Chapter Summaries

Yu Xiaogang was expelled from Nuoding Academy after his scandal damaged its reputation, while Tang San tried to shelter him and investigate who had attacked him. Two months later, Han Yu prepared a graduation exam designed to test Tang San and Xiao Wu on lessons they had skipped, and the system assigned Han Yu a mission to stop Tang San from graduating.

• Pei Feng expelled Yu Xiaogang from Nuoding Academy, and Tang San took him into the city to find a room at an inn.
• Yu Xiaogang suspected Han Yu and then the academy teachers of arranging his humiliation, but Tang San knew Han Yu had an alibi and could not identify the culprit.
• For the next two months, Tang San investigated the incident and made little progress as the matter gradually faded away.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu revealed that they had both reached rank twenty-nine and prepared for the academy's graduation exam.
• Han Yu prepared exam questions based partly on his theories, and the Ten Thousand Fires System tasked him with preventing Tang San from graduating successfully.

Tang San struggled with an exam built around Han Yu’s theories, while Xiao Wu answered easily and wondered whether a bonus question hinted at her identity. Han Yu received an appointment offer from Spirit Hall Academy but planned to travel to Suotuo City with Ye Lingling instead.

• Tang San was moved to a solo examination room and found the questions unfamiliar, while Xiao Wu completed her paper quickly and gave a random answer to Han Yu’s question about Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.
• After the exam, Tang San heard students praise Han Yu’s theories and decided to visit Yu Xiaogang with Xiao Wu to ask about soul-ring attributes and healing abilities.
• Ye Lingling delivered Han Yu a letter appointing him to Spirit Hall Academy, where he would transfer to the advanced academy after reaching level fifty.
• Han Yu noted that his Soul Power had already reached level sixty and that Ye Lingling had advanced to level thirty-four with his guidance.
• Han Yu told Ye Lingling they would travel to Suotuo City in about a month, explaining that he had other business there and did not intend to teach at Shrek Academy.

Yu Xiaogang dismissed Han Yu’s exam questions and urged Tang San to trust his theories, while Tang San rejected Xiao Wu’s suggestions about alternative Soul Rings. The next day, Han Yu began supervising the practical test and watched for Tang San’s reaction to a Blue Silver Grass Soul Master.

• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang that Han Yu’s exam questions challenged his assumptions about Blue Silver Grass Soul Rings and Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, but Yu Xiaogang dismissed them as nonsense.
• Yu Xiaogang warned Tang San not to accept Han Yu’s theories, and Tang San said he would follow his teacher’s plan for his third Soul Ring.
• After leaving the hotel, Tang San rejected Xiao Wu’s suggestion to choose a fire-attribute Soul Ring and promised not to use Hidden Weapons against her in the practical test.
• The next day, Han Yu served as chief examiner for Nuoding Academy’s practical combat test, with Ye Lingling available to heal injured students.
• Han Yu watched Tang San arrive and wondered how he would react to seeing a Blue Silver Grass martial soul without the Blue Silver Emperor bloodline.

Tang San discovered during his match with Xiao Wu that his Blue Silver Grass had become unnaturally brittle, and Yu Xiaogang could not explain the change. Yu Xiaogang planned to investigate and urged Tang San and Xiao Wu to seek their Third Soul Rings at Shrek Academy.

• Xiao Wu broke Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass restraints and defeated him with her Charm skill.
• After Tang San recovered, he and Xiao Wu tested his Blue Silver Grass and confirmed that it snapped with little force.
• Tang San brought Xiao Wu to Yu Xiaogang and demonstrated that his Blue Silver Grass could no longer restrain her.
• Yu Xiaogang ruled out an outside alteration or fire damage, speculated that Tang San might have hidden injuries, and said he would investigate.
• Yu Xiaogang advised Tang San and Xiao Wu to apply for early graduation and go to Shrek Academy to obtain their Third Soul Rings.

Tang San discovered that he had scored one point below passing on the theory examination and suspected the academy had targeted him. After requesting a review, he learned his answer had lost a point for naming Yu Xiaogang, and he and Yu Xiaogang planned to appeal so Tang San could graduate and leave for Suotuo City.

• Tang San and Xiao Wu found that Xiao Wu had scored 99 while Tang San had scored 59, one point short of passing.
• Tang San demanded a review from Teacher Mo and saw that his answers had received heavy deductions, including one point for naming Yu Xiaogang despite the paper prohibiting real names.
• Tang San asked when he could take a make-up exam, while the teachers said they would wait for Director Han and left him as the only student needing one.
• Yu Xiaogang accused the academy of misleading students and suspected its teachers were targeting him and Tang San.
• Yu Xiaogang agreed to speak with the Dean to secure Tang San's graduation, and Tang San said he wanted to leave for Suotuo City afterward.

Yu Xiaogang and Tang San challenged Han Yu over Tang San’s failed exam, but Han Yu exposed the flaw in Yu Xiaogang’s theory and expelled Tang San from the academy. After they fled, Han Yu decided to resign and leave Nuoding City.

• Yu Xiaogang asked Pei Feng to restore Tang San’s lost point, but Pei Feng refused and blamed Tang San’s absences for his failure.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San confronted Han Yu, who offered to restore Tang San’s point if he could answer questions about Yu Xiaogang’s theories.
• Tang San defended the theory that no Martial Souls were useless, and Han Yu argued that Yu Xiaogang’s level twenty-nine Soul Power made the theory condemn its own author.
• Han Yu rejected Tang San’s make-up exam and expelled him for repeated misconduct, then drove Yu Xiaogang and Tang San out of the academy.
• Han Yu told Ye Lingling that he planned to resign and leave Nuoding City.

After Tang San left Nuoding City for Shrek Academy, Han Yu claimed his Azure Lotus Core Flame reward and discovered that Tang San had poisoned several academy teachers. Han Yu used his Fallen Heart Flame to save some victims, but the ordinary gatekeeper died, and the other teachers still needed treatment.

• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San to travel with Xiao Wu and said he would join them at Shrek Academy a few days after it opened.
• Han Yu accepted the reward of an Azure Lotus Core Flame and stored it in a Soul Tool while preparing to resign and visit Director Su.
• Tang San poisoned several people who had offended him and Yu Xiaogang, leaving them conscious as their bodies deteriorated.
• Teacher Huang alerted Han Yu that several teachers were suffering from severe abdominal pain, and Han Yu suspected Tang San had poisoned them.
• Pei Feng and the Healing-Type Soul Masters could only keep the victims alive, so Han Yu used his Fallen Heart Flame to purify Teacher Zhang's blood and save him.
• Han Yu began treating the other poisoned teachers, but Ye Lingling could not save the ordinary gatekeeper.

Han Yu pursued Tang San after learning he had poisoned people in Nuoding City and attacked him on the road with the Azure Lotus Core Flame. He left Tang San unconscious and badly burned, while Xiao Wu had also been injured by the flames.

• Han Yu recovered, learned Tang San and Xiao Wu had left Nuoding City, and set out after them in disguise.
• Han Yu caught up with Tang San and Xiao Wu and engulfed Xiao Wu in flames, leaving her severely burned and unconscious.
• Tang San attacked Han Yu with Hidden Weapons, but the Azure Lotus Core Flame melted them.
• Han Yu dodged Tang San's Silent Sleeve Arrow, grabbed his throat, burned his cheek, and knocked him unconscious.

Han Yu fought Tang Hao after Tang Hao arrived to protect Tang San, then escaped after using the Fallen Heart Flame to trigger a devastating explosion. Tang Hao survived but suffered worse internal injuries, while Han Yu returned to Nuoding City and advised Ye Lingling to seek a detoxification ability for her fourth Soul Ring.

• Han Yu bluffed that he had a Martial Soul Avatar and a Ninth Soul Skill to make Tang Hao retreat, then attacked him with Heavenly Flames.
• Han Yu used the Fallen Heart Flame inside Tang Hao to halt his pursuit before fleeing, and the resulting explosion injured them both.
• Tang Hao detonated four Black Soul Rings to shield Tang San and Xiao Wu, then took them to an inn and left alone to avoid exposing himself to Spirit Hall.
• Han Yu returned to Nuoding City, told Ye Lingling he had injured the culprit but failed to catch him, and received healing from her.
• Han Yu advised Ye Lingling to choose a fourth Soul Ring that granted detoxification abilities.

Han Yu left Nuoding Academy with Yu Xiaogang’s possessions and traveled with Ye Lingling to Suotuo City, where he planned to hunt a powerful soul beast. After setting out for the Star Dou Great Forest, he received a mission to help Zhu Zhuqing escape Shrek and began considering a visit to Heaven Dou City.

• Han Yu received a Soul Ring Concealment Method and a movement technique, then told Pei Feng he would explore the Heaven Dou Empire instead of joining Spirit Hall.
• Han Yu formally left Nuoding Academy and took Yu Xiaogang’s property and Soul Master Handbook.
• Tang San woke beside Xiao Wu with the left half of his face disfigured, and they fled the inn filled with corpses.
• Half a month later, Han Yu and Ye Lingling reached Suotuo City, where Han Yu told her to stay at the hotel while he went to hunt a soul ring over 30,000 years old.
• At Soul Beast Town, Han Yu received a mission to help Zhu Zhuqing escape Shrek’s clutches and considered traveling to Heaven Dou City and planning around Dugu Bo’s Immortal Herbs.

Han Yu and Qian Renxue’s group encountered each other while hunting Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest. After they helped him kill a Fire Phoenix, Han Yu gave the false name Xiao Yan and tried to leave with its corpse.

• Han Yu searched the forest for a thirty-five-thousand-year Fire Phoenix, hoping to gain a Soul Ring for his Seventh Soul Ring.
• Qian Renxue and her guards struggled to hunt a Light Unicorn as Soul Beasts swarmed around them.
• Han Yu arrived and fought the Fire Phoenix while Qian Renxue pursued and killed the Light Unicorn.
• She Long held back the attacking Soul Beasts, giving Han Yu an opening to kill the Fire Phoenix.
• Qian Renxue’s group stopped Han Yu as he prepared to leave, and he introduced himself as Xiao Yan.

Han Yu accepted Qian Renxue’s token, then cultivated in seclusion and prepared to absorb Azure Lotus Core Flame. In Suotuo City, Ye Lingling rejected Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun’s advances before Han Yu reached Soul Emperor level and began devouring the Heavenly Flame.

• Qian Renxue gave Han Yu Xue Qinghe’s token and explained that she intended to keep him under her own control.
• Han Yu left with the corpse, found his secluded cultivation spot, and used his martial soul to draw soul rings onto his body.
• Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai approached Ye Lingling, but she rejected them and returned to the hotel disgusted.
• Han Yu reached level sixty-six and considered the risks of hunting a powerful soul beast for his Seventh Soul Ring.
• Han Yu summoned Azure Lotus Core Flame and prepared to absorb the Heavenly Flame.

Qian Renxue advanced to Soul Emperor while Han Yu endured the fusion of two flames, which drew Zhu Zhuqing to the cave. When Zhu Zhuyun and her people cornered Zhu Zhuqing, Han Yu intervened and revealed that he was a Soul Emperor.

• Qian Renxue reached Soul Emperor, and She Long and Ci Xue congratulated her before she asked whether Xiao Yan had acted in the forest.
• Han Yu endured the flames as they fused, and the resulting blaze scorched the cave.
• Zhu Zhuqing approached the flames, hoping to use them to strengthen herself and escape her fate, but Zhu Zhuyun and an elder caught up with her.
• Han Yu appeared and promised to protect Zhu Zhuqing, despite her urging him to leave.
• The elder revealed his Soul Ancestor cultivation, and Han Yu answered by displaying six Soul Rings, prompting Zhu Zhuyun to offer him the Zhu Family's hospitality.

Han Yu drove Zhu Zhuyun and her group away, then helped Zhu Zhuqing with her Fire Poison and invited her to travel with him to Suotuo City. After arranging for Zhu Zhuqing to meet him the next day, Han Yu received a God-Given Soul Ring and told Ye Lingling that Zhu Zhuqing was Dai Mubai’s fiancée.

• Han Yu forced Zhu Zhuyun and her group to retreat, then collapsed from injuries sustained after absorbing the Heavenly Flames.
• Han Yu explained that Zhu Zhuqing had Fire Poison from his flames and offered to remove it, then invited her to join him at a new academy.
• Zhu Zhuqing told Han Yu she was going to Suotuo City to find Dai Mubai, and they traveled there together.
• Han Yu gave Zhu Zhuqing one hundred Gold Soul Coins as a loan and asked her to meet him the next morning at the Soto Grand Hotel.
• The system rewarded Han Yu with a God-Given Soul Ring for fusing two Heavenly Flames.
• Han Yu told Ye Lingling that Zhu Zhuqing was Dai Mubai’s fiancée, and Ye Lingling criticized Dai Mubai for pursuing other women.

Zhu Zhuqing found Dai Mubai in Suotuo City and watched him flirt with twin sisters, shattering her idealized view of him. After she slapped him and left, Dai Mubai ignored her and took the sisters to a hotel.

• Zhu Zhuqing arrived at the Soto Grand Hotel, where Han Yu introduced her to Ye Lingling and let her search for Dai Mubai without warning her about him.
• Han Yu told Ye Lingling that Shrek Academy offered little to its students and planned to visit it before leaving Suotuo City.
• Zhu Zhuqing learned where Dai Mubai was and followed him to a shop, where she saw him flirting with twin sisters.
• Zhu Zhuqing slapped Dai Mubai, rejected his affectionate excuses, and walked away.
• Dai Mubai did not follow Zhu Zhuqing and instead coaxed the twin sisters into going with him to a hotel.

Zhu Zhuqing saw Dai Mubai with another woman and finally gave up on him, then asked Han Yu to teach her. Han Yu accepted her as a student, fused a Sub-fire of the Fallen Heart Flame into her, and planned to teach her a Self-Created Soul Skill alongside Ye Lingling.

• Zhu Zhuqing watched Dai Mubai enter a hotel with twin sisters and was devastated, while Han Yu and Ye Lingling told her about his other relationships.
• Han Yu explained Zhu Zhuqing's family's expectations and suggested she could leave for Spirit Hall or the Heaven Dou Empire, and Zhu Zhuqing asked to cultivate under him.
• Han Yu welcomed Zhu Zhuqing as a student and arranged for her to cultivate with Ye Lingling.
• That night, Zhu Zhuqing saw Dai Mubai enter the Tulip Hotel with a rich merchant's daughter and gave up on him completely.
• Han Yu fused a Sub-fire of the Fallen Heart Flame into Zhu Zhuqing, which strengthened and condensed her soul power.
• Han Yu showed Zhu Zhuqing and Ye Lingling how to summon the flames in their palms and promised to teach them his Self-Created Soul Skill once he mastered it.

Han Yu prepared to visit Shrek Academy to recruit talented applicants and went to Flender's shop to seize a valuable item before Tang San could get it. There, he discovered that Flender had been selling damaged Soul Tools taken from Clear Sky Sect graves.

• Han Yu explained to Ye Lingling and Zhu Zhuqing why secret skills should be passed down, then said they would visit Shrek Academy when it opened.
• Han Yu planned to recruit talented applicants who lacked the resources to obtain their second Soul Rings and to take the Ban Jing Fa Jin before Tang San could acquire it.
• Ye Lingling said her Soul Power had reached level thirty-eight, while Zhu Zhuqing reported reaching level twenty-eight with Han Yu's help.
• Han Yu went to Flender's shop and found Flender asleep behind the counter.
• Han Yu noticed that some of the shop's damaged Soul Tools bore the Clear Sky Sect emblem and concluded that Flender had taken them from graves.

Han Yu confronted Flender over the price of Ban Jing Fa Jin, overpowering him and forcing him to pay ten thousand Gold Soul Coins. Meanwhile, Zhu Zhuqing and Ye Lingling followed Dai Mubai to the Rose Hotel, where a fight broke out, leaving Zhu Zhuqing stunned.

• Han Yu paid Flender for Ban Jing Fa Jin, but Flender repeatedly raised the price and demanded more money.
• Han Yu took Flender’s Soul Tools, revealed his Fallen Heart Flame, and subdued Flender with its Heart Fire.
• Han Yu collected ten thousand Gold Soul Coins from Flender, then left after smashing up the shop.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Ye Lingling followed Dai Mubai to the Rose Hotel after seeing him with twin sisters.
• Zhu Zhuqing turned to leave, but the sound of Dai Mubai fighting someone inside the hotel stopped her.

Tang San challenged Dai Mubai over a hotel room, but his damaged Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul could not overcome Dai Mubai's White Tiger. Dai Mubai defeated him and left, telling him to mention his name at Shrek Academy.

• Xiao Wu argued with Dai Mubai over the room, while the hotel manager offered compensation; Zhu Zhuqing and Ye Lingling recognized Tang San and left in disgust.
• Dai Mubai dismissed the twins and challenged Tang San, who revealed that he was a level twenty-nine Blue Silver Grass Soul Grandmaster; Dai Mubai introduced himself as a level thirty-seven White Tiger Battle Soul Elder.
• Tang San used Entanglement and Parasitism, then tried to attack Dai Mubai with Tang Sect techniques, but Dai Mubai's White Tiger Body Protection Barrier shattered the Blue Silver Grass and stopped the strike.
• Dai Mubai sent Tang San flying, told him to mention the name Dai Mubai at Shrek Academy, and left with the twins, putting the damage on his tab.

Han Yu brought Ye Lingling and Zhu Zhuqing to Shrek Academy to recruit teammates for the Soul Master Grand Competition, where he exposed the academy’s unfair registration fees. The dispute escalated when Ling Hai demanded a refund, and Tang San stepped in to defend Shrek’s rules.

• Tang San and Xiao Wu discussed Dai Mubai after their earlier encounter, and Tang San suspected he might become their teammate at Shrek Academy.
• Han Yu told Ye Lingling and Zhu Zhuqing that he planned to recruit five teammates for the Soul Master Grand Competition and joined the long registration line at Shrek.
• Han Yu explained that Shrek charged applicants fees even when they failed its tests, and Ye Lingling and Zhu Zhuqing condemned the practice.
• Ling Hai demanded that Li Yusong return the fees paid for his granddaughter’s failed enrollment, but Li Yusong refused and summoned Zhao Wuji through Dai Mubai.
• Tang San intervened and told Ling Hai to follow Shrek Academy’s rules.