Chapter Summaries

Ning Weiyang thanked Xie Yue for offering to help her, and he walked her back to the girls' dormitory. Afterward, he told Hu Liena that the six-year-old exchange student might join Spirit Hall Academy and eventually serve Spirit Hall.

• Ning Weiyang thanked Xie Yue and returned to the girls' dormitory before it closed.
• Hu Liena came outside and questioned Xie Yue about how he had met Ning Weiyang and why she called him Brother Xie Yue.
• Xie Yue told Hu Liena that Ning Weiyang was six and asked her to look after the child.
• Xie Yue explained that Ning Weiyang had been expelled from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect despite having Innate Full Soul Power, and that people at Heaven Dou Royal Academy could not tolerate her.
• Hu Liena wondered why neither sect nor academy wanted Ning Weiyang.

Hu Liena learned about Ning Weiyang’s Spirit and troubled background and decided to seek a place for her at Spirit Hall Academy. She welcomed Ning Weiyang warmly in their dormitory and offered to guide her to class the next morning.

• Xie Yue told Hu Liena that Ning Weiyang had a Peony Flower Spirit and had faced prejudice because of her background and low Innate Soul Power before her Spirit evolved.
• Hu Liena decided to visit her teacher and look into transferring Ning Weiyang from Heaven Dou Royal Academy to Spirit Hall Academy.
• Ning Weiyang lay awake in Dormitory 527, puzzled that her grandfather was doing odd jobs at Spirit Hall Academy.
• Hu Liena returned to the dormitory, reassured Ning Weiyang that she and Xie Yue would protect her, and offered to show her where the lower-year classes were.

Ning Weiyang wondered why her Flower God Trial had not appeared, then began her first day at Spirit Hall Academy. The chapter left her spending the morning training with her new class.

• Ning Weiyang wondered whether her Martial Soul had fully evolved and decided to ask her grandfather about it the next day.
• Hu Liena woke Ning Weiyang, told her about Ling Sisi’s difficult circumstances, and took her to eat breakfast.
• Hu Liena registered Ning Weiyang for a lower-year class and promised to meet her at noon for lunch.
• Ning Weiyang joined her class at the training grounds, where the teacher led the students through their morning lessons.

Hu Liena introduced Ning Weiyang to Ling Sisi and took them to lunch, where she shared meat with both girls. Yan arrived at the cafeteria hoping to sit with Hu Liena and asked who Ning Weiyang was.

• Hu Liena introduced Ning Weiyang to her teammate Ling Sisi, and the two girls greeted each other.
• Hu Liena took Ning Weiyang and Ling Sisi to the cafeteria for lunch.
• Hu Liena shared meat from her bowl with Ling Sisi and Ning Weiyang.
• Yan found Hu Liena in the cafeteria, explained that he had forgotten she planned to leave, and sat beside her.
• Yan noticed Ning Weiyang and asked Hu Liena who she was.

Yan met Hu Liena’s new dormmate, Ning Weiyang, and chatted with her over lunch before Hu Liena went to report to Bibi Dong at the Papal Hall. The chapter ended as Hu Liena arrived outside and called to her teacher.

• Yan met Ning Weiyang, Hu Liena’s young exchange-student dormmate, and chatted with her about Hu Liena.
• Yan put meat in Hu Liena’s bowl, while she continued eating without responding.
• Hu Liena took Ning Weiyang back to the dorm, then headed to the Spirit Hall to see Bibi Dong.
• Yan turned back at the academy gates, and Hu Liena continued alone to the Papal Hall.
• Hu Liena called out to Bibi Dong from outside the hall, and Bibi Dong opened her eyes.

Hu Liena told Bibi Dong about Ning Weiyang, a talented plant-type soul master whose Martial Soul had evolved, and proposed bringing her into Spirit Hall Academy. Bibi Dong approved and asked Hu Liena to bring the child to meet her, then kept Hu Liena behind to discuss something.

• Hu Liena visited Bibi Dong and said she and her brother had found a promising plant-type soul master with Innate Full Soul Power.
• Hu Liena explained that the child, Ning Weiyang, came from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, had been expelled when her Innate Soul Power was rank three, and later reached rank thirteen after her Martial Soul evolved.
• Hu Liena proposed bringing Ning Weiyang into Spirit Hall Academy because she was unwelcome at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and did not want to stay there.
• Bibi Dong approved Hu Liena's proposal and asked her to bring Ning Weiyang to meet her.
• Bibi Dong dismissed Yue Guan and Gui Mei, then told Hu Liena to stay and speak with her.

Yue Guan left Spirit Hall to meet Ning Weiyang and try to take her as his disciple, despite suspecting Bibi Dong wanted the same. Ning Weiyang was summoned from her dormitory and came face to face with Chrysanthemum Douluo.

• Yue Guan told Gui Mei that he wanted to reach Ning Weiyang first and make her his disciple because she was a plant-type Soul Master with Innate Full Soul Power.
• Gui Mei stayed behind at Spirit Hall while Yue Guan flew off to find Ning Weiyang.
• Ning Weiyang cultivated in her dormitory's Mimetic Environment, surrounded by blooming peonies and her flickering Peony God Seal.
• Dorm Auntie interrupted Ning Weiyang's cultivation and led her downstairs to meet someone waiting outside.
• Dorm Auntie introduced the waiting man as Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Ning Weiyang saw him standing with his back to her.

Yue Guan met Ning Weiyang and asked to see her Plant-type spirit. When she revealed her Seven-Colored Peony, he recognized it as the Flower God's spirit and realized why he had felt compelled to submit to her.

• Yue Guan introduced himself to Ning Weiyang as Chrysanthemum Douluo and asked to see her spirit.
• Ning Weiyang released her Peony Flower, which radiated seven-colored light.
• Yue Guan nearly knelt before Ning Weiyang and exclaimed that her spirit was the Flower God's spirit.
• Yue Guan released his Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and understood that the peony's superior spirit quality had caused his urge to submit.
• Yue Guan recalled the Flower God and suddenly seemed to realize something extraordinary.

Yue Guan recognized the resemblance between Ning Weiyang’s Spirit and the Flower God’s and offered to help her cultivate at Spirit Hall. He left to petition His Eminence, while Ning Weiyang went to class and endured another difficult hand-to-hand combat lesson.

• Yue Guan questioned Ning Weiyang about her peony Spirit but decided she was a precious child worth nurturing.
• Yue Guan asked whether Ning Weiyang wanted to become stronger, and she agreed to cultivate with him at Spirit Hall.
• Yue Guan said he would petition His Eminence to let Ning Weiyang cultivate under him, then left her waiting at the academy.
• Ning Weiyang went to her afternoon physical combat class, where she struggled against most of her classmates.

Ning Weiyang visited her grandfather, Song Xiuyan, and asked him to tell her more about her mother, Song Yu. Song Xiuyan reassured her that her mother had loved her and never intended to abandon her, but stopped before explaining what had happened.

• Ning Weiyang went to the cabin by the new student registration area to visit Song Xiuyan.
• Ning Weiyang was surprised to see that Song Xiuyan had cut his hair and shaved his beard.
• Song Xiuyan asked whether Ning Weiyang had adjusted to studying, and she said she was getting used to it.
• Ning Weiyang asked Song Xiuyan to tell her more about Song Yu and admitted she sometimes wondered whether her mother had loved her.
• Song Xiuyan comforted Ning Weiyang and said Song Yu had loved her and never meant to leave her, but did not finish explaining why.

Ning Weiyang pressed Song Xiuyan to explain what Ning Fanli had done and why Song Yu had left her. Song Xiuyan praised her as Song Yu’s daughter, then suffered a prolonged coughing fit, leaving Ning Weiyang worried about his health.

• Song Xiuyan cursed Ning Fanli, and Ning Weiyang suspected his resentment was connected to Song Yu.
• Ning Weiyang asked Song Xiuyan to tell her about her mother, her father’s actions, and the reason for Song Xiuyan’s condition.
• Song Xiuyan praised Ning Weiyang as Song Yu’s child and his granddaughter, then stood up in excitement.
• Ning Weiyang tried to support Song Xiuyan as he began coughing violently.
• Song Xiuyan eventually stopped coughing while Ning Weiyang remained concerned for him.

Ning Weiyang urged Song Xiuyan to reveal the truth behind his worsening illness and her mother's death, then explained how the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had cast her out. Song Xiuyan flew into a rage over the sect's accusations against A-Yu and Ning Fanli's failure to defend her.

• Ning Weiyang told Song Xiuyan she had gained the Goddess of Flowers Inheritance and could face the truth about her mother.
• Song Xiuyan asked what the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had done to Ning Weiyang.
• Ning Weiyang explained that the sect doubted her parentage after she inherited neither of her parents' martial souls and drove her out.
• Song Xiuyan cursed the sect for questioning A-Yu's innocence and asked whether Ning Fanli had defended her.
• Ning Weiyang confirmed Ning Fanli had not, and Song Xiuyan smashed the table and blamed the sect's pursuit of contact with gods for A-Yu's death.

Song Xiuyan told Ning Weiyang how rumors that she was Qian Daoliu’s child drove Song Yu and Ning Fanli apart, and how they later reconciled. He began explaining the circumstances that led to Song Yu’s death in Goddess of Flowers Valley, blaming Ning Fanli for her fate.

• Song Xiuyan recounted how Qian Daoliu had rescued Song Yu from a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast nine years earlier, and how Ning Fanli grew suspicious after learning about it.
• After Song Yu became pregnant, rumors spread that Qian Daoliu had fathered her child, prompting a fierce argument and the couple’s separation.
• Song Yu returned to the Song Clan and gave birth to Ning Weiyang, while strange phenomena announced a deity’s descent in a valley.
• Ning Weiyang asked whether Song Yu had gone to seek the deity, and Song Xiuyan confirmed she had before recalling her death by vines.
• Song Xiuyan told Ning Weiyang that Ning Fanli had reconciled with Song Yu after her birth and repeatedly pleaded until she joined the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s party to Goddess of Flowers Valley.

Song Xiuyan told Ning Weiyang how her mother, Song Yu, obtained the Goddess of Flowers Inheritance and died sealing Goddess of Flowers Valley. He also explained how he survived and why he failed to bring Ning Weiyang away from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

• Song Xiuyan explained that Song Yu obtained the Goddess of Flowers Inheritance for Ning Weiyang, giving her the Peony Flower martial soul.
• Song Xiuyan said he rushed to Goddess of Flowers Valley and found it engulfed in a bloody struggle among the major factions seeking the god.
• Song Yu was pierced by enormous vines while saving a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect elder, and the plants absorbed her blood as Song Xiuyan tried to rescue her.
• Song Yu told Song Xiuyan about the Flower God, then used herself to seal Goddess of Flowers Valley and end the conflict.
• The pupa expelled Song Xiuyan, leaving him instantly aged and white-haired; Qian Daoliu took him to Spirit Hall and saved his life.
• Song Xiuyan later went to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to claim Ning Weiyang, but Ning Fanli had him thrown out.

Ning Weiyang learned how her mother Song Yu’s death and Song Xiuyan’s guilt left her in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s care, and wondered why Qian Daoliu had helped her family. Song Xiuyan knew nothing about Song Yu’s connection to him and warned Ning Weiyang not to go to Goddess of Flowers Valley.

• Song Xiuyan explained that Ning Fanli had used his guilt over Song Yu’s death to prevent him from taking Ning Weiyang, and that the weakened Song Clan was absorbed by the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Weiyang realized the sect had raised her for her potential and that Song Yu had secured the Goddess of Flowers Inheritance for her, changing her martial soul into a Peony Flower.
• Ning Weiyang asked Song Xiuyan whether Song Yu had been connected to Qian Daoliu, since the answer could determine how she approached the Worship Hall.
• Song Xiuyan said he did not know of any connection and that Qian Daoliu had only told him to live well when arranging for him to come to Spirit Hall Academy.
• Song Xiuyan warned Ning Weiyang not to go to Goddess of Flowers Valley.

Ning Weiyang and Song Xiuyan agreed to seek revenge on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect for Song Yu’s death. Song Xiuyan promised to recover his health, while Ning Weiyang took a token from him and began considering how to find a healer.

• Ning Weiyang asked Song Xiuyan whether he wanted revenge, and he admitted that he still intended to confront the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and take Ning Fanli away.
• Ning Weiyang vowed to make those responsible for her mother’s death pay and urged Song Xiuyan to recover and wait for the day she became powerful.
• Song Xiuyan promised to regain his health and gave Ning Weiyang a token from the Grand Elder, which could secure help from him if she was in danger.
• Ning Weiyang accepted the token and decided to seek out Ye Lingling’s family for a powerful Nine Heart Begonia Soul Master who might cure Song Xiuyan.

Ning Weiyang wondered whether Yue Guan knew about her martial soul and planned to ask Ye Lingling how to cure Song Xiuyan. At the Library Pavilion, Goreya approached her hoping to confirm rumors that Elder Chrysanthemum Douluo favored her, while Ning Weiyang considered asking him about the Ye Family.

• Ning Weiyang decided to ask Ye Lingling whether she could cure Song Xiuyan and left him to study at the Library Pavilion.
• Ning Weiyang wondered whether Yue Guan knew that her martial soul was the Flower God's martial soul.
• Goreya found Ning Weiyang at the Library Pavilion and asked whether Elder Chrysanthemum Douluo had taken a liking to her.
• Goreya explained that he hoped Ning Weiyang's connection to Spirit Hall would give him someone to rely on too.
• Ning Weiyang considered using Goreya's childhood friendship with Ye Lingling to learn about the Ye Family, and Goreya nervously assured her he meant no harm.

Ning Weiyang told Goreya that Chrysanthemum Douluo had run off after asking about her martial soul, then asked him to visit the Ye Family on behalf of a seriously injured friend. The chapter ended before she explained what she needed him to do there.

• Goreya tried to draw closer to Ning Weiyang by reminding her that they had attended the same school and should help each other.
• Ning Weiyang asked whether someone was bullying Goreya, and he boasted that nobody could threaten him.
• Goreya questioned whether Ning Weiyang had contacted Chrysanthemum Douluo, and she explained that he had run off after asking about her martial soul.
• Ning Weiyang asked Goreya for help treating a seriously injured friend, and he pointed out that he was not a healing-type Soul Master.
• Ning Weiyang told Goreya to make a trip to the Ye Family for her.

Ning Weiyang asked Goreya to visit the Ye Family, but he was thrown out of the Library Pavilion before they could discuss it further. Inside, Xie Yue helped Ning Weiyang find books, and they sat reading together while he secretly watched her.

• Goreya was expelled from the Library Pavilion after his loud reaction to Ning Weiyang’s request, then waited outside for her.
• Xie Yue approached Ning Weiyang, handed her the book she needed, and asked whether Goreya was her friend or liked her.
• Ning Weiyang denied being Goreya’s friend and pretended not to understand Xie Yue’s question about his feelings.
• Ning Weiyang asked Xie Yue to find books about healing-type martial souls, and he agreed.
• Xie Yue brought the books and sat reading with Ning Weiyang, though he kept glancing at her.

Ning Weiyang searched for ways to heal her grandfather and decided to pursue the Peony Goddess Trial as a backup. After leaving the library with Xie Yue, she encountered Goreya, who had been waiting for her.

• Ning Weiyang considered whether the Flower God Spirit could heal her grandfather and resolved to begin the Peony Goddess Trial.
• Xie Yue offered to walk Ning Weiyang back to the dormitory as the library closed.
• Goreya called out to Ning Weiyang outside the library, drawing the attention of nearby students.
• Xie Yue offered to deal with Goreya, but Ning Weiyang stopped him and said she wanted to speak with Goreya herself.
• Xie Yue agreed to wait nearby in case Ning Weiyang needed help.