Chapter Summaries

After Yang Ming died defending Shrek Academy in the Sun Moon Federation Era, his soul was carried into the past. In the Spirit Hall Era, Yang Wudi named his newborn grandson Yang Ming after Yang Ying died from injuries sustained while fleeing Spirit Hall.

• Yang Ming sacrificed his life to stop the God-Slaying Soul Guidance Cannon Shell and destroy many Holy Spirit Cult attackers, but Shrek Academy was destroyed.
• After the Clear Sky Sect abandoned the Four Great Clans, Spirit Hall hunted them, killing Yang Wudi's son and son-in-law and capturing Yang Wushuang.
• Yang Wudi carried the injured Yang Ying to a village, where she gave birth to a son and spoke her last words to him before dying.
• Two Spirit Hall Soul Kings entered the courtyard, and Yang Wudi killed them while protecting his grandson.
• Yang Wudi named the child Yang Ming.

On his sixth birthday, Yang Ming joined his clan’s memorial ceremony and vowed to uncover the truth behind his parents’ deaths and repay the Breaking Clan’s debts to the Clear Sky Sect and Spirit Hall. His powerful bearing inspired the clan, while Yang Wudi realized that Yang Ming’s oath might draw him into a dangerous conflict.

• Yang Ming practiced spear techniques before preparing for his sixth birthday and the Breaking Clan’s Memorial Day.
• Yang Wudi escorted Yang Ming to the Ancestral Hall, where the clan gathered to honor its dead.
• Yang Wudi’s killing intent overwhelmed the gathered clan members until Yang Ming reminded him to begin the ceremony.
• Yang Ming swore before the memorial tablets to make the Clear Sky Sect answer for its betrayal and settle the feud with Spirit Hall, though he remained unsure who was responsible for his parents’ deaths.
• Yang Wudi and the surviving elders sensed an invincible aura in Yang Ming and believed he was the clan’s hope.
• Yang Wudi rejoiced in Yang Ming’s promise and bearing, then grew worried about what the oath would mean for his grandson.

After the Breaking Clan’s memorial ceremony, Yang Wudi began the Spirit Awakening Ceremony for three children, and Yang Ming waited anxiously for his turn. The chapter ended as Yang Wudi activated the awakening array around Yang Ming.

• Yang Wudi began the Spirit Awakening Ceremony after the clan members departed the Ancestral Hall.
• Yang Lin awakened the Soul Breaking Spear and tested at level seven Innate Soul Power.
• The second child awakened the Soul Breaking Spear with level-six Innate Soul Power.
• Yang Ming stepped into the awakening array, told Yang Wudi he was ready, and began his Spirit Awakening Ceremony.

Yang Ming awakened the Heaven-Piercing spear as his Martial Soul and displayed Innate Full Soul Power, astonishing the Breaking Clan. Yang Wudi ordered the clan to keep the discovery secret, while Yang Ming began to sense his Martial Soul’s unusual connection to space.

• During the Spirit Awakening Ceremony, Yang Ming saw a vision of a golden-armored figure wielding the Heaven-Piercing spear against a world-ending purple and green force.
• Yang Ming awakened the Heaven-Piercing spear, which appeared in his hand just as it had in the vision.
• Yang Ming tested his Soul Power and lit the crystal with the brilliance of Innate Full Soul Power.
• Yang Wudi ordered everyone present to keep Yang Ming’s Martial Soul secret and dismissed the clan members.
• After the others left, Yang Ming summoned the spear again and told Yang Wudi that it heightened his sensitivity to space and held another power he could not yet use.

Yang Ming studied Spirit Ring selection and proposed a new development path for the Soul Breaking Spear, arguing that talented clan members should prioritize varied utility over early attack skills. As Yang Wudi took him to the Star Dou Great Forest for his First Soul Ring, he listened to Yang Ming’s unconventional reasoning in silence.

• Yang Wudi gave Yang Ming the Star Dou Soul Beast Compendium and Secrets of the Soul Breaking, then told him to choose suitable Soul Beasts for his First Soul Ring.
• Yang Ming studied both books and instinctively devised an optimized Spirit Ring plan for the Atlas Spear and the Soul Breaking Spear.
• Yang Wudi and Yang Ming left the Breaking Clan residence by carriage for the Star Dou Great Forest, and Yang Wudi tested Yang Ming’s preparations.
• Yang Ming named the Bewildering Trace Beast and Ethereal Python as First Soul Ring candidates, despite their usual association with Space Element support skills.
• Yang Ming criticized the clan’s standard Spirit Ring allocation, arguing that talented Soul Breaking Spear users should use early rings for support, status, and defense rather than more attack power.
• Yang Wudi listened as Yang Ming explained that each of a Soul Master’s limited soul skill slots should provide valuable combat options.

Yang Ming and Yang Wudi refined the Breaking Clan’s Spirit Ring plan, then Yang Wudi gave Yang Ming his parents’ rings and began recounting their past. He explained how Yang Ming’s parents met, but left their deaths and the events of the great war for later.

• Yang Ming persuaded Yang Wudi to revise the Breaking Clan’s inherited Spirit Ring order and explained his plans for his own First Soul Ring.
• Yang Wudi agreed that Yang Ming should seek Bewildering Trace Beasts or Ethereal Pythons for his Atlas Spear.
• Yang Wudi gave Yang Ming his parents’ Storage Soul Tools, the rings called Phoenix Seeking Phoenix.
• Yang Ming asked about his parents’ past and deaths, and Yang Wudi began telling him what happened nine years earlier.
• Yang Wudi recounted how Yang Ming’s mother met his father in Heaven Dou City when his father intervened against a wastrel harassing her.
• Yang Wudi said Yang Ming’s parents fell in love and married, then began describing the great war that followed.

Yang Ming learned that Gu Li had killed his parents and promised Yang Wudi to put his safety before revenge. They entered the Star Dou Great Forest to search for a suitable Soul Beast, where Yang Wudi began teaching him the Breaking Clan’s Meditation Method.

• Yang Ming grieved over his mother’s final words and asked Yang Wudi who had killed his parents and what Tang Hao had done during the war.
• Yang Wudi identified Gu Li, the Deputy Head of the Hall of Papal Knights, as the killer and warned Yang Ming not to seek revenge before he could protect himself and the clan.
• Yang Ming promised to prioritize his safety while pursuing the truth, and Yang Wudi agreed to trust him.
• Yang Ming and Yang Wudi traveled through Soul Hunting Town and entered the Star Dou Great Forest the next morning.
• Yang Ming fought low-level Soul Beasts as Yang Wudi taught him about the forest’s creatures and poisonous plants, but they found none of the Soul Beasts Yang Ming wanted.
• After setting up camp for the night, Yang Wudi began teaching Yang Ming the Breaking Clan’s Meditation Method.

Yang Wudi taught Yang Ming the Breaking Clan’s Breaking Soul Meditation Method, but Yang Ming’s instincts led him to develop a different cultivation route. The new method produced higher-quality Soul Power, and Yang Wudi let him continue cautiously after learning he could not use it himself.

• Yang Wudi explained the importance of Meditation Methods and taught Yang Ming the Breaking Clan’s secret method.
• Yang Ming began meditating, sensed the clan method did not suit him, and instinctively followed a different route that increased his blood and vitality while producing higher-quality Soul Power.
• Yang Wudi noticed Yang Ming’s aura transform into one of Absolute Dominance and anxiously waited for him to stop.
• Yang Wudi scolded Yang Ming for changing the method, then listened as Yang Ming explained what he had sensed.
• Yang Wudi could not cultivate Yang Ming’s new method himself, so he allowed Yang Ming to practice it while warning him to be careful.

Yang Ming and Yang Wudi continued searching the Star Dou Great Forest for a suitable first Spirit Ring, and Yang Ming demonstrated the power of his Absolute Dominance technique. They encountered a nearly six-hundred-year-old Void God Leopard, whose space abilities could suit Yang Ming’s Atlas Spear, but its age exceeded the accepted limit for a first ring, leaving Yang Ming uncertain whether to absorb it.

• Yang Ming defeated an Ironclad Bear with a spear strike that harmed its spirit, impressing Yang Wudi.
• Yang Wudi explained that the Ironclad Bear's paws made a prized, nourishing meal, which Yang Ming needed to replenish energy spent cultivating Absolute Dominance.
• A black leopard used Voidification to resist Yang Ming's spear and rush toward the roasting bear paw, but Yang Wudi suppressed it with his Soul Power.
• Yang Ming and Yang Wudi identified the Soul Beast as a Void God Leopard, a rare king among leopards with Space Rending and Voidification abilities.
• Yang Wudi estimated the Void God Leopard was nearly six hundred years old, and Yang Ming hesitated over absorbing a first Spirit Ring beyond the accepted four-hundred-and-twenty-three-year limit.

Yang Ming chose to absorb the nearly six-hundred-year-old Void God Leopard’s Spirit Ring, trusting the Atlas Spear’s hidden power to overcome its energy. After the spear protected him and defeated the leopard’s Remnant Soul, Yang Ming’s successful absorption left him on the verge of a breakthrough.

• Yang Ming asked Yang Wudi to let him absorb the Void God Leopard’s Spirit Ring, and Yang Wudi reluctantly agreed.
• Yang Ming killed the restrained Void God Leopard with the Atlas Spear and began absorbing its Spirit Ring.
• The Spirit Ring’s immense Soul Power overwhelmed Yang Ming, causing his body to swell and bleed as Yang Wudi feared for his life.
• The Atlas Spear’s White Incandescent Flame burned the hostile energy into purer Soul Power, stabilizing Yang Ming and confirming his bet had worked.
• The Void God Leopard’s Remnant Soul attacked, but Yang Ming used the Atlas Spear to destroy it, and silver energy marked the spear with patterns resembling the leopard’s Void Origin Pattern.
• The Atlas Spear finished absorbing the Spirit Ring, and Yang Ming heard a cracking sound that signaled a breakthrough.

Yang Ming successfully absorbed the Void God Leopard's nearly six-hundred-year Spirit Ring and gained the First Soul Skill Source of Void. While traveling through the Star Dou Great Forest with Yang Wudi, he used it to kill a Soft Bone Rabbit and revealed that it wielded powerful spatial Origin.

• Yang Ming finished absorbing the Void God Leopard's Spirit Ring, and Yang Wudi reminded him to keep his Soul Skills secret.
• Yang Ming summoned the Atlas Spear and noticed a Void Pattern, but he and Yang Wudi could not determine what it did.
• Yang Wudi led Yang Ming toward the Mixed Zone of the Star Dou Great Forest, where Yang Ming fought Soul Beasts to prepare for cultivating Absolute Dominance.
• Yang Ming cornered a two-thousand-year Soft Bone Rabbit and used his First Soul Skill to evade its attack before killing it with his spear.
• Yang Ming told Yang Wudi that his First Soul Skill was Source of Void, which evolved the Void God Leopard's abilities through its spatial Origin.

After hunting Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest, Yang Ming returned home and visited his parents’ spirit tablets, telling them about his training and promising to avenge their deaths. He remained determined to find Tang Hao and uncover the truth behind the Clear Sky Sect’s abandonment of the Four Great Clans.

• Yang Ming and Yang Wudi spent three days hunting in the Star Dou Great Forest and brought back Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast meat and Soft Bone Rabbits.
• Yang Wudi and Yang Ming returned to Soul Hunting Town, cleaned up, and traveled by carriage to the Breaking Clan residence in Silver River City.
• A clan elder summoned Yang Wudi to handle clan affairs, while Yang Ming went to the Ancestral Hall and offered a Soft Bone Rabbit to his parents.
• Yang Ming told his parents about his Spirit Ring, his training, and the lessons his mother had left for him, then vowed to avenge them.
• Yang Ming said he would find Tang Hao and discover who masterminded the Clear Sky Sect’s abandonment of the Four Great Clans.

Yang Ming began attending the Breaking Clan’s Clan School, where his exceptional spear skills astonished the teacher and students. When Yang Yi challenged Yang Ming to prove his superiority, Yang Ming accepted the match.

• Yang Wudi told Yang Ming to start attending the Clan School to learn Soul Master knowledge and Pharmaceutical Arts.
• Yang Ming arrived at the school and was welcomed by Yang Hong and the students, including Yang Lin, whom Yang Hong had been disciplining.
• During spear practice, Yang Ming performed every technique flawlessly, leading Yang Hong to say he had nothing left to teach him.
• Yang Yi objected to Yang Ming practicing independently and demanded a spear match to test his skill.
• Yang Ming calmly accepted Yang Yi’s challenge.

Yang Ming defeated Yang Yi in a spear-technique duel and explained the flaws in Yang Yi’s moves as they fought. Yang Yi admitted he was inferior and left the Clan School, while Yang Ming taunted him as being worse than Yang Lin.

• Yang Hong presided over the duel and reminded Yang Ming and Yang Yi to stop before anyone was seriously hurt.
• Yang Ming broke Yang Yi’s opening Thrusting Spear Technique with a precise counter and explained how Yang Yi’s stance failed to suit his body.
• Yang Yi attacked with a Chopping Spear Technique, but Yang Ming dodged and knocked him down with a faster chop.
• Yang Yi launched a series of spear techniques, and Yang Ming countered each one while giving him advice until Yang Yi’s fighting spirit faded.
• Yang Ming knocked Yang Yi’s spear away, and Yang Yi admitted defeat and started to leave.
• Yang Ming called Yang Yi nothing special for surrendering and told him he was not even as good as Yang Lin.

Yang Ming restored Yang Yi’s confidence by provoking him into refusing to be worse than Yang Lin, and the morning spearwork class ended with another instructional spar. In Soul Master Theory class, Lin Ye used Yu Xiaogang’s “Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul” as a negative example and explained its errors.

• Yang Ming compared Yang Yi unfavorably to Yang Lin, reigniting Yang Yi’s competitive spirit and helping him recover from his defeat.
• Yang Yi realized Yang Ming had provoked him to help him, but refused to thank him and resolved to prove himself in other subjects.
• Yang Ming and Yang Yi completed another instructional spear spar before the morning’s spearwork class ended.
• Lin Ye introduced Yu Xiaogang’s book during Soul Master Theory class, prompting Yang Lin and Yang Yi to question the Great Master’s low cultivation and reputation.
• Lin Ye told the students that the book contained many loopholes and used it as a negative example, then explained its errors and limitations.

After a demanding day of lessons and training, Yang Ming discovered that physical exhaustion had increased his cultivation speed. Six years later, he helped Yang Yi and Yang Hong capture a Mystic Spirit Python so Yang Yi could absorb its Purple Soul Ring.

• Yang Ming competed against Yang Yi during physical training and won their challenges, then struggled through a smoother Absolute Dominance cultivation session that increased his Soul Power accumulation by ten percent.
• Yang Ming concluded that his unusually intense exercise had boosted his cultivation, and he rested to recover his Spiritual Power.
• Six years later, Yang Ming pinned a wounded Mystic Spirit Python with his spear while Yang Hong attacked it and Yang Yi prepared to absorb its Spirit Ring.
• Yang Yi killed the nearly unconscious Mystic Spirit Python, and Yang Ming accepted Yang Hong's praise for preventing it from escaping.

Six years later, Yang Ming was a level-thirty-five Soul Elder when he accompanied Yang Hong and Yang Yi to the Star Dou Great Forest. There, he encountered Zhu Zhuqing fleeing Zhu Zhuyun and her guards, and appeared before them after one guard shot at him.

• Yang Ming joined Yang Hong and Yang Yi in the Star Dou Great Forest while Yang Yi absorbed a Spirit Ring.
• Yang Ming went to investigate approaching sounds so they would not disturb Yang Yi.
• A wounded Zhu Zhuqing tried to escape Zhu Zhuyun and three guards, but they caught up and blocked her path.
• Zhu Zhuyun told Zhu Zhuqing to return with her, and Zhu Zhuqing refused.
• A guard spotted Yang Ming and shot an arrow at him, but Yang Ming dodged it and stepped out before the Zhu Family group.

Yang Ming intervened when Zhu Zhuyun attacked Zhu Zhuqing and used his Royal Power spear art to defeat the Zhu Family’s strongest guard. Zhu Zhuyun had gone after Zhu Zhuqing while Yang Ming fought the guards, leaving Zhu Zhuqing’s fight unresolved.

• Yang Ming revealed himself in a mask and said he had come to investigate the commotion, then decided to stop Zhu Zhuyun from harming Zhu Zhuqing and disturbing Yang Yi’s Spirit Ring absorption.
• Zhu Zhuyun ordered three guards to attack Yang Ming and rushed toward Zhu Zhuqing.
• The Raging Flame Rhinoceros Soul Ancestor charged Yang Ming with his Exploding Flame Peak skill, but Yang Ming met the attack with Royal Power.
• Yang Ming shattered the guard’s rhinoceros horn and knocked him unconscious, while realizing that the spear art consumed thirty percent of his Soul Power and still felt sluggish.

Yang Ming defeated Zhu Zhuyun’s guards and demanded that she give him Zhu Zhuqing. Zhu Zhuyun withdrew, leaving the wounded Zhu Zhuqing alone with Yang Ming, who turned to face her.

• Yang Ming split an arrow with his Atlas Spear, and Zhu Zhuyun realized he had concealed his Spirit Rings.
• Zhu Zhuyun halted her guards and tried to negotiate with Yang Ming.
• Yang Ming declared that he wanted Zhu Zhuqing and would defeat everyone to take her if Zhu Zhuyun refused.
• Zhu Zhuyun agreed to entrust Zhu Zhuqing to Yang Ming and left with her guards.
• Zhu Zhuqing tried to flee but collapsed from weakness caused by her bleeding waist wound.

Yang Ming rescued Zhu Zhuqing, treated her wounds, and realized that Zhu Zhuyun had staged their apparent confrontation to help her sister escape. Zhu Zhuyun returned to Star Luo City after ordering her subordinates to keep the incident secret, while Yang Ming carried Zhu Zhuqing toward Yang Yi.

• Yang Ming caught the badly injured Zhu Zhuqing, subdued her when she resisted treatment, and stopped her bleeding.
• Yang Ming moved Zhu Zhuqing into a tree, treated and bandaged her wounds, and drove away nearby Soul Beasts with his aura.
• Yang Ming inferred that Zhu Zhuyun had sent Zhu Zhuqing away to free her from the Star Luo royal family's struggle, then dressed her in a black robe and carried her toward Yang Yi.
• Zhu Zhuyun learned from A Tai that Zhu Zhuqing was safe and ordered him to keep the rescue secret.
• Zhu Zhuyun's guards reported that Captain Lin was severely injured but alive, and she ordered everyone to return to Star Luo City without discussing Zhu Zhuqing's escape.