Chapter Summaries

Tang Sect disciple and professional killer Mo Bai mocked the anime version of Tang San while watching Soul Land, then woke to find himself in an unfamiliar mud-brick house with his Inner Force gone. The chapter left Mo Bai confused about where he had ended up and what had happened to him.

• Mo Bai watched Soul Land and criticized its portrayals of Tang San, Tang Sect techniques, and the Blue Silver Grass control route.
• Mo Bai stopped watching after Tang San sincerely accepted Grandmaster as his teacher and shut off his computer.
• The next morning, Mo Bai awoke feeling weak and discovered his Inner Force was gone.
• Mo Bai opened his eyes to a shabby mud-brick house instead of his luxury presidential suite.

After transmigrating into Soul Land as an orphan, Mo Bai spent three years cultivating Tang Sect techniques and preparing for his Martial Soul awakening. Su Yuntao arrived at Meilin Village to begin the ceremony, leaving Mo Bai eager to discover which Martial Soul he would awaken.

• Mo Bai realized he had transmigrated into the body of a three-year-old orphan in Soul Land and resolved to live his own life while cultivating Tang Sect techniques.
• Over the next three years, Mo Bai cultivated the Jing Yu Secret, Jade Hand, and Flower-Piercing Butterfly Steps, and used Soul Power to improve his eyesight.
• Before the awakening ceremony, Mo Bai hoped to inherit his mother's Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul and told village chief Su Meiqian he believed he could become a Soul Master.
• Su Yuntao arrived at Meilin Village and introduced himself to the children as the Spirit Hall Soul Master who would awaken their Martial Souls.
• Su Yuntao led Mo Bai and the other children to Meilin Village's Spirit Hall Branch, where Mo Bai awaited his awakening.

Mo Bai awakened Blue Silver Grass and Innate Full Soul Power, then insisted he could still become a soul master by absorbing a Soul Ring. Su Yuntao agreed that this was possible, and Mo Bai left the village chief hopeful.

• Su Yuntao awakened the village children’s spirits, judging the first eight to lack the potential to become soul masters.
• Mo Bai awakened Blue Silver Grass and, after testing, revealed Innate Full Soul Power.
• Su Yuntao told Mo Bai that Tang San in nearby Holy Soul Village had awakened the same spirit and soul power.
• Su Yuntao told village chief Su Meiqian that Mo Bai’s Blue Silver Grass made his prospects poor, but Mo Bai declared he would become a soul master.
• Mo Bai explained that absorbing a Soul Ring would let him advance, and Su Yuntao confirmed that he was right.

Mo Bai arrived at Notting Academy with Village Chief Su Meiqian and encountered Tang San being denied entry by the gatekeeper. Grandmaster verified both boys’ genuine Work-study certificates and took them into the academy to register.

• Village Chief Su Meiqian secured the village’s Work-study slot for Mo Bai and brought him by ox cart to Notting City.
• At Notting Academy’s gate, Mo Bai saw Old Jack and Tang San arguing with the gatekeeper over Tang San’s certificate.
• The gatekeeper mocked Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass and Innate Full Soul Power, and Tang San knocked him down before Grandmaster intervened.
• Grandmaster confirmed that Tang San’s certificate was genuine, then checked Mo Bai’s certificate and found it genuine as well.
• Grandmaster apologized to Old Jack, agreed to register Tang San and Mo Bai, and warned the gatekeeper not to repeat his conduct.
• Mo Bai and Tang San followed Grandmaster into Notting Academy while their village chiefs watched.

Grandmaster explained why he believed Tang San and Mo Bai possessed Twin Spirits and taught them about Mutated Spirits. Tang San then knelt and asked Grandmaster to accept him as his disciple.

• Grandmaster offered to teach Tang San and Mo Bai, and Mo Bai immediately agreed while Tang San silently waited for a reason.
• Grandmaster revealed that he recognized them as Twin Spirits from their certificates and explained his research into Blue Silver Grass and Innate Full Soul Power.
• Grandmaster described how spirits were inherited and how Mutated Spirits could become either powerful or weak.
• Tang San knelt before Grandmaster, called him teacher, and asked him to accept him as his disciple.

At Notting Academy, Grandmaster wrongly insisted that Mo Bai had Twin Spirits and rejected him when he denied it, while Tang San became Grandmaster’s student. Mo Bai and Tang San completed registration and headed to their dormitory, with Tang San wondering whether Mo Bai was telling the truth.

• Grandmaster praised Tang San for kneeling to accept him as a teacher, then declared that Tang San and Mo Bai both had Twin Spirits.
• Mo Bai insisted he had only one spirit, and Grandmaster examined his ordinary Blue Silver Grass but continued to accuse him of hiding a second spirit.
• Grandmaster refused to accept Mo Bai as a student, and Mo Bai rejected Grandmaster in return.
• Grandmaster took Tang San and Mo Bai to Notting Academy’s registration office, then left Tang San to register without speaking to Mo Bai.
• The Academy Director registered Tang San and Mo Bai, noted that they both had Innate Full Soul Power and Blue Silver Grass spirits, and assigned them Room Seven as work-study students.
• On the way to the dormitory, Tang San asked Mo Bai whether he really had only one spirit, and Mo Bai affirmed that he did.

Mo Bai watched Tang San defeat Wang Sheng before Xiao Wu arrived at Room Seven and challenged Tang San for the dorm leader position. Xiao Wu defeated Tang San and became the dorm leader, while Mo Bai avoided fighting and Tang San revealed that he and Mo Bai both had Blue Silver Grass spirits and Innate Full Soul Power.

• Tang San defeated Wang Sheng’s ambush, and Wang Sheng explained that whoever proved strongest would lead Room Seven.
• Xiao Wu arrived as a new Work-study student and challenged Tang San to become dorm leader, while Mo Bai declined to fight.
• Xiao Wu used her Suppleness Skill to defeat Tang San and was recognized as Room Seven’s boss.
• Xiao Wu said her spirit was a rabbit, and Tang San revealed that he had Blue Silver Grass and Innate Full Soul Power.
• Tang San introduced Mo Bai as another Blue Silver Grass spirit owner with Innate Full Soul Power.

Mo Bai revealed his strength by fighting Xiao Wu and became the new boss of Room Seven. After a teacher explained the work-study students’ duties, Mo Bai invited Xiao Wu to buy bedding with him, keeping her from sharing Tang San’s.

• Wang Sheng learned that Mo Bai also had Blue Silver Grass and Innate Full Soul Power, and wondered whether he and Tang San were brothers.
• Xiao Wu challenged Mo Bai, but he blocked her attacks and twice broke her Suppleness Skill, prompting her to concede the boss position.
• Wang Sheng and the other students greeted Mo Bai as their new boss, while Tang San was forced to bow and Xiao Wu refused.
• A teacher delivered Tang San’s bedding and explained the work-study students’ duties; several students offered their bedding to Mo Bai and Xiao Wu.
• Mo Bai refused the used bedding and invited Xiao Wu to buy her own, and she agreed.

Mo Bai went with Xiao Wu to buy bedding, then attended his first classes at Notting Academy. He found the standard Soul Power Cultivation Method inferior to his Jing Yu Secret and discovered that the characters taught in cultural studies were familiar to him.

• Mo Bai questioned Xiao Wu about her background, and Xiao Wu asked whether he and Tang San were related and why he was interested in Tang San.
• Xiao Wu denied liking Tang San, said he seemed strange, and vowed to challenge Mo Bai for the Dorm Leader position.
• Mo Bai and Xiao Wu bought bedding, spending nearly all of Mo Bai's remaining money.
• In class, Mo Bai tried the Soul Power Cultivation Method but returned to the Jing Yu Secret, which remained stuck at its first-layer bottleneck until he absorbed a soul ring.
• Teacher Ma began cultural studies by writing the character for his surname, Ma, and Mo Bai recognized it as a traditional Chinese character.

Mo Bai confirmed that the world used the same written characters as his previous life and entered Notting Academy’s library, where he began reading Grandmaster’s Ten Great Core Spirit Competencies. Meanwhile, Grandmaster and Tang San hunted a soul beast, and Tang San chose to test Grandmaster’s theory by absorbing a Mandala Snake’s Soul Ring.

• Mo Bai proved to the library teacher that he could read and was allowed into the library.
• Mo Bai borrowed Grandmaster’s Ten Great Core Spirit Competencies and hurried inside to read it.
• Grandmaster taught Tang San about Soul Rings while they searched for a soul beast near Notting City.
• Grandmaster and Tang San encountered a Mandala Snake close to four hundred years old, and Tang San killed it after a dangerous fight.
• Grandmaster warned Tang San that a plant-type spirit absorbing an animal-type Soul Ring had only been theorized, but Tang San said he trusted his teacher and would be the first to try.

Mo Bai read Grandmaster’s theories and expected Tang San to test whether a plant spirit could absorb an animal soul beast’s Soul Ring. In the Soul Beast Forest, Tang San succeeded, confirming Grandmaster’s conjecture and advancing his cultivation.

• Mo Bai read Grandmaster’s Ten Great Core Spirit Competencies and questioned the common belief that plant spirits could absorb only plant soul beasts’ Soul Rings.
• Mo Bai guessed that Tang San would test Grandmaster’s theory and hoped the experiment would give him more Soul Ring choices.
• Tang San absorbed the four-hundred-year Mandala Snake’s Soul Ring while Grandmaster watched and Tang Hao secretly protected him.
• Tang San woke and confirmed that his Blue Silver Grass spirit had absorbed the animal soul beast’s Soul Ring successfully.
• Tang San told Grandmaster that his theory was correct and revealed that his Mysterious Heaven Skill had broken through its first layer.

Mo Bai read about Soul Rings and wondered whether eating a live soul beast could keep its Soul Ring inside his body, while planning to strengthen his Blue Silver Grass and seek his first ring so he could advance his Jing Yu Secret. Back in Room Seven, he agreed to confront students who had bullied the work-study students, and learned that Xiao Wu had reached rank twelve and challenged him to reclaim the dormitory’s boss position.

• Mo Bai considered swallowing a tiny soul beast alive so its Soul Ring could not disappear, and planned to cultivate Blue Silver Grass for use as a hidden weapon.
• Mo Bai realized he needed a Soul Ring to advance his Jing Yu Secret and increase his Soul Power.
• Mo Bai returned to Room Seven and learned that other students had bullied Wang Sheng and the work-study students.
• Mo Bai agreed to go with Wang Sheng and the others to confront the bullies, despite hearing that Old Man Xiao was an eleventh-rank Soul Master.
• Xiao Wu revealed that she had absorbed a hundred-year Soul Ring and reached rank twelve, then challenged Mo Bai to take back the position of boss.

Xiao Wu took on the students bullying Room Seven and defeated Old Man Xiao, establishing herself as their leader. Tang San returned just as everyone began calling her Xiao Wu-jie.

• Mo Bai avoided Xiao Wu’s challenge by offering her the Dorm Leader position if she dealt with the students bullying Room Seven, and she accepted.
• Wang Sheng led Mo Bai and Xiao Wu to the back hill, where Old Man Xiao agreed to a fight to decide who would become the boss.
• Xiao Wu revealed that she was a rank 12 Battle Soul Master with a hundred-year Soul Ring, leaving Old Man Xiao and the other students stunned.
• Old Man Xiao summoned his rank 11 Blood Wolf martial soul and attacked, but Xiao Wu dodged his Wolf Claw and knocked him down with Bow Waist.
• Old Man Xiao admitted defeat, and both his group and Room Seven’s students accepted Xiao Wu as their leader, calling her Xiao Wu-jie.
• Tang San suddenly appeared beside Mo Bai and asked what had happened.

After seeing Tang San show off his four-hundred-year Mandala Snake Soul Ring and explain how it changed his Blue Silver Grass, Mo Bai decided he needed to obtain his own First Soul Ring. He chose Sword Bamboo and applied for the school’s help hunting one.

• Mo Bai noticed Tang San had become a Soul Master, and Tang San proudly told him he had absorbed a four-hundred-year Mandala Snake Soul Ring with Grandmaster’s help.
• Mo Bai asked about the Soul Ring and Tang San demonstrated his Blue Silver Grass and described its increased toughness and paralyzing poison effect.
• Xiao Wu and the other students noticed Tang San’s Soul Ring, while Old Man Xiao and the senior students left after congratulating Xiao Wu.
• Mo Bai decided to seek a First Soul Ring but avoided copying Tang San’s animal-Soul-Beast choice because he was unsure it would work for him.
• After studying soul-beast guides and learning more about physical constitution, Mo Bai chose Sword Bamboo for its traits and applied to Teacher Ma for help hunting his First Soul Ring.

Mo Bai insisted on hunting a four-hundred-year Sword Bamboo Soul Beast for his First Soul Ring despite Teacher Ma and the principal urging him to choose a stronger soul beast. Teacher Ma escorted him into the Spirit Hall’s enclosed Soul Beast Forest, where they found a two-hundred-year Sword Bamboo Soul Beast and continued searching.

• Mo Bai told Teacher Ma he wanted a four-hundred-year Sword Bamboo Soul Ring, but Teacher Ma warned him that Sword Bamboo was weak and urged him to let the academy choose his Soul Ring.
• Mo Bai refused to change his mind, and after the principal failed to persuade him, the academy assigned level 27 Teacher Ma to help him hunt a Sword Bamboo Soul Beast.
• Teacher Ma took Mo Bai to the Spirit Hall Branch in Notting City to complete the procedures, then led him to the enclosed Soul Beast Forest outside the city.
• Teacher Ma and Mo Bai entered a Sword Bamboo forest, where a Sword Bamboo Soul Beast attacked them with razor-sharp leaves.
• Mo Bai identified the attacking Sword Bamboo as about two hundred years old and told Teacher Ma it was not the one he wanted, so they went around it to keep searching.

Mo Bai absorbed a four-hundred-year-old Sword Bamboo Soul Beast’s Soul Ring, breaking through the first layer of the Jing Yu Secret and gaining his First Soul Skill, Blue Silver Sword Rain. After returning to Notting City, he set off alone to register as a soul master at the Spirit Hall Branch.

• Mo Bai and Teacher Ma searched the sword bamboo grove and weakened a four-hundred-year-old Sword Bamboo Soul Beast by taking turns drawing out its attacks.
• Mo Bai killed the exhausted Sword Bamboo Soul Beast and absorbed its yellow Soul Ring, breaking through the first layer of the Jing Yu Secret and transforming his Blue Silver Grass.
• Mo Bai tested his First Soul Skill, Blue Silver Sword Rain, which fired dozens of weak sword-shaped leaves at the cost of one-fifth of his Soul Power.
• Teacher Ma told Mo Bai to register at the Spirit Hall Branch in Notting City so he could receive a monthly subsidy and leave his school job.
• After returning to Notting City, Mo Bai went alone to the Spirit Hall Branch to certify his soul master rank.

Mo Bai and Xiao Wu visited the Spirit Hall Branch to certify their Soul Master ranks, where both tested at Level 12 and refused recruitment. Back at Notting Academy, Mo Bai confirmed he could fire Blue Silver Grass leaves as hidden weapons and continued cultivating Jade Hand.

• Mo Bai met Xiao Wu at the Spirit Hall Branch, and they argued over whether he should call her Xiao Wu-jie.
• Su Yuntao questioned Mo Bai and Xiao Wu about their Soul Rings and tried to recruit Xiao Wu, but she refused and asked about the source of their monthly subsidy.
• Vice President Ma Xiuno tested Mo Bai and Xiao Wu, finding that both had Soul Power at Level 12, then invited them to join Spirit Hall; both refused.
• Mo Bai asked Xiao Wu why she disliked Spirit Hall, and she told him not to accept if Spirit Hall tried recruiting him again.
• Mo Bai returned to Notting Academy, fired a Blue Silver Grass leaf into a tree as a hidden weapon, and continued cultivating Jade Hand.

A year later, Mo Bai, Xiao Wu, and Tang San had reached Soul Power levels 15, 15, and 16, respectively, while Mo Bai continued studying and refining his cultivation plans. When Xiao Wu asked about the holiday, she decided to travel with Mo Bai, leaving Tang San unsettled after she had first asked him about his plans.

• Mo Bai considered using a soul bone to contain the Jade Hand’s poison, though he had not yet seen a soul bone.
• Over the year, Mo Bai and Xiao Wu reached Soul Power level 15, while Tang San reached level 16 and became the first-years’ representative for his knowledge.
• As the academy holiday began, Xiao Wu asked Mo Bai where he planned to go, after learning Tang San would return to Holy Soul Village.
• Mo Bai said he would visit his village and then travel to other cities, so Xiao Wu insisted on going with him.
• Tang San watched Xiao Wu choose to travel with Mo Bai and felt uncomfortable when she confirmed she had asked him first.

Tang Hao left Tang San in Grandmaster’s care before departing to deal with unfinished business. Grandmaster learned Tang San was Tang Hao’s son and worried that his beloved disciple would become an enemy of BiBi Dong and Spirit Hall.

• Tang Hao watched Xiao Wu leave with Mo Bai and decided not to interfere, despite disliking that she was going with him.
• Tang Hao visited Grandmaster and asked him to look after Tang San while he was away.
• Tang Hao left Grandmaster a six-image token and disappeared after saying Tang San must choose his own path.
• Grandmaster realized Tang San was Tang Hao’s son and feared he would be forced to oppose BiBi Dong and Spirit Hall.
• Grandmaster convinced himself that Tang San would listen if he asked him not to become an enemy of Spirit Hall.

Mo Bai returned to Meilin Village as a certified soul master, introduced Xiao Wu, and spent the holiday traveling with her before they returned to Notting Academy. A year and a half later, Tang San and Xiao Wu both advanced to rank 20, while Grandmaster’s theory about spirits absorbing soul rings from different types of soul beasts gained wider confirmation.

• Mo Bai returned to Meilin Village, told Su Meiqian and the villagers he was a certified soul master, and introduced Xiao Wu as another soul master.
• Mo Bai and Xiao Wu stayed in the village, where Xiao Wu questioned his supposedly useless First Soul Skill and Mo Bai sent her away so he could cultivate.
• Mo Bai spent two months traveling nearby with Xiao Wu, and they returned to Notting Academy after the holiday.
• A year and a half later, Tang San reached rank 20 and absorbed a six-hundred-year-old Ghost Vine soul ring, strengthening his Blue Silver Grass and its paralysis toxin.
• Other soul masters tested Grandmaster’s theory about plant and animal spirits absorbing each other’s soul rings, and their successes persuaded Mo Bai it was valid.
• Xiao Wu reached rank 20, slipped out without waiting for the principal, and returned after absorbing her second soul ring herself.