Chapter Summaries

Lin Ye fought off the Shrek Team’s coordinated attacks and proved immune to Xiao Wu’s Charm, breaking Tang San’s plan. He turned his sword technique on Ma Hongjun and sent him flying from the Spirit Combat Arena.

• Lin Ye dodged Dai Mubai and Tailong’s punches and avoided Xiao Wu’s flying kick, while Tang San pulled Dai Mubai and Tailong out of the way of Lin Ye’s sword.
• Ma Hongjun, Tang San, and Dai Mubai attacked Lin Ye with their soul skills, but Lin Ye used the Xuanyuan Sword Technique to break through their attacks and force them to dodge.
• Xiao Wu teleported in front of Lin Ye and used Charm, but his Double Pupils made him immune and caused her to suffer backlash.
• Tailong charged at Lin Ye with his Berserk Strength soul skill, but Lin Ye saw through the sneak attack and gathered his golden greatswords into a massive blade.
• Lin Ye swung the massive greatsword’s hilt into Ma Hongjun, whose injuries sent him flying off the Spirit Combat Arena while vomiting blood.

Lin Ye eliminated three Shrek Team members, then relentlessly wounded Dai Mubai with the Hidden Wind Sword while avoiding a fatal blow that would disqualify him. Dai Mubai remained on the arena, badly injured and covered in cuts.

• Lin Ye knocked Ma Hongjun and Tailong off the arena with the Golden Greatsword, then threw the weakened Xiao Wu off as well.
• With only Tang San, Dai Mubai, and the noncombatant Oscar and Ning Rongrong left for Shrek Team, Lin Ye charged at Dai Mubai, whom he especially resented.
• Dai Mubai activated White Tiger Body Barrier and White Tiger Vajra Transformation, but Lin Ye broke through his barrier with Xuanyuan Sword Qi and cut two deep wounds into his chest.
• Tang San tried to pull Dai Mubai away and then bound Lin Ye with Blue Silver Grass, but Lin Ye escaped both attempts and resumed his attack.
• Lin Ye removed Xuanyuan Sword Qi and repeatedly slashed Dai Mubai with the Hidden Wind Sword, leaving him covered in wounds without killing him.

Tang San intervened to save Dai Mubai and fought Lin Ye with his Eight Spider Lances and Clear Sky Hammer. Lin Ye saw through the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer and forced Tang San’s technique to break.

• Tang San used his Blue Silver Grass skills to distract Lin Ye, giving Dai Mubai Recovery Big Sausages.
• Tang San activated his Eight Spider Lances and summoned the Clear Sky Hammer before engaging Lin Ye.
• Tang San attacked with Disorder Splitting Wind, building power with repeated Clear Sky Hammer strikes while Lin Ye blocked.
• Lin Ye used his Golden Greatsword to interrupt Tang San’s momentum, but Tang San dodged and tried to resume his hammer technique.
• Lin Ye activated the External Soul Bone: Double Pupils and repeatedly struck the Clear Sky Hammer, disrupting Tang San’s control until Disorder Splitting Wind was forcibly interrupted.

Lin Ye defeated Tang San and Dai Mubai in the team match, overcoming Tang San’s Great Sumeru Hammer Ring Detonation with the Golden Greatsword. Ning Rongrong surrendered, and the Heavenly Star Team won.

• Lin Ye forced Tang San back with his swordsmanship, while Dai Mubai recovered enough Soul Power to support him with his fourth Soul Skill.
• Dai Mubai launched White Tiger Meteor Shower, but Lin Ye’s Golden Greatsword broke through it and knocked him off the arena.
• Tang San detonated his three Soul Rings and charged Lin Ye with the Clear Sky Hammer using Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer.
• Lin Ye’s Golden Greatsword clashed with Tang San’s hammer, then exploded and blasted the exhausted Tang San off balance; Lin Ye kicked him off the arena.
• Ning Rongrong surrendered, and the host declared the Heavenly Star Team the winner.

The twenty-seven-day preliminaries ended with Lin Ye’s Heavenly Star Team in first place, while Shrek secured the final qualifying spot after upsetting the Divine Wind Team. At the awards ceremony, Xue Ye granted noble titles and promised fiefs to the five advancing teams, with greater rewards if they won the finals.

• Lin Ye’s Heavenly Star Team finished the preliminaries undefeated, followed by the Divine Wind Team, Thunder Team, Skywater Team, and Shrek Team.
• Shrek defeated the Divine Wind Team after Tang San used Ring Detonation, while the Blazing Fire Team lost to Skywater and Thunder and failed to qualify.
• After the final matches, staff led the five advancing teams to the podium for the closing ceremony and awards.
• Xue Ye congratulated the teams and granted each captain and vice-captain the title of Imperial Viscount, with the remaining members receiving the title of Imperial Baron and fiefs to be assigned after graduation.
• Xue Ye promised to raise every team member’s noble rank and grant their academies the Royal prefix and imperial subsidies if they won the finals.

At the preliminary round’s closing ceremony, Xue Ye and Salas competed openly to recruit young soul masters, prompting Lin Ye to suspect that Spirit Hall’s tacit understanding with the empires was breaking down. After a month of preparation, Lin Ye and the Heavenly Star Team traveled to the Royal Hunting Ground as the advancement round began.

• Xue Ye awarded noble titles and fiefs to the preliminary round champions, but Salas challenged the Empire’s authority to do so.
• Xue Ye promised soul beasts for the advancement round’s top three individual winners, and Salas countered with Spirit Hall recruitment and soul-ring offers.
• Lin Ye considered the Empire’s dependence on Spirit Hall and wondered whether their long-standing cooperation was about to collapse.
• Xue Ye distributed qualification tokens and prize money, and the teams spent a month preparing for the advancement round.
• Lin Ye left the Lin Residence with the girls, met Principal Cheng Wudi and the Peerless Dragon Snake, and traveled to the Royal Hunting Ground.

Lin Ye accompanied Heavenly Star Academy to the Royal Hunting Ground for the advancement matches, though he chose not to compete and planned to return to Heaven Dou Imperial City to cultivate. As he left the team’s camp, he unexpectedly reunited with Xue Qinghe and Xue Ke.

• Lin Ye explained to Meng Yiran that he would skip the advancement matches and leave the competition to her and the other team members.
• Cheng Wudi presented Heavenly Star Academy’s qualification certificate, and a Royal Knight escorted the team to its barracks at the Royal Hunting Ground.
• The knight captain told the team that the advancement matches would begin the next day without an opening ceremony.
• Lin Ye promised to take whoever won the most matches over each three-day period to Heaven Dou Imperial City for a day.
• Lin Ye prepared to leave the camp for Heaven Dou Imperial City, but Xue Qinghe and Xue Ke called out to him.

Lin Ye accepted Xue Qinghe and Xue Ke’s invitation to hunt at the Royal Hunting Ground, where he taught Xue Ke archery and spent the afternoon with them. After returning to Heaven Dou Imperial City, he found Huo Wu waiting uncertainly outside the Lin Residence.

• Lin Ye met Xue Qinghe and Xue Ke at the Royal Hunting Ground and agreed to join them for an afternoon hunt.
• Xue Qinghe arranged for Lin Ye to share a horse with Xue Ke, despite Lin Ye’s reservations.
• Lin Ye guided Xue Ke’s archery as they hunted and she managed to shoot several animals.
• Lin Ye declined a ride back with Xue Qinghe and Xue Ke, then flew to a grove near the Lin Residence.
• Lin Ye saw Huo Wu waiting outside the Lin Residence gates.

Huo Wu visited Lin Ye to ask him to help her become stronger after Blazing Fire Team's elimination, and Lin Ye agreed on the condition that she submit to him. His choice of words embarrassed Huo Wu, but his clarification that he meant obedience left her furious and wondering whether he found her unattractive.

• Lin Ye returned to the Lin Residence and found Huo Wu waiting to speak with him.
• Huo Wu asked Lin Ye to help her become stronger, and he challenged her to explain why he should help.
• Huo Wu said Blazing Fire Team's elimination had disgraced Blazing Fire Academy and blamed her own weakness for the loss.
• Lin Ye told Huo Wu he wanted her loyalty and would help her grow stronger, even evolving her Martial Soul.
• Huo Wu mistook Lin Ye's words for a confession, then became indignant when he clarified that he only wanted her to submit to him.

Huo Wu agreed to bring Lin Ye to Blazing Fire Academy to seek her father’s consent to submit to him, after Lin Ye promised he could help her Martial Soul evolve. As they arrived at the dean’s office, Huo Wushuang saw them together and wondered if Feng Xiaotian’s drunken claim that Huo Wu had fallen for someone else was true.

• Huo Wu told Lin Ye she needed her father Huo Xiaotian’s consent because her choice could affect him and Blazing Fire Academy.
• After learning Huo Xiaotian was a Rank 79 Soul Sage who had been stuck at that level for nearly ten years, Lin Ye said he was confident he could persuade him.
• Huo Wu agreed to take Lin Ye to see Huo Xiaotian, and the two entered Blazing Fire Academy together.
• Students who saw Huo Wu walking closely with Lin Ye speculated that Feng Xiaotian had been replaced by a newcomer.
• At the dean’s office, Huo Wushuang encountered Huo Wu and Lin Ye and recalled Feng Xiaotian’s claim that Huo Wu had fallen for someone else.

Lin Ye visited Huo Xiaotian with Huo Wu and offered a bargain: the Huo Family would submit to him, and he would help Huo Wu evolve her Fire Shadow Martial Soul and help Huo Xiaotian break through to Soul Douluo. Huo Xiaotian was stunned by the proposal.

• Huo Wushuang left Huo Wu and Lin Ye to go to the Spirit Arena.
• Huo Wu brought Lin Ye to meet her father, Dean Huo Xiaotian, in his office.
• Huo Xiaotian mistook Lin Ye's visit for a marriage proposal and eagerly offered his approval.
• Huo Wu corrected her father, and Lin Ye explained that he had come to discuss a transaction.
• Lin Ye offered to help Huo Wu evolve her Fire Shadow Martial Soul and help Huo Xiaotian reach Soul Douluo if the Huo Family submitted to him.
• Huo Xiaotian abruptly stood up in shock at Lin Ye's proposal.

Huo Xiaotian tested Lin Ye’s strength with Soul Power pressure to decide whether he would accept Lin Ye’s proposal to help Xiao Wu’s Martial Soul evolve and help the Huo Family. Lin Ye remained calm even after Huo Xiaotian raised the pressure to Level 60, leaving Huo Xiaotian questioning his own assumptions.

• Huo Xiaotian doubted Lin Ye’s promises, then said he would consider the Huo Family submitting to Lin Ye if Lin Ye proved his talent and strength.
• Huo Xiaotian proposed a Soul Power pressure test, and Lin Ye agreed without hesitation.
• Huo Xiaotian increased the pressure from Level 33 to Level 35, but Lin Ye remained calm while Huo Wu urged her father not to overdo it.
• Huo Xiaotian kept raising the pressure through Level 36, Level 37, and Level 38 until it reached Level 60.
• Huo Xiaotian became drenched in sweat and questioned his life when Lin Ye still showed no sign of strain.

Lin Ye passed Huo Xiaotian’s test by enduring the full Soul Power pressure of a level seventy-nine Soul Sage, then revealed that he was Spirit Hall’s Holy Son and future Pope. Huo Xiaotian and Huo Wu learned that Lin Ye was a Soul Emperor with an extraordinary Soul Ring configuration, and Huo Xiaotian grew excited about the Huo Family’s future under his leadership.

• Huo Xiaotian raised his Soul Power pressure from level sixty to level seventy-nine, but Lin Ye remained calm throughout.
• Huo Xiaotian conceded that Lin Ye had passed the test, and Lin Ye thanked him while Huo Wu happily thanked her father.
• Huo Xiaotian asked about Lin Ye’s faction, and Lin Ye revealed that he came from Spirit Hall and had another mission in Heaven Dou Imperial City.
• Lin Ye told Huo Xiaotian and Huo Wu that he was Spirit Hall’s Holy Son and future Pope, then summoned his Nine Spirit Immortal Begonia Martial Soul.
• Huo Xiaotian and Huo Wu saw Lin Ye’s six Soul Rings—yellow, purple, and four black—and realized he was a Soul Emperor.
• Huo Xiaotian became excited at the prospect of the Huo Family rising to glory by following Lin Ye.

Lin Ye gave Huo Wu the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower to evolve her fire Martial Soul and Huo Xiaotian the Grade Nine Fire Ganoderma to help him break through to Soul Douluo. After hours of painful absorption, Huo Wu opened her eyes with golden flashes and announced that she had succeeded.

• Lin Ye revealed that he was only thirteen, shocking Huo Wu and Huo Xiaotian with his cultivation as a Soul Emperor.
• Lin Ye brought out the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower and Grade Nine Fire Ganoderma, explained their effects and use, and gave one to each of them.
• Huo Wu learned that her level-nine Innate Soul Power gave her a strong chance of evolving her Martial Soul, while the herb could also raise her cultivation.
• Huo Xiaotian swallowed the Grade Nine Fire Ganoderma and began absorbing its medicinal power as Lin Ye stood guard.
• Huo Wu endured hours of pain while drawing the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower's essence into her body.
• Huo Wu opened her eyes with golden flashes, rushed to Lin Ye, and excitedly said she had succeeded.

Huo Wu’s Fire Shadow Martial Soul evolved, gaining corporeal form and the ability to disguise itself as her, while Huo Xiaotian broke through to Soul Douluo. Huo Xiaotian honored his agreement to pledge the Huo Family’s allegiance to Lin Ye, who asked him to call him Young Master instead.

• Huo Wu showed Lin Ye her evolved Fire Shadow Martial Soul, which could become corporeal and had greatly enhanced fire-attribute soul skills.
• Huo Wu demonstrated that her Martial Soul could shrink and change its clothes to look exactly like her, making it difficult for enemies to tell them apart.
• Huo Xiaotian woke from meditation and announced that he had successfully broken through to the Soul Douluo realm.
• Huo Xiaotian knelt before Lin Ye and pledged the Huo Family’s allegiance according to their agreement.
• Lin Ye helped Huo Xiaotian up and asked him to call him Young Master rather than my lord.

Lin Ye took Huo Wu to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to help her cultivate after she named her evolved Martial Soul the Flame Empress. He revealed the extraordinary cultivation site to her, leaving her poised to begin training there.

• Huo Wu named her evolved Martial Soul the Flame Empress, and Lin Ye approved of the name.
• The next morning, Huo Wu arrived early, and Lin Ye took her to a forest behind his residence.
• Lin Ye used his Lightning Falcon Wings to carry Huo Wu toward Sunset Forest and gave her an Antidote Pill before they passed through Dugu Bo's poisonous mist.
• Lin Ye brought Huo Wu into the valley and cleared away the white fog, revealing the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and its surrounding medicinal herbs.

Lin Ye brought Huo Wu to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and began helping her cultivate toward Soul King. Three days later, he took her along to the Royal Hunting Ground, where the promotion tournament was being held.

• Lin Ye explained how the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and Huo Wu's remaining Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower essence could help her reach level fifty within a month.
• Lin Ye told Huo Wu he was nurturing her so she could become his right-hand woman when he became Pope of Spirit Hall.
• Lin Ye taught Huo Wu to use his Fallen Heart Flame to purify her Soul Power and increase her cultivation speed.
• Three days passed as Lin Ye continued bringing Huo Wu to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• When Lin Ye prepared to leave for the Royal Hunting Ground, Huo Wu asked to accompany him, and he carried her into the sky on his Lightning Falcon Wings.

Lin Ye arrived at the Royal Hunting Ground with Huo Wu as Zhu Zhuqing led the Heavenly Star Team to a one-against-seven victory. Feng Xiaotian tried to force Zhu Zhuqing to reveal Sword One’s whereabouts, but Lin Ye intervened, and the group prepared to head into the finals.

• Lin Ye flew Huo Wu from Sunset Forest to the Royal Hunting Ground and spotted Zhu Zhuqing’s match from above.
• Zhu Zhuqing defeated all seven members of the Barak Royal Team, impressing Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong.
• Meng Yiran and the other girls discussed whether Lin Ye would come for them as they left the competition grounds.
• Feng Xiaotian blocked the girls and demanded to know where Sword One was so he could challenge him.
• Feng Xiaotian reached for Zhu Zhuqing, but Lin Ye struck his hand with a pebble and approached with Huo Wu.

Feng Xiaotian confronted Huo Wu and Lin Ye, insisting on challenging Sword One and asking Huo Wu for another chance. Huo Wu agreed to fight Feng Xiaotian, and he charged at her after summoning his martial soul.

• Huo Wu confronted Feng Xiaotian for pestering Zhu Zhuqing and the other girls, while Feng Xiaotian explained that he had been looking for Sword One.
• Feng Xiaotian said he had improved his Swift Wind Demonic Wolf Thirty-Six Consecutive Slashes and wanted to prove himself against Sword One, but Huo Wu told him to let the matter go.
• Huo Wu rejected Feng Xiaotian and linked arms with Lin Ye, prompting Feng Xiaotian to accuse Lin Ye of being the reason she had no feelings for him.
• Huo Wu told Feng Xiaotian that she disliked his submissive behavior, and he asked if defeating her would earn him another chance.
• Huo Wu agreed to fight Feng Xiaotian and moved to a nearby clearing, where Feng Xiaotian summoned his Twin-Headed Swift Wind Demonic Wolf martial soul and charged at her.

Huo Wu defeated Feng Xiaotian after her Martial Soul evolved into the Flame Empress, then the Heavenly Star Team won the promotion tournament. With the finals approaching, the team prepared to travel to Spirit City.

• Huo Wu overwhelmed Feng Xiaotian in close combat with the Flame Empress, then countered his Swift Wind Demonic Wolf Seventy-Two Consecutive Slashes and blasted him with her fire attacks.
• Huo Wu told Feng Xiaotian to stop causing trouble for Sword One and harassing the Heavenly Star Team, then left with Lin Ye and the girls.
• After everyone departed, Feng Xiaotian revealed that he was conscious and tearfully lamented his defeat and Huo Wu's rejection.
• Nearly a month later, the Heavenly Star Team won the promotion tournament after Zhu Zhuqing used her Split Sub-body to simulate the Purple Spirit Wolf Right Arm Bone and defeat their rivals.
• After resting for a few days, Lin Ye and the Heavenly Star Team prepared to travel to Spirit City for the finals.