Chapter Summaries

Li Xuan formed the Galaxy Team and took his companions to the Great Soul Arena to build their teamwork through matches. Their first battle began against the notorious Seven Black Bear Brothers.

• Li Xuan planned team matches and battle reviews, while Bangchui agreed to handle registration at the Great Soul Arena.
• Li Xuan named the group the Galaxy Team, and Bangchui helped the five members obtain identity tokens and register the team.
• Bangchui applied for a match, and Li Xuan led the team to No. 2 Waiting Room to prepare.
• The Galaxy Team entered the Battle Platform, where the host introduced them to the crowd.
• The Seven Black Bear Brothers emerged as their opponents, and the host announced that the match had begun.

Li Xuan’s newly formed Galaxy Team defeated the Seven Black Bear Brothers with ease, then entered higher-level Soul Fighting matches to build their coordination. After a tiring day of battles, the group returned home to recover while Li Xuan arranged household help and resumed making the Five-Thunder Puppet.

• Li Xuan told Galaxy Team to focus on practicing coordination, but Zhu Zhuqing provoked the Seven Black Bear Brothers before they could finish their Martial Soul Possession.
• Yang Lin and Luo Yuan overwhelmed the brothers, and Li Xuan called for the whole team to finish the fight; Galaxy Team won in less than a minute.
• Li Xuan asked Bang Chui to arrange Soul Ancestor- and Spirit King-level matches, and Bang Chui organized upcoming pair, trio, and individual battles after the Great Soul Arena required life-and-death waivers.
• The team fought several higher-ranked matches, returned exhausted, and received medicinal supplies and notebooks from Li Xuan to aid their recovery and review.
• Li Xuan bought slaves to handle household tasks, then entered the Heaven-Grasping Bottle to continue crafting the Five-Thunder Puppet.

After two months of intense combat training, Li Xuan and his companions returned to Ladi Canyon for a break. Li Xuan discovered that Lou Gao had just reached level eighty, so he prepared to give him the hundred-thousand-year Vajra Dragon Blood Tree Soul Ring.

• Li Xuan found that the Vajra Dragon Blood Tree had reached one hundred thousand years and decided to return to Ladi Canyon with his companions.
• The group traveled to Ladi Canyon, where Yang Lin and Bai Feng took leave to visit their clans, Xu An went to see his aunt, and Luo Yuan returned to cultivate.
• Li Xuan told Zhu Zhuqing that he intended to help Lou Gao absorb the tree's Soul Ring and become a Title Douluo.
• Bai Chuan reported that Ladi Canyon's crops were growing well and that Lou Gao had just broken through to level eighty.
• Li Xuan asked Bai Chuan to arrange a feast with Lou Gao and the supervisors, then Zhu Zhuqing urged Li Xuan to rest before the evening's drinking.

After securing Ladi Canyon and the city with Five-Thunder Puppets and Heaven-Shaking Cannons, Li Xuan brought Lou Gao into the Heaven-Grasping Bottle to obtain his eighth Soul Ring. The Hundred-Thousand-Year Vajra Dragon Blood Tree sacrificed itself successfully, leaving Lou Gao to comprehend his new Spirit Skill.

• Li Xuan placed Five-Thunder Puppets and Heaven-Shaking Cannons around Ladi Canyon and the city, then returned to find Lou Gao had gone to the Shipyard.
• Li Xuan found Lou Gao supervising the ship’s construction and reminded him that he needed an eighth Soul Ring.
• Li Xuan brought Lou Gao into the Heaven-Grasping Bottle and showed him the tamed Hundred-Thousand-Year Vajra Dragon Blood Tree prepared for his Soul Ring.
• Lou Gao adjusted his condition while Li Xuan guided the Vajra Dragon Blood Tree through its Sacrifice.
• The Vajra Dragon Blood Tree’s crimson Soul Ring entered Lou Gao, and Li Xuan waited as Lou Gao lay atop the tree, comprehending his Spirit Skill.

After Lou Gao absorbed the Vajra Dragon Blood Tree’s hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Spirit Bone, he discovered he had reached level 90 and gained powerful abilities. Li Xuan urged him to stabilize his strength before taking another Soul Ring, then returned to the City Lord’s Mansion to prepare for the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Elite Tournament.

• Lou Gao woke atop a tree canopy, calmed down, and jumped to the ground before Li Xuan urged him to practice fighting.
• Lou Gao sensed that his Soul Power had reached level 90 and described his torso Spirit Bone’s Blood Boiling and Metal Domain skills.
• Lou Gao demonstrated his Soul Ring skills, including Vajra Body and Angry Vajra, which summoned a powerful golden phantom.
• Li Xuan advised Lou Gao to master his new strength before absorbing another Soul Ring, and Lou Gao agreed to keep his level 90 breakthrough secret.
• Lou Gao returned to the Shipyard to build the sea vessel while Li Xuan had Puppets cut down the Vajra Dragon Blood Tree and returned to the City Lord’s Mansion.
• Li Xuan summoned Bai Chuan, Xu Li, and Han Shucheng to seek the Xu Family’s help gathering intelligence on the tournament’s opponents.

Li Xuan asked Xu Li to have the Xu Family compile intelligence on the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Elite Tournament, then prepared the Yimu Green Flame Vine for his sixth Soul Ring. Three days later, he received the tournament dossier and reviewed the teams competing in Star Luo City.

• Li Xuan asked Xu Li to gather information on the tournament's participating academies, and Xu Li agreed to provide a detailed dossier in exchange for a Marrow Cleansing Pill.
• Li Xuan entered the Heaven-Grasping Bottle, assessed the Yimu Green Flame Vine, and cultivated a cutting so the original plant could be used for his Soul Ring without being lost entirely.
• Li Xuan planned to raise the vine to fifty-thousand years and seek suitable Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Forest for Zhu Zhuqing and Lou Gao.
• Three days later, Huang Shang delivered the Xu Family's intelligence to Li Xuan, along with a letter addressed to Xu Li.
• Li Xuan studied the tournament format and the Star Luo City teams, identifying several opponents who might require his attention.

Li Xuan prepared his team for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament, then absorbed the Yimu Green Flame Vine’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring through a Sacrifice. He awoke afterward and told Zhu Zhuqing the ring was better than he had expected, but he had not yet revealed his new Spirit Skill.

• Li Xuan compiled intelligence on the tournament teams and arranged targeted training, including gathering information through Huang Shang’s intelligence department.
• After a month and a half of intensive matches, Li Xuan brought Zhu Zhuqing and Bangchui into the Heaven-Grasping Bottle’s space to absorb his sixth Soul Ring.
• Bangchui warned that the Yimu Green Flame Vine had developed consciousness, but Li Xuan destroyed its soul and kept its body alive to perform a Sacrifice.
• The Yimu Green Flame Vine sacrificed its Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring to Li Xuan, while its remaining life force and Soul Power nourished the Herb Garden and healed Zhu Zhuqing and Bangchui.
• Bangchui began harvesting the vine as Li Xuan absorbed the ring; an hour later, Li Xuan awoke and told Zhu Zhuqing that the Soul Ring was better than he had expected.

Li Xuan explored the abilities he gained from the Yimu Green Flame Vine, stabilized his cultivation at level seventy, and began refining the Yimu Spirit-Transforming Elixir. He successfully produced nine high-grade pills and continued working through the vine before its medicinal properties could fade.

• Li Xuan demonstrated Green Jade Seal, Vitality Extraction, and the Green Jade Longevity Right Arm Spirit Bone’s Wood Spirit Avatar and passive healing abilities to Zhu Zhuqing.
• Li Xuan showed Zhu Zhuqing and Bang Chui the Evergreen Flame, then stabilized the Soul Power surge that had followed his breakthrough to level seventy.
• Li Xuan planned to cultivate a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast for Lou Gao and accepted the freshly harvested Yimu Green Flame Vines from Bang Chui.
• Li Xuan explained that Evergreen Flame would let him refine the Third-Grade Yimu Spirit-Transforming Elixir, which could improve a Spirit Master’s innate foundation.
• Li Xuan refined nine high-grade Yimu Spirit-Transforming Elixirs and immediately began preparing another batch before the vines lost their potency.

Li Xuan refined ten top-grade Yimu Spirit-Transforming Elixirs, advanced to a Third-Grade Alchemist, and prepared his team for the upcoming tournament. With training paused and the qualifiers approaching, he left Star Luo City alone for Ladi Canyon to handle unfinished business.

• Li Xuan used Evergreen Flame to finish refining ten top-grade Yimu Spirit-Transforming Elixirs, exhausting the Yimu Green Flame Vine and advancing his Alchemist profession to Level 3.
• Li Xuan studied the three recipes granted by the system and sent fifty Puppets to plant medicinal ingredients for his team.
• Li Xuan considered his plans involving Zhu Zhuqing, the Star Luo Emperor, Spirit Hall, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, then resumed Bangchui's training.
• Seven months later, Li Xuan stopped the team's training and urged Yang Lin and Bai Feng to reach Level 50 and Luo Yuan and Xiao An to reach Level 40.
• Li Xuan declined Yang Lin and Bai Feng's offer to accompany him and left Star Luo City alone by carriage for Ladi Canyon.

Li Xuan returned to Ladi Canyon and prepared for negotiations with the Star Luo Emperor, arranging an escape route in case the major powers turned against him. He gave Lou Gao a Hundred-Thousand-Year Gengjin Grass Soul Ring, raising Lou Gao to rank 94, then began gathering valuable supplies for his next steps.

• Li Xuan met Lou Gao near Tool City and secretly told him he planned to negotiate with the Star Luo Emperor over Zhu Zhuqing, offering a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone while preparing to flee by sea if necessary.
• Li Xuan brought Lou Gao into the Heaven-Grasping Bottle's space and used the Hundred-Thousand-Year Gengjin Grass's Sacrifice to grant him a Soul Ring.
• Lou Gao woke with his Soul Power at rank 94 and gained the Gengjin Killing Array and God-Slaying Pierce Spirit Skills, along with a Head Spirit Bone and two Spirit Skills.
• Li Xuan entrusted Lou Gao with preparing the sea vessel, then left Burning Heaven Pavilion to collect aged wine from Wine City and have Han Shucheng copy valuable books.
• Li Xuan arrived at Medicine City the next morning to gather its stored Elixirs.

Li Xuan visited Medicine City to arrange for the Breaking Clan and Speed Clan to join his upcoming sea voyage, share Second-Grade Alchemy instructions, and collect their elixirs. Back in Ladi Canyon, he prepared Zhou Chen and the returning sailors for the ship’s trials, leaving the final preparations underway before he returned to Star Luo City.

• Bai He and Yang Wudi learned Li Xuan was approaching Medicine City and waited for him at the city gate.
• Li Xuan told the two clan patriarchs to escort Lou Gao to Beihai Village in half a month and prepare their clans and supplies for the voyage.
• Li Xuan gave Yang Wudi and Bai He the Second-Grade Elixir recipes and Alchemy Handbook, explaining the standards for becoming a Second-Grade Alchemist.
• Li Xuan collected the clans’ stored elixirs, including hundreds of thousands of pills and other elixirs, from Medicine City.
• Li Xuan returned to the Main City and instructed Zhou Chen to give the sailors High-Grade Spirit-Nurturing Pills and Douluo No. 1 so they could try to reach the Spirit Master realm before the sea trials.
• Li Xuan told Zhou Chen to join the sea trials and arrange for someone to manage Ladi Canyon while he was away.

Li Xuan arranged a Snake Garden stocked with thousands of snakes and supplies before returning to Star Luo City to prepare his team for the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Elite Tournament. He moved the group into the Star Luo Royal Restaurant, then brought them into the Heaven-Grasping Bottle's space to cultivate.

• Li Xuan visited Huang Shang in Dongshui City and inspected the thirty thousand snakes the merchant association had collected for him.
• Li Xuan transferred the snakes into the Snake Garden, set up Puppets to guard and raise them, and prepared food and cultivation supplies for their care.
• Li Xuan told Huang Shang to buy supplies, escort them to Beihai Village, and join the voyage with Elder Lou in half a month.
• Li Xuan returned to Star Luo City, where Pang Tianhao gave him a token for rooms at the Star Luo Royal Restaurant and told him to bring his team there ahead of the tournament.
• Li Xuan brought Zhu Zhuqing, Yang Lin, Xu An, Bangchui, and the others to the restaurant, then moved them into the Heaven-Grasping Bottle's space to cultivate.

Li Xuan and the Star Luo Royal Team Third Squad arrived at the Great Soul Arena for the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament, where Ning Fengzhi sent him a letter demanding the method to evolve the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. After sharing his history with the sect and burning the letter, Li Xuan entered the packed arena with his team, and the opening match was about to begin.

• Li Xuan led his team through the crowds to the competitors’ hall and identified several rival academy teams with Zhu Zhuqing.
• Ning Yu delivered Li Xuan a letter from Ning Fengzhi, prompting Li Xuan to tell his teammates about his past conflict with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Li Xuan burned Ning Fengzhi’s letter and said the tournament would let him collect interest before he later dealt with the sect.
• Pang Tianhao led the Star Luo Royal Team Second Squad into the arena, then escorted Li Xuan’s Third Squad in after their announcement.
• The teams gathered in the arena, and the host called the Second Squad to draw its opponent for the tournament’s first exhibition match.

Li Xuan’s team learned its tournament draw and watched the Star Luo Royal Team Second Squad defeat the Golden Bone Team in an exhibition match. He planned to use the qualifiers to strengthen his teammates, then revealed that his real aims included harming the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and taking something from it; the chapter ended with him cultivating by the Fusang Divine Tree.

• Pang Tianhao drew the Golden Bone Team as the Star Luo Royal Team Second Squad’s exhibition opponent, while Chang Xiong drew Peacock Saint Venerable Academy for Li Xuan’s team two days later.
• Li Xuan assigned Yang Lin, Bai Feng, Bangchui, and Luo Yuan to fight Peacock Saint Venerable Academy while he, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao An sat out.
• The Star Luo Royal Team Second Squad defeated the Golden Bone Team after a closely fought exhibition match, impressing Li Xuan with its coordination under Pang Tianhao.
• Li Xuan gathered his teammates in the Heaven-Grasping Bottle’s space, arranged opponent records and schedules, and urged them to fight at full strength to improve rather than focus on rankings.
• Li Xuan promised to arrange Soul Rings for teammates nearing breakthroughs and told Zhu Zhuqing and Bangchui to come to him if danger arose, revealing that he had come to harm the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and take something from it.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Bangchui returned to cultivate, and Li Xuan began absorbing soul fragments beside the Fusang Divine Tree.

Li Xuan’s team defeated the Peacock Venerable Team in their first tournament match, while Li Xuan singled out Ning Yu and beat him until he surrendered. The victory exposed Zhu Zhuqing’s identity and drew attention from the Star Luo Empire and Spirit Hall, leaving Li Xuan prepared for the trouble that might follow.

• Ning Yu threatened Li Xuan over Ning Fengzhi’s demands, prompting Li Xuan to decide to teach him a lesson.
• Li Xuan led his team into the arena and sent Yang Lin, Bai Feng, Luo Yuan, and Bangchui to fight the Peacock Venerable Team while he confronted Ning Yu.
• Li Xuan repeatedly slapped Ning Yu until Duke White Tiger ordered him to stop, and Ning Yu surrendered.
• Yang Lin, Luo Yuan, and Bangchui defeated the opposing team, and Li Xuan had Bangchui heal their injuries after the match.
• The victory brought Li Xuan’s team fame, exposed Zhu Zhuqing’s identity, and drew Spirit Hall’s attention to Yang Lin and Bai Feng.

Li Xuan’s team finished the preliminaries in first place after winning thirty-three matches, while Li Xuan never fought. As the team prepared for the advancement tournament, Li Xuan negotiated with Ning Tian’an for compensation and the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, then gathered his teammates to plan their training.

• Li Xuan reviewed the standings with Zhu Zhuqing and said the team would likely rank first after its thirty-three consecutive victories.
• Duke White Tiger announced that the preliminaries had ended and that fifteen teams, including Li Xuan’s Third Squad, had advanced to the advancement tournament.
• At the Star Luo Royal Restaurant, Ning Tian’an apologized for Ning Yu and offered to fulfill Li Xuan’s wishes on Ning Fengzhi’s behalf.
• Li Xuan gave Ning Tian’an a list of materials for a Tier 5 Heaven-Shaking Cannon and asked him to seek the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud in exchange for what the sect wanted.
• Li Xuan told Zhu Zhuqing and the others to train for the advancement tournament’s individual gauntlet matches during the seven-day break.
• Inside the Heaven-Grasping Bottle, Li Xuan directed Yang Lin, Bai Feng, and Luo Yuan to break through and absorb their prepared Soul Rings, then toasted the team.

Li Xuan received news that Lou Gao’s ship had passed its first sea trials, then investigated reports of the Shrek Seven Devils fighting recklessly. He took Yang Lin, Bai Feng, and Luo Yuan to absorb prepared Soul Rings, and the chapter ended with the group preparing for the advancement round in two days.

• Li Xuan read Lou Gao’s report that the ship had sailed a hundred kilometers offshore successfully and replied that Lou Gao and Bai Chuan should attend the tournament finals.
• Li Xuan reviewed Bai Chuan’s tournament intelligence, grew suspicious of the Shrek Seven Devils’ reckless fighting, and asked Bai Chuan to have the Xu Family investigate them.
• Li Xuan took Yang Lin, Bai Feng, and Luo Yuan to the Heaven-Grasping Bottle’s animal enclosures and assigned each a suitable Soul Beast for a Soul Ring.
• Yang Lin, Luo Yuan, and Bai Feng absorbed their Soul Rings, gained new Spirit Skills, and returned to study them.
• Li Xuan shared beef hot pot with his companions and warned Yang Lin not to underestimate their advancement-round opponents.

Li Xuan’s team began the Advancement Tournament, where he discovered that Ning Yu’s Peacock Venerable Team was using a poison compounded with Luoyunlang. After warning his teammates and entering the match himself, Li Xuan exposed the poison’s effects and defeated the team, leaving Ning Yu to forfeit.

• Li Xuan led his team to the Star Luo Great Soul Arena, where Duke White Tiger explained the Advancement Tournament’s individual-match format and drew the match order.
• Li Xuan and Zhu Zhuqing learned that their team would face the Giant Strength Savage Bear Academy, and Li Xuan left the lineup decisions to Zhu Zhuqing and Bangchui.
• Five days into the tournament, Ning Yu confronted Li Xuan and threatened to return the slaps he had received, while Li Xuan detected a medicinal scent and recognized Luoyunlang.
• Li Xuan warned Yang Lin that Zhou Haotian was poisoned and gave him Detoxification Pills, then ordered Yang Lin to surrender before their match began.
• Li Xuan fought Zhou Haotian, struck his Qimen Acupoint, and extracted some of the poison from his body.
• The other Peacock Venerable Academy fighters also succumbed to the poison, and Ning Yu forfeited as Li Xuan’s team won the match.

Li Xuan identified a dangerous potion that could turn people into controllable Medicine People and warned Zhu Zhuqing and his allies. After winning the promotion matches, he attended the Star Luo Emperor’s banquet, where he silenced Zhu Zhuyun and was summoned to a side room to address Zhu Zhuqing’s problem.

• Li Xuan reverse-engineered the purple-black substance and determined that prolonged use would turn people into Medicine People, then prepared Detoxification-Transforming Pills as a cure.
• Li Xuan warned Zhu Zhuqing and his companions about the potion, and later wrote Bai Chuan asking the Xu Family to investigate Shrek Academy.
• Li Xuan’s team finished first in the promotion matches, and the Star Luo Emperor invited the competing teams to a palace banquet.
• At the banquet, Li Xuan silenced Zhu Zhuyun with medicine when she taunted Zhu Zhuqing, then led Zhuqing inside.
• The Star Luo Emperor summoned Li Xuan to a side room, and Li Xuan reassured Zhu Zhuqing that he would resolve her problem.

Li Xuan negotiated with the Star Luo Emperor for Zhu Zhuqing’s freedom by revealing the Heaven Dou Empire’s Medicine People and offering prescriptions to identify, suppress, and treat them. The emperor accepted Li Xuan’s proposal but also asked him to help Prince Wei Si claim the throne, while Li Xuan left believing Zhu Zhuqing’s marriage agreement would be voided.

• Li Xuan resisted the Star Luo Emperor’s pressure and offered the reverse-engineered Medicine Person drug formula in exchange for Zhu Zhuqing’s freedom.
• Li Xuan explained that the Heaven Dou Empire was producing Medicine People in large numbers, and the Star Luo Emperor showed him a captured, mature Medicine Person.
• Li Xuan cured the captive with a Detoxification-Transforming Pill and gave the Star Luo Emperor a cheaper prescription for incapacitating Medicine People so they could be killed.
• The Star Luo Emperor approved of Li Xuan’s help but asked him to become sworn brothers with Wei Si and assist him in becoming emperor; Li Xuan postponed the matter until after his voyage.
• The Star Luo Emperor requested more Detoxification-Transforming Pills, and Li Xuan suspected they were meant for Dai Mubai.
• Li Xuan returned to Zhu Zhuqing, reassured her that the negotiation had worked, and told her what had happened.