Chapter Summaries

Bai Ge and Tang San told their dormmates they would leave Nuoding Academy to hunt for Spirit Rings, and Bai Ge agreed that Xiao Wu could cover their cleaning duties while they were away. After returning to the dormitory that night, Bai Ge prepared to use his two Gacha Chances.

• Bai Ge and Tang San returned to the dormitory after testing the Cloud-Soaring Vine with the Grandmaster.
• Bai Ge announced that he and Tang San would leave the next day to hunt for Spirit Rings, and Tang San explained that they both had Innate Full Soul Power.
• Bai Ge told Xiao Wu she could handle their cleaning area while they were away, and she happily accepted.
• Bai Ge went to bathe and returned to the dormitory, where Xiao Wu tried to persuade him to spar before going to find Tang San instead.
• Bai Ge went to bed and prayed for good luck before using his two Gacha Chances.

Bai Ge used his two lottery chances and gained Grandmaster Culinary Skill and the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill. After accepting both skills, he went to sleep, with the body-refining technique intended to help him absorb Spirit Rings beyond the usual age limit in the future.

• Bai Ge used his Black Iron Rank Lottery chance and won Grandmaster Culinary Skill.
• Bai Ge viewed the skill information, accepted the culinary techniques, and absorbed the memories they provided.
• Bai Ge used his Silver Rank Lottery chance and won the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill.
• Bai Ge reviewed the technique’s thirteen layers and 1000 Jin peak strength, then accepted it and absorbed its cultivation memories.
• Bai Ge settled down and fell asleep.

Grandmaster took Bai Ge and Tang San from Nuoding City toward a Soul Hunting Forest, teaching them about Spirit Beasts along the way. Before their journey continued, he offered them a storage belt and his annotated Martial Soul theory book, and Bai Ge chose the book so Tang San could have the belt.

• Bai Ge and Tang San left Nuoding Academy at dawn with Grandmaster to seek Spirit Beasts in a Soul Hunting Forest northeast of Nuoding City.
• Grandmaster explained Spirit Beast cultivation ranks and the colors of their Spirit Rings as they traveled.
• Grandmaster bought supplies in Nuoding City, including travel food, potions, and twenty jin of white radish, then hired a carriage for the group.
• Grandmaster offered Bai Ge and Tang San a storage belt and his annotated book of Martial Soul theories as gifts.
• Bai Ge chose the book and left the storage belt for Tang San, who was moved by Bai Ge's consideration.

Grandmaster brought Bai Ge and Tang San to the Soul Hunting Forest and led them inside to find Spirit Beasts for their Spirit Rings. Once inside, he summoned his Martial Soul, Luo San Pao, and sent it ahead to guide them deeper into the forest.

• Grandmaster led Bai Ge and Tang San through the busy marketplace outside the Soul Hunting Forest, where he warned them about dangerous temporary Soul Hunting Groups.
• Grandmaster presented his token to the soldier captain, who admitted the three of them through the guarded Iron Fences.
• Grandmaster warned Bai Ge and Tang San to stay close as they entered the dim, unfamiliar forest.
• Grandmaster summoned Luo San Pao and explained that his mutated Martial Soul had left him with only half a rank of Soul Power and prevented him from advancing beyond level thirty.
• Grandmaster ordered Luo San Pao to lead the way, and the creature sniffed the ground as the three followed it into the forest.

Grandmaster explained his planned first Spirit Ring targets for Tang San and Bai Ge as they searched the Soul Hunting Forest. After finding no suitable Spirit Beasts by nightfall, they made camp in a clearing and prepared to repel snakes and insects.

• Grandmaster told Tang San that he planned for his Blue Silver Grass to absorb a venomous snake Spirit Ring, and Tang San said he trusted his teacher’s theory.
• Grandmaster named Blood Pattern Black Thorn Vine as the best first Spirit Ring target for Bai Ge’s Cloud-Soaring Vine.
• The three searched until dark but found no suitable snake-type Spirit Beast.
• Grandmaster chose an open clearing for camp and warned Tang San and Bai Ge not to light a fire.
• Grandmaster gave Tang San and Bai Ge pungent powder to spread around the campsite, and Bai Ge sprinkled it around the clearing.

Bai Ge, Tang San, and Grandmaster faced a Nether Wolf pack in the Soul Hunting Forest, and Grandmaster drove the wolves away with Luo San Pao's Spirit Skill. As Grandmaster warned that other Spirit Beasts might have been attracted, Bai Ge received a system mission to kill or help kill an approaching Mandala Snake.

• Grandmaster quizzed Bai Ge and Tang San about Spirit Beasts, then told them to cultivate while he kept watch.
• Luo San Pao alerted them to approaching Nether Wolves, and Bai Ge used the Eye of Insight to see six of them.
• Grandmaster fed White Radishes to Luo San Pao and used its Spirit Skill to blast the Nether Wolves away.
• Grandmaster gave Bai Ge and Tang San masks and daggers, warning them to stay alert for other Spirit Beasts.
• Bai Ge received a system notification that a 398-year-cultivation Mandala Snake was approaching and a mission to kill or assist in killing it.

Bai Ge, Tang San, and Grandmaster were ambushed at night by a Hundred-year Mandala Snake and chose to fight rather than flee. Bai Ge’s ambush gave Tang San a chance to kill the snake with a dagger, leaving the three alive after their desperate battle.

• Bai Ge spotted a Mandala Snake approaching, and Grandmaster warned that its strength made escape their best option.
• Bai Ge proposed a plan in which Luo San Pao would blast the snake, Bai Ge would force it to open its mouth, and Tang San would attack its brain with a dagger.
• Grandmaster ordered Luo San Pao to blast the Mandala Snake, and the three ran as it recovered and pursued them.
• Bai Ge stopped and struck the charging snake in the eye with his Cloud-Soaring Vines, making it raise its head and hiss.
• Tang San threw his dagger through the Mandala Snake’s mouth and into its brain, killing it.

After Bai Ge and Tang San killed the Mandala Snake, Tang San absorbed its Spirit Ring and gained a stronger, poisonous Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul. The chapter ended with Tang San demonstrating his first Soul Skill, Binding, which held and pulled down a small tree without breaking.

• Bai Ge and Tang San killed the Mandala Snake, and Grandmaster examined its corpse and judged its Spirit Ring suitable for Tang San.
• Tang San summoned his Blue Silver Grass and absorbed the Mandala Snake's yellow Spirit Ring while Bai Ge rested nearby.
• As Tang San endured the Spirit Ring's power, his Blue Silver Grass grew thicker and longer, darkened, and developed black patterns and the snake's poison.
• At dawn, Grandmaster told Bai Ge that Tang San's Martial Soul had become more resilient and gained toxicity.
• Tang San used Binding to wrap Blue Silver Grass around a small tree and pull it down without the strands breaking.

Bai Ge, Tang San, and Grandmaster searched the Soul Hunting Forest for a Blood Pattern Black Thorn Vine suitable for Bai Ge’s First Soul Ring. They found a 430-year vine, and Grandmaster began a plan to weaken it with poisoned prey before Bai Ge struck its blood sac.

• Grandmaster assessed Tang San’s newly strengthened, poisonous Blue Silver Grass before the group continued their search.
• Following Luo San Pao’s nose deeper into the forest, the group found a 430-year Blood Pattern Black Thorn Vine near a pond.
• Bai Ge and Tang San caught a Flower Horn Deer, and Grandmaster injected it with Blood Coagulation Potion before throwing it beside the vine.
• The Blood Pattern Black Thorn Vine constricted the deer and began absorbing its doctored blood.
• Grandmaster told Bai Ge to stab the vine’s blood sac beneath its largest main vine when it began to weaken.

Bai Ge killed the Blood Pattern Black Thorn Vine and absorbed its roughly 430-year Spirit Ring despite Grandmaster’s warning that it exceeded the usual limit. He endured the pain as his skills converted the ring’s power into strength, and his Cloud-Soaring Vine began transforming in his Sea of Consciousness; by the time he awoke, dawn had come.

• Grandmaster urged Bai Ge to kill the Blood Pattern Black Thorn Vine after the Blood Coagulation Potion left it trembling and weakened.
• Bai Ge restrained the vine with his Cloud-Soaring Vine Martial Soul and stabbed its exposed blood sac, killing it as its Spirit Ring appeared.
• Grandmaster estimated the vine’s cultivation at over 420 years and cautioned Bai Ge against absorbing its Spirit Ring, but Bai Ge chose to proceed.
• Bai Ge drew the yellow Spirit Ring onto his Cloud-Soaring Vine and endured its scorching power while circulating the Jade Brightness Skill and Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill.
• Bai Ge’s skills converted the Spirit Ring’s energy into True Qi and Qi and Blood as his body strengthened and his Cloud-Soaring Vine transformed in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Bai Ge opened his eyes after the absorption and discovered that dawn had arrived.

Bai Ge woke after absorbing the Blood Pattern Black Thorn Vine’s Spirit Ring and demonstrated that his evolved Cloud-Soaring Vine had gained a powerful strangling skill. He realized his Jade Brightness Skill and Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill might let him convert Spirit Ring power into both cultivation and physical strength, leaving him eager to test this path further.

• Grandmaster gave Bai Ge water and excitedly confirmed that the Cloud-Soaring Vine had inherited the Blood Pattern Black Thorn Vine’s poison thorns and blood-sucking ability.
• Bai Ge demonstrated his First Soul Skill, Thorn Strangler, by wrapping a small tree in vines and snapping its trunk.
• Grandmaster observed that the strangling attack was stronger than the Blood Pattern Black Thorn Vine’s and asked whether the Cloud-Soaring Vine had enhanced it.
• Bai Ge realized his Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill had reached its second level, likely by converting Spirit Ring power that his Jade Brightness Skill could not absorb into Qi and Blood.
• Bai Ge considered using the Jade Brightness Skill to continuously supply Qi and Blood for the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill and wondered whether this could help him absorb Spirit Rings beyond the usual limits.

Bai Ge and Tang San returned to Nuoding Academy after obtaining their Spirit Rings and reunited with Xiao Wu. In class, their teacher revealed that both had Innate Full Soul Power, shocking their classmates.

• Grandmaster brought Bai Ge and Tang San back to Nuoding Academy after their trip to the Soul Hunting Forest.
• Bai Ge and Tang San returned to the Seventh Dormitory, learned Xiao Wu had been cleaning the garden alone, and found her in class eating carrot buns.
• Bai Ge chose a sunny seat in the classroom and fell asleep before class began.
• The teacher asked Bai Ge and Tang San to introduce themselves and confirm whether they had obtained their Spirit Rings.
• The teacher explained that Bai Ge and Tang San had Innate Full Soul Power, leaving their classmates astonished.

Bai Ge and Tang San demonstrated their Spirit Skills in class, and Bai Ge considered how to fund a cultivation plan built around his Jade Brightness Skill and Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill. The chapter ended with Bai Ge and Tang San heading to Nuoding City's Spirit Hall to register as Soul Masters, while Bai Ge planned to seek income that might let him leave the academy.

• The teacher revealed that Bai Ge, Tang San, and Xiao Wu all had Innate Full Soul Power, then asked Bai Ge and Tang San to demonstrate their Spirit Skills.
• Bai Ge showed how his Cloud-Soaring Vine, empowered by a Blood Pattern Black Thorn Vine Spirit Ring, strangled and damaged a desk leg, while Tang San demonstrated his evolved Blue Silver Grass.
• Bai Ge ignored the academy's inferior Martial Soul Meditation Method and read the Compendium of Martial Soul Theory during class.
• Bai Ge reflected that he could convert Jade Brightness Skill True Qi into Qi and Blood, strengthening his body and possibly increasing his Soul Power cultivation, but that the process made him hungry and required more food.
• Bai Ge and Tang San left for Spirit Hall to register as Soul Masters and test their Soul Power, while Bai Ge planned to look for a way to earn money and support his cultivation outside the academy.

Bai Ge and Tang San visited Nuoding City's Spirit Hall to have their Soul Power Levels tested and were impressed by the branch hall's grandeur. Sisi guided them toward the reception hall, where they met Su Yuntao, who recognized them from their Spirit Awakening ceremony.

• Bai Ge and Tang San entered Nuoding City's Spirit Hall after the guards directed them to Soul Grandmaster Ma Xiunuo in the reception hall.
• Bai Ge asked Sisi for directions, and she agreed to guide the two students through Spirit Hall.
• Sisi told Su Yuntao that she was escorting Bai Ge and Tang San to have their Soul Power Levels tested.
• Tang San greeted Su Yuntao, who recognized him and Bai Ge as the children from Sacred Soul Village with Innate Full Soul Power.
• Su Yuntao recalled that Tang San had Blue Silver Grass and Bai Ge had Wisteria, while Sisi listened without mocking them.

Bai Ge and Tang San reached Spirit Hall’s second floor for their Spirit Advancement Assessment, where Ma Xiunuo discovered Bai Ge’s transformed Wisteria Martial Soul and unexpectedly high Soul Power. The chapter ended with Ma Xiunuo stunned that Bai Ge had reached Soul Power Level fifteen after absorbing a Spirit Ring more than four hundred years old.

• Sisi and Su Yuntao brought Bai Ge and Tang San to Ma Xiunuo’s second-floor office for their advancement assessment.
• Ma Xiunuo greeted the boys warmly and led them to Spirit Hall’s Martial Soul Laboratory.
• Bai Ge summoned his thorn-covered Cloud-Soaring Vine and explained that his Wisteria Martial Soul had changed after he absorbed a Spirit Ring.
• Ma Xiunuo tested Bai Ge’s Soul Power and was shocked when the crystal ball showed Level fifteen.
• Bai Ge told Ma Xiunuo that his Spirit Ring came from a Blood Pattern Black Thorn Vine aged between four hundred and twenty and four hundred and thirty years.

Bai Ge and Tang San completed their Spirit Hall advancement assessments, and Ma Xiunuo warned them about Grandmaster’s troubled history with Spirit Hall. After receiving their Soul Master badges, they went separate ways, but Bai Ge failed to find a suitable high-end restaurant before heading back to Nuoding Academy.

• Ma Xiunuo recognized Grandmaster as a renowned Martial Soul theorist, explained that registration did not mean joining Spirit Hall, and warned Bai Ge and Tang San not to reveal they were Grandmaster’s disciples.
• Tang San showed Ma Xiunuo his evolved Blue Silver Grass and explained that he had absorbed a Spirit Ring from a Mandala Snake.
• Ma Xiunuo passed Bai Ge and Tang San’s assessments, welcomed them as Soul Masters, and issued them Spirit Hall badges that entitled them to monthly subsidies.
• After leaving the Spirit Hall branch, Tang San went to look for a blacksmith shop while Bai Ge searched Nuoding City for a high-end restaurant to partner with.
• Bai Ge found no restaurant that suited his plans, bought steamed buns for lunch, and started back to Nuoding Academy before classes began.

Bai Ge returned to Nuoding Academy, endured attention from his female classmates, and spent class reading while considering why he would remain at the school. After class, Xiao Wu told him and Tang San that the Work-Study Students had a duel appointment that evening.

• Bai Ge returned to class and refused the girls who asked him to show his Martial Soul and guide their cultivation.
• A Teacher lectured on Nuoding Academy's courses while Bai Ge read and practiced his skills discreetly.
• After class, Bai Ge and Tang San stayed behind to leave for their own errands instead of going to the Cafeteria.
• Bai Ge told Xiao Wu that Soul Masters registered with Spirit Hall could receive one Gold Soul Coin each month.
• Xiao Wu revealed that the Work-Study Students had a Duel Appointment that evening.

Xiao Wu told Bai Ge and Tang San about her duel appointment with Xiao Chenyu, and the system tasked Bai Ge with defeating him and becoming Nuoding Academy’s boss. At the back mountain, Xiao Chenyu learned that Xiao Wu had brought two rumored Soul Masters and chose an all-in defense format to preserve his side’s chance of winning.

• Xiao Wu explained that she had challenged Xiao Chenyu’s students, wagering that the winner would rule the academy and the loser’s side would become their pets.
• Bai Ge received a system mission to defeat Xiao Chenyu, make him his subordinate, and become Nuoding Academy’s boss.
• Xiao Wu led Bai Ge and Tang San to the back mountain, where the Work-Study Students and Xiao Chenyu’s group had gathered.
• Xiao Chenyu recognized Bai Ge and Tang San as the rumored first-grade Soul Masters and reconsidered his planned winner-stays-on format.
• Xiao Chenyu decided to use an all-in defense system and planned to wear down the two suspected Soul Masters with his students.

Xiao Wu accepted Xiao Chenyu’s proposed ring-defending duel, and Bai Ge volunteered to fight the entire opposing group. The chapter ended with Bai Ge waiting on the field for his first opponent.

• Xiao Chenyu proposed a format where each side took turns sending fighters, with winners staying on the field until everyone had fought.
• Xiao Wu agreed to the rules after Xiao Chenyu taunted her, then asked the Work-Study Students who would go first.
• Bai Ge volunteered, dismissing Tang San’s concern and declaring that he would defeat everyone by himself.
• Xiao Chenyu considered why Bai Ge had taken the field first and watched to judge his strength.
• Bai Ge entered the open area and asked the opposing students who would fight him first.

Bai Ge revealed his level-fifteen Soul Power and Hundred-Year Spirit Ring while facing Xiao Chenyu’s underling, shocking Xiao Chenyu. Convinced Bai Ge was a protected genius from a powerful faction, Xiao Chenyu conceded the match and reconsidered how to approach him.

• Xiao Chenyu sent Wang Shan, a level-four Tool Spirit Master, to test Bai Ge’s abilities.
• Bai Ge introduced himself as a level-fifteen Control System Soul Master and revealed his Wisteria martial soul and Hundred-Year Spirit Ring.
• Xiao Chenyu was shocked by Bai Ge’s Soul Ring and decided he could not win against him.
• Bai Ge’s thorn-covered Cloud-Soaring Vine and unusual strength led Xiao Chenyu to suspect he had concealed his identity and was backed by a powerful faction.
• Xiao Chenyu conceded the match, fearing the consequences of offending Bai Ge.