Chapter Summaries

Su Ming offered Ye Lingling the Twin Lotus of Yin and Yang, which might add a new ability to her Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul. Ye Lingling wanted to accept it but hesitated because she felt guilty about receiving so much from Su Ming and understood the romantic meaning behind his gift.

• Su Ming asked Ye Lingling about the Nine Heart Begonia’s limitations, and she explained that it only healed, had one inheritor per generation, and was rarely sought by factions.
• Su Ming told Ye Lingling he had an herb that might give her Martial Soul another ability, though its nature was uncertain, and she eagerly agreed to try it.
• Su Ming presented the Twin Lotus of Yin and Yang and explained that its black half might grant a yin-aligned ability, potentially one suited to damage.
• Ye Lingling admired the lotus but hesitated, feeling indebted to Su Ming and recognizing that his precious gift reflected his feelings for her.

Ye Lingling absorbed the Twin Lotus of Yin and Yang and evolved her Nine Heart Begonia into a new Martial Soul with healing and poison abilities. After reaching level forty, she discussed coordinating her slow-acting poison with Dugu Yan, and the chapter ended as she kissed Su Ming on the cheek.

• Ye Lingling decided to absorb the Twin Lotus of Yin and Yang, and Su Ming put up a barrier while she cultivated.
• Ye Lingling's Martial Soul evolved into the Twin Lotus of Yin and Yang, and her Soul Power rose to level forty.
• Ye Lingling explained that her new Martial Soul could heal allies and spread a slow-acting poison that she could detonate herself.
• Su Ming suggested that Ye Lingling coordinate with Dugu Yan to catch opponents off guard, and Ye Lingling sensed her new ability might have further effects.
• After Ye Lingling's stomach growled, Su Ming asked when she would obtain her fourth Soul Ring, and she kissed him on the cheek.

Su Ming and Ye Lingling made their relationship official after sharing a kiss, and they planned to hunt a suitable Soul Beast for her in Sunset Forest. At lunch, Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong teased the new couple, while Ye Lingling reflected on why Su Ming had won her over.

• Ye Lingling kissed Su Ming to thank him, and Su Ming pulled her into a passionate kiss in return.
• Ye Lingling challenged Su Ming for kissing her without consent, but he argued that she had kissed him first and asked whether she wanted to be his girlfriend.
• Ye Lingling worried about Su Ming's relationships with Xiao Wu and Rongrong, then agreed to become his girlfriend after he said they already understood his closeness with her.
• Su Ming celebrated and promised to accompany Ye Lingling to Sunset Forest the next day to hunt a suitable Soul Beast.
• Su Ming and Ye Lingling joined Xiao Wu and the others for lunch, where Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong teased them about making their relationship official.

Su Ming helped Ye Lingling evolve her Martial Soul and obtain a new Soul Ring, then took her to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. They arrived safely at the restored garden, where Su Ming warned her not to touch the poisonous plants.

• Ye Lingling teased Ning Rongrong for having been won over by Su Ming just as quickly, and Su Ming explained that the Twin Lotus of Yin and Yang had evolved Ye Lingling's Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul.
• Su Ming took Ye Lingling into Sunset Forest and found her a roughly six-thousand-year-old Soul Beast; after absorbing its Soul Ring, she advanced from level forty to level forty-four.
• Ye Lingling hugged Su Ming to thank him, and he took her to a protected place to spend the night.
• Su Ming and Ye Lingling took Dugu Bo's Detoxification Pills and passed through the poison formation to reach the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Su Ming found that the immortal herbs had grown back and told Ye Lingling that she could admire the plants but must not touch them because some were poisonous.

Su Ming and Ye Lingling grew closer at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Ye Lingling received a God Inheritance reward after their relationship advanced. They stopped for food after their prolonged intimacy and prepared to return, with Su Ming hoping to test their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

• Ye Lingling asked Su Ming to explain the plants, and they kissed before Su Ming raised a wooden cabin around them.
• Su Ming and Ye Lingling spent the night together, and Ye Lingling received a God Inheritance reward from the system.
• The other heroines learned from the Diary notification that Ye Lingling had been won over, while Xiao Wu and Dugu Yan reacted with envy and surprise.
• Su Ming and Ye Lingling continued their intimacy until noon, then stopped to eat and prepare to return.
• Su Ming planned to test whether he and Ye Lingling could use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill after they returned.

Su Ming and Ye Lingling successfully fused their Martial Souls to create a field that healed and enhanced recognized allies while poisoning unmarked opponents. The chapter then followed the team’s preparations for the Soul Master Tournament and Dugu Bo’s absorption of a defensive Soul Bone, with one month remaining before the tournament began.

• Su Ming let Ye Lingling rest while he cultivated, and she received a God-Bestowed Soul Ring as her diary reward.
• Su Ming and Ye Lingling fused their Martial Souls in front of Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing, creating the green halo they named Breath of Life.
• Su Ming explained that Breath of Life healed, cleansed negative effects, and increased allies’ Life Energy, while Ye Lingling said it poisoned anyone they did not mark as a teammate.
• Five months passed as Su Ming and the Huangdou team trained together for the Soul Master Tournament, which was one month away.
• Su Ming learned from Qian Renxue that Xue Beng had been confined again, and that Xue Ye’s physicians had found no illness beyond overindulgence.
• Dugu Bo absorbed the thirty-thousand-year Golden Armored Dragon Left Arm Bone from Liu Erlong and gained armor that increased his defense by one hundred and fifty percent.

Heaven Dou Royal Academy accepted Skywater Academy’s friendly-match challenge, while both teams prepared to keep their full strength hidden before the Soul Master Tournament. Shui Bing’er’s group arrived in Heaven Dou City to finalize the match arrangements, and Huo Wu urged Blazing Fire Academy to prepare for the tournament.

• The Three Great Education Committees agreed to Skywater Academy’s challenge and required Su Ming and Xiao Wu to sit out so the team could conceal their strength.
• Shui Bing’er explained that she arranged the match to meet Su Ming before the tournament and expected him to watch while their academy performed an opening dance.
• Huo Wu learned about the match and told Huo Wushuang that Blazing Fire Academy should focus on its own preparation instead of worrying about exposed strengths.
• Huo Wushuang persuaded Huo Wu to let their exhausted teammates rest for a few days before resuming special training.
• Shui Bing’er and her group arrived in Heaven Dou City, and their teacher and team leader went to meet the Three Great Education Committees and Dugu Bo about the match.

Su Ming was barred from competing in Heaven Dou Academy’s friendly match against Skywater Academy, so Dugu Yan led the team while he watched. He greeted the Skywater girls, whose captain Shui Bing'er offered to perform an opening dance, and Su Ming recorded it with the Diary.

• Dugu Bo left the friendly match arrangements to Su Ming, who selected Dugu Yan to lead Heaven Dou Academy’s team and assigned the lineup.
• Dugu Yan warned her teammates not to underestimate Skywater Academy and threatened to bench anyone who made careless mistakes in the upcoming tournament.
• Su Ming and the others met the Skywater Team, where Shui Yue'er immediately praised Su Ming’s looks and Shui Bing'er apologized for her sister’s lovestruck behavior.
• Shui Bing'er offered to have the Skywater Team perform an opening dance, and Su Ming eagerly agreed.
• The Skywater girls performed their dance while Su Ming used the Diary to record it.

Shui Bing'er and the Skywater team began their friendly match against Heaven Dou Royal Academy after their opening dance. Shui Bing'er opened with group control and a defensive skill, while Su Ming, Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong watched from the sidelines.

• Shui Bing'er, Shui Yue'er, and Xue Wu performed an opening dance, and Su Ming recorded it for the Diary.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin arrived to watch the match, and Chen Xin sensed that Dugu Bo had grown to a level comparable to his own.
• Su Ming told Ning Fengzhi that Ning Rongrong had reached Level Forty-Seven and mastered Heart Separation Control to the Four Apertures Constant Heart.
• The host announced the teams' lineups and Soul Power Levels, revealing Shui Bing'er had reached Level Forty-Six.
• Shui Bing'er began the match by using Ice Seal against Dugu Yan and the opposing attackers, then cast Ice Ring Armor on herself and her teammates.

Shui Bing'er’s team struggled against Dugu Yan’s poison and Zhu Zhuqing’s stealth as the match intensified. Zhu Zhuqing remained hidden while Dugu Yan’s poisoned snakes eliminated three Skywater Team members, leaving Shui Bing’er’s group to regroup around Xue Wu.

• Dugu Yan used Jade Phosphorus Phantom to evade Shui Bing’er’s Ice Seal and warned her teammates to break free and protect Ning Rongrong.
• Ning Rongrong supported Yufeng, Osler, and Zhu Zhuqing with Heart Separation Control, allowing Yufeng and Osler to escape the Ice Seal.
• Dugu Yan spread Jade Phosphorous Illusory Poison across the arena, while Shui Bing’er used Resisting Ice Ring and Zhu Zhuqing vanished from sight.
• Su Ming, Ning Fengzhi, and Chen Xin discussed Zhu Zhuqing’s concealment, while Dugu Bo watched Dugu Yan’s evolved Spirit Skills with pride.
• Shui Bing’er gathered her remaining teammates around Xue Wu, but Dugu Yan’s hidden Jade Phosphorous Poison Fang snakes poisoned and knocked three Skywater Team members out of the arena.

Shui Bing'er conceded the friendly match after Zhu Zhuqing outmaneuvered Skywater Team, and the teams met at a luncheon afterward. Xiao Wu pulled Shui Bing'er aside and asked her to help punish Tang San and Dai Mubai if Skywater Team faced Thunderclap Academy.

• Shui Bing'er conceded after realizing Skywater Team could not counter Zhu Zhuqing's concealment and attacks.
• The host declared the friendly match over and invited everyone to a luncheon, while Shui Bing'er reassured Xue Wu that the team had not lost unfairly.
• Shui Yue'er enthusiastically approached Su Ming, and Shui Bing'er introduced her as a lovestruck fool before the teams chatted over lunch.
• Xiao Wu took Shui Bing'er aside under the pretext of going to the restroom and asked her to help teach Thunderclap Academy a harsh lesson if Skywater Team faced them.
• Shui Bing'er listened sympathetically as Xiao Wu explained her grudge against Tang San and Dai Mubai.

Su Ming’s Diary reward increased Ah Yin’s cultivation, while the female leads received rewards of their own. Shui Bing’er, Xue Wu, and Shui Yue’er gained a three-person Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Xue Wu used Yue’er’s crush on Su Ming to motivate her to cultivate.

• Shui Bing’er agreed with Xiao Wu’s plan to take special care of Tang San, Dai Mubai, and the others if Skywater Academy faced Thunderclap Academy.
• Shui Bing’er and Xue Wu said goodbye to Su Ming’s group, and Shui Yue’er reluctantly left with them for Skywater Academy.
• Su Ming completed his Diary and received a ten-thousand-year increase to Ah Yin’s cultivation, bringing it to eighty thousand years.
• Xiao Wu received a God Inheritance, Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong gained Spiritual Power, and Shui Bing’er, Xue Wu, and Shui Yue’er received a three-person Martial Soul Fusion Skill with one-hundred-percent compatibility.
• Xue Wu encouraged Shui Yue’er to cultivate by suggesting she might have a chance with Su Ming if she became stronger.

Shui Bing'er received Ice Attribute Mastery, and her sudden release of power revealed that she, Xue Wu, and Shui Yue'er had sensed a Martial Soul resonance. After months of cultivation and experimentation, the three found the beginnings of a Three-person Martial Soul Fusion Skill, which they hoped to complete in time for the Soul Master Tournament.

• Shui Bing'er gained Ice Attribute Mastery, briefly filling the hotel room with freezing cold before she regained control of it.
• Shui Bing'er told Skywater Academy's team leader that the three sisters' Martial Souls had resonated, and the team leader insisted on reporting it to the dean.
• Shui Bing'er, Xue Wu, and Shui Yue'er planned to cultivate and develop their Three-person Fusion Skill before the Soul Master Tournament.
• Shui Yue'er reached level forty, and the academy arranged a suitable Soul Beast for her.
• After three months of practice, Shui Bing'er, Xue Wu, and Shui Yue'er discovered how to begin fusing their Martial Souls, with the Ice Phoenix as the main body.

Tang San returned to Thunderclap Academy at Level Forty-Four, but learned that Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s strength had surged while he was away. Yu Xiaogang said Thunderclap’s roster was set, leaving Tang San to face the tournament’s daunting competition.

• Tang San reunited with his teammates and told Yu Xiaogang he had reached Level Forty-Four and gained an eight-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider Soul Ring.
• Tang Hao praised Tang San’s progress with the Clear Sky Hammer’s secret techniques, while Yu Xiaogang warned them about Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s strength.
• Dai Mubai and Oscar told Tang San that Su Ming and Xiao Wu had sat out their friendly match, while Dugu Yan had become a Soul King and her teammates were at least Soul Ancestors.
• Tang San was shocked by Dugu Yan’s rapid advancement and reflected on the hardships of his training and his failed attempt to gain another External Soul Bone.
• Yu Xiaogang reassured the team that Thunderclap Academy only needed to place in the top five to qualify and named Yu Tianxin as its captain at Level Forty-Three.

Yu Xiaogang explained the Thunderclap Team’s all-Soul-Ancestor lineup, while Tang Hao and Oscar worried about Su Ming and his allies’ rapid growth. Pressured by their strength, Tang San considered using a forbidden cultivation method, and Dai Mubai came to him seeking a way to grow stronger.

• Yu Xiaogang named the Thunderclap Team’s Soul Ancestor members and reserved its final main-team spot for Tang San, with Dai Mubai also on the team.
• Tang Hao questioned how quickly Su Ming’s group had improved and privately resolved to deal with Su Ming after the tournament.
• Oscar despaired over the gap between his cultivation and Ning Rongrong’s, suspecting Su Ming’s technique had helped her advance.
• Tang San considered the forbidden final chapter of the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record as a way to catch up before the tournament.
• Dai Mubai visited Tang San at night, lamented Zhu Qing’s level forty-nine strength, and urged Tang San to find a way to grow stronger.
• Tang San began persuading himself that using up some potential would be worthwhile because his father might later awaken his bloodline.

Tang San offered Dai Mubai a secret technique that could rapidly boost his strength at the cost of his foundation and lifespan, and Dai Mubai agreed to use it to face Dai Weisi in the Soul Master Tournament. Dai Mubai then told Oscar and Ma Hongjun about the technique, but their doubts about its risks remained unresolved.

• Tang San warned Dai Mubai that the secret technique would damage his foundation and shorten his lifespan, and Dai Mubai accepted the cost to improve his chances against Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun.
• Tang San concealed the technique’s additional risk of unstable cultivation and promised to teach Dai Mubai its incantation and prepare special medicines within three days.
• Tang San and Dai Mubai decided to ask Oscar and Ma Hongjun whether they wanted to use the technique, with Tang San gathering herbs and Dai Mubai speaking to them.
• Dai Mubai explained the technique to Oscar and Ma Hongjun, who worried Spirit Hall might brand them Evil Soul Masters and suggested relying on their team’s strength.
• Dai Mubai argued that the team’s strength would not overcome Dai Weisi’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill or change the outcome of his personal contest for the Crown Prince position.

Dai Mubai persuaded Ma Hongjun and Oscar to accept Tang San’s secret technique to increase their strength, and the group agreed on a cover story for their rapid progress. On the eve of the Soul Master Elite Competition, Yu Xiaogang explained the tournament format and warned Thunderclap Academy’s members that the Spirit Hall team was exceptionally strong.

• Dai Mubai reminded Ma Hongjun and Oscar of their humiliations at Su Ming’s hands, and both agreed to use the secret technique despite its cost to their lifespan.
• Tang San told Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar to claim their gains came from rare herbal pills if anyone questioned their sudden strength.
• Tang San explained that they would limit their gains to one Soul Power level before the tournament, then increase their strength after registration.
• Dai Mubai and the others each gained one Soul Power level during the final days before the tournament without drawing suspicion.
• Yu Xiaogang explained the tournament’s preliminary, promotion, and final stages to Thunderclap Academy’s team, then said the Spirit Hall team was extremely strong.

Yu Xiaogang assessed the tournament’s strongest teams and promised Thunderclap Academy a tactic, while planning to develop a Seven-in-One Martial Soul Fusion Skill. He laid out a cautious preliminary lineup, leaving Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng at odds over confidence and leadership.

• Yu Xiaogang said Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation were exceptionally strong but argued that teamwork and tactics could give Thunderclap Academy an edge.
• Yu Xiaogang conceived a Seven-in-One Martial Soul Fusion Skill, though he had only an idea and had not worked out how to achieve it.
• Ma Hongjun complained about the complicated tournament rules, and Dai Mubai argued that Thunderclap Academy could beat most teams.
• Yu Xiaogang advised the team to conceal its strength in the preliminaries and named Ma Hongjun, Oscar, Xiao Yunju, and Lei Jiuzhong as guaranteed competitors.
• Yu Tianheng questioned whether the proposed lineup could beat Godwind Academy or Skywater Academy, but Yu Xiaogang rebuked his lack of confidence.
• Yu Tianxin silently resented Yu Tianheng’s temperament and questioned why he was considered the strongest candidate for clan leadership.

Yu Tianxin finalized Thunderclap Academy’s lineup and tactics for the tournament preliminaries, while Su Ming and the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team attended the opening ceremony. There, Su Ming encountered Tang San again and taunted him about his progress.

• Yu Tianxin saw Yu Tianheng’s insecurity after losing to Su Ming as a chance to compete for the clan leadership, especially after Yu Tianheng’s relationship with Dugu Yan had fallen apart.
• Tang San and his teammates chose Tang San, Yu Tianxin, Yu Tianheng, and Lei Tian as their main rotating Soul Ancestors, with Lei Mie, Lei Dong, and Dai Mubai held in reserve.
• Yu Tianxin’s team planned to use Ma Hongjun for rear fire support and protection while Oscar replenished the fighters’ Soul Power with his sausages.
• Su Ming, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team attended the tournament opening ceremony at Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena.
• Su Ming spotted Tang San and mocked him by asking whether his strength had improved; Tang San and Oscar noticed that Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong looked more radiant.

At the Soul Master Tournament’s opening ceremony, Su Ming watched Tang San and his companions draw the attention of Blue Sunshine Academy’s Shi Nian. The Heaven Dou Second Team captain drew the opening qualifier match, but the chapter ended before revealing the opponent.

• Tang San challenged Su Ming’s confidence, and Su Ming reminded him that the Heaven Dou First Team would skip the qualifiers.
• Dugu Yan threatened Yu Tianheng, while Yu Tianxin declared that Thunderclap Academy would make it through the qualifiers.
• Tang San told Dai Mubai to use his time away from the qualifiers to improve.
• Su Ming noticed Blue Sunshine Academy students report Tang San and his companions to Shi Nian, who stared at them with a dark expression.
• After the opening ceremony, the Heaven Dou Second Team captain drew the first qualifier match and looked dismayed at the result.