Chapter Summaries

Ji Yang used his Eight Trigrams Alchemy Furnace martial soul to refine a thousand-year Whale Rubber Pill, strengthening his body as he prepared to obtain his first soul ring. After a Soul Hunting Squad delivered the soul beasts he had commissioned, he was ready to become a One-Ring Soul Master.

• Ji Yang refined thousand-year whale rubber into a Whale Rubber Pill, but received no Soul Power Pill because the material was likely not fresh or powerful enough.
• Ji Yang swallowed the pill and strengthened his body, raising the age of a first soul ring he could withstand to at least four thousand years.
• Ji Yang decided he wanted a fire-type or metal-attribute soul ring suited to his Eight Trigrams Alchemy Furnace martial soul, which possessed ultimate fire and ultimate metal attributes.
• Director Su told Ji Yang that someone had arrived with what he needed, and Ji Yang realized the soul beasts he had commissioned had been delivered.

Ji Yang acquired a roughly fifty-year-old Flame Bird from Luo Yuexuan’s Gale Squad and paid them with gold coins and healing pills. Back in his dormitory, he prepared to refine the bird into a soul ring, then paused as another possibility occurred to him.

• Ji Yang met Luo Yuexuan and the Gale Squad outside the academy, where they delivered the Flame Bird he had requested.
• Ji Yang paid Luo Yuexuan one hundred Gold Soul Coins and exchanged twenty more for Hemostatic Pills and Healing Pills.
• Luo Yuexuan offered to gather medicinal herbs for Ji Yang, and Ji Yang agreed to buy or trade pills for them.
• Ji Yang carried the caged Flame Bird into his dormitory while the academy’s teachers and students were at the dining hall.
• Ji Yang summoned his Bagua Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul to refine the Flame Bird, but stopped to consider what would happen if he did not use it to make a soul ring.

Ji Yang refined the injured Flame Bird into a Phoenix Bird Soul Spirit Pill and absorbed it as his first soul ring. He gained soul power and the Phoenix Fire skill, which boosted his fire-based offensive soul skills and launched phoenix-shaped flames.

• Ji Yang decided to refine the Flame Bird into a soul spirit instead of using it as an ordinary soul ring.
• Ji Yang placed the injured Flame Bird in his Eight Trigrams Alchemy Furnace and refined it into a Phoenix Bird Soul Spirit Pill.
• Ji Yang noticed phoenix patterns on the pill and concluded that the Flame Bird's phoenix bloodline had awakened during refinement.
• Ji Yang swallowed the Phoenix Bird Soul Spirit Pill and absorbed it, gaining a white soul ring and reaching about halfway through rank twelve in soul power.
• Ji Yang gained Phoenix Fire, which boosted his fire-based offensive soul skills by twenty-five percent for three minutes and sent phoenix-shaped flames at enemies.

Ji Yang fed Soul Ring Pills to his Phoenix Bird Soul Spirit, raising its age to the thousand-year level and greatly increasing his Soul Power and Phoenix Fire’s strength. He then gave it a Blue Silver Grass Soul Skill Pill to merge with Phoenix Fire, but the resulting transformation had not yet been revealed.

• Ji Yang fed the Phoenix Bird Soul Spirit numerous Soul Ring Pills made from Soft Bone Rabbits and Blue Silver Grass.
• The Phoenix Bird Soul Spirit advanced from fifty years to two thousand years, raising Ji Yang’s Soul Power Level from twelve and a half to around fourteen and a half.
• Ji Yang discovered that Phoenix Fire had become a thousand-year Soul Skill, gaining a 125 percent boost to fire-type offensive Soul Skills, a temporary 50 percent increase to his total Soul Power, and a ten-minute duration.
• Ji Yang fed the Phoenix Bird Soul Spirit a Blue Silver Grass Soul Skill Pill so it could merge that skill with Phoenix Fire.

Ji Yang’s Phoenix Fire soul skill transformed into Flame of Life after merging with a Blue Silver Grass soul skill, and he prepared to leave Nuoding City to pursue the Blue Silver Emperor. After Tang San arrived at Nuoding Academy, Ji Yang learned that his scouts had found the person he was searching for near the eastern city gate.

• The Phoenix Bird Soul Spirit swallowed Ji Yang’s Blue Silver Grass Soul Skill Pill, transforming Phoenix Fire into Flame of Life, which could heal injuries and restore a small amount of soul power when used on others.
• Ji Yang considered seeking Ah Yin and her soul bone to strengthen his life-affinity flames, while Tang San and Tang Hao each sensed an unexplained foreboding.
• Old Jack brought Tang San to Nuoding Academy, where the guards mocked Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass martial soul and certificate until Yu Xiaogang verified it and took him inside.
• Ji Yang told the guards he was leaving for Heaven Dou City, gave them letters for the dean and Director Su, and left each guard a Gold Soul Coin.
• One guard told Ji Yang that a beggar had found the person he was looking for near the eastern city gate, and Ji Yang hurried to follow up.

Ji Yang tracked down Xiao Wu and falsely claimed he had known her mother, Ah Rou, to gain her trust. Xiao Wu believed him and eagerly asked about her mother, then recalled Ah Rou’s death with grief and anger.

• Ji Yang hurried to Nuoding City’s eastern gate, hoping Tang Hao had not reached Xiao Wu first.
• A young beggar led Ji Yang to Xiao Wu, who was being kept company by the beggar’s little sister, Nannan.
• The beggar and Nannan left Ji Yang alone with Xiao Wu after she said she needed to register at Nuoding Academy.
• Ji Yang introduced himself and claimed his family had received Ah Rou’s help and that he had met her.
• Xiao Wu believed Ji Yang and asked excitedly about her mother, then said an evil person had killed her.

After learning Xiao Wu's mother had died, Ji Yang revealed that he knew her secret and warned her that Tang Hao could kill her for her soul bone. He offered to help her cultivate and make Da Ming and Er Ming strong enough to take human form, while Xiao Wu discovered they had been ordered to guard the Lake of Life by powerful ferocious beasts.

• Xiao Wu told Ji Yang that her mother had died but concealed that she and her mother were soul beasts who had taken human form.
• Ji Yang claimed a deity had told him about Xiao Wu and her mother, then reassured her that he would not betray them for her soul ring or soul bone.
• Ji Yang warned Xiao Wu that Tang Hao was in Nuoding City and that the Clear Sky Sect had hunted soul beasts for soul bones, so she should return to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Ji Yang offered to accompany Xiao Wu and help her cultivate, and said he could raise Da Ming and Er Ming's cultivation so they could take human form and protect her.
• Ji Yang explained that powerful ferocious beasts lived near the Lake of Life and had ordered Da Ming and Er Ming to guard it, leaving Xiao Wu shocked and resentful.

Ji Yang reassured Xiao Wu that Da Ming and Er Ming could survive their heavenly tribulations with his help, then set out with her for the Star Dou Great Forest. On the journey, he learned Xiao Wu had not yet condensed her first soul ring and gave her pills to strengthen her.

• Xiao Wu worried that Da Ming and Er Ming would face danger from heavenly tribulations, and Ji Yang assured her his pills could improve their chances and even preserve or resurrect them if needed.
• Xiao Wu decided to take Ji Yang to the Star Dou Great Forest, and the two left Nuoding City together.
• Tang San yawned in his dormitory and sensed an unexplained wave of malice and impending loss.
• Ji Yang agreed to walk with Xiao Wu so she could explore human society, and they traveled to a hotel near the border of Fasinuo Province and the Balak Kingdom.
• Ji Yang asked whether Xiao Wu had condensed her first soul ring, and she said she needed to absorb more human aura first.
• Ji Yang gave Xiao Wu several Whale Rubber Pills and Soul Body Pills to help strengthen her.

Ji Yang explained how the Whale Rubber Pill and Soul Body Pill could strengthen Xiao Wu and help her condense stronger Soul Rings, then revealed the origins and abilities of his alchemy furnace and Soul Spirits. He promised to help change the Soul Beasts’ fate once he became a god, leaving Xiao Wu grateful and hopeful.

• Ji Yang explained the pills’ effects, showed Xiao Wu his Thousand-Year First Soul Ring, and watched her take both pills.
• Xiao Wu felt her physical strength multiply and said she could now condense a Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Xiao Wu noticed Ji Yang’s Soul Ring seemed alive, so he revealed his Phoenix Bird Soul Spirit and explained his alchemy furnace and its origins.
• Xiao Wu felt hope that Soul Spirits could change the Soul Beast Clan’s future and protect Da Ming and Er Ming.
• Ji Yang promised to help the Soul Beasts after becoming a god, and Xiao Wu thanked him with tears in her eyes.

Xiao Wu condensed her first Thousand-Year Soul Ring, reached level thirteen, and gained the powerful Instant Kick Soul Skill. She then asked Ji Yang to help her test whether she could absorb a Soul Spirit Pill and gain a Soft Bone Rabbit Soul Spirit.

• After more than half a month of traveling with Ji Yang and the others, Xiao Wu condensed a Thousand-Year Soul Ring in under an hour and reached roughly level thirteen and a half.
• Xiao Wu revealed that her first Soul Skill, Instant Kick, boosted her attack and speed by thirty-five percent and let her teleport five meters to strike, with each use consuming one-fifth of her Soul Power.
• Ji Yang advised Xiao Wu to practice linking consecutive teleports into a rapid finishing combo, and Xiao Wu considered combining it with her Soft Technique.
• Xiao Wu asked Ji Yang to let her try absorbing a Soul Spirit Pill after condensing her ring, hoping to gain a Soft Bone Rabbit Soul Spirit.
• Ji Yang agreed to the experiment, believing the pill would either work or prove harmless if she could not absorb it.

Xiao Wu used a Soul Spirit Pill to turn her first soul ring into a thousand-year Soft Bone Rabbit soul spirit and gained a new soul skill. After traveling to Star Dou Great Forest with Ji Yang, she contacted Da Ming and Er Ming, who rushed out to meet her and eyed Ji Yang with suspicion.

• Ji Yang gave Xiao Wu a Soft Bone Rabbit Soul Spirit Pill, and she refined it into her first soul ring, creating a thousand-year soul spirit.
• Xiao Wu gained Double Kick, which let her deliver two kicks at once or double the force of one kick, and played with her new soul spirit.
• Ji Yang and Xiao Wu crossed the Balak Kingdom and Haagen-Dazs Kingdom, raising their soul power to sixteen and just over fifteen respectively.
• At Star Dou Great Forest, Xiao Wu sent her soul beast aura into the forest to contact Da Ming and Er Ming.
• Da Ming and Er Ming hurried out of the forest, found Xiao Wu safe beside Ji Yang, and wondered who the human boy was and why she seemed attached to him.

Ji Yang and Xiao Wu returned to the Lake of Life with the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape, where Xiao Wu explained Ji Yang’s powers and his plans to help the Soul Beast Clan. Ji Yang promised he would revive Xiao Wu’s mother, Ah Rou, if he became a god, and the two beasts agreed to trust him.

• Xiao Wu scolded the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape for intimidating Ji Yang, while nearby soul masters panicked at the two hundred-thousand-year soul beasts appearing outside the forest.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape carried Xiao Wu and Ji Yang back to the Lake of Life so Xiao Wu could explain her return.
• Xiao Wu told the two beasts about Ji Yang’s connection to Ah Rou, his divine legacy, and the power of his Bagua Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul to help soul beasts.
• Ji Yang acknowledged the beasts’ doubts and explained that their cooperation would benefit all of them, then promised to revive Ah Rou if he became a god.
• Xiao Wu believed Ji Yang, and the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape agreed to trust him because of his oath and Xiao Wu’s plea.

Ji Yang persuaded Da Ming and Er Ming to seek powerful Soul Beasts whose bloodlines could help them grow, and suggested Xiao Wu might need a stronger bloodline too. The three Soul Beasts accepted the plan, though Xiao Wu resented the prospect of becoming dragon-like.

• Ji Yang told Da Ming and Er Ming to seek Soul Beasts with Azure Dragon, lightning, Ancient Tai Tan Beast, or similar traits so he could refine pills to strengthen their bloodlines and cultivation.
• Da Ming and Er Ming agreed to look for suitable Soul Beasts and considered searching beyond the Star Dou Great Forest if necessary.
• Ji Yang suggested that Da Ming and Er Ming could pursue True Dragon or Ice God bloodlines if they could not find suitable matches for their own.
• Xiao Wu complained that Ji Yang had made no special plan for her, so he suggested she might add a True Dragon-related bloodline if no suitable rabbit Soul Beast existed.
• Xiao Wu accused Ji Yang of discriminating against rabbits and privately disliked the idea of becoming a Dragon Rabbit, while Da Ming and Er Ming awkwardly agreed that rabbit Soul Beasts were weak.

Ji Yang had the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape recruit help and capture people and soul beasts so he could demonstrate his pills. When they returned with their catches, they brought back Ye Lingling, and Ji Yang realized their arrival in the forest might have caused her to be separated from her escorts.

• Ji Yang told the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape to enlist soul beasts to guard the Lake of Life and bring back suitable humans and soul beasts for his experiments.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape returned within half a day with three soul masters and three soul beasts, though not the beasts they needed for themselves.
• The Titan Giant Ape explained that he had rescued a girl who was treating an injured soft bone rabbit and killed the Man Faced Demon Spider threatening her.
• The girl introduced herself as Ye Lingling, granddaughter of Ye Renxin, and Ji Yang recognized her as the Nine Heart Begonia user from the Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Ji Yang suspected that the beast tide caused by his group had separated Ye Lingling from her escorts and brought her into danger.

Ji Yang refined three captured Soul Beasts into Soul Spirit Pills and ordered the two scar-faced men to absorb them. As the men began refining the pills to obtain their next Soul Rings, the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape watched to see whether Ji Yang’s claims were true.

• Ji Yang reassured Ye Lingling, identified the three injured Soul Beasts, and recognized that their cultivation ages suited the Soul Rings she and the scar-faced men needed.
• Ji Yang sent Xiao Wu to take Ye Lingling away so she would not see his secrets, then summoned his Eight Trigrams Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul.
• Ji Yang placed the Life Sunflower, Starwind Wolf, and Moonshadow Leopard into the furnace and refined them into three Soul Spirit Pills.
• Ji Yang woke the two scar-faced men and ordered them to take the pills, while the Titan Giant Ape threatened them into obeying.
• The scar-faced men swallowed the pills, felt Soul Ring-like energy spread through them, and began absorbing it to obtain their fourth and fifth Soul Rings.

Ji Yang tested whether Soul Spirits could be released and restored to Soul Beasts, then refined the two scar-faced men after their Soul Spirits returned to life. The Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape trusted Ji Yang more, while further pill experiments remained.

• The two scar-faced men absorbed Soul Spirit Pills and manifested fourth- and fifth-year Soul Rings as Starwind Wolf and Moonshadow Leopard Soul Spirits.
• Ji Yang ordered them to swear that they released their Soul Spirits, and the Starwind Wolf and Moonshadow Leopard regained their Soul Beast bodies.
• The scar-faced men's Soul Power Levels fell after losing their Soul Rings, and Ji Yang refined them into pills in his Bagua Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul.
• Ji Yang realized Soul Masters could yield pills corresponding to those refined from Soul Beasts, including Martial Soul Pills that could grant inheritable Martial Souls.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape celebrated the Soul Beasts' resurrection and placed greater trust in Ji Yang.
• Ji Yang reminded them that they still needed to test the effects of Soul Power Pills, Soul Body Pills, and other pills.

Ji Yang refined pills from the Starwind Wolf, Moonshadow Leopard, and two Scar-Faced Men, gaining major advances in soul power, physical strength, and mental power. He reached level nineteen, strengthened his Phoenix Bird Soul Spirit to a ten-thousand-year soul ring, and looked forward to further growth in the Star Dou Great Forest.

• The Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape nearly killed the Starwind Wolf and Moonshadow Leopard again, and Ji Yang refined them into seven kinds of pills.
• Ji Yang took a Soul Power Pill refined from a Quasi-Soul Ancestor and advanced from level sixteen to level seventeen as he absorbed its power.
• Ji Yang took the remaining pills refined from the two Scar-Faced Men, raising his physical strength enough to bear a ten-thousand-year soul ring and advancing his Phoenix Bird Soul Spirit and first soul ring to ten thousand years.
• The soul ring's advancement and the remaining Soul Power Pill's effects raised Ji Yang to level nineteen.
• Ji Yang's mental power reached the spirit connection realm, and his ten-thousand-year soul ring strengthened his first soul skill's boosts and duration.

Ji Yang’s pills greatly increased Da Ming and Er Ming’s cultivation, prompting them to search for more soul beasts. After they left, Ji Yang invited Ye Lingling to join his faction, offering the possibility of lifting the curse on her Nine Heart Begonia martial soul.

• Er Ming complained that the pills’ benefits were underwhelming, but Da Ming explained that they had still gained far more than they would have from devouring ordinary soul beasts.
• Ji Yang told Da Ming and Er Ming to find more soul beasts for pills, and the two left the Lake of Life eager to help him.
• Xiao Wu returned with Ye Lingling and asked whether Da Ming and Er Ming had gone out again; Ji Yang explained that the pills had worked well.
• Ji Yang considered making Ye Lingling an ally in his faction and offered her future benefits, including the possibility of lifting the Nine Heart Begonia’s curse.

Ji Yang offered to break the curse of the Ye clan’s nine heart begonia martial soul, and Ye Lingling agreed to join his faction in exchange. The chapter left Ye Lingling learning about Soul Spirit Pills and their potential to give a healing soul master independent combat support.

• Ji Yang told Ye Lingling he was seventy to eighty percent confident he could break the nine heart begonia curse by evolving her martial soul, with mutation and his future godhood as backup plans.
• Ye Lingling chose to join Ji Yang’s faction, staking her hopes on his promise to lift the curse.
• Xiao Wu reassured Ye Lingling that Ji Yang could succeed because he was a deity’s inheritor, strengthening Ye Lingling’s faith in him.
• Ji Yang gave Ye Lingling a Life Sunflower Soul Spirit Pill and explained that a soul spirit could provide multiple soul rings and fight alongside her.
• Ye Lingling marveled at the pill’s potential to let her retain combat support despite the nine heart begonia’s Group Healing limitation.

Ji Yang showed Ye Lingling how a Soul Spirit worked, and she successfully refined a Life Sunflower Soul Spirit that could heal and cleanse negative effects. After Ye Lingling swore to keep Soul Spirits and Soul Spirit Pills secret, Ji Yang named their new organization the Pill Tower.

• Ye Lingling refined Ji Yang's Soul Spirit Pill, gained a second Yellow Soul Ring, and reached rank twenty-two.
• Ye Lingling summoned her Life Sunflower Soul Spirit and confirmed that its Soul Skill healed her and cleansed negative effects without initially consuming her Soul Power.
• Ji Yang explained how a Soul Spirit replenished its source power and warned Ye Lingling not to reveal Soul Spirits or Soul Spirit Pills.
• Ye Lingling swore to keep Ji Yang's secrets, and he gave her several more kinds of pills.
• After Xiao Wu suggested and Ji Yang rejected the name Star Dou Wu Yang Grand Alliance, Ji Yang named the organization the Pill Tower.