Chapter Summaries

After Bibi Dong punished Spirit Hall officials involved in the attack and took Xu Yuan and Hu Liena as disciples, she trained them for a week, improving Xu Yuan’s elemental switching. Xu Yuan later brought Bibi Dong his homemade Happy Water, and her delighted reaction left him poised to introduce her to the drink.

• Bibi Dong made Yue Guan the Law Enforcement Hall Master, removed the Palace Guard Knights commander, and took Xu Yuan and Hu Liena as her disciples.
• Bibi Dong trained Xu Yuan and Hu Liena on Pope Mountain, teaching Xu Yuan to switch elements instantly during fusion attacks.
• After a week, Xu Yuan and Hu Liena returned to Spirit Academy, where people treated Xu Yuan with newfound deference.
• Xu Yuan brought Bibi Dong a sealed case of Happy Water and served her a cup with ice and a straw.
• Bibi Dong tasted the drink, and her eyes lit up.

Xu Yuan introduced Immortal Happy Water to Spirit Hall’s officials and proposed having them produce and sell it across the continent in exchange for a share of the profits. He left the officials prepared to gather and discuss cooperation, aiming to use their network and shared interests to strengthen Spirit Hall.

• Bibi Dong praised Xu Yuan’s Immortal Happy Water and arranged for Yue Guan to collect it from him each day.
• Xu Yuan made more drinks, set some aside for Hu Liena, and delivered boxes to Spirit Hall’s senior officials.
• Fadanier tasted the drink and listened as Xu Yuan asked about its prospects for continent-wide sales.
• Over three days, Xu Yuan visited Spirit Hall’s Red-Clad Bishops, Archbishops, and Platinum Bishops, explained his plan, and arranged a meeting to discuss cooperation.
• Xu Yuan planned to provide the formula while the officials used Spirit Hall’s branches and sales channels to distribute the drink and share its profits.

Xu Yuan reached level thirteen and attended Spirit Academy’s monthly assessment, where Pope Bibi Dong and Spirit Hall’s senior officials gathered to watch. He used the occasion to promote his Happy Water to the leaders, then waited for his turn to compete as the assessment continued.

• Xu Yuan broke through to level thirteen after half a month of cultivation at the academy.
• Bibi Dong and Spirit Hall’s middle- and upper-ranking members attended the academy’s monthly soul fighting assessment.
• Xu Yuan brought Happy Water to the viewing platform and served Bibi Dong, the Platinum Bishops, and the Title Elders.
• Xu Yuan planned to use the officials’ approval to build word-of-mouth before arranging prices and profit-sharing for selling Happy Water.
• Students’ attempts to impress the officials caused mishaps in several matches, worrying vice principal Yue Guan.
• Xu Yuan’s turn to fight arrived as the assessment continued.

Xu Yuan defeated Li Yueshuang in the monthly exam without using a soul skill, then won first place in his year. He negotiated a deal for Spirit Hall to produce and sell Happy Water, giving the institution a new potential source of income independent of the two great empires.

• Xu Yuan defeated Li Yueshuang by trapping her with water and lightning elements, then surrounding her with crystal shards.
• Xu Yuan won first place in the second-year monthly exam, while Xie Yue, Hu Liena, and Yan took the top three places in the third year.
• Xu Yuan proposed a Happy Water deal to Spirit Hall's officials and agreed to take a fifteen-percent cut while handling marketing and new products.
• Spirit Hall's officials finalized the deal after seeing the drink's public buzz and profit potential.
• Spirit Hall prepared to gain a stable source of income and reduce its dependence on funding from the two great empires.

Xu Yuan enjoyed the success of Happy Water and improved his Soul Power knowledge during class before heading to practical combat. At the Soul Fighting Arena, Yan challenged him to a rematch, but Xu Yuan refused.

• Xu Yuan delivered a cup of Happy Water to Hu Liena, then left as the drink's continental sales brought him a growing fortune.
• Xu Yuan attended Lor Diarra's lesson on Soul Power techniques and learned ways to strengthen attacks, anticipate opponents, and deceive them in battle.
• Lor Diarra announced practical combat for the afternoon, and Xu Yuan ate an expensive serving of charcoal-grilled thousand-year soul beast meat before heading to the arena.
• The crowd at the Soul Fighting Arena made way for Xu Yuan, where Yan, Xie Yue, and Xu Hu were present.
• Yan demanded a rematch and insisted Xu Yuan not use Silver Soul Coins, but Xu Yuan rejected the challenge.

Xu Yuan rejected Yan’s challenge because their cultivation levels made it invalid, then challenged Yan himself and began their duel. Yan found himself trapped in Xu Yuan’s heated mist, with the fight still underway.

• Xu Yuan explained that Yan’s higher cultivation level meant his challenge did not count as a proper duel, embarrassing Yan and the watching students.
• Xu Yuan issued a challenge to Yan, who accepted and leaped onto a Soul Fighting Platform.
• Before the duel began, Yan asked the referee to forbid auxiliary items, and Xu Yuan put away his Silver Soul Coin.
• Xu Yuan spread water elemental power across the platform while Yan activated his defensive skill and charged with Hell Lava Rush.
• Xu Yuan’s mist absorbed Yan’s heat and turned scorching, leaving Yan feeling as if he were being steamed.

Xu Yuan defeated Yan by turning Yan’s own elemental soul skill against him, then won their Soul Fighting Arena match with a Thunder Curtain. After avoiding further sparring, Xu Yuan returned to reading and introduced Hu Liena to Milk Tea, which he planned to sell as the weather grew colder.

• Yan dispelled his soul skill before its rising heat could overwhelm him, but Xu Yuan trapped him in a Thunder Curtain and left him badly burned.
• The referee announced Xu Yuan’s victory, and the students watched in stunned silence.
• After Lor Diarra arrived to begin practical combat class, no third-year student dared to spar with Xu Yuan, so Xu Yuan asked for leave and went back to reading.
• Hu Liena returned from seeing Teacher, and Xu Yuan offered her a cup of Milk Tea.
• Hu Liena loved the Milk Tea, and Xu Yuan planned to launch it as autumn gave way to colder weather.

Hu Liena told Xu Yuan she had reached level thirty and explained why Spirit Hall members hunted Spirit Rings in Star Dou Forest. After Xu Yuan persuaded her to bring him along, they set out with a large escort, leaving Hu Liena to insist he obey her.

• Hu Liena told Xu Yuan she had reached level thirty and needed to obtain a Spirit Ring.
• Hu Liena explained that Spirit City had no nearby Soul Hunting Forests and accused the two great empires of using them to damage Spirit Hall's reputation.
• Xu Yuan asked to accompany Hu Liena to Star Dou Forest, and she agreed after he pleaded with her.
• Hu Liena and Xu Yuan left Spirit City with eight Red-Clad Bishops, two Archbishops, and Gui Mei secretly following them.
• Hu Liena reminded Xu Yuan to listen to her on the trip, but he waved off the demand.

Xu Yuan and Hu Liena traveled with Spirit Hall officials toward Star Dou Forest, where an Archbishop explained the ideological conflict between Spirit Hall and the two great empires. The group entered the forest after dark, and Xu Yuan accidentally ran into Hu Liena when she paused to admire the glowing insects.

• Hu Liena planned their route to Star Dou Forest, and Xu Yuan agreed to follow along.
• An Archbishop explained that Spirit Hall's support for commoners clashed with the empires' noble hierarchy, making conflict between them inevitable.
• The group reached the edge of Star Dou Forest after seven days and entered at night despite the approaching darkness.
• Xu Yuan and Hu Liena walked through the glowing forest with the Spirit Hall officials while Gui Mei concealed himself.
• Hu Liena paused to admire the scenery, and Xu Yuan ran into her from behind.

Xu Yuan and Hu Liena traveled through Star Dou Forest and discussed what path she should choose for her Third Spirit Ring. Gui Mei agreed with Xu Yuan that Hu Liena’s Demon Fox Martial Soul would suit the Assault System better than the Control System, leaving her to reconsider her choice.

• Xu Yuan and Hu Liena argued over their accidental collision, then the group lit torches to travel through the dark forest.
• The torchlight attracted three weak spirit beasts, which the Archbishop easily drove away.
• Xu Yuan asked Hu Liena what skill she wanted for her Third Spirit Ring, and she said she planned to follow the Control System.
• Xu Yuan argued that Hu Liena’s Beast Spirit would suit the Assault System better, and Gui Mei unexpectedly appeared and supported him.
• Gui Mei explained that the Control System would leave Hu Liena weaker in both attacks and control, while Xu Yuan described the advantages of using her Demon Fox’s charm alongside the Assault System.

Xu Yuan advised Hu Liena on her development, and she followed Ghost Douluo Gui Mei’s guidance during the search for a Spirit Beast. Hu Liena absorbed a Nine-Tailed Sky Fox’s Spirit Ring and revealed her new Nine Tails skill before teasing Xu Yuan.

• Gui Mei praised Xu Yuan’s insight and advised Hu Liena to follow his guidance, prompting her to accept his advice despite her competitive streak.
• After searching the forest for hours, the group encountered a roughly fifteen-hundred-year-old Nine-Tailed Sky Fox suitable for Hu Liena.
• Gui Mei and the other guards subdued the fox, and Hu Liena killed it and began absorbing its purple Spirit Ring under their protection.
• At dawn, Hu Liena completed the absorption and demonstrated her Nine Tails skill, piercing nine thick trees with her tails.
• Xu Yuan praised the skill with exaggerated applause, and Hu Liena hooked an arm around his neck and pinched his cheek for addressing his senior sister improperly.

After obtaining her third spirit ring, Hu Liena took Xu Yuan to Tianxing City and spent the day shopping with him. She became interested in a stall game promising a ring-shaped Storage Soul Tool and paid for a hundred attempts.

• Hu Liena pulled Xu Yuan from the forest to Tianxing City, where Spirit Hall's knights saluted them at the gate.
• Hu Liena took Xu Yuan through the city's shops and stalls while the bishops departed to report their completed mission.
• Hu Liena tried on earrings and bought two pairs after Xu Yuan praised them.
• Hu Liena became interested in a prize game offering a ring-shaped Storage Soul Tool and paid the stall owner ten Gold Soul Coins for a hundred smashes.

Xu Yuan and Hu Liena spent a day shopping in Tianxing City, where Hu Liena played a street ball-smashing game whose owner falsely seemed to promise a Storage Soul Tool. The next morning, Hu Liena revealed that the prize had been real and rushed Xu Yuan to deal with the trouble.

• Hu Liena smashed about twenty balls at a street stall, grew bored with the dolls she won, and left after Xu Yuan warned the owner that claiming to offer a Soul Tool could bring danger.
• Xu Yuan and Hu Liena shopped through the day and shared a quiet evening by the river, where Hu Liena wondered aloud whether he would have been wonderful if born a few years earlier.
• The next morning, Hu Liena burst into Xu Yuan's room and told him that people from the Heaven Dou Empire had smashed every ball at the stall without finding the promised prize.
• Hu Liena grabbed Xu Yuan and said the owner really did possess a Soul Tool.

Xu Yuan and Hu Liena returned to Tianxing City to find Xue Celou claiming a ring-shaped Storage Soul Tool he had won at a stall. Xu Yuan allowed the stall owner to hand it over, then asked where the ring had come from.

• Hu Liena brought Xu Yuan to the crowded street, where Xue Celou and the stall owner argued over who owned the ring reward.
• A Spirit Hall Protection Knight identified Xue Celou as Prince Xue Xing’s son from the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Xu Yuan warned Xue Celou to show respect in Tianxing City and heard the stall owner explain that the ring had been meant for Xu Yuan and Hu Liena.
• Xu Yuan decided the stall owner should give Xue Celou the ring, while refusing to let the Protection Knights retaliate against him.
• Xue Celou took the ring and mocked the Spirit Hall, and Xu Yuan asked the stall owner where he had obtained it.

Xu Yuan learned that Lao Yu had found the valuable storage ring in an abandoned field and took Hu Liena and Lao Yu to the site. After rewarding Lao Yu and returning to the wilderness with Gui Mei, Xu Yuan prepared to search for the grave the storm had exposed.

• Xu Yuan brought Lao Yu to a Spirit Hall office and asked where and when he had found the storage ring.
• Lao Yu explained that he had found the ring in his family's field after a night of heavy rain and agreed to show Xu Yuan the place.
• Xu Yuan, Hu Liena, and Lao Yu traveled to the abandoned field, where Lao Yu pointed out the spot and said his eldest son had taken Gold Soul Coins from the ring.
• Xu Yuan gave Lao Yu Gold Soul Coins as a reward when they returned to Tianxing City.
• Xu Yuan summoned Gui Mei, who transported him and Hu Liena back to the wilderness so they could search for the grave.

Xu Yuan, Hu Liena, and Gui Mei investigated the place where Lao Yu had found a Storage Ring and uncovered a hidden grave. They found what appeared to be two Soul Bones inside, but the chapter ended before they examined them.

• Xu Yuan explained to Hu Liena why recovering burial treasures from a grave already opened by rain could be justified.
• Xu Yuan concluded that Lao Yu's Storage Ring had likely come from a hidden grave and asked him to lead them to the spot where he found it.
• Gui Mei called Xu Yuan over after locating the rain-washed opening in the mountainside.
• Gui Mei produced digging tools from his ring, and the three Soul Masters excavated the grave.
• Xu Yuan, Hu Liena, and Gui Mei found a collapsed burial chamber containing scattered bones, a rusty token, and two jade-white objects that made Hu Liena's breathing quicken.

Xu Yuan, Hu Liena, and Gui Mei recovered two Soul Bones from an ancient tomb and respectfully reburied the remains. When they returned to Tianxing City to visit Lao Yu, they found Xue Celou’s men attacking Lao Yu’s family, and Xu Yuan demanded that they let them go.

• Gui Mei let Xu Yuan and Hu Liena keep the tomb’s two Soul Bones, and Hu Liena chose the lower-aged arm bone while Xu Yuan took the ten-thousand-year leg bone.
• Xu Yuan, Hu Liena, and Gui Mei buried the dry bones in a new coffin, then left the mountain for Tianxing City.
• Xu Yuan decided to visit Lao Yu and consider bringing Lao Yu’s younger son to Spirit Academy if the boy had decent talent.
• The three found Xue Celou outside Lao Yu’s home, where his Soul King attendants had forced Lao Yu to kneel and left a boy bleeding on the ground.
• Xu Yuan saw Lao Yu’s frightened wife and younger son and shouted at Xue Celou’s group to let them go.

Xu Yuan confronted Xue Celou after Xue Celou’s attendants beat Lao Yu’s son to death, then brutally punished him despite the diplomatic risks. Ghost Douluo restrained Xue Celou’s attendants when they tried to attack Xu Yuan, and Lao Yu and his wife thanked their rescuers.

• Xu Yuan helped Lao Yu and learned that Xue Celou’s men had beaten Lao Yu’s eldest son to death.
• Xue Celou dismissed the killing, blamed Lao Yu’s family, and threatened to return the next day.
• Xu Yuan blocked Xue Celou from leaving and beat him after rejecting his claim that his princely family put him above the law.
• Ghost Douluo warned Xu Yuan that Xue Celou’s death could provoke a dispute with Prince Xue Xing, and Xu Yuan said he would confess to his teacher.
• Xue Celou’s attendants begged Xu Yuan for mercy, then lunged at him when he refused to spare them; Ghost Douluo immobilized them.
• Lao Yu and his wife bowed to Xu Yuan, Ghost Douluo, and Hu Liena and thanked them for avenging their son.

Xu Yuan’s group avenged Lao Yu’s eldest son, awakened Yu Xian’s Martial Soul, and brought him to Spirit City. After settling Yu Xian at Spirit Academy, Xu Yuan was summoned to meet Bibi Dong and insisted he would make the same choices again.

• Ghost Douluo killed Xue Celou and the other Heaven Dou men, then disposed of their bodies.
• Lao Yu explained that the men had attacked his family to learn where he had obtained the Storage Ring, and Xu Yuan offered to awaken his younger son’s Martial Soul.
• Hu Liena awakened Yu Xian’s longbow Martial Soul and found that he had Innate Soul Power at level eight.
• Xu Yuan and Hu Liena stayed in Tianxing City until Lao Yu’s family buried his eldest son, then brought Yu Xian to Spirit City.
• Xu Yuan arranged Yu Xian’s enrollment at Spirit Academy, but Yue Guan appeared and took him to meet Bibi Dong.
• Xu Yuan told Yue Guan that he would make the same choice again if given the chance.

Xu Yuan learned that Bibi Dong approved of his killing Xue Celou in Tianxing City and offered him a reward. After he left, Bibi Dong revealed her plan to destroy the Seven Great Sects and wage war on the two empires, leaving Yue Guan desperately urging her to reconsider.

• Bibi Dong praised Xu Yuan for killing Xue Celou, arguing that he had broken Spirit Hall law in Tianxing City, and offered him a reward.
• Bibi Dong teased that she might betroth Hu Liena to Xu Yuan someday, then continued praising him and condemning the imperial nobles.
• After Xu Yuan left, Yue Guan warned Bibi Dong that the Heaven Dou Empire might retaliate over Xue Xing's son.
• Bibi Dong gave Yue Guan her Hunting Soul Plan, which proposed destroying the Seven Great Sects before declaring war on the two empires.
• Yue Guan read the plan and begged Bibi Dong to think twice.