Chapter Summaries

Bibi Dong returned to Peach Blossom Spring Academy with the heads of the Star Luo Emperor and his commander after using Ye Lingling’s Soul Seizing Technique to uncover Star Luo’s attack. After the army was routed, Su Ran resolved to establish a nation that would protect the people, and Bibi Dong agreed to help him.

• Bibi Dong told Su Ran she had discovered Star Luo’s plan and killed the Star Luo Emperor and Grand Commander, but let Xue Ye live while rushing to the academy’s aid.
• Su Ran stopped Bibi Dong from going after Xue Ye and declared that he would establish a new nation on the land abandoned by the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Bibi Dong agreed to help Su Ran build a nation supported by and protective of its people.
• The Star Luo Army was routed, and Flender and Zhao Wuji emerged from hiding before scavenging the battlefield for coins.
• Zhu Zhuqing, Zhu Zhuyun, Mu Yunzhu, Wang Sheng, and the other students returned to the academy and apologized to Su Ran for failing to protect it.

After Peach Blossom Spring Academy survived a devastating attack, Su Ran ordered a counteroffensive against the Star Luo Empire, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and the Clear Sky Sect. He assigned his disciples and allies their missions, left Liu Erlong to guard the academy, and learned that Qian Renxue had arrived to help.

• Su Ran comforted the wounded disciples, rejected Dugu Bo's attempt to take the blame, and announced that the academy would counterattack its enemies.
• Su Ran ordered Zhu Zhuqing and Zhu Zhuyun to lead a force against Star Luo's ambush troops and then attack the Dai Imperial Family with Pope's Hall's soul masters.
• Su Ran sent Bibi Dong and Yue Guan to deal with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and sent Xiao Wu to summon allies and negotiate with the Heaven Dou Imperial Family.
• Su Ran entrusted Liu Erlong with guarding Peach Blossom Spring Academy and Little Koi Princess, removed her Golden Circlet, and taught her how to use it.
• Su Ran said he would personally attack the Clear Sky Sect, but Qian Renxue arrived and asked to help Spirit Hall settle its old grudge with the sect.

Peach Blossom Spring and Spirit Hall forces crushed Star Luo’s army, toppled its royal family, and destroyed the Clear Sky Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. After learning that Heaven Dou was now vulnerable, Xue Ye received a demand from Ning Rongrong to abdicate and grant Balak independence.

• Qian Renxue, Jiang Mo, Qian Jun, and Spirit Hall forces joined Su Ran, while Shui Bing’er, Shui Yue’er, Dugu Yan, and others wiped out Star Luo’s Western Sea army with Dugu Yan’s spreading Calamity Poison.
• Peach Blossom Spring’s disciples attacked Star Luo City, where nobles executed the Dai Clan and left the kingdom divided without a monarch.
• Yue Guan and Ghost Douluo led an assault that destroyed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s direct line and scattered its branches.
• Qian Renxue, Jiang Mo, and Qian Jun used Su Ran’s Nuclear Bomb to annihilate the Clear Sky Sect’s hidden retreat, then learned the weapon was too destructive and hazardous for ordinary use.
• Xue Ye rejected Xue Beng’s plan to invade Star Luo, fearing Peach Blossom Spring and Spirit Hall could turn against Heaven Dou.
• Ning Rongrong arrived at Heaven Dou’s hall as a Peach Blossom Spring student and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect master, demanding that Xue Ye abdicate and make Balak an independent kingdom.

After Suotuo City was devastated by the battle, visiting academies and Oscar helped its grieving residents. Ning Rongrong announced that Peach Blossom Spring Academy would provide reconstruction aid and establish an independent kingdom with a People's Classroom.

• Leng Cishuang ordered Skywater Academy to distribute its prepared gifts to Suotuo City's refugees.
• Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang found Oscar giving sausages to hungry children, and Huo Wu declared him her friend.
• Peach Blossom Spring Academy and several allied powers sent leaders, supplies, and representatives to aid the city.
• Ning Rongrong apologized to Suotuo City's residents and announced that grain and reconstruction funds would be distributed.
• Ning Rongrong declared that Peach Blossom Spring Academy had secured local independence and would establish a new kingdom and open the People's Classroom.

Su Ran apologized to Suotuo City's people for the devastation caused by the battle and announced compensation for survivors and victims' families. He opened Peach Blossom Spring Academy's public lecture to discuss how the newly autonomous territory would be defended and governed.

• Ning Rongrong announced Peach Blossom Spring Academy's public class as relief supplies arrived in Suotuo City.
• Suotuo City's residents discussed the territory's independence and awaited answers about its future leadership.
• Feng Xiaotian, Huo Wu, and other academy representatives gathered outside Peach Blossom Spring Academy for the lecture.
• Xue Ke and Tang Yuehua watched from the crowd and reflected on the war and their losses.
• Su Ran apologized to the people of Suotuo City, promised compensation, and introduced a public discussion about the territory's future defense and management.

Su Ran won the people’s trust and announced that the region around Peach Blossom Spring Academy would become an autonomous jurisdiction without a king, governed by elected representatives and equal rights for commoners and soul masters. As citizens pledged their support, the system rewarded him, activated the power of faith, and opened an immortal path channel.

• The people defended Peach Blossom Spring Academy and Su Ran, blaming the Star Luo Empire and Heaven Dou Empire for their suffering.
• Citizens called on Su Ran to become king, but he announced the creation of the Peach Blossom Spring Jurisdiction and said it would have no king.
• Su Ran proposed a Citizens' Representative Council, equal human rights, elected representatives, and a Soul Master Citizens' Army bound to protect the people.
• The crowd accepted Su Ran’s proposal and pledged to trust and cooperate with him.
• The system rewarded Su Ran for establishing the jurisdiction, increased his Soul Power and Soul Ring and Soul Bone ages, and activated incense faith and the immortal path channel.

After reaching level ninety-nine and reflecting on his responsibilities, Su Ran welcomed academy representatives who had helped Suotuo City recover from the Star Luo Army’s attack. The visitors drank his Peach Blossom Tea, and Huo Wu condemned the soldiers’ atrocities.

• Su Ran sensed the strength of his level-ninety-nine Soul Power and considered Suotuo City’s independence, the Sea God Assessment, and his teaching duties.
• Su Ran asked Ning Fengzhi about the strange auspicious aura gathering around him, but Ning Fengzhi could not see it.
• Wang Sheng thanked Su Ran for saving his wife and child from Star Luo soldiers, and Su Ran raised him to his feet with a breeze.
• Wang Sheng brought representatives from Skywater Academy, Blazing Fire Academy, Godwind Academy, and Elephant Armored Sect Academy to meet Su Ran.
• Su Ran welcomed the representatives and served them Peach Blossom Tea, while Huo Wu angrily denounced the Star Luo soldiers’ crimes.

Su Ran advised Huo Wu and Feng Xiaotian on improving their fighting techniques and demonstrated how wind pressure worked. He then announced that Peach Blossom Spring Academy would no longer enter teams in the All Continent Elite Soul Master Competition.

• Huo Xuan cautioned Huo Wu, while Su Ran praised her frankness and remembered Feng Xiaotian’s self-created skill.
• Feng Xiaotian bragged that his consecutive slashes had evolved, and Huo Wu asked Su Ran to acknowledge her Ring Fusion skill too.
• Su Ran explained the flaws in Feng Xiaotian’s consecutive slashes and advised Huo Wu and Feng Xiaotian to refine their use of fire and wind.
• Su Ran demonstrated wind pressure with a bamboo tube and a sheet of paper, impressing the visitors.
• Feng Xiaochuan joked that Godwind Academy might use Su Ran’s guidance to gain an advantage, and Su Ran announced that Peach Blossom Spring Academy would stop entering the competition.

Su Ran announced that Peach Blossom Spring Academy would skip the All Continent Elite Soul Master Competition but hold its own public challenge, while the Pope's Hall would compete in its place. Shui Yue'er and Meng Yiran returned from their mission against the Star Luo Empire, and Shui Yue'er was summoned to Su Ran's office for a private gift.

• Feng Xiaochuan, Leng Ningshuang, and the other guests urged Su Ran to let Peach Blossom Spring Academy enter the competition, but he refused and proposed an academy-run public challenge instead.
• Su Ran explained that the challenge would test students' strength and character, and Huo Wu and Feng Xiaotian discussed teaming up to face their old rivals.
• Shui Yue'er and Meng Yiran returned to the academy, reunited with their relatives, and Meng Yiran revealed she had reached the Soul Sage realm.
• Shui Yue'er told Su Ran that she and her sister had helped purge the Star Luo Empire and advanced their Sea God trials, then asked whether they should continue their trials or return to the academy.
• Su Ran told Shui Yue'er she could continue her trials and asked her to come alone to his office, leaving her excited and Huo Wu curious about her mysterious aura.

Huo Wu challenged Shui Yue'er to a friendly spar, but Shui Yue'er dominated with her Flowing Water Fist and revealed a terrifying seven-ring configuration. The chapter left the onlookers stunned as Shui Yue'er activated her fifth soul skill, “Tides, return.”

• Huo Wu asked Su Ran for permission to challenge Shui Yue'er, and he allowed the spar with strict warnings against serious injury.
• Shui Yue'er revealed that her martial soul had evolved into the Azure Sea Whale after absorbing the Evil Orca King's Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Huo Wu attacked with her soul skills, but Shui Yue'er countered with Flowing Water Fist and forced Huo Wu onto the defensive.
• Huo Wu used Fire Shadow Clone and Huo Wu Blazing Sun to surround Shui Yue'er with three attacks.
• Shui Yue'er revealed seven soul rings—four purple, two black, and one red—and activated her fifth soul skill, “Tides, return.”

Shui Yue'er defeated Huo Wu and revealed her Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, astounding the gathered academy leaders. Meng Yiran then revealed that she too was a seven-ring Soul Sage with a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, while Huo Wu asked Su Ran to train her as well.

• Shui Yue'er used Tidal Dragon Breath to extinguish Huo Wu's attack and defeat her.
• Huo Wu conceded defeat and expressed envy at Shui Yue'er's strength and Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• The academy leaders praised Shui Yue'er, and Dragon Duke and Snake Grandma discussed her achievements with Meng Yiran.
• Meng Yiran revealed her seven soul rings, including a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, astonishing the spectators.
• Dragon Duke and Snake Grandma thanked Su Ran for nurturing Meng Yiran, and Su Ran credited the girls' good fortune.
• Huo Wu approached Su Ran and asked him to help her grow stronger.

Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, and Feng Xiaotian asked Su Ran to take them as disciples, and he accepted them as closed-door disciples under conditions. The system then rewarded Su Ran with increased soul power, stronger Soul Rings and Soul Bones, cultivation methods, draws, and a temporary hundredfold return on disciples' Faith Power.

• Huo Wu asked Su Ran to accept her as a disciple, and Huo Wushuang explained her request to Huo Xuan.
• Feng Xiaotian and Huo Wushuang knelt beside Huo Wu and asked to study under Su Ran and help guard the Peach Blossom Spring District Republic.
• Su Ran accepted Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, and Feng Xiaotian as closed-door disciples, requiring them to study at Red Maple Academy Hall and pass an assessment before entering Peach Blossom Spring Academy.
• Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, and Feng Xiaotian received Peach Blossom Badges and promised to obey Su Ran and the academy's rules.
• Su Ran's system assessed the new disciples and rewarded him with increased soul power, improved Soul Rings and Soul Bone ages, cultivation methods, six ultimate-skill draws, and a hundredfold return on Faith Power for one hundred days.

Huo Wushuang, Feng Xiaotian, and Meng Yiran said goodbye to their families and visitors before settling into Peach Blossom Spring Academy. Wang Sheng and Xiao Chenyu welcomed the two new male students, and Xiao Chenyu revealed that he wanted them to join him in beating practice.

• Huo Xuan warned Huo Wu to behave at Peach Blossom Spring Academy and told Huo Wushuang to keep an eye on his sister before leaving.
• Feng Xiaochuan urged Feng Xiaotian to focus on his studies and not pursue romance, and Feng Xiaotian admitted he understood Huo Wu's interest in Teacher Su Ran.
• Meng Yiran gave Dragon Duke and Snake Grandma her modified Little Meng Peach Blossom Blade as a parting gift.
• Leng Ningshuang said goodbye to Su Ran and offered to help with Suotuo City's reconstruction, while Shui Yue'er watched her hold his hand.
• Wang Sheng and Xiao Chenyu welcomed Huo Wushuang and Feng Xiaotian, and Xiao Chenyu asked them to help beat him during their fist practice.

Xiao Wu showed Huo Wu around Peach Blossom Spring Academy and explained the senior disciples’ training and recent breakthroughs. Huo Wu was stunned to learn that many of her new fellow disciples were already Soul Sages, leaving her convinced she was the academy’s weakest student.

• Xiao Wu assigned Huo Wu a room in the Red Maple Academy Hall dormitory and introduced her to the academy.
• Huo Wu toured the academy and learned about the senior disciples’ demanding training and Wang Sheng’s powerful punches.
• Xiao Wu took Huo Wu to watch Wang Sheng and Xiao Chenyu practice with Huo Feng and Feng Xiaotian, warning her not to challenge senior disciples before Teacher taught her their ultimate arts.
• Xiao Wu told Huo Wu that she, Wang Sheng, and other disciples had reached level 60 or 70 and that Zhuqing had the highest Soul Power.
• Huo Wu was shaken by the disciples’ rapid progress and thought she was the worst student in the academy.

Huo Wushuang and Feng Xiaotian tested their strength against Xiao Chenyu, whose incredible healing and toughness let him withstand their combined attacks. Xiao Chenyu credited his growth to his teacher and Wang Sheng, leaving the new students inspired by Peach Blossom Spring Academy’s training.

• Wang Sheng encouraged Huo Wushuang and Feng Xiaotian to fight Xiao Chenyu so he could assess their abilities for their teacher.
• Huo Wushuang and Feng Xiaotian introduced their ranks and Martial Souls, then attacked Xiao Chenyu with fire and wind skills.
• Xiao Chenyu dodged their first attacks, revealed steel claws, and pressed forward as the two junior brothers tried to keep their distance.
• Huo Wushuang and Feng Xiaotian combined dragon fire and a tornado of wind blades, but Xiao Chenyu charged through the flames and rapidly healed his injuries.
• Xiao Chenyu caught both junior brothers by the shoulders and told them not to lose heart, explaining that their teacher and Wang Sheng had helped him rise from rank nineteen Soul Power.

After Xiao Chenyu revealed how dramatically he had grown since his earlier Level 19, Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, and Feng Xiaotian met Teacher Su Ran at Peach Blossom Spring Academy. Su Ran taught them that strength carried responsibilities and invited each to choose a special art to learn.

• Xiao Chenyu told Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, and Feng Xiaotian that his cultivation method made him stronger through being beaten, startling them with his rise from Level 19.
• Su Ran summoned Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, and Feng Xiaotian to the academy, where Wang Sheng escorted them along the peach blossom path.
• Su Ran asked the three new students why they wanted to become stronger; Huo Wushuang cited happiness, Huo Wu wanted to make her family and Fire Element Soul Masters proud, and Feng Xiaotian admitted he had never settled on a goal.
• Su Ran taught them that becoming strong meant establishing themselves and serving the country, the people, and the academy.
• Su Ran offered to teach each of them a special art suited to their needs and asked what they wanted to learn.

Su Ran taught Feng Xiaotian the Wind God Leg and the Great Desolation Wind Earl Technique, demonstrating their devastating power. Feng Xiaotian could only begin with the first realm, but Su Ran transmitted both techniques’ insights to him.

• Huo Wu asked to become Su Ran’s strongest student, Huo Wushuang asked to become the best in the Fire Element, and Feng Xiaotian said he wanted to master wind.
• Su Ran demonstrated the first five forms of the Wind God Leg among the peach blossoms, astonishing Feng Xiaotian and the others.
• Su Ran performed the sixth form, Thunderous Wind Rush, and lightning struck him as Shui Yue'er joked about his romantic misdeeds.
• Su Ran unleashed the seventh form, Heaven and Earth Share One Wind, Shatter the Universe, sending a massive wind footprint through the thunderclouds and into the sky.
• Feng Xiaotian admitted he could only start with the first realm, so Su Ran transmitted the Wind God Leg and Great Desolation Wind Earl Technique to him.

Su Ran offered Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang a dangerous Fire Element technique after describing the power of nuclear explosions. He explained that he wanted to teach them Fire Fission and Fire Fusion, leaving them to decide whether to pursue the training.

• Feng Xiaotian entered deep comprehension after Su Ran taught him Wind God Leg and the Great Desolation Wind Earl Technique.
• Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang pleaded with Su Ran to teach them, and he agreed to show them a technique suited to their Fire Element Martial Souls.
• Su Ran claimed the technique could counter the abilities of Rongrong, Zhuqing, Yan, and Xiao Wu, exciting Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang.
• Huo Wushuang asked about the mushroom cloud and destruction near Heaven Dou City, and Su Ran confirmed that he had caused it with a basic Nuclear Bomb.
• Su Ran explained nuclear fission and fusion in simple terms and offered to teach Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang Fire Fission and Fire Fusion, warning that the training was dangerous.

At Peach Blossom Spring Academy, Su Ran taught Huo Wushuang Fire Fission and Huo Wu Fire Fusion, demonstrating the techniques’ destructive power and explaining their principles. He also gave them cultivation manuals and warned them to report any progress before practicing in an uninhabited desert, then began teaching Huo Wu the Fire Cloud Fist.

• Su Ran demonstrated Fire Fission by manipulating fire-element particles, blasting the ground and withering nearby Peach Blossom Trees.
• Su Ran explained Fire Fission to Huo Wushuang and gave him its diagrams, techniques, and the Rising Dragon Fist.
• Su Ran taught Huo Wu the principles of Fire Fusion, and she reasoned that compressing her Huo Wu Blazing Sun could make it erupt with greater power.
• Su Ran gave Huo Wu the Fire Fusion manual and told both students to report their progress before practicing in an uninhabited desert.
• Su Ran began teaching Huo Wu the Fire Cloud Fist.

Xue Ke and Tang Yuehua went to Peach Blossom Spring Academy to beg forgiveness for Heaven Dou’s role in the harm done to Suotuo City and the academy. After Xue Ke knelt in the rain through the night, a rabbit arrived with Teacher’s invitation.

• Xue Ye considered the succession and worried that Xue Beng might provoke Peach Blossom Spring, while Xue Ke’s relief work had earned her respect.
• Xue Ke tied thorny branches to her back and went with Tang Yuehua to Peach Blossom Spring Academy to atone for Heaven Dou’s actions.
• Xue Ke knelt beside Red Maple Academy Hall and refused Yao Zi and the Mu Yunzhu sisters’ attempts to persuade her to stop.
• Tang Yuehua knelt with Xue Ke, saying she was atoning on behalf of Eldest Brother, Second Brother, and the innocent people who had died.
• After a day and a night of rain, Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang tried to keep Xue Ke warm and dry.
• A rabbit arrived and told Xue Ke and Tang Yuehua that Teacher had invited them over.