Chapter Summaries

Lin Chen revealed the Glazed Fox’s powerful support abilities and explained how his martial soul gained new skills and targets with each soul ring. Bai Qingqing began redesigning the team’s tactics, and Mo Yuan was chosen as their opponent for a full team battle.

• Yang Ke, Li Jiaojiao, Bai Ning, Tie Zhan, and Zhang Ting demonstrated their martial souls and skills as Bai Qingqing recorded their combat data.
• Lin Chen ordered Liuli to activate three support buffs, astonishing the team with their boosts to speed, defense, stamina, and soul power.
• Mo Yuan asked the team if they understood why he had formed a new team instead of placing them in an established one.
• Lin Chen explained that each soul ring unlocked an offensive and a supportive skill, while each new ring increased the number of targets for his earlier skills.
• Bai Qingqing decided to rebuild the team's tactics around Lin Chen and told the members to try a team battle against Mo Yuan.

Lin Chen and the others coordinated their attacks to pressure Mo Yuan during their spar, but Mo Yuan eventually summoned the Flowing Cloud Blade and showed the gulf between his strength and theirs. The chapter left Yang Ke staggering after blocking Mo Yuan’s first blade strike.

• Yang Ke led the team into formation as Tie Zhan, Li Jiaojiao, and Zhu Zhuqing advanced on Mo Yuan, supported by Lin Chen’s enhancements and attacks from Bai Ning and Zhang Ting.
• Bai Ning’s Mental Interference briefly disrupted Mo Yuan, allowing the team to land a coordinated pincer attack that Mo Yuan stopped with a soul power barrier.
• The team kept up its assault, forcing Mo Yuan to dodge and block more often, while Lin Chen realized Mo Yuan was still holding back and had not summoned his martial soul.
• Mo Yuan summoned the Flowing Cloud Blade and slashed toward Zhu Zhuqing, sealing off her escape routes.
• Yang Ke condensed his Giant Spirit Shield and blocked the strike, but the impact numbed and split his hands and drove him backward.

Lin Chen’s team coordinated a series of attacks that broke through Mo Yuan’s defenses and drove him back. Lin Chen then trapped Mo Yuan with water and arrows before sending a huge fireball crashing down, forcing Mo Yuan to stop holding back.

• Li Jiaojiao struck Mo Yuan’s blade with her Vajra Staff and disrupted his attack.
• Bai Ning and the Glazed Fox combined their control skills to freeze Mo Yuan and weaken his soul power barrier.
• Zhu Zhuqing, Tie Zhan, and Zhang Ting struck Mo Yuan together, forcing him several steps back.
• Lin Chen used water columns and soul-power arrows to confine Mo Yuan’s movement.
• Lin Chen summoned a huge fireball with his third soul skill as Mo Yuan stopped holding back.

Mo Yuan stopped the team's final assault with one slash, then called an end to the spar and praised the newcomers for their coordination and resolve. As the exhausted team recovered with Bai Qingqing's help, Mo Yuan's expectations for them rose, and their first battle began to shape their group combat style.

• Mo Yuan unleashed his Soul Saint pressure, halted the team's attacks, and declared that they had won.
• The exhausted team members asked Lin Chen for a recovery buff, but he and Liuli had run out of strength, so everyone meditated to recover.
• Mo Yuan watched the team recover and approved of their teamwork, adaptability, and willingness to keep fighting.
• Bai Qingqing used the Awakening Bell to ease the team's exhaustion and speed their soul power recovery.
• Bai Qingqing teased Mo Yuan about being driven back, and he praised the team's potential before flying off to change his torn clothes.

After the team recovered from their sparring match with Mo Yuan, Bai Qingqing began assessing their battlefield roles and weaknesses. She assigned Lin Chen and Bai Ning their first specialized training priorities, leaving the rest of the team’s assessments for later.

• Mo Yuan returned to the training ground and asked Bai Qingqing about the Specialized Team’s tactical framework and training plans.
• Bai Qingqing waited until all seven team members had recovered before calling them to assemble.
• Lin Chen was surprised when his teammates recovered as quickly as he did and recognized the strength of the entire team.
• Bai Qingqing explained that Lin Chen must direct the team from a distance and assigned him an additional ten-kilometer run each morning to improve his movement and endurance.
• Bai Qingqing praised Bai Ning’s mental control during the fight and told her to study more battles and martial souls instead of undertaking extra physical training.

Bai Qingqing assessed the team members’ combat roles and weaknesses, then gave them a break to get to know one another. As the seven bonded on the Training Ground, Mo Yuan and Bai Qingqing watched with confidence in the team’s potential.

• Bai Qingqing told Yang Ke to focus on positioning and holding the battle line, while warning Li Jiaojiao to control her impulsive charges.
• Bai Qingqing assigned Tie Zhan to maintain steady pressure and work with Yang Ke and Li Jiaojiao, and urged Zhu Zhuqing to raise her soul power and attack through openings.
• Bai Qingqing told Zhang Ting to improve her mobility and endurance by training with Lin Chen, then dismissed the team from high-intensity training for the day.
• Li Jiaojiao and Tie Zhan enlivened the gathering, helping Bai Ning, Zhu Zhuqing, Yang Ke, and Zhang Ting relax and join the conversation.
• Mo Yuan and Bai Qingqing watched the seven grow closer, and Bai Qingqing predicted the team would dazzle Spirit Hall Academy after six months of training.

Mo Yuan brought Yun Yan and Little Yu'er to meet his newly formed team, then treated the group to a celebratory dinner after their first morning of training together. The team left Spirit Hall Academy for Suotuo City's finest restaurant and was shown into a luxury private dining room.

• Li Jiaojiao entertained the team with stories, helping the seven members grow more comfortable and cohesive.
• Yun Yan arrived at the training ground with Little Yu'er, who quickly befriended Li Jiaojiao.
• Yun Yan reminded Mo Yuan that it was noon, and Mo Yuan announced that he would treat the team to dinner to celebrate its formation.
• Mo Yuan led the team and his family through Spirit Hall Academy, drawing curious and envious looks from students as Lin Chen grew uncomfortable with the attention.
• Mo Yuan took the group to the largest restaurant in central Suotuo City, where a server escorted them to a luxury private dining room.

After the team bonded over lunch and games, Mo Yuan announced that Yun Yan would join him as a sparring instructor to address the team’s combat weaknesses. The chapter ended with the members ready to train against Yun Yan in the morning and Mo Yuan in the afternoon.

• Yang Ke poured tea for the team, and Li Jiaojiao ordered a meal suited to everyone's tastes.
• Hou Qingming paid for lunch using the Academy's team-building fund, and the team returned to the Training Ground.
• Bai Qingqing assigned the team an afternoon to review their combat performance, but Li Jiaojiao and Tie Zhan persuaded everyone to play games.
• Mo Yuan stopped Bai Qingqing from interrupting, explaining that relaxing together would help the new team build rapport.
• Yun Yan arrived with Little Yu'er, and Mo Yuan announced that she would join him as the team's dedicated sparring instructor.
• Yun Yan identified the team's reliance on Lin Chen and Bai Ning, and Bai Qingqing scheduled maneuvering drills with Yun Yan and coordinated defense training with Mo Yuan.

After three months of intense training, Lin Chen’s team greatly improved their strength and coordination, while Zhu Zhuqing reached level thirty and Mo Yu awakened a Golden Kite martial soul with innate full soul power. Mo Yuan led the group to the Star Dou Great Forest to train and find soul rings for both girls, and the chapter ended as they entered the forest in formation.

• Mo Yuan and Yun Yan trained the seven-member team for three months, improving their teamwork and combat abilities.
• Zhu Zhuqing broke through to level thirty, and Mo Yu awakened a Golden Kite martial soul with innate full soul power.
• Mo Yuan announced that the group would travel to the Star Dou Great Forest to train and seek soul rings for Mo Yu and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Lin Chen and the others walked to the forest’s outlying town, taking turns carrying the tired Mo Yu along the way.
• The group entered the Star Dou Great Forest in a coordinated formation, with each member assigned a position.

Mo Yuan’s team hunted in the Star Dou Great Forest, where Mo Yu gained her first soul ring and Zhu Zhuqing began absorbing a Shadow Leopard’s thousand-year ring. The group left Zhu Zhuqing under guard while the others continued deeper to hunt and train.

• Zhang Ting killed several hundred-year soul beasts with her crossbow as the group entered the forest.
• Lin Chen identified a four-hundred-year Golden Kite Eagle as a suitable match for Mo Yu, who killed it, absorbed its soul ring, and reached rank thirteen with the Flying Feather skill.
• The team defeated several thousand-year soul beasts through coordinated attacks as they advanced into the forest.
• A Shadow Leopard ambushed Zhang Ting, but the team worked together to cripple it and prevent its escape.
• Mo Yuan judged the Shadow Leopard suitable for Zhu Zhuqing, who killed it and began absorbing its thousand-year soul ring.
• Mo Yuan told Yun Yan and Bai Qingqing to guard Zhu Zhuqing and Mo Yu while the others continued hunting and training.

Lin Chen’s team advanced into the Star Dou Great Forest and faced a Thousand Jun Ant Swarm as a test of their training. They discovered the ants’ weak point and held the line while Lin Chen recovered and directed them.

• Lin Chen checked on Zhu Zhuqing as she harmonized with her new Thousand-Year Soul Ring, then led the remaining teammates deeper into the forest.
• The team heard scraping sounds, formed a defensive formation, and found themselves surrounded by Thousand Jun Ants.
• Mo Yuan identified the swarm’s nearly nine-thousand-year-old leader and told the team to fight at full strength while he watched over them.
• Lin Chen used three support skills, then sat down to recover as Yang Ke blocked the leader’s charge, Bai Ning stunned it, and Li Jiaojiao and Tie Zhan killed it by attacking its waist and abdomen.
• The swarm attacked in waves, and Lin Chen directed the team to hold formation while Yang Ke’s shield kept the ants from breaking through.

Lin Chen and his team defeated a swarm of Thousand Jun Ants by disrupting their formation and restraining their nearly nine-thousand-year-old king. After Mo Yuan praised their teamwork, the exhausted team watched soul rings rise from the corpses.

• Zhang Ting crippled the charging Thousand Jun Ants by shooting their legs, while Li Jiaojiao and Tie Zhan attacked the exposed beasts.
• Lin Chen spotted the ant king and directed Liuli to strike it, breaking its command over the swarm as the team disrupted and eliminated the ants.
• The enraged ant king launched crossed blades of wind, and Yang Ke blocked the attack with his Giant Spirit Shield, collapsing from exhaustion afterward.
• Zhu Zhuqing seized the opening to sever the ant king's pincers, and the team finished it and the remaining wounded ants.
• Mo Yuan praised the exhausted team as soul rings rose from the Thousand Jun Ant corpses.

After the trainees defeated a group of Thousand Jun Ants, Mo Yuan discovered that their leader had been a quasi-ten-thousand-year soul beast and found a rare strength-type right arm soul bone in its body. He gave the seven trainees the choice of deciding who should receive it, leaving them to face the question of how to share the prize.

• Bai Qingqing, Yun Yan, and Mo Yu arrived at the clearing, and Mo Yuan reassured them that the seven trainees had suffered only superficial injuries and exhaustion.
• Mo Yuan asked Mo Yu to watch over the recovering trainees while Bai Qingqing and Yun Yan helped him process the ant corpses.
• Mo Yuan realized the Thousand Jun Ant leader had been a quasi-ten-thousand-year soul beast with a powerful transformation ability.
• Mo Yuan found a strength-type right arm soul bone inside the ant king and said the seven trainees could decide who should receive it.
• The seven trainees recovered, saw the soul bone, and exchanged uneasy glances as competition arose over who would claim it.

Lin Chen gave up the Thousand Jun Ant Soul Bone and roasted the beast’s legs for his teammates after their battle. Li Jiaojiao received the Soul Bone, and the team shared a meal that eased their exhaustion and strengthened their bonds.

• Lin Chen decided the strength-focused Soul Bone was not worth competing for and harvested the Thousand Jun Ant’s legs to roast.
• The team awarded the Right Arm Soul Bone to Li Jiaojiao because it suited her strength-based long-staff martial soul.
• Li Jiaojiao thanked her teammates and promised to help them secure future opportunities.
• Lin Chen and Tie Zhan prepared a campfire while the team helped cook the ant legs.
• Lin Chen tasted the roasted meat, then the team joined him and enjoyed the meal together.

After the battle against the Thousand Jun Ants, Zhu Zhuqing demonstrated her third soul skill while Li Jiaojiao finished absorbing a soul bone and revealed her new strength. The team spent the following week training and hunting in Star Dou Great Forest, growing more coordinated as they swept through lesser soul beasts.

• Zhu Zhuqing used Netherworld Slash to sever a towering tree cleanly and said her soul power had stabilized at level thirty-three, with level thirty-four within reach.
• Li Jiaojiao finished absorbing her soul bone, reached level thirty-six, and revealed its passive Thousand Jun skill, which permanently increased her attack power by twenty percent.
• Tie Zhan and the other teammates congratulated Li Jiaojiao, and the group recognized how their battle against the Thousand Jun Ants had strengthened their teamwork.
• Lin Chen and the team trained and hunted around the outskirts of Star Dou Great Forest for a week, defeating lone soul beasts quickly and improving their combat skills.
• The team's clothes became torn and filthy, stained with mud, grass, and beast blood after a week of nonstop fighting.

After a grueling week of training in Star Dou, the team returned to town, rested, and recovered. Lin Chen woke to find he had reached level thirty-seven, while the girls and instructors had also made gains in soul power.

• Mo Yuan led the exhausted team back to town, where they hurried to the Hotel to wash off the dirt and blood from their training.
• Tie Zhan booked rooms, and the team scrubbed themselves clean before gathering in the restaurant and ordering vegetables instead of more meat.
• After eating, the team said goodbye to the instructors and slept deeply through the night and into the following afternoon.
• Lin Chen woke refreshed and discovered that his soul power had broken through to level thirty-seven.
• Lin Chen noticed that the girls had also grown stronger, and Mo Yuan explained that their life-or-death battles had tempered their soul power and enabled their breakthroughs.

After returning from a week of training in Star Dou Forest, Lin Chen and the team began a new stage of training at the Academy. Their schedule now included concealed Soul Fighting matches at the Great Soul Arena in Suotuo City, and they chose masks to hide their identities.

• Mo Yuan announced that the team would return to the Academy and begin a new stage of specialized training.
• The team returned safely to the Academy, and Mo Yuan ordered everyone to report to the Training Ground the next morning.
• After the team completed two warm-up laps, Mo Yuan announced daily Soul Fighting matches at the Great Soul Arena in Suotuo City.
• Mo Yuan ordered the team to conceal their names, Academy, and Martial Soul information and to choose fixed Soul Fighting code names and masks.
• Lin Chen chose a pure white fox mask that matched his glazed fox Martial Soul, and the others selected masks of their own.

Mo Yuan brought Lin Chen, Zhu Zhuqing, and the other students to Suotuo City’s Soul Fighting Arena for combat training, but they arrived before it opened. While they waited, Lin Chen spotted Yu Xiaogang and the Shrek Seven Devils, leaving the group anticipating a possible match against them.

• The students chose masks and followed Mo Yuan and Bai Qingqing to the arena, where they found its gates closed.
• Mo Yuan took the group to a nearby teahouse and required everyone to earn at least Silver Soul Fighter rank, starting with individual and two-on-two matches.
• Lin Chen revealed that he and Zhu Zhuqing had already reached Silver rank in both individual and two-on-two matches.
• After the arena opened, Mo Yuan made the students wait for stronger opponents instead of rushing into matches.
• Lin Chen recognized Yu Xiaogang and the Shrek Seven Devils outside and told Mo Yuan that Yu Xiaogang would remember him.

Lin Chen and his masked teammates entered Suotuo City's Great Soul Arena to register and earn ranks in daytime individual matches. They overwhelmed their opponents, reached Silver Soul Fighter rank by morning, and left before Lin Chen could find the Shrek Seven Devils, whose matches were scheduled for that night.

• Tie Zhan, Li Jiaojiao, Bai Ning, Yang Ke, and Zhang Ting registered under masked aliases while Mo Yuan and Bai Qingqing watched over the team.
• Lin Chen and Zhu Zhuqing searched the platforms for the Shrek Seven Devils, then realized they would not fight until night and returned to their teammates.
• Lin Chen declined to compete, saying the daytime opponents offered little challenge and that night was the main event.
• The team won consecutive matches with decisive attacks and climbed from zero points to Bronze Soul Fighter rank within an hour.
• The masked fighters drew a growing crowd and attracted spectators who bet on their victories.
• By morning, the team reached Silver Soul Fighter rank and left the platforms, disappointing the spectators.

After earning their Silver Soul Fighter badges, Lin Chen’s group rested before competing in the Soul Fighting Arena at night. They won both doubles matches and gathered to prepare for the seven-person team battle.

• Lin Chen’s group exchanged their morning points for Silver Soul Fighter badges, and Mo Yuan ordered them to rest before the night’s battles.
• At the crowded nighttime Arena, Tie Zhan and Li Jiaojiao and Yang Ke and Zhang Ting registered for doubles matches, while Bai Ning saved her strength for the team battle.
• Lin Chen and Zhu Zhuqing watched Tang San and Xiao Wu defeat the Cat-and-Mouse Combination.
• Yang Ke and Zhang Ting won their match through defense and ranged attacks, while Tie Zhan and Li Jiaojiao defeated their Agility Attack opponents.
• Mo Yuan stopped the group from entering more doubles matches and told them to assemble for the seven-person team battle.