Chapter Summaries

After a long day of shopping, Ning Weiyang fell asleep while Ye Lingling massaged her, and Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling quietly packed her belongings for her departure to Spirit Hall Academy. The next morning, they left for class while Ning Weiyang struggled to wake up, leaving her to get ready for the exchange students’ departure.

• Dugu Bo left Heaven Dou Royal Academy for Sunset Forest to tend to his plants, still puzzled about what was wrong.
• Ning Weiyang returned exhausted from shopping, and Ye Lingling massaged her until she fell asleep.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling agreed to pack Ning Weiyang’s things so she would be ready to leave for Spirit Hall Academy.
• The next morning, Ning Weiyang woke reluctantly after her dream about becoming a billionaire with eighteen male models was interrupted by the bell.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling left for class after reminding Ning Weiyang to get ready, and Ning Weiyang lay back down to doze.

Ning Weiyang set off from Heaven Dou Royal Academy for Spirit Hall Academy as an exchange student, bringing four suitcases prepared by Dugu Yan. As the group prepared to leave, Goreya braced himself for trouble from Xia Qiu and Jiang Qingning.

• Ning Weiyang woke to the chick-shaped alarm Dugu Yan had given her and hurried to get ready.
• Teacher Shen and the Education Committee members helped Ning Weiyang carry her four suitcases to the academy gates.
• Meng Shenji arranged a second luxurious carriage because Ning Weiyang's luggage would not fit in the planned one.
• Xia Qiu and Jiang Qingning complained about Ning Weiyang's luggage and the committee members' special treatment of her while Goreya stayed quiet.
• Before Ning Weiyang boarded, Goreya planned to tell Xia Qiu and Jiang Qingning to stop talking, hoping to avoid more trouble.

Goreya warned Jiang Qingning and Xia Qiu that Ning Weiyang had powerful backing, but Jiang dismissed the warning because of Ning Weiyang’s low Innate Spirit Power. Ning Weiyang departed for Spirit Hall Academy, leaving Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhi Lin watching from the academy gates.

• Jiang Qingning and Xia Qiu questioned Goreya for defending Ning Weiyang, and Xia Qiu revealed that Goreya’s lackey had called her a little wild bastard.
• Goreya told Jiang Qingning and Xia Qiu not to provoke Ning Weiyang, warning that her backing and strength surpassed theirs.
• Jiang Qingning dismissed Ning Weiyang as a weak soul master because she had Innate Spirit Power Level Three, and Goreya gave up trying to reason with her.
• Meng Shenji arranged for Ning Weiyang to ride with the other students and reminded her to look out for them at Spirit Hall Academy.
• Ning Weiyang departed in a carriage, and Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhi Lin watched her leave before returning to the academy.

Ning Weiyang traveled with Goreya, Xia Qiu, and Jiang Qingning, who criticized her for refusing to help Goreya when he was hungry. In another carriage, two teachers wondered whether leaving the four students together might cause trouble.

• Ning Weiyang suspected Goreya might be a spy, but decided he was probably only being sent out to gain experience.
• Goreya's stomach rumbled, and Xia Qiu and Jiang Qingning shared food with him while accusing Ning Weiyang of being cold and refusing to get along with her classmates.
• Goreya avoided joining the argument between the three girls because he feared Ning Weiyang more than the others.
• Two accompanying teachers ate lunch in another carriage and wondered whether something might happen if the four students were left together.

Huang Huixin and Chen Yulin were startled when the carriage ahead exploded, while Xia Qiu and Jiang Qingning prepared to attack Ning Weiyang after discovering she had a spirit ring. The chapter ended as Xia Qiu and Jiang Qingning unleashed their first soul skills against her.

• Huang Huixin worried that Goreya might cause trouble, and Chen Yulin reassured her as they shared a meal in their carriage.
• An explosion blew the roof off the carriage ahead, scattering its passengers and startling the horses.
• Ning Weiyang attacked Xia Qiu with a sharp petal, but Xia Qiu used her antelope spirit possession to evade most of the strike.
• Jiang Qingning released her white cat spirit, and Xia Qiu and Jiang Qingning were shocked to see Ning Weiyang had a yellow spirit ring.
• Xia Qiu used her First Soul Skill, Gazelle Assault, while Jiang Qingning used her First Soul Skill, White Cat Claw, to attack Ning Weiyang.

Ning Weiyang overwhelmed Jiang Qingning and Xia Qiu in a fight that wrecked their carriage, revealing that she had Innate Full Soul Power. After the two backed down, Ning Weiyang controlled the startled horse as Huang Huixin emerged and demanded to know what was happening.

• Ning Weiyang’s attacks smashed the carriage apart and flung Goreya out, while he used Martial Soul Possession to repel her petal blades.
• Jiang Qingning and Xia Qiu realized Ning Weiyang was a six-year-old Spirit Master above level ten with Innate Full Soul Power.
• Goreya protested that Ning Weiyang had attacked him, but her glare silenced him.
• Jiang Qingning and Xia Qiu stayed quiet after recognizing they could not defeat Ning Weiyang.
• Ning Weiyang calmed the startled horse, and Huang Huixin came out of another carriage and demanded to know what was happening.

Jiang Qingning and Xia Qiu accused Ning Weiyang of attacking them and trying to kill them, but Ning Weiyang acted like a frightened victim and turned Huang Huixin against them. The chapter ended with the two seniors insisting that Ning Weiyang had attacked first.

• Jiang Qingning and Xia Qiu told Huang Huixin that Ning Weiyang had attacked them and wanted to kill them.
• Huang Huixin approached Ning Weiyang, who immediately acted timid and helpless.
• Ning Weiyang told Huang Huixin that the two seniors had insulted her for keeping to herself and having low Innate Soul Power.
• Huang Huixin questioned Jiang Qingning and Xia Qiu, who realized Ning Weiyang had changed her demeanor and tried to defend themselves.

Huang Huixin questioned Ning Weiyang, Jiang Qingning, and Xia Qiu after Jiang accused Ning of trying to kill them. With Chen Yulin and Goreya present, the teachers turned to Goreya to clarify who had started the confrontation.

• Jiang Qingning accused Ning Weiyang of pretending and trying to kill them, while Ning admitted striking first but denied wanting to kill anyone.
• Huang Huixin silenced Jiang, comforted Ning, and lined the three girls up to investigate the incident.
• Chen Yulin returned after gathering the carriage’s contents and noticed that the carriage had been overturned and nearly destroyed.
• Huang Huixin remembered Goreya, who had been flung away during the clash, and he returned to the group.
• Chen Yulin asked Goreya whether Ning had attacked first or Jiang Qingning and Xia Qiu had targeted Ning.

Chen Yulin confirmed that Jiang Qingning and Xia Qiu had blown up the carriage after provoking Ning Weiyang, and Huang Huixin resolved the dispute with an apology. The girls set aside their conflict and prepared to continue traveling together.

• Goreya told Chen Yulin that Jiang Qingning and Xia Qiu had insulted Ning Weiyang first, and Ning Weiyang had attacked afterward.
• Chen Yulin inspected the carriage and confirmed that Jiang Qingning and Xia Qiu's Soul Skills had blown it up.
• Huang Huixin ordered Jiang Qingning and Xia Qiu to apologize to Ning Weiyang and warned them not to cause further trouble.
• Jiang Qingning and Xia Qiu apologized, and Ning Weiyang accepted without pressing the matter.
• Huang Huixin told the three girls to get into their carriage.

Ning Weiyang and the others arrived in Spirit City with Huang Huixin and Chen Yulin and reached Spirit Hall Academy to begin their exchange visit. A bespectacled teacher greeted them by criticizing their late arrival.

• Ning Weiyang's group shared a quiet carriage ride with Huang Huixin and the others, while Chen Yulin teased Goreya and made Jiang Qingning and Xia Qiu uneasy.
• The carriage entered Spirit City, and Chen Yulin suggested that he and Huang Huixin explore the busy city after settling the students.
• Huang Huixin and Chen Yulin arrived at Spirit Hall Academy and showed the guards their exchange-student token.
• A bespectacled female teacher came out of Spirit Hall Academy and told Huang Huixin that the Heaven Dou Royal Academy group had arrived late.

Huang Huixin and Hua Dai reunited tensely as Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s exchange students arrived at Spirit Hall Academy. Hua Dai showed the students around and explained their dorm assignments, including Ning Weiyang’s placement in the upper-grade dormitories.

• Huang Huixin and Hua Dai exchanged strained greetings, hinting at an unpleasant history between them.
• Chen Yulin handed Xia Qiu, Jiang Qingning, Goreya, and Ning Weiyang over to Hua Dai before leaving with Huang Huixin.
• Hua Dai took attendance, then Goreya tried to team up with Ning Weiyang, who rejected him and covered her ears while he kept calling after her.
• Hua Dai toured the students around Spirit Hall Academy and brought Goreya to the boys’ dormitory before escorting the girls to theirs.
• Hua Dai explained that the students would be assigned by grade and said Ning Weiyang would stay in the upper-grade dormitories because the lower-grade rooms were full.

Ning Weiyang settled into Spirit Hall Academy and learned that students studied theory through evening self-study at the Library Pavilion. After collecting her student ID, she encountered an elderly registration clerk who stopped her and asked who she was.

• Hua Dai assigned Ning Weiyang to a dorm room with upperclassmen and explained Spirit Hall Academy's evening study schedule.
• Ning Weiyang found that Room 527 was shared by Hu Liena and Ling Sisi, though neither was there when she arrived.
• Ning Weiyang unpacked, then went to the registration office to collect her student ID before the Library Pavilion opened.
• The elderly registration clerk gave Ning Weiyang her student ID and asked who she was as she prepared to leave.

Ning Weiyang met a strange old man whose memories made him mistake her for someone named A-Yu. He recognized her resemblance to A-Yu and pressed her about her family, leaving Ning Weiyang wondering whether her unknown mother was connected to her unusual martial soul.

• The old man rose and approached Ning Weiyang, then tearfully called her A-Yu and reached to touch her face.
• Ning Weiyang corrected him and tried to pull away, but the old man seized her hand with surprising strength.
• The old man asked whether Ning Weiyang belonged to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect because of her surname, but she said she came from Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• The old man asked whether her mother was named A-Yu, and Ning Weiyang said she did not know because she had never met her mother.

An old man at Spirit Hall Academy recognized Ning Weiyang as A-Yu's child after hearing that her martial soul was Peony Flower. He revealed that he was her maternal grandfather, leaving Ning Weiyang stunned and wondering how he could be so old.

• The old man asked Ning Weiyang about her martial soul, and she answered that it was Peony Flower.
• The old man recognized Ning Weiyang as A-Yu's child and released her.
• Ning Weiyang asked whether the old man knew her mother, and he said that he did.
• The old man led Ning Weiyang into the wooden cabin and told her to call him Grandfather.
• Ning Weiyang realized he claimed to be her maternal grandfather and wondered how he could have a daughter so young.

Song Xiuyan told Ning Weiyang about her mother Song Yu’s clan and marriage to Ning Fanli, but the alarm interrupted him before he could explain what happened afterward. He sent Ning Weiyang to visit the Library Pavilion, promising to continue the story when she returned.

• Song Xiuyan explained that he was fifty-five but had aged rapidly because of special circumstances, and said Ning Weiyang would learn the reason in time.
• Song Xiuyan described how he had been a celebrated Soul Douluo and how his daughter Song Yu became a powerful Soul Master and the Song Clan’s leader.
• Song Xiuyan recounted that Song Yu met Ning Fanli at a banquet, fell in love with him, and married him while remaining the Song Clan’s leader.
• Ning Weiyang asked what happened to her mother, but her alarm rang at eight o’clock before Song Xiuyan could answer.
• Song Xiuyan told Ning Weiyang to visit the Library Pavilion and promised to continue the story later.

Ning Weiyang visited the Library Pavilion to research Spirit types but found no information about her own Spirit. The chapter ended when a handsome silver-haired young man asked to sit with her.

• Ning Weiyang left Song Xiuyan's cabin after agreeing to ask about Song Yu another time.
• After Ning Weiyang departed, Song Xiuyan shaved off his hair and beard and vowed that Ning Fanli and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would repay their debt to A-Yu.
• Ning Weiyang reached the Library Pavilion, surveyed its shelves, and borrowed books about Spirits recorded across the continent.
• Ning Weiyang searched through the books for information about her Spirit but found none.
• A handsome young man in silver-white clothes approached Ning Weiyang and asked if he could sit at her table.

Ning Weiyang searched the Library Pavilion for a book cataloguing martial souls but found no complete records. As the library closed, Xie Yue recognized what she was looking for and spoke to her.

• Ning Weiyang was surprised by Xie Yue’s appearance, then told him he could sit across from her.
• Xie Yue watched Ning Weiyang as they read in the Library Pavilion for three hours.
• Ning Weiyang found no records of the Peony Flower martial soul and gathered the books she had borrowed.
• Xie Yue caught up with Ning Weiyang and asked if she was looking for a book that recorded all the martial souls on the continent.
• Ning Weiyang confirmed that she was looking for that book and said she had not found it.

Ning Weiyang befriended Xie Yue by asking him to help find a book and escort her back to the dormitory. On the way, she told him she had transferred because people at Heaven Dou Royal Academy picked on her.

• Ning Weiyang called Xie Yue her big brother, and he promised to find the book she was looking for the next day.
• Ning Weiyang introduced herself as a six-year-old exchange student from Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and Xie Yue introduced himself.
• Xie Yue walked Ning Weiyang back toward the dormitory and watched over her as she hopped down the steps.
• Xie Yue asked why Ning Weiyang had volunteered to transfer, and she said people at her former academy had picked on her.

Ning Weiyang told Xie Yue that her low Innate Spirit Power had led people to target her, then described how her Martial Soul evolved and raised her to Level Thirteen. She explained that her sect expelled her because her Peony Flower Martial Soul matched neither of her parents' Martial Souls, leaving Xie Yue to hear the cause of her rejection.

• Ning Weiyang claimed people at the academy had targeted her because her Innate Spirit Power was only Level Three.
• Ning Weiyang told Xie Yue that the Crown Prince brought her to Heaven Dou Royal Academy after her family drove her out.
• Ning Weiyang said her Martial Soul evolved in the academy's Mimicry Forest, raising her Innate Spirit Power and making her a Level Thirteen soul master.
• Xie Yue asked why Ning Weiyang's family had expelled her, and she explained that the sect elders doubted her parentage because she had a Peony Flower Martial Soul instead of either parent's Martial Soul.

Ning Weiyang told Xie Yue how the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had cast doubt on her parentage, and he comforted her by insisting they would regret losing her. When he learned she was assigned to Dorm 527 with his sister Hu Liena, he offered to help her get acquainted.

• Xie Yue defended Ning Weiyang against the claim that her martial soul mutation made her parentage questionable.
• Ning Weiyang said she had never known her mother and that her father had not explained where she went.
• Xie Yue comforted Ning Weiyang, saying her improved talent could let her become a Titled Douluo and that the sect would regret driving her away.
• Ning Weiyang told Xie Yue she was staying in Dorm 527 and worried about meeting its residents.
• Xie Yue revealed that his younger sister Hu Liena lived in Dorm 527 and told Ning Weiyang to call Hu Liena down if she needed help.