Chapter Summaries

After transmigrating into an orphan in Gu Rong Village, Li Xun used a child-run empire to get food and prepare for his Martial Soul awakening. He awakened a strange Wood Carving called True Several Thousand Hands, and the chapter left him appearing to have exceptionally high Soul Power.

• Li Xun recalled dying as Hashirama Senju after exhaustion and waking in the body of an orphan in Gu Rong Village.
• Li Xun defeated the boy challenging his rule and continued collecting food as king of the children's empire.
• The children ahead awakened ordinary Martial Souls, and the rebellious boy's empire collapsed when he lost his turn.
• Ning Yuan awakened Li Xun's Wood Carving Martial Soul, while Li Xun suppressed his apparent Second Martial Soul.
• Li Xun placed his hand on the Crystal Ball, which glowed brightly, and Ning Yuan excitedly asked the Martial Soul's name.
• Li Xun called his Martial Soul True Several Thousand Hands.

Ning Yuan brought Li Xun, a newly awakened Soul Master with Innate Full Soul Power, to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Ning Fengzhi and the elders examined Li Xun’s Martial Soul, True Several Thousand Hands, and asked what it could do.

• Ning Yuan flew Li Xun from the village to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect after learning of his Innate Full Soul Power.
• Li Xun overheard Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, Bone Douluo, and Ning Rongrong discussing Ning Rongrong’s talent before Ning Yuan announced their arrival.
• Ning Yuan introduced Li Xun to Ning Fengzhi as a boy with Innate Full Soul Power and the True Several Thousand Hands Martial Soul.
• Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo examined Li Xun’s wood-carving Martial Soul and felt unsure of its combat usefulness.
• Ning Fengzhi accepted that the sect could raise Li Xun and asked him to explain his Martial Soul’s abilities.

Li Xun demonstrated his Thousand Hands Great Buddha’s Wood Style, surprising the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect elders with its healing potential. As Ning Fengzhi and the others discussed his future, Li Xun weighed his options and considered changing Ning Fengzhi’s views on the Upper Three Sects.

• Li Xun explained that his Martial Soul could control trees, then refined Chakra and discovered it was mixing with Soul Power.
• Li Xun formed the Serpent Seal and used Wood Style to grow three tiny saplings, pushing his frail body to its limit.
• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong examined the saplings and found that they had strong vitality and could heal themselves.
• Ning Rongrong asked Li Xun to treat her when she got sick, and he agreed he could help her.
• Li Xun considered revealing his Second Martial Soul and compared the Spirit Hall, Sea God Island, and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as places to develop.
• Li Xun decided that leaving the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect might be dangerous and pondered changing Ning Fengzhi’s views on the Upper Three Sects.

Li Xun showed Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong that he could control plants and had awakened Twin Martial Souls, revealing his kunai’s straight-line throwing ability. Ning Fengzhi warned him not to add Soul Rings to the second martial soul yet, then asked Li Xun to accept him as his master.

• Li Xun demonstrated his control over plants, and Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong welcomed the possibility of him becoming a control-system Soul Master.
• Li Xun revealed his second martial soul, a kunai, and Chen Xin activated his domain to ensure no one outside the hall could sense it.
• Ning Fengzhi warned Li Xun to keep the second martial soul secret and explained the risk of adding Soul Rings to it.
• Li Xun demonstrated that his kunai traveled in a perfectly straight line within eight hundred meters, and Ning Fengzhi suggested combining it with plant control to ensure long-range hits.
• Ning Rongrong reassured Li Xun that Ning Fengzhi would help him, and Ning Fengzhi asked Li Xun to take him as his master.

Li Xun became Ning Fengzhi’s disciple and settled into the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where he studied how Soul Power and Chakra interacted and planned his future Spirit Rings. After recovering and cultivating for more than ten days, he was still preparing to exceed the normal limit for his first Spirit Ring when someone knocked on his door.

• Ning Fengzhi accepted Li Xun as his disciple, welcomed him into the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and arranged for him to live opposite his residence.
• Ning Fengzhi gave Li Xun a golden-thread Storage Soul Tool containing a hundred Gold Soul Coins, and Li Xun began comparing Soul Power with Chakra.
• Li Xun planned to choose Spirit Rings that would scatter and rapidly grow seeds, using them to strengthen his Wood Style.
• Li Xun declined Ning Fengzhi’s offer to take him and Ning Rongrong to hunt Spirit Rings because his body needed more recovery.
• After more than ten days of cultivating and regaining his strength, Li Xun heard someone knock at his door.

Li Xun encouraged Ning Rongrong to cultivate diligently before leaving with Chen Xin to obtain his first Spirit Ring. In Sunset Forest, Li Xun chose a five-to-six-hundred-year-old Silver Branch Spruce Tree as his target, and Chen Xin struck it down so Li Xun could deliver the final blow.

• Ning Rongrong visited Li Xun, asked him to protect her someday, and promised to cultivate diligently after he warned her she might need to support her companions.
• Ning Rongrong asked to see Li Xun's second Martial Soul, and Li Xun let her examine his kunai before leaving with Chen Xin.
• Chen Xin carried Li Xun from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to Sunset Forest to find a suitable Spirit Beast for Li Xun's First Spirit Ring.
• Li Xun chose a Silver Branch Spruce Tree estimated to be five or six hundred years old, despite the Sect members' concerns about its age.
• Chen Xin struck the Silver Branch Spruce Tree with sword qi, causing its fruit to burst and scatter seeds as the tree began to fall.

Li Xun absorbed a nearly six-hundred-year Silver Branch Spruce Tree spirit ring and gained his first spirit ability, which could grow and control a thorny forest. After demonstrating its combat potential, he headed to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s library and arranged to collect books about medicinal herbs.

• Li Xun absorbed the Silver Branch Spruce Tree’s spirit ring despite exceeding his limits, and his soul power rose to level twelve as his Martial Soul changed.
• Li Xun used his first spirit ability, Tree Sea Birth, to grow seedlings from planted seeds and explained that the ability could improve as he grew stronger.
• Li Xun controlled the saplings into a thorn-covered mass of vines and named the technique Tree World Advent: Thorn Jungle.
• Li Xun gave Ning Rongrong half a day off, then asked Aunt Xue to take him to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s library.
• Li Xun asked Aunt Xue to post a task offering rewards for books about precious medicinal herbs, and Aunt Xue worried people would submit fakes.

Li Xun searched the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s library for medicinal knowledge, practiced his Ninjutsu, and met Xue Qinghe, who was secretly Qian Renxue. Xue Qinghe gave him rare books and raised concerns about Prince Xue Xing’s influence at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, prompting Ning Fengzhi to consider sending sect disciples into the world.

• Li Xun found records of the Ninth Grade Purple Ganoderma and Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, then continued buying herbal books to build a reputation and attract sellers.
• Li Xun’s Soul Power reached level nineteen as he trained the Body Flicker Technique and other Ninjutsu.
• Aunt Xue summoned Li Xun to meet Xue Qinghe, whom he recognized as Qian Renxue in disguise.
• Xue Qinghe welcomed Li Xun as a fellow disciple and gave him three rare books from the Heaven Dou Library.
• Xue Qinghe warned Ning Fengzhi that Prince Xue Xing was strengthening ties with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan through Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Ning Fengzhi said the sect should send disciples into the world so others could see its young geniuses.

Li Xun introduced Whale Rubber to Ning Fengzhi as a cheap medicine that could increase Soul Masters' Spirit Ring absorption limits, prompting the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to test and buy it in bulk. After rumors about Ning Fengzhi's supposed ailment spread, Emperor Xue Ye sent Whale Rubber to the sect, and Li Xun consumed a piece himself before hearing that a child had come to sell books.

• Xue Qinghe agreed with Ning Fengzhi that Yu Yuanzhen was unlikely to make a major move, while Li Xun reflected on how the sects recruited talent and maintained their bloodlines.
• Li Xun told Ning Fengzhi about Whale Rubber's ability to improve a Soul Master's physique and increase the age of Spirit Rings they could absorb, while warning that it had side effects that could affect Ning Fengzhi's reputation.
• Ning Fengzhi tested Whale Rubber with several disciples, confirmed its effectiveness, and began buying it in large quantities; rumors about his hidden ailment reached Emperor Xue Ye, who sent two treasured pieces to the sect.
• Li Xun swallowed a thousand-year piece of Whale Rubber and meditated through its intense heat, then wondered whether he would have to endure the same discomfort again.
• Aunt Xue told Li Xun that a child had come to sell books and asked whether he wanted to meet them.

Li Xun bought a medicinal book from Yang Qianjun, discovering that it had been written by Yang Wudi of the Breaking Clan. He learned Yang Qianjun was trying to help the struggling Speed Clan, but said it would not be convenient for him to intervene directly.

• Li Xun examined Yang Qianjun’s handmade medicinal book and recognized Yang Wudi’s name, then learned Yang Wudi was Yang Qianjun’s grandfather.
• Li Xun found valuable herb records and medicine-making methods in the book and paid Yang Qianjun one thousand Gold Soul Coins for it.
• Li Xun asked whether the Breaking Clan was in trouble, and Yang Qianjun explained that he was secretly trying to help the Speed Clan.
• Li Xun teased Yang Qianjun about having someone he liked in the Speed Clan, making him blush, then said he could not conveniently intervene.

Li Xun paid Yang Qianjun to bring him the second volume of Yang Wudi’s Pharmacopoeia and arranged to leave for Heaven Dou Royal Academy with Ning Rongrong the next day. Before Ning Fengzhi departed, Li Xun asked what he thought of the Breaking Clan.

• Li Xun offered Yang Qianjun gold coins and Silver Cards for the second volume, persuading him to agree to fetch it from his grandfather, Yang Wudi.
• Yang Qianjun wrote Li Xun an IOU in case Yang Wudi discovered the book had been taken.
• Li Xun saw Yang Qianjun out of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and returned to find Ning Fengzhi and Ning Rongrong waiting in his courtyard.
• Ning Rongrong excitedly agreed to leave for Heaven Dou Royal Academy the next day, while Ning Fengzhi warned Li Xun not to act rashly around the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Li Xun asked Ning Fengzhi what he thought of the Breaking Clan.

Li Xun and Ning Rongrong arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Xue Qinghe and the Teaching Committee welcomed them and assigned Qin Ming to train them. The chapter ended as Qin Ming led the two to the student dormitories.

• Li Xun told Ning Fengzhi about Yang Qianjun and discussed recruiting the Breaking Clan into the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Li Xun, Ning Rongrong, and Sword Douluo Chen Xin arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and met Xue Qinghe and the three Teaching Committee members.
• Xue Qinghe introduced Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhi Lin, then left because she was busy with the Crown Prince Position.
• Meng Shenji introduced Qin Ming as Li Xun and Ning Rongrong's teacher and explained their exceptional soul power and Martial Souls.
• Qin Ming was surprised by the children's abilities and led Li Xun and Ning Rongrong toward the student dormitories.

Li Xun accompanied Ning Rongrong to class after she complained that older students were harassing her at Heaven Dou Royal Academy. When Luo Rongdou mocked them, Li Xun slapped him and knocked him off balance, leaving the confrontation underway.

• Li Xun and Ning Rongrong settled into adjacent luxurious dormitories at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Li Xun focused on cultivation while Ning Rongrong attended classes and soon complained that classmates were bothering her.
• Li Xun agreed to accompany Ning Rongrong to class and defend her if the students harassed her again.
• Luo Rongdou and his friends mocked Li Xun and Ning Rongrong when they entered the classroom.
• Li Xun slapped Luo Rongdou twice, dodged his punch, pulled him off balance, and struck him in the face.

Li Xun beat Ge Rong and Luo Rongdou after they harassed Ning Rongrong, then clashed with a teacher who tried to stop him. Prince Xue Xing and the Fourth Prince arrived to investigate, setting up a confrontation over Li Xun’s actions.

• Li Xun beat Luo Rongdou and Ge Rong after demanding to know who had sent them to trouble Ning Rongrong.
• Ge Rong revealed that his grandfather was Empire Marshal Ge Long, but Li Xun continued beating him while questioning him.
• Buzz Cut Teacher arrived and threatened Li Xun with punishment for violating academy rules, but Li Xun evaded him with Body Flicker.
• Li Xun left the classroom with Ning Rongrong, while students spread news of the fight.
• Prince Xue Xing and the Fourth Prince arrived at the classroom after students explained what had happened.

Li Xun defended himself after beating students who had bullied Ning Rongrong, then faced Prince Xue Xing and Xue Beng’s attempt to blame and isolate the pair. Xue Xing left without forcing them out, but hoped the confrontation would keep the academy’s students away from them.

• Li Xun recognized Prince Xue Xing and Xue Beng and suspected they were trying to drive him and Ning Rongrong out of the academy.
• Prince Xue Xing arrived with Xue Beng and Yu Tianheng, and the teacher identified Li Xun as the one who had beaten Ge Rong and Luo Rongdou.
• Xue Xing accused Li Xun of assault, while Li Xun argued that the fight had been mutual and that the older students had bullied Ning Rongrong.
• Li Xun revealed that Ning Fengzhi was his teacher, prompting Xue Xing to accuse the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect of disregarding academy rules.
• Xue Xing left with Xue Beng and Yu Tianheng, hoping the dispute would keep students from approaching Li Xun and Ning Rongrong.

After Li Xun and Ning Rongrong weathered the academy conflict, Ning Fengzhi brought them compensation from the royal family: two Soul Bones. Li Xun declined to absorb either one immediately, asking Ning Fengzhi to keep them until they found better options.

• Li Xun questioned Prince Xue Xing about the injured men, while the Buzz Cut Teacher offered to take them to the Infirmary and later apologized to Li Xun.
• Meng Shenji visited Li Xun and Ning Rongrong, reported that the teacher had been dismissed pending investigation, and assured them they could continue attending classes.
• Li Xun and Ning Rongrong trained diligently until Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo visited, and Ning Fengzhi praised Li Xun for handling the conflict well.
• Ning Fengzhi presented Li Xun with a ten-thousand-year Head Spirit Bone and a twenty-thousand-year Right Leg Bone as royal compensation, offering one to him and the other to Ning Rongrong.
• Li Xun refused to absorb either Soul Bone yet, explaining that they might later help raise their limits, and asked Ning Fengzhi to keep them until they found better options.

Li Xun asked Ning Fengzhi to teach him Heart Separation Control, then joined the Heavenly Dou Royal Team One with Ning Rongrong. Their teammates were stunned by the pair’s exceptional levels for eight-year-olds, while Li Xun focused on meeting Dugu Yan.

• Li Xun asked Ning Fengzhi to learn Heart Separation Control, and Ning Fengzhi told him to ask Ning Rongrong to teach him.
• After Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo left, Ning Rongrong asked Li Xun whether absorbing a soul bone could help her cultivate less, and they playfully wrestled.
• Qin Ming brought Li Xun and Ning Rongrong to the Heavenly Dou Royal Team One’s training ground and showed them the team’s physical training.
• Qin Ming introduced the team members, including Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, Yu Tianheng, Shi Mo, Yu Feng, and Osler, as Li Xun and Ning Rongrong joined the reserve team.
• The team members were shocked when Li Xun and Ning Rongrong revealed their ages and Soul Power Levels, and Li Xun turned his attention to Dugu Yan.

Li Xun settled into the team at the academy, reached level twenty after three months of training, and grew closer to Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo while becoming wary of Yu Tianheng. Qin Ming then organized a trip to the Soul Hunting Forest to obtain Li Xun’s Second Spirit Ring, and Yu Tianheng joined the group.

• Li Xun recognized Ye Lingling’s potential and considered recruiting her into the sect, then praised Dugu Yan and claimed Ning Fengzhi had spoken highly of her Martial Soul.
• Yu Tianheng suspected Li Xun was trying to win over Dugu Bo and watched him with growing suspicion.
• Li Xun and Ning Rongrong trained with the team for three months; Li Xun reached level twenty and failed to absorb Natural Power as he had hoped.
• Li Xun grew close to Dugu Yan and met Dugu Bo several times, exchanging knowledge about herbs and poisons.
• Qin Ming offered to take Li Xun to obtain his Second Spirit Ring, and Dugu Yan and Ning Rongrong insisted on accompanying them.
• Qin Ming chose the Soul Hunting Forest for the trip, and Yu Tianheng joined the group as they prepared to leave.

Li Xun and the Heaven Dou Royal Academy group entered the Soul Hunting Forest so he could seek a Thousand Year Lone Bamboo for his Second Spirit Ring. After hearing Yu Xiaogang nearby, they went to meet him and Tang San, leaving Yu Tianheng excited to see his uncle.

• Yu Tianheng watched Li Xun with Dugu Yan and hoped their upcoming rank match would give him a reason to drive Li Xun from the academy.
• Qin Ming led Li Xun, Ning Rongrong, Dugu Yan, and Yu Tianheng into the Soul Hunting Forest, where Li Xun explained why he wanted a Lone Bamboo Spirit Ring.
• Yu Tianheng, Dugu Yan, and Qin Ming questioned Li Xun’s choice, while Ning Rongrong defended him and Li Xun declined their suggestions.
• The group heard Yu Xiaogang’s distinctive attack and agreed to investigate after Yu Tianheng asked to go toward the sound.
• They found Yu Xiaogang and Tang San near a Ghost Vine and three dead wolf-shaped Spirit Beasts, and Yu Tianheng excitedly introduced himself to his uncle.

Yu Xiaogang reunited with his nephew Yu Tianheng and showed him how Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass had grown stronger under his teaching. After Tang San obtained his second spirit ring, Yu Tianheng offered Li Xun a five-hundred-year Lone Bamboo, prompting Yu Xiaogang to turn back in surprise.

• Yu Tianheng urged Yu Xiaogang to return to his family, but Yu Xiaogang refused until he could prove his worth through Tang San.
• Yu Xiaogang introduced Tang San as his disciple, and Tang San demonstrated his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul and described how his teacher’s theories had improved it.
• Yu Xiaogang sent Tang San to deliver the final blow to a weakened six-hundred-year Ghost Vine, and Tang San absorbed it as his second spirit ring.
• Tang San revealed that his new ability could plant a Soul Power seed in an opponent trapped by Blue Silver Entanglement and trigger another stage of control.
• Yu Tianheng offered Li Xun a five-hundred-year Lone Bamboo as a spirit ring and said he would stay with Yu Xiaogang, causing Yu Xiaogang to ask about the Lone Bamboo.