Chapter Summaries

Shui Qinghan revealed Jiang Lan’s hidden abilities to the academy deans, who agreed to keep his secret and encouraged their grandchildren to befriend him. After the group reached the Great Star Dou Forest to find Shui Qinghan a suitable Soul Beast, they discovered a nearly hundred-thousand-year-old Azure Jade Bird with a possible Phoenix bloodline, and she chose it as her target.

• Huo Yan agreed to let Jiang Lan join the expedition and promised to take special care of him for Huo Wu’s sake.
• Shui Qinghan revealed Jiang Lan’s abilities to Feng Lingtian and Yao Yu, who promised to keep his secret and urged Feng Xiaotian and Yao Zi to befriend him.
• Shui Qinghan brought Jiang Lan to meet the other deans, and the group traveled for several days to the Great Star Dou Forest.
• The group searched the mixed region for a suitable water-attribute Soul Beast but found none for several days.
• The group encountered a nearly hundred-thousand-year-old Azure Jade Bird, and Feng Lingtian noted its apparent Phoenix bloodline.
• Shui Qinghan chose the Azure Jade Bird as her target and asked everyone to help her.

Shui Qinghan, Jiang Lan, and their allies killed a ninety-thousand-year Azure Jade Bird after a fierce battle. When they discovered its rare trunk Soul Bone, Shui Qinghan offered her secret method for breaking through to the Title Rank to prevent the others from fighting over it, and they demanded an oath in return.

• Jiang Lan used his Innate Domain to enhance Shui Qinghan, Feng Lingtian, Huo Yan, and Yao Yu as they attacked the Azure Jade Bird.
• The Azure Jade Bird broke through their attacks and wounded Huo Yan, but Yao Yu trapped it and Shui Qinghan froze it long enough for the group to counterattack.
• After fighting the bird for half an hour, Shui Qinghan killed it with her Eighth Soul Skill, and the others praised Jiang Lan for helping them recover their Soul Power.
• Huo Yan cut open the Azure Jade Bird and found a ninety-thousand-year trunk Soul Bone, stirring greed in Yao Yu and Feng Lingtian.
• Jiang Lan urged Shui Qinghan to trade her Soul Core Method for the Soul Bone, and she offered the secret breakthrough method in exchange.
• Feng Lingtian agreed to the trade on the condition that Shui Qinghan swear an oath upon her Martial Soul.

Shui Qinghan persuaded Feng Lingtian, Yao Yu, and Huo Yan to swear oaths and accept her secret technique for breaking through the Title Rank bottleneck instead of fighting over the Azure Jade Bird’s Soul Bone. Before they could seal the agreement, a Clear Sky Sect elder arrived and claimed the Soul Bone, leaving Shui Qinghan and her companions facing a fight.

• Feng Lingtian, Yao Yu, and Huo Yan agreed that Shui Qinghan’s breakthrough technique was more valuable than the Soul Bone and prepared to swear oaths on their Martial Souls.
• Shui Qinghan revealed that her group’s abilities could have overwhelmed the three elders if they had fought, and she began to relax as the conflict eased.
• A Clear Sky Sect elder barged in, claimed the Azure Jade Bird Trunk Soul Bone, and threatened to kill anyone who refused to leave.
• Shui Qinghan released her level ninety Soul Power and refused to surrender the Soul Bone, while the elder declared that he would keep her there.
• Jiang Lan urged Shui Qinghan to force the elder to use his Martial Soul Avatar so Jiang Lan could counter it and kill him.

Shui Qinghan and the others forced Tang Ling to activate his Martial Soul Avatar, but Jiang Lan shattered it with a punch while Tang Ling tried to flee. Jiang Lan recovered from Tang Ling’s counterattack and launched another strike as the weakened elder fought back.

• Shui Qinghan transformed into her Ice Luan avatar and attacked Tang Ling with Frost Ice Feathers and Ice Soul Divine Light, forcing him to activate his Weapon Soul Avatar.
• Feng Lingtian and Yao Yu joined Shui Qinghan in attacking Tang Ling, who turned to flee when their combined assault threatened to overwhelm him.
• Jiang Lan teleported into Tang Ling’s path and punched his giant hammer, shattering the Weapon Soul Avatar and leaving Tang Ling weakened, though the blow sent Jiang Lan flying into a tree.
• Jiang Lan healed himself with his Third Soul Ring, teleported in front of Tang Ling, and punched again as Tang Ling countered with Heaven-Defying Strike.

Jiang Lan killed Tang Ling with one punch after their clash left them both injured, then healed himself with his Third Soul Skill. Shui Qinghan found four Soul Bones on Tang Ling’s corpse, revealing the Clear Sky Sect elder’s apparent violation of the Soul Master world’s taboo.

• Tang Ling attacked Jiang Lan with his weakened Clear Sky Hammer, but Jiang Lan’s boosted fist overpowered the strike and smashed Tang Ling’s head.
• Shui Qinghan rushed to check Jiang Lan, who healed his wounds and restored his fractured right arm with his Third Soul Skill.
• Feng Lingtian and Yao Yu were stunned that a Three-Ring Soul Elder had killed an eighty-ninth-level Soul Douluo head-on.
• Jiang Lan asked Shui Qinghan to search Tang Ling’s corpse, and she found four Soul Bones.
• Feng Lingtian, Huo Yan, and Yao Yu suspected that the Clear Sky Sect was secretly hunting Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, but they decided to keep Tang Ling’s death secret.

After the group discovered that the Clear Sky Sect had slaughtered Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts for Soul Bones, Jiang Lan urged the four academies to merge for mutual protection and access to a Title Rank breakthrough method. The headmasters agreed to consider the proposal, while Shui Qinghan distributed Tang Ling’s recovered Soul Bones and claimed the Ninety-Thousand-Year Azure Jade Bird Trunk Soul Bone.

• Huo Yan, Feng Lingtian, and Yao Yu demanded the promised method for breaking through to the Title Rank, and Jiang Lan made the method conditional on merging the four academies.
• Jiang Lan warned the headmasters that the Clear Sky Sect could target them if it linked their breakthroughs to Tang Ling’s death, then proposed merging the academies as the Elemental Academies while preserving their four branches.
• Feng Lingtian and the others asked for time to consider the merger, while Shui Qinghan expressed pride in Jiang Lan.
• Shui Qinghan shattered Tang Ling’s frozen corpse and recovered four Soul Bones and a Storage Soul Tool, prompting the group to condemn the Clear Sky Sect’s slaughter of Soul Beasts.
• Shui Qinghan gave the fire-attribute right arm bone to Huo Yan, the wind-attribute left leg bone to Feng Lingtian, and the earth-attribute left arm bone to Yao Yu, then claimed the Ninety-Thousand-Year Azure Jade Bird Trunk Soul Bone for herself.

Shui Qinghan absorbed the Azure Jade Bird’s ninety-thousand-year Soul Ring and Trunk Soul Bone, reaching Ninety-Fifth Rank. After leaving the Great Star Dou Forest, she considered further advancement while Jiang Lan urged her to attack the Clear Sky Sect.

• Shui Qinghan and the others retreated to the outer region of the Great Star Dou Forest so she could safely absorb the Azure Jade Bird’s Soul Ring.
• Jiang Lan warned Feng Lingtian, Yao Yu, and Huo Yan to watch one another, promising them Soul Bones and a breakthrough method if anyone made a suspicious move.
• After four hours, Shui Qinghan absorbed the Soul Ring and rose to Ninety-Third Rank, becoming a Titled Douluo.
• Shui Qinghan absorbed the Azure Jade Bird’s Trunk Soul Bone and advanced to Ninety-Fifth Rank, while the three deans watched in awe.
• Shui Qinghan offered the deans her breakthrough method if their academies merged, then parted ways with them after they left the forest.
• Shui Qinghan told Jiang Lan that two pieces of Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow might raise her to Ninety-Sixth or Ninety-Seventh Rank, and Jiang Lan urged her to attack the Clear Sky Sect.

Shui Qinghan explained why she could not destroy the Clear Sky Sect while Tang Hao remained a threat, then brought Jiang Lan to an inn to rest. Jiang Lan searched Tang Ling’s Storage Soul Tool and found a valuable Soul Bone and the Haotian Nine Absolutes manual.

• Shui Qinghan told Jiang Lan that Tang Hao’s potential revenge prevented her from safely attacking the Clear Sky Sect, and recounted how Tang Hao and Tang Xiao had encountered Ah Yin.
• Shui Qinghan carried Jiang Lan to an inn in Hunter Soul Town and gave him Tang Ling’s Storage Soul Tool to search while she bathed.
• Jiang Lan emptied the Storage Soul Tool and discovered a deep-blue water-attributed right arm Soul Bone among its contents.
• Jiang Lan searched the loot and found Tang Ling’s annotated manual of the Haotian Nine Absolutes, which he planned to adapt into techniques for punching.
• Shui Qinghan emerged from the bathroom and asked Jiang Lan whether he had found anything good.

Jiang Lan reported the valuable items he found in a Storage Soul Tool, including a powerful water-attributed Soul Bone and a copy of the Clear Sky Sect’s secret arts. Shui Qinghan accepted the Soul Bone for Aunt Rou, while Jiang Lan fled to the bathroom after she teased and embraced him.

• Shui Qinghan teased Jiang Lan after he became flustered by her appearance when she left the bathroom in a bath towel.
• Jiang Lan showed Shui Qinghan a water-attributed right arm Soul Bone and a copied manual of the Haotian Nine Absolutes.
• Shui Qinghan estimated the Soul Bone was about sixty-four thousand years old and said the copied techniques were mostly suited to the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Jiang Lan declined the Soul Bone because its age was too low for him, and Shui Qinghan accepted it for Aunt Rou.
• Shui Qinghan pulled Jiang Lan into an embrace, and he hurried into the bathroom to cool off.

Shui Qinghan returned to Skywater Academy as a rank ninety-five Titled Douluo and gave Shui Qingrou a powerful Water Attribute soul bone Jiang Lan had saved for her. Shui Qingrou absorbed it, gained the Mystic Water Shield skill, and reached the peak of rank eighty-five as Shui Qinghan urged her to keep cultivating.

• Shui Qinghan brought Jiang Lan back to Skywater Academy and left him with Shui Bing'er and the other girls.
• Shui Qingrou broke through to rank eighty-four, and Shui Qinghan revealed that she had become a rank ninety-five Titled Douluo.
• Shui Qinghan explained how the Clear Sky Sect elders had tried to steal their soul bone and been killed in self-defense, then offered Shui Qingrou a Water Attribute right arm bone Jiang Lan had saved for her.
• Shui Qingrou accepted the soul bone after Shui Qinghan explained that it could help her reach rank eighty-nine and eventually break through to Titled Douluo.
• Shui Qingrou absorbed the soul bone, reached the peak of rank eighty-five, and gained the Mystic Water Shield skill.
• Shui Qinghan gave Shui Qingrou a piece of ten-thousand-year ice marrow and urged her to continue cultivating.

Shui Qingrou absorbed two Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrows and rose to the peak of level eighty-nine while Shui Qinghan explained her plan to attend the Spirit Hall coronation ceremony. Shui Qinghan intended to reach level ninety-seven before going to Spirit City, while Shui Qingrou would train her Soul Power control and pursue her own breakthrough.

• Shui Qingrou absorbed a Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow and advanced to level eighty-seven.
• Shui Qingrou absorbed another Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow and reached the peak of level eighty-nine.
• Shui Qingrou asked Shui Qinghan to teach her the Soul Core Secret Art, but Shui Qinghan said she first needed to improve her Soul Power control.
• Shui Qinghan said she planned to take Lan'er and the others to Spirit City for the coronation ceremony after absorbing the remaining two Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrows and reaching level ninety-seven.
• Shui Qinghan told Shui Qingrou to focus on her Soul Power control and reach level ninety so they could attend the ceremony together.

Over six months, Jiang Lan and the other students made rapid cultivation gains, while Shui Qinghan reached level ninety-seven and helped Shui Qingrou condense a Soul Core. Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu obtained their third Soul Rings, and Shui Qinghan postponed the academy merger until after her investiture ceremony.

• Jiang Lan helped several students advance their Soul Power and prompted mutations in their Martial Souls, while he reached level thirty-nine.
• Shui Qinghan absorbed two Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrows and reached level ninety-seven, then guided Shui Qingrou to condense a Soul Core and reach level ninety.
• Shui Qinghan took Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu to the Frozen Forest, where they obtained third Soul Rings that raised them to levels thirty-three and thirty-two.
• Feng Lingtian and the other academy heads met with Shui Qinghan to discuss merging the four academies and learned her Soul Core method after swearing to keep it secret.
• Shui Qinghan agreed to postpone the academy merger until after her investiture ceremony, following Jiang Lan's proposal to establish the Elemental Academies' reputation first.

After Shui Yue'er and Yu Hairou reached level thirty, Shui Qinghan took them, Jiang Lan, and Shui Qingrou to Vast Sea City to seek sea Soul Beasts for their Third Soul Rings. At the docks, they learned that the Purple Pearl Soul Hunting Group was the most famous local guide, and Jiang Lan recognized its name with surprise.

• Shui Yue'er and Yu Hairou broke through to level thirty, while the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow helped Jiang Lan, Shui Bing'er, and Xue Wu improve their cultivation.
• Shui Qinghan changed the group's destination to Vast Sea City so Shui Yue'er and Yu Hairou could hunt for Third Soul Rings at sea.
• After recovering from the journey, Shui Qinghan sent Shui Qingrou to buy supplies and took Jiang Lan, Shui Yue'er, and Yu Hairou to the docks.
• Shui Qinghan questioned a dock supervisor, who recommended the Purple Pearl Soul Hunting Group and its leader, a powerful Four-Ring Soul Ancestor.
• Jiang Lan recognized the name Purple Pearl and wondered whether it was the group he knew.

Shui Qinghan hired Zi Zhenzhu and her soul hunting group to guide their party through the waters while they hunted Soul Beasts. After Zi Zhenzhu accepted a deposit, the group prepared to set out the next morning.

• Jiang Lan and Shui Qinghan learned that Zi Zhenzhu led a soul hunting group and asked the junior steward to introduce them.
• The junior steward took Shui Qinghan, Jiang Lan, Shui Yue'er, and Yu Hairou to a tavern, where Zi Zhenzhu agreed to discuss guiding them.
• Shui Qinghan requested help finding two Thousand-Year and two Ten-Thousand-Year Sea Soul Beasts, and Zi Zhenzhu agreed to guide them but refused to assist in fighting the Ten-Thousand-Year beasts.
• Zi Zhenzhu charged fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins and required a twenty percent deposit, and Shui Qinghan paid ten thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Shui Qinghan led the group away from the tavern after Zi Zhenzhu accepted the deposit and agreed they could depart the next morning.

Shui Qinghan took Jiang Lan, Shui Yue'er, and Yu Hairou to watch Sea Soul Masters fight before they joined Shui Qingrou at an auction. Jiang Lan recognized the Dragon Abyss Boat as a useful Soul Tool and suggested they bid on it.

• Shui Qinghan received Shui Qingrou's letter inviting them to meet at the auction house.
• Shui Qinghan brought the group to the Vast Sea Great Soul Arena, where they watched Sea Soul Masters use a Martial Soul Fusion Skill to defeat two Barracuda Soul Masters.
• The group left the arena and joined Shui Qingrou at the auction, where she explained that Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue had become scarce.
• Yu Hairou grew tired and rested her head on Jiang Lan's shoulder while the auction continued.
• The auctioneer presented the Dragon Abyss Boat, and Jiang Lan told Shui Qinghan they could bid on it.

Jiang Lan and Yu Hairou left the auction after their companions bought a Dragon Abyss Boat and Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue. Yu Hairou’s painful shoes led Jiang Lan to carry her out on his back.

• Shui Qinghan agreed to buy the Dragon Abyss Boat, and Jiang Lan won it for ten thousand Gold Soul Coins after no other guests bid.
• Shui Qingrou bought a large piece of forty-to-fifty-thousand-year-old Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue for thirty thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Jiang Lan woke Yu Hairou and helped her when she nearly fell because her new shoes hurt her feet.
• Jiang Lan told Yu Hairou to take off her shoes and carried her out of the auction house on his back.

Jiang Lan carried Yu Hairou back from the auction and agreed to treat her sore, blistered feet after she bathed. The chapter left him beginning to massage her foot in his room, distracted by her beauty and trying to focus on the treatment.

• Jiang Lan carried Yu Hairou out of the auction house while Shui Qinghan, Shui Qingrou, and the sleeping Shui Yue'er followed.
• At the inn, Yu Hairou asked Jiang Lan to wait while she bathed, and he returned to his room to meditate.
• Yu Hairou arrived at Jiang Lan's room in a silk nightgown and asked him to massage her sore legs before treating her feet.
• Jiang Lan crouched and took Yu Hairou's foot in his hand, comparing her legs with Xue Wu's before forcing himself to concentrate.

Jiang Lan treated Yu Hairou’s injured foot and massaged her legs, and the two confessed their feelings and kissed. Shui Qinghan interrupted them, gave Jiang Lan the Dragon Abyss Boat, and reminded him they would head out to sea the next morning.

• Jiang Lan healed the swelling on Yu Hairou’s heel with water-element energy and massaged both her legs.
• Yu Hairou asked Jiang Lan to massage her thighs, then pulled him onto the bed and confessed that she liked him.
• Yu Hairou kissed Jiang Lan, and he told her that he liked her too.
• Shui Qinghan knocked, entered the room, and handed Jiang Lan the Dragon Abyss Boat before leaving.
• Yu Hairou kissed Jiang Lan’s cheek as a reward, then left, and Jiang Lan decided to cultivate.

Jiang Lan and the Shui sisters boarded Captain Zi Zhenzhu’s ironclad to hunt several rare Sea Soul Beasts, while pirates followed them out to sea. As the pirates caught up and prepared to board, Shui Qinghan’s group remained confident they could handle them.

• Jiang Lan, Yu Hairou, and the Shui sisters traveled to the docks, where Zi Zhenzhu collected money from gamblers at the tavern.
• Shui Qinghan hired Zi Zhenzhu to take them to sea, and Zi Zhenzhu led the group aboard her ironclad, the Zi Zhenzhu.
• Captain Zi Zhenzhu set sail with her crew and the passengers, while a number of ships followed them, intending to attack once they were far from shore.
• Shui Qinghan requested a roughly six-thousand-year-old dolphin- or whale-type Soul Beast and a roughly four-thousand-year-old Soul Beast with dragon bloodline, and told Zi Zhenzhu only to lead the way.
• Zi Zhenzhu ordered the ship to turn toward the pirates, and several pursuing ships caught up as their crews prepared to capture the passengers alive.

Zi Zhenzhu and her crew were ambushed by two pirate ships, and the pirates boarded after she refused to surrender the inlanders. As Zi Zhenzhu struggled against Zhang Zhi, Shui Qinghan sent Jiang Lan, Shui Yue'er, and Yu Hairou to fight, while two enemy Soul Kings watched the Shui sisters.

• Two pirate ships surrounded the Zi Zhenzhu and demanded that Zi Zhenzhu hand over the inlanders.
• Zi Zhenzhu traded insults with the pirates, and the sharp-faced man ordered the ships to collide and deploy gangplanks.
• The collision knocked Shui Yue'er and Yu Hairou off balance, but Jiang Lan caught them before they hit the deck.
• The pirates boarded the Zi Zhenzhu, and Zhang Zhi and Zi Zhenzhu activated their Martial Souls to fight.
• Shui Qinghan told Jiang Lan, Shui Yue'er, and Yu Hairou to help, while William held back aboard the other ship to assess their strength.
• Zi Zhenzhu's crew fought the boarding pirates as Zhang Zhi gained the advantage over Zi Zhenzhu, and two Soul Kings kept the Shui sisters from intervening.