Chapter Summaries

After awakening innate full soul power alongside Tang San, Xiao Han encouraged the village children to cultivate despite their humble martial souls and challenged Su Yuntao’s dismissal of his own eye martial soul. The chapter ended with Tang San suggesting Xiao Han’s martial soul was a Black Hole, not an eye.

• Xiao Han taught the children how to meditate and urged them to believe that diligent cultivation and suitable soul rings could make even humble martial souls powerful.
• Xiao Han told Tang San that soul rings came from soul beasts and claimed he had learned about Soul Masters from someone he met in Soul Severing Ravine.
• Su Yuntao told Old Jack that Tang San and Xiao Han both had innate full soul power, but dismissed Blue Silver Grass and Xiao Han’s eye as useless martial souls.
• Old Jack comforted Tang San but told Xiao Han to stop cultivating, and Xiao Han rejected Su Yuntao’s judgment.
• Tang San defended Xiao Han, saying he thought Xiao Han’s martial soul was a Black Hole.

Xiao Han revealed his Black Hole Martial Soul and insisted on attending Nuoding Academy, while Tang San considered the offer of the village’s work-study slot. At Tang San’s home, Tang Hao was shocked to discover that Xiao Han possessed Innate Full Spirit Power at Level Ninety.

• Xiao Han summoned his Black Hole Martial Soul, and Tang San explained its name while Old Jack judged it useless.
• Old Jack offered Tang San the village’s work-study place but refused to give it to Xiao Han, who produced ninety-nine Gold Soul Coins and declared he would pay for academy himself.
• Old Jack invited Tang San to attend Nuoding Academy and accompanied him and Xiao Han to ask Tang Hao’s permission.
• Tang San told Tang Hao that his Martial Soul was Blue Silver Grass, and Old Jack offered to cover his travel expenses to Nuoding Academy.
• Tang Hao sensed Xiao Han’s cultivation and exclaimed that Xiao Han had Innate Full Spirit Power at Level Ninety.

After Tang Hao called Xiao Han an Innate Titled Douluo, Old Jack eagerly sought a school spot for him and Tang San, but Tang Hao refused to let his son become a Soul Master. Old Jack left after Xiao Han urged him to give the father and son time to think, promising to seek two spots anyway.

• Tang Hao identified Xiao Han as an Innate Titled Douluo, and Old Jack excitedly reconsidered his opposition to Xiao Han becoming a Soul Master.
• Tang San offered to give Xiao Han his work-study spot, but Old Jack decided to travel to Nuoding City and fight for a second one.
• Tang Hao objected to Tang San becoming a Soul Master, and Old Jack angrily argued that it would benefit both Tang San and the village.
• Xiao Han reflected that Tang Hao's refusal came from grief over Tang San's mother's sacrifice and his fear for Tang San's safety.
• Xiao Han urged Old Jack to let Tang Hao and Tang San have time to think, and Old Jack left while promising to seek two school spots.

Xiao Han received a massive system reward for encouraging village children to cultivate, then gave Old Jack a cultivation method for them before learning that his dying mother had arrived through a mysterious vortex. Old Jack revealed that she had asked him to let Xiao Han live an ordinary life, as Xiao Han and Old Jack set out for Nuoding Academy.

• Xiao Han learned that his three months in the Douluo Plane had ended and started toward Nuoding Academy with Old Jack.
• The system rewarded Xiao Han with seven million Experience Points and 140,000 Coupon Points for inspiring village children to cultivate, raising him to Second-turn Dou Zun.
• Xiao Han spent three million Coupon Points to obtain Tai Chi Xuan Qing Dao and gave its upper volume to Old Jack for the village children.
• Old Jack revealed that Xiao Han's blood-covered mother had emerged from a vortex, healed his injured leg with a pill, and died after asking him to let Xiao Han live as an ordinary person.
• Old Jack and Xiao Han continued toward the village entrance to meet Tang San and leave for Nuoding Academy.

Xiao Han and Tang San reached Nuoding Academy with Old Jack, but the gate guard mocked their origins and rejected their Spirit Hall certificates. After the guard tried to shove Old Jack, Xiao Han threw him into an iron railing, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Old Jack advised Tang San and Xiao Han about academy life as they traveled to Nuoding Academy.
• A gate guard insulted the three visitors and dismissed their certificates as forgeries.
• Old Jack revealed a fierce soul-power aura when the guard mocked Holy Soul Village, then restrained himself.
• The guard tried to shove Old Jack, but Xiao Han stopped Tang San from intervening and flung the guard into an iron railing.

Xiao Han and Tang San entered Nuoding Academy, where Yu Xiaogang recognized their innate full soul power and claimed they both had Twin Martial Souls. After Xiao Han revealed that his second martial soul had not awakened, Yu Xiaogang insisted on taking him as a student, believing it would be exceptionally powerful.

• Xiao Han defeated the young gatekeeper and earned Experience Points and Coupon Points.
• Yu Xiaogang checked Old Jack’s certificates, apologized for the gatekeeper, and took Xiao Han and Tang San to the academy.
• Xiao Han secretly killed the middle-aged man leading them by burning him to ash with an azure flame.
• At Yu Xiaogang’s office, Tang San questioned why Yu Xiaogang wanted to teach them, and Yu Xiaogang said they both had Twin Martial Souls.
• Yu Xiaogang deduced that Xiao Han had a second martial soul that had not yet awakened and insisted on becoming his teacher.

Xiao Han and Tang San became Yu Xiaogang’s students, and Tang San revealed his second Martial Soul, the Haotian Hammer. Xiao Han suggested that Martial Souls might advance through a second mutation, leaving Yu Xiaogang urgently asking whether Xiao Han knew how to do it.

• Yu Xiaogang examined Xiao Han’s Black Hole Martial Soul and advised him to develop it toward the Control or Support System.
• Tang San accepted Yu Xiaogang as his teacher, and Xiao Han agreed on the condition that he could learn from other people stronger than himself.
• Yu Xiaogang promised to help awaken Xiao Han’s second Martial Soul when the time was right.
• Tang San revealed his Haotian Hammer to Yu Xiaogang, who warned him not to reveal it or attach soul rings to it.
• When Yu Xiaogang prepared to give Tang San a twenty-four-gemstone belt, Xiao Han raised the possibility that Martial Souls could undergo a second mutation.
• Xiao Han argued that a Martial Soul could move forward rather than reverse its mutation, and Yu Xiaogang excitedly asked if Xiao Han knew how.

Xiao Han revealed that his Green Lotus Core Flame could temper Yu Xiaogang’s mutated Martial Soul, Luo San Pao, and received the Twenty-Four Bridges Bright Moon Night soul tool belt. As Yu Xiaogang prepared to register him and Tang San and plan their first Soul Rings, Xiao Han asked whether he could kill a ten-thousand-year soul beast.

• Xiao Han summoned the Green Lotus Core Flame and told Yu Xiaogang it could temper mutated Martial Souls and potentially complete Luo San Pao’s unfinished evolution.
• Yu Xiaogang summoned Luo San Pao, grew excited about the possibility of its evolution, and agreed to wait until they were somewhere suitable for the tempering.
• Yu Xiaogang gave the Twenty-Four Bridges Bright Moon Night belt to Xiao Han, triggering a system reward of one million experience points and two hundred thousand coupon points.
• Yu Xiaogang planned to register Xiao Han and Tang San and search for suitable Soul Rings, while Tang San asked for a hundred-year first Soul Ring.
• As Yu Xiaogang opened the office door, Xiao Han asked whether he could kill a ten-thousand-year soul beast.

Xiao Han convinced Yu Xiaogang that his body could withstand ten-thousand-year spirit rings and joined Tang San at Shrek Academy. After defending Yu Xiaogang from two mocking teachers, Xiao Han defeated Dormitory Number Seven’s boss, Wang Sheng, just as a girl arrived.

• Xiao Han demonstrated his strength by punching a hole through a cement wall, convincing Yu Xiaogang to find helpers to hunt a ten-thousand-year spirit beast.
• Yu Xiaogang took Xiao Han and Tang San to register at Shrek Academy, then left to arrange help for their hunt.
• Two teachers mocked Yu Xiaogang, so Xiao Han struck them and forced one to apologize.
• Xiao Han and Tang San went to Dormitory Number Seven, where Wang Sheng demanded that they fight for the right to enter.
• Xiao Han caught Wang Sheng’s punch and tossed him five meters away, as a girl asked whether she had reached Dormitory Number Seven.

Xiao Wu arrived at the Seventh Dormitory and challenged Xiao Han for the right to be its boss. Xiao Han defeated her, earning a system reward and leaving Xiao Wu on the ground.

• Xiao Wu introduced herself as a work-study student, and Wang Sheng explained that new students had to fight the dormitory boss.
• Xiao Han accepted Xiao Wu's challenge to become the boss of the Seventh Dormitory.
• Xiao Wu attacked Xiao Han with her Soft Technique, but he dodged and blocked her strikes.
• Xiao Wu climbed around Xiao Han and kicked at his abdomen, but he caught her hands and withstood the attack.
• Xiao Han released Xiao Wu and sent her onto the ground, completing the storyline and earning 2,000,000 Experience Points and 400,000 Coupon Points.

After defeating Xiao Wu, Xiao Han became the work-study students’ leader and shocked them when Tang San identified him as an Innate Titled Douluo. Xiao Wu shared Xiao Han’s bed after he pushed their beds together, triggering a system reward for overturning the storyline.

• Xiao Han defeated Xiao Wu, who accepted her loss and agreed to call him Boss, while the work-study students began addressing him as Brother Han.
• Tang San claimed Xiao Han was an Innate Titled Douluo, and Xiao Han confirmed it; he also said his martial spirit was Pupils.
• Xiao Wu and Tang San revealed that they had Innate Full Spirit Power, and Xiao Han exchanged rabbit-patterned bedding from the system store.
• Xiao Wu rejected Tang San’s bedding and persuaded Xiao Han to push their beds together and share his bedding, with their bags marking a boundary between them.
• The system rewarded Xiao Han with 4,000,000 Experience Points and 800,000 Coupon Points for overturning the storyline.

Xiao Han took Xiao Wu and the Seventh Dormitory working students to dine on Nuoding Academy’s second floor, where Cai Hongchao humiliated Wang Sheng and made an insulting offer to Xiao Wu. Xiao Han beat Cai Hongchao and his lackeys, then put a bounty on Cai Hongchao before reassuring Xiao Wu.

• Xiao Han offered to treat Xiao Wu, Tang San, Wang Sheng, and the other working students to food on the second floor.
• Cai Hongchao mocked Wang Sheng for once eating leftovers and swept food onto the floor for him to eat.
• Cai Hongchao offered Xiao Wu ten Silver Soul Coins a day to serve his brother, prompting Xiao Han to throw him and his two lackeys off the second floor.
• Xiao Han ignored a teacher’s objections and offered one Gold Soul Coin to anyone who punched Cai Hongchao, causing Cai Hongchao to flee.
• Xiao Han reassured Xiao Wu that she had nothing to fear, and she called him “Brother.”

After Cai Kun confronted Xiao Han and the work-study students, Xiao Han learned that Cai Kun had exploited girls at the academy and threatened Xiao Wu. Xiao Han killed one of Cai Kun’s guards with green flames, then reassured Xiao Wu, who called him “Brother.”

• Xiao Han and the work-study students left the cafeteria praising the meal he had bought them.
• Cai Hongchao and Cai Kun confronted Xiao Han’s group, and Cai Kun ordered his guards to attack and take Xiao Wu.
• Wang Sheng explained that Cai Kun had exploited girls at the academy with help from the Vice Dean.
• Xiao Han declared that Cai Kun and his men would die, then turned a charging Leopard Martial Soul guard to ash with green flames.
• Xiao Han promised to punish anyone who harmed Xiao Wu, and she was moved enough to call him “Brother.”

Xiao Han killed Cai Kun’s guards while defending the academy students, then faced Cai Kun’s level-fifty-one Spirit King, Xiong Yu. After Xiao Han claimed he had no soul rings and could kill Xiong Yu in ten seconds, the story ended before their fight began.

• Cai Kun offered rewards to make his guards attack Xiao Han, who killed three guards after withstanding their strikes.
• The guards charged again when Xiao Han’s azure Flame Longsword began to fade, but Tang San fired his Silent Sleeve Arrow as Xiao Han drank a Blue Potion and restored the sword.
• Xiao Han’s Heavenly Flames reduced the nine remaining Spirit Grandmaster guards to ashes, and he turned his attention to Cai Kun.
• Cai Kun ordered his level-fifty-one Spirit King, Xiong Yu, to fight Xiao Han, who mocked Xiong Yu’s soul rings and said he had none of his own.
• Xiao Han told Xiong Yu that he needed only ten seconds to kill him.

Xiao Han defeated Xiong Yu and captured Cai Kun, then killed Cai Kun when Vice Dean Shi Lu tried to use the academy to intimidate him. He seized Shi Lu and demanded that he confess his misdeeds.

• Cai Kun empowered Xiong Yu, and the two joined forces to attack Xiao Han while Tang San condemned their shamelessness.
• Xiao Han used Explosive Steps to catch Xiong Yu and lift him by the throat, prompting Xiong Yu to flee and abandon Cai Kun.
• When the dean and two vice deans arrived, Cai Kun tried to threaten Xiao Han with expulsion from Nuoding Academy.
• Xiao Han burned Cai Kun to death with azure flames despite Shi Lu's order to release him.
• Xiao Han grabbed Shi Lu and demanded that he confess his misdeeds, but Shi Lu denied knowing what he meant.

Xiao Han forced Shi Lu to confess to exploiting female students and then killed him, Cai Hongchao, and others despite the academy's protests. The dean let Xiao Han leave, and Xiao Han later arranged for Xiao Wu and Tang San to handle cleaning duties while he and Tang San prepared to enter the Star Dou Forest with Yu Xiaogang's helpers.

• Xiao Han threatened Shi Lu with azure flame until Shi Lu confessed that he and Cai Kun had harmed sixty-three female students and committed other abuses at the academy.
• Xiao Han burned Shi Lu to ashes, dismissed the Vice Dean's objections, and killed Cai Hongchao with a flame arrow.
• Xiao Han told Xiao Wu and Tang San to leave with him and Wang Sheng, while teachers and students demanded punishment and the dean let them go.
• The dean defended his decision to allow Xiao Han to leave, saying the academy's rules could bend for the powerful.
• Xiao Han told Xiao Wu that he and Tang San would leave the next day with Yu Xiaogang's helpers to hunt high-level soul beasts in the Star Dou Forest, and arranged for her and Tang San to cover cleaning duties.

Xiao Han and Tang San traveled with Yu Xiaogang, who explained soul-master development and advised them on their paths. Xiao Han insisted on developing in every direction, determined to become the first omnipotent soul master despite the dangers.

• Yu Xiaogang told Xiao Han that he had found helpers to hunt a ten-thousand-year soul beast, while Xiao Han and Tang San vowed to keep working hard.
• Yu Xiaogang explained the types of martial souls and soul-master specializations, then recommended that Tang San develop as a Control System soul master.
• Tang San accepted Yu Xiaogang's advice and felt pleased that controlling enemies could complement his Hidden Weapons.
• Xiao Han chose to develop in every direction, arguing that a soul master should be able to fight without relying on teammates.
• Yu Xiaogang warned Xiao Han that conflicting soul rings could cause him to explode and die, but Xiao Han declared that omnipotence was the true path and he would blaze it first.

Xiao Han and Tang San arrived at the Star Dou Forest with Yu Xiaogang and met Flender and the Shrek teachers, who prepared to help them obtain Spirit Rings. Xiao Han ended the chapter by telling Yu Xiaogang he would evolve his Martial Soul once they entered the forest.

• Yu Xiaogang agreed to help Xiao Han seek a Ten-thousand-year Spirit Ring, but warned him to stop if the rings proved incompatible.
• Xiao Han, Tang San, and Yu Xiaogang arrived at the forest and met Flender, Zhao Wuji, and three other Shrek teachers.
• Flender praised Xiao Han's ambition and invited him to join Shrek Academy after graduating from Nuoding Academy.
• Yu Xiaogang explained how Soul Masters formed hunting teams and described the teachers accompanying them into the forest.
• Xiao Han told Yu Xiaogang he would evolve his Martial Soul after they entered the Star Dou Great Forest.

Xiao Han, Yu Xiaogang, Flander, and Tang San entered the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt a Spirit Beast while Yu Xiaogang explained the forest’s rules and Spirit Rings. The group moved deeper into the forest, with Xiao Han still surveying their surroundings as Yu Xiaogang anticipated the power of his comprehensive development.

• Yu Xiaogang confirmed that Xiao Han was ninety percent confident in helping his Mutated Martial Soul undergo a Second Evolution, and Flander reacted with excitement.
• At the forest gate, Yu Xiaogang explained Spirit Hall’s entry requirements and Order Tokens, then described the insignias representing powerful Spirit Masters and clans.
• Flander showed his token, and Yu Xiaogang explained that the Haotian Hammer and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon clans were among the six strongest Titled Douluo lineages.
• The soldiers inspected Flander’s token and let the group into the Star Dou Great Forest, where Spirit Beasts moved through the undergrowth.
• At Tang San’s request, Yu Xiaogang explained Spirit Beast ranks, Spirit Ring colors, and how Spirit Rings enhanced attributes and granted skills.
• Yu Xiaogang predicted that Xiao Han’s comprehensive development could make the attributes granted by a Ten-thousand-year Spirit Ring extraordinarily powerful.

Xiao Han refused Yu Xiaogang’s offer to join a faction and proposed using his Green Lotus Core Flame to evolve Yu Xiaogang’s Spirit. Flender opposed the plan, fearing the flames would injure Yu Xiaogang through their bond.

• Yu Xiaogang explained the risks of Spirit Ring absorption and how despairing Spirit Beasts could make better targets for Spirit Masters.
• Yu Xiaogang told Flender to torment Spirit Beasts during the hunt, but stopped him when Flender began to question him.
• Xiao Han chose a barren mountain as the place to evolve Yu Xiaogang’s Spirit and summoned the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Yu Xiaogang summoned Luo San Pao, and Xiao Han revealed he intended to temper it with his flames.
• Flender angrily forbade Xiao Han from proceeding, warning that injuring Yu Xiaogang’s Beast Spirit would injure Yu Xiaogang as well.