Chapter Summaries

Li Fei overwhelmed the Elephant Armor Academy Team in the tournament, defeating all six opponents and securing Plant Academy Team’s place in the top fifteen. His extraordinary strength drew attention from the factions in attendance, and Elephant Armor Academy’s leader decided to report him to the Sect Master.

• Huyan Houtu sent five teammates to surround Li Fei, but Li Fei trapped them with Jianmu Prison and eliminated them with Wood Dragon Technique.
• Huyan Houtu charged Li Fei with his Diamond Mammoth, but Li Fei countered with Giant Wood Dragon Technique and pinned him down.
• Li Fei revealed that he was Level Thirty-Eight and attributed his advantage to his development of Martial Souls and Soul Skills.
• Huyan Houtu’s final attack failed, and Li Fei crushed his defense, leaving him unconscious and winning the match.
• The host announced Plant Academy Team’s victory and top-fifteen qualification as factions began gathering information about Li Fei.
• The Elephant Armor Academy team leader resolved to report Li Fei’s strength to the Elephant Armor Sect’s Sect Master.

After Li Fei’s solo victory over the Elephant Armor Academy Team drew attention, Crown Prince Xueye and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect considered his potential and whether to recruit him. Both decided to wait until they could see him compete in person.

• After the match, Li Fei’s companions celebrated his growing fame and potential noble title, while he considered how his victories could earn him a higher rank.
• A guard gave Crown Prince Xueye a report about Li Fei’s Level 38 strength and his defeat of all seven Elephant Armor Academy members.
• Xueye praised Li Fei as a talent but listened as his guard questioned the growth potential of his Willow Tree Spirit; Xueye decided to watch Li Fei’s next match before making plans.
• Ning Fengzhi read the report with Chen Xin and Gu Rong, who suggested that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect assess Li Fei in person before trying to recruit him.

After Li Fei led Plant Academy to victory over Elephant Armor Academy, Huyan Zhen ordered a covert assassination, while both Plant Academy and Chihuo Academy prepared for their next match. Li Fei left for the tournament arena with Enjing and the others as the assassination plot remained underway.

• Huizi told Li Fei and the Plant Academy team that they would face Chihuo Academy, and Li Fei began planning their strategy.
• Huyan Zhen learned that Plant Academy had defeated his team and agreed to the team leader’s plan to hire stealth assassins to kill Li Fei.
• Chihuo Academy’s team leader warned the team about Li Fei, but the Chihuo Seven dismissed the threat because their flames countered plants.
• A man delivered Li Fei’s portrait and Gold Soul Coins to the Underground Black Market to arrange an assassination.
• Li Fei observed the Willow Realm’s growth, then left with Enjing and the women for the afternoon match.

Li Fei faced Chihuo Academy with the Plant Academy Team, drawing powerful observers’ attention when he revealed his Golden Dragon Willow Martial Soul and its Dragon’s Might. He opened the match by protecting his teammates with a combined domain, leaving Chen Xin convinced that Li Fei was an extraordinary talent worth recruiting.

• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, Zhilin, Crown Prince Xueye, and other influential figures gathered to watch Li Fei compete against Chihuo Academy.
• Chihuo captain Huo Xiang taunted the Plant Academy Team and summoned his fire-type Martial Soul before the teams prepared to fight.
• Li Fei summoned his Golden Dragon Willow, prompting Zhilin, Chen Xin, Ning Fengzhi, and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan members to recognize its exceptional quality and Dragon’s Might.
• Li Fei activated his First Soul Skill, the Two Forms Life Revival Domain, enveloping the Enjing Six Women in restorative energy and a yin-yang pattern.
• Chen Xin recognized Li Fei’s skill as a domain and urged Ning Fengzhi to recruit him at any cost.

Li Fei’s domain helped the Enjing Six Women defeat the Chihuo Academy Team Seven and take revenge for their earlier humiliation. After the team celebrated, Li Fei discovered a group of mercenaries hunting him and prepared to pick them off one by one.

• Li Fei’s domain drained and suppressed the Chihuo Seven while empowering the Enjing Six Women, who knocked out the team and won the match.
• The host declared the Plant Academy Team the winner, and Li Fei explained that he had let the women fight so they could overcome their psychological shadow.
• After returning to the Rose Hotel, Li Fei sensed the Dark Night Mercenary Seven tracking him and led them toward a forest.
• The mercenary captain split the group up to search for Li Fei, and Li Fei chose the lowest-level Soul Elder who had boasted he could kill him alone as his first target.

Li Fei used the Demon Eye Magic Pupil to kill a mercenary squad that had come after him and learned they had taken a bounty from the Underground Black Market in Heaven Dou City. He infiltrated a Bounty Shop disguised as the squad captain to uncover the person behind the contract.

• Li Fei trapped the squad’s weakest member in an illusion, looted him, and buried him alive as nourishment for the Willow Tree.
• Li Fei used the Demon Eye Magic Pupil Clone to kill the rest of the squad with tailored illusions and learned through Mental Interrogation that they had accepted a bounty to kill him.
• Li Fei found a mysterious Parchment Scroll marked with a Treasure Chest in the squad captain’s Storage Ring, then headed to the Underground Black Market.
• Li Fei used Wood Release: Transformation Technique to impersonate the Dark Night Squad captain and entered a Bounty Shop.
• Li Fei told the shopkeeper the mission had cost the squad many people and demanded to contact the backer behind the bounty, while using an illusion to make the shopkeeper see Li Fei’s bloody head.

Li Fei discovered that the bounty issuer behind the attempt on his life remained unidentified, so he set a Willow Branch clone to wait for them. After killing the mercenaries sent after him, he returned to the Rose Hotel and prepared for the Plant Academy Team’s match against Leiting Academy while refining pills.

• Li Fei searched the Underground Black Market shopkeeper’s memories, found no way to identify the masked bounty issuer, and left a Willow Branch clone underground to catch them later.
• The Chihuo Academy Team learned that Li Fei had been holding back and were warned not to seek revenge as they prepared to face Godwind Academy.
• Huyan Zhen learned that the Dark Night Squad had accepted the Elephant Armor Sect’s bounty on Li Fei and ordered his subordinate to keep the sect’s involvement secret.
• Li Fei returned to the Rose Hotel, where Huizi told him the Plant Academy Team would face Leiting Academy, and he reassured her that the match posed no problem.
• Li Fei gave pills to Enjing and the other women before leaving their room and refining pills from Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemums in his own room.

Li Fei refined twenty Golden Body Immortal Pills and completed his Ice Fire Indestructible Golden Body by consuming one himself. He gave the remaining pills to the Enjing Seven Women, then took them to Sunset Forest to hunt for Soul Rings.

• Li Fei refined twenty perfect pills from the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and named them Golden Body Immortal Pills.
• Li Fei consumed a pill and formed the complete Ice Fire Indestructible Golden Body, which could grow stronger with him.
• Enjing told Li Fei she had reached level 30, while Xu Ya and the other women reported nearing the same breakthrough.
• Li Fei gave Golden Body Immortal Pills to the eight women; Xu Ya and the other six reached level 30, and Huizi advanced from level 61 to 65.
• Li Fei warned the women to keep the pills secret, enclosed them in wooden coffins, and carried them underground toward Sunset Forest to find Soul Rings.

Li Fei guided the Enjing Seven Women through Sunset Forest to find suitable Third Soul Rings, then helped Suofeiya absorb a nine-thousand-year Jade Bamboo Soul Ring. Suofeiya survived the absorption and reached Soul Power Level Thirty-Eight.

• Li Fei recommended Soul Beasts for each woman's Third Soul Ring and warned them about the risks of absorbing Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings.
• Li Fei located the seven recommended Soul Beasts and led the group to a nine-thousand-year Jade Bamboo for Suofeiya.
• Li Fei restrained the Jade Bamboo's roots, allowing Suofeiya to sever its last root and defeat it.
• Suofeiya absorbed the Jade Bamboo's Soul Ring while Li Fei protected her with his Two Forms Life Revival Domain.
• Suofeiya completed the absorption and her Soul Power Level rose to Level Thirty-Eight, matching Li Fei's.

Suofeiya, Enjing, Ailin, and the other Plant Team members gained powerful third soul skills and reached high Soul Elder levels after absorbing nine-thousand-year soul rings. The team returned to Heaven Dou City and entered its final Preliminary Rounds match against the Leiting Academy Team, determined to avenge its earlier defeat.

• Suofeiya gained the Jade Block skill, raised her soul power to level 38, and left a Jade Bamboo seed for the Willow Realm.
• Enjing absorbed a nine-thousand-year Soul Devouring Willow, reached level 39, and gained Soul Devour Bind.
• Ailin absorbed a nine-thousand-year Ghostly Night Vine, reached level 38, and gained Ghost Shadow Assault.
• The Plant Team members obtained third soul skills from nine-thousand-year soul rings, and every member became a high-rank Soul Elder.
• The Plant Team left Sunset Forest, returned to Heaven Dou City, and headed to its match against the Leiting Academy Team.

The Plant Academy Team faced Leiting Academy in the final Preliminary Rounds match, revealing that every member had become a Soul Elder. Li Fei’s domain weakened their opponents, and his Demon Eye Magic Pupil caused one attacker to wander off the stage as the battle continued.

• Yu Tianming ordered Leiting Academy to target Li Fei, then led his team to the arena.
• Li Fei and the Plant Academy Team entered before a packed crowd, while Ning Fengzhi and other major figures watched.
• The Plant Academy Team revealed that all seven competitors were Soul Elders, shocking Leiting Academy and the spectators.
• Suofeiya challenged Yu Tianming and claimed their team had improved through hard work and good fortune.
• The teams began fighting, and Li Fei’s domain weakened Leiting Academy as the Plant Academy Team gained the advantage.
• A Leiting Academy speed-attack Soul Master charged at Li Fei, but Li Fei’s Demon Eye Magic Pupil trapped him in an illusion and led him off the stage.

Plant Academy defeated the Leiting Academy Team in the final preliminary-round duel, and Li Fei tactfully refused Ning Fengzhi’s invitation to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. The other recruiters abandoned their efforts, while Crown Prince Xueye considered binding the Plant Academy students to the Heaven Dou Empire with peerages.

• Chen Xin deduced that Li Fei had used a mental illusion soul skill to make the Thunder Leopard youth leave the arena.
• Suofeiya used her Jade Block soul skill to overpower Yu Tianming, and the Plant Academy Team defeated the Leiting Academy Team.
• The referee declared Plant Academy the winner and announced that the advancement tournament would take place in one month.
• Ning Fengzhi invited Li Fei and the others to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, but Li Fei declined on behalf of the group and affirmed their commitment to Plant Academy.
• The other forces gave up on recruiting the students, while Crown Prince Xueye and Zhilin departed to report their plans to the emperor.

Xue Gan warned Xue Ye that his fatal poison left the Heaven Dou Empire vulnerable, then urged him to cultivate Li Fei as a powerful ally. Meanwhile, Li Fei discovered the Elephant Armor Sect’s plot against him and planted a disguised clone among its ranks.

• Xue Gan revealed that the 90,000-Year Heart Devouring Poison was killing him and warned Xue Ye to secure support while preparing to rule.
• Xue Ye told Xue Gan about Li Fei, and Xue Gan planned to grant Li Fei the title of Gold Willow Earl if Plant Academy performed well in the Advancement Tournament.
• Li Fei returned to the Rose Hotel without knowing about Xue Gan’s plan to recruit him.
• Li Fei used Soul Capture on the Elephant Armor Team Leader and learned that the Team Leader and Huyan Zhen had plotted to kill him.
• Li Fei killed the Team Leader and sent a disguised clone with his memories to infiltrate the Elephant Armor Team and gather intelligence.

Li Fei taught the Enjing Seven Women to conceal their Soul Power and Soul Rings, then revealed the hidden Changqing Sect and invited them to join. They accepted and began training at the sect’s underground base, while Li Fei prepared to refine more Immortal Herbs and raise his own Soul Power.

• Li Fei warned the Enjing Seven Women that revealing their rapid advancement and powerful Soul Rings could attract danger, and taught them a method to conceal both.
• The Seven Women practiced the method and successfully lowered their apparent Soul Power and hid their later Soul Rings.
• Li Fei brought the Seven Women into a Spiritual Illusion World and told them that he and the Headmistress had secretly established the Changqing Sect.
• The Seven Women agreed to join the Changqing Sect and promised to keep its existence secret.
• Li Fei took them to the sect’s underground base, where they began training in an area rich in Life Force and Wood Attribute energy.
• Li Fei entered his Alchemy Room to refine the remaining Immortal Herbs and work toward reaching the Fortieth Rank.

Li Fei refined Eight Immortals Pills and gave them to Enjing Seven Women, Su Ru, and Huizi, who used them to advance their Soul Power. After Su Ru reached rank eighty and Huizi reached rank seventy, Li Fei’s Clone joined them to arrange hunts for their next Soul Rings and Enjing Seven Women’s fourth Soul Rings.

• Li Fei refined Eight Immortals Pills and sent Clones to deliver them to Enjing Seven Women, Su Ru, and Huizi.
• Enjing Seven Women took the pills and began cultivating in hopes of reaching Fortieth Rank.
• Su Ru took the Eight Immortals Pill and Golden Body Immortal Pill, fused their effects with the Ice Fire Immortal Pill, and broke through to rank eighty.
• Huizi took the Ice Fire Immortal Pill and Eight Immortals Pill, broke through to rank seventy, and asked Su Ru to help her hunt for a Seventh Soul Ring.
• Su Ru and Huizi discussed arranging Soul Ring hunts, and Li Fei’s Clone appeared and offered to help them hunt Soul Rings for all three groups.

Li Fei led the Enjing Seven Women into Sunset Forest to train and hunt twenty-thousand-year Soul Beasts for their Fourth Soul Rings. Xiao An absorbed a Holy Light Bodhi Tree’s Soul Ring and gained a powerful area healing and attribute-boosting skill, and the group prepared to head for the cliffs.

• Li Fei explained the targets and training plan, then gave the women Autumn Water Immortal Pills to strengthen their Spiritual Power.
• The group reached Light Valley, where Xu Ya, Ailin, and the others fought through the Shining Butterfly swarm while Li Fei revived and restrained the survivors.
• The women battled the twenty-thousand-year Holy Light Bodhi Tree, with Enjing trapping its roots and Xiao An striking its core.
• Xiao An absorbed the tree’s black Soul Ring, rose to level forty-five, and gained Holy Light Radiance, which healed allies and increased their attributes by eighty percent.
• Li Fei praised Xiao An’s new skill and led the group toward the cliffs for their next target.

The group defeated the Adamantine Iron Vine and the Night Demon Iris, allowing Gela and Ailin to absorb powerful new Soul Skills. Ailin’s Martial Soul evolved into the Dark Moon Epiphyllum, and the Plant Team continued its hunt with Li Fei collecting the plants’ seeds.

• Li Fei collected a Holy Light Bodhi Tree Seed, and Gela led the group’s attack on the Adamantine Iron Vine until they defeated it.
• Gela absorbed the Iron Vine’s Black Soul Ring, gained the Indestructible Diamond Soul Skill, and reached rank forty-five.
• The group entered Gloomy Canyon, where Li Fei rescued Ailin from the Night Demon Iris’s illusion and helped the women defeat it.
• Ailin absorbed the Night Demon Iris’s Black Soul Ring, gained Moon Shadow Illusion Kill, evolved her Martial Soul into the Dark Moon Epiphyllum, and reached rank forty-five.
• Li Fei collected the Night Demon Iris’s seed, and Su Ru gave him a bag of rare seeds to cultivate.

Li Fei’s team hunted two powerful Plant Soul Beasts in Sunset Forest, helping Enjing obtain her Fourth Soul Ring before battling the Phantom Sound Devil Lily. Xu Ya killed the weakened Devil Lily, and the team prepared to claim its Soul Ring.

• Li Fei led the team into a wetland, where they fought a twenty thousand year Swamp Ghost Vine and Enjing killed it.
• Enjing absorbed the Ghost Vine’s black Soul Ring, gained her Fourth Soul Skill, Senluo Ghost Vine, and rose to level forty-six.
• The next morning, Li Fei warned the team about a Phantom Sound Devil Lily’s hypnotic spores as they entered a strange forest.
• Xu Ya used Celestial Requiem to counter the Devil Lily’s hypnotic waves while the team attacked under the boosted strength of two Holy Light Radiances.
• After a half-hour battle, Xu Ya killed the weakened Phantom Sound Devil Lily.

Xu Ya absorbed a Phantom Sound Devil Lily soul ring and gained the Celestial Sound Domain. In the restricted swamp, Fulei defeated a twenty-thousand-year Corrosive Poison King Flower, became a Soul Ancestor, and gained the Poison Explosion Domain.

• Xu Ya absorbed her fourth soul ring, reached level forty-five, and gained the Celestial Sound Domain.
• Li Fei led the team into the restricted swamp and identified a twenty-thousand-year Corrosive Poison King Flower as Fulei's target.
• Fulei fought the flower's poison with her own, bound it with her Datura tattoo, and extracted its Original Poison until it withered.
• Fulei absorbed the flower's soul ring as her body cycled through decay and rebirth, then reached level forty-five and gained the Poison Explosion Domain.

Li Fei’s team hunted in the Volcanic Rock Zone, where Suofeiya defeated and absorbed a twenty-thousand-year Dragon Blood Sword Orchid. With all seven women now at the Four Ring Soul Ancestor stage, the team continued deeper into Sunset Forest to seek a powerful Seventh Soul Ring for Huizi.

• Li Fei stored Fulei’s Overlord Flower seeds and led the team onward to Suofeiya’s hunt.
• Dragon Blood Sword Orchids attacked Suofeiya, and she fought them for three hours while Li Fei’s domain healed her wounds.
• Suofeiya’s Adamantine Grass Sword resonated with the orchids, causing them to submit and allowing her to absorb the strongest orchid’s twenty-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Suofeiya gained the Dragon Blood Berserk Fourth Soul Skill and reached Level Forty-Six, while Li Fei collected the orchid’s seeds.
• After all seven women obtained their Fourth Soul Rings, Li Fei led the team deeper into Sunset Forest to hunt for Huizi’s Seventh Soul Ring, which he said could come from a sixty- to seventy-thousand-year soul beast.