Chapter Summaries

Gui Mei brought Xiao Mingyue, a gifted Spirit Master with Companion Martial Souls, to meet Bibi Dong, who arranged her enrollment at Spirit Hall Advanced Spirit Master Academy. Afterward, Bibi Dong read Ye Qifeng’s letter, while Gui Mei and Qian Daoliu made arrangements and reacted to Xiao Mingyue’s arrival and Ye Qifeng’s new Martial Soul theory.

• Gui Mei delivered Ye Qifeng’s letter to Bibi Dong and introduced Xiao Mingyue, whose Companion Martial Souls and Innate Full Soul Power astonished the Pope.
• Gui Mei explained Ye Qifeng’s Companion Martial Soul theory, and Bibi Dong ordered it recorded as a Spirit Hall secret credited to Ye Qifeng.
• Xiao Mingyue called Bibi Dong “Pope Sister,” repeated Ye Qifeng’s praise of her, and described her support-focused abilities and future training plans.
• Bibi Dong arranged for Xiao Mingyue to join Nana’s class at Spirit Hall Advanced Spirit Master Academy and assigned Gui Mei to handle her enrollment.
• Gui Mei asked Yue Guan to look after Xiao Mingyue and teach her Martial Soul Fusion Skill cultivation, while Qian Daoliu praised Ye Qifeng and wrote to Qian Renxue that Ye Qifeng was a perfect match for her.

Qian Renxue read a letter from Qian Daoliu that stirred up her feelings about Ye Qifeng and recalled how they had met as children. She resolved to use her strength to make Ye Qifeng acknowledge her as his older sister the next time they met, though her feelings for him had grown beyond those of a sister.

• Qian Renxue returned to her original appearance in her secret room and opened an urgent letter from Qian Daoliu.
• Qian Renxue read Qian Daoliu's matchmaking advice and felt embarrassed and unsettled by his praise of Ye Qifeng.
• Qian Renxue recalled meeting Ye Qifeng after her father's death, finding comfort in their talks, and spending two months with him at the lakeside.
• Qian Renxue decided that Ye Qifeng should be her younger brother and planned to use the Angel Holy Sword to force him to call her his older sister.
• Qian Renxue failed to recognize that her feelings for Ye Qifeng had become more than familial affection.

Ye Qifeng arrived in Blazing City to investigate the Huo Family and Blazing Academy and consider bringing them under Spirit Hall. There, he recognized the talented wine-red-haired girl approaching him as Huo Wu.

• Ye Qifeng traveled north toward the Silves Kingdom after sending Xiao Mingyue off, unaware of the schemes and grievances surrounding him back in Spirit City and Heaven Dou City.
• One year later, Ye Qifeng reached Blazing City, one of the Five Elements Cities, whose Spirit Master factions and academies competed for influence.
• Ye Qifeng planned to assess Blazing Academy and the Huo Family’s faction, hoping to recruit them into Spirit Hall, and intended to visit the other Elemental Cities as well.
• As Ye Qifeng walked through Blazing City, he sensed a tall girl with an explosive Fire Attribute and exceptional talent approaching.
• Ye Qifeng recognized the girl, who had wine-red hair and a flame-shaped ornament, as Huo Wu.

Ye Qifeng tried to avoid Huo Wu after realizing she had caught him looking at her, but she stopped him. The chapter left Huo Wu sensing a stirring from her Martial Soul as she walked ahead of Huo Wushuang and Feng Xiaotian.

• Ye Qifeng recognized Huo Wu and tried to leave before she could confront him.
• Huo Wu caught up to Ye Qifeng, grabbed his shoulder, and demanded to know where he was going.
• Huo Wu recalled reaching Soul Power rank thirty-one and gaining Repulsive Fire Ring, then complained about being made to accompany Feng Xiaotian around Blazing City.
• Huo Wushuang observed Feng Xiaotian's interest in Huo Wu and decided to leave their relationship to his sister.
• Huo Wu walked ahead of Huo Wushuang and Feng Xiaotian until she could no longer feel Feng Xiaotian watching her, then sensed a stirring from her Martial Soul.

Huo Wu followed her Fire Shadow Martial Soul’s strange stirring through the street and discovered that Ye Qifeng was its source. After grabbing him to stop him from leaving, she felt a mysterious power from him calm her and intensify her Martial Soul’s reverence and submission.

• Huo Wu sensed her Fire Shadow Martial Soul stirring with excitement, reverence, and submission, and followed the faint connection through the street.
• Huo Wu spotted Ye Qifeng, became distracted by his appearance, and grew annoyed when she noticed his pale-purple hair ribbon before he walked away.
• Huo Wu realized Ye Qifeng was the source of her Martial Soul’s stirring, called for him to stop, and caught up to grab his shoulder.
• Ye Qifeng chose not to resist Huo Wu because doing so could cause trouble for him and Spirit Hall.
• Huo Wu felt a mysterious power pass from Ye Qifeng into her body, calming her emotions and leaving her stunned.

Ye Qifeng realized his growing cultivation might be causing a mysterious aura that attracted women, and he used his Camouflage skill to conceal it. After Huo Wu touched him and lost her balance, he caught her, leaving them in an awkward embrace as bystanders admired them.

• Ye Qifeng recalled how women, including Bibi Dong and little Nana, had been drawn to him and suspected his Yin-Yang cultivation was releasing an aura that caused it.
• Ye Qifeng avoided Huo Wu's lips as she stumbled, then caught her by the hand and waist to stop her from falling.
• Nearby pedestrians saw Ye Qifeng and Huo Wu embracing and praised them as a handsome couple.
• Huo Wu regained her senses and realized she was being held by a man for the first time outside her family.

Ye Qifeng dodged Feng Xiaotian’s attack while carrying Huo Wu, after Feng Xiaotian mistook their embrace for an assault on her. Feng Xiaotian confronted Ye Qifeng in the street, furious and jealous, while Huo Wu remained stunned in Ye Qifeng’s arms.

• Huo Wu screamed when Ye Qifeng held her, and Ye Qifeng sensed an attacker approaching from behind.
• Feng Xiaotian charged Ye Qifeng, shouting for him to let go of Huo Wu.
• Ye Qifeng pulled Huo Wu close and used swift footwork to evade Feng Xiaotian’s punch, which shattered the street.
• Feng Xiaotian arrived after seeing Huo Wu in Ye Qifeng’s arms and attacked out of jealousy, believing Ye Qifeng had defiled her.
• Ye Qifeng recognized Feng Xiaotian as the attacker while Huo Wu stayed dazed in his embrace.

Huo Wushuang arrived and learned that Huo Wu's Martial Soul was resonating with Ye Qifeng, suggesting they might be able to form a Martial Soul Fusion Skill. He began explaining the rare skill to Huo Wu, while Feng Xiaotian remained furious at seeing her with Ye Qifeng.

• Feng Xiaotian demanded that Ye Qifeng release Huo Wu, and Huo Wushuang arrived to check that his sister was unharmed.
• Huo Wushuang noticed Huo Wu in Ye Qifeng's arms, and Huo Wu blushed, pulled away, and hid behind her brother.
• Huo Wu told Huo Wushuang that she had followed the resonance from her Fire Shadow Martial Soul to Ye Qifeng, but concealed her sense of his mysterious power.
• Huo Wushuang recognized the resonance as a possible sign of a Martial Soul Fusion Skill and suggested bringing Ye Qifeng to Blazing Fire Academy.
• Huo Wu asked about Martial Soul Fusion Skills, and Huo Wushuang began explaining what their father had taught him.

After Huo Wu’s accidental embrace of Ye Qifeng left her flustered, Feng Xiaotian accused him of dishonoring her and prepared to fight him. Huo Wu wanted to test Ye Qifeng herself, but Huo Wushuang persuaded her to let Feng Xiaotian go first.

• Huo Wushuang teased Huo Wu about fancying the black-clad boy, and she denied knowing Ye Qifeng while privately admiring his appearance and remembering their embrace.
• Feng Xiaotian confronted Ye Qifeng, accused him of defiling Huo Wu, and announced that he would fight him after Ye Qifeng summoned his Martial Soul.
• Ye Qifeng privately rejected Feng Xiaotian’s accusations and thought his jealous, self-important behavior explained why Huo Wu did not favor him.
• Huo Wu asked Huo Wushuang whether they should stop Feng Xiaotian, but he decided the fight would let them gauge Ye Qifeng’s strength.
• After learning that Ye Qifeng had easily dodged Feng Xiaotian’s ambush, Huo Wu eagerly offered to spar with him, but Huo Wushuang told her to watch instead.

Huo Wu worried that Feng Xiaotian might injure Ye Qifeng, while Ye Qifeng assessed Feng Xiaotian’s abilities and flaws. Feng Xiaotian activated his Martial Soul, and Ye Qifeng invited him to attack without summoning his own.

• Huo Wu asked Huo Wushuang to protect Ye Qifeng from Feng Xiaotian, and Huo Wushuang promised to intervene if necessary.
• Ye Qifeng considered Feng Xiaotian’s talent, cultivation, and Wind Demon Wolf Consecutive Slashes, judging the technique vulnerable to interruption and poorly suited to real combat.
• Feng Xiaotian activated his Martial Soul Possession and revealed his three Spirit Rings.
• Ye Qifeng stopped trying to explain himself, assumed a fighting stance, and told Feng Xiaotian to attack.
• Feng Xiaotian frowned when he noticed Ye Qifeng had not activated his Martial Soul.

Ye Qifeng fought Feng Xiaotian without summoning his Martial Soul, using extraordinary speed and force-redirection techniques to evade and counter his attacks. Feng Xiaotian recognized Ye Qifeng was far stronger than expected, while Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang remained astonished by the mysterious youth.

• Feng Xiaotian demanded Ye Qifeng’s name and warned him to stay away from Huo Wu, while Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang learned Ye Qifeng’s name.
• Feng Xiaotian attacked with his First Spirit Skill, Wind Blade Array, but Ye Qifeng evaded the blades with a movement technique that left ten Phantoms.
• Feng Xiaotian tried to strike Ye Qifeng at close range, but Ye Qifeng redirected his Wolf Claw and sent Feng Xiaotian flying with his own force.
• Feng Xiaotian used his Third Spirit Skill, Wind Wings, to stop his fall and suppress the injury, while Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang marveled at Ye Qifeng’s speed and skill.
• Feng Xiaotian admitted Ye Qifeng was much stronger than he had imagined, and Ye Qifeng replied that Feng Xiaotian was easier to beat than he had imagined.

Ye Qifeng revealed his Shadow Martial Soul and fought Feng Xiaotian, who unleashed his self-created Wind Demon Wolf Consecutive Slashes to try to defeat him. Ye Qifeng blocked all twenty-four attacks and crushed Feng Xiaotian with the final clash, leaving Feng Xiaotian to admit defeat.

• Ye Qifeng summoned his Shadow Martial Soul and concealed his true Spirit Ring configuration, shocking Feng Xiaotian, Huo Wushuang, and Huo Wu.
• Feng Xiaotian attacked with Wind Blade Array and Twin Wolf Possession, but Ye Qifeng blocked his wolf-claw strikes with Dark Moon of the Black Blade.
• Feng Xiaotian announced that he would use Wind Demon Wolf Consecutive Slashes for Huo Wu, and Huo Wu rebuked him for repeatedly bringing up her name.
• Ye Qifeng used Ninefold Overlapping Waves to meet Feng Xiaotian's first twenty-three slashes, while Feng Xiaotian's attacks inflicted painful recoil on himself.
• Ye Qifeng increased the force of Ninefold Overlapping Waves to stop Feng Xiaotian's twenty-fourth slash, shattering his Wind Wings and sending him crashing into a wall.
• Feng Xiaotian spat blood, rose unsteadily, and acknowledged that Ye Qifeng had crushed him.

Ye Qifeng defeated Feng Xiaotian with his Ninefold Overlapping Waves, leaving Huo Wushuang and Huo Wu astonished. Huo Wu challenged Ye Qifeng to a wager: if she lost, she would teach him Ring Fusion, and if he lost, he would reveal all his secrets.

• Ye Qifeng overpowered Feng Xiaotian's Wind Demon Wolf Consecutive Slashes and blasted him into a wall, while Huo Wushuang and Huo Wu watched in shock.
• Huo Wushuang checked Feng Xiaotian's injuries and found that both his hands were fractured, while Feng Xiaotian sat devastated by his defeat.
• Huo Wu approached Ye Qifeng and challenged him to fight, then questioned how he knew her name and whether he had deliberately arranged their earlier encounter.
• Ye Qifeng proposed that Huo Wu teach him Ring Fusion if she lost, and Huo Wu agreed after wondering how he knew about her secret technique.
• Huo Wu set her own stake: if Ye Qifeng lost, he would tell her every secret he had, and Ye Qifeng accepted.

Ye Qifeng sparred with Huo Wu, then tried to leave Blazing City before she insisted on teaching him the Ring Fusion Secret Technique. Feng Xiaotian asked about Ye Qifeng’s force technique, and Ye Qifeng advised him on improving his self-created skill and prioritizing Soul Power cultivation.

• Huo Wu attacked Ye Qifeng without warning, but he caught her ankle and forced her to admit defeat before releasing her.
• Ye Qifeng apologized for the wager and tried to leave, but Huo Wu blocked his way and insisted on teaching him the Ring Fusion Secret Technique until he mastered it.
• Feng Xiaotian asked Ye Qifeng whether the technique he used against him was a self-created soul skill, and Ye Qifeng explained that it was a force-exertion technique he had learned from someone else.
• Ye Qifeng told Feng Xiaotian that his Wind Demon Wolf Consecutive Slashes relied on too many attacks and suggested condensing its power into a single strike.
• Ye Qifeng warned Feng Xiaotian not to neglect Soul Power cultivation while researching self-created soul skills, and Feng Xiaotian thanked him for the guidance.

After Feng Xiaotian lost to Ye Qifeng and fractured both arms, Huo Wushuang invited Ye Qifeng to Blazing Academy, where Huo Wu brought him to meet her father, Huo Hong. Huo Hong learned that Feng Xiaotian had been defeated and asked who had beaten him.

• Feng Xiaotian admitted defeat to Ye Qifeng, and Ye clarified that his earlier contact with Huo Wu had been an accident.
• Huo Wushuang confirmed Huo Wu's account and invited Ye Qifeng to Blazing Academy, which Ye accepted.
• Huo Wu explained that Blazing Academy would cover the damage from the fight, then accompanied Ye to the academy.
• Feng Xiaotian aggravated his fractured arms by pretending to be unhurt, so Huo Wushuang took him to find a Healing Type Teacher.
• Huo Wu brought Ye to the dean's office, where they met her father Huo Hong and Feng Xiaotian's father Feng Teng.
• Huo Hong asked Huo Wu whether an old man had harassed her, and she pointed toward Ye as she explained that Feng Xiaotian had lost to him.

Huo Hong discovered that Ye Qifeng was guarded by a hidden Title Douluo and learned that Huo Wu hoped to develop a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with him. Unable to recruit Ye Qifeng directly, Huo Hong encouraged Huo Wu to teach him the Ring Fusion Secret Technique and grow closer to him.

• Huo Hong tried to sense Ye Qifeng's Soul Power, but Gui Mei released a warning trace of Title Douluo pressure that made Huo Hong realize Ye Qifeng had a powerful guardian.
• Huo Wu introduced Ye Qifeng to Huo Hong, then told her father that her Fire Shadow Martial Soul trembled near him and asked whether that could signal a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Huo Wu urged Huo Hong to recruit Ye Qifeng into Blazing Academy and revealed that she had wagered the Huo Family's Ring Fusion Secret Technique and lost it to him.
• Huo Hong rejected recruiting Ye Qifeng outright because of his unknown background and powerful guardian, but reasoned that Huo Wu could keep him at the academy by teaching him the secret technique.
• Huo Hong told Huo Wu to arrange Ye Qifeng's accommodations and learn from him about Martial Soul Fusion Skills, leaving her hopeful that she could win Ye Qifeng over.

Huo Wu continued teaching Ye Qifeng the Ring Fusion Secret Technique while challenging him to daily sparring matches, but she lost every time and grew discouraged. As Huo Wu worried that Ye Qifeng might leave once he mastered the technique, he began using the Yin-Yang Space to find a way to improve it.

• Gui Mei overheard Huo Wu and Huo Hong discussing a possible Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Ye Qifeng and decided to let them proceed without interfering.
• Huo Wu arranged for Ye Qifeng to stay beside Blazing Academy’s Hot Spring Lake, while Huo Hong left the academy and claimed to enter secluded cultivation.
• Huo Wu taught Ye Qifeng the Ring Fusion Secret Technique in small sections and persuaded him to spar with her every day.
• Huo Wu repeatedly lost to Ye Qifeng, and after he easily blocked her strongest Ring Fusion Secret Technique attack, she became discouraged by the gap between them.
• Ye Qifeng studied the incomplete technique in the Yin-Yang Space and sought to make its Soul Power output and number of fused Spirit Rings controllable.
• Huo Wu arrived to teach Ye Qifeng another section, became captivated while watching him, and worried that he would leave after learning the technique.

Huo Wu grew closer to Ye Qifeng and asked him to teach her combat techniques. He introduced her to Meteor Butterfly Steps, and over the following half month trained her in close-quarters combat, greatly improving her abilities.

• Huo Wu watched Ye Qifeng in a trance and felt drawn to his calm temperament and strength.
• Ye Qifeng agreed to teach Huo Wu combat techniques, and she asked him to call her Huo Wu rather than Miss Huo Wu.
• Ye Qifeng demonstrated Meteor Butterfly Steps, and Huo Wu eagerly agreed to learn it once she recovered.
• The next day, Huo Wu taught Ye Qifeng the complete Ring Fusion Secret Technique.
• Over the next half month, Ye Qifeng trained Huo Wu in combat skills, leverage, and knowledge of vital points, greatly strengthening her fighting ability.

Huo Wu kissed Ye Qifeng and confessed that she wanted to become his girlfriend, but he tried to turn her down because they were too young and he planned to leave Blazing Academy. When he claimed he already loved a perfect woman, Huo Wu suspected he was making an excuse and insisted that the woman must be her.

• Huo Wu kissed Ye Qifeng, then admitted she liked him and wanted them to become a couple.
• Ye Qifeng said they were too young to date and suggested waiting until they were sixteen.
• Huo Wu argued that they could be together now and grow up together, then asked whether Ye Qifeng liked her.
• Ye Qifeng claimed he already loved someone, describing her as the most perfect woman in the world and his eternal god.
• Huo Wu accused Ye Qifeng of inventing the woman to reject her and declared that if such a perfect woman existed, it had to be her.

Ye Qifeng explained why he had stayed at Blazing Academy to cultivate before leaving, while Huo Wu worried about losing him and asked him to explore a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with her. He learned that Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, and Huo Hong had kept him at the academy partly because her Fire Shadow Martial Soul resonated with his Shadow Martial Soul.

• Ye Qifeng told Huo Wu he would leave Blazing Academy in a few days, after using its Fire-rich environment to cultivate toward Soul Power Level fifty.
• Huo Wu feared Ye Qifeng would leave for good, but he promised they would meet again and hinted that he would give her a gift before departing.
• Huo Wu asked Ye Qifeng about his Shadow Martial Soul, and he explained that it came from the Rule of Ultimate Darkness.
• Huo Wu told Ye Qifeng that her Fire Shadow Martial Soul reacted strongly to his within a hundred meters, which her father and brother believed could indicate compatibility for a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Huo Wu confessed that Huo Wushuang and Huo Hong had invited Ye Qifeng to Blazing Academy hoping she could form a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with him, and Ye Qifeng realized why they had kept him there.