Chapter Summaries

Tang San and Yu Xiaogang encountered a four-hundred-year Mandala Snake, which wounded Yu Xiaogang and chased Tang San into the forest. Tang San reached a clearing containing a massive Evergreen Vine while the snake pursued him.

• Yu Xiaogang identified the Mandala Snake and urged Tang San to flee when he saw its size.
• The Mandala Snake knocked Luo Sanpao aside, then bit Yu Xiaogang’s right leg and began poisoning him.
• Tang San shot the snake with arrows, drawing it away from Yu Xiaogang before fleeing into the forest.
• After running for about half an hour, Tang San reached a clearing with a giant Evergreen Vine and considered its traits as the Mandala Snake closed in.

Tang San lured the Mandala Snake into the six-hundred-year-old Evergreen Vine’s territory, then watched the vine kill it. After discovering the Evergreen Vine could quickly regenerate from hammer blows, Tang San burned it down, and a yellow Soul Ring rose from its charred remains.

• Tang San identified the Evergreen Vine as a suitable Soul Ring target and drew the pursuing Mandala Snake into its territory.
• The Evergreen Vine bound and crushed the Mandala Snake, killing it and producing a yellow Soul Ring.
• Tang San attacked the Evergreen Vine with the Vajra Hammer, but it rapidly regenerated from his strikes.
• Tang San doused the Evergreen Vine with lamp oil and set it on fire, watching the flames destroy its tendrils and main stem.
• Tang San chopped through the charred stem, and a yellow Soul Ring rose from the remains.

Tang San absorbed the Evergreen Vine’s six-hundred-year Soul Ring, gaining the Evergreen Body Soul Skill and greatly improved vitality, recovery, poison resistance, and Blue Silver Grass toughness. He headed back to check on Yu Xiaogang, hoping the man had survived the Mandala Snake’s poison.

• Tang San absorbed the Evergreen Vine Soul Ring, broke through his cultivation bottleneck, and sensed that his Soul Power was around level thirteen.
• Tang San discovered that his vitality and poison resistance had increased and that a small wound healed rapidly.
• Tang San learned that his first Soul Skill, Evergreen Body, boosted recovery, poison resistance, efficiency, and Blue Silver Grass toughness.
• Tang San tested his strengthened Blue Silver Grass and snapped an arm-thick sapling with a vine.
• Tang San returned toward the clearing to see whether Yu Xiaogang had survived the Mandala Snake’s venom.

Tang San returned to the clearing and found Ye Renxin treating Yu Xiaogang after a venomous snake bite. As Yu Xiaogang recovered, Tang San and Ye Lingling discovered their plant-type Martial Souls resonated, and he tried to encourage her about the Nine Heart Begonia’s inherited defect.

• Tang San found Ye Renxin, Ye Lingling, and two guards in the clearing, with Ye Renxin treating the unconscious Yu Xiaogang.
• Ye Renxin told Tang San that he had controlled the Mandala Snake venom but that it had damaged Yu Xiaogang’s ability to father children.
• Tang San sat beside Ye Lingling and thanked her and Ye Renxin for saving his teacher.
• Tang San and Ye Lingling sensed a connection between her Nine Heart Begonia and his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul.
• Tang San encouraged Ye Lingling to keep hoping for a way to solve her Martial Soul’s defect, and she thanked him.

After Ye Renxin saved Yu Xiaogang from the Mandala Snake’s poison, he told Yu Xiaogang that the toxins had left him unable to function as a man. Ye Lingling departed after renewing her promise with Tang San, who then escorted his injured teacher out of the Soul Hunting Forest and revealed that he had already obtained a Soul Ring.

• Tang San and Ye Lingling hooked little fingers and promised that she would marry him if he found a way to help her.
• Yu Xiaogang woke after Ye Renxin treated him, and Ye Renxin confirmed the poison was gone but said it had damaged Yu Xiaogang’s foundation so badly that he could no longer function as a man.
• Ye Lingling left with Ye Renxin and the guards after exchanging a warm farewell with Tang San.
• Tang San supported Yu Xiaogang as they headed out of the forest, then said he had escaped the Mandala Snake by luring it to a four-hundred-year-old Evergreen Vine.
• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang that he had burned the Evergreen Vine and absorbed its Soul Ring, but Yu Xiaogang lamented that Tang San had not obtained the Mandala Snake’s Soul Ring.

Tang San returned to the academy and found Xiao Wu leading the work-study students in a challenge against Boss Xiao. He stepped in to fight Xiao Chenyu and revealed his Level Thirteen Blue Silver Grass Soul Ring, then caught Xiao Chenyu’s legs with his vines as the battle began.

• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San to keep up his cultivation and visit the Spirit Hall in Nuoding City to register and collect a stipend.
• Tang San found Dorm Seven empty and went to the hill behind the academy, where Xiao Wu and the work-study students faced Boss Xiao’s group.
• Xiao Wu accepted Boss Xiao’s challenge, and Tang San arrived before Wang Sheng could take the first fight.
• Tang San announced his Level Thirteen Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul and yellow Soul Ring, surprising the upper-year students.
• Xiao Chenyu revealed his wolf Martial Soul and charged, but Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass suddenly wrapped around his legs.

Tang San defeated Xiao Chenyu, establishing Xiao Wu as Dorm Seven’s boss, then took Xiao Wu to the Spirit Hall to register as Soul Masters and collect their allowances. He treated her to a meal in Nuoding City, and they left the restaurant together as evening fell.

• Tang San restrained Xiao Chenyu with Blue Silver Grass until Xiao Chenyu conceded and accepted Xiao Wu as Dorm Seven’s boss.
• Xiao Wu revealed her level-twelve Soul Master status, and Xiao Chenyu took responsibility for the work-study students’ cleaning duties.
• Tang San invited Xiao Wu to the Spirit Hall, where they registered and received Soul Master certificates and Gold Soul Coins.
• Xiao Wu reminded Tang San of his promise to buy her a meal, and he agreed to treat her at a Nuoding City restaurant.
• Tang San paid the bill after Xiao Wu ate several dishes and desserts, and the two left together in the evening.

Tang San and Xiao Wu grew closer after he stood up for her, and a year later he had devoted himself to training and study at the academy. His Soul Power reached level eighteen, though Xiao Wu’s effortless rise to level sixteen left him frustrated.

• Xiao Wu told Tang San that she felt comfortable around him and sensed a pleasant fragrance from him, and Tang San suspected she was drawn to his Soul Ring’s vitality.
• Xiao Wu promised to have Tang San’s back, and he accepted her earnest pledge.
• Over the next year, Tang San trained daily, studied Martial Soul Theory with Yu Xiaogang, practiced his hammer technique, cultivated Blue Silver Grass, and worked on Heart Separation Control.
• Tang San raised his Soul Power from level thirteen to level eighteen, while Xiao Wu rose from level twelve to level sixteen despite not training especially hard.
• Tang San felt aggrieved by Xiao Wu’s rapid progress and grumbled that she was simply not human.

Tang San brought Xiao Wu to Holy Soul Village and introduced her to Old Jack and Tang Hao. Tang Hao gave Tang San his mother’s ring and said he would leave the next day.

• Tang San agreed to let Xiao Wu accompany him home, and carried her when she grew tired on the walk to Holy Soul Village.
• Tang San gave Old Jack gifts and introduced him to Xiao Wu.
• Tang San found Tang Hao still working at the blacksmith shop and introduced Xiao Wu before cooking dinner for them.
• Tang Hao led Tang San to the mountain, gave him his mother’s ring, and said he would leave the next day.
• Tang San asked Tang Hao where he was going.

Tang San left the smithy with Xiao Wu and told her he was going away to find Tang Hao. After sending her back to the academy, he set out for Sunset Forest to seek a safe place to absorb his Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone and hunt for his second Soul Ring.

• Tang Hao told Tang San he would search for a way to help awaken his Blue Silver Grass, then left after warning him to be careful with Xiao Wu.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu woke up tangled together, then returned to Nuoding City after Tang San confirmed Tang Hao had left the smithy.
• Tang San examined the Storage Ring Tang Hao had left behind and found about fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins and a jade box containing the Blue Silver Emperor right leg bone.
• Tang San told Xiao Wu he was leaving to find Tang Hao and persuaded her to stay at the academy and pass a message to Yu Xiaogang.
• Tang San left Xiao Wu at the academy and headed toward Sunset Forest to hunt for a Soul Ring and search for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Tang San safely absorbed the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone in a secluded cave, strengthening his body and breaking through his Soul Power bottleneck at level twenty. After gaining flight and a powerful healing skill, he left the cave and prepared to seek his Second Soul Ring.

• Tang San bought a horse and traveled toward Sunset Forest, stopping at a secluded cave to absorb the Soul Bone safely.
• Tang San absorbed the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, which transformed his body, strengthened his meridians, and raised his Soul Power past level twenty.
• Tang San sensed the Soul Bone’s two skills: flight and a healing ability that could regenerate severe injuries and lost limbs within five seconds.
• Tang San found that his Blue Silver Grass had become thicker, tougher, and sharper after the absorption.
• Tang San left the cave at noon and set out to obtain his Second Soul Ring.

Tang San entered Sunset Forest seeking a suitable Second Soul Ring while worrying about concealing its unusual age. He encountered an injured ten-thousand-year Red Flame Tiger fleeing a pursuer and tried to divert its charge with Blue Silver Grass.

• Tang San reached Sunset Forest, bought supplies and a map, and considered the risks of revealing a purple Second Soul Ring.
• Tang San spent five days exploring the forest, avoiding powerful Soul Beasts while searching for a plant-type Soul Beast between two and three thousand years old.
• A storm darkened the forest, and an injured Red Flame Tiger charged toward Tang San as it fled from a pursuer.
• Tang San activated his First Soul Skill, Evergreen Body, dodged left, and sent Blue Silver Grass vines toward the tiger’s limbs to slow it down.

Tang San struggled to hold off the dying Red Flame Tiger until a golden sword from the sky struck it down. He recognized the winged young woman who descended as Qian Renxue, leaving him stunned by her arrival.

• Tang San used successive Blue Silver Grass barriers and his speed to evade the Red Flame Tiger while trying to buy time.
• The Red Flame Tiger gathered a powerful flame breath, and Tang San spent nearly all his Soul Power forming seven vine walls to protect himself.
• A golden sword descended from the sky, shattered the tiger's flame breath, and injured the Red Flame Tiger.
• Tang San saw a young woman with three pairs of golden wings descend from the sky.
• Tang San recognized her Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul and identified her as Qian Renxue.

Tang San watched Qian Renxue kill a ten-thousand-year Red Flame Tiger and pretended to be a young cultivator named Li Si to hide his identity. She gave him healing medicine and left him calling her Fairy Sister, while his deception remained undiscovered.

• Qian Renxue struck the Red Flame Tiger with her golden sword and killed it before it could attack or flee.
• A Titled Douluo in golden robes arrived, and Tang San recognized him as Snake Lance Douluo, She Long.
• Qian Renxue checked Tang San’s injuries and asked whether he was alone in the forest.
• Tang San claimed he was an independent cultivator named Li Si who had come to hunt for his second Soul Ring and lost his way.
• Qian Renxue gave Tang San healing medicine and objected when he called her Fairy Sister, but she let him continue.

Tang San accepted Qian Renxue’s personal token after helping her kill the Red Flame Tiger, then escaped deeper into Sunset Forest while she began absorbing its Soul Ring. After recovering in a hidden cave, he set out again to search for a suitable Second Soul Ring and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Tang San and Qian Renxue exchanged thanks, and she gave him her personal token so he could seek her help at the Martial Soul Temple in Heaven Dou City.
• Tang San left Qian Renxue to absorb the Red Flame Tiger’s Soul Ring, while Snake Lance Douluo guarded her and questioned whether Tang San could reveal her identity.
• Tang San found a concealed cave, blocked its entrance, and used the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone and Evergreen Body to heal his injuries and restore his Soul Power.
• Tang San studied Qian Renxue’s token and a small porcelain bottle, then put them away and reminded himself to focus on finding a Second Soul Ring and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Tang San left the cave before nightfall and headed in a new direction with Blue Silver Grass’s perception ability alert for danger.

After a month of dangerous training in Sunset Forest, Tang San found a three-thousand-year-old Illusory Dream Nether Vine that suited his needs for a Soul Ring. He destroyed its flowers to weaken its hallucinogenic attacks, then prepared to face its still-powerful vines.

• Tang San entered a secluded valley after detecting a drowsy, sweet scent and identified the rare Illusory Dream Nether Vine as a suitable target.
• Tang San tested the vine’s reaction and range by throwing stones, then watched it blanket the valley in purple mist when he threatened its main stem.
• Tang San used a bow and arrows to destroy both flowers, weakening the vine’s ability to release hallucinogenic pollen.
• Tang San recognized that the vine could still attack with its powerful branches and that fire was the most effective way to deal with it.

Tang San burned the Illusory Dream Nether Vine and absorbed its three-thousand-year Soul Ring, gaining the Dreamlike Illusion Eyes as an External Soul Bone. He discovered its abilities, including disguising his purple Second Soul Ring, and prepared to examine the Soul Skill it granted.

• Tang San drenched the Illusory Dream Nether Vine in lamp oil and burned it until only a charred stump remained.
• Tang San cut through the stump, revealed a three-thousand-year Soul Ring, and began absorbing it.
• Tang San endured the Soul Ring's hallucinatory energy as it transformed his body and eyes.
• Tang San successfully absorbed the Second Soul Ring and discovered a purple-gold glow in his eyes and a faint purple halo in each pupil.
• Tang San identified the External Soul Bone as the Dreamlike Illusion Eyes and learned it granted Illusory Gaze and Soul Ring Disguise.
• Tang San realized Soul Ring Disguise could make his purple Second Soul Ring appear yellow, then prepared to inspect the Soul Skill it granted.

Tang San learned the abilities of his new Soul Skill, Dreamlike Illusion Realm, and tested the power of Illusory Gaze before searching Sunset Forest for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. After two fruitless months and a rise to Soul Power Level twenty-five, he left for Heaven Dou City to seek another way to find it.

• Tang San discovered that Dreamlike Illusion Realm boosted his attributes, caused hallucinations, replenished his vitality and granted Spiritual Detection.
• Tang San observed how the Illusory Dream Nether Vine Soul Ring had strengthened and changed his Blue Silver Grass.
• Tang San tested Illusory Gaze on a bird, making it lose its sense of direction and crash into a tree.
• Tang San searched deeper into Sunset Forest for Dugu Bo's poisonous miasma, the marker of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• After two months without finding the well and encountering increasingly powerful Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, Tang San abandoned the search and headed for Heaven Dou City.

Tang San arrived in Heaven Dou City, rested after months in Sunset Forest, and planned to use the Great Soul Arena to attract Dugu Yan’s attention and reach Dugu Bo. He registered under the name Cyberpunk and signed up for a one-on-one match that night.

• Tang San entered Heaven Dou City and slept until noon after checking into an inn.
• Tang San decided to seek Dugu Yan’s attention through strong performances at the Great Soul Arena so he could approach Dugu Bo about the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Tang San registered for Soul Fighting as Cyberpunk, reporting that he was eleven, level twenty-five, and had Blue Silver Grass as his Martial Soul.
• Tang San received an Iron Soul Badge and learned the Soul Fighting rules, including the option to bet on his own victories.
• Tang San signed up for a one-on-one match that night and explored the Great Soul Arena.

Tang San won his first Soul Fighting match at the Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena, then built an impressive record over two months with his strengthened Blue Silver Grass. After sixty matches, he stood one victory away from earning a Gold Soul Fighting Badge and recognized fire as his greatest weakness.

• Tang San defeated Zhao Meng in his first match by binding him with Blue Silver Grass that Zhao Meng could not cut or break.
• Tang San fought regularly at the arena over the next two months, using his resilient Blue Silver Grass to defeat most opponents.
• Tang San lost two matches to powerful fire-attribute Soul Masters because their flames burned his vines before they could reach them.
• Tang San concluded that Ice-Fire Body Tempering might give his Blue Silver Grass immunity to fire.
• Tang San finished sixty matches with fifty-eight wins, two losses, and 4,990 points, leaving him one win short of a Gold Soul Fighting Badge.