Vol. 3The Nascent Soul and Parallel Worlds

Yu Xiaogang trained Tang San and the other disciples, developed a new cultivation method, and prepared an Explorer to investigate a parallel world. After Tang San reached the Nascent Soul Realm and grew a powerful Soul Ring, Yu Xiaogang crossed worlds and revealed to Tang Hao that Ah Yin was alive.

  • Xiao Wu reunited with Ah Rou as Yu Xiaogang began preparing Ah Rou’s resurrection, while Tang San and the other disciples trained and explored Soul Tools.
  • Flender recruited Oscar and Ma Hongjun, and Yu Xiaogang addressed Ma Hongjun’s dangerous Evil Fire Phoenix mutation.
  • Yu Xiaogang introduced Soul Tool weapons and armor and guided Tang San and Yu Linglong in splitting their Spirit Origins to create growth-type Artificial Soul Rings.
  • Yu Xiaogang gave Tang San a specially prepared pill and monitored his body to study how it was absorbed.
  • Yu Xiaogang formed a golden nascent core and taught his revised Longevity Art to his disciples.
  • Tang San formed a nascent core seed, survived a dangerous energy surge with Yu Xiaogang’s help, and reached the Nascent Soul Realm.
  • Yu Xiaogang guided Tang San’s cultivation and prepared the Explorer to cross into a parallel world, where he confronted alternate versions of his old companions.
  • Yu Xiaogang confronted Tang Hao and revealed that Ah Yin was still alive.
Chapters 202–302 Read from ch. 202

Arc 9New Disciples and Resurrection

Yu Xiaogang reunited Xiao Wu with Ah Rou and began preparing to resurrect her, while Tang San and his companions trained and learned more about Soul Tools. Flender recruited Oscar and Ma Hongjun for Shrek Academy, and Yu Xiaogang started addressing Ma Hongjun’s dangerous Martial Soul mutation.

  • Xiao Wu arrived in Notting City, met Tang San, and joined his family, where she discovered he was a boy and declared he had to take responsibility for her.
  • Tang San awakened a Light Blue Silver Emperor and a Hammer of Light, while Yu Linglong awakened two powerful Martial Souls and Yu Xiaogang prepared the children for training.
  • Tang San killed an Evil Soul Master who had massacred villagers, then tested his skills and Soul Tool weapons under Yu Xiaogang’s guidance.
  • Yu Xiaogang released Ah Rou’s soul consciousness from his Spirit Bone, allowing her to reunite with Xiao Wu, and began cultivating an embryo for Ah Rou’s resurrection.
  • Flender recruited Oscar, whose Sausage Martial Soul had level-10 innate soul power, and Ma Hongjun, whose mutated Evil Fire Phoenix caused dangerous heat and excess weight.
  • Yu Xiaogang examined Ma Hongjun and prescribed the Qi and Blood Bone Forging Method, while Flender tasked Oscar and Ma Hongjun with studying under him.
  • Oscar and Ma Hongjun met Tang San and the others, and Xiao Wu introduced Tang San as her childhood husband and a boy.
  • Flender turned his attention to the All-Continent Soul Master Competition as Yu Xiaogang led Oscar and Ma Hongjun to the Training Field.
Chapters 202–226 Summaries Read

Arc 10Soul Tools and Growing Rings

Yu Xiaogang trained his disciples, introduced them to Soul Tool weapons and armor, and developed growth-type Artificial Soul Rings by splitting Tang San and Yu Linglong’s Spirit Origins. The arc left Tang San taking a specially prepared pill while Yu Xiaogang studied how his body absorbed it.

  • Yu Xiaogang adjusted Ma Hongjun’s training and helped ease his Evil Fire, while he gave Oscar access to Soul Tool research and Tang San responsibility for the herb garden.
  • Yu Xiaogang refused Tang San’s request to consume immortal herbs and instead offered him a painful body-tempering method, while Ning Rongrong demonstrated her formidable strength and injured herself during sparring.
  • Yu Xiaogang introduced the disciples to Soul Tool weapons, and Tang San tested a Gauss Weapon by blasting a hole through a steel plate.
  • Dai Mubai left for Notting City to seek training, while Qian Renxue concealed Xue Qinghe’s death and began plotting to gain control of Heaven Dou’s resources.
  • Yu Xiaogang let Ning Rongrong choose Vi gauntlets and promised to customize Soul Tool Armor for his disciples, then taught them to make Soul Tool components.
  • Yu Xiaogang explained his growth-type Artificial Soul Ring research and taught Tang San and Yu Linglong to split off portions of their Spirit Origins, which they successfully stored in crystals.
  • Yu Xiaogang introduced pills made with Soul Power extracted from Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and agreed to let Tang San study alchemy while tending the herb garden.
  • Yu Xiaogang monitored Tang San’s body as he absorbed a specially prepared pill, hoping to learn how to recreate the Six Treasures Immortal Thief.
Chapters 227–252 Summaries Read

Arc 11The Nascent Soul Breakthrough

Yu Xiaogang developed the Six Treasures Immortal Thief into a new cultivation path, formed a Nascent Core, and taught the technique to his disciples. Tang San unexpectedly formed a nascent core seed, survived a dangerous energy surge, and reached the Nascent Soul Realm, leaving him transformed and ready to absorb his First Soul Ring.

  • Tang San purged Pill Poison while Yu Xiaogang used his and Ma Hongjun’s data to investigate the Six Treasures Immortal Thief and its effects on the body.
  • Yu Xiaogang and Deep Blue developed the technique by strengthening the organs gradually and combining soul consciousness, Bloodline Power, and Soul Power.
  • Yu Xiaogang cultivated the technique himself, formed a golden nascent core, gained Spiritual Power, and named his revised method the Nascent Soul Chapter of the Longevity Art.
  • Yu Xiaogang taught the Six Treasures Immortal Thief to his disciples and used sensing headbands to help Oscar, Ma Hongjun, and Xiao Wu develop their Mental Power.
  • Tang San’s first cultivation session unexpectedly formed a phantom core that absorbed Heaven and Earth Energy, damaging his body as it rapidly repaired itself.
  • Yu Xiaogang tamed the energy storm and helped Tang San control the nascent core, completing his cultivation and changing his appearance.
  • Tang San woke naked on the Training Field, changed into Xiao Wu’s pink pajamas, accepted his transformation, and prepared to absorb his First Soul Ring.
Chapters 253–277 Summaries Read

Arc 12The Parallel World Encounter

Yu Xiaogang advanced Tang San and his disciples while preparing an Explorer to cross into a parallel world. There, he confronted alternate versions of his old companions and reached Tang Hao, revealing that Ah Yin was still alive.

  • Yu Xiaogang taught his disciples about the God Realm’s exploitation of Douluo Star and began guiding Tang San and Yu Linglong through Artificial Growth Soul Rings.
  • Tang San comprehended the Law of Life, grew his first ring into a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, and developed Myriad Things Grow as a Self-Created Soul Skill.
  • The Goddess of Life marked Tang San for a God Trial, but Yu Xiaogang sealed the mark and kept his strength concealed while the disciples trained.
  • Yu Xiaogang and Deep Blue built the Explorer to investigate a parallel world, and Yu Xiaogang sent his Divine Sense through a Space-Time Energy Wormhole.
  • In the parallel world, Yu Xiaogang met Liu Erlong and Flender, showed them how their lives differed from those of their counterparts, and urged them to reconnect.
  • Yu Xiaogang challenged the original Yu Xiaogang’s beliefs about Luo Sanpao, gave him cultivation methods, and asked him to find a disciple for a contest between their Tang Sans.
  • At Holy Soul Village, Yu Xiaogang sensed that Tang San’s consciousness had been affected by the God of Asura and confronted Tang Hao, forcing back his Clear Sky Hammer before revealing that Ah Yin was alive.
Chapters 278–302 Summaries Read
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