Chapter Summaries

Key Plot Points and Events

• Gu Sheng, Wu Mengchen, Lin Qinghe, and Le Erya celebrate the successful arrest of Wu Jing.
• Gu Sheng attempts to pursue romantic interests with the trio but faces obstacles.
• Gu Sheng spends the night with them, but nothing happens due to various reasons.
• Gu Sheng returns to the hotel alone, feeling frustrated.
• Wu Mengchen and Lin Qinghe discuss their suspicions about Gu Sheng's involvement in the incidents.

Character Developments

• Gu Sheng: Struggles with his desire for romantic relationships but fails to act due to various reasons. His frustration grows, and he feels cursed with bad luck.
• Wu Mengchen: Shows interest in Gu Sheng but keeps her intentions ambiguous. She becomes more suspicious of Gu Sheng's involvement in the incidents.
• Lin Qinghe: Maintains her cold demeanor but shows a captivating charm when discussing Gu Sheng's possible involvement. She remains skeptical and relies on evidence.
• Le Erya: Although present, she doesn't play a significant role in this chapter. She allows Gu Sheng to take her away but doesn't actively participate in the discussion about Gu Sheng's suspicions.

Significant Themes

• Suspicion: The chapter revolves around Wu Mengchen and Lin Qinghe's growing suspicions about Gu Sheng's involvement in the incidents.
• Desire and Frustration: Gu Sheng's desire for romantic relationships is a central theme, but he faces frustration and failure in his attempts.
• Appearances vs. Reality: The perfect alibi presented by Gu Sheng's surveillance footage raises questions about the truth behind the incidents.

Character Interactions

• Gu Sheng interacts with Wu Mengchen, Lin Qinghe, and Le Erya, but his attempts to pursue romantic relationships with them are thwarted.
• Wu Mengchen and Lin Qinghe discuss their suspicions about Gu Sheng, showing a level of trust and partnership in their investigation.
• Gu Sheng feels neglected and frustrated, leading to his grumbling and resentment at being left alone.

Gu Sheng examined the White Jade Bodhisattva that Mou Lianying had blood-refined and used the Multiverse Reincarnation System to trap it. The pendant released a golden thread, but the Pink Spirit captured and absorbed it, growing larger as Gu Sheng wondered what had changed.

• Gu Sheng reflected that powerful sects kept the authorities cautious and that his strength let him deal with suspicion by following the rules.
• Gu Sheng inspected the White Jade Bodhisattva and recognized traces of human blood left by Mou Lianying’s blood-refinement.
• Gu Sheng summoned the Multiverse Reincarnation System’s Pink Spirit and sealed the room in pink radiance around the pendant.
• The White Jade Bodhisattva broke apart and sent a golden thread toward the edge of the sealed domain.
• The Pink Spirit intercepted and absorbed the golden light, then grew larger as Gu Sheng watched.

Gu Sheng reviewed his cultivation, abilities, and bloodlines with Little Jade, considering how bloodline limits could hinder Reincarnators and how they could overcome them. He concluded that his current bloodlines posed no immediate obstacle, but decided he needed to develop his Three Tomoe Sharingan further.

• Gu Sheng asked Little Jade to display his information and examined his skills, bloodlines, and current cultivation.
• Gu Sheng considered how bloodlines could become shackles and reviewed the three ways Reincarnators could overcome their limits: cleansing, advancement, or fusion.
• Gu Sheng traced his Perfect Blood to Alexander Corvinus and his Otsutsuki Bloodline to Uchiha ancestry, noting that both had comparatively high limits.
• Gu Sheng concluded that his bloodlines would not hinder his progress for now because his main strength came from Internal Fist martial arts.
• Gu Sheng watched his Three Tomoe Sharingan spin in the mirror and decided he needed to develop it further.

Gu Sheng assessed his Three Tomoe Sharingan and considered how to reach the Fifth Star Level, comparing the advancement paths found in the worlds he had visited. He concluded that Naruto’s Sage Mode offered a promising method based on Natural Energy, though the chapter left him still searching for a path he could use himself.

• Gu Sheng judged that his Three Tomoe Sharingan could distract ordinary Fourth Star Level opponents but was less reliable against true Kage Level experts, reinforcing his reliance on Internal Fist martial arts.
• Gu Sheng reviewed the Fifth Star Level prospects in Underworld, Wu Xin: The Monster Killer, and The Nine Cauldrons, finding no usable advancement method among the inheritances he had acquired.
• Gu Sheng recognized that The Nine Cauldrons possessed a complete Void Realm inheritance, but he lacked access to it and could not rely on uncertain self-guided comprehension.
• Gu Sheng examined Naruto’s advancement requirements, noting that Otsutsuki descendants could advance through bloodlines while ordinary human ninjas lacked a complete path.
• Gu Sheng identified Sage Mode, developed by the three great Summoning Beast races through Natural Energy cultivation, as Naruto’s secret method for advancing to the Fifth Star Level.

Gu Sheng weighed ways to advance his Sharingan and hoped the next instance world would let him develop his bloodline, while he waited to test the system’s new function. After he fell asleep, Xiao Yu secretly used pink motes to ease his mind and concealed her actions.

• Gu Sheng decided that a bloodline-development world could help his Three Tomoe Sharingan advance without relying on extreme emotional trauma.
• Gu Sheng reviewed how Reincarnators could choose instance worlds and cited Mount Tai’s progress through martial arts worlds as an example of a talent developed over time.
• Gu Sheng compared his Crimson Flame’s growth with Mount Tai’s innate strength and hoped the next world would arrive soon.
• Gu Sheng fell asleep after receiving a large amount of information from the system spirit.
• Xiao Yu secretly sent pink motes into Gu Sheng’s mind to relax him, then slipped back into his body as he began to wake.

Gu Sheng awakened in the injured body of Ba Ersan at Balan Spirit Soul Junior Academy and recovered fragments of the orphan’s memories. He learned how Ba Ersan’s martial soul and Innate Soul Power had earned him a place at the Spirit Hall-funded academy.

• Gu Sheng woke among bandaged children in the academy infirmary and struggled to sort through a flood of unfamiliar memories.
• Gu Sheng learned that his incarnation, Ba Ersan, had been orphaned by border fighting and raised in a war orphanage established by King Kundera.
• Gu Sheng learned that Ba Ersan had awakened a pair of eyes called a Defective Beast Soul and possessed Innate Soul Power at level four.
• Gu Sheng recalled that Ba Ersan had qualified for Balan Spirit Soul Junior Academy and received Spirit Hall funding after signing an agreement.
• Gu Sheng learned that the academy housed its orphan Soul Masters in Building Five and assigned them names made from a surname and number.

After a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast injured Ba Ersan and other students, Gu Sheng awakened in Ba Ersan’s body and discovered that his Spirit Eye had transformed into a Sharingan and that he had gained Wood Release. Ryoko, Chu Xin, Liu Daimei, and Mei Daizi also awakened in younger bodies with new abilities, leaving the group reunited in the academy infirmary.

• A Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast attacked the students as they left the Soul Hunting Forest, leaving Ba Ersan and more than ten orphan students unconscious with serious injuries.
• The academy arranged basic treatment for the injured orphans and placed them on the first floor of Building 5 under the care of Work-Study Students.
• Gu Sheng examined his Sharingan and found that Ba Ersan’s Star Spirit Eye had become a new Martial Soul after reacting with his Bloodline Limit.
• Gu Sheng discovered that he could use Wood Release, though it was too weak to serve as his main combat power.
• Ryoko awakened with Shikotsumyaku, followed by Chu Xin, Liu Daimei, and Mei Daizi, and the Reincarnators reunited with Gu Sheng.

Gu Sheng and the girls learned that their new mission was to qualify for the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Competition finals within five years and help reverse the world's causality. Gu Sheng considered which academy could take all five of them, leaving their choice between Shrek and Spirit Hall unresolved.

• Gu Sheng examined his system's new function, which could bring his teammates near him when they descended into a mission world.
• Chu Xin, Liu Daimei, Ryoko, and Mei Daizi reacted to their new bodies and the competition quest.
• Gu Sheng read the mission requirements and learned the team had five years to reach the finals while raising his personal conquest progress.
• Gu Sheng recalled that the next competition would be the one where the Shrek Seven Devils became famous and noted that his team needed two more members.
• Gu Sheng weighed joining Shrek or Spirit Hall and ruled out Star Luo Royal Academy and the difficult-to-enter Heaven Dou Royal Battle Team.

Gu Sheng weighed the teams his group could join for the Elite Competition and chose Spirit Hall as their first target, with the Five Element Academies as a fallback. He told the others to focus first on restoring their strength and learning about Martial Souls, then explained that Soul Rings were required to advance in this world.

• Gu Sheng ruled out Shrek and considered Spirit Hall and the Five Element Academies better routes to the Elite Competition championship.
• Gu Sheng explained that his group needed to qualify as substitutes for one of the thirty-three teams and advised avoiding the Tian Dou Imperial Academy’s factional infighting.
• Chu Xin questioned whether Spirit Hall would accept them, given their lack of influential backing and competition for team positions.
• Gu Sheng said the group should first restore their strength and catch up on their studies before choosing a team.
• Ryoko reported that her energy had stopped increasing at the First Star Level bottleneck, and Gu Sheng explained that Soul Masters needed Soul Rings to advance.

Gu Sheng considered Yu Xiaogang’s Ten Core Competencies, especially the disputed claim that hard work could overcome a weak Martial Soul, and concluded that high-level Martial Soul awakening was usually necessary to break through inherent limits. He recognized Douluo Continent’s Soul Master system as a way for Reincarnators to develop their bloodlines and saw that sharing this discovery could earn him a fortune.

• Yu Xiaogang’s research on Soul Rings, Martial Soul inheritance, and mimicry spread knowledge that had once been kept among powerful factions.
• Gu Sheng judged the Hard Work Theory unrealistic for ordinary Soul Masters, citing Yu Xiaogang’s failure to advance beyond Soul Grandmaster despite his effort and resources.
• Gu Sheng reasoned that Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass was actually the top-tier Blue Silver Emperor and that Martial Soul awakening could enable otherwise impossible evolution.
• Gu Sheng’s Sharingan had merged into this world’s Soul Master system as a Martial Soul.
• Gu Sheng realized that Douluo Continent’s system could help Reincarnators overcome limited bloodline potential, and he anticipated selling the information after returning.

After waking from the disaster, Gu Sheng and the other students settled into Baran Junior Soul Master Academy, where Gu Sheng gained access to the Spirit Hall library and rapidly studied its books. He and the others began considering their Soul Master paths, with Ryoko choosing power-attack combat.

• A child saw Gu Sheng and the girls awake and ran out to tell the teacher.
• Gu Sheng studied advanced materials on Soul Masters and Spirits at Baran Junior Soul Master Academy.
• Teacher Ma offered compensation for the disaster, and Gu Sheng requested borrowing privileges at the Spirit Main Hall library.
• Gu Sheng rapidly read more than a hundred books while Liu Daimei, Chu Xin, and Mei Daizi researched paths suited to their abilities.
• Ryoko chose to become a power-attack Battle Soul Master because of her Shikotsumyaku.

Gu Sheng attended a Martial Soul theory lesson on the combat differences between Beast Spirits and Weapon Spirits. The instructor explained how each type gained advantages and Soul Rings, and cautioned students against pursuing too many attributes.

• The class bell rang, and the cultural teacher ended the lesson early so the Martial Soul class could begin.
• Gu Sheng and his classmates greeted their old instructor, who asked them to compare Beast Spirits and Weapon Spirits in battle.
• The students offered answers, while Gu Sheng considered how Beast Spirits relied on possession and bloodlines whereas Weapon Spirits could be summoned and strengthened by Soul Rings.
• The instructor explained that Beast Spirits offered varied abilities and physical enhancement, while Weapon Spirits specialized in particular areas.
• The instructor described how Beast Spirit Soul Masters could gain skills from different species within their Martial Soul category, then warned them that pursuing multiple attributes indiscriminately could harm their combat power and Martial Soul.

Gu Sheng studied Weapon Spirits and examined how Douluo Continent’s rules constrained reincarnators and their cultivation. He concluded that recovering his strength and choosing Soul Rings that could advance his Sharingan would require careful planning, and he considered advanced academies while ruling out Shrek as an unsuitable option.

• An old instructor taught the class about Weapon Spirits, answered students’ questions, and gave Gu Sheng a deeper understanding of Soul Master professions.
• Gu Sheng reviewed the lesson against his notes and reflected on Douluo Continent’s unusual connection to the God Realm and its tampered Samsara passage.
• Gu Sheng determined that Soul Rings restricted reincarnators’ strength and that recovering his power as a Soul Saint would take at least three years.
• Gu Sheng decided he needed deeper Weapon Spirit expertise to plan Soul Rings for his Sharingan, and he judged Shrek and Barak Royal Academy poor choices for further study.

Gu Sheng attended his first martial soul training class and reflected on soul master education and his options for an Advanced Soul Master Academy. As he headed to the training field with Liu Daimei and the other girls, classmates mocked him, but he chose to ignore them.

• Teacher Macron arrived to lead the fifth-grade martial soul training class, and Gu Sheng learned that Macron's martial soul was the Horse Bear.
• Gu Sheng considered how ordinary martial souls might evolve over generations and how junior, intermediate, and Advanced Soul Master Academies differed.
• Gu Sheng teased Liu Daimei by calling her Ba Shisan, and she chased after him as they left for the training field.
• At the training field, students mocked Gu Sheng for spending time with girls and called him weak.
• Gu Sheng ignored the students, deciding they would soon be irrelevant to his life.

Teacher Ma taught the students that physical strength, cultivation, and Spiritual Energy determined how powerful a Soul Ring they could absorb, then urged them to train hard. He worried that Gu Sheng and other newly awakened students were too frail to endure training, but Gu Sheng insisted he was fit to continue.

• Teacher Ma called on a thin, dark-skinned boy, who explained that a strong body helped a soul master fight and absorb a higher-level Soul Ring.
• Teacher Ma warned the students that weak first Soul Rings could limit their futures and urged them not to fear hard work.
• The narration explained that a soul master's body, cultivation, and Spiritual Energy affected Soul Ring absorption, while Reincarnators could theoretically absorb rings matching their actual level if their bodies were strong enough.
• Teacher Ma offered leave to students whose physical condition could not withstand training, and Gu Sheng declared that his body was fine.

After recovering from their injuries, Gu Sheng and the other Orphan Born students returned to class despite Teacher Ma's concerns and began a long-distance running lesson. Gu Sheng suspected three struggling students were newcomer Reincarnators, and the chapter left them lagging behind under Teacher Ma's scrutiny.

• Teacher Ma urged Gu Sheng and the other Orphan Born students to rest longer, but they refused and chose to return to class.
• Gu Sheng sensed three other Reincarnators among the students and worried that their lack of Bloodlines could leave them at a disadvantage in Douluo.
• Teacher Ma ordered the class to assemble on the track for five warm-up laps of one thousand meters each.
• Gu Sheng ran steadily near the back of the group while the other students handled the warm-up with ease.
• Ba Lingba, Ba Shisi, and Ba Erwu fell nearly half a lap behind, and Teacher Ma called out to the three struggling students.

At Baran Junior Soul Master Academy, Gu Sheng recognized that Niu Chen, Lin Dong, and Yan Yao were likely newcomer Reincarnators struggling to adjust to their descent bodies. Their slow run sparked insults and a confrontation between orphan-born and noble students, which Teacher Ma stopped before leading the class to train.

• Gu Sheng observed Niu Chen, Lin Dong, and Yan Yao struggling to coordinate their bodies and suspected they were newcomer Reincarnators.
• Niu Chen, Lin Dong, and Yan Yao fell a lap behind during the run, prompting other students to mock them and orphan-born classmates to defend them.
• Teacher Ma silenced the arguing students and reprimanded both the mockers and those trading insults.
• A well-dressed noble student challenged Ba Shiba, who answered defiantly, but the students avoided further trouble after Teacher Ma's warning.
• Teacher Ma took the class to the training grounds and told the students to choose equipment suited to their paths.

Teacher Ma began close-quarters combat matches to train the students, and Ekesi challenged Ba Shiba. Their fight started with Ekesi's spear attacks against Ba Shiba's durable Twin-Horned Rhino martial soul, leaving the match ongoing as Ba Shiba charged through the assault.

• Teacher Ma announced that the students would begin fighting one another to develop their combat abilities.
• Ekesi challenged Ba Shiba, and the chapter contrasted Ekesi's carefully selected first Soul Ring with Ba Shiba's more modest one.
• Teacher Ma refereed as Ekesi and Ba Shiba introduced their martial souls and prepared to fight.
• Ekesi attacked with his spear, but Ba Shiba's hardened body resisted the strike and he swung back at Ekesi.
• Ekesi dodged and launched a rapid series of spear thrusts, while Ba Shiba charged through them and closed the distance.

Ekesi and Ba Shiba fought, with Ekesi relying on his spear and agility while Ba Shiba’s strength and defense wore him down. Ekesi’s Whirlwind Spear failed to break Ba Shiba’s Vajra Body Protection, and the chapter ended as Ekesi launched another attack.

• Ekesi used his spear and Ba Shiba’s momentum to keep distance, but Ba Shiba pressed the attack and gradually exhausted him.
• Ekesi used his First Soul Skill, Whirlwind Spear, while Ba Shiba activated Vajra Body Protection.
• Ba Shiba blocked Ekesi’s attack and revealed that his Soul Ring came from a Great Vajra Bear.
• Ekesi refused to give up and attacked again with Vortex Triple Rings.

Ba Shiba defeated Ekesi after Gu Sheng’s advice helped him turn his superior defense into a decisive charge. Feisi then entered the next match against Ba Ling San, and their battle began.

• Ekesi struck Ba Shiba three times with Vortex Triple Rings, but Ba Shiba dodged the final blow and the two fought on as Ba Shiba’s Soul Power dwindled.
• Gu Sheng reminded Ba Shiba that a fleshly palm could withstand a collision better than a rapidly moving iron weapon, prompting Ba Shiba to charge Ekesi head-on.
• Ba Shiba won the clash and dislocated Ekesi’s arm, earning the first victory for Orphan Born.
• Feisi stepped forward to challenge Orphan Born, and Ba Ling San accepted with his Yellow Ox Martial Soul.
• Ba Ling San and Feisi revealed their Battle Soul Master styles and began an explosive close-range fight.