Chapter Summaries

Six-year-old Quan Yi trained by swimming every day, hoping to improve his chances of awakening Soul Power by strengthening his body. After explaining his theory to Su Ling'er, he gained her support and committed himself to making his own future.

• Quan Yi completed his morning swim, continuing the exercise regimen he had begun at age two.
• Quan Yi recalled how his research led him to suspect that physical quality could affect Martial Souls and Innate Soul Power.
• Quan Yi asked Su Ling'er to help him train, explaining that he had only four years before awakening Soul Power.
• Su Ling'er questioned his unproven theory but was moved by Quan Yi's determination and promised to support him.
• That night, Quan Yi wrote seriously at his desk, resolved not to betray his mother's trust.

Quan Yue learned about Quan Yi’s training ambitions and agreed to support them, including acquiring Soul Beast Meat. After the Quan Family built a swimming pool and prepared preserved meat, Quan Yi began his training.

• Su Ling'er told Quan Yue about Quan Yi’s plans, and Quan Yue decided to give his son his full support.
• Quan Yue told Quan Yi that the family had begun building a swimming pool and would let him pursue his training plan.
• Quan Yi presented his plan, which called for swimming, adequate sleep, and meals rich in Fire-attribute and Metal-attribute Soul Beast Meat.
• Quan Yue agreed to buy Soul Beast Meat from hunters returning from the Soul Hunting Forest.
• The Quan Family completed the swimming pool and prepared the first delivery of Soul Beast Meat as cured meat, and Quan Yi began training.

Over four years, Quan Yi trained relentlessly, strengthened his body with swimming and Soul Beast Meat, and studied Martial Souls while waiting for his awakening. On Martial Soul Awakening Day, he arrived at the Martial Soul Sub-Hall with his parents, and the ceremony began.

• Quan Yi learned to swim and used intense training, Soul Beast Meat, and rest to steadily improve his physical strength.
• Quan Yi studied Martial Souls, Soul Beasts, and Soul Rings, growing more eager to become a Spirit Master.
• At six years old, Quan Yi could swim ten thousand meters a day and completed his morning training before the awakening ceremony.
• Su Ling'er served Quan Yi a lavish breakfast, and Quan Yue told him the carriage was ready to take them to the Martial Soul Sub-Hall.
• Quan Yi and his parents arrived at the Martial Soul Sub-Hall, where the children gathered and the Martial Soul Awakening Ceremony began.

Quan Yi awakened a powerful Gauntlet martial soul and Innate Full Soul Power at the Martial Soul Awakening Ceremony. After his family celebrated his achievement at a banquet, Quan Yi felt a stronger sense of belonging to the Quan Family.

• Quan Yi entered the awakening array and manifested a black Gauntlet marked with dark red flame patterns and sun emblems.
• Quan Yi placed his hand on the testing crystal, which shone brilliantly and revealed his Innate Full Soul Power.
• Quan Yue and Su Ling'er celebrated Quan Yi's awakening, and the family left Spirit Hall together.
• Quan Yue hosted a banquet at the Quan Family Territory, where the clan celebrated Quan Yi's achievement.
• Su Ling'er explained that Quan Yue had arranged the banquet to help Quan Yi meet the clansmen, and Quan Yi joined in the celebration.

Quan Yi explored the changes in his body from Soul Power and followed his parents to the Quan Family’s secret Basement to examine his Martial Soul. Su Ling'er recognized that he could freely control its flames without a Soul Ring, identifying it as a legendary Top-Grade Fire-Attribute Martial Soul.

• Quan Yi swam for a long time, sensed that Soul Power had greatly increased his stamina, and resolved to grow stronger.
• Quan Yi ate several plates of Soul Beast Meat for breakfast, and Quan Yue and Su Ling'er took him to inspect his Martial Soul.
• Quan Yue showed Quan Yi the Quan Family’s hidden Basement, which served as a Simulated Cultivation Environment, armory, refuge, and escape route.
• Quan Yi summoned his Black Iron Gauntlets Martial Soul and used Soul Power to produce and freely shape its flames.
• Su Ling'er declared that Quan Yi’s ability to control fire before gaining a Soul Ring proved he had a Top-Grade Fire-Attribute Martial Soul.

Quan Yi discovered that his Martial Soul granted him control over fire and complete immunity to its heat. After Quan Yue examined the gauntlets, Quan Yi also found that his hands moved with unusual nimbleness, and he recognized the ability as Left-Right Mutual Combat.

• Quan Yi told Su Ling'er that he could not feel the heat of flames while his Martial Soul was summoned.
• Su Ling'er tested Quan Yi with increasingly hot flames, and he held the fireball without being burned.
• Su Ling'er identified Quan Yi's talent as Fire Immunity and praised his fire control and Innate Full Soul Power.
• Quan Yue examined Quan Yi's gauntlets and noted that they were hard, light, and flexible.
• Quan Yi focused on his hands, discovered their independent nimble movements, and recognized Left-Right Mutual Combat.

Quan Yue explained how Quan Yi’s Gauntlets Martial Soul granted him Dual-Mindedness, and Quan Yi named it the Blazing Sun Gauntlets and chose the Power Attack System. He then declared that he wanted a First Soul Ring over five hundred years old, far beyond the recorded limit.

• Quan Yue explained that the Gauntlets Martial Soul’s dexterity let Quan Yi fight with both hands independently, a trait called Dual-Mindedness.
• Quan Yue and Su Ling'er urged Quan Yi to understand his Martial Soul so he could choose suitable Soul Rings.
• Quan Yi named his Martial Soul the Blazing Sun Gauntlets and chose the Power Attack System.
• Quan Yi said he wanted a Fire-attribute Soul Beast with strength attributes for his First Soul Ring and valued its physical enhancements as well as its skill.
• Quan Yi declared that he wanted to absorb a Soul Ring over five hundred years old, surpassing the recorded First Soul Ring limit of four hundred and twenty-three years.

Quan Yi persuaded Quan Yue to let him pursue a five-hundred-year Soul Ring, provided he mastered two boxing styles and obtained the ring without his parents' help. He began planning his cultivation and started learning meditation and the Quan Family boxing techniques, questioning the crude nature of the world's Soul Power training.

• Quan Yue agreed to Quan Yi's proposal but required him to master two boxing techniques within two months and obtain his Soul Ring without parental intervention, or settle for a four-hundred-year ring.
• Quan Yi accepted the conditions, opened the heavy basement door with his physical strength alone, and returned to his room to select suitable Soul Beasts and plan his training.
• Su Ling'er questioned Quan Yue's decision, and he explained that Quan Yi was determined to act and that he could only prepare him with experience and skills.
• Quan Yi completed his cultivation plan, then swam to make up for the exercise he had missed.
• The next morning, Quan Yue taught Quan Yi the basics of meditation, and Quan Yi sensed his body's meridians while wondering whether the method resembled Internal Power cultivation.

Quan Yi began learning the Quan Family’s Hard and Sharp techniques and overcame their demanding soul-power control requirements through relentless practice. He mastered both techniques in twenty-eight days, far sooner than Quan Yue expected.

• Quan Yi reasoned that few spirit masters studied cultivation methods because talent and social circumstances discouraged them from seeking improvement.
• Quan Yi sensed a possible bottleneck during meditation, then told Quan Yue he was ready to learn fist techniques.
• Quan Yue taught Quan Yi Hard, which formed a protective soul-power membrane over the hands, and Sharp, which formed penetrating spikes.
• Quan Yi struggled to control soul power outside his body, but trained in the basement and gave up sleep to practice.
• After a week, Quan Yi could maintain soul power over his skin, and Quan Yue realized his progress surpassed expectations.
• Quan Yi mastered Gang in the second week and Jian on the twenty-eighth day, then told Quan Yue he had completed both techniques.

After passing Quan Yue’s test early, Quan Yi spent the remaining month learning the Quan Family Fist Technique and preparing for his first soul-ring hunt. On the eve of the hunt, he finished training and accepted that the outcome was now beyond his control.

• Quan Yi passed Quan Yue’s test in less than a month, then chose to use the extra time to learn more of the fist technique before hunting for a soul ring.
• Quan Yue explained that Quan Li had created Steel and Sharpness and that the Quan Family Fist Technique had evolved from shield-and-spear techniques.
• Quan Yue taught Quan Yi the basic attacking and defensive stances, and Quan Yi practiced them under his strict supervision.
• Over the next month, Quan Yi steadily improved his form, reducing the time for a perfect sequence from thirty minutes to ten by the fiftieth day.
• On the eve of the hunt, Quan Yi completed his training, reflected that he had done all he could, and headed to the Dining Hall for meat.

Quan Yi ventured deeper into Bokeno Forest in search of a suitable Soul Beast and found a five-hundred-year Exploding Rhino. He approached it openly to face it, while Quan Yue restrained Su Ling'er from intervening.

• Quan Yi decided to explore deeper into Bokeno Forest because the Soul Beasts he had found so far were too young or unsuitable.
• Quan Yue and Su Ling'er continued following Quan Yi, and Quan Yue reassured her that they could protect him.
• Quan Yi took a shield and spear from the Blazing Sun Heart and followed a stream farther into the forest.
• Quan Yi spotted an Exploding Rhino with five age rings on its horn and assessed its strength and dangerous explosive attack.
• Quan Yi walked into the open and confronted the Exploding Rhino, prompting Su Ling'er to prepare to rush in before Quan Yue stopped her.

Quan Yi defeated an Exploding Rhino by exploiting its impaired senses and attacking its eye, then confronted the weight of taking its life. With Quan Yue and Su Ling’er guarding him, he began absorbing the beast’s Soul Ring and endured the dangerous surge of Soul Power.

• Quan Yi used an explosive Flame Spear and Flame Shield to disorient the Exploding Rhino, then struck its reopened right eye with condensed Soul Power and killed it.
• Quan Yi reflected on the danger of the fight and the weight of life, closed the Exploding Rhino’s eyes, and asked Quan Yue and Su Ling’er to stand guard.
• Quan Yi recovered his Soul Power, summoned the Blazing Sun Gauntlets, and drew the Exploding Rhino’s Soul Ring onto them.
• Quan Yi endured the Soul Ring’s violent influx of Soul Power through his physical strength and willpower, and after two hours the power gradually calmed.

Quan Yi gained his first Soul Ring, a five-hundred-year Exploding Rhino ring, and discovered that his First Soul Skill could place a controllable explosive mark on a target. After returning home, he agreed to attend the Junior Soul Master Academy affiliated with Blazing Fire Academy when it opened.

• Quan Yi woke after absorbing the Soul Ring, and Quan Yue warned him and Su Ling'er to keep its true age secret.
• Su Ling'er burned the Exploding Rhino's remains to ashes, and Quan Yi demonstrated how Rhino's Mark exploded from inside a tree.
• Quan Yi explained the skill's contact requirement, fifty-meter control range, and automatic detonation when a marked target went farther away.
• Quan Yue cautioned Quan Yi to use Rhino's Mark only against enemies, and the family returned home to celebrate.
• Quan Yue told Quan Yi that the family planned to send him to Blazing Fire Academy's affiliated Junior Soul Master Academy, and Quan Yi agreed.

Quan Yi prepared to leave home for Blazing Fire Junior Soul Master Academy, trained intensively, and traveled with Su Ling'er to the city. The chapter ended as they arrived at the Main Spirit Hall, where Quan Yi planned to undergo an Advancement Appraisal before entering the academy.

• Quan Yi accepted the opportunity to study at Blazing Fire Junior Soul Master Academy and began a new training regimen while preparing to leave.
• Three weeks later, Quan Yue bade Quan Yi farewell, and Su Ling'er accompanied him on the journey to the city.
• During the week-long trip, Su Ling'er explained the academy’s classes, curriculum, and library to Quan Yi.
• Quan Yi and Su Ling'er arrived in the city, and Quan Yi decided to visit Spirit Hall for an Advancement Appraisal.
• Quan Yi saw the magnificent Main Spirit Hall in the city center and recognized Spirit Hall’s great wealth.

Quan Yi passed his Spirit Hall advancement appraisal, received his Soul Master Handbook, and enrolled at the Primary Academy. After saying goodbye to Su Ling'er, he settled into his dormitory and read the academy guidebook as he prepared for the term to begin.

• Quan Yi impressed Li Yun with his Level 15 soul power and four-hundred-year Exploding Rhino soul ring, passed his appraisal, and received a Soul Master Handbook.
• Quan Yi and Su Ling'er traveled to the Primary Academy, where staff welcomed him as a genius and gave him a dormitory key and Academy Guidebook.
• Quan Yi said goodbye to Su Ling'er and entered the academy on his own.
• Quan Yi cleaned and furnished his single dormitory, then read about the academy's schedules and upcoming freshman activities.

Quan Yi settled into a demanding training routine at the academy and questioned how Soul Power transformed the body and limited Soul Masters. After meditating through the night and completing his morning workout, he went to the Dining Hall and chose its second-floor buffet.

• Quan Yi read the academy guide, then trained at the nearby Training Ground, practicing fist techniques with Steel and Sharpness.
• After exhausting himself, Quan Yi recovered through breathing and painful stretches, then reflected on Soul Power, Soul Rings, and the difference between Soul Masters and Soul Beasts.
• Quan Yi replenished himself with Soul Beast Meat, returned to his Dormitory, and experimented with Soul Power circulation during meditation.
• At dawn, Quan Yi ran on the Training Ground and headed to the Dining Hall for breakfast.
• Quan Yi left the crowded first-floor cafeteria and chose the second-floor buffet.

Quan Yi met Huo Wu in the Dining Hall, where his unusual eating habits made her laugh and draw the attention of the academy. After finishing breakfast, he went to the Library and found a copy of Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul.

• Quan Yi noticed Huo Wu while choosing a quiet seat in the Dining Hall and began eating rice with Soul Beast Meat from a jar stored in the Blazing Sun Heart.
• Huo Wu sensed a special fluctuation from Quan Yi, mistook his jar for a rare Storage Soul Tool, and burst out laughing at the way he chewed his food.
• Huo Wu fled the Dining Hall in embarrassment, and students began calling her the “Red-Haired Laughing Girl.”
• Quan Yi finished two platters of food and a small jar of Soul Beast Meat, then headed to the academy's Library.
• Quan Yi found Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul tucked in a corner of a bookshelf and began reading it.

Quan Yi read Yu Xiaogang’s theories on martial souls and reflected on how mutation and physical training had shaped his own awakening. After borrowing the book from Zhang Ming, he asked where he could buy a copy, and Zhang Ming reacted with surprise at his interest in Yu Xiaogang.

• Quan Yi read Yu Xiaogang’s theory that Innate Soul Power corresponded to martial soul quality and considered the limits of the author’s research.
• Quan Yi realized that martial soul mutation, his parents’ mutated martial souls, and the energy he had gained through training and Soul Beast Meat had contributed to his powerful awakening.
• Quan Yi studied Yu Xiaogang’s theories on Martial Soul Mimicry and Martial Soul Heterogeneous Fusion, reasoning that soul rings and martial souls could interact when their energies were compatible.
• Quan Yi went to the Library desk and asked to borrow the book, and Zhang Ming explained the registration process and recorded Quan Yi’s information.
• Quan Yi asked Zhang Ming where he could buy a new copy, and Zhang Ming reacted with surprise that he wanted Yu Xiaogang’s book.

Quan Yi learned that Yu Xiaogang’s theories remained unproven and resolved to keep questioning accepted knowledge, then completed his grueling workout. At lunch, a rude upper-year student confronted him over his sweaty clothes.

• Zhang Ming explained why Yu Xiaogang was called Invincible in Theory and warned Quan Yi not to test his dangerous theories.
• Quan Yi insisted on buying Yu Xiaogang’s works, then suspected Spirit Hall had gathered the data behind the research.
• Quan Yi reminded himself to resist intellectual laziness and keep questioning the world’s assumptions.
• Quan Yi completed twenty sets of Burpees and pull-ups before stretching and heading to the Dining Hall.
• Students stared at Quan Yi’s sweat-soaked shirt as he went upstairs to eat.
• A wealthy-looking upper-year student insulted Quan Yi and demanded that he eat downstairs.

Quan Yi challenged Sun Jie after Sun Jie provoked him, and the students gathered outside the Dining Hall to watch. Sun Jie framed his earlier insult as a well-meaning reminder and won over the crowd, leaving Quan Yi at a disadvantage before the duel began.

• Quan Yi introduced himself as a rank fifteen Tool Soul Master and challenged Sun Jie, who accepted and led him outside the Dining Hall.
• Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang arrived at the Dining Hall, where Huo Wu recognized Quan Yi and learned that Sun Jie was a rank nineteen Beast Soul Master.
• Huo Wushuang explained that Sun Jie had the advantage because of his higher Soul Power and Beast Martial Soul.
• Sun Jie told the gathered students that he had only reminded Quan Yi to wear proper clothes because his shirt was still wet with sweat.
• Sun Jie offered a seemingly sincere apology, turning most of the crowd against Quan Yi before the fight.