Chapter Summaries

Luo Chen learned that Xiao Ying possessed the rare Shadow Divine Cat Bloodline, while the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox recalled the clan’s ancient extinction but could not explain it. In the Ring of Life, Xiao Wu and Er Ming saw Xiao Ying’s Divine Beast aura and marveled at Luo Chen’s power.

• Luo Chen asked Xiao Ying about her bloodline, and she explained that her Shadow Divine Cat clan had been exterminated long ago.
• The Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox recalled that the Shadow Divine Cat had once ruled among feline Soul Beasts, but she did not know why it went extinct.
• Luo Chen wondered whether the gods had caused the clan’s extinction, then set aside the mystery and listened as Xiao Ying spoke with him.
• The Soul Beasts in the Ring of Life grew stronger and spread through its vast, life-rich landscape under the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox’s supervision.
• Er Ming and Xiao Wu sensed Xiao Ying’s Divine Beast aura and discussed how Luo Chen could evolve a Soul Beast’s bloodline.

Luo Chen offered to evolve Xiao Wu and Er Ming’s bloodlines in exchange for carrying out tasks for him. The two soul beasts agreed to hear his arrangements, leaving their future duties undecided.

• Xiao Wu and Er Ming accepted their role as gatekeepers of the Purple Myrtle Heavenly Palace after seeing the Lake of Life and feeling the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox’s suppression.
• Er Ming asked Xiao Wu whether they should request help evolving their bloodlines, but Xiao Wu was too afraid to approach Luo Chen.
• Luo Chen summoned Xiao Wu and Er Ming and teleported them to the Shadow Divine Cat and Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox, then stopped the two Divine Beasts from intimidating them.
• Luo Chen offered to evolve Xiao Wu and Er Ming’s bloodlines and provide other rewards if they completed tasks for him.
• Luo Chen explained his arrangements, leaving Xiao Wu puzzled and Er Ming with a complicated expression.

Luo Chen sent Xiao Wu to Nuoding Academy to approach Tang San and disrupt his fate while protecting her identity and cultivation. He arranged for her to live in the Seventh Dormitory and planned for Xiao Chenyu to defeat Tang San there.

• Luo Chen reassured Xiao Wu about concealing her identity and gave her a token that could teleport her into the Ring of Life and provide access to its Life Force.
• Luo Chen brought Xiao Wu to Nuoding Academy and explained that she would spend six years there while approaching Tang San to help him seize Luck Points.
• Luo Chen and Xiao Wu met Dean Mark, who enrolled Xiao Wu after learning she had Innate Full Soul Power.
• Luo Chen refused to let Xiao Wu live in a luxurious dormitory and assigned her to the Seventh Dormitory.
• Luo Chen arranged for Xiao Chenyu to pose as a Work-Study Student and replace Wang Sheng as the Seventh Dormitory's head, intending for him to defeat Tang San.

After enrolling at Nuoding Academy, Tang San was ambushed by Xiao Chenyu, the Seventh Dormitory's leader, and forced into a fight. Xiao Chenyu's overwhelming speed and Soul Power left Tang San badly battered as their attacks collided.

• Tang San followed Yu Xiaogang's directions to the Seventh Dormitory and narrowly dodged Xiao Chenyu's surprise attack.
• Xiao Chenyu told Tang San that new students had to challenge the dorm leader and could not refuse.
• Tang San accepted the fight and prepared to face Xiao Chenyu despite sensing his immense strength.
• Xiao Chenyu attacked at blinding speed with a sword formed from Soul Power, and Tang San used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track and Mysterious Jade Hand to counter.
• Xiao Chenyu's powerful strike collided with Tang San's defense and ravaged his internal organs.

Xiao Chenyu defeated Tang San in their fight at Nuoding Academy, leaving him unconscious. Luo Chen learned that his interference had earned him Luck Points and arrived at the Seventh Dormitory with Xiao Wu, where he found Tang San badly injured.

• Xiao Chenyu struck Tang San with Soul Power, then defeated him with a homing attack that left him unconscious.
• Luo Chen received Luck Points for changing Tang San and Xiao Wu's encounters and for arranging Tang San's defeat.
• Luo Chen led Xiao Wu to the Seventh Dormitory and found the students gathered around the injured Tang San.
• Wang Sheng explained the dormitory leader challenge, and Luo Chen examined Tang San's injuries.

Luo Chen concealed his role in Tang San’s injuries, secretly planted a life-draining force in him, and left Xiao Wu at Nuoding Academy under a false explanation. Back at the City Lord’s Mansion, he summoned trusted allies to discuss the Ring of Life, while the chapter revealed Qian Xingyu’s mysterious Thousand Fate Star Qin.

• Xiao Chenyu apologized for badly injuring Tang San, and Luo Chen examined Tang San before secretly sending a life-draining green light into his body.
• Luo Chen told the students to find a Healing System teacher for Tang San, dismissed the crowd, and left Xiao Wu at Nuoding Academy.
• Xiao Chenyu asked about Xiao Wu, and Luo Chen falsely claimed she belonged to Purple Myrtle Heavenly Palace and had a task to perform at the academy.
• At the City Lord’s Mansion, Luo Chen ordered Xiao Chenyu to summon his father, Dugu Bo, Su Yuntao, and Qian Xingyu to discuss the Ring of Life.
• The chapter explained that Qian Xingyu’s Thousand Fate Star Qin unlocked seals with each soul ring and granted predetermined martial-soul skills.

Luo Chen brought Dugu Bo and the others into the Ring of Life, a hidden world overflowing with healing Life Force. After they experienced its effects, Qian Xingyu asked where they were and why the Life Force was so dense.

• Luo Chen gathered his allies at Nuoding City's City Lord's Mansion and warned them to keep the matter he was about to reveal secret.
• Dugu Bo sealed the mansion with a barrier, and Luo Chen presented five green medallions filled with Life Force.
• Luo Chen instructed everyone to put a drop of blood on a medallion, and the medallions transported them into the Ring of Life.
• Dugu Bo and the others found that the Ring of Life's powerful Life Force increased their Soul Power and began healing their hidden injuries.
• Luo Chen appeared before the group, and Qian Xingyu asked where they were and why the Life Force was so dense.

Luo Chen revealed that the Ring of Life was a complete world and proposed making it the Purple Myrtle Heavenly Palace’s hidden base. After explaining its lethal secrecy restriction and how their tokens enabled entry, he left the others eager to cultivate there while Dugu Bo sensed three powerful, dangerous auras within the world.

• Dugu Bo asked Luo Chen about the strange place and worried that the Ring of Life’s secret could endanger him.
• Luo Chen described the Ring of Life as a complete world rich in Life Force and said he planned to establish the Purple Myrtle Heavenly Palace’s base there.
• Dugu Bo objected that a member might expose the secret and bring the continent’s pursuit upon them.
• Luo Chen explained that anyone who entered the Ring of Life would die if they revealed information about it, reassuring Dugu Bo and the others.
• Luo Chen taught everyone how to use their tokens to enter the Ring of Life, and Su Yuntao eagerly thanked him.
• Dugu Bo sensed three powerful, dangerous auras somewhere in the Ring of Life and suspected they were connected to Luo Chen.

Luo Chen moved the Purple Myrtle Heavenly Palace and its disciples into the Ring of Life, then began teaching a new class at Nuoding Academy. He discovered Tang San was among his students and introduced the class to basic Martial Soul knowledge.

• Luo Chen entrusted Dugu Bo with Life Command Medallions and instructed him to distribute them to the Purple Myrtle Heavenly Palace disciples.
• Luo Chen and the others transferred the disciples into the Ring of Life, where Luo Chen created a grand Purple Myrtle Heavenly Palace and gathered much of its Life Force.
• Luo Chen established that the disciples would still leave the Ring of Life to travel the Douluo Continent and gain practical experience.
• Luo Chen arrived at Nuoding Academy to teach his new class and found Tang San's name on the roster.
• Luo Chen began teaching the students about Martial Souls, Soul Master systems, Soul Power, and Soul Ring colors.

Luo Chen arranged to accompany Tang San and Yu Xiaogang to Soul Hunting Forest so he could influence Tang San’s first soul ring and plunder Luck Points. The three agreed to set out that afternoon, with Tang San already beginning to doubt Yu Xiaogang.

• Luo Chen dismissed his class and asked Tang San to stay behind, then offered to help him obtain his first soul ring.
• Tang San explained that Yu Xiaogang had already promised to accompany him, and Luo Chen feigned regret before saying he would join them.
• Luo Chen’s remarks made Tang San doubt Yu Xiaogang, earning Luo Chen Luck Points from the system.
• Tang San persuaded Yu Xiaogang to let Luo Chen accompany them, and Luo Chen agreed to go to Soul Hunting Forest.
• Luo Chen, Yu Xiaogang, and Tang San left Yu Xiaogang’s office to set out.

Luo Chen traveled to the Soul Hunting Forest with Yu Xiaogang and Tang San, where Yu Xiaogang explained his plans for Tang San’s first soul ring. After they camped for the night, Luo Chen deliberately released Life Force to lure nearby soul beasts and disrupt their sleep.

• Yu Xiaogang presented a Spirit Hall honorary elder token at the gate, allowing Luo Chen, Yu Xiaogang, and Tang San to enter the Soul Hunting Forest.
• Tang San asked Yu Xiaogang about choosing his first soul beast, and Yu Xiaogang described suitable beasts and soul ring age limits.
• After searching all day without finding a suitable soul beast, the three settled down to camp for the night.
• Yu Xiaogang extinguished the fire and told Tang San to spread scent-masking medicinal powder around their camp.
• Once Yu Xiaogang and Tang San fell asleep, Luo Chen released his Life Force, attracting soul beasts whose dark green eyes soon appeared throughout the night.

Luo Chen lured soul beasts to the camp and secretly marked Yu Xiaogang and Tang San with Life Force, leaving them to face the Hundred-Year beasts. Tang San evaded a wolf-type beast’s attack and struck at its neck, but the wolf counterattacked as he faltered under its aura.

• The soul beasts surrounded Luo Chen, Yu Xiaogang, and Tang San, and Yu Xiaogang realized many were Thousand-Year beasts.
• Luo Chen claimed he would handle the Thousand-Year beasts while Yu Xiaogang and Tang San fought the Hundred-Year beasts, then left after attaching Life Force to their backs.
• The beasts turned on Yu Xiaogang and Tang San, so Yu Xiaogang summoned Luosanpao and Tang San threw down white radishes for it to eat.
• Yu Xiaogang used A Fart Like Thunder, Earth-Shattering Luosanpao, but the gas affected him and Tang San as well as the beasts.
• A wolf-type beast with more than five hundred years of cultivation attacked Yu Xiaogang, and Tang San used his Purple Demon Eye, Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, and Mysterious Jade Hand to strike at its neck.
• The wolf’s aura disrupted Tang San’s attack, and it swept a claw toward his head.

Luo Chen saved Yu Xiaogang and Tang San from a pack of Soul Beasts, then left them behind while he planned to let Tang San encounter a four-hundred-year-old Man-eating Vine Snake. As they meditated inside his protective barrier, the snake emerged nearby.

• Tang San and Yu Xiaogang were badly injured while fighting the Soul Beasts, as Luo Chen watched from a tree and kept several Thousand-Year Soul Beasts imprisoned with Space Power.
• Luo Chen appeared and made the attacking Soul Beasts vanish, then reassured Yu Xiaogang and Tang San that they were safe.
• Luo Chen left to investigate, secretly intending to let Tang San face the Man-eating Vine Snake and tamper with its Soul Ring after Tang San absorbed it.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San meditated to recover their Soul Power inside Luo Chen's protective barrier.
• A four-meter snake-like Soul Beast crawled out of the grass while Yu Xiaogang and Tang San remained unaware.

Tang San and Yu Xiaogang encountered a Man-eating Vine Snake over four hundred years old, which Yu Xiaogang identified as an ideal first soul beast for Tang San. Despite their injuries and depleted Soul Power, they decided to fight it before it could escape, and Yu Xiaogang launched his first soul skill as Tang San prepared to attack.

• Tang San spotted the Man-eating Vine Snake approaching and warned Yu Xiaogang of the danger.
• Yu Xiaogang recognized the snake as a four-hundred-year-old Soul Beast and explained its traits and suitability for Tang San's Blue Silver Grass.
• Tang San questioned whether they could defeat the snake while recovering from their previous battle, but Yu Xiaogang resolved to restrain it until Tang San could attack.
• Yu Xiaogang summoned Luosanpao and used his first soul skill to engulf the Man-eating Vine Snake in yellow gas while Tang San covered his mouth and nose.

Tang San fought the Man-eating Vine Snake after Yu Xiaogang’s soul skill failed to stop it, and the snake poisoned Luosanpao and left Yu Xiaogang unconscious. Tang San killed the snake through repeated attacks and checked its body to make sure it was dead.

• Tang San attacked the Man-eating Vine Snake with a dagger and Mysterious Jade Hand, but its scales proved too tough to pierce.
• The Man-eating Vine Snake threatened Tang San with its venomous fangs, while Yu Xiaogang sent Luosanpao to help him despite having almost no Soul Power left.
• The snake bit Luosanpao and poisoned it, causing it to return to Yu Xiaogang and leaving him unconscious.
• Tang San attacked the Man-eating Vine Snake in a fury, dodging its blows and stabbing its eye with his dagger.
• Tang San kept attacking the wounded Man-eating Vine Snake until it died, then inspected it to ensure it could not strike again.

Tang San killed the Man-eating Vine Snake, treated Yu Xiaogang’s poisoning, and began absorbing the snake’s soul ring. While Tang San was occupied, Luo Chen extracted the trace of Golden Holy Dragon bloodline from Yu Xiaogang’s martial soul, Luosanpao.

• Tang San suppressed the venom in his body after killing the Man-eating Vine Snake, then hurried to treat Yu Xiaogang as the poison worsened.
• Tang San used the Mysterious Heaven Skill and medicinal herbs to drive the toxins from Yu Xiaogang’s body.
• Tang San summoned the Man-eating Vine Snake’s yellow soul ring and began absorbing its powerful energy despite his weakened condition.
• Luo Chen appeared unnoticed and watched Tang San struggle to absorb the soul ring while Yu Xiaogang recovered nearby.
• Luo Chen forced Luosanpao out of Yu Xiaogang and used the Soul Ring Extraction Technique to draw out its Golden Holy Dragon bloodline.

Luo Chen extracted Yu Xiaogang’s trace of Golden Holy Dragon bloodline, weakening him, then secretly reduced Tang San’s first soul ring from a hundred-year ring to a ten-year ring. Yu Xiaogang woke to find Tang San absorbing the white ring and wondered whether the unusually long process still held some hope.

• Luo Chen extracted Yu Xiaogang’s Golden Holy Dragon bloodline and struck Luosanpao back into his body, causing Yu Xiaogang’s strength and Soul Power Level to fall to twenty-four.
• After a day, Luo Chen used the Soul Ring Extraction Technique to reduce Tang San’s Man-eating Vine Snake soul ring from a hundred-year ring to a ten-year ring.
• Tang San’s absorption stabilized, and Luo Chen vanished as Tang San and Yu Xiaogang began to wake.
• Yu Xiaogang found Tang San absorbing a white ten-year soul ring and recognized its aura as belonging to the Man-eating Vine Snake.
• Yu Xiaogang blamed himself for the apparent mistake and worried about the ring’s effect on Tang San’s future, then wondered whether the prolonged absorption meant there was still hope.

Tang San completed absorbing the Man-eating Vine Snake's soul ring, but discovered that it appeared to be only a ten-year ring despite the beast being over four hundred years old. He demonstrated his first soul skill, Entangling, leaving Yu Xiaogang uncertain about its unusual scorching effect.

• Tang San finished absorbing the soul ring and wondered why much of his Soul Power had vanished during the process.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Tang San to release his Blue Silver Grass and saw that its soul ring was white and ten-year.
• Tang San questioned Yu Xiaogang about the ring's age, and Yu Xiaogang urged him to test his first soul skill.
• Tang San used Entangling to bind nearby trees, and the vines left scorched patches on their trunks.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San to stop and studied the skill's strange effects.

Yu Xiaogang judged Tang San’s first soul skill, Entangling, to be weak and tried to reassure him that stronger Soul Rings could still develop his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul. After Tang San and Yu Xiaogang left the Soul Hunting Forest, Luo Chen returned to the City Lord's Mansion and checked the Luck Points he had gained.

• Yu Xiaogang examined the tree and concluded that Tang San’s Entangling skill had only slight toughness and poison, making it ineffective against stronger opponents.
• Yu Xiaogang reassured Tang San that his first Soul Ring was only a transition and promised to plan stronger Soul Rings for him later.
• Tang San remained disappointed and began to harbor an unusual thought about Yu Xiaogang.
• Luo Chen appeared and pretended to ask about what had happened, while Yu Xiaogang concealed his mistake.
• Tang San and Yu Xiaogang left the Soul Hunting Forest for Nuoding Academy, and Luo Chen returned to the City Lord's Mansion and entered the Ring of Life.
• Luo Chen checked his rewards and status panel, learning that he had gained Luck Points for changing Tang San’s fate, extracting Yu Xiaogang’s bloodline, and damaging their trust and Tang San’s self-esteem.

Luo Chen spent Luck Points to acquire three high-age Soul Bones suited to his Nine-Colored Staff Martial Soul: a Space Attribute Right Arm Soul Bone, a Destruction Attribute Left Arm Soul Bone, and a Creation Attribute Head Soul Bone. He sealed the area and prepared to absorb them, anticipating a major increase in strength.

• Luo Chen asked the system to find growth-type Soul Bones matching his Nine-Colored Staff Martial Soul, with ages starting at one hundred thousand years.
• Luo Chen reviewed the costly options and chose three Soul Bones for their offensive potential and the possible effects of the Creation Attribute bone on his Second Soul Skill.
• Luo Chen purchased the three Soul Bones, whose powerful Space, Destruction, and Creation auras emerged around him.
• Luo Chen restrained the two volatile arm bones with Space Power and marveled at the purifying aura of the Creation Attribute Head Soul Bone.
• Luo Chen used the Ring of Life to seal the surrounding space and began drawing the three Soul Bones toward him for absorption.