Chapter Summaries

At Blazing Fire Academy’s exchange tournament, Yu Tianxin challenged Shui Bing’er, but Yang Tian arrived before the spar could begin. After Shui Bing’er greeted Yang Tian as her husband, Yu Tianxin challenged him instead, determined to test Swordsman’s strength.

• Huo Wu complained to Shui Bing’er about Feng Xiaotian and the Skywater girls’ obsession with Swordsman, and Shui Bing’er revealed that she and the other three women belonged to him.
• After the arena spar ended without a victor, Feng Xiaotian invited Huo Wu to spar, but she refused and told him to challenge her brother instead.
• Yu Tianxin challenged Shui Bing’er, but Lin Zhiling defended her and Huo Wushuang stepped in to spar with Yu Tianxin.
• Yang Tian arrived, and Shui Bing’er greeted him affectionately and told him Yu Tianxin had set his sights on her.
• Yu Tianxin challenged Yang Tian, who accepted with a faint smile.

Yang Tian faced Yu Tianxin in the Martial Arts Arena at Blazing Fire Academy and defeated him with a single bare-handed strike. Yu Tianxin admitted defeat and left, while the crowd praised Yang Tian and his reputation as Swordsman.

• Yu Tianxin leaped into the arena and announced his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul and level thirty-nine strength.
• Yang Tian descended into the arena to cheers, introduced himself as a level forty-five Battle Soul Sect, and said he would not use his Martial Soul.
• Yu Tianxin attacked Yang Tian with Thunder Claw, but Yang Tian stopped the blow with his bare hand and sent Yu Tianxin flying.
• Yang Tian mentioned defeating Yu Tianxin's clan cousin Yu Tianming, a Soul King, and Yu Tianxin recognized the vast gap between them.
• Yu Tianxin admitted defeat and left the arena as the spectators praised both Yang Tian's strength and Yu Tianxin's willingness to concede.

Yang Tian faced Huo Wushuang and Feng Xiaotian without using Soul Power, then fought waves of students from several teams after they called for reinforcements. He defeated more than thirty Soul Elders with his Tiangang Sword Formation, and Blazing Fire Academy’s dean led the applause.

• Yang Tian blocked Huo Wushuang’s attack and shattered Feng Xiaotian’s Wind Blade Array without using Soul Power.
• Huo Wushuang and Feng Xiaotian used soul skills, then called for more students to join the fight against Yang Tian.
• Huo Lie and students from several teams entered the arena, while Shui Bing’er allowed Shui Yue’er and the Skywater Team to join.
• Yang Tian activated the Tiangang Sword Formation and picked apart the combined attacks, sending more than thirty Soul Elders out of the arena.
• Yang Tian threw the last two fire birds from the arena, and Blazing Fire Academy’s dean stood to applaud.

Yang Tian brought the Skywater Team and Shui Bing'er's group into his mysterious Cultivation Room and invited Huo Wu to join the Fairy Sword Battle Team. After everyone chose rooms, he followed Xu Youyou and Xu Xiaoxiao into theirs, leaving Xu Youyou wondering what he intended to do.

• Yang Tian invited Lin Zhiling, Shui Bing'er, Shui Yue'er, and Huo Wu into Xu Youyou and Xu Xiaoxiao's room for private cultivation instruction.
• Lin Zhiling suggested Huo Wu join the Fairy Sword Battle Team, and Yang Tian welcomed her into the group.
• Yang Tian opened the Cultivation Room and showed everyone its spacious interior, assigning some women rooms on the second floor and others rooms on the first.
• Xu Xiaoxiao and Xu Youyou chose to share a room, while Shui Yue'er and Huo Wu went to find rooms on the first floor.
• Yang Tian warned Lin Zhiling not to touch the control panel, then went to the sisters' room and closed the door behind him.

Yang Tian helped Xu Youyou and Xu Xiaoxiao improve their Star Crown martial souls, then joined Shui Bing'er, Shui Yue'er, and Huo Wu in the training area to test the Cultivation Room's gravity field. Huo Wu struggled under the pressure, while Shui Bing'er recognized the room's purpose and began adapting to it.

• Yang Tian teased Xu Youyou and Xu Xiaoxiao, removed his mask, and prepared pills from Starry Grass and a World Tree leaf fragment to strengthen their foundations.
• Xu Youyou and Xu Xiaoxiao began refining the pills while Yang Tian left a clone to watch them and went to the training area.
• Huo Wu asked about Shui Bing'er's increased strength, and Shui Bing'er credited Yang Tian and invited Huo Wu to join the Fairy Sword Battle Team.
• Yang Tian activated twofold gravity, causing Huo Wu to struggle; she kicked at him, and he caught her ankle before she fell when he let go.
• Shui Bing'er withdrew her Soul Power defense to adapt to the gravity and urged Shui Yue'er to do the same as Lin Zhiling came down to the training area.

Yang Tian established a gravity training ground for the Fairy Sword Battle Team and began training the women to prepare for the Elite Competition. He offered Shui Yue'er a soul bone and taught Lin Zhiling two powerful self-created soul skills, then prepared to demonstrate them.

• Yang Tian explained the Gravity Field and set adapting to at least twenty times gravity as a training goal, while Shui Bing'er and Huo Wu doubted they could reach it in time.
• Yang Tian offered Shui Yue'er a sixty-thousand-year Snow Enchantress Illusion Head Bone, but she refused to accept it, so he asked Shui Bing'er to persuade her.
• Yang Tian began training Lin Zhiling and told her he would teach her two offensive self-created soul skills.
• Yang Tian transmitted the two Xia Lan Arts and their Soul Power circulation routes to Lin Zhiling, who excitedly praised their power and kissed his cheek.
• Yang Tian accepted Lin Zhiling's kiss and said he would demonstrate the skills' most effective forms.

Yang Tian demonstrated powerful ice and Xia Lan techniques to Lin Zhiling, then continued cultivating while planning his next journey. Xu Xiaoxiao arrived and playfully tested her soul skills, but Huo Wu interrupted her affectionate moment with Yang Tian, prompting Xu Xiaoxiao to accuse Huo Wu of jealousy.

• Yang Tian showed Lin Zhiling the Water Kan · Ice Soul technique and Nine Heavens Starfall, Star Sea Return, which she successfully imitated on her first try.
• Yang Tian trained under increased gravity and considered traveling to Star Dou Imperial City, Sunset Forest, and the Far North after the exchange tournament.
• Xu Xiaoxiao tested her Star Radiance Art and Starfall against Yang Tian, then used her second soul skill to rush into his arms.
• Yang Tian caught Xu Xiaoxiao and protected them from her falling star with a golden barrier before they kissed.
• Huo Wu threw a small fireball that interrupted them, and Xu Xiaoxiao accused her of being jealous of Yang Tian.

Xu Youyou told Yang Tian that her Martial Soul had evolved into a Nine Stars Emperor Crown, while the exchange teams completed their round-robin matches. As Yang Tian stayed with the twins, Huo Wu watched the others grow stronger and struggled with her jealousy and desire for power.

• Xu Youyou described her evolved Martial Soul and Emperor's Aura, and Yang Tian named the twins' Martial Souls Nine Stars Emperor Crowns.
• The God Wind Battle Team and the Thunder Team advanced, while Shui Yue'er reached level forty and realized she needed to change her cultivation path.
• Yang Tian stayed in Xu Youyou and Xu Xiaoxiao's room, promising to remain with them and teach them divine abilities.
• Huo Wu trained under twice the gravity as Shui Bing'er and Lin Zhiling attempted heavier gravity, and she recognized the gap between herself and Shui Bing'er.
• Huo Wu wondered whether Yang Tian's influence explained Shui Bing'er and Lin Zhiling's strength, then counted the women drawn to him and realized there were eight.

Yang Tian taught Xu Youyou and Xu Xiaoxiao powerful new techniques before seeking to recruit Huo Wu for Fairy Sword Battle Team. The Blazing Fire Dean removed Huo Wu from his academy’s team, leaving her to decide whether to join Yang Tian.

• Yang Tian taught Xu Youyou and Xu Xiaoxiao a supreme cultivation method and divine ability, and they emerged from the Cultivation Room with a stellar aura.
• Yang Tian arrived as Skywater Academy narrowly lost to Godwind Academy and later attended the exchange matches with the two transformed women.
• The Blazing Fire Dean asked Yang Tian about his purpose, and Yang Tian explained that he had invited Huo Wu to join Fairy Sword Battle Team.
• Yang Tian rejected the Blazing Fire Dean’s suggestion that Huo Wushuang join instead, citing his age and the difficulty of changing his aptitude.
• The Blazing Fire Dean stripped Huo Wu of her Blazing Fire Academy team status, while Huo Wu objected and her grandfather urged her to join Fairy Sword Battle Team.

Yang Tian brought Huo Wu into the Fairy Sword Battle Team, then led the women toward Starfall Forest so the Xu sisters could obtain soul rings and contact their family. The trip ended with Yang Tian entering Huo Wu’s room without knocking and frightening her, forcing him to recognize that he had crossed a boundary.

• Lin Zhiling persuaded Huo Wu to join the Fairy Sword Battle Team, and Yang Tian privately gave her pills to pass to the Blazing Fire Dean.
• Yang Tian set out with Xu Xiaoxiao, Xu Youyou, Shui Bing'er, Lin Zhiling, and Huo Wu to find soul rings, choosing Starfall Forest over Sunset Forest.
• Xu Xiaoxiao explained that she wanted to leave a secret signal for her family, and Yang Tian agreed to visit the Star Crown Sect after the Elite Competition.
• Ten days later, the group entered the Star Luo Empire and stopped in a border city, where Huo Wu mocked Yang Tian for sharing a room with five beauties.
• Huo Wu continued training under increased gravity, and Yang Tian later entered her room without knocking, causing her to scream in fear.

Yang Tian tried to explain that he had come to help Huo Wu improve her physique and talent, then offered her Fire Paste from the Heavenly Sun Blazing Flame Flower to evolve her fire attribute. Just as Huo Wu prepared to refine it, Xiao Cai snatched and swallowed the Fire Paste, leaving her aggrieved.

• Huo Wu scolded Yang Tian and threatened to leave the Fairy Sword Battle Team unless he gave her a satisfactory explanation.
• Yang Tian explained that Huo Wu had reached her training limit and needed help improving her physique and talent.
• Yang Tian gave Huo Wu Fire Paste from the Heavenly Sun Blazing Flame Flower and said it could evolve her fire attribute to its ultimate state.
• Huo Wu hesitated to refine the Fire Paste, and Xiao Cai darted in and swallowed it before she could decide.

Yang Tian used a World Tree leaf to help Huo Wu refine Fire Paste, causing her Martial Soul to fuse with her body and awaken a powerful shadow ability. After identifying the leaf’s effects on bloodlines, he gave pills made with more leaves to Shui Bing’er and Lin Zhiling and postponed the group’s departure until the next morning.

• Xiao Cai ate Huo Wu’s Fire Paste, so Yang Tian used its remains and a World Tree leaf to make Huo Wu a pill.
• Huo Wu refined the pill overnight while Yang Tian monitored her, and she emerged with her Martial Soul fused into her body.
• Yang Tian examined Huo Wu and Xu Youyou, concluding that World Tree leaves had altered their bloodlines and that Huo Wu had awakened a shadow ability.
• Huo Wu manifested a near-tangible shadow that could wield up to her full strength and could help set traps.
• Yang Tian gave Shui Bing’er and Lin Zhiling pills made with World Tree leaves and told the group to leave the next morning.

Yang Tian traveled with Huo Wu and the others, who recovered from an exhausting night while Huo Wu drank and fell asleep in his arms. Near dusk, he spotted signs of Soul Masters attacking a village and sent his avatar ahead to investigate.

• Lin Zhiling and Shui Bing'er described how Yang Tian's cultivation had become easier after their changes, then spent the night with him.
• The next morning, Yang Tian's companions rode in his carriage, while Huo Wu kept quiet as the others joked about Yang Tian's stamina.
• Huo Wu joined Yang Tian outside the carriage, drank millet wine, teased him about his girlfriends, and fell asleep in his arms.
• Yang Tian spotted flames and unusual soul rings near a distant village, suspected Evil Soul Masters were attacking it, and sent his avatar ahead with the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Sword.
• Huo Wu woke and hurriedly told Yang Tian to forget what she had said while drunk.

Yang Tian arrived at a village being slaughtered by Evil Soul Masters and killed all thirteen attackers, freeing the villagers’ vengeful souls. He left the survivors to mourn and bury their dead, then waited outside with Huo Wu and the others, troubled by the destruction he believed his arrival had helped set in motion.

• Yang Tian learned that Evil Soul Masters were slaughtering a village and arrived there ahead of his true body.
• Yang Tian saw the attackers torturing villagers, trapping them behind a blood screen, and gathering their vengeful souls.
• Yang Tian used the Tiangang Disha Sword Formation to kill all thirteen Evil Soul Masters.
• Yang Tian freed the vengeful souls, broke the blood formation, and gathered the villagers’ corpses for burial.
• Yang Tian urged the survivors to bury their dead and prevent disease before flying away.
• Yang Tian reunited with Lin Zhiling and the other four women outside the village and brooded over his role in the rise of evil forces.

After discovering the Evil Soul Masters’ plan to build an Altar Teleportation Array, Yang Tian received a mission to destroy it in the Far North but kept to his original plans. In Starfall Town, he helped Xu Xiaoxiao and Xu Youyou send word to their sect, then watched Shui Bing’er and Huo Wu train.

• Yang Tian blamed the system for the village’s tragedy and found that the Seed of Faith had begun absorbing faint Power of Faith.
• Yang Tian read letters revealing that the Holy Cult planned to build a continent-spanning Altar Teleportation Array using living beings’ vitality and blood and resentful souls.
• The system ordered Yang Tian to destroy the Evil Soul Masters’ preliminary array in the Far North within three months, rewarding him with a Legendary Grade Theft Ticket.
• Yang Tian and the women reached Starfall Town, where Xu Xiaoxiao and Xu Youyou wrote letters to their sect and Yang Tian added a reassuring message signed “Swordsman.”
• Yang Tian left divine-sense strands in the letters, and Shui Bing’er and Huo Wu sparred with their Self-Created Soul Skills while Lin Zhiling faced their combined attacks.

Yang Tian sparred with Huo Wu before leading her and the others into Starfall Forest to hunt for ten-thousand-year soul beasts. There, he revealed that a group of men had been tracking them with Tracking Powder and stopped the party to deal with their pursuers.

• After a day and night inside his room, Yang Tian told Huo Wu that they would leave for Starfall Forest at dawn.
• Huo Wu insisted that Yang Tian spar with her, and he trained her while teasing and taking advantage of her; afterward, she returned to her room with a hundred-thousand-year right leg bone.
• The next morning, Yang Tian led Lin Zhiling, Huo Wu, Shui Bing'er, and the Xu sisters into Starfall Forest.
• After the group traveled deeper into the forest, Yang Tian stopped them and explained that men had followed them using Tracking Powder.
• Yang Tian dispersed the powder from the group and said they would wait for their pursuers to catch up before continuing.

Yang Tian and the women punished six Soul Masters who had tracked them to prey on them, then continued through Starfall Forest. They encountered a Ghost Fire Three-Headed Snake that Yang Tian identified as a potential soul-ring target for Huo Wu, while Lin Zhiling amused the group by teasing him.

• Six Soul Masters confronted Yang Tian's group and admitted they had tracked them with Tracking Powder to prey on the women.
• Shui Bing'er froze the six attackers, and the women broke all four limbs of each man with follow-up attacks.
• Yang Tian led the women deeper into Starfall Forest, where ordinary soul beasts avoided them because of his dragon-bloodline pressure.
• Yang Tian spotted a Ghost Fire Three-Headed Snake and judged it to be seventeen and a half meters long and roughly seventeen thousand five hundred years old.
• Yang Tian suggested the snake as a potential soul-ring target for Huo Wu, who hesitated over its age.
• Lin Zhiling teased Yang Tian about protecting Huo Wu, then hid behind Shui Bing'er when he threatened to enforce family rules.

Yang Tian helped Huo Wu absorb a seventeen-thousand-year soul ring, then the group encountered two Starlight Fanged Beasts in the Soul Beast Forest. The beasts were twenty-eight thousand years old, leaving Xu Xiaoxiao wondering whether they could be absorbed.

• Yang Tian subdued the Ghost Fire Three-Headed Snake and shattered its spirit, then Huo Wu killed it for its soul ring.
• Yang Tian reassured Huo Wu that she could absorb the seventeen-thousand-year ring, and she successfully absorbed it in two hours.
• Huo Wu thanked Yang Tian with a kiss on the cheek, while Xu Xiaoxiao and Shui Bing'er teased her.
• Lin Zhiling and Yang Tian took defensive positions when two Starlight Fanged Beasts emerged from the bushes.
• Xu Youyou identified the Starlight Fanged Beasts as twenty-eight thousand years old, and Xu Xiaoxiao worried that they were too old to absorb.

Yang Tian trapped two twenty-eight-thousand-year Starlight Fanged Beasts and sealed them so Xu Youyou and Xu Xiaoxiao could absorb their soul rings. While they began absorbing them, Shui Bing'er made Huo Wu curious about Yang Tian’s unusual way of strengthening the women close to him, and Huo Wu approached him.

• Xu Xiaoxiao despaired when Xu Youyou identified the two Starlight Fanged Beasts as twenty-eight-thousand-year soul beasts, but Yang Tian said she could absorb one and trapped both in his Tiangang Disha Sword Formation.
• Shui Bing'er told Huo Wu that she, Lin Zhiling, Xu Xiaoxiao, and Xu Youyou had no soul bones because Yang Tian had strengthened their physiques in another way, making Huo Wu curious about him.
• Yang Tian used the First Seal of Immortal Restriction to weaken and seal the fanged beasts, then told the sisters their cultivation techniques would protect them while absorbing the rings.
• Xu Youyou and Xu Xiaoxiao killed the fanged beasts and began absorbing their soul rings, while Huo Wu quietly approached Yang Tian and Lin Zhiling and Shui Bing'er watched the surroundings.

Yang Tian received a system task to disrupt Evil Soul Masters slaughtering soul beasts in Starfall Forest and left the women behind to confront them. He headed toward the forest’s center despite their pleas, while Lin Zhiling, Shui Bing'er, and Huo Wu watched him go in tears.

• Yang Tian teased Huo Wu about why Youyou and Xiaoxiao had stronger constitutions, then stopped their intimate moment after sensing a disturbance in Starfall Forest.
• The system assigned Yang Tian a task to disrupt the Evil Soul Masters’ operation, with Theft Tickets as rewards for killing them.
• Lin Zhiling, Shui Bing'er, and Huo Wu urged Yang Tian not to go, but he said the danger could not stop him and that he could not stand by while soul beasts were slaughtered.
• Yang Tian used the Nine Seals of Immortal Restriction to protect the women and left the Black-Clothed Puppet with them.
• Yang Tian flew toward the forest’s center with the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Sword, while Lin Zhiling and Shui Bing'er cried and Huo Wu called him a Great Hero.