Chapter Summaries

Yu Tianheng told Lan Lingmeng that his Soul Power had reached level thirty-nine, stunning her with his rapid progress. After Lan Lingmeng confessed that she wanted to date him, he refused so he could focus on cultivation, and they parted on friendly terms.

• Yu Tianheng met Lan Lingmeng in a secluded garden at the Heaven Dou Royal Academy and told her his Soul Power was level thirty-nine.
• Lan Lingmeng compared his progress to her own level thirty-eight and resolved to work harder, though she doubted she could keep up.
• Lan Lingmeng considered her expected political marriage and decided Yu Tianheng would be a suitable partner to pursue.
• Lan Lingmeng asked Yu Tianheng to start seeing her, but he declined because he wanted to focus on cultivation and prepare for the future.
• Lan Lingmeng accepted his refusal, asked to remain friends, and watched him leave without anger.

After rejecting Lan Lingmeng, Yu Tianheng focused on finding Dugu Yan so he could approach Dugu Bo and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. He helped Song Guan break through to Soul Power Level 36, then offered to teach him a technique for gathering Soul Power more efficiently.

• Lan Lingmeng became more interested in Yu Tianheng after he calmly rejected her confession.
• Yu Tianheng decided to approach Dugu Yan to gain access to Dugu Bo and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Yu Tianheng found Song Guan cultivating and waited while he attempted to break through to Soul Power Level 36.
• Yu Tianheng steadied Song Guan's Soul Power with True Qi, helping him break through to level 36.
• Song Guan told Yu Tianheng that he had not found Dugu Yan yet but had people watching around the academy.
• Yu Tianheng offered to teach Song Guan a secret cultivation technique, and Song Guan agreed to try it.

Yu Tianheng taught Song Guan the first level of the Innate Skill, a meditation and breathing method that greatly increased Song Guan’s cultivation speed. After the system rewarded Yu Tianheng with Heavenly Mandate Points, he considered how to spread the method without letting Spirit Hall obtain it; Song Guan finished an hour of practice and pledged his loyalty to Yu Tianheng.

• Yu Tianheng taught Song Guan the Five Hearts Facing Heaven posture and a breathing method from the first level of the Innate Skill.
• The system awarded Yu Tianheng five Heavenly Mandate Points and promised further rewards as Song Guan advanced, because the method gave him a chance to reach the Seven-Ring Soul Sage realm.
• Yu Tianheng learned that teaching techniques could earn Heavenly Mandate Points and concluded that he should restrict the method’s spread, especially to Spirit Hall.
• After an hour of cultivation, Song Guan found that his Soul Power condensed at least 50% faster and thanked Yu Tianheng, calling him his big brother and promising to obey him.

Yu Tianheng founded the Heaven's Chosen Society with Song Guan as its second-in-command, intending to teach students a faster cultivation method and build a talented network. Three days after announcing the organization, Yu Tianheng addressed a crowd at Heaven Dou Royal Academy to promote it.

• Yu Tianheng explained that his uncle Yu Xiaogang had devised the cultivation method and urged Song Guan to keep it secret.
• Yu Tianheng proposed forming a student organization to teach the method, and Song Guan agreed to become its second-in-command.
• Yu Tianheng and Song Guan named the organization the Heaven's Chosen Society.
• Yu Tianheng announced the society on the academy notice board, attracting students interested in joining.
• Yu Tianheng met the gathered students in the academy square and began introducing the Heaven's Chosen Society.

Yu Tianheng founded Heaven's Chosen Society at Heaven Dou Royal Academy by promising members cultivation techniques that could accelerate Soul Power growth. After one hundred students joined, he gathered them to teach the techniques and warned them to keep them secret.

• Yu Tianheng explained the cultivation techniques and claimed they had helped raise his Soul Power from level 36 to level 39 in a few months.
• Song Guan confirmed that the Five Hearts Facing Heaven Method and the Breathing and Qi Absorption Method had increased his Soul Power accumulation by 50%.
• Yu Tianheng promised to teach both techniques to society members, and Lan Lingmeng volunteered to join first.
• Yu Tianheng allowed students at level 30 or above to join without assessment and tasked Song Guan with registering members.
• After more than four hundred students applied, one hundred were accepted, including twenty-five Three-Ring Soul Masters.
• Yu Tianheng summoned the members and warned them not to reveal the cultivation techniques to outsiders.

Yu Tianheng taught Heaven's Chosen Society the first level of the Innate Skill, and its members found that it increased their Soul Power cultivation efficiency by 50 percent. He revealed that the full technique had six levels and made access to the remaining five conditional on members' contributions, leaving Song Guan wary of how Yu Tianheng would use that leverage.

• Yu Tianheng taught the members the Five Hearts Facing Heaven Method and the Breathing and Qi Absorption Method, then had them meditate with both.
• After two hours, the members and Lan Lingmeng found they could condense Soul Power about 50 percent more efficiently than before.
• Yu Tianheng revealed that the Innate Skill had six levels and claimed its complete form allowed Soul Masters to cultivate twelve times faster.
• Yu Tianheng said he had completed the sixth level and credited it with his rapid advancement and victory over Lei Long.
• Yu Tianheng offered the remaining five levels to members who made contributions and said he would discuss the contribution rules with Vice President Song Guan.
• Song Guan realized that Yu Tianheng was using the first level to make members value the rest of the technique, and Yu Tianheng dismissed the meeting after warning everyone not to reveal what they had learned.

Yu Tianheng appointed Lan Lingmeng and Song Guan as vice presidents of Heaven's Chosen Society, then left its management to Song Guan while focusing on cultivation and earning Heavenly Mandate Points. A month later, the society's rapid growth drew the academy's attention, and its education committee debated what that meant for Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

• Lan Lingmeng asked Yu Tianheng to appoint her vice president, and he accepted, placing her alongside Song Guan.
• Yu Tianheng gave Song Guan and Lan Lingmeng cultivation manuals for the first four levels of the Innate Skill and promised further levels when they completed them.
• Yu Tianheng delegated the society's daily affairs to Song Guan, who took charge while Lan Lingmeng focused on cultivation.
• Over the following month, Heaven's Chosen Society grew organized, and many members raised their Soul Power Levels through their shared cultivation method.
• Meng Shenji and Bai Baoshan worried that the society's rise could disrupt the academy, while Zhi Lin argued that stronger students would benefit Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

The Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s three committee members sought to buy Yu Tianheng’s cultivation method, but he was in seclusion trying to break through level forty. After he succeeded and met them, they were stunned by his talent and praised his prospects; Yu Tianheng then asked why they had summoned him.

• Meng Shenji and Zhi Lin agreed to ask Yu Tianheng to sell the academy his cultivation method rather than try to take it by force.
• The three committee members visited the Heaven’s Chosen Society and asked Song Guan to send Yu Tianheng to the Education Committee after his seclusion.
• Yu Tianheng broke through to level forty after nearly a month of cultivation and prepared to leave for the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain his fourth Soul Ring.
• Song Guan told Yu Tianheng that the committee members wanted to discuss the Innate Skill, so Yu Tianheng went to meet them.
• Meng Shenji and the other committee members detected Yu Tianheng’s level-forty Soul Power, praised his exceptional talent, and heard him ask why they had summoned him.

Yu Tianheng negotiated with the Education Committee to sell the Innate Skill to Heaven Dou Royal Academy students and split the proceeds evenly with the Heaven's Chosen Society. After signing the contract, he prepared to leave for the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain a Soul Ring, planning to travel with an elder from his clan.

• Yu Tianheng explained that the Innate Skill had six increasingly difficult levels and could boost Soul Power cultivation speed up to twelvefold.
• Yu Tianheng proposed selling the first level for 500 Gold Soul Coins and splitting the revenue equally with the Education Committee.
• Yu Tianheng and the committee agreed on prices for the first four levels, rules for purchasing and sharing the technique, and signed a contract.
• Yu Tianheng gave Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhi Lin free booklets containing the first four levels of the Innate Skill.
• Meng Shenji asked whether Yu Tianheng wanted academy experts to accompany him to the Star Dou Great Forest, and Yu Tianheng said an elder from his clan would go with him.

Yu Tianheng arranged for the academy to sell the first four levels of the Innate Skill, then left alone for the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast for his fourth Soul Ring. Lei Long learned of Yu Tianheng’s plan and saw an opportunity for revenge.

• Yu Tianheng told Song Guan that the academy and the Heaven’s Chosen Society would split the proceeds from selling the first four levels of the Innate Skill.
• Yu Tianheng left the Heaven Dou Royal Academy and headed for the Star Dou Great Forest, intending to absorb a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring despite the danger.
• Yu Tianheng chose to hunt alone because he expected his clan elders to stop him if they learned about his plan.
• Lei Long, now a senior officer in the Heaven Dou Empire’s army, received a secret letter about Yu Tianheng’s hunt and resolved to take revenge.

Lei Long ordered five Soul Masters to assassinate Yu Tianheng in the Star Dou Great Forest, but the group hesitated after learning his identity and formidable background. Yu Tianheng detected their pursuit and continued deeper into the forest, confident he could face them.

• Lei Long summoned Li Wuji, Sun Bao, Zhou Meng, Zhao Xiong, and Zheng Feng and ordered them to kill Yu Tianheng.
• The five left the military camp and traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest to carry out the assassination.
• Yu Tianheng searched the forest for three days for a suitable sub-dragon Soul Beast without finding one.
• Li Wuji and the others watched Yu Tianheng from concealment, then hesitated to attack because he was the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's young clan leader.
• Li Wuji proposed that they avoid acting rashly, and the other four agreed.
• Yu Tianheng sensed the five following him and continued deeper into the forest, confident in his Martial Dao strength.

Yu Tianheng evaded Li Wuji and his companions, then found and attacked a ten-thousand-year Lightning Radiance Mad Lion suited to become his fourth Soul Ring. Li Wuji’s group caught up and watched in shock as Yu Tianheng fought the beast.

• Yu Tianheng used concealment and a light-body technique to escape Li Wuji and his companions, then hid until they lost his trail.
• Li Wuji and his companions decided to search for Yu Tianheng and return if they could not find him.
• Yu Tianheng spotted a twelve-to-thirteen-thousand-year Lightning Radiance Mad Lion and chose to fight it for his fourth Soul Ring.
• Yu Tianheng summoned the Purple Lightning Spear and struck the Lightning Radiance Mad Lion with Thunder Piercing, breaking through its lightning ball and wounding its flank.
• Li Wuji and his companions followed the sound of the clash and arrived to see Yu Tianheng battling the Lightning Radiance Mad Lion, leaving them stunned.

Yu Tianheng killed the Ten Thousand Year Lightning Radiance Mad Lion and confronted the men hiding nearby. Li Wuji admitted that Lei Long had sent them to assassinate Yu Tianheng, leaving Yu Tianheng intent on dealing with Lei Long later.

• Yu Tianheng fought the Lightning Radiance Mad Lion with his Purple Lightning Spear, then used Dragon Transformation to batter the beast to death with his dragon claws.
• Yu Tianheng made sure the Lightning Radiance Mad Lion was dead, and a black Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring rose from its corpse as the system awarded him one thousand Heavenly Mandate Points.
• Yu Tianheng spotted people hiding in the bushes and forced Li Wuji, Sun Bao, Zhou Meng, Zhao Xiong, and Zheng Feng to come out.
• Yu Tianheng accused the group of following him and threatened them until Li Wuji confessed that Lei Long had ordered them to assassinate him.
• Zhou Meng explained that the group had hesitated after learning Yu Tianheng was the young clan leader of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and Yu Tianheng resolved to deal with Lei Long later.

Yu Tianheng subdued Li Wuji, Zhou Meng, and their companions, then used Soul Seizing to plant Soul Marks and force them to serve him. As he began absorbing the Lightning Radiance Mad Lion’s Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, Zhou Meng realized Yu Tianheng was attempting to absorb a ring far beyond the usual limit for his fourth Soul Ring.

• Li Wuji and his companions tried to retreat, but Yu Tianheng attacked and paralyzed them with his Purple Lightning Spear.
• Yu Tianheng threatened to kill the group unless they let him plant Soul Marks in their Seas of Consciousness, and Li Wuji and the others surrendered.
• Yu Tianheng used Soul Seizing to brand all five Soul Masters, giving him control over their lives and deaths.
• Yu Tianheng ordered Li Wuji and the others to guard him as he began absorbing the Lightning Radiance Mad Lion’s Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Zhou Meng warned the group that Yu Tianheng was absorbing a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring as his fourth ring, risking catastrophic damage to his body and soul.

Yu Tianheng successfully absorbed a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring as his fourth ring, then used his True Qi to help Li Wuji break through to level 50. The group found a Gale Demon Leopard for Li Wuji, and Yu Tianheng began fighting it.

• Yu Tianheng endured the Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring’s mental assault and absorbed it, gaining the Thunder Dragon Head Soul Skill.
• Yu Tianheng helped Li Wuji break through the level 49 bottleneck and reach level 50.
• Yu Tianheng offered to help Li Wuji obtain a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, and the group searched the Star Dou Great Forest for a suitable Soul Beast.
• Three days later, Yu Tianheng and the others found a Gale Demon Leopard, and Yu Tianheng attacked it with Thunder Dragon Claw.
• The Gale Demon Leopard dodged Yu Tianheng’s attack and pounced at him.

Yu Tianheng helped Li Wuji kill a Gale Demon Leopard so Li Wuji could absorb its Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, then shared the Innate Skill with him and the others. Instead of leaving the Star Dou Great Forest, Yu Tianheng led the group on a hunt for more Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, killing more than ten in half a month.

• Li Wuji confined the Gale Demon Leopard with his fourth Soul Skill, allowing Yu Tianheng to strike it with Thunder Dragon Head and leave it badly wounded.
• Li Wuji killed the Gale Demon Leopard, absorbed its Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring after four hours, and advanced to Soul Power Level 51.
• Yu Tianheng gave Li Wuji, Zhou Meng, and the others the Innate Skill, prompting them to pledge their loyalty to him.
• Yu Tianheng promised to protect the group from Lei Long and his father, then said they would stay in the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt Soul Beasts.
• Yu Tianheng led Li Wuji, Zhou Meng, and the other three in killing more than ten Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts over half a month.

Yu Tianheng returned from the Star Dou Great Forest with more than a hundred Soul Beast corpses stored in his system inventory, intending to use their nourishing flesh to aid martial artists’ cultivation. After rewarding Li Wuji’s group and urging them to break with Lei Long, he visited the Blue Lightning Martial Arts Hall and began asking Mu Qing about its progress.

• Yu Tianheng killed more than a hundred Soul Beasts, earned sixty to seventy thousand Heavenly Mandate Points, and stored their corpses in his system inventory.
• After half a month of hunting, Yu Tianheng led Li Wuji and the others out of the Star Dou Great Forest and back to Heaven Dou City.
• Yu Tianheng gave Li Wuji’s group fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins and told them to make a clean break with Lei Long before joining him in a larger undertaking.
• Li Wuji and the others pledged their loyalty to Yu Tianheng and left for the military camp to report back.
• Yu Tianheng visited the Blue Lightning Martial Arts Hall, saw more than a hundred commoner youths practicing the Body Tempering Skill, and met with Mu Qing to discuss the hall’s progress.

Yu Tianheng reviewed the Blue Lightning Martial Arts Hall’s growth, addressed its shortage of instructors, and arranged for students to receive nourishing Soul Beast meat. He then spent 15,000 Heavenly Mandate Points on the heaven-grade Nine Heavens Divine Lightning Prison Suppression Scripture, which required exceptional physique and spiritual power to cultivate safely.

• Mu Qing reported that the martial arts hall had more than a hundred students but lacked enough instructors, and Yu Tianheng advised training promising students as teaching assistants.
• Yu Tianheng revealed the Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast corpses he had brought back from the Star Dou Great Forest and instructed Mu Qing to have their meat prepared for the students.
• Yu Tianheng asked Mu Qing for a quiet place, then opened the Heavenly Mandate System’s shop and reviewed its cultivation techniques.
• Yu Tianheng spent 15,000 Heavenly Mandate Points to exchange for the heaven-grade Nine Heavens Divine Lightning Prison Suppression Scripture.

Yu Tianheng chose the Nine Heavens Divine Lightning Prison Suppression Scripture because its lightning attribute matched his Martial Soul, and he hoped it could eventually strengthen his grandfather, Yu Yuanzhen. He judged its lightning-drawing method too dangerous for now and began tempering his body with the Golden Body Art.

• Yu Tianheng planned to test the Nine Heavens Divine Lightning Prison Suppression Scripture before teaching it to Yu Yuanzhen, whose Soul Power Level was 95.
• Yu Tianheng read that the scripture progressed through Drawing Lightning into the Body, Thunder Body Tempering, Condensing Lightning into a Pill, and Controlling Lightning to Suppress the Prison.
• Yu Tianheng decided to postpone drawing lightning into his body until he had strengthened himself with the Golden Body Art.
• Yu Tianheng guided his Bloodline Power into the bones of his legs and endured the growing pain as they were tempered.

Yu Tianheng completed his breakthrough to the Bone Refining Realm Sixth Level, then attended a dinner at the Blue Lightning Martial Arts Hall. He encouraged the students who lacked Martial Souls to persevere in martial cultivation, and they ate Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast meat he had hunted.

• Yu Tianheng tempered his leg bones, arms, spine, and skull with Bloodline Power, successfully reaching the Bone Refining Realm Sixth Level.
• Mu Qing sent word that dinner was ready, and Yu Tianheng went to the martial arts hall's dining hall for Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast meat.
• Mu Qing, Mu Zi, and the senior members greeted Yu Tianheng, while the newer students learned he had founded the hall and taught martial arts to people without Martial Souls.
• Yu Tianheng urged the students to work hard at martial cultivation and promised their future achievements could rival those of Soul Masters.
• Yu Tianheng explained that the meal's Soul Beast meat came from beasts he had hunted in the Star Dou Great Forest, and the students lined up eagerly to eat.
• Yu Tianheng ate braised Mountain-Splitting Yak tenderloin, ribs, and soup, feeling powerful energy surge through his body.