Chapter Summaries

Yan and You Chen fought a farewell duel as master and disciple, with You Chen testing Yan’s progress while exploiting his superior speed. Yan rallied after falling into a disadvantage, but the battle continued as You Chen activated his first soul skill.

• Yan fired magma shells from his newly created Fire God Cannon, but You Chen dodged them and criticized how obvious Yan’s movements were.
• Yan used the shells to prepare Yan Prison Cage, but You Chen accelerated with Force of Gale, forcing Yan to cancel the skill and waste Soul Power.
• You Chen rushed Yan with his dragon wings and repeatedly struck him, explaining how Yan’s failed plan had left him vulnerable to being worn down.
• Yan roared to create an opening and formed Yan Armor on his forearms, allowing him to withstand You Chen’s attacks and regain his footing.
• You Chen praised Yan’s response but activated his first soul ring rather than holding back.

You Chen and Yan sparred, and Yan gained the advantage with a timely defensive soul skill that launched his teacher into the air. You Chen declared Yan the winner because he had broken their agreed restrictions, then led him into their usual battle review.

• You Chen used Wind Wing Blade with Dragon Transformation Wings, but Yan raised a lava-soil barrier that knocked him into the air.
• Yan struck You Chen with Hell Lava Bullet, and You Chen emerged from the dust disheveled but still capable of fighting.
• You Chen awarded Yan the round after admitting he had used more power than their rules allowed.
• Yan felt uneasy about a victory he had not truly earned, but You Chen reprimanded him and pointed out flaws in his performance.
• You Chen and Yan reviewed the battle, continuing the habit that had strengthened Yan's combat thinking and helped him become a leader among the Spirit Hall Golden Generation.

You Chen explained that Yan’s main weakness was insufficient spiritual power and taught him how essence, soul power, and spiritual will supported martial-soul cultivation. He left Yan with a new training priority and warned him to keep the forbidden knowledge secret.

• You Chen identified Yan’s spiritual power as the foundation of his weak soul-power control and told him to reduce the time spent on daily control exercises.
• Yan recalled You Chen’s teaching that cultivation involved balancing essence, qi, and spirit.
• You Chen explained how the body, soul power, and spiritual will influenced Martial Soul Awakening and cultivation, drawing on examples including Huo Yuhao and body martial souls.
• You Chen revealed that Spirit Hall had sealed his book on the subject and warned Yan not to share its contents, even with his two childhood sweethearts.

You Chen explained Yan’s spiritual cultivation and warned that he needed stronger spiritual power before absorbing his fourth soul ring. He presented Yan with two options, revealing the first was to absorb a ten-thousand-year Head Soul Bone.

• You Chen told Yan that mastering the Distraction Control Soul Refining Art was essential for eventually using the Mobile Flying Cannon while moving.
• You Chen explained that Yan had reached the Two Hearts Realm after years of effort, while You Chen himself had reached the Four Hearts Realm.
• You Chen said Yan needed to reach the Spirit Sea Realm before absorbing his fourth soul ring, which was expected in one or two years.
• You Chen raised two fingers and introduced his first option: Yan could absorb a Head Soul Bone over ten thousand years old to break through to the Spirit Sea Realm.

You Chen offered Yan a choice between receiving a mismatched Ten Thousand Year Head Soul Bone and training alone in Death Canyon to strengthen his mental will; Yan chose the training, but You Chen told him to wait and consult him again before acting. The chapter then showed Bibi Dong hearing that Hu Liena had confronted You Chen again and revealed her conflicted respect for You Chen and her determination to preserve her idealized image of Yu Xiaogang.

• You Chen explained that the Ten Thousand Year Head Soul Bone would benefit Yan but would not suit his martial soul, then offered Death Canyon training as an alternative.
• Yan chose to train in Death Canyon, but You Chen warned him not to go until he had met with him again.
• Bibi Dong received a report that Hu Liena had gone looking for trouble with You Chen again.
• Bibi Dong acknowledged You Chen's extraordinary theoretical achievements while continuing to believe Yu Xiaogang's abilities had merely gone unrecognized.
• Bibi Dong clung to her memories of Yu Xiaogang because she viewed him and revenge as the supports keeping her alive.

Bibi Dong reflected on her tangled admiration and hatred for You Chen, then ordered him investigated after he rejected her recruitment and planned to leave Spirit City. The investigation found nothing suspicious, but You Chen had already achieved his goal, while one persistent observer continued searching for evidence against him.

• Bibi Dong recalled why she both valued You Chen's abilities and wanted to torment him, and admitted that she had prompted Hu Liena to harass him.
• Bibi Dong ordered her aide to investigate You Chen's former classmates and banquet, warning him to report any secret contact.
• The aide reported that the guests were old classmates and teachers and that nothing suspicious had been found, but Bibi Dong ordered the surveillance to continue.
• You Chen's banquet and outings with his former classmates lasted more than half a month and appeared completely ordinary to the Pope's Hall spies.
• Bibi Dong became too busy with her plans for revenge to keep watching You Chen, who had already accomplished his goal, while a persistent observer kept looking for evidence against him.

After completing thirteen missions, You Chen sorted the system’s rewards and decided which ones could help his growth and research. He valued the rare Flash of Inspiration and the Soul Shocking Tactic most, and continued studying the system-granted techniques.

• You Chen gave Ge Ruisi three Beginner Experience Pills, which raised her Soul Power by one level.
• You Chen found that abandoned missions carried no penalty but would not refresh until midnight the next day.
• You Chen classified the mission rewards into five categories, including pills, techniques, modern products, Soul Master attribute resources, and miscellaneous items.
• You Chen recognized that modern rewards such as a refrigerator and fan could be reverse-engineered into Soul Power-powered products and open new markets.
• You Chen decided Flash of Inspiration was his rarest and most valuable reward but kept it unused for now.
• You Chen focused on studying the system’s techniques and martial skills, especially the spiritual-type Soul Shocking Tactic, which suited his talent and was quick for him to cultivate.

You Chen assessed the cultivation arts and martial techniques he had obtained, deciding which ones suited his abilities and how much time they deserved. He prioritized the Soul Shocking Tactic and left the story with a clearer understanding of how self-created techniques differed from soul-ring skills.

• You Chen considered why Self-Created Soul Skills were rarely researched and noted that his new techniques had no martial-soul requirements.
• You Chen judged Cloud Movement Fist, Flying on Grass, and Five Qi Evil Art, deciding that Five Qi Evil Art would not remain useful without years of cultivation.
• You Chen chose to focus on the Soul Shocking Tactic, whose power had grown to rival a thousand-year soul skill through his practice.
• You Chen explained that soul-ring skills were constrained by their preset forms, while Self-Created Soul Skills could be strengthened more freely by investing additional Soul Power.

You Chen studied the Aura Concealment Art and prepared to leave Spirit City, while Yan set out to seek permission to enter Death Canyon. After Yan departed, You Chen reunited with Di Wan, a powerful friend whose bond with him had survived the fading gratitude of other Soul Masters he once helped.

• You Chen focused on the Aura Concealment Art, which could hide his aura, Soul Power, and eventually his Soul Rings when he released his martial soul.
• Yan told You Chen he had decided to enter Death Canyon, and You Chen gave him a Storage Bag while leaving the permit process to him.
• Yan thanked You Chen, bowed, and left to handle the preparations for entering Death Canyon.
• Di Wan revealed himself in You Chen's reception room and joked about becoming an outdated old fossil.
• You Chen reflected on how most Soul Masters he had once guided returned to Spirit Hall and gradually forgot his role in their success, while Di Wan remained a close friend.
• You Chen recognized Di Wan as an eighty-second-rank Battle Soul Master with the top-tier Eagle King martial soul, whom even Spirit Hall could not easily control.

Di Wan brought You Chen to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt for his fifth soul ring, and You Chen explained how his research into Martial Soul Evolution had shaped his choice of target. The chapter left him focused on finding a soul beast suited to his newly strengthened sacred power, as he described how attribute energy limits could trigger evolution.

• Di Wan flew You Chen into the Star Dou Great Forest and praised his chances of reaching Soul Sage, while You Chen corrected him about his age and teased him about his own progress.
• You Chen shifted the conversation to their soul hunt and explained that his sacred power had become his strongest attribute, so he needed to change his planned target.
• You Chen recalled researching how his Martial Soul's wind, stellar, and sacred energies affected Martial Soul Evolution, and said that evolution could result from increasing origin power through means beyond soul rings.
• You Chen described his findings about attribute energy limits and proportions, explaining that his Stardust Young Dragon Martial Soul had evolved when its wind power reached its limit.

You Chen applied his Perfect Evolution Ratio research to determine the Stardust Dragon’s next evolutionary target and selected a higher-age soul ring. Di Wan took him hunting, leaving You Chen’s plan poised to face its dangerous test.

• You Chen concluded that the Stardust Dragon’s wind and stellar powers needed to reach the boundary while its holy power remained secondary, and he narrowed its likely energy ratios to several possibilities.
• You Chen handed Di Wan a drawing of suitable soul beasts and requested a target aged at least twenty thousand years, preferably no more than twenty-five thousand.
• Di Wan questioned whether a soul beast of that age was safe, but You Chen said he was confident in his plan.
• Di Wan activated Eagle Eye Vision and searched for the listed soul beasts while flying at high speed.

You Chen and Di Wan found a suitable Wind Spirit leader in the Star Dou Great Forest, and Di Wan swiftly subdued it. You Chen began absorbing his fifth soul ring while Di Wan kept watch.

• Di Wan searched through the Star Dou Great Forest with You Chen for a soul beast that matched his exacting requirements.
• They found a Wind Spirit Colony, and You Chen chose its largest leader with a faint pink tint as his target.
• Di Wan used his sixth soul skill and additional soul power to pin down the Wind Spirit leader, causing the other Wind Spirits to flee.
• You Chen delivered the finishing blow and began absorbing his fifth soul ring.
• Di Wan rested nearby while watching over You Chen, who entered the process of creating a Self-Created Soul Skill.

You Chen absorbed a twenty-four-thousand-year Wind Spirit soul ring to create a wind-centered version of the Stardust Dragon’s Shooting Sonic. The fifth soul ring formed, and You Chen achieved his goal despite being unable to reproduce the technique in full.

• You Chen chose a Wind Spirit because its soul ring allowed unusually flexible soul-skill construction and could strengthen his control over wind.
• You Chen planned to use the ring to create a version of Shooting Sonic, combining his understanding of Sacrifice Sanctuary with the technique’s principles.
• You Chen absorbed the Wind Spirit’s soul ring and analyzed how wind, starlight, and holy power shaped the skill.
• The soul skill deviated from the original as the Wind Spirit’s wind-element power dominated the construction.
• You Chen opened his eyes twenty minutes later and confirmed that his fifth soul ring had formed.

After leaving the Star Dou Great Forest, You Chen parted ways with Di Wan and continued toward his destination while requesting Soul Master research data. Several days later, he encountered Xiao Wu on a country road in the Balak Kingdom.

• You Chen concealed his level 54 Soul Power from Di Wan and warned him to be cautious about discussing it.
• A sudden upheaval in the Star Dou Great Forest sent beasts fleeing, and Di Wan carried You Chen out of the forest.
• In the Balak Kingdom, You Chen asked Di Wan to collect data on Soul Masters who had used Whale Rubber and arrange for his head maid to deliver it.
• You Chen parted from Di Wan and entered a nearby city before continuing his journey.
• Several days later, You Chen warned Xiao Wu about bandits on the road, and she asked who he was.

You Chen found Xiao Wu and used a beating and a lecture to make her more wary of strangers. When he set off for Notting City, Xiao Wu realized they shared a destination and asked to travel with him.

• You Chen stopped Xiao Wu on the road, warned her about bandits, and struck her after she insulted him.
• Xiao Wu charged at You Chen but was easily defeated, then grudgingly accepted his lecture about being cautious.
• You Chen began to leave, and Xiao Wu decided to follow him because he seemed trustworthy and was heading somewhere remote.
• You Chen said he was traveling to Notting City, and Xiao Wu claimed it was her destination too and asked him for a ride.

You Chen received a mission to defeat Kendall, a former academy rival, for a chance to obtain the life-extending secret technique Longevity Secret. He weighed the reward against Kendall’s current status as a powerful Spirit Hall figure nearing the Soul Sage realm, leaving the mission’s danger unresolved.

• You Chen dismissed Xiao Wu as she asked what he was muttering about.
• You Chen reviewed the missions he had rejected and anticipated that better rewards would appear as his old timeline reached age twelve.
• The system offered You Chen three minutes to defeat Level 20 Soul Master Kendall, with Longevity Secret as an additional reward.
• You Chen recalled that he had been Level 14 when Kendall defeated him in the academy’s junior division final.
• You Chen recognized that Kendall had become a powerful Spirit Hall official and that targeting him could mean facing a Soul Sage.

You Chen gave up on the dangerous mission to obtain the Longevity Secret and decided to abandon missions that demanded too much risk or time without strengthening him. As he and Sister Xiao Wu traveled toward Notting City, he offered to arrange for her to attend school there.

• You Chen weighed the danger of targeting Kendall, a prospective Soul Sage, and decided the Longevity Secret mission was not worth pursuing.
• You Chen resolved to give up missions with excessive risks or long timelines unless they significantly improved his strength or potential.
• You Chen grilled fish for Sister Xiao Wu, who enjoyed the meal and felt comforted by his kindness.
• You Chen asked Sister Xiao Wu what she planned to do in Notting City, and she nervously tried to hide that she had no destination.
• You Chen offered to arrange for Sister Xiao Wu to attend school in Notting City.

You Chen teased Xiao Wu at their campsite before receiving a mission targeting Yu Xiaogang, who planned to use Bibi Dong’s influence against him. The mission offered rewards for either overpowering Yu Xiaogang through greater influence or defeating him with research, and You Chen was especially interested in its new “Glimpse of Origin” reward.

• You Chen insisted Xiao Wu call him Uncle and pretend to be his niece around outsiders, then gave her candy while he ate the grilled fish.
• After Xiao Wu fell asleep, You Chen stayed by the campfire until the system refreshed its missions.
• You Chen received a mission about Yu Xiaogang, who resented him for refuting the Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul and intended to enlist Bibi Dong’s help.
• The system listed rewards for using greater power and influence or publishing research that defeated Yu Xiaogang’s theories, including a hundred-thousand-year soul bone as the ultimate reward.
• You Chen considered why the mission’s rewards were so generous and recognized that “Glimpse of Origin” could deepen a soul master’s understanding and control of their martial soul.

You Chen and Xiao Wu reached Notting City, where You Chen reported to the local Spirit Hall branch and settled the arrangements for his new post. He revealed his ties to Spirit Hall to Xiao Wu and asked a White-robed Deacon to help enroll her in school.

• You Chen reviewed his missions and considered how he could fulfill their conditions involving Yu Xiaogang.
• After a week of travel, You Chen warned Xiao Wu not to use his name to cause trouble in Notting City and revealed that he had been driven there after offending an important figure.
• Xiao Wu froze when You Chen told her he belonged to Spirit Hall.
• At the Notting City Branch Hall, a White-robed Deacon explained You Chen's duties and gave him his Deacon token and uniform.
• You Chen told the White-robed Deacon that Xiao Wu was his niece and asked for help arranging her school enrollment.

After enrolling Xiao Wu in Notting City, You Chen brought her to a house and weighed how to use her connection with Tang San to hinder Tang San and Bibi Dong. He chose to let Xiao Wu form other friendships while keeping his own options open, and planned to wait for school to begin.

• Xiao Wu hid her grief over You Chen being a member of Spirit Hall while he led her to a residence in Notting City.
• You Chen reflected that Xiao Wu could influence Tang San and help delay his rise to godhood.
• You Chen rejected trying to control Xiao Wu because Tang Hao might discover her identity as a transformed spirit beast.
• You Chen decided to let Xiao Wu develop a connection with Tang San and help conceal her identity.
• You Chen planned to wait until Xiao Wu had formed new friendships before telling her that Bibi Dong had killed her mother.