Chapter Summaries

After completing their training in the Star Dou Great Forest, Li Han forged Xiao Wu a versatile hairpin Dharma Artifact and decided to take her and Zhu Zhuqing to enroll at Heaven Dou Royal Academy. The group left the forest for Heaven Dou City, with both girls set to gain new training opportunities there.

• Li Han reviewed his cultivation and materials, then forged Shield Six Flowers from soul beast materials for Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu returned to the cave, and Li Han gave her the hairpin and explained its attack, healing, and defensive abilities.
• Xiao Wu tested its Three Heaven Binding Shield against Zhu Zhuqing's Hell Sword Slash and used its Lone Heaven Slash Shield to cut down a tree.
• Li Han set out with Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Silver Moon for Heaven Dou City.
• Li Han told Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing that he planned to enroll them at Heaven Dou Royal Academy for growth, training, and better cultivation resources.

Li Han returned to Heaven Dou City as Han Li and reunited with Mei Ning at Green Bamboo Cottage, bringing Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing with him. He planned to enroll the two girls—and later Ning Rongrong—at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, while a rivalry over who could hug him broke out.

• Li Han told Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing to use his alias Han Li and say he was dead if they encountered Tang Hao, then brought them to Heaven Dou City.
• Li Han reunited with Mei Ning at Green Bamboo Cottage and introduced her to Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing, who would stay there before enrolling at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Ning Rongrong arrived, and Li Han encouraged her to attend the academy with Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing and compete in the next Soul Master Tournament.
• Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing revealed that they were twelve-year-old Soul Ancestors, astonishing Ning Rongrong and Mei Ning.
• Li Han promised Ning Rongrong and Mei Ning medicinal pills, and Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong argued over who was allowed to hug him.

Li Han gave Ning Rongrong and Mei Ning pills that could transform their cultivation, then watched over them as they refined them at Green Bamboo Cottage. Ning Rongrong’s Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda evolved into the Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda, while Qian Renxue learned of Li Han’s return and resumed cultivating.

• Li Han gave Ning Rongrong a Nine Treasures Pill, which could evolve her Martial Soul and increase her Soul Power.
• Li Han gave Mei Ning an Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid Pill and promised to take her to the Extreme North to hunt a Mirror Shadow Beast.
• Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing chose to stay with Li Han at Green Bamboo Cottage and went to select their rooms.
• Qian Renxue heard that Li Han had returned with Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing, wondered about their backgrounds, then returned to cultivating.
• Ning Rongrong finished refining the Nine Treasures Pill, and her Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda evolved into the Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda.

Ning Rongrong’s Martial Soul evolved into the Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda after she took Li Han’s pill, and Mei Ning also gained a major boost from a different pill. Li Han brought Ning Rongrong to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and offered Ning Fengzhi his remaining two Nine Treasures Pills in exchange for the Sect’s life-risking support on two occasions.

• Ning Rongrong discovered that the Nine Treasures Pill had evolved her Martial Soul and raised her Soul Power by six levels, and she urged Li Han to go with her to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Li Han explained that Mei Ning was refining a cultivation-enhancing pill, and Mei Ning finished refining it with stronger physical and meridian condition and a likely increase of around five Soul Power levels.
• Li Han told Mei Ning to consolidate her cultivation before he took her to obtain a Soul Ring, then went with Ning Rongrong to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Fengzhi saw Ning Rongrong’s Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda and learned from her that Li Han’s Nine Treasures Pill had caused the evolution.
• Li Han offered Ning Fengzhi his remaining two Nine Treasures Pills in exchange for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s full support, at risk of their lives, twice.

Li Han gave Ning Fengzhi two Nine Treasures Pills in exchange for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s protection and help with his plans. Ning Fengzhi took a pill under Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo’s guard, and his Martial Soul evolved into the Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda as he began his breakthrough to Soul Douluo.

• Ning Fengzhi accepted Li Han’s request to protect him, and Li Han gave him two Nine Treasures Pills.
• Li Han asked Ning Fengzhi to arrange Heaven Dou Royal Academy for his friends and Ning Rongrong, and to approve his plan to take Mei Ning to the Extreme North.
• After Li Han left, Ning Fengzhi encouraged Ning Rongrong to pursue Li Han, and she resolved to make an effort.
• Ning Fengzhi showed the pills to Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo, who agreed to protect him while he took one.
• Ning Fengzhi absorbed the pill’s medicinal power, and his Seven Treasure Glazed Pagoda grew two levels into the Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda.

Ning Fengzhi evolved his Martial Soul into a Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda and set out with Sword Douluo to hunt his eighth Soul Ring. At the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, Li Han began tempering his body while Dugu Bo went to investigate a disturbance and discovered Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo hunting a Soul Beast.

• Ning Fengzhi's Martial Soul evolved, and he broke through to level eighty, so he prepared to hunt his eighth Soul Ring with Sword Douluo while Bone Douluo stayed to guard the sect.
• Ning Fengzhi told Ning Rongrong to remain at the sect, and she agreed to spend time with Han Li instead.
• Li Han visited Dugu Bo at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, asked him to have Yan'er look after two friends joining Heaven Dou Academy, and began tempering his body in the well.
• Dugu Bo heard explosions in Sunset Forest, summoned his Jade Phosphorous Flood Dragon, and went to investigate.
• Dugu Bo recognized Chen Xin's Seven Kill Sword and found Sword Douluo had severely injured a fifty-thousand-year Soul Beast while Ning Fengzhi approached with a longsword.

Li Han completed the initial formation of the Heaven-Supporting Demon Art and revealed a powerful Heaven-Supporting Dharma Avatar. Dugu Bo left Sword Douluo after learning that Li Han had also evolved Ning Fengzhi’s Martial Soul, then returned to question Li Han about the apparition.

• Sword Douluo confronted Dugu Bo when he arrived as Ning Fengzhi absorbed a Soul Ring, and threatened him to keep Ning Fengzhi’s breakthrough secret.
• Dugu Bo guessed Li Han had helped Ning Fengzhi’s Martial Soul evolve and revealed that Li Han had also evolved his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor.
• Li Han’s cry drew Sword Douluo and Dugu Bo’s attention as an azure-robed, golden-scaled phantom appeared above the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Dugu Bo recognized Li Han’s voice, left Sword Douluo, and promised not to reveal Ning Fengzhi’s breakthrough.
• Li Han finished drawing in the energy, formed the Heaven-Supporting Dharma Avatar, and said it would improve his chances against Title Douluo and a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Dugu Bo returned to Li Han and asked what he had done and what the phantom was.

Li Han reassured Dugu Bo that he would stay out of Heaven Dou’s political conflicts, then experimented with combining his Blue Silver Puppet Soul Skill and Puppet Technique. The fused puppet reached peak Soul King strength, and Li Han left it able to imitate a Blue Silver Grass Soul Master.

• Li Han told Dugu Bo he had no interest in the struggle between Prince Xue Xing and Xue Qinghe, and hinted that Dugu Bo would not end up fighting the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Dugu Bo decided to leave Sunset Forest and warn Yan'er not to come, while Li Han stayed behind to finish his work.
• Li Han created a Blue Silver Puppet and merged it with his Azure Ape Puppet, raising its strength to that of a peak Soul King.
• Li Han transformed the fused puppet into a masked Soul Master and had it use a Blue Silver Grass attack to crush a tree.
• Silver Moon criticized Li Han for imitating Tang San but praised his idea of strengthening a puppet with a Soul Bone skill.

Ning Fengzhi celebrated reaching Soul Douluo and resolved to strengthen the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. After seeking Dugu Bo at his valley, he met Li Han instead and left hoping to build ties with him and Dugu Bo.

• Ning Fengzhi absorbed his eighth Soul Ring, became a Soul Douluo, and told Sword Douluo he planned to make the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect the greatest sect under heaven.
• Sword Douluo told Ning Fengzhi that Dugu Bo had noticed his breakthrough and that Dugu Bo's Martial Soul had also evolved, likely with help from Han Li.
• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo reached Dugu Bo's poison formation, and Ning Fengzhi called out politely rather than force his way in.
• Li Han emerged from the valley, congratulated Ning Fengzhi, and said Dugu Bo had left for Heaven Dou Academy and would not reveal Ning Fengzhi's secret.
• Ning Fengzhi discussed recruiting Dugu Bo with Li Han, then departed with Sword Douluo and resolved to raise his strength toward becoming a Title Douluo.

Li Han killed the Greenwood Immortal Vine, absorbed its Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, and gained the Azure Immortal Right Arm Soul Bone. Back at Green Bamboo Cottage, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong stunned Dugu Yan with their strength as they sought to join the Heaven Dou Team.

• Silver Moon and the Blue Silver Puppets helped Li Han suppress and burn the Greenwood Immortal Vine before he killed it with the Sword Shadow Light-Splitting Technique.
• Li Han explained that Life Force Transfer could not easily create usable Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings for others, then absorbed the Greenwood Immortal Vine's Soul Ring and reached level sixty.
• Li Han gained the Azure Immortal Right Arm Soul Bone, which granted Vine World Descent and could be combined with Sword Qi into Threads to unleash Sword World Descent.
• Li Han returned to Green Bamboo Cottage, where Dugu Yan challenged Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong over their plans to join the Heaven Dou Team.
• Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong revealed their high Soul Power and powerful Soul Rings, leaving Dugu Yan shocked and feeling outmatched.

Li Han and Mei Ning traveled to the Extreme North to find a suitable fifth Soul Ring for Mei Ning, and she began absorbing one from a fifteen-thousand-year Mirror Shadow Beast. A Lizard Puppet also found a Hundred-Thousand-Year Shadow Sabertooth Tiger, but the beast destroyed it, leaving Li Han to prepare before confronting it.

• Li Han took Mei Ning to the Extreme North and sent seven Lizard Puppets to scout for a Mirror Shadow Beast.
• The puppets located a fifteen-thousand-year Mirror Shadow Beast, and Li Han badly wounded it with the Ten Thousand Swords Art.
• Mei Ning killed the Mirror Shadow Beast and began absorbing its Soul Ring while Li Han stood guard.
• A Lizard Puppet found a Hundred-Thousand-Year Shadow Sabertooth Tiger, but the beast detected and destroyed it.
• Li Han decided to recharge his Evil-Warding Divine Thunder and considered using the tiger's essence to refine his Spirit-Descending Talisman.

Mei Ning successfully absorbed the Mirror Shadow Beast Soul Ring, became a Soul King, and discovered that her fifth soul skill could copy another Soul Master's abilities. After using a Copy Vermicelli Bun made with Li Han's blood, she tested copied versions of his soul skills, but her Soul Power was nearly exhausted.

• Mei Ning absorbed the fifteen-thousand-year Soul Ring with help from Li Han's Soul-Nurturing Wood Bead and rose to level fifty-seven.
• Mei Ning revealed that her fifth soul skill, Copy Vermicelli Bun, let her copy an opponent's soul skills by using their blood.
• Li Han gave Mei Ning a drop of his blood, and she made and ate a Copy Vermicelli Bun that granted her immense strength.
• Mei Ning summoned a Bamboo Cloudswarm Sword and demonstrated copied versions of Li Han's first, third, and fifth soul skills.
• Mei Ning's Soul Power nearly ran out after she used the copied soul skills against Li Han.

Mei Ning tested the power of Li Han’s Copy Vermicelli Bun and asked him to refine a long spear for her from the Mirror Shadow Beast’s corpse. Li Han created the Mirror Shadow Frost Spear, and Mei Ning began practicing with it.

• Mei Ning used the copied soul skills until her three minutes of borrowed combat power ran out, then asked Li Han for two drops of blood to make buns for her storage ring.
• Li Han gave Mei Ning the blood and told her to save the buns as trump cards rather than use them in ordinary fights.
• Li Han offered to refine a Dharma Artifact from the Mirror Shadow Beast’s corpse, and Mei Ning chose a long spear to train in close combat.
• Li Han refined the Mirror Shadow Frost Spear and explained its sharp edge and Shadow Ice Mirror skill.
• Mei Ning took up the spear and showed her practiced spear techniques from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Li Han taught Mei Ning spearmanship over several days, helping her improve rapidly before taking her to the lair of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Shadow Sabertooth Tiger. He left Mei Ning behind as a lookout and went to face the beast alone.

• Li Han demonstrated his spear techniques, disarmed Mei Ning, and explained that battle experience would help her refine her skills.
• Li Han trained Mei Ning for several days, and her spearmanship improved until their practice duel became a close contest of technique.
• Li Han taught Mei Ning the Returning Horse Spear and told her to rest before their planned hunt for a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Li Han brought Mei Ning near the Shadow Sabertooth Tiger's lair and instructed her to wait and run south if he sent a warning.
• Mei Ning offered to help, but Li Han asked her to stay behind and treat him if he was injured, then entered the beast's lair alone.

Li Han and Silver Moon set a formation to capture the Shadow Sabertooth Tiger, then discussed transformed soul beasts and the gods’ possible influence over them. As the Azure-Silver Puppet drew the tiger toward their trap, the battle began.

• Silver Moon reported the Shadow Sabertooth Tiger’s routine and Li Han prepared the Inverted Five Elements Formation to weaken it.
• Li Han sent an Azure-Silver Puppet to lure the tiger while Silver Moon waited to spring the formation.
• Silver Moon asked Li Han for two Azure Ape Puppets when she reached a hundred thousand years of cultivation, and he agreed.
• Li Han and Silver Moon discussed recovering her Blue Silver Emperor original body and whether it could affect her feelings for Tang Hao and Tang San.
• Silver Moon speculated that transforming gave soul beasts unusually strong emotions, and Li Han suggested gods might be manipulating them.
• The Shadow Sabertooth Tiger’s battle began in the distance.

Li Han and Silver Moon lured the 110,000-year Shadow Sabertooth Tiger into their trap, but it escaped Silver Moon’s formation with its Shadow Domain. Li Han then struck it with his charged Extreme Thunder Prison, leaving the beast dead as the lightning drained his swords.

• Li Han used the damaged Azure-Silver Puppet to lure the Shadow Sabertooth Tiger toward Silver Moon’s formation.
• Silver Moon trapped the tiger in the Inverted Five Elements Formation’s Fire Formation, and Li Han had her add Heavenly Fox Demon Fire.
• The Shadow Sabertooth Tiger unleashed its Shadow Domain to break free of the formation and spot Li Han and Silver Moon.
• Li Han deployed thirty-six Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords and activated Extreme Thunder Prison with his Kirin soul-bone skill.
• The golden Kirin struck the tiger, killing it, and the attack exhausted the Evil-Warding Divine Thunder in all thirty-six swords.

Li Han absorbed the Shadow Sabertooth Tiger’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, while Silver Moon gained its Shadow Domain. After they discovered Mei Ning was in danger, Li Han rushed toward her as she activated his power to face her attackers.

• Li Han absorbed the Shadow Sabertooth Tiger’s Soul Ring, reached level sixty-eight, and strengthened his sixth soul skill.
• Silver Moon absorbed the tiger’s shadow energy, broke through to eighty thousand years of cultivation, and gained the Shadow Domain.
• A right leg Soul Bone emerged from the tiger, but Li Han stored it rather than absorbing the mismatched darkness-attribute bone.
• Li Han sensed Mei Ning fighting and flew toward her, while Mei Ning faced a Soul Emperor and three Soul Kings who threatened her.
• Mei Ning swallowed a Copy Vermicelli Bun and activated Li Han’s Evil-Warding Divine Thunder Possession.

Mei Ning fought a Soul Emperor and three Soul Kings, killing the Soul Emperor and sparing the others before they turned on her after her three-minute combat limit expired. She revealed a Golden Light Talisman that blasted away the first attacker.

• Mei Ning ambushed the group with Extreme Thunder Prison, severely wounding three Soul Kings and forcing the Soul Emperor to defend himself with his Black Tortoise Shield.
• Mei Ning recalled how she had trained to become stronger, suspected Li Han had saved her family, and resolved to repay him by helping him one day.
• Mei Ning switched from her spear to Golden Thunder Bamboo and crushed the Soul Emperor despite his shield.
• Mei Ning spared the three wounded Soul Kings and warned them not to commit evil again, but they stayed when they realized she was exhausted.
• The Soul Kings tried to attack Mei Ning, and her Golden Light Talisman blasted away the first one who charged.

Mei Ning defeated three injured Soul Kings and returned to Heaven Dou City with Li Han. After discussing his stalled Red Dust Tribulation, Li Han decided to try academy life and join the Soul Master Tournament to learn the camaraderie he had missed.

• Mei Ning used her remaining martial skills to kill three injured Soul Kings, then recovered her Soul Power with a pill Li Han had given her.
• Li Han appeared after the fight, praised Mei Ning, and told her not to show mercy to confirmed enemies.
• Li Han and Mei Ning set out for Heaven Dou City, where Li Han discussed his stalled cultivation of the Great Evolution Art with Silver Moon.
• Silver Moon suggested that Li Han experience the camaraderie of fellow students by joining the Heaven Dou Team for the Soul Master Tournament.
• Li Han agreed to try academy life, suppress his cultivation, and compete alongside Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and the others.

After returning to Heaven Dou City, Li Han planned to refine a talisman from the Shadow Sabertooth Tiger’s Spirit Essence and decided to attend Heaven Dou Academy for two years. He told Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing about his plan, and Xiao Wu urged him to join the academy team and lead it toward the Soul Master Tournament.

• Li Han explained to Silver Moon that the Shadow Sabertooth Tiger’s Spirit Essence could be used to make a Spirit-Descending Talisman, but he postponed refining it until they returned to Heaven Dou City.
• Li Han returned to Heaven Dou City with Mei Ning and invited her to attend Heaven Dou Academy with him; she agreed, and they planned to register the next day.
• Li Han arrived at Green Bamboo Cottage and found Xiao Wu relaxing and Zhu Zhuqing cultivating there.
• Xiao Wu praised Heaven Dou Academy’s resources and criticized Yu Xiaogang for sending Tang San to Shrek Academy, and Li Han explained that Yu Xiaogang wanted to claim credit for Tang San’s future achievements.
• Li Han told Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing that he also planned to attend Heaven Dou Academy, and Xiao Wu excitedly urged him to become captain of the Heaven Dou Team and compete for the tournament championship.