Chapter Summaries

Jiang Lin agreed to increase the boys’ training after Bai Lingyu explained that Xiao Qi could absorb the Soul Power when they neared losing control, provided everyone consented. The first intensified session remained stable, but a strange burst of static from Jiang Lin’s Yu Feng Token left him wondering who had tried to contact him.

• Bai Lingyu urged Jiang Lin to push the boys harder and explained how his grandfather had been forced to overtrain without guidance or support.
• Jiang Lin told the boys that intensified training could cause their Martial Souls to lose control and explained the backlash Xiao Qi would suffer when absorbing their excess Soul Power.
• A Shan, Yi Chen, Xiao Man, and Lin Du agreed to increase their training, and Xiao Qi gave his consent.
• Jiang Lin set more demanding training goals and told Xiao Qi to stop if absorbing Soul Power became unbearable, in which case the training would stop.
• The five trained together the next morning without anyone losing control, while Jiang Lin recorded that they were stable for now.
• Jiang Lin’s Yu Feng Token briefly flashed and emitted indistinct static, then went dark without a clear message.

During training, Xiao Qi intervened when Xiao Man lost control and later corrected Lin Du’s knee, but the accumulated backlash left Xiao Qi struggling to stand. Jiang Lin and Bai Lingyu recognized that Xiao Qi could likely endure only three interventions in a day, while Jiang Lin also noticed a lingering mark from A Shan’s scales on his own hand.

• Xiao Qi subdued Xiao Man’s uncontrolled fifth vine, and Xiao Man later summoned it steadily on his own.
• A Shan reached the elbow during Scale Transformation and retracted the scales independently, leaving a pale blue-green patch that Jiang Lin noted.
• Xiao Qi corrected Lin Du’s knee after his landings went awry, then collapsed briefly under the backlash before returning to the threshold.
• Jiang Lin and Bai Lingyu concluded that the backlash compounded and that a fourth intervention in one day could make Xiao Qi collapse, so Jiang Lin planned to reduce the next day’s workload.
• Jiang Lin recorded Xiao Qi’s cough from the woodshed and found that a pale blue-green mark from A Shan’s scales remained embedded beneath the skin on his hand.

Feng Lingtian visited Jiang Lin’s fief and shared a theory that Body Martial Souls could be stabilized by directing Soul Power through an anchor point. Jiang Lin tested the method with the four boys, then invited Xiao Qi to join their training the next day, while the unexplained Yu Feng Token signal and Xiao Qi’s dark red light remained unresolved.

• Feng Lingtian arrived at the fief and gave Jiang Lin a Soul Core pathway diagram, suggesting that Body Martial Souls could use anchor points to control wild Soul Power.
• Jiang Lin told Feng Lingtian about Xiao Qi’s ability to absorb Soul Power fluctuations and the Yu Feng Token’s unexplained vibration on the night Xiao Qi first intervened.
• Jiang Lin taught A Shan, Yi Chen, Xiao Man, and Lin Du to gather Soul Power at their individual anchor points, improving their control during training.
• Jiang Lin asked Xiao Qi where his anchor point was, and Xiao Qi showed him his bandaged arm as dark red light flickered beneath it.
• Jiang Lin recorded that the Anchor Point Method had worked and planned for Xiao Qi to train with the four boys the next day, while the dark red light beneath the woodshed door shone brighter that night.