Chapter Summaries

Su Mo attended the Martial Soul Awakening Ceremony in Notting City and awakened a Soul Hunting Spear, while a second power briefly surfaced and vanished. As he went to test his Innate Soul Power, Bibi Dong awoke inside his body, confused about being alive.

• Su Mo waited with the other children at the Spirit Hall Branch as Ma Xiunuo began the Martial Soul Awakening Ceremony.
• Su Mo awakened a Soul Hunting Spear and briefly sensed a second Martial Soul gathering in his other hand before the energy disappeared.
• Ma Xiunuo sent Su Mo to test his Innate Soul Power, and Su Mo left the formation puzzled by what had happened.
• Bibi Dong opened her eyes inside Su Mo's body and wondered where she was after remembering that she had died.

Bibi Dong discovered that she had been resurrected as Su Mo’s weak, unawakened Martial Soul, while Su Mo received an Innate Soul Power result of level 2. Seeing the seal on his Spirit Hall certificate, Bibi Dong realized the timeline seemed wrong and planned to reveal herself to help Su Mo grow stronger.

• Bibi Dong examined her condition, found she had become Su Mo’s Martial Soul, and discovered she could not leave his body, though her Divine Sense could separate from it.
• Bibi Dong watched Su Mo’s test and looked down on his Innate Soul Power of level 2, then reasoned that her remnant-soul state might explain his low aptitude.
• Su Mo received a Spirit Hall certificate qualifying him to enroll in a Soul Master Academy and left the branch, accepting his result because he could now use Soul Power.
• Bibi Dong recognized the Notting City Spirit Hall Branch seal and questioned how it could exist after the Spirit Hall Empire’s fall.
• Bibi Dong decided to let Su Mo know she existed so he would grow strong enough to awaken her Martial Soul, and hoped she might see Xue Er, Na Na, and Xiaogang again.

After awakening the Soul Hunting Spear with Rank 2 Innate Soul Power, Su Mo investigated the Blood-colored Mist he had sensed as a Second Martial Soul. He entered a cavern in his Spirit Space and discovered Bibi Dong there, who revealed that she was his Second Martial Soul.

• Su Mo told his aunt that he had awakened the Soul Hunting Spear and possessed Rank 2 Innate Soul Power.
• Su Mo entered his Spirit Space and found Blood-colored Mist beside his Soul Hunting Spear.
• Su Mo touched the mist and was pulled into a cavern containing a Blood Pool with Bibi Dong lying inside.
• Bibi Dong's Divine Sense appeared and questioned Su Mo about sensing a Second Martial Soul.
• Bibi Dong told Su Mo that she was his Second Martial Soul.

Su Mo learned that Bibi Dong was his Second Martial Soul, the unawakened Rakshasa God Spirit, and that he would need to become powerful enough to awaken her. Bibi Dong realized Su Mo’s low Innate Soul Power made that goal seem nearly impossible, while Su Mo accepted the situation and resolved to treat her as though he did not know her identity.

• Su Mo acted surprised when Bibi Dong revealed she was his Second Martial Soul, the Rakshasa God Spirit.
• Bibi Dong told Su Mo that he had to become powerful enough to awaken her and warned him to keep her identity secret.
• Bibi Dong sent Su Mo out of the Rakshasa Domain, then realized he would need to reach Soul Saint level despite having Innate Soul Power of only level 2.
• Bibi Dong regretted not asking Su Mo what year it was in the Douluo Calendar before she became distressed about being trapped inside him.
• Su Mo considered whether Bibi Dong was telling the truth and concluded that she likely needed his help and could not harm him for now.
• Su Mo decided to stop dwelling on the situation and treat Bibi Dong normally without revealing that he knew who she was.

Su Mo discovered that his poor cultivation talent would leave him far below Shrek Academy’s admission standard, so he asked Bibi Dong for a better Soul Power Cultivation Technique. Bibi Dong gave him one after learning the year was 2637, then privately realized she had returned to the past.

• Su Mo cultivated for two hours and found his Martial Soul could absorb no more energy, leaving him worried that his slow progress would limit his future.
• Su Mo entered his Martial Soul world and asked Bibi Dong for an advanced Soul Power Cultivation Technique, calling her “Goddess Sister.”
• Bibi Dong agreed to help Su Mo and asked what year it was in the Douluo Calendar.
• Su Mo told Bibi Dong it was 2637, and she murmured that she had truly returned to the past.
• Su Mo suspected Bibi Dong had been reborn from the future, but she denied anything was wrong and passed him the advanced technique.

Bibi Dong decided to keep Su Mo close so she could remain near Yu Xiaogang, whom she still loved, and planned to have Su Mo become his disciple. Su Mo discovered that Bibi Dong’s advanced cultivation technique could not overcome the limits of his talent, so he sought her out again for a solution.

• Bibi Dong considered her return from the future and decided that she wanted to be near Yu Xiaogang more than she wanted to change the future.
• Bibi Dong planned to have Su Mo become Yu Xiaogang’s disciple once the timing was right, allowing her to stay near Yu Xiaogang through her Divine Sense.
• Su Mo mastered Bibi Dong’s advanced Soul Power Cultivation Technique and tried cultivating with it.
• Su Mo found that his Martial Soul still felt saturated, and the improved technique could not overcome his talent’s daily cultivation limit.
• Su Mo calmed his mind and entered inner vision to seek Bibi Dong again for help.

Su Mo told Bibi Dong that her Soul Power Cultivation Technique had not solved his cultivation problem, and she urged him to seek help from Yu Xiaogang. Su Mo refused to become Yu Xiaogang’s disciple, leaving Bibi Dong trying to persuade him by promising that awakening his Rakshasa God Spirit would end the ridicule.

• Su Mo returned to Bibi Dong and explained that the Soul Power Cultivation Technique she gave him did not work.
• Bibi Dong remembered that Yu Xiaogang had later found a way to overcome his talent limitations and encouraged Su Mo to become his disciple.
• Su Mo recognized that Bibi Dong meant Yu Xiaogang and knew that Yu Xiaogang’s breakthrough had come from an Immortal Herb Tang San provided.
• Bibi Dong identified Yu Xiaogang as a misunderstood genius at Notting City’s Junior Spirit Master Academy and urged Su Mo to study under him.
• Su Mo pretended to be shocked and refused, saying people would laugh at him for becoming Yu Xiaogang’s disciple.
• Bibi Dong tried to persuade Su Mo that awakening his Rakshasa God Spirit would make others envy him instead of ridicule him.

Su Mo refused Bibi Dong’s repeated effort to make him Yu Xiaogang’s disciple, then began training his body to improve his slow cultivation. When Bibi Dong appeared as Divine Sense, Su Mo could see her, and she used the moment to urge him to help awaken her.

• Su Mo refused to become Yu Xiaogang’s disciple and left Bibi Dong’s Rakshasa Domain, leaving Bibi Dong frustrated and determined to persuade him before Tang San became Yu Xiaogang’s disciple.
• Su Mo practiced the Tai Chi Stance to strengthen his body, holding it for half an hour before his legs gave out.
• Bibi Dong appeared beside Su Mo as Divine Sense, and Su Mo realized he could see her.
• Bibi Dong explained that others could not see her Divine Sense and that she could not attack anyone in that form.
• Su Mo asked Bibi Dong to secretly beat up anyone who bullied him, but she refused and urged him to help awaken her instead.

Su Mo trained his body and practiced with his Soul Hunting Spear, while Bibi Dong praised his methods but insisted that his poor martial soul talent limited his future. After a week, Su Mo reluctantly agreed to seek Yu Xiaogang as his teacher.

• Su Mo refused Bibi Dong's attempt to persuade him to take Yu Xiaogang as his teacher, then explained his stance-training method to her.
• Bibi Dong judged the method to be sophisticated and told Su Mo to practice carefully before returning to his body.
• Su Mo continued training with his Soul Hunting Spear, impressing Bibi Dong with his skill despite having no teacher.
• After a week, Su Mo found that his improved fitness raised his daily Soul Power cultivation limit only slightly.
• Bibi Dong told Su Mo that his martial soul talent would prevent him from becoming powerful and urged him to find Yu Xiaogang.
• Su Mo agreed to go to Yu Xiaogang, intending to see whether the man would actually accept him.

At Notting Academy, Yu Xiaogang longed to find a talented student who could help him prove himself. Su Mo asked to become his disciple, but after learning Su Mo had a Soul Hunting Spear Spirit and Innate Soul Power level 2, Yu Xiaogang refused him.

• Yu Xiaogang reflected on being mocked by students and wished to find a gifted disciple.
• The gatekeeper brought Su Mo to Yu Xiaogang, while the unseen Bibi Dong reacted excitedly at seeing him.
• Su Mo asked Yu Xiaogang to take him as a disciple, hoping the connection might later help him obtain Immortal Herbs.
• Yu Xiaogang eagerly questioned Su Mo about his name, age, spirit, and Innate Soul Power.
• After Su Mo revealed his Soul Hunting Spear Spirit and Innate Soul Power level 2, Yu Xiaogang rejected him.

Su Mo left after Yu Xiaogang refused to accept him as a disciple, then rejected Bibi Dong’s pleas to try again. He resolved to find his own way to overcome his talent limitations and began thinking of methods beyond Immortal Herbs.

• Yu Xiaogang refused to take Su Mo as his disciple, and Su Mo left without asking him to reconsider.
• Bibi Dong chased after Su Mo and urged him to return to Yu Xiaogang, but Su Mo refused and criticized Yu Xiaogang for looking down on his talent.
• Su Mo told Bibi Dong he would not beg Yu Xiaogang again, and Bibi Dong failed to change his mind.
• Bibi Dong returned to Su Mo’s Spirit Space, and Su Mo concluded that she could no longer threaten him.
• Su Mo decided to rely on himself to overcome his talent limitations and began searching for a solution beyond Immortal Herbs.

Su Mo tried to escape the limits of his low-quality martial soul by studying how external energy passed through his body during cultivation. Bibi Dong recognized his experiment but believed it would fail, and chose to let him face a setback rather than intervene.

• Su Mo realized that Soul Masters absorbed energy through their martial souls and considered cultivating directly through the body, but lacked an internal cultivation method.
• Su Mo began cultivating with his martial soul inside his body, carefully sensing how external energy passed through him before reaching the martial soul.
• Su Mo spent several times longer cultivating and started trying to absorb external energy directly through his body without relying on his martial soul.
• Bibi Dong noticed Su Mo’s changed cultivation method and initially dismissed it as a waste of time.
• Bibi Dong understood that Su Mo hoped to overcome his talent limits, but she expected him to fail and decided not to warn him.

Su Mo developed a way to cultivate Soul Power through his body, then enrolled at Notting Academy. There, Tang San met Yu Xiaogang and accepted him as his teacher, while Bibi Dong watched and left in hatred.

• Su Mo completed a cultivation session without his Martial Soul and realized his physical-body technique could let him keep cultivating after reaching his usual daily limit.
• Bibi Dong doubted that Su Mo's new technique could overcome Martial Soul talent limits, despite his success.
• Su Mo entered Notting Academy, where Tang San and Old Jack arrived and the gatekeeper mocked Tang San's certificate.
• Yu Xiaogang confirmed Tang San's certificate and persuaded him with his knowledge, leading Tang San to kowtow and accept him as his teacher.
• Bibi Dong saw Tang San become Yu Xiaogang's disciple, recalled the future harm Tang San would cause, and left.

Su Mo met Xiao Wu at Notting Academy and reminded her to buy bedding before going to the dormitory. That night, Bibi Dong recognized Tang Hao waiting outside Yu Xiaogang's attic.

• Su Mo chose a bed in the first-year dormitory and headed to the academy library.
• Su Mo recognized Xiao Wu, considered but rejected the idea of killing her, and gave her directions to the dormitory.
• Su Mo warned Xiao Wu that the academy did not provide bedding, so she left to buy some.
• Bibi Dong arrived outside Yu Xiaogang's attic and recognized Tang Hao standing at the gate.

Bibi Dong watched Yu Xiaogang and learned that he had known Tang San’s identity from the start, leaving her heartbroken and angry that he was training her enemy. The next day, Tang San returned with his first Soul Ring, and his demonstration of Yu Xiaogang’s theory changed the students’ opinion of their teacher.

• Tang Hao hesitated outside Yu Xiaogang’s door, then left without knocking, and Bibi Dong entered to watch Yu Xiaogang in his study.
• Yu Xiaogang celebrated taking Tang San as his disciple and vowed to prove himself by training him.
• Yu Xiaogang revealed in his mutters that he had known Tang San was Tang Hao’s son and Spirit Hall’s enemy from the beginning, and Bibi Dong left in sorrow and anger.
• Su Mo noticed Tang San was absent from the opening ceremony because Yu Xiaogang had taken him to hunt for a Soul Ring.
• A few days later, Tang San returned with a Hundred Year Soul Ring from a Mandala Snake and used his first Soul Skill to demonstrate that Yu Xiaogang’s theory was correct.
• The students praised Yu Xiaogang and regretted not becoming his disciples, while Su Mo privately scoffed at their assumption that Yu Xiaogang would have chosen them.

After three years of intense cultivation, Su Mo reached Level 10 and prepared to hunt his first Soul Ring. He armed himself with a custom bow and spear and set out for the Soul Hunting Forest, determined to pursue a hundred-year soul beast while practicing carefully first.

• Su Mo reached Level 10 after three years of cultivation, though Tang San had already advanced to Level 21.
• Su Mo decided to hunt his First Soul Ring and collected custom-made equipment, including a Compound Pulley Bow and a long spear, from a blacksmith.
• Su Mo paid the remaining balance, obtained his equipment, and traveled by carriage to the Soul Hunting Forest with the required Spirit Hall certificate.
• Su Mo planned to use his knowledge and weapons to hunt a hundred-year soul beast, but intended to practice on weaker beasts before taking risks.

Su Mo entered the Soul Hunting Forest to find a soul beast and discovered he could merge his Soul Hunting Spear with a physical spear. Bibi Dong appeared to stop him from hunting alone, but Su Mo continued and shot an arrow at a Black-Backed Pig.

• Su Mo entered the Soul Hunting Forest with a Spirit Hall Branch certificate and searched its outer perimeter for soul beasts.
• Su Mo merged his Soul Hunting Spear into his physical spear, making it feel smoother and more substantial, then put his martial soul away to conserve Soul Power.
• Su Mo found a fifty-year Black-Backed Pig, and Bibi Dong appeared to warn him that he could not fight a soul beast without a soul ring or soul skill.
• Bibi Dong apologized for pressuring Su Mo to take Yu Xiaogang as his master and urged him to stop, but Su Mo said he was confident and would run if necessary.
• Su Mo crept within a dozen meters of the Black-Backed Pig, aimed at its ear, and released an arrow.

Su Mo tested his Compound Pulley Bow by killing a fifty-year Black-Backed Pig, surprising Bibi Dong, then asked her to estimate the maximum age of his first soul ring. Bibi Dong judged that his exceptional physical strength would let him absorb a soul ring of up to six hundred years, more than Tang San could endure.

• Su Mo killed the Black-Backed Pig with an arrow to its brain and watched a white soul ring emerge from its corpse.
• Bibi Dong realized Su Mo had used his Compound Pulley Bow and arrows to hunt the soul beast, despite having no soul rings or skills.
• Su Mo tested his Soul Hunting Spear against the corpse and found it could pierce more effectively when fused with a forged iron spear.
• Su Mo asked Bibi Dong to estimate the maximum age of his first soul ring, and she calculated that he could endure one of up to six hundred years.

Su Mo absorbed a six-hundred-year Thorny Hedgehog Soul Ring, became a level 12 Soul Master, and registered for his subsidy. Months later, he discovered that his forged Iron Spear responded to his thoughts even when his Martial Soul was withdrawn, and he decided to keep training with the two spears fused.

• Bibi Dong assessed that Su Mo could withstand a First Soul Ring of up to six hundred years, and Su Mo set out to find a suitable Soul Beast.
• After searching for half a month, Su Mo trapped and killed a six-hundred-year Thorny Hedgehog, then absorbed its Soul Ring in under ten minutes.
• Su Mo gained the First Soul Skill Pierce, which increased the Soul Hunting Spear's penetrating power by 200%, and reached level 12 Soul Master.
• Su Mo registered at the Spirit Hall Branch in Notting City and kept his Soul Ring secret at Notting Academy.
• Months later, Su Mo discovered that his forged Iron Spear trembled in response to his thoughts even when his Soul Hunting Spear was withdrawn.
• Su Mo suspected that repeatedly fusing his Martial Soul with the Iron Spear had bonded it to him, and resolved to keep doing so.

Su Mo successfully fused the iron spear he had refined with his Soul Hunting Spear, evolving his Martial Soul. Bibi Dong witnessed the transformation and demanded to know how he had done it.

• Su Mo kept his spear on his back while cultivating, and Xiao Wu asked him about his efforts before returning to Tang San.
• Bibi Dong began teaching Su Mo about Martial Souls after he asked her for instruction.
• Over three years, Su Mo’s bond with the iron spear grew until he could summon it back with Soul Power.
• At Notting Academy’s Back Mountain, Su Mo finally recalled the fused spear into his Spirit Space and found it merging with his Martial Soul.
• Su Mo’s Soul Hunting Spear completed its evolution into an intermediate-grade Martial Soul, leaving Bibi Dong shocked and questioning him.