Chapter Summaries

After Ning Rongrong ended their relationship because Li Zhixian’s Soul Power had remained at level ten, he discovered that his twin Martial Souls had finally awakened and his power surged to level twenty. He left the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, resolved to make a new start, and vanished into the rear mountain.

• Ning Rongrong broke up with Li Zhixian, saying she had reached level twenty-six and needed a powerful Battle Soul Master as her partner.
• Li Zhixian and Ning Rongrong exchanged the little clay pagoda and sword they had made for each other before walking away in opposite directions.
• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong watched Li Zhixian leave, and Ning Fengzhi said he would compensate him while Chen Xin and Gu Rong judged him unworthy of Rongrong.
• Li Zhixian drank from a changing gourd while dancing with his Azure Lotus Sword, and his Soul Power rose from level ten to level twenty.
• Li Zhixian realized he possessed twin Martial Souls, the Azure Lotus Sword and Clear Spring Wine Gourd, then left his savings behind and departed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Li Zhixian left the sect and traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain his first Soul Ring. After exploiting a mating fight between two Azure Blade Mantises, he killed the wounded female and watched a pale purple Soul Ring rise from her corpse.

• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong found Li Zhixian gone, while Ning Rongrong discovered his broken clay sword.
• Li Zhixian reached the Star Dou Great Forest and searched for an Azure Blade Mantis suited to his Azure Lotus Sword.
• Li Zhixian spotted a near-thousand-year male Azure Blade Mantis and waited when a larger female arrived to mate with it.
• The female Azure-Blade Mantis attacked the male after mating, and the two fought until both were badly injured.
• Li Zhixian struck the feeding female with a flash of sword light, severed her neck, and gained a pale purple Soul Ring from her corpse.

Li Zhixian survived absorbing a thousand-year soul ring and gained the Azure Blade Severance skill. While bathing in a stream in the Star Dou Forest, he unexpectedly encountered Zhu Zhuqing, who mistook him for a pervert.

• Li Zhixian used his Wine Spirit to endure the thousand-year soul ring’s destructive energy and successfully absorbed it as his first soul ring.
• Li Zhixian discovered that the ring granted Azure Blade Severance and tested the technique by cleanly cutting through a giant tree.
• Li Zhixian found a stream, checked that the area was clear, and began bathing in the water.
• Zhu Zhuqing finished training, went to the same stream to wash blood from her arm, and spotted Li Zhixian floating naked downstream.
• Zhu Zhuqing called Li Zhixian a pervert, and he argued that she was the hooligan for watching him bathe.

Li Zhixian escaped Zhu Zhuqing after she caught sight of him bathing, but she challenged him to a duel in the forest. He defeated her with a single strike from his Azure Lotus Sword and reminded her that she owed him one request.

• Zhu Zhuqing awakened her Hell Spirit Cat Martial Soul and chased Li Zhixian from the stream, but he outran her and escaped into the forest.
• Zhu Zhuqing caught up with Li Zhixian, challenged him to a spar, and agreed to grant him one request if she lost.
• Zhu Zhuqing attacked with Hell Stab and Netherworld Hundred Claws, while Li Zhixian summoned the Azure Lotus Sword and used Azure Blade Severance to defeat her.
• Zhu Zhuqing questioned Li Zhixian about his thousand-year purple first Soul Ring, and he claimed that purple had a certain charm.
• Li Zhixian reminded Zhu Zhuqing of their agreement and said she had to grant his request.

Li Zhixian and Zhu Zhuqing ventured into a valley in the Star Dou Great Forest to find a Sword-tailed Scorpion for Li Zhixian’s second Soul Ring. They watched a group of scorpions retreat in fear as a much larger beast emerged.

• Li Zhixian asked Zhu Zhuqing to help him obtain a thousand-year second Soul Ring, and she agreed.
• Li Zhixian told Zhu Zhuqing he sought a Sword-tailed Scorpion so his Azure Lotus Sword could follow an offensive path.
• Li Zhixian and Zhu Zhuqing found a valley marked by deep cuts in its rock walls and entered to search for the scorpions.
• The pair hid behind a boulder as a swarm of Sword-tailed Scorpions emerged and sliced into the rock walls with their tails.
• The Sword-tailed Scorpions stopped and fled aside as a savage beast crawled out of the valley depths.

Li Zhixian and Zhu Zhuqing discovered a mutated Three-Tailed Swordtail Scorpion King, and Li Zhixian decided to risk his life to obtain a Sword-tailed Scorpion Soul Ring. He devised a plan that relied on Zhu Zhuqing luring the colony away while he acted, and they waited for the right moment at dusk.

• Li Zhixian and Zhu Zhuqing saw the Three-Tailed Swordtail Scorpion King emerge and retreated from the valley.
• Li Zhixian refused Zhu Zhuqing's offer to find another Spirit Beast and explained why becoming stronger mattered so much to him.
• Zhu Zhuqing agreed to help Li Zhixian, and he planned to exploit the colony's routines after four Thousand-Year Swordtail Scorpions left to forage.
• Li Zhixian asked Zhu Zhuqing to lure the remaining scorpions away and gave her wine to drink while she ran through the forest.
• At dusk, Li Zhixian and Zhu Zhuqing watched four Thousand-Year Swordtail Scorpions leave the valley, and Li Zhixian told her to move.

Li Zhixian used his Wine Martial Soul and Azure Lotus Sword to defeat the Three-Tailed Swordtail Scorpion King, while Zhu Zhuqing lured its minions away. The chapter left Zhu Zhuqing cornered by Sword-tailed Scorpions after her wine ran out, with a Thousand-Year Swordtail Scorpion charging at her.

• Zhu Zhuqing drew the Sword-tailed Scorpions away from the sleeping Three-Tailed Swordtail Scorpion King while Li Zhixian entered the valley to attack it.
• Li Zhixian drank from the Clear Spring Wine Gourd, strengthened his Azure Lotus Sword, and severed one of the Scorpion King's swordtails.
• The Scorpion King wounded Li Zhixian, but he poured wine over his sword, severed its remaining tails, and struck its skull, killing it as a purple soul ring rose from its corpse.
• Zhu Zhuqing drank from the bamboo tube Li Zhixian had given her, gaining speed as she fled the pursuing Sword-tailed Scorpions.
• Two Thousand-Year Swordtail Scorpions blocked Zhu Zhuqing's path after her wine ran out, and one charged at her as she stood surrounded and exhausted.

Li Zhixian used his new sword skill to kill several Sword-tailed Scorpions and rescued Zhu Zhuqing, though the battle left him badly wounded. Later, as they shared food and wine by a campfire, Zhu Zhuqing revealed her unhappiness with her arranged marriage, and Li Zhixian promised to help her if she ever needed him.

• Li Zhixian arrived just in time to save Zhu Zhuqing from the Sword-tailed Scorpions, then used Three Sword Splendor and Azure Blade Severance to kill several of them.
• Li Zhixian collapsed from his reopened wounds, and Zhu Zhuqing helped him leave the forest.
• Li Zhixian and Zhu Zhuqing rested by a campfire, shared food and wine, and sampled each other's drinks.
• Zhu Zhuqing admitted she did not want to marry the Star Luo Prince, whom she had never met.
• Li Zhixian promised Zhu Zhuqing that he would help her whenever she needed him.

Li Zhixian discovered that mixing wine in his Clear Spring Wine Gourd strengthened its effects and raised his Soul Power to level twenty-two. Zhu Zhuqing invited him to attend Shrek Academy with her, but he refused and declared his ambitions to master fine wine and create his own swordsmanship.

• Li Zhixian poured Zhu Zhuqing's wine into the Clear Spring Wine Gourd, which changed and produced a more potent wine.
• Li Zhixian drank the wine and broke through from level twenty-one to level twenty-two, while Zhu Zhuqing also tasted it and became drunk.
• Zhu Zhuqing invited Li Zhixian to join her at the academy for monsters, but he refused because he had his own plans.
• Li Zhixian described his dream of tasting the continent's finest wines and creating swordsmanship of his own.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked Li Zhixian to remember that he had promised to help her if she came looking for him, and he agreed.

Li Zhixian parted ways with Zhu Zhuqing, traveled to Heaven Dou Imperial City, and settled in at a restaurant. Zhu Zhuqing reached Shrek Academy and watched a series of confrontations during its entrance testing.

• Li Zhixian and Zhu Zhuqing parted at a fork in the road, and Zhu Zhuqing blushed as she promised to wear purple the next time they met.
• Li Zhixian sold his hunted soul-beast remains, bought a white-maned steed, and traveled for half a month to Heaven Dou Imperial City.
• The city guards welcomed Li Zhixian after sensing his Soul Power, and he explored the bustling streets before entering Shanxiang Restaurant.
• Zhu Zhuqing arrived at Shrek Academy and saw a blond youth use his strength to intimidate a father and son who had been denied admission.
• A girl in a white dress challenged the academy's tester, saying education should have no distinction and asking why she should be rejected if she met the requirements.

Zhu Zhuqing joined Shrek Academy’s tests, found its students crude, and resolved to grow strong before reuniting with Li Zhixian. Meanwhile, Li Zhixian searched Heaven Dou City for rare Yaoguang Brew and gained an idea for the first move of his self-created sword art.

• Zhu Zhuqing met Ning Rongrong during the tests and thought of Li Zhixian while Dai Mubai, Tang San, and Xiao Wu talked ahead of them.
• Dai Mubai stopped Tang San from buying Oscar’s sausage and exposed Oscar’s suggestive sales call, leaving Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong disgusted.
• Zhu Zhuqing told Ning Rongrong she was thinking about a boy, while Ning Rongrong privately wondered why Li Zhixian had come to mind.
• Li Zhixian complained about the wine at Shanxiang Restaurant and learned from a waiter that the imperial family’s rarest wine was called Yaoguang Brew.
• After renting a courtyard, Li Zhixian imagined starlight soaking the Azure Lotus Sword and realized he might have found the first move of his self-created sword art.

Li Zhixian created the incomplete first move of his Azure Lotus Sword Song, Shaking Light, and went searching for Yaoguang Brew to help him finish it. While fishing outside Heaven Dou City, he met Xue Qinghe, shared his catch with him, and learned that Xue Qinghe suspected he was a visitor from beyond the city.

• Li Zhixian reflected on the sword’s three answers and created Shaking Light, a move that cut through the darkness and coated nearby grass with star frost.
• Li Zhixian decided that drinking Yaoguang Brew would help his Wine Spirit evolve and complete the move, but he could not find a way to obtain any.
• After finding the river in Heaven Dou City unsuitable for fishing, Li Zhixian went to Lotus Lake, where Xue Qinghe was fishing and Snake Lance Douluo and Stingray Douluo watched from the reeds.
• Li Zhixian caught several fish while Xue Qinghe caught none, then invited Xue Qinghe to share a meal with him.
• Xue Qinghe ate Li Zhixian’s fish and asked whether he was from outside the city; Li Zhixian asked how he knew.

Li Zhixian befriended Xue Qinghe at Lotus Lake and asked him for a pot of Yaoguang Brew in exchange for grilled fish. After enduring a punishing day of palace duties and pressure from the Pope, Xue Qinghe returned to the lake, where he ate more fish and left the brew for Li Zhixian.

• Li Zhixian asked Xue Qinghe to get him Yaoguang Brew, and Xue Qinghe said one meal of fish was not enough to trade for it.
• Li Zhixian guessed that the refined young man was Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, or possibly Qian Renxue, and decided to serve him more fish.
• Li Zhixian waited for Xue Qinghe at Lotus Lake the next day, but Xue Qinghe was occupied with serving Emperor Xue Ye, meeting a minister, and visiting Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Stingray Douluo and Snake Lance Douluo relayed the Pope's demand that Xue Qinghe control the empire within five years, and Xue Qinghe angrily told them to stop interfering.
• Xue Qinghe went to Lotus Lake, ate Li Zhixian's fish, and left a crystal Glazed Bottle of Yaoguang Brew beside him.

Li Zhixian shared Yaoguang Brew and meals with Xue Qinghe, then used the wine to master the Azure Lotus Sword Song’s Yaoguang Sword. He continued spending time with Xue Qinghe and refused an offer to attend Heaven Dou Royal Academy, while Snake Lance Douluo accepted that the friendship had brightened the Young Master’s mood.

• Li Zhixian excitedly accepted the Yaoguang Brew from Xue Qinghe, punched him in the chest, and praised the wine after tasting it.
• Li Zhixian learned Xue Qinghe was the Crown Prince but stayed informal, teasing him over a serving of fish.
• Li Zhixian poured the remaining Yaoguang Brew into the Clear Spring Wine Gourd, gained a new sword insight, and mastered the Yaoguang Sword.
• Li Zhixian and Xue Qinghe continued their routine of fishing and sharing meals, while Xue Qinghe brought him palace delicacies.
• Xue Qinghe offered to help Li Zhixian attend Heaven Dou Royal Academy, but Li Zhixian refused.
• Pufferfish and Snake Lance arrived, and Snake Lance said Xue Qinghe had grown brighter since he began visiting Lotus Lake.

Li Zhixian realized his swordsmanship lacked the foundation of real combat and registered for the Imperial City's Great Soul Arena under the alias Sword Wine. He began his first match against the winning fighter Li Lang, whose charge was halted by a single flash of Li Zhixian’s sword.

• Xue Qinghe told Pufferfish and Snake Lance to inform the academy committee that someone he wanted to attend the Royal Academy.
• After watching a wildcat slash its rival, Li Zhixian realized his sword lacked the experience of bloodshed and decided to seek real combat.
• Li Zhixian registered at the Great Soul Arena as Sword Wine, bet his savings on his upcoming matches, and prepared to fight.
• At eight o’clock, Li Zhixian faced Li Lang, a powerful contestant pursuing his fifth consecutive victory.
• As Li Lang charged within a meter of Li Zhixian, Li Zhixian struck with a flash of sword light, leaving a thin line of blood across Li Lang’s neck.

Li Zhixian rose to fame as Sword Wine by winning twenty Soul Fighting matches with a single sword strike each, while Xue Qinghe’s guards told her about his record. Li Zhixian prepared to face Yu Tianheng, and the chapter left him entering the arena before a roaring crowd as seven young spectators watched from a VIP box.

• Li Zhixian instantly killed Li Lang and then defeated a second opponent with one sword strike, beginning to earn renown as Sword Wine.
• Over ten days, Li Zhixian won twenty matches with only one sword strike per match and advanced from an Iron Badge to a Silver Badge.
• Xue Qinghe urged Li Zhixian to attend the Royal Academy, but he refused, saying he wanted to travel in search of fine wine.
• Pufferfish and Snake Lance told Xue Qinghe that Sword Wine had won twenty matches, killing eighteen opponents and injuring two, and would face Yu Tianheng that night.
• Li Zhixian practiced, reached Soul Power level twenty-three, and entered the arena to face Yu Tianheng as the crowd cheered and seven young people watched from a VIP box.

Li Zhixian, recognized as Sword Wine, faced a powerful lynx-spirit opponent in the Soul Arena while Yu Tianheng and Xue Qinghe watched. He killed the opponent with one sword, leaving both groups wondering how much strength he still concealed.

• Yu Tianheng judged Sword Wine very strong and postponed the Heaven Dou Royal Team’s trip to Suotuo City so he could fight him.
• Xue Qinghe and his Titled Douluo guards recognized Sword Wine as Li Zhixian and debated whether he could defeat Yu Tianheng.
• Sword Wine’s level-thirty-three opponent activated three spirit skills and charged at him.
• Li Zhixian empowered his azure blade with two spirit skills and beheaded the charging opponent.

Li Zhixian, fighting as Sword Wine, stunned the Soul Fighting Arena with a single-strike victory and drew the attention of the Heaven Dou Royal Team and Xue Qinghe. After a private conversation with Xue Qinghe, Li Zhixian went to face Yu Tianheng, and the chapter ended as they approached the arena.

• Li Zhixian killed a level thirty-three Battle Soul Master with one strike, and the crowd erupted in cheers for Sword Wine.
• The Heaven Dou Royal Team and the Titled Douluo Pufferfish and Snake Lance were shocked that Sword Wine had two thousand-year spirit rings, while Yu Tianheng resolved that he could still defeat him.
• Xue Qinghe left his VIP box and told Pufferfish and Snake Lance not to follow him.
• In his private room, Li Zhixian dropped his cold Sword Wine persona when Xue Qinghe entered, and the two discussed why Li Zhixian had kept his strength and Soul Fighting participation secret.
• Xue Qinghe shared Yu Tianheng's level, martial soul, spirit rings, and skills with Li Zhixian, who thanked him before heading to the arena.
• Li Zhixian and Yu Tianheng approached the arena from opposite stairways as the next match was announced.

Li Zhixian faced Yu Tianheng in the Imperial City Grand Fighting Arena and promised to defeat him with one sword. As Yu Tianheng charged with his lightning spirit skills, Li Zhixian drew the Azure Lotus Sword and unleashed the first style of his self-created sword technique, leaving the result unresolved.

• Yu Tianheng and Li Zhixian entered the arena as their supporters argued and fought in the stands.
• Li Zhixian told Yu Tianheng that he would still use only one sword, angering Yu Tianheng and drawing skepticism from the Heaven Dou Royal Team members watching.
• Yu Tianheng activated Wrath of Thunder, Thunder Dragon Claw, and Thunder's Might, then charged at Li Zhixian with a lightning attack.
• Xue Qinghe ordered Pufferfish and Snake Lance Douluo to ensure Li Zhixian was not injured, but they decided to wait and watch.
• Li Zhixian summoned the Azure Lotus Sword, activated Three Sword Splendor, and prepared to test his self-created sword technique.
• Li Zhixian swung the Azure Lotus Sword and announced the first style, Yaoguang Sword, as Yu Tianheng pounced toward him.

Li Zhixian defeated Yu Tianheng with a single sword and learned that the Royal Academy Team and the Nine Heart Begonia Family were investigating Sword Wine. At the Suotuo City Great Soul Arena, Yu Tianheng told the Shrek Seven Devils about his loss to Sword Wine, and Zhu Zhuqing suspected that Sword Wine was Li Zhixian.

• Li Zhixian's starlit sword broke Yu Tianheng's lightning barrier, hurled him from the arena, and left him gravely wounded.
• Dugu Yan asked Li Zhixian to remove his mask, but he ignored her and left the arena.
• Xue Qinghe told Li Zhixian that Dugu Yan and the Nine Heart Begonia Family were seeking Sword Wine, and that the Royal Academy Team had gone to Suotuo City.
• The Shrek Seven Devils defeated the Imperial Dou Team, and Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai taunted the injured Yu Tianheng.
• Yu Tianheng admitted the defeat and told Tang San, Dai Mubai, and the others that Sword Wine had beaten him with one sword.
• Zhu Zhuqing heard Yu Tianheng mention Sword Wine and wondered whether he was Li Zhixian.