Chapter Summaries

After his parents died, Jiang Yunzhou struggled to imagine how he would survive in Douluo Continent, until the village chief reminded him that Spirit Awakening was near. At the awakening, Jiang Yunzhou discovered his Spirit was called Nine-Leaf Sword Grass, though it appeared to be a single blade of grass.

• Jiang Yunzhou was reborn in Douluo Continent, lost his mother at birth and his father at six, and realized he had arrived years before the story he knew would begin.
• Aodebiao visited Jiang Yunzhou after his father's funeral and encouraged him to attend the upcoming Spirit Awakening.
• Jiang Yunzhou remembered that his system was offline and hoped that awakening a powerful Spirit would give him a way to survive.
• Aodebiao brought the village children to meet Spirit Hall's deacon, who began awakening their Spirits and found that the children before Jiang Yunzhou had no Soul Power.
• Jiang Yunzhou awakened a single-leaf grass Spirit, and the deacon asked what it was called.
• Jiang Yunzhou identified his Spirit as Nine-Leaf Sword Grass and wondered why it had only one leaf.

Jiang Yunzhou’s supposedly useless Nine-Leaf Sword Grass revealed Innate Full Soul Power, but the Spirit Hall deacon still dismissed him and issued only a school certificate. Over the years, Jiang Yunzhou discovered that the Martial Soul grew stronger with each realm breakthrough, earning him recognition and support from his academy.

• Jiang Yunzhou urged the Spirit Hall deacon to test his Soul Power, and the crystal ball blazed with light, revealing Innate Full Soul Power.
• The deacon, Su Yuntao, gave Jiang Yunzhou a Spirit Hall certificate but did not invite him to join Spirit Hall because he considered the grass Martial Soul useless.
• The villagers of Shenma Village celebrated Jiang Yunzhou’s ability to cultivate, while he later struggled with poverty and isolation at the Junior Soul Master Academy.
• When Jiang Yunzhou reached level 20 and became a Soul Grandmaster, his Nine-Leaf Sword Grass grew a second leaf.
• At level 30, Jiang Yunzhou understood that each breakthrough beyond a Soul Ring Slot limit added a leaf and doubled his base strength and cultivation speed.
• The academy recognized Jiang Yunzhou’s rapid progress, relieved him of miscellaneous work, and provided financial assistance.

After twelve years of cultivation, Jiang Yunzhou had reached level seventy-nine and remained determined to rely on himself. On the road outside Suotuo City, his long-dormant system finally awakened and revealed that disciples could raise the age limits of his Soul Rings.

• Jiang Yunzhou graduated from the Junior Soul Master Academy as a twelve-year-old Soul Elder and resolved to keep a low profile rather than interfere with Xiao Wu and Tang San.
• Over the next several years, Jiang Yunzhou cultivated with his Nine-Leaf Sword Grass and reached level seventy-nine as a Soul Saint by age eighteen.
• Outside Suotuo City, Jiang Yunzhou complained about the system breaking its promise, and the system suddenly restored its connection.
• The system offered to increase Jiang Yunzhou's Soul Ring age limits and grant knowledge from other worlds, prompting him to ask how it worked.
• The system explained that each Soul Ring Slot could be bound to one disciple, whose combined Soul Ring age limits would determine the bound Soul Ring's final age limit.

Jiang Yunzhou received a martial arts gift pack and realized that taking talented disciples could increase his Soul Ring Age Limit, so he headed toward Suotuo City to seek promising students. He recognized the fleeing Zhu Zhuqing as a potential first disciple, intercepted her in the forest, and offered help as she eyed him warily.

• Jiang Yunzhou learned that recruiting gifted disciples could raise his Soul Ring Age Limit and received a martial arts gift pack with a permanent Charm increase and many manuals.
• Jiang Yunzhou checked his system panel, reviewed his Soul Skills, and set his sights on Suotuo City and the monsters he hoped to recruit.
• Jiang Yunzhou spotted the injured Zhu Zhuqing fleeing from pursuers and decided to make her his first disciple.
• Zhu Zhuqing used the dense forest to evade her pursuers while Jiang Yunzhou followed, then moved ahead to block her path.
• Jiang Yunzhou offered Zhu Zhuqing help, and she stopped and demanded to know who he was and why he stood in her way.

Jiang Yunzhou refused to leave Zhu Zhuqing when her pursuers cornered her, and she was knocked into his arms while trying to resist them. He offered to save her if she took him as her master, then killed the Soul Ancestor with a single move when the man attacked.

• Zhu Zhuqing warned Jiang Yunzhou that a Soul Ancestor and his men were pursuing her, but he refused to leave before she answered his question.
• The Soul Ancestor ordered his men to capture Zhu Zhuqing alive, and their attack overwhelmed her exhausted resistance.
• Jiang Yunzhou caught Zhu Zhuqing in his arms and offered to help her escape if she became his disciple.
• The Soul Ancestor attacked Jiang Yunzhou, who used Azure Leaf Sky Split to cut the man's throat and kill him.

Jiang Yunzhou killed the Soul Ancestor pursuing Zhu Zhuqing, spared the remaining Soul Elders at her request, and continued pressing her to become his disciple. After Zhu Zhuqing fainted, he healed her and carried her to Suotuo City, where she awoke and demanded to be put down.

• Jiang Yunzhou killed the Soul Ancestor who had attacked him, then told Zhu Zhuqing she should not hesitate to deal with her enemies.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked Jiang Yunzhou to let the Soul Elders go so they could deliver a message, and he allowed them to flee.
• Jiang Yunzhou again asked Zhu Zhuqing to become his disciple, but she fainted before answering.
• Jiang Yunzhou used his Third Soul Skill, Spirit Source Recovery, to heal Zhu Zhuqing, then carried her toward Suotuo City.
• Jiang Yunzhou entered Suotuo City with Zhu Zhuqing over his shoulder, and she woke up and demanded that he put her down.

Jiang Yunzhou and Zhu Zhuqing traveled into Suotuo City, where Jiang Yunzhou insisted she was his disciple and made her pay for their meal and lodging. At the Rose Hotel, they considered pretending to be a couple for a discount, leaving Zhu Zhuqing facing the awkward prospect of sharing one room.

• Jiang Yunzhou teased Zhu Zhuqing about finding her lover, and she insisted she had come to find her fiancé and had no time for romance.
• Zhu Zhuqing thanked Jiang Yunzhou for healing her wounds, then treated him to a meal before they searched for lodging.
• Jiang Yunzhou chose the Rose Hotel, and Zhu Zhuqing reluctantly dragged him inside after he implied he might sleep outside.
• Jiang Yunzhou suggested they pretend to be a couple to get the hotel's 20% discount, and he introduced himself as Zhu Zhuqing told him her name.
• Zhu Zhuqing realized the discount meant booking only one room, and the receptionist asked whether she and Jiang Yunzhou were a couple.

Jiang Yunzhou brought the injured Zhu Zhuqing to a couples' hotel, where his teasing and close contact left her flustered and suspicious of his motives. After discovering that her wounds had healed without scars, Zhu Zhuqing wondered whether to leave after bathing, while Jiang Yunzhou asked the system what counted as successfully taking on a disciple.

• Jiang Yunzhou called Zhu Zhuqing his girlfriend and had her pay three gold coins for a room.
• Zhu Zhuqing pinched Jiang Yunzhou in anger, then went into the bathroom to bathe while he settled onto the bed.
• Jiang Yunzhou caught glimpses of Zhu Zhuqing through the frosted bathroom wall, then distracted himself by studying the martial arts manuals from the system.
• Zhu Zhuqing confirmed that all her wounds had healed without scars and wondered about Jiang Yunzhou's strength and intentions.
• Zhu Zhuqing considered leaving after her bath, while Jiang Yunzhou asked the system what counted as successfully taking on a disciple.

Jiang Yunzhou learned that taking Zhu Zhuqing as his disciple required her willing acceptance and a Sword Grass Bracelet, then discussed the system’s rules and resolved to pursue creating his own Sword God position. He planned to win Zhu Zhuqing over and train her, but his attention strayed when he saw her silhouette through the bathroom glass.

• Jiang Yunzhou received nine Sword Grass Bracelets from the system, which served as disciple tokens and offered storage and tracking functions.
• Jiang Yunzhou argued with the system over the cost of a storage ring and learned it operated by tasks or equal exchange.
• The system warned Jiang Yunzhou that killing Tang San would bring the God Realm against him, and advised him to become a god before acting freely.
• Jiang Yunzhou chose to pursue creating his own god position and confirmed he could pursue Xiao Wu as long as he did not kill Tang San.
• Jiang Yunzhou decided to win Zhu Zhuqing’s willing acceptance and plan training to improve her strength and soul rings.
• Jiang Yunzhou saw Zhu Zhuqing’s silhouette through the bathroom glass and reacted with visible excitement.

Jiang Yunzhou tried to persuade Zhu Zhuqing to become his disciple, offering to help her grow stronger. After he revealed his seven soul rings and claimed to be eighteen, Zhu Zhuqing remained suspicious and undecided.

• Jiang Yunzhou suppressed his attraction to Zhu Zhuqing after she came out of the bathroom and considered finding a soul beast wife.
• Zhu Zhuqing thanked Jiang Yunzhou for saving and treating her, then tried to leave the room.
• Jiang Yunzhou asked Zhu Zhuqing to become his disciple and promised to help her become stronger.
• Jiang Yunzhou claimed he was a level seventy-nine Soul Saint and displayed his seven soul rings to convince Zhu Zhuqing.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked Jiang Yunzhou's age, then remained silent and uncertain about trusting him as her teacher.

Zhu Zhuqing hesitated over Jiang Yunzhou's offer to teach her, but agreed to stay the night after he pretended to leave. The next morning he studied movement techniques from his Martial Arts Gift Pack while she slept, and the chapter ended with him teasing her for waking near noon.

• Jiang Yunzhou gave Zhu Zhuqing three days to decide whether to accept his personal instruction.
• When Jiang Yunzhou acted as if he would leave, Zhu Zhuqing grabbed his sleeve and asked him to stay.
• Zhu Zhuqing fell asleep on the sofa, and Jiang Yunzhou carefully carried her to the bed before sleeping on the sofa himself.
• Jiang Yunzhou chose Ladder Cloud Ascend, Divine Movement Hundred Changes, and Eight Trigrams Body-Wandering Steps from the Martial Arts Gift Pack and began studying them.
• Zhu Zhuqing woke near noon, and Jiang Yunzhou teased her for sleeping so late.

Jiang Yunzhou kept Zhu Zhuqing at the hotel until she saw her fiancé, Dai Mubai, arrive with two women, shattering her hopes and leaving her to retreat alone. He then set out to find Hulande, beginning his plan to make things difficult for Tang San.

• Zhu Zhuqing asked to leave for her own business, but Jiang Yunzhou urged her to wait and hinted that a show was coming.
• Jiang Yunzhou pointed out the pink-dressed girl who entered with a young man in blue, telling Zhu Zhuqing to remember her.
• Zhu Zhuqing recognized Dai Mubai as her fiancé when he entered with two women and felt devastated by his apparent infidelity.
• Zhu Zhuqing returned to the suite alone after watching Dai Mubai leave, while Jiang Yunzhou went out to search Suotuo City.
• Jiang Yunzhou found Hulande resting outside an inconspicuous shop on a secluded street.

Jiang Yunzhou forced Hulande to sell him several chunks of ore for five gold coins by overwhelming him with his power, then returned to the hotel suite. He found Zhu Zhuqing sitting alone by the window in the fading sunlight and offered to treat her to a meal.

• Jiang Yunzhou demanded all the ore in Hulande's shop and paid five gold coins after threatening him with his strength.
• Jiang Yunzhou left with the ore, and Hulande discovered that the wooden table had been sliced into splinters before fleeing toward Shrek Academy.
• Jiang Yunzhou returned to the suite with snacks and found Zhu Zhuqing staring silently out the window.
• Jiang Yunzhou set out the food and told Zhu Zhuqing that her master was treating her.

After Zhu Zhuqing struggled with her heartbreak and doubts, Jiang Yunzhou invited her to help establish an academy and become his disciple. She decided to trust him, though she had not yet openly accepted the offer.

• Zhu Zhuqing ate the food Jiang Yunzhou brought, but remained distressed about her predicament and her ties to Dai Mubai and her family.
• Jiang Yunzhou told Zhu Zhuqing to rest and asked her to help him establish an academy the next morning.
• Zhu Zhuqing grew anxious when Jiang Yunzhou suggested he might find another disciple before she made her decision.
• Jiang Yunzhou assured Zhu Zhuqing that his plans would not interfere with her taking three days to consider his offer.
• After weighing her doubts and her growing attachment to Jiang Yunzhou, Zhu Zhuqing told him she trusted him.

Zhu Zhuqing agreed to become Jiang Yunzhou’s disciple and accepted his Sword Grass Bracelet, completing the system’s first disciple binding. The system raised Jiang Yunzhou’s first Soul Ring Age Limit and granted Zhu Zhuqing powerful cultivation rewards, while promising Jiang Yunzhou that his own exclusive rewards were still to come.

• Zhu Zhuqing declared that she willingly accepted Jiang Yunzhou as her master.
• Jiang Yunzhou gave Zhu Zhuqing a Sword Grass Bracelet that also served as a storage device, and she put it on.
• The system bound Zhu Zhuqing to Jiang Yunzhou’s first Soul Ring Slot and raised his first Soul Ring Age Limit to 1600 years.
• The system identified Zhu Zhuqing as an S-rank disciple and granted her a Martial Soul Advancement Pill and the Nether Shadow Profound Nether Art.
• Jiang Yunzhou asked whether he could cultivate Zhu Zhuqing’s techniques, and the system confirmed he could while hinting at future exclusive rewards.

Jiang Yunzhou gave Zhu Zhuqing a Martial Soul Advancement Pill, evolving her Spirit Cat into the Nine Nether Spirit Cat and raising her cultivation to Level 28. He then passed three powerful techniques to her, leaving Zhu Zhuqing deeply grateful and determined to live up to his expectations.

• Jiang Yunzhou told Zhu Zhuqing to sit and presented her with a Martial Soul Advancement Pill.
• Zhu Zhuqing swallowed the pill, and her Spirit Cat evolved into the Nine Nether Spirit Cat as her cultivation rose to Level 28.
• Zhu Zhuqing thanked Jiang Yunzhou emotionally, and he told her that he had more fortune to bestow.
• Jiang Yunzhou transmitted the Nether Shadow Profound Nether Art, the Nine Yin Manual, and Instant Hell Kill directly into Zhu Zhuqing's consciousness.
• Zhu Zhuqing vowed to meet Jiang Yunzhou's expectations.

Jiang Yunzhou gave Zhu Zhuqing cultivation techniques and set out with her to recruit students for Supreme Academy. Their preparations ended when he cut down an old farmer’s thousand-year-old peach tree to make an academy sign, and the farmer angrily demanded compensation.

• Jiang Yunzhou explained Zhu Zhuqing’s new techniques and warned her not to reveal them.
• Jiang Yunzhou told Zhu Zhuqing that she would be his first disciple and that they would recruit students for an academy.
• Jiang Yunzhou and Zhu Zhuqing spent the night cultivating, then set out for Shilaike Academy’s village and settled on the name Supreme Academy.
• Jiang Yunzhou cut down a roadside tree and carved a Supreme Academy signboard from it.
• An old farmer accused Jiang Yunzhou of cutting down his family’s thousand-year-old peach tree, and Jiang Yunzhou urged Zhu Zhuqing to run.

Jiang Yunzhou and Zhu Zhuqing rented a courtyard across from Shilaike Academy and prepared to recruit students for their own academy. Zhu Zhuqing approached Xiao Wu to invite her over, leaving Xiao Wu surprised that a stranger knew her name.

• Jiang Yunzhou gave Zhu Zhuqing the task of renting a nearby courtyard, and she agreed to pay the ten gold coins herself.
• Jiang Yunzhou hung the Supreme Academy plaque above the courtyard gate and sent Zhu Zhuqing to recruit Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu.
• Zhu Zhuqing spotted Tang San and Xiao Wu joining the enrollment line at Shilaike Academy.
• Zhu Zhuqing brought Xiao Wu to the entrance of Supreme Academy and asked whether she was Xiao Wu, surprising her.

Jiang Yunzhou invited Xiao Wu to join Supreme Academy and revealed that he knew she was a soul beast from the Star Dou Great Forest. After warning her that a Titled Douluo had been targeting her since she was six, he left her to decide whether to seek his protection, and she asked Tang San if they could switch academies.

• Zhu Zhuqing invited Xiao Wu to Supreme Academy, but Xiao Wu initially refused and tried to leave.
• Jiang Yunzhou appeared, charmed Xiao Wu into following him into the courtyard, and sent Zhu Zhuqing to invite Ning Rongrong.
• Jiang Yunzhou revealed Xiao Wu's identity and asked her to join Supreme Academy as his disciple.
• Jiang Yunzhou warned Xiao Wu that a Titled Douluo had been watching her since she was six and offered to protect her.
• Tang San entered the courtyard and pulled Xiao Wu behind him, but she assured him Jiang Yunzhou had done nothing to her.
• As Tang San questioned her, Xiao Wu asked if they could switch academies.

Zhu Zhuqing brought Ning Rongrong to meet her teacher, Jiang Yunzhou, and Ning Rongrong eagerly agreed after seeing his handsome face. When Li Yisong accused Zhu Zhuqing of poaching applicants, she tried to leave with Ning Rongrong, prompting him to summon his martial soul and threaten them.

• Tang San promised to protect Xiao Wu, though she doubted he could face the dangerous man they had encountered.
• Zhu Zhuqing stopped Ning Rongrong and told her that her teacher wanted to speak with her.
• Ning Rongrong saw Jiang Yunzhou across the street and eagerly agreed to go meet him.
• Li Yisong noticed the Supreme Academy and accused Zhu Zhuqing of poaching applicants.
• Zhu Zhuqing grabbed Ning Rongrong and tried to cross the street, so Li Yisong summoned his Dragon Pattern Staff and revealed his six Soul Rings.