Chapter Summaries

Xiao Tian challenged Flander’s defense of Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun after they provoked Blue Sunshine Academy, insisting they take responsibility for their actions. He offered them a choice between apologizing and facing the academy on their own, then mocked the teachers by suggesting they provoke Sword Douluo; Flander ordered the two students to apologize.

• Xiao Tian sarcastically turned Flander’s argument about improving through conflict against him, and Flander explained that he meant conflicts between peers rather than teachers bullying students.
• Ning Rongrong pointed out that Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun had started the dispute and threatened Zhao Wuji with a visit from Sword Douluo.
• Xiao Tian told Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun to apologize to Blue Sunshine Academy’s teacher and female student or face them without help.
• When Yu Xiaogang tried to defend the pair, Xiao Tian proposed that Flander or Zhao Wuji provoke Sword Douluo to prove their own words about welcoming conflict.
• Ning Rongrong urged the teachers to take Xiao Tian’s third option, and Flander told Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun to apologize.

Flender forced Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun to apologize to Blue Sunshine Academy, and the group left the tavern the next morning for the Star Dou Great Forest. After failing to find a suitable soul beast for Oscar, Xiao Tian suggested a risky training method that might help Yu Xiaogang break through to level thirty.

• Flender pressured Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun to apologize to Blue Sunshine Academy, and Shao Xin gave Ye ZhiQiu Candy Beans to heal injuries before the academy left.
• Zhu Zhuqing spent the night wondering whether she had been wrong, and the group set out for the Star Dou Great Forest the next morning.
• After the group found no suitable soul beast for Oscar on their first day, Yu Xiaogang explained what kinds of abilities Oscar's Third Soul Skill might provide.
• Xiao Tian proposed having Yu Xiaogang repeatedly exhaust and restore his Soul Power while fighting a thousand-year soul beast in hopes of breaking through to level thirty.
• Tang San supported the plan and offered to restrain the soul beast with Blue Silver Grass, while Xiao Tian cautioned him not to bind it completely.

Xiao Tian suggested feeding Yu Xiaogang’s Luo Sanpao Subdragon Meat, prompting Yu Xiaogang to consider how it might evolve. The group then found a Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent suited to Oscar’s Third Soul Ring and prepared to capture it.

• Xiao Tian and Oscar questioned why Yu Xiaogang fed Luo Sanpao only white radishes, and Xiao Tian suggested Subdragon Meat might help it evolve.
• Yu Xiaogang began to consider why Luo Sanpao had served as the host for the Golden Sacred Dragon, but Flender interrupted his train of thought by proposing they test Subdragon Meat on it.
• Xiao Tian comforted Xiao Wu, and Tang San felt a sharp ache when he saw how close they had become.
• The next day, Zhu Zhuqing spotted a roughly thousand-year-old Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, and Yu Xiaogang judged it suitable for Oscar’s Third Soul Ring.
• Xiao Tian assigned Yu Xiaogang and Tang San to capture the serpent, and Yu Xiaogang summoned Luo Sanpao, which immediately licked his face.

Yu Xiaogang and Tang San tried to subdue a Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent with Luo Sanpao’s Spirit Skills, but the serpent resisted the hypnotic gas and attacked. Flender knocked the serpent unconscious, while Yu Xiaogang was left gravely injured after Luo Sanpao was bitten.

• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San to use hypnotic Hidden Weapons while Luo Sanpao attacked the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent with its Second Soul Skill.
• Tang San trapped the serpent with Blue Silver Entanglement and fired poisoned Hidden Weapons, while Yu Xiaogang used radishes to make Luo Sanpao release more gas.
• Xiao Tian summoned Fifteen to blow away the yellow gas, but the serpent remained awake and charged at Yu Xiaogang.
• Tang San wounded the serpent, and Flender struck it with a wind blade; the serpent then succumbed to the hypnotic toxin and fell unconscious.
• The serpent bit Luo Sanpao’s lifeline before Flender knocked it away, causing Yu Xiaogang to collapse in pain and bleed from the corresponding injury.

Yu Xiaogang recovered after Luo Sanpao was bitten, while Flender's group argued with Snake Woman Chao Tianxiang over who would claim the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent's soul ring. The dispute shifted toward a contest for the serpent, and Meng Yiran noticed small weapons embedded in it.

• Shao Xin gave Yu Xiaogang two Candy Beans, restoring his condition after Luo Sanpao's injury, and Flender asked whether the bite had affected him.
• Dai Mubai blamed Xiao Tian for the accident, but Ning Rongrong defended him until Flender stopped their argument.
• Zhao Wuji gave Oscar a dagger to finish off the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, but Tang San pulled Oscar back when Chao Tianxiang's Serpent Cane interrupted him.
• Chao Tianxiang arrived with Meng Yiran and claimed the serpent, saying her Serpent Cane had struck it first and that it suited Meng Yiran's Third Soul Ring.
• Chao Tianxiang proposed that Oscar and Meng Yiran fight to decide who would get the serpent, but Flender objected because Oscar was a Food-Type Soul Master.
• Meng Yiran noticed small weapons embedded in the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent and asked who had fired them.

After Tang San won Meng Yiran’s hidden-weapon contest, Xiao Tian arranged for the group to hunt a suitable Subdragon Soul Beast for her after Oscar absorbed his soul ring. Dragon Duke invited Xiao Tian to join his clan, but Xiao Tian refused, and Tang San mistakenly concluded that Xiao Tian was a reincarnator using a secret cultivation art.

• Tang San defeated Meng Yiran in a contest to hit leaves with Soul Breaking Blades, and Dragon Duke arrived as the two sides considered what to do about the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent.
• Xiao Tian proposed that Dragon Duke and Snake Granny join the group in hunting a Subdragon Soul Beast for Meng Yiran after Oscar absorbed the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent’s thousand-year soul ring.
• Oscar began absorbing the soul ring, while Flender proudly described his students’ abilities to Dragon Duke and Snake Granny.
• Dragon Duke invited Xiao Tian to join his clan, but Xiao Tian declined and explained that he had rank-five Innate Soul Power and preferred to cultivate freely.
• Meng Yiran suspected Xiao Tian had used a harmful method to increase his strength, and Snake Granny apologized for her granddaughter’s remarks.
• Tang San decided that Xiao Tian must be a reincarnator who had secretly used a cultivation art from his previous life, rather than attributing Xiao Tian’s growth to his Sword Intent.

Xiao Tian learned that Xiao Wu wanted to visit Da Ming and Er Ming in the Star Dou Great Forest, and he promised not to hunt Soul Beasts indiscriminately. As his Sword Intent suddenly broke through, the others watched in shock while Flender asked Dragon Duke and Snake Granny to guard against approaching Soul Beasts.

• Tang San suspected Xiao Tian had been a powerful sword cultivator in his previous life, while Xiao Tian stopped Xiao Wu from arguing with their critics.
• Xiao Wu told Xiao Tian about Da Ming and Er Ming, her Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast family members in the Star Dou Great Forest, and said she wanted to visit them.
• Xiao Tian admitted he would hunt Soul Beasts when he needed Spirit Rings, but promised not to do so indiscriminately and to act with a clear conscience.
• Sword Fifteen trembled as Xiao Tian's Sword Qi and Sword Intent erupted, and he moved away when he realized his Sword Intent was about to break through.
• Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, Flender, Zhao Wuji, Tang San, Meng Yiran, and Dragon Duke reacted to Xiao Tian's immense aura, and Flender asked Dragon Duke and Snake Granny to watch for powerful Soul Beasts.

Xiao Tian perfected his Sword Intent, pushing his Soul Power to level 39, while Oscar finished absorbing his Third Soul Ring and revealed its embarrassing incantation. Oscar had not yet explained the skill’s effect when the chapter ended.

• Dragon Duke and Snake Granny realized they had underestimated Xiao Tian as his Sword Intent tore through the wind and clouds.
• Xiao Tian practiced with Sword Fifteen, perfected his Sword Intent, and broke through to Soul Power level 39.
• Xiao Wu told Xiao Tian she had disabled her aura-concealing ring so Er Ming could sense her, and Xiao Tian agreed that Er Ming would come.
• Oscar finished absorbing his Third Soul Ring, then chanted its incantation and produced a mushroom-shaped sausage while the others laughed.
• Yu Xiaogang guessed that Oscar’s Third Soul Skill involved flying, but Oscar had not yet confirmed its effect.

Oscar revealed that his Third Soul Skill let people fly at a Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent’s speed for one minute, but Xiao Tian argued that it would lose value as the group grew stronger. The others accepted Xiao Tian’s reasoning, leaving Oscar’s pride in his new skill badly shaken.

• Oscar revealed that his Extreme Speed Flight Mushroom Sausage allowed its eater to fly for one minute at a Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent’s speed.
• Oscar said he could make about ten sausages at once, and Zhao Wuji praised the skill’s usefulness.
• Ning Rongrong asked Xiao Tian why he had called Oscar’s skill good only at this stage, prompting Oscar to demand that Xiao Tian explain.
• Xiao Tian argued that Oscar’s Third Soul Skill had little growth potential and would become less useful than his First Soul Skill as their strength increased.
• The group recognized the force of Xiao Tian’s argument, and their admiration for Oscar’s new skill faded.

After Xiao Tian and the others resumed searching for a suitable Soul Beast, the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python appeared before them. Xiao Wu secretly asked Da Ming and Er Ming to spare her companions, take her and Xiao Tian away, and teach Xiao Tian a lesson, while the group braced for an attack.

• Flender told Oscar to keep producing Flying Mushroom Sausages as the group searched for a nearly two-thousand-year-old Sub-dragon Soul Beast.
• The Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python emerged from the forest, and the system warned Xiao Tian that they were God Officers and urged him to flee.
• Xiao Wu secretly told Da Ming and Er Ming that the group were her companions and asked them to take her and Xiao Tian away after pretending to fight.
• Da Ming suspected Xiao Tian had discovered Xiao Wu's identity and decided to question him later, while agreeing to teach the others a lesson.
• Flender, Zhao Wuji, Dragon Duke, and Snake Granny prepared to face the two beasts, and Dragon Duke and Snake Granny told Meng Yiran to escape when she had a chance.

Da Ming and Er Ming confronted the group with their domains, overwhelming their strongest attacks and leaving Xiao Tian, Xiao Wu, and the others trapped. The clash pierced Yu Xiaogang through the tailbone as the battle continued.

• Yu Xiaogang recognized Da Ming as the Sky Azure Bull Python, while Flender, Zhao Wuji, Dragon Duke, and Snake Granny prepared to fight.
• Shao Xin distributed sugar beans to boost the group, and Ning Rongrong exhausted herself amplifying Dragon Duke and Snake Granny’s Dragon Snake Strike before fainting.
• Da Ming and Er Ming unleashed their Gravity and Slowness Domains, pinning most of the group down while Xiao Tian struggled to protect Xiao Wu.
• Tang San used his Eight Spider Lances to rise against the pressure as Er Ming countered the Poison Dragon Flame with the Titan Sky Cannon.
• Da Ming’s Dragon Breath destroyed the group’s attacks, and stray energy pierced Yu Xiaogang through the tailbone.

Xiao Wu and Xiao Tian’s side survived the clash between the two great domains, while Da Ming and Er Ming prepared to take them away. Tang San tried to protect Xiao Wu, but Er Ming pinned him down and, at Da Ming’s instruction, pulled out his Eight Spider Lances, leaving him unconscious.

• Da Ming and Er Ming’s energy blast destroyed Yu Xiaogang and Ma Hongjun’s roots, while Dai Mubai suffered only cuts to his thighs.
• Xiao Tian used Fifteen to shield himself from the aftermath, and Xiao Wu admitted she had hoped Da Ming and Er Ming would teach the others a lesson.
• Er Ming reached for Xiao Wu and Xiao Tian, but Tang San rushed in to stop him and attacked with his Hidden Weapons, Blue Silver Grass, and Eight Spider Lances.
• Er Ming used Gravity Domain and Slowness Domain to pin Tang San to the ground and crack his Eight Spider Lances.
• Da Ming told Er Ming to extract Tang San’s External Soul Bone, and Er Ming pulled out the Eight Spider Lances, causing Tang San to pass out.

After Er Ming tore Tang San’s Sea God Eight Wings away, Xiao Tian arranged a staged fight with the Titan Giant Ape so the others could escape. Xiao Wu chose to stay behind and help Xiao Tian, while Tang San was forced to flee with the others.

• Er Ming ripped off Tang San’s Sea God Eight Wings, and the System rewarded Xiao Tian with Evil-warding Swordplay.
• Xiao Tian secretly asked Er Ming to fight him so their capture would seem convincing, and Da Ming told Er Ming to test Xiao Tian without using his full strength.
• Xiao Tian charged Er Ming with Sword Fifteen while Flender and the others prepared to escape.
• Dragon Duke and Snake Granny flew away with Meng Yiran, while Flender and Tang San helped the others flee using Oscar’s Flying Mushroom Sausages.
• Xiao Wu stayed behind, saying her Instant Transmission could help her bring Xiao Tian back, and Tang San shouted in distress as Flender urged him not to turn back.

Xiao Tian stayed behind to fight Er Ming while Tang San led the others out of the forest. Xiao Tian unleashed his sword techniques and Soul Bones against the Titan Giant Ape, and the chapter ended as he summoned Red Dragon Tooth to face Er Ming’s attack.

• Zhao Wuji and Yu Xiaogang persuaded Tang San to leave the forest with the injured group, and Tang San reluctantly agreed.
• Da Ming and Er Ming let the others escape, leaving Xiao Tian and Xiao Wu behind as Xiao Tian dodged Er Ming’s attack and resisted his Gravity Swamp.
• Xiao Tian activated his External Soul Bones and used Fifteen, Soldier Secret, and Seven Absolute Sword Qi to strike at Er Ming.
• Xiao Tian’s blood-red Sword Heart Blood Sever filled the Sword Shadows, while Da Ming identified a possible limitation in its defense-breaking effect and ordered Er Ming to attack Xiao Tian directly.
• Er Ming strengthened his defenses with Sky Dome Protection and fired a Titan Sky Cannon at Xiao Tian, while Xiao Wu worried and Xiao Tian stopped Fifteen from protecting him.
• Xiao Tian summoned the golden-red Red Dragon Tooth in his right hand as he prepared to attack Er Ming from both sides with Fifteen.

Xiao Tian endured Er Ming’s Titan Sky Cannon and finally activated the All-Encompassing Secret, multiplying his strength tenfold and reaching Soul Power level forty. He overwhelmed Er Ming with his sword techniques until Da Ming intervened and declared that Xiao Tian had won.

• Xiao Tian used Red Dragon Tooth and his Sword Wing to shield Su Ming from Er Ming’s Titan Sky Cannon, while refusing Xiao Wu’s attempt to protect him.
• Xiao Tian entered a state of focused Sword Dao comprehension under the attack, and Da Ming waited to see how he would respond.
• Xiao Tian activated the All-Encompassing Secret, strengthened his abilities tenfold, and broke through Er Ming’s attack as Sword Fifteen returned to his hand.
• Xiao Tian reached Soul Power level forty and used clones, spatial movement, and sword skills to batter Er Ming despite the Gravity Domain.
• Da Ming opened his Slowness Domain and told Er Ming to stop, declaring Xiao Tian the winner.

Xiao Tian exhausted himself after using the All-Encompassing Secret to fight Er Ming, and Xiao Wu caught him before he fell. Da Ming and Er Ming learned how Xiao Tian had helped conceal Xiao Wu’s identity and protect her from Tang Hao, but they still insisted Xiao Tian was too weak to keep her safe.

• Xiao Tian’s All-Encompassing Secret ran out, leaving him exhausted after he injured Er Ming, and Xiao Wu caught him as he fell.
• Xiao Wu scolded Er Ming for complaining and explained that her ring could hide her Soul Beast aura from even a Titled Douluo.
• Da Ming questioned Xiao Tian’s motives, and Xiao Wu explained that Xiao Tian had discovered her identity and warned her after Tang Hao targeted her.
• Da Ming and Er Ming thanked Xiao Tian for protecting Xiao Wu and urged her to stay in the forest, but she insisted she wanted to remain with him.
• Da Ming told Xiao Wu that Xiao Tian would need to reach Soul Saint level before he could protect her against a Titled Douluo.

Xiao Tian proposed forming Soul Spirit Contracts to protect Xiao Wu, and Da Ming and Er Ming volunteered to contract with him instead. After discussing Xiao Wu’s mother and her possible revival, Xiao Tian began the contract ritual with both beasts.

• Xiao Tian explained that a Soul Spirit Contract might let Xiao Wu hide in his Mental Space, but warned that forming one could make her physical body disappear.
• Xiao Wu agreed that she was willing to try, while Da Ming and Er Ming offered to contract with Xiao Tian so they could protect her directly.
• Da Ming and Er Ming explained that they did not need to remain in the Star Dou Great Forest and recalled how they had found Xiao Wu after her mother’s death.
• Xiao Wu recounted what had happened in the past, and Xiao Tian suggested they might one day ask Bibi Dong about the truth and seek a way to revive Ah Rou.
• Xiao Tian accepted Da Ming and Er Ming’s offer and began chanting the Contract Incantation, causing two soul-power contracts to appear.

Da Ming and Er Ming became Xiao Tian’s Soul Spirits and offered their Soul Bones to Xiao Wu, who passed them to Xiao Tian to help him grow stronger. Da Ming then gave Xiao Tian a Ten-Thousand-Year Fourth Soul Ring, leaving Xiao Tian at level 41.

• Da Ming and Er Ming completed their Soul Spirit contracts with Xiao Tian, shrank, and perched on Xiao Wu’s shoulders.
• Da Ming and Er Ming left behind a Titan Giant Ape Left Arm Soul Bone and a Sky Blue Bull Python Right Arm Soul Bone; Xiao Tian offered both to Xiao Wu, who gave them back to him to absorb later.
• Xiao Tian and Xiao Wu kissed, while Da Ming and Er Ming turned away and gave them privacy.
• Da Ming explained the spiritual attack risk of Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings and volunteered to grant Xiao Tian his Fourth Soul Ring, which Xiao Tian wanted to increase his attack speed.
• Da Ming granted Xiao Tian a Fourth Soul Ring of just over ten thousand years, and Xiao Tian reached level 41.

Xiao Tian explained the Soul Spirit Contract’s limitations and considered how to prevent soul beasts from being hunted, while weighing whether to found his own force. After Da Ming and Er Ming urged him to absorb two Spirit Bones, Flender and the others escaped the Star Dou Great Forest, and Ning Rongrong woke to find Xiao Tian and Xiao Wu missing.

• Xiao Tian explained that a soul spirit’s high-age soul ring did not greatly raise its master’s level, though the contract could help soul beasts cultivate faster and reduce soul masters’ demand for powerful beasts.
• Da Ming raised the danger that soul masters might slaughter soul beasts for Spirit Bones, and Xiao Tian proposed strict rules and a patrol team to punish offenders.
• Xiao Tian considered Spirit Hall’s role, worried about Bibi Dong’s influence from the Rakshasa Divine Sense, and briefly thought about founding a Shushan Sword Sect before deciding to deal with immediate matters first.
• Da Ming and Er Ming urged Xiao Tian to absorb their two Spirit Bones, which they believed could help him reach level fifty.
• Flender and the others flew out of the Star Dou Great Forest without trouble, and Ning Rongrong woke up and asked Zhu Zhuqing where Xiao Tian and Xiao Wu were.

After Xiao Tian stayed behind as bait, Ning Rongrong questioned why her Hidden Guards had not appeared and decided to wait for him and Xiao Wu. Zhu Zhuqing also chose to stay, rejecting Dai Mubai's order to leave and questioning whether he truly cared about Xiao Tian.

• Zhu Zhuqing told Ning Rongrong that Xiao Tian had volunteered to act as bait and that Xiao Wu had stayed behind, hoping to use Instant Transmission to save him.
• Ning Rongrong blamed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's Hidden Guards for failing to protect her and decided to confront them when Sword Grandpa arrived.
• Flender explained that Xiao Tian had stayed behind because the group was nearly out of Soul Power, while Tang San reported that losing the Eight Spider Lances had lowered his Soul Power by one level.
• Xiao Gang said Tang San had survived because he had not fully fused with the Eight Spider Lances, though Dragon Duke and Snake Granny remained doubtful.
• Ning Rongrong announced that she would wait for Xiao Tian and Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing also chose to stay despite Flender's objections.
• Dai Mubai ordered Zhu Zhuqing to leave, but she refused and accused him of resenting Xiao Tian over their earlier tavern clash.