Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan punched Yu Xiaogang after rejecting his attempt to morally pressure him into being studied. He left with Xiao Wu and the Work-Study Students, then resumed practicing Soft Skill, while Yu Xiaogang vowed revenge.

• Yu Xiaogang blocked Lin Xuan in the cafeteria and asked to study his unusually strong constitution, claiming his research would benefit Soul Masters.
• Lin Xuan struck Yu Xiaogang in the stomach and sent him flying into a pillar after Yu Xiaogang tried to shame him into cooperating.
• Lin Xuan warned Yu Xiaogang not to bother him again and threatened him against trying to get him expelled from Nuoding Academy.
• Lin Xuan left the cafeteria with Xiao Wu and the Work-Study Students, while Yu Xiaogang silently swore to make him pay.
• Lin Xuan ate with Xiao Wu and the others, then went to practice Soft Skill with her.

Lin Xuan explained to the Old Dean that he planned to cultivate a healing Blue Silver Grass Soul Beast for his First Soul Ring, since he wanted to strengthen his recovery rather than pursue a conventional path. The Old Dean accepted his reasoning, while Yu Xiaogang mistakenly believed the choice would ruin Lin Xuan’s future.

• Tang San found Yu Xiaogang battered and promised to make Lin Xuan pay for hitting his teacher.
• A year later, Lin Xuan returned to Sacred Soul Village with Xiao Wu and distributed forged Hundred Refinements Fine Iron Sickles to the villagers.
• The Old Dean summoned Lin Xuan after hearing that he planned to use a Blue Silver Grass Soul Beast as his First Soul Ring.
• Lin Xuan told the Old Dean that he intended to pursue a healing path and had been raising Blue Silver Grass because healing Soul Beasts were scarce and dangerous to obtain.
• The Old Dean considered Lin Xuan’s plan reasonable, while Yu Xiaogang privately dismissed the fifty-year Blue Silver Grass Spirit Ring as harmful to Lin Xuan’s prospects.

Lin Xuan refused the Old Dean’s offer of a Hundred-Year healing Soul Ring and defended his choice to cultivate his own Blue Silver Grass. After confronting Yu Xiaogang and leaving Tang San worried about falling behind, Lin Xuan broke through to Level 10 in seclusion.

• Lin Xuan insisted on absorbing his cultivated Blue Silver Grass as a healing Soul Ring, despite the Old Dean’s warnings about its low age.
• Yu Xiaogang mocked Lin Xuan, who retorted by asking whether Yu Xiaogang could break through from Soul Grandmaster to Soul Elder; the Old Dean intervened, and Yu Xiaogang withdrew in anger.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San that Lin Xuan would use a ten-year Blue Silver Grass Soul Ring, then urged Tang San to cultivate faster and surpass Lin Xuan.
• Tang San resolved to train hard after learning Lin Xuan was nearing Level 10 while he remained at Level 19.
• Lin Xuan felt his bottleneck give way, secluded himself in a hidden room, and used the Soul Power Recovery Method to prepare for his breakthrough.
• After half an hour, Lin Xuan shattered the Level 10 bottleneck and rose from Level 9 to Level 10.

Lin Xuan broke through to Tenth-Rank in an abandoned storeroom, where the transformation tied to Jin Lin awakened and strengthened his body and Martial Soul. He awoke with a simulated Ten-Year Blue Silver Grass Soul Ring that concealed the true source of his change, while Tang Hao remained unaware of the transformation.

• Lin Xuan killed the Blue Silver Grass he had nurtured and let its Ten-Year Soul Ring appear as cover for his breakthrough.
• Jin Lin appeared above Lin Xuan's Martial Soul, and golden patterns spread across his body as a painful transformation began.
• Tang San listened outside the blocked door, mistook Lin Xuan's groan for difficulty absorbing a Ten-Year Soul Ring, and left without discovering the transformation.
• Tang Hao sensed the ordinary breakthrough and Soul Ring fluctuations but missed the hidden change, then returned to the shadows.
• Lin Xuan awoke as a Soul Master with greater Soul Power and physical strength, a transformed Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, and a simulated Ten-Year Soul Ring.

Lin Xuan broke through to Soul Power Level 11 and discovered his Blue Silver Grass’s expanded perception, strengthened vines, and new Entangle ability. After spotting Tang Hao nearby, he left the mountain hut while Tang Hao dismissed his potential and expected him to yield to Tang San in the future.

• Lin Xuan completed his breakthrough and sensed Tang San pacing outside his hut, then detected Tang Hao drinking beneath the Old Scholar Tree.
• Lin Xuan resolved to use one of Old Tang’s future chances to deal with Tang Hao once he could access that hidden power.
• Lin Xuan examined his evolved Blue Silver Grass, Little Golden Scales, and new Soul Ring ability, Entangle, which could extend his vines up to fifty-five meters.
• Lin Xuan discovered that his Blue Silver Grass gained a protective reinforcement that consumed Soul Power when he strained its vine with more than a thousand jin of force.
• Lin Xuan left for the academy acting excited about his breakthrough, while Tang Hao revealed he had noticed Lin Xuan and dismissed his Blue Silver Grass as no threat to Tang San.

Lin Xuan celebrated becoming a Soul Master, brought Hundred Forging Hoes and news of his training method to Sacred Soul Village, and received Tang Wulin’s Sinking Silver forging tools through his mysterious Golden Finger. He expected Old Tang to appear soon and believed he would be free of his remaining danger in two months.

• Lin Xuan received his Soul Master Badge and subsidy after reaching Level 11 with a ten-year Blue Silver Grass Soul Ring, then celebrated with Xiao Wu and the Seventh Dormitory.
• Tang San heard that Lin Xuan had advanced and felt powerless as rumors about Lin Xuan spread through the academy.
• Lin Xuan returned to Sacred Soul Village with Hundred Forging Hoes, and Old Jack told him that three children had awakened Soul Power after following his training method.
• Lin Xuan spent the holiday cultivating, practicing his Soul Skills, and sorting his maternal grandfather’s belongings while his Blue Silver Perception expanded across the village.
• Lin Xuan received two Thousand Forging Deep Silver Sinking Hammer blanks and two Silver Sinking Storage Soul Tools, which he equipped and stored his other hammers in.
• Lin Xuan anticipated Old Tang’s arrival and resolved to wait two more months to become completely free.

Lin Xuan waited for Old Tang to appear while refining his forging skills and learning the capabilities of his Thousand Forging Hammers. Tang San broke through to level 20 and threatened Lin Xuan with a planned countermeasure, leaving Lin Xuan wary that Yu Xiaogang intended to use a Ghost Vine Soul Ring to restrict him.

• Lin Xuan realized Old Tang would likely appear when he was nine and a half, nearly three months later, and turned his attention back to cultivation and forging.
• Lin Xuan stored his hammers and possessions in the Silver Sinking Storage Soul Tool and found that his Deep Silver Hammers could stack strikes while his Tungsten Steel Hammers were suited to sustained combat.
• Tang San broke through to level 20 after three years and four months and resolved to obtain his second Soul Ring to counter Lin Xuan.
• Tang San visited Lin Xuan at the Seventh Dormitory, announced that Yu Xiaogang had chosen a powerful Soul Ring and a way to restrain Lin Xuan, and was mocked by Xiao Wu and the Work-Study Students.
• Tang San fled after threatening Lin Xuan, who suspected that Yu Xiaogang planned to use a Ghost Vine's parasitic spores to limit his movements.

Lin Xuan weighed how Tang San’s Ghost Vine Soul Ring could counter his physical strength and feared that revealing his unusual Blue Silver Grass would draw Tang Hao’s deadly attention. He decided to awaken and use his Dragon Power rather than yield to Tang San, though the chapter ended before he tried it.

• Lin Xuan learned that Tang San would enter the Soul Hunting Forest for his Second Soul Ring and anticipated that Yu Xiaogang would choose a Ghost Vine.
• Lin Xuan feared Ghost Vine spores and Blue Silver Grass restraints could neutralize his strength, while exposing his unusual Blue Silver Grass might provoke Tang Hao.
• Lin Xuan considered awakening the hidden Dragon Power he suspected came from the Golden Dragon King Bloodline and judged it safer to reveal than his Blue Silver Grass.
• Lin Xuan rejected the option of admitting defeat to Tang San and resolved to face him openly and win.
• Lin Xuan looked at his body as he considered Dragon Power the way to turn the coming fight in his favor.

Lin Xuan found a cracked black scale carrying Dragon type aura at Nuoding City's market and used it to stimulate the Golden Dragon Bloodline within him. He resolved to grow stronger and take revenge on Tang San and Tang Hao.

• Lin Xuan decided to search Nuoding City's market for Dragon type materials rather than risk trying to obtain Yu Xiaogang's blood.
• After searching for over an hour, Lin Xuan found a cracked black scale at an old man's stall and sensed it resonating with his bloodline.
• Lin Xuan bought the scale for five Gold Soul Coins and hurried back to Nuoding Academy.
• In the Back Mountain room, Lin Xuan used the scale's aura to awaken warmth and movement in his Golden Dragon Bloodline, confirming that continued stimulation could activate it further.
• Lin Xuan vowed to confront Tang San after he became a Soul Grandmaster and threatened that Tang Hao's watch over him would end within three months.

Tang San challenged Lin Xuan to a rematch after returning from the Soul Hunting Forest as a Soul Grandmaster, but Lin Xuan accepted only after charging him ten Gold Soul Coins. Lin Xuan tore through Tang San’s enhanced Blue Silver Grass and closed in on him, leaving Tang San hiding in his remaining vines as Lin Xuan spotted an opportunity.

• Tang San blocked Lin Xuan and the Work-Study Students, challenged Lin Xuan to a spar, and demanded repayment or free forging materials if Lin Xuan refused.
• Lin Xuan rejected Tang San’s conditions and raised the sparring fee to ten Gold Soul Coins; Tang San paid and promised to collect double if he won.
• At the Teacher’s signal, Lin Xuan charged at full speed as Tang San used Blue Silver Bind to cover the ground with enhanced Blue Silver Vines.
• Lin Xuan grabbed the vines and ripped them apart with his bare hands, causing backlash that left Tang San pale and shocked.
• Tang San summoned more Blue Silver Grass and hid within the patch as Lin Xuan spotted an opportunity.

Lin Xuan exploited Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass backlash to drive him out of the sparring ring, but Tang San broke the rules and trapped him with Ghost Vine Parasitism. Lin Xuan awakened the Golden Dragon King Bloodline and shattered the vines, then advanced on a terrified Tang San as his own destructive urge grew.

• Lin Xuan tore through Tang San’s Blue Silver Vines, causing painful backlash until Tang San stepped beyond the fifty-meter boundary and lost the spar.
• Tang San ignored the rules and used Ghost Vine Parasitism to bind Lin Xuan with barbed vines, drawing Xiao Wu’s furious threats.
• Lin Xuan used a sharpened dragon scale to cut his palm, and his blood awakened the dormant Golden Dragon King Bloodline.
• Lin Xuan’s surging strength burst the vine cage, revealing golden scales and an aura that made Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass tremble.
• Lin Xuan walked toward the frightened Tang San, struggling against the bloodline’s growing desire for destruction.

Lin Xuan nearly killed Tang San after overpowering him, but Yu Xiaogang and the Old Dean intervened. Lin Xuan accepted Yu Xiaogang’s Storage Soul Tool and a purple dagger as compensation, then left while Tang San fainted.

• Lin Xuan nearly struck Tang San in a burst of Dragon Might, but Yu Xiaogang arrived and shielded his disciple while the Old Dean watched.
• Yu Xiaogang apologized for Tang San’s provocation and asked Lin Xuan to spare him, but Lin Xuan demanded compensation instead.
• Lin Xuan demanded Yu Xiaogang’s Storage Soul Tool, threatening to cripple Tang San if Yu Xiaogang refused.
• Yu Xiaogang handed over the Storage Soul Tool and, after Lin Xuan noticed its Dragon Race Aura, also gave him a purple dagger.
• Lin Xuan accepted the items and walked away, and Tang San fainted from the backlash of his Martial Soul.

After Lin Xuan defeated Tang San and took two treasures from him, Tang San woke and asked Yu Xiaogang how to overcome the backlash caused by his Blue Silver Grass being torn apart. Yu Xiaogang taught him a way to buffer the backlash, and Tang San began practicing so he could challenge Lin Xuan again.

• Lin Xuan reassured Xiao Wu and the Work-Study Students that he was unharmed, explaining that his first soul skill healed his wounds quickly.
• Tang San woke in Yu Xiaogang's room and described Lin Xuan's dragon scales, Dragon Might, and immense strength.
• Yu Xiaogang attributed Lin Xuan's power to an atavistic Human-Dragon Hybrid bloodline, while regretting that Lin Xuan had low soul power talent and ordinary Blue Silver Grass.
• Tang San apologized for losing Yu Xiaogang's Storage Soul Tool, then asked how to prevent backlash when his martial soul was damaged.
• Yu Xiaogang taught Tang San to sever the connection to damaged Blue Silver Grass and detonate reserved soul power to buffer the backlash.
• Tang San practiced the technique that night, determined to master it before challenging Lin Xuan again.

Lin Xuan defeated Tang San again after awakening the Golden Dragon King bloodline with the Dragon Breath Dagger and his own blood. Tang San refused to accept the loss and revealed his hatred of Lin Xuan as the chapter ended.

• Lin Xuan cultivated his Blue Silver Grass and planned to build a Life-attribute Soul Ring configuration while waiting for Old Tang to appear.
• Tang San returned after a month and paid Lin Xuan ten Gold Soul Coins before challenging him to another spar.
• Tang San used Blue Silver Bind, Ghost Vine Parasitism, and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track to overwhelm Lin Xuan, while his backlash-reduction technique let him keep attacking.
• Lin Xuan cut his arm with the Dragon Breath Dagger, awakening his Golden Dragon King bloodline and increasing his strength as golden scales covered his arm.
• Lin Xuan smashed through Tang San's vines, overpowered him, and stopped a punch just before his face before throwing him to the ground.
• Tang San refused Lin Xuan's offer to fight again and angrily called him a mongrel with Soul Beast blood.

Lin Xuan defeated Tang San, took his Twenty-Four Bridges Moonlight Night, and left him unconscious. Yu Xiaogang discovered that Lin Xuan’s blood could strengthen Three-Eyed Flame Dragon King and began plotting to obtain more of it.

• Tang San insulted Lin Xuan as a mongrel, and Lin Xuan retorted before taking Twenty-Four Bridges Moonlight Night and kicking Tang San unconscious.
• Yu Xiaogang concluded that Lin Xuan’s Dragon Race Bloodline was too thin to sustain his power past the Soul Ancestor level and regretted giving him the Dragon Breath Dagger.
• Three-Eyed Flame Dragon King found a drop of Lin Xuan’s blood among the rubble, and Yu Xiaogang realized it might help the Martial Soul evolve.
• Yu Xiaogang took the bloodstained stone back to his room, where Three-Eyed Flame Dragon King absorbed the lingering Dragon Blood energy and its bottleneck loosened.
• Yu Xiaogang resolved to find a way to obtain more of Lin Xuan’s blood without drawing attention.

Yu Xiaogang tried to buy Lin Xuan’s blood to evolve his Martial Soul, but Lin Xuan refused and sent him flying. Lin Xuan then began studying the runes on Tang San’s Twenty-Four Bridges Moonlight Night in the academy library, unaware Yu Xiaogang was watching him with growing obsession.

• Yu Xiaogang waited outside the Seventh Dormitory and offered Lin Xuan money, Soul Tools, rare herbs, and other rewards in exchange for his blood.
• Lin Xuan refused Yu Xiaogang’s offers, mocked his promises to increase Lin Xuan’s bloodline concentration, and said Tang San would not owe him a reliable favor.
• Lin Xuan swept Yu Xiaogang to the ground and went to the Nuoding Academy library to study Soul Tools.
• Lin Xuan examined the runes on Tang San’s Twenty-Four Bridges Moonlight Night and began copying them onto paper.
• Yu Xiaogang hid in a distant corner and watched Lin Xuan with growing obsession.

After Tang San caught Lin Xuan dismantling his Twenty-Four Bridges Moonlight Night, Lin Xuan kicked him away and warned him to stay clear. Yu Xiaogang planned to summon Flender, a Soul Saint, to deal with Lin Xuan, but Xiao Wu overheard and warned Lin Xuan, who remained calm.

• Lin Xuan broke a gemstone while inspecting Tang San's Twenty-Four Bridges Moonlight Night, then kicked Tang San out of the library and threatened to cripple him if he returned.
• Humiliated, Tang San went to Yu Xiaogang, who revealed he had written to Flender and expected the Soul Saint to arrive within a month to deal with Lin Xuan.
• Xiao Wu overheard Yu Xiaogang and Tang San discussing their plan and hurried to warn Lin Xuan that Flender was coming.
• Lin Xuan examined the shattered gemstone, found traces of spatial energy, and learned it had been a storage core.
• Xiao Wu reached the library and told Lin Xuan about the threat, but he appeared unsurprised.

Lin Xuan left Nuoding City alone to evade Yu Xiaogang’s planned appeal to Flender, leaving Xiao Wu behind for her safety. Three days later, Tang San and Yu Xiaogang discovered he was gone and joined a citywide search.

• Lin Xuan weighed the threat from Flender against the time he needed to gain a trump card, then decided to flee Nuoding City alone rather than risk traveling with Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu urged Lin Xuan to take her with him, but he refused, gave her a storage pendant, and told her to stay safe and wait for his return.
• Lin Xuan acted normally at the blacksmith shop, bought a horse in the market, and rode out of the city while Tang Hao was unlikely to notice.
• Lin Xuan escaped without Tang Hao ambushing him and traveled away from Nuoding City.
• Three days later, Tang San and Yu Xiaogang realized Lin Xuan had disappeared, and Nuoding Academy began searching the city for him.

After fleeing Nuoding City, Lin Xuan encountered three Soul Elder human traffickers on a remote road. He summoned his reforged Martial Soul and prepared to fight as the Black Cat Soul Master charged him.

• Tang Hao learned Yu Xiaogang had sought Flender’s help to capture Lin Xuan, but Lin Xuan had already escaped Nuoding City.
• Yu Xiaogang resumed focusing on training Tang San, while Xiao Wu cultivated in Seventh Dormitory to become strong enough to protect her family.
• After three days and nights of riding along remote paths, Lin Xuan stopped when a black-cloth-covered carriage blocked the road.
• The three traffickers surrounded Lin Xuan and revealed their Mouse, Black Cat, and Yellow Dog Martial Souls, each with three Soul Rings.
• The Black Cat Soul Master attacked, and Lin Xuan summoned Blue Silver Grass, spreading his perception across the nearby grass.

Lin Xuan killed three Soul Elders who had tried to capture him, using his Blue Silver Grass, Dragon Blood, and an adaptation of Xiao Wu’s Eight-Section Blast Kill. Exhausted and sickened by the fight, he recovered beside the road and looked toward the black horse carriage.

• Lin Xuan seized the Wild Cat Soul Master and killed him with eight successive kicks linked by Blue Silver Grass.
• Lin Xuan used Blue Silver Grass to trap the Rat Soul Master, then empowered himself with Dragon Scales and Dragon Might as he attacked the Wild Dog Soul Master.
• Lin Xuan overwhelmed the Wild Dog Soul Master and killed him by piercing his Martial Soul Core.
• Lin Xuan ignored the Rat Soul Master’s pleas, broke his limbs with Jin Lin-enhanced Blue Silver Grass, and snapped his neck.
• After killing all three Soul Elders, Lin Xuan vomited from the blood and gore, rested, and looked toward the black horse carriage.