Recaps

In Maple Leaf Village, Gu Yi awakened a Blood Martial Soul and Innate Full Soul Power, despite Su Yuntao judging his Martial Soul to be useless. Gu Yi declined Su Yuntao’s invitation to join Spirit Hall, and Old Tom offered to help him secure a Work-Study Student slot at Nuoding Academy.

• Gu Yi arrived at the village Spirit Hall for his Martial Soul Awakening alongside other children.
• Su Yuntao awakened the children’s Martial Souls, and most received ordinary ones with no Innate Soul Power.
• Gu Yi awakened a Blood Martial Soul, which Su Yuntao identified as a supposedly useless Body Martial Soul.
• Gu Yi tested as having Innate Full Soul Power, and Su Yuntao gave him a Martial Soul certificate and invited him to join Spirit Hall.
• Gu Yi declined the invitation for the time being, and Old Tom offered to seek a Work-Study Student slot so Gu Yi could attend Nuoding Academy.

Gu Yi discovered that he possessed Blood and Bone Martial Souls and learned that his awakened Myriad Worlds Gate could send him to other worlds. After studying how to gather its source energy, he decided to use its first cross-world search immediately.

• Gu Yi revealed his second Martial Soul and realized that his blood and bones were both powerful Body Martial Souls.
• Gu Yi learned that his Myriad Worlds Gate could connect him to other worlds, but its searches required increasing amounts of source energy.
• Gu Yi discovered that he could gather source energy by growing stronger, changing the fates of people in the original plot, or defeating and killing living beings.
• Gu Yi concluded that he would need to attend Nuoding Academy to influence Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Yu Xiaogang, though school would not begin for three months.
• Gu Yi spent 10,000 source energy to make the Myriad Worlds Gate search for its first new world.

Gu Yi learned that the Myriad Worlds Gate had connected to a new world and prepared to explore it. After discovering that the forest connection point was an Anchor Point that made travel cheaper, he crossed over to investigate.

• Old Tom told Gu Yi that nearby villages had confirmed their Work-Study Student slots for him, and Gu Yi promised to repay Maple Leaf Village for its support.
• Gu Yi tried to cultivate without a meditation method but made almost no progress, then went to sleep hoping the Myriad Worlds Gate would connect him to a world with a cultivation technique.
• The Myriad Worlds Gate found its first world, showing Gu Yi a forest and establishing his home and the forest as Anchor Points.
• Gu Yi learned that traveling between the connected worlds now cost ten points of Source Power and that he could set or change Anchor Points for one hundred points.
• Gu Yi gathered a hoe, a knife, medicinal supplies, and three Silver Soul Coins, then used the Myriad Worlds Gate to travel to the new world.

Gu Yi entered a new world through the Myriad Worlds Gate, where a gigantic wild boar nearly killed him before an Old Hunter intervened. The hunter drew the boar away from Gu Yi, but the beast charged his tree, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Gu Yi arrived in a forest, concealed his scent, and cautiously explored the unfamiliar surroundings.
• A giant wild boar appeared, and Gu Yi hid in the grass while considering whether to return to Douluo Continent.
• The boar caught Gu Yi's scent and charged, but an arrow from an Old Hunter struck its left eye.
• Gu Yi climbed a tree as the wounded boar rammed it, and the Old Hunter fired three arrows to draw the beast away.
• The boar charged the Old Hunter and cracked the tree beneath him.

Gu Yi watched Old Hunter kill a giant boar and realized the hunter could summon a weapon much like a Martial Soul, leaving Gu Yi unsure what kind of world he had entered. Taken to a busy market, Gu Yi used the Myriad Worlds Gate’s enlightenment function to begin learning the local language.

• Old Hunter summoned a black, cloud-patterned spear and killed the charging giant boar while Gu Yi watched from a tree.
• Old Hunter carried Gu Yi out of the forest, but Gu Yi could not understand his words and recognized the language barrier as an urgent problem.
• Old Hunter brought Gu Yi to a nearby market to sell the boar and help locate the boy’s family.
• Gu Yi activated the Myriad Worlds Gate’s enlightenment function, sharpening his senses and restoring memories from his previous life.
• Gu Yi listened to market conversations and began understanding the local language, including talk about a powerful ninth-level Qi Martial Realm expert.

Gu Yi learned that he had arrived in the Nine Nether Eight Desolations, a Small World on the Nine Heavens Continent, and discovered that its martial arts system surpassed Douluo Continent’s soul master system. He decided to cultivate both systems and then told the Old Hunter a fabricated account of his origins.

• Gu Yi overheard townspeople discuss the Lin Family convoy and learned the names of the Qi Martial Realm and Spirit Martial Realm.
• Gu Yi sensed the strength of the convoy and realized that most people in the marketplace were cultivators stronger than Su Yuntao.
• Gu Yi identified the world as the Nine Nether Eight Desolations and recalled that its people awakened martial souls at birth and cultivated martial arts across multiple realms.
• Gu Yi resolved to cultivate both Nine Heavens martial arts and Douluo soul mastery, then ended his Enlightenment experience with 840 Source Power remaining.
• The Old Hunter asked whether Gu Yi had found anyone he knew, and Gu Yi introduced himself before telling a largely fabricated story about being an orphan.

Gu Yi secured Mu Hu’s trust by inventing a tragic Gu Family background, then settled into life in Qingshan Town while preparing to cultivate on Nine Heavens Continent. The chapter leaves Mu Hu impressed by Gu Yi’s unusual talent and ready to begin teaching him martial arts.

• Gu Yi told Mu Hu that he was a dispossessed member of the Gu Family, and Mu Hu took him in as his grandson.
• Gu Yi learned the written language of Nine Heavens Continent, visited Maple Leaf Village to reassure Old Tom, and set Mu Hu’s courtyard as his second Anchor Point.
• Gu Yi trained in a horse stance each day and asked Mu Hu to teach him martial arts so he could grow strong enough to reclaim his inheritance.
• Mu Hu noticed that Gu Yi could read, remained unusually disciplined, and had already absorbed Heaven and Earth Origin Qi.
• Mu Hu reconsidered his objections to training a child and agreed to teach Gu Yi martial arts.

Gu Yi learned that cultivating the Nine Heavens Martial Dao alongside Soul Power could strengthen his body and help him absorb older soul rings. After Mu Hu offered him the Iron Blood Malice Art and explained its risks, Gu Yi chose to cultivate it, while a notice revealed that adapting to this world's cultivation laws would cost 100 source power.

• Gu Yi realized that tempering his body with Soul Power could improve his physical strength and raise the age of soul rings he could absorb.
• Mu Hu gave Gu Yi a copy of the Yellow-tier High-grade Iron Blood Malice Art and explained how its Blood Malice Qi strengthened its cultivator while risking injury and cultivation deviation.
• Mu Hu advised Gu Yi to wait for sects such as Cloud Sea Sect to recruit him, but Gu Yi decided the Iron Blood Malice Art suited his Blood Martial Soul.
• Mu Hu agreed to guide Gu Yi in cultivating the technique, and Gu Yi thanked him.
• A system notice stated that adapting Gu Yi's body to the world's basic cultivation laws required 100 source power.

Gu Yi spent Source Power adapting his body to Nine Heavens Martial Dao, then trained in the Iron Blood Malice Art and martial skills under Mu Hu. After three months of rapid progress, he was preparing for the dangers of hunting a thousand-year soul beast to obtain his first Soul Ring.

• Gu Yi spent 100 Source Power to alter his body so he could cultivate Nine Heavens Martial Dao, and he successfully practiced the Iron Blood Malice Art under Mu Hu's guidance.
• Mu Hu limited Gu Yi's daily cultivation to an hour and a half and required him to take medicinal baths to protect his growth.
• Gu Yi learned Basic Spear Arts from Mu Hu and practiced until his spear skills greatly increased his combat strength.
• Gu Yi also learned Basic Archery and Wind-Following Steps so he could hunt soul beasts from a safer distance.
• Gu Yi set a goal of obtaining a first Soul Ring at least a thousand years old, and three months passed as he trained.

After learning about Lin Feng and the future Cloud Sea Sect opportunity, Gu Yi returned from the Nine Heavens Continent to Maple Leaf Village and headed for Nuoding Academy. He arrived early to test whether changing a key event would earn source power, then recognized Yu Xiaogang at a nearby teahouse.

• Gu Yi learned that Lin Feng's Nine Dragon Sky Devourer Martial Soul and Heavenly Book would make him the future protagonist, and decided to join the Cloud Sea Sect when he qualified.
• Gu Yi advanced to the first level of the Qi Martial Realm while Mu Hu hunted in the Monster Beast Forest to support his training, and Gu Yi came to regard Mu Hu as family.
• After Mu Hu left, Gu Yi returned to Maple Leaf Village and set out alone for Nuoding City to enroll at Nuoding Academy.
• Gu Yi arrived before noon and planned to intervene in a key event involving Tang San to test whether changing fate would yield source power.
• Gu Yi spotted a disheveled middle-aged man at a teahouse and recognized him as Grandmaster, Yu Xiaogang.

Gu Yi waited at Nuoding Academy for Tang San to arrive, then used his martial soul certificate to catch Yu Xiaogang’s attention. As Yu Xiaogang hurried after him toward the academy gates, the gatekeeper was suddenly killed.

• Gu Yi recognized Yu Xiaogang waiting at a teahouse near Nuoding Academy and realized he was searching for talented new students.
• Gu Yi waited for Tang San and Old Jack to arrive, and they clashed with the gatekeeper over their Work-Study Student certificate.
• Gu Yi let his martial soul certificate drift to Yu Xiaogang, who discovered that Gu Yi had Innate Full Soul Power and tried to bring him to the academy.
• Gu Yi refused Yu Xiaogang’s offer and headed toward the gates, while Yu Xiaogang followed, hoping to recruit both Gu Yi and Tang San.
• The gatekeeper collapsed with a fatal throat wound, and Yu Xiaogang rushed toward the academy gates.

Tang San killed the Nuoding Academy gate guard with a Sleeve Arrow after the guard attacked him, while Yu Xiaogang arrived and mistakenly believed a hidden soul master was responsible. Gu Yi gained Source Power from the altered events, then spotted Xiao Wu among the onlookers and decided to wait until they met naturally at Seven Dormitory.

• Tang San killed the gate guard with his Sleeve Arrow after deciding the man had taken the path to death.
• Yu Xiaogang arrived with Luo Sanpao and protected Tang San and Old Jack, believing an unseen powerful soul master had killed the guard.
• Gu Yi avoided Yu Xiaogang and the crowd, gained 300 Source Power, and considered how the guard's death might change the plot.
• Gu Yi spotted Xiao Wu watching from behind the onlookers but chose not to approach her because Tang Hao might be watching.

After the gatekeeper was killed, Nuoding Academy’s teachers mistook Tang Hao’s stones for an attack by a hidden Soul Master, and the authorities closed the case without pursuing it. Gu Yi, Tang San, and Xiao Wu registered as Work-Study Students, where they learned that all three had Innate Full Soul Power.

• Yu Xiaogang told Nuoding Academy’s dean and teachers that a hidden Soul Master had killed the gatekeeper, and they readied their martial souls.
• Tang Hao secretly hurled stones at the group, who blocked them, while Gu Yi recognized Tang Hao’s intervention and gained 200 Source Power.
• After no further attack, Yu Xiaogang concluded the killer had fled, and the city guards and Spirit Hall’s Enforcement Team questioned those involved before leaving.
• Yu Xiaogang escorted Gu Yi, Tang San, and Xiao Wu to register as Work-Study Students at Nuoding Academy.
• Director Su announced that all three newcomers had Innate Full Soul Power, surprising Tang San and Xiao Wu.

Gu Yi refused Yu Xiaogang’s offer to discuss their martial souls and left with Xiao Wu, while Tang San stayed to hear Yu Xiaogang’s explanation. After learning that Gu Yi and Tang San both had Twin Martial Souls, Tang San accepted Yu Xiaogang as his master.

• Director Su gave Gu Yi, Tang San, and Xiao Wu their academy supplies and assigned them to Room Seven as Work-Study Students.
• Yu Xiaogang invited Gu Yi and Tang San to discuss their martial souls, and Xiao Wu insisted on joining them.
• Gu Yi declined the invitation, saying he needed to buy a quilt and already understood his Blood Martial Soul; Xiao Wu followed him.
• Yu Xiaogang deduced from their Innate Full Soul Power that Tang San and Gu Yi each had Twin Martial Souls, and Tang San reacted with suspicion.
• After Gu Yi left with Xiao Wu, Tang San knelt and kowtowed to Yu Xiaogang, accepting him as his master.

Gu Yi considered a life-focused path for his Blood Martial Soul and decided not to hunt Xiao Wu, though he planned to use their closeness to alter her relationship with Tang San. While showing Xiao Wu around Nuoding City, he helped her buy bedding and explained the Soul Master subsidy; a man asking about Whale Rubber then caught Gu Yi’s attention.

• Gu Yi judged that life-enhancing soul skills best suited his Blood Martial Soul and rejected killing Xiao Wu for now, fearing Tang Hao’s retaliation and the villagers’ safety.
• Gu Yi considered growing close to Xiao Wu and keeping her from becoming sworn siblings with Tang San to change the story and gain source power.
• Gu Yi and Xiao Wu explored Nuoding City, and Xiao Wu felt sympathy for him after learning they were both orphans.
• Gu Yi bought Xiao Wu bedding and daily necessities, then told her she could receive a monthly Gold Soul Coin subsidy after becoming a Soul Master.
• Xiao Wu eagerly prepared to visit the Spirit Hall branch the next day, but Gu Yi stopped when a man asked a pharmacy owner whether his ordered Whale Rubber had arrived.

Gu Yi discovered that whale rubber could strengthen his body and help his cultivation, but he could not afford the fifty Gold Soul Coins it cost. He considered ways to make money in Nuoding City and rejected each option, leaving him still searching for a viable source of income.

• Gu Yi entered a pharmacy and learned that whale rubber was sold there as a potent tonic, though he recognized its potential as a cultivation resource.
• Gu Yi asked the pharmacy owner about the price and learned that a piece of two-hundred-year whale rubber cost fifty Gold Soul Coins.
• Gu Yi realized he lacked the money to buy whale rubber and resolved to find a way to earn money quickly.
• Gu Yi considered trading goods between Douluo Continent and Nine Heavens Continent, but rejected it because it consumed valuable source energy.
• Gu Yi dismissed selling glass and other common goods, then rejected earning money at a Great Soul Arena because Nuoding City had none and travel would take too long.

At Nuoding Academy’s Seven Dormitory, Gu Yi accepted Tang San’s challenge and defeated him with a powerful punch, earning Source Power. Xiao Wu then waited for her chance to spar with the winner.

• Gu Yi and Xiao Wu arrived at Seven Dormitory and found Tang San among the Work-Study Students.
• Tang San challenged Gu Yi to a spar, hoping to test his strength and reveal his second Martial Soul.
• Gu Yi agreed and proposed that Xiao Wu fight the winner after their match.
• Tang San attacked with Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track and Mysterious Jade Hand, but Gu Yi dodged and countered with a forceful punch.
• Gu Yi sent Tang San crashing into a bed and gained 2.5 points of Source Power.

Gu Yi defeated Tang San and Xiao Wu in sparring at Seven Dormitory, then discovered that defeating cultivators earned him Source Power. He knocked down the other work-study students as well, while Tang San grew more resentful and vowed to teach him a lesson next time.

• Gu Yi defeated Tang San with a punch, and Tang San lowered his hand before using his Sleeve Arrow after Xiao Wu interrupted.
• Gu Yi defeated Xiao Wu after she used her first soul skill, Waist Bow, and gained Source Power from both victories.
• Gu Yi realized that defeating cultivators earned much more Source Power than killing ordinary animals.
• Gu Yi challenged the Seven Dormitory work-study students to fight him together, then knocked them all down and gained more Source Power.
• Tang San watched Gu Yi defeat the students and resolved to teach him a lesson in their next spar.

Gu Yi realized that defeating Nuoding Academy students could provide a steady supply of source power, and changing Tang San and Xiao Wu’s relationship earned him a large reward. As Tang San left with Yu Xiaogang to obtain his first Soul Ring, Gu Yi insulted Yu Xiaogang and Tang San vowed to defeat him.

• Gu Yi reasoned that he could gain source power by defeating students at Nuoding Academy once per day and planned to become the academy’s top student.
• Gu Yi and Xiao Wu chose neighboring beds in Seven Dormitory, and keeping them close caused a plot change that earned Gu Yi 500 points of source power.
• Gu Yi considered waiting to choose a suitable Soul Ring from the academy library and decided that earning money also needed attention.
• Yu Xiaogang took Tang San toward the Soul Hunting Forest to hunt for Tang San’s first Soul Ring, while Gu Yi refused Yu Xiaogang’s offer to become his disciple and demanded a Soul Sage as a teacher.
• Tang San restrained his anger as he left with Yu Xiaogang, who assured him that a control-type soul skill would let him defeat Gu Yi; Tang San promised to teach Gu Yi a lesson after returning.

Gu Yi challenged Nuoding Academy to earn source power and defeated all 203 students, including Xiao Chenyu and the senior students. After the students claimed they had only been sparring, Gu Yi announced he would spar with them every day.

• Gu Yi led Xiao Wu and the Work-Study Students through the dormitories, defeating the students from the first four grades.
• At the fifth-grade dormitory, Gu Yi confronted Xiao Chenyu and the gathered fifth- and sixth-grade students, including six one-ring Soul Masters.
• Gu Yi charged into the group and used the Charge Spear Technique to defeat the students one by one.
• Gu Yi defeated all 203 students and gained 57 points of source power.
• When a teacher arrived, Xiao Chenyu backed Gu Yi's claim that they had been sparring, and Gu Yi said he would spar with them every day.

Gu Yi’s growing reputation transformed the atmosphere at Nuoding Academy, while Tang San returned from the Soul Hunting Forest with his first soul ring and sought a rematch. Gu Yi and Yu Xiaogang agreed to wager on the fight, which was about to begin.

• Gu Yi’s feat of challenging the academy spread through Nuoding City, increasing the source power he gained each day.
• Gu Yi trained, studied soul beasts, and practiced combat while students—including Xiao Wu—became more diligent and the teachers approved of his daily challenges.
• Tang San and Yu Xiaogang returned to Nuoding Academy after obtaining Tang San’s first soul ring, and teachers told them about Gu Yi’s victory over the academy.
• Tang San declared he would prove himself stronger than Gu Yi, and Yu Xiaogang took him to the back mountain to find Gu Yi training with an iron bow.
• Gu Yi challenged Tang San to a wager: if Gu Yi won, he could study Yu Xiaogang’s books; Yu Xiaogang countered that if Gu Yi lost, he would become Yu Xiaogang’s disciple, and Gu Yi accepted.

Gu Yi defeated Tang San in a spar, winning access to Yu Xiaogang’s study and noticing a brief burst of Soul Power that he suspected came from Tang Hao. The chapter left Gu Yi considering how to use an enemy’s blood in battle and preparing for the possibility that Tang Hao might confront him.

• Gu Yi challenged Tang San to a spar, wagering that he could read Yu Xiaogang’s study if he won, while Yu Xiaogang ruled that they could not use external items.
• Tang San attacked Gu Yi with Blue Silver Entanglement and advanced using Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, but Gu Yi tore through the grass and charged at him.
• Tang San used Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon and Mysterious Jade Hand against Gu Yi’s punch, but the force sent him flying and left his arm badly injured.
• Yu Xiaogang confirmed Tang San was not seriously hurt, and Gu Yi claimed his reward of permission to visit the study before leaving with Xiao Wu.
• Gu Yi sensed a brief Soul Power fluctuation in the forest and suspected Tang Hao was watching, so he prepared for the chance that Tang Hao might appear.

After defeating Tang San, Gu Yi sold a mechanical pocket watch to buy Whale Rubber and a courtyard, then moved out of Seven Dormitory with Xiao Wu. The chapter left Gu Yi about to consume the century-old Whale Rubber for cultivation.

• Tang Hao decided not to confront Gu Yi and considered him a potential whetstone for Tang San, while Gu Yi gained two hundred Source Power for changing the story.
• Gu Yi sold his mechanical pocket watch for eight hundred Gold Soul Coins and bought century-old Whale Rubber, leaving a deposit for older supplies.
• Gu Yi bought a courtyard near Nuoding Academy to keep his activities away from Tang Hao's attention.
• Xiao Wu asked to move into the courtyard with Gu Yi, and Gu Yi agreed; Tang San and Tang Hao did not object.
• Gu Yi prepared the Whale Rubber in an iron pot and ate it after completing his daily cultivation.

Gu Yi used Whale Rubber and knowledge from Yu Xiaogang's study to advance his cultivation plans while helping Mu Hu launch a lucrative glass and distilled-liquor business. After Mu Hu left to seek Liu Canglan's protection for the business, Gu Yi used the profits to buy more Whale Rubber and broke through to the second level of the Qi Martial Realm.

• Gu Yi absorbed a hundred-year Whale Rubber, raising his strength by more than 200 jin while his Soul Power remained at level twelve.
• Gu Yi studied Yu Xiaogang's books on martial souls and soul beasts, memorized their contents, and identified several candidates for his Blood Martial Soul's first soul ring.
• After Mu Hu returned from the Monster Beast Forest, Gu Yi gave him methods for making glass and distilled liquor so he could earn money without risking another hunt.
• Mu Hu sold crystal glass and distilled liquor in Yangzhou City for seventy to eighty thousand taels of silver, then decided to put the business under Liu Canglan's protection.
• Mu Hu set out for Broken Blade City to seek an audience with Liu Canglan, while Gu Yi kept seventy thousand taels of silver and bought more Whale Rubber.
• Gu Yi cultivated with the Whale Rubber and surpassed 2,000 jin of strength, entering the second level of the Qi Martial Realm.

After strengthening his physique with Whale Rubber, Gu Yi reached level thirteen Soul Power and traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest to find his first soul ring. He tracked down a cave containing Blood Crystal Bats, one of his chosen targets.

• Gu Yi tested his increased strength, learned that his Soul Power had risen to level thirteen, and decided he was ready to hunt for his first soul ring.
• Gu Yi chose the Star Dou Great Forest over the Soul Hunting Forest and kept his destination secret from Xiao Wu.
• Gu Yi used the Myriad Worlds Gate to bring Thousand-Mile Snow from the Nine Heavens Continent, then rode to the forest in one day.
• Gu Yi entered the Star Dou Great Forest alone and cautiously fought off several soul beasts while traveling into areas inhabited by hundred-year and thousand-year beasts.
• Gu Yi searched for a suitable soul beast and found the cave of a group of Blood Crystal Bats.