Chapter Summaries

Xiao Wu told Yu Yan about transformed Soul Beasts and demonstrated her self-condensed fourth Soul Ring, Invincible Golden Body. She gave Yu Yan an Empty Bright Jade Core from the Lake of Life, and their reunion ended with Yu Yan offering Wu Xue an herb.

• Xiao Wu explained that transformed Soul Beasts used sealed energy to self-condense Soul Rings and demonstrated her fourth skill, Invincible Golden Body, with a Soul Ring over thirty-two thousand years old.
• Yu Yan praised Xiao Wu's defense skill, which gave her nine seconds of absolute defense and doubled her strength.
• Xiao Wu gave Yu Yan an Empty Bright Jade Core from the Lake of Life and told him other Immortal Herbs might grow there.
• Yu Yan gave Xiao Wu the Breaking Clan's Herb Manual so she could identify the herbs.
• Xiao Wu told Yu Yan about Exotic Beast Academy's tournament performance and other young Spirit Master contestants.
• Wu Xue leapt into Yu Yan's arms, and Xiao Wu said the Spirit Cat had grown to thirty-five years old before Yu Yan showed it an herb.

Wu Xue ate the Brocade Cloud Rainbow Silk Sunflower and rapidly advanced into a powerful Thousand-Year Soul Beast. After returning to Exotic Beast Academy, Yu Yan gave Bai Chenxiang pills and told Jiang Jing that his Soul Power had reached Rank 32.

• Wu Xue ate the Brocade Cloud Rainbow Silk Sunflower and advanced from a 35-year Soul Beast to a 2,335-year Thousand-Year Soul Beast, while her eyes turned pale gold.
• Xiao Wu judged that Wu Xue could potentially fight a Three-Ring Soul Elder after training, and Wu Xue eagerly showed affection to Yu Yan after waking.
• Yu Yan returned to Exotic Beast Academy, where Bai Chenxiang found him eating with Xiao Wu; he stopped her from leaving and gave her three pills to increase her Soul Power.
• A week later, Jiang Jing confronted Yu Yan in the library, but he told her he had reached Rank 32, making her forget her anger and rejoice over the academy's prospects.

After Bai Chenxiang returned home to obtain her second Soul Ring, Dugu Bo visited Exotic Beast Academy to enroll Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling and asked Yu Yan to look after his granddaughter. Yu Yan agreed and learned that Ye Lingling possessed the rare Nine-Heart Begonia Martial Soul, while Xiao Wu reacted to his staring at the new student.

• After reaching level 20, Bai Chenxiang left Exotic Beast Academy and returned home so Bai He could help her obtain a Soul Ring.
• More than two months later, Jiang Jing told Yu Yan that Dugu Bo had come to see him, and Yu Yan went with Xiao Wu to the reception hall.
• Dugu Bo asked Yu Yan to take care of Dugu Yan while she studied at Exotic Beast Academy, and Yu Yan agreed.
• Dugu Bo arranged for Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling to enroll, and Vice Dean Jingjiang approved their admission.
• Yu Yan learned that Ye Lingling owned the rare Nine-Heart Begonia Martial Soul, then stared at her until Xiao Wu pinched his waist.

Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling enrolled at the academy and moved in next door to Yu Yan. Dugu Yan asked Yu Yan to look after them, while Yu Yan tried to wave off the request.

• Dugu Bo and Jiang Jing agreed to enroll Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling after Dugu Bo showed proof of their graduation.
• At Dugu Bo's instruction, Jiang Jing arranged for the girls to stay next door to Yu Yan's building.
• After Dugu Bo called Jiang Jing away, Dugu Yan brought Ye Lingling to meet Yu Yan and asked Yu Yan to take care of them.
• Yu Yan said Dugu Yan was older and could take care of her, but Dugu Yan insisted she meant the request sincerely because Yu Yan seemed unusually mature.

Dugu Bo advised Ye Lingling on how she might persuade Yu Yan to help resolve the flaws in her Martial Soul, while Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling gradually grew closer to Xiao Wu. Yu Yan continued researching ways to improve Soul Power quality, aiming to develop it toward a solid form like a Soul Core.

• Dugu Yan asked Dugu Bo for advice after Yu Yan refused to help Ye Lingling because he was unfamiliar with her.
• Dugu Bo reasoned that Yu Yan likely could help but had not been offered enough in return, then suggested a method to persuade him.
• Ye Lingling thanked Dugu Bo and said she would consider his proposal.
• After two weeks as neighbors, Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling grew closer to Xiao Wu, while Yu Yan remained focused on his research.
• Yu Yan studied Soul Power and considered advancing it from its current form toward liquid and eventually solid Soul Power, using Soul Core research and Dugu Bo's experience as references.

Ye Lingling agreed to pledge herself to Yu Yan in exchange for his help resolving the Nine-Heart Begonia curse, and Dugu Yan brought her to make the offer. Yu Yan recognized the value of the arrangement and considered it appealing, but the chapter ended before he answered.

• Ye Lingling told Dugu Yan that her family had no Immortal Herb, then agreed to pledge herself to Yu Yan for his help.
• Yu Yan and Xiao Wu decided to seek wrongdoers to test his Soul Power-compression ideas in the mountains near Häagen-Dazs City and the Star Dou Forest.
• Dugu Yan brought Ye Lingling to Yu Yan, where Ye Lingling offered her lifelong service and described an oath scroll that would punish betrayal.
• Yu Yan asked whether Ye Lingling's family knew, and she confirmed that they did.
• Yu Yan considered the healing power of the Nine-Heart Begonia and the value of Ye Lingling's loyalty, oath, and family connections.

Yu Yan agreed to help Ye Lingling address her Nine-Heart Begonia Martial Soul, setting a three-year deadline to find the Immortal Herb needed to evolve it and making friendship the terms until then. He and Xiao Wu then left for Häagen-Dazs City to capture Soul Masters for Yu Yan’s experiments, while Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling stayed behind.

• Yu Yan read the ancient scroll and agreed to give himself three years to find the Pure Moon Lotus before using the current method to treat Ye Lingling’s Martial Soul.
• Ye Lingling accepted that her Martial Soul might be cured without evolving, and Yu Yan proposed they remain friends until her problem was resolved.
• Yu Yan and Xiao Wu asked Vice Dean Jiang Jing for leave to visit Häagen-Dazs City, and she granted it.
• Yu Yan told Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling about his plans, and Xiao Wu explained that they were going to capture bad Soul Masters for Yu Yan’s experiments.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling wished them a safe journey, and Yu Yan and Xiao Wu rode toward Häagen-Dazs City.

Yu Yan and Xiao Wu explored Häagen-Dazs City, stocked up on supplies, and set off for the mountains bordering the Star Dou Forest. The chapter then shifted to a detailed Ice and Fire Twin Fish Martial Soul growth plan, outlining its abilities and early Soul Rings and skills.

• Yu Yan bought rare herb seeds in Häagen-Dazs City to plant in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Xiao Wu sampled local food and bought seasonings to use in her own cooking.
• After two days in the city, Yu Yan and Xiao Wu left for the mountains with a map marked with red dots.
• The chapter described the Ice and Fire Twin Fish Martial Soul’s dual attributes, paired Soul Skills, and single-person Martial Soul Fusion Skills.
• The growth plan proposed early Soul Ring targets and abilities, including Ice Scale Armor, Blazing Breath, Ice Fire Flow Vortex, Cold Thorn Thrust, Flame Burst Thorn, and Ice Flame Rose.
• The plan began its second stage with an approximately 1,600-year Soul Ring and the Ice Mirror Refraction skill.

Xiao Wu defeated Black Mountain, and Yu Yan used captured members of the Black Mountain Gang to test his Soul Power Compression Method. Black Mountain finally agreed to follow the method after Yu Yan tortured him, leaving Yu Yan with a new experimental subject.

• Xiao Wu sensed Black Mountain hiding in the shadows, bound him with Moonlight Energy chains, and punched him into submission.
• Yu Yan tested his revised Soul Power method on a Soul Grandmaster, whose Soul Power became chaotic and damaged his meridians.
• Yu Yan turned to Black Mountain as his next test subject and ordered him to circulate compressed Soul Power according to the method.
• Black Mountain refused and tried to bargain by invoking Count Xilu and his duke father, but Yu Yan tortured him with simulated Ice and Fire poisons.
• Black Mountain surrendered, and Yu Yan gave him the Soul Power Compression Method and lifted the seal on his Soul Power.

Yu Yan tested ideas for the Soul Power Compression Method by defeating Soul Masters and criminal groups, while Xiao Wu and Wu Xue traveled with him. After weeks of experiments and raids, a handsome young man addressed a gathering near the Star Dou Forest about the recent events in the mountains.

• Yu Yan killed the Black Scorpion Group's Soul Masters after using them in his experiments and estimated that developing the Soul Power Compression Method would take two or three years.
• Xiao Wu refused to let the bloodstained Wu Xue jump into her arms or onto Yu Yan's shoulder.
• Yu Yan spent ten days testing more than ten possible research directions by defeating the Soul Masters on Evil Wolf Mountain, proving the ideas wrong.
• Yu Yan used the black glove of another influential figure to disprove five more ideas, then continued his experiments by wiping out evil Soul Master groups.
• Yu Yan and Xiao Wu cleared out a criminal gang that trafficked people across the border in the mountains.
• A handsome young man near the Star Dou Forest asked a gathering whether they knew about the recent events in the mountains.

Yu Yan and Xiao Wu left their cave to target the Blood Blade Society, hoping to find more people exploiting others. They learned that influential figures from the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires backed a human-trafficking caravan, and they decided to intercept its next shipment.

• Yu Yan stopped researching the Soul Power Compression Method, and he and Xiao Wu set out with Wu Xue to find a target.
• Yu Yan and Xiao Wu raided the Blood Blade Society but found only its third-in-command, whom Yu Yan interrogated and killed.
• The third-in-command revealed that the Blood Blade Society leader had been hired to escort a valuable shipment for a human-trafficking caravan backed by influential figures from both empires.
• Yu Yan and Xiao Wu recognized the caravan as the one they had previously destroyed and resolved to intercept its next shipment.

Yu Yan and Xiao Wu ambushed a caravan carrying abducted children and drew its guards away from the prisoners to fight them. As Xiao Wu battled more than ten Soul Ancestors under Yu Yan’s icy moon skill, one enemy fell, while a young man in the central carriage watched them as potential merchandise.

• Yu Yan and Xiao Wu spotted a suspicious caravan transporting children and recognized several wanted criminals among its guards.
• Yu Yan attacked the caravan with Scorching Breath, prompting Elder Shi to send three Soul Ancestors and the mountain gang leaders after him.
• Yu Yan and Xiao Wu drew the attackers away from the caravan so their battle would not endanger the abducted children.
• Xiao Wu charged into the group with her Moonlight Chains while Yu Yan’s Moon Eclipse: Thousand Frost Return to Silence slowed the Soul Ancestors and hindered their Soul Power.
• After a minute of fighting, Xiao Wu killed one Soul Ancestor with her Moonlight Energy Spiral Drill.
• The young man in the central carriage watched Yu Yan and Xiao Wu and told Elder Shi to spare them if possible so they could be sold.

Yu Yan and Xiao Wu fought the caravan’s soul masters while the soul ancestors began looking for a chance to retreat. Yu Yan watched three dangerous soul kings, including You Shang and Wu Chen, and decided he could not let the soul ancestors withdraw and become a threat.

• You Shang watched Yu Yan and Xiao Wu fight and commented excitedly on their ruthlessness.
• The Blood Blade Society chief withdrew from the battlefield, prompting the other soul ancestors to consider fleeing.
• The Blue Bird Stronghold chief proposed that the remaining soul ancestors attack together and then retreat to the caravan.
• Xiao Wu confronted the soul ancestors’ plan to escape, while Yu Yan found their bravado amusing.
• Yu Yan identified Wu Chen and You Shang among the dangerous soul kings and resolved to keep the soul ancestors from retreating.

Yu Yan and Xiao Wu trapped the bald Soul King in a cage of Mystic Ice and Moonlight chains, then Yu Yan prepared his ice-and-fire Martial Soul Fusion Skill to kill him. As the bald man gathered power for his fifth Soul Ring, Wu Chen and You Shang charged in to fight Xiao Wu.

• Yu Yan and Xiao Wu attacked the bald old man with chains and began enclosing him in a birdcage.
• The bald old man used his third spirit skill, Bone Rending Claws, to crack a Mystic Ice Chain, but Yu Yan moved it and repaired the damage with energy from the Ice Blue Crescent Moon.
• Yu Yan told Xiao Wu to hold off the other two Soul Kings while he prepared his second Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• The bald old man unleashed his fifth Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring as Yu Yan completed Ice Fire Profound Mystery: Ice Flame Explosion Chain.
• The young man urged Wu Chen and You Shang to join the battle, and both Soul Kings charged toward Xiao Wu.

Yu Yan’s Ice Flame Explosion Chain killed the bald old man, while Xiao Wu confronted the Soul Kings Wu Chen and You Shang. The fight continued as Xiao Wu used moonlight ribbons to entangle Wu Chen’s staff.

• The bald old man tried to gather strength to escape, but Yu Yan’s ice-and-fire shockwaves disrupted his plan.
• Yu Yan detonated the tightening Ice Flame Explosion Chain and blasted the bald old man into powder.
• Yu Yan retained enough Soul Power to help Xiao Wu fight the remaining Soul Kings.
• Xiao Wu teleported in front of Wu Chen and You Shang and blocked their path.
• Wu Chen attacked Xiao Wu with his staff, and she wrapped it in ribbons of Moonlight Energy.

Yu Yan, Xiao Wu, and Wu Xue defeated the caravan’s Soul Masters and rescued the people being transported. Yu Yan began planning what to do with the captives and victims, but he and Xiao Wu had yet to settle on a plan.

• Xiao Wu restrained Wu Chen, You Shang, and others with Taiyin Majesty, while Wu Xue attacked those who tried to flee.
• Yu Yan sealed the area with Thousand Abyss Cold Current Array and used Mystic Ice Chains to suppress the caravan’s Soul Masters.
• Yu Yan restrained the noble youth who claimed the Xue surname and knocked him unconscious when he kept insisting on his imperial status.
• Yu Yan considered using the fifty-three captured Soul Masters for his Soul Power experiments and began thinking about how to handle the guards and rescued victims.
• Yu Yan asked Xiao Wu how they should help the victims, but Xiao Wu said she had no ideas and asked what he had in mind.

Yu Yan explained his plan for helping the captives and dealing with the merchant caravan’s guards, and Xiao Wu agreed to help. He recruited You Shang by having him swear on Dugu Bo’s ancient scroll, confirming that the scroll enforced a binding God's Oath.

• Yu Yan laid out how he would help captives return home or find safe places to live, and use repentant Soul Masters to manage the aftermath.
• Xiao Wu approved the plan and went to gather the captives’ wishes while Yu Yan sought volunteers among the Soul Masters.
• You Shang, the wanted Life-Snatching Ghost, offered to help and blamed the unconscious young nobleman surnamed Xue for involving him.
• Yu Yan told You Shang to follow the ancient scroll and swear an oath of loyalty, and You Shang hesitated before complying.
• Yu Yan observed a strange line of text enter You Shang, who said betrayal or lies would cause his soul to perish, confirming the oath’s power.

Yu Yan and Xiao Wu arranged safe destinations for the people they had rescued, while deciding to keep a rare little girl with them temporarily. With the rescued people settled, Yu Yan prepared to return to Exotic Beast Academy and visit Old Man Yu for the coming New Year.

• Yu Yan recruited eight Soul Ancestors and Wu Chen, lifted their Soul Power restrictions, and explained the rules they had to follow.
• Yu Yan sent Wu Chen with four Soul Ancestors and guards to escort eighty-six people toward a town in the Xingyao Duchy.
• Yu Yan arranged for the people with nowhere to go to settle near Ice Soul City and sent You Shang with them, ordering him to stay in a village afterward.
• Xiao Wu told Yu Yan about a little girl whose failed Martial Soul awakening left her with feline traits, and Yu Yan agreed she should travel with them for now.
• Yu Yan took the people whose Soul Power remained sealed to a temporary dwelling near the Black Scorpion Group, then planned to return to Exotic Beast Academy and visit Old Man Yu.

Yu Yan completed experiments on a captured Xue nobleman and helped eliminate criminal groups in the mountains before returning to Exotic Beast Academy. He resumed refining his Soul Power compression method, while the rescued people settled into New Life Village and his relationships with Dugu Yan and others gradually changed.

• Yu Yan silenced the Xue nobleman’s threats and used him in an experiment that revealed a potentially viable path.
• Wu Chen returned with four Soul Ancestors and guards, and Yu Yan assigned him and You Shang to protect the village.
• Yu Yan and Xiao Wu returned to Exotic Beast Academy after clearing the mountain range of criminal forces.
• Jiang Jing scolded Yu Yan for bringing rescued people and guards to her without handling the details carefully, while Xiao Wu escaped blame.
• Yu Yan gathered cultivation books and refined his Soul Power compression method as Xiao Wu checked on New Life Village and Zhu Xiaomiao cared for their daily needs.
• Dugu Yan gradually improved Yu Yan’s favorability toward her, while Ye Lingling continued following her, Xiao Wu, and Dugu Yan.

Two years after Yu Yan and Xiao Wu became Soul Kings, Yu Yan learned that a Pure Moon Lotus might be growing in the Mad Axe Mountain Range and prepared to travel there with Xiao Wu. The chapter ended with their departure planned for the next day and a review of the powerful fifth Soul Skills they had gained.

• Yu Yan received a report of signs that a Pure Moon Lotus was growing near the Mad Axe Mountain Range, rewarded the caravan owner, and told him he was leaving.
• Yu Yan told Xiao Wu he planned to travel to the Far North, and she eagerly agreed to join him.
• Yu Yan and Xiao Wu had both reached Soul King over the past two years and gained fifth Soul Rings; Xiao Wu's self-condensed ring gave her the Void Soul Skill.
• Yu Yan described how he recruited Dugu Bo, the Dragon Duke and Snake Lady, Bai He, and another Soul Douluo to hunt the Frost Ember Cloud Hammer Dragon.
• Yu Yan gained Dome Frost Falling Star Net from the Ice Fish and Earth Vein Flame Heart Banner from the Fire Fish, though he had hoped for a fire-and-wind combination skill.
• Yu Yan planned to tell Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling about the trip, ask Vice Dean Jiang Jing for leave, and set out with Xiao Wu the next day.