Chapter Summaries

At Godwind Academy, Bai Chenxiang challenged Lu Hanxiao to a speed contest but was dismissed, while Bai Lingyu met Jiang Lin and learned about his unfinished book. The chapter ended with Bai He telling Bai Qingyin that her older brother was still alive.

• Bai Chenxiang watched Lu Hanxiao at the training ground, then challenged him to see who was faster.
• Lu Hanxiao told Bai Chenxiang that she could not see him and walked away, leaving her furious at being ignored.
• Bai Lingyu introduced himself to Jiang Lin and learned that Jiang Lin had written the unfinished book Spirit Eyes Record.
• Bai Lingyu praised Jiang Lin's book, and Jiang Lin promised he could be the first to read it when it was finished.
• Bai He told Bai Qingyin that her older brother was still alive, and Bai Qingyin tightened her grip on her skirt.

Bai Qingyin learned that her brother Qingchuan was alive, and Feng Lingtian invited Bai He to bring the Speed Clan into the Pill Pavilion. Bai He agreed, while Chenxiang and Lingyu were still away exploring Godwind Academy.

• Bai He told Bai Qingyin that Qingchuan had survived and was living in Bluestone Town with an old leg injury.
• Bai He apologized to Feng Qingxuan for accusing him over the Speed Family's pill formulas, and Feng Qingxuan introduced Feng Xiaotian and Feng Lingtian.
• Feng Lingtian invited the Speed Clan to join the Pill Pavilion in pill production or reconnaissance, and Feng Qingxuan explained the revenue-sharing plan.
• Bai He agreed to lead the Speed Clan into the Pill Pavilion.
• Bai He asked where Chenxiang and Lingyu were, and Feng Qingxuan said they were exploring Godwind Academy.

The Speed Clan officially joined Feng Lingtian’s Pill Pavilion, with plans to expand pill production and establish reconnaissance teams across the cities. As the clan’s members settled into Godwind Academy, Bai Qingyin looked forward to visiting her brother in Bluestone Town, while Lu Hanxiao and Jiang Lin quietly reflected on the day.

• Bai He announced that the Speed Clan would join the Pill Pavilion and organize reconnaissance teams, then told Bai Chenxiang to rein in her temper.
• Feng Lingtian explained that Speed Clan pill refiners would help increase production and that their fast scouts would gather information, especially about Spirit City’s silence.
• Feng Xiaotian told Feng Lingtian that Bai Qingyin had been happy to learn her brother was alive, and Feng Lingtian said their family would visit Bluestone Town once things settled down.
• Bai Chenxiang headed to her lodging while Bai Lingyu glanced toward the empty walkway, and Lu Hanxiao finished packing away the training gear before returning to the dormitories.
• Jiang Lin studied the Spirit Eyes Record, added a few words, and closed the book for the night.

After hearing that Godwind Academy might sell pills capable of remedying innate Martial Soul defects, Ye Lingling sought Dugu Yan’s help to learn whether one could cure her Nine Heart Begonia’s curse. Dugu Yan revealed that her own poison had been cured by a pill from Feng Lingtian and went to ask him about Ye Lingling’s condition, leaving Ye Lingling hopeful but uncertain.

• Ye Lingling heard a rumor that Godwind Academy’s pills could remedy innate Martial Soul defects and went to find Dugu Yan.
• Ye Lingling asked Dugu Yan to help her learn whether a pill could cure both their conditions.
• Dugu Yan revealed that Dugu Bo had obtained the Clear Pivot Turbidity-Transforming Pill from Feng Lingtian and that it had completely cured her poison.
• Dugu Yan apologized for keeping the cure secret and promised to ask Feng Lingtian about a pill for Ye Lingling.
• Dugu Yan reminded Ye Lingling to protect Feng Lingtian’s identity as the pill refiner, then left to find Dugu Bo.
• Ye Lingling stayed in Dugu Yan’s courtyard, encouraged by the proof of Dugu Yan’s recovery and wondering whether she could obtain a curative pill.

Dugu Bo brought Ye Lingling to Godwind Academy to seek an Origin-Returning Flaw-Mending Pill from Feng Lingtian. Feng Lingtian gave her two pills and explained how she and her mother could use them to try to break the Nine Heart Begonia Clan’s curse, leaving Ye Lingling determined to repay his kindness if they succeeded.

• Dugu Yan told Ye Lingling that the Origin-Returning Flaw-Mending Pill could remedy innate Martial Soul defects and that Dugu Bo would take them to Godwind Academy.
• Dugu Bo left Heaven Dou City with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling and brought them to see Feng Lingtian.
• Ye Lingling asked Feng Lingtian for an Origin-Returning Flaw-Mending Pill to address the Nine Heart Begonia Clan’s curse.
• Feng Lingtian gave Ye Lingling two pills and instructed her and her mother to take them together while circulating their Soul Power.
• Ye Lingling thanked Feng Lingtian and resolved to consider repaying his kindness with the future of her clan if the pills broke the curse.

Ye Lingling and her mother used Feng Lingtian’s pills to break the Nine Heart Begonia Clan’s generational curse, freeing their Martial Souls and allowing a newborn to inherit one safely. Grateful, the clan joined Feng Lingtian’s Pill Pavilion to provide healing services and other support.

• Ye Lingling and her mother took the Origin-Returning Flaw-Mending Pills together and felt the curse’s restraints dissolve.
• The clan discovered that Ye Lingling’s newborn clanswoman had a Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul, and the elders confirmed the curse had been lifted.
• Three days later, Ye Lingling and her mother visited Feng Lingtian at Godwind Academy to thank him for saving their clan.
• Feng Lingtian explained that the Pill Pavilion needed healers and offered clan members roles in pill refinement, healing stations, and support work, with a thirty-percent profit share.
• Ye Lingling’s mother agreed that the Nine Heart Begonia Clan would join the Pill Pavilion and provide healers when needed.

Feng Lingtian refined Heart-Sealing Pills to protect the Pill Pavilion’s formulas and had eight clan-selected alchemists take them before assigning them production work. He also chose a residence in eastern Godwind City as the Pill Pavilion’s future home, leaving its framework in place as he planned to show Feng Xiaotian the site.

• Feng Lingtian combined soul-sealing flowers and oath heart lotuses to create Heart-Sealing Pills, then tested one on himself and found it only reacted to thoughts of revealing secrets.
• Eight alchemists selected by the Speed Clan and Nine Heart Begonia arrived, and Feng Lingtian explained the pills’ effects and made taking one a condition for joining the alchemy team.
• A young Nine Heart Begonia alchemist triggered the pill’s warning by thinking about the formula, then stopped; all eight alchemists swallowed their pills.
• Feng Lingtian divided the alchemists into groups producing Meridian-Warming Pills and Soul-Fortifying Pills, and left the elderly apothecary in charge of the alchemy room.
• Feng Lingtian inspected three sites in Godwind City and chose a spacious residence in the east as the Pill Pavilion’s future base.
• Feng Xiaotian visited Feng Lingtian, who told him the alchemists were in place and the Pill Pavilion’s framework had taken shape.

Ning Fengzhi brought Ning Rongrong to Godwind Academy to investigate pills that might overcome the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda’s cultivation limit. After Ning Rongrong took one, her Martial Soul began transforming, and the chapter ended as an eighth and ninth story started to form.

• Ning Fengzhi took Ning Rongrong from Shrek Academy to Godwind Academy after learning that its pills might remedy Martial Soul defects and improve Support System cultivation.
• Feng Qingxuan introduced Feng Xiaotian and Feng Lingtian, and Feng Lingtian confirmed that the Pill Pavilion had a pill for gem-type Support System Martial Souls.
• Feng Lingtian gave Ning Fengzhi a Nurturing Grace and Supporting Splendor Pill to test, explaining that its effects varied with the user's talent.
• Ning Fengzhi gave the pill to Ning Rongrong, who swallowed it and released her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Ning Rongrong's seven-story pagoda changed to nine colors as phantom eighth and ninth stories began to appear, leaving everyone watching to see whether the transformation would succeed.

Ning Rongrong evolved her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and Ning Fengzhi negotiated a long-term alliance between the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Pill Pavilion. As Ning Fengzhi and Rongrong left Godwind Academy, he reflected on Feng Lingtian’s promising future.

• Ning Rongrong used the Nurturing Grace and Supporting Splendor Pill to evolve her Martial Soul into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Ning Fengzhi negotiated an alliance with Feng Lingtian, agreeing to buy an initial batch of ten pills at seventy percent of market price and arrange ongoing cooperation.
• Ning Fengzhi pledged ingredient procurement support, public backing, and yearly assistance from the sect’s Support System Soul Masters for pill testing.
• Chen Xin confirmed the pill’s effects and offered to help Feng Qingxuan hunt for his ninth Soul Ring.
• Ning Rongrong joked with Feng Lingtian about calling on her father if anyone bullied him, then left with Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin as dusk approached.

Ning Rongrong returned to Shrek Academy after Godwind Academy’s pills evolved her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. She shared Godwind’s pill catalog with the group, while Tang San privately suspected the Pill Pavilion had used an immortal herb and wondered what other rare materials it possessed.

• Ning Rongrong returned to Shrek Academy and told everyone that her father had taken her to Godwind Academy to try a pill.
• Ning Rongrong revealed that her Martial Soul had evolved into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, astonishing the students and teachers.
• Ning Rongrong showed the group Godwind Academy’s pill catalog and explained its limited supplies, pricing, alliance, and special-order pills.
• The students discussed how the pills might help their Martial Souls, but learned that the shops had not yet opened in Suotuo City and that the prices could be high.
• Zhu Zhuqing quietly congratulated Ning Rongrong on the way to the dormitory.
• Tang San privately connected Ning Rongrong’s breakthrough to an immortal herb in the Tang Sect pharmacopoeia and suspected the Pill Pavilion had more such materials.

Flender told the Shrek group that the Nine Heart Begonia Clan had joined the Pill Pavilion after its curse was lifted, confirming that the Pavilion could remedy Martial Soul defects. With the tournament approaching and the Pavilion’s pills unavailable in Suotuo City, Ning Rongrong agreed to try using the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s connections to obtain some.

• Flender presented the Nine Heart Begonia Clan’s public declaration that the Pill Pavilion had lifted its thousand-year curse in exchange for the clan joining it.
• Ma Hongjun, Yu Xiaogang, and the other Shrek students considered how the Pill Pavilion’s remedies might help their own Martial Souls.
• Flender reported that academies in Heaven Dou City and Seven Treasure City were competing for scarce pills, while Suotuo City had no nearby supply.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Ning Rongrong to help the group obtain pills, and she agreed to write to her family’s sect and try.
• Ning Rongrong smiled as the others relaxed, though she privately remembered that dealing with Feng Lingtian would not be simple.

Ning Fengzhi realized that Ning Rongrong’s teacher had guided her into requesting pills from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, including pills for someone beyond the students’ stated needs. He agreed to handle the request, then decided to go to Godwind Academy himself the next morning.

• Ning Fengzhi read Ning Rongrong’s letter and noticed that the carefully organized pill list included two Origin-Returning Flaw-Mending Pills, suggesting the teacher had added a request of his own.
• Ning Fengzhi summoned Ning Rongrong home, then asked whether she had written the letter and compiled the list herself.
• Ning Rongrong admitted that her teacher had organized the list and said he wanted the pills to improve the academy’s overall strength.
• Ning Fengzhi recognized that the teacher had used the students’ expectations to make Rongrong present the request, but concealed his displeasure from her.
• Ning Fengzhi reassured Rongrong that he would handle the pills, then ordered a carriage so he could visit Godwind Academy at dawn.

Ning Fengzhi arranged for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to buy Shrek Academy’s requested pills, but excluded the Origin-Returning Flaw-Mending Pills. After he delivered the other pills, Ning Rongrong realized Yu Xiaogang had quietly steered her choices to pursue his own aims.

• Ning Fengzhi showed Feng Lingtian Shrek Academy’s procurement list and asked to exclude the Origin-Returning Flaw-Mending Pills, and Feng Lingtian agreed that the Pill Pavilion would not sell them publicly.
• Ning Fengzhi arranged for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to buy the other pills at market price and establish a direct purchasing agreement with the Pill Pavilion.
• Ning Fengzhi delivered crates of basic enhancement pills to Shrek Academy and told Flender that future purchases could go through the sect, while Yu Xiaogang noticed the missing Flaw-Mending Pills but said nothing.
• Ma Hongjun asked Ning Rongrong whether the crates contained Origin-Returning Flaw-Mending Pills, but Yu Xiaogang redirected him before she could answer.
• Ning Rongrong concluded that Yu Xiaogang had calculated how the others would react and had guided her into choices that served his purpose.

Shrek Academy’s students received pills from Ning Fengzhi, but Ma Hongjun questioned why they could not obtain the Origin-Returning Flaw-Mending Pill he needed. The meeting ended without resolving the request, and Ning Rongrong remained alone with her thoughts.

• Flender distributed Meridian-Warming and Soul-Fortifying Pills to the Shrek Seven Monsters, along with special pills for several students, while Tang San took only the two basic pills.
• Flender worried about paying for future supplies, and the students teased him about his unpaid commissions and the academy’s finances.
• Ma Hongjun asked Ning Rongrong whether her father was refusing to help them obtain an Origin-Returning Flaw-Mending Pill; Ning Rongrong explained that the Pill Pavilion reserved its limited supply for core partners.
• Flender stopped Ma Hongjun from pressing Ning Rongrong further, while Tang San noticed Yu Xiaogang briefly watching her.
• After the meeting, Oscar took his Quality Enhancement Pill, and the others dispersed to test their pills or return to their rooms.
• Flender resolved to visit the Suotuo City Lord’s residence for overdue payment, while Ning Rongrong stayed alone in the courtyard, holding her pill and thinking.

Tang San examined the Meridian-Warming Pill and Soul-Fortifying Pill, inferred that their unusual medicinal traces came from herbs grown near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and considered whether the Pill Pavilion’s remedies could resolve the danger of his Twin Martial Souls. He decided he had to visit the Pill Pavilion himself.

• Tang San explained that Ning Rongrong’s father had routed the pill purchases through the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to protect her, and Ning Rongrong asked whether he would treat someone differently if they proved unlike the person he had believed them to be.
• Tang San took the Meridian-Warming Pill and Soul-Fortifying Pill and identified familiar ingredients alongside faint, unusual traces of coolness and heat.
• Tang San concluded that the pills’ medicinal herbs had likely grown near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and that the Pill Pavilion might control the site and its Immortal Herbs.
• Tang San wondered whether the Origin-Returning Flaw-Mending Pill could prevent the conflict between his Twin Martial Souls.
• Tang San decided to visit the Pill Pavilion to find answers for himself.

Feng Qingxuan led a prepared Soul Hunting party toward the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain Bai Yu’s third Soul Ring and hunt a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast for his ninth. The group reached a town near the forest, where Dugu Bo sensed something wrong in the night wind.

• Feng Lingtian gave Feng Qingxuan medicine and supplies for the expedition, including pills for Bai Yu and life-saving Yang-Restoring Pills.
• Feng Qingxuan set out with Bai Yu, Teachers Lin Yuan and Li Ji, Sword Douluo Chen Xin, and Dugu Bo, assigning Lin Yuan to protect Bai Yu and Li Ji to establish supply points.
• The party traveled south for seven days, with Bai Yu preparing to obtain her third Soul Ring and the others keeping watch and managing supplies.
• Dugu Bo recalled fleeing from a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast during an earlier visit to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• After reaching a town at the forest’s edge, Dugu Bo sensed something wrong in the wind, and the party felt that something was waiting in the forest.

Feng Qingxuan’s group entered the Star Dou Great Forest to find Bai Yu a soul beast for her third soul ring. Bai Yu absorbed a three-thousand-year wind-attribute soul beast and reached level thirty-five, while Feng Qingxuan turned to the group’s next objective.

• Chen Xin told Feng Qingxuan that a hundred-thousand-year soul beast had been watching their group from near the forest’s edge.
• Feng Qingxuan led the group into the forest, where Lin Yuan scouted ahead and Li Ji established a marked supply point.
• Lin Yuan found a three-thousand-year wind-attribute mutated weasel, and Bai Yu chose to absorb its soul ring despite its age exceeding the usual limit.
• Dugu Bo sealed the hollow with poison, and Lin Yuan subdued the weasel so Bai Yu could kill it and absorb its purple soul ring.
• Bai Yu gained the third soul skill Wind Chime · Wind Protection, which formed wind bells that absorbed damage for her teammates, and discovered she had reached level thirty-five.
• Lin Yuan escorted Bai Yu away while Feng Qingxuan told the remaining group that he would pursue their next objective.

Feng Qingxuan, Dugu Bo, and Chen Xin tracked a hundred-thousand-year Wind Attribute Soul Beast through the Star Dou Great Forest and found the Hurricane Wolf King. As Dugu Bo and Chen Xin engaged it, Feng Qingxuan watched for an opening in its wind wall and sprang into action.

• Dugu Bo identified signs of a hundred-thousand-year Titan Giant Ape near a forest clearing, and the group avoided its territory.
• Feng Qingxuan sensed a hundred-thousand-year Wind Attribute Soul Beast near a ridge, while Li Ji set up a supply point and gave the group Wind Breath Cakes and Restoring Wind Cakes.
• Dugu Bo coated his hands with Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor venom as Feng Qingxuan and Chen Xin advanced into the stone forest.
• The Hurricane Wolf King rose from its resting place and formed a rotating wall of wind that lifted stones and cracked the ground.
• Dugu Bo attacked the Hurricane Wolf King's flank while Chen Xin blocked its right paw, and Feng Qingxuan moved toward a brief gap in its wind wall.

Feng Qingxuan joined Dugu Bo and Chen Xin in killing the Hurricane Wolf King and absorbed its Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, reaching rank ninety-three and becoming Azure Wind Douluo. After obtaining the wolf king’s Soul Bone, he and the others escaped the forest and reunited with Li Ji.

• Feng Qingxuan wounded the Hurricane Wolf King while Dugu Bo poisoned its hind leg and Chen Xin blocked its attacks, allowing all three to strike together and kill it.
• Feng Qingxuan used two Yang-Restoring Pills while Dugu Bo stabilized his meridians and Chen Xin guarded the area as he absorbed the wolf king’s Soul Ring.
• Feng Qingxuan completed the absorption, reached rank ninety-three, and took the wolf king’s left leg Soul Bone without absorbing it.
• Feng Qingxuan signaled Li Ji, and the three Titled Douluo fled the approaching beasts and met Li Ji outside the ridge.
• Li Ji gave the group Wind-Returning Flatbreads, and the four followed his trail markers toward the forest’s edge.

After returning to Godwind Academy with his new Azure Wind title, Feng Qingxuan discussed the danger of absorbing powerful Soul Rings and how Soul Cores might strengthen meridians. He approved Feng Lingtian’s plan to teach the inner court’s core members to condense Soul Cores, leaving Feng Xiaotian responsible for organizing the secret training.

• Feng Qingxuan returned to Godwind Academy at rank ninety-three, while Li Ji, Dugu Bo, and Chen Xin went their separate ways.
• Feng Qingxuan told Feng Xiaotian and Feng Lingtian that absorbing his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring had nearly ruptured his meridians, and Dugu Bo had stabilized them with his life-bound poison.
• Dugu Bo suggested applying Feng Lingtian’s Soul Core theory to strengthen meridians, and Feng Lingtian explained that a Soul Core could increase their capacity and improve cultivation even during sleep.
• Dugu Bo demonstrated his Soul Poison Pill, explaining that Feng Lingtian had helped him compress and control his poison, improving his precision and control.
• Feng Lingtian proposed teaching the inner court’s core members to condense Soul Cores after they took Heart-Sealing Pills, and Feng Qingxuan approved the plan.
• Feng Qingxuan ordered Feng Xiaotian to organize the training while the core team continued supporting Shi Yan as he prepared for his one-year agreement.