Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yun finalized plans with Qian Renxue, accepted Liu Erlong’s request for a small Spirit Gathering Array at Blue Tyrant Academy, and visited Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where he watched Ning Rongrong defeat a disciple in a sword challenge.

• Qian Renxue agreed to prepare the arrangements and finalize the retreat route within half a month, while Xiao Yun dismantled the array and left the Crown Prince’s Mansion.
• Liu Erlong asked Xiao Yun to set up a ten-person Spirit Gathering Array at Blue Tyrant Academy, and he agreed to prepare its materials and inspect a location.
• Xiao Yun left for Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect after breakfast the next morning.
• At the sect, Xiao Yun saw Ning Rongrong face an inner sect disciple who challenged her right to be a core inner sect disciple.
• Ning Rongrong disarmed the disciple with a wrist hold and kicked him backward.

Ning Rongrong demonstrated her combat skills by defeating two inner disciples, then joined Xiao Yun and Ning Fengzhi in the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Hall. Xiao Yun presented a Brocade Breakthrough Pill, which Ning Rongrong declined in favor of her brother because her Martial Soul had already evolved into an Eight Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda.

• Ning Rongrong defeated a Battle Soul Sect disciple without releasing her Martial Soul and challenged the watching disciples to fight her.
• Two young men attacked Ning Rongrong together, but she redirected their spirit skills and caused them to collide, leaving them severely injured.
• Ning Rongrong spotted Xiao Yun, greeted him respectfully, and accompanied Ning Fengzhi as he led Xiao Yun to the inner hall.
• Xiao Yun presented Ning Fengzhi with a jade box containing a Brocade Breakthrough Pill.
• Ning Fengzhi offered the pill to Ning Rongrong, but she showed her Eight Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda and asked him to save it for her brother.

Ning Fengzhi introduced Xiao Yun to his son Ning Yuntian and daughter-in-law Liu Hanxiang, who received Soul Emperor Replenishing Pills as a New Year's gift. After the luncheon, Xiao Yun left the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with Ning Rongrong, and Ning Fengzhi watched their carriage depart.

• Ning Fengzhi introduced Ning Yuntian and Liu Hanxiang to Xiao Yun during the luncheon.
• Xiao Yun gave Ning Yuntian and Liu Hanxiang a bottle of Soul Emperor Replenishing Pills, which they later discovered contained ten pills.
• Ning Yuntian and Liu Hanxiang hid the pills and discussed cultivating toward Soul Saint level and searching for immortal herbs.
• Ning Fengzhi and Xiao Yun discussed the medicinal herbs trade and other matters after the luncheon.
• Ning Rongrong returned with Xiao Yun, and Ning Fengzhi personally saw them off as their carriage left the sect.

Xiao Yun spent the evening refining pills, then visited Dugu Bo on New Year’s Day and gave him a flying sword called Jade Scale. The chapter ended as Dugu Bo completed the sword’s master-recognition ritual.

• Xiao Yun returned to the manor, refined several batches of pills, and sorted them for his upcoming visits and trip.
• Tang Yuehua invited Xiao Yun to spend the night with her in the Winter Solstice Courtyard.
• Liu Erlong served Xiao Yun breakfast the next morning before he left for Dugu Manor.
• Dugu Yan greeted Xiao Yun warmly, and he presented Dugu Bo with a New Year’s gift.
• Xiao Yun explained Jade Scale’s functions and guided Dugu Bo through recognizing the flying sword as his master.

Dugu Bo tested the Jade Scale flying sword Xiao Yu had given him and accepted Xiao Yun’s relationship with Dugu Yan, while Xiao Yun advised him on cultivating the Eight Extraordinary Meridians. Dugu Yan left with Xiao Yun and spent the evening with him at the Minor Heat Courtyard.

• Dugu Bo learned to control the Jade Scale sword and tested its poison abilities and adjustable size.
• Dugu Bo told Xiao Yun he would not interfere in the young people’s affairs, as long as Xiao Yun did not mistreat Dugu Yan.
• Xiao Yun advised Dugu Bo to finish opening the Eight Extraordinary Meridians before attempting the sword’s Flight Ability, then explained the remaining meridian barriers.
• Dugu Bo invited Xiao Yun and Dugu Yan to lunch and let Dugu Yan return with Xiao Yun for a few days.
• Dugu Yan cooked dinner at the Minor Heat Courtyard, then cultivated in its Spirit Gathering Cultivation Room before Xiao Yun carried her to the bedroom.

Xiao Yun visited Vincent Fan Hosen and Fenghua Courtyard Suimen, then guided Xivia through a swordsmanship challenge at Years Manor. He ended the challenge by carrying Xivia away after helping her learn to follow the flow of her sword.

• Xiao Yun visited Vincent Fan Hosen's residence, gave the family gifts, and taught Alice the Jade Maiden Sword Technique.
• Xiao Yun left with Xivia, then visited Fenghua Courtyard Suimen and departed with Shenghua after giving the minister Soul King-level Soul Replenishing Pills.
• After returning to Years Manor, Xivia and Shenghua cultivated in their courtyards, and Xivia later challenged Xiao Yun to guide her swordsmanship.
• Xiao Yun used a peach branch to deflect Xivia's attacks and corrected her shoulder, waist, and balance.
• Xiao Yun guided Xivia's movements until her sword strokes flowed more naturally, then ended the challenge and scooped her into his arms.

Xiao Yun offered to help Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s three education committee members compress their Soul Power and began with Meng Shenji. He successfully stabilized a denser Soul Power Core for Meng Shenji, leaving the result of the compression to be assessed.

• Xiao Yun took Xivia to the Hall of Time, bathed her, and spent the night with her.
• On the sixth day of the new year, Xiao Yun visited Heaven Dou Royal Academy and gave Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhi Lin Soul Replenishing Pills.
• Xiao Yun discussed the academy’s new students with the committee members before explaining ways Soul Douluo could compress their Soul Power.
• Xiao Yun offered to help the three committee members complete a Soul Power compression, and Meng Shenji volunteered to go first.
• Xiao Yun used his Spiritual Power to compress Meng Shenji’s Soul Power Core until it stabilized, then withdrew his Spiritual Power.

Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhi Lin each received Xiao Yun’s help in advancing their cultivation, and Meng Shenji asked Xiao Yun to consider taking Ye Lingling into Years Manor. After leaving the academy, Xiao Yun walked through Heaven Dou City and observed its districts from the imperial palace in the north to the southern city gate.

• Meng Shenji confirmed that Xiao Yun’s method had helped him break through to level eighty-seven.
• Xiao Yun helped Bai Baoshan and Zhi Lin compress their Soul Power, and Bai Baoshan confirmed that he had risen one level.
• During lunch, Meng Shenji asked Xiao Yun to accept Ye Lingling into Years Manor in exchange for two ten-thousand-year spirit herbs, and Xiao Yun said he would discuss it with the manor’s residents.
• Xiao Yun told Meng Shenji that Ye Lingling would have to serve him for a long time if she joined the manor, and Meng Shenji agreed to relay the condition to her and her grandmother.
• After leaving the education committee, Xiao Yun walked through Heaven Dou City and followed Heaven Dou Avenue south through its districts toward the city gate.

Xiao Yun considered why Evil Spirit Masters had become rampant after Spirit Hall and the City of Slaughter disappeared, and speculated that Tang San had exploited the crisis. He decided to forge a Human Emperor Banner before visiting the City of Slaughter and resolved to hunt the Deep Sea Demon Whale Emperor for its hide.

• Xiao Yun recalled how Spirit Hall had maintained balance by awakening commoners' Martial Souls and suppressing Evil Spirit Masters, and how its destruction weakened those protections.
• Xiao Yun reasoned that the loss of Spirit Hall's services and the destruction of the City of Slaughter had helped Evil Spirit Masters spread across the continent.
• Xiao Yun suspected Tang San had deliberately allowed Evil Spirit Masters to rise so Shrek could suppress them and gain the people's faith.
• Xiao Yun considered visiting the City of Slaughter to gather souls for a Human Emperor Banner and speculated that the city was a small realm connected to multiple worlds.
• Xiao Yun decided to make the banner pole from Deep Sea Sunken Silver Mother covered with Adamantine and the cloth from the Deep Sea Demon Whale Emperor's hide.
• Xiao Yun resolved to deal with the Deep Sea Demon Whale Emperor before Tang San went to the City of Slaughter, then returned home.

Xiao Yun continued the story of Naruto to Shenghua before they spent the night together. On the morning of the seventh day of the new year, he prepared to travel to Dragon Ascending Territory with five companions and revealed a spirit boat to the people seeing them off.

• Xiao Yun told Shenghua about Naruto's graduation and explained how chakra differed from Soul Power and Spiritual Power.
• Shenghua fell asleep beside Xiao Yun, then woke in the night and shared an intimate moment with him.
• On the morning of the seventh day of the new year, Xiao Yun and Shui Ruoyan, Yao Yuerou, Shui Bing'er, Shui Yue'er, Yao Zi, and Sheng Minglan prepared to leave for Dragon Ascending Territory.
• Xiao Yun asked Liu Erlong and Tang Yuehua to look after the manor and told Xue Qianren and Dugu Yan how to contact him during the trip.
• Xiao Yun expanded a palm-sized wooden object into a three-zhang spirit boat, drawing the attention of those gathered at Years Manor.

Xiao Yun took six women aboard the Spirit Boat and demonstrated its flight over the clouds. After they briefly experienced the high-speed wind without the shield, Xiao Yun raised it again while the boat continued onward.

• Xiao Yun activated the Spirit Boat's Levitation Pattern and lifted off from the Training Ground with Shui Ruoyan, Yao Yuerou, Shui Bing'er, Shui Yue'er, Yao Zi, and Sheng Minglan aboard.
• Xiao Yun activated the Wind-Control Pattern and Wind-Breaking Pattern, and the Spirit Boat sped away from Heaven Dou City and stopped above the sea of clouds.
• The women admired the view and tested the Spirit Boat's protective shield, then Xiao Yun removed it so they could feel the airflow.
• Xiao Yun accelerated the Spirit Boat, and the women struggled to keep their footing as the wind grew stronger.
• After one of the women called for the shield, Xiao Yun restored it while the Spirit Boat continued flying onward.

Xiao Yun returned to Dragon Ascending Territory aboard a flying Spirit Boat with Shui Ruoyan, Yao Yuerou, Shui Bing'er, Shui Yue'er, Yao Zi, and Sheng Minglan. He reunited with the officials waiting at the Lord's Mansion, explained what the boat was, and led everyone into the council hall.

• The Four Elements Academy deans, Old Madam Xu, and other officials waited at the Lord's Mansion for Xiao Yun's return.
• Xiao Yun arrived in the courtyard aboard a Spirit Boat with six women and stored the boat after they disembarked.
• The waiting officials bowed to Xiao Yun, and he greeted them and explained that the Spirit Boat could fly.
• Xiao Yun led the group into the council hall as news of his return spread through the Lord's Mansion.

Xiao Yun reviewed Dragon Ascending Territory’s progress during his year away and rewarded its officials with storage soul rings. The report covered population growth, food and water infrastructure, education, and public security, while further development plans remained underway.

• Xiao Yun gave eight officials storage soul rings containing one hundred Gold Soul Coins each as year-end rewards.
• Shui Yuntian reported that the territory’s population had grown to nearly thirty thousand, tax revenue had exceeded ten thousand Gold Soul Coins, harvests had improved, and water projects were largely complete.
• Xiao Yun told Shui Yuntian to keep accepting displaced people and settling them on the territory’s remaining wasteland.
• Feng Wuhen reported the growth of general and Soul Master education, and Xiao Yun suggested adding literacy classes for adult residents.
• Huo Lie reported that Dragon Ascending Territory had established a public security bureau, district stations, village posts, and a fire brigade, and had reduced crime through patrols and operations against criminal groups.

Xiao Yun reviewed Dragon Ascending Town’s industrial and agricultural progress, then transferred advanced crop-breeding knowledge to Yao Yang. Xu Huiyin reported rising commercial revenues and asked why outside forces could only lease, not buy, land and shops, leaving Xiao Yun to answer.

• Huo Lie reported that basic mining, smelting, and light industry had begun, while the territory still lacked Soul Crystal deposits and workers.
• Yao Yang reported that Plant Academy had bred rice and wheat varieties with yields thirty percent higher, and Xiao Yun demanded further increases in food production and crop research.
• Xiao Yun gave Yao Yang knowledge about plant genetics, hybridization, grafting, and cultivation by pressing a finger to his brow.
• Xu Huiyin reported that Dragon Ascending Territory’s commercial taxes had risen as merchants sought its salt, glass, and soap, while agricultural taxes remained low.
• Xu Huiyin told Xiao Yun that merchants wanted to buy land for warehouses and bases, then asked why outsiders could only lease land and shops.

Xiao Yun set land-purchase rules for Soul Master families considering settlement in Dragon Ascending Town, including prices, payment plans, and restrictions. Shui Ruolin then reported on the City Guard’s training and two bandit operations, noting improved combat strength but weaknesses in coordinated fighting.

• Xiao Yun explained that family land allocations would depend on the strongest Soul Master’s rank and asked Old Madam whether the Sheng Family wanted to move to Dragon Ascending Town.
• Xiao Yun set residential and commercial land prices and allowed installment payments with higher costs for longer terms.
• Xiao Yun warned Soul Master families not to disrupt other residents, and those present bowed in acknowledgment.
• Shui Ruolin reported that the City Guard had reorganized into two battalions and added night marches, coordination drills, and combat exercises.
• Shui Ruolin described two operations against bandits, reporting enemy casualties and captures, several injured guards, and one soldier killed.
• Shui Ruolin concluded that the City Guard had grown stronger but still needed to improve its formations and coordination against prepared opponents.

Xiao Yun reviewed the City Guard’s and navy’s progress, set cultivation targets for the guards, and promised them monthly medicinal pills. He urged Ma Sanbao to protect Dragon Ascending Territory’s sea routes and prepare to chart the continent’s coastline, leaving the navy with a new long-term mission.

• Xue Mingyuan reported that the Second Battalion had helped seize contraband from a grounded smuggling ship and had joined the navy in deterring a pirate landing.
• Xiao Yun ordered the City Guard to meet ambitious cultivation standards within four years and promised to distribute suitable pills monthly through Shui Ruoyan.
• Ma Sanbao reported that the navy operated seven warships with a full crew complement, conducted patrols, and mapped the waters around Dragon Ascending Territory.
• Xiao Yun instructed Ma Sanbao to protect merchant routes and scout for Sea Soul Beast gatherings before they could cause a beast tide.
• Xiao Yun assigned Ma Sanbao to take three warships, preferably with a merchant convoy, along the coastline to chart it and strengthen his cultivation.

After lunch, Xiao Yun showed Shui Yuntian and Huo Lie blueprints for a water turbine and a tungsten-filament light bulb, explaining how the territory’s reservoirs could generate electricity. He left them considering the infrastructure needed to distribute power.

• Xiao Yun thanked the senior managers for supporting the territory and led them in a toast at lunch.
• After lunch, Yao Yang left with Feng Wuhen to record the knowledge Xiao Yun had shared, while Xue Mingyuan, Shui Ruolin, and Ma Sanbao departed to carry out their assignments.
• Xiao Yun went to his Study Room with Shui Yuntian and Huo Lie to discuss plans, while the Old Madam followed them there.
• Xiao Yun showed Shui Yuntian and Huo Lie a water turbine blueprint and explained that flowing water could turn a shaft connected to a generator.
• Xiao Yun revealed a tungsten-filament light bulb blueprint and explained that reservoirs could provide continuous electricity, though the territory would need power lines and switches.

Xiao Yun agreed to the Sheng Family's relocation to the Dragon Ascending Territory and marked out a riverside site for its main residence. That night, he set aside his electrical blueprints to leave with Shui Ruoyan.

• Huo Lie understood how to create a vacuum for a tungsten-filament bulb after Xiao Yun explained an air pump.
• Old Madam Sheng told Xiao Yun that the Sheng Family faced growing scrutiny in Snow Spirit City and asked for land in the Dragon Ascending Territory.
• Xiao Yun accepted five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins from Old Madam Sheng for a riverside plot about five hundred meters wide and a thousand meters long.
• Xiao Yun used a blue-green token to mark the Sheng Family's new site along the river.
• Old Madam Sheng said the Sheng Family would manage its local farmland and shops without causing trouble for the territory.
• Shui Ruoyan arrived at Xiao Yun's study, and Xiao Yun gathered his blueprints before carrying her away.

Xiao Yun visited the Seven-Star Lotus Peaks with Yao Yuerou, planted the Big Dipper Swords, and reinforced the dams of all three large reservoirs with spells. That evening on Tian-Quan Peak, he helped Yao Yuerou practice controlling her flaming thorns, guiding them toward the shape of a dragon.

• Xiao Yun placed the seven Big Dipper Swords into the Seven-Star Lotus Peaks, where they began drawing down stellar power.
• Xiao Yun inspected the Dragon Ascending Reservoir’s dam and reinforced its core and foundations so it could withstand attacks from a Limit Douluo.
• Yao Yuerou entered a state of insight as she walked atop the dam, and Xiao Yun stayed beside her until she returned to herself.
• Xiao Yun reinforced the dams of the other two large reservoirs using the same spells.
• Xiao Yun instructed Yao Yuerou in controlling her flaming thorns on Tian-Quan Peak and used a Wood Dragon to help guide them toward a dragon shape.

Xiao Yun and Shui Bing'er visited the workshop district in disguise, where Xiao Yun learned about workers’ hardships and issued new hiring and labor policies. He then accompanied Shui Bing'er to White Phoenix Snow Mountain, where they admired the view before heading back to the Flying Sword.

• Xiao Yun and Shui Bing'er disguised themselves and ate breakfast near the workshop district, listening to workers discuss layoffs, age discrimination, and competition from new factories.
• Xiao Yun decreed that his workshops would prioritize qualified older workers and introduced a ten-hour workday, overtime pay, and other worker benefits.
• Xiao Yun invited Shui Bing'er to choose their afternoon destination, and she asked to see White Phoenix Snow Mountain.
• Xiao Yun summoned a Flying Sword and took Shui Bing'er to White Phoenix Snow Mountain.
• Shui Bing'er admired the mountain from a ridge with Xiao Yun, and the two returned toward the waiting Flying Sword.