Chapter Summaries

Xu Changqing awakened two defective martial souls but possessed Innate Full Soul Power, then accidentally distributed a Nightmare Difficulty Servant System to someone on Douluo Continent. Su Yuntao’s reaction to Xu’s awakening remained unknown.

• Su Yuntao awakened the children of Notting City one by one, with most receiving ordinary martial souls and little or no Soul Power.
• Xu Changqing awakened the Five Dragon Lyre and Dragon Scale Spear, learning that each could have at most five Soul Rings.
• Xu Changqing tested at Innate Full Soul Power, astonishing both himself and Su Yuntao.
• The Master-Servant System bound itself to Xu Changqing and offered him a chance to distribute a Servant System.
• When Xu Changqing failed to choose, the system automatically distributed a Nightmare Difficulty Servant System to an unknown person on Douluo Continent.

Xu Changqing revealed that his Five Dragon Lyre was incomplete and learned that this flaw would likely keep him out of Spirit City, so he asked Su Yuntao for a work-study certificate to Notting Academy. Meanwhile, Tang San arrived in Notting City and became bound to the Supreme God King Cultivation System.

• Su Yuntao invited Xu Changqing to cultivate in Spirit City after seeing his Innate Full Soul Power.
• Xu Changqing told Su Yuntao that his incomplete Martial Soul limited him to five Soul Rings and level fifty-nine.
• Xu Changqing manifested the Five Dragon Lyre, showing its two missing strings, and Su Yuntao said he likely had no chance of entering Spirit City.
• Xu Changqing asked Su Yuntao to help him obtain a work-study certificate for Notting Academy.
• Tang San entered Notting City with an old man, and the Supreme God King Cultivation System bound itself to him.

Tang San received a mysterious system that assigned dangerous weekly tasks, then arrived at Notting Junior Soul Master Academy with Village Chief Old Jack. Xu Changqing also reached the academy and recognized Tang San in a confrontation with the gatekeeper, choosing not to intervene.

• Tang San examined the system's weekly tasks, considered their rewards and penalties, and decided to seek information at Notting Junior Soul Master Academy.
• Village Chief Old Jack called Tang San to leave for the academy after asking for directions.
• Su Yuntao had given Xu Changqing new clothes, supplies, and Gold Soul Coins, and Xu Changqing resolved to repay his kindness.
• At Notting Academy's gate, the gatekeeper insulted Tang San and Village Chief Old Jack and threw down Tang San's work-study certificate.
• Tang San struck the gatekeeper with one palm, and Xu Changqing recognized him and the raised Silent Sleeve Arrow but decided not to interfere.

Xu Changqing entered Notting Junior Soul Master Academy, where he met Yu Xiaogang and Xiao Wu. After registering with Xiao Wu’s help, he headed with her toward the Seventh Dorm.

• Yu Xiaogang verified Xu Changqing’s work-study certificate and discovered that he had Innate Full Soul Power.
• Xu Changqing declined Yu Xiaogang’s offer to escort him and went into the academy alone.
• Xiao Wu startled Xu Changqing, introduced herself, and offered to take him to the Academic Affairs Office.
• Xu Changqing registered as a student, received two academy uniforms, and was assigned to the Seventh Dorm.
• Xu Changqing and Xiao Wu asked for directions as they walked toward the dormitory building.

Xiao Wu and Xu Changqing arrived at Seventh Dorm, where Xiao Wu defeated Wang Sheng’s ambush and became the dormitory boss. When Xiao Wu lacked bedding and money, Xu Changqing offered her a loan, but she mistook his refusal to share a bed for dislike.

• Xu Changqing warned Xiao Wu to be careful as she opened Seventh Dorm’s door, where Wang Sheng’s fist came flying at her.
• Xiao Wu dodged Wang Sheng’s punch, kicked him into the dormitory, and accepted his offer to become the new dorm boss.
• Xu Changqing chose a quiet bed by the window and declined Xiao Wu’s invitation to spar.
• Xiao Wu discovered she had no bedding or money, and the other students offered her their old blankets.
• Xu Changqing offered to lend Xiao Wu money for bedding, but she asked whether he disliked sharing a bed with her.

Xiao Wu insisted that Xu Changqing share a bed with her, while Tang San arrived at the Seventh Dorm and defeated Wang Sheng in a fight. Tang San’s victory completed a System task, giving Xu Changqing a five-year Soul Ring age increase reward that he found unusable for now.

• Xiao Wu accused Xu Changqing of disliking her, then ordered Wang Sheng and the others to push their beds together after he gave in.
• Tang San entered the Seventh Dorm, and Xiao Wu challenged him to prove his Martial Soul strength under the dorm’s rules.
• Tang San declined to fight Xiao Wu and chose Wang Sheng as his opponent instead.
• Tang San used the Mysterious Heaven Skill to catch Wang Sheng’s punch and throw him onto the floor, completing his System task.
• Xu Changqing received a five-year Soul Ring age increase reward through his System and discovered it waiting in the System Space.

Tang San used his System rewards and met Xu Changqing to relay Yu Xiaogang’s offer of discipleship. Xu Changqing declined indirectly by revealing that his incomplete Five Dragon Lyre Martial Soul capped his cultivation at Soul Emperor, and Tang San left to report it to his teacher.

• Tang San examined his System Space and rewards, then declined to fight Xiao Wu or compete for the Seventh Dorm boss position.
• Tang San asked for Xu Changqing, who was secretly reviewing his Main System and regretting that he had issued a Nightmare-level Sub-system.
• Tang San told Xu Changqing that Yu Xiaogang wanted to take him as a disciple and praised Yu Xiaogang’s theoretical knowledge.
• Xu Changqing explained that two strings were missing from his Five Dragon Lyre Martial Soul and that he could never advance beyond Soul Emperor.
• Tang San left to tell Yu Xiaogang about Xu Changqing’s condition, while Xu Changqing dismissed the prospect of studying under him.

Xu Changqing considered how his incomplete Five Dragon Lyre could develop into a summoning-type martial soul, then sought help obtaining his first Soul Ring. He went to the Notting City Martial Soul Branch Hall to ask Su Yuntao for assistance.

• Wang Sheng and the other students learned Xu Changqing had Innate Full Soul Power, and Xiao Wu challenged him to spar before he explained that he could not fight.
• Tang San returned to the dormitory, then lost a spar with Xiao Wu after letting his guard down.
• A teacher assigned Xu Changqing and the other new work-study students to clean the Southern Garden, and Xu Changqing asked about getting a Soul Ring.
• Xu Changqing decided against relying on the academy or Yu Xiaogang and chose to ask Su Yuntao for help.
• Xu Changqing reached the Martial Soul Branch Hall and saw Su Yuntao speaking with a woman he suspected was Si Si.

Xu Changqing used a clever story to help Su Yuntao reconcile with Si Si, then persuaded them to help him hunt his first Soul Ring. The next morning, Xu Changqing and Tang San set out for Soul Hunting Forest.

• Xu Changqing arrived as Si Si confronted Su Yuntao about his hidden money and accused him of planning to visit the pleasure district.
• Xu Changqing charmed Si Si and claimed Su Yuntao had saved the money to buy her favorite cosmetics, using the pouch Su Yuntao had given him to support the story.
• Su Yuntao and Si Si reconciled, and Xu Changqing asked Su Yuntao to help him find a Soul Beast for his first Soul Ring.
• After learning about Xu Changqing's Innate Full Soul Power and his Martial Soul's flaws, Si Si insisted on helping, and she and Su Yuntao agreed to leave the next day.
• Xu Changqing told Xiao Wu to tend the garden and handle academy chores, then left for Soul Hunting Forest with Tang San.

Xu Changqing traveled with Su Yuntao and Si Si into the Soul Hunting Forest to search for a suitable soul beast. Outside the forest, Tang San killed two soul masters to complete System tasks and collected his rewards.

• Xu Changqing reunited with Su Yuntao and Si Si, then rode with them to the market outside the Soul Hunting Forest.
• Su Yuntao opened the forest gate with his Spirit Hall Token, and the three entered the forest to seek a metallic soul beast around four hundred years old for Xu Changqing.
• Si Si taught Xu Changqing to stay vigilant as Su Yuntao led the group deeper into the forest.
• Tang San left Yu Xiaogang's carriage and followed two soul masters into the woods, intending to hunt them for his System tasks.
• Tang San killed the middle-aged man with a Silent Sleeve Arrow and stabbed the woman with a dagger, completing two weekly tasks and receiving their rewards.

Xu Changqing received system rewards that gave him hope of repairing his Martial Soul, then traveled with Su Yuntao and Si Si to an iron vein in the Soul Hunting Forest to search for a suitable metal-element Soul Beast. They spotted a Golden-Backed Dragon Lizard that was too young, so the group continued deeper into the forest.

• Xu Changqing received a 100,000-Year Soul Bone Set fragment and a reward that could increase a Soul Ring's age by ten years.
• Su Yuntao warned Xu Changqing and Si Si that the central region contained more Soul Beasts over a hundred years old, and the three proceeded cautiously.
• Si Si suggested searching near mineral veins, and Su Yuntao led the group toward an iron vein where metal-element Soul Beasts might live.
• After resting, the three followed the vein deeper into the forest and spotted a Golden-Backed Dragon Lizard with about 320 years of cultivation.
• Su Yuntao judged the Golden-Backed Dragon Lizard too young for Xu Changqing and led the group around it to continue searching.

Xu Changqing, Su Yuntao, and Si Si found a Golden-Backed Dragon Lizard of the right age, and Su Yuntao and Si Si weakened it with coordinated attacks. Xu Changqing killed it safely, leaving the way clear for him to obtain his first Soul Ring.

• Su Yuntao spotted a four-hundred-year Golden-Backed Dragon Lizard, and the group followed it into the woods.
• Su Yuntao distracted the beast while Si Si wounded and pinned it with her spear, then the two attacked it together.
• Si Si warned Xu Changqing to wait until the injured soul beast could no longer fight back and taught him how to judge its condition.
• Su Yuntao restrained the Golden-Backed Dragon Lizard and told Xu Changqing to stab its eye.
• Xu Changqing drove his dagger into the beast's eye and twisted it to ensure it was dead.

Xu Changqing absorbed his first Century Soul Ring from the Golden-Backed Dragon Lizard, broke through to Soul Power level 10, and gained the Golden Dragon · Skywalk Pierce skill. After escaping the dangerous area with Su Yuntao and Si Si, he began to explain the skill to Si Si as they settled in for the night.

• Xu Changqing absorbed the Golden-Backed Dragon Lizard's Soul Ring while Su Yuntao and Si Si guarded him.
• Xu Changqing completed the absorption, awakened the engraved Golden Dragon on his Five Dragon Lyre, and broke through the level 10 Soul Power bottleneck.
• Si Si and Su Yuntao checked on Xu Changqing and noticed that his body had grown stronger and slightly taller.
• The three hurried away from the bloodied area and found a defensible place to spend the night.
• Xu Changqing told Si Si that his First Soul Skill was Golden Dragon · Skywalk Pierce, which summoned a metal-element Divine Dragon, and offered to demonstrate it.

Xu Changqing tested his first Soul Skill, Golden Dragon · Skywalk Pierce, and stunned Si Si and Su Yuntao with its destructive power. He learned its limits and revealed that he had reached Soul Power Level 13, while Si Si reflected on the flaw in his martial soul.

• Si Si urged Xu Changqing to demonstrate his first Soul Skill after he said it could summon a metal-element Divine Dragon.
• Xu Changqing summoned a Golden Divine Dragon and showed that it could regenerate from damage and ram a deep crater into an ancient tree.
• Xu Changqing commanded the dragon to use Heavenly Walk Rupture, which blasted through the tree and carved a pit in the ground before the dragon vanished.
• Su Yuntao and Si Si were stunned by the skill's power, and Si Si asked about its limits and Xu Changqing's Soul Power.
• Xu Changqing explained that the dragon lasted one minute unless it used its ultimate attack, and that summoning it consumed about a fifth of his Soul Power; he also revealed he was Level 13.
• Si Si praised his Soul Skill but lamented that his martial soul had a flaw.

Xu Changqing revealed his Dragon Scale Spear Martial Soul to Si Si and Su Yuntao, who accepted him as family and promised to teach him spear techniques. The next morning, he tested his Golden Divine Dragon soul skill in flight and ran into Tang San and an unconscious Yu Xiaogang.

• Xu Changqing asked Si Si to teach him spear techniques and revealed his second Martial Soul, the incomplete Dragon Scale Spear.
• Si Si advised Xu Changqing to keep his secrets from others, accepted him as her younger brother, and promised to teach him spear techniques.
• Xu Changqing, Si Si, and Su Yuntao discovered that the Dragon Scale Spear was limited to five Soul Rings, like his Five Dragon Lyre.
• The next morning, Xu Changqing rode his Golden Divine Dragon through the forest, though the soul skill consumed enough Soul Power to last only five minutes.
• Xu Changqing met Tang San beside the unconscious Yu Xiaogang and explained that the Golden Divine Dragon was his First Soul Skill, not a Soul Beast.
• Tang San warned that something was coming, and Su Yuntao and Si Si emerged from the forest.

After Tang San and Xu Changqing returned to Notting Academy, Xu Changqing learned that Xiao Wu and the work-study students were fighting older students on the back hill. He arrived on his Golden Divine Dragon Soul Skill and agreed to help Xiao Wu, but refused to call her Sister Xiao Wu.

• Su Yuntao found Tang San and the poisoned Yu Xiaogang in the forest, then escorted them back to Notting Academy with Xu Changqing.
• At Seventh Dorm, two older students mocked the work-study students for challenging Boss Xiao, and Xu Changqing realized they had gone to fight on the back hill.
• Xu Changqing summoned his Golden Divine Dragon and flew to the back hill while Tang San headed to the Martial Soul Branch Hall to register as a Soul Master.
• Xu Changqing arrived as Wang Sheng was knocked down by an older student, and the fighters stopped to stare at him and his Golden Dragon.
• Xiao Wu asked Xu Changqing to help her defeat Boss Xiao, and Xu Changqing agreed on the condition that he would not call her Sister Xiao Wu.

Xu Changqing defeated Xiao Chenyu's group without a fight and turned down their offer to become the academy boss, naming Xiao Wu instead. He then took Xiao Wu flying on his Golden Dragon, leaving them excitedly climbing toward the sky as his Soul Power ran low.

• Xu Changqing summoned his Golden Dragon and challenged Boss Xiao's group, but Xiao Chenyu surrendered and declared him the new boss of Notting Academy.
• Xu Changqing refused the title and suggested Xiao Wu; Xiao Chenyu's group accepted her after she revealed her martial soul and Soul Ring.
• Xiao Wu asked Xu Changqing to take her flying, and he warned that his Golden Dragon could last only a few minutes.
• When Xu Changqing tried to leave, Xiao Wu grabbed the dragon's tail and climbed onto its back behind him.
• Xu Changqing used the Golden Dragon's sudden stops and bursts of speed to thrill Xiao Wu, then pointed it upward and flew higher with her.

Xu Changqing and Xiao Wu registered as Soul Masters, then Xu began spear training with Si Si Jie. While learning how to apply force, he realized the Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique built on common weapon fundamentals and began considering how he might develop a spear-based combat system.

• Xu Changqing took Xiao Wu on a Golden Dragon flight, then negotiated with her about what they would call each other and when he might take her flying again.
• Xu Changqing and Xiao Wu registered at the Notting City Martial Soul Branch Hall with Si Si Jie's help and qualified for monthly Soul Master subsidies.
• Xu Changqing went to Si Si Jie's home to begin the spear training they had arranged for the next six years.
• Si Si taught Xu Changqing spear grips, stances, and thrusting, prompting him to notice similarities between her force-application method and the Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique.
• Xu Changqing realized that the Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique developed common principles into a complete combat system and considered eventually adapting that idea to his spear.
• Si Si warned Xu Changqing to avoid getting close to the Clear Sky Sect, and he promised before they continued training into the evening.

Xu Changqing trained and studied at Notting Academy while saving his Soul Ring rewards for later. A Red-Grade System punishment forced Tang San to fart whenever he breathed for a week, earning him the nickname Fart God and driving him to avoid classes.

• Xu Changqing meditated after dinner, then woke to find Xiao Wu sprawled across him in bed.
• Tang San shouted that he was an idiot in the cafeteria, and Xu Changqing received a reward for completing a White Level Task.
• Xu Changqing studied martial-soul and soul-beast books, saved his Soul Ring reward beads, and continued spear training with Si Si Jie.
• Tang San received a weeklong punishment that made him fart whenever he breathed, keeping the Seventh Dorm awake all night.
• Wang Sheng and the other students moved their beds away from Tang San and secretly dubbed him the Fart God.
• Tang San decided to skip classes for the week and seek lessons from his teacher instead.

Tang San received the System’s new weekly tasks and learned that his father had left him a warning-filled letter, while Xu Changqing and Xiao Wu began their vacation at Si Si Jie’s home. The story left Xu Changqing waiting for Si Si Jie to return from a Soul Hunting Forest mission.

• Tang San received weekly System tasks ranging from running naked to killing a Titled Douluo, and he swore to take revenge on the System for its punishments.
• A year later, Xu Changqing and Xiao Wu packed up for vacation and headed to Si Si Jie’s home to spend the New Year.
• Tang San read Tang Hao’s letter, which warned him about Spirit Hall’s Enforcement Team, advised him to approach Xiao Wu, and said Tang Hao was leaving to reclaim something.
• Xu Changqing and Xiao Wu arrived at Si Si Jie’s home and found Su Yuntao, who explained that Si Si Jie was on a Soul Hunting Forest mission and might return in three or four days.