Chapter Summaries

Dai Chengfeng used the Ancient Dragon King Pill’s Dragon Force to restore Qiu’er’s soul and awaken her as his Second Martial Soul, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion. As Qiu’er rejoiced at being able to stay with him, Dai Chengfeng sensed Hu Liena and the others rushing toward them after the Sacrifice’s energy drew attention.

• Dai Chengfeng guided the Ancient Dragon King Pill’s Dragon Force into Qiu’er’s soul, restoring it and transforming its essence.
• Qiu’er emerged from Dai Chengfeng’s chest as a miniature Golden Little Beast and asked what had happened to her.
• Dai Chengfeng explained that Qiu’er had become his Second Martial Soul, retaining her intelligence, form, Destiny power, and Golden Dragon bloodline.
• Qiu’er celebrated that she could remain with Dai Chengfeng, and he promised they would grow stronger together.
• Dai Chengfeng sensed Hu Liena, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong hurrying toward him after the Sacrifice’s pillar of light caused a commotion in Qingmu Town.

After Dai Chengfeng vanished during a strange golden phenomenon, Hu Liena, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong found him safe in a forest clearing with his Soul Power at level sixty and a new Fifth Spirit Ring. He told them he had entered an ancient secret realm, and the group returned to Qingmu Town as he wondered what to choose for his Sixth Spirit Ring.

• Hu Liena, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong realized Dai Chengfeng had disappeared and hurried out of Qingmu Town to search for him.
• The three girls found Dai Chengfeng in a forest clearing, safe and radiating level sixty Soul Power with a rose-gold Fifth Spirit Ring.
• Dai Chengfeng claimed a strange object had led him into an ancient secret realm, where he passed a trial, gained an inheritance, and obtained his Fifth Spirit Ring.
• Hu Liena, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing expressed relief and questioned Dai Chengfeng, then accepted his explanation without pressing him further.
• Dai Chengfeng returned to Qingmu Town with the three girls and wondered who he should choose for his Sixth Spirit Ring.

After returning safely to the inn, Dai Chengfeng reunited privately with Qiu'er in her Spirit Soul form. Hu Liena came to his room late at night, claiming she wanted to check on his health, and Dai Chengfeng suspected she had another reason for visiting.

• Ning Rongrong questioned Dai Chengfeng about the Ancient Secret Realm and his new Spirit Ring, while Hu Liena and Zhu Zhuqing privately considered the changes in him.
• Zhu Hongye noted the unusual energy surge outside Qingmu Town but did not press Dai Chengfeng about what had happened.
• Zhuqing and Hu Liena concluded that the High Priest had likely seen through Dai Chengfeng's explanation but chose not to expose him.
• Dai Chengfeng returned to his room and summoned Qiu'er, who appeared in Spirit Soul form and affectionately rubbed against him.
• Hu Liena knocked on Dai Chengfeng's door late at night, checked that he was alone, and said she had come to see whether he was feeling unwell.

Hu Liena visited Dai Chengfeng and blushed as he teased her, but Zhu Zhuqing’s arrival forced her to hide in his wardrobe. Zhu Zhuqing questioned Dai Chengfeng about the strange energy from that evening, and he reassured her that he was unharmed.

• Dai Chengfeng teased Hu Liena for claiming she had only happened to pass by, and she grew flustered as he moved close to her.
• Someone knocked on Dai Chengfeng’s door, and Hu Liena panicked when she recognized Zhu Zhuqing’s voice.
• Hu Liena hid inside Dai Chengfeng’s wardrobe before he opened the door to Zhu Zhuqing.
• Zhu Zhuqing entered and noticed an unfamiliar sweet fragrance lingering in the room.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked Dai Chengfeng whether he was truly fine after encountering the unusual energy, and he reassured her that his soul power had even advanced.

Dai Chengfeng kissed Zhu Zhuqing after teasing her about her concern for him, but Hu Liena’s sudden emergence from his wardrobe revealed she had been hiding in the room. Zhu Zhuqing realized Hu Liena had been there before she arrived and confronted her about what had happened.

• Zhu Zhuqing denied worrying about Dai Chengfeng, but he teased her until she blushed and kissed him.
• Zhu Zhuqing gradually returned Dai Chengfeng’s kiss, until a loud clang came from the wardrobe.
• Hu Liena stumbled out of the wardrobe, embarrassed after hiding inside and witnessing their kiss.
• Zhu Zhuqing noticed Hu Liena’s disheveled appearance and Dai Chengfeng’s lack of surprise, then questioned Hu Liena about her presence.

Dai Chengfeng tried to keep Zhu Zhuqing and Hu Liena’s tense encounter secret when Ning Rongrong arrived at his room. The two women hid together in the wardrobe, while Ning Rongrong entered and began questioning him.

• Dai Chengfeng struggled to respond as Zhu Zhuqing and Hu Liena faced each other in his room.
• Ning Rongrong knocked and began pushing open the door, prompting Dai Chengfeng, Zhu Zhuqing, and Hu Liena to hide the situation.
• Dai Chengfeng signaled Zhu Zhuqing to hide with Hu Liena in the wardrobe, and Zhu Zhuqing agreed while warning Hu Liena to stay quiet.
• Ning Rongrong entered and asked Dai Chengfeng about a noise she had heard.
• Ning Rongrong noticed Dai Chengfeng’s aura seemed messy and moved closer, asking whether he had been practicing a strange Soul Skill.

Dai Chengfeng tried to keep Ning Rongrong from discovering Zhu Zhuqing and Hu Liena hiding in his wardrobe, but her teasing goodbye made the two women suspicious. After Ning Rongrong left, Zhu Zhuqing and Hu Liena confronted Dai Chengfeng about his apparent closeness with her.

• Ning Rongrong questioned Dai Chengfeng about hearing girls in his room while Zhu Zhuqing and Hu Liena hid silently in the cramped wardrobe.
• Dai Chengfeng tried to send Ning Rongrong away, but she stayed to ask about the group's departure time the next day.
• Ning Rongrong left after teasing Dai Chengfeng by calling him “gege” and glancing at the wardrobe.
• Dai Chengfeng opened the wardrobe, and Zhu Zhuqing and Hu Liena emerged in an icy mood.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Hu Liena questioned Dai Chengfeng about Ning Rongrong, and he insisted they were completely innocent.

Dai Chengfeng placated Zhu Zhuqing and Hu Liena over Ning Rongrong before they left him alone. Qiu'er appeared, transformed into human form, and playfully challenged him to teach her a lesson, leaving them together beside the bed.

• Zhu Zhuqing questioned Dai Chengfeng about his closeness with Ning Rongrong, while Hu Liena joined her in pressing him for an explanation.
• Dai Chengfeng insisted Ning Rongrong had only been teasing him, and Zhu Zhuqing and Hu Liena left after warning him to rest before their travels.
• Qiu'er appeared in her Three-Eyed Golden Lion form, called Dai Chengfeng a womanizer, and transformed into a girl when he threatened to teach her a lesson.
• Qiu'er obediently lay down on the bed and asked Dai Chengfeng how he planned to teach her.

Dai Chengfeng teased Qiu'er for calling him a playboy, and their playful scolding turned into an intimate kiss. The next morning, he woke beside her and tried to get her up so they could continue their journey.

• Dai Chengfeng spanked Qiu'er playfully and asked whether she still dared call him a playboy.
• Qiu'er insisted that Dai Chengfeng was a playboy and accused him of being involved with Zhu Qing and the Big Fox spirit.
• Dai Chengfeng kissed Qiu'er, and she eventually responded, though they stopped short of taking the final step for age-related reasons.
• The next morning, Dai Chengfeng woke beside Qiu'er and told her it was time to get up.
• Qiu'er begged to sleep longer, so Dai Chengfeng tickled her until she woke and reminded her they needed to get on the road.

Dai Chengfeng went downstairs to face Zhu Zhuqing, Hu Liena, and Ning Rongrong at breakfast, where Ning Rongrong used hints about noises from his room to provoke the other women. He was left trying to maintain a polite smile as the tension around the table grew.

• Dai Chengfeng discovered that Zhu Zhuqing and Hu Liena had already gone downstairs, and Zhu Hongye confirmed that Ning Rongrong was with them in the dining hall.
• Dai Chengfeng entered the dining hall and found Zhu Zhuqing ignoring him, Hu Liena watching him with a knowing smile, and Ning Rongrong whispering to Hu Liena.
• Dai Chengfeng greeted the group, but Zhu Zhuqing and Hu Liena stayed silent while Ning Rongrong greeted him sweetly and asked whether he had slept well.
• Ning Rongrong hinted that she had heard noise from Dai Chengfeng's room the previous night, making Zhu Zhuqing tense and Hu Liena's smile deepen.

Dai Chengfeng took Ning Rongrong outside to stop her from stirring up tensions between Zhu Zhuqing and Hu Liena, but confronted her with force instead. He spanked her twice, leaving Ning Rongrong furious and struggling as he challenged her to keep calling him “brother.”

• Dai Chengfeng called Ning Rongrong away from breakfast, while Zhu Zhuqing and Hu Liena reacted tensely to the private invitation.
• Ning Rongrong played up her reluctance in front of Zhu Zhuqing and Hu Liena, then followed Dai Chengfeng outside, pleased with her scheme.
• Outside the inn, Ning Rongrong teased Dai Chengfeng about silencing her in exchange for a benefit.
• Dai Chengfeng seized Ning Rongrong, pinned her against the inn wall, and spanked her despite her shocked protests.
• Ning Rongrong fought back and shouted that even her father had never hit her, but Dai Chengfeng dodged her claws and spanked her again.

Dai Chengfeng punished Ning Rongrong for her prank until she admitted she was wrong and agreed to explain herself to Zhu Zhuqing and Hu Liena. Ning Rongrong confessed when they returned to breakfast, and the group continued toward the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Dai Chengfeng stopped striking Ning Rongrong when she began to cry, then demanded that she admit her mistake.
• Ning Rongrong apologized and promised to tell Zhu Zhuqing and Hu Liena that her claims were a prank and that she would not repeat it.
• Dai Chengfeng and Ning Rongrong returned to the dining room, where Zhu Zhuqing and Hu Liena noticed Ning Rongrong's tearful appearance.
• Ning Rongrong explained that she had made up the story to provoke Dai Chengfeng after seeing Zhu Zhuqing and Hu Liena visit his room.
• Hu Liena accepted Ning Rongrong's explanation, and the group finished breakfast before leaving the inn for the Star Dou Great Forest.

After half a month of travel, Dai Chengfeng and his companions reached the Star Dou Great Forest and prepared to enter it. That night, Zhu Zhuqing, Hu Liena, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Hongye gathered in Dai Chengfeng’s room to finalize plans for several soul rings.

• Dai Chengfeng and his companions arrived at the Star Dou Great Forest, where Zhu Hongye planned a rest and resupply before they entered the forest the morning after next.
• Dai Chengfeng checked his supplies at the inn, then answered a late-night knock from Zhu Zhuqing, Hu Liena, and Ning Rongrong.
• Zhu Zhuqing, Hu Liena, and Ning Rongrong told Dai Chengfeng they wanted to discuss arrangements for entering the forest.
• Zhu Hongye arrived and joined the gathering, then said they needed to confirm plans for Zhu Zhuqing’s third soul ring, Dai Chengfeng’s sixth soul ring, and Hu Liena’s fifth spirit ring.

Dai Chengfeng discussed spirit ring choices with Zhu Hongye, Zhu Zhuqing, and Hu Liena, recommending unusually high ring ages for the two women because of their strengthened physiques. The chapter ended with Dai Chengfeng revealing that he had a specific target for his Sixth Soul Ring.

• Zhu Hongye asked Dai Chengfeng to help choose spirit rings for Zhu Zhuqing and Hu Liena, noting their enhanced bodies and the dangers of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Dai Chengfeng recommended that Zhu Zhuqing seek a speed-boosting third soul skill and attempt a spirit ring aged three thousand five hundred to four thousand years.
• Ning Rongrong was shocked by the proposed ring age and secretly imagined having an equally powerful third soul ring herself.
• Dai Chengfeng advised Hu Liena to pursue group mental control or a skill that improved her survival or attack options, and suggested a fifth spirit ring aged fifteen thousand to eighteen thousand years, possibly twenty thousand.
• When Zhu Hongye asked about his Sixth Soul Ring, Dai Chengfeng said he had a clear target, his eyes flashing with killing intent.

Dai Chengfeng kept his Sixth Soul Ring target secret from Zhu Hongye and the others, though he had already chosen the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. After the others left, Ning Rongrong returned to his door late at night, asking to speak with him.

• Dai Chengfeng refused to reveal his Soul Beast target, while Zhu Hongye, Zhu Zhuqing, Hu Liena, and Ning Rongrong questioned him.
• Dai Chengfeng confirmed Zhu Zhuqing and Hu Liena's Soul Ring targets and urged everyone to rest before entering the Star Dou Great Forest.
• After the women left, Dai Chengfeng revealed to himself that he planned to hunt the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger for his Sixth Soul Ring.
• Dai Chengfeng prepared for bed, but Ning Rongrong knocked and said she still had something to tell him.

Ning Rongrong visited Dai Chengfeng alone late at night to ask whether he had any more of the rare medicine that had improved Zhu Zhuqing and Hu Liena. Dai Chengfeng considered helping her, but decided to make her pay for the trouble she had caused and claimed he had almost none left.

• Dai Chengfeng hesitated to open his door when Ning Rongrong arrived alone, but let her in after she insisted that she had important private business.
• Ning Rongrong approached Dai Chengfeng and sat on the edge of his bed, while he repeatedly tried to keep his distance.
• Ning Rongrong asked whether Dai Chengfeng had another medicine that could improve her constitution and Mental Power, offering to buy it or trade rare treasures from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Dai Chengfeng realized Ning Rongrong wanted the Immortal Herb and top-grade Whale Rubber and considered giving her the opportunity to strengthen herself.
• Dai Chengfeng decided to make Ning Rongrong learn a lesson for stirring up trouble between Zhu Zhuqing and Hu Liena, then told her he had very few of the rare medicines left.

Dai Chengfeng teased Ning Rongrong over the medicinal pill she wanted until she resorted to pleading and throwing herself onto his bed. He finally agreed to give it to her, but warned that one of its ingredients had a special drawback.

• Dai Chengfeng pretended that the Aromatic Silk Beauty Ning Rongrong needed was too rare to obtain, while Ning Rongrong begged him for the medicinal pill.
• Ning Rongrong offered to let Dai Chengfeng hit her as much as he wanted if he gave her the pill, and he denied that he enjoyed doing so.
• Ning Rongrong rolled around on Dai Chengfeng's bed until he gave in and promised to give her the pill.
• Dai Chengfeng warned Ning Rongrong that the pill's effects came with painful tempering and a special ingredient, and she insisted she could endure it.

Ning Rongrong doubted Dai Chengfeng’s explanation about a pill’s aphrodisiac side effect until he revealed it might help her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda evolve into a Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. She eagerly accepted the chance, but when Dai Chengfeng asked whether she wanted to take it immediately or wait for a safer place, she challenged his view of her.

• Dai Chengfeng explained that the pill’s potent yang energy naturally caused difficult-to-control effects, and pointed out that Zhuqing and Na Na had experienced similar side effects.
• Ning Rongrong remained suspicious until Dai Chengfeng threatened to withhold the pill and revealed it might help her reach the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Ning Rongrong apologized and fawned over Dai Chengfeng so he would give her the pill, and he forgave her while insisting its side effects were real.
• Dai Chengfeng asked whether Ning Rongrong wanted to take the pill immediately or wait for a place that could suppress its effects, and she challenged him for treating her like a spoiled young lady.

Ning Rongrong explained that she wanted the Aromatic Silk Beauty to prove she had grown beyond her spoiled past, and Dai Chengfeng agreed to help her. He prepared a Great Revitalizing Pill and a Dragon Blood Soul Quenching Pill alongside the herb, warning that their combined effects would bring an especially intense side effect.

• Ning Rongrong told Dai Chengfeng that she had been trying to change and wanted to prove her maturity to her father, Sword Grandpa, and Bone Grandpa.
• Dai Chengfeng accepted Ning Rongrong's resolve and revealed the Aromatic Silk Beauty, which could evolve her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Dai Chengfeng explained how Ning Rongrong should consume the Aromatic Silk Beauty and refine its medicinal power.
• Dai Chengfeng presented a Great Revitalizing Pill to strengthen Ning Rongrong's foundation before she took the herb.
• Dai Chengfeng revealed the Dragon Blood Soul Quenching Pill and warned that its effects would combine with the other medicines to make its side effect much stronger than Zhu Qing and Na Na had experienced.

Ning Rongrong took the Great Revitalizing Pill and Aromatic Silk Beauty, then swallowed Whale Rubber to pursue a major transformation despite Dai Chengfeng's warnings. The combined medicinal effects overwhelmed her reason, and she clung to Dai Chengfeng as he tried to control the heat.

• Ning Rongrong decided to take the treasures immediately, and Dai Chengfeng agreed to protect her.
• Ning Rongrong refined the Great Revitalizing Pill, enduring pain as it cleansed her body and raised her Soul Power by one level.
• Ning Rongrong consumed the Aromatic Silk Beauty and Whale Rubber, causing her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul to begin transforming as intense heat erupted through her body.
• Dai Chengfeng used his Soul Power to try to guide the violent medicinal effects, but Ning Rongrong's reason rapidly weakened.
• Ning Rongrong threw herself into Dai Chengfeng's arms, begged him for help, and began tearing at her clothes.