Chapter Summaries

Ye Yu, a transmigrator in Nuoding City, went to awaken his martial soul with support from his guardian, Wang Hongshan. He awakened Blue Silver Grass, leaving his Soul Power and prospects unknown.

• Ye Yu recalled his ordinary background and hoped a system or powerful martial soul would help him rise above the rest.
• Wang Hongshan brought Ye Yu warm buns and accompanied him to the Spirit Hall despite his City Guard duties.
• Ye Yu entered the Spirit Hall alone and found that a middle-aged Soul Elder, not Su Yuntao, was presiding over the awakenings.
• After several children awakened their martial souls, Ye Yu stepped into the array and followed the Soul Elder's instructions.
• Ye Yu summoned a blue-silver Blue Silver Grass martial soul and was stunned by what he saw.

Ye Yu awakened a Blue Silver Grass martial soul with Innate Level 1 Soul Power, leaving him disappointed but determined to find a way to grow stronger. After telling Wang Hongshan, he headed home to review what he knew about the world and plan his future.

• The Spirit Hall deacon tested Ye Yu and found that his Blue Silver Grass martial soul had Innate Level 1 Soul Power.
• Ye Yu left the awakening hall troubled by his poor talent, then resolved to seek a way to evolve his martial soul into a Blue Silver King or Blue Silver Emperor.
• Ye Yu told Wang Hongshan about his martial soul and soul power, and Wang Hongshan congratulated him and offered his help.
• Wang Hongshan left for his City Guard patrol and promised to take Ye Yu out for a celebratory feast that night.
• Ye Yu went home intending to organize his knowledge of the world and plan how to strengthen his martial soul.

Ye Yu discovered that his Inner Elixir Method could cultivate soul power and accelerate his growth alongside Blue Silver Grass. After reaching Level 2 Soul Power, he enrolled at Nuoding Academy as a work-study student and was assigned to Dormitory Seven.

• Ye Yu recorded the current date and realized Tang San had only just been born, leaving him time to pursue opportunities from the original story.
• Ye Yu tried the Inner Elixir Method and found that it drew in spiritual energy, strengthened his soul power, and sharpened his perception.
• Ye Yu visited Holy Spirit Village and learned Tang Hao had not yet brought Tang San there.
• Ye Yu spent three months cultivating in a Blue Silver Grass field, reaching Level 2 Soul Power with the aid of the grass and the Inner Elixir Method.
• Ye Yu obtained a work-study placement with help from Wang Hongshan and traveled with him to Nuoding Academy to enroll.
• Director Su assigned Ye Yu to Dormitory Seven and gave him the academy uniform.

Ye Yu settled into Dormitory Seven at Nuoding Academy and took part in its required fight against dorm boss Lin Dagui. After losing, he met fellow newcomer Wang Sheng and asked about the academy library, hoping to find books on Soul Warriors and soul beasts.

• Wang Hongshan helped Ye Yu choose a bed in Dormitory Seven, made it for him, and left after urging him to study hard.
• Lin Dagui introduced himself as Dormitory Seven's boss and insisted that Ye Yu fight him as an initiation ceremony.
• Ye Yu attacked Lin Dagui but was quickly defeated by the older student's Black Bear martial spirit and Level 9 cultivation.
• Wang Sheng steadied Ye Yu and introduced himself as another new work-study student with a War Tiger martial spirit.
• Lin Dagui welcomed Ye Yu into Dormitory Seven and explained work duties and how to avoid offending Noble students as they went to lunch.
• After lunch, Ye Yu asked Lin Dagui whether the academy had a library with books about Soul Warriors and soul beasts.

Ye Yu returned to Dormitory Seven and found Great Master Yu Xiaogang demanding data about his Blue Silver Grass martial soul. Ye Yu offered to share more information in exchange for Yu Xiaogang’s books, but Yu Xiaogang refused and left in anger.

• Lin Dagui told Ye Yu that he and the other work-study students never visited the library because their lessons covered its knowledge and they preferred playing in their free time.
• Ye Yu returned to Dormitory Seven and found Yu Xiaogang sitting on his bed, collecting information about Ye Yu’s Blue Silver Grass martial soul.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Ye Yu for extensive personal and martial-soul data, and Ye Yu shared only his parents’ martial souls, his ordinary upbringing, and that he had consumed no heavenly treasures.
• Ye Yu asked Yu Xiaogang to lend him a book in exchange for providing more data, but Yu Xiaogang refused and scolded him for being greedy.
• Yu Xiaogang left Dormitory Seven in anger.

After enrolling at Nuoding Academy, Ye Yu rapidly improved his cultivation by practicing the Inner Elixir Method with the help of nearby Blue Silver Grass. He sensed the arrival of the weakened Blue Silver Emperor’s aura and, a year later, joined his classmates as they discussed their cultivation before the final exams.

• Ye Yu studied Soul Master knowledge at Nuoding Academy and cultivated in Blue Silver Grass meadows, where the surrounding grasses gathered spiritual energy to help him.
• After a month of practice, Ye Yu reached level 3 Soul Warrior despite having only level 1 Innate Soul Power.
• While cultivating on the academy’s back hill, Ye Yu sensed the Blue Silver Emperor’s weak aura approaching from the northwest and realized Tang Hao had brought A Yin’s seed toward Holy Spirit Village.
• Ye Yu became excited about the future evolution of his Blue Silver Grass martial soul and cultivated diligently for the following year.
• Before the final exams, Lin Dagui asked the Work-study students about their cultivation levels, and Chen Hu said he had made little progress despite a year of effort.

Ye Yu’s relentless cultivation raised his Soul Power to Level 4 in his first year and Level 5 during the holiday, prompting Yu Xiaogang to investigate his progress. When they met at the start of the next school year, Yu Xiaogang pressed Ye Yu to reveal his method, but Ye Yu gave him a misleading explanation about working harder.

• Ye Yu revealed that he had reached Level 4, inspiring the students in Dormitory Seven, including Wang Sheng, to cultivate more seriously.
• Ye Yu tested at Level 4 in the final exams, earned a five Gold Soul Coin scholarship, and advanced to Level 5 during the three-month holiday.
• Yu Xiaogang heard of Ye Yu’s three-level improvement and suspected there was a secret behind it.
• On January 1, 2633, Ye Yu returned to Nuoding Academy and encountered Yu Xiaogang in Dormitory Seven.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Ye Yu how he had improved so quickly, and Ye Yu claimed that extra cultivation time explained his progress.

Yu Xiaogang tried to pressure Ye Yu into sharing how he had advanced three levels in a year, then offered his soul-beast research notes as a trade. Ye Yu suspected the notebook’s contents and questioned Yu Xiaogang about rare species, leaving their proposed exchange unresolved.

• Yu Xiaogang accused Ye Yu of hiding a special cultivation method and urged him to share it for the benefit of commoner Soul Masters.
• Ye Yu rejected Yu Xiaogang’s claims about his theories and falsely insisted that diligence was his only cultivation method.
• Yu Xiaogang, angry that Ye Yu would not yield, offered to lend him his soul-beast research notebook in exchange for the cultivation method.
• Ye Yu asked whether the notebook covered Mandala Snakes and Man Faced Demon Spiders, and Yu Xiaogang claimed it contained only information about common soul beasts.

Ye Yu refused Yu Xiaogang’s offer of spirit beast notes, and Yu Xiaogang left furious, plotting to block Ye Yu from obtaining a Spirit Ring. Two years later, Ye Yu reached Level 8 but found his cultivation slowing sharply, so he resolved to earn money for heavenly treasures to improve his prospects.

• Ye Yu refused Yu Xiaogang’s notes, insisting that his rapid progress came from hard work and that he did not deserve them.
• Yu Xiaogang insulted Ye Yu and left when the other Dormitory Seven students arrived; Ye Yu told Chen Hu and the others that Yu Xiaogang had wanted to learn his cultivation method.
• Yu Xiaogang decided to retaliate by using his connections at Nuoding Academy to prevent Ye Yu’s Spirit Ring application from reaching the headmaster.
• After two years of cultivation, Ye Yu reached Level 8 but concealed his progress and remained publicly listed as Level 6.
• Ye Yu realized his cultivation speed had fallen to a fraction of its former rate and concluded that his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul’s potential was nearly exhausted.
• Ye Yu resolved to make money alongside cultivation so he could buy heavenly treasures and overcome his limits.

Ye Yu earned money in Nuoding City by teaching mathematics and painting, using his skills and noble connections to protect himself and help the Work-study students. He repaid his uncle Wang Hongshan by helping him marry and open a restaurant, then used his wealth to buy cultivation herbs and Whale Jelly.

• Ye Yu opened mathematics and painting classes, proving his ability by defeating restaurant accountants and impressing Spirit Hall deacons with portrait sketches.
• Parents and nobles flocked to enroll their children, and Ye Yu earned more than three thousand Gold Soul Coins a year while the Work-study students gained his protection from Noble students.
• Chen Hu offered Ye Yu the Work-study leader position, but Ye Yu declined because he was busy with his classes and business.
• Ye Yu helped Wang Hongshan find a wife and open a restaurant serving dishes such as fish-fragrant shredded pork, kung pao chicken, and roast duck.
• Ye Yu bought Hundred-year Ginseng, Hundred-year Lingzhi, and Whale Jelly to improve his cultivation and strengthen his body, and he turned eleven.

Ye Yu waited for Tang San to enroll at Nuoding Academy so he could later pursue the Blue Silver Emperor's Right Leg Bone and A Yin, then applied for early graduation after reaching soul power level 10. The chapter left him waiting at the academy while Director Su prepared his graduation certificate.

• Ye Yu reached soul power level 10 but postponed hunting for his first soul ring until Tang San arrived and Yu Xiaogang could lead a hunt.
• Ye Yu saw Old Jack and Tang San arguing with the gatekeeper, and Tang San knocked the gatekeeper down before Yu Xiaogang intervened.
• Yu Xiaogang took Tang San into Nuoding Academy and accepted him as his disciple after Tang San kowtowed three times.
• Yu Xiaogang disparaged Ye Yu to Tang San, who grew angry at Ye Yu, while Ye Yu chose not to explain himself.
• Ye Yu told Director Su that he had reached level 10 and wanted early graduation, but declined help hunting for a soul ring.
• Director Su agreed to notify the headmaster and prepare Ye Yu's graduation certificate, and Ye Yu waited in the office.

Ye Yu said goodbye to Dormitory Seven as he prepared to graduate early, while Tang San and Xiao Wu arrived as new work-study students. After Ye Yu left with the dean to receive his certificate, Xiao Wu grew bored and tried to wake Wang Sheng so he would play with her.

• Director Su told Ye Yu that the dean was away, so Ye Yu went to Dormitory Seven to say goodbye to Wang Sheng and the work-study students.
• Ye Yu announced that he had reached level 10 and planned to graduate early, and Wang Sheng defended his decision when the others begged him to stay.
• Xiao Wu arrived at Dormitory Seven, fought Tang San, and became its Big Sister Leader after Tang San held back.
• Xiao Wu took a liking to Tang San's clean bedding, and the two began sharing a bed while Wang Sheng and the others envied them.
• Ye Yu met the returning dean at lunch and left with him to receive his graduation certificate, while Tang San left with Yu Xiaogang.
• Xiao Wu returned to Dormitory Seven, mistook the meditating students for sleepers, and impatiently told Wang Sheng to get up and play.

Xiao Wu beat Wang Sheng and the other work-study students after they refused to stop cultivating and play with her, while Director Su dismissed their complaints. After graduating, Ye Yu left Nuoding Academy and reached the hidden chamber where the Blue Silver Emperor sapling was growing.

• Xiao Wu interrupted Wang Sheng and the work-study students’ meditation, then punched Wang Sheng and beat the others when they resisted.
• The injured work-study students complained to Director Su, who smoothed things over and told them to teach Xiao Wu about meditation.
• Ye Yu received his graduation certificate, said goodbye to Director Su, and left Nuoding Academy to search for the Blue Silver Emperor.
• Ye Yu followed the Blue Silver Grass’s guidance through the mountains and found the waterfall hiding the stone chamber.
• Ye Yu entered the chamber and found a sapphire-blue, gold-patterned Blue Silver Grass growing in a patch of sunlight.

Ye Yu secured A Yin and the Blue Silver Emperor's Right Leg Bone, then traveled toward Heaven Dou Imperial City. Buried in a coffin in a forest, he fused with the bone and woke to find his Blue Silver Grass martial soul had evolved into a powerful blue-silver vine.

• Ye Yu transplanted A Yin and retrieved the Blue Silver Emperor's Right Leg Bone from a hidden box in the stone chamber.
• Ye Yu concealed his tracks, traveled to Bao Jian City, and hired guards to escort him toward Heaven Dou Imperial City.
• In a city in the Silves Kingdom, Ye Yu arranged to be buried in a coffin so he could fuse with the bone in seclusion.
• Ye Yu pressed the Blue Silver Emperor's Right Leg Bone to his calf and used the Inner Elixir Method to absorb its soul power and life energy.
• The bone's life energy transformed Ye Yu's Blue Silver Grass martial soul into a thick, crystal-clear blue-silver vine, and Ye Yu awoke.

Ye Yu emerged from his burial place after the Blue Silver Emperor's Right Leg Bone evolved his Blue Silver Grass into Blue Silver Vine and strengthened his body. He traveled to Heaven Dou Imperial City and went to the Crown Prince's Mansion to seek refuge with Qian Renxue.

• Ye Yu discovered that the Blue Silver Emperor's Right Leg Bone had strengthened him and evolved his martial soul into Blue Silver Vine, which he could use to bind and strangle.
• Ye Yu used tools to dig out of the coffin and emerged from the ground, finding that the grass above had grown into a thicket.
• Tang Hao returned to his hidden chamber and found Ah Yin and the Blue Silver Emperor's Right Leg Bone missing, then destroyed the chamber and searched in a rage.
• Ye Yu noticed that the life force had changed his appearance, then hired an escort and traveled toward Heaven Dou Imperial City.
• Ye Yu arrived in Heaven Dou Imperial City and headed to the Crown Prince's Mansion to seek refuge with Qian Renxue.

Ye Yu presented Qian Renxue, disguised as Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, with a blueprint for a Curved-shaft Plow and asked for help enrolling in Heaven Dou Royal Academy. Qian Renxue agreed to request a place from Xue Ye, leaving Ye Yu hopeful that he could begin pursuing his goals in Heaven Dou Imperial City.

• Ye Yu went to the Crown Prince's Mansion and offered his loyalty along with a farming-tool blueprint.
• Qian Renxue examined the Curved-shaft Plow blueprint and asked Ye Yu whether it could greatly improve farming efficiency.
• Ye Yu explained that oxen could pull the plow and till far more land than people using hoes.
• Ye Yu introduced himself and requested admission to Heaven Dou Royal Academy instead of accepting a reward.
• Qian Renxue agreed to ask Xue Ye for an enrollment spot for Ye Yu.

Qian Renxue secured Ye Yu’s admission to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and Ye Yu persuaded the academy’s committee members that his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul had evolved into Blue Silver Vine. After examining it, the committee members judged it an intermediate-to-high-grade Martial Soul and offered him a place in first-year Class A.

• Qian Renxue told Ye Yu that Emperor Xue Ye had granted him a baron title and offered to take him to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Over a meal, Ye Yu described how he had developed the Curved-shaft Plow, saws, and fertilizing methods, impressing Qian Renxue.
• Qian Renxue brought Ye Yu to the academy, where Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhi Lin admitted him and asked him to complete a registration form.
• Ye Yu explained that consuming Hundred-year Ginseng and Hundred-year Lingzhi had changed his ordinary Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul into Blue Silver Vine.
• Ye Yu summoned his Blue Silver Vine, and the committee members and Qian Renxue recognized it as a beneficial Martial Soul evolution.
• Zhi Lin assessed Ye Yu’s Martial Soul as intermediate to high grade, and Meng Shenji offered him a place in first-year Class A.

Ye Yu enrolled in Class One at Heaven Dou Royal Academy to get close to Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, then used his interest in Life Attribute Plant Spirit Beasts to become familiar with Ye Lingling. The chapter left him claiming that a suitable spirit ring might evolve his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, a claim Ye Lingling doubted.

• Ye Yu asked Meng Shenji to place him in the same class as a Nine Heart Begonia Spirit Master, and Meng Shenji assigned him to Class One of the first year.
• Lin Zhiming introduced Ye Yu to the class, where he sat near Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling and learned their names and reputations from his classmates.
• Ye Yu observed the girls’ routines and began spending afternoons in the library reading about Plant Spirit Beasts, where he repeatedly encountered Ye Lingling.
• Ye Lingling guided Ye Yu to books about Life Attribute Plant Spirit Beasts after he asked where to find them.
• Ye Yu told Ye Lingling that he had delayed getting a spirit ring because he hoped a suitable Life Attribute Plant Spirit Beast might help his Martial Soul evolve, and Ye Lingling said she had never heard of that happening.

Ye Yu explained his Spirit Ring Origin Completion Evolution Theory to Ye Lingling, who admired his plan to evolve his Blue Silver Grass martial soul. As the two grew closer and shared their painful pasts, Ye Yu ended the chapter by asking to draw her portrait.

• Ye Yu displayed his Blue Silver Vine martial soul and proposed that compatible spirit rings could provide martial soul origins that enabled evolution.
• Ye Lingling praised Ye Yu's theory, then grew emotional as she recalled the defect in her family's Nine Heart Begonia martial soul and her wish to fix it.
• Ye Yu and Ye Lingling became friends as he presented himself as an orphan and she shared her family's sorrow and her hopes for her future children.
• Ye Yu sympathized with Ye Lingling but could think of no remedy for her martial soul's defect, and he resolved to get closer to Dugu Yan for the possibility of finding help among the immortal herbs.
• After leaving the library together, Ye Yu asked Ye Lingling if he could draw her portrait.

Ye Yu used a portrait of Ye Lingling to draw Dugu Yan into spending time with him, then became her friend and learned what she longed for. He began considering how to earn her affection despite not yet being strong enough to protect her.

• Ye Yu painted Ye Lingling's portrait and gave it to her with a wish for more happiness and less sorrow.
• Dugu Yan saw the portrait, admired Ye Yu's skill, and asked Ye Lingling to introduce them so he could paint her too.
• Ye Yu told Dugu Yan he needed to know her better before painting her, prompting her to join him and Ye Lingling at the library and spend time with them.
• Dugu Yan admired Ye Yu's Spirit Ring Origin Completion Evolution Theory and sympathized with him after learning he was an orphan.
• Ye Yu learned that Dugu Yan's lonely childhood had left her craving care, attention, and protection, and considered how to win her over without relying on strength.