Chapter Summaries

Lan Tian, Ah Yin, Louise, and Xiao Li planned a trip to the Sunset Forest to obtain soul rings for Louise and Xiao Li, discussing how each would fight their chosen Soul Beast. They settled on hunting the Golden-Eyed Lion King first and the Shadow Spirit Cat afterward, then prepared to leave at daybreak.

• Lan Tian identified a twenty-five-thousand-year-old Golden-Eyed Lion King as Louise's fifth-ring target and a nine-thousand-year-old Shadow Spirit Cat as Xiao Li's fourth-ring target.
• Ah Yin explained the Golden-Eyed Lion King's pressure field and advised Louise to attack from a distance while Lan Tian countered the field with his Blue Silver God Domain.
• Ah Yin warned Xiao Li that the Shadow Spirit Cat could sense her stealth and advised her to use Shadow Binding to restrict its spatial jumps, then strike during its recovery pause.
• Lan Tian marked both hunting locations and set the Golden-Eyed Lion King as their first target, offering to guard against nearby Soul Beasts.
• Louise confirmed that she had brought Soul Recovery Pills, and Lan Tian told everyone to rest before departing after daybreak.

Lan Tian, Louise, and Xiao Li searched the Sunset Forest for a Golden-Eyed Lion King so Louise could obtain its Soul Ring. Louise killed the twenty-five-thousand-year Soul Beast, and its black Soul Ring rose from the corpse.

• Lan Tian reached level seventy-seven after the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and Golden Ancient Tree nourished his Soul Power.
• Lan Tian took Louise and Xiao Li into the Sunset Forest and found the Golden-Eyed Lion King resting in a cave in the Ore Vein Mountains.
• Lan Tian suppressed the Golden-Eyed Lion King's pressure field while Louise attacked it from the flank with the Golden Thunder Cannon.
• Louise dodged the lion's charge and continued striking its wounds as Lan Tian weakened its metal-attribute blast with the Blue Silver God Domain.
• Louise fired a final Golden Thunder Cannon into the lion's abdomen, killing it as a black Soul Ring rose from its corpse.

Louise absorbed the Golden-Eyed Lion King’s Soul Ring, reached level fifty-three, and gained the Golden Might Domain. Lan Tian, Louise, and Xiao Li then found a Shadow Spirit Cat, and Xiao Li began drawing it out of its cave.

• Louise absorbed the twenty-five-thousand-year Soul Ring and advanced to level fifty-three.
• Louise revealed Golden Might Domain, which suppressed enemies’ Soul Power, speed, attacks, and defense.
• Lan Tian stored the Golden-Eyed Lion King’s corpse, and the group headed deeper into the Sunset Forest to search for a Shadow Spirit Cat.
• Lan Tian located a roughly nine-thousand-year-old Shadow Spirit Cat in a rocky crevice and laid vines around the area.
• Xiao Li entered the crevice and provoked the Shadow Spirit Cat, which attacked her and then used a spatial jump to appear behind her.

Xiao Li defeated a Shadow Spirit Cat with Louise’s help and absorbed its soul ring, gaining Spirit Cat Teleportation. As the group left the Sunset Forest, Lan Tian found a rare blood mountain ginseng and took it to cultivate.

• Xiao Li used Shadow Binding and Instant Shadow Kill to wound the Shadow Spirit Cat, then Louise slowed it with Golden Might Domain so Xiao Li could pin and kill it.
• Xiao Li absorbed the Shadow Spirit Cat’s soul ring and became a rank forty-three Soul Ancestor, gaining Spirit Cat Teleportation.
• Xiao Li explained how Spirit Cat Teleportation differed from Instant Shadow Kill and how she could combine it with her other skills.
• Xiao Li collected the Shadow Spirit Cat’s corpse for its valuable materials, and the three headed toward the outskirts of the Sunset Forest.
• Lan Tian discovered a near-immortal-grade blood mountain ginseng, carefully collected it, and planned to nurture it at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Lan Tian, Louise, and Xiao Li visited Heaven Dou City, where they heard reports of Star Luo strengthening its Northern Border operations and Spirit Hall recruiting more personnel. Lan Tian returned to Blue Sky City planning to bolster security and attend a Grand Auction next month for an Elder Soul Tool Blueprint.

• Lan Tian flew Louise and Xiao Li to Heaven Dou City, where they explored the busy streets and ate at a restaurant.
• Lan Tian overheard merchants say Star Luo had appointed a veteran commander who was increasing Northern Border patrols and covert operations, while Spirit Hall had expanded recruitment.
• Louise bought fabric for the children, Xiao Li chose a hair tie, and Lan Tian read an imperial notice announcing more Northern Border outposts and stronger patrols.
• Lan Tian learned that next month's Grand Auction would feature an Elder Soul Tool Blueprint and decided it was worth examining.
• Lan Tian told Louise to have Old Ke intensify the City Defense Army's training and add a hidden sentry post along the Northern Border transport route, then returned with Louise and Xiao Li to Blue Sky City.

Lan Tian took Louise, Xiao Li, and Ah Yin to Heaven Dou City for a grand auction, where he acquired an Elder Soul Tool Blueprint and several other items. They returned to Blue Sky City late that night, and Lan Tian gave Shui Hanyi a thousand-year-old ganoderma to nourish her during her pregnancy.

• Lan Tian left Shui Hanyi in Blue Sky City and traveled with Louise, Xiao Li, and Ah Yin through the Icefire Basin to Heaven Dou City.
• Lan Tian bought a Space-Attribute Guiding Stone and a thousand-year-old ganoderma at the auction.
• Lan Tian won the Elder Soul Tool Blueprint and a rare ore containing a faint fluctuation of life energy.
• A mysterious buyer in a third-floor private room won the Thousand-Year Soul Bone at a high price.
• Lan Tian returned to Blue Sky City with the three women and gave Shui Hanyi the ganoderma to have made into nourishing soup.

Lan Tian harvested an immortal-grade blood mountain ginseng from the Icefire Basin and made nourishing soup for his family, strengthening several of them. He later studied an Elder Soul Tool Blueprint and planned to use its formations to improve Blue Sky City's defenses and Teleportation Array.

• Xiao Mei told Lan Tian that the blood mountain ginseng had transformed into an immortal-grade herb, and he went with Xiao Li to harvest its main root while replanting the smaller roots.
• Lan Tian checked the nine heart begonia and decided to wait for it to grow further before considering it for a Soul Ring.
• Lan Tian and Louise prepared soup with the ginseng and supplementary herbs, and the family gathered to drink it.
• The next morning, Lan Tian found that Louise had reached rank fifty-four, Xiao Li rank forty-four, and Xiao Mei's everyday form had advanced to eighty-two thousand years.
• Over the following days, the soup helped Louise and Xiao Li consolidate their ranks and eased Shui Hanyi's pregnancy symptoms, while Lan Tian began studying the Elder Soul Tool Blueprint.
• The replanted blood mountain ginseng roots began sprouting, and Lan Tian considered upgrading the city's defensive formation and Teleportation Array with the blueprint's formations.

Lan Tian uncovered a fossilized fragment of the Life Ancient Tree’s resin and used it to strengthen the golden ancient tree, transforming the Icefire Basin and boosting the Nine Heart Begonia’s growth. After the basin’s energy doubled, Lan Tian broke through to level seventy-eight and considered waiting for the Begonia to become his Eighth Soul Ring.

• Lan Tian used life law power to crack open the ore and revealed a Primordial Life Ancient Tree Resin Fossil.
• Lan Tian placed the resin beside the golden ancient tree’s roots, and the tree absorbed its energy and returned a surge of life energy throughout the Icefire Basin.
• The basin’s energy concentration doubled, its Spirit Herbs advanced in grade, and the Nine Heart Begonia gained ten thousand years of age to reach about forty thousand years.
• Lan Tian absorbed the returning energy and the remaining potency of the Blood Mountain Ginseng, breaking through to level seventy-eight.
• Lan Tian told the four women about the basin’s changes and planned to wait for the Nine Heart Begonia to reach a hundred thousand years so it could become his Eighth Soul Ring.

Lan Tian received an urgent report that the Star Luo Empire had launched a major assault on the Northern Border and that the overwhelmed Medical Camp had run out of supplies. He brought healing supplies to the military camp and followed Qin Lie to assess the wounded.

• Lan Tian studied an Elder Soul Tool Blueprint and found a way to improve the Fiefdom Array and Teleportation Array with nested energy circuits.
• A messenger reported that the Star Luo Empire had attacked from three directions, inflicting heavy casualties and exhausting the Medical Camp’s medicinal supplies.
• Lan Tian treated the messenger and arranged emergency pills and herbs with Louise, while Xiao Li, Ah Yin, and Shui Hanyi stayed behind to look after home.
• Lan Tian traveled overnight to the Northern Border with the messenger and learned that the enemy had at least two Soul Douluo-level experts.
• At the military camp, Lan Tian treated a soldier’s bleeding arm with Blue Silver Grass, then followed Qin Lie toward the overwhelmed Medical Camp.

Lan Tian treated the wounded at the Northern Border and sold Qin Lie Rejuvenation Pills that restored him to peak condition. After Qin Lie held the line through several days of fighting, reinforcements arrived from the empire.

• Lan Tian examined Qin Lie's injuries and gave him a Rejuvenation Pill, which rapidly restored his strength and healed his wounds.
• Qin Lie bought all nine remaining Rejuvenation Pills from Lan Tian for one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Lan Tian distributed medical supplies and taught the camp staff his treatment methods before settling in to care for the wounded.
• Lan Tian noticed the Star Luo Empire's Soul Douluo was holding back, and Qin Lie said he had requested reinforcements.
• Qin Lie fought the Soul Douluo again and forced him to withdraw, slowing the enemy offensive.
• On the sixth morning, Lan Tian sensed a large force approaching and realized the empire's reinforcements had arrived.