Chapter Summaries

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.