Chapter Summaries

Ye Wen encountered Su Zhenhua dismissing two girls’ Martial Souls as useless and recognized the potential in Huo Rui’s Heart Martial Soul. He brought Huo Rui and Lan Lan to Village Chief Mike’s home to explain their abilities, leaving them waiting for his guidance.

• Ye Wen returned toward Holy Soul Village on foot and stopped in Golden Wheat Village when he saw Su Zhenhua speaking with Village Chief Mike.
• Su Zhenhua gave Mike certificates for Lan Lan, who had Blue Silver Grass and Rank One Innate Soul Power, and Huo Rui, whose Heart Martial Soul had Rank Five Innate Soul Power, but dismissed both as useless.
• Ye Wen recognized Huo Rui’s Heart Martial Soul as a potentially powerful Body Martial Soul and decided to intervene.
• Ye Wen greeted Mike, introduced himself as Ye Buyi’s grandson, and persuaded Mike to talk inside his home.
• Lan Lan and Huo Rui introduced themselves, and Ye Wen prepared to explain their Martial Souls.

Ye Wen explained how Lan Lan could use Blue Silver Grass environments to improve her cultivation, then offered Huo Rui a specialized path for her Heart Martial Soul. Huo Rui became Ye Wen’s first disciple, and he promised to teach her how to develop her Martial Soul.

• Ye Wen told Lan Lan that cultivating among Blue Silver Grass could help her reach Soul Elder despite her weak Martial Soul.
• Huo Rui realized Lan Lan’s cultivation advice did not apply to her Heart Martial Soul and anxiously asked Ye Wen for help.
• Ye Wen warned Huo Rui that her Martial Soul needed specialized cultivation, which he would teach only in exchange for her becoming his disciple.
• Huo Rui agreed to become Ye Wen’s disciple, and Ye Wen accepted her as his first disciple.

Ye Wen took Huo Rui and her family, then accepted Lan Lan as a registered disciple after learning she wanted revenge for her parents. He began teaching Huo Rui about Body Martial Souls and left her considering the heart’s connection to blood and strength.

• Ye Wen decided to take Huo Rui as a disciple and bring her mother and younger brother along from Golden Wheat Village.
• Lan Lan asked to become Ye Wen’s disciple and revealed that a noble from Nuoding City had killed her parents with a carriage.
• Ye Wen accepted Lan Lan as a registered disciple, promised to seek justice for her, and warned her not to pursue revenge alone.
• Village Chief Mike allowed Ye Wen to take Lan Lan, and Ye Buyi welcomed Huo Rui’s family and both new students into the household.
• Ye Wen taught Huo Rui that Body Martial Souls were distinct from Tool and Beast Martial Souls and explained the potential of heart, eye, and brain Martial Souls.
• Huo Rui guessed that the heart was connected to blood, and Ye Wen confirmed that her Heart Martial Soul could enhance her strength and energy.

Ye Wen guided Huo Rui’s training, helped her and Lan Lan prepare for Nuoding Academy, and developed several Soul Skills based on the Navy Six Styles. The chapter left Huo Rui learning the techniques while Ye Wen continued to build his own cultivation methods.

• Ye Wen explained that Huo Rui’s Heart Martial Soul enhanced her body and advised her to train until she reached her physical limits.
• Over the next two months, Huo Rui reached eight hundred jin of strength and level eight Soul Power, while Lan Lan advanced to level three.
• Ye Wen took Huo Rui and Lan Lan to Nuoding Academy using their villages’ Work-Study Student slots and rejected students who asked to become his disciples.
• Ye Wen trained Huo Rui in combat and gave her two custom-made knives to compensate for her Martial Soul’s weak early offensive power.
• Ye Wen created five Soul Skills modeled on the Navy Six Styles and taught Huo Rui those techniques, along with tree-climbing and water-walking.

After six years at Nuoding Academy, Ye Wen reached Level 40 and prepared to leave with Ah Yin, Huo Rui, and Lan Lan, whose cultivation and Soul Rings he had guided. He set out alone for the Great Star Dou Forest to seek his Fourth Soul Ring, leaving the girls to continue cultivating at home.

• Ye Wen reached Level 40 while concealing his true cultivation, and Ah Yin remained the only one who knew how far ahead of her he had advanced.
• Ye Wen trained Huo Rui and Lan Lan: Huo Rui reached Level 20 with a strength-enhancing Soul Ring, while Lan Lan gained a healing Soul Skill from her Jade Aloe Soul Ring.
• Ye Wen and the three girls decided to leave Nuoding Academy after outgrowing what it could offer them.
• Ye Wen chose to travel alone to the Great Star Dou Forest for his Fourth Soul Ring because the girls were not strong enough to assist him.
• Ye Wen entered a Soul Master gathering place near the forest, concealed his presence with Between Mimicry, and headed toward the Great Star Dou Forest.

Ye Wen entered the Great Star Dou Forest’s Mixed Zone to hunt a Soul Beast with a Shadow Shuttle-type skill, while the Snow Empress confronted Di Tian over protecting him. Ye Wen killed a nearly ten-thousand-year Shadow Leopard and examined the Soul Ring it left behind.

• Ye Wen entered the Mixed Zone alone, relying on Between Mimicry to hide while searching for a suitable Soul Beast.
• Di Tian sensed the Snow Empress’s presence and went to confront her, leaving the Lake of Life.
• The Snow Empress told Di Tian that Ye Wen was the Child of the World and warned him not to interfere with Ye Wen’s growth.
• Di Tian refused to attack Ye Wen but warned the Snow Empress to stay away from the core region and the Lake of Life.
• A rampaging herd startled Ye Wen, who spotted a nine-thousand-year Shadow Leopard and pursued it after it evaded his first arrow.
• Ye Wen used Between Mimicry to ambush and kill the Shadow Leopard, which had cultivated for about nine thousand nine hundred years.

After absorbing the Shadow Leopard’s Soul Ring, Ye Wen gained the Inner Space ability and discovered his Martial Soul’s True Body Armor. He returned to Holy Soul Village and began pursuing his ambition of advancing human civilization, leaving the story with Heaven’s Way Primary Academy newly built.

• Ye Wen absorbed the Shadow Leopard’s Soul Ring, raising his strength and expanding the Nab Cloth’s storage space to fifty cubic meters.
• Ye Wen discovered his True Body Armor and learned that his Fourth Soul Skill, Inner Space, let him enter a shadow state or extend the effect to companions.
• Ye Wen stored the Shadow Leopard’s corpse and questioned why Shrek Academy had been so poor despite its powerful instructors.
• Ye Wen returned to Holy Soul Village and vowed to protect what mattered to him and kindle an epic of civilization through human wisdom.
• Ye Wen bought a nearby mountain range and hired workers to build Heaven’s Way Primary Academy, whose motto was “Observe the Way of Heaven, Carry Out the Will of Heaven.”
• A boy asked Ye Wen what the academy’s motto meant.

Ye Wen trained Huo Quan and Huo Rui, whose powerful Body and Heart Martial Souls made them rapidly growing strength specialists. Three years later, the siblings had reached the threshold of Rank 30, Ah Yin had reached Rank 47, and both siblings had gained potent second Soul Skills.

• Huo Quan awakened a Body Martial Soul with Rank 9 Innate Soul Power, became Ye Wen's disciple, and surpassed Huo Rui in cultivation and physical strength.
• Ye Wen gave Huo Quan a thousand-year Violent Bear Soul Ring, granting him Berserk Strength with a forty-percent strength increase.
• Ye Wen told Huo Quan to master the path of his Martial Soul and become the world's strongest Body Soul Master.
• Over the next three years, Huo Rui and Huo Quan reached the threshold of Rank 30 without hunting third Soul Rings, while Ah Yin advanced to Rank 47.
• Lan Lan gained a six-hundred-year Blue Silver Vine Soul Ring and the Lush Growth Soul Skill.
• Huo Rui and Huo Quan gained Great Strength Furious Strike from Great Strength Bear Soul Rings, increasing the power of a single attack by forty and fifty percent, respectively.

Ye Wen’s five young protégés awakened exceptionally powerful and unusual Martial Souls, and their families’ trust in him deepened. As the children reached the level-ten threshold and Ye Wen prepared to seek his Fifth Soul Ring, Heavenly Path Academy’s unofficial status left them without free permits to enter the Soul Hunting Forest.

• Ye Wen introduced five children from families affiliated with the Ye Family, each of whom had at least level-five Innate Soul Power.
• Su Qiaoqiao awakened the mutated Embroidered Cloud Needle, while Hu Rou awakened the Soft Bone Rabbit with level-six-and-a-half Innate Soul Power.
• Xu Teng awakened the aggressive Demonic Chapter Vine and reached level-seven Innate Soul Power; Wang Bao awakened an Alchemy Furnace and reached level six.
• Dongfang Jiaojiao awakened a new Super Martial Soul, which Ye Wen named the Tranquil Light Staff, and reached level-nine Innate Soul Power.
• The five families became more devoted to Ye Wen, and the children reached the level-ten threshold after years of physical training.
• Ye Wen prepared to hunt for his Fifth Soul Ring, but Heavenly Path Academy’s unofficial status meant he could not obtain free Soul Hunting Forest permits.

Ye Wen took his disciples to Bite City before entering the Great Star Dou Forest alone to seek a suitable Soul Beast for his Fifth Soul Ring. After finding a nearly thirty-thousand-year Thousand Jin Ant King, he attacked it with a new gravity-based self-created soul skill.

• Ye Wen brought his disciples to Bite City and left Huo Quan and his sibling to look after the five younger children while he went to the forest.
• Ye Wen searched the Great Star Dou Forest for an ant- or bee-type Soul Beast that could help him develop Nabu's defensive and flight abilities.
• After searching for twelve days, Ye Wen found a Thousand Jin Ant King in the Mixed Zone and discovered that his arrow could not pierce its armored head.
• Ye Wen used two Nabu sheets as a spatial passage to accelerate swords with gravity, then redirected the supersonic attack toward the Thousand Jin Ant King.

Ye Wen absorbed the Thousand Jin Ant King's Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, overcame its remnant soul, and gained a powerful defensive Fifth Soul Skill. The ring also transformed Between Mimicry into a tool for analyzing and simulating matter, and Ye Wen returned to Bite City as a Soul King.

• Ye Wen collected the Thousand Jin Ant King's head, found a secluded spot, and absorbed its Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Ye Wen defeated the Thousand Jin Ant King's remnant soul in his spiritual world, strengthening his own spiritual power.
• Ye Wen gained the Fifth Soul Skill Barrier of Emptiness and found that Nabu's space had expanded to one hundred cubic meters.
• Ye Wen discovered that Between Mimicry could analyze matter at a molecular level and used it to simulate ginseng's effects on a human body.
• Ye Wen returned to Bite City, where his seven disciples congratulated him on becoming a Soul King.

Ye Wen led his seven disciples through the Soul Beast Forest and helped them obtain soul rings suited to their martial souls. After warning them about the dangers of soul hunting, he led them safely back and considered a future plan to profit from collecting soul beast corpses.

• The Huo siblings defeated two Vajra Bears and gained the Third Soul Skill Vajra Body, which increased their defenses.
• Su Qiaoqiao absorbed a Warhammer Spider soul ring and gained Soul Thread Connection, while Hu Rou absorbed a Soft Bone Rabbit soul ring and gained Waist Bow.
• Xu Teng gained Parasite from a Ghost Vine, and Wang Bao gained Roaming Fire from a Blazing Fire Lizard.
• After a week of searching, Dongfang Jiaojiao absorbed a Blazing Light Butterfly soul ring and gained Light Butterfly Dance.
• Ye Wen warned his disciples to beware of soul beasts and other soul masters, then led the group out of the forest and thought about collecting corpses for profit once Ah Yin became a Soul King.

After completing a major work on medicinal plants, Ye Wen took the Huo siblings to David Soul Fighting Arena so they could gain real combat experience. He set strict rules for their matches, and the siblings registered under masked identities as Heavenly Path Senior Sister and Heavenly Path Second Senior Brother.

• Ye Wen used his enhanced Second Soul Skill to solve research problems and compile a comprehensive work on plants and medicinal herbs.
• Ye Wen decided against visiting the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well because he was not strong enough, and left basic instruction of his disciples to Ah Yin.
• Huo Rui and Huo Quan asked Ye Wen for actual combat experience, and he agreed to take them to David Soul Fighting Arena.
• Ye Wen told the siblings to conceal their Soul Rings, avoid long-range Self-Created Soul Skills, fight at least ten matches, and train under his supervision if either lost.
• Huo Rui and Huo Quan registered as level thirty-two and level thirty-five Soul Elders under the names Heavenly Path Senior Sister and Heavenly Path Second Senior Brother.

Huo Rui and Huo Quan each defeated an opponent in Soul Dueling Platform matches using the Six Styles. The siblings’ victories left the spectators amazed as their opponents were carried away for medical treatment.

• Huo Rui introduced herself as a Level 32 Strength Attack System Battle Soul Elder and faced Xiong Ba, a Level 38 soul master with a black bear Martial Soul.
• Xiong Ba attacked Huo Rui with his Third Soul Skill, Frenzied Bear Strike, but she dodged with Six Styles: Flash Step and struck him off the platform.
• Huo Quan faced Mountain Cat, a Level 39 Agility Attack System Soul Elder, who used his First Soul Skill, Ghostly Steps, to create afterimages.
• Huo Quan sensed Mountain Cat’s real position and hit him with Six Styles: Finger Gun: Sixfold Strike, leaving him badly wounded.
• The referee declared Huo Quan the winner and summoned medical personnel to carry Mountain Cat away.

Ye Wen searched David City for soul tools but found only overpriced, ordinary items. After witnessing the orphan Qianqian being struck by a restaurant owner, he intervened and suspected that the city’s orphanage concealed abuse when she panicked at his offer to take her back.

• Huo Rui and her brother kept winning their matches, and Ye Wen gave them gold coins to bet on themselves.
• Ye Wen searched David City for soul tools but found only ordinary, expensive goods and no auction house.
• Ye Wen saw a restaurant owner strike Qianqian while driving her away from scraps, so he stopped him with a bamboo skewer and made him apologize.
• Qianqian defended the owner despite her injuries, and Ye Wen offered to take her back to her orphanage.
• Qianqian reacted with terror and tried to leave, leading Ye Wen to suspect that something sinister was happening at the orphanage.

Ye Wen rescued Qianqian from the orphanage’s slave trade and arranged for the scandal to expose its director and the City Lord of David City. After returning to Heavenly Path Academy, he went to Nuoding City to collect metal for his Storage Ring research.

• Ye Wen comforted Qianqian, took her from the orphanage, and learned that its director had been selling orphans into slavery.
• Ye Wen introduced Qianqian to Huo Rui and her younger brother, and the siblings grew fond of her.
• Huo Rui and her younger brother completed a ten-win streak and earned Ye Wen one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins before he stopped them from fighting further.
• Ye Wen gathered evidence of the orphanage director’s slave trade, sent it to Spirit Hall, and poisoned the director.
• The scandal stripped the City Lord of David City and his family of their noble status, and they later died unnatural deaths.
• Ye Wen returned to Heavenly Path Academy and went to Nuoding City to collect metal for making first-grade Storage Space Rings.

Ye Wen continued studying Soul Tools and helped Qianqian awaken her mutated Wings of Light martial soul. After Ah Yin reached Soul King and strengthened her Blue Silver Domain into a life-nourishing domain, she and Ye Wen transformed Heavenly Path Academy’s barren back mountain into a Blue Silver forest.

• Ye Wen crafted a first-rank spatial ring and recorded how to make it.
• Ye Wen helped Qianqian awaken her martial soul, which had mutated into a single golden wing and left her with rank-one Innate Soul Power; Qianqian named it the Wings of Light.
• Ah Yin broke through to Soul King, gained her first Black Soul Ring, and demonstrated her Blue Silver Overlord Spear.
• Ah Yin discovered that her Blue Silver Domain now gathered life energy, nourishing living things and helping Soul Masters cultivate and recover.
• Ye Wen and Ah Yin spent two months transplanting Blue Silver Grass and Blue Silver Trees from the Great Star Dou Forest to Heavenly Path Academy’s back mountain.
• The new Blue Silver forest improved the academy’s cultivation environment, and its disciples felt their cultivation and physical condition benefit.

Ye Wen and Ah Yin secured the Blue Silver King’s support to protect their transplanted Blue Silver Forest and Heavenly Path Academy. After bringing the eighty-five-thousand-year Soul Beast to the academy, Ye Wen made the forest a forbidden area and ordered his disciples to cultivate under its protection.

• The disciples were astonished by a nine-thousand-year Blue Silver Tree and wondered what would occupy the larger pit nearby.
• Ah Yin and Ye Wen met the eighty-five-thousand-year Blue Silver King, who recognized Ah Yin as its Emperor and blessed her relationship with Ye Wen.
• Ye Wen asked the Blue Silver King to guard their pseudo Blue Silver Domain, and it agreed to protect the forest as a potential new homeland for the clan.
• Ye Wen brought the Blue Silver King and every cultivable Blue Silver Grass from the forest back to Heavenly Path Academy.
• Ye Wen introduced the Blue Silver King to his eight disciples and Old Master Ye Buyi, ordered them to respect it and cultivate nearby, and declared the forest a forbidden area.

At eighteen, Ye Wen reached Soul Emperor and sought a fifty-thousand-year-or-older War Drum Toad for his next Soul Ring. After the Blue Silver King revealed a possible location in the Great Star Dou Forest, Ye Wen prepared to go there with Ah Yin.

• Ye Wen accepted Qianqian as a disciple after she asked him to teach her.
• Three years passed, and Ye Wen reached Soul Emperor while his physical strength stalled around eighty-five thousand jin.
• Ye Wen asked the Blue Silver King where to find a War Drum Toad over fifty thousand years old, and the Blue Silver King described a sixty-thousand-year War Drum Toad King in a canyon northwest of the Mixed Zone.
• Ye Wen used his spiritual connection with Ah Yin to pinpoint the canyon, then decided to bring her along to hunt the Soul Beast.
• Ye Wen explained that he had developed Artificial Purple Qi to cultivate Spiritual Power and supplied it to Ah Yin and his disciples.

Ye Wen and Ah Yin hunted an eighty-thousand-year War Drum Toad King, and Ye Wen weakened it with laxatives before attacking with Creation of Gravity. The toad king tried to flee, but Ah Yin’s Blue Silver Grass caught and restrained it, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Ye Wen and Ah Yin reached a poisonous region of the Great Star Dou Forest and discovered that their target, the War Drum Toad King, had a cultivation of nearly eighty thousand years.
• Ye Wen devised a plan to exploit the toad king’s vulnerable insides, then captured a Green Pouch Beast, fed it herbs and laxatives, and released it as bait.
• After eating the Green Pouch Beast, the War Drum Toad King began suffering severe diarrhea, allowing Ye Wen to attack from above with Creation of Gravity.
• The toad king fled into the forest and fought back with Empty Roar Cannon, while Ah Yin used Blue Silver Grass to sneak behind it and punch a hole through its body.
• The War Drum Toad King tried to escape, but Ah Yin’s Blue Silver Grass caught it mid-leap and bound it tightly.