Chapter Summaries

Su Mei'er and Ji Ning obtained their second Soul Rings by defeating a Crimson Flame Fox and a Wind Falcon. Feng Lingtian assessed the team’s roles and led everyone back at sunset, wondering how his older brother’s group had fared.

• Su Mei'er defeated a nine-hundred-year Crimson Flame Fox and gained the Wind Fire Bewildering Array Soul Skill.
• Ji Ning used his Hummingbird Martial Soul to bring down an eight-hundred-year Wind Falcon and gained the Hummingbird: Hover Soul Skill.
• Feng Lingtian reviewed Zhong Yue, Su Mei'er, and Ji Ning’s abilities and considered their roles in the team.
• Feng Lingtian led the six members back as sunset fell and wondered whether Lu Hanxiao, Jiang Lin, Su Ran, Ye Qingyu, Lu Qing, and Cheng Luo had succeeded in their Soul Hunting.

Feng Lingtian led the team into Poison Miasma Valley, where they defeated an eight-hundred-year Jade Phosphorus Poison Python and recovered jade phosphorus poison-clearing grass. As the group left the mountains, Feng Lingtian considered using the herb to approach Dugu Bo and gain access to his immortal herbs, while the battle clarified the team's official roster.

• Su Mei'er detected concentrated poisonous mist, and Feng Lingtian persuaded Feng Xiaotian to lead all thirteen team members to investigate.
• Feng Lingtian identified the mist as being absorbed by something inside the valley and gave everyone unfinished Clear Pivot Turbidity-Transforming Pills to protect them as they entered.
• The team found jade phosphorus poison-clearing grass guarded by an eight-hundred-year Jade Phosphorus Poison Python, and Feng Xiaotian assigned everyone a role in the fight.
• Lu Hanxiao pinpointed the python's weak spot, Su Mei'er restrained it, and Feng Lingtian, Ji Ning, and Feng Xiaotian struck together to kill it.
• Feng Lingtian harvested the herb and told Feng Xiaotian that it might help them negotiate with Dugu Bo for access to his immortal herbs.
• As the thirteen left the Heavenly Wind Mountain Range, Feng Lingtian judged that the battle had revealed the shape of their official team roster.

Feng Xiaotian secured the old martial training ground for his thirteen-member tournament team and announced the starting lineup and training plan. The team began its first coordination exercise, pairing off as Feng Xiaotian watched Lu Qing closely.

• Feng Xiaotian asked Instructor Zhao for a permanent training venue, and Instructor Qin persuaded Zhao to give the team the unused northern martial training ground.
• Instructor Zhao handed Feng Xiaotian the key and reminded him to maintain the facility and honor his three-year commitment.
• Feng Xiaotian gathered all thirteen members at the training ground, named the seven starters, assigned Jiang Lin and Su Ran special roles, and designated Lu Qing, Shi Yan, Cheng Luo, and Bai Yu as substitutes.
• Feng Lingtian announced that he would manage daily training and prepare medicinal baths and meals, then assigned everyone to pair up for a four-hour coordination exercise.
• The thirteen members formed seven pairs, and Feng Xiaotian noticed that Lu Qing's wind-scythe blade never fully took shape as he trained with Lu Hanxiao.

Feng Lingtian tested Jiang Lin’s Spirit Eyes while the team practiced paired coordination, and Feng Xiaotian encouraged Lu Qing to reveal the twin blades hidden within his Wind Scythe. The chapter ended with Feng Lingtian reflecting on Lu Qing’s concealed strength as the team prepared to begin regular afternoon training.

• Jiang Lin projected the training ground through Spirit Mapping, allowing Feng Lingtian to examine everyone’s Soul Power, and said he could maintain the full-range vision for fewer than thirty breaths.
• Zhong Yue and Bai Yu, Su Mei'er and Ji Ning, Lu Hanxiao and Lu Qing, Cheng Luo and Shi Yan, and Su Ran and Ye Qingyu demonstrated their paired coordination.
• Feng Xiaotian announced that the team would train together for one double-hour each afternoon after classes.
• Feng Xiaotian confronted Lu Qing about holding back, and Lu Qing revealed that his Wind Scythe could form a second blade he had kept hidden.
• Feng Xiaotian told Lu Qing to release his twin scythes without holding back, and Lu Qing left the training ground with renewed resolve.
• Feng Lingtian recalled the day’s training from his bed and recognized the hidden depth of Lu Qing’s strength.

During the teams’ first practice battle, Lu Qing used twin Wind Scythes to disrupt the red team’s coordinated attacks and help the blue team hold out longer, though they still lost. Feng Xiaotian and Lu Hanxiao recognized Lu Qing’s ability, and Feng Lingtian resolved to help each of the thirteen team members uncover their strengths.

• Feng Xiaotian divided the thirteen members into red and blue teams and privately assigned Lu Qing to lead the blue team’s offense.
• The red team’s coordinated attack quickly pressured the blue team, but Lu Qing spotted a gap in its timing and severed Su Mei’er’s Wind Lightning Chain.
• As the red team targeted him, Lu Qing unleashed twin Wind Scythes that disrupted its attacks and forced Su Mei’er to recall her chain.
• The red team won, but Lu Qing’s twin scythes helped the blue team’s defensive line last a quarter of an hour longer than expected.
• Feng Xiaotian praised Lu Qing’s ability to break the red team’s coordination, and Lu Hanxiao acknowledged him with a nod.
• Feng Lingtian added “twin scythes” beside Lu Qing’s name in his medicinal-bath notes and thought about uncovering the other members’ strengths.

Feng Xiaotian tested the red team against Meng Ran’s second-string team, and Bai Yu used her wind chime to break through their defensive formation. Afterward, Bai Yu and Ye Qingyu recognized how their support styles complemented each other, while Feng Lingtian began preparing medicinal baths for Bai Yu and Su Ran.

• Feng Xiaotian invited Meng Ran’s second-string team to test the red team and put Bai Yu in the only support slot while Ye Qingyu watched from the sidelines.
• Bai Yu precisely timed her bell chimes to amplify Feng Xiaotian, Feng Lingtian, and Ji Ning as they attacked Meng Ran’s double defensive line.
• Bai Yu redirected her chimes to Ji Ning during a defensive transition, helping him breach the line before Feng Xiaotian and Feng Lingtian followed up.
• Meng Ran recognized that Bai Yu was dismantling his defense, and after the match Ye Qingyu praised her timing and admitted she could not do the same.
• Bai Yu told Ye Qingyu that her broad zither support and precise bell amplification could form a whole net together, and Ye Qingyu agreed.
• Feng Lingtian wrote medicinal bath prescriptions for Bai Yu and Su Ran, deciding that Su Ran’s turn to find his own rhythm had come next.

Feng Xiaotian tested the teams’ endurance and showed how Su Ran’s precise, on-the-spot rations gave the red team an advantage. Afterward, Su Ran struggled to shorten his casting time, while Feng Lingtian recognized the value of the role he played in supporting the team.

• Feng Xiaotian arranged an endurance match without burst-type Soul Skills, and Su Ran made tailored Soul Power and stamina rations for each fighter during the break.
• The red team defeated the blue team after Feng Xiaotian had Su Ran give the blue team seventy-percent portions, and Feng Xiaotian instructed Su Ran to practice instant casting.
• Su Mei'er asked how Su Ran had judged her needs, and Su Ran explained that he had noticed the strain caused by her Wind Lightning Chain before telling her he wanted to help her hold out longer.
• Su Ran practiced making rations alone after training but could not reduce the casting time below five breaths.
• Feng Lingtian recalled Su Ran’s precise judgments and his determination to support the fighters, then added Su Ran’s name and a note about his foundation to the medicinal bath list.

Feng Lingtian saw his teammates’ training improve and decided to use medicinal pills to break through their physical limits. He made Clear Pivot Turbidity-Transforming Pills to approach Dugu Bo through Dugu Yan, then enlisted Feng Qingxuan to arrange a meeting, leaving determined to pursue the immortal herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Feng Lingtian noticed the team’s steady progress and realized medicinal baths and meals could not raise their limits.
• Feng Lingtian identified the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as the source of eight immortal herbs and planned to approach Dugu Bo through Dugu Yan.
• Feng Lingtian obtained seven ingredients from the academy’s herb storehouse and refined three Clear Pivot Turbidity-Transforming Pills using a leaf of jade phosphorus poison-clearing grass.
• Feng Lingtian explained his plan to Feng Qingxuan, who agreed to contact Meng Shenji and arrange a meeting if the pills eased Dugu Yan’s suffering.
• Feng Qingxuan warned Feng Lingtian that Dugu Bo would not be easy to deal with, but Feng Lingtian resolved to pursue the opportunity to obtain the immortal herbs.

Feng Lingtian brought Dugu Yan a pill that eased her Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison, earning her gratitude and bringing him closer to meeting Dugu Bo. He then considered a speculative cultivation method that might eliminate the poison backlash at its source.

• Feng Qingxuan and Feng Lingtian met Meng Shenji at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and presented the pills Feng Lingtian had refined.
• Meng Shenji brought them to Dugu Yan, who hesitated to try the medicine because she feared another failed treatment would disappoint her grandfather, Dugu Bo.
• Feng Lingtian accurately described Dugu Yan's poison flare-up symptoms and explained that he understood the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison.
• Dugu Yan swallowed a Clear Pivot Turbidity-Transforming Pill, felt the deep chill recede, and thanked Feng Lingtian.
• Feng Lingtian told Dugu Yan to take three pills seven days apart, and Meng Shenji said he would inform Dugu Bo.
• Back at Godwind Academy, Feng Lingtian considered forming a Soul Power core to refine away the toxins and decided to meet Dugu Bo first.

Dugu Bo confronted Feng Lingtian over the pills that had temporarily suppressed Dugu Yan’s poison, and Feng Lingtian asked to enter the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to find a cure. When Dugu Yan’s poison flared up again, Dugu Bo agreed to take Feng Lingtian there, entrusting him with his granddaughter’s hope of being cured.

• Dugu Bo visited Godwind Academy and confirmed that Feng Lingtian’s three pills had temporarily suppressed Dugu Yan’s poison.
• Feng Lingtian asked Dugu Bo for access to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, explaining that an herb there might cure the poison in Dugu Yan’s martial soul.
• Dugu Bo left to consider the request and said he would return in three days.
• Dugu Bo returned early after Dugu Yan’s poison flared up worse than before, and he agreed to take Feng Lingtian to the hidden place to search for the herb.
• On the journey, Dugu Bo told Feng Lingtian how he had spent twelve years trying to spare Dugu Yan from the pain, and Feng Lingtian vowed to find a cure.

Feng Lingtian searched the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for a cure for Dugu Yan’s jade phosphorous serpent poison and found aromatic silk beauty. He refined eight pills and gave one to Dugu Bo, warning that Dugu Yan would face a dangerous poison backlash.

• Dugu Bo led Feng Lingtian through Sunset Forest to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Feng Lingtian searched for an herb to cure Dugu Yan.
• After Feng Lingtian failed to find the herb in one day, Dugu Bo gave him three more days and threatened to send him away if he failed.
• On the fourth morning, Feng Lingtian found aromatic silk beauty hidden beneath vines on a rock face and told Dugu Bo it could neutralize the poison in Dugu Yan’s martial soul origin.
• Feng Lingtian combined aromatic silk beauty with heartbreak grass, aconite, and thunder god vine to refine eight pills.
• Feng Lingtian gave Dugu Bo a pill and warned that Dugu Yan would suffer a dangerous backlash, while Dugu Bo left with the bottle and asked what would happen if she could not endure it.

After Dugu Yan survived the poison backlash, Feng Lingtian learned that Dugu Bo’s Poison Core was gradually failing to suppress his poison and accepted it to study. The chapter ended with Feng Lingtian investigating where traces of poison disappeared during each cycle, while the Peregrine Falcon watched from the valley entrance.

• Dugu Bo told Feng Lingtian that Dugu Yan had endured the backlash and felt at ease for the first time in years.
• Dugu Bo bowed to Feng Lingtian and pledged that his affairs would be Dugu Bo’s affairs.
• Feng Lingtian explained that Dugu Yan would need long-term medication because her Martial Soul would keep generating poison.
• Feng Lingtian identified Dugu Bo’s Poison Core as the source suppressing his backlash and warned that poison deposits were accumulating in his meridians.
• Dugu Bo entrusted his Poison Core to Feng Lingtian so he could study it and seek a way to ease his suffering.
• Feng Lingtian traced the Poison Core’s cycles and wondered where the missing trace of poison went, as the Peregrine Falcon watched him.

Feng Lingtian discovered that poison left deposits at bends in meridians and explained how Dugu Bo could avoid the buildup by creating a rotating Soul Core. Dugu Bo accepted Feng Lingtian’s rotational compression method and began attempting it.

• Feng Lingtian built bamboo models of the meridians and found that poison left deposits at each bend after every circuit.
• Feng Lingtian assembled seven versions of the meridian circuit and showed Dugu Bo that the seven persistent deposit sites matched where Dugu Bo felt pain during attacks.
• Feng Lingtian demonstrated how rotating Soul Power could keep poison from touching the edges and leaving residue.
• Feng Lingtian explained that Dugu Bo could compress and rotate Soul Power layer by layer, then merge the Poison Core into the resulting spinning Soul Core.
• Dugu Bo called Feng Lingtian a madman, then sat cross-legged and began attempting rotational compression.

Feng Lingtian helped Dugu Bo transform his Poison Core into a Soul Poison Pill, ending the poison backlash and earning Dugu Bo’s loyalty. After Dugu Bo wounded Yue Guan in revenge for killing Dugu Yan’s parents, he returned to guard the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Feng Lingtian, while a Peregrine Falcon carried away what it had witnessed.

• Feng Lingtian guided Dugu Bo in forming a Soul Poison Pill that contained his poison and stopped its backlash.
• Dugu Bo gave Feng Lingtian the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and revealed that Yue Guan had killed Dugu Yan’s parents.
• Feng Lingtian harvested and sealed away the eight immortal-grade herbs while Dugu Bo went to confront Yue Guan.
• Dugu Bo returned after wounding Yue Guan, whose partner had rescued him, and pledged to follow Feng Lingtian.
• Dugu Bo agreed to guard the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Feng Lingtian as the Peregrine Falcon flew away after witnessing the events.

After Dugu Bo was detoxified, Feng Lingtian invented a Soul Power-linked Resonance Stone that could make its pair flash. Dugu Bo left to see his granddaughter, while Feng Lingtian studied the pill formulas before refining the remaining immortal herbs.

• Dugu Bo admired his Soul Poison Pill and described how his connection to it felt weaker when it was outside his body.
• Feng Lingtian devised a way to link two stones by dividing and densely compressing Soul Power from the same source.
• After several failed attempts, Feng Lingtian made one stone flash faintly when he infused its pair with Soul Power.
• Dugu Bo was astonished by the Resonance Stone, accepted one from Feng Lingtian, and thanked him before leaving to see his granddaughter.
• Feng Lingtian reviewed every formula in the True Explanation of the Dao of Alchemy and put off refining the seven remaining immortal herbs until he had prepared thoroughly.

Feng Lingtian began refining the seven immortal herbs and successfully made fire- and ice-attribute Primordial Martial Awakening Pills, though the extreme herbs exhausted him and yielded only fifteen pills. He rested before continuing the remaining batches, while recording his findings and leaving a Soul Core theory marked for verification.

• Feng Lingtian documented his refining plans for all seven formulas in Lingtian's Notes over two days.
• Feng Lingtian refined infernal delicate apricot with layered Soul Power control and produced eight Primordial Martial Awakening Pills · Fire.
• After recovering, Feng Lingtian refined octagonal mysterious ice grass in one sustained effort and produced seven Primordial Martial Awakening Pills · Ice.
• Feng Lingtian recorded that his simulations were correct but execution was harder, then rested after the two exhausting batches.
• Feng Lingtian reviewed his unverified Soul Core theories and decided to finish refining the seven kinds of pills before pursuing them further.

Feng Lingtian refined pills for Shi Yan and the Support System, then successfully tested a medicine box designed to preserve herbs. With three Immortal Herb batches left, he prepared to finish refining and return to the academy.

• Feng Lingtian studied Lingtian's Notes and chose to refine an Origin-Returning Flaw-Mending Pill for Shi Yan.
• Feng Lingtian used the split-furnace method to make eleven Origin-Returning Flaw-Mending Pills from nine-grade purple ganoderma.
• Feng Lingtian refined ten Nurturing Grace and Supporting Splendor Pills for Ye Qingyu, Bai Yu, and Su Ran.
• Feng Lingtian carved a preservation design into a medicine box and confirmed that it protected a leaf from the box's ice-and-fire counterattack.
• Feng Lingtian recorded his findings and sensed that his rank-twenty-six cultivation barrier was loosening as he prepared to refine the remaining three batches.

Feng Lingtian finished refining seven kinds of Immortal Herb pills, along with special pills for his parents, and broke through to rank twenty-seven. Dugu Bo arrived, sensed the unusual medicinal fragrance, and took Feng Lingtian away from the valley as unseen eyes watched from the forest.

• Feng Lingtian refined Vajra Limit-Expansion Pills, Ice Muscle Limit-Expansion Pills, and Mundane-Cleansing Origin-Fortifying Pills from the final three Immortal Herbs.
• Feng Lingtian made Meridian-Warming Pills for Bai Qingyin and Soul-Fortifying Pills for Feng Qingxuan, then packed all the pills for his teammates and family.
• After finishing the refining, Feng Lingtian's Soul Power surged from rank twenty-six to rank twenty-seven.
• Dugu Bo arrived at the valley and sensed the nourishing medicinal fragrance, then asked Feng Lingtian what he had done.
• Feng Lingtian withheld the truth about the Immortal Herbs and asked Dugu Bo to take him back; the two left the valley as greedy eyes watched from the forest.

Feng Lingtian returned to Godwind Academy with Dugu Bo and gave his teammates pills that strengthened their Martial Souls and cultivation. Su Mei’er’s fire began evolving toward Ultimate Fire, while Dugu Bo watched the results and eyed the remaining pills.

• Feng Lingtian asked Dugu Bo to conceal his presence so he could surprise his teammates at the training ground.
• Feng Xiaotian told Feng Lingtian that he had reached rank fifty but had waited to obtain his fifth Soul Ring.
• Feng Lingtian gave Shi Yan an Origin-Returning Flaw-Mending Pill, which improved his Bell Martial Soul and raised him to rank twenty-seven.
• Feng Lingtian gave Ye Qingyu, Bai Yu, and Su Ran pills that improved their Support System cultivation and abilities.
• Feng Lingtian gave Su Mei’er a Primordial Martial Awakening Pill · Fire, strengthening her fire tail and raising her to rank twenty-eight as crimson-gold patterns appeared in her flames.
• Dugu Bo recognized the flames as the embryonic form of Ultimate Fire and wondered whether Feng Lingtian’s remaining pills would work.

Feng Xiaotian distributed pills that enhanced the team’s strength and cultivation, and all thirteen teammates absorbed them at the training ground. After seeing their abilities improve, he sent everyone to rest before training resumed the next day.

• Feng Lingtian explained the effects of the Vajra Limit-Expansion Pills and Mundane-Cleansing Origin-Fortifying Pills, then let Feng Xiaotian distribute them.
• Feng Xiaotian gave the pills to his teammates, and all nine gathered recipients waited until he was ready before swallowing them together.
• The pills raised several teammates’ levels and strengthened their Martial Souls, while Feng Xiaotian’s level-fifty bottleneck broke and Feng Lingtian reached level thirty.
• Su Mei'er, Ye Qingyu, Bai Yu, and Su Ran watched as all thirteen finished taking their pills, and Dugu Bo observed the results in silence.
• Feng Xiaotian told the team to rest while the pills settled and resume training the next day; Zhong Yue offered to practice Bell Toll Vibration with Shi Yan.