Chapter Summaries

Xiao Lin accompanied Tang San to the village’s Martial Soul awakening ceremony, hoping to awaken enough potential to pursue power and relying on Tang San for support. Tang San awakened Blue Silver Grass with Innate Full Soul Power, and Xiao Lin stepped forward to have his own Martial Soul awakened.

• Xiao Lin found Tang Hao drunk and went to the hill where Tang San practiced, then urged him to hurry to the awakening ceremony.
• Xiao Lin and Tang San reached the village Spirit Hall and watched Su Yuntao awaken the other children’s Martial Souls.
• Xiao Lin let Tang San go first and noticed a faint glimmer from his hidden left hand during the ceremony.
• Tang San awakened Blue Silver Grass and, after Xiao Lin encouraged him, asked Su Yuntao to test his Soul Power.
• Su Yuntao discovered Tang San had Innate Full Soul Power and invited him to join Spirit Hall, but Tang San said he needed to ask his father first.
• Xiao Lin stepped forward eagerly for his own awakening while Tang San waited nearby.

Xiao Lin awakened the Imprisoning Dragon Staff and discovered he had Innate Full Soul Power, then refused Su Yuntao’s invitation to join Spirit Hall. On the way home, he confronted Tang San about having Twin Martial Souls and speculated that his Blue Silver Grass was actually a powerful variant.

• Xiao Lin awakened the Imprisoning Dragon Staff, and Su Yuntao recognized it as a powerful Weapon Soul.
• Xiao Lin’s soul power lit the crystal ball brightly, confirming Innate Full Soul Power; Tang San watched in disbelief.
• Xiao Lin declined Su Yuntao’s offer to join Spirit Hall and told Old Jack that he and Tang San both had Innate Full Soul Power.
• After leaving with Tang San, Xiao Lin asked whether he had Twin Martial Souls, and Tang San denied knowing what that meant.
• Xiao Lin argued that Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass must be the Blue Silver King or Blue Silver Emperor, leaving Tang San silent and considering the possibility.

Xiao Lin told Tang San about the Clear Sky Hammer and the advantage of Twin Martial Souls, earning his trust while warning him to keep his second martial soul secret. Back at Old Jack’s house, Xiao Lin discovered that the Imprisoning Dragon Staff could empower his body with its Soul Power, hinting at abilities he had yet to uncover.

• Tang San revealed his Clear Sky Hammer, and Xiao Lin identified it as the world's number one Weapon Soul and suggested Tang San's father was Clear Sky Douluo.
• Xiao Lin explained how Tang San could strengthen the Blue Silver King first and later add powerful soul rings to the Clear Sky Hammer, potentially becoming the strongest Soul Master in history.
• Xiao Lin warned Tang San to hide the Clear Sky Hammer and not mention the Blue Silver King or Blue Silver Emperor to outsiders.
• Xiao Lin returned to Old Jack’s house and summoned the Imprisoning Dragon Staff, which he found could shrink from two and a half meters and weighed about one hundred kilograms.
• The Imprisoning Dragon Staff sent Soul Power into Xiao Lin’s right hand, letting him punch a crater into the ground without injury.

Xiao Lin tested the Imprisoning Dragon Staff, planned its development, and settled on an attack-boosting First Soul Ring with speed and hardness as priorities. At Tang Hao's home, Tang San revealed his Twin Martial Souls, and Tang Hao was shocked when Tang San repeated Xiao Lin's guess about the Blue Silver King or Blue Silver Emperor.

• Xiao Lin found that the Imprisoning Dragon Staff could not be damaged and gave him powerful defense, though using that defense limited its summoning time to one minute.
• Xiao Lin practiced thrusting and sweeping staff movements and decided to pursue an attack-boosting First Soul Ring, prioritizing speed and the Imprisoning Dragon Staff's hardness.
• Tang San told Tang Hao that he had awakened Blue Silver Grass, and Tang Hao urged him not to become a Soul Master.
• Tang San summoned his Clear Sky Hammer, and Tang Hao celebrated his son's Twin Martial Souls while telling him to protect the grass with the hammer and keep both secrets hidden.
• Tang San said Xiao Lin already knew about the Clear Sky Hammer and had suggested that his Blue Silver Grass might be the Blue Silver King or Blue Silver Emperor, leaving Tang Hao desperate to hear more.

Tang Hao heard Xiao Lin’s theories about Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass and visited him to test his knowledge. Xiao Lin outlined ways Blue Silver Grass could be cultivated, leaving Tang Hao shaken by the thought that Ah Yin might not have needed to sacrifice herself.

• Tang San told Tang Hao that Xiao Lin suspected his Blue Silver Grass was unusual and warned him to call it the Blue Silver King outside.
• Tang Hao learned that Xiao Lin had Innate Full Soul Power and an Imprisoning Dragon Staff, then decided to visit him with Tang San.
• At Old Jack’s house, Xiao Lin practiced with his staff and discussed going to Notting City as a work-study student.
• Tang Hao asked Xiao Lin how to cultivate Blue Silver Grass, and Xiao Lin described its adaptability, vitality, and other advantages.
• Xiao Lin said a Blue Silver Grass user focused on vitality could become nearly undying at the Titled Douluo level, and Tang Hao wondered whether Ah Yin’s sacrifice had been avoidable.

Xiao Lin persuaded Tang Hao that Tang San should develop Blue Silver Grass’s vitality, giving Tang Hao hope that Ah Yin might be revived. After outlining possible first soul rings for Tang San, Xiao Lin left Tang Hao to consider his advice.

• Xiao Lin speculated that Blue Silver Grass could camouflage itself and might one day revive someone who still had a spark of life.
• Tang Hao seized Xiao Lin and demanded to know whether Ah Yin could be revived, then instructed Tang San to choose soul rings that increased Blue Silver Grass’s vitality.
• Xiao Lin argued that vitality-focused soul rings would strengthen Tang San’s martial soul and body, while entanglement and other attack skills would be poor choices for his future.
• Tang Hao asked Xiao Lin what first soul ring Tang San should choose, and Xiao Lin recommended either Pom Pom Cotton or a Three-Eyed Salamander, preferring the salamander first.
• Xiao Lin warned Tang San against soul rings with most other attributes, especially poison, which he said could taint Blue Silver Grass and harm Tang San.

Xiao Lin and Tang San exchanged techniques on a hill outside Holy Soul Village, teaching each other the Mysterious Heaven Skill and Eight Trigrams Staff Technique. The chapter ended with Xiao Lin using his Martial Soul to overcome the staff technique’s weakness by lengthening the Imprisoning Dragon Staff.

• Xiao Lin sparred with Tang San and asked whether he had questioned Tang Hao about being the Clear Sky Douluo.
• Xiao Lin offered Tang San the meditation method and Heart Separation Control, but Tang San judged the meditation method inferior to the Mysterious Heaven Skill.
• Tang San agreed to teach Xiao Lin the Mysterious Heaven Skill and Eight Trigrams Staff Technique, and Xiao Lin accepted.
• Tang San explained that the Eight Trigrams Staff Technique’s dead gate could leave its user open to counterattacks.
• Xiao Lin poured Soul Power into the Imprisoning Dragon Staff during a strike through the dead gate, lengthening it to two and a half meters and piercing the hill’s rocks.

Xiao Lin refined the Eight Trigrams Staff Technique to suit his Imprisoning Dragon Staff and discovered that the Mysterious Heaven Skill strengthened his soul power and formed a defensive shield he named the Indestructible Divine Skill. He planned to develop Soul Core cultivation and take Tang San to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, then continued cultivating.

• Xiao Lin removed staff techniques that did not suit his Imprisoning Dragon Staff, making his practice easier and faster.
• Xiao Lin cultivated the Mysterious Heaven Skill and recognized that it could deepen and compress his soul power while improving his control.
• Xiao Lin discovered that circulating the Mysterious Heaven Skill created a faint Indestructible Soul Power Shield, which he named a Self-Created Soul Skill and part of his Indestructible Divine Skill.
• Xiao Lin considered developing a Soul Core cultivation method with Tang San and Xiao Wu, and planned to seek Dugu Bo's help and conduct experiments.
• Xiao Lin chose Heaven Dou Royal Academy as the best future destination for himself and Tang San, then resumed cultivating the Indestructible Divine Skill.

Xiao Lin and Tang San continued training together while Xiao Lin developed a theory that soul power changed according to the attributes of a martial soul and its soul rings. Xiao Lin left Tang San testing the theory, intending to publish it through Spirit Hall if the results confirmed it.

• Xiao Lin gained a slight edge over Tang San in their month of barehanded sparring, relying on his Indestructible Divine Skill and direct attacks.
• Xiao Lin urged Tang San to master the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer so he could learn the Chaotic Cloak Staff Technique, while Xiao Lin continued researching martial souls.
• Xiao Lin presented his Soul Power Circulation Theory, proposing that soul power absorbed attributes as it passed through martial souls and soul rings.
• Xiao Lin cited Tang San, Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan, Su Yuntao, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as evidence for his theory.
• Xiao Lin had Tang San test whether using Blue Silver Grass transformed his soul power and let him control more grass, planning to publish the theory at Spirit Hall if it worked.

Xiao Lin examined how Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul affected his Soul Power and recorded its growth, while warning him against conventional binding and poison Soul Skills. Tang San revealed that he had devised a hidden Blue Silver Grass trap, earning Xiao Lin’s approval.

• Xiao Lin asked Tang San about changes to his Soul Power, and Tang San reported a slight rise in Vitality but little conversion.
• Xiao Lin told Tang San that binding and poison Soul Skills would slow Blue Silver Grass’s Vitality conversion and advised him to wait for his first Soul Skill.
• Xiao Lin asked Tang San to use Blue Silver Entanglement so he could measure and record the grass’s growth.
• Tang San used the same amount of Soul Power to grow Blue Silver Grass taller than the two of them, and Xiao Lin measured its height.
• Xiao Lin questioned why Tang San had not made the grass bind anything, and Tang San revealed hidden Blue Silver Grass Beast-Trapping Rings beneath it.
• Xiao Lin praised Tang San’s camouflage-and-trap strategy.

Xiao Lin, Tang San, and Old Jack traveled to Notting City, where Xiao Lin and Tang San enrolled at Notting Academy. After they left, Yu Xiaogang found their Innate Full Soul Power records and decided they could verify his theories.

• Old Jack took Xiao Lin and Tang San to Notting City, and he offered to cover Tang San’s tuition so he could enroll.
• Xiao Lin, Tang San, and Old Jack reached Notting Academy, where the Gatekeeper Youth mocked them and questioned their right to enter.
• Xiao Lin summoned his Horned Dragon Staff Soul and threatened the Gatekeeper Youth, who immediately changed his attitude and let them in.
• Xiao Lin and Tang San registered and paid tuition, with classes set to begin in two months.
• Yu Xiaogang found Xiao Lin and Tang San listed as geniuses with Innate Full Soul Power and excitedly concluded that they could verify his theories.

After Tang Hao returned with a weakened Three-Eyed Salamander, Xiao Lin identified it as a roughly 450-year-old Soul Beast and encouraged Tang San to absorb its Soul Ring despite its age exceeding the usual limit. Tang San killed the Salamander and began absorbing the yellow Soul Ring while Xiao Lin recorded his observations.

• Xiao Lin praised Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass Knot after testing how firmly its roots held in the ground.
• Tang Hao returned with a weakened Three-Eyed Salamander as Tang San’s first Soul Beast.
• Xiao Lin estimated the Salamander was about 450 years old from its horn branches, tail scars, and regeneration, and Tang Hao confirmed its repeated tail regrowth.
• Xiao Lin urged Tang San to absorb the Salamander’s Soul Ring, arguing that the weakened Soul Beast would be manageable despite exceeding the usual 423-year limit.
• Tang San killed the Three-Eyed Salamander with a dagger from Tang Hao and began drawing in its yellow Soul Ring as Xiao Lin took notes.

Tang San tested the healing, sensing, and Soul Power transmission abilities of his Blue Silver Regeneration Bracelet while Xiao Lin assessed its potential and developed two new hypotheses. Xiao Lin began explaining his first theory, which linked a Soul Master's cognition to the selection and number of Soul Skills.

• Tang San described and demonstrated his First Soul Skill, the Blue Silver Regeneration Bracelet, which healed, transmitted Soul Power, and sensed others’ positions.
• Xiao Lin tested the bracelet’s limits and recorded that Tang San could use it on three people, had increased vitality, and could regenerate his Blue Silver Grass without harm when it was shattered.
• Xiao Lin rated the soul skill’s potential as SS Level and identified possible future Self-Created Soul Skills in its transmission, sensing, and binding abilities.
• Xiao Lin announced two new hypotheses and explained that his first concerned how a Soul Master’s cognition affected the selection and number of Soul Skills.

Xiao Lin explained his theories that a Soul Master's cognition and martial spirit could shape Soul Ring abilities, then introduced the Spirit Shattering Evolution Theory. Tang Hao and Tang San were left stunned by his claim that martial spirits could evolve, especially after he connected it to the Clear Sky Sect's Great Sumeru Hammer.

• Xiao Lin argued that a Soul Ring could grant abilities shaped by a Soul Master's cognition, using Tang San's perception and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's Strength Amplification as examples.
• Tang San questioned how the theory worked, and Xiao Lin explained that Spirit Affinity and Soul Masters' beliefs limited what abilities they could gain.
• Xiao Lin said he wanted to study whether ten-thousand-year Soul Rings could grant multiple functions or enable Soul Masters to create their own skills.
• Tang Hao reconsidered Yu Xiaogang's teaching and asked Xiao Lin about his other hypothesis.
• Xiao Lin named his new idea the Spirit Shattering Evolution Theory, based on Tang San's Blue Silver Grass shattering and regenerating.
• Xiao Lin cited the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's hopes for martial spirit evolution and asked whether the Clear Sky Hammer and Great Sumeru Hammer suggested evolution; Tang Hao and Tang San froze in shock.

Xiao Lin explained his Spirit Shattering Evolution Theory and persuaded Tang San to try shattering and regenerating his Blue Silver Grass. Tang Hao agreed to help Xiao Lin obtain a First Soul Ring, and Xiao Lin insisted on attempting an unusually old Great Strength Vajra Bull soul ring because of his powerful body.

• Xiao Lin told Tang Hao and Tang San that absorbing soul rings could evolve martial souls, suggesting that Tang San might develop his Blue Silver Grass into the Blue Silver Emperor or evolve the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Xiao Lin proposed that Tang San repeatedly shatter and regenerate his Blue Silver Grass, and Tang San agreed to try it once a day.
• Tang Hao told Tang San to collect his Soul Master money from Spirit Hall, then offered to help Xiao Lin obtain his First Soul Ring.
• Xiao Lin named a 500-year Great Strength Vajra Bull as his target, surprising Tang Hao and Tang San with its age.
• Xiao Lin demonstrated his Indestructible Divine Skill by punching a deep hole in the ground, and Tang Hao agreed to take him to the Soul Hunting Forest with a warning to abandon the absorption if it proved impossible.
• Xiao Lin asked to attempt an 800-year Great Strength Vajra Bull instead, and Tang Hao agreed while cautioning him about the risks.

Xiao Lin and Tang Hao entered the Soul Hunting Forest to find a Great Strength Vajra Bull for Xiao Lin’s First Soul Ring. Xiao Lin killed the nearly eight-hundred-year-old beast and began absorbing its golden soul ring with the Indestructible Divine Skill.

• Xiao Lin followed Tang Hao into the forest through a gap in the fence, and Tang Hao said he would leave Xiao San in Xiao Lin’s care after the hunt.
• Tang Hao carried Xiao Lin to the Great Strength Vajra Bull’s grassland territory, leaving Xiao Lin dizzy from the speed.
• Xiao Lin chose the largest bull, whose horn markings showed it was close to eight hundred years old.
• Tang Hao used the Clear Sky Hammer’s gravity-like Soul Power to crush the bull into the grass.
• Xiao Lin stabbed the immobilized bull in the eye and destroyed its brain, killing it.
• A golden soul ring appeared above the corpse, and Xiao Lin sat down to absorb it with the Indestructible Divine Skill.

Xiao Lin survived absorbing the Great Strength Vajra Bull’s nearly eight-hundred-year-old Soul Ring when the Imprisoning Dragon Staff suppressed and transformed the dangerous Soul Power. He left the Soul Hunting Forest with Tang Hao and learned that his first soul skill was All or Nothing.

• Xiao Lin summoned the Imprisoning Dragon Staff to suppress the Great Strength Vajra Bull’s Soul Power after it ruptured his Meridians.
• The Soul Ring attached itself to the Imprisoning Dragon Staff, whose Soul Power stabilized Xiao Lin and formed a silver Soul Power Meridian in his body.
• Xiao Lin successfully absorbed the Soul Ring, advanced to soul power level 13, and broke through the restrictions on cultivating the Indestructible Divine Skill.
• Tang Hao stored the Great Strength Vajra Bull and told Xiao Lin to look after Little San, then took Xiao Lin out of the Soul Hunting Forest.
• Xiao Lin noticed his body had grown stronger and learned that his first soul skill was All or Nothing.

After returning to Holy Soul Village, Xiao Lin showed Tang San his powerful first soul skill and discovered that his increased strength came from a pair of retractable External Soul Bone horns. He explained what they were and warned Tang San to keep them secret.

• Xiao Lin returned to Holy Soul Village and hurried to Tang San, boasting that Tang Hao had carried him back quickly and that the Great Strength Vajra Bull would provide them with beef for two months.
• Xiao Lin told Tang San that his All or Nothing soul skill increased his attack by 400%, while the Imprisoning Dragon Staff's hardness increased by 50%, and said that activating the Indestructible Divine Skill could raise the attack increase to 800%.
• Tang San questioned why Xiao Lin's strength had more than doubled when the soul skill itself did not seem to amplify strength, prompting Xiao Lin to consider the cause.
• Tang San noticed two small horns on Xiao Lin's forehead, and Xiao Lin realized they were an External Soul Bone that increased his strength and could retract when he used Soul Power.
• Xiao Lin explained External Soul Bones to Tang San and warned him not to tell anyone about the horns.

On the way to Notting City, Xiao Lin worried that publishing his Martial Soul theories could expose him to danger, but Tang San offered to share his Storage Soul Tool. Xiao Lin then decided they could publish anonymously in disguise, leaving Tang San apprehensive about the plan.

• Xiao Lin and Tang San set off for Notting City without Grandpa Old Jack, and Xiao Lin considered earning money by publishing his theories to buy a Storage Soul Tool.
• Tang San offered to let Xiao Lin keep using his Soul Tool, and Xiao Lin agreed to delay publishing until he had studied and experimented more and found a reliable backer.
• Xiao Lin changed his mind about waiting and proposed disguising themselves to publish their thesis anonymously at Spirit Hall.
• Xiao Lin pulled a large black cloak from Tang San's Soul Tool and insisted they wear it, while Tang San wondered how they would handle being asked for identification.

Xiao Lin and Tang San registered as Soul Masters at Notting City's Spirit Hall, then rejected Ma Xiunuo's invitation to join because they wanted to pursue their own ideas about soul-ring cultivation. Ma Xiunuo accepted their choice and offered them a place to sleep for the night.

• Xiao Lin brought Tang San to Spirit Hall and told Ma Xiunuo that they had both become Soul Masters.
• Ma Xiunuo registered Xiao Lin's Horned Dragon Staff with a four-hundred-year Great Strength Vajra Bull Soul Ring and Tang San's Blue Silver Grass with a four-hundred-year Three-Eyed Salamander Soul Ring.
• Ma Xiunuo invited Xiao Lin and Tang San to join Spirit Hall, but both refused because they considered its theories outdated and wanted to choose their own soul rings.
• Xiao Lin explained how his different approach to soul-ring choices had helped Su Yuntao gain the Howl skill and improve his combat ability.
• Ma Xiunuo accepted their decision, offered to take them to collect their monthly Gold Soul Coins, and invited them to sleep in Spirit Hall's study.