Chapter Summaries

Ning Chuan reunited with Louise at the Notting City Academy and brought her, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Ye Lingling to the Hidden Fragrance Sword Family’s home. He gave Lu Jiansheng a Nine Rank Purple Ganoderma to help him break through level ninety, then offered Louise a Ten Thousand Year Ginseng King.

• Ning Chuan introduced Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Ye Lingling to Louise, who teased him about touching her butt when he was six.
• Ning Chuan asked Louise to take them somewhere secluded so he could give her and her family gifts.
• Louise brought the group to the Hidden Fragrance Sword Family’s residence atop Ten Thousand Blades Peak, where Lu Jiansheng greeted Ning Chuan.
• Ning Chuan gave Lu Jiansheng a Nine Rank Purple Ganoderma, which Lu Jiansheng swallowed before beginning to refine it.
• Ning Chuan gave Louise a Ten Thousand Year Ginseng King.

Ning Chuan distributed Immortal Herbs to Louise, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Ye Lingling, promising each of them a chance to grow stronger. After they began refining the herbs, he stood guard as their bodies started to change.

• Ning Chuan gave Louise the Square Year Ginseng King, and she accepted it tearfully before beginning to refine it.
• Ning Chuan gave Zhu Zhuqing the Narcissus Jade Bone and Ning Rongrong the Qiluo Tulip, and both girls began refining their herbs.
• Ning Chuan gave Ye Lingling the Fragrant Qiluo Immortal Grade, and she joked that she would offer herself to him if it cured her Martial Soul's curse.
• Ning Chuan stayed awake to guard everyone as the herbs took effect, while Lu Jiansheng's aura strengthened and the others began showing distinct changes.

Ning Rongrong and Louise benefited from their Immortal Herbs, and Ning Chuan gave Louise a sixty-thousand-year spirit bone to help her break through. Ning Rongrong’s Martial Soul evolved into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and she kissed Ning Chuan; Zhu Zhuqing reluctantly accepted their relationship but warned Ning Chuan not to let it happen again.

• Ning Rongrong woke after consuming the Aromatic Silk Beauty and told Ning Chuan she had advanced from level twenty-eight to level thirty.
• Ning Chuan gave Louise a sixty-thousand-year Medusa Head Spirit Bone to help her break through the level-fifty bottleneck.
• Ning Rongrong summoned her Martial Soul and discovered that the Aromatic Silk Beauty had transformed it into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Ning Rongrong hugged and kissed Ning Chuan, confessing her feelings through her actions.
• Zhu Zhuqing confronted Ning Rongrong and Ning Chuan, reluctantly accepted their relationship, and told Ning Chuan not to let it happen again.

Ye Lengleng’s Nine Heart Begonia evolved into the Saint Heart Begonia, and Louise advanced to Spirit King after absorbing a Medusa Head Spirit Bone. The chapter ended as Lu Jiansheng unleashed a burst of plum blossoms that drew the Hidden Fragrance Sword Family’s Clan Elders to the scene.

• Zhu Zhuqing reached level thirty, and Ye Lengleng awakened with golden hair and a transformed appearance.
• Ye Lengleng discovered that her Martial Soul had become the Saint Heart Begonia, which had powerful area healing and enhancement abilities.
• Ye Lengleng thanked Ning Chuan and promised to repay him, while Ning Chuan accepted her promise.
• Louise finished absorbing the sixty-thousand-year Medusa Head Spirit Bone and reached level fifty, becoming a Spirit King.
• Lu Jiansheng’s sword cry and plum-blossom fragrance erupted through the roof, prompting several Hidden Fragrance Sword Family Clan Elders to rush over with their Martial Souls summoned.

Ning Chuan taught Louise, Ning Rongrong, and Ye Lingling the Mysterious Heaven Skill while Lu Jiansheng broke through to level ninety. The group then entered the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt Spirit Rings, and Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling began gaining their new rings.

• Louise told the Hidden Fragrance Sword Family Elders that Lu Jiansheng was attempting to break through the level ninety bottleneck, and they arranged to guard him.
• Ning Chuan taught Louise, Ning Rongrong, and Ye Lingling the Mysterious Heaven Skill and warned them to keep it secret; all three agreed.
• During the half-month of cultivation, Ning Chuan reached level thirty-seven, Zhu Zhuqing advanced to the Mysterious Heaven Skill's third level, and Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling mastered its first level.
• Lu Jiansheng emerged from seclusion after breaking through to level ninety, and the group set out for the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt Spirit Rings.
• The group split up, with Lu Jiansheng and two Elders heading into the forest's depths while Ning Chuan and the five women hunted in the outer region.
• Ning Rongrong absorbed a roughly seventeen-hundred-year-old Soul Power Sacred Tree Spirit Ring with Ye Lingling's help, reaching level thirty-six; Ning Chuan also chose a roughly forty-seven-hundred-year-old Soul Power Sacred Tree for Ye Lingling.

After completing their spirit beast hunt, Ning Chuan’s group reunited with Lu Jiansheng, who had become a Titled Douluo and obtained a torso bone. Ning Chuan arranged for Lu Jiansheng to guide their cultivation and accompany him to retrieve the Blue Silver Emperor and its soul bone, then successfully bound near a waterfall and told Lu Jiansheng to hide.

• Ye Lengling, Zhu Zhuqing, and Louise absorbed their new spirit rings, gaining stronger abilities and increased soul power.
• Lu Jiansheng returned with two Hidden Fragrance Sword elders, a new Titled Douluo, and offered Ning Chuan a torso bone, which Ning Chuan gave to Louise.
• Lu Jiansheng declined to seek a Spirit Hall title and agreed to guide the group and accompany Ning Chuan to retrieve the Blue Silver Emperor and its soul bone.
• Louise left Notting Academy to join Ning Chuan at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, while Zhu Zhuqing, Ye Lingling, and Ning Rongrong returned to Notting Academy.
• Ning Chuan and Lu Jiansheng searched near Saint Soul Village, and Ning Chuan eventually bound successfully near a waterfall before telling Lu Jiansheng to hide.

Ning Chuan stole A Yin’s Blue Silver Grass and Tang Hao’s hidden Soul Bone, then escaped with his companions and reached Old Poison’s former residence. He claimed Poison Douluo and Dugu Yan were likely dead, while the group entered the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well grounds.

• Ning Chuan used laxatives to drive Tang Hao away, then took A Yin’s Blue Silver Grass and the hidden Soul Bone and left a decoy behind.
• Ning Chuan and Lu Jiansheng returned to Notting Academy, and Ning Rongrong and the others departed that night.
• After three days of diarrhea, Tang Hao bathed, changed, ate, and set off for Heaven Dou City to see Xiao San.
• Ning Chuan’s group traveled to Old Poison’s former residence, where his Gold Devouring Insects opened a path through the Poison Array.
• Ning Rongrong, Ye Lingling, Louise, and Lu Jiansheng learned that Ning Chuan had Twin Spirits.
• Ning Chuan told the group he had searched for Immortal Herbs and suggested Poison Douluo and Dugu Yan had been killed.

Ning Chuan’s group settled at Dugu Bo’s old lair, where he cultivated A Yin and trained alongside the others for half a year. The chapter left them stronger, with A Yin nearing the thousand-year level and Ning Chuan continuing to prepare for the future.

• Ning Chuan and the group accepted that Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan had died, then moved into Dugu Bo’s old lair while Ning Chuan replanted the Immortal Herb seeds.
• Ning Chuan planted the Blue Silver Emperor in the Yin-Yang Cauldron and used his blood to make A Yin grow more receptive to him.
• Over the next six months, Ning Chuan fed A Yin his blood, cultivated in the spring, practiced martial arts, and taught Ning Rongrong and Ye Leng Leng techniques from the Mystic Heaven Treasure Record.
• Ning Chuan sought cultivation advice from Lu Jiansheng while the girls improved their Soul Power: Zhu Zhuqing reached Rank 39, Ning Rongrong Rank 38, Ye Leng Leng Rank 43, and Louise Rank 54.

After reaching rank forty, Ning Chuan absorbed A Yin’s hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone and gained the ability to understand her spiritual messages. A Yin pointed him toward a dangerous part of Sunset Forest, where he and Lu Jiansheng went to seek his Fourth Spirit Ring.

• Ning Chuan reached rank forty and absorbed the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone while A Yin protected him.
• Ning Chuan understood A Yin’s message that she could guide him to a Spirit Ring, but declined to take her Blue Silver Forest subjects while she remained rooted and weakened.
• A Yin used her Blue Silver Domain to point Ning Chuan toward a Spirit Beast, then briefly fell asleep from overexertion; Ning Chuan fed her his blood before leaving.
• Ning Chuan told Lu Jiansheng and the others that he had a place in mind for his Fourth Spirit Ring, and he and Lu Jiansheng traveled there for three days.
• Ning Chuan and Lu Jiansheng reached a dangerous, rain-soaked area of Sunset Forest, where distant roars and a foreboding presence prompted Ning Chuan to summon his Martial Soul and shield them both.

Ning Chuan and Lu Jiansheng discovered a powerful Thunder Hell Vine in a lightning-filled valley, and Lu Jiansheng helped Ning Chuan defeat it. Ning Chuan began absorbing its Spirit Ring, which could awaken the Evil-warding Divine Lightning in his sword.

• As lightning intensified around them, Ning Chuan and Lu Jiansheng reached the valley and found a Thunder Hell Vine surrounded by thunderclouds.
• The Thunder Hell Vine attacked, cracking Ning Chuan’s Sword Shield, but his Gold Devouring Insects absorbed the lightning leaking through.
• Lu Jiansheng summoned his Hidden Fragrance Sword and used his Ninth Spirit Ability to hold off the vine’s lightning while Ning Chuan charged.
• Ning Chuan absorbed the vine’s lightning with the Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Sword, severed its roots, and killed it with a sword strike infused with Evil-warding Divine Lightning.
• A black Spirit Ring appeared over the Thunder Hell Vine’s corpse, and Ning Chuan sat down to absorb it while Lu Jiansheng stood guard.

After absorbing the Thunder Hell Vine’s twenty-thousand-year Spirit Ring, Ning Chuan returned to Dugu Bo’s Cave Mansion and demonstrated his Fourth Spirit Ability. Its Evil-warding Divine Lightning overwhelmed Lu Jiansheng’s defenses, leaving him badly shocked.

• Ning Chuan spent three days absorbing the Thunder Hell Vine Spirit Ring, then had his Gold Devouring Insects devour the vine’s corpse and change into gold, silver, and gray varieties.
• Ning Chuan and Lu Jiansheng returned to Dugu Bo’s Cave Mansion, where Ning Rongrong and the others asked to see Ning Chuan’s Fourth Spirit Ability.
• Ning Chuan revealed his Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Sword’s four Spirit Rings, including a black ten-thousand-year Fourth Spirit Ring, and asked Lu Jiansheng to test his new ability.
• Ning Chuan’s Fourth Spirit Ability formed a lightning prison around Lu Jiansheng, whose Soul Power defenses were suppressed by the Evil-warding Divine Lightning.
• The lightning struck Lu Jiansheng until he was charred, though his Titled Douluo cultivation let him survive.

Ning Chuan revealed his Sword Domain and Thunder Devour, then led his companions to Las City to begin team spirit battles and harsher training. After seven days of victories, the group continued its daily cycle of training, fighting, and meditation.

• Ning Chuan explained that Thunder Devour restrained Soul Masters with evil attributes and revealed that he had reached rank forty-five and awakened the Sword Domain.
• Ning Chuan used his clones to form a seven-member team with Louise and the other women, and told Lu Jiansheng that he planned to enter Life and Death Battles.
• The next morning, Ning Chuan fed the awakened but listless A Yin some blood and took everyone to Las City instead of Heaven Dou City.
• Ning Chuan treated the group to a lavish dinner, and they won their first spirit battle that evening.
• For seven days, the group trained by day, fought spirit battles at night, and meditated late into the night.

Ning Chuan and the Azure Bamboo Battle Team entered a Life and Death Battle against the stronger Leopard Remnant Battle Team, and the disguised team killed or poisoned all seven opponents in a swift opening attack. The chapter ended with the audience stunned by the one-sided battle.

• Ning Chuan reassured Ning Rongrong, Ye Lengleng, and Zhu Zhuqing before they agreed to take part in the Life and Death Battle themselves.
• Ning Chuan gave Lu Jiansheng his Gold Card and asked him to place bets on the Azure Bamboo Battle Team.
• The disguised Azure Bamboo Battle Team entered the arena and faced Zhang Miao and the Leopard Remnant Battle Team.
• Ning Chuan and his three clones swiftly beheaded Zhang Miao and three other opponents, while Zhu Zhuqing pierced the hyena Spirit Master through the heart.
• Ning Rongrong and Ye Lengleng struck the wolf and fox Spirit Masters with poisoned Hidden Weapons, and both collapsed as the audience watched in shock.

After four months of battling and cultivation, Ning Chuan’s group grew stronger, found Zhu Zhuqing a powerful Soul Ring, and helped Ning Rongrong break through. As they resumed their battles with less than five months until the All-Continent Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Competition, Shrek and the former Royal Fight members gathered at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

• The Azure Bamboo Battle Team wiped out the Leopard Remnant Battle Team, and Ning Chuan comforted the girls after their first kills.
• Over four months of cultivation and battles, Ning Chuan, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Louise, and Ye Lingling advanced in Soul Power.
• With A Yin’s Blue Silver Domain guiding them, the group found a nearly six-thousand-year-old Terror Claw Bear, and Zhu Zhuqing gained the Netherworld Terror Claw skill.
• Ning Rongrong later broke through level forty and gained a defensive enhancement skill from a Mystic Crystal Turtle Soul Ring.
• Ning Chuan’s group left Sunset Forest to continue fighting, while Shrek and former Royal Fight members assembled at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

Shrek and the remnants of the Royal Fight Team prepared for the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament under Yu Xiaogang’s training, while several members reached or neared Level 40. Xiao Wu and Dai Mubai challenged Yu Xiaogang’s plan to delay hunting Soul Rings, leaving the group’s next move unresolved.

• Qin Ming and Flender arranged for the Royal Fight Team and Shrek Team to train together, and Yu Tianheng agreed to join Shrek Team as the Royal Fight Team faded apart.
• Yu Xiaogang trained the combined team around Tang San and praised its prospects, while most former Royal Fight Team members responded without enthusiasm.
• Yu Xiaogang announced a final training stage and said Shi Mo should wait to hunt a Soul Ring until Tang San and the other members reached Level 40.
• Xiao Wu argued that delaying Soul Rings would slow cultivation, and Dai Mubai cautiously backed her suggestion to hunt in the nearby Sunset Forest.

Tang San defended Yu Xiaogang’s advice while delaying his own breakthrough, and the Shrek group eventually set out for Sunset Forest to obtain Soul Rings. Ning Chuan and the others returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where they encountered Xiao Wu and the approaching Shrek and Royal Fight teams.

• Tang San insisted that cultivating past level forty did not make advancement faster and said he would soon break through, prompting Dai Mubai and Xiao Wu to drop their objections.
• Tang San took more than four months to reach level forty, and Shi Mo broke through several days before him.
• Flender led the students and several teachers toward Sunset Forest to obtain Spirit Rings for Tang San and avoid a repeat of the earlier incident in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Ning Chuan, Louise, Ye Lingling, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy after nearly two years of training and teased Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong during their walk.
• Xiao Wu spotted Ning Chuan as the Shrek and Royal Fight teams approached the five returnees.

Ning Chuan returned with Ye Lingling, whose changed appearance stunned the Royal Fight members and Shrek. He reorganized the Royal Fight Team to enter the tournament under its own name, leaving Shrek with a weakened roster and exposing Yu Tianheng’s dissatisfaction with the team’s leadership.

• Yu Feng, Oslo, and the Shi Brothers greeted Ning Chuan and were shocked to learn the beautiful woman beside him was Ye Lingling.
• Ye Lingling asked whether Dugu Yan had returned, and Yu Tianheng said nobody had found him.
• Ning Chuan invited the Shi Brothers, Oslo, and Yu Feng to rebuild the Royal Fight Team, with Louise as their lead teacher.
• The four agreed to leave, and Ning Chuan led them and the women to meet the Heaven Dou Royal Academy committee.
• Yu Xiaogang tried to keep the Shi Brothers for Shrek, but Yu Tianheng refused to persuade them and said Qin Ming’s bias had helped drive them away.

Ning Chuan brought Grandmaster Louise to the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Education Committee to reorganize the Royal Fight Team, and he and his companions revealed the results of their two years of training. The committee agreed to keep the girls’ upgraded Martial Souls secret and reserve them as trump cards for the Finals, then asked Ning Chuan about his plans.

• Qin Ming suggested that Flender’s group wait and accompany Ning Chuan’s team while they hunted Soul Rings for Shi Mo and Shi Mo.
• Ning Chuan introduced Grandmaster Louise to the Three Education Committee Members and proposed that she lead and reorganize the Royal Fight Team.
• Meng Shenji explained the team’s absences and asked Ning Chuan, Ye Lingling, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong to demonstrate their training results.
• Ning Chuan and the three girls revealed that they had all become Soul Ancestors, and the committee was stunned by Ning Chuan’s ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring.
• Ning Chuan asked the committee to keep Ye Lingling’s Saint Heart Begonia and Ning Rongrong’s Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda secret, saying he would save them as trump cards for the Finals.
• Bai Baoshan asked Ning Chuan why he had mentioned saving Rong Rong and Leng Leng for the Finals.

Ning Chuan and the Education Committee settled the Royal Fight Team’s leadership and plans for the competition, while Ning Chuan arranged Soul Ring hunts for Shi Mo and Shi Mo. On the way to Sunset Forest, Qin Ming apologized to the former Royal Fight students and asked Ning Chuan and Louise to advise the Shrek group on Soul Ring choices.

• Ning Chuan persuaded the Education Committee to give up the team’s guaranteed competition spot for the experience, and they appointed Grandmaster Louise as leading teacher and Ning Chuan as captain.
• Ning Chuan exaggerated the dangers of his travels to Yu Feng, the Shi Brothers, and Oslo, discouraging them from training outside the academy.
• Ning Chuan sent Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling home while he, Louise, Zhu Zhuqing, and the Royal Fight students prepared to hunt Soul Rings for Shi Mo and Shi Mo.
• Mona, a level-seventy-seven Spirit Sage and Meng Shenji’s daughter, joined the group as their escort, and Louise quickly became friendly with her.
• Qin Ming apologized to Yu Feng, Oslo, and the Shi Brothers for overlooking their feelings, then said the Shrek group would join the Soul Ring hunt and ask Ning Chuan and Louise for advice.

Ning Chuan joined the Shrek group on its journey to Sunset Forest, where Louise’s expertise in Spirit Rings won over the group and undermined Yu Xiaogang’s authority. After Tang San asked Louise for advice in front of him, Yu Xiaogang broke down and fled, leaving Flender to chase after him.

• Ning Chuan agreed to travel with the Shrek group to Sunset Forest, partly to keep them away from Dugu Bo’s lair and A Yin’s hiding place.
• Louise advised the students and teachers about Spirit Rings and Ma Hongjun’s evil fire, earning their respect.
• Tang San reconsidered Yu Xiaogang’s teachings and blamed his Spirit Ring choices for his cultivation problems.
• Tang San asked Louise what Spirit Ring would suit his Blue Silver Grass Spirit, ignoring Yu Xiaogang’s attempt to interrupt him.
• Yu Xiaogang broke down and ran away, and Flender went after him while Ning Chuan, Tang San, and Yu Tianheng understood why.