Chapter Summaries

Skywater Academy dominated the friendly match against Blazing Fire Academy, but its fighters surrendered to avoid shutting out their opponents. Blazing Fire Team was declared the winner, leaving Huo Wu furious at what she saw as a victory granted out of pity.

• Huo Wu used her Fire Shadow Martial Soul and Blazing Flame to attack Qiu Ruoshui, who defended herself with Water Blade and Dragon Scales.
• Qiu Ruoshui ran out of Soul Power and surrendered, and Shen Liuyu soon did the same after overpowering Huo Wushuang in their exchange of blows.
• Yu Hairou pinned Huo Yun and Huo Yu while Gu Qingbo broke through the support Soul Masters' fire attacks and eliminated Huo Chui and Huo Jun.
• Gu Qingbo and Yu Hairou surrendered as their Soul Power dwindled, and Jiang Lan and Xue Wu left the platform without fighting.
• Shui Yue'er surrendered, Huo Yan declared Blazing Fire Team the winner, and Huo Wu seethed at Skywater Academy's deliberate concession.

After Skywater Academy defeated Blazing Fire Academy in the team battle, Shui Qinghan pointed out the Skywater Team’s mistakes and sent Shui Bing'er to fight Huo Wu in the individual match. Huo Wu challenged Jiang Lan, but Shui Bing'er stepped in to face her, and the two revealed their Soul Master levels and Martial Souls.

• Jiang Lan treated Huo Lie, Huo Yun, and Huo Yu, then returned to the Skywater Team.
• Shui Qinghan criticized the team’s lack of coordination, Jiang Lan’s failure to command, and Shui Yue'er’s cautious use of Soul Power before praising everyone’s effort.
• Shui Qinghan chose Shui Bing'er for the individual match and told her not to hold back.
• Huo Wu challenged Jiang Lan, but Shui Bing'er stepped onto the platform to fight her instead.
• Huo Wu and Shui Bing'er summoned their Martial Souls and announced their levels, with Shui Bing'er displaying a Millennium Soul Ring.

Huo Yan watched Shui Bing'er and Huo Wu’s friendly match after learning that Bing'er had reached level twenty-eight by absorbing an over-limit Soul Ring. Shui Bing'er defeated Huo Wu’s Soul Ring Fusion, leaving Huo Wu exhausted and wondering why her flames had been suppressed.

• Huo Yan was shocked by Shui Bing'er’s cultivation level, and Shui Qinghan credited her rapid progress to absorbing an over-limit Soul Ring.
• Huo Wu and Shui Bing'er began their match, and Shui Bing'er’s near-Ultimate Ice shattered Huo Wu’s fireballs and froze her Naruto Martial Soul.
• Huo Wu used Soul Ring Fusion to intensify her flames, melted the ice around her Martial Soul, and attacked Shui Bing'er with a ring of fire and a flaming arrow.
• Shui Bing'er froze the ring of fire, blocked the arrow with ice walls, and sealed Huo Wu in ice until Huo Yan conceded for her.
• Shui Bing'er released Huo Wu, who had exhausted her Soul Power, and explained that her enhanced ice was nearly Ultimate Ice while Huo Wu’s fire was far from Ultimate Fire.

Shui Bing'er defeated Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang in a friendly match, demonstrating the power of her near-ultimate ice attribute. Afterward, Shui Qinghan persuaded Huo Yan to join a dangerous hunt for a Ninety-Thousand-Year Soul Beast by revealing that Whale Glue could help Soul Masters absorb stronger Soul Rings.

• Shui Bing'er explained Ultimate Fire to Huo Wu, who lost confidence after learning that Shui Bing'er would have no chance against Jiang Lan.
• Huo Wushuang challenged Shui Bing'er to avenge his sister but was trapped by Ice Seal and sent back shivering.
• Shui Bing'er won five matches before conceding, and Shui Yue'er defeated Huo Yun and Huo Yu with Water Blades.
• Huo Yan agreed to help Shui Qinghan hunt a Ninety-Thousand-Year Soul Beast if Uncle Feng and Elder Yao joined them.
• Shui Qinghan revealed that melted Whale Glue strengthened the body and gave Huo Yan a piece of Thousand-Year Whale Glue to test.

Huo Yan had Huo Wushuang test Thousand-Year Whale Glue, which strengthened his physique and increased his ability to absorb powerful Soul Rings. Shui Qinghan then took Huo Wu and several other students to receive the same treatment, while Huo Wushuang invited Jiang Lan and the others to a bonfire party.

• Huo Yan melted Thousand-Year Whale Glue and made Huo Wushuang eat it, warning him not to spit it out despite its foul taste.
• Huo Wushuang refined the Whale Glue’s effects with his Soul Power while Shui Qinghan used her Ultimate Ice to suppress the heat.
• Huo Yan found that Huo Wushuang’s physique had strengthened enough to let him absorb a Soul Ring between two thousand and twenty-three hundred years old after reaching level thirty.
• Shui Qinghan took Huo Wu, Yu Hairou, Shen Liuyu, Gu Qingbo, and Qiu Ruoshui to give them Thousand-Year Whale Glue.
• After the academy exchange ended, Huo Wushuang offered to show Jiang Lan and the others around and invited them to a bonfire party.

Jiang Lan toured Blazing Fire Academy with Huo Wushuang and explained that Huo Wu might achieve a Second Awakening and evolve toward Ultimate Fire. The tour revealed the academy’s lava-based cultivation facilities, while Huo Wushuang remained absorbed in Jiang Lan’s claims about his sister.

• Huo Wushuang invited Jiang Lan to Blazing Fire City’s harvest bonfire party, and Jiang Lan accepted.
• Jiang Lan told Huo Wushuang that Huo Wu’s special Martial Soul might undergo a Second Awakening and develop into Ultimate Fire.
• Jiang Lan explained to Shui Yue'er, Shui Bing'er, and Xue Wu that Huo Wu’s Martial Soul held untapped potential and might need life-and-death trials to awaken it.
• Huo Wushuang led Jiang Lan and the others around Blazing Fire Academy, whose rugged stone buildings were designed for the volcanic climate.
• Jiang Lan and the others saw the academy’s underground cultivation rooms and more than a hundred lava pools used for fire-attribute cultivation.

Huo Wushuang told Huo Yan that Jiang Lan believed Huo Wu’s Martial Soul could undergo a Second Awakening, and they planned to pursue it while keeping the dangerous method from her. At the bonfire party, Shui Qinghan arranged for Jiang Lan and Shui Bing'er to be alone together, and they walked through Blazing Fire City holding hands.

• Huo Wushuang reported Jiang Lan’s Second Awakening information to Huo Yan, who decided to test the method on Huo Wu without telling her.
• Huo Yan gave Huo Wushuang a gold card to thank Jiang Lan and promised the Huo Family would reward him if Huo Wu awakened a second time.
• Huo Wushuang invited Jiang Lan and the others to Blazing Fire City’s bonfire party, where he quietly repeated his father’s thanks and asked Jiang Lan not to tell Huo Wu.
• Shui Qinghan and the others arranged for Jiang Lan and Shui Bing'er to be left alone, while Huo Wu dragged her brother away.
• Jiang Lan invited Shui Bing'er to explore the city, and they held hands as they strolled together.

Jiang Lan and Shui Bing'er enjoyed a date at Blazing Fire City's harvest celebration, growing closer as they shared the festival's food and performances. After the others teased Shui Bing'er about them, Shui Qinghan told everyone to rest before their departure for Godwind Academy the next day.

• Jiang Lan bought Shui Bing'er an icy blue lotus hairpin and put it in her hair before they returned to the central square.
• Jiang Lan and Shui Bing'er shared food at the bonfire festival and watched its dances and molten iron fireworks.
• Jiang Lan complimented Shui Bing'er and put his arm around her waist as they watched the fireworks together.
• Jiang Lan and Shui Bing'er left the festival holding hands, and Yu Hairou and the other girls teased Shui Bing'er until she fled in embarrassment.
• Shui Yue'er asked Jiang Lan where he and Shui Bing'er had been, and Shui Qinghan told the group to rest before setting off for Godwind Academy.

Shui Qinghan brought Jiang Lan and the Blazing Fire Academy team to Godwind City, where she planned to persuade Old Master Feng to help her hunt a soul beast. At Godwind Academy, Huo Wu challenged Feng Xiaotian to defeat Jiang Lan in the upcoming exchange tournament if he wanted a chance to date her.

• Shui Qinghan took Jiang Lan into her carriage with Huo Yan, who questioned whether Skywater Academy could defeat Godwind Academy and how Shui Qinghan would persuade Old Master Feng to help her.
• Shui Qinghan kept her strategy secret and considered having Jiang Lan beat Feng Xiaotian into focusing on cultivation, alongside revealing the secret of Whale Rubber.
• The three carriages arrived at Godwind Academy, where Feng Xiaotian greeted Huo Wu with cheesy pickup lines and dodged her furious attacks.
• Huo Wu told Feng Xiaotian she would date him if he defeated Jiang Lan in the Academy Exchange Tournament, and Feng Xiaotian eagerly accepted.

Jiang Lan agreed to fight Feng Xiaotian in an individual match at the Academy Exchange Tournament, while Shui Qinghan arranged for Feng Lingtian to help her hunt a Soul Beast for her ninth Soul Ring. The chapter ended with Jiang Lan and Feng Xiaotian facing off, and the Godwind and Blazing Fire Academy students reacting to Jiang Lan’s Rank 33 at not yet eight years old.

• Feng Lingtian reprimanded Feng Xiaotian for challenging Jiang Lan and ordered him to cultivate in seclusion after the tournament.
• Shui Qinghan asked Feng Lingtian to help her hunt a ninety-thousand-year Soul Beast, offering a heavenly treasure for Feng Xiaotian in return.
• Feng Lingtian agreed to help Shui Qinghan and asked Jiang Lan to teach Feng Xiaotian a lesson in their match.
• Shui Qinghan and Feng Lingtian chose individual matches for the Academy Exchange Tournament, and Shui Qinghan sent Jiang Lan to fight first.
• Jiang Lan and Feng Xiaotian introduced themselves on the Soul Battle Platform, and the Blazing Fire Academy students were shocked by Jiang Lan’s Rank 33.

Jiang Lan faced Feng Xiaotian in a match at Godwind Academy and revealed overwhelming strength with a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring. Feng Xiaotian prepared to use his unfinished Gale Demon Wolf Twenty-Four Consecutive Slashes, while Jiang Lan noted he could have ended the match immediately.

• Huo Yan and Feng Lingtian were shocked when Jiang Lan claimed to be Soul Power Level thirty-three, while Feng Xiaotian welcomed him as a rival.
• Jiang Lan and Feng Xiaotian activated their Martial Soul Possessions, and Jiang Lan stunned the training ground by revealing two purple Soul Rings and one black Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Feng Xiaotian charged and used his First Soul Skill, Wind Blade Formation, but Jiang Lan blocked the ten wind blades with his Dragon Wings and shattered them.
• Feng Xiaotian activated Twin Wolf Possession and Gale Twin Wings, took to the air, and announced he would use his Gale Demon Wolf Twenty-Four Consecutive Slashes.
• Jiang Lan thought he could have ended the match with Teleportation and wondered why Feng Xiaotian's self-created skill had only twenty-four slashes.

Jiang Lan defeated Feng Xiaotian by absorbing his attacks and countering his fully charged Gale Demon Wolf Twenty-Four Consecutive Slashes. He then criticized Feng Xiaotian’s self-created skill and demonstrated one of his own, leaving Feng Xiaotian questioning his technique.

• Feng Xiaotian attacked Jiang Lan with his Gale Demon Wolf Twenty-Four Consecutive Slashes, but Jiang Lan’s second Soul Skill absorbed the blows.
• Feng Xiaotian stacked twenty-three slashes while Jiang Lan accumulated the converted Soul Power, then launched his strongest attack.
• Jiang Lan smashed Feng Xiaotian’s Gale Twin Wings with a powerful punch and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Jiang Lan mocked Feng Xiaotian’s self-created skill as crude and inefficient, and Feng Xiaotian challenged him to create one himself.
• Jiang Lan formed and detonated a sphere of Soul Power, demonstrating a self-created skill whose potential made Feng Xiaotian doubt his own technique.

After Jiang Lan defeated Feng Xiaotian, Feng Xiaotian regretted neglecting his cultivation but chose to fight Skywater Academy in the team match for a chance to win Huo Wu. Huo Wu thanked Jiang Lan and left, while Huo Yan grew alarmed at her apparent interest in him.

• Feng Xiaotian regretted spending cultivation time on his Self-Created Soul Skill, then agreed to continue with the team match after realizing a team victory might fulfill Huo Wu's condition.
• Feng Lingtian announced Godwind Academy's concession in the individual match and scheduled the team match for half an hour later.
• Feng Lingtian asked Shui Qinghan how Jiang Lan overcame Soul Shock, and Shui Qinghan concealed the truth by saying his Martial Soul was special.
• Shui Bing'er, Xue Wu, Shui Yue'er, and the other girls crowded around Jiang Lan to check him, while Huo Wu watched with disdain.
• Huo Wu thanked Jiang Lan for helping her, then left after he replied kindly.
• Huo Yan realized Huo Wu seemed interested in Jiang Lan and worried that another rival had appeared.

Jiang Lan used his Ten Thousand Year Third Soul Skill to protect and strengthen Skywater Academy’s team, then Feng Xiaotian led Godwind Academy’s attack against Yu Hairou and the others. The teams clashed as Qiu Ruoshui countered Feng Xiaotian’s wind blades.

• Feng Xiaotian promised Huo Wu he would lead Godwind Academy to victory and asked her to give him another chance to pursue her.
• Jiang Lan and the Godwind Academy Team released their Martial Souls, and the spectators marveled at Jiang Lan’s three Soul Rings and Shui Bing’er’s Millennium Second Soul Ring.
• Jiang Lan cast Water and Sky in One Color, making his allies immune to and able to reflect abnormal status effects while doubling the power of their water-type Soul Skills.
• Godwind Academy’s wind-control Soul Masters attacked Yu Hairou and the others, but the gale reversed and nearly disrupted their own formation.
• Shui Bing’er told Yu Hairou and the others to hold off Godwind Academy while Xue Wu prepared her Soul Skill, and the four women moved to meet their opponents.
• Feng Xiaotian charged with Twin Wolf Possession and sent ten wind blades toward the four women, while Qiu Ruoshui countered with Blue Waves.

Jiang Lan and the Skywater Academy women overwhelmed the Godwind Academy Team as Xue Wu’s rain filled the training ground and Jiang Lan gathered it into a giant sphere. Jiang Lan hurled the water at the Godwind Team, leaving their fate unresolved.

• Qiu Ruoshui and Yu Hairou combined their water Soul Skills to break Feng Xiaotian’s wind blades while Shen Liuyu and Gu Qingbo fought other Godwind Academy members.
• Jiang Lan told Xue Wu to begin, and her amplified Soul Skill summoned dark clouds and a torrential downpour over the training ground.
• Jiang Lan drew the rain together into an enormous sphere of water, stunning the Godwind Team and spectators with his power.
• Jiang Lan hurled the sphere toward the Godwind Academy Team, directing the raging torrent to avoid the Skywater Academy women.

Jiang Lan and the Skywater Academy team defeated the Godwind Academy team, then toured Godwind City and watched Godwind and Blazing Fire compete. After the exchange matches, the teams headed for the Silves Kingdom and the Plant Academy.

• Jiang Lan froze the torrent aimed at the Godwind team, and Shui Qinghan scolded him for using excessive force before he rejoined his companions.
• Feng Lingtian comforted Feng Xiaotian over his loss to Jiang Lan, then whipped him after Feng Xiaotian joked about his romantic advice.
• Feng Lingtian led the Skywater and Blazing Fire teams on a tour of Godwind Academy, and Shui Yue'er took Jiang Lan and the other girls shopping in Godwind City.
• The Godwind Academy team beat Blazing Fire Academy in the individual matches, but Blazing Fire won the team match after Feng Xiaotian deliberately threw it, angering Huo Wu.
• The Godwind and Blazing Fire teams departed for the Silves Kingdom, where they planned to visit the Plant Academy near the Sunset Forest.

Shui Qinghan used an exchange match at Plant Academy to negotiate help hunting a Ninety-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. Yao Yu agreed after learning that Shui Bing'er had gained a Millennium Soul Ring from rare physique-enhancing treasures.

• Yao Yu welcomed the teams from Skywater, Kamikaze, and Blazing Fire Academies to Plant Academy, which had been built in the outskirts of Sunset Forest.
• Jiang Lan realized Plant Academy might disappear in the future because its cultivation environment depended on Sunset Forest.
• Shui Bing'er and Mu Yunman began the first exchange match, and Plant Academy's students were shocked by Shui Bing'er's Millennium Soul Ring.
• Shui Qinghan offered Yao Yu rare physique-enhancing treasures in exchange for help hunting a Soul Beast.
• Shui Qinghan revealed that she had broken through level ninety and wanted to hunt a Ninety-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and Yao Yu agreed to help.

Shui Qinghan secured Yao Yu’s help in hunting Soul Beasts, and Shui Bing’er and Shui Yue’er defeated the Plant Battle Team. The chapter ended with Shui Yue’er clearing the remaining opponents after Shui Bing’er withdrew.

• Shui Qinghan gave Yao Yu genuine Thousand-Year Whale Glue and explained its use, and Yao Yu agreed to help hunt Soul Beasts.
• Shui Bing’er defeated Mu Yunman, then Yao Zi, whose Red Flame Thorn could not withstand her ice powers and thousand-year second Soul Ring.
• Shui Bing’er defeated two more Plant Battle Team members before claiming she lacked Soul Power and conceding.
• Shui Yue’er entered the match and used her Water Clone and Water Blade combination to defeat the three remaining Plant Battle Team students.

Plant Academy’s team lost its exchange matches against Skywater Academy, Blazing Fire Academy, and Godwind Academy, though its control-focused lineup put up a difficult fight. After Yao Zi and Yao Yu encouraged the disappointed students, the tournament ended and the group prepared to hunt for soul rings.

• Plant Academy’s team caught Skywater Academy off guard with a coordinated opening attack, but Shui Bing’er deliberately let Mu Yunteng eliminate her so the other team could win the friendly match.
• Plant Academy lost its individual and team matches against Blazing Fire Academy, where Huo Wushuang and Huo Wu’s fire abilities overwhelmed its plant Soul Masters.
• Plant Academy lost to Godwind Academy, whose wind attacks cut through their vines and whose Three-Ring Soul Elder Feng Xiaotian helped secure a hard-fought team victory.
• Yao Zi and Yao Yu comforted Plant Academy’s dejected students and urged them to focus on what they had learned.
• With the Academy Exchange Tournament over, the group prepared to set out to hunt for soul rings.

Shui Qinghan planned a trip to the Great Star Dou Forest to hunt a Ninety-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and decided to bring Jiang Lan because his abilities could aid the group. Huo Yan objected to taking a Three-Ring Soul Elder into the dangerous forest, but Shui Qinghan explained Jiang Lan’s powerful support skills.

• Shui Qinghan said the group would leave for the Great Star Dou Forest the next morning to hunt a water-attribute Ninety-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Shui Qinghan told the Skywater Academy students to return to Skywater City with the vice dean, then announced that Jiang Lan would join the hunt.
• Shui Bing'er and the other girls worried about Jiang Lan’s safety, while Huo Wu also urged him to be careful and promised her father would look after him.
• Huo Yan questioned Shui Qinghan’s decision to bring Jiang Lan, but she explained how his Innate Domain and Third Soul Skill could help them survive and fight.
• Huo Yan was stunned by the strength of Jiang Lan’s support abilities.