Chapter Summaries

Mo Lin realized that Double Full Hands could not heal Gu Yuena’s soul unless he infused it with divine power, so he transformed with his Winged Dragon Martial Soul and spent hours refining the mixture. He achieved a half-hour of stability, enough to try repairing a small piece of Gu Yuena’s soul, and she lay down for the treatment.

• After repeated failures with Double Full Hands, Mo Lin decided to keep trying to heal Gu Yuena rather than give up.
• Mo Lin transformed with his Winged Dragon Martial Soul and used its divine power to make Double Full Hands affect Gu Yuena’s soul.
• When the blue Soul Power and golden divine power repeatedly collapsed, Mo Lin adjusted their ratio while Gu Yuena watched and waited.
• After countless attempts, Mo Lin made the mixture stable for half an hour and judged it sufficient to repair a small piece of Gu Yuena’s soul.
• Gu Yuena lay down and prepared for Mo Lin to begin the treatment.

Mo Lin’s treatment helped Gu Yuena’s soul fragments move toward her main soul while his companions sparred and cultivated in the Star Dou Great Forest. Ice Empress identified Tian Meng’s aura nearby, and Snow Empress told the dragon sons that a soul beast was releasing primordial energy.

• Mo Lin used his modified Double Full Hands to draw Gu Yuena’s soul fragment toward her main soul, and the other fragments began drifting toward it as well.
• Qilin and Phoenix fought Zi Ji and Scarlet King, while Yazi defeated Bear Lord and then lost to Di Tian.
• Suanni looked after Three-Eyed Golden Lion, while Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Ice Bear Xiao Bai cultivated near the Lake of Life.
• Ice Empress told Snow Empress that she recognized Tian Meng’s aura in the Star Dou Great Forest and suggested they should not leave him there for the forest’s Soul Beasts to exploit.
• Snow Empress approached Mock Wind and Yazi and explained that a soul beast nearby was releasing primordial energy of heaven and earth.

Snow Empress planned to secretly free Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, while Di Tian and Myriad Demon King considered whether the Far North soul beasts had come to retrieve him. Inside Gu Yuena’s barrier, Mo Lin helped heal part of her soul and received a Silver Dragon King scale that attached to his chest.

• Snow Empress told Yazi and Mock Wind about Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and planned to free him without telling Mo Lin.
• Mock Wind warned Snow Empress that Mo Lin would react seriously if secret actions interfered with his goals.
• Myriad Demon King told Di Tian that Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Ice Bear Xiao Bai likely came from the Far North and might be searching for Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
• Mo Lin exhausted both of his Martial Souls while fusing a fragment of Gu Yuena’s soul into her main soul, healing part of her injuries.
• Gu Yuena gave Mo Lin one of her scales so she could travel from her barrier to his side, then attached it directly to his chest.

Mo Lin and Gu Yuena returned to the Star Dou Great Forest and found Di Tian, the Ice Empress, the Snow Empress, and the other soul beasts gravely injured by two divine officials searching for the one who absorbed heavenly lightning. Gu Yuena intervened to save Di Tian from a killing blow and prepared to face the divine officials while the wounded beasts withdrew.

• Gu Yuena explained that the dragon scale fused into Mo Lin's chest let her travel to him and monitor his physical condition, and Mo Lin accepted the arrangement.
• Mo Lin and Gu Yuena emerged in the Star Dou Great Forest's core region and saw that two white-armored divine officials had devastated the area and wounded the soul beasts.
• Gu Yuena identified the attackers as divine officials from the God Realm, and Mo Lin learned that their divine power gave them an advantage over soul beasts using Soul Power.
• The divine officials said they had come to find the being who absorbed heavenly lightning and planned to destroy the area when they could not locate it.
• The black-haired divine official sent a giant wind sphere toward the wounded Di Tian, but Gu Yuena appeared and dispelled it.
• Gu Yuena asked Di Tian about the soul beasts' condition, then told him to move the injured farther away before the fight began.

Gu Yuena fought two divine officials with restrained spatial attacks while Mo Lin restored his power and prepared a counterattack. He knocked the officials unconscious, then summoned Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and demanded that he separate his soul from his body.

• Gu Yuena attacked the two divine officials and kept them occupied with spatial distortions, while Di Tian realized she was delaying for Mo Lin.
• Bi Ji treated the injured Bear Lord as Yazi reflected on his lost claw and his own weakness.
• Mo Lin drank from the Lake of Life, used Wind Queen's Arcane Gate to find Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, and summoned him aboveground.
• A streak of golden light struck the divine officials, leaving them unconscious with their souls partly detached from their bodies.
• Mo Lin urgently asked Sky Dream Ice Silkworm if he could make his soul leave his body, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm asked who he was.

Mo Lin forced Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to lend him his spiritual power, then used it to prepare an attack that incapacitated two divine officials and removed their souls before the God Realm could detect their deaths. He and Gu Yuena then returned to the wounded soul beasts, where Mo Lin healed them, while Di Tian began to recognize Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's presence.

• Mo Lin subdued Sky Dream Ice Silkworm with his Hell Domain and used Spirit Binding and General Dispatch to make him possess his body.
• Mo Lin used Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's spiritual power to fuse Winged Dragon divine power into Primordial Qi and Non-Aggression, then struck the two divine officials with a talisman-enhanced Ghost-Dispelling Spirit Arrow.
• Mo Lin pulled the divine officials' souls from their bodies and stored them in his spiritual space after explaining to Gu Yuena that killing them would alert the God Realm.
• Mo Lin and Gu Yuena found Di Tian, Snow Empress, Bi Ji, and the other ferocious soul beasts badly injured, and Mo Lin healed them with Double Full Hands.
• Di Tian sensed Sky Dream Ice Silkworm within Mo Lin, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm asked Mo Lin what they should do.

After healing the Star Dou Great Forest’s ferocious beasts, Mo Lin revealed Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and negotiated his release, giving Di Tian a face-saving way to let him go. Gu Yuena then called in the terms of their cooperation, and Mo Lin ordered three dragon sons to teach Di Tian their aura-concealment and cultivation methods, provoking Yazi’s resistance.

• Mo Lin healed the ferocious beasts and comforted the frightened Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• Mo Lin brought Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and his body out, then claimed they had worked together against the divine envoy.
• Gu Yuena agreed to Mo Lin’s plan to release Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, and Di Tian accepted after being promised compensation.
• Mo Lin teased Sky Dream Ice Silkworm about his feelings for Ice Empress but refused to reveal how she felt in return.
• Mo Lin told Yazi, Mock Wind, and Suanni to teach Di Tian their techniques, and Yazi nearly attacked before Mock Wind restrained him and Suanni volunteered.

Mo Lin extracted heavenly lightning from a fallen divine official and realized it had helped the God Realm locate the area. Gu Yuena explained that the battle had caused no lasting losses, while revealing that she was studying humans to prepare for future dealings with them.

• Gu Yuena returned with Mo Lin to the fallen divine officials and pointed out a strange power on the blue-haired official's body.
• Mo Lin drew heavenly lightning from the official with Gray Qi, absorbed it, and showed Gu Yuena how he could turn special elemental forces into his own.
• Gu Yuena concluded that the divine officials had come because Mo Lin was there, and Mo Lin offered to take responsibility for the damage.
• Gu Yuena said she was not angry because the God Realm had not discovered her, the injured soul beasts had healed, and the core area would recover.
• Gu Yuena explained that she was learning how humans thought and acted so she could deal with them in the future.

Mo Lin returned to Gengxin City with his companions after settling matters with Gu Yuena and bringing Sky Dream Ice Silkworm away peacefully. He entered the newly completed city in disguise, where Snow Empress and Ice Empress drew stares from onlookers.

• Mo Lin left the Star Dou Great Forest with his companions after his final exchange with Gu Yuena, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm attached himself to Ice Empress.
• Yazi became furious with Mo Lin over his actions, but Mock Wind stopped him from starting a fight.
• Mo Lin and his group returned to Gengxin City and found its new outer wall completed, though the city had an unusually high proportion of soul masters.
• Mo Lin disguised himself as a Grace Hall higher-up and entered through the new gate with his companions.
• Ice Empress asked Sky Dream Ice Silkworm why people were staring at them, and he told her it was because of her beauty.

Mo Lin returned to Grace Hall, reunited with its members, and explained to the Soul Beasts why humanity had surpassed them. The discussion ended with Mo Lin arguing that slow cultivation, unequal species potential, and deadly tribulations had weakened the Soul Beasts, while hinting that outside factors also mattered.

• Mo Lin entered Grace Hall's new main hall with the Snow Empress and the others, where Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan greeted him.
• Mo Lin praised Yu Tianheng's progress and told him and Yu Tianxin to prepare for training in twenty days.
• Mo Lin assigned the newcomers rooms and invited the Soul Beasts to hear his explanation of humanity's rise and the Soul Beasts' decline.
• Mo Lin argued that human population and talent, faster cultivation, and differences in species potential gave humans an advantage over Soul Beasts.
• Mo Lin pointed out that heavenly tribulations killed many powerful Soul Beasts and concluded that factors beyond this world also had to be considered.

After returning to Gengxin City, Mo Lin turned his attention to Dai Mubai and Dai Weisi, who had been staying there in secret. Dai Mubai finally learned that Grace Hall’s master had returned, but a clash with Yu Tianxin left him badly defeated and revealed how much stronger his rival had become.

• Mo Lin arranged accommodations for the soul beast elders and decided to meet with Dai Mubai and Dai Weisi, who had hidden their identities in inns while carrying out their mission.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing visited Grace Hall again, where a guard told them the master had returned, then stopped answering questions when he remembered the rules.
• Yu Tianxin confronted Dai Mubai, and their argument turned into a fight in which Yu Tianxin’s second soul skill pierced Dai Mubai’s attack and blasted him through the gate.
• Yu Tianxin mocked Dai Mubai, who spat blood, while Yu Yuanzhen appeared and ordered his grandson to accept punishment for fighting inside Grace Hall.
• Yu Yuanzhen apologized to Dai Mubai, but he had deliberately waited for Yu Tianxin to win and resented Dai Mubai for repeatedly visiting Grace Hall without paying courtesy calls.

Dai Mubai left Grace Hall believing Dai Weisi had made no progress, while Mo Lin revealed that Dai Weisi was secretly following his orders. Mo Lin began training Dai Weisi’s body tempering with Fu Li, leaving their month-long regimen underway.

• Dai Mubai withdrew from Grace Hall with Zhu Zhuqing, confident that Dai Weisi had not met the Hall Master either.
• Dai Weisi told Zhu Zhuyun that Dai Mubai could not form an alliance with Grace Hall, then welcomed the disguised Mo Lin when Zhu Zhuyun collapsed.
• Mo Lin praised Dai Weisi’s progress in Chai School Body Tempering and instructed him to restrain his Soul Power growth while focusing on body training.
• Mo Lin disguised Dai Weisi and introduced him to Fu Li as a childhood friend who needed intensive training.
• Mo Lin directed Fu Li to strike Dai Weisi’s weak points with carefully adjusted force, and Fu Li continued despite Dai Weisi being covered in bruises.

Mo Lin brought Snow Empress to the Gengxin City Martial Soul Hall branch to show her another way to replace soul rings, selecting five children for his plan. The chapter ended with him asking the children what they knew about soul masters, and all five admitting they knew nothing.

• Mo Lin confronted Snow Empress about isolating herself from humans and invited her to witness another method of replacing soul rings.
• Mo Lin arrived at the Gengxin City Martial Soul Hall branch with Snow Empress concealed from view and met Platinum Bishop Myers.
• Mo Lin reviewed Myers's list of seventy-seven children and selected five with Level Three or Level Four Innate Soul Power.
• Mo Lin revealed Snow Empress in the hall, where she questioned why he had brought her and the children there.
• Myers brought in Li Yanyan, Jessica, Ling Mu, Bei Chao, and Chen Lei, and Mo Lin asked what they knew about soul masters.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Mo Lin offers five children with low Innate Soul Power a unique cultivation method to surpass their peers.
• The children agree to take the risk despite potential consequences, including death.
• Mo Lin gives each child a Devouring Pouch containing a soul beast cub, which they are to treat as lifelong companions.

Character Developments

• The children show determination, courage, and a strong desire to improve their status.
• Mo Lin demonstrates kindness, patience, and a willingness to help the underprivileged.
• Snow Empress is introduced as a teacher for the children, initially struggling with human interaction.

Significant Themes

• The struggle of the poor and underprivileged.
• The desire for recognition and respect.
• The potential consequences of taking risks for personal growth.

Character Interactions

• Mo Lin interacts with the children kindly and patiently, guiding them through their decisions and first steps as Soul Masters.
• The children show eagerness and curiosity in their interactions with Mo Lin and their new soul beast companions.
• Snow Empress is initially awkward around the children but eventually joins their group.

Mo Lin taught five children about soul beasts and guided them through their first Soul Power circulation before taking them to Grace Hall’s bathhouse. Snow Empress reluctantly accompanied the girls, and their admiration for her beauty left her wondering why other women reacted to her as men did.

• Mo Lin explained that plants and soul beasts needed rest, then demonstrated Soul Power circulation between Li Yanyan and her Three-Headed Crimson Demon Hound pup.
• Mo Lin helped all five children exchange Soul Power with their soul beasts and taught them the creatures’ habits and boundaries.
• Mo Lin took the children to Grace Hall’s luxurious bathhouse, assigning the boys to himself and the girls to Snow Empress.
• Snow Empress admitted she had never visited the bathhouse, and a receptionist explained its rules and services to her and the girls.
• Snow Empress’s Soul Power clothing vanished in the women’s changing room, prompting Li Yanyan and Ling Mu to praise her beauty.
• Snow Empress wondered why the girls reacted to her appearance the way male humans had.

Mo Lin took Jessica, Bei Chao, and Chen Lei and three young soul beasts to the bathhouse, where he introduced the children to his nephews and declared that he wanted to change the relationship between humans and soul beasts. When Yu Tianxin’s remark about the boys’ talents made them fall silent, Snow Empress’s arrival plunged the restaurant into unnatural cold.

• Mo Lin had the bath attendants scrub Jessica, Bei Chao, and Chen Lei while he steered the three young soul beasts toward them, then led everyone upstairs to eat.
• Mo Lin encountered Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng at the restaurant, and they learned that he planned to spar with them and had brought children and an elder to the bathhouse.
• Yu Tianxin asked whether Mo Lin meant to improve relations between soul masters and soul beasts, and Mo Lin said he wanted to change the relationship between humans and soul beasts.
• Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng joined Mo Lin’s table, discovered that the three cubs were soul beasts, and learned that the three boys were Mo Lin’s students.
• Yu Tianxin praised the children as likely heaven-gifted talents, causing the boys to fall silent as the temperature dropped and they began to shiver.
• Mo Lin warned someone not to go too far around the children, and Snow Empress answered in an icy voice.

Mo Lin confronted Snow Empress over her anger at being pushed to interact with humans, then apologized for rushing her and asked whether she would teach the children. Snow Empress agreed to watch over the children, and they returned to the dining hall, where Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng began reading too much into Mo Lin pulling out a chair for her.

• Snow Empress released a chill in the dining hall, and Mo Lin shielded the children and little soul beasts before sending Ling Mu and Li Yanyan to eat.
• Mo Lin warned Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng not to mention talent or talk too much while he spoke privately with Snow Empress.
• Snow Empress told Mo Lin she resented his handling of her introduction to humans, and Mo Lin challenged her about whether she had listened to his advice willingly.
• Mo Lin admitted he had acted too hastily and offered to give Snow Empress more time to adapt, but she stopped him and insisted she would keep her oath.
• Snow Empress agreed to watch over the children, and she and Mo Lin returned to the dining hall.
• Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng exchanged knowing looks after Mo Lin pulled out a chair for Snow Empress, prompting Mo Lin to ask what they were doing.

Mo Lin refused his five young students’ request to bring their families to Grace Hall and explained that their training and support were an exchange, teaching them the adult world’s principle of reciprocity. The chapter ended with the children beginning their first lesson in equal exchange.

• Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin discussed Mo Lin’s relationships and wondered whether his current companion was dangerous.
• Mo Lin led the five children to their rooms, where they asked to bring their parents and relatives to Grace Hall.
• Mo Lin refused and urged the children to mature early, explaining that they should earn respect through their own efforts.
• Jessica asked Mo Lin to explain his refusal, and he stopped the children from kneeling before him.
• Snow Empress accidentally blasted Mo Ning with cold air, and Mo Lin warmed him before warning him not to reveal anything about the children.
• Mo Lin explained that supporting the children was an exchange for their work testing his Soul Master theories, teaching them that there was no such thing as a free lunch.

Yang Luo’s fabricated rescue story elevated him to Yang Wudi’s trusted confidant, and the Breaking Clan arrived early for the four-clan gathering. On the road to Dragonrise City, Tang San continued avoiding questions about his father and the Clear Sky Sect, while Xiao Wu confronted him about his behavior.

• Yang Luo killed the others who had traveled with him and Yang Wenguang, staged their escape from the Star Dou Great Forest, and gave Yang Wudi a convincing account of a soul-beast attack.
• Yang Luo became a trusted adviser to Yang Wudi and Yang Wenguang, then exchanged a glance with Yang Wudi as they proposed waiting for Bai He before discussing clan affairs.
• Yang Wudi and Niu Gao debated Spirit Hall’s claim that the Speed Clan had helped destroy the Clear Sky Sect, then set the issue aside until Bai He arrived.
• Titan struggled to speak privately with Tang San during the carriage journey, as Tang San kept close to Xiao Wu and avoided discussing his father and the Clear Sky Sect.
• Xiao Wu told Tang San that his behavior had been abnormal and urged him to share his grief, but Tang San insisted that the Clear Sky Sect’s destruction was not troubling him.

Tang San and the Tang Sect arrived at the Defense Clan’s residence in Dragonrise City, where they learned that Yang Wudi of the Breaking Clan had arrived before them. Titan explained that Yang Wudi’s presence made his original plan to negotiate with the Defense Clan impractical, so he proposed changing the Tang Sect’s primary target to the Speed Clan.

• Tang San, Titan, and the Tang Sect reached the Defense Clan’s residence, where they were told that Niu Gao and Yang Wudi were waiting inside.
• Titan took the group to the guest rooms instead of meeting Niu Gao, prompting Tang San to demand an explanation.
• Titan said Yang Wudi’s early arrival changed the situation because Niu Gao might be swayed by Yang Wudi, whose hatred of the Clear Sky Sect was far deeper.
• Titan explained that the clans had little reason to unite against Spirit Hall in the current circumstances, and Tang San lacked the Aromatic Silk Beauty that could have helped persuade Yang Wudi.
• When Tang San asked what to do next, Titan recommended changing their primary target, and Tang San guessed that he meant the Speed Clan.