Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan and his companions visited the Strength Clan, where Clan Leader Tai Tan warmly welcomed them. Tang San explained that he needed delicate iron components forged, and Tai Tan offered to inspect the designs.

• Tai Tan sent Tai Long to fetch Lin Xuan and his companions in the Strength Clan's finest carriage.
• Tai Long brought Lin Xuan, Xiao Wu, Tang San, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, Huang Yuan, Jing Ling, and Jiangzhu to the Strength Clan estate.
• Tai Tan and Tai Nuo greeted the visitors at the gate, and Tai Tan praised Lin Xuan for helping Tai Long.
• Tai Tan led the group into the estate and asked about the precision parts they wanted forged.
• Tang San said he needed unusual iron components made, and Tai Tan offered to inspect them.

Tang San brought intricate weapon designs to Tai Tan’s Strength Clan, where the smiths forged several components and agreed to make more. As Lin Xuan and the others returned to Blue Tyrant Academy, Tang Hao watched from hiding and sighed at the mention of the Strength Clan.

• Tang San showed Tai Tan his detailed mechanism designs, and Tai Tan agreed that the Strength Clan’s smiths could forge the parts.
• Tai Long led Lin Xuan, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Huang Yuan, and Jing Ling around the estate and served them tea and pastries.
• Tang San returned with three forged components and explained that he still needed refined iron and mithril to complete the mechanisms.
• Lin Xuan advised Tang San to use Ning Rongrong’s Gold Card to buy suitable materials, while Tang San praised Tai Tan’s skill and dedication.
• Tai Tan invited the group to dinner and told Tang San to return in five days for the first batch of finished parts; Lin Xuan declined the invitation, and the group left for Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Tang Hao followed the group in secret and sighed when he heard the Strength Clan mentioned.

Tang Hao reflected on his debt to the Strength Clan and resolved to tell Tang San the truth about his family after the mainland tournament. In the carriage, Tang San explained that Tai Tan was helping him craft powerful hidden weapons, and his companions arranged to receive them for protection.

• Tang Hao regretted failing Tai Tan and the Strength Clan, then decided to reveal Tang San's family history after the tournament.
• Lin Xuan asked Tang San why he had sought the Strength Clan's help with his blueprints.
• Tang San explained that Tai Tan's strength and forging skill were needed to make the precise mechanisms for the Peacock Plume and the Mother-Child Soul-Chasing Life-Taking Orb.
• Tang San planned to have the Strength Clan produce a batch of orbs and thirty Godly Zhuge Crossbows using Lin Xuan's funds.
• Ning Rongrong asked for hidden weapons for self-defense, and Tang San promised to equip everyone on the team with crossbows and poisoned bolts.

Dugu Bo confronted Lin Xuan about the Blue Tyrant Team’s rapid cultivation and arranged for Dugu Yan to train with them. Lin Xuan gave Tang San Dugu Bo’s deadly serpent venom for his hidden weapons, while Dugu Yan learned she would move to Blue Tyrant Academy the next day.

• Dugu Bo asked Lin Xuan how his teammates’ Soul Power had risen so quickly, and Lin Xuan explained that his Clear Mind Talismans helped them cultivate.
• Dugu Bo agreed to take an Honorary Dean position at Blue Tyrant Academy so Dugu Yan could train with Lin Xuan’s team.
• Dugu Bo gave Lin Xuan his potent Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor venom and an antidote, and Lin Xuan passed them to Tang San for his hidden weapons.
• Dugu Bo told Dugu Yan that Lin Xuan and the others had advanced rapidly, then ordered her to pack and move to Blue Tyrant Academy as a visiting student.

Dugu Bo arranged for Dugu Yan to temporarily cultivate at Blue Tyrant Academy under Lin Xuan’s guidance. Dugu Yan persuaded Ye Lingling to join her, leaving the Imperial Fighting Team without its vice-captain and support pillar.

• Dugu Bo told Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s Education Committee that Dugu Yan would temporarily study at Blue Tyrant Academy so Lin Xuan could guide her cultivation.
• Dugu Yan told the Imperial Fighting Team that Lin Xuan had reached the peak of level 45, stunning Yu Tianheng and the others.
• Dugu Bo arrived at the team’s Battle Arena and silenced Yu Tianheng when he tried to persuade Dugu Yan to stay.
• Dugu Yan asked Dugu Bo to let Ye Lingling come with her, and Ye Lingling agreed.
• Dugu Yan took Ye Lingling to pack while Yu Tianheng watched helplessly as both left the Imperial Fighting Team.

Dugu Bo brought Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling to Blue Tyrant Academy as visiting students, asking Lin Xuan to help Dugu Yan improve before the tournament. After the two settled in, Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling asked Lin Xuan how his students had leveled up so quickly.

• Xue Qinghe learned Lin Xuan had reached level forty-five and decided to make a stronger effort to win him over.
• Dugu Bo arrived with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, announced they would study at Blue Tyrant Academy, and asked Lin Xuan to raise Dugu Yan's soul power by at least two levels.
• Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu teased Dugu Yan and Lin Xuan, while Zhu Zhuqing helped Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling find rooms.
• Dugu Yan asked Lin Xuan how Xiao Wu had reached level forty-five and Zhu Zhuqing had crossed level forty so quickly.

Lin Xuan welcomed Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling to Blue Tyrant Academy and gave them Clear Mind Talismans that accelerated meditation. As they cultivated, Ye Lingling’s nine-heart begonia manifested and released a life-filled aura, while Ning Rongrong began glowing with nine-colored light.

• Lin Xuan introduced Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling to the Blue Tyrant Academy students, and everyone introduced themselves.
• Lin Xuan created Clear Mind Talismans and explained that they cleared distracting thoughts and increased cultivation efficiency.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling thanked Lin Xuan, absorbed their talismans, and began meditating alongside the others.
• Ye Lingling’s nine-heart begonia appeared during meditation and spread a life aura across the courtyard.
• Ning Rongrong began shining with nine-colored radiance as Lin Xuan noticed the unusual changes.

During meditation, Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling’s Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and Nine-Heart Begonia resonated, revealing their potential to form a Martial Soul Fusion Skill. Lin Xuan explained that resonance was only the first step, and the two agreed to train together while the others returned to cultivation.

• Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling’s martial souls resonated under the Clear Mind Talisman, blending their enhancement and healing auras.
• Tang San, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Jiangzhu, and Dugu Yan noticed the change, and Zhu Zhuqing explained that resonance could lead to a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Lin Xuan told Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling that successful fusion would require compatible martial souls and harmony between them; both chose to practice together.
• Dugu Yan worried that Heaven Dou Royal Academy would object, but Lin Xuan said they could take the matter to her grandfather, who had arranged Ye Lingling’s visit.
• Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling resumed meditation, and Lin Xuan and the others returned to cultivation.

Lin Xuan and his companions trained under Zhao Wuji’s Gravity Enhancement, while Dugu Yan wondered why such talented students worked so hard. Her question led Tang San and Xiao Wu to reflect on their goals, and Xiao Wu resolved to grow strong enough to stay with Lin Xuan and uncover the truth about her parents’ deaths.

• Zhao Wuji increased the gravity across the clearing as Lin Xuan, Tang San, Tai Long, and the others practiced their assigned exercises.
• Lin Xuan moved easily through the field, prompting Xiao Wu to accuse Zhao Wuji of making the gravity around him stronger than everyone else’s.
• After training ended, Jiangzhu healed the exhausted students, while Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling had to leave the gravity field early.
• Lin Xuan invited Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling to meditate together that night, and Ye Lingling asked to bring Dugu Yan along.
• Dugu Yan asked Lin Xuan why he and his talented companions trained so relentlessly, leading Tang San to reaffirm his ambition for the Tang Sect.
• Xiao Wu resolved to become strong enough to stay with Lin Xuan and investigate what happened to her parents in the Great Ferocious Land.

After Lin Xuan explained that he sought strength to protect those he loved and control his own fate, the women reflected on their feelings and goals. Ning Rongrong, Ye Lingling, and Dugu Yan ended the evening by using Lin Xuan’s Clear Mind Talismans to cultivate together.

• Lin Xuan said that becoming stronger would let him protect those he loved and decide his own path, prompting Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong to reflect on what he meant to them.
• Dugu Yan led Ye Lingling and Ning Rongrong to Ning Rongrong’s room, where she asked how long Ning Rongrong had known Lin Xuan.
• Ning Rongrong said she liked Lin Xuan and revealed that Zhu Zhuqing did too, then teased Dugu Yan about her grandfather wanting to match Dugu Yan with him.
• Ye Lingling pointed out that Dugu Yan’s heartbeat had sped up, and the girls laughed and tussled before Ning Rongrong steered them toward cultivation.
• Ning Rongrong gave Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan Clear Mind Talismans, and Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling’s martial souls resonated as the three began meditating.

Lin Xuan decided to seek ten-thousand-year whale glue to help him break through the level 50 barrier and went with Ye Lingling and Ning Rongrong to Ye Medical Hall in search of rare medicinal ingredients. They arrived and met Ye Lingling’s mother, Ye Mengyao, a level 73 healing-type Soul Sage.

• Lin Xuan recalled that ten-thousand-year whale glue could strengthen the body and aid cultivation, and decided to look for it.
• Ye Lingling offered to take Lin Xuan to her family’s medical hall, and Ning Rongrong joined them to ask her mother about martial soul resonance.
• Lin Xuan, Ning Rongrong, and Ye Lingling traveled to South City and entered Ye Medical Hall.
• Ye Lingling called for her mother, and Ye Mengyao came out and asked why she had returned so early.

Lin Xuan explained to Ye Mengyao and the others that ten-thousand-year whale glue could temper the body and strengthen a Soul Master rather than merely serve as an aphrodisiac. Ye Mengyao listened with interest, while Ning Rongrong became intrigued by its potential benefits.

• Ye Lingling introduced Lin Xuan and Ning Rongrong to her mother, Ye Mengyao, at the clinic.
• Lin Xuan asked Ye Mengyao whether the clinic had any ten-thousand-year whale glue, shocking Ning Rongrong and embarrassing Ye Lingling.
• Lin Xuan explained that whale glue’s fierce vital energy could be refined to strengthen the body, cleanse meridians, and increase the Soul Ring age a Soul Master could withstand.
• Ye Mengyao questioned where Lin Xuan had learned the method, and he claimed he had pieced it together from incomplete journals bought from a traveling merchant.
• Ning Rongrong admitted she was tempted by the whale glue’s benefits, and Lin Xuan teased her about letting her experience them someday.

Lin Xuan obtained three pieces of ten-thousand-year whale glue from Ye Mengyao and explained that Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling’s martial souls had resonated. Ning Rongrong revealed that her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda had become the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and Ye Mengyao wondered whether Lin Xuan might also help her family’s Nine-Heart Begonia lineage before inviting everyone to stay for lunch.

• Ye Mengyao brought out three pieces of whale glue, each close to twenty thousand years old, and agreed to seek more for Lin Xuan’s team.
• Lin Xuan told Ye Mengyao that Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling’s martial souls had resonated while they meditated, and Ning Rongrong revealed her Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Ye Mengyao realized the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda’s seven-ring limit had been broken and wondered whether Lin Xuan could also help the Nine-Heart Begonia lineage.
• Ye Mengyao advised Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling to spend more time together to investigate a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Ning Rongrong confirmed their shared meditation had accelerated their cultivation.
• Ye Mengyao insisted Lin Xuan, Ning Rongrong, and Ye Lingling stay for lunch, and Ye Lingling went to fetch fruit while Ye Mengyao prepared to cook.

Lin Xuan brought ten-thousand-year whale glue to Blue Tyrant Academy to help the team strengthen their bodies, and Ye Mengyao came along to supervise the dangerous process. After Ning Rongrong’s teasing sparked an awkward misunderstanding about the glue’s reputation as an aphrodisiac, Ye Mengyao reassured everyone that the medicinal baths and her healing abilities would keep them safe.

• Ye Mengyao offered to accompany Lin Xuan to Blue Tyrant Academy and watch over the team while they absorbed the whale glue.
• Lin Xuan and Ye Mengyao arranged eleven medicinal baths in the Back Hill courtyard, adding herbs to protect everyone’s meridians.
• Xiao Wu, Tang San, and the others emerged from their rooms and asked about the tubs and the whale glue Lin Xuan had brought.
• Ning Rongrong teased the group by saying whale glue was sold to wealthy older men to stir desire, making the boys and girls embarrassed.
• Lin Xuan explained that whale glue could strengthen their bodies and cultivation if they circulated its blood energy with Soul Power.
• Ye Mengyao confirmed the danger of absorbing the glue without protection and assured the team that her healing and the medicinal baths would keep them safe.

Lin Xuan distributed whale rubber and Clear Mind Talismans to the team so they could temper their bodies, while Ye Mengyao watched over their absorption and healed the girls. After an hour, the worst of the heat subsided, and the group’s physical strengthening appeared to be progressing successfully.

• Lin Xuan divided the whale rubber and gave Ye Mengyao Clear Mind Talismans for the girls, demonstrating how the talismans calmed her mind.
• Lin Xuan instructed the boys to use the talismans, swallow the whale rubber, and endure its scorching effects in their tubs.
• Lin Xuan, Tang San, Tai Long, Huang Yuan, and Jing Ling absorbed the whale rubber while enduring the feverish heat.
• Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Yan, Ning Rongrong, Ye Lingling, and Jiangzhu underwent the same body tempering, with the last three struggling most.
• Ye Mengyao used her healing power to protect the girls’ meridians and monitored the boys as they absorbed the whale rubber.
• After an hour, the heat subsided, and the boys’ breathing steadied as the whale rubber’s energy strengthened their bodies.

After the team gained strength from whale rubber, Lin Xuan invited Ye Mengyao to advise the Blue Tyrant Team through the tournament, and she accepted. He then introduced her to Flender and Liu Erlong, who welcomed the Nine-Heart Begonia Soul Sage to the academy.

• Tai Long, Huang Yuan, Jing Ling, Tang San, and the girls emerged from the tubs feeling stronger after taking whale rubber.
• Ye Mengyao confirmed that everyone's physical strength had improved, warned them to take the medicine only once every three days, and received their thanks alongside Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan sent the team to train under double gravity and invited Ye Mengyao to become the Blue Tyrant Team's accompanying adviser.
• Ye Mengyao accepted the role until the Soul Master Tournament ended, and Lin Xuan took her to meet Flender and Liu Erlong.
• Flender and Liu Erlong welcomed Ye Mengyao after Lin Xuan introduced her as a Level 73 Nine-Heart Begonia healing Soul Sage.

Over two months of grueling training and medicinal baths, the team strengthened their physiques and soul power, and Tang San and Ning Rongrong advanced to Soul Ancestors after obtaining fourth soul rings. The chapter ended with Lin Xuan urging everyone to keep training ahead of the tournament qualifiers.

• Flender welcomed Ye Mengyao as a teacher, and she agreed to oversee the team's medicinal baths while asking only that they look after Ye Lingling.
• Ye Mengyao and Lin Xuan used medicinal baths and ten-thousand-year whale glue to temper the team's bodies every three days for two months.
• The team grew stronger, with Lin Xuan stabilizing at Level 46, Tang San and Ning Rongrong reaching Level 40, and the other five Soul Elders gaining levels.
• Lin Xuan led the team to obtain fourth soul rings for Tang San and Ning Rongrong, who returned as Level 41 Soul Ancestors.
• Ning Rongrong demonstrated her fourth soul skill, which boosted her teammates' defense by fifty percent, while Tang San showed his venomous Blue Silver Cage control skill.
• Flender celebrated the team's progress, and Lin Xuan urged everyone to raise their soul power before the tournament.

Tang San decided to recruit Lin Xuan into the Tang Sect by offering him the Mysterious Heaven Skill, which could help him reach Soul King before the Final Tournament. He visited Lin Xuan at night and invented a story about a hidden master who had taught him his crafts and techniques, leaving Lin Xuan to ask whether the sect was that master's legacy.

• Tai Long, Huang Yuan, Jing Ling, and Xiao Wu promised to strengthen themselves for the tournament, while Lin Xuan worried he would not reach Soul King in time.
• Tang San calculated that Lin Xuan needed a superior cultivation method and resolved to recruit him into the Tang Sect and teach him the Mysterious Heaven Skill.
• After the others retired for the night, Tang San visited Lin Xuan and reminded him of his plan to establish a sect.
• Tang San claimed that a hidden master from Holy Soul Village had taught him metalworking, hidden weapons, and other techniques.
• Lin Xuan pretended to be surprised and asked whether Tang San's sect was the legacy left by the hidden master.

Tang San invited Lin Xuan to join the Tang Sect as deputy sect master and offered to teach him the Mysterious Heaven Skill. As Tang San guided Lin Xuan through its circulation method, he discovered that four of Lin Xuan's Eight Extraordinary Vessels were already open.

• Tang San explained the Tang Sect's hidden weapons and Mysterious Heaven Skill, then invited Lin Xuan to join as deputy sect master.
• Lin Xuan accepted, and he and Tang San performed a simple incense ceremony to formalize his position.
• Tang San began guiding Lin Xuan's soul power through the Mysterious Heaven Skill's meridian route.
• Tang San discovered that Lin Xuan's Conception, Governor, Penetrating, and Girdle Vessels were already open, leaving him stunned.

Lin Xuan cultivated Tang San’s complete Mysterious Heaven Skill and learned that four of his extraordinary vessels were already open, allowing him to advance rapidly. Tang San explained the technique and divided the Tang Sect’s work between Lin Xuan’s cultivation and his own logistics and hidden-weapon production.

• Lin Xuan completed a circulation of the Mysterious Heaven Skill and found it far more efficient than ordinary meditation.
• Tang San told Lin Xuan that four extraordinary vessels were open in his body, while Tang San had managed to open only one through years of practice.
• Lin Xuan recognized that immortal herbs, the medicinal spring, and whale glue had strengthened his body and opened the vessels.
• Tang San taught Lin Xuan the formulas for the Mysterious Heaven Skill’s first four levels and promised to prepare illustrated diagrams.
• Tang San took responsibility for sect logistics and hidden-weapon production while assigning Lin Xuan to focus on cultivation.