Chapter Summaries

Six-year-old Gui Yuan went to awaken his Martial Soul before Pope Bibi Dong, revealing both the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and Gui Mei’s Ghost Martial Soul. As his Twin Martial Souls emerged, a Hextech System bound itself to him.

• Gui Mei woke Gui Yuan for his Martial Soul awakening, and Yue Guan joined them on the way to the Pope’s Hall.
• Gui Yuan entered the prepared formation while Bibi Dong and Hu Liena watched, and Gui Mei began the awakening.
• A Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum appeared above Gui Yuan’s palm, delighting Yue Guan.
• Black mist enveloped Gui Yuan, and Gui Mei recognized it as his Ghost Martial Soul while Yue Guan exclaimed that Gui Yuan had Twin Martial Souls.
• A mechanical voice announced that the Hextech System had successfully bound itself to Gui Yuan.

Gui Yuan received five Hex options and chose Level Up!, Hedge Fund, and Living Forge to boost his cultivation, Soul Rings, and artifact supply. After time resumed, Bibi Dong took him as her disciple, leaving Hu Liena pleased to have a talented junior brother.

• Gui Yuan reviewed the five Hex options and selected Level Up!, Hedge Fund, and Living Forge.
• Gui Yuan confirmed that Hedge Fund's Soul Ring age increases also improved his physique, and learned that the Artifact Anvil could produce artifacts from Battle of Golden Spatula or the Douluo Continent.
• Gui Yuan accepted the three Hexes and received an Artifact Anvil, choosing to open it after he returned.
• Bibi Dong praised Gui Yuan's talent and asked him to become her disciple.
• Gui Yuan bowed to Bibi Dong, and Hu Liena welcomed the thought of having a junior brother.

Gui Yuan chose to cultivate his Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum as a Food System Martial Soul, hoping its edible immortal-herb nature would let him gain an invulnerable body. After discussing how to develop his ghost Martial Soul, he left his options open and looked forward to discovering what Food System Soul Skills he could obtain.

• Gui Yuan told Bibi Dong he would cultivate the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum through the Food System, then add Soul Rings to his second Martial Soul later.
• Bibi Dong approved his plan and asked Yue Guan to teach him Spirit Hall's meditation method while she investigated suitable Soul Beasts.
• Yue Guan lamented that he had chosen the Power Attack path and could not develop the invulnerable body associated with the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.
• Gui Mei explained that Gui Yuan's ghost Martial Soul inherited his soul's netherworld attribute and could absorb netherworld-, darkness-, or attributeless Soul Rings.
• Gui Yuan proposed an all-rounder path for his ghost Martial Soul, favoring mental-attribute Soul Rings alongside some of Gui Mei's concealment and assassination skills.
• Gui Mei agreed there was time to consider the ghost Martial Soul's path and wondered what Food System Soul Skills the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum could grant.

Gui Yuan began learning Spirit Hall's meditation method and successfully cultivated Soul Power, then activated the Artifact Anvil and saw four artifacts to choose from. He favored Darkin Bow · God Devourer, but had not yet made his selection.

• Gui Yuan proposed developing a first Soul Skill that could gradually forge an adamantine, indestructible body, and Yue Guan agreed to search for suitable defensive Soul Beasts.
• Gui Mei explained Spirit Hall's meditation method, and Gui Yuan learned to absorb energy and convert it into Soul Power in less than four hours.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei teased each other over whose comprehension Gui Yuan had inherited while Gui Yuan continued cultivating until nightfall.
• Gui Yuan entered his mental world and activated the Artifact Anvil, which presented four artifact choices and explained their effects.
• Gui Yuan read the artifact descriptions and decided that choosing Darkin Bow · God Devourer seemed obvious.

Gui Yuan received the Darkin Bow · God Devourer and planned how to explain his divine artifact and unusually powerful first soul ring. After studying soul beast theory, he began learning to control his second martial soul from Gui Mei.

• Gui Yuan chose the Darkin Bow · God Devourer, which merged with his soul and could automatically protect him from others.
• Gui Yuan considered claiming that he had received a divine trial to explain his artifact and future soul ring strength.
• Gui Mei set Gui Yuan’s daily schedule, and Teacher Wang taught him about soul beast classifications, ages, and how to judge their strength.
• Gui Mei demonstrated the Netherworld Needle and guided Gui Yuan as he tried to condense Netherworld Power into a needle.

Gui Yuan trained in Netherworld Needle and Shadow Step before setting out with Yue Guan and Gui Mei to find his First Soul Ring. On the tenth morning, they found the top-ranked match on his list: a six-hundred-year Vajra Vine within his tolerance.

• Gui Yuan condensed a weak Netherworld Needle and learned how Shadow Step used Netherworld Power to boost his movement.
• After five days, Bibi Dong sent Yue Guan and Gui Mei to escort Gui Yuan to Star Dou Great Forest for his First Soul Ring.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei searched for suitable Soul Beasts while rejecting several whose ages or rankings did not fit.
• On the tenth morning, Gui Mei spotted a Vajra Vine, and Yue Guan and Gui Mei judged its age and compatibility suitable for Gui Yuan.
• Gui Mei agreed to hunt the Vajra Vine, whose deep roots would need to be severed to stop it from regenerating.

Gui Yuan absorbed a Vajra Vine Soul Ring, which unexpectedly became a thousand-year ring and granted him the Darkin Bow. He claimed a god had bestowed the inheritance, and the chapter ended with him concealing the source of his increased Soul Power.

• Gui Mei weakened the Vajra Vine, and Gui Yuan killed it with a dagger to form a yellow Soul Ring.
• Gui Yuan absorbed the ring while focusing on receiving a Food System skill, enduring the Soul Power surge for a day and a night.
• Gui Yuan's Soul Ring turned purple, and the Darkin Bow appeared before him as his absorption finished.
• Gui Yuan told Yue Guan and Gui Mei that he had received a god's inheritance; Gui Mei was hurt by the bow's darkin presence when he touched it.
• Gui Yuan said his Soul Power had reached rank fourteen, and he privately credited two of those ranks to his [Level Up!] ability.

Gui Yuan discovered that his first Soul Skill could strengthen both Soul Masters and help Yue Guan develop an Indestructible Vajra Body, then returned to Spirit City and revealed his divine artifact to Bibi Dong. The Darkin Bow rejected Bibi Dong’s touch, and Qian Daoliu appeared in the Pope’s Palace.

• Gui Yuan created Singular Velvet Heart-Guarding Petals that increased defense and resistance by fifty percent for three minutes and could be stored for a month.
• Gui Yuan consumed a petal and received a twenty-five-percent boost, while Yue Guan recognized signs of an emerging Indestructible Vajra Body.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei each ate a petal and discovered that its fifty-percent boost also worked on powerful Soul Masters, though the body-changing effect only worked on those with the same Martial Soul.
• Gui Yuan, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei returned to Spirit City after five days, and Gui Yuan showed Bibi Dong his thousand-year first Soul Ring and the Darkin Bow.
• Bibi Dong touched the Darkin Bow and was forced back by its power, after which Qian Daoliu appeared soundlessly in the Pope’s Palace.

Qian Daoliu sensed divine power in Gui Yuan’s Darkin Bow, gave him a Worship Hall token, and offered guidance despite Bibi Dong’s refusal to let him become Gui Yuan’s disciple. Gui Yuan revealed his first Soul Skill and attempted to fuse his two Martial Souls, producing a brief domain effect before Bibi Dong declared that he had succeeded.

• Qian Daoliu recognized a faint divine presence in Gui Yuan’s Darkin Bow and offered to take him as his disciple, but Bibi Dong insisted Gui Yuan was already hers.
• Qian Daoliu gave Gui Yuan a token granting access to the Worship Hall, and Bibi Dong told Gui Yuan to keep it while warning him to conceal the divine artifact.
• Gui Yuan demonstrated his Singular Velvet Heart-Guarding Petal Soul Skill, which boosted defense and resistance by fifty percent for three minutes and could be stored for a month.
• Bibi Dong told Gui Yuan to try fusing his Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and Ghost Martial Soul, and he activated both at once.
• Gui Yuan briefly produced a domain fluctuation that restrained Hu Liena, but the fusion drained his Soul Power and quickly dissipated.
• Gui Yuan asked whether he had failed, and Bibi Dong told him that he had succeeded.

Bibi Dong discussed how Gui Yuan’s second Martial Soul could strengthen his Two-Level Stillness Domain and gave him notes on cultivating Twin Martial Souls, while ordering him to remain a support Soul Master for now. As Hu Liena tested her charm on him and learned it could not affect him, Gui Yuan warned her to prepare for opponents resistant to mental power.

• Bibi Dong explained that adding Soul Rings to Gui Yuan’s second Martial Soul would improve his self-fusion domain and gave him her Twin Martial Soul cultivation notes.
• Gui Mei and Yue Guan discussed ways to help Gui Yuan protect himself, but Bibi Dong insisted he focus on support until he added Soul Rings to his second Martial Soul.
• Hu Liena tried to charm Gui Yuan in the corridor, but he resisted because the Darkin Bow made him immune to mental charm, control, and attacks.
• Gui Yuan reminded Hu Liena to keep the divine artifact secret from her brother and Yan, and Hu Liena agreed while wondering about Gui Yuan’s unusual origins and talent.
• Gui Yuan told Hu Liena to cultivate mental attack Soul Skills in case she faced someone resistant to mental power, but she trusted her teacher’s path and her Martial Soul Fusion Skill with her brother.

After half a year of study, cultivation, and training, Gui Yuan reached level twenty and prepared to obtain his Second Soul Ring. Yue Guan and Gui Mei took him toward the Pope's Palace before their planned trip to Sunset Forest, where Gui Yuan also intended to search for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Gui Yuan followed his daily routine for half a year, while Hu Liena gradually stopped trying to charm him and instead pinched his cheeks.
• Gui Yuan sensed that he had reached level twenty, having gained six levels with help from the Level Up! Hex.
• Gui Yuan told Yue Guan about his breakthrough, and Yue Guan and Gui Mei praised his rapid cultivation while warning him not to overwork himself.
• Yue Guan led Gui Yuan toward the Pope's Palace and explained that they had selected ten possible Soul Beasts for his Second Soul Ring.
• Gui Yuan planned to search Sunset Forest for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and prioritized the Rejuvenation Vine or Healing Spirit Tree for a recovery-focused Soul Skill.

Gui Yuan traveled with Yue Guan and Gui Mei to Sunset Forest to search for a suitable plant-type Soul Beast for his Second Soul Ring. Meanwhile, Hu Liena persuaded Bibi Dong to adjust her cultivation path, and Gui Yuan's search continued without finding the poison barrier he hoped to locate.

• Bibi Dong sent Yue Guan and Gui Mei to accompany Gui Yuan to Sunset Forest and advised him to choose his Soul Beast carefully.
• Hu Liena told Bibi Dong she wanted to broaden her mental Soul Skills and develop Foxfire attacks, and Bibi Dong agreed to revise her cultivation plan and Soul Ring Configuration.
• Seven days later, Gui Yuan, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei entered Sunset Forest with a list of ten candidate plant-type Soul Beasts.
• The group checked several recorded locations and noted other plant-type Soul Beasts, but the Rejuvenation Vines and Healing Spirit Trees they found were too young.
• At the second recorded Rejuvenation Vine location, Yue Guan found vines only around a thousand years old, so the group continued deeper into the forest without finding the poison barrier.

Gui Yuan, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei followed Gui Yuan’s Martial Soul to a secluded valley filled with rare herbs and a mysterious spring. Yue Guan found a wild Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and chose to give it to Gui Yuan, while planning to find another immortal herb for himself and Gui Mei.

• Gui Yuan sensed a familiar presence beyond a poisonous barrier, and Yue Guan and Gui Mei agreed to investigate with him.
• The three crossed the barrier and entered a hidden valley centered on a spring divided into fiery red and icy blue waters.
• Yue Guan recognized the valley’s plants as immortal herbs and explained that compatible herbs could improve a Soul Master’s talent.
• Yue Guan found a wild Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and offered it to Gui Yuan, saying it could strengthen his body and suit his needs.
• Yue Guan said he would choose another immortal herb for himself and find one for Gui Mei.

Gui Yuan absorbed the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, then persuaded Yue Guan and Gui Mei to let him use two opposing immortal herbs for Ice and Fire Body Tempering. After entering the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to absorb them, he left Yue Guan and Gui Mei anxiously watching over him.

• Gui Yuan absorbed the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and felt his body strengthen as a faint golden sheen formed, though his Soul Power remained at rank twenty.
• Gui Yuan learned that Yue Guan had chosen Vajra Clematis for himself and Netherworld Shadow Flower for Gui Mei, then asked to absorb three more herbs.
• Gui Yuan convinced Yue Guan that the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass could be used together for Ice and Fire Body Tempering, and identified Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew as a future aid to his spiritual power.
• Gui Mei harvested the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, and Gui Yuan consumed them together despite the opposing heat and cold tearing through his body.
• Gui Yuan leaped into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to absorb the herbs' effects while Yue Guan and Gui Mei watched anxiously from the bank.

Dugu Bo arrived at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well suffering from his own Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison and found Yue Guan and Gui Mei there. After Gui Yuan emerged from the spring, he proposed curing Dugu Bo as a way to persuade him to join Spirit Hall.

• Dugu Bo reached the medicinal garden and confronted Yue Guan over the missing herbs, but his poison attack forced him to sit and suppress it.
• Yue Guan offered Dugu Bo a place in Spirit Hall and mentioned that Bibi Dong might be able to cure him, while Gui Mei urged him to wait until Dugu Bo was feeling better.
• Gui Yuan emerged from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well the next morning, saying that tempering his body seemed to have worked.
• Gui Yuan asked Yue Guan whether he still wanted to recruit Dugu Bo, and Yue Guan explained Dugu Bo's ties to the Heaven Dou Empire and his good character.
• Gui Yuan suggested curing Dugu Bo to earn his gratitude and revealed that he now had a way to treat the poison.

Gui Yuan proposed using his blood to help detoxify Dugu Bo, and persuaded Yue Guan and Gui Mei to conceal the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well from Spirit Hall. After they agreed, Dugu Bo awoke and mistakenly thought Gui Yuan was their biological son.

• Gui Yuan explained that his blood could serve as a catalyst for pills to help Dugu Bo, and Yue Guan agreed to provide it while warning him to keep its properties secret.
• Gui Yuan urged Yue Guan and Gui Mei to delay absorbing their immortal herbs and keep the medicinal garden hidden from Spirit Hall and Bibi Dong.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei agreed with Gui Yuan’s plan, and Gui Yuan explained that he trusted them more than Bibi Dong.
• Dugu Bo woke and asked who Gui Yuan was, then misunderstood Yue Guan’s explanation that the boy was their adopted son.
• Yue Guan corrected Dugu Bo and mocked his claim that he had merely poisoned himself while researching a toxin.

Yue Guan offered to treat Dugu Bo’s Martial Soul backlash in exchange for herbs from his medicinal garden, and Dugu Bo agreed without requiring Yue Guan to join Spirit Hall. After gathering the herbs, Yue Guan and Gui Mei took Gui Yuan to search for a suitable second Soul Ring, but their discovery of a Rejuvenation Vine was interrupted by a powerful Soul Beast eating it.

• Yue Guan identified Dugu Bo’s poison as backlash from his Martial Soul and offered to treat it in exchange for herbs, while promising not to force him to join Spirit Hall.
• Dugu Bo accepted the deal, then left the valley after learning Yue Guan would deliver the antidote pills within six months.
• Yue Guan, Gui Mei, and Gui Yuan harvested valuable herbs around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and stored them in a Soul Tool.
• After searching Sunset Forest for three days, Yue Guan found a four-to-six-thousand-year-old Rejuvenation Vine suitable for Gui Yuan’s second Soul Ring.
• Yue Guan stopped Gui Yuan when a huge Soul Beast appeared eating the vine, then attacked it with his sixth Soul Skill.

Gui Yuan absorbed a five-thousand-year Rejuvenation Vine Soul Ring, reached rank thirty, and gained a healing and recovery skill. After hiding the Immortal Herbs with his Darkin Bow, he proposed attempting to absorb a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast’s ring, relying on the artifact to protect him from Soul Shock.

• Gui Yuan absorbed the Rejuvenation Vine’s Soul Ring and advanced to rank thirty after a day and a night.
• Gui Yuan revealed Singular Velvet Life-Giving Pistil, a Soul Skill that restored Soul Power and stamina, healed injuries, and could be stored for a month.
• Gui Yuan, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei agreed to tell Bibi Dong they had found only a Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum in Sunset Forest.
• Gui Yuan concealed the Immortal Herbs inside a Soul Tool Ring attached to his Darkin Bow, which he could summon into his Sea of Consciousness.
• Gui Yuan chose to pursue a third Soul Ring that enhanced all attributes and suggested absorbing one from a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Gui Yuan argued that his divine artifact could protect him from Soul Shock, and Yue Guan and Gui Mei reconsidered the risks.

Gui Yuan traveled with Yue Guan and Gui Mei to Star Dou Great Forest to seek a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast for his Third Soul Ring, while Bibi Dong prepared a rare Soul Bone as a reward for him. They found a suitable Raging Blood Iron Birch battling an unfamiliar bear, and Gui Yuan approached to inspect the fight.

• Gui Yuan, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei headed for Star Dou Great Forest after deciding Gui Yuan could attempt a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Bibi Dong considered rewarding Gui Yuan with the over-sixty-thousand-year Spirit Condensation Wisdom Skull for his contributions to Spirit Hall.
• After searching the forest’s mixed zone for nearly ten days, Gui Yuan and the others focused on finding a Raging Blood Iron Birch for his Third Soul Ring.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei detected a battle in a valley and discovered a Ten-Thousand-Year Raging Blood Iron Birch fighting an unfamiliar bear that appeared to be under ten thousand years old.
• Gui Yuan and the others crept toward the valley to observe the battle.

Gui Yuan, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei defeated a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear and a Raging Blood Iron Birch, and Gui Yuan used the Darkin Bow to deliver the finishing blow to the plant Soul Beast. As Gui Yuan prepared to absorb its Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, Gui Mei discovered an external Soul Bone beneath the bear’s corpse and gave it to him to keep.

• Gui Yuan recognized the powerful Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear as it overwhelmed the ten-thousand-year Raging Blood Iron Birch, so Yue Guan and Gui Mei intervened.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei attacked the bear together, with Gui Mei restraining it and Yue Guan exploiting the opening until the bear died.
• Gui Yuan used the Darkin Bow to kill the weakened Raging Blood Iron Birch, then recovered his Soul Power after the shot consumed a third of it.
• Gui Mei found a dark gold right-palm external Soul Bone beneath the bear’s corpse, and Yue Guan told Gui Yuan to keep it until after absorbing the Raging Blood Iron Birch’s Soul Ring.