Chapter Summaries

Mo Hui awakened Pidgey as his Spirit and discovered that he had Level 3 Innate Soul Power. He declined Su Yuntao’s invitation to join Spirit Hall for now, deciding to seek advice from a relative at Nuoding Academy.

• Mo Hui watched the other children fail their Spirit awakenings, then summoned a Pidgey that left his body and bonded with him.
• Su Yuntao tested Mo Hui’s Soul Power and found it was Level 3.
• Mo Hui wondered if his Soul Power would increase when Pidgey evolved, then declined Su Yuntao’s invitation to join Spirit Hall until he could consider his options.
• Su Yuntao recorded Pidgey as a Mutated Sparrow Spirit and gave Mo Hui a certificate before leaving Jiangrong Village.
• Mo Hui introduced himself to Pidgey as its partner and headed into the dusk with it on his shoulder.

Mo Hui arrived early at Nuoding Academy, where his uncle Mo Hen helped him register as a Work-Study Student. He settled into the dormitory and planned to focus on cultivation without taking on cleaning work.

• Mo Hui reached Nuoding City with the Jiangrong Village chief, then persuaded the gatekeeper to let him enter by showing his certificate and naming his uncle, Mo Hen.
• Mo Hui registered at the Academic Affairs Office, where Mo Hen arrived and introduced him to Director Su.
• Mo Hen guided Mo Hui to the Work-Study Student dormitory and offered to transfer him to regular-student status when classes began.
• Mo Hui chose to remain a Work-Study Student to avoid tuition, and Mo Hen told him he did not need to do cleaning work.

Mo Hen examined Mo Hui’s unusual spirit, Pidgey, and suggested introducing him to Yu Xiaogang for advice. Mo Hui practiced his slow Bobo Meditation Method until Wang Sheng arrived and challenged him for Dorm 7’s boss title, but Mo Hui refused to fight.

• Mo Hen watched Mo Hui summon Pidgey, noticed the spirit manifested as an independent creature, and said he would take Mo Hui to meet someone who might help.
• Mo Hui settled into Dorm 7, learned that Pidgey could not use moves, and began cultivating with his self-devised Bobo Meditation Method.
• After about four hours, Wang Sheng entered Dorm 7 and told Mo Hui that newcomers had to fight him for the boss title.
• Mo Hui introduced Pidgey as his spirit but declined Wang Sheng’s challenge, saying he could not win and had no interest in the title.

Mo Hui defeated Wang Sheng with Pidgey and became the work-study students’ dorm leader. At dinner, he discovered that Pidgey could absorb energy from food, and began investigating why it digested a meat bun differently from a duck leg.

• Wang Sheng challenged Mo Hui, but Pidgey dodged his attacks and pecked him until he surrendered and accepted Mo Hui as Dorm Leader.
• Wang Sheng asked whether Pidgey was Mo Hui’s martial spirit, and Mo Hui explained that it was a special mutated martial spirit.
• Mo Hui went with Wang Sheng to the cafeteria, chose the more expensive second-floor food, and ordered duck legs and meat buns.
• Mo Hui fed Pidgey duck meat and noticed that it absorbed the energy, spat out the residue, and became cheaper to summon.
• After Pidgey ate nearly half a meat bun without spitting out residue, Mo Hui bit into a bun to test his suspicion.

Mo Hui discovered that Pidgey could transfer energy from eating Meat Buns into his body, accelerating his cultivation but causing painful excess Soul Power. After recovering overnight, he planned to use the method cautiously, trained with hopes of obtaining a hundred-year first Soul Ring, and began classes at Nuoding Academy.

• Mo Hui recalled Pidgey after it ate two Meat Buns, causing excess energy to overwhelm his Soul Power capacity and make his body ache.
• Mo Hui meditated to control the excess energy, slightly increasing his body's Soul Power tolerance, then warned himself that repeating the risky method required caution.
• Mo Hui returned to Dorm 7, where Wang Sheng introduced him as the new Work-Study Student who had defeated him, and the children accepted Mo Hui as their Dorm Leader.
• After a night of cultivation, Mo Hui found his Soul Power had reached roughly level 3, 42%, and his soreness had fully healed.
• Mo Hui exercised at the training field and told Mo Hen he hoped to obtain a hundred-year first Soul Ring; Mo Hen promised to do his best to help.
• When the preparatory bell rang, Mo Hui headed to the school building for his first day of study at Nuoding Academy.

Mo Hui learned that Nuoding Academy had no dedicated Meditation Method and decided to develop one himself from the Bobo Meditation Method. Mo Hen revealed that Yu Xiaogang had refused to teach him, leaving Mo Hui determined to follow his own path.

• After asking his teachers about Meditation Methods, Mo Hui discovered they could offer only meditation techniques and resolved to create a method of his own.
• Mo Hen apologized to Mo Hui for failing to arrange lessons with Yu Xiaogang, and Mo Hui said he could learn without him.
• Earlier, Mo Hen had visited Yu Xiaogang with gifts and asked him to teach Mo Hui, whose spirit was a mutated sparrow with level-three Innate Soul Power.
• Yu Xiaogang lost interest after hearing Mo Hui's Innate Soul Power level and refused to teach him, ordering Mo Hen to leave.
• Mo Hen left Yu Xiaogang's residence angrily, while Yu Xiaogang dismissed his opinion as unimportant.

After a year and three months of hard cultivation, Mo Hui reached Soul Power Level 10 and prepared to obtain his first soul ring. The chapter ended as Tang San arrived at Nuoding Academy, where the gatekeeper doubted the certificate listing his Blue Silver Grass martial soul and Innate Full Soul Power.

• Mo Hui reached Level 10 by cultivating diligently, refining the Soul Ring Absorption Simulation Method and Bobo Meditation Method, and training in a windy location suited to Pidgey.
• Mo Hui told Mo Hen he had broken through, and Mo Hen promised to gather teachers to take him to the Soul Hunting Forest for a soul ring.
• Mo Hui asked Mo Hen a question about meditation before leaving, and Mo Hen predicted that his nephew might achieve great things.
• The following afternoon, Old Jack brought Tang San to Nuoding Academy and warned him to follow the teachers' instructions.
• The gatekeeper examined Tang San's certificate and questioned whether his Blue Silver Grass martial soul and Innate Full Soul Power were genuine.

Tang San entered Nuoding Academy, where Yu Xiaogang recognized his Innate Full Soul Power and suspected he had Twin Martial Souls, then persuaded him to become his disciple. Mo Hui saw them together and left for his cultivation spot, while Yu Xiaogang dismissed him as insignificant to Tang San.

• The gatekeeper checked Tang San's Spirit Hall certificate and allowed him into Nuoding Academy.
• Yu Xiaogang stopped Tang San, guessed that he possessed a second martial soul, and sweet-talked him about his potential.
• Mo Hui saw Tang San kneel before Yu Xiaogang and ask to become his disciple.
• Yu Xiaogang accepted Tang San's devotion and told him that Mo Hui was insignificant and beneath him.

Mo Hui encountered Xiao Wu on her way to Nuoding Academy and later met her and Tang San in Dorm 7. After Wang Sheng mocked Grandmaster, Tang San challenged Mo Hui for the Dorm Leader position.

• Mo Hui considered the coming upheaval on the continent and bought two portions of Restorative Tender Tofu.
• Xiao Wu asked Mo Hui for directions to Nuoding Academy, and he pointed her toward it.
• Mo Hui returned to Dorm 7 and found Xiao Wu there with Tang San, the new Work-Study Students.
• Wang Sheng praised Mo Hui and told Tang San and Xiao Wu that Mo Hui had refused Grandmaster as a disciple.
• Tang San angrily rebuked Wang Sheng for insulting Grandmaster, then challenged Mo Hui for the Dorm Leader position.

Tang San challenged Mo Hui for the Dorm Leader position, but Mo Hui relied on Pidgey’s speed to counter Tang San’s techniques. The chapter left Tang San knocked to the ground after Pidgey struck him.

• Tang San challenged Mo Hui to a fight, demanding the Dorm Leader position if Mo Hui lost, and Mo Hui agreed on the condition that Tang San leave him alone afterward.
• At the training grounds, Tang San announced that his Blue Silver Grass martial soul had level ten Soul Power, astonishing the onlookers with his supposed Innate Full Soul Power.
• Mo Hui summoned Pidgey and retreated, wary that Tang San might use hidden weapons if the fight turned dangerous.
• Tang San used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track to dodge Pidgey and attack Mo Hui, but Pidgey matched his movement and evaded his Mysterious Jade Hand.
• Pidgey slammed into Tang San’s chest and sent him flying several meters onto the ground.

Mo Hui’s Pidgey defeated Tang San with a self-created Tackle, a move Mo Hui had spent a year refining. After Teacher Li Ya treated Tang San, Yu Xiaogang carried him away, leaving the fight’s outcome clear despite Tang San’s protest that he had not yet used all his methods.

• Mo Hui reflected that Pidgey’s Tackle had practical combat value after a year of work on its Soul Power circulation and impact.
• Mo Hui called for Wang Sheng to fetch Teacher Li Ya when Tang San could not get up.
• Tang San refused treatment because he did not accept that he had lost, but Li Ya used her healing soul skill anyway.
• Yu Xiaogang arrived and comforted Tang San, who apologized for losing and regretted not using his hidden weapons.
• Mo Hui explained that Tang San had requested the fight and that Pidgey had held back; Yu Xiaogang checked Tang San’s injuries and carried him away after Li Ya finished treating him.

After Tang San lost to Mo Hui, Yu Xiaogang explained that Tang San had misjudged his opponent and promised to help him obtain a soul ring. Tang San discovered Mo Hui cultivated through the night, while Mo Hui tested Pidgey’s Peck before an unseen attacker struck him.

• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang how Mo Hui and Pidgey had defeated him, and Yu Xiaogang criticized him for failing to gather information about his opponents.
• Yu Xiaogang learned that Mo Hui was already Level 10 but remained confident he could choose Tang San a superior soul ring.
• Back in Dorm 7, Tang San watched Mo Hui continue cultivating through the night and struggled to keep pace before finally going to sleep.
• The next morning, Tang San learned that Mo Hui routinely cultivated all night and was shocked by his rival’s discipline.
• Outside Nuoding City, Mo Hui trained Pidgey to use Peck, which pierced through a tree after gathering Soul Power for two seconds.
• A pebble suddenly struck Mo Hui in the chest, making him spit blood and fly backward.

After Tang Hao ambushed and injured Mo Hui, Mo Hui recognized the danger of Douluo Continent and prepared to obtain his first soul ring. He joined Mo Hen, Li Ya, and Director Su in the Soul Hunting Forest, where he sought a hundred-year Azure Rainbow Falcon.

• Pidgey helped the injured Mo Hui flee the mountain, and Tang Hao emerged after they had left.
• Mo Hui returned to Nuoding Academy, where Li Ya treated his broken rib and told him they would go to the Soul Hunting Forest in two days.
• Mo Hui reflected that the strong could harm the weak without consequences and resolved to be more cautious.
• Mo Hen, Li Ya, and Director Su accompanied Mo Hui into the Soul Hunting Forest to find his first soul beast.
• Mo Hui asked to hunt a hundred-year wind-element bird, preferably an Azure Rainbow Falcon, and Director Su agreed to help search for one.

Mo Hui and his companions searched for a suitable Azure Rainbow Falcon, but after finding only unsuitable birds, they considered other wind-attribute soul beasts. When a three-hundred-year Gale Demon Wolf appeared, Pidgey judged it acceptable, leaving Mo Hui to consider it as his first soul ring.

• After two days without finding an Azure Rainbow Falcon of sufficient age, Mo Hui agreed that a Windchaser Eagle or Azure Wind Eagle could serve instead.
• Director Su and the others found a roughly 150-year-old Windchaser Eagle, but Pidgey detected a powerful wolf-type soul beast approaching before Mo Hui could choose it.
• Mo Hen, Li Ya, and Director Su summoned their martial souls and prepared to protect Mo Hui.
• A Gale Demon Wolf at least 300 years old appeared, and Mo Hen identified it as a formidable soul beast.
• Mo Hui asked Pidgey to assess the Gale Demon Wolf, and Pidgey examined it and nodded that it was acceptable.

Mo Hui persuaded Mo Hen, Director Su, and Li Ya to help him obtain the Gale Demon Wolf’s soul ring, then successfully absorbed it and became a one-ring soul master. He discovered that his first soul skill, Air Blade, could be used repeatedly with very little Soul Power, while Pidgey began evolving toward Pidgeotto.

• Mo Hui asked Mo Hen, Director Su, and Li Ya to stop the retreating Gale Demon Wolf so he could absorb its soul ring.
• Li Ya slowed the Gale Demon Wolf with her first soul skill, and Mo Hen and Director Su attacked until Pidgey delivered the finishing blow.
• Mo Hui absorbed the Gale Demon Wolf’s yellow soul ring and broke through to the Soul Scholar realm.
• Mo Hui identified his first soul skill as Air Blade and demonstrated Pidgey’s fast wind blade cutting through a tree.
• Mo Hui explained that Air Blade consumed little Soul Power and could be fired repeatedly, astonishing Mo Hen, Director Su, and Li Ya.

Mo Hui returned to Nuoding Academy with a powerful first soul skill from a 350-year Gale Demon Wolf and received recognition from his teachers. After testing at level twelve and collecting Spirit Hall’s subsidy, he considered pursuing older soul rings in the future.

• Director Su, Li Ya, and Mo Hen congratulated Mo Hui on his first soul skill, and the group returned to Nuoding City.
• Tang San challenged Mo Hui, who said Tang San had to defeat Xiao Wu first; Xiao Wu beat Tang San, so Mo Hui never had to fight.
• Ma Xiunuo tested Mo Hui at level twelve and invited him to join Spirit Hall, but Mo Hui declined.
• Mo Hui received his soul master badge and a Gold Soul Coin from Spirit Hall.
• Mo Hui reflected that absorbing the Gale Demon Wolf’s soul ring had felt safe and decided he could be bolder about choosing his next soul ring.

Three years after beginning his training, Mo Hui stabilized at Soul Power Level 22 after using Whale Rubber to strengthen his body and obtaining a second soul ring from a nine-hundred-year Azure Rainbow Falcon. He returned to Nuoding Academy and announced that he planned to graduate early and enter an Advanced Soul Master Academy, stunning the teachers with his two soul rings.

• Mo Hui stabilized his Soul Power Level 22 on a mountain outside Nuoding City and decided to leave the city.
• Mo Hui used Whale Rubber to improve his physique, and Mo Hen spent his savings to buy him more after confirming its effects.
• Mo Hui called Pidgey back to his shoulder and demonstrated its second soul skill, Lightning Flash, on the way back to Nuoding Academy.
• Mo Hui told Director Su that he planned to graduate early and enroll directly in an Advanced Soul Master Academy.
• Mo Hui revealed his two yellow soul rings, and the teachers realized that he had become a Soul Grandmaster at age ten.

Mo Hui graduated from Nuoding Academy and prepared to choose between Heaven Dou Royal Academy and Godwind Academy. After saying goodbye to his uncle, Tang San, and the academy, he left Nuoding City with Pidgey to begin his next chapter.

• Director Su approved Mo Hui's graduation application and discussed his plans to attend Heaven Dou Royal Academy or Godwind Academy.
• Mo Hen gave Mo Hui one hundred Gold Soul Coins as travel expenses.
• Mo Hui packed his martial soul notes, left some belongings and cultivation notes for Dorm 7's Work-Study Students, and told Tang San to avoid shady third-rate academies.
• Mo Hui left Nuoding Academy with Pidgey and departed Nuoding City.

Mo Hui reached Suotuo City, collected his Spirit Hall subsidy, and learned why Shrek attracted talented students despite its flaws. After finding every other inn full, he went to the Rose Hotel for its last room, but someone else claimed it just as he was booking.

• Mo Hui arrived in Suotuo City with Pidgey and went to Spirit Hall to collect his subsidy.
• Mo Hui demonstrated that he was a level 22 Soul Grandmaster and received ten Gold Soul Coins.
• A Spirit Hall Soul Master explained Shrek's reputation and its promise of a viscount title to graduates who met its requirements.
• Mo Hui considered Shrek's advantages and shortcomings, then left to find lodging.
• Mo Hui found the Rose Hotel's final room, but another person interrupted and said they would take it.

Mo Hui fought Dai Mubai over the last room at the inn and defeated him with a combined wind blade. He took the room, while Dai Mubai resolved to train harder and challenge him again.

• Dai Mubai tried to buy Mo Hui’s reserved room, then demanded a Soul Fighting match when he noticed Mo Hui was a Soul Master.
• Dai Mubai attacked Mo Hui, who dodged and introduced himself as a level twenty-two Battle Soul Grandmaster with a Pidgey Martial Soul.
• Pidgey’s Air Blade forced Dai Mubai to defend with his White Tiger Body Protection Shield.
• Mo Hui used Air Blade: Six-in-One to break through Dai Mubai’s shield and knock him down.
• Mo Hui paid for the room and the broken stool, then went upstairs with Pidgey.
• Dai Mubai recognized that Mo Hui had spared him and vowed to become stronger before they met again.