Chapter Summaries

Jerry collected cultivation methods and academy records, then developed the Super Meditation Method and taught it to Xiao Wu and Ye Lingling. After creating new combat techniques for them, he investigated the ancient markings in the royal academy’s Mimicry Training Ground and found clues to the lost Soul Engineer inheritance.

• Jerry infiltrated Blue Tyrant Academy to record Tang San’s cultivation techniques and obtained Advanced Meditation Methods from several students at Shrek Academy and Heaven Dou Imperial Academy.
• Jerry scanned the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy library, studied its Meditation Methods, and opened thirty meridians, greatly increasing his cultivation speed.
• Jerry developed the Super Meditation Method and taught its first layer, Eight Extraordinary Meridians, to Xiao Wu and Ye Lingling.
• Jerry adapted techniques into a footwork method, a fist technique, and an incomplete Golden Bell Shield, then taught them to Xiao Wu and Ye Lingling.
• Jerry warned Xiao Wu and Ye Lingling not to reveal their wing- and armor-condensing Soul Skills, since doing so could make others suspect a connection to Soul Beasts.
• Jerry examined the Mimicry Training Ground and discovered that its markings drew in Soul Power and were likely connected to the lost Soul Engineer inheritance.

Jerry investigated Soul Tools and Mimicry Training Grounds, then repaired and tested a fire cannon while considering how to develop his research further. He later visited Holy Soul Village, where Grandpa Jack had grown stronger through his cultivated carrot Soul Ring, and taught him several training methods before returning to Heaven Dou City.

• Jerry examined three Soul Tools, identified how their Soul Power switches, storage devices, and release devices worked, and concluded that their storage cores used specially engraved metal.
• Jerry copied Mimicry Training Ground patterns and created small Metal, Water, and Wood training grounds in his courtyard.
• Jerry replaced the damaged fire cannon's storage core and tested it outside Heaven Dou City, finding that it could fire a blast comparable to a Fire Attribute Soul Ancestor's attack but needed ten minutes to recharge.
• Jerry visited Holy Soul Village and found Grandpa Jack at level 24, with a six-hundred-year carrot Soul Ring that strengthened his body, cultivation, and healing ability.
• Jerry taught Grandpa Jack the Super Meditation Method, footwork, boxing, and the Golden Bell Shield, then returned to Heaven Dou City.

Jerry and Xiao Wu watched the Soul Master Tournament, where Ye Lingling impressed the factions with her strength before deciding to join Spirit Hall. Bibi Dong accepted Lingling into the Golden Generation and agreed to help her search for her missing mother.

• Xiao Wu reached level 58, Ye Lingling reached level 54 after absorbing a fifty-thousand-year Soul Ring, and Jerry rose to level 67.
• Shrek Academy narrowly defeated Elephant Armor Academy but lost to Blazing Fire Academy, while Spirit Hall's Golden Generation won the tournament.
• Ye Lingling revealed her five Soul Rings and fought Hu Liena and Xie Yue's Martial Soul Fusion Skill, drawing attention from major factions.
• Jerry advised Ye Lingling to join Spirit Hall, explaining its power and suggesting it might help her find her mother.
• Bibi Dong questioned Ye Lingling about her mutated Martial Soul, then welcomed her into the Golden Generation and promised to search for her mother.

Ye Lingling was brought to the Elder Hall and reunited with her mother, Ye Zixin, after years apart. Ye Zixin explained that the Great Elder had kept her in Spirit City, and she invited Lingling to live with her.

• Bibi Dong learned that Ye Zixin had been kept in Spirit City by the Great Elder and ordered Ghost Douluo to take Ye Lingling to her.
• Ye Lingling sparred with Hu Liena, dodging her attacks and teasing her about the footwork she had learned from a friend.
• Ghost Douluo used Bibi Dong’s token to bring Ye Lingling to Ye Zixin’s courtyard in the Elder Hall.
• Ye Lingling revealed her Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul, and Ye Zixin recognized her daughter; the two embraced and wept.
• Qian Daoliu ordered his people not to interfere after learning that Ye Lingling had reunited with Ye Zixin.
• Ye Zixin told Ye Lingling she had been unable to leave Spirit City or send messages, and invited her daughter to live with her.

Ye Lingling introduced Jerry and Xiao Wu to Chrysanthemum Douluo, who accepted them as disciples and brought them into Spirit Hall. At a banquet, Chrysanthemum Douluo announced his three unusually powerful young disciples, and news of them spread through Spirit City.

• Ye Lingling persuaded Chrysanthemum Douluo to meet her friends Jerry and Xiao Wu, and brought him to their hotel room.
• Jerry introduced himself and Xiao Wu, and they revealed their martial souls and high Spirit Power levels to Chrysanthemum Douluo.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo accepted Jerry and Xiao Wu as disciples, naming Ye Lingling the senior sister, then took them to Spirit Hall and registered them.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo held a banquet and introduced Ye Lingling, Jerry, and Xiao Wu as his three disciples, drawing astonished reactions from the guests.
• Ghost Douluo complained that Chrysanthemum Douluo had not told him about taking disciples, while Bibi Dong resolved to push Hu Liena to cultivate harder.
• News of Chrysanthemum Douluo's three powerful young disciples spread throughout Spirit City.

Chrysanthemum Douluo settled Jerry and Xiao Wu in his residence and gave them extensive plant research and Meditation Methods to support their growth. Jerry appreciated his master’s care and decided to find a Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum Immortal Herb for him in the future.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo brought Jerry and Xiao Wu to live at his large residence while Lingling continued living with her mother.
• Jerry discovered that Chrysanthemum Douluo had cultivated many Plant Type Soul Beasts and received thirteen volumes of his plant research.
• Jerry studied the books, including Chrysanthemum Douluo’s detailed records on Blue Silver Grass and a volume titled Unknown Plants.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo arranged advanced library access, meals, and Meditation Methods for Jerry, Xiao Wu, and Lingling as they trained diligently.
• Jerry thanked Chrysanthemum Douluo and resolved to bring him a Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum Immortal Herb from the Star Dou Great Forest.

Jerry raised the Soul Power Concentration around Spirit Hall and developed a powerful new meditation method by opening all 108 meridians. He shared the method with Chrysanthemum Douluo, Xiao Wu, and Lingling, who agreed to keep it secret, and Chrysanthemum Douluo soon grew stronger and advanced a level.

• Jerry set up five hundred Wood Attribute Mimicry Training Grounds, raising the Soul Power Concentration across the area to thirty times its original level.
• Jerry opened all 108 meridians, triggering a surge of Soul Power that strengthened his body and compressed his Soul Power into a new Soul Crystal.
• Jerry discovered that his body, Soul Skills, and Soul Power had improved, then explained his breakthrough to Chrysanthemum Douluo.
• Jerry named his method the Super Meditation Method and gave its two layers to Chrysanthemum Douluo, Xiao Wu, and Lingling.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo warned them to keep the method secret and burn the written material, and the three began cultivating it.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo opened all 108 meridians in one month, advanced one level, and found that his cultivation speed had increased.

Jerry, Xiao Wu, and Lingling reached new cultivation ranks, prompting Chrysanthemum Douluo to boast and rival factions across the continent to intensify training. As sects and empires prepared for an uncertain future, Jerry took Xiao Wu and Lingling to the Star Dou Great Forest, unaware of the growing tension.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo told Ghost Douluo that Jerry had reached rank 70 and Xiao Wu and Lingling had reached rank 60, while his disciples planned to hunt Soul Rings themselves.
• Bibi Dong learned that Chrysanthemum Douluo's disciples had surpassed her own and ordered the Martial Soul Hall Team to train three extra hours daily.
• Martial Soul Hall elders and Spirit City clans began pushing their younger generations to cultivate harder and searching for talented disciples.
• Ning Fengzhi, Yu Yuanzhen, and leaders of smaller sects ordered their disciples to return or train diligently, while the Clear Sky Sect elders remained unable to find their missing Sect Master.
• Xue Ye ordered the Heaven Dou Empire to recruit Advanced Soul Masters and grant them noble titles, while the Star Luo Empire summoned its Third Prince and threatened to remove him from the succession.
• Jerry took Xiao Wu and Lingling to the Star Dou Great Forest, unaware of the continent's escalating preparations.

Jerry, Xiao Wu, and Lingling returned to the Star Dou Great Forest, absorbed Soul Rings from transformed Immortal Herbs, and helped the forest’s Soul Beasts improve their cultivation. After two months of training and raising the forest’s Soul Power Concentration, Jerry prepared to leave, with Xiao Wu and Lingling’s Spiritual Power near its current limit.

• Da Ming told Jerry that the Immortal Herbs he had planted had become powerful Soul Beasts, and Jerry selected Aromatic Silk Beauty, Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, and Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone for their Soul Rings.
• Jerry, Xiao Wu, and Lingling absorbed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, gaining new abilities and Soul Bones; Jerry and Lingling set their Soul Bones aside, while Xiao Wu gained Indestructible Vajra Body and Metal Control.
• Jerry taught the forest’s regional leaders how to establish Mimicry Training Grounds and raise Soul Power Concentration, prompting Soul Beasts throughout the forest to begin the work.
• Over two months, Jerry cultivated the three chosen Immortal Herbs back to Hundred-Thousand-Year strength and harvested plants and dew; Xiao Wu and Lingling’s Spiritual Power reached 9,999 meters.
• Jerry’s Soul Rings grew stronger during the training period, while Xiao Wu’s first four Soul Rings reached ten thousand years and Lingling’s first two reached a thousand years; Jerry then prepared to leave.

Jerry, Xiao Wu, and Lingling rescued the badly wounded Zhu Zhuqing in the Star Dou Great Forest and learned that Dai Mubai had betrayed her while fleeing Star Luo Empire pursuers. When the pursuers surrounded them, Xiao Wu and Lingling defeated the entire force, and Jerry led the group onward.

• Jerry, Xiao Wu, and Lingling found Zhu Zhuqing badly injured in the forest and used their healing skills to save her.
• Zhu Zhuqing told them Dai Mubai had pushed her in front of an attack while they fled Star Luo Empire pursuers, leaving her to fall from a cliff.
• More than thirty pursuers arrived, said Dai Mubai had been captured, and ordered Zhu Zhuqing to return with them.
• Xiao Wu and Lingling fought the pursuers while Jerry protected Zhu Zhuqing, and they killed the entire group.
• Jerry told the others to leave the bodies behind and led them away through the Thousand Year Region.

Jerry recruited Zhu Zhuqing to Spirit Hall and led her, Xiao Wu, and Lingling on a leisurely journey to Holy Soul Village. There he helped Old Jack grow stronger and invested in the village before leaving for Spirit City.

• Jerry criticized Shrek Academy's lack of resources and persuaded Zhu Zhuqing to join Spirit Hall, where Xiao Wu promised their Titled Douluo master would accept her.
• Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing quickly became friends, and Jerry traveled with the girls as they visited cities and enjoyed themselves along the way.
• At Holy Soul Village, Old Jack celebrated Jerry's Spirit Sage rank and his acceptance as a disciple of a Titled Douluo by gathering the villagers to see Jerry display his Soul Rings.
• Jerry gave Old Jack a Nine-Rank Purple Ganoderma and helped him absorb thousand-year Blue Silver Grass, raising him to level 31 and granting him a healing Soul Skill.
• Jerry advised Old Jack on strengthening village children's bodies, showed him safe fish Soul Beasts to catch, and spent tens of thousands of Gold Soul Coins on village roads and houses.
• Jerry arranged for Spirit Hall personnel from Nuoding City to supervise the construction and departed for Spirit City as the villagers gathered to see him off.

Chrysanthemum Douluo celebrated his new disciple Zhu Zhuqing and his disciples’ high cultivation levels, then was ordered to manage Spirit Hall while Pope Bibi Dong entered seclusion. He promptly handed the work to Jerry, leaving Spirit City buzzing about Jerry’s growing authority.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo welcomed Zhu Zhuqing as his fourth disciple at a banquet, boasting that Jerry had reached level 75, Ye Lingling and Xiao Wu were level 66, and he had advanced to level 97.
• Bibi Dong ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo to temporarily manage Spirit Hall while she cultivated in seclusion, and he reluctantly accepted.
• Qian Daoliu told the elders and worshippers to cultivate harder after learning Chrysanthemum Douluo would take charge, provoking them with a remark that they had been spending their days in retirement.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo passed Spirit Hall’s management to Jerry, claiming he needed to cultivate, while promising to guide Zhu Zhuqing himself.
• Ghost Douluo questioned Chrysanthemum Douluo’s decision, but Chrysanthemum Douluo said he and Ghost Douluo would support Jerry as he gained management experience.
• People in Spirit City heard that Jerry was managing Spirit Hall and speculated that he might become its Holy Son.

Jerry reorganized Spirit Hall after becoming its acting manager, creating a Cabinet and new departments to handle the institution’s affairs. Three months later, the system was running smoothly, while Jerry focused on the Research Department and Gong Ya’s unusual Brain Martial Soul.

• Overwhelmed by Spirit Hall’s paperwork, Jerry established a Cabinet with twelve departments and opened Elder positions to applicants regardless of cultivation.
• The Great Elder sent six worshippers to take the assessment, and Jerry appointed all six among the twelve Cabinet Elders.
• Jerry took charge of Finance, built department headquarters, and reformed Spirit Hall branches, Soul Master registration, missions, rewards, and reporting procedures.
• After three months, the departments were operating normally, though Gong Ya struggled to recruit staff for the Research Department.
• Jerry valued Gong Ya’s Brain Martial Soul for its exceptional memory and analytical ability and chose her to lead research into Innate Martial Souls.

Jerry’s Research Department published a report challenging Master’s Soul Ring theories, and Spirit Hall distributed it across the continent through its new newspaper. As the report stirred public debate and Jerry continued expanding Spirit Hall’s operations, Master’s reputation suffered further at Blue Tyrant Academy.

• Jerry and Gong Ya compiled records into a report linking Soul Ring absorption limits to Martial Soul quality, physical strength, and Soul Force, while noting exceptions such as sacrifices and God’s Assessments.
• Jerry arranged for Spirit Hall’s first Martial Soul Newspaper to be printed and distributed, publishing the Research Department’s findings alongside news from the empires and Spirit Hall.
• Readers praised the report and discussed Spirit Hall’s services and recruitment, while the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect ordered copies and both empires’ officials worried about Spirit Hall’s reach.
• Jerry reassured Lan Qiaoqin that the Development Department’s construction, roads, housing, and agricultural work were vital, and promised better compensation while urging safety measures for ordinary workers.
• At Blue Tyrant Academy, Master protested that the report contradicted his research, then grew angry as people accused his unverified theories of causing deaths and spat out blood.

Jerry expanded Spirit Hall’s economy and administration, appointing the Great Elder to lead a Procuratorate that cracked down on corruption while assigning long-term plans to every department. After the organization settled, Jerry and his companions absorbed Soul Bones, leaving Jerry at level 79 and Xiao Wu and Lingling ready to seek Soul Rings at level 70.

• Jerry’s fertilizer program increased crop yields, while Spirit Hall’s growing chain of shops and points system drew customers and strained rival businesses and the budget.
• After learning that department officials were embezzling funds, Jerry appointed the Great Elder Chief Procurator, and the Procuratorate publicly executed more than six hundred Soul Masters with proven crimes.
• Jerry assigned ten-year development plans to every department, conscripted Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo into Herb Research, and prepared to enter seclusion.
• Zhu Zhuqing reached level 54, Xiao Wu and Lingling reached level 69, and Jerry advanced to level 77 after half a year of cultivation.
• Jerry had Xiao Wu and Lingling absorb Soul Bones; afterward, Jerry reached level 79, while Xiao Wu and Lingling reached level 70 and gained new skills.
• Jerry resolved to use Evolutionary Light on Chrysanthemum Douluo’s Martial Soul, hoping to evolve it into a complete plant form.

Jerry discovered that Chrysanthemum Douluo’s Soul Rings had tainted his soul and hindered his cultivation, leading him to suspect that Soul Rings and divine trials were part of a larger scheme. He brought Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to discuss the secret, where they confirmed the place was protected from divine observation.

• Jerry told Chrysanthemum Douluo that he could trigger Martial Soul Evolution once a year and offered to use it on him.
• While examining Chrysanthemum Douluo’s Soul Rings and soul, Jerry found residual Soul Beast Soul Force that affected his soul and concluded it made cultivation and breakthroughs more difficult.
• Jerry suspected that Soul Rings deliberately corrupted Soul Masters’ souls and that divine trials purified them, then asked Chrysanthemum Douluo to move somewhere safe to talk.
• Jerry told Xiao Wu and Lingling to postpone absorbing their Soul Rings and asked Chrysanthemum Douluo to bring Ghost Douluo to Sunset Forest.
• At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Jerry explained that it was the burial ground of the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King and that its magnetic field prevented even gods from investigating it.
• Ghost Douluo revealed that the Super Meditation Method had helped him reach level ninety-six, and Jerry explained that he could see its effects through Soul Power Particles.

Jerry revealed his abilities to purify souls and raise Soul Rings to Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo, then purified both elders and strengthened their Spiritual Power. The chapter ended with the two condensing Soul Power Seeds and asking Jerry for Flying Swords.

• Jerry explained Soul Force, Spiritual Power, Soul Rings, and the dangers of the Rakshasa God's Divine Sense in Spirit City to Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo.
• Jerry confessed that he could raise Soul Rings, create Artificial Soul Rings, and purify souls, and he explained that Bibi Dong was undergoing the Rakshasa God's Divine Trial.
• Jerry shattered the foreign souls tangled with Chrysanthemum Douluo's soul and Soul Rings, restored him with Soul Recovery, and gave him three drops of Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo's Spiritual Power reached a 9,999-meter radius, and he began condensing Soul Power Seeds while Jerry purified Ghost Douluo.
• Ghost Douluo also absorbed three drops of Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and reached a 9,999-meter Spiritual Power radius, and both elders successfully condensed Soul Power Seeds after a day.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo asked Jerry for Flying Swords so they could practice Sword Control.

Jerry used his Evolutionary Light to complete Chrysanthemum Douluo’s Martial Soul, doubling his cultivation speed and allowing it to cultivate automatically when planted in fertilized soil. He then explained how fertilizer could raise plants into Soul Beasts and proposed that Spirit Hall prepare them as a source of Soul Rings.

• Jerry explained that Chrysanthemum Douluo’s Plant-type Martial Soul lacked roots and that complete Plant-type Martial Souls could cultivate soul power even without innate soul power.
• Jerry used Evolutionary Light to give Chrysanthemum Douluo’s Martial Soul a root system, draining half of each of their soul power.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo cultivated and discovered that his cultivation speed had doubled, then planted his Martial Soul in soil mixed with Ten Thousand Year Bone Fertilizer and watched it absorb soul power automatically.
• Jerry, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Ghost Douluo descended fifteen hundred meters into the Spring Eye but turned back when the water pressure became too great.
• Jerry explained that fertilizer could rapidly grow plants into Soul Beasts and urged Chrysanthemum Douluo to raise plants for Spirit Hall to offer as Soul Rings in exchange for points.

Jerry investigated foreign souls in Lingling and Zhu Zhuqing, then studied Spirit Hall’s Soul Tools and deciphered their symbols. He left having built and tested a working First-Class pistol Soul Tool, opening the way to invent more.

• Jerry examined Xiao Wu, Lingling, and Zhu Zhuqing, shattered the foreign souls and soul-force strands inside Lingling and Zhuqing, and gave Lingling a Soul Recovery.
• Zhuqing discovered her Spiritual Power reached one thousand meters, and Jerry gave her nine Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew to absorb while Xiao Wu prepared to teach her Spiritual Power techniques and Soul Power Seed condensation.
• Jerry studied how Soul Beast souls affected absorbed soul rings, then turned to examining more than thirty thousand Soul Tools from Spirit Hall’s collection.
• Over two months, Jerry classified Soul Tools and deciphered their ranks, attributes, symbols, energy storage, and release mechanisms.
• Jerry had Xiao Wu shape metal into a triggerless pistol, engraved it with symbols, and tested it as a First-Class Soul Tool with a range of one hundred meters.

Jerry trained Xiao Wu, Lingling, Zhuqing, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Ghost Douluo in Soul Tool knowledge while preparing a new cultivation guide that spread across the continent. Spirit Hall’s nine Martial Soul Cultivation Towers drew widespread attention and filled with Soul Masters, while Jerry’s trusted experts were forced to test people’s Martial Soul attributes.

• Jerry taught six trusted companions about Soul Tools and prepared a guide explaining Martial Soul attributes, Soul Power Seeds, cultivation methods, and Spirit Hall’s Cultivation Towers.
• The guide spread across the continent, prompting the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, the empires, and ordinary people to discuss Spirit Hall’s advantages and new opportunities.
• Soul Masters flocked to Spirit City’s nine Cultivation Towers, where the lower floors filled quickly and the higher floors remained more available because of their prices.
• Great Elder ordered Xiao Wu, Lingling, Zhuqing, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Ghost Douluo to test Martial Soul attributes, and they examined tens of thousands of people on the first day.
• After finishing their work, the exhausted testers went to confront Jerry, who had hidden away while they missed their chance to cultivate in the towers.