Chapter Summaries

After absorbing a dangerous six-hundred-year Soul Ring that raised his Innate Soul Power to Rank 8 but gave him no soul skill, Ye Lan planned to leave Nuoding City for sunny Vast Sea City. While completing his graduation procedures, he ran into Xiao Wu, and their encounter turned into a fight.

• Su Yuntao celebrated Ye Lan’s improved aptitude, warned him against taking risks, and promised to reveal the truth about his parents when Ye Lan reached the Soul Grandmaster realm at fifteen.
• Ye Lan told Su Yuntao he planned to cultivate in Vast Sea City, and the two recovered the Striped Tiger’s remains before returning to Nuoding City.
• Ye Lan said goodbye to Su Yuntao, packed his belongings, and completed his graduation procedures at Nuoding Academy, where Director Su startled him by proposing his granddaughter.
• Ye Lan accidentally bumped into Xiao Wu outside the academic affairs office and refused to help her up, fearing Tang San would misunderstand.
• Xiao Wu challenged Ye Lan and activated her Martial Soul Possession, while Ye Lan prepared to test his evolved Blue Silver Grass and Radiant Life Grass.

Ye Lan used his evolved Blue Silver Grass to capture Xiao Wu and test its strength and control limits. He left her bound in the vines as he walked away, while she angrily challenged him to fight again.

• Ye Lan summoned thick Blue Silver Vines to stop Xiao Wu’s attack, and she flipped away before the vines began chasing her.
• Xiao Wu ran beyond the vines’ ten-meter reach and taunted Ye Lan, but he rapidly caught up and bound her.
• Ye Lan tested the vines’ binding strength and discovered he could sustain eight stalks but had to control them by alternating commands.
• Xiao Wu recognized Ye Lan by his voice, argued with him about his Martial Soul and Tang San, and demanded to be released.
• Ye Lan left Xiao Wu bound, saying the vines would disappear in about a minute, while she shouted after him to come back and duel.

Ye Lan obtained a Soul Master badge after revealing that his Blue Silver Grass had evolved from absorbing a Sun-Chasing Incineration Tree Soul Ring. He returned to Harvest Village, where the villagers were surprised by his changed appearance.

• Ye Lan considered how Soul Master systems restrained one another and reflected on Xiao Wu and the risks of becoming her enemy.
• Ye Lan visited Ma Xiunuo at the Nuoding City Martial Soul Branch Hall and explained his Martial Soul's evolution.
• Ma Xiunuo measured Ye Lan's Soul Power at level 11, issued him a Soul Master badge, and invited him to join Spirit Hall Academy, but Ye Lan declined.
• Ye Lan rode a carriage to Harvest Village, removed his badge, and walked through the golden fields.
• Ye Lan introduced himself to villagers who did not recognize him, and they remarked on his transformation and Iron Girl's feelings for him.

Ye Lan returned to Harvest Village, celebrated his Soul Master graduation with Grandpa Tom and the villagers, then traveled to Vast Sea City. After discovering that sunbathing strengthened his Blue Silver Grass and revealed his meridian pathways, he entered the coastal city to begin his next stage of cultivation.

• Ye Lan showed Grandpa Tom his Golden Soul Master Badge and said he planned to cultivate in Vast Sea City, while Tom offered him savings for tuition.
• Ye Lan spent several days with Grandpa Tom, and Harvest Village held a banquet to celebrate his becoming a Soul Master.
• After a week of travel, Ye Lan reached Vast Sea City and sunbathed on Golden Beach, where his Blue Silver Grass absorbed sunlight and his meridians improved.
• Ye Lan realized the sunlight let him perceive every meridian in his body, giving him a way to refine his Meditation Method and develop Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Ye Lan entered Vast Sea City after passing the guards and drew attention from the local women because of his fair skin and golden hair.

Ye Lan settled into a villa near the Vast Sea City Great Soul Arena and developed a movement technique by refining how he circulated Soul Power through his legs. After months of training, he created Flash Step, a burst of speed that let him move several meters instantly but strained his muscles.

• Ye Lan met Lily, who showed him Vast Sea City and rented him a villa near the Great Soul Arena.
• Ye Lan decided not to fight in the Vast Sea City Great Soul Arena because its aquatic venues favored Sea Soul Masters and he could not fly.
• Ye Lan spent more than ten days refining how he applied Soul Power to his leg muscles, making his movement one-third stronger than before.
• Ye Lan avoided developing an eye-type Soul Skill because he feared damaging his brain before he understood meridian pathways.
• After months of training, Ye Lan created Flash Step by storing the force of repeated stomps in his thighs and releasing it in a burst.
• Ye Lan found that Flash Step strained his legs so heavily that he could use it only five times a day at his current level.

Ye Lan developed Echo Shift and the Radiant Meditation Method, then spent three and a half years cultivating until his Blue Silver Grass fully evolved into Radiant Life Grass. He reached level twenty and went to Vast Sea City to find a Sea Soul Beast for a second Soul Ring focused on vitality.

• Ye Lan developed Echo Shift, a soul-power movement skill that was faster than Instant Body but costly to use.
• Ye Lan created the Radiant Meditation Method to increase his cultivation speed as his Martial Soul evolved.
• Three and a half years later, Ye Lan's Blue Silver Grass completed its evolution into Radiant Life Grass, gaining Ultimate Life, Extreme Light, regeneration, and Fire Immunity.
• Ye Lan reflected on his level-twenty cultivation and planned a second Soul Ring that would further increase his Martial Soul's vitality.
• Ye Lan went to Vast Sea City to learn about Sea Soul Beasts and seek a suitable second Soul Ring.

Ye Lan hired an old fisherman to take him into the Black Sea to hunt an Ancient Beast's Touch for his second Soul Ring. The fisherman prepared a sea-salt escape plan, and they entered the dangerous waters, where Ye Lan waited to see what beast would come aboard.

• Ye Lan chose Ancient Beast's Touch as the target for his second Soul Skill because of its exceptional vitality.
• Ye Lan offered the old fisherman eighty Gold Soul Coins to take him into the Black Sea, then revealed his Blue Silver Grass and yellow Soul Ring to prove he was a Soul Master.
• The fisherman agreed to take Ye Lan out and warned him that a thousand-year King's Touch could exceed twenty meters in length.
• The fisherman bought two sacks of sea salt, explaining that it could dehydrate an Ancient Beast's Touch long enough for them to escape.
• The fisherman sailed with Ye Lan into the Black Sea and explained that its deep waters held more thousand-year King's Touch, which crawled aboard at night to steal bait.

Ye Lan used Golden Eye to spot and battle a red-eyed Ancient Beast's Touch aboard a fishing boat, hoping to claim it as a Soul Ring. His regenerating Blue Silver Grass blocked the beast's attacks, but it began advancing toward Ye Lan himself.

• Ye Lan waited on the deck and used Golden Eye to detect movement among the catch.
• A red-eyed Ancient Beast's Touch climbed onto the boat and began eating the catch.
• Ye Lan attacked the roughly twelve-to-fourteen-hundred-year-old beast with his Blue Silver Grass.
• The beast's hard tentacles severed Ye Lan's vines, but Ultimate Life let him regrow them and block its strikes.
• The Ancient Beast's Touch withdrew some tentacles and rushed toward Ye Lan, aiming to attack him directly.

Ye Lan was driven to the edge of the fishing boat by Ancient Beast's Touch, then used Golden Eye and Echo Shift to counterattack. After the beast caught his right arm in a tentacle, Ye Lan activated Blood Armor to withstand its crushing force, though the suckers tore his skin.

• Ancient Beast's Touch seized the center of the cramped deck and forced Ye Lan back against the railing as the fisherman watched anxiously from the captain's cabin.
• Ye Lan activated Golden Eye, dodged the beast's eight tentacles, and used Echo Shift to leap onto its head and kick it back.
• Ancient Beast's Touch recovered, enraged, and trapped Ye Lan's right hand with a tentacle while he was moving through the air.
• Ye Lan activated Blood Armor by circulating Soul Power through his blood, hardening his arm against the tentacle's grip, though its suckers cut his skin.

Ye Lan battled the Thousand-Year Ancient Beast's Touch, but its black ink made the deck too slippery for him to stand on. As the beast attacked the Blue Silver Grasses holding him aloft, Ye Lan fell onto the deck, and the fisherman searched for the missing sea salt to help him.

• Ye Lan used eight previously unreleased Blue Silver Grasses to crush one of the Ancient Beast's Touch's tentacles.
• The Ancient Beast's Touch covered the deck in slippery black ink, leaving Ye Lan unable to move safely across it.
• Ye Lan suspended himself above the deck with Blue Silver Grasses and fought the beast's seven remaining tentacles.
• The Ancient Beast's Touch attacked the grasses supporting Ye Lan until they broke, and he fell onto the blackened deck.
• The Ancient Beast's Touch leapt toward Ye Lan as the fisherman resolved to help him with sea salt, but the fisherman found the salt missing.

Ye Lan defeated the mutated Ancient Beast's Touch by using sea salt to weaken it, then countered its desperate attack with Origin Light. After the beast died, Ye Lan approached its purple Soul Ring.

• Ye Lan warned the Old Fisherman to stay in the captain's cabin and used sea salt to injure the Ancient Beast's Touch.
• Ye Lan restrained the weakened beast with Blue Silver Grass, but the Ancient Beast's Touch blasted apart most of the grass with a black-purple energy wave.
• Ye Lan used Radiant Form to unleash Origin Light, which overwhelmed the Ancient Beast's Touch and killed it.
• Ye Lan examined the corpse as a purple Soul Ring appeared, then reached out to touch it.

Ye Lan evaluated several Soul Skills offered by the mutated Ancient Beast's Touch and chose Azure God Prophet for its life bonuses and ability to summon a powerful Blue Silver Priest. The chapter ended with him locking in that Soul Skill.

• Ye Lan reviewed Camouflage and rejected its stealth and defense benefits as unnecessary for his fighting style.
• Ye Lan considered Annihilation Great Darkness but dismissed its darkness and death attributes because they conflicted with his plans.
• Ye Lan added Boundless Sea to his candidates after noting its Ultimate Water attribute, life bonus, and ocean-domain effects, despite its close-combat drawback.
• Ye Lan rejected Tentacle because its strength boost did not fit into his overall abilities.
• Ye Lan realized Azure God Prophet could combine three Blue Silver Grasses into a high-HP autonomous summon and potentially raise its Water attribute to Ultimate Water.
• Ye Lan locked in Azure God Prophet.

After killing the mutated Ancient Beast's Touch, Ye Lan absorbed its thousand-year soul ring and endured a near-fatal transformation as his Blue Silver Grass evolved. He realized that soul rings unlock martial soul limits by altering their bloodline factors.

• Ye Lan thanked Old Fisherman for helping him defeat the Ancient Beast's Touch and asked him to call him Xiao Lan.
• Ye Lan began absorbing the Ancient Beast's Touch's purple soul ring while Old Fisherman kept watch on the ink-covered deck.
• Ye Lan's body bled profusely as Azure God Prophet evolved his Blue Silver Grass, and Old Fisherman silently prayed for him.
• Ye Lan felt the Blue Silver Grass's restriction break, causing his intense pain to fade and allowing his consciousness to return.
• Ye Lan understood that soul rings unlock each stage's martial soul limits by transferring soul beast bloodline factors, which can stimulate martial soul evolution.

Ye Lan gained the External Soul Bone Ancient Beast's Touch, which gave him eight powerful tentacles and the Eight-Faced Exquisite Heart Soul Skill. After demonstrating his evolved Blue Silver Grass and reaching Level 23, he headed back to Vast Sea City with Old Fisherman, planning to return to Nuoding City to investigate his parents' disappearance.

• Ye Lan reassured Old Fisherman that the eight tentacles growing from his back were an External Soul Bone, which he named Ancient Beast's Touch.
• Ye Lan discovered that Ancient Beast's Touch granted him Eight-Faced Exquisite Heart, letting him divide his thoughts into nine streams and control Blue Silver Grass more precisely.
• Ye Lan summoned his evolved Blue Silver Grass and used Azure God Prophet to combine three stalks into a towering Blue Silver Priest.
• Ye Lan reached Level 23 and decided to return to Nuoding City after finishing his remaining business in Vast Sea City.
• Ye Lan and Old Fisherman arrived at Vast Sea City's harbor near dusk, and Ye Lan accepted Old Fisherman's invitation for grilled octopus and liquor.

Xiao Die refused to marry a newly certified Soul Elder named only as Shorty, despite his men and neighbors pressuring her. Shorty and his accomplices moved to force her into her house while the crowd hesitated to intervene.

• Shorty's Fatty and Skinny intimidated Xiao Die and claimed she should accept their boss because he would soon become a noble of the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Xiao Die refused Shorty's proposal and defended her grandfather when the men insulted him.
• The Middle-Aged Widow urged Xiao Die to marry Shorty, while an elderly woman and other neighbors argued over whether to help her.
• Fatty proposed forcing Xiao Die inside and shutting the doors and windows so Shorty could have his way; Shorty approved the plan.
• Fatty and Skinny joined Shorty in advancing on Xiao Die as the onlookers remained too afraid to stop them.

The Old Fisherman reunited with Xiao Die and defended her from Wang Gao and his companions, but Ye Lan intervened when they attacked. Wang Gao challenged Ye Lan to a Soul Fight and brought Li Zhuang and Zhao Li into the supposedly fair fight.

• The Old Fisherman reached Xiao Die, comforted her, and refused to let the three men take her away.
• Wang Gao charged at the Old Fisherman, but Ye Lan appeared, grabbed him, and kicked him into Li Zhuang.
• Xiao Die thanked Ye Lan with handkerchiefs, and Ye Lan told the men that no one could force her into marriage.
• Wang Gao demanded a Soul Fight, and Ye Lan agreed to give him a chance.
• Wang Gao, Li Zhuang, and Zhao Li revealed their martial souls and Soul Rings, drawing the crowd's scorn when they prepared to fight Ye Lan together.

Ye Lan faced Wang Gao, Li Zhuang, and Zhao Li, whose surprise at his powerful martial soul and second Soul Ring gave way to an attack. He easily stopped Zhao Li and captured Li Zhuang, while Wang Gao’s charge toward a Blue Silver Priest remained unresolved.

• Ye Lan revealed his Golden Blue Silver Grass and yellow and purple Soul Rings, shocking Wang Gao, Li Zhuang, and Zhao Li.
• Wang Gao decided to attack Ye Lan with his companions after Zhao Li urged him not to retreat.
• Wang Gao charged with Wild Bull Charge, Li Zhuang used Metalization, and Zhao Li fired Tiger Roar Ripple.
• Ye Lan summoned two Blue Silver Priests, blocked Zhao Li’s attack with a woven net, and sent Blue Silver Grass to capture him.
• Zhao Li was wrapped in Blue Silver Grass, while a Blue Silver Priest lifted Li Zhuang and swung him through the air.
• Wang Gao charged confidently at the other Blue Silver Priest, and the chapter ended before his attack’s result was shown.

Ye Lan defeated Wang Gao, Li Zhuang, and Zhao Li in a spirit battle, then crippled them to protect Xiao Die and Uncle. He left Zhao Li alive but unable to speak.

• Wang Gao charged the Blue Silver Priest, but it barely took damage and smashed him into a human-shaped pit while Ye Lan guided its strike.
• Ye Lan ordered the Blue Silver Priests to finish the fight, and they defeated Wang Gao, Li Zhuang, and Zhao Li in twenty-nine seconds.
• Uncle planned to leave Vast Sea City with Xiao Die, but Ye Lan assured them they could stay and crippled Wang Gao and Li Zhuang by destroying their Dantians.
• Ye Lan bound Zhao Li, crippled his Dantian, and damaged his throat and tongue so he would live as a mute.

Ye Lan wrapped up his affairs in Vast Sea City and returned to Nuoding City to register as a Soul Grandmaster. He revealed his thousand-year second Soul Ring to Ma Xiunuo, who was astonished by Ye Lan’s progress.

• Ye Lan sent Wang Gao and the other two away, then arranged for the Old Fisherman and Xiao Die to live near Lily Family property for protection.
• Ye Lan gave his Soul Master badge to Xiao Die and said farewell to her, the Old Fisherman, and Lily before leaving Vast Sea City.
• After a week on the road, Ye Lan arrived in Nuoding City and headed to the Martial Soul Branch Hall to replace his badge.
• Ye Lan reunited with Ma Xiunuo and announced that he had become a Soul Grandmaster.
• Ye Lan summoned his Soul Rings, and Ma Xiunuo was shocked to see the thousand-year purple ring.

Ye Lan returned to Nuoding City as a Soul Grandmaster with a transformed Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul and a Thousand-Year second Soul Ring, astonishing Ma Xiunuo and Su Yuntao. After revealing that he had reached Level 23, Ye Lan pressed Su Yuntao to explain his parents’ disappearance, and Su Yuntao began recounting the truth.

• Ma Xiunuo tested Ye Lan’s Soul Power and discovered he had reached Level 23, then decided to report his talent to Spirit Hall and seek better cultivation resources for him.
• Ye Lan met Su Yuntao and Si Si, and Si Si teased him about his height and whether he was dating anyone.
• Ye Lan showed Su Yuntao his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul and yellow and purple Soul Rings, then described the Soul Skill he gained from Ancient Beast's Touch.
• Ye Lan told Su Yuntao he had reached Level 23 and demanded to know the truth about his parents’ disappearance.
• Su Yuntao recalled Ye Lan’s childhood claim that Blue Silver Grass could cultivate to become a Titled Douluo, then began telling him what had happened to his parents.