Chapter Summaries

Ji Wuming, a transmigrated young blacksmith, attended his Martial Soul awakening in Blue Fish Village and manifested a rusty, damaged spear. The crystal test revealed level-three Innate Soul Power, leaving him disappointed but confirming he could become a Soul Master.

• Ji Wuming finished a machete order and went with the Village Chief to the Martial Soul Awakening Hall.
• Jiang Ping introduced the awakening ceremony and tested the village children, most of whom had ordinary Martial Souls and no Soul Power.
• Ji Wuming entered the array and awakened a rusty, broken spear Martial Soul.
• Ji Wuming placed his hand on the Crystal Ball, which showed that he had level-three Innate Soul Power.
• Ji Wuming was nearly crushed by the revelation that his Soul Power was only level three, while Jiang Ping celebrated finding a child with Soul Power.

Ji Wuming rejected Spirit Hall’s offer and resolved to cultivate his weak Rusty Broken Spear Martial Soul through an unconventional path. After delivering weapons in Vast Sea City, he heard that Bibi Dong had become Pope after Qian Xunji was gravely injured by Tang Hao, then hurried back to his village.

• Ji Wuming declined Jiang Ping’s invitation to join Spirit Hall and received a certificate to attend Vast Sea City Junior Soul Master Academy.
• Ji Wuming snapped his Rusty Broken Spear, considered Ji Juechen’s Martial Soul evolution as inspiration, and vowed to reach level ten Soul Power within four years.
• Ji Wuming delivered weapons to Blacksmith Xu in Vast Sea City and declined his offer to stay overnight.
• Ji Wuming heard merchants say that Bibi Dong had succeeded Qian Xunji as Pope after Tang Hao injured him in a fight.
• Ji Wuming bought herbs and returned toward his village before nightfall.

After awakening his Martial Soul, Ji Wuming developed Soul Power Forging to reshape the Rusty Spear and used his blood to keep its changes from reverting. After three months of forging, he left for Vast Sea City Junior Soul Master Academy with the transformed spear still detached, determined to learn its Meditation Method.

• Ji Wuming meditated during medicinal baths, sensing his Soul Power and improving his body's recovery despite his slow cultivation.
• After the Rusty Spear repeatedly broke under ordinary hammering, Ji Wuming realized he could forge it by channeling Soul Power while striking it.
• Ji Wuming used the Blood-Sacrifice Edge Opening Method when his blood fell onto the spear, stopping its altered shape from reverting.
• For nearly three months, Ji Wuming kept the spear detached and continued forging it until its shaft, holes, and blades had been transformed and blood mist veiled it.
• Ji Wuming boarded a carriage for the academy with the spear on his back, telling the Village Chief he would not retract it and would avoid hurting anyone unless provoked.

Ji Wuming enrolled at Vast Sea City Junior Soul Master Academy, where his unusual Rusty Spear Martial Soul drew the staff’s attention. After settling into his dormitory, he found a meditation manual in the library and began cultivating with a method far more effective than his previous practice.

• The Village Chief brought Ji Wuming to the academy, where the gatekeeper examined his certificate and directed him to registration.
• Director Lu registered Ji Wuming, accepted his tuition, and gave him a key to a single room in Dormitory 301 after hearing that his Martial Soul cultivation method was unusual.
• The dean reviewed the enrollment records, noted Ji Wuming’s level-three Soul Power and Rusty Spear Martial Soul, and told Director Lu to keep an eye on him.
• Ji Wuming settled into his dormitory, ate in the cafeteria, and went to the library to look for a systematic meditation method.
• Ji Wuming studied the academy’s meditation manual and discovered that following its instructions helped him cultivate Soul Power faster.

Ji Wuming studied Martial Soul theories and spear techniques while cultivating, then reached the level-ten Soul Power bottleneck after two and a half years. He told Director Lu that he wanted a hundred-year Sea Viper Soul Ring to test his theories and advance his Rusty Spear Martial Soul.

• Ji Wuming read the Six Core Competitiveness of Martial Soul and criticized Yu Xiaogang’s theories, then found a basic spear manual and began practicing.
• Ji Wuming’s blood-tempered Rusty Spear gained a devouring ability that let him absorb blood and convert it into Soul Power.
• After two and a half years of classes, spear practice, and cultivation, Ji Wuming reached the level-ten bottleneck and considered whether a Soul Ring could evolve his Martial Soul.
• Ji Wuming went to Director Lu’s office to request his first Soul Ring.
• Ji Wuming asked Director Lu for a hundred-year Sea Viper soul beast, preferably one that was extremely bloodthirsty.

Ji Wuming and Director Lu searched for a Sea Viper soul beast for Ji Wuming’s first Soul Ring, but discovered a rare Blood Flood Dragon that he believed could suit him. They followed it to its cave, where Ji Wuming warned Director Lu that the serpent-filled lair could be deadly to enter carelessly.

• Ji Wuming chose a serpent-type soul beast, and Director Lu agreed to take him out to find a suitable Sea Viper.
• Director Lu found a roughly three-hundred-and-fifty-year-old Sea Viper, but a rare Blood Flood Dragon attacked and killed it.
• Ji Wuming identified the Blood Dragon as a Blood Flood Dragon and urged Director Lu to pursue it for its strength and possible treasure.
• Director Lu followed the Blood Flood Dragon with Ji Wuming to an island cave, where Ji Wuming warned him that many serpent soul beasts might be inside.

Ji Wuming and Director Lu entered the Blood Flood Dragon’s cave, where Director Lu killed the beast and Ji Wuming absorbed its nearly 630-year-old Soul Ring. Ji Wuming emerged with his Blood Spear transformed, and Director Lu asked about his new Soul Power level and First Soul Skill.

• Ji Wuming gave Director Lu snake blood and herbs to conceal their scent, and they cautiously entered the cave.
• The Blood Flood Dragon spotted them and summoned the cave’s snakes, so Director Lu used his poison and Soul Skills to fight it.
• Director Lu wounded the Blood Flood Dragon and brought it to Ji Wuming, who killed it with his Blood Spear.
• Ji Wuming absorbed the Blood Flood Dragon’s Soul Ring while Director Lu stood guard, enduring the powerful energy until the ring settled onto his Martial Soul.
• Ji Wuming awoke to find his Blood Spear changed, and Director Lu asked how much his Soul Power had risen and what his First Soul Skill was.

Ji Wuming tested the powerful effects of his new First Soul Skill, received treasure from Director Lu, and returned to the academy, where Dean Shui Wuliang asked him to become his disciple. Director Lu objected, insisting that he should be Ji Wuming’s master instead.

• Ji Wuming told Director Lu that his Soul Power had risen by three levels and described the enhancement and poison effects of Battle Spear Flood Dragon Transformation.
• Ji Wuming used his First Soul Skill to pierce and shatter a hard Black Vein Stone, impressing Director Lu.
• Director Lu gave Ji Wuming a Storage Soul Tool Ring containing rare ores, weapons, and some Gold Soul Coins, and Ji Wuming stored the Blood Flood Dragon's corpse inside.
• Ji Wuming confirmed that his Blood Spear Martial Soul retained its form after returning to his body, and he and Director Lu left the island the next day.
• At the academy, Director Lu told Dean Shui Wuliang that Ji Wuming had absorbed a 630-year Soul Ring from a mutated Blood Dragon.
• Shui Wuliang asked Ji Wuming to become his disciple, but Director Lu protested that he should be Ji Wuming’s master first.

Ji Wuming avoided choosing between Director Lu and Dean Shui, then tested several recovered Soul Tools in his dormitory. After the Sea Spirit Brothers challenged him, he agreed to fight them at the Duel Pool for a wager of Whale Rubber, where students gathered to watch.

• Director Lu and Dean Shui told Ji Wuming to choose his own master, but he fled before deciding, leaving them to argue.
• Ji Wuming tested an offensive Soul Tool on the Blood Flood Dragon's corpse and discovered that another Soul Tool was a weak Soul Power Bomb.
• Hai Bai and Hai Gui challenged Ji Wuming to a spar and offered nearly five hundred Gold Soul Coins as their wager.
• Ji Wuming refused the coins and demanded forty jin of Whale Rubber or an equal weight of Soul Beast meat if he won, while offering equal market value in Gold Soul Coins if he lost.
• The Sea Spirit Brothers agreed to the wager and arranged to meet Ji Wuming at the Duel Pool in an hour.
• Students gathered at the Duel Pool, expecting Hai Bai and Hai Gui to defeat Ji Wuming with their Water Spout Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

Ji Wuming defeated Hai Bai in the arena, but Hai Bai refused to accept the loss and joined Hai Gui in using their Martial Soul Fusion Skill. Dean Shui froze the Water Spout to stop the fight, and teachers caught the exhausted students as they fell.

• Ji Wuming met the Sea Spirit Brothers in the arena, and Hai Bai declared he could defeat him without using his First Soul Skill.
• Ji Wuming demonstrated how he could stand on water, then summoned his Blood Spear and faced Hai Bai.
• Hai Bai attacked with his Sea Leopard, but Ji Wuming pierced its tail, wounded its flank, and cut Hai Bai's arm with his poisoned spear.
• Ji Wuming warned Hai Bai to seek treatment, but Hai Bai rejected the loss and called on Hai Gui to use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Hai Bai and Hai Gui created a powerful Water Spout that pulled Ji Wuming inside, where he threw his spear at Hai Gui.
• Dean Shui froze and shattered the Water Spout, and teachers caught the three exhausted students and took Hai Bai for treatment.

After recovering from the duel, Ji Wuming returned to his village, consumed hundred-year Whale Rubber to strengthen his body, and began planning to temper his Blood Spear Martial Soul with lightning. He sought a dangerous training method in a shallow bay, where a trapped tuna immediately hurled him through the water.

• Dean Shui told Ji Wuming that Hai Bai was out of danger, and Hai Bai and Hai Gui accepted their defeat and promised to honor their wager.
• Ji Wuming learned that Vast Sea City Junior Soul Master Academy required him to complete six years of study before graduating, then returned to a celebratory welcome in his village.
• Ji Wuming devoured the Blood Flood Dragon's blood through his Blood Spear, raising his Soul Power by one level, and prepared hundred-year Whale Rubber to consume.
• Ji Wuming absorbed the Whale Rubber's medicinal power through meditation, exercise, smithing, and spear practice, strengthening his body.
• Ji Wuming developed a plan to prepare his physique for lightning-based Martial Soul tempering and went to a shallow bay to train against trapped sea creatures.
• Ji Wuming grabbed a trapped tuna's dorsal fin, but its powerful swimming and the water pressure soon flung him away.

Ji Wuming used fast-swimming Sea Soul Beasts to temper his body and Soul Power, growing stronger and wealthier over two years. After reaching the Level 20 Soul Power bottleneck, he asked Dean Shui to help him obtain a second Soul Ring.

• Ji Wuming endured a tuna’s high-speed movements to forge his body, then fed it valuable Soul Beast meat before it disappeared the next day.
• Ji Wuming trained with swordfish by dodging their charges across the water and grabbing their fins to withstand the pressure.
• Ji Wuming sparred with Hai Bai and Hai Gui for resources, often drawing deliberately, while using holidays to fight Sea Soul Beasts and eat Whale Rubber.
• After two years, eleven-year-old Ji Wuming reached the Level 20 bottleneck, grew to 1.7 meters, and amassed fifty to sixty thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Ji Wuming told Hai Bai and Hai Gui he needed a Soul Ring, then asked Dean Shui to help him obtain a second ring through Cross-Level Absorption, targeting an age of thirteen hundred to sixteen hundred years.

Ji Wuming sought a roughly 1,600-year Thunder Attribute Soul Beast for his Second Soul Ring, and Dean Shui took him to search stormy seas. They found a Tribulation Blood Eagle of the desired age, and Ji Wuming killed it after Dean Shui wounded it, leaving him ready to absorb its Soul Ring.

• Ji Wuming told Dean Shui he wanted a 1,600-year Tribulation Fierce Eagle as his Second Soul Ring, and Dean Shui agreed to help him search.
• After nearly a month at sea, Dean Shui and Ji Wuming found a thunderstorm at the boundary between the shallow and deep seas.
• They discovered that a roughly 1,600-to-1,700-year Tribulation Blood Eagle had killed the Tribulation Fierce Eagles in the storm, and Ji Wuming chose it despite Dean Shui's warning.
• Dean Shui fought the Tribulation Blood Eagle with his Soul Skills, freezing and severely wounding it with Ice Cone Burst.
• Ji Wuming threw his Blood Spear through the falling Tribulation Blood Eagle's head, killing it.

Ji Wuming absorbed the Tribulation Blood Eagle’s Purple Soul Ring, gained a powerful Second Soul Skill, and graduated early from the academy. A month later, he mastered instant-casting his Soul Skills and demonstrated their combined destructive power.

• Dean Shui urged Ji Wuming to leave the storm and absorb the Tribulation Blood Eagle’s Soul Ring somewhere safe, and the two flew to a nearby island.
• Ji Wuming absorbed the ring, advanced three Soul Power levels, and gained Thunder Slayer Three-Stage Kill, a three-strike spear skill with escalating power, speed, and lightning paralysis.
• Dean Shui warned Ji Wuming to conceal his rare Thousand-Year Second Soul Ring until he had enough strength and praised his discipline and physique theory.
• Dean Shui gave Ji Wuming an early graduation certificate and invited him to work at the Shui Family’s Wodefake Grand Hotel, but Ji Wuming left the academy.
• A month later, Ji Wuming combined his First and Second Soul Skills in a bamboo forest and mastered instant-casting, toppling green bamboo across a hundred-meter area.

Ji Wuming attended Vast Sea City's grand auction with Dean Shui and obtained Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber and a damaged Soul Tool that could conceal a person's aura. He planned to study and repair the Soul Tool so he could hide his unusual strength without hunting for another Soul Ring or Soul Bone.

• Ji Wuming went to the Vast Sea City Auction House and unexpectedly met Dean Shui, who offered to bid on items for him.
• Ji Wuming and Dean Shui entered the masked auction as the grand auction began.
• Dean Shui bought all ten pieces of Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber for ten thousand Gold Soul Coins and gave two pieces to Ji Wuming as an investment.
• The host presented a damaged Soul Tool that could conceal a person's aura, and Ji Wuming bid four thousand Gold Soul Coins to acquire it.
• Shui Wuliang warned Ji Wuming that the Soul Tool was overpriced and difficult to repair, but Ji Wuming explained that he wanted to study and reverse-engineer Soul Tools.

Ji Wuming watched the damaged Soul Tool sell before the auction’s final item was revealed as a rare Fish-Tail External Soul Bone. Yu Luomian won the bone for the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, but Soul Masters began following him as he left Vast Sea City.

• Ji Wuming bought the damaged special Soul Tool for four thousand Gold Soul Coins, after which powerful Soul Masters emerged from the private rooms.
• Dean Shui told Ji Wuming that the auction’s final item was a Soul Bone, and the host revealed it was a Fish-Tail External Soul Bone from a Fish Dragon Beast.
• Dean Shui bid three million Gold Soul Coins for the bone, but other guests quickly outbid him, and the price climbed to fifteen million.
• Yu Luomian entered the bidding at twenty million Gold Soul Coins, and the contest between private rooms drove the price to sixty-seven million.
• Yu Luomian identified himself as the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s vice clan leader and asked his rival to withdraw; the rival yielded, leaving Yu Luomian with the Soul Bone.
• Soul Masters secretly followed Yu Luomian after he left Vast Sea City, hoping to seize the Fish-Tail External Soul Bone.

Ji Wuming advanced his Soul Tool research and discovered a concealed Right Leg Bone inside a Soul Tool he had bought at auction. After repairing the Soul Tool into a necklace that could alter or hide his Soul Ring aura, he went to the Vast Sea City Black Market.

• Ji Wuming spent months dismantling and reassembling Soul Tools and practicing magic array engraving.
• At eleven, Ji Wuming dismantled the special Soul Tool and found an intact magic array core and a concealed Right Leg Bone.
• Ji Wuming judged the Right Leg Bone too low in age and importance to absorb, then repaired the Soul Tool using Water Gold Ore.
• Ji Wuming tested the Blue-Gold Necklace and found it could change his Second Soul Ring’s color or conceal his aura.
• Ji Wuming entered Vast Sea City’s underground Black Market after paying the entrance fee.

Ji Wuming entered the Vast Sea City Black Market’s Underground Soul Fighting Arena under the name Emperor Slayer White Demon and wagered 20,000 Gold Soul Coins on himself. He faced Scar King, a veteran with fifteen consecutive victories, as the crowd gathered for their life-and-death match.

• Ji Wuming paid a hunchbacked guide to direct him to the Underground Soul Fighting Arena.
• Ji Wuming registered as Emperor Slayer White Demon for a Soul Grandmaster life-and-death match, revealing his Soul Rings but not his Martial Soul.
• Ji Wuming learned that the arena allowed matches across a wide range of levels and did not require fighters to reveal their Martial Souls.
• Ji Wuming bet 20,000 Gold Soul Coins on himself, while a merchant added a 10,000-Gold-Soul-Coin wager on Emperor Slayer White Demon.
• Ji Wuming and Scar King entered the arena as spectators gathered to watch Scar King seek his sixteenth consecutive victory.

Ji Wuming defeated Scar King in a life-and-death match, earning fame and his opponent’s possessions while hiding his interest in the corpse. He immediately signed up for another fight, which was scheduled against Gong Changyan in half an hour.

• Scar King taunted Ji Wuming before their life-and-death match began, then charged with his saber and unleashed his soul skills.
• Ji Wuming dodged Scar King’s attacks and countered with the three-stage Thunder Slayer Three-Stage Kill, driving his spear through Scar King’s chest and killing him.
• The host declared Ji Wuming the winner, and Ji Wuming collected Scar King’s Gold Card and valuables before deciding not to take the corpse.
• Ji Wuming returned to the registration counter and requested another match, prompting the staff to schedule him against Gong Changyan in half an hour.

Ji Wuming, known as Emperor Slayer White Demon, won his fifty-third consecutive match and prepared to leave the Underground Soul Fighting Arena. The arena’s manager persuaded him to face Human-Faced Illusion Demon, and the chapter ended as spectators gathered to watch their upcoming match.

• Ji Wuming defeated Gong Changyan in under thirty seconds, earning another victory in the Life-and-Death Matches.
• Over the next half year, Ji Wuming amassed fifty-three consecutive wins, earned Gold Soul Coins and Soul Tools, and improved his combat skills and Soul Power.
• When Ji Wuming tried to leave, the arena’s manager offered him rewards to fight a stronger opponent, but Ji Wuming refused to challenge someone above his rank.
• The manager proposed a match against Human-Faced Illusion Demon, and Ji Wuming agreed on the condition that she was still a Soul Grandmaster and the match took place within a month.
• Ten days later, Human-Faced Illusion Demon agreed to fight Ji Wuming after the manager increased the rewards; she had reached level thirty but had not obtained her Third Soul Ring.
• Spectators gathered at the central Soul Arena and debated whether Human-Faced Illusion Demon’s illusions or Ji Wuming’s speed and attacks would win.