Chapter Summaries

Qian Renxue was sent to Spirit Hall’s Suotuo City branch after awakening with only level 3 Soul Power and a Broken-Winged Angel Martial Soul. Jiang Nian revealed that he had absorbed her Six-Winged Angel to activate his Yao Chen template, and he began planning how to train her as they arrived in Suotuo City.

• Qian Renxue awakened with level 3 Soul Power and a Broken-Winged Angel Martial Soul, drawing ridicule from Spirit Hall’s upper ranks.
• Qian Daoliu ordered Ling Yuan to take Qian Renxue to Suotuo City and train her into a Soul Grandmaster, while Bibi Dong secretly watched her departure.
• Jiang Nian explained that he had absorbed Qian Renxue’s Six-Winged Angel to activate his Yao Chen template and opened the disciple training interface.
• Ling Yuan brought Qian Renxue to the Suotuo City branch, where Yue Guan and Gui Mei revealed themselves and confirmed her awakening had been genuine.
• Ling Yuan announced that she would manage the branch and train Qian Renxue, who resolved to work hard despite her Broken-Winged Angel.

Qian Renxue accepted Jiang Nian as her mysterious teacher and learned the Flame Mantra, which rapidly increased her Soul Power. She began the day hopeful and eager to meet him, while Jiang Nian kept his identity hidden and planned to wait until she became a Soul Grandmaster.

• While meditating, Qian Renxue heard Jiang Nian offer to become her teacher and improve her Martial Soul, then agreed after weighing the risk.
• Jiang Nian passed the Flame Mantra to Qian Renxue and guided her through cultivation, revealing that fire-attribute Soul Rings could upgrade the method.
• Qian Renxue cultivated through the night and rose from level three to level four, then called Jiang Nian her teacher and asked to meet him.
• Jiang Nian reassured Qian Renxue that he would not abandon her, refused to meet her yet, and told her to keep him secret.
• Ling Yuan noticed Qian Renxue had advanced overnight, attributed it to the Great Enshrined's guidance, and assumed her low talent would limit her future.

Qian Renxue followed Jiang Nian’s instructions to build her body through running so she could eventually absorb a thousand-year fire-type Soul Ring. After several days of training and preparing medicinal baths, Ling Yuan grew angry with what she saw as Qian Renxue neglecting her cultivation and asked Qian Daoliu for permission to return early.

• Jiang Nian told Qian Renxue to prioritize body training over cultivating the Flame Mantra and instructed her to run until he told her to stop.
• Qian Renxue ran for four hours, collapsed from exhaustion, and was carried back by Ling Yuan, while Jiang Nian left a Body Tempering Pill beside her pillow.
• After waking, Qian Renxue swallowed the pill and circulated the Flame Mantra, and her Seraphim Template progress rose from 0% to 0.5%.
• Qian Renxue bought medicinal ingredients and ran again the next day, then prepared a medicinal bath under Jiang Nian’s guidance while Ling Yuan became less impressed with her.
• On the third day, Qian Renxue went running again, and an enraged Ling Yuan wrote to Qian Daoliu requesting permission to return early.

Qian Renxue continued Jiang Nian’s physical training and reached Soul Power level 6, hoping to prove her teacher’s method worked before Ling Yuan departed from Suotuo City. The next morning, she discovered Ling Yuan had left and broke down until Jiang Nian comforted her, then revealed his power to the Spirit Hall branch while claiming responsibility for her care.

• After three months of training, Qian Renxue asked Jiang Nian to begin raising her Soul Power so she could prove herself to Ling Yuan, and Jiang Nian agreed to help her reach level 10.
• Ling Yuan received Qian Daoliu’s letter, told the branch stewards she was leaving Suotuo City, and departed without telling Qian Renxue.
• Qian Renxue reached Soul Power level 7 overnight, but found Ling Yuan’s room empty and learned from Pang Dun that Ling Yuan had left.
• Qian Renxue cried that she had been abandoned again, and Jiang Nian picked her up and promised to stay with her.
• Pang Dun and three Soul Grandmasters confronted Jiang Nian, who displayed nine Soul Rings and his Emperor Flame Martial Soul before declaring himself Qian Renxue’s teacher.

Jiang Nian comforted Qian Renxue, accepted her as his disciple, and began assessing her cultivation before taking her around Suotuo City. The day ended with Qian Renxue asking to sleep in his room because she was afraid of the dark.

• Jiang Nian gave Qian Renxue a Storage Ring, introduced himself as a rank 99 Limit Douluo, and reassured her that he would not abandon her.
• Jiang Nian examined Qian Renxue and found that her Flame Mantra had 99% compatibility and needed a fire Soul Ring to advance her Seraphim template.
• Jiang Nian took Qian Renxue around Suotuo City, but neither of them had any money to buy the food she recommended.
• Pang Dun told the branch Soul Masters not to report Jiang Nian to headquarters, and Jiang Nian overheard their conversation.
• Jiang Nian instructed Qian Renxue in breathing and went to bed, but she soon knocked on his door and asked to sleep with him because she was afraid of the dark.

Jiang Nian brought Qian Renxue to the Soul Hunting Forest to train her in real combat and taught her the Suction Palm. After she defeated a Hundred-Year Scarlet Fire Lizard and learned the technique, he cared for her injuries and prepared a stronger medicinal bath.

• Jiang Nian took Qian Renxue to a Soul Hunting Forest valley and demonstrated Suction Palm on two Scarlet Fire Lizards.
• Jiang Nian sent Qian Renxue to fight a Hundred-Year Scarlet Fire Lizard, and she endured repeated blows while trying to defeat it.
• Qian Renxue studied the beast’s movements, then mastered Suction Palm and killed it by bursting its brain.
• Jiang Nian treated Qian Renxue’s injuries and saw her Seraphim template progress rise to 6%.
• Qian Renxue woke in Jiang Nian’s arms, ate a roasted Soft Bone Rabbit, and entered the medicinal bath he prepared, wincing at its pain.

Qian Renxue advanced her combat training and learned to use Suction Palm to push targets away, but her fight with a Flame-Tailed Leopard was interrupted by Yu Xiaogang. Jiang Nian returned, struck Yu Xiaogang, and left him facing the charging beast.

• Qian Renxue absorbed the medicinal liquid, reached Soul Power level 10, and continued training with Jiang Nian.
• Over the next month and a half, Qian Renxue fought increasingly powerful Soul Beasts and improved her combat skills.
• Qian Renxue asked whether Suction Palm could push targets away, and Jiang Nian told her to test the idea in battle against a Flame-Tailed Leopard.
• Qian Renxue reversed Suction Palm to push the Flame-Tailed Leopard away, but Yu Xiaogang interrupted and offered to take her as his disciple.
• Jiang Nian returned, kicked and slapped Yu Xiaogang, then prepared to leave with Qian Renxue as the Flame-Tailed Leopard charged Yu Xiaogang.

Jiang Nian and Qian Renxue returned to Suotuo City after their training, and he explained why he despised Yu Xiaogang. When Yu Xiaogang was brought back to the Spirit Hall branch gravely injured, Jiang Nian told Qian Renxue to prepare to beat him up.

• Jiang Nian healed Qian Renxue, left the Soul Hunting ground with her, and sold two bottles of pills for five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins to fund their supplies.
• Pang Dun and the branch head were astonished when Qian Renxue returned at level ten, and she later climbed into Jiang Nian's bed as she had before.
• Jiang Nian told Qian Renxue about Yu Xiaogang's low Soul Power, plagiarism, and past abandonment of his cousin, and she agreed that he was shameless.
• Jiang Nian assigned Qian Renxue to beat Yu Xiaogang whenever she saw him, though they assumed he had died after a Flame-Tailed Leopard attacked him.
• Spirit Hall patrolmen found Yu Xiaogang unconscious with a Spirit Hall Elder Token and a severe injury to his crotch, then brought him to the Suotuo City branch.
• Jiang Nian saw Yu Xiaogang on a stretcher and told Qian Renxue to eat extra breakfast because she would be beating someone up the next day.

Yu Xiaogang demanded revenge on Jiang Nian and Qian Renxue, but Qian Renxue beat him after he insulted her mother, Bibi Dong. Jiang Nian left him barely alive, and a carriage bound for Nuoding City stopped to rescue him and offer him a teaching job.

• Yu Xiaogang woke in despair after discovering his manhood was gone and ordered Pang Dun to find the blond girl and white-haired young man he blamed.
• Jiang Nian and Qian Renxue came to Yu Xiaogang's room, where he recognized Qian Renxue and demanded to know who her mother was.
• Yu Xiaogang revealed his past connection with Bibi Dong and insulted her, prompting Qian Renxue to beat him while Jiang Nian recorded the exchange.
• After Qian Renxue stopped, Jiang Nian left with her, and Pang Dun ordered his men to stop Yu Xiaogang's bleeding before dumping him by the roadside.
• A carriage bound for Nuoding City stopped beside the barely breathing Yu Xiaogang, and its occupant decided to save him and make him a teacher.

Jiang Nian took Qian Renxue toward the Star Dou Great Forest while keeping her cultivation secret from Spirit City and teaching her Eight Extremes Collapse. In a village near the forest, he warned Ah Yin that Tang Hao and Tang Xiao knew she was a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast, prompting her to flee.

• Jiang Nian ordered Pang Dun to hide Qian Renxue's level and rewarded him with pills that improved his perception of Soul Power particles.
• Jiang Nian and Qian Renxue traveled toward the Star Dou Great Forest, where he explained how to use successive waves of Soul Power to perform Eight Extremes Collapse.
• Tang Xiao pushed past patients to seek treatment from Ah Yin, but Tang Hao rebuked him and offered to pay everyone's consultation fees.
• Jiang Nian and Qian Renxue emerged, and Ah Yin thanked Jiang Nian for teaching her diagnostic and treatment methods.
• Tang Hao offered to team up with Jiang Nian, who refused and gave Ah Yin a hairpin; Tang Hao privately revealed that he intended to make her sacrifice her hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Jiang Nian warned Ah Yin that the Tang brothers knew her identity, and she hurried away while Tang Hao watched in confusion.

Jiang Nian brought Qian Renxue to the Star Dou Great Forest to train and prepare her to absorb a Soul Ring safely. After a month of sparring, Qian Renxue showed off her improved combat skills just as Tang Hao and Ah Yin arrived.

• Jiang Nian left Qian Renxue to cultivate Eight Extremes Collapse while he searched the forest for medicinal herbs to make pills that would help her absorb a Soul Ring.
• Jiang Nian returned when a Thousand-Legged Illusory Poison Centipede attacked Qian Renxue, then restrained it after she insisted on defeating it herself.
• Over the next month, Qian Renxue repeatedly fought the centipede as Jiang Nian watched and coached her.
• Qian Renxue used Suction Palm to evade and close in, then struck the centipede with Eight Extremes Collapse, demonstrating her improved fighting technique.
• Tang Hao and Ah Yin arrived nearby, and Tang Hao watched Qian Renxue's unusual battle style while Jiang Nian remained focused on her fight.

Qian Renxue killed a Thousand-Year Soul Beast without using her Martial Soul, and Jiang Nian prepared her to obtain her First Soul Ring. After Ah Yin fled from Tang Hao and Tang Xiao, Jiang Nian revealed his Titled Douluo strength and pressured her into helping him find a fire-type Soul Beast.

• Tang Hao and Tang Xiao questioned Jiang Nian about Qian Renxue's unusual fighting style, but Jiang Nian rebuffed them.
• Qian Renxue defeated the Thousand-Legged Illusory Poison Centipede with Suction Palm and Eight Extremes Collapse, earning a purple Soul Ring.
• Jiang Nian took Qian Renxue to his cabin for a medicinal bath and told her she could prepare to absorb her First Soul Ring.
• Tang Hao and Tang Xiao decided to investigate Qian Renxue's fighting method, then discovered that Ah Yin had escaped.
• Ah Yin reached Jiang Nian's cabin, where he revealed that he knew she was the Blue Silver Emperor and displayed his nine Soul Rings.
• Jiang Nian asked Ah Yin to find a thousand-year fire-type Soul Beast, and she reluctantly agreed after he showed her Bone Spirit Cold Flame.

Jiang Nian helped Qian Renxue absorb a two-thousand-year Flame Dragon Lizard Soul Ring, giving her the Flame Sword Soul Skill and raising her Soul Power before he stabilized it. As Jiang Nian and Qian Renxue prepared to return to Suotuo City, Tang Xiao appeared and greeted them.

• Ah Yin led Jiang Nian and Qian Renxue to the Flame Dragon Lizard tribe, whose leader she had a grudge against for eating her Blue Silver Grass.
• Jiang Nian subdued the two-thousand-year Flame Dragon Lizard and had Qian Renxue kill it for its Soul Ring.
• Qian Renxue absorbed the Soul Ring with Jiang Nian's pills and gained the Flame Sword Soul Skill, but Jiang Nian stabilized her Soul Power by lowering it from level sixteen to level fifteen.
• Qian Renxue tested Flame Sword on the Flame Dragon Lizard's corpse and cut its scales, while Jiang Nian praised her effort.
• Jiang Nian, Qian Renxue, and Ah Yin prepared to leave for Suotuo City, but Tang Xiao appeared and greeted Jiang Nian.

Jiang Nian took Ah Yin with him after she asked to become his disciple, while Qian Renxue reacted jealously to sharing his attention. After learning Tang Hao and Tang Xiao wanted his techniques, Jiang Nian planned to leave them a gift and headed back toward Suotuo City with his new, nervous disciple.

• Tang Hao tried to persuade Jiang Nian to travel with him, but Jiang Nian left with Qian Renxue and invited Ah Yin to follow.
• Jiang Nian initially rejected Ah Yin's request to become his disciple, but agreed after she offered her help and blurted out that she could warm his bed.
• Qian Renxue protested that she could warm Jiang Nian's bed too, and Jiang Nian explained that he needed Ah Yin to cook for them during future cultivation trips.
• Ah Yin told Jiang Nian that Tang Hao and Tang Xiao wanted to obtain the techniques Qian Renxue had used, and Jiang Nian decided to leave them a gift.
• Jiang Nian asked Ah Yin what she could cook, then named her his disciple and teased her for being nervous.

Jiang Nian bound Ah Yin to the World Tree template, gave her a cultivation method, and accepted her as a disciple. While Tang Hao and Tang Xiao plotted to attack Jiang Nian and take Ah Yin, Jiang Nian prepared a fake secret technique to lure them into a trap.

• Jiang Nian selected the World Tree template for Ah Yin, unlocking her Super-Speed Regeneration and noticing her strong compatibility with it.
• Jiang Nian taught Ah Yin the Azure Emperor Longevity Mantra, and she quickly entered a meditative trance.
• Jiang Nian reassured Qian Renxue that Ah Yin would join them as a disciple and cook for them.
• Tang Hao and Tang Xiao watched from hiding as Tang Hao lamented that Jiang Nian had taken Ah Yin and decided to target Qian Renxue's fighting technique.
• Jiang Nian pretended to write down a secret technique for others to find, and Tang Hao and Tang Xiao decided to attack him that night and take Ah Yin.
• Jiang Nian recognized the brothers' plan and continued drawing the fake Flash Step technique to deceive them.

Jiang Nian escaped Tang Hao and Tang Xiao with Ah Yin and Qian Renxue, leaving the brothers to find and practice the manuals he had planted. Their training continued into the next day, when Tang Hao attracted a transformed Ancient Dire Bear who mistook his movements for a courtship dance.

• Ah Yin’s Soul Power rose from level 52 to level 54, and Tang Hao and Tang Xiao ambushed Jiang Nian and his companions at night.
• Jiang Nian used Flash Step to escape with Ah Yin and Qian Renxue, while Tang Hao and Tang Xiao found the Flash Step and Black Bear Shakes Its Fur manuals in the house.
• Tang Hao and Tang Xiao spent the night practicing Flash Step, convinced the technique was genuine despite failing to move any faster.
• The brothers began practicing Black Bear Shakes Its Fur separately the next day, and a transformed Ancient Dire Bear mistook Tang Hao’s movements for a courting dance.

Jiang Nian returned to Suotuo City with Qian Renxue and Ah Yin, then accepted Pang Dun’s offer to have the Pang Family sell his pills exclusively. He agreed to help improve the family’s Martial Souls in exchange for its loyalty to Qian Renxue, and left Ah Yin facing her first cooking lesson.

• Jiang Nian made Ah Yin run nearly a hundred kilometers behind the carriage from the Star Dou Great Forest to Suotuo City.
• At the Spirit Hall branch, Pang Dun told Jiang Nian that the Pang Family could provide ingredients and sales channels for his pills without taking any profit.
• Pang Dun admitted he wanted exclusive pill-selling rights to raise the Pang Family’s standing, and Jiang Nian challenged him to state his true ambition.
• Pang Dun vowed to make the Pang Family as powerful as the Upper Three Sects, and Jiang Nian offered to improve their Martial Souls if they acknowledged Qian Renxue as their honored lord.
• Jiang Nian told Qian Renxue he would teach her to refine Soul Condensing Pills, promised Ah Yin benefits for her loyalty, and ordered her to cook after their bath.

Jiang Nian taught Qian Renxue to control flames for alchemy while discovering that Ah Yin could barely cook. Meanwhile, Tang Xiao found Tang Hao with Ah Hua in the Star Dou Great Forest and left after agreeing to keep their relationship secret.

• Jiang Nian showed Qian Renxue how to spread fire evenly beneath the Black Demon Cauldron and encouraged her as she burned herbs during practice.
• Jiang Nian found Ah Yin struggling with a fish and ordered her to learn cooking from the kitchen auntie, one dish a day.
• Tang Xiao encountered Ah Hua carrying Tang Hao and learned that Tang Hao intended to stay with her until they had a child.
• Tang Xiao agreed not to reveal Tang Hao and Ah Hua’s relationship, then hurried away using Flash Step.

Jiang Nian tested whether Bone Spirit Cold Flame could temper Ah Yin’s body, then considered taking her to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after she hesitated. In Spirit City, Qian Xunji ordered an investigation into the Clear Sky Sect brothers and confronted Bibi Dong about Qian Renxue.

• Qian Renxue quickly mastered extracting medicinal properties, while Jiang Nian teased Ah Yin about her cooking and her inability to refine pills.
• Jiang Nian used Bone Spirit Cold Flame to temper Ah Yin’s hand and found that it helped her body, but he agreed to seek another method when she seemed reluctant.
• Ah Yin decided to accept Jiang Nian’s treatment, then asked to quit cooking lessons and was refused.
• Yue Guan reported to Qian Xunji that two Clear Sky Sect brothers had used their Martial Soul Avatars in the Star Dou Great Forest, and Qian Xunji ordered an investigation.
• Qian Xunji asked Bibi Dong whether she missed Qian Renxue, and Bibi Dong said she wanted her daughter to die before Qian Xunji left to discuss Spirit Hall’s successor with Qian Daoliu.

Tang Xiao brought the Flash Step technique back to the Clear Sky Sect, where the sect began practicing it and drew Spirit Hall’s attention. Meanwhile, Jiang Nian took Qian Renxue and Ah Yin toward the Sunset Forest, leaving Pang Dun to choose whether the Pang Family would remain loyal to him as Spirit Hall investigated the Soul Condensing Pills.

• Tang Xiao told Tang Wei that Tang Hao had stayed behind to help a young woman, then revealed the Flash Step technique he and Tang Hao had witnessed.
• Tang Wei and the Clear Sky Sect began practicing Flash Step, prompting Gui Mei, Yue Guan, and Qian Xunji to investigate the technique.
• Qian Renxue refined Soul Condensing Pills in Suotuo City, and Jiang Nian departed with her and Ah Yin for the Sunset Forest after she reached rank 18.
• Spirit Hall sent Pang Dun a letter demanding information about the Soul Condensing Pill, and several Pang Family members urged him to betray Jiang Nian.
• Pang Dun ordered the execution of every Pang Family member who supported betraying Jiang Nian, then demanded absolute loyalty from the survivors.