded he stay away from Ye Lingling, Fang Xuan laughed at his name and asked whether he had a brother named Ye Liangchen.

• Fang Xuan entered the Noble Restaurant with Ye Lingling, drawing attention from students who recognized her.
• Fang Xuan ordered an extravagant meal, explaining that he had brought Ye Lingling there to fleece her, then devoured the food.
• Long Aotian approached and criticized Ye Lingling for spending time with Fang Xuan; Ye Lingling ignored him and briefly clung to Fang Xuan's arm.
• Long Aotian demanded that Fang Xuan stay away from Ye Lingling and introduced himself as the celebrated newcomer who had won nine arena championships.
• Fang Xuan laughed at Long Aotian's name and teased him by asking whether he had a brother named Ye Liangchen.

Fang Xuan defeated Long Aotian with one slash, took his money, and went with him to confront his older brother Ye Liangchen. The chapter ended as Fang Xuan declared he would take Ye Liangchen out before he could become a problem.

• Long Aotian challenged Fang Xuan to leave Ye Lingling alone, but Fang Xuan defeated him with one slash and badly damaged his Mountain-Splitting Axe Spirit.
• Fang Xuan demanded Long Aotian’s money and took his two hundred Gold Soul Coins.
• Fang Xuan recognized that Long Aotian wanted to summon his older brother and insisted on going with him to meet Ye Liangchen.
• Long Aotian brought Fang Xuan and Ye Lingling to the Intermediate Training Ground, where Ye Liangchen was cultivating with Heavenly Supreme Level students.
• Fang Xuan told Ye Liangchen that he had come to take him out before Ye Liangchen could cause trouble.

Fang Xuan defeated Ye Liangchen with one slash and forced him to hand over a thousand Gold Soul Coins. After leaving the Training Ground with Ye Lingling, Fang Xuan parted ways with her at a crossroads.

• Ye Liangchen ignored Long Aotian's warning, revealed his three Soul Rings, and challenged Fang Xuan with his Dark Demon Wolf Martial Soul.
• Fang Xuan unleashed his Ice Phoenix Martial Soul and Blade of Glacial Cold, defeating Ye Liangchen with a single slash.
• Fang Xuan threatened Ye Liangchen into handing over a thousand Gold Soul Coins, bringing his total with Long Aotian's money to twelve hundred.
• Fang Xuan and Ye Lingling left the Training Ground, and Ye Lingling said she would visit him before heading to the girls' dormitory.
• Fang Xuan complained about Ye Lingling as they parted at a crossroads in the main school area.

After realizing his blade technique lacked momentum, Fang Xuan decided he needed worthy opponents to develop his own intent. Dugu Yan challenged him to a match, and he eagerly accepted when she revealed her three Soul Rings.

• Fang Xuan trained at home for three days and realized his blade technique needed an unstoppable forward-driving spirit.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling visited Fang Xuan, but he shut and bolted the gate in their faces.
• Dugu Yan kicked open the gate and confronted Fang Xuan while he continued practicing.
• Dugu Yan challenged Fang Xuan to a match and released three Soul Rings, revealing she was a Soul Elder.
• Fang Xuan accepted the challenge with excitement.

Fang Xuan fought Dugu Yan, a powerful Level 34 Soul Elder, after tossing Ye Lingling out of the way when she tried to stop them. The battle boosted Fang Xuan’s Soul Power, but his blade tore Dugu Yan’s dress and exposed her waist.

• Dugu Yan announced her level and Jade Scale Snake Martial Soul, but Fang Xuan refused to give his name.
• Ye Lingling tried to stop the fight, and Fang Xuan lifted her by the collar and tossed her aside.
• Dugu Yan activated her First Soul Skill, Jade Scale Red Poison, and attacked Fang Xuan with a powerful punch.
• Fang Xuan drew his Shadowless Blade and fought Dugu Yan, gaining Soul Power as he repeatedly landed blade strikes.
• Fang Xuan cut through Dugu Yan’s dress, exposing her waist.

Fang Xuan defeated Dugu Yan after his Nine Heart Begonia blade dispersed her poison, then knocked her away when she attacked him again. Dugu Yan left with Ye Lingling, vowing to settle the score at the Genius Battle.

• Dugu Yan unleashed her Jade Scale Purple Poison at Fang Xuan, but he used the Nine Heart Begonia to disperse it.
• Fang Xuan broke through the poison and held his Shadowless Blade to Dugu Yan's neck, forcing her to concede defeat.
• Dugu Yan charged Fang Xuan again, and he struck her with a powerful punch that sent her crashing into a wall.
• Ye Lingling healed Dugu Yan, who threatened to defeat Fang Xuan at the Genius Battle and left with Ye Lingling.
• Fang Xuan watched them go and reflected on the Genius Battle.

Fang Xuan reached Level 22 and looked to the upcoming Genius Battle as a chance to break through his Blade Drawing Technique. At Heaven Dou Academy, Teacher Ruolan told him she had already submitted his failing grade, leaving him stunned.

• After half a month of cultivation, Fang Xuan broke through to Level 22, though his Blade Drawing Technique and Martial Soul progress remained slow.
• Fang Xuan decided that a life-or-death battle at Heaven Dou Academy's annual Genius Battle might help him overcome his Blade Drawing Technique bottleneck.
• Teacher Ruolan whipped Xue Beng for losing focus during class, then reminded the students that Heaven Dou Academy enforced its rules regardless of status.
• Fang Xuan asked Teacher Ruolan whether the assessment was that day, and she said she had already submitted his failing grade and he could go home.

Fang Xuan faced Heaven Dou Academy’s assessment and insisted he had reached Level 22 despite having no Soul Rings. Teacher Ruolan ordered him to fight Xue Beng to prove he deserved to stay, and Fang Xuan defeated him with a single strike of his Shadowless Blade.

• Teacher Ruolan teased Fang Xuan about already submitting an evaluation that would expel him, then asked him to release his Soul Rings during the assessment.
• Fang Xuan said he had no Soul Rings but had reached Level 22, and Teacher Ruolan accused him of lying.
• Teacher Ruolan ordered Xue Beng to fight Fang Xuan, making victory the condition for Fang Xuan to remain at Heaven Dou Academy.
• Xue Beng revealed his Level 23 Soul Power, Swan Spirit, and two yellow Soul Rings, then charged Fang Xuan and threatened him.
• Fang Xuan drew the Shadowless Blade and struck Xue Beng with the Blade Drawing Technique, sending him flying and leaving the crowd stunned.

Fang Xuan defeated Xue Beng, then threatened him with the Shadowless Blade until the Prince begged for mercy. He volunteered for the Genius Battle and declared that he intended to take first place.

• Fang Xuan defeated Xue Beng with one slash, stunning Teacher Ruolan and the other students.
• When Xue Beng insulted Fang Xuan and challenged him again, Fang Xuan held the Shadowless Blade to his throat and forced him to beg for his life.
• Teacher Ruolan sent two students to take Xue Beng to the infirmary and warned Fang Xuan that the Royal Family might retaliate.
• Fang Xuan asked to enter the Genius Battle, and Teacher Ruolan decided that everyone in her class would participate.
• When Teacher Ruolan asked what rank he hoped to achieve, Fang Xuan declared that he would take first place.

Fang Xuan arrived at the Genius Battle Preliminary Round and learned that the academy’s strongest students included Yu Tianheng, Chu Zhongtian, and Douglas. The round began as a timed grand melee in which contestants had to eliminate opponents until only fifty remained, and Fang Xuan looked forward to the fight.

• Ruolan accompanied Fang Xuan to the competition square and warned him about the Preliminary Round.
• Ruolan named Yu Tianheng, Chu Zhongtian, and Douglas as formidable academy students, and Fang Xuan memorized their names.
• Ruolan teased Fang Xuan with a promised first kiss if he won, but Fang Xuan insulted her and she left in anger.
• More than two hundred students gathered for the Preliminary Round as Fang Xuan waited for the competition to begin.
• The host announced a timed grand melee, with the fifty contestants still standing advancing and everyone being eliminated if more than fifty remained when time ran out.
• Fang Xuan welcomed the challenge and looked forward to the battle.

Fang Xuan entered the Preliminary Round and quickly defeated the formidable Lu Wushuang with one icy slash. As his name spread through Heaven Dou Academy, he returned to the fight to hone his Blade Drawing Technique.

• The Preliminary Round began, and the contestants unleashed their Martial Souls and fought to eliminate 150 opponents without killing anyone.
• Fang Xuan charged at Lu Wushuang, but paused when he heard Lu Wushuang was considered one of the strongest contestants.
• Lu Wushuang mocked Fang Xuan and attacked him in his wolf-like transformed state.
• Fang Xuan used his Ice Phoenix Martial Soul and Blade Drawing Technique to freeze Lu Wushuang and knock him unconscious with one slash.
• The contestants and teachers reacted in shock as Fang Xuan's reputation spread across Heaven Dou Academy.
• Fang Xuan returned to the densest part of the battlefield and continued using his blade to strengthen his technique.

Fang Xuan attacked Zhang Song and Lin Yali during the preliminary round and faced their Martial Soul Fusion Skill. He defeated them with his Saber Intent, leaving them unconscious as the contest continued.

• Fang Xuan swept through the contestants while the dwindling time forced them into a frenzy of attacks.
• Zhang Song and Lin Yali strolled through the square, confident that their strength and Martial Soul Fusion Skill would secure their qualification.
• Fang Xuan attacked the couple, but Zhang Song and Lin Yali joined their eagle and lark Martial Souls to block his strike.
• Zhang Song and Lin Yali unleashed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Heavenly Peng Thunder Break, against Fang Xuan.
• Fang Xuan countered with his frost-covered blade and Saber Intent, sending Zhang Song and Lin Yali crashing into opposite walls unconscious.

Fang Xuan survived the Genius Battle Preliminary Round, advancing among the final fifty contestants and discovering that each opponent he defeated rewarded him with Soul Power. As he headed home after the event, Yu Tianheng attacked him with a bolt of blue lightning.

• With seconds remaining, Fang Xuan knocked down three contestants and punched Daier, forcing the final number of contestants to fifty.
• The referee declared the Preliminary Round over and announced that all fifty contestants had advanced.
• Fang Xuan checked his attributes and realized that every opponent he defeated granted him one Soul Power Value.
• After hearing the rules for the next day's matches, Fang Xuan left the Square and headed toward the northern residential district.
• Yu Tianheng struck Fang Xuan with blue lightning, and Fang Xuan drew the Shadowless Blade to block the attack.
• Fang Xuan recognized Yu Tianheng as the young man who had confronted him.

Fang Xuan faced Yu Tianheng, who had come to avenge Dugu Yan but refused to fight him while he was exhausted. Fang Xuan then provoked Yu Tianheng by hinting at an intimate incident with Dugu Yan, leaving Yu Tianheng convinced he had been betrayed.

• Yu Tianheng confronted Fang Xuan over bullying Dugu Yan and challenged him to settle their grudge on the Competition Ground when Fang Xuan had recovered.
• Dugu Yan arrived with Ye Lingling and Daier and urged Yu Tianheng to punish Fang Xuan despite his condition.
• Fang Xuan pretended to apologize, then claimed Dugu Yan had thrown herself at him and implied that he had verified something about her.
• Yu Tianheng turned livid as Fang Xuan's remarks made him suspect that Dugu Yan had been unfaithful.

Fang Xuan fought Dugu Yan, Daier, and Ye Lingling after provoking them, while Yu Tianheng honored his promise not to join the battle. As the exhausted Fang Xuan struggled against the three girls, the onlookers branded him “Scumbag Fang.”

• Fang Xuan's taunts angered Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Daier, and the three girls attacked him together.
• Fang Xuan knocked Dugu Yan and Daier away, but Ye Lingling healed them with her Nine Heart Begonia.
• Dugu Yan called on Yu Tianheng to help, but he refused because he had promised not to attack Fang Xuan that day.
• The girls kept attacking as Fang Xuan's Soul Power dwindled, and Ye Lingling repeatedly healed her companions.
• When Fang Xuan tried to reason with them, Dugu Yan, Daier, and Ye Lingling accused him of touching, punching, and slashing them.
• The onlookers condemned Fang Xuan, who gained the nickname “Scumbag Fang.”

Fang Xuan escaped Dugu Yan and the other girls, only to be hunted across Heaven Dou Academy by hundreds of male students. After hiding in a cave and recovering his Soul Power, he prepared to raid the girls’ camp at night.

• Fang Xuan used Blade Drawing Technique—Glacial Cold to blind Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Daier, then fled to a stream behind Heaven Dou Academy.
• Fang Xuan hid in a tree as a group of Heaven Dou Class Soul Elders searched for him, then knocked a lecherous fatty senseless when the man rested beneath it.
• Fang Xuan escaped the Soul Elders, but they pursued him and attacked with their Martial Souls; he used a Blade Slash to send several of them flying before continuing to run.
• More than four hundred male students hunted Fang Xuan around the academy until he hid in a secluded cave late at night.
• Fang Xuan meditated to restore his Soul Power and planned to raid Dugu Yan’s camp once he had recovered.

Fang Xuan broke into the girls' dormitory to take revenge on Dugu Yan, abducting her after knocking her unconscious. He escaped with her after fighting off the other girls in the room.

• Fang Xuan sneaked into dormitory number 09 and found Dugu Yan asleep among three other girls.
• Fang Xuan covered Dugu Yan with a sack, but she woke and struggled before he froze the sack and knocked her out.
• A long-legged girl woke and confronted Fang Xuan, so he punched her and knocked her unconscious.
• The other two girls attacked Fang Xuan, who defeated them with his Shadowless Blade and Soul Power.
• Fang Xuan fled the dormitory carrying Dugu Yan.

Fang Xuan frightened Dugu Yan until she fainted, then encountered her grandfather, Dugu Bo, in the forest. Dugu Bo attacked Fang Xuan for bullying his granddaughter, leaving him badly injured and his fate unknown.

• Fang Xuan terrorized the bound Dugu Yan with threats of eating her until she fainted from fright.
• Fang Xuan left Dugu Yan by the waterfall and headed through the forest toward the main campus.
• Dugu Bo appeared and confronted Fang Xuan, accusing him of bullying his granddaughter.
• Dugu Bo released his nine Soul Rings and struck Fang Xuan, sending him crashing through trees and into a rock, badly wounded.

Fang Xuan recovered from his injuries in Dugu Bo’s cave, then realized he could seize Tang San’s opportunity by using the knowledge he possessed. He threatened Dugu Bo with the claim that they would both die if Fang Xuan did.

• Fang Xuan woke in a cave with severe injuries and found that Dugu Bo was nowhere in sight.
• Fang Xuan used Blade of Healing and the Nine Heart Begonia to restore his body completely.
• Dugu Bo revealed that he had been watching Fang Xuan and said he planned to study his secrets before killing him.
• Fang Xuan remembered that Dugu Bo’s poison nest was connected to Tang San’s opportunity and decided the crisis could become a stroke of fortune.
• Fang Xuan warned Dugu Bo that they would both die if he died, making Dugu Bo react with anger.

Fang Xuan exposed Dugu Bo’s deadly poison symptoms and warned that Dugu Yan was in even greater danger, then claimed he could cure them. Dugu Bo seized on the promise, leaving Fang Xuan poised to win his trust.

• Dugu Bo slapped Fang Xuan away and threatened to kill him for trying to intimidate a Titled Douluo.
• Fang Xuan described Dugu Bo’s recurring symptoms and said his poison was harming him, shocking Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Bo attacked Fang Xuan with his Killing Intent, but Fang Xuan resisted it with his ice power.
• Fang Xuan warned Dugu Bo that Dugu Yan’s inherited poison could kill her within two years, and Dugu Bo reacted with anguish.
• Fang Xuan claimed he could cure both of them, and Dugu Bo grabbed his shoulders in a mix of hope and suspicion.