Chapter Summaries

After the Fallen Soul Saint escaped with transformed Spirit Hall guards, Wang Xiaoming summoned Qian Renxue and Ning Rongrong to counter his forces. Their holy power and boosts turned the battle around, and Wang Xiaoming prepared to fight at near Soul King strength.

• Erdan broke free of his shackles and escaped after transforming Spirit Hall guards into Fallen Soul Masters.
• The Fallen Soul Saint led the controlled Fallen Soul Masters against Hu Liena and Yan while targeting Wang Xiaoming and Wang Dong'er.
• Wang Xiaoming photographed the Fallen Soul Saint's belt, recovered its power, and summoned Qian Renxue in her Six-Winged Angel form.
• Qian Renxue's Angel Domain suppressed the Fallen Soul Saint and disrupted the bats, while Wang Xiaoming summoned Ning Rongrong to boost the fighters with her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Hu Liena and Yan used their boosted strength to attack, and Wang Xiaoming activated Transcendent Limit Release, raising his combat power close to Soul King level.

Wang Xiaoming and Qian Renxue used the Angel Domain and coordinated attacks to overpower the Fallen Soul Saint, who then tried to seize Hu Liena. Wang Xiaoming stopped him with a Clock Up sword strike, but the wounded Soul Saint survived and transformed into an ugly humanoid bat.

• Qian Renxue maintained her Angel Domain while Wang Xiaoming attacked the Fallen Soul Saint with his sword, weakening the Soul Saint’s power and defenses.
• The Fallen Soul Saint transformed and unleashed Blood Demon Flying Assault, but Qian Renxue’s Angel Assault dispersed most of his ghostly figures as she and Wang Xiaoming pressed their attack.
• The Fallen Soul Saint forced Wang Xiaoming and Qian Renxue back, then used Blood Demon Sound to paralyze Hu Liena and struck Yan aside when he tried to protect her.
• Wang Xiaoming pushed Hu Liena clear, activated Kabuto King’s Clock Up, and pierced the Fallen Soul Saint’s chest with Qian Renxue’s sacred sword before slashing him open.
• The Fallen Soul Saint survived the wound, swore to kill Wang Xiaoming, and used his Seventh Soul Skill to transform into an ugly humanoid bat.

Wang Xiaoming used Wang Dong'er as a halberd to defeat the Fallen Soul Saint's Martial Soul Avatar, then repeatedly struck him as he tried to recover. The Fallen Soul Saint failed to regain his power from the bat artifact and instead stole Soul Power from the Fallen Soul Masters to stabilize himself.

• Wang Xiaoming used Wang Dong'er's Final Form Ride card, transforming her into the Death Spider Emperor Halberd and boosting his strength.
• Wang Xiaoming and the Fallen Soul Saint launched their strongest attacks, and Wang Xiaoming pierced through the Fallen Soul Saint's Martial Soul Avatar.
• The Qian Renxue puppet caught Wang Xiaoming as he fell, while the Fallen Soul Saint crashed down nearby.
• Wang Xiaoming pierced the Fallen Soul Saint's heart with the halberd, destroying the right half of his body, but the Fallen Soul Saint survived and tried to reactivate his power with the little bat.
• The Fallen Soul Saint failed to recover his power from the bat and drew Soul Power from the Fallen Soul Masters to stabilize himself.

The Fallen Soul Saint fled after his sacred artifact failed, and Wang Xiaoming and the Spirit Hall regrouped outside the gates. They discovered Fallen Soul Masters attacking the city, so Hu Liena led the Spirit Hall in defending the civilians.

• The Fallen Soul Saint vanished into bats and escaped after his sacred artifact stopped working.
• Wang Xiaoming supported the exhausted Wang Dong'er, while Hu Liena and Zhu Meiyu stayed alert as the blood mist faded.
• The Spirit Hall gates reopened, and Xie Yue thanked Wang Xiaoming for driving off the Fallen Soul Saint.
• The group heard screams and saw fires and Fallen Soul Masters attacking civilians throughout the city.
• Hu Liena ordered the Spirit Hall to protect the civilians and kill the Fallen Soul Masters, and Zhu Meiyu joined the battle.

Spirit Hall fought off the Fallen Soul Masters’ attack on Wind Salt City while Hu Liena discovered that Si Kewei was missing. After the battle, Wang Xiaoming decided to leave without waiting for the Breaking Clan’s higher-ups.

• Vaughn and the Spirit Hall Main Hall Soul Masters returned to the city, and Hu Liena ordered them to help kill the Fallen Soul Masters.
• Wang Xiaoming and Wang Dong'er supported the battle from the perimeter wall as the Fallen Soul Masters continued to overwhelm the city.
• Outside the city, Si Kewei confronted the Fallen Soul Saint over their failed plan, and the two began fighting in the woods.
• Spirit Hall killed nearly all the Fallen Soul Masters in the city by daybreak, and Wang Xiaoming, Wang Dong'er, and Zhu Meiyu rested at their hotel.
• Wang Xiaoming told Zhu Meiyu he would leave Wind Salt City without waiting for the Breaking Clan’s higher-ups.

Hu Liena hosted Wang Xiaoming and his companions for a victory meal, where she told them the Spirit Hall had destroyed the Fallen Soul Masters’ lair but that Si Kewei had died pursuing the escaped Fallen Soul Saint. She invited Wang Xiaoming and Wang Dong'er to visit the Spirit Hall so the Pope could reward them for their contributions.

• Hu Liena welcomed Wang Xiaoming, Zhu Meiyu, and Wang Dong'er to a private victory meal, where Xie Yue and Yan joined them despite their injuries.
• Hu Liena reported that the Spirit Hall had wiped out the Fallen Soul Masters’ lair and searched the city, but had found Si Kewei’s mutilated head outside its walls.
• Hu Liena explained that Si Kewei had likely pursued the escaped Fallen Soul Saint and been killed, leaving the Spirit Hall fearful that the enemy might return.
• Hu Liena praised Wang Xiaoming for saving the Spirit Hall and defeating Fallen Soul Masters, while Wang Xiaoming joked about receiving a reward.
• Hu Liena invited Wang Xiaoming and Wang Dong'er to visit the Spirit Hall so the Pope could reward them for helping the Spirit Hall.

Wang Xiaoming declined Hu Liena’s invitation to visit Spirit Hall with Wang Dong’er, but agreed to meet her in Spirit City during the next Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament. After returning to Heaven Dou City, he was visited by Ye Lingling, who had just come back as well.

• Hu Liena invited Wang Xiaoming to Spirit Hall, but Wang Dong’er refused on the grounds that their training at Heaven Dou Royal Academy could not be neglected.
• Hu Liena offered to keep Wang Xiaoming’s reward and give it to him in Spirit City during the next tournament, and he accepted.
• Xie Yue considered asking the Pope to change the tournament rewards after learning Wang Xiaoming was a Heaven Dou Royal Academy student.
• Wang Dong’er questioned Wang Xiaoming about his feelings for Hu Liena, and he admitted he felt something for her.
• Wang Xiaoming took Wang Dong’er around the Flower God Festival to cheer her up before they returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Ye Lingling visited Wang Xiaoming after returning to Heaven Dou City that morning and hearing from Wang Dong’er that he was back.

Wang Xiaoming reunited with Ye Lingling, then returned with her to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Dugu Yan confronted him about his promise to treat her and her grandfather’s poison. He took Dugu Yan to find Senior Dugu, while Ye Lingling stayed behind to wait for him.

• Wang Xiaoming teased Ye Lingling about missing him, and the two went into a room together.
• Qian Renxue wondered why Wang Xiaoming had not visited her and decided he would be in trouble if he did not see her the next day.
• Wang Xiaoming and Ye Lingling returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Dugu Yan angrily asked whether he had really meant to help cure the poison in her and her grandfather’s bodies.
• Wang Xiaoming reassured Dugu Yan and agreed to take her to Senior Dugu immediately, while Ye Lingling encouraged them to go first.
• Wang Xiaoming used the Dimensional Wall to leave with Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling stayed at the academy and used her Nine Heart Begonia to heal herself.

Wang Xiaoming brought Dugu Yan to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and convinced Dugu Bo that he had a way to treat the poison afflicting him and his granddaughter. Dugu Bo offered to return the herb garden and bless Wang Xiaoming and Dugu Yan if he cured them.

• Dugu Yan led Wang Xiaoming to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Dugu Bo accidentally burned the medicine he was refining.
• Dugu Bo challenged Wang Xiaoming to prove he could deal with their poison, and Wang Xiaoming gave him a bottle of medicine.
• Dugu Bo recognized the medicine's effects and believed Wang Xiaoming had a solution, though he remained unsure how Wang Xiaoming had found it.
• Wang Xiaoming asked to take several herbs from Dugu Bo's garden after the treatment, then suggested the treasure land had once belonged to his family.
• Dugu Bo promised to return the herb garden and bless Wang Xiaoming and Dugu Yan if Wang Xiaoming cured their poison.

Wang Xiaoming gave Dugu Bo a completed prescription that let him refine pills to treat the family’s poison, then offered Dugu Yan a rare Dragon Saliva Earth Mother instead. He explained that it could cure her Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor Poison, evolve her Martial Soul into a dragon species, and increase her Soul Power, leaving Dugu Yan ready to offer it to her grandfather.

• Dugu Yan angrily objected when Dugu Bo and Wang Xiaoming joked about marriage, then went into a hut.
• Wang Xiaoming gave Dugu Bo a completed medicine prescription and herbs, and Dugu Bo hurried off to refine the medicine.
• Wang Xiaoming returned to the valley to harvest herbs, checked in at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and later stayed with Dugu Yan while Dugu Bo worked.
• Dugu Bo returned with pills and told Dugu Yan they could solve her Martial Soul problem; Wang Xiaoming warned him to force his poison into his Soul Bone before taking one.
• Wang Xiaoming gave Dugu Yan a jar containing Dragon Saliva Earth Mother and explained its powers, prompting her to suggest that Dugu Bo take it instead.

Dugu Bo encouraged Wang Xiaoming and Dugu Yan to acknowledge their feelings, then left them alone while he dealt with his poison. Dugu Yan absorbed the Dragon Blood Crystal, shed her old skin, eliminated the poison in her body, and reached level forty.

• Dugu Bo called the Immortal Herb a betrothal gift and urged Wang Xiaoming to make his feelings for Dugu Yan clear.
• Wang Xiaoming asked Dugu Yan if he could accept Dugu Bo's treasure, and she agreed before the two embraced.
• Dugu Bo told Wang Xiaoming to guard Dugu Yan while she absorbed the Immortal Herb, then flew away to remove his poison.
• Wang Xiaoming prepared the Dragon Blood Crystal and gave it to Dugu Yan to consume.
• Dugu Yan meditated through the painful transformation as Wang Xiaoming stayed beside her, and she shed her old skin.
• Dugu Yan woke up with the poison gone and her cultivation at level forty, then excitedly threw herself into Wang Xiaoming's arms.

After Dugu Yan’s Martial Soul evolved into a higher-grade dragon, she and Wang Xiaoming spent a day and night together at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Wang Xiaoming then asked whether their teammates were worth investing Immortal Herbs in, and Dugu Yan began assessing them while teasing him about a girl’s interest in him.

• Wang Xiaoming praised Dugu Yan’s successful Martial Soul evolution after she sprouted horns and a tail, and she found that her Soul Skills no longer carried poison.
• Wang Xiaoming and Dugu Yan discovered that Dugu Bo had sealed the house with Soul Power, and Dugu Yan persuaded Wang Xiaoming to stay with her instead of seeking a Fourth Soul Ring immediately.
• After a day and night together, Wang Xiaoming asked Dugu Yan whether their teammates were trustworthy enough to receive Immortal Herbs.
• Dugu Yan began evaluating Yu Feng’s family and reassured Wang Xiaoming about him, then remarked that another girl seemed interested in Wang Xiaoming.

Wang Xiaoming and Dugu Yan returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Yu Tianheng provoked the first team while Wang was away. Wang arrived as Xiao Wu and Yu Feng faced Yu Tianheng, then summoned Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Ning Rongrong with his cards.

• Dugu Yan told Wang Xiaoming that Yu Feng was worth investing in and said she would not mind if he took Yu Feng in.
• Dugu Yan returned to the academy and confessed to Ye Lingling, who pulled her aside for a private conversation.
• Yu Tianheng confronted the first team and demanded that they give up their places, prompting Xiao Wu to challenge him.
• Yu Feng stepped up to support Xiao Wu while Osler and the Shi Brothers stayed out of the dispute.
• Wang Xiaoming arrived and challenged Yu Tianheng, then used his Diendriver to summon Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Ning Rongrong.

Wang Xiaoming summoned three puppets to fight Yu Tianheng, and the transformed Dugu Yan puppet overwhelmed him. Yu Tianheng refused to concede and challenged Wang Xiaoming to a direct fight.

• Yu Tianheng and the spectators were startled when Wang Xiaoming summoned puppets resembling Dugu Yan, Ning Rongrong, and Ye Lingling.
• The Ning Rongrong puppet boosted Dugu Yan, who transformed her Soul Skills and took to the air at high speed.
• Yu Tianheng used Dragon Transformation and his Soul Skills to fend off Dugu Yan’s smoke attacks, but she struck him with a charged blast and sent him crashing to the ground.
• The Ye Lingling puppet healed Dugu Yan’s wounds while Wang Xiaoming asked Yu Tianheng to concede.
• Yu Tianheng refused to concede and demanded that Wang Xiaoming fight him directly.