Chapter Summaries

The Black Robed Old Man strengthened the Bullet Bee with his Bloody Agate and ordered it to attack Xiao Lin. Xiao Lin used his Indestructible Body to withstand its strikes, then threw his empowered Imprisoning Dragon Staff at the fleeing old man.

• The Black Robed Old Man implanted the Bloody Agate into the Bullet Bee, boosting its power and covering it in blood-red armor.
• Xiao Lin and Wang Neng discussed their plan as the Black Robed Old Man prepared to attack; Xiao Lin taunted him to draw the Bullet Bee’s attention.
• The Bullet Bee struck Xiao Lin, but his Indestructible Body blocked its stinger, and its attacks pushed him toward the Black Robed Old Man.
• The Black Robed Old Man ordered Tang San and Su Yuntao to stop Wang Neng and Shi Dan, then fled while the Bullet Bee kept attacking Xiao Lin.
• Xiao Lin activated his First Soul Skill, All or Nothing, and threw the empowered Imprisoning Dragon Staff at the Black Robed Old Man.

Xiao Lin used Tang San’s Soul Power and Sleeve Arrow to kill the Black Robed Old Man after the Bullet Bee nearly stopped his attack. With the Bullet Bee still alive and Xiao Lin exhausted, Tang San rushed toward it as Xiao Lin prepared to fight again.

• Xiao Lin’s Imprisoning Dragon Staff shattered a tree and wounded the Bullet Bee, but the Bee’s body weakened his attack and let the Black Robed Old Man escape death.
• The Black Robed Old Man sent the Bullet Bee after Xiao Lin, who had too little Soul Power left to use Weapon Soul True Body.
• Tang San’s Blue Silver Regeneration Bracelet supplied Xiao Lin with Soul Power, and Tang San struck the Black Robed Old Man with a Sleeve Arrow.
• Xiao Lin used All or Nothing to blast the Black Robed Old Man into a cloud of blood, while the Bullet Bee survived with its cultivation reduced to less than five hundred years.
• After regaining consciousness, Tang San dashed toward the injured Bullet Bee as Xiao Lin summoned the Imprisoning Dragon Staff to face it.

Xiao Lin defeated the Bullet Bee and the Black Robed Old Man, then secretly kept a blood-red agate while Tang San retrieved a mysterious book from the corpse. The group prepared to leave the Soul Hunting Forest, with Su Yuntao claiming the Black Robed Old Man’s Storage Soul Tool and Xiao Lin realizing Tang San had given him Su Yuntao’s Blue Silver Regeneration Bracelet.

• The Bullet Bee died after Xiao Lin defeated it, and Xiao Lin secretly stored the blood-red agate it dropped.
• Xiao Lin asked Tang San to search the Black Robed Old Man’s corpse, and Tang San took a book that had survived Xiao Lin’s blows.
• A yellow Soul Ring appeared above the dead Bullet Bee, and Su Yuntao arrived to check on Xiao Lin and Tang San.
• Su Yuntao found the Black Robed Old Man’s Storage Soul Tool and proposed dividing its contents after they left the forest.
• Xiao Lin helped the exhausted-looking Tang San up and noticed that Tang San had given him Su Yuntao’s Blue Silver Regeneration Bracelet.

The group divided the Black Robed Old Man’s spoils and discovered that his Blood-Red Loquat Fruit increased Innate Soul Power at the cost of addiction and hallucinations. Xiao Lin took the fruit to dispose of it and considered testing its effects on Soul Beasts, then investigated Xiao Gui’s newly transformed healing Martial Soul before going to sleep beside Tang San.

• The group split the Storage Soul Tool’s value and the Black Robed Old Man’s 2,013 Gold Soul Coins according to their contributions, with Xiao Gui using her share to repay the commission fee.
• The group found the Blood-Red Loquat Fruit and learned from the Black Robed Old Man’s journals that it raised Innate Soul Power by one level but caused addiction and hallucinations; Xiao Lin took responsibility for disposing of it.
• Xiao Lin questioned Xiao Gui about absorbing her Soul Ring and using her Soul Incantation, and she said she felt healthy and full of vitality.
• Xiao Lin recorded his assessment that Xiao Gui’s Moon Osmanthus had healing potential but limited prospects for evolution, then told Tang San that becoming a healing-type Food Soul Master would be easier than copying Martial Souls.
• Xiao Lin warned Tang San to wait until they got home before discussing something sensitive, then pushed him to the edge of the bed and fell asleep.

Back at Notting Academy, Xiao Lin investigated the Black Robed Old Man’s Blood-Red Loquat Fruit, Blood-Red Agate, and Black Book, learning how they could produce a fear-based soul bone and rejecting its Evil power. The Black Book’s diary revealed that Shi Ke’s parents were killed outside Martial Soul City shortly after he awakened his Mischief Ruby Martial Soul.

• Xiao Lin learned that the Blood-Red Loquat Fruit could induce a soul beast’s illusion and help create a soul bone through torment, but he lacked the illusion skills to use it as intended.
• Xiao Lin discovered that the Blood-Red Agate was an inferior External Soul Bone formed from the Bullet Bee’s Soul Power, Vitality, and fear, and he decided to keep it for research rather than absorb or destroy it.
• Xiao Lin considered whether love could offer a safer way to create soul bones, then turned to the Black Book’s account of Martial Soul Fusion secrets.
• Shi Ke recorded that Spirit Hall recruited him after he awakened the Mischief Ruby Martial Soul and brought him to Martial Soul City, leaving his parents outside the city.
• Shi Ke wrote that thugs beat his parents to death outside Martial Soul City, and he vowed revenge.

Shi Ke’s journal revealed how his revenge, experiments, and bond with Wu Feng led to a Martial Soul Fusion Skill and the Mischief Ruby, before a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit and the Titan Giant Ape killed him. After reading the account, Xiao Lin concluded that mutual trust and connected hearts were likely the key to Martial Soul Fusion Skills and wondered whether he and Little San could achieve one.

• Shi Ke recorded how he used his soul skills to slaughter civilians outside Spirit City, then escaped and later discovered that he and Wu Feng could fuse their martial souls because they had once trusted each other as brothers.
• Shi Ke enslaved a village, raised a daughter with his aptitude, and used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill to attack Spirit Hall before Wu Feng captured him and later fought him again.
• Shi Ke experimented on Soft Bone Rabbits and developed a method of forming soul bones from their fear, but a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit and the Titan Giant Ape crushed him.
• Xiao Lin finished reading Shi Ke’s Black Book and identified the Blood-Red Agate External Soul Bone as the Spirit Attribute Mischief Ruby.
• Xiao Lin reasoned that Martial Soul Fusion Skills depended on mutual trust and connected hearts, then wondered whether he and Little San could use one.

Xiao Lin drafted a thesis showing how Soul Masters could develop seemingly weak Spirits, using a Ball of Yarn Spirit Data Panel to illustrate its abilities. He then evaluated his own Horned Dragon Staff and began preparing panels for Tang San and Xiao Wu, who arrived at the Secret Base and asked about his ambitions.

• Xiao Lin outlined several ways a Ball of Yarn Spirit could gain scouting, cutting, healing, and parasitic abilities through carefully chosen Soul Rings.
• Xiao Lin created a seven-stat Spirit Data Panel for the Ball of Yarn and decided the panel would be the thesis’s key feature.
• Xiao Lin assessed his Horned Dragon Staff, judged its potential to be immense, and decided to seek a fast Soul Beast—preferably one with lightning attributes—for his next Soul Ring.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu entered the Secret Base after their lesson and saw Xiao Lin’s Spirit Data Panel and his self-description as the Destruction Dragon of the Empire.
• Xiao Lin explained that the panel would help determine his future path and told Tang San and Xiao Wu he was preparing panels for them too.

Xiao Lin showed Tang San and Xiao Wu their Spirit Data Panels, then explained his research into Soul Bones and his plan to attempt a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Tang San. The chapter left them considering how their trust and Soul Power might let them fuse their Martial Souls.

• Tang San accepted his Blue Silver Grass panel because he believed its growth potential and Life Energy would let it evolve, while Xiao Wu was upset by her Soft Bone Rabbit’s weak ratings but took comfort in her Self-Condensed Soul Rings.
• Xiao Lin explained that the black-covered book described Blood-Red Loquat Fruit, Blood-Red Agate, and Martial Soul Fusion Skills, and said he wanted to research Soul Bones without harming good-natured Soul Beasts.
• Xiao Wu worried that Xiao Lin’s research was evil, but relaxed when he said he would focus on evil Soul Beasts and avoid the first two methods except for research or trade.
• Tang San wondered how Blue Silver Grass and the Imprisoning Dragon Staff could fuse, and Xiao Lin explained that a Martial Soul Fusion Skill depended on Bonds and could initially let him use Tang San’s Soul Power.
• Tang San recognized the potential of combining their Soul Power, but asked what could trigger the fusion, and Xiao Lin suggested crisis, mutual understanding, and trust in desperate situations.

Bibi Dong read Xiao Lin’s thesis on the Spirit Data Panel and recognized its potential to identify and cultivate Soul Masters with specialized talents. She decided Martial Soul Hall would keep the thesis secret until its geniuses won the competition three years later, then publish it and recruit functional Soul Masters.

• Xiao Lin sent his thesis to Spirit City under Old Yao’s name, and Bibi Dong recognized it as Xiao Yan’s work.
• Bibi Dong realized the Spirit Data Panel could reveal a martial spirit’s strengths and help identify Soul Beasts and Soul Skills suited to it.
• Bibi Dong summoned Yue Guan to read the thesis and ordered Gui Mei to control everyone who had encountered it.
• Yue Guan recommended withholding the thesis so Martial Soul Hall could use it to develop its Golden Generation.
• Bibi Dong decided Martial Soul Hall would release the thesis after its geniuses won the competition three years later and would recruit specialized functional Soul Masters.

Ning Fengzhi considered an alliance with the Xu Family and began planning ties with clans abandoned by the Clear Sky Sect. At Shrek Academy, Ma Hongjun collapsed during Yu Xiaogang’s training, and the adults debated how to handle his Evil Fire.

• Spirit Hall released a revised Thesis that concealed its valuable material, defeating Ning Fengzhi’s attempt to pressure it into publishing more.
• The Xu Family offered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect a marriage alliance, and Ning Fengzhi refused to marry out Ning Rongrong while considering other cooperation and alliances.
• Yu Xiaogang dismissed Spirit Hall’s Thesis and sent Ma Hongjun to train, but Zhao Wuji soon reported that Ma Hongjun had fainted.
• Zhao Wuji and Shao Xin questioned Yu Xiaogang’s approach and suggested strengthening Ma Hongjun’s Phoenix Bloodline, but Yu Xiaogang defended his training plan.
• Oscar revealed that Ma Hongjun had tried to relieve his Evil Fire the previous night, and Yu Xiaogang proposed using visits to a pleasure house as a reward for completing training.

Xiao Lin spent the semester investigating Soul Incantations as a possible key to a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, then returned to Holy Soul Village with Tang San for winter vacation. Tang San read a letter revealing that his father had left, while Xiao Lin reunited with Old Jack.

• Xiao Lin reasoned through possible purposes for Soul Incantations and decided to test different incantations with Tang San and Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Lin, Tang San, and Xiao Wu finished their first semester, with Xiao Lin at level 19 and Tang San and Xiao Wu at level 18.
• Xiao Lin and Tang San saw Xiao Wu off as she returned to the Star Dou Great Forest, then headed to Holy Soul Village.
• Xiao Lin and Tang San arrived at Old Jack's house, where Old Jack welcomed them and said Tang San's father had left a letter.
• Old Jack gave Tang San the letter, while Xiao Lin gave Old Jack the Soft Bone Rabbit milk candies he had bought.

Xiao Lin and Tang San held a mushroom-picking contest, but Tang San won by using his vitality to grow mushrooms. After Xiao Lin sensed danger in a shaded area on the mountain, he brought Tang San back to investigate, where Tang San detected a presence above Blue Silver Grass.

• Xiao Lin accepted Tang San's challenge to find the biggest non-poisonous mushroom and raced to the far side of the mountain.
• Tang San used his Blue Silver Grass to locate mushrooms and stimulated their growth with vitality, while Xiao Lin searched a shadowy patch and sensed danger.
• Xiao Lin found Tang San growing mushrooms, conceded the contest, and asked him to probe the dangerous area with his Blue Silver Grass.
• Tang San returned with Xiao Lin and was overwhelmed by an aura that his Blue Silver Grass sensed as belonging to someone above it.
• Xiao Lin suggested the presence might be a lucky opportunity for Tang San.

Xiao Lin and Tang San discovered a hidden cave after Xiao Lin shattered the boulder concealing it, and Xiao Lin suspected a Demon Eye Magic Tree was inside. The chapter ended with Xiao Lin preparing to enter the cave while Tang San stood ready to pull him back.

• Tang San sensed a powerful presence in the shade, so Xiao Lin moved them away and Tang San activated his Blue Silver Regeneration Bracelet for safety.
• Xiao Lin used All or Nothing to hurl the Imprisoning Dragon Staff at the shade, shattering a boulder and revealing a misty cave.
• Tang San found no Blue Silver Grass inside the cave and could no longer sense the presence that had oppressed him.
• Xiao Lin suspected a Demon Eye Magic Tree was using its intelligence to lure them inside, and explained that it might strengthen Tang San's Mental Power.
• Xiao Lin told Tang San to bind him with Blue Silver Grass and pull him out if he fell silent after entering the cave.

Xiao Lin and Tang San discovered a powerful Mutated Demon Eye Magic Tree in a cave, and Xiao Lin decided to train against its paralysis skill. He also planned an experiment with the tree’s fused Head Soul Bone and the Blood-Red Agate.

• Xiao Lin entered the cave, where a Mutated Demon Eye Magic Tree paralyzed him and attacked with corrosive gas.
• Tang San pulled Xiao Lin out and checked that he was safe while seeing the gas corrode the Blue Silver Grass.
• After recovering, Xiao Lin told Tang San about the tree’s abilities, its over-five-thousand-year cultivation, and the Head Soul Bone fused into its trunk.
• Xiao Lin proposed using the tree’s paralysis to train their Mental Power and Heart Separation Control, and Tang San agreed to train with him.
• Xiao Lin planned to test whether the Blood-Red Agate could fuse with the tree’s Head Soul Bone and suspected the cave had belonged to Holy Soul Village’s Soul Saint.

While Xiao Lin and Tang San trained their Mental Power, Xiao Wu returned to the Star Dou Great Forest and reunited with Er Ming and Da Ming. She showed off her knowledge and rapid growth, leaving both giant Soul Beasts impressed by how much stronger she had become.

• Xiao Lin entered the cave to train against the Demon Eye Magic Tree while Tang San guarded the entrance and prepared to protect him.
• Xiao Wu released her Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast aura and frightened several Wind Baboons to death as she traveled through the forest.
• Da Ming sent Er Ming to bring Xiao Wu back, and both giant Soul Beasts reduced their size before setting out.
• Er Ming found Xiao Wu in the outer forest and carried her toward the Core Area as she boasted about her learning and Level eighteen cultivation.
• Xiao Wu returned to the Lake of Life, where Da Ming and Er Ming welcomed her and Da Ming remarked on how much stronger she had grown.

Xiao Wu returned to the Star Dou Great Forest to train with Da Ming and Er Ming, while Xiao Lin and Tang San continued exploiting the Mutated Demon Eye Magic Tree to improve their control and Mental Power. Xiao Wu fled from the intense training, and Xiao Lin remained focused on reducing the paralysis long enough for Tang San to begin training.

• Da Ming and Er Ming learned that two human children from a rural village had advancement speed and talent rivaling or surpassing Xiao Wu's.
• Xiao Wu asked Da Ming and Er Ming to train her with gravity and the Slow Domain so she could reach level twenty and condense a powerful soul ring.
• A few days later, Xiao Wu escaped their demanding training and hid beneath a tree, complaining that they gave her no rest.
• Xiao Lin and Tang San repeatedly trained against the Mutated Demon Eye Magic Tree, and Xiao Lin reduced its paralysis effect to five seconds.
• Xiao Lin discovered that circulating Meridians and Soul Power could move his paralyzed body and help widen his Meridians, while his Mental Power and Heart Separation Control advanced.
• Tang San praised Xiao Lin's rapid progress, and Xiao Lin said he only needed to hold the paralysis below half a second before Tang San could start training.

Two months after training against the Mutated Demon Eye Magic Tree, Xiao Lin and Tang San made one final attempt to retrieve the Soul Saint's relics. Xiao Lin reached the cave depths, but the tree trapped him in repeated paralysis as vines closed in.

• Xiao Lin and Tang San prepared for their final attempt, with Xiao Lin entering the cave while Tang San secured him with Blue Silver Grass and the Blue Silver Regeneration Waistband.
• Xiao Lin activated his Weapon Soul True Body and used the Imprisoning Dragon Staff to withstand the tree's mental paralysis and disperse its weakened corrosive gas.
• Xiao Lin closed his eyes to avoid the tree's shifting eyes, cut through the vines, and advanced toward Soul Saint's Hut.
• The severed vines regenerated with eye-like holes, allowing the tree to paralyze Xiao Lin repeatedly as vines crept closer to bind him.

Xiao Lin escaped the Mutated Demon Eye Magic Tree’s vine and sonic paralysis by relying on Tang San’s soul power and visualizing the Imprisoning Dragon Staff. He broke through in soul power and mental strength, then walked into the Soul Saint’s small house.

• The Mutated Demon Eye Magic Tree bound Xiao Lin in vines, but Tang San supplied soul power through the Blue Silver Grass.
• Xiao Lin used the Imprisoning Dragon Staff and his High-Frequency Scalpel technique to cut through the vines.
• The Demon Eye Magic Tree paralyzed Xiao Lin and Tang San with a sound-based control skill.
• Xiao Lin visualized the Imprisoning Dragon Staff in his sea of consciousness, strengthening his consciousness and breaking free of the control.
• The Great Strength Vajra Bull’s consciousness entered Xiao Lin’s Great Strength Bull Demon Horns, and Xiao Lin’s soul power, mental power, and physical strength increased.
• Xiao Lin ignored the Demon Eye Magic Tree’s sonic control and entered the Soul Saint’s small house.

Xiao Lin searched the Soul Saint's Hut and found a diary describing Te Lande's soul bone and spirit herb seeds. After Tang San broke through to the Four Orifices Constant Heart, Xiao Lin shared the diary's contents with him.

• Xiao Lin searched the hut, found only a book and pen, and read Te Lande's diary.
• Xiao Lin learned that Te Lande had obtained a ten-thousand-year Spirit Simulation Soul Bone and used it to steal a Yellow Spirit Herb and collect its seeds.
• Xiao Lin read that Te Lande's martial soul had mutated to gain sound-wave control, but later Soul Beasts attacked him when he simulated a Demon Eye Magic Tree.
• Te Lande returned to Holy Soul Village after giving up on further advancement, and his attempts to grow the spirit herb failed.
• Tang San broke through to the Four Orifices Constant Heart, and Xiao Lin handed him the diary and explained what he had read.

Xiao Lin and Tang San discussed a rare yellow spirit herb that might be connected to the Mutated Demon Eye Magic Tree, and Xiao Lin promised to search for its seed to help Tang San's mother recover. Xiao Lin also showed Tang San how his Great Strength Bull Demon Horn had evolved after reaching level twenty.

• Tang San told Xiao Lin that he recognized the yellow spirit herb from the Soul Saint's book and named it Twilight Herb, also called Yellow Soul Herb.
• Xiao Lin considered how the herb's rumored traits might explain the Mutated Demon Eye Magic Tree and concluded its seed could help Tang San's mother recover.
• Xiao Lin and Tang San made a fist-bump promise to look for the Yellow Soul Herb seed during their next break.
• Xiao Lin revealed that his Great Strength Bull Demon Horn had evolved, increasing his strength enhancement and Soul Power storage capacity.
• Xiao Lin promised to find Tang San an External Soul Bone, and Tang San thanked him.