Chapter Summaries

After Bibi Dong’s guard killed three attackers, Xia Yang returned to the dormitory and witnessed Yu Xiaogang break through to level twenty. Yu Xiaogang chose a Light-attribute dragon-blooded Spirit Beast for his Second Soul Ring, while Xia Yang explained his rapid cultivation by claiming he had a low-age Spirit Bone.

• Bibi Dong’s guard killed three Soul Ancestors who had appeared on the street, then escorted her and Xia Yang back toward the academy.
• Xia Yang returned to the dormitory and saw Yu Xiaogang’s Soul Power surge as he broke through the level twenty bottleneck and summoned Luo Sanpao.
• Yu Xiaogang decided to seek a Second Soul Ring from a Spirit Beast with both a Light attribute and dragon bloodline, despite possible objections from his clan.
• Yu Xiaogang told Xia Yang that he had written to his father and might have to return to the clan or be abandoned depending on how Luo Sanpao changed after absorbing the ring.
• Yu Xiaogang asked how Xia Yang had reached level twenty-seven, and Xia Yang attributed his fast cultivation to a low-age Spirit Bone.

Yu Xiaogang asked his father for a Light Attribute Spirit Bone, while Xia Yang gave Bibi Dong a birthday gift and asked her to introduce him to Chrysanthemum Douluo. Yu Yuanzhen set out for the Star Dou Great Forest, and Bibi Dong agreed to help Xia Yang.

• Yu Xiaogang wrote to Yu Yuanzhen requesting a Light Attribute Second Soul Ring and a Spirit Bone, then waited anxiously for a reply.
• Yu Yuanzhen agreed to find Yu Xiaogang a suitable Second Soul Ring but chose to hunt personally rather than use the clan's Spirit Bone reserves.
• Yu Yuanzhen summoned the clan elders, arranged the clan's affairs, and headed for the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xia Yang gave Bibi Dong a bracelet made from a ten-thousand-year Demon Soul Great White Shark tooth as a belated birthday gift.
• Xia Yang asked Bibi Dong to introduce him to Chrysanthemum Douluo so he could study herbs and explore making cultivation pills.
• Bibi Dong accepted the request and promised to ask Chrysanthemum Douluo in a few days.

Xia Yang became Chrysanthemum Douluo’s disciple and began studying medicinal herbs in his garden. Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang learned that his father was seeking a Spirit Beast and Spirit Bone for him, and the chapter ended with someone from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan arriving.

• Bibi Dong brought Xia Yang to Chrysanthemum Douluo, who agreed to teach him medicinal herbs and accepted him as his disciple.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo told Xia Yang that Dugu Bo and Yang Wudi were the only other kindred spirits he had found in medicinal herb research.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo instructed Xia Yang to visit his garden every weekend for lessons.
• Yu Xiaogang received a letter saying Yu Yuanzhen had gone to the Star Dou Great Forest to find a Spirit Beast for his Second Soul Ring and would seek a Light Attribute Spirit Bone.
• After another half month, Xia Yang told Yu Xiaogang that someone from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had arrived.

Yu Xiaogang received a six-hundred-and-fifty-year-old Light Dragon Horse and a ten-thousand-year Spirit Bone from his father, Yu Yuanzhen, and absorbed the beast’s Spirit Ring. Luo Sanpao helped absorb it, and both advanced, leaving Yu Xiaogang surprised by Luo Sanpao’s changes.

• Yu Luosha delivered Yu Xiaogang a Light Dragon Horse spirit beast and a ten-thousand-year Light Dragon Horse Spirit Bone on Yu Yuanzhen’s orders.
• Yu Xiaogang went with Yu Luosha to the clan stronghold and killed the sleeping Light Dragon Horse to obtain its Spirit Ring.
• Yu Xiaogang and Luo Sanpao absorbed the Spirit Ring together, and Yu Xiaogang’s Soul Power rose to level twenty-two.
• Yu Xiaogang discovered Luo Sanpao had helped absorb the Spirit Ring and noticed that his body had become slimmer and the protrusions on his head sharper.

Yu Xiaogang fused a Ten Thousand Year Light Attribute Spirit Bone, transforming Luo Sanpao and strengthening its new Spirit Skill. He then joined Xia Yang and Bibi Dong to begin researching a Cultivation Technique, sharing the preliminary materials he had compiled.

• Yu Xiaogang endured six hours of pain to absorb the Ten Thousand Year Light Attribute Right Arm Bone, and Luo Sanpao transformed, gaining golden fur, Dragon Horns, and a genuine roar.
• Yu Xiaogang showed the transformed Luo Sanpao to Xia Yang and Bibi Dong, then demonstrated its faster charge and explosive new Spirit Skill by smashing a rock.
• Xia Yang gathered Yu Xiaogang and Bibi Dong to begin researching a Cultivation Technique that could increase cultivation speed.
• Yu Xiaogang gave Xia Yang a booklet of meditation materials and the basic Cultivation Technique prototype he had compiled from years of research, and Xia Yang passed it to Bibi Dong.

Xia Yang, Yu Xiaogang, and Bibi Dong researched a new Cultivation Technique by collecting and analyzing Soul Power circulation data from Spirit Hall Soul Masters. After a year, they created and tested a first version, which Bibi Dong found steady, though she cautioned that her assessment was not finished.

• Bibi Dong agreed to help Xia Yang and Yu Xiaogang research a Cultivation Technique, and Xia Yang proposed separating data by Martial Soul type.
• Bibi Dong secured Qian Xunji's approval and ordered Spirit Hall branches to collect Soul Power circulation records from Soul Masters across the continent.
• Xia Yang and Yu Xiaogang sorted roughly twenty thousand Beast Martial Soul records and spent a year mapping their circulation routes.
• Yu Xiaogang extracted the routes common to all the records to create the first version of their Cultivation Technique.
• Bibi Dong tested the technique and reported that its circulation was calm and steady, then warned Xia Yang and Yu Xiaogang not to celebrate yet.

Xia Yang, Yu Xiaogang, and Bibi Dong developed the Hunyuan Technique after years of research and dangerous testing. After Xia Yang and Bibi Dong broke through to new Soul Power levels, Xia Yang proposed using Tool Martial Soul records for a long-term effort to create an even more advanced technique.

• Xia Yang began testing unused Soul Power routes on himself, suffered injuries from routes that caused Qi Deviation, and continued with Yu Xiaogang recording the results and Bibi Dong fetching healing help.
• Over the following year, Xia Yang tested more than ten thousand routes, and the three researchers used the Twelve Standard Meridians to create the Hunyuan Technique.
• Xia Yang and Bibi Dong tested the new technique in the library and broke through to Soul Power levels twenty-nine and forty, respectively.
• Xia Yang named the technique the Hunyuan Technique, and Bibi Dong led the group to celebrate their success.
• Xia Yang proposed using the records of Tool Martial Soul Masters as a long-term project to develop an even more advanced cultivation technique.

After Xia Yang, Bibi Dong, and Yu Xiaogang completed their cultivation technique research, Bibi Dong told Qian Xunji about their success and received powerful Whale Rubber to prepare for a higher-year Fourth Soul Ring. She consumed the Whale Rubber in her chambers, where its intense effects left her disoriented and thinking of Xia Yang.

• Xia Yang stored the research materials and planned to improve the Hunyuan Technique before celebrating with Bibi Dong and Yu Xiaogang.
• Bibi Dong returned to the Papal Palace drunk and told Qian Xunji that their cultivation technique was complete and rivaled the cultivation speed of High-Rank Martial Souls.
• Bibi Dong revealed that she had reached Level Forty, and Qian Xunji praised her and gave her superior Whale Rubber to strengthen her body before obtaining a Fourth Soul Ring.
• Bibi Dong went to her chambers and swallowed the Whale Rubber, then immersed herself in an ice bath as its burning energy spread through her body.
• As the Whale Rubber's effects left Bibi Dong dazed, she saw Xia Yang's face in her mind.

After improving her body with Whale Rubber, Bibi Dong visited Chrysanthemum Douluo’s garden to ask him to take her soul hunting. She waited with Xia Yang, who received a book of legendary medicinal herbs from his teacher before they prepared to leave.

• Bibi Dong finished bathing after using Whale Rubber and sensed that her body had improved.
• Bibi Dong found Xia Yang studying a book of legendary medicinal herbs in Chrysanthemum Douluo’s garden.
• Xia Yang told Bibi Dong to wait quietly while he read, and she watched him until Chrysanthemum Douluo returned.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo asked whether Bibi Dong was ready to hunt for a Spirit Ring, and she said her Soul Power was stable.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo invited Bibi Dong to set off and gave Xia Yang the book as a graduation gift.

Bibi Dong, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Xia Yang traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt a nine-thousand-year-old Thorny Hell Spider for Bibi Dong’s next Soul Ring. After Bibi Dong killed several sentinels and Chrysanthemum Douluo weakened the spider leader, the leader narrowly evaded her attack.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo persuaded Xia Yang to join him and Bibi Dong on a Spirit Beast hunt, and Xia Yang agreed.
• Yu Xiaogang waited alone at the Great Soul Arena in Spirit City and left after Xia Yang failed to show up.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo located a nine-thousand-year-old Thorny Hell Spider, and the trio found its nest in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Bibi Dong used a trap to bind and kill several Thorny Hell Spider sentinels with her soul skills.
• The Thorny Hell Spider leader emerged, and Chrysanthemum Douluo weakened it with Angel's Kiss before Bibi Dong attacked, but the leader dodged her web and spores.

Bibi Dong killed the Nine-Thousand-Year Thorny Hell Spider Leader and began absorbing its spirit ring while Xia Yang and Chrysanthemum Douluo guarded her. A Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast's roar triggered a Beast Tide, and Chrysanthemum Douluo raised a defensive barrier as the fleeing spirit beasts approached.

• Bibi Dong trapped the Thorny Hell Spider Leader with her soul skills, then used the creature's weakness after a distant roar to kill it.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo freed Bibi Dong from the spider silk, and she began absorbing the Thorny Hell Spider Leader's spirit ring.
• Xia Yang asked about another roar, and Chrysanthemum Douluo identified it as the call of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast far inside the forest.
• After more than half a shichen, the ground shook and Chrysanthemum Douluo recognized an approaching Beast Tide.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo created a circular chrysanthemum defense and spread a poison mist barrier as the Beast Tide's panicked vanguard, led by a Ten-thousand-Year Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, neared.

After Chrysanthemum Douluo left to investigate the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast’s roar, Xia Yang guarded Bibi Dong as she absorbed her Fourth Soul Ring. A poisoned five-thousand-year Hehuan Ape broke out of a cocoon in the Thorny Hell Spider’s nest and turned its attention toward Xia Yang.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo used his Ninth Soul Skill to hold back the Beast Tide, then left Xia Yang to protect Bibi Dong while he went toward the forest’s Core Region.
• Xia Yang waited as Bibi Dong’s Spirit Ring absorption neared completion, until he heard a cracking sound from inside the Thorny Hell Spider’s nest.
• Xia Yang fired his First Soul Skill at a cracking cocoon, but a Hehuan Ape broke free and dodged the attack.
• Xia Yang recognized the Hehuan Ape as a five-thousand-year Spirit Beast and noticed that its leg was badly poisoned.
• The Hehuan Ape’s caution gave way to ferocity as it focused on Xia Yang.

Xia Yang fought the Hehuan Ape while Bibi Dong absorbed the Thorny Hell Spider’s Thousand-Year Spirit Ring, then Bibi Dong awakened and killed the beast. When its Pink Poison Sac burst, the resulting mist drove them into a kiss and began wrapping them together in silk.

• Xia Yang endured the Hehuan Ape’s Taishan Meteor Fall and blasted off its arm with an Icefire Roar Bullet.
• Xia Yang bombarded the wounded Hehuan Ape, destroying its nest, but it fled toward Bibi Dong as she absorbed her Spirit Ring.
• Bibi Dong completed her absorption, gained her Fourth Soul Ring and used Thorny Spider Armor to block the Hehuan Ape’s attack.
• Bibi Dong pierced the Hehuan Ape with five Spider Spears and tore it apart, rupturing its Pink Poison Sac.
• The pink mist enveloped Xia Yang and Bibi Dong, who kissed as spider silk wrapped around them.

After Bibi Dong completed her Fourth Soul Ring, Xia Yang and Bibi Dong rested in the forest and learned from Chrysanthemum Douluo that a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Charming Rabbit had been hunting a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, causing the Beast Tide. Chrysanthemum Douluo said the tiger had escaped, leaving its fate unresolved.

• Xia Yang and Bibi Dong ended their prolonged cultivation in a silk cocoon after Chrysanthemum Douluo's imminent return reminded Xia Yang to stop.
• Xia Yang and Bibi Dong found that the Beast Tide had retreated, then lit a fire, ate roasted Spirit Beast meat, and rested.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo returned and told Xia Yang and Bibi Dong that a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Charming Rabbit had been chasing a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, causing the Beast Tide.
• Bibi Dong showed Chrysanthemum Douluo her completed Nine-Thousand-Year Fourth Soul Ring and credited Xia Yang and Whale Rubber for helping her absorb it.
• Xia Yang asked Chrysanthemum Douluo what had happened to the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, and Chrysanthemum Douluo said it had escaped.

After returning from the Star Dou Great Forest, Xia Yang learned that Yu Xiaogang was leaving the academy to return to his clan, while his own Soul Power had stalled at level twenty-nine. Yu Xiaogang demonstrated Luo Sanpao’s evolution to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and presented Yu Yuanzhen with the Hunyuan Technique, leaving his father impressed.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo led Xia Yang and Bibi Dong through several more days of Spirit Beast battles, improving their combat skills while Bibi Dong advanced to level forty-three and Xia Yang remained stuck at level twenty-nine.
• Back at Spirit City, Xia Yang learned that Yu Xiaogang was returning to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan after the clan summoned him to recognize Luo Sanpao’s potential.
• Xia Yang and Bibi Dong shared a farewell meal with Yu Xiaogang and accompanied him to the city gates, where he departed with the clan Deacon Yu Luosha.
• Xia Yang resumed training at the Great Soul Arena and researching the Hunyuan Technique, while his relationship with Bibi Dong quietly grew closer.
• Yu Xiaogang demonstrated Luo Sanpao’s improved form before Yu Yuanzhen and the clan elders, winning their support for his cultivation.
• Yu Xiaogang presented Yu Yuanzhen with the Hunyuan Technique, and Yu Yuanzhen read it with growing interest.

Yu Xiaogang gained the Blue Lightning Sect’s support for his cultivation, then helped the elders connect Spirit Hall’s mass Whale Rubber purchases to Xia Yang. Yu Luomian sent Yu Luosha to Spirit City to force Xia Yang to reveal what he knew, while Xia Yang remained unaware of the danger approaching.

• Yu Yuanzhen praised Yu Xiaogang’s Hunyuan Technique and approved full sect support for his cultivation.
• Yu Luomian reported that Spirit Hall had bought up nearly all the Whale Rubber on the continent, and Yu Xiaogang suggested Xia Yang might know why.
• Yu Luomian recalled that Yu Xiaogang had used sect channels to buy high-quality Whale Rubber for Xia Yang.
• Yu Yuanzhen ordered Yu Luomian to send people to Spirit City and secretly obtain the truth from Xia Yang, but spared Xia Yang at Yu Xiaogang’s request.
• Yu Luomian dispatched Yu Luosha to Spirit City while Yu Xiaogang settled into secluded cultivation and Xia Yang continued his ordinary academy routine.

Qian Xunji learned that Bibi Dong and Xia Yang had been secretly kissing and summoned Chrysanthemum Douluo to question him. He declared that he did not want their relationship to continue.

• Qian Xunji discovered a secret report about Bibi Dong and Xia Yang kissing in the Mimicry Cultivation Forest and burned it in anger.
• Qian Xunji summoned Chrysanthemum Douluo, who was processing medicinal materials with Xia Yang.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo recalled witnessing Bibi Dong and Xia Yang together in the Star Dou Great Forest and choosing not to report them.
• Qian Xunji questioned Chrysanthemum Douluo about Xia Yang and Bibi Dong, but Chrysanthemum Douluo denied knowing of their relationship.
• Qian Xunji told Chrysanthemum Douluo that he did not want Bibi Dong and Xia Yang to remain so close.

Qian Xunji separated Xia Yang and Bibi Dong by sending Xia Yang home and dispatching Bibi Dong to deal with Wolf Bandits. As they traveled in opposite directions, Yu Luosha arrived in Spirit City seeking Xia Yang and the secret of Whale Rubber, only to discover he was gone.

• Qian Xunji asked Chrysanthemum Douluo how to separate Xia Yang and Bibi Dong, then ordered him to send Xia Yang home to Precious Sword City on a long vacation.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo persuaded Xia Yang that a change of scenery might help his stalled Soul Power, and Xia Yang agreed to visit his parents.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo escorted Xia Yang out of Spirit City, while Qian Xunji ordered Bibi Dong to travel to the Star Luo Empire and eliminate a group of Wolf Bandits.
• Bibi Dong went to Xia Yang's dormitory to say goodbye, learned that he had already left, and departed for the Star Luo Empire with Ghost Douluo.
• Qian Xunji hoped the separation would weaken Xia Yang and Bibi Dong's feelings as Xia Yang headed north and Bibi Dong headed south.
• Yu Luosha arrived in Spirit City to investigate Whale Rubber, searched for Xia Yang, and found that he had already left.

Xia Yang returned to Precious Sword City and reunited with his parents, Huo Yang and Xia Shi. During their family banquet, he described his academy life and gave them the Hunyuan Technique he had developed with Bibi Dong and Yu Xiaogang.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo brought Xia Yang to the Precious Sword City Martial Soul Branch Hall, where Xia Yang reunited with his mother, Huo Yang.
• Huo Yang took Xia Yang home, and the old butler Liu Feng told him that Huo Yang had become a vice bishop while Xia Shi led the Xuanjia Mercenary Group.
• Xia Shi returned that night, and the family shared a banquet and caught up after years apart.
• Xia Yang told his parents about his academy life and reassured Xia Shi that Bibi Dong and Yu Xiaogang had been trustworthy partners in their research.
• Xia Yang showed his parents the Hunyuan Technique and explained that it was designed to help Soul Masters with ordinary aptitude and slow cultivation.

Xia Yang visited the Xuanjia Mercenary Group with his father, Xia Shi, and met its four core members at the Jianshan Mountain Range. The introductions ended with Wei Long teasing Xia Yang for calling Tong Qian “Sister Qian” but addressing the men as uncles.

• Xia Shi told Xia Yang that he and Huo Yang had become Soul Emperors and described the elite Xuanjia Mercenary Group he had founded.
• Xia Yang said he had returned home because his cultivation had stalled at rank 29, and Xia Shi reassured him before the family celebrated together.
• The next morning, Xia Shi took Xia Yang to the Jianshan Mountain Range, where mercenaries gathered to seek jobs.
• Xia Shi introduced Xia Yang to Xuanjia Mercenary Group members Tong Qian, Zhang Cang, Zhang Dong, and Wei Long.
• Wei Long jokingly asked Xia Yang why he called Tong Qian “Sister Qian” but called the men uncles.