Chapter Summaries

Li Xuan fought Zhu Zhuyun’s five Spirit King guards and killed three of them despite his limited Soul Power. After Zhu Zhuyun escaped, Bangchui healed the unconscious Zhu Zhuqing, and Li Xuan brought her and Uncle Han back to the cave to rest.

• Zhu Zhuyun ordered five Spirit Kings to attack Li Xuan, who used his Killing Domain and flames to fight them despite being outmatched in Soul Power.
• Li Xuan killed the saber-wielding and staff-wielding Spirit Kings, while Zhu Zhuyun and the Support System Spirit King escaped through the poison mist.
• Li Xuan burned away the poison mist and killed the Snake Spirit King, then weakened himself from exhausting his Soul Power.
• Li Xuan found Zhu Zhuqing unconscious and had Bangchui examine her injuries.
• Bangchui healed Zhu Zhuqing enough to restore her color, though she remained unable to use Soul Power for a while.
• Li Xuan carried Zhu Zhuqing back to the cave, brought Uncle Han out of the Heaven-Grasping Bottle, and rested while Bangchui kept watch.

After recovering from the fight with Zhu Zhuyun’s people, Li Xuan accidentally entered Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s spiritual world and refused his offer of a million-year Soul Ring. The next morning, Zhu Zhuqing and Uncle Han had recovered enough to prepare to leave the Star Dou Forest, while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm continued pestering Li Xuan through their spiritual connection.

• Li Xuan recovered his Soul Power, then kept watch outside the cave while Bang Chui stayed with Zhu Zhuqing and Uncle Han.
• While drinking Enlightenment Tea, Li Xuan entered Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s spiritual world and learned that their spiritual frequencies had matched.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm offered to sacrifice himself as Li Xuan’s million-year Soul Ring, but Li Xuan refused and left the spiritual world.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm used their spiritual connection to nag Li Xuan through the night, and Li Xuan eventually persuaded him to be quiet.
• The next morning, Zhu Zhuqing and Uncle Han awoke, and Li Xuan and Bang Chui agreed to leave the Star Dou Forest after another day of rest.
• Li Xuan fell asleep in the cave while Bang Chui and Uncle Han kept watch.

After leaving the Star Dou Forest, Li Xuan and Bang Chui traveled to Star Luo City so Li Xuan could recruit guards and children for his territory. Li Xuan bought all five hundred children at a slave shop, while Bang Chui faced the slave market that reminded him of his own past.

• Li Xuan parted ways with Uncle Han and Zhu Zhuqing, giving them a carriage before setting off with Bang Chui toward Star Luo City.
• Li Xuan and Bang Chui spent a day exploring Star Luo City, then returned to their inn for the night.
• The next morning, Li Xuan brought Bang Chui to a slave market, and Bang Chui nervously agreed to enter despite his fear.
• Li Xuan told the Fat Shopkeeper he wanted children without awakened Martial Souls and low-level Spirit Masters.
• The Fat Shopkeeper offered five hundred children, most of whom had Soul Power, for one Gold Soul Coin each.
• Li Xuan paid five hundred Gold Soul Coins and told the Fat Shopkeeper to bring him all the children.

Li Xuan bought three low-level Spirit Master slaves with unusual utility skills, then recruited the gifted merchant Huang Shang to build a trading empire with his backing. After Huang Shang swore loyalty, Li Xuan agreed to keep searching the prison for other capable slaves.

• Li Xuan agreed to buy three Soul Grandmasters whose Martial Souls gave them skills in book copying, cleaning, and calculation for three thousand Gold Soul Coins total.
• Li Xuan asked Fat Shopkeeper to show him imprisoned slaves with special abilities and learned that Huang Shang had once managed the Hundred Beasts Caravan.
• Huang Shang explained that his employer had sold him after he built the caravan and threatened the employer’s position.
• Li Xuan offered Huang Shang one million Gold Soul Coins in startup capital and sales rights to his future goods, while promising not to interfere in his business.
• Huang Shang accepted the offer, pledged to earn Li Xuan increasing profits, and swore lifelong loyalty to him.
• Li Xuan agreed to inspect more unusual slaves after Fat Shopkeeper offered to show him others.

Li Xuan bought Bai Chuan, a one-armed former Soul Saint, from the slave market and brought him back to the inn. After learning Bai Chuan had been crippled, Li Xuan considered how to heal him and planned to leave for home the next morning.

• Bangchui noticed a slave with an unusual aura, and Li Xuan discovered that Bai Chuan could block his Soul Power attack using only his Broken Blade.
• Li Xuan bought Bai Chuan for thirty thousand Gold Soul Coins, ordered three thousand women who could work the fields, and arranged for Huang Shang and several Spirit Masters to be sent to his inn.
• Li Xuan gave Huang Shang a Soul Tool, one million Gold Soul Coins, and cultivation resources, promising to help him reach the Soul Saint realm if he cultivated diligently.
• Bai Chuan told Li Xuan that he had been a Level seventy-six Power Attack System Battle Spirit Master before an enemy crippled him six years earlier.
• Bangchui found Bai Chuan's meridians and dantian severely damaged, but Li Xuan refused to use Bangchui's Origin Power and considered healing Bai Chuan with medicinal treasures instead.

Li Xuan left Star Luo City with thousands of slaves and a large supply of ore, then led his companions on a fast journey back to Ladi Canyon. He arrived to find the territory greatly expanded and its people welcoming him as Immortal Master.

• Li Xuan sent Huang Shang to buy ore while he and Bai Chuan went to collect the remaining slaves, and he promised Bai Chuan that he would treat his injuries after they returned to his territory.
• The Fat Shopkeeper delivered three thousand farmwomen and five hundred children, whom Li Xuan stored in the Heaven-Grasping Bottle before leaving Star Luo City.
• Huang Shang caught up with Li Xuan carrying ore and several former merchant companions, and Li Xuan gave him full authority over the merchant caravan and its personnel.
• Li Xuan and Huang Shang organized a rapid return journey, using rotating drivers and Soul Beast Horses to reach Ladi Canyon after a day and a night.
• Li Xuan found Ladi Canyon fortified and transformed with farmland, irrigation, homes, warehouses, and a town, where Yellow Turban Warriors gathered to greet him as Immortal Master.

Li Xuan inspected the completed Ladi Canyon, assigned duties to three life-system Spirit Masters, and began organizing the people in his territory. He left the farm women housed and provisioned at an empty farm while their future work assignments remained undecided.

• The Yellow Turban Warriors told Li Xuan that Ladi Canyon was complete and that they would soon return to the Talisman, after which they showed him the farms, cities, and Main City.
• Li Xuan gave Huang Shang and Bai Chuan houses and assigned Sun Mu to manage the territory's accounts and Zhou Chen to oversee the City Lord's Mansion.
• Han Shucheng used Book Replication to restore and copy an old book, demonstrating that the ability could produce a lasting copy at the cost of his Soul Power and body weight.
• Li Xuan gave the three Spirit Masters cultivation resources, assigned each of them twenty subordinates to recruit, and ordered them to reach Level 20 within a year.
• Bangchui reminded Li Xuan about three thousand farm women and five hundred children, so Li Xuan settled the farm women at an empty farm and gave them food while postponing their work assignments.

Li Xuan tried to help Bai Chuan recover by giving him Enlightenment Tea, which drew him into a confrontation with the memory of his defeat by Sword Douluo Chen Xin. Bai Chuan overcame his fear and unleashed his blade intent, then collapsed unconscious after the memory revealed he had wounded Chen Xin.

• Li Xuan assigned Han Shucheng to manage the Library and gave him three months to reach Soul Power Level 20 and copy a hundred books.
• Huang Shang set out to trade, and Li Xuan gave him cultivation resources, supplies, Detoxification Pills, and auxiliary Elixirs.
• Li Xuan brought Bai Chuan to an underground Cultivation Room and gave him Enlightenment Tea to help overcome his Heart Demon and restore his body.
• Bai Chuan entered a memory of his battle with Sword Douluo Chen Xin and declared that he would not run away this time.
• Bai Chuan used his Martial Soul Avatar against Chen Xin, wounded him, and then fell unconscious as Li Xuan was expelled from the memory.

Bai Chuan recovered from his injuries, broke through to level 80, and awakened as a Spirit Douluo, while Li Xuan planned Ladi Canyon’s Dragon Tooth Rice cultivation and management. Li Xuan then arrived at Tool City and found it unexpectedly crowded with visitors.

• Bai Chuan’s Soul Rings reformed as he recovered, and he reached level 80; Bangchui examined him and prepared medicinal soup for his lingering injuries.
• Li Xuan ordered Zhou Chen to coordinate with Sun Mu and Han Shucheng to select farm workers and stewards for Dragon Tooth Rice training.
• Bai Chuan awoke and told Li Xuan he had reached level 80; Li Xuan promised to help him find a Soul Ring, and Bai Chuan recalled his ancestor’s Gengjin Bamboo Soul Ring and Gengjin Domain.
• Li Xuan left the secret chamber and headed to Burning Heaven Pavilion, which had become Tool City, where he was surprised to find crowds of people.

Li Xuan visited Tool City and Burning Heaven Pavilion, where he learned that Lou Gao had improved the Heaven-Shaking Hand Cannon and appointed Si Yu to help manage Tool City. He gave Lou Gao a valuable cultivation technique and left with the upgraded cannon and shells.

• Li Xuan stopped Tool City's terrified slaves from kowtowing and told them they would live and work under the city's administration.
• Li Xuan met Si Yu at Burning Heaven Pavilion, and Si Yu took him to see Lou Gao's progress on the Heaven-Shaking Cannon.
• Li Xuan gave Lou Gao ore and discussed Tool City's management, and Lou Gao named Si Yu deputy city lord for five years.
• Lou Gao showed Li Xuan a reinforced Soul Tool Heaven-Shaking Hand Cannon with improved runes and firing mechanisms.
• Li Xuan accepted the hand cannon and a crate of shells, then gave Lou Gao a copy of Douluo No. 1 and promised him a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring after he reached Title Douluo.

Li Xuan inspected Wine City, put Tao Lin in charge of expanding its brewing business, and promised to help the Tao Family shed their slave status. He prepared to travel to Star Dou Forest with Bai Chuan and Tao Lin’s relatives to hunt Soul Beasts, then asked Tao Lin what kinds of Soul Beasts the family needed.

• Li Xuan visited Wine City and gave Tao Lin authority to recruit workers, manage the city, and sell its alcohol through merchant caravans.
• Li Xuan promised to provide a medicinal wine recipe and eventually remove the Tao Family’s slave status, then asked Tao Lin to arrange for Spirit Masters at bottlenecks to meet him.
• Li Xuan learned the Tao Family’s cultivation progress and promised to take those ready for Soul Rings to Star Dou Forest.
• Li Xuan found Bai Chuan training Bangchui, learned Bai Chuan had recovered eighty percent of his strength, and ordered him to prepare for their trip the next morning.
• Tao Lin arrived at the City Lord’s Mansion with a middle-aged man and two children, and Li Xuan asked which Soul Beasts the Tao Family needed for their Soul Rings.

Li Xuan took Tao Lin and the others into the Star Dou Forest to find water-attributed Soul Beasts for Tao Lin’s family. There, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm offered to help locate suitable beasts, and Li Xuan began considering a Drunken Python whose abilities might not suit the Wine Vat Spirits.

• Li Xuan decided that Tao Lin’s family would prioritize water-attributed Soul Beasts and prepared the group to leave.
• Li Xuan led the party through the wall at Ladi Canyon and into the Star Dou Forest, where Bangchui located a river about ten kilometers away.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm contacted Li Xuan, who entered his spiritual world and created hundreds of books to help him pass the time.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm offered to search the forest for Soul Beasts and used his Spirit Domain to show Li Xuan a Drunken Python.
• Li Xuan recognized that the Drunken Python could grant a useful sleep- or paralysis-type skill, but doubted it would benefit the Tao Family’s Wine Vat Spirits.

Li Xuan found a Wine God Flower in Star Dou Forest, collected its seed, and cultivated several copies in the Heaven-Grasping Bottle. He gave Tao He one of the flowers to absorb as a Soul Ring, leaving Tao Lin astonished when it truly produced one.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm showed Li Xuan the Wine God Flower’s location, and Li Xuan sent Bangchui and the Tao Family members back to Ladi Canyon while he and Bai Chuan went to retrieve its seed.
• Li Xuan collected the Wine God Flower seed and asked Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to search for Gengjin Grass before returning to Ladi Canyon with Bai Chuan.
• Li Xuan planted the seed in the Heaven-Grasping Bottle and cultivated three Wine God Flowers, including two with cultivation above three hundred years.
• Li Xuan presented the flowers to Tao Lin as Soul Rings for two children in his family and told Tao He to absorb one.
• Tao He cut down the Wine God Flower, and Tao Lin watched in shock as it produced a yellow Soul Ring.

Li Xuan helped the Tao Family obtain suitable Soul Rings, then organized Ladi Canyon’s wine production, farms, finances, and administration by delegating responsibilities to his subordinates. After considering how to place Medicine City under someone else’s management, he learned Huang Shang had returned and called him in.

• Tao He and another Tao Family child absorbed Wine God Flower Soul Rings and gained the Aged Wine skill, while Li Xuan arranged for Tao Lin and the remaining family members to absorb more rings.
• Li Xuan told Tao Lin to get Wine City’s wineries operating and prepare quality wine for Huang Shang to promote and sell.
• Zhou Chen brought three hundred farm workers to Ladi Canyon, and Li Xuan gave them a Dragon Tooth Rice cultivation booklet and assigned Zhou Chen to oversee farm supervisors.
• Li Xuan instructed Zhou Chen and Han Shucheng to manage the farms, establish personnel records, and organize patrol teams, while Sun Mu trained staff to handle accounts.
• Li Xuan considered inviting Yang Wudi to manage Medicine City but decided to wait until Bai Chuan became a Spirit Douluo before approaching him.
• Zhou Chen reported that Huang Shang had returned, and Li Xuan asked him to bring Huang Shang in.

Li Xuan oversaw Ladi Canyon’s preparations for spring plowing, then received intelligence about the Four Single-Attribute Spirit Master Clans and planned to recruit the Speed Clan as a path to the Breaking Clan. With Zhou Chen managing the territory, Li Xuan, Bangchui, and Bai Chuan prepared to leave for Wusi County by way of the Star Dou Forest.

• Huang Shang reported that the caravan had lost nearly one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins after buying thirty thousand displaced people and smuggled goods, and Li Xuan assigned the people and supplies for use in Ladi Canyon.
• A month later, Li Xuan and Bangchui checked the rapidly growing Hundred-Year Soul Beast draft cattle, while Li Xuan noted that the farmsteads, Wine City, and preparations for spring plowing were in place.
• Huang Shang gave Li Xuan information about the Four Single-Attribute Spirit Master Clans, and Li Xuan decided to recruit the Speed Clan first to improve his chances of bringing in the Breaking Clan.
• Li Xuan told Huang Shang to prepare him a false identity in the Heaven Dou Empire and instructed Zhou Chen to manage Ladi Canyon while he was away.
• Li Xuan, Bangchui, and Bai Chuan packed for a trip to Wusi County, planning to travel along the Star Dou Forest and look for the Gengjin Grass for Bai Chuan's eighth Spirit Bone.

Li Xuan left Ladi Canyon with Bangchui and Bai Chuan to travel through the Star Dou Forest and collect seeds from a thirty-thousand-year Gengjin Grass. After Bangchui helped negotiate—and threatened it when it cursed at him—the Gengjin Grass gave them five seeds, and the group left its territory.

• Li Xuan delegated Ladi Canyon’s affairs and departed with Bangchui and Bai Chuan, then learned from Sky Dream Ice Silkworm where to find the Gengjin Grass.
• Bangchui guided the group safely through the Star Dou Forest, and they reached the Gengjin Grass’s territory on the sixth day.
• The Gengjin Grass attacked the group with sharp energy, but Bai Chuan defeated its assault and held his Broken Blade to its roots.
• Bangchui confronted the Gengjin Grass with the Three-Star Heavy Blade until it agreed to give up its seeds.
• Bangchui collected five seeds, and Li Xuan led the group away while Bai Chuan abandoned his hope of taking the grass as a Soul Ring.

After leaving Star Dou Forest, Li Xuan tested whether he could control the Gengjin Grass and make it sacrifice itself, then encountered Zhu Zhuqing in a Spirit Master Town and invited her to travel with his group. They left town together, heading toward Suotuo City and Wusi City.

• Li Xuan, Bai Chuan, and Bangchui reached a Spirit Master Town after five days of travel and decided to continue toward Wusi City by ordinary horses.
• Li Xuan entered the Heaven-Grasping Bottle's space, controlled the Gengjin Grass through its spiritual world, and considered testing whether Heavenly Treasures could sacrifice themselves to provide Soul Rings.
• At breakfast, Li Xuan used the Burning Heart Clarifying Spirit Flame to stop burly men from abducting Zhu Zhuqing, and Bai Chuan left to deal with them.
• Li Xuan recognized Zhu Zhuqing, learned she was heading to Suotuo City, and invited her to travel with the group.
• Bai Chuan returned, Zhu Zhuqing agreed to call Li Xuan Xuan Ge'er, and the group set out by carriage.

Li Xuan and his companions reached Shrek Academy, where Zhu Zhuqing discovered her fiancé Dai Mubai emerging in disarray and tried to leave. She secretly joined Li Xuan’s carriage and, after confiding in him about her arranged relationship with Dai Mubai, fell asleep in his arms as the group camped for the night.

• Li Xuan, Bai Chuan, and Bangchui arrived at Shrek Academy, where Zhu Zhuqing enrolled after demonstrating her Soul Master ability.
• Dai Mubai appeared with lipstick marks and rumpled clothes, prompting Zhu Zhuqing to abandon enrollment and flee from him.
• Li Xuan and his companions left the academy, while Dai Mubai chased Zhu Zhuqing and pleaded with her to hear his explanation.
• Bai Chuan noticed Zhu Zhuqing hiding on the carriage roof, and she entered the carriage and silently curled up in a corner.
• Li Xuan brought Zhu Zhuqing a meat skewer and listened as she cried over Dai Mubai and her family’s expectations; she eventually fell asleep in his arms.
• Li Xuan laid Zhu Zhuqing down in the carriage, then joined Bai Chuan by the campfire and took the first watch.

Li Xuan arrived in Wusi City and gathered information about the impoverished Speed Clan, whom he hoped to recruit for Ladi Canyon. After learning that clan leader Bai He was closely connected to the Clear Sky Sect, Li Xuan decided to keep him under watch and sent Bai Chuan to deliver a calling card.

• Zhu Zhuqing left Li Xuan’s camp with a Soul Tool ring, supplies, and instructions to seek help if she was in danger.
• Li Xuan traveled with Bai Chuan and Bangchui to Wusi City, intending to recruit the Speed Clan.
• Li Xuan and Bai Chuan spent two days gathering information and learned that the Speed Clan was poor and struggling to support its Spirit Masters.
• Bai Chuan warned Li Xuan that Bai He was a Spirit Douluo and a relative of Tang Xiao and Tang Hao, raising concerns about his loyalty.
• Li Xuan decided Bai He could remain but must be monitored, and he gave Bai Chuan a calling card to deliver to the Speed Clan.

Li Xuan met with Bai He to recruit the Speed Clan, but Bai He refused despite Li Xuan’s generous offers and promises of safety. Afterward, Li Xuan settled into Wusi City’s abandoned City Lord’s Mansion and began cultivating Blue Silver Grass, then prepared to use a captured beggar for an experiment.

• Li Xuan hosted Bai He under the identity of Ander and offered the Speed Clan paid communications and patrol work, but Bai He refused to join another power.
• Bai He declined Li Xuan’s Wine God Flower wine and left after sharing a meal and drinks, while Li Xuan decided to approach the Speed Clan gradually.
• Li Xuan used diluted Green Spirit Liquid to grow ten Blue Silver Grass plants to enormous size.
• Bai Chuan bought the abandoned City Lord’s Mansion for Li Xuan and gathered ten criminal beggars there.
• Li Xuan freed one captured beggar, knocked him unconscious with Soul Power, and entered the Blue Silver Grass’s spiritual space.