Chapter Summaries

Nan Li ordered a deeper investigation into Luo Gu while he and Zhu Zhu Lang prepared to flee to Heaven Dou City. After Nan Li and Luo Gu dominated the Soto Great Soul Arena, they advanced to Gold Soul Master, leaving them with no teams willing to challenge them.

• Nan Li mocked Dai Mubai for remaining an Iron Soul Master, then asked Dan Hong to investigate Luo Gu’s background and have the Third Elder watch the Second Prince of Star Luo.
• Luo Gu told Zhu Zhu Lang that they would leave for Heaven Dou City after he obtained his fourth Soul Ring, warning her that fleeing would mean abandoning her identity as the Zhu Family’s Second Miss.
• Zhu Zhu Lang cut off her hair, disguised herself in Luo Gu’s robe, and declared that she had chosen freedom over her family status and marriage contract.
• Zhu Zhu Lang complained about the marriage arrangements trapping her sisters and condemned Zhu Zhuqing’s fiancé for abandoning her.
• Nan Li and Luo Gu won repeatedly at the Soto Great Soul Arena, advanced to Gold Soul Master, and found that no teams would accept their challenges.

Nan Li trained hand-to-hand combat with Luo Gu, who taught her human fighting techniques. Later, Zhu Zhu Lang and Luo Gu ambushed Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun with sacks and beat them before disappearing.

• Nan Li sparred with Luo Gu, learned to target vulnerable areas, and privately considered how she might defeat him despite their size difference.
• After training until midnight, Luo Gu met Zhu Zhu Lang, who had disguised herself as a young man and planned to wait for someone leaving the Soul Arena.
• Dai Mubai celebrated his fourth consecutive spirit-fight win and decided to return to Shrek Academy with Ma Hongjun instead of going out.
• On their usual route home, Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun heard a cat cry and were trapped under sacks by Zhu Zhu Lang.
• Zhu Zhu Lang beat the two with a wooden stick while Luo Gu helped, then warned Dai Mubai not to steal women from her.
• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun, unable to understand the attack, limped back to Shrek Academy.

Nan Li defeated a level-forty-three defense-type Soul Ancestor with her self-created soul skill, Broken Sun, and reached level forty. As she prepared to leave for Heaven Dou City, Luo Gu asked her and Dan Hong to help him obtain a Soul Ring, while Flender announced that Dai Mubai would soon enter the Star Dou Great Forest for his own Soul Ring.

• Nan Li used Broken Sun to defeat the defense-type Soul Ancestor at the Soto Great Soul Arena, then announced that she had reached level forty.
• Dan Hong agreed to tell Flender that Nan Li was ready to leave for Heaven Dou City.
• Luo Gu asked Nan Li to help him obtain his fourth Soul Ring, and Nan Li arranged to meet him at Suotuo City's south gate at dawn.
• Flender told Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun that Zhao Wuji would lead them into the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain Dai Mubai's Soul Ring.
• Flender warned Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun to behave themselves after announcing that Ma Hongjun's evil fire problem had been resolved.

Nan Li helped Luo Gu find a fourth Soul Ring in the Star Dou Great Forest, then used her Leaving Fire to refine another Soul Ring for Dan Hong. The chapter left Nan Li questioning how Dai Xiyun had supported Luo Gu after his departure from Star Luo.

• Nan Li left the academy with Dan Hong and Luo Gu to search for Luo Gu's fourth Soul Ring.
• Nan Li identified a roughly twelve-thousand-year-old Tiger-Lion Beast as a suitable choice, and Luo Gu killed it before absorbing its Soul Ring.
• Nan Li killed the other Lion-Tiger Beast and refined its Soul Ring with Leaving Fire, preparing it for Dan Hong.
• Dan Hong told Nan Li that Dai Xiyun had arranged help for Luo Gu and Zhu Zhu Lang to leave Star Luo, and Nan Li wondered how Luo Gu had obtained a Soul Tool.

Nan Li sent Fei Fei to deliver a guarded message and learned that the Zhu Family was closing in on Zhu Zhu Lang. Luo Gu escorted Zhu Zhu Lang out of Suotuo City, while Nan Li completed her fourth Soul Ring and gained another area-of-effect skill.

• Nan Li sent Fei Fei to report to the Third Elder that the Second Prince and Sun Island must be kept secret from Dai Xiyun.
• Fei Fei told Nan Li that Dai Xiyun had intercepted the Luo Family's people and the Zhu Family was nearing Suotuo City, so Nan Li told Dan Hong to send Luo Gu to find Zhu Zhu Lang once he woke.
• Luo Gu reached Suotuo City after absorbing his Soul Ring and, warned by the Second Prince's subordinate that the Zhu Family was nearby, led Zhu Zhu Lang north.
• Nan Li obtained her fourth Soul Ring, whose dark color astonished Dan Hong, and discovered that it granted another area-of-effect skill.

Nan Li and Dan Hong flew toward Heaven Dou City, discussing Dugu Bo’s medicinal garden and the limits of realgar as an antidote. Meanwhile, Dong Yun hurried there to meet Nan Li but waited outside the city gates without seeing her.

• Nan Li asked Dan Hong about Dugu Bo, and they decided to visit his medicinal garden and potentially recruit him as an ally.
• Jiang E Li explained how Tang San had gained access to Dugu Bo’s Immortal Grasses, and Nan Li learned that realgar could not reliably cure snake venom.
• Dan Hong told Nan Li that her Heavenly Pool water, pills, and Southern Bright Leaving Fire made her resistant to toxins.
• Dong Yun asked Huo Wushuang to request leave and flew from Blazing Fire Academy toward Heaven Dou City after hearing Nan Li was coming.
• Dong Yun waited outside Heaven Dou City from sunrise until midday, while Nan Li had yet to arrive.

Nan Li and Dong Yun reunited outside Heaven Dou City after years apart, exchanged stories, and discussed Nan Li’s suspicions that Qian Renxue had lived another life. Dong Yun reassured Nan Li that Qian Renxue would not harm her, while keeping her reasons to herself.

• Dan Hong told Dong Yun that Nan Li was waiting ten kilometers away, and Dong Yun flew to meet her.
• Nan Li and Dong Yun greeted each other warmly, and Nan Li explained that her new Domain Skill, Chongming, let her switch between two Domains.
• Dong Yun examined the Cloud-Swallowing Fire Howl’s Inner Core, then spent the night telling Nan Li what had happened since they parted on Sun Island.
• Nan Li told Dong Yun that she had met Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Qian Renxue, and suspected Qian Renxue knew the future because she had lived another life.
• Dong Yun approved Nan Li’s warning to the clan and said Qian Renxue would not attack her without cause, though she kept her reasons secret.

Nan Li and Dong Yun discussed Qian Renxue’s long-term infiltration of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and reviewed the allies and dangers surrounding Nan Li. The chapter ended with Nan Li teasing Dong Yun by suggesting she win Ning Rongrong over to disrupt Qian Renxue’s plans.

• Dong Yun revealed that Xie Yue had entered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect on the day Ning Rongrong awakened her martial soul, as part of Qian Renxue’s plan to gain influence over the sect.
• Nan Li and Dong Yun agreed that Qian Renxue might know the future, but they lacked proof and could only warn Sun Island while preparing to grow stronger.
• Nan Li explained how she had subdued the Cloud-Swallowing Fire Howl, awakened the Chongming Domain Skill, and recovered from the resulting injuries.
• Nan Li told Dong Yun about meeting the Hell Spirit Cat and Luo Gu, who had left their families and were fleeing, and noted Luo Gu’s ties to Dai Xiyun.
• Nan Li suggested that Dong Yun use her appearance to win Ning Rongrong over and undermine Qian Renxue, prompting Dong Yun to grab her in exasperation.

Nan Li, Dong Yun, and Dan Hong traveled into the Sunset Great Forest to find Dugu Bo’s Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. They reached his hidden spring and found him refining poison, but Dan Hong insisted they wait rather than interrupt him.

• Nan Li asked Dong Yun about Dugu Bo’s herb garden, and Dong Yun identified the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in the Sunset Great Forest.
• A few days later, Nan Li, Dong Yun, and Dan Hong set out to reach the well, while Dan Hong planned to trade medicinal treasures and help Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan with their toxins.
• Dan Hong used her first Soul Skill, Weave Fire, to drive away a group of Silver Ring Snakes with a medicinal powder.
• Nan Li burned a safe passage through the poisonous mist, and Dong Yun activated her Great Sun Domain as the three entered the mountain area.
• The group spotted Dugu Bo refining poison above the spring, and Dan Hong told Nan Li and Dong Yun to wait so they would not distract him.

Dan Hong interrupted Dugu Bo’s failed poison refinement, demonstrated her mastery of fire control, and used a detoxification pill to make his toxins flare up. After warning him about his granddaughter Dugu Yan and proposing a deal, she faced Dugu Bo’s pressure as Nan Li and Dong Yun revealed their Domains and Nan Li manifested her Chongming Bird Skull Skill.

• At Dan Hong’s urging, Dugu Bo reduced the flames beneath his unstable Medicine Furnace, and Dan Hong refined nine pills using a furnace made from fire.
• Dugu Bo poisoned Dan Hong, but she swallowed a Liwu Jingqi Pill that neutralized part of the toxins in his body and caused them to flare up.
• Dan Hong warned Dugu Bo that his granddaughter Dugu Yan might not live long, then offered him a deal and handed him the Intertwined Branch Purifying Bottle.
• Dugu Bo rejected the medicine and released his Titled Douluo pressure, but Nan Li and Dong Yun protected the group with their Domains.
• Nan Li manifested her Chongming Bird Skull Skill, King's Eye, as Dugu Bo struck at the Domains.

Dan Hong challenged Dugu Bo to a contest of poison and medicine after he confronted her group on his territory. She neutralized his poison and caught a Nine-Sectioned Jade, then dangled it in front of Nan Li and suggested she prove its danger by eating it.

• The Chongming Bird Soul Bone clashed with Dugu Bo’s Medusa Skull, and Dong Yun lent Nan Li his Soul Power.
• Dan Hong stopped Dong Yun from attacking and asked Dugu Bo to state his intentions; he questioned the group about trespassing on his territory.
• Dan Hong challenged Dugu Bo to test his poison against her medicine, and she turned his poisonous mist harmless with a pill and medicinal powder.
• Dugu Bo produced a Nine-Sectioned Jade, and Dan Hong caught it and claimed that she and Nan Li were not afraid of it.
• Dan Hong dangled the Nine-Sectioned Jade in front of Nan Li and asked her to show Dugu Bo whether the snake was formidable, leaving Nan Li shocked at the implied demand to eat it.

Dan Hong, Nan Li, and Dong Yun tested Dugu Bo and discussed their reasons for visiting, then explored the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and its rare medicinal plants. The chapter ended with Dan Hong warning Dugu Bo to protect the valley’s treasures.

• Dong Yun roasted the Nine-Sectioned Jade with True Sun Fire after Nan Li refused to eat it, and Dan Hong ate it instead.
• Dan Hong revealed that she had secretly given Dugu Bo medicine to calm his excessive heart fire, leaving him weak; he conceded defeat and heard the group’s requests concerning medicinal herbs and Spirit Hall.
• Dan Hong and Dugu Bo discussed his Martial Soul backlash while Nan Li and Dong Yun looked over the cliff toward the springs.
• Dugu Bo led the three down to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Dan Hong identified several Immortal Grasses and explained their uses.
• Dan Hong told Dugu Bo she had no intention of taking the valley’s treasures and warned him that someone might steal them; Dugu Bo insisted he was not stupid.

Nan Li and Dong Yun showed their resistance to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well while Dan Hong examined Dugu Bo’s herbs and left him waiting for treatment. After Dan Hong returned to prepare medicines, Dong Yun carried Nan Li around Heaven Dou City, where they reminisced about Nan Li’s childhood.

• Nan Li and Dong Yun touched the Yang Spring without serious injury, while Dan Hong and Dugu Bo burned their fingers trying it.
• Dan Hong questioned Dugu Bo about keeping Snowy Swan Kiss, then left without promising when she would treat his poison.
• Dan Hong returned to their lodging to prepare new medicines, and Dong Yun offered to take Nan Li sightseeing and find food.
• Dong Yun carried Nan Li through Heaven Dou City after Nan Li called her big sister.
• Dong Yun bought Nan Li a bird-shaped sugar painting and recalled how round and fluffy Nan Li had been as a child.

Dong Yun and Nan Li headed to the Heaven Dou Auction House to seek a chance to meet Ning Fengzhi, but they ran into Huo Wushuang and Huo Wu along the way. Huo Wu brought Nan Li to the auction, and the four entered after Dong Yun and Huo Wushuang showed their stored-value cards.

• Dong Yun and Nan Li left the market street and set out for the Heaven Dou Auction House, hoping to encounter Ning Fengzhi.
• Huo Wushuang and Huo Wu ran into Dong Yun, and Dong Yun introduced Nan Li as his younger sister.
• Huo Wu warmed to Nan Li and offered to take her to the Auction House, then led her there with Dong Yun and Huo Wushuang following.
• An Auction House staff member asked whether the four had bidding qualification certification, and Dong Yun and Huo Wushuang presented stored-value cards.
• The staff member admitted the four guests to the Auction House.

Huo Wu brought Nan Li, Dong Yun, and Huo Wushuang to the Auction House, where Nan Li revealed her extraordinary cultivation level and agreed to join Blazing Fire Academy after graduating. The visit ended with Huo Wushuang discovering that Dong Yun was a girl who had been disguising herself as a boy while studying away from home.

• Huo Wu explained the Auction House's bidder qualification levels and led the group to the purple seating section.
• Nan Li showed Huo Wu her Gold Soul Master badge and said she was ten years old, had level forty-three Soul Power, and possessed the Flame Feather Vermilion Bird Martial Soul.
• Huo Wu invited Nan Li to join Blazing Fire Academy after graduation, and Nan Li agreed.
• Huo Wushuang suggested that Dong Yun share a boys' dormitory room with him, prompting Nan Li to clarify that Dong Yun was her sister.
• Dong Yun explained that she had dressed as a boy for convenience while studying away from home, and Huo Wushuang awkwardly accepted her explanation.

At the Heaven Dou Auction House, Huo Wu kissed Dong Yun before the group noticed Qian Renxue, and Nan Li later realized Qian Renxue could sense her through a Golden Feather. Back at their residence, Dong Yun grew alarmed when Nan Li could not remember where the feather came from and asked what she recalled after Spirit Hall invaded Sun Island.

• Huo Wu kissed Dong Yun, and Huo Wushuang realized his sister had cared for Dong Yun because she was a woman.
• Huo Wushuang recognized the disguised Crown Prince, Qian Renxue, who nodded to Nan Li before taking a seat.
• Huo Wushuang offered to arrange for Dong Yun to move into the girls' dormitory, and Huo Wu invited Nan Li to visit Blazing Fire Academy.
• Nan Li and Dong Yun left the auction house, and Nan Li laughed at the awkward farewell before asking whether Dong Yun's identity would cause trouble.
• Nan Li told Dong Yun that the Golden Feather let her sense Qian Renxue and that Qian Renxue seemed able to detect her too.
• Dong Yun said the Golden Feather carried a bloodline aura tied to her clan's forging method, then asked Nan Li what she remembered after Spirit Hall invaded Sun Island.

Nan Li learned from Dong Yun that she had spent twenty years in seclusion using the Southern Bright Leaving Fire to cleanse the poison threatening Sun Island, but she could not remember doing so. After Dong Yun shared her fears and their history as sisters, she wondered whether the soul in Nan Li’s Sea of Consciousness had altered her memories.

• Nan Li told Dong Yun that she could not remember events before entering the continent or anything her mother had left behind.
• Dong Yun recounted how Nan Li had used the Southern Bright Leaving Fire for twenty years to burn toxins from Sun Island’s currents, weakening and changing the flame.
• Dong Yun blamed herself for failing to protect Nan Li, but Nan Li comforted her and recalled how they had grown up as sisters.
• Dong Yun urged Nan Li to care for herself when they were apart, and Nan Li angrily rejected the thought of losing her.
• Dong Yun asked whether the soul in Nan Li’s Sea of Consciousness had tampered with her memories, but Nan Li doubted it could affect memories from before entering her body.

Nan Li and Dong Yun questioned Jiang E Li about the twenty years of memories she had received, uncovering clues about Sun Island and the Deep Sea Emperor Whale. Jiang E Li recalled Madam Lan Xi returning to the Coral Sea after the whale had arrived alone, leaving Nan Li and Dong Yun troubled by the priestess’s unexplained absence.

• Jiang E Li admitted that Nan Li had awakened about once a year to replenish Sun Island’s Southern Bright Leaving Fire, though her memories were incomplete.
• Dong Yun entered Nan Li’s Sea of Consciousness and grabbed Jiang E Li, who agreed to reveal what she knew.
• Jiang E Li recalled seeing a red bird arrive during Nan Li’s tenth awakening and an enormous whale approach Sun Island during her twelfth.
• Dong Yun explained that the injured Deep Sea Emperor Whale had returned after Madam Lan Xi searched for it, but Lan Xi had not come back with it.
• Jiang E Li remembered seeing the whale arrive alone, then seeing a woman with a Coral Scepter enter the Coral Sea after Nan Li’s fifteenth awakening; Nan Li and Dong Yun identified her as Madam Lan Xi.

Nan Li and Dong Yun learned that Nan Li’s memories of her transformation and seclusion were incomplete, while the Chongming Bird Skull revealed a powerful skill called King's Eye. Later, Nan Li accompanied Dan Hong to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Dan Hong began discussing treatment for Dugu Bo’s Martial Soul backlash as Nan Li cultivated.

• Jiang E Li recounted Nan Li’s changing flames and nineteen awakenings, but Dong Yun noticed that the memory’s first section was missing.
• Nan Li set aside the missing memories until they could visit the Holy Land and trained with Dong Yun beneath a tree.
• Dong Yun looked into the Chongming Bird Skull’s eyes, suffered a burst of pressure, and recovered after Nan Li withdrew the Soul Bone.
• Nan Li sensed that the Soul Bone currently held one skill, King's Eye, and speculated that more skills would unlock with greater Soul Power.
• Dong Yun returned to Blazing Fire Academy while Nan Li accompanied Dan Hong to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Dan Hong began studying how to treat Dugu Bo’s Martial Soul backlash, while Nan Li cultivated beside the Yang Spring.

Nan Li and Dan Hong negotiated with Dugu Bo for access to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, offering to treat his and Dugu Yan’s poison backlash and help Dugu Yan pursue godhood. After agreeing to a tournament condition, Nan Li and Dong Yun visited Blazing Fire Academy, where Huo Wu welcomed them.

• Dan Hong estimated she could resolve Dugu Bo’s poison backlash within three to six months and offered to treat Dugu Yan as well.
• Nan Li asked for Dan Hong to receive use of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and permission to take herbs, promising to help Dugu Yan pursue godhood and guarantee her safety.
• Nan Li showed Dugu Bo her four Soul Rings and promised to reach the Soul King Realm and win the next Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament; Dugu Bo agreed to the terms if she won.
• Dan Hong began refining medicine at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well while Nan Li cultivated nearby.
• After failing to find Ning Fengzhi at the Heaven Dou Auction House, Nan Li and Dong Yun went to Blazing Fire Academy and were greeted by Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang.