Chapter Summaries

Lu Yuan persuaded Chrysanthemum Douluo to let him delay joining Spirit Hall Academy for a year, though Chrysanthemum Douluo planted soul power in him as a threat to ensure he kept his promise. After growing closer to Xiao Wu, Lu Yuan left Nuoding City and headed for Holy Soul Village, while Xiao Wu returned to the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Lu Yuan convinced Chrysanthemum Douluo that he needed to reunite with his older sister before leaving, so Chrysanthemum Douluo agreed to give him a year to report to Spirit Hall Academy.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo planted his soul power in Lu Yuan as insurance, gave him a written document, and left Nuoding City.
• Lu Yuan spent more than half a year growing closer to Xiao Wu while helping her maintain her friendship with Tang San.
• Lu Yuan said goodbye to Xiao Wu and urged her to return to the Star Dou Great Forest and be cautious around others.
• Lu Yuan left by carriage the next morning, relieved that Tang Hao had not attacked him, and traveled toward Holy Soul Village.

Lu Yuan and Meowmeow found Ah Yin hidden behind a waterfall and uncovered the box containing her soul bone. Xiao Wu turned back before reaching Holy Soul Village, leaving Tang San alone as Lu Yuan prepared to claim the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone.

• Xiao Wu asked to visit Tang San's home, and Tang Hao watched them leave Nuoding City while planning to protect them and later find Yu Xiaogang.
• Meowmeow sensed a rich aura of life in the hills behind Holy Soul Village and led Lu Yuan to the waterfall hiding Water Curtain Cave.
• Xiao Wu remembered Lu Yuan's warning, told Tang San she had an urgent matter at home, and rode away without him.
• Lu Yuan used his stamina points to leap through the waterfall and found Ah Yin growing as blue silver grass inside the cave.
• Lu Yuan discovered an antique box beneath loose soil and believed it held Ah Yin's Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone.

Lu Yuan stole Ah Yin and her Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone from Tang Hao’s hiding place and escaped downstream with Meowmeow. Tang Hao discovered the theft and rushed back to the cave, while Lu Yuan spotted a Mountain Ape and thought of a way to continue evading him.

• Lu Yuan opened the Soul Bone box, sensed Tang Hao’s protective Soul Power fading, and decided to flee with Meowmeow and Ah Yin.
• Lu Yuan uprooted the young Blue Silver Emperor, wrapped her in cloth, and jumped through the waterfall into the river to escape downstream.
• Tang Hao sensed that something had happened to Ah Yin’s hiding place, left Yu Xiaogang’s office, and flew toward Holy Soul Village.
• Tang Hao found the cave ransacked and the Soul Bone and Ah Yin missing, then collapsed in grief and cried out for her.
• After drifting downstream for most of the day, Lu Yuan heard a Mountain Ape howling in the forest and thought of a way to leave fewer traces.

Lu Yuan escaped the Water Curtain Cave with Ah Yin and her Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, while Xiao Wu fled toward the Star Dou Great Forest. Tang Hao failed to find either of them and began suspecting Lu Yuan had helped Xiao Wu escape.

• Lu Yuan had Meowmeow swing them through the woods on vines to hide their escape trail, then wondered whether Xiao Wu had made it to safety.
• Tang Hao returned to Holy Soul Village without finding Lu Yuan, realized Xiao Wu was missing, and hurriedly left again to search for her.
• Tang San was left alone and dejected after Tang Hao gave him a brief farewell and departed.
• Tang Hao searched the routes toward the Star Dou Great Forest but found no trace of Xiao Wu, who had taken a detour on Lu Yuan's advice.
• Tang Hao vented his anger by killing a passing soul beast, then suspected that Lu Yuan had helped Xiao Wu escape.

Lu Yuan absorbed the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, killed Ah Yin for his second soul ring, and became an eight-year-old Soul Grandmaster. After testing Meowmeow’s strengthened Photosynthesis skill, he traveled to Spirit City to report to Spirit Hall Academy.

• Lu Yuan finished absorbing the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, which raised his soul power to rank 20 and gave him flight and a powerful healing skill.
• Lu Yuan crushed Ah Yin, absorbed the resulting soul ring, and reached rank 28 with two purple rings on Meowmeow.
• Lu Yuan tested Meowmeow’s Photosynthesis skill and found that its marks rapidly restored soul power and could be shared and stacked.
• Lu Yuan set out for Spirit City and found Spirit Hall Academy, where he was supposed to report.

Lu Yuan arrived late at Spirit Hall Academy and used Yue Guan’s letter to gain admission. At the opening ceremony, Bibi Dong recognized him and ordered Yue Guan to bring him over, curious about his remarkable cultivation.

• Lu Yuan showed the academy gatekeeper Yue Guan’s letter, and the academic affairs director escorted him inside to register.
• The director took Lu Yuan to the ongoing opening ceremony, where Bibi Dong, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei were present.
• Lu Yuan stared at Bibi Dong, who noticed him and recalled his unusual martial soul and rapid progress.
• Bibi Dong ordered Yue Guan to bring Lu Yuan to her, and Yue Guan recognized the boy he had invited a year earlier.
• Bibi Dong decided to examine how Lu Yuan had become a Soul Grandmaster at eight despite having only rank 0.5 innate soul power.

Chrysanthemum Douluo brought Lu Yuan to meet Bibi Dong, who discovered that he had become a Soul Grandmaster and possessed two genuine Thousand-Year Soul Rings. Bibi Dong demanded to know how he had advanced so quickly, leaving Lu Yuan under pressure to reveal his secrets.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo removed his soul power from Lu Yuan and took him to see Bibi Dong, accompanied by Ghost Douluo.
• Bibi Dong ordered Lu Yuan to release his martial soul and soul rings, and Meowmeow appeared beside him.
• Bibi Dong and the two Douluo were astonished to see Lu Yuan's two yellow-appearing rings and learn he was already a Soul Grandmaster at eight.
• Bibi Dong used her Slaughter Domain to weaken Lu Yuan's domain, revealing that both of his soul rings were genuine Thousand-Year Soul Rings.
• Lu Yuan said Meowmeow was an external martial soul that doubled his cultivation speed, but Bibi Dong demanded to know what else he was hiding and threatened his life.

Lu Yuan invented a story about a fairy giving him divine trials to explain his rapid cultivation and unusual soul rings, and Bibi Dong believed him. After Lu Yuan left, Bibi Dong consulted the Rakshasa God, who suspected the God of Life had chosen him.

• Lu Yuan told Bibi Dong that a fairy had appeared in his dream and promised to make him powerful through nine games.
• Bibi Dong sent Yue Guan and Gui Mei to guard the meeting room while she questioned Lu Yuan about the fairy and her rewards.
• Lu Yuan claimed he had completed two games, gaining cultivation talent and thousand-year first and second soul rings, and Bibi Dong concluded a deity had chosen him for divine trials.
• Bibi Dong dismissed Lu Yuan, who told Yue Guan and Gui Mei to keep guarding the door before leaving for Spirit Hall Academy.
• Bibi Dong contacted the Rakshasa God and asked who had chosen Lu Yuan, and the god suspected it was the God of Life.

After learning that the God of Life had chosen Lu Yuan, Bibi Dong decided to place him in Hu Liena’s class rather than make him her disciple. Lu Yuan joined Spirit Hall Academy’s senior class, where his age and rank amazed the students and Yan resolved to challenge him in combat class.

• Bibi Dong questioned the Rakshasa God, who confirmed that Lu Yuan’s divine patron was far stronger than herself and advised Bibi Dong to build a good relationship with him.
• Bibi Dong considered making Lu Yuan her disciple but chose instead to place him in Hu Liena’s class, hoping to pair him with Hu Liena.
• A teacher brought Lu Yuan, an eight-year-old rank twenty-eight Soul Grandmaster, into a senior class at Spirit Hall Academy.
• The teacher explained that Lu Yuan’s Meowmeow martial soul could cultivate independently and gave him more than three times the cultivation speed of ordinary Soul Masters.
• Hu Liena welcomed Lu Yuan, while Yan grew jealous and planned to embarrass him during afternoon combat class.

Yan challenged Lu Yuan to a sparring match after seeing him talk with Hu Liena, and Lu Yuan provoked him by mocking his unrequited affection. As they summoned their martial souls, Lu Yuan noticed that Meowmeow had evolved.

• Xie Yue guessed that Yan was jealous of Lu Yuan and expected the two to clash during practical combat class.
• Yan challenged Lu Yuan, while Hu Liena worried about the fight and asked Xie Yue to intervene.
• Lu Yuan accepted the challenge and insulted Yan, prompting Yan to declare a duel.
• Yan revealed his rank thirty-two Flame Lord martial soul, and Lu Yuan summoned his rank twenty-eight Meowmeow.
• Lu Yuan noticed Meowmeow had changed shape and grown a second tail leaf, and realized it had evolved.

Lu Yuan and Meowmeow faced Yan in their first sparring match, where Meowmeow’s Vine Strangle proved stronger than Yan expected. Yan broke free with his soul skills and charged at Lu Yuan and Meowmeow, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Meowmeow appeared in his evolved Meowth form, and Lu Yuan learned that he had evolved after reaching Soul Grandmaster.
• Lu Yuan ordered Meowmeow to use Photosynthesis, leading Yan to mistake him for a support-type Soul Master and taunt him.
• Lu Yuan ordered Meowmeow to use Vine Strangle, and the thorny vines injured Yan despite his Flame Lord’s flames.
• Yan used Granite Rock to smash the vines, then activated Hellish Magma Charge and rushed at Lu Yuan and Meowmeow.

Lu Yuan fought Yan in the sparring arena, using Meowmeow’s Vine Strangle and Stamina Burst to evade Yan’s attacks and keep fighting while his soul power recovered. As Yan appeared to recover, he secretly charged his third soul skill, leaving the battle poised for a sudden strike.

• Lu Yuan used a defensive Vine Strangle barrier and carried Meowmeow past Yan with Stamina Burst when Yan’s Hell Magma Charge shattered the vines.
• Hu Liena and Xie Yue recognized Lu Yuan’s unexplained technique as a possible self-created soul skill, though neither knew how an eight-year-old could have developed one.
• Yan realized Lu Yuan’s Vine Strangle restored his soul power, allowing him to outlast Yan through repeated exchanges.
• Xie Yue warned Hu Liena that Yan’s third soul skill could overwhelm Lu Yuan, while Hu Liena continued to believe Lu Yuan might win.
• Yan sat as though recovering while his flames scorched away Lu Yuan’s vines, secretly gathering power in his third soul ring for an attack.

During his duel with Yan, Lu Yuan used Star Magic against Yan’s charged Hellfire, but vanished after the flames swept across the arena. Yan feared he had burned Lu Yuan to ashes until he noticed a shadow on the ground.

• Lu Yuan used Star Magic while Yan recovered from his Vine Strangle attack, and Yan charged his thousand-year Hellfire skill.
• Xie Yue explained Hellfire to Hu Liena as Yan warned Lu Yuan to concede.
• Yan blasted Lu Yuan with a huge wave of fire while Hu Liena urged him to run.
• After the flames cleared, Lu Yuan was nowhere to be seen, and Yan wondered if he had burned him to ashes.
• Yan spotted a pitch-black shape on the ground and realized it was a shadow.

Lu Yuan defeated Yan in their sparring match by using his stamina-based grappling skill and Star Magic, leaving Yan unconscious but unharmed. Afterward, Hu Liena invited Lu Yuan to tour Spirit Hall Academy, while Xie Yue challenged him to a duel at the midyear assessment.

• Lu Yuan used a soul-power grappling hook to launch himself into the air, surprising the watching Soul Masters, who mistook it for another self-created soul skill.
• Lu Yuan dropped Star Magic onto the exhausted Yan, knocking him unconscious after deliberately reducing the attack's damage.
• Meowmeow carried Lu Yuan back to the arena, then changed from its second-stage form to its first-stage form and told Lu Yuan it could change forms freely.
• Hu Liena doted on Meowmeow as Xie Yue admitted Lu Yuan was exceptionally strong and challenged him to a duel at the midyear assessment in six months.
• Hu Liena took Lu Yuan to tour Spirit Hall Academy, leaving Xie Yue to watch them walk away together.

Lu Yuan planned to obtain a ten-thousand-year third soul ring by seeking the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and decided to visit Dugu Bo after the midyear assessment. His plans paused when Meowmeow returned from exploring Spirit City with dessert on its mouth and claimed a beautiful older sister had treated it.

• Lu Yuan reflected on reaching level 30 and decided not to tell the academy because he hoped to absorb a ten-thousand-year third soul ring.
• Lu Yuan considered strengthening his spiritual power with the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and resolved to seek out Dugu Bo after the midyear assessment.
• Lu Yuan reasoned that helping Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan with their poison could earn him access to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Meowmeow returned to Lu Yuan while he relaxed by the river, and he noticed dessert on its mouth.
• Lu Yuan accused Meowmeow of stealing food, but Meowmeow insisted that a very pretty older sister had treated it.

After Meowmeow led Lu Yuan through Spirit City to meet the beautiful girl who had fed it, She Long escorted them into her private room. The girl greeted them, leaving Lu Yuan face to face with his mysterious host.

• Lu Yuan apologized to Meowmeow for misunderstanding it, and Meowmeow explained that a pretty big sister wanted to meet him.
• Meowmeow led Lu Yuan to an extravagant restaurant, where he wondered about the girl's wealth and influence.
• She Long came out and said his young mistress had invited Lu Yuan and Meowmeow inside.
• Lu Yuan followed She Long to a private room and learned that the Soul Master was named She Long, though the name seemed familiar.
• Lu Yuan and Meowmeow entered the room, where a golden-haired girl in a white feathered dress turned to greet them.

Lu Yuan realized that the blonde girl who had befriended Meowmeow was Qian Renxue, Spirit Hall’s heir. The chapter recounted how Qian Renxue met Meowmeow in Spirit City and ended with her asking the kitten to come home with her.

• Qian Renxue visited Spirit City in secret, leaving another Spirit Hall expert to impersonate Xue Qinghe while Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo accompanied her.
• Meowmeow followed the scent of Qian Renxue’s cake to her window, where Qian Renxue mistook it for a stray soul beast and offered it food.
• After eating, Meowmeow jumped into Qian Renxue’s lap and let her pet it, delighting her by showing that it understood human speech.
• Qian Renxue invited Meowmeow to come home with her.
• When Qian Renxue later learned Meowmeow was Lu Yuan’s martial soul, Lu Yuan recognized her as Qian Renxue.

Qian Renxue met Lu Yuan after discovering that Meowmeow was his martial soul, and decided to bring him along on her undercover mission to the Heaven Dou Empire. Qian Daoliu objected after learning Lu Yuan had an external martial soul and low innate soul power, but Qian Renxue insisted that he was different.

• Meowmeow showed Qian Renxue that it already had a master, and she asked the cat to bring Lu Yuan to meet her.
• Qian Renxue learned that Lu Yuan attended Spirit Hall Academy and decided to have him accompany her on her mission to Heaven Dou City.
• Qian Renxue asked Qian Daoliu to arrange for Lu Yuan to join her, and he summoned a subordinate to retrieve the boy's information.
• Qian Daoliu saw that Lu Yuan had an external martial soul and level 0.5 innate soul power, and feared Qian Renxue was repeating Bibi Dong's choices.
• Qian Renxue confronted Qian Daoliu and declared that Lu Yuan was different.

Qian Daoliu agreed to let Qian Renxue take Lu Yuan after Spirit Hall Academy’s midterm assessments, then asked Bibi Dong whether she had arranged for Lu Yuan to approach Qian Renxue. Bibi Dong opposed sending him to Heaven Dou, making Qian Daoliu suspect she knew something unusual about the boy.

• Qian Renxue persuaded Qian Daoliu to let her take Lu Yuan after the midterm assessments, and he agreed so he could keep her in Spirit City longer.
• Qian Daoliu visited Bibi Dong at the Pope Palace, where they maintained a wary balance despite their conflicting ambitions and concerns for Spirit Hall.
• Qian Daoliu asked Bibi Dong whether she had sent Lu Yuan to get close to Qian Renxue, and Bibi Dong reacted with surprise at their relationship.
• Qian Daoliu told Bibi Dong to send Lu Yuan to Heaven Dou after the assessments, but Bibi Dong refused because she feared he would ally with Qian Renxue.
• Qian Daoliu noticed Bibi Dong’s unusual objection and asked whether something was special about Lu Yuan.

At the Spirit Hall Academy mid-term examinations, Lu Yuan faced Hu Liena in the final four after revealing that he had reached level 30 at only eight and a half years old. The duel began with Hu Liena using her Demon Fox Transformation and catching Lu Yuan off guard with Fox Charm.

• Qian Daoliu proposed sending Lu Yuan to Heaven Dou City with Xiao Xue, and Bibi Dong agreed while concealing Lu Yuan's deity inheritance.
• A few days later, the Spirit Hall Academy held its mid-term examinations, and Lu Yuan and Hu Liena reached the final four.
• Hu Liena challenged Lu Yuan, saying her Demon Fox martial soul and control skills could overcome his earlier victory against Yan.
• Lu Yuan announced that he was a level-30 control-system soul master, astonishing the audience and the Golden Generation because he was only eight and a half.
• At the start of their duel, Lu Yuan used Photosynthesis while Hu Liena activated Demon Fox Transformation and then caught him with Fox Charm before he could command Meowth.