Chapter Summaries

Li Yue, Sisi, and Xiao Muxue searched the Soul Hunting Forest for a suitable plant-type spirit beast for Xiao Muxue’s first spirit ring. After Xiao Muxue defeated three Nether Wolves with Li Yue’s Vortex Cannon, the group made camp, and Sisi pulled Li Yue into the tent while Xiao Muxue took watch.

• Xiao Muxue suggested using a Lone Bamboo for her first spirit ring, but Li Yue rejected it as too weak and said they should seek a plant spirit beast with useful elemental abilities.
• Sisi sensed three Nether Wolves, and Li Yue told Xiao Muxue to use Vortex Cannon on them.
• Xiao Muxue killed the central Nether Wolf with Vortex Cannon, and the blast’s aftershock felled the other two.
• The group found no suitable spirit beast, so Li Yue set up camp and prepared food for the night.
• Sisi assigned Xiao Muxue to keep watch, then pulled Li Yue into the tent as Xiao Muxue agreed to stay outside.

Li Yue escaped Sisi’s overly intimate teasing and went outside to relieve Xiao Muxue from guard duty. Xiao Muxue believed Sisi had bullied him and went into the tent, intending to confront her.

• Sisi kissed and restrained Li Yue in the tent, while Xiao Muxue listened outside and grew jealous.
• Li Yue broke free and objected that Sisi had lied to him, but she continued teasing him by putting his hand in her mouth.
• Li Yue fled the tent and told Xiao Muxue he would take over the second half of the watch.
• Xiao Muxue agreed to go inside, planning to question Sisi and seek justice for Li Yue.

Xiao Muxue entered Sisi’s tent to demand justice for Li Yue, but Sisi teased her about being jealous and offered to let her get close to him. Xiao Muxue accepted the offer and praised Sisi, while Li Yue listened outside and regretted that his teacher and fellow disciple shared such strange tastes.

• Xiao Muxue confronted Sisi over kissing Li Yue and making him lick her hand.
• Sisi teased Xiao Muxue for being jealous and suggested that she wanted to kiss Li Yue too.
• Sisi offered to let Xiao Muxue kiss and lick Li Yue if she called her Teacher.
• Xiao Muxue abandoned her complaint and gratefully accepted Sisi’s offer.
• Li Yue overheard the conversation outside the tent and felt dismayed by their shared behavior.

Li Yue discovered a Moon Orchid drawing in moonlight and judged that its 380-year Soul Ring suited Xiao Muxue. After Sisi and Xiao Muxue killed it, Xiao Muxue began absorbing the Ring with Li Yue’s guidance.

• Li Yue woke Sisi and Xiao Muxue after spotting moonlight gathering around a Soul Beast.
• Li Yue identified the Soul Beast as a 380-year Moon Orchid and said its nonpoisonous plant Soul Ring suited Xiao Muxue.
• Sisi struck the Moon Orchid with a Vortex Cannon, breaking its moonlight defense and injuring it.
• Xiao Muxue used several Vortex Cannons to kill the weakened Moon Orchid and summon its yellow Soul Ring.
• Xiao Muxue began absorbing the Soul Ring using Li Yue’s refining method while Li Yue reassured Sisi that she would be fine.

Xiao Muxue successfully absorbed a 380-year Moon Orchid spirit ring, gained her first spirit skill, and evolved her Martial Soul into a White Wolf. After returning to Sisi’s villa, Li Yue learned that Yu Xiaogang had reached level thirty through the Great Sun Netherworld Meditation and owed him a great karmic debt.

• Xiao Muxue celebrated her successful absorption of the Moon Orchid spirit ring by hugging Li Yue, then thanked Sisi for helping her defeat the spirit beast.
• Xiao Muxue demonstrated Moonlight Body Protection, which increased her defense, strength, attack, and speed by thirty percent.
• Li Yue noticed that Xiao Muxue’s wolf ears had turned white and recognized that her Martial Soul had evolved into a White Wolf.
• Sisi led Li Yue and Xiao Muxue out of the Soul Hunting Forest, and they returned to her villa after a day’s carriage ride.
• Li Yue went to bathe, and the system informed him that Yu Xiaogang had reached level thirty using the Great Sun Netherworld Meditation and incurred a great karmic debt.

Li Yue let Sisi and Xiao Muxue indulge their attraction to him while Xiao Wu was away, though he worried about her discovering them. At the cafeteria, Xiao Wu missed Li Yue and grew resentful imagining Xiao Muxue taking advantage of his absence.

• Li Yue admitted he had overheard Sisi and Xiao Muxue discussing their feelings, but hesitated because Xiao Wu might return.
• Sisi pulled Li Yue onto her lap and kissed him, while Xiao Muxue held his hand and eagerly tasted his fingers.
• Xiao Wu ate with her younger sisters in the cafeteria and insisted she only missed Li Yue a little.
• Xiao Wu privately imagined Xiao Muxue clinging to Li Yue and resolved to punish her, and eventually Sisi, when she became stronger.

Xiao Wu returned to the villa and found Sisi and Xiao Muxue licking Li Yue, then drove Xiao Muxue away from him. After the argument ended, Xiao Wu trimmed Li Yue’s toenails while trying to ignore her own growing interest in his feet.

• Xiao Wu entered Li Yue’s room and found Sisi kissing him while Xiao Muxue licked his hand.
• Xiao Wu pulled Li Yue away to wash his hand, then confronted Xiao Muxue as Sisi shielded her disciple.
• Xiao Wu rebuked Xiao Muxue for wanting to lick Li Yue’s feet, and Xiao Muxue reluctantly left the room.
• Li Yue said he was hungry, ending the standoff, and Sisi went to cook.
• Xiao Wu took Li Yue’s nail-care tools and began trimming his toenails, though she felt tempted to lick his feet too.

Li Yue wrote a paper using Xiao Muxue’s Martial Soul Evolution to support his theories about spirit rings, then welcomed Xiao Wu, who confessed that she might be a transformed soul beast. He acted as though the idea surprised him, though he already knew the truth.

• Li Yue wrote a paper proposing that suitable spirit rings could cross Martial Soul types and trigger evolution, using Xiao Muxue’s case as evidence.
• Xiao Wu visited Li Yue, embraced him, and asked to spend the night together while he continued writing.
• Li Yue’s paper also advocated accepting transformed soul beasts and allowing them to form Soul Master clans, despite its conflict with Spirit Hall’s doctrine.
• Xiao Wu asked Li Yue whether she could be a transformed soul beast, hoping he would value her even more after learning the truth.
• Li Yue said it was possible because she had Innate Full Soul Power and a rabbit Martial Soul, while privately realizing she was about to reveal her identity.

Li Yue reassured Xiao Wu that he would not kill her for her hundred-thousand-year spirit ring and promised to develop artificial spirit rings and spirit bones. After he completed papers supporting his theories, they reached Bibi Dong, who took a special interest in him.

• Xiao Wu asked Li Yue what he would do if she were a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast, and he said he had no interest in killing her for her spirit ring or spirit bone.
• Li Yue told Xiao Wu he hoped Soul Masters would accept transformed Soul Beasts and that he planned to create artificial spirit rings and spirit bones.
• Moved by Li Yue's words, Xiao Wu embraced and kissed him, then worried that a Titled Douluo might expose her identity.
• Li Yue stayed with Xiao Wu while writing papers on his third and fourth theories and revising the Nine Great Theories of Martial Souls.
• Li Yue sent his papers through Spirit Hall's liaison, and they reached Bibi Dong, who praised him and allowed their publication.

Flender received Yu Xiaogang’s letter announcing that he had reached level thirty and traveled to Nuoding Academy with Ma Hongjun, hoping Li Yue could help with Ma Hongjun’s martial soul flaw. After meeting Li Yue, Flender explained the flaw and asked him to find a way for Ma Hongjun to cultivate normally.

• Ma Hongjun brought Flender a letter from Nuoding Academy, and Flender learned that Yu Xiaogang had broken through to level thirty using Li Yue’s cultivation method.
• Flender told Ma Hongjun that Li Yue might be able to resolve his Fire Phoenix martial soul flaw, then set out for Nuoding Academy with him.
• On the journey, Flender explained how Li Yue’s method had overcome the widely accepted barrier preventing late breakthroughs to level thirty.
• Yu Xiaogang introduced Flender and Ma Hongjun to Li Yue, and Flender praised Li Yue before the group shared a meal.
• Flender told Li Yue that Ma Hongjun’s mutated Fire Phoenix martial soul caused Evil Fire Burning the Body during cultivation and asked Li Yue to help him cultivate normally.

Li Yue gave Flender and Ma Hongjun the Great Sun Netherworld Meditation, believing its brief but painful cultivation would help Ma Hongjun overcome his Martial Soul flaw. Both tried it in Yu Xiaogang’s dormitory, suffered cultivation deviation, and Ma Hongjun writhed in especially severe pain.

• Li Yue decided the Great Sun Netherworld Meditation could help Ma Hongjun endure his Evil Fire Burning the Body for only a short time each day.
• Li Yue offered the method to Flender and Ma Hongjun, and Flender accepted a handwritten copy while Ma Hongjun eagerly began cultivating it.
• The system told Li Yue that Flender and Ma Hongjun owed him great karma for receiving the method.
• Flender and Ma Hongjun tried cultivating in Yu Xiaogang’s dormitory, took the wrong route through their meridians, and spat out blood.
• Flender suffered internal injuries and warned that only exceptional geniuses might manage the method.
• Ma Hongjun clutched his crotch and rolled on the ground in agony as the meditation’s burning effect intensified his Evil Fire Phoenix Martial Soul.

Yu Xiaogang treated Ma Hongjun after the Great Sun Netherworld Meditation caused him severe pain and warned Li Yue that the cultivation method was too dangerous for ordinary people. After Li Yue left, Flender and Ma Hongjun pressed Yu Xiaogang to reveal the shortcut he had used to cultivate it.

• Yu Xiaogang examined Ma Hongjun and said his injury was not serious, then explained to Li Yue why he had forbidden him from spreading the Great Sun Netherworld Meditation.
• Li Yue asked how Yu Xiaogang had taken a shortcut, but Yu Xiaogang told him to cultivate steadily instead of pursuing dangerous shortcuts.
• Yu Xiaogang sent Li Yue to class so he could discuss Ma Hongjun's martial soul flaw and the possibility of cutting off the affected body part.
• Flender asked Yu Xiaogang to reveal the shortcut behind his rank-thirty breakthrough, and Ma Hongjun pleaded to use it after experiencing the cultivation method's pain and rapid progress.

Yu Xiaogang revealed to Ma Hongjun that a drastic method could cure the flaw in his Evil Fire Phoenix and let him cultivate the Great Sun Netherworld Meditation. Ma Hongjun eagerly considered the procedure, while Yu Xiaogang explained that it meant removing the source of his trouble.

• Yu Xiaogang sent Flender out so he could tell Ma Hongjun the secret privately, and Flender left, hoping the method might help his own cultivation too.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that Ma Hongjun's martial soul flaw prevented him from cultivating Soul Power, and Ma Hongjun begged his master for a solution.
• Yu Xiaogang promised he could cure the flaw and said the method would let Ma Hongjun cultivate the Great Sun Netherworld Meditation without restriction.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that Ma Hongjun's evil fire had to be eliminated at its source by cutting off the root of his troubles and removing the eggs of trouble.
• Ma Hongjun did not understand Yu Xiaogang's terms, but felt hopeful and was willing to undergo the procedure so he could become a Soul Master.

Yu Xiaogang persuaded Ma Hongjun that castration was the only way to fix his Martial Soul flaw and cultivate the Great Sun Netherworld Meditation, then demonstrated that his numbing drug could prevent pain. Ma Hongjun agreed to undergo the treatment, and Yu Xiaogang prepared to begin preliminary preparations.

• Yu Xiaogang told Ma Hongjun that removing his cock and balls would resolve his Martial Soul flaw and let him cultivate the Great Sun Netherworld Meditation.
• Ma Hongjun feared the pain, so Yu Xiaogang promised his self-created Numbing Castration Method would make the procedure painless.
• Yu Xiaogang pricked Ma Hongjun with a needle carrying numbing toxin, and Ma Hongjun lost sensation in his hand.
• Yu Xiaogang gave Ma Hongjun an antidote, restoring sensation and pain, then said the toxin would work well for the treatment.
• Ma Hongjun chose to undergo the treatment so he could cultivate and pursue the potential to become a Titled Douluo.

Yu Xiaogang prepared to treat Ma Hongjun’s martial soul defect through castration and instructed him to fast before the procedure. Ma Hongjun agreed to keep the Great Sun Netherworld Meditation shortcut secret when Flender questioned him.

• Yu Xiaogang praised Ma Hongjun for agreeing to the treatment and explained that he should abstain from food and water before surgery.
• After Ma Hongjun reacted strongly to a three-day fast, Yu Xiaogang shortened it to half a day and scheduled the treatment for noon the next day.
• Yu Xiaogang told Ma Hongjun not to reveal the Great Sun Netherworld Meditation shortcut to Flender.
• Flender intercepted Ma Hongjun outside the dormitory and asked what Yu Xiaogang had told him.
• Ma Hongjun said Flender would have to ask Yu Xiaogang himself, fearing that revealing the secret could cost him the treatment.

Yu Xiaogang revealed to Flender that the shortcut to the Great Sun Netherworld Meditation required removing the source of Ma Hongjun’s evil fire, and admitted he had castrated himself to cultivate it. Flender struggled with the consequences for Liu Erlong and Ma Hongjun, then left in shock after Yu Xiaogang insisted the surgery was Ma Hongjun’s only chance to overcome his Martial Soul defect and become a Douluo.

• Flender confronted Ma Hongjun for keeping the shortcut to the Great Sun Netherworld Meditation secret, then went to question Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that removing the source of Ma Hongjun’s evil fire would let him cultivate, and Flender realized what Yu Xiaogang had sacrificed to use the method.
• Flender rebuked Yu Xiaogang for castrating himself, worried about Liu Erlong’s feelings, and Yu Xiaogang said he had accepted the consequences.
• Yu Xiaogang told Flender that he planned to perform the same surgery on Ma Hongjun the next day, and Flender objected to his young disciple losing that part of himself.
• Yu Xiaogang insisted the surgery was the only way to fix Ma Hongjun’s Martial Soul defect and give him the potential to become a Douluo, leaving Flender stunned and confused.

Ma Hongjun chose to undergo Yu Xiaogang’s operation to resolve the flaw in his martial soul, despite Flender’s desperate attempts to dissuade him. After the procedure, Yu Xiaogang fed the removed parts to Luo San Pao and felt the Great Sun Netherworld Meditation’s power increase his Soul Power.

• Flender tried to persuade Ma Hongjun to give up becoming a Soul Master, but Ma Hongjun tearfully insisted he wanted to reach the pinnacle and become a Douluo.
• At noon the next day, Ma Hongjun arrived at Yu Xiaogang’s dormitory for the operation, while Flender waited anxiously outside.
• Yu Xiaogang anesthetized Ma Hongjun, removed his testicles, and cauterized the wound.
• Yu Xiaogang summoned Luo San Pao, which eagerly swallowed the removed parts and appeared stronger and more muscular than before.
• Yu Xiaogang felt the Great Sun Netherworld Meditation’s power flow through him, even though his Soul Power had reached a level-thirty bottleneck.

Yu Xiaogang’s treatment removed Ma Hongjun’s Martial Soul defect by castrating him, and Luo San Pao gained strength by eating the removed organs. After a healing Soul Master restored Ma Hongjun’s wounds, Ma Hongjun recovered and promised to earn money for Flender.

• Yu Xiaogang sensed that Luo San Pao’s meal had increased his Soul Power and physical strength, then woke Ma Hongjun and gave him an antidote.
• Ma Hongjun learned that his surgery was complete and asked where his removed organs were; Yu Xiaogang claimed he had disposed of them.
• Flender hurried in to check on Ma Hongjun, and Yu Xiaogang offered to take him to a Healing System Soul Master in Nuoding City.
• Flender and Yu Xiaogang left to find the healer, while Ma Hongjun felt grateful for Flender’s concern.
• Flender returned with the healing Soul Master, who healed Ma Hongjun and charged ten Gold Soul Coins.
• Ma Hongjun comforted Flender about the fee and promised to earn him plenty of Gold Soul Coins.

After Ma Hongjun recovered from surgery, he successfully cultivated the Great Sun Netherworld Meditation, cleared the flaw in his Evil Fire Phoenix, and reached level ten. Flender celebrated his transformation while Yu Xiaogang proposed finding spirit rings for Ma Hongjun and himself and suggested bringing Li Yue along for his expertise.

• Ma Hongjun cultivated the Great Sun Netherworld Meditation without pain or internal injury, and his Soul Power grew stronger.
• Ma Hongjun broke through to level ten, and Flender excitedly celebrated his success and newfound potential.
• Flender accepted that castrating Ma Hongjun had been worthwhile because it removed his Martial Soul flaw and enabled him to cultivate.
• Yu Xiaogang proposed finding Ma Hongjun a spirit ring while hunting a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon and seeking a ring for himself.
• Yu Xiaogang suggested bringing Li Yue, citing his research on spirit rings, Martial Soul evolution, and the Nine Great Theories of Martial Souls.

Li Yue learned that Yu Xiaogang had resolved Ma Hongjun’s Martial Soul defect through castration, purifying his Evil Fire Phoenix into a Fire Phoenix and allowing him to cultivate the Great Sun Netherworld Meditation. After reaching level ten, Ma Hongjun asked Li Yue to choose his first spirit ring and help make him a case study in the Nine Great Theories of Martial Souls.

• Li Yue received the system’s report that Yu Xiaogang had castrated Ma Hongjun, resolved his Martial Soul defect, and purified his Martial Soul into the Fire Phoenix.
• Li Yue and Xiao Wu met Yu Xiaogang, Flender, Ma Hongjun, and the others in the cafeteria, where Ma Hongjun excitedly told Li Yue he could cultivate and had reached level ten.
• Ma Hongjun thanked Li Yue for helping him and asked Li Yue to choose a spirit beast for his first spirit ring.
• Ma Hongjun proposed using a plant-type spirit ring and asked Li Yue to include him as a case study in the Nine Great Theories of Martial Souls.
• Li Yue laughed at Ma Hongjun’s eagerness to improve and recalled how Xiao Muxue had wanted her real name included in his paper.