Chapter Summaries

Dean Shui Qinghan met Lin Yi and, despite his reluctance to join Skywater Academy, decided to take him as her personal disciple. Lin Yi considered the academy a potentially peaceful place to stay, but Qinghan declared the matter settled and forbade him from refusing.

• Shui Qinghan assessed Lin Yi and heard his thoughts as he admired her appearance and worried about being recruited.
• Qinghan asked about Lin Yi’s Myriad Star Core and its soul skills, while Lin Yi downplayed their effects and blamed Shui Bing'er for explaining them.
• Qinghan offered to make an exception to Skywater Academy’s tradition of accepting only female students.
• Lin Yi denied wanting to become Qinghan’s personal disciple, though he considered that the academy might suit him.
• Qinghan declared Lin Yi her personal disciple and told him he could not refuse.

Shui Qinghan made Lin Yi her personal disciple and asked to guide his cultivation, while his thoughts revealed detailed knowledge of her Ice Phoenix martial soul and possible paths to breaking through to Title Douluo. The chapter ended with Shui Qinghan recognizing Lin Yi’s rare light-attribute martial soul and wondering if she was the one benefiting from their new master-disciple relationship.

• Shui Qinghan told Lin Yi to call her Master and instructed him to visit daily for cultivation guidance.
• Lin Yi showed Shui Qinghan his Myriad Star Core, and she noted its rare light attribute and promising quality.
• Lin Yi privately suspected Shui Qinghan wanted to use his Soul Power to help her break through, while Shui Qinghan denied needing his help but reflected on her years stuck at level eighty-nine.
• Lin Yi’s thoughts identified deep tempering in the Extreme North or finding the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass as possible ways to strengthen Shui Qinghan’s Ice Phoenix martial soul.
• Shui Qinghan considered the dangers of both options and concluded she would have to wait for an opportunity before turning back to assess Lin Yi’s martial soul.

Lin Yi settled into Skywater Academy as Shui Qinghan’s personal disciple and realized she hoped he would help strengthen the academy’s tournament team. After a peaceful week of cultivation guidance and settling in, Lin Yi grew comfortable with his master and the academy, while Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong adapted to their new surroundings.

• Shui Bing'er escorted Lin Yi to his courtyard and explained that Shui Qinghan valued his ability to help Soul Masters break through bottlenecks.
• Lin Yi considered how his help and the arrival of Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong could give Skywater Academy a chance at winning the Soul Master tournament.
• Lin Yi settled into his quiet courtyard and decided to stay at Skywater Academy for its resources and Shui Qinghan’s guidance.
• Over the next week, Shui Qinghan taught Lin Yi cultivation insights, and he came to appreciate her instruction.
• Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong used the academy’s resources and gradually adjusted to life on Lake Heart Island.

Dugu Yan arrived at Skywater Academy with Ye Lingling, ostensibly to invite the academy to an exchange tournament. Shui Bing'er received them while Lin Yi learned of Dugu Yan’s visit and chose to stay away as Xiao Wu went to investigate.

• On the eighth day, Gu Rong and Chen Xin spotted Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling approaching Skywater Academy and wondered whether Dugu Yan had come because of Lin Yi or Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Yan told Ye Lingling she would use an exchange tournament invitation as her reason for visiting Skywater Academy.
• At the academy gate, Dugu Yan identified herself and asked to meet the academy head; Shui Bing'er came out and escorted her and Ye Lingling inside.
• Shui Bing'er suspected Dugu Yan had a reason beyond inviting the academy to the tournament but decided to hear what the academy head thought.
• Xiao Wu told Lin Yi that Dugu Yan had arrived, but Lin Yi declined to visit her, so Xiao Wu went to watch the meeting.

Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling visited Skywater Academy under the pretext of inviting it to the Suotuo City exchange tournament, while Dugu Yan secretly hoped to bring Lin Yi to meet Dugu Bo. Lin Yi arrived at the reception room and recognized Ye Lingling, but the meeting had only just begun.

• Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu went to investigate Dugu Yan’s visit, then returned to tell Lin Yi that Shui Qinghan wanted him in the main hall.
• Dugu Yan explained to Shui Qinghan that the Suotuo City Great Soul Arena was organizing an exchange tournament for academies across the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Dugu Yan concealed her true reason for visiting: Dugu Bo had asked her to find a chance to bring Lin Yi to meet him.
• Shui Qinghan agreed to discuss Skywater Academy’s participation, while noticing Dugu Yan kept looking toward the hall entrance.
• Lin Yi arrived at the reception room, recognized Ye Lingling as the heir of the Nine Heart Begonia line, and asked Shui Qinghan why she had called him.

Dugu Yan visited Skywater Academy with Ye Lingling under the pretense of inviting it to an exchange tournament, while Lin Yi’s Heart Voice revealed that the event was actually Heaven Dou Academy’s training trip and that it would lose to the unknown Shrek Academy. Shui Qinghan considered joining the trip and saw Dugu Yan as a possible link to the Immortal Herbs that might help her break through Rank 89.

• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling were surprised to learn that Lin Yi was Shui Qinghan’s personal disciple, and Ye Lingling heard Lin Yi’s Heart Voice reveal her Nine Heart Begonia lineage.
• Dugu Yan told Shui Qinghan that Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Elephant Armor Academy, and Canghui Academy had been invited to the supposed exchange tournament, though she had only made up the invitation as an excuse to visit.
• Shui Bing’er supported joining the tournament as a chance for Skywater Academy’s students to gain experience, while Lin Yi left the decision to Shui Qinghan.
• Lin Yi’s Heart Voice revealed that the trip was actually Heaven Dou Academy’s training venture and that Shrek Academy had defeated it; Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling were stunned to hear of Shrek.
• Shui Qinghan considered the implications of Lin Yi’s revelations and hoped his relationship with Dugu Yan might eventually give him access to Dugu Bo’s Immortal Herbs.

Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling invited Skywater Academy to an exchange tournament in Suotuo City, and Shui Qinghan agreed to set out in half a month. Lin Yi planned to go so he could seek a Third Soul Ring, while Dugu Yan hoped to bring him to meet her grandfather in Heaven Dou City; she and Ye Lingling left intrigued by Lin Yi’s mysterious Heart Voice.

• Dugu Yan told Shui Qinghan that the exchange tournament would begin in a month, and Shui Qinghan agreed to depart for Suotuo City in half a month.
• Lin Yi agreed to travel, thinking about finding a suitable soul beast for his Third Soul Ring, and Dugu Yan realized the route could let her bring him to her grandfather in Heaven Dou City.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling declined Shui Qinghan’s offer to stay overnight and left Skywater Academy after Dugu Yan gave Lin Yi a meaningful smile.
• Lin Yi rejoined Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong, who asked him about the tournament and the academy’s travel plans.
• Outside the academy, Ye Lingling called Lin Yi interesting but annoying, and Dugu Yan admitted that her grandfather wanted to meet him because he knew things about her grandfather that he should not know.

Gu Rong and Chen Xin secretly watched Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling leave Tianshui Academy, puzzled about why Dugu Yan had visited. At the academy, Shui Qinghan agreed to send a team to the exchange tournament at Suotuo City's Great Soul Arena, including Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Lin Yi.

• Gu Rong and Chen Xin speculated that Dugu Yan might have come to meet Lin Yi or befriend Ning Rongrong and the other girls, then moved closer to Tianshui Academy to investigate.
• Shui Qinghan explained the exchange tournament invitation to the academy's senior staff, and Shui Qingyue and Shui Yuexi voiced suspicions about Heaven Dou Royal Academy's sudden offer.
• Shui Qinghan said the tournament would give the students valuable combat experience and appointed Shui Yuexi to lead the team.
• Shui Qinghan ordered Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong to join the team despite Shui Qingyue's concerns about Ning Rongrong's safety.
• Shui Qinghan confirmed that Lin Yi would also go, prompting Shui Qingyue to question the value of bringing a level twenty-one support-type Soul Master.

Shui Qinghan explained Lin Yi’s hidden Soul Power, powerful martial soul, and secret Heart Voice to Shui Qingyue, prompting her to decide to meet him. Meanwhile, Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong questioned Lin Yi about Dugu Yan’s invitation, and Shui Qingyue approached his courtyard as footsteps sounded outside.

• Shui Qinghan sensed two concealed Title Douluo and recognized them as Chen Xin and Gu Rong, secretly watching over Ning Rongrong.
• Shui Qinghan told Shui Qingyue that Lin Yi’s true Soul Power was level thirty and described the abilities of his Myriad Star Core martial soul.
• Shui Qinghan explained Lin Yi’s Heart Voice and its revelations to Shui Qingyue, who then decided to meet him.
• Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong questioned Lin Yi about Dugu Yan’s invitation to the exchange tournament, while his Heart Voice wondered whether Dugu Yan had ulterior motives.
• Xiao Wu suspected Dugu Yan had come because her grandfather was poisoned, but footsteps suddenly sounded outside Lin Yi’s courtyard.

Shui Qingyue visited Lin Yi, Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong, learned from Lin Yi’s Heart Voice that he possessed Twin Martial Souls, and left after Lin Yi called her Junior Uncle. Above Tianshui Academy, Chen Xin and Gu Rong discussed Lin Yi’s secrets and concluded that Dugu Yan had come to invite the students to Suotuo City for the Soul Fighting competition.

• Shui Qingyue introduced herself as Headmistress Qinghan’s younger sister and Tianshui Academy’s vice headmistress, then asked Lin Yi about his ability to help people break through bottlenecks.
• Lin Yi inwardly revealed that he had Twin Martial Souls, and Shui Qingyue heard the revelation through his Heart Voice.
• Shui Qingyue asked Lin Yi to call her Junior Uncle, and he agreed before seeing her off.
• Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong teased Lin Yi about Shui Qingyue’s attention before he returned to the courtyard.
• Chen Xin and Gu Rong watched from above and discussed Lin Yi’s Twin Martial Souls and Dugu Yan’s reason for visiting Tianshui Academy.

Shui Qingyue told Shui Qinghan that Lin Yi was a Twin Martial Souls wielder, prompting Shui Qinghan to worry about Skywater Academy’s ability to protect its exceptional students. Shui Qinghan resolved to seek a breakthrough from rank eighty-nine and asked Shui Qingyue to watch over the students, while Shui Qingyue volunteered to lead the academy’s team to Suotuo City.

• Chen Xin and Gu Rong decided Ning Rongrong was safe at Skywater Academy and left to return home.
• Shui Qingyue told Shui Qinghan she had met Lin Yi, heard his Heart Voice, and learned he privately thought she might be Shui Qinghan’s younger sister.
• Shui Qingyue revealed that Lin Yi’s thoughts exposed him as a Twin Martial Souls wielder, and Shui Qinghan recognized the danger Spirit Hall posed to him.
• Shui Qinghan considered the risks surrounding Lin Yi, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong, then resolved to find a way to break through from rank eighty-nine.
• Shui Qinghan asked Shui Qingyue to keep a close eye on Xiao Wu and the others, and Shui Qingyue volunteered to lead the team to Suotuo City in half a month.

Lin Yi spent the days before the journey to Suotuo City listening to Shui Qinghan's worries about her stalled cultivation, while she secretly reacted to his thoughts. When the Skywater Academy group departed under Shui Qingyue's leadership, Lin Yi noticed they were taking an unexpected route and asked Xiao Wu about it.

• Shui Qinghan told Lin Yi she planned to enter seclusion and attempt a breakthrough after the team left, while Lin Yi privately thought she needed an Immortal Herb or the Extreme Cold Land.
• Shui Qinghan ended their lesson after Lin Yi's thoughts wandered to her love life, and she grew exasperated when he wondered whether she was going through menopause.
• Lin Yi continued his daily visits with Shui Qinghan until the day the group prepared to depart for Suotuo City.
• Shui Qinghan told Lin Yi to listen to Shui Qingyue and not run around, and Shui Qingyue led the team out of Skywater Academy.
• Lin Yi noticed the group was taking a side path instead of the expected road and asked Xiao Wu why they were going that way.

The group traveled to the Sky Snow Ice Plains to find a Soul Ring for Xue Wu, while Lin Yi’s inner thoughts guided Shui Qingyue toward a suitable Soul Beast. After Shui Qingyue heard Lin Yi’s assessment that her martial soul’s development was misguided, she began questioning whether her forceful combat style would prevent her from reaching Title Douluo.

• Xiao Wu explained that Xue Wu and several others had advanced a rank, so the group was traveling to find Xue Wu a Soul Ring.
• Shui Qingyue changed their route after hearing Lin Yi think that the Sky Snow Ice Plains held Soul Beasts suited to Xue Wu.
• Shui Qingyue gave Lin Yi a warming sachet and warned the group to stay alert as they entered the snowy plains.
• Shui Qingyue defeated a Millennium Ice Feather Crane, and Xue Wu delivered the final blow before beginning to absorb its Soul Ring.
• Lin Yi privately judged that Shui Qingyue’s Moon in Water martial soul was better suited to illusion and deception than forceful attacks, and Shui Qingyue began doubting her cultivation path.

Xue Wu successfully absorbed her third Soul Ring, and Shui Bing'er learned from Lin Yi's Heart Voice that she and Xue Wu would develop a powerful Martial Soul Fusion Skill. The group reached Heaven Dou City, where Lin Yi's thoughts revealed Xiao Wu's identity as a Soul Beast Transformation, and Shui Qingyue led everyone to visit Dugu Manor.

• Shui Bing'er heard Lin Yi's Heart Voice predict that she and Xue Wu would develop the Martial Soul Fusion Skill Ice and Snow Drifting, while the other girls reacted with envy and Zhu Zhuqing remained indifferent.
• Xue Wu finished absorbing her Soul Ring, reached Level thirty-one, and gained the third Soul Skill Ice and Snow, which created an area-wide domain of falling snow and forming ice.
• Shui Qingyue led the group back from the Sky Snow Ice Plains, and they traveled south until they reached Heaven Dou City two evenings later.
• Lin Yi wondered whether Xiao Wu's Soul Beast Transformation would be discovered in Heaven Dou City and speculated that Chen Xin and Gu Rong had concealed their awareness of her identity.
• Xiao Wu silently signaled the girls not to explain her secret in front of Lin Yi, and Shui Qingyue announced that they would visit Dugu Manor as Miss Dugu had requested.

Skywater Academy arrived at Dugu Manor, where Dugu Yan welcomed them with a lavish dinner. Dugu Bo secretly watched Lin Yi, hoping to confirm his ability to hear Heart Voices, while Lin Yi grew suspicious of Dugu Yan’s unusually warm hospitality.

• Shui Qingyue led the Skywater Academy group through Heaven Dou City to Dugu Manor, where an elderly steward settled them into a courtyard.
• Lin Yi wondered about the group’s plans and Dugu Bo’s whereabouts, while Dugu Bo secretly sensed their arrival and spread his spiritual power through the manor to observe Lin Yi.
• Dugu Yan returned with Ye Lingling and greeted the guests; Lin Yi’s Heart Voice about Ye Lingling made her tighten her grip on her flower.
• Dugu Yan hosted the group at dinner, but Lin Yi suspected her hospitality concealed an ulterior motive.
• Dugu Yan asked Lin Yi why he was eating so little and whether the food suited his taste.

Dugu Yan delayed the trip to Suotuo City by a day, giving Lin Yi a chance to plan a trip to Sunset Forest for a Soul Ring. Dugu Yan, Shui Qingyue, and Dugu Bo all anticipated keeping him safe or meeting him there, while Lin Yi believed he would go unnoticed.

• Dugu Yan asked Shui Qingyue to postpone their departure until the day after tomorrow, and Shui Qingyue agreed.
• Lin Yi planned to leave for Sunset Forest before dawn, unaware that Shui Qingyue intended to follow him and Dugu Yan hoped the trip would bring him near her grandfather.
• Dugu Yan offered to have someone show Lin Yi around Heaven Dou City, but he declined and continued planning his route to Sunset Forest.
• Dugu Yan told Ye Lingling that Skywater Academy would not let Lin Yi go alone and that Dugu Bo could watch over him; she admitted she had delayed the departure to create an opportunity.
• Dugu Bo, listening to Lin Yi's Heart Voice from his secret chamber, decided the trip could give him a chance to meet the boy.

Dugu Bo and Shui Qingyue secretly followed Lin Yi as he slipped out of Dugu Manor to hunt for a Soul Ring in Sunset Forest. Lin Yi entered the forest seeking a light-attributed Soul Beast, while his thoughts about a ten-year Lone Bamboo amused both watchers.

• Dugu Bo told Dugu Yan he would arrange a chance encounter with Lin Yi in Sunset Forest and warned her not to scare him.
• Before dawn, Lin Yi slipped out of Dugu Manor, unaware that Shui Qingyue and Dugu Bo had also set out after him.
• At Sunset Forest, Lin Yi planned to hunt a Radiance Bird or Morning Light Deer for his Third Soul Ring and entered the misty woods.
• Lin Yi spotted Lone Bamboo and privately joked that Yu Xiaogang might have recommended one to Tang San, imagining its soul skill as Super Pole Vault.
• Shui Qingyue and Dugu Bo listened to Lin Yi’s thoughts from hiding places and judged his remarks about Yu Xiaogang and the Lone Bamboo.

Lin Yi encountered a Light Fox while searching Sunset Forest for his Third Soul Ring, but Dugu Bo appeared and secretly saved him from danger. Lin Yi began absorbing the Light Fox’s soul ring under Dugu Bo’s watch, while Dugu Bo grew suspicious of how much the boy knew about him.

• Lin Yi found a roughly two-thousand-year-old Light Fox, but a Black-Striped Tiger attacked it before Lin Yi could act.
• Dugu Bo appeared, and the Black-Striped Tiger fled as Lin Yi concealed his second martial soul and respectfully greeted the Title Douluo.
• Dugu Bo questioned Lin Yi about his level, his reasons for entering the forest alone, and his plans for fighting the soul beasts.
• Lin Yi killed the dying Light Fox and began absorbing its pale purple soul ring while Dugu Bo observed him and considered his unusual knowledge of Dugu Bo’s poison and fate.

After absorbing his third Soul Ring, Lin Yi discussed Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison with Dugu Bo while concealing how much he knew about a cure. Dugu Bo took Lin Yi to his medicinal garden to investigate the poison, while Shui Qingyue watched them leave and returned to Heaven Dou City.

• Lin Yi absorbed his third Soul Ring and gained Starlight Purification, which could dispel negative conditions and purify toxins.
• Dugu Bo questioned Lin Yi about poison, and Lin Yi described how Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison could erode its user's body and cultivation.
• Dugu Bo asked Lin Yi to help investigate his own poison, and Lin Yi said he would need to examine the situation before making a judgment.
• Dugu Bo invited Lin Yi to his medicinal garden, and Lin Yi accepted, hoping to see the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Dugu Bo carried Lin Yi into Sunset Forest and warned Shui Qingyue, who had been hiding nearby, not to follow them.
• Shui Qingyue decided Lin Yi might benefit from going with Dugu Bo and returned to the students waiting in Heaven Dou City.

Lin Yi explained how Dugu Bo could use the Immortal Herbs in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well to treat the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Poison. Dugu Bo accepted the safer, gradual treatment method and asked Lin Yi where he had learned so much about the herbs.

• Dugu Bo brought Lin Yi to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, where Lin Yi recognized the Immortal Herbs and explained their properties.
• Lin Yi told Dugu Bo that the Aromatic Silk Beauty, Infernal Delicate Apricot, and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass could gradually counteract and neutralize his poison.
• Lin Yi described a faster method that would cost Dugu Bo his poison arts, so Dugu Bo rejected it and chose the safer treatment.
• Lin Yi said the treatment would take about a year and a half, or half a year if the expelled poison could be condensed into a pill through alchemy.
• Lin Yi advised using only fingernail-sized portions and repeating treatment every seven days, and Dugu Bo asked where he had learned his knowledge.