Recaps

Seven months later, Su Lin had reached Soul Power level 15 and developed Thunderbolt Mode, which he tested in a fight against a Wind-Patterned Cheetah. He defeated and paralyzed the beast, leaving it alive but unable to resist.

• Su Lin activated Thunderbolt Mode and prepared to attack a roughly two-hundred-year-old Wind-Patterned Cheetah as Pikachu watched.
• Su Lin ambushed the cheetah, but it dodged his opening strike and turned to face him.
• Su Lin exchanged rapid attacks with the cheetah, using Thunderbolt Mode and Electric Arc to wear down its movements.
• When the cheetah lunged at his throat, Su Lin grabbed its neck fur and paralyzed it with Electric Arc.
• Su Lin used Xiao Wu’s Soft Skill techniques to throw the weakened cheetah into the mud, then pressed his palm to its brow and paralyzed it completely.

After defeating a two-hundred-year-old Wind-Patterned Cheetah, Su Lin received a letter from Grant telling him to leave for Heaven Dou City. He realized Grant had spent months using his connections to secure him a place at Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s affiliated intermediate academy, and the chapter left him overwhelmed by a kindness he felt he could never repay.

• Su Lin recovered from using Thunderbolt Mode and admired that he had defeated the Wind-Patterned Cheetah on his own.
• Sean arrived with a sealed letter from Grant, delivered from the post station in town.
• Su Lin read Grant’s letter and learned that he and Sean were to leave for Heaven Dou City immediately.
• Sean explained that Heaven Dou Royal Academy had an affiliated intermediate academy, and Su Lin realized Grant had been arranging his enrollment.
• Su Lin reflected on Grant’s care and sacrifices and felt that he could never repay his kindness.

Su Lin explained that Grant had arranged for him and Xiao Wu to attend an academy in Heaven Dou City, where powerful Soul Masters could expose her as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. After a night of worry, Xiao Wu appeared at the residence the next morning instead of leaving, leaving Su Lin bewildered.

• Su Lin told Xiao Wu they would leave for Heaven Dou City the next morning and explained Grant's academy arrangements.
• Xiao Wu became distressed when she realized Heaven Dou City's Titled Douluo could detect her, then withdrew to her room.
• Su Lin recognized the danger to Xiao Wu and thought they would have to part for a while rather than risk her life.
• Xiao Wu spent the night torn between leaving Su Lin and staying somewhere she could be discovered.
• At dawn, Su Lin found Xiao Wu's room empty and assumed she had left, but then saw her chatting with Sean at the garden entrance.

Su Lin and Xiao Wu traveled toward Heaven Dou City, but a landslide stopped their carriages near Holy Soul Village. Su Lin secretly ran to the village’s back mountain after recognizing it as Tang San’s hometown.

• Su Lin questioned whether Xiao Wu should travel with him and considered hiding her in the Pokémon Space to conceal her Soul Beast presence.
• A landslide blocked the road, so Sean estimated that clearing it would take until the next day and suggested staying in Holy Soul Village.
• Su Lin chose to camp near the blockage, and Pikachu went to help the guards break up rocks while Xiao Wu worked on the tents.
• Su Lin told Xiao Wu he would look for water, then activated Thunderbolt Mode and ran toward Holy Soul Village.
• Su Lin reached the village and stealthily made his way to its back mountain.

Su Lin found Ah Yin’s Blue Silver Emperor grass seed hidden behind a waterfall and brought it into his Pokémon Space. There, he spoke with her faint consciousness and claimed to be the Beast God’s successor, promising to lead humans and Soul Beasts toward coexistence.

• Su Lin used the Poké Ball to detect a high-quality Soul Beast and followed its signal to a cave behind a waterfall.
• Su Lin found Ah Yin’s Blue Silver Emperor grass seed growing in a sunlit stone chamber.
• Su Lin returned to Xiao Wu at dusk and told her he had gotten lost in the mountains.
• Su Lin entered the Pokémon Space that night and found Ah Yin’s Blue Silver Grass had grown brighter.
• Su Lin spoke with Ah Yin’s weak consciousness, claimed to be the Beast God’s successor, and promised to bring humans and Soul Beasts together.

Su Lin persuaded Ah Yin to stay hidden by warning her that the Rakshasa God's successor threatened her and Tang Hao, and promised to help her reunite with her family later. The next morning, after a landslide was nearly cleared, Su Lin took Xiao Wu toward a nearby mountain stream.

• Su Lin told Ah Yin that the Rakshasa God's successor had learned about her and offered to contract with her and cultivate together in exchange for helping her return to her family.
• Ah Yin asked Su Lin to send Tang Hao a message, but he refused and pointed out that Tang Hao might not protect other Soul Beasts.
• Su Lin asked Ah Yin how to conceal the presence of his transformed hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast friend from Titled Douluo experts.
• Su Lin decided to postpone absorbing the hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone until his contract with Ah Yin could reduce the risk.
• After waking to a crash outside the carriage, Su Lin and Xiao Wu saw Sean and the guards clearing the landslide.
• Su Lin took Xiao Wu toward the nearby mountain stream.

Su Lin planted an ancient inheritance scroll for Xiao Wu to find, and she secretly recognized its method for concealing a transformed Soul Beast’s presence. The group reached Suotuo City on their way to Heaven Dou City, where a lavish convoy bearing the seven-story pagoda emblem passed their hotel.

• Su Lin and Xiao Wu found a wooden box containing an ancient scroll, and Xiao Wu pretended she could not read its Soul Beast Clan inheritance script.
• Xiao Wu privately recognized that the scroll’s opening lines described a cultivation method for concealing a transformed Soul Beast’s presence.
• Su Lin’s group continued their journey toward Heaven Dou City and arrived in Suotuo City half a month later.
• Xiao Wu marveled at Suotuo City’s busy streets, and Su Lin explained that Heaven Dou City’s night markets stayed open until dawn.
• Su Lin and Xiao Wu waited in the Lumière hotel lobby as a convoy of more than thirty carriages bearing a seven-story pagoda banner passed outside.

Su Lin and Xiao Wu spent a day exploring Suotuo City after spotting a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect convoy, and Su Lin searched for a storage Soul Tool. The chapter ended with him unable to find a single shop selling Soul Tools in the central commercial district.

• Sean noticed a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect convoy, and a hotel receptionist explained that it carried monthly supplies between the sect and the Balak Kingdom's merchant association.
• Su Lin and Xiao Wu slept at the Lumière, then decided to spend the following day exploring Suotuo City with Sean and the guards.
• Su Lin stopped Xiao Wu from following Sean and the guards, and the two set out together with a map of the city's districts.
• Su Lin led Xiao Wu through the commercial district while looking for a storage Soul Tool, but they found no shops selling Soul Tools.
• Pikachu squeaked that he did not know where any Soul Tool shops were.

Su Lin and Xiao Wu encountered Ma Hongjun outside Flender's shop, where Ma Hongjun insulted Xiao Wu and Pikachu knocked him down. Su Lin and Xiao Wu fled, while Flender rushed outside to find Pikachu still beating Ma Hongjun.

• Xiao Wu suggested visiting a small Soul Master supply shop, but Su Lin recognized it as Flender's shop and called it a rip-off.
• Ma Hongjun confronted Su Lin for insulting his master's shop, then made a lewd offer to Xiao Wu.
• Su Lin held Xiao Wu back and sent Pikachu flying into Ma Hongjun, who was knocked down and scratched across the face.
• Su Lin led Xiao Wu into a deserted alley and explained that they had fled to avoid Flender, while Xiao Wu admired his knowledge.
• Pikachu kept attacking Ma Hongjun until he called for help, and Flender ran out of the shop to find him on the ground.

Flender failed to catch Pikachu after it escaped his attack, then learned from Ma Hongjun about Su Lin and Xiao Wu. Su Lin took Xiao Wu to the Suotuo City Spirit Hall Branch and reported that Zhao Wuji was hiding at Shrek Academy, where the deacon learned the academy had a history of suppressed death cases.

• Flender’s Soul Saint pressure startled Pikachu, which escaped into an alley before he could grab it.
• Flender helped Ma Hongjun up, heard his account of the children, and told him to go inside the shop.
• Su Lin recalled Pikachu with its Poké Ball, then took Xiao Wu toward the city center instead of continuing their search for a Storage Soul Tool.
• At the Spirit Hall branch, Su Lin reported that Zhao Wuji was at a village academy called Shrek, and guard admitted him to speak with deacon Luo Nan.
• Luo Nan checked Zhao Wuji’s portrait, while his assistant found that Shrek Academy had been involved in several death cases that the administrative office had suppressed.

Su Lin reported Zhao Wuji’s hideout to Spirit Hall and received a storage ring as a reward before setting out with Xiao Wu and Sean toward Heaven Dou City. They joined the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s caravan for a safer journey, while Su Lin worried that Sean’s confidence might invite trouble.

• Su Lin told Luo Nan about Zhao Wuji’s hideout and asked whether Spirit Hall sold Soul Tools, then accepted a first-tier storage ring as his reward.
• Su Lin returned to the Lumière Hotel with Xiao Wu, attuned to the ring, and stored his money pouch and their bundle inside it.
• The next morning, Sean and the guards joined Su Lin and Xiao Wu, and the party prepared to travel north toward Heaven Dou City.
• At the northern gate, Sean noticed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s caravan heading the same way and decided to follow it for protection.
• Sean kept the party behind the caravan as other travelers gathered in its wake, while the sect’s guards allowed them to follow in accordance with Ning Fengzhi’s policy.

Su Lin grew increasingly uneasy while traveling with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect convoy and decided to leave it at Sanming Town. Before they could part ways, bandits ambushed the convoy and its followers, and Pikachu shielded Su Lin’s group from a deadly volley of arrows.

• In the convoy’s carriage, a young man asked a young woman to marry him when they returned to Heaven Dou City, and she agreed.
• Su Lin’s unease intensified as the convoy crossed the Desolate Gold Plains, so he told Sean they would leave the convoy at Sanming Town.
• As the road narrowed into a valley, bandits ambushed the convoy and Sean warned Su Lin that attackers were blocking the road.
• Su Lin called Pikachu, which formed an Electroweb to protect their carriage, Sean, and the guards from the arrows.
• The volley killed many unprotected travelers following the convoy.

Su Lin’s party and a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect convoy were ambushed by Shi Kusou and a force of powerful bandits. As the attackers prepared to overwhelm the convoy, Su Lin decided to join the fight and protect Sean and Xiao Wu.

• Sean recognized the arrows fired at the convoy as military crossbow bolts, while the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect escorts formed a shield wall and protected the carriages.
• Ning Cheng and Song Yuan confronted the bandits, and Shi Kusou revealed himself as a Soul King with a Bone-Eroding Poison Scorpion Martial Soul.
• Song Yuan activated her Blazing Frenzied Ape Martial Soul, while Ning Cheng used his Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda to strengthen her.
• Shi Kusou ordered his men to attack, revealing five Soul Elders and a Soul Ancestor among the six fighters behind him.
• Su Lin told Sean and Xiao Wu to stay close and chose to join forces with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect against the bandits.

Pikachu interrupted the bandits’ assault on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s defensive line, giving Song Yuan a chance to challenge Shi Kusou. The battle remained unresolved, with Song Yuan barely holding her own against Shi Kusou while Pikachu struggled to suppress the poison spider Soul Ancestor.

• Shi Kusou led his bandits in a charge against the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s defensive line as Ning Cheng and Song Yuan prepared to fight.
• Pikachu struck the poison spider Soul Ancestor with a bolt of golden lightning, knocking him away and disrupting the attack.
• Song Yuan tried to finish the poison spider Soul Ancestor, but Shi Kusou intercepted her with his scorpion tail and forced her to redirect her blow.
• Song Yuan charged Shi Kusou with her third Soul Skill, and the two clashed with flames, poisonous mist, scorpion spines, and Soul Skills.
• Ning Cheng’s enhancement and Song Yuan’s fire helped her hold her ground, but Shi Kusou’s attacks and duplicates kept her from breaking through.
• Pikachu continued battling the poison spider Soul Ancestor, who adapted to its electrical attacks and denied it a chance to keep up the pressure.

Su Lin’s Pikachu battled Han Zheng’s poison techniques until Ning Cheng’s boosts restored its strength, speed, and Soul Power. As Han Zheng charged at Su Lin, Pikachu prepared to face him with renewed power.

• Pikachu countered Han Zheng’s first and second Soul Skills with lightning, while Shi Kusou struggled against Song Yuan.
• Han Zheng trapped Pikachu in his Fourth Soul Skill, the Netherworld Heavenly Net, and its strength began to fade under the poison.
• Su Lin called Pikachu back, then asked Ning Cheng whether his boosts could be applied to it.
• Ning Cheng boosted Pikachu’s strength, speed, and Soul Power as Han Zheng rushed toward Su Lin.
• Pikachu regained its strength, leaped onto Su Lin’s shoulder, and faced Han Zheng wrapped in a crackling lightning membrane.

Su Lin and Pikachu helped Song Yuan defeat the bandits attacking the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect convoy, killing Han Zheng and Shi Kusou. After the battle, Ning Cheng and Song Yuan thanked Su Lin, and Song Yuan asked how he had raised Pikachu.

• Pikachu struck Han Zheng with lightning and slammed him into a mountainside, killing him.
• Song Yuan and Pikachu attacked Shi Kusou as he tried to retreat, and their combined lightning and fire killed him.
• Ning Cheng exhausted himself maintaining enhancements, while Song Yuan and Pikachu finished off the remaining bandits.
• Song Yuan supported the depleted Ning Cheng, and they went to Su Lin to thank him for helping protect the convoy.
• Song Yuan asked Su Lin how he had raised Pikachu, and Ning Cheng interrupted her for asking about his methods so directly.

Su Lin traveled toward Heaven Dou City with Ning Cheng and Song Yuan’s convoy after revealing that his Martial Soul could contract multiple Soul Beasts. Song Yuan rode ahead with Ning Cheng’s letter for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, while Su Lin learned Pikachu had gained experience from fighting multiple opponents and prepared to enroll at the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Affiliated Intermediate Academy.

• Su Lin explained that his Poké Ball Martial Soul could contract additional Soul Beasts as he gained levels, impressing Ning Cheng and Song Yuan.
• Ning Cheng invited Su Lin and his companions to travel with the convoy to Heaven Dou City.
• That night, Ning Cheng gave Song Yuan a sealed letter for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s sect master, and she rode north to deliver it.
• Pikachu reported Song Yuan’s departure to Su Lin, who saw that Pikachu had gained 560 experience points from the group battle.
• Su Lin considered Ah Yin’s recovery and whether Xiao Wu would accept a contract, then joined Ning Cheng in his carriage the next morning.
• Su Lin told Ning Cheng he was going to enroll at the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Affiliated Intermediate Academy, and Ning Cheng welcomed the chance to build a lasting connection with him.

The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect convoy reached Heaven Dou City, where Ning Fengzhi thanked Su Lin for saving the sect’s disciples and gave gifts to him and Pikachu. Su Lin and Xiao Wu entered the city with Grant, and Xiao Wu opened Pikachu’s gift box on the way to their new lodgings.

• After a month of travel, Su Lin, Xiao Wu, and the convoy arrived at Heaven Dou City, where Grant waited with Ning Fengzhi.
• Ning Cheng greeted Ning Fengzhi as Sect Master and thanked the sect for recognizing his service.
• Ning Fengzhi met Su Lin, thanked him for protecting the sect’s disciples from Shi Kusou, and gave him a gilded VIP card with spending money and access to the sect’s businesses.
• Ning Fengzhi gave Pikachu a small wooden box, then departed without asking Su Lin to join the sect.
• Grant led Su Lin and Xiao Wu into Heaven Dou City and said he would settle them in before taking them to register at the academy the next day.
• Xiao Wu opened Pikachu’s gift box in the carriage and saw an unusual-colored plant inside.

Su Lin learned that the Spirit Awakening Flower could increase a Soul Beast’s cultivation and fed one to Pikachu, which gained a level. Meanwhile, Ning Fengzhi returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and explained that he planned to build a bond with Su Lin before recruiting him.

• Xiao Wu explained that Spirit Awakening Flowers were rare treasures from the Star Dou Great Forest that could increase a Soul Beast’s cultivation.
• Su Lin gave the Spirit Awakening Flower to Pikachu, and Pikachu ate it and advanced from level 26 to level 27.
• Ning Fengzhi returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where Chen Xin and Gu Rong asked about Su Lin.
• Chen Xin and Gu Rong argued over whether the sect should recruit Su Lin immediately, but Ning Fengzhi stopped them.
• Ning Fengzhi said he would deepen the sect’s bond with Su Lin before proposing that he join.

Su Lin and Xiao Wu completed Heaven Dou Royal Academy's enrollment assessments, passing both the Soul Power test and the practical combat test. After Grant returned to Wealth Village, the two stayed in Heaven Dou City to wait for classes to begin.

• Grant took Su Lin and Xiao Wu to the academy, where Samuel guided them through the registration process.
• Su Lin and Xiao Wu demonstrated rank sixteen Soul Power and hundred-year soul rings, passing the first assessment.
• The assessment teacher replaced Pikachu with Xiao Wu for the practical test, and Xiao Wu defeated the rank nineteen upper-year student with ease.
• Su Lin and Xiao Wu completed enrollment and chose to live off campus, with classes set to begin in a week.
• Grant warned Su Lin and Xiao Wu to be careful in Heaven Dou City, then left for Wealth Village with Sean and the guards.
• Xiao Wu tugged Su Lin's sleeve and called softly to him as Grant's carriage disappeared.

Su Lin and Xiao Wu explored Heaven Dou City, where Su Lin considered ways for Pikachu to gain battle experience despite being too young to enter the Great Soul Arena. On the first day of classes at the affiliated intermediate academy, Samuel explained the school rules and introduced a valuable training resource, the mimicry cultivation environment.

• Su Lin and Xiao Wu toured Heaven Dou City's commercial district and stopped outside the Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena, where Su Lin explained that Pikachu could grow faster through regular battles.
• Su Lin noted that he was too young to register for the arena, and considered fighting Soul Beasts in Sunset Forest or seeking combat opportunities through the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Su Lin and Xiao Wu arrived at their classroom the next morning, and Su Lin reviewed the semester's four main subjects.
• Samuel demonstrated his four Soul Rings to quiet the class, introduced himself as their homeroom teacher, and explained that students could test out of some academic courses.
• Samuel revealed that the academy's affiliated branch had access to a rare mimicry cultivation environment.

Su Lin sought a way to earn enough merit points to cultivate in a lightning mimicry environment and devised a paid challenge scheme at the Soul Fighting Zone. He faced Xiao Jun in his first match, and the chapter ended as Xiao Jun’s hammer strike came down and Su Lin called out Pikachu.

• Su Lin realized his monthly merit allowance would not cover the mimicry training he wanted and planned to earn more merit points.
• Su Lin and Xiao Wu raised a banner at the Soul Fighting Zone offering paid matches for five merit points each.
• Xiao Jun accepted Su Lin’s challenge, wagering five merit points on the fight.
• Su Lin and Xiao Jun introduced their ranks and Martial Souls before Xiao Jun attacked with his first Soul Skill, Mountain-Splitting Heavy Strike.
• As Xiao Jun’s hammer crashed toward him, Su Lin calmly called out Pikachu.

Su Lin defeated Xiao Jun with Lightning Rat and collected five merit points after Xu Mu confirmed that his Martial Soul ability was legal. Xiao Jun returned with his older brother Xiao Feng, a rank-thirty-three Soul Elder, and their arena match began with Xiao Feng charging at Su Lin.

• Su Lin used Lightning Rat to knock Xiao Jun out of the arena, then insisted that summoning Soul Beasts was a legitimate Martial Soul ability.
• Xu Mu confirmed that Su Lin had not cheated and warned that Xiao Jun might bring his older brother to retaliate, so Xiao Jun surrendered five merit-point medals and left.
• Su Lin waited with Xiao Wu, and an hour later Xiao Jun returned with Xiao Feng, who challenged Su Lin to a match.
• Xiao Feng revealed his Mountain-Splitting Hammer Martial Soul and three Soul Rings, then charged at Su Lin with his first Soul Skill, Mountain-Splitting Heavy Strike.

Su Lin and Pikachu defeated Xiao Feng in the arena, after Pikachu outmaneuvered his attacks and exhausted his Soul Power. Su Lin left amid a crowd of students eager to acquire Pikachu, while news of the Lightning Rat’s strength spread through Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

• Pikachu dodged Xiao Feng’s hammer strikes, pierced his rock armor with lightning, and evaded his enhanced counterattack.
• Pikachu kept harrying Xiao Feng until his Soul Power dwindled, then struck his abdomen and sent him flying out of the arena.
• Xiao Feng refused to accept his defeat, but the watching students mocked him as he handed over five merit-point tokens and fled with Xiao Jun.
• Older students surrounded Su Lin and asked to trade for Pikachu, while Su Lin edged through the crowd and left with Xiao Wu.
• News of Xiao Feng and Xiao Jun’s defeat reached Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s main campus, stirring students’ curiosity about Pikachu.

Su Lin drew a huge crowd to the Soul Fighting Zone and used limited daily matches to spark bidding, earning seventy merit points. As Xue Nuo considered Su Lin’s ties to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and ordered support for his adoptive father’s village, Su Lin and Xiao Wu celebrated the haul and its training value.

• Su Lin warned the waiting students that Pikachu could fight only ten matches that day, then invited them to bid merit points for earlier turns.
• The students’ bids climbed above the usual ten-point wager as they competed for a chance to fight Su Lin.
• Xue Nuo learned that Su Lin had saved a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect convoy and decided not to interfere with the sect’s interest in him.
• Xue Nuo ordered a city-level development plan for Wealth Village, where Su Lin’s adoptive father, Grant, served as village chief.
• Xiao Wu admired Su Lin’s seventy merit points, and Su Lin calculated that they would provide thirty-five hours in the Mimicry Training Ground.