Recaps

After Leng Xiyue and Xie Yue beat up a group of students, Chu Lingyun ordered them to take the injured students to the infirmary and fight five Arena matches as punishment. Yan joined them to avoid theory class, and the group headed for the Arena.

• Xie Yue explained that the fight would earn them rankings and challengers, while named challenges and wagers could bring in money.
• Chu Lingyun entered the classroom and ordered Xie Yue, Leng Xiyue, and Hu Liena to take the injured students to the infirmary and fight five Arena matches.
• Yan volunteered to join their punishment, then admitted to Xie Yue that he only wanted to skip theory class.
• Leng Xiyue called out the injured students for pretending to be helpless, and they got up and went to the infirmary.
• After the injured students entered the infirmary, Leng Xiyue, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena headed to the Arena.

Leng Xiyue, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena registered for Soul Fighting at the academy and entered singles matchmaking. Leng Xiyue was matched against Yan, whose Flame Lord Martial Soul caught her interest, and their battle began with her rushing to attack.

• Xie Yue registered the three students for Soul Fighting and received their arena cards.
• Xie Yue suggested they each try singles matches, and the group read the arena rules while waiting for matchmaking.
• Leng Xiyue registered her friends to prevent them from being matched against one another.
• Leng Xiyue entered her assigned platform and discovered that her opponent was Yan, who was surprised to face her.
• Yan activated his Flame Lord Martial Soul, while Leng Xiyue summoned her staff and attacked with her first Soul Skill, Flash Slash.

Leng Xiyue defeated Yan with a single strike, completed five undefeated matches, and challenged the year’s top-ranked student, Zhang Ping, for a fight at two in the afternoon. She returned to the Arena after lunch, ready to begin her plan to earn money by challenging the rankings.

• Leng Xiyue defeated Yan by taking control of his vital point, and the system declared her the winner.
• Xie Yue and Hu Liena won their matches, and Yan joined them, but the group could not find enough students for a team match.
• Leng Xiyue won all five of her matches, while Yan lost to Xie Yue and ended with two losses in three matches.
• Leng Xiyue paid one hundred Gold Soul Coins to challenge Zhang Ping, the top-ranked student in their year.
• Zhang Ping accepted the challenge for two in the afternoon, and Leng Xiyue returned to the Arena after lunch.

Leng Xiyue challenged Zhang Ping, the top student in her grade, and defeated her in a match at Spirit Hall Academy. After the loss, Zhang Ping accepted the result and quietly left the arena.

• Zhang Ping reflected on how her parents' divorce had left her feeling unwanted despite their financial support, and how she had climbed to first place in the Grade Rankings.
• Leng Xiyue refused Zhang Ping's offer to withdraw, while Xie Yue and Hu Liena watched from the stands and placed a bet on her.
• Zhang Ping used her Golden Feather Swallow and a teleporting soul skill to evade Leng Xiyue's first Flash Slash, then attacked while Leng Xiyue struggled to keep up with her reflexes.
• Leng Xiyue fled until Flash Slash came off cooldown, then struck Zhang Ping again and knocked her off the platform.
• Zhang Ping accepted her defeat and left through a side passage as the crowd discussed Leng Xiyue's victory.

Over two years, Leng Xiyue built a large stockpile of firearms and Soul Power Bullets and prepared to sell them through a trade guild. She brought one of her new weapons to Bibi Dong for support, and Bibi Dong summoned Yue Guan to witness a demonstration.

• Leng Xiyue rose to the top of the Arena rankings, earning nearly four hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins while improving her combat reflexes.
• Leng Xiyue commissioned fifty thousand firearms, had students make Soul Power Bullets, and used the Forge to assemble and decorate the guns.
• Leng Xiyue asked Zhang Ping for business advice and learned that a trade guild in Spirit City needed powerful backing.
• Leng Xiyue presented a firearm to Bibi Dong as a new soul tool and asked to demonstrate its power.
• Bibi Dong became interested in the weapon and summoned Yue Guan.

Leng Xiyue demonstrated her gun to Bibi Dong and explained how she could sell a crude model to the empire while keeping better weapons for Spirit Hall. Bibi Dong approved the plan, provided Leng Xiyue with a professional team, and selected a busy Outer City location for her trade guild.

• Bibi Dong asked Leng Xiyue to test her Soul Tool on Yue Guan, who judged that the gun could pierce a Soul Elder's protective aura and damage some lower-level Soul Ancestors.
• Leng Xiyue told Bibi Dong she wanted to establish a trade guild and sell the gun to people from the empire, while reserving better models for Spirit Hall.
• Leng Xiyue explained how secret techniques for powering the bullets and Spirit Hall's influence could prevent competitors from copying her business.
• Bibi Dong agreed to support Leng Xiyue and assigned her a professional team.
• Bibi Dong chose a high-traffic site in the Outer City near the Great Soul Arena, and Leng Xiyue accepted the arrangement.

Leng Xiyue gave Bibi Dong a tank blueprint and spent the afternoon discussing her ambitions for Spirit Hall, while Bibi Dong showed little interest in unification. Leng Xiyue grew worried that Bibi Dong’s future Rakshasa trials might drive her to disastrous actions, but she left without asking about Yu Xiaogang.

• Leng Xiyue presented Bibi Dong with a tank blueprint, and Bibi Dong sent Yue Guan to have Li Yuyuan assess its feasibility in a written report.
• Bibi Dong arranged afternoon tea and dinner with Leng Xiyue despite learning that Qian Renxue wanted to visit her.
• Leng Xiyue discussed her inventions and plans for Spirit Hall’s unification, but Bibi Dong responded with little interest in the goal.
• Leng Xiyue recalled Bibi Dong’s future Rakshasa trials and feared they might demand war or mass deaths, resolving to prevent that outcome.
• Leng Xiyue considered asking Bibi Dong about Yu Xiaogang but changed her mind and left for school.
• Javier asked whether Bibi Dong wanted Leng Xiyue investigated, but Bibi Dong declined, trusting her to speak when she was ready.

Leng Xiyue worried about delaying her plan to eliminate Yu Xiaogang, then met a melancholy blonde girl outside the Martial Soul General Hall. She took the girl to a street stall, where a taste of ordinary life in Spirit City helped shift the girl’s perspective, though her identity and troubles remained unclear.

• Leng Xiyue concluded that she lacked the reach and allies to target Yu Xiaogang safely, so she would have to wait before acting against him.
• Leng Xiyue found a blonde girl sitting alone on the Martial Soul General Hall steps and asked why she questioned Spirit City’s reputation as a holy land.
• Leng Xiyue argued that people in Spirit City at least had choices, then took the girl to the outer city’s shopping street.
• Leng Xiyue bought roast chickens from Old Wang and urged the girl to try one.
• The girl enjoyed the chicken and, seeing ordinary people and Soul Masters mingle freely, began to understand that her goals might matter beyond proving something to her mother.

Leng Xiyue learned that the girl she had met was Qian Renxue, then welcomed her into her apartment the next morning. Qian Renxue asked about Bibi Dong and, after tasting Leng Xiyue’s milk tea, eagerly requested another glass.

• Leng Xiyue left the girl after introducing herself, and two attendants reminded the girl that Leng Xiyue was Bibi Dong’s personal disciple.
• The girl decided to stay in Spirit City for two more weeks while her attendant agreed to handle matters in her absence.
• Leng Xiyue bought photographs of Qian Renxue and regretted that their first meeting had been so informal.
• Qian Renxue visited Leng Xiyue the next morning, and Leng Xiyue secured her workshop before inviting her inside.
• Qian Renxue asked how Bibi Dong was doing, and Leng Xiyue told her that Bibi Dong had been busy with something in the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Leng Xiyue served Qian Renxue milk tea, and Qian Renxue quickly finished it and asked for another glass.

Leng Xiyue and Qian Renxue discussed whether Spirit Hall could take control of the Heaven Dou Empire without war. Leng Xiyue proposed building popular support by elevating commoners and infiltrating the empire’s politics, leaving Qian Renxue to consider the strategy.

• Leng Xiyue hosted Qian Renxue with milk tea, desserts, and books, and the two discussed the continent’s balance of power.
• Qian Renxue asked whether Spirit Hall could unify the continent within their generation.
• Leng Xiyue argued that Spirit Hall should pursue peaceful evolution by winning public support rather than relying on military victory.
• Leng Xiyue explained that rigid class barriers and noble control of propaganda would turn commoners against Spirit Hall if war caused widespread deaths.
• Leng Xiyue proposed promoting talented commoners, organizing them into a mutual aid association, and building political support to weaken Heaven Dou’s nobility from within.
• Qian Renxue fell into deep thought about Leng Xiyue’s proposal.

Leng Xiyue and Qian Renxue grew close while discussing plans for Heaven Dou and sharing a home, but after two weeks Qian Renxue left without warning. Leng Xiyue returned to find only a letter and Qian Renxue’s necklace.

• Leng Xiyue outlined how Qian Renxue could use commoners and Spirit Hall’s support to weaken Heaven Dou’s nobility and bring the empire under Spirit Hall’s control.
• Qian Renxue stayed the night with Leng Xiyue, and the two shared a bed; the next morning, Qian Renxue asked to remain for a few more days to read Leng Xiyue’s books.
• Xiao Bai told Leng Xiyue that Qian Renxue was more emotional than she appeared, while Leng Xiyue reflected that she could not yet reconcile Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong.
• Over the next two weeks, Qian Renxue and Leng Xiyue shared meals and discussed books while Leng Xiyue expanded the Trade Guild and began selling weapons.
• After the Trade Guild’s operations no longer needed her oversight, Leng Xiyue returned with a gift and found her room empty except for Qian Renxue’s letter and necklace.

Qian Renxue visited Bibi Dong to say goodbye before assuming Xue Qinghe’s identity, but their meeting ended in pain and Bibi Dong’s emotional collapse. As Qian Renxue left to begin her plan, Leng Xiyue gave her books and a powerful revolver for protection.

• Qian Renxue told Bibi Dong she would soon impersonate Xue Qinghe and might be gone for five or ten years, but Bibi Dong coldly rejected her.
• Bibi Dong lost control and threw a Glazed Glass Cup at Qian Renxue, who accepted the injury and sensed that her mother still cared for her.
• After Qian Renxue left, Bibi Dong smashed treasures, wept, then ordered Gui Mei and Yue Guan to summon the bishops and elders for the Heaven Dou Empire operation.
• Leng Xiyue waited outside the Papal Hall and gave Qian Renxue books and a revolver she had made for her protection.
• Qian Renxue thanked and hugged Leng Xiyue before they parted.

Three years later, Leng Xiyue watched Spirit Hall Academy win the tournament and prepared to travel north to the Far North. She left Star Luo City alone, hoping to find the powerful Ice Silkworm Tian Meng and obtain a suitable Soul Ring.

• Spirit Hall Academy won the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament, while Leng Xiyue watched without interest.
• Leng Xiyue told Hu Liena she planned to explore the Far North, where she hoped to find Tian Meng.
• Hu Liena warned Leng Xiyue that the Far North was dangerous and brutally cold, but Leng Xiyue remained confident.
• After the award ceremony, Leng Xiyue said goodbye to Hu Liena and the others and headed north alone.

Leng Xiyue traveled north to find Tian Meng and discovered the pool that triggered a new system quest to help him surpass the million-year threshold and sacrifice himself. She began draining the pool to store its energy for after her next breakthrough.

• Leng Xiyue traveled alone along the Yangtze River toward the Far North, carrying supplies, firearms, and upgraded armor.
• The system revised her challenge quest, tasking her with helping the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm surpass the million-year threshold and sacrifice himself, with a physical body for Tian Meng offered as an additional reward.
• Leng Xiyue found an emerald pool whose water instantly froze a stone and consumed her Water-Avoidance Pearl.
• Xiao Bai explained that the pool's accumulated energy could be converted into psionic energy and might raise Leng Xiyue three levels after her breakthrough.
• Leng Xiyue set aside her doubts about Xiao Bai and began drawing water from the pool.

Leng Xiyue and Xiao Bai found the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm deep inside the cavern and sought his sacrifice to Leng Xiyue in exchange for a chance to live and cultivate beyond the world’s limits. After Xiao Bai forcibly pushed Tian Meng past a million years of cultivation and promised that he and his beloved could become True Gods, he agreed to join them.

• Leng Xiyue drained the cold pool, broke through the frost-covered wall, and followed a tunnel to a cavern of deep blue ore.
• Leng Xiyue and Xiao Bai found Tian Meng sleeping in the cavern and woke him.
• Xiao Bai offered Tian Meng survival, a human body, and a chance to cultivate alongside her if he sacrificed himself to Leng Xiyue.
• Tian Meng questioned Xiao Bai’s promise, so she flooded him with psionic energy and forced his cultivation past one million years.
• After initially refusing, Tian Meng agreed when Xiao Bai promised that he and his beloved could become or surpass True Gods.

Leng Xiyue signed a Soul Contract with Tian Meng and received his Million-Year Soul Ring and Head Soul Bone. The system used the Soul Bone to build a Spirit Network framework in her mind, and she woke with a clearer mind as Xiao Bai explained its purpose.

• Leng Xiyue signed Tian Meng's Soul Contract, binding their souls to its terms.
• Xiao Bai welcomed Tian Meng into their family and guided him as he sacrificed his Soul Ring and Head Soul Bone to Leng Xiyue.
• Tian Meng's Soul Ring entered Leng Xiyue's soul space safely, but the system used his Head Soul Bone to expand her mind and construct a Spirit Network framework, causing her immense pain.
• Leng Xiyue passed out, and the system announced a new mission to raise her Psionic Energy level to thirty, with a Shield Generator as the reward.
• Leng Xiyue woke with a clearer mind, and Xiao Bai explained that the Spirit Network could connect people and let commanders control Protoss units.

Leng Xiyue chose the Purifier Squad from three Protoss legion options and summoned its members. The chapter ended with Kaldalis and the Legionnaires kneeling to report to her as High Bishop.

• Leng Xiyue examined the three legion options: the elite Purifier Squad, the larger Dragoon Legion, and the cloaked Shadow Guard.
• Leng Xiyue weighed the legions’ combat strength, revival capabilities, and specialties, then chose the Purifier Squad for its level-ninety-five hero, Kaldalis.
• The system added the Purifier Squad to Leng Xiyue’s storage and explained how its units could be revived, connected to her Spirit Network, and given orders.
• Leng Xiyue summoned Kaldalis, ten Legionnaires, and two Conservators.
• Kaldalis and the ten Legionnaires knelt before Leng Xiyue and reported for duty as the Purifier Squad.

Leng Xiyue familiarized herself with the protoss warriors she had summoned and examined the three modes of her Second Soul Skill. After learning that the ten-thousand-year cold marrow might have formed above a leyline, she asked whether they could find it.

• Leng Xiyue used the Spirit Network to inspect and control her protoss units, then stored them away to avoid attracting attention in Suotuo City.
• Leng Xiyue examined her Second Soul Skill and learned its three modes: slowed perception, enhanced movement, and a brief but costly time stop.
• Leng Xiyue collected more than two hundred pieces of ten-thousand-year cold marrow while Tian Meng remained unconscious.
• Xiao Bai explained that a leyline beneath the cave might have produced the cold marrow and described how leylines generated resources.
• Leng Xiyue eagerly asked whether they could search for the leyline.

Leng Xiyue and Xiao Bai traced the remnants of a vanished leyline through a cave beneath the Far North and discovered a sealed stone door with eight empty slots and a central key imprint. Tian Meng suggested the seal had been left by an ancient god-level powerhouse and might conceal either a monster or a great treasure.

• Xiao Bai explained how leylines formed treasure grounds and guessed that a vanished leyline had created the cave’s cold marrow.
• Leng Xiyue and Xiao Bai explored deeper, found a warm underground river, and noticed that its channel and the path beside it had been deliberately constructed.
• Leng Xiyue and Xiao Bai discovered an ornate stone door with eight empty slots and a central key imprint, but neither they nor Kaldalis could open it.
• Leng Xiyue photographed the slots with an image-recording Soul Tool, hoping to identify the required objects later.
• Tian Meng awoke and said the door blocked his spiritual power, suggesting it was an ancient seal that might hold a monster or an extraordinary treasure.

Leng Xiyue learned how the Northern Province operated as a lawless haven for tyrants and slave traders, then killed the men who had abducted women from the Heaven Dou Empire. She and Tian Meng were left to decide what to do with the twenty-odd women they had rescued.

• Leng Xiyue prepared to leave the Far North and return to Heaven Dou, reflecting on the Northern Province's corrupt rule and the slave trade it protected.
• Leng Xiyue questioned a bald bandit after killing his Soul Elder and Soul Ancestor companions.
• Leng Xiyue executed the bandit, rejecting his plea for mercy because of the people he had harmed.
• Xiao Bai praised Leng Xiyue for acting decisively, and Leng Xiyue said she felt no guilt about killing tyrants.
• Tian Meng comforted the twenty-odd women Leng Xiyue had rescued, while Leng Xiyue struggled to decide what to do with them.

Leng Xiyue rescued a group of abducted women and decided to take them back rather than leave them to die. She then ambushed slave-trading caravans along the road, gaining resources and survivors before heading home, unaware that others were watching her depart.

• Leng Xiyue learned the rescued women did not want to return to Heaven Dou or continue living, but she offered them work and a new home.
• Xiao Bai suggested robbing more caravans, and Leng Xiyue sent Tian Meng to settle the women while she waited on the road.
• Leng Xiyue and her Legionnaires killed the people from twenty-three caravans, including slave traders and grain merchants, and rescued more than eighty women.
• Leng Xiyue gained one hundred and eighty thousand psionic energy experience and nearly five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, then left the battlefield with the women.
• Hidden observers emerged from the snow and watched Leng Xiyue leave.

After a massacre in the Northern Province, Governor Luo Yuanji punished the local families and discussed the attackers’ weapons with the Eternal Night Council’s Dark Night Douluo. Meanwhile, Leng Xiyue’s group passed a frontier checkpoint under Tian Meng’s lead, though the Eternal Night Council had already marked her as a target.

• Luo Yuanji killed a man who challenged his account of the massacre, then ordered local families to pay compensation and higher trade taxes.
• Luo Yuanji and Dark Night Douluo identified Spirit Hall as the source of the bullets that had killed a Soul King, and the council member revealed its plan to recruit Leng Xiyue.
• Luo Yuanji warned Dark Night Douluo against provoking Spirit Hall, then privately vowed revenge against the Eternal Night Council.
• Leng Xiyue disguised herself and had Tian Meng lead her group toward the checkpoint, unaware that the Eternal Night Council had set its sights on her.
• Tian Meng presented Leng Xiyue’s high-ranking Spirit Hall token, and the frontier officer opened the gate and let the group travel south.

Leng Xiyue brought the survivors to Heaven Dou City, organized a new trade guild, and bought minerals for her plans to develop firearms and cannons. After giving the young women time to rest, she went shopping with Tian Meng, whose enthusiasm faded when a restaurant owner offered him silkworm pupae and fried scorpion.

• As the group traveled south, many people slipped away, and Leng Xiyue continued to Heaven Dou City with just over sixty followers.
• Leng Xiyue arranged new clothes and uniforms for the young women, then had Tian Meng register the Star Dream trade guild and buy minerals and low-grade metals.
• Leng Xiyue explained that she planned to use the materials for research and eventually develop cannons, which could support a new army for Qian Renxue's political plan.
• Leng Xiyue gave the young women ten Gold Soul Coins each and set aside three days for them to rest before traveling onward to Suotuo City.
• Leng Xiyue and Tian Meng explored Heaven Dou City's commercial district, where she bought trinkets until Tian Meng was burdened with the purchases.
• At a restaurant, Tian Meng recoiled from the owner's offers of Snowfield Ice Silkworm Pupae and Fried Scorpion, then left Leng Xiyue to eat alone.

After Tian Meng accidentally broke a crystal doll, its young owner demanded that he kneel, but Leng Xiyue stepped in and escalated the confrontation. Leng Xiyue shot the girl's six attendants and warned them not to risk their lives for her.

• Tian Meng accidentally broke the girl's crystal doll and offered to pay for it, but she demanded that he kneel and kowtow.
• Tian Meng prepared to resist, then agreed to kneel until Leng Xiyue arrived and stood between him and the girl.
• The girl ordered a Soul King attendant to kneel, then commanded her attendants to seize Leng Xiyue and Tian Meng.
• Leng Xiyue drew her Revolver and shot all six approaching attendants in the face.
• Leng Xiyue reloaded and warned the wounded attendants that she could have killed them, urging them not to die for the girl.

Leng Xiyue punished Ning Rongrong for insulting her brother, then faced Bone Douluo Gu Rong when he came to rescue the girl. Kaldalis drove Gu Rong and Ning Rongrong through a spatial passage, leaving Leng Xiyue to realize she had angered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

• Leng Xiyue shot a Soul King who spoke up for Ning Rongrong, and the other retainers fled.
• Leng Xiyue offered Ning Rongrong cold-pool spirit liquid as compensation for her brother bumping into her, then slapped Ning Rongrong for ordering an attack.
• Gu Rong appeared and tried to seize Leng Xiyue, but Kaldalis blocked his bone chain and attacked him.
• Kaldalis wounded Gu Rong, forcing Gu Rong to escape with Ning Rongrong through a spatial passage.
• Leng Xiyue recognized Gu Rong and realized the girl she had beaten was Ning Rongrong of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.