Chapter Summaries

Reincarnated from Blue Star, Ye Lan trained from an early age to prepare for his Martial Soul Awakening and gain control over his fate. After learning that Su Yuntao would hold the village’s awakening ceremony the next day, Ye Lan looked forward to discovering his talent.

• Ye Lan recalled dying while saving two children from a truck and being reborn on Douluo Continent.
• Ye Lan learned about Soul Masters and trained hard, believing physical fitness could improve his awakening and future Soul Rings.
• After Ye Lan’s parents disappeared when he was three, Su Yuntao arranged for village chief Tom to care for him and funded his food.
• Ye Lan returned from training and ate the roast chicken Tom had prepared for him.
• Tom told Ye Lan that Su Yuntao would visit Harvest Village the next day to conduct the Martial Soul Awakening ceremony.
• Ye Lan said he had waited eagerly for the ceremony and believed his training would help him awaken Innate Soul Power.

Ye Lan accompanied Tom to Harvest Village’s martial soul awakening ceremony, where Su Yuntao began awakening the village children. As Ye Lan waited for his turn, he wondered how Tool Martial Souls had originated.

• Ye Lan told Tom he hoped to awaken Soul Power and become strong enough to help the village, and Tom encouraged him.
• Tom brought Ye Lan to the village Martial Soul Hall, where Su Yuntao explained the awakening ceremony and welcomed Ye Lan inside.
• Su Yuntao used his Lone Wolf Avatar to begin the ceremony, and Ye Lan watched carefully while waiting for his turn.
• A skinny boy awakened an Iron Rod Tool Martial Soul but had no Innate Soul Power.
• Ye Lan pondered how Tool Martial Souls arose when many of their corresponding tools had not existed in ancient times.

Ye Lan awakened Blue Silver Grass with level 3 Innate Soul Power and received a mysterious reward of Skill Selection from a voice in his mind. Su Yuntao arranged for him to attend Nuoding Academy, leaving Ye Lan to prepare for his future as a Soul Master.

• Su Yuntao helped Ye Lan awaken Blue Silver Grass and tested him at level 3 Innate Soul Power.
• A mysterious female voice rewarded Ye Lan with Skill Selection for an Earth achievement, then stopped responding when he asked for more power.
• Ye Lan asked Su Yuntao about his parents and declared that he would become a Titled Douluo despite having Blue Silver Grass.
• Su Yuntao gave Ye Lan a Work-Study Student placement token for Nuoding Academy, monthly living expenses, and a Spirit Hall Meditation Method.
• Su Yuntao announced the awakening results to Harvest Village, then left for another village as Tom worried about Ye Lan traveling to Nuoding City.
• Ye Lan promised to spend the month before school playing chess with Tom, returned home after the celebration, and examined his Martial Soul.

Ye Lan began cultivating his Blue Silver Grass Soul Power and traveled to Nuoding Academy as a Work-Study Student. There, he met Yu Xiaogang, who was surprised by Ye Lan’s level-three Innate Soul Power but dismissed his potential.

• Ye Lan cultivated with the Spirit Hall General Meditation Method and estimated that his level-three Innate Soul Power would take at least thirteen months to rise one level.
• After a month of training, Ye Lan traveled from Harvest Village to Nuoding City and presented his Spirit Hall Order and Su Yuntao’s letter at Nuoding Academy.
• The gatekeeper admitted Ye Lan after learning he was Su Yuntao’s nephew, and Ye Lan entered the academy grounds.
• Yu Xiaogang called Ye Lan over, introduced himself as the Grandmaster, and asked about his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul.
• Ye Lan told Yu Xiaogang that his awakening test had shown level-three Innate Soul Power, while Yu Xiaogang privately judged that the Martial Soul and its owner had little potential.

Ye Lan began settling into life at Nuoding Academy, where he became a Work-Study Student and met Wang Sheng in the Seventh Dormitory. He learned he was three years older than Tang San and planned to use that time to improve his cultivation and prepare for the future.

• Ye Lan dismissed Yu Xiaogang’s advice and went to the Academic Affairs Office to complete his enrollment.
• The academy assigned Ye Lan garden and training-ground cleaning duties as a Work-Study Student, paying him twenty Copper Soul Coins a day.
• Ye Lan arrived at the Seventh Dormitory, where Wang Sheng challenged him to fight for the title of dormitory boss.
• Ye Lan declined the challenge and learned Wang Sheng was eight years old with rank-seven soul power.
• After learning he was three years older than Tang San, Ye Lan considered his plans for cultivation and offered to buy dinner for the dormitory.

Ye Lan devised a plan to earn money by selling Candied Hawthorn Skewers so he could afford Whale Rubber. After making and packaging his first batch, he presented a box to Director Su and proposed selling the delicacy for a living.

• After treating the students of Seventh Dormitory, Ye Lan went to the Back Mountain and decided to make money by selling a unique delicacy.
• Ye Lan bought wild fruits and supplies at the Trade Market, then made a hundred Candied Hawthorn Skewers in a secluded grove.
• Ye Lan divided the skewers into ten gift boxes, dressed in fine clothes, and brought one box to Director Su at the school cafeteria.
• Director Su tasted a skewer, enjoyed it, and asked Ye Lan about the food and his plans for it.
• Ye Lan told Director Su that he wanted to sell Candied Hawthorn Skewers so he would no longer have to rely on Su Yuntao.

Ye Lan expanded the sale of Candied Hawthorn Skewers while limiting production so he could avoid unwanted attention and focus on cultivation. He began practicing Martial Soul Mimicry on the academy's Back Mountain, where the surrounding Blue Silver Grass responded to him and his soul power grew more active.

• Ye Lan agreed to supply Director Su with one daily batch of Candied Hawthorn Skewers at cost, and he gave extra batches to academy leaders, teachers, and students to promote them.
• Candied Hawthorn Skewers became popular among Nuoding City's nobles, but Ye Lan kept production limited to preserve demand, avoid attracting powerful people's attention, and leave time to cultivate.
• Ye Lan spent his free time studying in the academy library and discussed a catalog with the old librarian, who noted that few people visited the library.
• Ye Lan bought camping supplies and headed to the academy's Back Mountain to cultivate where Blue Silver Grass grew abundantly.
• Ye Lan called to the wild Blue Silver Grass with his spiritual consciousness, and the grass gathered around him as his Blue Silver Soul Power surged toward his Dantian.

Ye Lan refined his cultivation through the Limit Soul Power Attachment Method while training his body, then encountered Tang San arriving as a new work-study student at Nuoding Academy. Wang Sheng challenged Tang San for entry to the Seventh Dormitory, leaving Ye Lan watching with an unexplained anger.

• Ye Lan found that cultivation in the Blue Silver Mimicry Environment had strengthened his Blue Silver Grass and increased his cultivation speed.
• Ye Lan began intense weight training, using Food System Soul Master food to help his body recover and developing the Limit Soul Power Attachment Method.
• Over the next three years, Ye Lan trained at night on the Back Mountain and spent his days studying and building his body’s ability to use soul power.
• At the start of the school term, Ye Lan rested in the Seventh Dormitory while Wang Sheng and the others chatted with him.
• Tang San arrived as a new work-study student, and Wang Sheng challenged him to fight for entry to the Seventh Dormitory.
• Tang San introduced himself and identified his martial soul as Blue Silver Grass.

Tang San defeated Wang Sheng and claimed the Seventh Dormitory leader challenge, but Ye Lan then challenged him as another Blue Silver Grass user. Their fight began with both boys displaying their speed and techniques.

• Tang San used Tang Sect techniques to defeat Wang Sheng, and Ye Lan rescued Wang Sheng from Tang San's sweeping kick.
• Wang Sheng conceded and named Tang San the Seventh Dormitory leader, but Ye Lan challenged Tang San for the position.
• Tang San revealed his level-ten Blue Silver Grass martial soul and Innate Full Soul Power, while Ye Lan revealed his level-seven Blue Silver Grass martial soul.
• Ye Lan rushed Tang San with soul power-enhanced speed, and Tang San dodged using Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track.
• Ye Lan adjusted his direction through instinctive soul power control and closed in on Tang San again.

Ye Lan defeated Tang San in a dormitory fight, then left Tang San in charge of Seventh Dormitory. Xiao Wu arrived and beat Tang San in the traditional fight to become Boss.

• Ye Lan outmatched Tang San’s Tang Sect techniques and knocked him into a bedframe with a powerful punch.
• Tang San got up and asked Ye Lan why he was stronger despite their shared Blue Silver Grass martial soul; Ye Lan credited extra training.
• The Seventh Dormitory students urged Ye Lan to become Boss, but he handed the role to Tang San and left to eat.
• Xiao Wu arrived at Seventh Dormitory, and Tang San fought her to settle who would be Boss.
• Tang San could not bring himself to fight ruthlessly and lost to Xiao Wu.

Ye Lan bought a five-thousand-year piece of Whale Rubber in Nuoding City and absorbed it through cultivation, improving his physical condition and Soul Power cultivation speed. Meanwhile, Tang San spoke with Yu Xiaogang after class and asked whether he knew Ye Lan.

• Ye Lan visited Baibao Pavilion and bought Whale Rubber from Lily for three hundred Gold Soul Coins.
• Ye Lan returned to Nuoding Academy, prepared a fire at the Back Mountain, and swallowed the softened Whale Rubber.
• Ye Lan cultivated through the night as the Whale Rubber strengthened his body and made his meridians more resilient.
• Ye Lan awoke with his physical condition improved by around thirty percent and his Soul Power cultivation speed increased by ten percent.
• Tang San declined Yu Xiaogang's offer to live with him and asked whether Yu Xiaogang knew Ye Lan.

Yu Xiaogang encouraged Tang San after his defeat by Ye Lan and explained his Martial Soul Mimicry Theory before helping Tang San obtain a beast-type Soul Ring. When Tang San returned with a stronger Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, he challenged Ye Lan again, and the chapter ended as they prepared to fight.

• Yu Xiaogang reassured Tang San that his talent would eventually surpass Ye Lan's and outlined a plan to obtain a first Soul Ring near the age limit.
• Tang San left feeling confident, while Yu Xiaogang privately imagined Tang San's future success and his own fame as a theorist.
• Half a month later, Tang San returned from the Soul Hunting Forest with a Mandala Snake Soul Ring and challenged Ye Lan to another match.
• Ye Lan argued that Tool Martial Souls had long absorbed beast-type Soul Rings, so Yu Xiaogang's theory was not new; Tang San defended his teacher and demanded a fight.
• Ye Lan agreed to one final match and warned Tang San to leave him alone if he lost; they announced their Martial Soul and Soul Power ranks before fighting.

Ye Lan and Tang San fought in Nuoding Academy's square, where Tang San used his Hundred-Year Soul Ring and Blue Silver Bind to poison Ye Lan. Tang San appeared to gain the upper hand as the paralysis slowed Ye Lan, and he struck toward Ye Lan's lower abdomen.

• Tang San's yellow soul ring startled the students as he and Ye Lan prepared to fight.
• Ye Lan dodged Tang San's attacks and conserved Soul Power while Tang San used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track and Mysterious Jade Hand to press him.
• Tang San used Blue Silver Bind to cut Ye Lan's ankle and told him the grass carried Paralysis Poison.
• Ye Lan rushed in with Instant Body and drove Tang San backward with a powerful punch, then continued attacking.
• As the poison slowed Ye Lan, Tang San seized an opening and struck toward his lower abdomen, believing he had won.

Ye Lan defeated Tang San by resisting his poison and exploiting his opponent’s overconfidence, then left Nuoding Academy. Tang San sought advice from Yu Xiaogang, who urged him to focus on Blue Silver Grass and save the Clear Sky Hammer for later.

• Ye Lan explained that he had controlled the flow of Soul Power to keep Tang San’s poison from spreading, then told Tang San not to bother him again.
• Tang San considered using a Hidden Weapon against Ye Lan but decided against it, while Xiao Wu defeated Xiao Chenyu and two others to become Nuoding Academy’s big sister.
• Tang San brooded over his loss and reminded himself that he had the advantage of Twin Martial Souls.
• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang how Ye Lan had beaten him, and Yu Xiaogang advised him to use Blue Silver Bind from a distance rather than fight at close range.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San to delay adding soul rings to the Clear Sky Hammer until his Blue Silver Grass reached a high level, and Tang San promised to obey.

After two years of study and training, Ye Lan reached Soul Power Level 10 at age eleven and prepared to obtain his first soul ring. Su Yuntao helped him secure a Soul Hunting Token, and the two arrived at the Soul Hunting Forest to begin the search.

• Ye Lan maintained his training load after his body reached a bottleneck, then spent two years studying soul beasts and martial souls while cultivating nightly.
• Ye Lan reached Level 10 at age eleven and estimated that his improved physique could withstand a first soul ring of roughly seven hundred and fifty years.
• Ye Lan packed supplies and went to the Nuoding City Martial Soul Branch Hall, where he told Su Yuntao he wanted a hundred-year plant-type soul beast associated with sunlight.
• Su Yuntao obtained a Soul Hunting Token from Ma Xiunuo and accompanied Ye Lan to the Soul Hunting Forest.
• After several days of travel, Ye Lan and Su Yuntao arrived at the forest, where busy settlements stood along its outskirts.

Ye Lan and Su Yuntao entered Soul Hunting Forest to find Ye Lan a Soul Ring, but a Striped Tiger over four hundred years old ambushed them. After Su Yuntao was knocked aside, Ye Lan prepared to take the lead in the fight.

• Ye Lan and Su Yuntao rested near Soul Hunting Forest, then entered it the next morning using Su Yuntao's Soul Hunting Token.
• Ye Lan identified several soul beasts as they traveled deeper into the forest, including a twenty-year Tiger Demon Cat and a two-hundred-year Mandala Snake.
• A Striped Tiger with four black tail rings appeared, and Ye Lan warned Su Yuntao that it was over four hundred years old.
• Su Yuntao used Lone Wolf Avatar and dodged the tiger's pounce, but its tail struck him and sent him flying.
• Ye Lan moved in to attack, but the Striped Tiger evaded him by leaping onto a tree branch.
• Su Yuntao confirmed he was not seriously hurt, and Ye Lan told him to provide support while Ye Lan took the lead.

Ye Lan and Su Yuntao killed a Striped Tiger after a dangerous fight, leaving Ye Lan shaken by his first experience killing a large creature. Ye Lan examined the tiger’s four-hundred-year Soul Ring and used Skill Selection to view possible Soul Skills before deciding whether to absorb it.

• Ye Lan dodged the Striped Tiger’s pounce and struck its head with a sweeping kick, giving Su Yuntao an opening to attack its back.
• Ye Lan and Su Yuntao worked together to knock the Striped Tiger off balance, and Ye Lan repeatedly punched its head while Su Yuntao slashed its throat.
• The Striped Tiger died, and Ye Lan vomited before Su Yuntao comforted him.
• Ye Lan noticed the tiger’s four-hundred-year Soul Ring and told Su Yuntao he would consider absorbing it because the tiger might not suit his Blue Silver Grass.
• Ye Lan invoked Skill Selection and saw a list of Soul Skills formed from the combination of Blue Silver Grass and the Striped Tiger.

Ye Lan rejected the Striped Tiger soul ring after Skill Selection offered no soul skills suited to improving his martial soul or cultivation aptitude. He and Su Yuntao searched the Soul Hunting Forest for a Sun-Chasing Incineration Tree, and Ye Lan prepared to exhaust its Flame Core.

• Ye Lan reviewed Striped Tiger soul skills that could evolve Blue Silver Grass but decided none met his needs.
• Ye Lan told Su Yuntao he could absorb a soul ring of up to six hundred years and asked him to keep it secret.
• Su Yuntao hid the Striped Tiger's corpse and led Ye Lan toward the center of the Soul Hunting Forest.
• Ye Lan found a six-to-seven-hundred-year-old Sun-Chasing Incineration Tree and explained that exhausting its Flame Core was the best way to deal with it.

Ye Lan and Su Yuntao destroyed the Sun-Chasing Incineration Tree by forcing water into its damaged roots until the tree exploded, then Ye Lan shattered its Flame Core and killed it. He examined the Soul Skills offered by its century-old Soul Ring, weighing their power while prioritizing improving his cultivation talent.

• Ye Lan explained that the Sun-Chasing Incineration Tree's roots were its weakness and sent Su Yuntao to fetch water while he chopped into them.
• Ye Lan poured water into the damaged roots as Su Yuntao made repeated trips, causing steam to build inside the tree.
• Ye Lan and Su Yuntao fled as the Sun-Chasing Incineration Tree exploded, then returned to find its remains and dimming Flame Core.
• Ye Lan shattered the Flame Core, killing the tree and causing its century-old yellow Soul Ring to appear.
• Ye Lan examined Soul Skills including Sun Immolation, Born Towards the Sun, and Blazing Nirvana, but turned away from them because improving his cultivation talent was more urgent.

Ye Lan chose the Gold Rank Soul Skill I Want to Grow Up, which could evolve his Blue Silver Grass and improve his cultivation talent through sunlight. After absorbing the Sun-Chasing Incineration Tree's Soul Ring, he awakened to find his Martial Soul transformed and his talent increased, though he had gained no active skill.

• Ye Lan selected I Want to Grow Up because it could raise his talent to Innate Soul Power Rank 20 and evolve his Blue Silver Grass into Radiant Life Grass.
• Ye Lan told Su Yuntao he would absorb the Sun-Chasing Incineration Tree's Soul Ring, and Su Yuntao stood guard as he began.
• The Soul Ring's golden energy transformed Ye Lan's Blue Silver Grass and strengthened his body as he broke through Soul Power Rank 10.
• Ye Lan awoke at Soul Master Rank 11 with emerald-and-gold Blue Silver Grass, a taller body, and dark-gold hair.
• Ye Lan told Su Yuntao that his Soul Ring granted no active skill but evolved his Martial Soul and apparently raised his Innate Soul Power from Rank 3 to Rank 8.