Recaps

Su Lin awakened a Poké Ball Martial Soul, captured Pikachu, and developed its combat skills while training with Xiao Wu and resisting Yu Xiaogang’s offer. After leaving the academy, Su Lin led a guarded expedition into the Soul Hunting Forest, where Pikachu helped defeat a wolf king and Su Lin chose to keep future training safer.

• Su Lin awakened a Poké Ball Martial Soul with innate rank-nine Soul Power, stayed with Grant, and captured a golden Lightning Rat that he named Pikachu.
• Su Lin trained Pikachu and himself, enrolled at Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy, befriended Xiao Wu, and declined Yu Xiaogang’s offer to teach him.
• Su Lin and Xiao Wu trained together, and Su Lin refused Tang San’s invitation to study under Yu Xiaogang despite Tang San showing him his Soul Ring.
• Su Lin accepted Tang San’s wager and had Pikachu defeat him in a spar, earning Tang San’s Perplexing Track Step manual.
• Su Lin and Xiao Wu left the academy for Wealth Village, where Grant arranged a guarded expedition to the Soul Hunting Forest led by Sean.
• Su Lin used Pikachu to battle Soul Beasts in the forest, learned that only its first ten battles yielded experience, and chose to fight weaker beasts himself.
• A pack of Night Shadow Ghost Wolves attacked the camp, and Su Lin, Pikachu, Xiao Wu, Sean, and the guards defeated the wolf king and queen.
• Su Lin’s group returned with the wolf corpses, and Su Lin decided to keep their next training sessions in safer parts of the forest.

Su Lin and Xiao Wu traveled to Heaven Dou City, where Su Lin earned the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s favor and enrolled in the affiliated academy. He began earning merit points through arena fights with Pikachu while Xue Nuo ordered a development plan for Grant’s village.

• Su Lin defeated a Wind-Patterned Cheetah, then learned from Grant’s letter that he and Sean were to leave for Heaven Dou City and enroll at its affiliated intermediate academy.
• Su Lin found Ah Yin’s Blue Silver Emperor seed behind a waterfall, promised to help unite humans and Soul Beasts, and learned about a method to conceal Xiao Wu’s presence.
• Su Lin, Xiao Wu, and Sean followed a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect convoy, which bandits ambushed with military crossbow bolts and Soul Masters.
• Su Lin and Pikachu helped Song Yuan and Ning Cheng defeat Shi Kusou and the bandits, earning Ning Cheng’s invitation to travel with the convoy.
• Grant and Ning Fengzhi welcomed Su Lin in Heaven Dou City, where Ning Fengzhi thanked him for protecting the sect’s disciples and gave him a VIP card and Pikachu a Spirit Awakening Flower.
• Su Lin and Xiao Wu enrolled at the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Affiliated Intermediate Academy, then began classes and learned about its Mimicry Training Ground.
• Su Lin challenged students at the Soul Fighting Zone to earn merit points, and Pikachu defeated Xiao Jun and his older brother Xiao Feng.
• As students competed to challenge Pikachu, Xue Nuo learned of Su Lin’s service to the sect and ordered a development plan for Wealth Village, where Grant was village chief.