Chapter Summaries

Ye Qifeng and Huo Wu studied whether their Martial Souls could form a fusion skill, and their first attempt unexpectedly succeeded. They named the resulting technique Radiant World Fire Lotus, leaving Gui Mei stunned by their achievement.

• Ye Qifeng agreed to try a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Huo Wu and explained the requirements and risks of combining their Martial Souls.
• Huo Wu demonstrated her progress with Meteor Butterfly Steps, and Ye Qifeng praised her before they began their experiment.
• Ye Qifeng and Huo Wu summoned their Shadow and Fire Shadow Martial Souls, linked hands, and guided the Martial Souls into contact.
• Their Martial Souls fused immediately, transforming Ye Qifeng and Huo Wu into a black-and-red Fire Lotus surrounded by six Spirit Rings.
• Huo Wu and Ye Qifeng confirmed their fusion had succeeded and named their Martial Soul Fusion Skill Radiant World Fire Lotus, while Gui Mei watched in disbelief.

Ye Qifeng and Huo Wu tested their new Radiant World Fire Lotus Martial Soul Fusion Skill, whose blast carried Soul King-level power, then returned safely to shore after Huo Wu exhausted her Soul Power. Days later, Ye Qifeng reached level fifty and prepared to leave Blazing City, but he revealed his four Spirit Rings to Huo Wu when she asked about his true cultivation level.

• Huo Wu and Ye Qifeng discovered that Ye Qifeng had to lead while Huo Wu assisted to control the Radiant World Fire Lotus.
• Ye Qifeng and Huo Wu detonated the fire lotus above Hot Spring Lake, producing an explosion with power comparable to a Soul King and sending Huo Wushuang and Huo Li rushing to the lake.
• After Huo Wu ran out of Soul Power, she clung to Ye Qifeng, who used his movement technique to carry them across the lake to shore.
• Huo Wu told Huo Wushuang that she and Ye Qifeng had succeeded in creating a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Huo Wushuang sent Huo Li away before other academy teachers arrived.
• Ye Qifeng broke through to level fifty and told Huo Wu he was leaving Blazing City, then revealed his four Spirit Rings when she asked about his true cultivation level.

After reaching Soul Power level fifty, Ye Qifeng left Blazing City with Gui Mei to inspect other Elemental Cities and seek a Fifth Spirit Ring. Huo Wu found his parting gifts and letter, while Ye Qifeng arrived at a Level 4 Martial Soul Hall Branch in another Elemental City.

• Ye Qifeng told Gui Mei that he had reached level fifty and planned to inspect other Elemental Cities before hunting a Dark Attribute Spirit Beast in Sunset Forest.
• Ye Qifeng left Huo Wu an Improved Ring Fusion Secret Technique and a letter, then departed Blazing City with Gui Mei without saying goodbye in person.
• Huo Wu found the gifts, read Ye Qifeng's apology and promise to meet again, and vowed to seek him out if he did not return.
• Ye Qifeng reached another Elemental City and approached its Level 4 Martial Soul Hall Branch with his Inspection Deacon Token.

Bibi Dong, Qian Daoliu, and Qian Renxue learned that Ye Qifeng had formed a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Huo Wu and reacted with jealousy and concern. The chapter ended with Qian Renxue deciding to investigate Huo Wu and keep watch over her.

• Bibi Dong read Gui Mei's report about Ye Qifeng and learned that Huo Wu had grown fond of him and formed a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with him.
• Hu Liena sensed a moment of unease during training, then continued cultivating while Xie Yue and Yan guarded her.
• Bibi Dong ordered Yue Guan to gather intelligence on Blazing City, Blazing Academy, the Huo Family, and Huo Wu, while ensuring Huo Wu remained unharmed and undisturbed.
• Bibi Dong reread Ye Qifeng's letters to reassure herself that she was the person he loved most.
• Qian Daoliu read the report, worried that Huo Wu was another rival for Qian Renxue, and sent his granddaughter a letter urging her to act.
• Qian Renxue read Qian Daoliu's letter, grew jealous and angry about Huo Wu, and resolved to investigate her.

Ye Qifeng traveled through the Elemental Cities and entered Sunset Forest to hunt for his Fifth Spirit Ring. After absorbing a nearly forty-thousand-year-old Dark Night Demon Beast, he became a Level 53 Soul King and demonstrated the formidable control effects of his new skill, Dark Night Dominion, to Gui Mei.

• Ye Qifeng visited the five Elemental Cities, gathered intelligence about their Martial Soul Hall branches, and secretly explored their cultivation grounds.
• Ye Qifeng and Gui Mei searched Sunset Forest for more than ten days before finding a Dark Night Demon Beast suited to Ye Qifeng's Shadow Martial Soul.
• Ye Qifeng absorbed the beast's Spirit Ring and advanced to the Soul King realm at Level 53.
• Ye Qifeng revealed that his Fifth Spirit Skill, Dark Night Dominion, created a Darkness Field that deprived enemies of sight and suppressed their Soul Power, Spiritual Power, and Spirit Skill strength.
• Ye Qifeng demonstrated the field on Gui Mei and showed how he could reshape its darkness into barriers, traps, and confined spaces.

After testing his new strength in Sunset Forest, Ye Qifeng headed toward Heaven Dou City to visit Xiao Xue'er, but a disturbance in the forest drew his attention. Gui Mei sensed a weakened female Soul Saint fighting a powerful Spirit Beast nearby.

• Ye Qifeng kept his Ultimate Darkness Domain secret from Gui Mei and reflected on how Domains worked and how rare Innate Domains were.
• Ye Qifeng spent several days fighting Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Beasts, finding that he could match a twenty-thousand-year beast without using all his abilities and a forty-thousand-year beast when he went all out.
• After failing to find the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Ye Qifeng decided to leave Sunset Forest and visit Xiao Xue'er in Heaven Dou City.
• Three fleeing Spirit Masters said that a female Soul Saint they had hired had gone berserk after killing a Spirit Beast and was slaughtering beasts indiscriminately.
• Gui Mei told Ye Qifeng that a nearly exhausted level-seventy-five Soul Saint was fighting a roughly forty-thousand-year Spirit Beast about two kilometers ahead.

Ye Qifeng found Liu Erlong, a wounded Soul Saint consumed by slaughter, fighting the forty-thousand-year Scaled Giant Beast that had fled from him. When Liu Erlong ran out of Soul Power and accepted her apparent death, Ye Qifeng intervened and saved her from the beast’s final strike.

• Ye Qifeng rushed toward the sounds of battle and found a blood-soaked trail of Spirit Beast corpses.
• Ye Qifeng recognized the woman fighting the Scaled Giant Beast as Liu Erlong and recalled her tragic past and obsession with slaughter.
• Ye Qifeng recognized the Scaled Giant Beast as one of the beasts that had fled after sparring with him.
• The Scaled Giant Beast exploited Liu Erlong’s exhaustion, leaving her wounded and unable to summon her Fire Dragon Martial Soul.
• As the Scaled Giant Beast attacked Liu Erlong, Ye Qifeng threw a Black Blade and knocked its claws aside.

Ye Qifeng rescued the badly injured Liu Erlong from the Scaled Giant Beast and carried her to a sheltered cave, where he treated and bandaged her wounds. He finished caring for her for the night, intending to find a Healing-type Spirit Master after they left Sunset Forest.

• Liu Erlong mistook Ye Qifeng for Xiao Gang before losing consciousness, and Ye Qifeng caught her as the Scaled Giant Beast recovered.
• Ye Qifeng ordered the Scaled Giant Beast to leave, and it fled in terror.
• Ye Qifeng examined Liu Erlong's many severe wounds, stopped her bleeding, and asked Gui Mei to find a safe place to stay.
• Gui Mei located a natural cave, and Ye Qifeng carried Liu Erlong there before preparing water and medical supplies.
• Ye Qifeng cut away Liu Erlong's blood-stuck clothes, cleaned and stitched her wounds, applied medicine, and wrapped them in gauze.

Ye Qifeng treated Liu Erlong and kept her safe as she recovered in a cave, while Flender heard rumors in Heaven Dou City that a female Soul Saint had likely died in Sunset Forest. The rumors described Liu Erlong’s battle, though Flender did not know she had survived.

• Ye Qifeng finished treating Liu Erlong, dressed her in his spare clothes, and laid her on a clean blanket.
• Liu Erlong dreamed of her mother and grabbed Ye Qifeng’s hand; he calmed her with his touch, covered her with a quilt, and went to wash.
• Flender traveled to Heaven Dou City to buy Spirit Master goods for resale and support Shrek Academy.
• Flender overheard Spirit Masters claim that a female Soul Saint had slaughtered Spirit Beasts, fought a forty-thousand-year Scaled Giant Beast, and was probably dead.
• Flender gleefully considered whether he could find treasure at the battle site, then decided to focus on his business.

Flender learned that Liu Erlong had fought a forty-thousand-year Scaled Giant Beast and rushed toward Sunset Forest to find her, while someone from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan also departed for the forest. That night, Ye Qifeng prepared food for the still-unconscious Liu Erlong, who began to stir.

• Flender overheard three Spirit Masters describe Liu Erlong's rampage in Sunset Forest and her battle with a forty-thousand-year Scaled Giant Beast.
• Flender confronted the Spirit Masters, forced them to recount what they knew, then transformed into his Cat Owl Martial Soul Avatar and flew toward Sunset Forest.
• A figure from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan also raced toward Sunset Forest, and Yu Yuanzhen allowed the Deputy Sect Master to leave, telling him not to disappoint him.
• Ye Qifeng continued caring for Liu Erlong, whose injuries had stabilized, and prepared Soft Bone Rabbit and porridge for her.
• Liu Erlong remained unconscious through the day, then let out a soft moan in the cave.

Liu Erlong woke in a cave after Ye Qifeng saved her from a Scaled Giant Beast and treated her severe injuries. She accepted Ye Qifeng as her younger brother, but his confession about what he had done while she was unconscious left her frozen in shock.

• Liu Erlong woke in a cave and learned from Ye Qifeng that he had saved her from the Scaled Giant Beast and treated her injuries.
• Liu Erlong discovered she could not move her weakened body, and Ye Qifeng reassured her and tucked her hand beneath the quilt.
• Liu Erlong introduced herself and proposed that she and Ye Qifeng call each other sister and brother.
• Ye Qifeng agreed to call Liu Erlong Sister Er Long and decided to tell her how he had treated and cleaned her while she was unconscious.
• Liu Erlong froze in shock when Ye Qifeng began his confession.

Flender and a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon pursued the Scaled Giant Beast after finding traces of Liu Erlong’s battle, unaware she was sheltering nearby with Ye Qifeng. After Ye Qifeng explained how he had treated her injuries while she was unconscious, Liu Erlong was overwhelmed by the loss of her chastity, but his mysterious aura briefly soothed her before she began crying again.

• Flender reached the site of Liu Erlong’s battle, recognized her soul power, and followed the Scaled Giant Beast’s trail after finding bloodied clothing fragments.
• A figure transformed into a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon arrived at the battlefield, sensed the traces with Spiritual Power, and pursued the Scaled Giant Beast.
• Flender and the transformed figure missed Liu Erlong, who was only about five kilometers away in a cave with Ye Qifeng.
• Ye Qifeng told Liu Erlong that he had removed her clothes and cleaned and treated her wounds while she was unconscious, leaving her distraught over what she saw as the loss of her chastity.
• Ye Qifeng held Liu Erlong’s hand and released his mysterious aura, briefly calming her and easing her resentment before sealing the aura away.
• Ye Qifeng apologized and offered to let Liu Erlong beat him once she recovered, but she began crying harder as old grievances overwhelmed her.

Ye Qifeng helped Liu Erlong recover from her injuries, and the two agreed to put aside the awkward circumstances of her treatment. Meanwhile, Flender mistook a Humanoid Demon Ape’s arm for Liu Erlong’s and attacked the Scaled Giant Beast, then fled and was struck by its claws.

• Liu Erlong stopped crying, teased Ye Qifeng about ruining her chastity, and accepted his reassurance that he had treated her injuries to save her.
• Ye Qifeng gave Liu Erlong water and Rabbit Porridge, which she eagerly ate while he supported her.
• The Scaled Giant Beast returned to the central region and ate a Humanoid Demon Ape after abandoning its attempt to reach the Outer Area.
• Flender found the Scaled Giant Beast, mistook the Humanoid Demon Ape’s arm for Liu Erlong’s, and attacked before realizing his mistake.
• Flender fled the enraged Scaled Giant Beast, which struck his Cat Owl Avatar across the butt and made him scream in pain.

Yu Luomian arrived in Sunset Forest and severely injured the Scaled Giant Beast after mistaking the Humanoid Demon Ape’s feet for Liu Erlong’s. He learned that Liu Erlong had been rescued and headed toward the outer area, then let the beast go and planned to search for her.

• The Scaled Giant Beast rampaged after the Cat Owl true form escaped, then resumed eating the Humanoid Demon Ape.
• Yu Luomian attacked the Scaled Giant Beast in a rage, believing it was eating his daughter Liu Erlong, but realized the feet belonged to a Humanoid Demon Ape and stopped short of killing it.
• Yu Luomian confirmed that Liu Erlong had not been in the area and questioned the Scaled Giant Beast about her whereabouts.
• The Scaled Giant Beast indicated that a man had rescued Liu Erlong and pointed toward the outer area of Sunset Forest.
• Yu Luomian let the badly injured Scaled Giant Beast leave and resolved to search nearby for Liu Erlong.

Ye Qifeng cared for the injured Liu Erlong in a cave, feeding her rabbit porridge and roasted rabbit before they prepared to leave Sunset Forest. The next morning, he carried her out, and Liu Erlong blushed when she realized she was not wearing an undergarment beneath his clothes.

• Liu Erlong ate three bowls of Ye Qifeng’s rabbit porridge and then eagerly accepted pieces of roasted rabbit, while Ye Qifeng promised to cook more the next day.
• Ye Qifeng told Liu Erlong they would leave at dawn to find a Healing-type Spirit Master, then entered the Yin-Yang Space to water Ah Yin and cultivate.
• Liu Erlong meditated overnight and recovered some Soul Power and the ability to move her arms.
• After breakfast, Ye Qifeng lifted Liu Erlong into his arms so they could leave Sunset Forest, and she realized his clothes did not include an undergarment.

Ye Qifeng carried the injured Liu Erlong out of Sunset Forest and made camp for the night, where she asked about his strength. He revealed that he was an eleven-year-old Level 53 Soul King, then removed the camouflage from his Spirit Rings and left Liu Erlong stunned by their true colors.

• Ye Qifeng covered Liu Erlong with a cloak and carried her carefully through Sunset Forest, avoiding Spirit Beasts and other dangers.
• After traveling more than two hundred kilometers, Ye Qifeng made camp, while Liu Erlong reflected on how safe and calm she felt with him.
• Ye Qifeng prepared roasted rabbit and rabbit porridge as Liu Erlong asked why she could not sense his Soul Power.
• Ye Qifeng told Liu Erlong he was an eleven-year-old Level 53 Soul King and summoned his five camouflaged Spirit Rings to prove it.
• Ye Qifeng removed the camouflage from his Spirit Rings, and Liu Erlong was left speechless at their true appearance.

Ye Qifeng challenged Liu Erlong’s belief in Yu Xiaogang, claiming that the Limit Soul Ring Theory came from Spirit Hall and that Yu Xiaogang had taken credit for its research. After Liu Erlong rejected his claims, Gui Mei detected a powerful visitor and identified him as Yu Luomian, Liu Erlong’s father.

• Liu Erlong was shocked to see Ye Qifeng’s five purple and black Spirit Rings, and Ye Qifeng explained that he had absorbed them beyond the theoretical limit.
• Liu Erlong described Yu Xiaogang’s Limit Soul Ring Theory, and Ye Qifeng said its limits could be surpassed under rare conditions.
• Ye Qifeng told Liu Erlong that Spirit Hall had developed the theory and denounced Yu Xiaogang as a plagiarist and fraud.
• Liu Erlong angrily rejected Ye Qifeng’s claims and chose to trust Yu Xiaogang’s account of Spirit Hall.
• Gui Mei sensed a level 89 Spirit Douluo approaching and identified him as Yu Luomian, vice sect master of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and Liu Erlong’s father.

Yu Luomian tracked Liu Erlong to Ye Qifeng’s camp and found her safe, while Gui Mei’s hidden presence convinced him that a Title Douluo was guarding the boy. Yu Luomian suspected Ye Qifeng was Spirit Hall’s Holy Son but stayed concealed, as Liu Erlong began to speak to Ye Qifeng.

• Yu Luomian searched the cave where Ye Qifeng and Liu Erlong had sheltered, destroyed the remaining traces, and followed their trail through Sunset Forest.
• Yu Luomian lost their trail but used Liu Erlong’s lingering scent and the medicinal fragrance to continue pursuing them.
• Yu Luomian sensed a Title Douluo watching him, apologized, and cautiously approached after the hidden guardian allowed him to proceed.
• Yu Luomian saw Liu Erlong beside Ye Qifeng and suspected the boy was Spirit Hall’s Holy Son when the guardian reacted to his probing Spiritual Power.
• Ye Qifeng continued tending the rabbit and Rabbit Porridge while Liu Erlong hesitantly began to speak to him.

Ye Qifeng and Liu Erlong reconciled, and he fed her roasted Soft Bone Rabbit and Rabbit Porridge while offering to teach her how to cook. Meanwhile, Yu Luomian watched them from hiding, and the conversation ended with Ye Qifeng revealing he planned to go to Heaven Dou City.

• Liu Erlong apologized to Ye Qifeng for getting angry, but he refused to let her defend Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Luomian overheard them, recalled why he despised Yu Xiaogang, and felt guilty about his estrangement from Liu Erlong.
• A hidden Title Douluo sensed Yu Luomian's killing intent and briefly warned him with a colder, stronger aura.
• Ye Qifeng served Liu Erlong roasted rabbit and Rabbit Porridge, fed her, and offered to teach her more than ten ways to cook Soft Bone Rabbit.
• Liu Erlong asked Ye Qifeng about his plans after leaving Sunset Forest, and he said he was going to Heaven Dou City.

Ye Qifeng agreed to travel with the injured Liu Erlong to Heaven Dou City and stay at her home while she sought treatment. As they shared a meal, Liu Erlong asked about his origins, but Ye Qifeng stayed silent while Yu Luomian secretly listened nearby.

• Liu Erlong was delighted to learn that Ye Qifeng was headed to Heaven Dou City, and they agreed to travel there together so she could visit a Healing-type Spirit Master she knew.
• Ye Qifeng warned that Liu Erlong's injuries could worsen as her medicine lost its effect, but she refused to have him change her medicine and agreed to endure the journey.
• Liu Erlong invited Ye Qifeng to stay at her home, and he accepted, promising to remain as long as he needed in Heaven Dou City.
• Ye Qifeng fed Liu Erlong porridge and roasted rabbit, then wiped her hands and mouth as Yu Luomian watched in astonishment at her gentleness.
• Liu Erlong asked Ye Qifeng where he came from and whether he belonged to a major power; Ye Qifeng paused, and Yu Luomian secretly reacted to the question.