Chapter Summaries

Ling Yu demonstrated a belt-shaped Soul Tool Thruster to Ning Fengzhi, Ning Rongrong, and Chen Xin, then discussed its potential and received Ning Fengzhi’s Heart Separation Control manual. He left the thruster with Ning Rongrong as a gift while the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect agreed to seek levitation formation patterns.

• Xue Qinghe received Ling Yu and accepted his auxiliary Soul Tools, while both avoided discussing their recent tension.
• Ling Yu demonstrated that his Tier One Soul Tool Thruster could propel him forward in a burst of speed.
• Ning Rongrong tried the thruster under Chen Xin’s supervision, and Ling Yu gave it to her as a gift.
• Ling Yu and Ning Fengzhi discussed improving the thruster and finding formation patterns that could enable flight.
• Ning Fengzhi gave Ling Yu a handwritten Heart Separation Control manual after Ling Yu agreed to learn it.

Ling Yu tested his Ring Fusion talent by accepting Soul Power from Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan, then discovered that using Spiritual Appraisal on both at once overwhelmed him with information. The chapter left him recovering from the strain as he explained that his skill could reveal Soul Beast attributes and age.

• Dugu Yan interrupted Ling Yu and Ye Lingling while they studied and invited them to dinner.
• Ling Yu asked Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan to help him test his talent for accepting and transferring Soul Power, and they agreed.
• At the training grounds, Ye Lingling and then Dugu Yan transferred Soul Power to Ling Yu, and he successfully adapted to both of their energies.
• Ling Yu asked them to feed him Soul Power together, then used Spiritual Detection and Spiritual Appraisal to examine their traits and ages.
• The flood of information overwhelmed Ling Yu, so he cut off the connection and collapsed; Ye Lingling healed him while Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling asked about his skill.
• Ling Yu explained that Spiritual Appraisal could reveal the attributes and ages of Soul Beasts, and Dugu Yan remarked that it could make hidden knowledge about them obsolete.

Ye Lingling asked Ling Yu to help her find a third Soul Ring that might break the Nine Heart Begonia’s inherited restrictions, and he agreed in exchange for access to her family’s books. As Ye Lingling, Dugu Yan, Aunt Lan, and Senior Su Yao prepared to enter Sunset Forest, Ling Yu worried that her breakthrough would soon take her away from him as a Heaven Dou Grade student.

• Ye Lingling explained her plan to hunt Soul Beasts with special attributes, and Ling Yu agreed to help her find a third Soul Ring in exchange for access to the Ye Family’s book collection.
• Xue Qinghe agreed to the Seven Heart Begonia Family’s request to exchange for the Heaven Dou Secret Medicine, then watched Ye Lingling take it and left her with a cold farewell.
• Ling Yu broke through to rank twenty-six while continuing his Soul Tool research, and Ye Lingling later reached rank thirty.
• Ling Yu asked Su Yao whether Sister Xue had been busy, but Su Yao withheld what she knew about Xue Qinghe’s absence.
• Ling Yu met Ye Lingling, Dugu Yan, Aunt Lan, and Senior Su Yao outside Heaven Dou City to set out for Sunset Forest, where Dugu Yan teased him about cooking dinner.

Ling Yu traveled with Ye Lingling and their companions to Sunset Forest while outlining his theories about how Soul Skills were acquired. After a lengthy search, he discovered a rare Soul Beast that appeared suitable for Ye Lingling's third Soul Ring.

• Ye Yilan and Su Yao introduced themselves to Ling Yu before the group set out by carriage.
• Ling Yu summarized patterns in Soul Skill acquisition, describing innate Soul Skill pools, compatibility, rejection, mutation, and the Limit Style.
• The group reached Sunset Forest and searched for more than ten days without finding a suitable Soul Beast for Ye Lingling.
• Ling Yu used his Soul Skill to prepare dinner, and Dugu Yan jokingly prayed to the moon for Ye Lingling to find a Soul Beast.
• Ling Yu detected a jade-green Soul Beast with healing and purification traits, assessed its age at 2,222 years, and announced that they had found Ye Lingling's Soul Beast.

Ling Yu led the others to capture a Glazed Deer, revealed as a Fortune Auspicious Beast, and helped Ye Lingling overcome its influence so she could kill it and absorb its Soul Ring. The group survived the enraged Soul Beasts while Ye Lingling absorbed the ring, and Ling Yu explained the creature’s extraordinary role in the forest.

• Ling Yu directed Su Yao, Ye Lingling, Ye Yilan, and Dugu Yan to the Glazed Deer, while approaching Soul Beasts forced the group to prepare for an attack.
• Ye Lingling could not approach the deer because its gaze clouded her mind, so Ling Yu used Dugu Yan’s Soul Power and his Ring Fusion talent to help her strike it down.
• After Ye Lingling killed the Glazed Deer, she began absorbing its Soul Ring while Su Yao and Ye Yilan defended the group, Dugu Yan spread her poison, and Ling Yu watched for threats.
• The group held off the surrounding Soul Beasts, including a Golden-Maned Spirit Horse and a Rock-Horned Giant Rhinoceros, until the attackers dispersed after eight hours.
• Ling Yu gave the exhausted women whale brain to restore their strength, then explained that the Glazed Deer was a Fortune Auspicious Beast that fostered growth and purified evil Qi.

Ye Lingling gained an eye-shaped External Soul Bone while absorbing the Glazed Deer's Soul Ring, and Ling Yu explained that it could evolve and might carry the Auspicious Beast's Power of Fortune. The group swore Martial Soul Oaths to protect the secret, and Ye Lingling woke as Dugu Yan pointed out the change on her forehead.

• Dugu Yan asked Ling Yu to find her future Soul Rings, then Ye Yilan noticed a vertical-pupil phantom appearing above Ye Lingling's brows.
• Ling Yu and Su Yao recognized the eye as a potentially priceless, evolvable External Soul Bone, and Ye Yilan feared that its discovery could endanger the Ye Family.
• Ye Yilan asked whether the Soul Bone could be removed, and Ling Yu warned that doing so could damage Ye Lingling's brain.
• Dugu Yan, Su Yao, Ye Yilan, and Ling Yu swore Martial Soul Oaths not to reveal what had happened, and Ling Yu advised Ye Yilan to help the Soul Bone fuse with suitable Soul Power pressure.
• Ye Lingling opened her eyes, and Dugu Yan pointed to her forehead and asked whether she felt something there.

Ye Lingling discovered that absorbing the Glazed Deer had granted her new Soul Skills and an evolving External Soul Bone with the Light of Purification ability. She used it to lessen Dugu Yan’s congenital poison, while Ling Yu learned that Ye Lingling’s new Soul Ring could heal severe injuries and might transform the Nine Heart Begonia further.

• Ye Lingling thanked Ling Yu and Su Yao for helping her obtain the Glazed Deer, then learned that her eye Soul Bone was an exceptionally rare External Soul Bone.
• Ling Yu theorized how External Soul Bones could form and warned that Ye Lingling must keep hers secret until she had fully fused with it.
• Ye Lingling revealed that the Soul Bone’s Light of Purification could remove negative influences and had calmed her during the battle with the Glazed Deer.
• Dugu Yan asked whether the ability could purify poison, and Ye Lingling used it to reduce Dugu Yan’s congenital poisoning, though the effort left her weakened.
• Ye Lingling showed that her new Soul Ring granted a low-cost healing ability that could rapidly mend broken bones, and she sensed that another Soul Ring with the same attribute might transform her Nine Heart Begonia.

The group returned to Heaven Dou City after Ye Lingling described how her third Soul Skill could fully heal broken bones, and Ling Yu speculated about Soul Skill completeness and ways to increase a Soul Ring’s age. Dugu Yan reunited with Dugu Bo, who noticed that much of the innate poison in her body had been cleared, and she began telling him what had happened.

• Ye Yilan said she would take Ye Lingling home until her fusion was complete, while Dugu Yan planned to visit Dugu Bo and Ling Yu and Su Yao planned to return to school.
• Ye Lingling explained that her third Soul Skill fully healed fractures with little Soul Power, unlike the weaker healing described in past records.
• Ling Yu explained how Soul Ring age and Soul Beast bloodline affected Soul Skill completeness, then wrote down questions about Soul Ring age and Ring Detonation.
• Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, Ye Yilan, and Su Yao read Ling Yu’s notes and were shocked by the idea that a Soul Ring’s age could increase.
• Dugu Yan returned to the Dugu Family estate, where Dugu Bo noticed that much of her innate poison had been cleared and asked what had happened.

Dugu Yan told Dugu Bo that Ye Lingling’s purification ability had cleared much of her poison and explained Ling Yu’s Spiritual Appraisal, prompting Dugu Bo to consider seeking his help with a medicinal garden. Ling Yu returned to Heaven Dou City and visited Xue Qinghe, whose anxiety eased when he arrived and said he had come to see her first.

• Dugu Yan explained to Dugu Bo how Ye Lingling’s special Soul Skill had purified her poison and how Ling Yu’s Spiritual Appraisal identified Soul Beasts and unusual objects.
• Dugu Bo considered bringing Ling Yu to the medicinal garden in Sunset Forest, but decided against using force because of Ling Yu’s connections and Dugu Yan’s friendship with him.
• Dugu Bo invited Dugu Yan to stay for dinner and privately worried about his worsening poison and what would happen to her after his death.
• Ling Yu asked Su Yao to take him to Xue Qinghe’s residence, and she agreed despite fearing their reunion might bring difficult matters to a head.
• Xue Qinghe welcomed Ling Yu in the reception room, invited him to stay for dinner, and felt reassured when he said he had come to see her as soon as he returned.

Ling Yu stayed with Qian Renxue after helping Ye Lingling obtain an extraordinary Soul Beast, while Qian Renxue wrestled with her feelings for him. Dugu Bo investigated Ling Yu’s connections, then approached him for help appraising something in exchange for a reward.

• Qian Renxue warned Ling Yu to avoid danger and invited him to stay the night, then Su Yao urged her to fight for what she wanted.
• Dugu Bo asked Prince Xue Xing about Ling Yu and learned of his ties to the emperor, Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Prince Xue Beng hoped Dugu Bo’s interest would hurt Xue Qinghe, but Prince Xue Xing cautioned him against acting rashly.
• Dugu Bo waited outside Ling Yu’s dormitory, and Ling Yu guessed he wanted his Soul Skill appraised.
• Dugu Bo offered Ling Yu a generous reward for appraising something and demanded that he swear a Martial Soul Oath of secrecy.

Dugu Bo brought Ling Yu to a hidden herb garden in Sunset Forest and had him appraise its rare plants, hoping to learn their properties. Ling Yu’s spiritual power ran out before he could finish, and Dugu Bo let him stay at a nearby house and agreed to deliver his letter to the Crown Prince.

• Su Yao worried that Dugu Bo would harm Ling Yu, but Ling Yu reassured her and swore not to reveal what Dugu Bo wanted him to appraise.
• Dugu Bo took Ling Yu into Sunset Forest and revealed a secluded garden centered around a strange spring, then asked him to appraise its herbs.
• Ling Yu used his second Soul Skill to identify the age and properties of several plants, including the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, exciting Dugu Bo with the possibility of finding a way to cure his poison.
• Ling Yu said his spiritual power was exhausted and asked Dugu Bo to inform the Crown Prince and Sect Master Ning that he was away.
• Dugu Bo agreed to send the letter and directed Ling Yu to stay in a dilapidated house near the garden.

Ling Yu chose two Immortal Herbs from Dugu Bo’s garden, ate them, and entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well while Dugu Bo went to deliver his letter. At Heaven Dou City, Xue Qinghe read Ling Yu’s message saying he was safe and would return in a few days.

• Ling Yu asked for four herbs and identified the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot as Immortal Herbs that could let him enter the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Dugu Bo pressured Ling Yu into revealing that the Yang Family of the Breaking Clan might know about Immortal Herbs, then agreed to harvest his two chosen plants.
• Ling Yu ate both Immortal Herbs and plunged into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as Dugu Bo watched anxiously.
• Dugu Bo carried Ling Yu’s letter to Xue Qinghe at the crown prince’s residence and then left.
• Xue Qinghe read Ling Yu’s message and decided to settle the score with him when he returned.

Ling Yu emerged from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and revealed that his blood could help cure Dugu Bo’s poison. After confirming the medicine worked, Ling Yu returned to cultivating in the spring, having sensed a dragon within it.

• Ling Yu woke in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after a day and a night, then gave Dugu Bo a bottle of his blood as a medicinal catalyst.
• Ling Yu explained how the Ice and Fire Immortal Herbs had made his blood capable of neutralizing poison and reassured Dugu Bo about Dugu Yan and his own condition.
• Dugu Bo went to refine medicine while Ling Yu considered his next steps and used Spiritual Appraisal on the spring, sensing a dragon below.
• Ling Yu submerged himself in the spring to cultivate, and Dugu Bo returned the next morning to report that the medicine had reduced his accumulated poison and loosened his bottleneck.

Dugu Bo took Ling Yu as his disciple after Ling Yu agreed to help with his recurring poison problem, and the two discussed ways to improve Dugu Yanyan’s Martial Soul. After cataloging the medicinal garden, Dugu Bo prepared to take Ling Yu back to school and welcomed him to visit Dugu Manor.

• Dugu Bo asked Ling Yu to become his disciple, and Ling Yu accepted the ceremony.
• Dugu Bo offered Ling Yu free access to the medicinal garden, but Ling Yu suggested waiting until they consulted the Yang Family about immortal herbs.
• Dugu Bo warned Ling Yu to keep his Spiritual Appraisal secret and discussed the difficulty of finding dragon-type Soul Beasts.
• Ling Yu told Dugu Bo about the Speed Clan’s Crystal Dragon Blood Ginseng, and Dugu Bo considered seeking the clan to help Dugu Yanyan.
• Ling Yu and Dugu Bo cataloged the garden’s herbs, finding none with dragon-blood attributes.
• Dugu Bo gave Ling Yu books on poison, reusable antidote pills, and directions through the poison formation, then invited him to Dugu Manor before returning him to school.

Ling Yu settled into life as Dugu Bo’s disciple, shared a family dinner with Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, and discussed finding a Silver Ying Beast for his third Soul Ring. The next morning, he visited Qian Renxue, reassured her that he was safe, and arranged to obtain Yang Wushuang’s medicinal writings before traveling to the Star Luo Empire.

• Dugu Yan teased Ling Yu about becoming her junior brother, and Dugu Bo welcomed him into the manor as his disciple.
• While the three prepared dinner, Dugu Yan noticed Dugu Bo’s hair turning black again and thanked Ling Yu for helping him recover.
• At dinner, Ling Yu told Dugu Bo he hoped to find a Silver Ying Beast for his third Soul Ring, and Dugu Bo offered to search the Star Dou Great Forest with him.
• Dugu Yan learned about immortal herbs and asked Dugu Bo to reserve one for Ye Lingling, while Ling Yu explained that he would travel with Dugu Bo to meet the Yang Family.
• The next morning, Ling Yu visited Qian Renxue, reassured her that he was safe, and promised to return for her birthday.
• Qian Renxue offered to obtain Yang Wushuang’s medicinal writings for Ling Yu, who said he still planned to travel to the Star Luo Empire.