Chapter Summaries

Leng Xiyue woke in a new world after being killed by a meteorite and met Xiao Bai, a Protoss who had saved her from a beast. Xiao Bai explained that Leng Xiyue could absorb the world's energy to cultivate psionic power, and Leng Xiyue recognized the glowing rings in the cave as Soul Rings.

• Leng Xiyue woke in a frail child’s body and learned that Xiao Bai had been carried along with the meteorite that killed her.
• Leng Xiyue accepted Xiao Bai as her partner, and Xiao Bai promised they would be friends.
• Xiao Bai explained that she could convert special energies from this world into psionic cultivation for Leng Xiyue.
• Xiao Bai revealed the dormant Core of the Starry Sky system and said Leng Xiyue needed psionic energy to activate it.
• Xiao Bai pointed out glowing rings among the beast carcasses in the cave, and Leng Xiyue recognized them as Soul Rings.

Leng Xiyue absorbed the soul rings from a devastated forest clearing, strengthening her body with psionic energy while learning from Xiao Bai how it worked in this world. After she began exploring with a mysterious dagger, tremors sounded nearby, leaving her facing a new disturbance.

• Leng Xiyue touched the cave's soul rings and absorbed them as Xiao Bai explained that psionic energy would strengthen her body.
• Leng Xiyue emerged from the cave and saw a vast wasteland created by Xiao Bai's leaked power, along with a black soul ring from a powerful beast that had attacked the original owner of her body.
• Xiao Bai explained that Leng Xiyue would need to use this world's human methods to wield psionic power and progress through its ranks.
• Leng Xiyue absorbed the black soul ring and the other rings in the area, rapidly improving her strength and physical constitution.
• Xiao Bai told Leng Xiyue to explore with her dagger while she finished her work, and Leng Xiyue set off to seek a way out.
• Leng Xiyue examined the dagger's ornate design and wondered why a powerful beast had targeted her when violent tremors sounded nearby.

Leng Xiyue intervened when Xie Yue and his sister were cornered by a group of Soul Masters, helping the siblings defeat their pursuers. After the fight, Xie Yue introduced himself and his sister, Hu Liena, to Leng Xiyue, leaving them alive and indebted to her.

• Xie Yue tried to hold off the pursuers so his sister could escape, but the group subdued him and threatened both siblings.
• Leng Xiyue killed one pursuer with her dagger and drew the others' attention, giving Hu Liena a chance to use her charm skill on their leader.
• Hu Liena and Xie Yue fought back while the leader was dazed, and Xie Yue seized Leng Xiyue's dagger and killed their attackers.
• The last surviving pursuer fled as Xie Yue collapsed from his injuries, and Hu Liena helped him rest while he sent her to return the dagger.
• Xie Yue introduced himself and Hu Liena to Leng Xiyue and thanked her for saving them.

Leng Xiyue learned why Hu Liena and Xie Yue were fighting to survive the Spirit Hall’s brutal trial, then asked Hu Liena to awaken her martial soul. As Hu Liena guided soul power through Leng Xiyue’s head, a barrier broke and Leng Xiyue sensed the Golden Light Orb, drawing her consciousness into it.

• Leng Xiyue introduced herself to Hu Liena and Xie Yue, who explained that five hundred orphaned candidates were competing in the Martial Soul Forest until only one hundred remained.
• Hu Liena and Xie Yue told Leng Xiyue how bandits, corrupt officials, and slave traders had ruined their lives before the Spirit Hall took them in, making them grateful for the chance to survive the trial.
• Xiao Bai reassured Leng Xiyue that they could change the world if she disliked its injustices, and Leng Xiyue decided to follow her heart.
• Leng Xiyue asked Hu Liena to awaken her martial soul, and Hu Liena used her demon fox martial soul to guide soul power through Leng Xiyue’s body.
• At Xiao Bai’s direction, Hu Liena carefully swept soul power through Leng Xiyue’s head, breaking a barrier and awakening Leng Xiyue’s awareness of the Golden Light Orb.
• Leng Xiyue’s consciousness was pulled into the Golden Light Orb as Hu Liena’s soul power surged toward it.

Leng Xiyue explored the system-created soul space and learned how her martial soul and forge worked. Xiao Bai warned that the forge had drained the young lady outside of her soul power, so Leng Xiyue should help her recover before claiming the first mission reward.

• Leng Xiyue awoke in a vast soul space that the system had remodeled into a city, and Xiao Bai confirmed that it was her mental space.
• Leng Xiyue examined her white martial-soul armor and summoned psionic weapons while Xiao Bai explained its limited abilities and how it could improve.
• Xiao Bai told Leng Xiyue that the central palace housed the system and that the forge could research blueprints, manufacture products, and upgrade her martial soul.
• Leng Xiyue learned that she had already qualified to claim the reward for her mission to reach psionic level ten.
• Xiao Bai warned Leng Xiyue to help the young lady outside recover her soul power, which the forge had drained.

Leng Xiyue awakened a powerful armor Martial Soul, healed Hu Liena, and learned that she appeared to have innate full soul power. After deciding to head toward Spirit City, she received a new mission to obtain a thousand-year Soul Ring and a bonus challenge for a ten-thousand-year ring.

• Leng Xiyue returned from her soul space and used her Martial Soul to restore Hu Liena after she passed out from exhaustion.
• Leng Xiyue manifested psionic blades and a longsword, astonishing Xie Yue with her Martial Soul’s power.
• Xie Yue urged Leng Xiyue to join Spirit Hall, and she agreed to seriously consider going to Spirit City.
• Xiao Bai warned Leng Xiyue that hidden observers were protecting Hu Liena and Xie Yue, and that she should leave before they could stop her.
• Leng Xiyue claimed the Hyper-Speed Component and received a mission to obtain a Soul Ring over one thousand years old, with a Simulation skill offered for a ten-thousand-year ring.

Leng Xiyue decided to pursue a powerful soul ring and followed Xiao Bai’s plan to use a ten-thousand-year soul beast to draw out the Spirit Hall expert pursuing her. She left the beast enraged and ran toward the expert, hoping he would kill it for her.

• Leng Xiyue parted from Xie Yue and Hu Liena, then sped into the forest while a hidden observer reported her movements to a superior.
• Leng Xiyue crashed into trees while testing her armor’s speed and searched the Martial Soul Forest for a thousand-year soul beast.
• Xiao Bai identified the Spirit Hall expert following Leng Xiyue and proposed using him to deal with a ten-thousand-year soul beast.
• Leng Xiyue found a sleeping ten-thousand-year wolf, struck its head with a rock, and ran toward the pursuing expert.

Wang Yan followed Leng Xiyue into the forest, where she provoked a gale demon wolf and led it to attack him. After Wang Yan badly wounded the beast, Leng Xiyue returned and killed it, leaving a black soul ring above its corpse.

• Wang Yan discovered Leng Xiyue disturbing a sleeping gale demon wolf and watched as she fled, drawing the enraged beast toward him.
• Wang Yan fought the gale demon wolf with his Samurai Sword and Thunderbolt Slash, but its claws tore through his arms and wounded his abdomen.
• Wang Yan’s crushing slash nearly severed the gale demon wolf’s spine, and the injured beast tried to flee while he treated his wounds.
• Leng Xiyue charged back and stabbed the weakened gale demon wolf several times with her dagger before retreating to safety.
• The gale demon wolf collapsed and died, and a black soul ring rose from its corpse.

Leng Xiyue absorbed the Gale Demon Wolf’s Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring and created her first skill, Flash Slash. After learning that her armor strengthened her entire body, she began considering how to earn money for upgrades and cultivation.

• Wang Yan watched as Leng Xiyue absorbed the Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring and guarded her while she recovered.
• The system rewarded Leng Xiyue with a Storage Space and Simulation module, while Xiao Bai removed the Gale Demon Wolf’s soul from the ring.
• Leng Xiyue designed Flash Slash, a rapid series of sword strikes, and fused the modified Soul Ring with her soul.
• Leng Xiyue broke through and received a mission to raise her Psionic Energy to level 20 and upgrade her armor to Level Two Metal using ten metric tons of metal.
• Xiao Bai explained that Leng Xiyue’s armor protected her entire body, and Leng Xiyue decided she needed to earn money to fund her growth.

After absorbing the black soul ring, Leng Xiyue disguised it as yellow and heard Wang Yan’s offer to take her to Spirit City as a potential Holy Maiden. She questioned Spirit Hall’s orphan trials, and Wang Yan explained how the organization screened, protected, and trained the children.

• Leng Xiyue used her new storage sticker and simulation module to conceal the black soul ring as yellow.
• Wang Yan invited Leng Xiyue to Spirit City, offering her the chance to become the Supreme Pontiff’s disciple and a future Holy Maiden.
• Leng Xiyue questioned whether Spirit Hall forced noncombat orphans to endure deadly trials against venomous creatures.
• Wang Yan explained that Spirit Hall quietly diverted children unsuited for combat, rescued those who reached their limits, and used the trials to assess the others.
• Wang Yan said Spirit Hall eliminated children who deliberately killed others and described harsher academy trials as preparation for future dangers.
• Leng Xiyue accepted Wang Yan’s explanation and recognized that Spirit Hall used the trials to screen and train children while protecting valuable talent.

Wang Yan told Leng Xiyue his account of the ancient Dark Age and how the Heaven Dou Empire and Star Luo Empire rose and divided the continent. He began explaining that the chapter’s account of Spirit Hall’s history would serve as the setting for the story.

• Leng Xiyue sat beside Wang Yan and asked him to tell her how Spirit Hall came to be.
• Wang Yan described the Dark Age, when Soul Masters ruled ordinary people and ancient civilizations developed powerful Soul Tools.
• Wang Yan explained how the Star Luo Empire unified the south and invaded the Heaven Dou Empire, whose rulers and sects defeated its First Legion.
• Wang Yan recounted how Star Luo’s Second Legion captured Heaven Dou City while Heaven Dou forces advanced on Star Luo’s capital, forcing both empires to negotiate peace.
• Wang Yan said the empires collected reparations, established a border, and named the continent after their two realms.
• Wang Yan continued by saying that his account of the continent’s history and Spirit Hall’s origins would serve as the book’s definitive setting.

Wang Yan explained how Heaven Dou and Star Luo’s centuries-long war devastated ordinary people while their ruling classes remained untouched, and how champions of justice resisted the empires. The arrival of an Angel God-favored woman and two level 98 brothers finally gave the resistance the strength to form a plan.

• Wang Yan described how Heaven Dou’s repeated wars with Star Luo continued for nine hundred years, leaving borderlands devastated while nobles profited.
• Leng Xiyue recoiled at the cruelty of the empires and the way their power kept ordinary people from revolting.
• Wang Yan explained that champions of justice resisted the empires, including an unnamed heroine who killed a Heaven Dou Prince and was executed for it.
• Wang Yan said the resistance built a cemetery on a mountain in a soul beast forest and honored those who died opposing the empires.
• A woman favored by the Angel God reached demigod rank and settled on the resistance’s Sacred Mountain to seek a way to save the continent.
• The woman met two brothers who were level 98 Super Douluos, and together they began forming a plan to challenge the empires.

Wang Yan recounted Spirit Hall’s founding, the Holy Emperor’s victory over the allied empires, and the settlement that preserved the empires while limiting their power. Leng Xiyue listened as the account ended with the rules that still governed Spirit Hall’s relationship with the Two Great Empires.

• Wang Yan described how Pope Qian Mengying founded Spirit Hall and how Soul Masters and ordinary people gathered to build Spirit City.
• Wang Yan recounted how Heaven Dou and Star Luo joined forces to destroy Spirit Hall, prompting the Holy Emperor to declare a Holy War.
• The Holy Emperor’s speech inspired ordinary soldiers in the allied army to revolt, while conflict between Heaven Dou and Star Luo troops plunged the alliance into chaos.
• The Holy War Army exploited the disorder, and the Holy Emperor defeated the empires’ experts, captured both emperors, and secured victory.
• The founders spared the empires but imposed rules that gave Spirit Hall authority over local branches and recruitment while restricting imperial forces and powerful Soul Masters.

Wang Yan explained Spirit Hall’s history and warned Leng Xiyue that its ideals and power had eroded as the empires and sects regained influence. Convinced that Spirit Hall was worth helping, Leng Xiyue agreed to return with him, and they hurried toward Spirit City.

• Wang Yan recounted how Spirit Hall had imposed peace, established the Elder Hall, and maintained its leadership after the Holy Emperor disappeared.
• Wang Yan warned Leng Xiyue that Spirit Hall had grown complacent while the empires rebuilt their armies and undermined its rules.
• Leng Xiyue reconsidered her view of Spirit Hall and felt ashamed that she had judged it alongside the empires.
• Leng Xiyue agreed to return with Wang Yan, who dismissed his injured arm and led her toward Spirit City.
• Wang Yan and Leng Xiyue traveled at full speed and soon reached Spirit City.

Leng Xiyue toured Spirit City as Wang Yan described its prosperous inner and outer districts, where Soul Masters’ abilities supported commerce, agriculture, and everyday life. She left marveling at the city’s unusual harmony and security.

• Wang Yan explained how Spirit Hall organized Spirit City’s inner district, rewarding Soul Masters and taxing merchants while drawing the continent’s wealthiest traders.
• He described the outer city’s population and how Spirit Hall provided housing and high-yield crops to families of Soul Masters who had died in service.
• Leng Xiyue saw the city’s civilian technologies, lively entertainment, and Great Soul Arena, where talented fighters from Spirit Hall and reclusive families competed.
• As she walked with Wang Yan, Leng Xiyue observed residents worshipping the Holy Emperor, enjoying games, and mixing freely across social backgrounds.
• Leng Xiyue concluded that Spirit City’s prosperity, safety, and lack of social division were unlike any political system she knew.

Wang Yan brought Leng Xiyue into Spirit City's inner city, where she realized her plans to make money through clothing and jewelry would be difficult. The chapter ended with her deciding to sell the items she had stored in her space instead.

• Wang Yan and Leng Xiyue rode to the inner city and passed the Great Soul Arena, where Wang Yan explained that he sometimes made money betting on fights.
• Wang Yan led Leng Xiyue past the inner city's guards and booked them a hotel room for the night.
• Wang Yan gave Leng Xiyue fifty Gold Soul Coins, arranged for clothes to be delivered, and left to report in before returning the next morning.
• Leng Xiyue bathed and reconsidered whether she could make money by introducing clothing styles and jewelry from her previous life.
• Leng Xiyue decided to sell the items in her space and returned there.

Leng Xiyue learned how the Forge could turn her understanding of an object into a complete blueprint, then used it to devise a plan for selling firearms on the Douluo Continent. She left with the beginnings of an arms business intended to profit from the Two Great Empires’ rivalry with Spirit Hall.

• Leng Xiyue asked Xiao Bai how to use the Forge to make blueprints, and Xiao Bai explained that soul space let her summon imagined objects and receive realistic feedback.
• Leng Xiyue summoned an AK-47 and used the Forge to reveal its structure, then tested disassembling and reassembling it in soul space.
• Leng Xiyue realized the Forge could complete designs only when she understood an item's function and basic principles, and considered adapting familiar vehicles and weapons to use soul power.
• Leng Xiyue recreated older rifle designs and planned to sell them as affordable weapons to the Two Great Empires before later introducing improved models.
• Leng Xiyue decided she would need to promote firearm tactics and prevent buyers from reverse engineering her weapons.

Leng Xiyue examined the continent’s currency system and saw how the gap between ordinary people and Soul Masters might create opportunities for making money. The next morning, Wang Yan brought her to the Martial Soul General Hall to begin her visit with the Pope.

• Leng Xiyue recovered from the strain of memorizing firearm designs and changed into clothes Wang Yan had sent her.
• Leng Xiyue studied local prices and concluded that Gold Soul Coins and ordinary currency served nearly separate economies despite being tied together by an exchange rate.
• Leng Xiyue spent fifty Gold Soul Coins on Soul Beast dishes, ate in front of curious diners, and went to sleep exhausted.
• Wang Yan fetched Leng Xiyue before dawn and escorted her by carriage toward the Papal Hall on Martial Soul Mountain.
• Leng Xiyue arrived at the Martial Soul General Hall, where a red-robed bishop hurried to meet her.

Javier brought Leng Xiyue to the Papal Hall so Bibi Dong could meet the orphan Wang Yan had found. After seeing the luxurious gardens and imagining a comfortable life there, Leng Xiyue arrived at the flower garden where Bibi Dong was reviewing documents.

• Javier questioned Wang Yan about Leng Xiyue, then took her into the Martial Soul General Hall and promised Wang Yan a reward if the Pope approved.
• Javier led Leng Xiyue through the Papal Hall’s guarded rear gate after learning Bibi Dong had finished breakfast and was reviewing documents in the garden.
• Leng Xiyue admired the garden’s restorative atmosphere, while Xiao Bai admitted she wanted to live somewhere so comfortable.
• Javier reassured Leng Xiyue that Bibi Dong was approachable, and Leng Xiyue pretended to be excited about meeting her.
• Javier brought Leng Xiyue to the flower garden, where Bibi Dong lounged beneath a pavilion and reviewed documents with the help of three maids.

Leng Xiyue met privately with Bibi Dong, revealed her powerful martial soul, and became her disciple. The chapter ended with Bibi Dong welcoming Leng Xiyue as her student and new master-disciple bond.

• Javier returned and reported that he did not yet know Leng Xiyue's background, so Bibi Dong dismissed the others to speak with her alone.
• Bibi Dong asked Leng Xiyue to show her martial soul, and Leng Xiyue revealed white armor, a yellow Soul Ring, and a psionic longsword.
• Bibi Dong identified Leng Xiyue's martial soul as a super martial soul and explained the ten-rank classification of martial souls.
• Bibi Dong asked Leng Xiyue to become her disciple, and Leng Xiyue knelt and addressed her as Master.
• Bibi Dong accepted Leng Xiyue's flattering explanation of the title and welcomed her as her disciple.