Chapter Summaries

At Nuoding City’s Spirit Awakening ceremony, Lin Xi awakened a Silver Needle Spirit and Level 2 Soul Power, then faced Suo Tuo’s mockery and harassment. As she stood up to him, her God-Tier Choice System activated and offered a path to transform her Spirit and power; the chapter ended with Lin Xi telling Suo Tuo, “Too noisy.”

• Lin Xi awakened a Silver Needle Spirit and tested at Level 2 Innate Soul Power, drawing ridicule from the students and teacher.
• Xiao Wu comforted Lin Xi, while Tang San reassured her and recognized that an inconspicuous Spirit could still be dangerous.
• Suo Tuo insulted Lin Xi and Tang San, boasted about his Clawed Wolf Spirit and Level 6 Soul Power, and tried to intimidate them.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu prepared to defend Lin Xi, but Lin Xi stopped Tang San and stepped forward herself.
• Lin Xi’s God-Tier Choice System activated and presented three options, with the third promising a god-tier Spirit, Level 20 Soul Power, a cultivation technique, and a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Suo Tuo began making lewd demands, and Lin Xi stared him down and said, “Too noisy.”

Lin Xi’s silver needle evolved into the Mysterious Sky Soul Suppressing Needle as her Soul Power rose to Level 20, and she revealed a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring in the awakening plaza. After defeating Suo Tuo with one flick, she left the stunned crowd and invited Tang San and Xiao Wu to eat.

• Lin Xi chose to evolve her martial soul, gained God-Bestowed Full Soul Power at Level 20, and awakened the Mysterious Sky Soul Suppressing Needle.
• Suo Tuo attacked Lin Xi with his wolf claw, but Lin Xi flicked him away with a silver Soul Power needle and knocked him unconscious.
• Tang San recognized the needle’s resemblance to a Tang Sect hidden weapon, while Xiao Wu and the other onlookers stared in shock.
• Lin Xi revealed a red Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, overwhelming the plaza with its pressure and terrifying Suo Tuo when he regained consciousness.
• Lin Xi withdrew her martial soul and Soul Ring, then walked over to Tang San and Xiao Wu and suggested they go eat.

After awakening with a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, Lin Xi examined her god-grade abilities and learned that Yu Xiaogang had arrived in Nuoding City. The system tasked her with publicly disproving his Martial Soul theory within three days, leaving her determined to confront him.

• At the dining hall, Xiao Wu asked about Lin Xi’s red Soul Ring, and Lin Xi claimed her special Martial Soul had awakened with it; Xiao Wu declared herself Lin Xi’s follower while Tang San grew curious about her secrets.
• In her dormitory, Lin Xi inspected her system panel and learned about her god-grade Martial Soul and cultivation method, Level 20 Soul Power, and powerful control and healing skills.
• The system announced that Yu Xiaogang had arrived in Nuoding City and that Lin Xi’s awakening had shaken his Ten Core Competencies theory.
• The system issued Lin Xi a three-day quest to publicly expose fatal flaws in Yu Xiaogang’s theory and present a more comprehensive one, threatening to strip her powers if she failed.
• Lin Xi resolved to use her knowledge and her own extraordinary abilities to challenge Yu Xiaogang.

Lin Xi ignored Yu Xiaogang’s request to meet and told him to wait, making him come to her instead. Yu Xiaogang, desperate to verify the rumors about her Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, set out for her dormitory.

• Students kept their distance from Lin Xi, Tang San, and Xiao Wu after Suo Tuo left the academy.
• A teacher told Lin Xi that Yu Xiaogang had arrived to meet her, but Lin Xi walked away with Tang San and Xiao Wu.
• When the teacher blocked their path, Lin Xi told him to make Yu Xiaogang wait.
• Yu Xiaogang learned that Lin Xi had refused to come and ordered the Dean to take him to her dormitory.
• Yu Xiaogang headed to Lin Xi’s dormitory, desperate to see whether the rumors were true.

Yu Xiaogang visited the girls’ dormitory to ask Lin Xi how she had gained a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, then offered to take her as his disciple. Lin Xi rejected him and announced that she would expose the flaws in his theories at a public class the next day.

• Yu Xiaogang asked Lin Xi whether her Soul Ring was a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, and she confirmed it.
• Yu Xiaogang pressed Lin Xi to explain how she had obtained the ring, then offered to teach her as his disciple.
• Lin Xi asked Yu Xiaogang whether he was worthy, and he vomited blood and fainted.
• Lin Xi told Tang San and Xiao Wu that Yu Xiaogang’s theories were wrong from the foundation and promised to explain why at the next public class.
• The system announced that Lin Xi had completed ten percent of the mission “The Disruptor of Theory.”

Lin Xi challenged Yu Xiaogang to a public debate over Spirit Theory, drawing the entire Nuoding Academy to watch. Yu Xiaogang presented his claim that there were no useless martial souls, and Lin Xi opened her rebuttal by asking about his own martial soul.

• News of Lin Xi's proposed debate with Yu Xiaogang spread through Nuoding Academy, and the Dean failed to dissuade her from holding it publicly.
• Yu Xiaogang accepted the challenge, and Lin Xi asked that the debate take place in the academy's largest lecture hall so everyone could attend.
• Xiao Wu and Tang San worried Lin Xi might lose, but she assured them that no one could defeat her in the field where she excelled.
• The next day, nearly the entire academy gathered in the Central Lecture Hall, where Yu Xiaogang and Lin Xi took their seats and the Dean opened the debate.
• Yu Xiaogang argued that no martial souls were useless and that effort and proper cultivation could make any Soul Master powerful.
• Lin Xi asked Yu Xiaogang what his own martial soul was, prompting an ugly expression from him.

Lin Xi challenged Yu Xiaogang’s theory by arguing that Martial Soul quality and bloodline set a Soul Master’s potential. She used Tang San’s hidden Blue Silver Emperor bloodline as evidence, leaving Yu Xiaogang devastated and questioning his life’s work.

• Lin Xi forced Yu Xiaogang to admit that his mutated Martial Soul, Luo Sanpao, could never break through Rank 30.
• Lin Xi declared that Martial Soul quality determined a Soul Master’s limits and criticized Yu Xiaogang’s theory as fundamentally wrong.
• Lin Xi called Tang San forward and asked him to reveal his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul.
• Lin Xi touched Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass with Soul Power, temporarily revealing its Blue Silver Emperor form and astonishing the lecture hall.
• Lin Xi explained Tang San’s Innate Full Soul Power through his Blue Silver Emperor bloodline and concluded that ordinary Blue Silver Grass could be limited by its quality.
• Yu Xiaogang spat blood, collapsed into his chair, and muttered that his theory had been wrong from the beginning.

Lin Xi presented her Spirit Ring Energy Leap Theory, arguing that Martial Soul quality, Spiritual Power, and energy-guiding methods allowed Soul Masters to absorb rings beyond Yu Xiaogang’s supposed limits. The lecture hall questioned Yu Xiaogang’s theories as he listened in fascination and then spat blood from shame.

• Lin Xi introduced Spirit Ring Energy Leap Theory and challenged Yu Xiaogang’s claim that ring age limits depended on bodily endurance.
• Lin Xi revealed her Hundred Thousand Year First Soul Ring and explained that Martial Soul quality, Spiritual Power, and energy conversion affected what rings a Soul Master could absorb.
• Lin Xi concluded that even a Ten Thousand Year or Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring could be a First Soul Ring for a sufficiently capable Soul Master.
• The audience erupted in disbelief, and many students and teachers began doubting Yu Xiaogang’s teachings.
• Yu Xiaogang listened eagerly to Lin Xi’s explanation, then spat blood as shame overwhelmed him.

Lin Xi left Yu Xiaogang mentally shattered after publicly dismantling his theories, then calmly defended her actions as correcting a decades-old error. As she departed Nuoding Academy with Tang San and Xiao Wu, the Dean learned that Yu Xiaogang’s Sea of Consciousness had nearly collapsed and feared the powerful forces behind him would retaliate.

• Yu Xiaogang vomited blood and collapsed after Lin Xi dismantled his theories, while teachers rushed to get him medical help.
• A teacher blamed Lin Xi for Yu Xiaogang’s condition, but Xiao Wu and Tang San defended her and challenged the accusation.
• Lin Xi said truth did not require tact and that she had corrected an enormous error, then left the lecture hall with Tang San and Xiao Wu.
• Students watched Lin Xi leave and began questioning their faith in Yu Xiaogang, while the Dean foresaw a continent-wide ideological upheaval.
• A Healing System Soul Master told the Dean that Yu Xiaogang’s physical injuries were minor but his Sea of Consciousness had nearly collapsed.
• The Dean feared Yu Xiaogang’s powerful allies, especially the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, might turn Lin Xi into the cause of a catastrophe.

Back in the dormitory, Lin Xi guided Tang San through the implications of his awakened Blue Silver Emperor while keeping her own knowledge mysterious. She received powerful quest rewards and decided to absorb her new spirit ring later in a way that would strengthen her reputation and protect the peaceful life around her.

• Xiao Wu enthusiastically praised Lin Xi for defeating the teachers and upsetting Master, while Tang San silently pondered the Blue Silver Emperor awakening.
• Lin Xi told Tang San that his martial soul was the Blue Silver Emperor and advised him to seek immense life energy rather than obsess over its origins.
• Lin Xi warned Tang San that an ordinary Mandala Snake was unworthy of his First Soul Ring and promised to take him to a better opportunity when the time came.
• Tang San was shocked when Lin Xi mentioned his Mysterious Heaven Skill, and Lin Xi ended the discussion by saying they both had secrets.
• Lin Xi completed the main quest and received 1,000 Subversion Points, access to the System Mall, a lucky draw, and a thirty-thousand-year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear Second Spirit Ring.
• Lin Xi decided not to absorb the ring in the dormitory and planned to make a public display of her new power to establish her status as a new god.

Lin Xi’s theories divided Nuoding City’s Soul Master world, while Yu Xiaogang’s shattered beliefs gave way to a desperate hunger for truth. He left the infirmary barefoot, determined to find Lin Xi and take her as his master.

• Lin Xi’s refutation of Yu Xiaogang’s theories spread through Nuoding City and split its Soul Masters into opposing factions.
• Healing experts found Yu Xiaogang’s body unharmed but his Sea of Consciousness shattered, and the Dean watched over him in the academy ward.
• Yu Xiaogang used Lin Xi’s theories to reconsider his own mutation and the mysteries surrounding Liu Erlong, Flender, and Tang San.
• Yu Xiaogang’s desire to learn the truth overcame his despair, and he decided to seek Lin Xi’s guidance and take her as his master.
• Yu Xiaogang shoved past the Dean and rushed out of the infirmary barefoot to find Lin Xi.

Yu Xiaogang arrived at the dormitory and knelt before Lin Xi, begging her to accept him as a disciple so he could learn the truth about martial souls. Lin Xi agreed to take him as a registered disciple under strict conditions, and he followed her as she left with Tang San and Xiao Wu.

• Yu Xiaogang rushed out to block Lin Xi, Tang San, and Xiao Wu on their way to the dormitory.
• Yu Xiaogang knelt before Lin Xi and begged her to accept him as her disciple.
• Lin Xi agreed to accept Yu Xiaogang as a registered disciple, provided he followed her rules and kept her theories secret.
• Yu Xiaogang accepted Lin Xi's conditions and followed three paces behind her as she left with Tang San and Xiao Wu.

Lin Xi absorbed a God-Bestowed Second Spirit Ring, gaining a Ten Thousand Year ring and reaching the peak of level twenty-two. After Yu Xiaogang recognized his Spirit Ring Energy Leap Theory as true, Lin Xi told Tang San they would go to the Soul Hunting Forest the next day to obtain his First Spirit Ring.

• Lin Xi led Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Yu Xiaogang to the secluded rear mountain training grounds and told them to stand a hundred meters away.
• Lin Xi claimed her mission reward, and a divine storm appeared as a thirty-thousand-year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear Spirit Ring descended upon her.
• Lin Xi used the Supreme Forgetfulness Record and Mysterious Sky Soul Suppressing Needle to suppress the Spirit Ring's energy and remnant soul, raising her Soul Power to the peak of level twenty-two.
• Lin Xi revealed her red Hundred-Thousand-Year First Spirit Ring and black Ten Thousand Year Second Spirit Ring, leaving Xiao Wu and Tang San stunned and Yu Xiaogang ecstatic.
• Lin Xi told Tang San that his Mysterious Heaven Skill had reached a bottleneck and his Soul Power was nearing level ten, then ordered him to go with her to the Soul Hunting Forest the next day.

On the way back to the dormitory, Lin Xi made Yu Xiaogang her disciple, and he eagerly embraced the role of spreading her theories. Tang San prepared for their trip to the Soul Hunting Forest the next day, while Yu Xiaogang waited outside to witness Lin Xi’s next breakthrough.

• Xiao Wu asked Lin Xi whether she had really taken Yu Xiaogang as her disciple, and Lin Xi called him a useful loudspeaker.
• Yu Xiaogang interpreted Lin Xi’s words as a mission to spread her theories and declared his admiration for her.
• Lin Xi told Tang San to recover and be in peak condition for the trip to the Soul Hunting Forest the next day.
• Yu Xiaogang advised Tang San on choosing a First Soul Ring, but Tang San told him to leave so he could rest.
• Yu Xiaogang accepted Tang San’s rebuke and waited outside the dormitory until dawn to watch Lin Xi.
• Tang San practiced the Mysterious Heaven Skill, anticipating that the trip would change his life.

Lin Xi took Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Yu Xiaogang to Soul Hunting Forest to seek Tang San’s first soul ring, silencing Yu Xiaogang’s attempts to show off his outdated knowledge along the way. At the entrance, she stopped Young Master Xiao’s attack and forced him to his knees with her overwhelming pressure.

• Lin Xi led Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Yu Xiaogang out of Nuoding Academy toward Soul Hunting Forest, while Yu Xiaogang followed her after waiting all night.
• On the journey, Lin Xi told Yu Xiaogang to stop displaying his outdated knowledge and to observe and learn instead.
• Yu Xiaogang used his Spirit Hall consultant token to get the group through the forest entrance without paying the fee.
• Young Master Xiao rode up and lashed his whip at Yu Xiaogang, but Lin Xi stopped it with an invisible force.
• Young Master Xiao attacked Lin Xi with his Nether Wolf Claw, and she crushed his martial soul’s presence and forced him to kneel.

Lin Xi overwhelmed Xiao Chen with her Spiritual Power at the entrance to Soul Hunting Forest, forcing him and his companions to flee. After the Spirit Hall knight reported her as a suspected God-Tier threat, Lin Xi entered the forest with Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Yu Xiaogang and offered to teach Tang San.

• Lin Xi used a glance to shatter Xiao Chen's martial soul projection and force him to kneel in terror.
• Lin Xi ordered Xiao Chen to leave, and he and his companions fled back toward Nuoding City.
• The Spirit Hall knight asked whether Lin Xi had crippled Xiao Chen, and she said she had only taught him a lesson before entering the forest.
• The knight ordered a report to Spirit City, describing Lin Xi as an unknown entity with suspected God-Tier Spiritual Power and a provisional Titled Douluo-level threat.
• Inside the forest, Tang San asked Lin Xi why her Spiritual Power was so powerful, and she offered to teach him.

Lin Xi offered to teach Tang San the Great Void Visualization Chart, then led the group to a clearing and summoned a powerful spirit beast to test him. As a two-thousand-year Violent Vajra Ape attacked, Tang San faced it alone, determined to prove himself worthy to stand beside Lin Xi.

• Lin Xi explained that the Purple Demon Eye lacked offensive power and promised to teach Tang San the Great Void Visualization Chart after they left the Soul Hunting Forest.
• Yu Xiaogang asked to learn the technique, but Lin Xi told him he was unworthy.
• Lin Xi led Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Yu Xiaogang beyond the forest's safe outskirts to a clearing beneath a massive ancient tree.
• Lin Xi struck the tree with Soul Power, provoking a two-thousand-year Violent Vajra Ape to descend and attack the group.
• Lin Xi told Tang San that his real opponent was himself and ordered him to face the ape as a trial.
• Tang San dodged the ape's first punch with Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track and launched Sleeve Arrows at it.

Tang San fought the Violent Vajra Ape under Lin Xi’s supervision and nearly died before she intervened. Lin Xi killed the beast and transformed its power into a thousand-year wood-attribute spirit ring, which she offered to Tang San to absorb.

• Tang San’s hidden weapons failed to pierce the Violent Vajra Ape, and he struggled to dodge its attacks while Lin Xi criticized his technique.
• Taking Lin Xi’s advice to heart, Tang San found an opening and attempted to strike the beast’s foot with a Dragon Beard Needle.
• The Violent Vajra Ape tried to crush Tang San, but Lin Xi stopped it with her gravity-control spirit skill and forced it to kneel.
• Lin Xi used her Mysterious Sky Soul Suppressing Needle to change the beast’s violent power into gentle, life-filled wood-attribute Soul Power.
• The transformed power formed a thousand-year spirit ring, and Lin Xi presented it to Tang San as her first gift.

Lin Xi created a custom soul ring with reversed attributes and offered it to Tang San, who accepted it and began absorbing its life energy. The grass cocoon around him burst open, revealing a new yellow soul ring, while the full results of his transformation remained unclear.

• Lin Xi's custom soul ring stunned Tang San and left Yu Xiaogang reeling at the apparent violation of the world's laws.
• Xiao Wu feared Lin Xi had become someone unfamiliar, but Lin Xi reassured her with a familiar touch.
• Tang San thanked Lin Xi, accepted the soul ring, and sat down to absorb it.
• The soul ring's life energy awakened Tang San's Blue Silver Grass, which wrapped him in a glowing cocoon.
• The cocoon cracked and exploded, and Tang San rose as a new yellow soul ring appeared beneath his feet.

Tang San broke through to the second stage of the Mysterious Heaven Skill and gained a thousand-year Soul Ring with a Soul Skill that could drain life or restore it. Lin Xi told him his path as a Soul Master had only just begun, then led the group back from the forest.

• Tang San awakened with heightened senses, a transformed body, and the second-stage Mysterious Heaven Skill.
• Yu Xiaogang celebrated Tang San’s thousand-year Soul Ring and admitted his theories had been wrong.
• Tang San used his first Soul Skill to drain the Violent Vajra Ape’s corpse and absorb its life energy.
• At Lin Xi’s instruction, Tang San reversed the Soul Skill and healed the corpse with the stored energy.
• Lin Xi told Tang San that his Blue Silver Emperor had limitless potential and that an ordinary Mandala Snake was not worthy of nourishing it.
• Lin Xi started back toward the forest’s edge, and Tang San realized his life would remain bound to hers.