Chapter Summaries

After arriving in the Star Dou Great Forest with the Wordless Heavenly Book, Xiao Yao contracted Xiao Wu and gained his first Soul Ring. He befriended her, unlocked gifts through their growing intimacy, and revealed that he knew she was a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast transformed into a human.

• Xiao Yao arrived in the forest, learned the Heavenly Book’s contract rules, and discovered his Soul Power was level ten.
• Xiao Yao recognized Xiao Wu and called her name, forming a contract that gave him a ten-year Soul Ring and raised her intimacy to 10.
• Xiao Yao told Xiao Wu a fabricated story about a lost little sister and asked her to become his little sister; Xiao Wu agreed, raising her intimacy to 20.
• The Heavenly Book unlocked Aura-Concealing Dance Shoes and the Fallen Heart Flame, and Xiao Yao gave Xiao Wu the shoes.
• Xiao Yao explained that the shoes could conceal even a transformed hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast from powerful Soul Masters, and Xiao Wu realized he knew her secret.

Xiao Yao helped Xiao Wu feel safe enough to condense her first Soul Ring, and she discovered that his gift let her surpass the normal age limit. Their growing intimacy unlocked new gifts, and Xiao Wu challenged him to a match after learning he had deceived her.

• Xiao Wu cried in Xiao Yao's arms, then explained that transformed soul beasts needed human contact to cultivate and advance.
• Xiao Wu condensed a five-hundred-year first Soul Ring and explained that higher powers had imposed a limit on human Soul Ring ages.
• Xiao Wu realized Xiao Yao's shoes had helped her withstand pressure and surpass the limit, while his first Soul Ring also changed to match hers.
• Xiao Yao explained his Heavenly Book Martial Soul, kissed Xiao Wu, and promised not to lie to her again after she accused him of making her his target.
• Xiao Wu's intimacy with Xiao Yao reached 50, unlocking Mind-Concentrating Rabbit Ears and an Earth Spirit Pill; after receiving the ears, she challenged him to a match.

Xiao Yao sparred with Xiao Wu and used the Fallen Heart Flame to defeat her, then demonstrated its frightening power against a Netherworld Wolf as they left the Star Dou Great Forest. Xiao Wu became wary of provoking him, while Xiao Yao concealed how much strength his display had cost him.

• Xiao Yao claimed his first Soul Skill was fire control and agreed to spar with Xiao Wu, who quickly subdued him with soft-body combat.
• Xiao Yao ignited the Fallen Heart Flame and made heart flame burn inside Xiao Wu, leaving her incapacitated until evening; he apologized and asked her not to use soft-body combat on others.
• Xiao Yao and Xiao Wu spent the night together, then woke late and followed Xiao Wu toward the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Near the forest's edge, Xiao Wu saw a Netherworld Wolf tormenting a wounded Soft Bone Rabbit and prepared to attack it, but Xiao Yao stopped her.
• Xiao Yao used the Fallen Heart Flame to kill the Netherworld Wolf, which collapsed and exploded, leaving a white Soul Ring behind.
• Xiao Wu marveled at the Fallen Heart Flame's power, while Xiao Yao secretly recognized that his display had exhausted his Soul Power and most of his spiritual power.

Xiao Yao brought Xiao Wu to Spirit Hall in Nuoding City to register as Soul Masters and collect their monthly Gold Soul Coins, where they impressed Yun Yun and shocked Su Yunhao with their hundred-year Soul Rings. Afterward, Su Yunhao saw Tang San reveal his Soul Ring and reach rank thirteen, then told Su Yuntao about the two children he had met.

• Xiao Yao persuaded Xiao Wu to skip work-study at an academy and took her to Spirit Hall to register and collect Soul Coins.
• Yun Yun mistook Xiao Yao and Xiao Wu for academy students, while Su Yunhao insulted them and accused them of seeking free use of the awakening equipment.
• Xiao Yao and Xiao Wu revealed their hundred-year Soul Rings, and Yun Yun agreed to take them for Soul Power tests.
• Su Yunhao went upstairs to find Su Yuntao and witnessed Tang San reveal a Soul Ring after testing at rank thirteen.
• Su Yuntao explained that Tang San had innate full Soul Power and obtained a Mandala Snake Soul Ring, then asked Su Yunhao why he had come.
• Su Yunhao told Su Yuntao about Xiao Yao and Xiao Wu and their hundred-year Soul Rings.

Xiao Yao and Xiao Wu registered at Spirit Hall with rank-fourteen Soul Power, drawing an offer from Ma Xiunuo to join and possibly become the Pope’s disciples. Xiao Yao politely refused, and Xiao Wu kissed him before his system unlocked new rewards for her.

• Yun Yun confirmed that six-year-old Xiao Yao and Xiao Wu each had rank-fourteen Soul Power and registered them at Spirit Hall.
• Ma Xiunuo offered Xiao Yao and Xiao Wu exceptional training, Soul Rings, possible Soul Bones, and a chance to become the Pope’s disciples.
• Xiao Yao declined Ma Xiunuo’s invitation, saying he needed to discuss it with his family, and left with Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu embraced Xiao Yao in a deserted corner and kissed him for a long time, believing he had refused the offer for her sake.
• Xiao Wu’s intimacy rose by thirty, unlocking her Martial Soul Upgrade Set and the Green Lotus Core Flame Associated Lotus Seat.

After settling into a courtyard in Nuoding City, Xiao Yao returned from shopping to find Yu Xiaogang and Tang San waiting to recruit him and Xiao Wu as disciples. Yu Xiaogang tried to impress them with Spirit Hall gazettes praising his theories, but Xiao Yao recognized him as a fraud and decided to deal with him.

• Xiao Yao rented a courtyard in Nuoding City, where he and Xiao Wu settled in.
• Xiao Yao returned from buying ingredients and found Yu Xiaogang and Tang San visiting; Xiao Wu explained that Yu Xiaogang wanted them as disciples.
• Xiao Yao learned that Tang San had brought the two children to Yu Xiaogang's attention after seeing Spirit Hall try to recruit them.
• Yu Xiaogang introduced himself as the Grandmaster, and Xiao Yao told him he had never heard of him.
• Tang San showed Xiao Yao gazettes praising Yu Xiaogang, but Xiao Yao dismissed him as trash and resolved to make him regret coming.

Yu Xiaogang failed to recruit Xiao Yao and Xiao Wu, then drank tea secretly spiked by Xiao Yao with the Fallen Heart Flame and a Green Lotus Core Fire lotus seed. After Xiao Yao discovered the flame’s overwhelming effect on Xiao Wu, Tang San confronted Yu Xiaogang, who claimed he had tried to sabotage potential rivals for Tang San’s sake.

• Xiao Yao questioned Yu Xiaogang about his reputation and achievements, leaving Yu Xiaogang unable to answer.
• Yu Xiaogang tried to recruit Xiao Wu, but she refused and said she would only stay with Xiao Yao.
• Yu Xiaogang drank Xiao Yao’s tea and left with Tang San, unaware that its ingredients would cause him severe nightly pain and lasting damage.
• Xiao Yao told Xiao Wu what he had done to Yu Xiaogang, then activated the Fallen Heart Flame on her; she lost her strength, and Xiao Yao carried her to bed.
• Tang San challenged Yu Xiaogang for seeking out Xiao Wu and Xiao Yao, and Yu Xiaogang claimed he had meant to waste their talents so they could not rival Tang San.

Yu Xiaogang and Xiao Yao both suffered through cultivation with the Fallen Heart Flame, while Xiao Yao discovered it could purify his body and found Xiao Wu had wet herself. Yun Yun then visited to recruit him for Spirit Hall’s New Soul Project, and pleaded with him to help Nuoding City’s branch after he refused.

• Yu Xiaogang woke in agony from the Green Lotus Core Flame’s child flame and crawled toward Dorm Seven to seek Tang San’s help.
• Xiao Yao used the Fallen Heart Flame to temper his Soul Power, refining it and accelerating his absorption of energy from the world around him.
• Xiao Wu woke and touched Xiao Yao’s flame, then lay beside him flushed; after his cultivation, Xiao Yao found her clothes wet and covered her with a quilt.
• Yun Yun and Master Ma Xiunuo visited Xiao Yao and invited him to join Spirit Hall’s New Soul Project, which selected talented fighters for advancement through its ranks.
• Xiao Yao refused the invitation, but Yun Yun tearfully begged him to help the Nuoding City Spirit Hall Branch.

Xiao Yao accepted payment to represent Nuoding City's Spirit Hall Branch in the New Soul Project and traveled to Mo City with Xiao Wu and Tang San. When Liu Wei mocked Ma Xiunuo, Tang San jumped out to confront him, setting up a likely clash that could reveal Tang San's abilities to Spirit Hall.

• Yun Yun offered Xiao Yao three thousand Gold Soul Coins to compete for Nuoding City, and he eagerly agreed.
• Xiao Wu rejoiced at the chance to fight other young Soul Masters, while Ma Xiunuo fainted after realizing Yun Yun had offered far more than he intended.
• Yun Yun and Ma Xiunuo brought Xiao Yao, Xiao Wu, and Tang San to Mo City, where Tang San repeatedly tried to impress Xiao Wu during the journey.
• At the Spirit Hall hotel, Liu Wei mocked Ma Xiunuo and blamed Nuoding City for failing to retain its talent.
• Xiao Wu prepared to confront Liu Wei, but Tang San stopped her and jumped out of the carriage, while Xiao Yao expected him to be beaten or expose his strength.

Tang San lost his fight with Liu Wei, then visited Xiao Yao and Xiao Wu to discuss the tournament and seek Xiao Wu’s sympathy. Xiao Yao and Xiao Wu tricked him into believing his hand was poisoned, and Xiao Yao prepared a fake antidote.

• Tang San injured Liu Wei with a hidden weapon, but Liu Wei nearly defeated him before Ma Xiunuo stopped the fight and warned Liu Wei against attacking a newly awakened Soul Master.
• Liu Wei withdrew after threatening to settle things at the tournament, and Xiao Yao was pleased that Tang San had offended the city's branch hall.
• Tang San visited Xiao Yao and Xiao Wu, claiming he wanted to discuss their tournament strategy, but Xiao Wu dismissed his concerns.
• Tang San showed Xiao Wu his badly wounded hand to gain her sympathy, and Xiao Wu pinched the wound while pretending to remove a splinter.
• Xiao Wu claimed the wound contained dangerous microorganisms, and Xiao Yao went behind the screen to prepare a seasoned mixture as a supposed antidote.

Tang San entered the semifinals despite his lingering wound and chose to face Tanding City first, driven by his desire for revenge against Liu Wei. He began his bout against Qing Rong, who countered Tang San’s approach by revealing that he was also a control-type Soul Master.

• Tang San endured Xiao Wu’s painful wound treatment, and his injury continued to linger for a month.
• Nuoding City advanced to the semifinals, where Ma Xiunuo announced that teams would compete in three separate bouts.
• Tang San volunteered to fight Tanding City first, and Ma Xiunuo agreed despite his injured hand.
• Liu Wei arranged his team’s lineup expecting Tang San to fight last, but Tang San took the first bout against Qing Rong.
• Tang San dodged Qing Rong’s fire attack, used Blue Silver Grass to distract him, and closed in with Mysterious Jade Hand.
• Qing Rong concealed his panic and reminded Tang San that he was a control-type Soul Master.

Tang San and Qing Rong drew after knocking each other out, while Xiao Wu defeated Gu Sanshui in the final against Xiunuocheng. Xiao Yao began his match against Gu Yihan, whose snow-ring Soul Skill dispelled his flames, but he then ignited a wisp of heart flame inside her body.

• Tang San and Qing Rong both lost the ability to fight, so the referee declared their bout a draw.
• Xiao Yao learned that Xiunuocheng’s contestant, Gu Sanshui, had moved to Mo City and was competing for his ancestral city.
• Xiao Wu dodged Gu Sanshui’s Water Arrow attacks, waited for his Soul Power to weaken, and knocked him unconscious with her Waist Bow Soul Skill.
• Xiao Yao faced Gu Yihan, Gu Sanshui’s twin sister, and joked about their names before the match began.
• Gu Yihan used her Ring of Snow Soul Skill to push away Xiao Yao’s Fallen Heart Flame, so he ignited a wisp of heart flame inside her body.

After winning the “New Soul” tournament, Xiao Yao and Xiao Wu spent a year and a half cultivating together until Xiao Yao reached level twenty and decided to refine the Fallen Heart Flame. The refinement went wrong when the flame erupted inside him, and Xiao Wu rushed into the burning room to help.

• Xiao Yao declined to enter higher-level “New Soul” tournaments because Xiao Wu would not join Spirit Hall, and the pair collected their prize money after Nuoding City won.
• A year and a half later, Xiao Wu had reached level twenty-three and Xiao Yao had reached level twenty, while both had grown rapidly with their contract and martial souls.
• Xiao Yao gave Xiao Wu the Martial Soul Upgrade Set, which helped her second soul ring reach an age of nine hundred ninety-nine years and raised his first soul ring to a thousand years.
• Xiao Yao prepared to leave Nuoding City to seek another contract and began refining the Fallen Heart Flame using an Earth Spirit Pill, a Green Lotus Seat, and Core Lotus Seeds.
• The Fallen Heart Flame entered Xiao Yao’s body and released scorching fire energy that burned him from within, so Xiao Wu rushed in wearing the Martial Soul Evolution Set and offered to aid his cultivation.

Xiao Yao and Xiao Wu left Nuoding City for Heaven Dou City after Xiao Wu's martial soul evolved and their cultivation improved. On the road, they investigated a fierce battle and found a palace-dressed girl with four soul rings forming a black fifth ring beside a dead white soul beast.

• Xiao Wu's Soft Bone Rabbit evolved into a Soft Bone Charm Rabbit, gaining stronger spiritual abilities and Pseudo-Sacrifice, while her soul power rose to rank twenty-five and Xiao Yao reached rank twenty-two.
• Xiao Yao chose Heaven Dou City as their next destination and bought a carriage to travel there with Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu asked whether they would return to Nuoding City, and Xiao Yao promised they could revisit the courtyard he had bought there.
• An explosion startled Xiao Yao and Xiao Wu on the road, and they left their carriage to investigate a battle in a nearby soul beast forest.
• Xiao Yao and Xiao Wu reached the battlefield, where they saw a dead white soul beast and a palace-dressed girl forming a black fifth soul ring.

Xiao Yao and Xiao Wu found a girl threatened by a grieving female Holy Wing of Light and intervened to protect her. Xiao Yao used the Wordless Heavenly Book to reunite the bird with its dead mate, while two hidden Titled Douluo watched and questioned his abilities.

• Xiao Yao told Xiao Wu he could not contract with the five-ringed girl because she exceeded his level limit, then wondered who she was and why she was there.
• Xiao Wu identified a ten-thousand-year Holy Wing of Light beside its dead mate, and Xiao Yao learned the living bird was female and ordered Xiao Wu to protect the girl.
• Two hidden elders considered whether to eliminate Xiao Yao and Xiao Wu but decided to let them act as the young master remained unconscious.
• Xiao Wu used Charm to make the female Holy Wing of Light see her dead mate, and Xiao Yao lowered his weapon rather than attack the grieving beast.
• Xiao Yao used the Wordless Heavenly Book to draw the dead male's soul and the female Holy Wing of Light into its page, where the pair briefly appeared together before fading.

Xiao Yao used the Heavenly Book Martial Soul’s new blank pages to seal two Holy Wings of Light, then met Qian Renxue after she awoke from obtaining her fifth Soul Ring. He pretended to dismiss her, leaving her intrigued and determined to bring him under her control.

• Xiao Yao sealed the dead male Holy Wing of Light’s soul and the living female Holy Wing of Light inside the Heavenly Book Martial Soul’s blank pages.
• Qian Renxue awoke after stabilizing her fifth Soul Ring and mistook Xiao Yao and Xiao Wu for people who had guarded her.
• Qian Renxue thanked Xiao Yao, but he said they were even and left with Xiao Wu.
• Qian Renxue grew curious and resolved to bring Xiao Yao under her control.
• Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo emerged from hiding with uneasy expressions.

After learning how Xiao Yao and Xiao Wu had dealt with the Holy Wing of Light, Qian Renxue sought them out again to question Xiao Yao and express her gratitude. Xiao Yao and Xiao Wu played along with her false identity as Xue Ke, but Xiao Yao tried to end the meeting by bidding her farewell.

• Snake Lance Douluo She Long and Porcupinefish Douluo Ci Xue told Qian Renxue how Xiao Yao and Xiao Wu had subdued the Holy Wing of Light, and Qian Renxue decided to approach them courteously.
• Xiao Wu asked Xiao Yao whether Qian Renxue would pursue them, and he told her not to reveal their secrets if she did.
• Qian Renxue arrived with She Long and Ci Xue, and Xiao Wu eased the tension after Xiao Yao asked why they had returned.
• Qian Renxue thanked Xiao Yao and asked how he had captured the Holy Wing of Light; he claimed his Soul Skill had teleported her away with her dead husband's soul.
• Qian Renxue introduced herself as Xue Ke and described her guards as Soul Saint-level experts, while Xiao Yao recognized the lie and played along.
• Xiao Yao asked to leave and told Qian Renxue they should never meet again.

Xiao Yao and Xiao Wu traveled to Vajra Canyon to lure Qian Renxue’s men into following them and hunt a Wild Vajra Ape. They began fighting the ape, which resisted their attacks and hurled massive rocks at them.

• Qian Renxue ordered Snake Lance and Pufferfish to follow Xiao Yao and Xiao Wu, while arranging a diversion to cover her absence.
• Xiao Yao asked Xiao Wu to find a dangerous nearby location, and they drove to Vajra Canyon to confront its thousand-year Wild Vajra Ape.
• Xiao Wu explained that Wild Vajra Apes could survive death through lifebound metal and therefore were believed not to produce Soul Rings.
• The Wild Vajra Ape ambushed Xiao Yao and Xiao Wu, but Xiao Yao bound it with Fallen Heart Flame while Xiao Wu used Charm and Waist Bow to attack.
• The Wild Vajra Ape endured their attacks, released a burst of Soul Power, and sent meter-wide rocks hurtling toward Xiao Yao and Xiao Wu.

After Qian Renxue rescued Xiao Yao and Xiao Wu, Xiao Yao unlocked a transformation technique and disguised his abilities. Qian Renxue invited the pair to stay with her in Heaven Dou City, believing she was winning them over, while Xiao Yao and Xiao Wu privately smiled at their own plan.

• Qian Renxue arrived in time to destroy the Wild Vajra Ape's rock attacks, and Xiao Yao pretended to faint.
• The Wordless Heavenly Book unlocked the Incomplete Chapter of the Seventy-Two Transformations, giving Xiao Yao transformation and concealment abilities.
• Xiao Yao woke in Qian Renxue's luxurious carriage and disguised his Soul Rings and Soul Power while explaining that he had Twin Martial Souls.
• Xiao Wu told Qian Renxue that their master had sent them to Heaven Dou City, and Qian Renxue offered to help them find an academy and place to stay.
• Qian Renxue revealed that she was Xue'er, a princess staying at Crown Prince Xue Qinghe's estate, and invited Xiao Yao and Xiao Wu to visit her.
• After Qian Renxue left, Xiao Yao and Xiao Wu exchanged smiles, suspecting that she thought she had won them over.

Xiao Yao taught Xiao Wu and Qian Renxue the Soft Bone: Yoga Chapter, which improved cultivation as well as flexibility. Afterward, he considered using the Incomplete Chapter of the Seventy-Two Transformations to study and master other people’s abilities, hoping to strengthen his own combat power.

• Qian Renxue entered the carriage and found Xiao Wu practicing yoga, then asked Xiao Yao to teach her too.
• Xiao Yao guided Xiao Wu through a pose that caused her Soul Power and spiritual power to fluctuate, and Qian Renxue noticed the effect.
• Xiao Yao adjusted Qian Renxue’s pose and instructed her to recite the mental formula before moving on to more exercises.
• Xiao Yao left the carriage to calm himself, then cultivated and reflected on the two skills unlocked after Xiao Wu’s Intimacy reached one hundred.
• Xiao Yao wondered whether he could transform into someone else, master their abilities through practice, and retain those abilities after returning to his own body.