Chapter Summaries

Qin Mo held Myriad Manifestations Academy’s completion ceremony, revealing its formidable students and powerful guardian formation to the gathered factions and public. The academy officially opened its recruitment, and its name began spreading across the Heaven Dou Empire and beyond.

• Qin Mo presided over the completion ceremony at Myriad Manifestations Academy, attended by Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, Gu Rong, Salas, and representatives from other factions.
• Qin Mo declared that the academy would explore the origin of martial souls and help its students pursue the pinnacle of power.
• Bing’er, Yan’er, Zhu Zhuqing, Ye Lingling, and Ning Rongrong released their martial souls and displayed their high cultivation levels, astonishing the crowd.
• Qin Mo activated the academy’s Nine-Colored Mountain Protection Formation and announced that recruitment for its first batch of students would begin.
• Qin Mo led the five girls back inside the academy as news of Myriad Manifestations Academy spread across the Heaven Dou Empire.

Myriad Manifestations Academy drew attention from factions across the continent as Qin Mo managed visitors seeking to learn its secrets. The chapter ended when the academy’s formation repelled a powerful, hidden probe, revealing that a serious enemy had begun testing its defenses.

• Crowds of curious visitors and spies gathered outside the academy while Qin Mo monitored them through its formation and ordered Bing'er to let them watch unless they crossed the line.
• Ode of the Starlight Auction House visited with gifts and tried to buy information about the academy’s methods for accelerating cultivation, but Qin Mo refused and redirected him toward Dugu Bo.
• Ode left convinced that the academy was far more powerful than an ordinary force, and Qin Mo received further visits from representatives of other factions.
• A concealed strand of Spiritual Power near the level of a Titled Douluo tried to penetrate the academy’s barrier.
• Qin Mo and Qin Yuan detected the probe, and the formation struck back, injuring the hidden figure and forcing him to flee.

Qin Mo set the admissions rules for Myriad Manifestations Academy and oversaw its first three-stage assessment, which admitted eighteen students from nearly a thousand applicants. Lin Xiaowan and Huo Yun stood out among the new students, who entered the academy as its first official class.

• Qin Mo announced thirty available places and established the Path of Heart's Inquiry, Spirit Testing Monument, and Illusion Battle Hall as the three admissions stages.
• Bing'er and Yan'er began the first assessment, where Lin Xiaowan and Huo Yun passed the Path of Heart's Inquiry alongside fifty-five other applicants.
• During the second stage, Qin Mo allowed Lin Xiaowan to continue despite her low monument result, while Huo Yun displayed supreme-grade talent; twenty-one applicants advanced.
• Huo Yun passed the Illusion Battle Hall with the Soul Suppressing Bell, and Lin Xiaowan endured the attacks despite her weak Straw Martial Soul.
• Eighteen applicants passed all three stages, and Qin Mo welcomed them as Myriad Manifestations Academy's first official students.

Myriad Manifestations Academy held its Opening Ceremony, where Qin Mo laid down its strict rules and granted new students monthly access to the Myriad Manifestations Pagoda. After experiencing the pagoda’s extraordinary cultivation energy, the students trained intensely ahead of the first Monthly Assessment, while watchers beyond the academy continued to gather.

• Qin Mo welcomed the eighteen new students, announced the academy’s rules, and assigned them monthly Pagoda Training Hours according to their ratings.
• The new students received Student Tokens and cultivation supplies, then entered the Myriad Manifestations Pagoda and were astonished by how quickly they could cultivate there.
• Huo Yun resolved to reach level 30, while Lin Xiaowan vowed to make the most of her special admission and five hours of monthly pagoda access.
• Qin Mo and Ning Rongrong reviewed the students’ cultivation data, and Qin Mo announced that the first Monthly Assessment would take place in three days and affect their next resource quotas.
• The students intensified their training in preparation for the assessment as outside observers gathered more closely around the academy.

Myriad Manifestations Academy held its first monthly assessment, where Huo Yun took first place and Lin Xiaowan surprised everyone by earning a middle ranking. As the students received their new resource quotas, a powerful, nonhuman presence probed the academy’s protective barrier.

• Huo Yun trained intensely without breaking through level 30, while Lin Xiaowan, Mo Fang and Mo Zheng, Ying Qi, and Su Ling'er prepared their abilities for the assessment.
• Qin Mo announced the three-part assessment, and the students completed evaluations of Soul Power, Martial Soul control, and combat.
• Huo Yun defeated his same-rank spear-wielding phantom, while Lin Xiaowan used her Straw Martial Soul to defend herself and survive her fight long enough to qualify.
• The rankings gave Huo Yun first place with Class A+, Shi Lei second, and Lin Xiaowan a middle placement with Class C, earning them new training hours and pills.
• Qin Mo urged the students to improve for next month’s assessment, and Huo Yun resolved to reach level 30.
• A powerful, unusually savage strand of Spiritual Power probed the academy’s barrier, and Qin Mo and Qin Yuan sensed that the observer might not be human.

Qin Mo used the Myriad Manifestations Pagoda to repel a probing Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear King, then began teaching the academy’s new students that martial souls and their limits could be traced and transformed. The students were left stunned by his opening lecture.

• Qin Mo detected a powerful Spiritual Power probing the academy’s Guardian Great Formation and decided to test the pagoda’s attack function.
• The Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear King attacked the barrier with a Spiritual Power awl, but the pagoda struck its soul with Primal Magnet Annihilation Soul Light and seriously wounded it.
• The Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear King fled into the Star Dou Great Forest, while Qin Mo and Qin Yuan assessed the attack’s power and precision.
• Qin Mo told Qin Yuan he would teach Introduction to the Origin of Martial Souls to the new students the next day.
• Qin Mo told the students that Innate Soul Power, martial soul quality, and cultivation limits were not fixed and could be traced, explored, and transformed.

Qin Mo taught Myriad Manifestations Academy students that Martial Souls could be nurtured and evolved, then advised Huo Yun on breaking through his bottleneck and took him and Ning Rongrong to Star Dou Great Forest. While they were away, a strange intruder began corroding the academy’s Guardian Great Formation, triggering the highest-level alarm.

• Qin Mo taught that Martial Souls arose from Life Origin, bloodlines, and resonance with Heaven and Earth Laws, and that cultivation could nourish and transform them.
• Students including Huo Yun and Lin Xiaowan reconsidered their Martial Souls, while Qin Mo assigned them reflections and continued teaching specialized courses.
• Qin Mo told Huo Yun to seek a Third Soul Ring with suppression, confinement, or stabilization talents to break through his rank 29 bottleneck.
• Qin Mo left for Star Dou Great Forest with Huo Yun and Ning Rongrong to obtain Huo Yun’s Third Soul Ring.
• A shadowy intruder reached the academy’s Guardian Great Formation and began corroding its barrier, prompting Bing'er to activate the highest-level alarm.

A shadowy creature attacked Myriad Manifestations Academy’s barrier and nearly corrupted its formation before Qin Yuan drove it away. In the Star Dou Great Forest, Qin Mo sensed a warning from his martial soul and hurried the search for Huo Yun’s third soul ring.

• Bing'er sounded the highest-level invasion alarm, and the academy’s students and guards activated the Guardian Great Formation.
• A shadow creature corroded the barrier while Bing'er, Yan'er, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ye Lingling tried to repel it through the formation.
• Qin Yuan attacked the creature, which escaped as black smoke after narrowly dodging his strike.
• Qin Yuan recognized the lingering aura as belonging to the abyss and ordered the academy to repair the formation and remain on maximum alert.
• In the Star Dou Great Forest, Qin Mo felt a warning throb from his Nine-Story Demon Pagoda Martial Soul and urged Huo Yun and Ning Rongrong to find their target quickly.

Huo Yun obtained his Third Soul Ring from an Earth-Splitting Rock Beast and gained the Rock Domain skill. When Qin Mo returned to Myriad Manifestations Academy, he discovered that an abyssal creature had attacked its defenses and suspected the academy’s unusual residents had drawn it there.

• Qin Mo led Huo Yun and Ning Rongrong to a stone ravine, where Huo Yun defeated an Earth-Splitting Rock Beast with their assistance.
• Huo Yun absorbed the beast’s 1800-Year Third Soul Ring, reached level thirty-one, and gained the Rock Domain skill.
• Qin Mo received the academy’s highest-level warning and hurried back with Huo Yun and Ning Rongrong.
• Qin Yuan told Qin Mo that a shadow creature with corrosive abyssal energy had attacked the academy’s barrier.
• Qin Mo ordered the academy to strengthen and repair its defenses, add purification runes, and suspend outside missions.

After an abyssal creature corrupted Myriad Manifestations Academy’s barrier, Qin Mo purified and repaired it with a talisman array. He began planning a larger inner defense system and prepared to meet Dugu Bo.

• Qin Mo identified the barrier’s corruption as mutated abyssal power and assigned his allies to secure the academy and gather materials.
• With Ye Lingling’s help, Qin Mo drew a golden purification array that cleansed the corruption and repaired the barrier with added warning and counterattack functions.
• Qin Mo ordered the incident kept secret and proposed a Pure Heart Evil Cleansing Talisman Array beneath the academy, assigning Bing'er, Yan'er, Zhuqing, Lingling, and Rongrong to guard its nodes.
• The five women agreed to maintain the inner array despite the impact on their cultivation.
• A guard reported that Dugu Bo had arrived for an appointment, and Qin Mo ordered him brought to Reception Room One.

Qin Mo negotiated with Dugu Bo, offering to treat the Jade Phosphor Serpent Poison afflicting him and Dugu Yan in exchange for Dugu Bo joining Myriad Manifestations Academy. Dugu Bo accepted and received a pill to ease their symptoms while Qin Mo prepared a treatment plan.

• Qin Mo accurately described Dugu Bo’s secret symptoms and explained that the poison had become entwined with his body and soul, making ordinary cures dangerous.
• Qin Mo proposed gradually transforming the poison with the academy’s Ultimate Fire, Ultimate Ice, and Power of Life, then asked Dugu Bo to serve as Honorary Dean and Chief of the Pharmacy Hall.
• Qin Mo promised to treat Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan and improve Dugu Bo’s medicinal garden, while warning that Dugu Yan’s condition could damage her foundation if treatment was delayed.
• Dugu Bo agreed to join Myriad Manifestations Academy after Qin Mo swore upon his martial soul that he would do everything in his power to resolve both their poison.
• Qin Mo gave Dugu Bo a Clear Origin Root Solidifying Pill that would stabilize their poison and prevent symptoms for six hours, and promised a detailed diagnosis in three days.

Qin Mo completed the Pure Heart Evil Cleansing Talisman Array, an inner defense system that linked five purification nodes across Myriad Manifestations Academy. With the array activated, he turned his attention to strengthening the academy for the looming abyssal threat.

• After Dugu Bo left, Qin Mo designed an academy-wide purification and monitoring array centered beneath the Myriad Manifestations Pagoda.
• Qin Mo assigned Bing'er, Yan'er, Zhu Zhuqing, Ye Lingling, and Ning Rongrong to guard and operate the array's five secondary nodes.
• Qin Mo directed the academy guards and craftsmen as they built the underground nodes and connected them to the core energy pool.
• Ning Rongrong nearly caused an energy disturbance, and Zhu Zhuqing was shaken by negative energy, but Qin Mo and Ye Lingling helped stabilize them.
• Seven days later, Qin Mo and the five women activated the array, creating a purification field across the academy.
• Qin Mo considered the abyssal threat unresolved and looked toward the sealed rear courtyard as he planned to study Soul Tool technology and prepare a body-refining plan.

Qin Mo planned to advance Soul Tool research and began testing a new body-refinement method on students. He also performed Dugu Bo’s first treatment, easing the poison’s pressure and arranging another clearing in seven days.

• Qin Mo reviewed basic Soul Tool designs and decided to establish a research center to develop the technology.
• Qin Mo gave Huo Yun the first three levels of the Basic Body Refinement Art and ordered him to record his progress and any discomfort.
• Qin Mo taught adjusted versions of the body-refinement method to Shi Lei and Niu Hang to test its effectiveness on different physiques.
• Qin Mo examined Dugu Bo and found that the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor Poison had spread through his body and soul.
• Qin Mo used nine Origin Magnetic Needles to draw out some of Dugu Bo’s poison, then gave him a prescription and scheduled the next treatment for seven days later.

A hooded figure placed an enormous bounty on information about Myriad Manifestations Academy and Qin Mo, drawing spies and attackers to Heaven Dou City. Qin Mo strengthened the academy’s defenses and set its inner array to retaliate automatically, waiting for the bounty hunters to enter its trap.

• A hooded figure paid the Obsidian Exchange to spread a bounty for secrets about Myriad Manifestations Academy, offering up to one million Gold Soul Coins and ten million plus a soul bone for a way inside.
• The bounty spread through black markets and assassin organizations, bringing spies and probing attacks to the academy’s perimeter.
• Qin Mo told Bing’er to strengthen the guards, protect Dugu Bo, and continue monitoring Huo Yun and the other two students’ body-tempering progress.
• Qin Mo raised the Pure Heart Evil Cleansing Talisman Array’s activation to thirty percent and ordered it to retaliate automatically against evil energy or high-intensity attacks.

A group of bounty hunters attempted to breach Myriad Manifestations Academy, but the Pure Heart Evil Cleansing Talisman Array and patrol guards stopped them. Qin Mo assessed the defenses and prepared for the greater threat he expected from the hidden mastermind.

• A scar-faced Soul Emperor led several Soul Masters to exploit a weak spot in the academy's barrier and dig beneath it.
• The inner array detected the intruders and killed the burly Third with purification energy, while the Soul Tool disruptor overloaded and exploded.
• The array suppressed the remaining attackers, and patrol guards wounded and captured two of them as the scar-faced leader escaped.
• Qin Mo reviewed the array's performance and ordered Bing'er to interrogate the prisoners before handing them to the Imperial Patrol Camp.
• The bounty hunters around the academy became wary, while Qin Mo turned his attention to the Soul Tool Research Center and Body Refining Hall plans.

Qin Mo traveled to Fasno Province with Bing'er and Yan'er to buy Soul Tool supplies and investigate the unrest in Black Prison Forest. After Yan of Spirit Hall tried to detain them and attacked Qin Mo, Yan'er overwhelmed him, and the trio left for the forest.

• Qin Mo, Bing'er, and Yan'er reached Fasno City to purchase materials, but rare Soul Tool components were scarce and expensive, so Qin Mo bought ordinary supplies instead.
• At a tavern, Qin Mo learned from mercenaries that a fast black shadow in Black Prison Forest had drained Soul Power from victims and left them as dried corpses.
• Yan of Spirit Hall arrived to investigate the forest and approached Bing'er and Yan'er, but they ignored him and left with Qin Mo.
• Yan accused the trio of being suspicious and ordered his stewards to block their way; when Qin Mo mocked him, Yan attacked with his Flame Lord martial soul.
• Yan'er released her Ultimate Fire aura, extinguishing Yan's attack and forcing him back, after which Qin Mo led Bing'er and Yan'er out of the tavern.
• Yan ordered his subordinates to investigate the trio, while Qin Mo and his companions set off for Black Prison Forest.

Qin Mo, Bing'er, and Yan'er entered the Black Prison Forest to find the source of its corrupting energy, fighting monsters that fed on life and Soul Power along the way. After Spirit Hall deacons led by Yan stumbled into their shelter, Yan accused Qin Mo of being an Evil Soul Master and attacked; Qin Mo subdued the deacons and prepared to punish Yan.

• Qin Mo sensed that the Black Prison Forest's monsters were contaminated derivatives and led Bing'er and Yan'er deeper to seek their source.
• Yan'er burned two attacking monsters with her Fire Feather Arrow, Bing'er froze two, and Qin Mo absorbed several with the Nine-Story Demon Pagoda.
• Qin Mo used the Demon Pagoda—Myriad Snake Barrier to devour waves of monsters, but found their essence too tainted to use.
• Yan and his battered Spirit Hall deacons arrived, and Yan accused Qin Mo of luring out the monsters and plotting in Fasno Province.
• Qin Mo ignored Yan and headed toward the forest's core, but Yan ordered his deacons to surround the trio and attack them as Evil Soul Masters.
• Qin Mo released overwhelming Spiritual Power that knocked the deacons unconscious and left Yan immobilized as he aimed the Nine-Story Demon Pagoda at him.

Qin Mo interrupted his attack on Yan when a vast Dark Will awakened at Black Prison Forest’s core, then led Bing'er and Yan'er to investigate its source. At the sinkhole, he identified a mutated Soul Master and effortlessly destroyed its attack, ordering it to come out.

• A powerful Dark Will shattered Qin Mo’s Demon Vine Barrier and freed Yan from his spiritual pressure, so Qin Mo led Bing'er and Yan'er toward the forest’s core.
• Qin Mo and the two women passed through the polluted inner forest and reached a sinkhole where black mist and energy converged.
• Qin Mo used the Nine-Story Demon Pagoda’s Origin Power to see a tumor-like mass containing a chained humanoid figure, which he identified as a Soul Master mutated by Dark Energy.
• The mass attacked Qin Mo and the women with a giant black claw, but Qin Mo dissolved it with a flick of his finger.
• Qin Mo ordered the Mutated Being to come out or face him inside the sinkhole.

Qin Mo and the two girls fought the Dark Soul Core’s phantom assault, and Qin Mo used the Nine-Story Demon Pagoda to destroy its flesh body and capture its escaping origin. He absorbed the purified origin into the pagoda, where it began forming its fourth Soul Ring.

• Bing'er and Yan'er combined ice and fire Soul Skills to hold back the Dark Soul Core’s waves of Soul Beast Phantoms while Qin Mo erased the strongest attackers with spatial power.
• Qin Mo summoned the Nine-Story Demon Pagoda and crushed the Dark Soul Core’s Hundred Souls Defense Wall and flesh tumor beneath it.
• The Dark Soul Core’s origin fled, but Qin Mo’s hidden Mandala Snake Emperor demon-vine threads trapped it and stripped away its impurities.
• Qin Mo drew the purified dark origin into the Nine-Story Demon Pagoda, where it began forming a powerful fourth Soul Ring.

Qin Mo absorbed the Dark Soul Core to complete his Fourth Soul Ring, reaching Soul Power Level forty-four and eliminating Black Prison Forest’s immediate threat. As he returned to Myriad Manifestations Academy with Bing'er and Yan'er, Bishop Salas ordered an investigation and prepared to implicate them as Evil Soul Masters.

• The Nine-Story Demon Pagoda refined the Dark Soul Core, and Qin Mo gained his Fourth Soul Ring and advanced to Soul Power Level forty-four.
• Qin Mo confirmed that the Dark Soul Core’s destruction had ended the threat of monsters in Black Prison Forest, then left with Bing'er and Yan'er.
• Qin Mo’s group found that Yan and the surviving Spirit Hall members had fled the site of their earlier clash.
• Bishop Salas arrived with Yan, ordered his subordinates to investigate Qin Mo’s group, and directed them to frame the Black Prison Forest report around Evil Soul Masters.
• Qin Mo, Bing'er, and Yan'er continued toward Myriad Manifestations Academy as Qin Mo considered future trouble and finding Soul Rings for his companions.