Chapter Summaries

At Star Luo Royal Academy’s opening ceremony, Li Xuan and Bangchui joined Advanced Class 3 alongside Zhu Zhuqing, who discovered that Li Xuan had used a false name. Their teacher explained that the class was training candidates for the Star Luo Royal Team and would be cut from seventeen students to nine; Li Xuan, Zhu Zhuqing, and Bangchui then returned to his courtyard for lunch.

• Li Xuan and Bangchui watched the opening ceremony with Zhu Zhuqing as the academy’s three chief instructors introduced themselves and welcomed the students.
• Zhu Zhuqing recognized Li Xuan and Bangchui’s teacher Pang Tianhao and learned that all three would be in Advanced Class 3 together.
• After Zhu Zhuqing arrived under the name Xiao Qing'er, she confronted Li Xuan about using the false name Xiao Yan, and he admitted that Li Xuan was his real name.
• Pang Tianhao told Advanced Class 3 that only nine of its seventeen students would remain, with seven joining the Star Luo Royal Team’s second team and two serving as substitutes.
• Zhu Zhuqing explained that only the class training the Star Luo Royal Team faced such severe competition, then she, Li Xuan, and Bangchui returned to Li Xuan’s courtyard for lunch.

Li Xuan apologized to Zhu Zhuqing for hiding his real name, and she forgave him before they began classes at Star Luo Royal Academy. In Advanced Class 3, Li Xuan learned who his main opponents were, while Zhu Zhuqing gained insight from his advice; the chapter ended as she introduced herself under the name Xiao Qing'er.

• Li Xuan and Bang Chui invented personal profiles, then Li Xuan brought Zhu Zhuqing fruit and apologized; she forgave him and began calling him Xuan Ge'er.
• Li Xuan, Bang Chui, and Zhu Zhuqing joined Advanced Class 3, where Zhu Zhuqing identified three Control System Spirit Masters as Li Xuan's opponents.
• Li Xuan explained that a true killing move did not require powerful Soul Power, prompting Zhu Zhuqing to enter a state of enlightenment and strengthen her resolve.
• Pang Tianhao had the students introduce themselves, and Li Xuan revealed his supposed level of twenty-eight as a twelve-year-old Control System Soul Grandmaster.
• Zhu Zhuqing introduced herself as Xiao Qing'er, claiming to have a Mutated White Cat Martial Soul and level twenty-eight; Li Xuan and Bang Chui were shocked by her disguise.

Li Bangchui introduced himself as a rare healing Support System Spirit Master, and Pang Tianhao put Class Three through a punishing weighted run before teaching them about Spirit Beasts and Martial Souls. Li Xuan endured the training without using Soul Power, then helped Bangchui and Zhu Zhuqing recover; the three left for their courtyard after class.

• Li Bangchui revealed his White Jade Ginseng Martial Soul, Level 26 Soul Power, and two Soul Rings, impressing the class with his healing ability.
• Pang Tianhao ordered Class Three to complete thirty weighted laps, and Li Xuan, Bangchui, and Zhu Zhuqing carried fifty jin each without relying on Soul Power.
• Li Xuan collapsed after finishing the run, received Bangchui's healing energy, and drank Copper Bell Wine to restore and strengthen his body.
• Li Xuan shared wine with Wu Min and the others, then planned a medicinal bath formula to ease fatigue and build physical strength.
• Pang Tianhao taught a lesson on compatibility between Soul Beasts and Martial Souls, and Li Xuan used his Ice Soul Spirit Fire to relieve his and his friends' muscle soreness.
• After class, Li Xuan, Bangchui, and Zhu Zhuqing headed to their courtyard, with Bangchui healing their strained muscles along the way.

Li Xuan prepared a body-forging regimen for himself and his companions, combining a medicinal bath with White Jade Body-Forging Paste. After revealing his true cultivation level to Zhu Zhuqing, he began the treatment and left their physical training to continue.

• Bai Chuan noticed Li Xuan's poor physical condition and agreed to find wooden tubs and someone to care for Zhu Zhuqing.
• Li Xuan designed a medicinal bath formula to complement White Jade Body-Forging Paste, then shared the paste and bath ingredients with Bai Chuan, Bangchui, and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Li Xuan hired Aunt Liu to care for Zhu Zhuqing and cook for the group, offering her twice the promised wages.
• Li Xuan told Zhu Zhuqing that he was a twelve-year-old, five-ring Battle Soul King at level sixty, and said his abilities concealed his cultivation from anyone below the Title Douluo realm.
• Li Xuan and Bangchui soaked in medicinal baths, while Zhu Zhuqing returned to her courtyard to take hers.
• After his bath, Li Xuan applied White Jade Body-Forging Paste and circulated his Soul Power to absorb it.

Li Xuan attempted to refine three batches of elixirs at once in the Heaven-Grasping Bottle's space, but a series of furnace explosions injured him and destroyed the pavilion. After successfully refining two batches instead, he joined Zhu Zhuqing and Bangchui for breakfast and attended Pang Tianhao's class, where he planned their training.

• Li Xuan discovered that fatigue improved his absorption of White Jade Body-Forging Paste, then checked his Alchemist progress and began refining three batches of Second-Grade Elixirs at once.
• Li Xuan lost control of his Soul Power, causing all three flame cauldrons to explode and burying him beneath the pavilion's ashes.
• Li Xuan reduced the attempt to two batches and successfully produced thirteen elixirs, deciding to practice with two cauldrons to improve his control.
• Li Xuan met Zhu Zhuqing and Bangchui for breakfast, and Zhu Zhuqing told him that the medicinal bath and paste had boosted her strength and healed old injuries.
• Pang Tianhao gave the students cultivation evaluations and assigned them sixty laps; Li Xuan reassured Zhu Zhuqing about her concealed level and told her to spar with Bai Chuan and help train Bangchui.

Pang Tianhao began a month of physical and academic training that would end with an elimination assessment, and Li Xuan and his friends endured an exhausting first day. After recovering and sharing a meal, Li Xuan returned to the Heaven-Grasping Bottle's space to refine pills and practice flame control.

• Pang Tianhao announced that the class would be assessed in a month and that he would eliminate the three lowest-ranked students.
• Li Xuan, Zhu Zhuqing, and Bang Chui began weighted running, with Li Xuan assigned an eighty-kilogram basket, Zhu Zhuqing seventy kilograms, and Bang Chui forty kilograms.
• After sixty laps, Li Xuan collapsed, recovered with Bang Chui's healing ability and his Ice Soul Spirit Fire, then helped Bang Chui and Zhu Zhuqing recover.
• Pang Tianhao explained the students' assigned weights, warned that missed targets would affect their assessment, and told them to meet their Soul Power requirements.
• Li Xuan and his friends returned to his courtyard, ate a large meal, and used White Jade Body-Forging Paste and Medicinal Baths.
• Li Xuan absorbed the paste's effects, returned to the Heaven-Grasping Bottle's space, and continued refining pills and practicing flame control.

Li Xuan completed Pang Tianhao’s end-of-month examination and used the three-day break to travel to Star Luo City with Zhu Zhuqing and Bai Chuan. At Huang Shang’s courtyard, he arranged to buy carpenter slaves for making Five-Thunder Puppets and learned that Huang Shang planned to bid on a brewing recipe.

• Pang Tianhao gave the students a written examination and announced that the eliminated students would be named after their three-day break.
• Li Xuan, Zhu Zhuqing, and Bangchui finished their papers and left the academy, then Li Xuan decided to visit Star Luo City to recruit carpenters.
• Zhu Zhuqing agreed to accompany Li Xuan, and Bai Chuan drove them from Star Luo Royal Academy to Star Luo City.
• Huang Shang recognized Li Xuan and welcomed him to his courtyard, where Li Xuan asked him to arrange the purchase of carpenter slaves.
• Huang Shang told Li Xuan about a brewing recipe at the next day’s White Tiger Auction, and Li Xuan declined to attend before joining the group for dinner.

Li Xuan used his time off in Star Luo City to arrange a workshop for the Carpenters Huang Shang had recruited, then went with Zhu Zhuqing and Bangchui to search the East District flower market for Heavenly Treasures. There, Li Xuan spotted a rare white cactus and asked the shop owner to include it with his purchases.

• Li Xuan learned that Huang Shang had found three master-level Carpenters and ten grandmaster-level Carpenters, and Huang Shang prepared to take the caravan back to Ladi Canyon.
• Li Xuan promised the Carpenters better lives if they worked well and asked a Yellow Turban Warrior to build a workshop for them inside the Heaven-Grasping Bottle.
• Li Xuan, Bangchui, and Zhu Zhuqing ate breakfast together and set out for the East District flower market.
• Li Xuan bought rare plants throughout the market after Bangchui pointed out that there were good finds among them.
• Li Xuan noticed a half-meter-tall white cactus in a flower shop, and the shop owner offered it to him for free.

Li Xuan brought home the White Jade Exquisite Bone, a Heavenly Treasure that could improve their physical strength, and used Green Spirit Liquid to cultivate enough for improved Medicinal Baths. He prepared more than fifty packets while the Carpenter Workshop neared completion, then turned his thoughts to finding a fire-attribute Immortal Grade Spirit Plant for his sixth Soul Ring.

• Li Xuan returned from the flower market with Zhu Zhuqing and showed her the White Jade Exquisite Bone, whose medicinal baths could greatly strengthen their bones.
• Bangchui came back with flowerpots, learned what the plant could do, and set off shopping with Zhu Zhuqing while Li Xuan revised the Medicinal Bath formula.
• Li Xuan confirmed the improved formula was three times as effective as the previous one and gathered the herbs needed to prepare it.
• The Yellow Turban Warrior told Li Xuan that the Carpenter Workshop would be finished in a few hours, before Li Xuan's group left Star Luo City.
• Li Xuan planted the White Jade Exquisite Bone by the hot spring, used Green Spirit Liquid to grow it rapidly, and prepared more than fifty packets of Medicinal Bath ingredients.
• Li Xuan considered his need for a fire-attribute Immortal Grade Spirit Plant for his sixth Soul Ring and decided to wait for the Treasure Hunting Compass's cooldown to end.

Pang Tianhao eliminated three students from Advanced Class 3 and began a combat-training tournament with point rankings and further eliminations. Li Xuan fought Zhu Zhuqing, defeated her with his unusual fire-control abilities, and left the platform with her as the other matches continued.

• Pang Tianhao announced that Qian Man, Jiang Moyun, and Chen An had ranked last and were eliminated, rejecting Qian Man's threat to involve his father.
• Pang Tianhao introduced morning combat matches, point rankings, and the elimination of the five lowest-ranked students, then distributed the match lists.
• Li Xuan discovered that he was matched against Zhu Zhuqing, while Bangchui expected to be assigned a team match as a Support System Spirit Master.
• Li Xuan and Zhu Zhuqing began their match on the sixth platform, and Zhu Zhuqing attacked at speed while Li Xuan used blue flames and ice defenses.
• Li Xuan trapped Zhu Zhuqing with pillars of flame and explained that his abilities came from his unusual Martial Soul; Zhu Zhuqing conceded and questioned whether he had concealed power.
• Li Xuan led Zhu Zhuqing off the platform to rest while the other matches continued.

Li Xuan completed a punishing training session in a heavy lead vest while Pang Tianhao arranged a test of his combat talent against students taught by Liao Changqing. After discovering that his new Medicinal Bath formula absorbed fully and relieved his fatigue, Li Xuan prepared to share it with Bangchui and Zhu Zhuqing.

• Pang Tianhao praised Li Xuan's flame control, planned a stronger opponent for him, and assigned Zhu Zhuqing speed, strength, and combat-awareness training.
• Pang Tianhao replaced the students' stone loads with adjustable lead vests and ordered them to run thirty laps; Li Xuan received a vest weighing one hundred and twenty jin.
• Pang Tianhao told Liao Changqing about Li Xuan's victory over a stronger opponent, and they arranged for two water-element Spirit Master sisters to fight him the next day.
• Li Xuan finished the thirty laps after an hour and recovered with Bangchui's help while Liao Changqing assessed his physical condition and Soul Power control.
• Li Xuan tested his new Medicinal Bath, absorbed its remaining medicinal power, and prepared more packets for Bangchui and Zhu Zhuqing.

Li Xuan fought Dong Yunhao, a level-thirty-six Soul Ancestor with the Supreme Goodness Like Water Martial Soul, and overwhelmed him with his control of Ice Soul Spirit Fire. After Dong Yunhao surrendered, Li Xuan left Pang Tianhao questioning his strength and considering whether Dong Yunhao’s Martial Soul belonged to an inherited clan.

• Pang Tianhao assigned Li Xuan to fight Dong Yunhao on Battle Platform No. 16 while Zhu Zhuqing began her own match.
• Dong Yunhao introduced himself as a level-thirty-six Control System Spirit Master, and Li Xuan revealed his level-twenty-eight Ice Flame Martial Soul.
• Li Xuan’s fire pillars froze Dong Yunhao’s Water Curtain, and his firebirds and fire serpent forced Dong Yunhao to surrender.
• Li Xuan dispersed the serpent and melted the ice, then explained to Pang Tianhao that his Spirit Skills were Ice Flame and Flame Affinity.
• Dong Yunhao praised Li Xuan and offered to help him at the academy, while Li Xuan wondered whether Supreme Goodness Like Water was a clan-inherited Martial Soul.

Li Xuan decided that training against his classmates was no longer useful and received Pang Tianhao’s permission to take Zhu Zhuqing and Bangchui to the Great Soul Arena in Star Luo City. After settling into their courtyard, Li Xuan planned their combat training and began preparing equipment blueprints, then remembered the Heaven-Grasping Bottle’s space might be ready for cultivation.

• After Li Xuan defeated Dong Yunhao, he told Pang Tianhao he wanted to train independently at the Great Soul Arena in Star Luo City.
• Pang Tianhao agreed to let Li Xuan, Zhu Zhuqing, and Bangchui go, requiring them to record their battles and review their experiences after three months.
• Zhu Zhuqing agreed to join Li Xuan, and the group packed their belongings and left Star Luo Royal Academy with Bai Chuan.
• The four reached Star Luo City at sunset, settled into Li Xuan’s courtyard, and discussed registering for Great Soul Arena matches the next day.
• Li Xuan drew blueprints for training equipment and remembered that the Yellow Turban Warriors’ Bamboo House in the Heaven-Grasping Bottle might be finished.

Li Xuan revised everyone’s cultivation plans, sending Zhu Zhuqing and Bangchui to fight in the Great Soul Arena while he and Bai Chuan cultivated in the Heaven-Grasping Bottle. He improved the space’s facilities and began preparing medicinal plants and timber saplings, leaving the Yellow Turban Warriors to plan the planting areas.

• Li Xuan decided he would focus on preparing to absorb his sixth Soul Ring and advancing his Alchemy, while Zhu Zhuqing and Bangchui trained through Great Soul Arena fights and Bai Chuan cultivated toward the Title Douluo realm.
• Li Xuan brought Bai Chuan into the Heaven-Grasping Bottle’s space and showed him the nearly completed Bamboo House and its cultivation rooms.
• Li Xuan transplanted Heavenly Treasures and Immortal Grade Spirit Plants into the central Herb Garden and planted additional seeds.
• Li Xuan asked a Yellow Turban Warrior to plan areas for timber trees and bamboo to support future shipbuilding and Puppet-making.
• Li Xuan cultivated a first batch of one thousand tree saplings and handed them to the Yellow Turban Warriors.

Li Xuan settled Zhu Zhuqing, Bangchui, Bai Chuan, and a new cook into the Heaven-Grasping Bottle’s space before entering seclusion to improve his Alchemy. Three months later, he successfully refined nine batches of Elixirs at once, but remained just short of becoming a third-rank Alchemist as he emerged from the Alchemy Room.

• Li Xuan gave Zhu Zhuqing and Bangchui medicines for their Great Soul Arena injuries and brought them into the Heaven-Grasping Bottle’s space to cultivate.
• Bai Chuan bought the cook Yang Yun, and Li Xuan assigned Bai Chuan the task of taking Zhu Zhuqing and Bangchui between the courtyard and the space.
• Li Xuan gave Bai Chuan access to the Heaven-Grasping Bottle’s space and began three months of Alchemy training in seclusion.
• Over the next three months, Bangchui reached Soul Power Level 39, Zhu Zhuqing reached Level 38, and Bai Chuan advanced to Level 86.
• Li Xuan successfully refined nine kinds of Elixirs at once, bringing his Alchemist progress to 46,785 out of 50,000 toward the next rank.
• Li Xuan left the Alchemy Room after three months, still short of becoming a third-rank Alchemist.

Li Xuan ended his three-month seclusion, discovered a wood-and-fire Immortal Grade Spirit Plant in Star Dou Forest, and prepared to retrieve it after the academy break. He resumed making Five-Thunder Puppets and welcomed Bangchui and Zhu Zhuqing back from training.

• Li Xuan emerged from seclusion, told Bai Chuan he had made progress toward absorbing his sixth Soul Ring, and learned that he and Bai Chuan would return to Star Luo Royal Academy before its break.
• Li Xuan used the Treasure Hunting Compass to locate a wood-and-fire Immortal Grade Spirit Plant in the inner region of Star Dou Forest and decided to retrieve it during the break.
• Li Xuan visited the Carpenters in the Heaven-Grasping Bottle and collected the Five-Thunder Puppet components they had processed.
• Li Xuan rewarded the Carpenters with a feast, then began engraving formations and runes into the components.
• Bangchui and Zhu Zhuqing returned from a day of combat training, and Li Xuan welcomed them to the meal.

Li Xuan, Bang Chui, and Zhu Zhuqing returned to Star Luo Royal Academy, where Li Xuan arranged for the three of them to leave Class Three and form their own team. Afterward, they set out for Ladi Canyon, and Zhu Zhuqing learned that Li Xuan had raised tame Soul Beast horses.

• Li Xuan and his companions discussed leaving Class Three and agreed that Zhu Zhuqing would spend the holiday at Ladi Canyon.
• Pang Tianhao praised Bang Chui and Zhu Zhuqing's Battle Medals and accepted Li Xuan's request to transfer the three to an ordinary class and train as their own team.
• Li Xuan, Bang Chui, and Zhu Zhuqing left the academy with Bai Chuan and headed for Ladi Canyon.
• Li Xuan replaced the carriage horses with three Iron-Scaled Horses he had cultivated, astonishing Zhu Zhuqing by explaining that they were tame Hundred-Year Soul Beasts.
• Bai Chuan drove the group through the night, and the carriage reached the entrance to Ladi Canyon in the early hours.

Li Xuan returned to Ladi Canyon, where he was welcomed by the guards and the territory’s managers. Unable to sleep, he finished processing parts for his Five-Thunder Puppet, assembled and activated one, then took Zhu Zhuqing outside to test its strength.

• Li Xuan arrived at Ladi Canyon and praised the patrols before continuing to the City Lord's Mansion.
• Zhou Chen, Han Shucheng, and the other manager welcomed Li Xuan, and he ate with Zhu Zhuqing, Bangchui, and Bai Chuan.
• Unable to sleep, Li Xuan engraved formations and runes on more than a hundred Five-Thunder Puppet parts in the courtyard.
• Zhu Zhuqing found Li Xuan working and watched as he assembled and activated a Five-Thunder Puppet using a crystal sphere and Soul-Nurturing Wood.
• Li Xuan and Zhu Zhuqing took the Puppet to an open area outside the City Lord's Mansion to test its fighting ability.

Li Xuan tested the Five-Thunder Puppet and explained its power and creation to Zhu Zhuqing, then offered to make her a set and helped her consider a future fourth Soul Ring. The chapter ended with the two sharing an awkward, intimate moment at dawn.

• Li Xuan sparred with the Five-Thunder Puppet, which used martial techniques and lightning attacks before he ordered it to stop.
• Li Xuan told Zhu Zhuqing that five elemental Five-Thunder Puppets could form a Five-Thunder Formation with strength comparable to a Soul Saint.
• Li Xuan showed Zhu Zhuqing his Puppetry Technique books and offered to make her a set of Puppets, but advised her to focus on cultivation first.
• Li Xuan and Zhu Zhuqing studied her family's Soul Ring records and discussed the extinct Blade Ghost Tree and its Hundred-Claw Rend Spirit Skill.
• Li Xuan proposed that they enter the Star Dou Forest after resting in Ladi Canyon, promising to help Zhu Zhuqing prepare for her fourth Soul Ring.
• At dawn, Zhu Zhuqing realized she had leaned into Li Xuan's arms, and the two nervously agreed to return.

Li Xuan took Zhu Zhuqing to Tool City, where she saw its blacksmithing facilities and the Earth Fire, then brought her to the Shipyard to see Lou Gao researching the Giant Whale. The chapter ended with workers dismantling the ship piece by piece as Lou Gao supervised them.

• Li Xuan showed Zhu Zhuqing the Three-Star Heavy Blade and said he would ask Lou Gao to forge her a dagger.
• Li Xuan, Zhu Zhuqing, and Bai Chuan visited Tool City, where Zhu Zhuqing saw the Burning Heaven Pavilions and met Si Yu and Si Di.
• Li Xuan explained Tool City's role as a blacksmith training and research center, and Zhu Zhuqing praised its architecture.
• Li Xuan took Zhu Zhuqing and Bangchui to the Shipyard, where Lou Gao directed workers dismantling the Giant Whale and labeling its components.