Chapter Summaries

Ye Wen killed the War Drum Toad King, absorbed its Soul Ring, and gained a devastating sixth Soul Skill. After returning to Nuoding City, he established a medical hall and strengthened his local influence.

• Ah Yin’s Blue Silver Emperor bound the weakened War Drum Toad King, allowing Ye Wen to crush it with steel greatswords and finish it with a blow to the forehead.
• Ye Wen collected the Toad King’s venom and discovered an emerald-green head Soul Bone, which Ah Yin declined before Ye Wen absorbed its Soul Ring.
• Ye Wen defeated the Toad King’s remnant soul in his spiritual world, strengthening his consciousness, then demonstrated his new Sixth Soul Skill, Space Shockwave, by devastating hundreds of meters of forest.
• Ye Wen and Ah Yin returned to Heavenly Path Academy, and Ye Wen opened a low-cost medical hall in Nuoding City with help from Lan Lan and Su Qiaoqiao.
• Xiao Lie visited Ye Wen and revealed that his elder brother had died hunting a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast; Xiao Lie had since become the next successor being trained by the City Lord.

Ye Wen encountered Dugu Bo and his poisoned son, Dugu Xin, and invited them to Heavenly Path Academy with a promise to resolve their inherited poison problem. After Dugu Bo and Dugu Xin visited the academy, Ye Wen asked Dugu Xin to become his disciple and Dugu Bo to serve as its Honorary Dean.

• Ye Wen found Dugu Xin collapsed in the street and recognized signs of a snake-related illness before Dugu Bo arrived and eased his son's pain with Soul Power.
• Ye Wen urged Dugu Bo to visit Heavenly Path Academy if he wanted to solve the problems affecting himself and Dugu Xin, and Dugu Bo agreed to investigate.
• Dugu Bo and Dugu Xin reached Holy Soul Village, where Dugu Bo admired the academy grounds and its Mimic Cultivation Environment.
• Ye Wen welcomed the pair and told Dugu Bo that he wanted a discussion rather than a reward for helping them.
• Ye Wen asked Dugu Xin to acknowledge him as his master and Dugu Bo to become Heavenly Path Academy's Honorary Dean.

Ye Wen brought Dugu Bo and Dugu Xin into the Blue Silver Forest and began explaining how to resolve the poison caused by their Jade Phosphor Serpent Martial Souls. He argued that their inherited Soul Rings and cultivation path were the problem, but Dugu Bo rejected the claim as Ye Wen began questioning his assumptions about treating venom.

• Dugu Bo swore to serve as Heavenly Path Academy’s Honorary Dean and protect it if Ye Wen could solve his and Dugu Xin’s Martial Soul problem, and he promised that Dugu Xin would become Ye Wen’s disciple.
• Ye Wen showed Dugu Bo and Dugu Xin the Blue Silver King, an eighty-five-thousand-year Soul Beast that could speak, and explained how it had learned human language.
• Ye Wen asked whether the Dugu family’s Soul Skills used poison to control the battlefield, and Dugu Bo confirmed that they had followed this approach for generations.
• Ye Wen said the Jade Phosphor Serpent Martial Souls were not the problem and blamed the family’s Soul Rings and cultivation path, prompting Dugu Bo to insist that their inherited method could not be wrong.
• Ye Wen asked Dugu Bo how he would treat a snakebite when no herbs or tools were available, and Dugu Bo said he would restrict blood flow and suck out the venom with his mouth.

Ye Wen explained that the Dugu Family’s accumulated poison came from venom entering tiny wounds during Soul Skill use, not from an inherent flaw in their Jade Phosphor Snake Martial Soul. Dugu Bo accepted Ye Wen’s offer to help, made Dugu Xin his disciple, and agreed to bind the family to Ye Wen’s academy.

• Ye Wen told Dugu Bo that the Dugu Family’s mixed venom could enter the body through small wounds and accumulate over time.
• Dugu Bo realized his family had misunderstood the cause of its poisoning for generations and broke down in grief.
• Dugu Bo asked Ye Wen to help Dugu Xin, and Ye Wen agreed in exchange for Dugu Bo becoming the academy’s Honorary Dean and Dugu Xin becoming his disciple.
• Dugu Xin bowed to Ye Wen and became his eighth personal disciple, binding the Dugu Family to Ye Wen.
• Ye Wen planned to use Dugu Bo’s strength and the Dugu Family’s support to establish an advanced Soul Master Academy and obtain rare resources while remaining neutral among major powers.

Over the month, Ye Wen helped Dugu Bo and Dugu Xin change the Dugu family's approach to cultivation, treating Dugu Bo's poison and teaching them new techniques. As the family settled in at the academy, Ye Wen prepared to leave for Spirit City for the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Tournament, while Ah Yin stayed behind.

• Ye Wen advised Dugu Xin to develop toward the Strength Attack System and gave Dugu Bo a microscope to study the toxins in his body.
• Ye Wen shared half of his Toad Venom with Dugu Bo, who welcomed the chance to investigate the poison afflicting his family.
• Ye Wen taught Dugu Xin the Six Styles, tree climbing, and water walking, and also taught Dugu Bo, who developed a poisoned Finger Gun technique.
• Dugu Xin and Dugu Bo trained as the Dugu family grew close to the Huo Siblings and the five siblings at the academy.
• Ye Wen prepared to travel to Spirit City for the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Tournament, while Ah Yin stayed behind to guard the house.

Ye Wen and his group arrived in Spirit City ahead of the soul master tournament, settled in, and trained while exploring the city. At lunch, Ye Wen recognized Bibi Dong and Yu Xiaogang as Yu Xiaogang lectured her about soul ring limits.

• Ye Wen led his disciples and companions to Spirit City, where Dugu Bo warned them to obey the city's strict rules.
• The group found lodging at Shenghui Hotel and explored the peaceful city before the tournament began.
• Ye Wen sent his disciples to train at Spirit City's Soul Fighting Arena, where they won more matches than they lost and earned Gold Soul Coins.
• At the hotel restaurant, Dugu Xin laughed when he overheard a young man explaining soul ring absorption limits to Bibi Dong.
• Ye Wen recognized the pair as Bibi Dong and Yu Xiaogang, then knocked Dugu Xin on the head and told him not to be rude.

Ye Wen and Dugu Xin challenged Yu Xiaogang’s rigid soul-ring age-limit theory, arguing that a Soul Master’s physical constitution was the key factor. Ye Wen began demonstrating his evidence by revealing a second purple soul ring, leaving the hall stunned.

• Yu Xiaogang confronted Dugu Xin for laughing at his theory, and Dugu Xin listed its flaws, including its failure to account for differences in physical strength and martial souls.
• Dugu Xin refused to share his master’s theory until Ye Wen told him to explain it, then said physical constitution determined which soul rings a Soul Master could absorb.
• Yu Xiaogang demanded proof, and Ye Wen revealed his four soul rings: yellow, purple, purple, and purple.
• The purple ring in Ye Wen’s second position stunned the Soul Masters in the hall.

Ye Wen revealed his theory that a Soul Master's physical strength determined the age of Soul Rings they could absorb, demonstrating its effects through himself and his disciples. Bibi Dong brought him to Spirit Hall to share his theories, while the continent's major forces began assessing him and his students.

• Ye Wen explained his Soul Ring absorption theory to Bibi Dong and Yu Xiaogang, then had his disciples display their rings, including the Huo Family Siblings' Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings.
• Ye Wen told Bibi Dong he wanted Spirit Hall to spread his theory, along with two others, throughout the continent, and she gladly took him to the main hall.
• Ye Wen asked Dugu Bo to watch over his disciples, warning that Spirit City might soon become unsettled, while Dugu Bo dismissed other guests seeking details of the theory.
• Yu Xiaogang returned to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's residence and told Yu Yuanzhen about Ye Wen's unusual cultivation and Soul Rings.
• The Three Upper Sects and other forces gathered information about Ye Wen, his disciples, his academy, and his medical clinic.

Ye Wen presented Qian Xunji with three works on Martial Souls and asked Spirit Hall to help establish a neutral advanced Soul Master Academy near the sea. Qian Xunji agreed to negotiate with the two great empires for land, leaving Ye Wen to wait in Spirit City.

• Ye Wen met Qian Xunji at the Pontiff's Palace and presented him with The Path of a Soul Ancestor, Detailed Explanation of Martial Souls, and Treatise on the Origin of Martial Souls.
• Qian Xunji praised Ye Wen's theories and offered him a reward in exchange for allowing Spirit Hall to spread them across the continent.
• Ye Wen said he wanted his research to help commoner Soul Masters and to preserve his name through the theories.
• Ye Wen asked Qian Xunji to secure land near the western sea for a neutral advanced Soul Master Academy and promised to publish future improvements openly.
• Qian Xunji agreed to negotiate with the two great empires and told Ye Wen to remain in Spirit City while Bibi Dong saw him out.

Ye Wen warned Bibi Dong to keep her distance from the empires and Upper Three Sects, then sold his papers and gained influence among Soul Masters. At the tournament, Qian Xunji arranged for Ye Wen to commentate, where he began explaining the teams and promoting his Martial Soul book.

• Ye Wen warned Bibi Dong about becoming entangled with the empires and Upper Three Sects, then left her behind.
• Qian Xunji approved of Ye Wen’s warning, while Ye Wen sold three hundred copies of his papers to Soul Masters from major and minor factions.
• Ye Wen’s theories impressed influential Soul Masters, and his guidance helped several Spirit Hall bishops break through from Soul Emperor to Soul Saint.
• Yu Yuanzhen suggested Ye Wen commentate on the tournament, and Qian Xunji had an attendant ask him to take over the announcer’s role.
• Ye Wen analyzed Thunder Academy’s Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Souls and promoted his book, Detailed Explanation of Martial Souls.

Ye Wen’s commentary exposed the tactics and abilities of the tournament teams, earning him the title of Grandmaster as Spirit Hall Academy won the competition. As Ye Wen enjoyed a quiet evening in Spirit City, a masked man arrived with a summons from his sect master.

• Ye Wen explained how Exotic Beast Academy’s students used their martial souls and electrical conduction to counter Thunder Academy’s lightning attacks.
• Ye Wen continued analyzing the competitors, and other academies’ teachers took notes before he exposed their students’ abilities in later matches.
• Ye Wen’s extensive commentary earned him the title of Grandmaster, and his growing fame drew crowds of admirers in Spirit City.
• Spirit Hall Academy won the tournament with Bibi Dong as its trump card.
• A black-robed man appeared behind Ye Wen and said that his sect master requested his presence.

Ye Wen used his Martial Soul Attribute Detector to identify why Yu Xiaogang had stalled at rank 30: his first two Soul Rings had the wrong attributes for his Martial Soul. He explained that matching Soul Beast attributes to a Martial Soul could strengthen and even evolve it, leaving Yu Yuanzhen with a possible explanation for his son's condition.

• Ye Wen reasoned that Yu Yuanzhen had summoned him to address Yu Xiaogang's weak cultivation and went with the deathsworn attendant to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Yu Yuanzhen asked Ye Wen to help his son and offered him a favor, while Ye Wen resented being treated without the courtesy due to a guest.
• Ye Wen gave Yu Xiaogang his Martial Soul Attribute Detector, and its golden and purple lights revealed the attributes in his Soul Power.
• Ye Wen concluded that Yu Xiaogang's first two Soul Rings had come from lightning-attributed Soul Beasts even though his Martial Soul originally had only the light attribute.
• Ye Wen explained his theory that Soul Rings matching a Martial Soul's attributes could optimize or evolve it, and said Yu Xiaogang was stuck at rank 30 because he had absorbed the wrong Soul Rings.

Ye Wen explained that Yu Xiaogang’s defective Martial Soul may have resulted from a failed mutation that consumed his mother’s life origin and left him with insufficient Innate Soul Power. He proposed a way to restore it, and Yu Yuanzhen left tempted to pursue the treatment.

• Yu Yuanzhen regretted neglecting Yu Xiaogang’s Martial Soul, and Ye Wen warned that external resources would have little effect because Yu Xiaogang had developed resistance.
• Ye Wen recommended a Light Element Mimic Cultivation Environment and explained that major Martial Soul mutations could consume their owners’ Innate Soul Power when nourishment was insufficient.
• Yu Yuanzhen revealed that Yu Xiaogang’s mother was a Soul King who died giving birth, and that Yu Xiaogang had eaten unusually large amounts as a child without gaining weight.
• Ye Wen concluded that Yu Xiaogang’s Martial Soul may have been an exceptionally powerful mutation that failed for lack of energy, leaving him with only Half-Level Soul Power.
• Ye Wen advised Yu Xiaogang to strengthen his body, use Light Dragon blood in medicinal baths, and obtain a Light Element Soul Beast with true dragon bloodline as his Third Soul Ring.
• Yu Yuanzhen thanked Ye Wen and considered his proposal, while reaffirming his earlier promise.

Ye Wen’s theories won him recognition from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, whose old sect master made him an Honorary Elder. With Spirit Hall’s support, Ye Wen secured territory for his academy and accepted honorary titles from both empires, leaving construction to begin under their sponsorship.

• Yu Xiaogang entered Spirit Hall’s Light Element Mimic Cultivation Environment after the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan paid for his training, while Yu Yuanzhen ordered a search for a thousand-year Light Element dragon-type Soul Beast.
• Ye Wen advised the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect that Treasure Aura might help their Martial Soul advance, and the old sect master granted him an Honorary Elder Token in exchange for guiding the younger generation.
• Qian Xunji informed Ye Wen that his academy territory was ready, and Ye Wen declined recruitment offers from Xue Ye and Prince Dai Lie.
• Xue Ye and Prince Dai Lie made Ye Wen a Dual Honorary Earl, granting him annual payments and other privileges from both empires.
• Ye Wen asked both empires to provide construction teams, and they approved his academy plans, including three gates designed to represent the two empires and Blue Silver Grass.

Ye Wen introduced the Medical Soul Master class and brought the assembled leaders to see his students treating injured Soul Masters. After Su Qiaoqiao and Lan Lan successfully treated several patients, Qian Xunji examined a reattached arm and confirmed that it was healing rapidly.

• Ye Wen explained that Medical Soul Masters could treat hidden injuries and invited Xue Ye, Prince Dai Lie, Qian Xunji, and Bibi Dong to the Soul Fighting Arena.
• Su Qiaoqiao used Soul Thread Suturing and Embroidered Cloud Hand to reconnect a Soul Master's severed arm.
• Lan Lan applied Blue Silver Healing and Lush Growth to aid the patients' recovery, while Su Qiaoqiao advised them to rest.
• Ye Wen praised Su Qiaoqiao's work as the crowd recognized the Pope and the group.
• Qian Xunji examined the injured Soul Master's arm and sensed that its nerves and muscles were joined and healing quickly.

Ye Wen announced plans to train Medical Soul Masters and provide affordable treatment across the continent, while Qian Xunji publicly cast him as neutral between the empires. The factions agreed on rules for medical training and battlefield conduct, and Ye Wen's academy was completed as the empires began searching for eligible students.

• Qian Xunji praised Ye Wen's treatment and declared that he would train Medical Soul Masters for people across the continent.
• Ye Wen promised to provide affordable care for injuries and common illnesses, winning cheers from the gathered crowd.
• Ye Wen and the factions agreed on recruitment rules, battlefield protections, and the academy's training system for Medical Soul Masters.
• The factions accepted that Ye Wen would recruit students with Needle or Blue Silver Grass Martial Souls, and both empires began searching for candidates.
• Three months later, Ye Wen inspected the completed Heavenly Path Advanced Soul Master Academy, which remained empty until the next Martial Soul Awakening.

Ye Wen established Heavenly Path Advanced Soul Master Academy, recruiting teachers and students with generous terms and specialized programs. As the academy opened in its new home, students began cultivating in the transplanted Blue Silver Forest, revealing its benefits to the continent’s powers.

• Ye Wen’s teacher recruitment notice drew commoner Soul Master experts with promises of cultivation guidance, a life-type simulated environment, and freedom from restrictive obligations.
• The academy announced three student categories, and the empires gathered 525 Blue Silver Grass and Needle Martial Soul practitioners for its medical program.
• Ye Wen moved his family and academy to a coastal site, transplanted the Blue Silver Forest, and handed Xiao Lie medicine sales rights and instructions to grow medicinal herbs.
• Ye Wen appointed Jack, who had a Carrot Martial Soul, as village chief and renamed Holy Soul Village Heavenly Path Village.
• Ye Wen sent the new students to cultivate in Blue Silver Forest and required them to train their bodies as well.
• The continent’s major powers learned that the gathered Blue Silver Grass Soul Beasts formed an effective advanced life-type Mimic Cultivation Environment.

As Heavenly Path Academy prepared to open, Ye Wen recruited eleven elite civilian Soul Masters, including gravity specialists and healing Soul King Fang Fei. He impressed the new teachers with practical teaching materials and cultivation plans for their children, then turned down their requests to make the children his disciples because he already had eight.

• Ye Wen gave each of the two empires and Spirit Hall three Blue Silver Trees over five thousand years old, and had them gather Blue Silver Vines to build small life-type mimetic environments.
• As recruitment approached, Ye Wen hired three gravity-type Soul Masters: Niu Sanshi, Tie Man, and Lu Feng, who became an Honorary Dean and Teaching Director, as well as the healing Soul King Fang Fei.
• Ye Wen rejected applicants from other fields for the time being, and ultimately recruited eleven teachers who met his requirements.
• Ye Wen taught the new teachers from his practical materials and planned cultivation paths for them and their children.
• The teachers asked Ye Wen to take their children as personal disciples, but he declined because he already had eight disciples and lacked the capacity to teach more.

Yu Xiaogang broke through to Soul Elder using Ye Wen's theory and gained a Light-element Third Soul Skill, spreading Ye Wen's reputation across the continent. After Yu Xiaogang's arrogance provoked clan members to leak the story, Ye Wen gave the two empires and Spirit Hall the blueprints for his Martial Soul Attribute Detector, driving up demand for its metal components.

• Yu Yuanzhen trained Yu Xiaogang harshly, and Yu Xiaogang's strength revealed the potent bloodline in his mutated martial soul.
• Yu Xiaogang absorbed a Light Wing Dragon's Soul Ring and gained the Third Soul Skill Radiant Dragon Slash, confirming that Luo Sanpao had a Light Element attribute.
• Yu Xiaogang swaggered around the clan and insulted the soul masters who had previously helped him, so clan members leaked his breakthrough to outsiders.
• Soul masters across the continent took interest in Ye Wen's theory, and Yu Yuanzhen revealed the Martial Soul Attribute Detector while sending Yu Xiaogang into secluded training.
• The two great empires and Spirit Hall asked Ye Wen about the detector, and he gave them its design blueprints, causing related metal prices to soar and overwhelming the Blacksmith Association.

Heavenly Path Advanced Soul Master Academy opened with 413 first-category students, while Ye Wen weighed its finances and his plans for a medicine business with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Three students with unusual Martial Souls also enrolled, and Ye Wen agreed to guide their cultivation while judging their potential.

• Heavenly Path Advanced Soul Master Academy recruited 413 first-category Soul Masters, and the Angel Family and two empires each contributed one million Gold Soul Coins.
• Ye Wen planned to provide a medical formula while the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect handled production and sales, earning him an estimated six to seven hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins annually.
• Fang Qiaoqiao, Bister, and Kong Hua enrolled as second-category students with unusual Martial Souls and Soul Power levels.
• Ye Wen declined to spend extensive resources correcting Bister's poor Soul Ring choices and cultivation, but agreed to personally guide the three students' cultivation directions.