Chapter Summaries

At Nuoding Academy, Xiao Xian waited for Tang San’s enrollment while showing Master Yu Xiaogang how far he and his Martial Soul, Xiao Jue, had progressed. As Master recalled Xiao Xian’s proposal for a Martial Soul to cultivate independently, the chapter left their unusual training relationship poised to continue.

• Xiao Xian read a book and used his Martial Soul’s suction force to turn its pages while waiting for Tang San to enroll.
• Master brought food for Xiao Xian and Xiao Jue, then stared in disbelief at the Hundred-Year Spirit Ring around Xiao Jue.
• Xiao Xian reflected on how Master’s resources, connections, and knowledge had helped him become a one-ring Battle Soul Master.
• Master remembered how Xiao Xian had persuaded him that a Martial Soul could cultivate independently and had demonstrated the idea with Xiao Jue.

Xiao Xian returned to the dormitory, stopped Xiao Chenyu from bullying the Work-Study Students, and used his Spirit Ring's Sunlight ability to help Wang Sheng's bruises heal. He resumed cultivating and looked ahead to Tang San's arrival, hoping to find a way to improve his slow cultivation.

• Xiao Xian left Master's dormitory and returned to Second Dormitory, where the students greeted him as Boss Xiao.
• Xiao Xian summoned Xiao Jue to aid his cultivation, then went outside when he heard a commotion near Seventh Dormitory.
• Xiao Xian ordered Xiao Chenyu and the other upper-grade students to stop bullying the Work-Study Students and sent them away.
• Xiao Xian used Xiao Jue's Sunlight skill to coat Wang Sheng's water skin with healing Sunlight Spores.
• Xiao Xian returned to cultivating and wondered whether Tang San would arrive the next day, thinking about the Mysterious Heaven Skill.

Xiao Xian considered how to choose his Second Spirit Ring while Master Yu Xiaogang resolved to nurture him and prove Xiao Jue’s potential to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. With Tang San expected to arrive at Nuoding Academy, Xiao Xian planned to delay his meeting with Master and left to exercise Xiao Jue.

• Xiao Xian cultivated through the evening, then left Xiao Jue meditating in Yu Xiaogang’s dormitory while he slept in Second Dormitory.
• Yu Xiaogang failed to reproduce Xiao Jue’s self-cultivation and decided to nurture Xiao Xian, strengthen Xiao Jue with light-type sub-dragon spirit rings, and ask Flender for more meat.
• Xiao Xian expected Tang San to arrive around noon and planned to keep him from meeting Yu Xiaogang for at least two days.
• After breakfast, Xiao Xian asked Yu Xiaogang to consider his Second Spirit Ring, then used Xiao Jue’s exercise as an excuse to leave.
• Yu Xiaogang let Xiao Xian go and began searching his bookshelf for ideas about the Second Spirit Ring.

Xiao Xian engineered his first encounter with Tang San at Nuoding Academy, intervening when the gatekeeper tried to attack him and escorting him to register. After returning to his dormitory, Xiao Xian prepared to make another carefully staged approach.

• Xiao Xian trained outside the academy, then waited near the gates for Old Jack and Tang San to arrive.
• When Tang San knocked the gatekeeper down, Xiao Xian pulled the gatekeeper back and stopped the confrontation.
• Xiao Xian checked Tang San’s Spirit Hall certificate, confirmed it was valid, and led him and Old Jack into the academy.
• Xiao Xian introduced Old Jack and Tang San to Teacher Su, then left after they began registration.
• Back in his dormitory, Xiao Xian heard Tang San meet a little girl and saw Mo Hen head toward the Seventh Dormitory.
• Xiao Xian took a damp set of bedding from a sack and prepared to make his next move, wondering whether Tang Hao was watching.

Xiao Xian gave Tang San a spare quilt and used his Sunlight Spore soul skill to dry and warm it, then brought Xiao Wu another quilt. He sensed Tang San’s Mysterious Heaven Skill through the spores and later focused on observing Tang San cultivate from nearby.

• Xiao Xian brought Tang San a spare, slightly damp quilt and used Xiao Jue’s Sunlight Spore soul skill to dry and warm it.
• Xiao Xian noticed Xiao Wu lacked bedding and went to borrow a clean quilt from his Teacher for her.
• Xiao Xian sensed Tang San inhaling his spores and briefly detected the movement of Tang San’s Mysterious Heaven Skill.
• Xiao Xian brought Xiao Wu the borrowed quilt, then took Xiao Jue to meditate on the rooftop and returned to his dormitory.
• Tang San returned to the Seventh Dormitory and began cultivating, and Xiao Xian immediately focused on sensing him.

Xiao Xian watched Tang San spar with Xiao Wu so he could study how Tang San controlled and circulated Soul Power. He realized those methods could help him develop Self-Created Soul Skills despite his poor talent.

• Xiao Xian reflected that he had memorized only part of the Mysterious Heaven Skill and resolved to learn its first layer before Tang San left with Master.
• After dinner, Xiao Xian sensed Sunlight Spores moving from the Seventh Dormitory to the training field and went to observe Tang San and Xiao Wu sparring.
• Xiao Wu pinned Tang San during their close-combat match, and a female Teacher interrupted them before Xiao Wu threw her aside with Soft Skill.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu continued sparring, letting Xiao Xian sense Tang San directing Soul Power into his eyes, legs, and Hidden Weapons.
• Xiao Xian returned to the Second Dormitory and realized he had learned principles for controlling Soul Power that could improve his Suction Palm and help him create other Self-Created Soul Skills.

Xiao Xian improved his palm techniques while practicing and learned that Master was investigating his Second Spirit Ring. After Master discovered Tang San's Innate Full Soul Power and accepted Xiao Xian's suggestion to take him as a Junior Brother, Xiao Xian worried that he would not learn the first layer of the Mysterious Heaven Skill before Tang San advanced.

• Xiao Xian practiced the Mysterious Heaven Skill and strengthened his Suction Palm and stone-flicking technique.
• Xiao Xian attended Nuoding Academy's opening ceremony and noticed Tang San asking about a nearby Blacksmith Shop because he was short of money.
• Xiao Xian studied theory with Master, meditated, and practiced switching between the Suction Palm and Blowing Fire Palm.
• Master told Xiao Xian that Tang San had Blue Silver Grass and Innate Full Soul Power, and Xiao Xian suggested that Tang San might have Twin Martial Souls.
• Master agreed to take Tang San as Xiao Xian's Junior Brother, while Xiao Xian resumed meditating and resolved to get closer to Tang San to learn the first layer of the Mysterious Heaven Skill.

Xiao Xian reunited with Tang San at the Master's dormitory, where Master confirmed Tang San had Twin Martial Souls and warned him not to put a Soul Ring on his second spirit without permission. After Master recommended the Control System for Blue Silver Grass, Xiao Xian disagreed and asked Tang San to release it, leaving his alternative path unexplained.

• Xiao Xian greeted Tang San, and Master introduced them as senior and junior disciples.
• At Xiao Xian's prompting, Tang San revealed his black hammer spirit, and Master recognized its significance.
• Xiao Xian and Master warned Tang San not to attach a Soul Ring to his second spirit, though they withheld their reasons.
• Master planned to take Tang San to the Soul Hunting Forest the next day and explained the soul master development paths and Blue Silver Grass's potential.
• Master recommended that Tang San develop Blue Silver Grass as a Control System spirit, but Xiao Xian objected and asked Tang San to release it.

Xiao Xian persuaded Tang San and Master to consider developing Blue Silver Grass as a supportive martial soul alongside Tang San’s hammer. Tang San chose the Food System path, and the chapter left him wondering whether a Sugarcane Spirit Beast would be the right source for his First Spirit Ring.

• Xiao Xian demonstrated that Blue Silver Grass was edible and argued that Tang San could not effectively use it for control if it disappeared whenever he summoned his hammer.
• Xiao Xian proposed that Tang San develop Blue Silver Grass for support, letting him combine a supportive role with the hammer’s assault abilities.
• Master and Xiao Xian discussed choosing a spirit beast that could make Blue Silver Grass medicinal and tougher, allowing Tang San to pursue either the Food System or Control System.
• Tang San decided to choose the Food System and left Master's Dormitory pondering whether to hunt a Sugarcane Spirit Beast for his First Spirit Ring.
• Tang San remained distracted in the Seventh Dormitory, while Xiao Xian left Master's Dormitory to get dinner.

Xiao Xian treated Tang San to dinner, gave him a book of soul power meditation research, and guided him through cultivation before Tang San’s first Spirit Ring hunt. As Tang San began circulating the Mysterious Heaven Skill, Xiao Xian sensed its route and secretly studied it.

• Xiao Xian took Tang San to the cafeteria, ordered a feast, and sent food to Teacher with Xiao Jue.
• Xiao Xian gave Tang San a book about Soul Power meditation and explained how it could help him absorb a Spirit Ring safely.
• Xiao Xian brought Tang San to Master's Dormitory and arranged for Master to explain their overnight absence to the dormitory teacher.
• Xiao Xian showed Tang San his Storage Spirit Tool, then sat with him to meditate and answer questions.
• Tang San began circulating the Mysterious Heaven Skill, and Xiao Xian sensed its route and focused on learning it.

Xiao Xian completed the first level of the Mysterious Heaven Skill and gained another level of Soul Power while Tang San prepared to hunt for a spirit ring. Ten days later, Tang San returned with Master badly poisoned, explaining how he had killed a four-hundred-year-old Mandala Snake and used his new Soul Skill to save his teacher.

• Xiao Xian completed the first level of the Mysterious Heaven Skill, and his Soul Power reached level thirteen.
• Master took Tang San to Soul Hunting Forest before Xiao Xian woke, hoping to find a sugarcane-type spirit beast for Tang San's first spirit ring.
• Xiao Xian stayed at the academy and began teaching Xiao Jue to cultivate the Mysterious Heaven Skill.
• Ten days later, Tang San returned carrying the poisoned Master, and Xiao Xian left class to meet them.
• Tang San explained that a four-hundred-year-old Mandala Snake had attacked them, that he killed it with a dagger, and that he used the Soul Skill from a nearby sugarcane spirit ring to save Master.

Tang San showed Xiao Xian his first soul skill, Blue Silver Sugarcane, which restored vitality, and registered as a Spirit Master at Spirit Hall. The two then stopped at the blacksmith shop where Tang San had apprenticed, so he could explain his absence.

• Tang San demonstrated Blue Silver Sugarcane, and Xiao Xian tasted it and confirmed that it restored his energy and vitality.
• Master praised Tang San’s soul skill and asked Xiao Xian to teach him how to develop and use it.
• Xiao Xian took Tang San to Spirit Hall, where Ma Xiunuo registered him, confirmed his Soul Power was level thirteen, and gave him a Soul Master Badge and one Gold Soul Coin.
• Tang San spotted the blacksmith shop where he had apprenticed and told Xiao Xian he needed to explain his long absence.
• Xiao Xian agreed that Tang San should be honest with the shop and followed him inside.

Xiao Xian collected weapons he had commissioned from the Blacksmith Shop and demonstrated a precise throwing technique that reminded Tang San of the Tang Sect’s Hidden Weapons. Tang San asked about it after they returned to Nuoding Junior Spirit Master Academy, and Xiao Xian offered to teach him, leaving Tang San convinced the resemblance was coincidental.

• Tang San explained to Shi San why he had disappeared and showed that he had become a spirit master.
• Xiao Xian asked Shi San about his order, and Shi San brought out boxes of throwing knives, steel needles, darts, and wire nets.
• Xiao Xian threw a knife and two needles into a narrow wooden slat, and Tang San recognized their arcing flight as resembling the Tang Sect technique Flying Swallows.
• Xiao Xian paid Shi San for the weapons and stored them in his Storage Spirit Tool before leaving the Blacksmith Shop with Tang San.
• Tang San asked whether Xiao Xian’s throwing technique was a spirit skill, and Xiao Xian said it was something he had figured out himself and offered to teach him.

Xiao Xian learned that Xiao Wu had beaten Xiao Chenyu and his followers, then accepted her challenge to become the academy’s boss. He headed to the Back Mountain with Tang San, who planned to watch the fight and help if needed.

• Tang San and Xiao Xian found the Seventh Dormitory empty, then met Xiao Chenyu and his injured followers, who blamed Xiao Wu for beating them and issuing a challenge.
• Xiao Xian suspected Xiao Chenyu had provoked Xiao Wu, while Tang San summoned healing Blue Silver Sugarcanes and Xiao Chenyu paid for them.
• Xiao Xian accepted Xiao Wu’s challenge and learned she was waiting at the Back Mountain with Wang Sheng and the others.
• Xiao Xian asked whether Tang San would visit Master or come along, and Tang San chose to accompany him.
• Xiao Xian went to test his strength against Xiao Wu and planned to show Tang San his self-created soul skill.

Xiao Xian faced Xiao Wu in a spar at the academy’s Back Mountain and used his mastered Suction Palm to seize her braid. He pulled her toward him, leaving the fight poised to continue at close range.

• Xiao Xian went to the Back Mountain with Tang San, who hid among the upperclassmen while Xiao Wu prepared to fight.
• Xiao Wu explained that she wanted to defeat Xiao Xian so the Work-Study Students would no longer be bullied by the Self-Funded Students.
• Xiao Wu and Xiao Xian announced their Martial Souls and levels before beginning their spar, though Xiao Xian did not summon his Martial Soul.
• Xiao Wu rushed in and tried to ensnare Xiao Xian with her scorpion-tail braid, but Xiao Xian used Suction Palm to reverse its path and catch it.
• Xiao Xian pulled Xiao Wu toward him by her braid, and she grimaced in pain while warning him to wait until she got close.

Xiao Xian defeated Xiao Wu and persuaded her to stop badly beating the academy students, while Tang San and Xiao Xian settled into a year of study, cultivation, and training together. Their exchange of techniques strengthened both disciples, and the story ended with a year having passed.

• Xiao Xian knocked Xiao Wu down with a gale-producing palm strike and declared her defeated.
• Xiao Xian told Xiao Wu to stop injuring students, then left with Tang San; Xiao Wu later became the upperclassmen’s boss.
• Xiao Xian and Tang San cared for Master for nearly two months until he recovered from his severe injuries.
• Tang San followed a regular routine of cultivation, classes, and forging, while Xiao Xian trained and secretly learned Tang San’s techniques.
• Xiao Xian taught Tang San Suction Palm and Blowing Fire Palm and gave him Sunlight Spores; Tang San improved the techniques in return.
• Xiao Xian learned several of Tang San’s skills, and a year passed as both disciples’ cultivation advanced.

After a year of training at Nuoding Academy, Xiao Xian and Tang San prepared to return to Sacred Soul Village for vacation, with Xiao Wu joining them. The chapter ended as they traveled together, with Xiao Xian thinking about the waterfall near the village.

• Xiao Xian demonstrated his improved spirit power and techniques after reaching level 16, while Tang San trained his Blue Silver Grass to control opponents.
• Tang San asked whether Xiao Xian would return home for vacation, and Xiao Xian said he was an orphan.
• Tang San packed for the break with Xiao Wu, who said she did not plan to return home and asked to visit Tang San’s house.
• Tang San invited Xiao Xian to join him for vacation, and Xiao Xian agreed.
• Xiao Wu became furious when she discovered Xiao Xian was coming too, as the three set out for Sacred Soul Village.

Tang San returned to Sacred Soul Village hoping to see his father, but found that Tang Hao had left. As Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Xiao Xian spent the day together, Tang San asked them to become his family, and Xiao Xian accepted while Xiao Wu refused.

• Tang San excitedly brought Xiao Wu and Xiao Xian to Sacred Soul Village, expecting to reunite with Tang Hao.
• Tang San learned from Old Jack that his father was gone, then silently began sorting through the house while Xiao Wu and Xiao Xian tried to comfort him in their own ways.
• After the three finished cleaning and spent time together, Xiao Wu offered to be Tang San's older sister, and Tang San later invited her and Xiao Xian up the mountain.
• At the mountaintop, Tang San asked Xiao Xian to be his older brother, and Xiao Xian agreed; Xiao Xian then asked Xiao Wu to be his younger sister, but she refused.

Xiao Xian traveled to Suotuo City to seek Flender’s help in obtaining a powerful third spirit ring that could solve his meridian limitations. He found Flender’s shop and introduced himself as Flender’s martial nephew.

• Xiao Xian, Tang San, and Xiao Wu shared a meal at Tang San’s home, where Xiao Xian used Xiao Jue’s golden Hundred-Year Soul Ring as a light.
• The next morning, Tang San enthusiastically sorted iron and began hammering it while Xiao Xian helped with the bellows using Blowing Fire Palm.
• Four years later, Xiao Xian arrived in Suotuo City at age twelve with Rank 28 Soul Power and sought a powerful dragon-type spirit beast for his third spirit ring.
• Xiao Xian located Flender’s shop near the Rose Hotel and entered without spending money on a room at the hotel.
• Xiao Xian addressed the reclining shopkeeper as “Martial Uncle,” surprising Flender, who studied his belt.

Xiao Xian gave Flender a letter from Yu Xiaogang and demonstrated his rank 28 spirit power and sub-dragon spirit soul. After mistaking Xiao Xian for a member of Yu Xiaogang’s family, Flender took him to Shrek Academy and agreed to let him keep a crystal he wanted.

• Flender recognized Xiao Xian’s jade belt and accepted the letter from Yu Xiaogang, then suspected Xiao Xian had been told to deliver it only after passing Shrek Academy’s examination.
• Xiao Xian summoned his spirit soul, Xiao Jue, and Flender was astonished by the rank 28 twelve-year-old’s resemblance to Luo San Pao.
• Flender checked Xiao Xian’s Spirit Hall Certificate, saw the name Yu Tianxian, and questioned him about his family and surname.
• Xiao Xian explained that he was an orphan from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and used his original name rather than the surname Yu.
• Flender invited Xiao Xian to Shrek Academy, and Xiao Xian took a Plate Crystal containing Dragon Whisker Needles from the shop.
• Flender carried Xiao Xian from Suotuo City to an open space in a village near Shrek Academy.