Chapter Summaries

At the Martial Soul Awakening in Holy Spirit Village, Lin Qi bound Tang San as the target of his Background Suppression System and received the favor of the Douluo Plane Consciousness. Lin Qi awakened a powerful sword Martial Soul and Innate Full Soul Power, leaving Tang San resentful of his talent.

• Su Yuntao awakened Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul and discovered his Innate Full Soul Power.
• Lin Qi heard the Background Suppression System activate and bound Tang San as its Suppression Target.
• The system detected Tang San’s hidden Twin Martial Souls and awarded Lin Qi the favor of the Douluo Plane Consciousness.
• Lin Qi awakened an impressive sword Martial Soul and tested as having Innate Full Soul Power.
• Village Chief Jack celebrated Lin Qi’s talent, while Tang San grew hostile and reminded himself of his own hidden advantages.

Lin Qi declined Su Yuntao’s offer to join Spirit Hall while examining his powerful Mountain River Sword and Body of Fortune Martial Souls. After Lin Qi and Old Jack found Gold Soul Coins, Tang San revealed his Twin Martial Souls to Tang Hao, who embraced him.

• Lin Qi told Su Yuntao he would decide whether to join Spirit Hall after reaching Nuoding City, and Su Yuntao agreed to wait for him.
• Lin Qi examined the Mountain River Sword’s combat advantages and the Body of Fortune’s blessings.
• Lin Qi found five Gold Soul Coins beneath Blue Silver Grass and gave three to Old Jack, who accepted them after Lin Qi insisted.
• Tang San showed Tang Hao his Blue Silver Grass and then revealed the Clear Sky Hammer as his second Martial Soul.
• Tang Hao became excited over Tang San’s Twin Martial Souls and embraced him for the first time.

Tang Hao learned that Lin Qi had Innate Full Soul Power and considered stopping him from joining Spirit Hall, while Lin Qi waited for Tang Hao to approach so his system could reward him. The system summoned a level ninety-eight Guardian, who confronted Tang Hao outside Lin Qi’s home, and a violent clash left a huge pit that villagers found stained with blood.

• Tang San told Tang Hao that Lin Qi had Innate Full Soul Power, a sword Martial Soul, and was considering Spirit Hall’s invitation.
• Tang Hao decided to give Lin Qi a chance to refuse Spirit Hall and become a future subordinate to Tang San.
• Lin Qi activated his Body of Fortune and received a system reward for a level ninety-eight Titled Douluo Guardian when Tang Hao approached.
• Tang Hao encountered the Guardian, who identified himself as Lin Qi’s protector and attacked him.
• The clash awakened Holy Spirit Village, and villagers discovered a huge pit with blood inside.

After Leng Qing wounded Tang Hao in a clash, Tang Hao feared the powerful Guardian and worried about his own and Tang San’s safety. Lin Qi learned that Leng Qing would protect and train him, then slept peacefully while Tang San stayed awake, troubled by questions about his father.

• After villagers returned home, Tang San brought Tang Hao hot water and heard him coughing.
• Tang Hao revealed that Leng Qing’s axe strike had worsened his injuries and feared the rank-ninety-eight Guardian.
• Tang San suspected Tang Hao’s coughing came from injuries and wondered what his father had secretly done.
• Lin Qi questioned Leng Qing, who identified himself as his Guardian, Leng Qing, the Sky Pillar Douluo with the Sky Opening Axe Martial Soul.
• Leng Qing said Tang Hao’s old injuries and the axe strike would keep him from recovering for several years, and agreed to teach Lin Qi cultivation and combat.
• Leng Qing guarded Lin Qi as he went to sleep, while Tang San remained awake listening to Tang Hao cough.

Tang San and Lin Qi left for Nuoding Primary Soul Master Academy with Village Chief Jack, while Tang Hao urged Tang San not to make an enemy of Lin Qi. On the road, Lin Qi repeatedly found Gold Soul Coins, and Tang San's efforts to match his luck with the Purple Demon Eye left him bloodshot-eyed before he finally spotted something.

• Tang Hao told Tang San to get along with Lin Qi, and Tang San left for Nuoding Academy with Lin Qi and Village Chief Jack.
• Jack gave Tang San the village's work-study spot and planned to pay Lin Qi's tuition, while Tang San privately resented the arrangement.
• Lin Qi picked up a Gold Soul Coin on the road, then found two more before they had traveled half a li.
• Provoked by Lin Qi's luck, Tang San used the Purple Demon Eye to search the roadside but found no money and stumbled into pits.
• Tang San finally spotted something beside the road and rushed toward it, shouting that he had found one.

Lin Qi, Tang San, and Village Chief Jack reached Nuoding Academy after Lin Qi repeatedly found soul coins along the way. The academy guard recognized Lin Qi as the expected Innate Full Soul Power genius, and Yu Xiaogang invited both boys inside while Lin Qi stayed behind to speak with Jack.

• Tang San mistook a golden beetle for a gold soul coin, then watched Lin Qi find a real coin in the middle of the road.
• Tang Hao sensed the powerful figure who had injured him following the group as they traveled to Nuoding Academy.
• The academy guard recognized Lin Qi from Su Yuntao's message and treated him deferentially, while Tang San learned that Su Yuntao had not mentioned him.
• Yu Xiaogang arrived and eagerly invited Tang San and Lin Qi inside, hoping to make them his disciples and test his martial soul theories.
• Lin Qi stayed to speak with Village Chief Jack and gave him several gold soul coins for the village.

Lin Qi accepted Master Meng, a powerful Titled Douluo, as his teacher after Yu Xiaogang tried to recruit him. Tang Hao grew jealous of Lin Qi and was beaten again by Leng Qing for harboring hostile thoughts toward him.

• Yu Xiaogang told Lin Qi that Tang San had become his disciple and invited Lin Qi to study under him.
• The system rewarded Lin Qi with a master of Martial Soul theory, and Master Meng arrived, claiming Lin Qi as his disciple.
• The Nuoding Academy dean praised Master Meng's instruction, and Lin Qi chose him over Yu Xiaogang.
• Master Meng intimidated Yu Xiaogang, who then left with Tang San to register.
• Tang Hao sensed that Master Meng was a Titled Douluo and resented Lin Qi for supposedly taking Tang San's opportunity.
• Leng Qing attacked Tang Hao for thinking about harming Lin Qi, leaving Tang Hao injured again.

Lin Qi enrolled at Nuoding Academy, moved into the secluded Bamboo Forest Cabin, and attracted Xiao Wu’s attention after the system bound her as a Suppression Target. The chapter left Tang San jealous of Lin Qi’s closeness with Xiao Wu as she rejected his offer to escort her to the Work-Study Dormitory.

• Yu Xiaogang reassured Tang San that his Twin Martial Souls gave him greater potential than Lin Qi, while Master Meng promised Lin Qi a medicinal bath to prepare him for absorbing a Soul Ring.
• Lin Qi declined a private dormitory arrangement at the Academic Affairs Office, where the teacher revealed his Innate Full Soul Power to the waiting students.
• Lin Qi met Xiao Wu, and the system detected and successfully bound her as a Suppression Target without activating a new reward.
• Xiao Wu learned that Lin Qi lived in the Bamboo Forest Cabin and wished to stay there, but hesitated because she had no money.
• Tang San saw Xiao Wu beside Lin Qi, felt jealous, and offered to escort her to the Work-Study Dormitory, but Xiao Wu refused.

Xiao Wu left with Lin Qi after Tang San challenged him to a future match, while Tang Hao recognized Xiao Wu as a Humanoid Transformation Soul Beast and believed she should be Tang San’s opportunity. Leng Qing attacked Tang Hao again, leaving his injuries and Soul Power further diminished.

• Xiao Wu rejected Tang San’s attempt to claim authority over her and chose to leave with Lin Qi.
• Lin Qi teased Tang San by taking Xiao Wu with him, and Tang San challenged Lin Qi to fight after obtaining his first Soul Ring.
• Tang San’s lackeys tried to comfort him, but their comments about Lin Qi’s looks made him doubt his own appearance.
• Tang Hao returned, saw Xiao Wu following Lin Qi, and realized she was a Humanoid Transformation Soul Beast he thought belonged with Tang San.
• Leng Qing sensed Tang Hao’s hostility toward Lin Qi and struck him, worsening his injuries and reducing his Soul Power.

Xiao Wu discovered that Master Meng was a Titled Douluo and feared he would kill her, but Lin Qi offered to spare her if she worked around the cabin. Meanwhile, Tang San struggled with Xiao Wu’s departure until Yu Xiaogang promised to help him obtain his first Soul Ring the next day.

• Xiao Wu entered the Bamboo Forest Cabin with Lin Qi and realized Master Meng was a Titled Douluo who could identify her as a transformed Soul Beast.
• Lin Qi told Xiao Wu he would spare her for now, but made her responsible for chores and learning to cook as the price of staying.
• Master Meng confirmed that Lin Qi’s medicinal ingredient was Fifty-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber and offered to teach Xiao Wu cooking.
• Tang San left the cafeteria upset about Xiao Wu leaving with Lin Qi, then asked Yu Xiaogang to take him to the Bamboo Forest Cabin.
• Yu Xiaogang promised to take Tang San to the Soul Hunting Forest the next day and advised him to seek toughness and poison for his Blue Silver Grass Soul Ring.

Lin Qi endured Master Meng’s medicinal bath while Tang San and Yu Xiaogang arrived, drawn by its potent fragrance, and were pinned down by Master Meng’s pressure. Lin Qi emerged to taunt Tang San as Xiao Wu continued whipping the helpless visitors.

• Lin Qi entered Master Meng’s cauldron, circulated his Soul Power, and used the Body of Fortune state as Master Meng added Whale Rubber and other medicines to the bath.
• Tang San and Yu Xiaogang followed the medicinal fragrance to the bamboo pavilion, but Xiao Wu blocked their way while Lin Qi was bathing.
• Yu Xiaogang called to Master Meng for guidance, and Xiao Wu kicked at him; Tang San pulled Yu Xiaogang away and prepared to fight her.
• Master Meng’s pressure pinned Tang San and Yu Xiaogang to the ground, allowing Xiao Wu to strike them with a bamboo switch.
• Lin Qi emerged with Master Meng and mocked Tang San, while Yu Xiaogang continued invoking his connection to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

Yu Xiaogang challenged Master Meng over Martial Soul theory, but Master Meng revealed that he had become a Titled Douluo with a Rotten Wood Martial Soul. The chapter ended with Yu Xiaogang claiming Master Meng must have Twin Martial Souls.

• Yu Xiaogang recovered after Master Meng released the force pinning him down and challenged him to a contest in Martial Soul theory.
• Lin Qi and Xiao Wu challenged Yu Xiaogang's claims, while Tang San defended his teacher and grew jealous of Lin Qi.
• Master Meng condemned Yu Xiaogang for treating his own limitations as the fate of all Soul Masters with weak Martial Souls.
• Master Meng summoned his Rotten Wood Martial Soul and revealed nine Soul Rings, shocking Yu Xiaogang and Tang San with his status as a Titled Douluo.
• Yu Xiaogang insisted Master Meng must have Twin Martial Souls to explain his strength.

Master Meng dismantled Yu Xiaogang’s claims about Martial Soul theory, leaving Yu Xiaogang to fake a fainting spell and retreat with Tang San. Afterward, Master Meng explained his knowledge to Lin Qi and offered to teach him swordsmanship and Self-Created Soul Skills.

• Tang San asked how Master Meng had absorbed a ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring, and Master Meng explained that Soul Ring limits depended on a Soul Master’s physical constitution and spiritual strength.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed credit for the Martial Soul Mimicry Theory, but Master Meng pointed out that the idea was common knowledge and known within the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect.
• Yu Xiaogang collapsed after Master Meng’s rebukes, and Tang San carried him away while vowing to surpass Lin Qi and prove his teacher’s theory superior.
• Lin Qi revealed that Yu Xiaogang had pretended to faint, then asked Master Meng why his first two Soul Rings were only hundred-year rings.
• Xiao Wu apologized for failing to stop Yu Xiaogang, and Lin Qi accepted her apology while warning her not to repeat the mistake.
• Master Meng offered to teach Lin Qi swordsmanship and several Self-Created Soul Skills to improve his combat ability after the medicinal bath.

Tang San and Yu Xiaogang set out for the Soul Hunting Forest and encountered Lin Qi, Xiao Wu, and Master Meng on the road. Lin Qi’s group entered the forest, where Master Meng told him to handle most encounters himself and said Xiao Wu could help.

• Tang San and Yu Xiaogang left Nuoding Academy for the Soul Hunting Forest, reaffirming their trust in each other after the previous day’s events.
• Lin Qi, Xiao Wu, and Master Meng rode past on Unicorn Scaled Armor Beasts, frightening Tang San and Yu Xiaogang’s carriage horse and prompting Tang San to vow to defeat Lin Qi.
• Yu Xiaogang identified the beasts as powerful Soul Beasts, while Tang San learned they were likely over five thousand years old.
• Xiao Wu denied wanting to show off her connections in the Star Dou Great Forest, and Lin Qi promised they could go there on a later Soul Ring trip.
• Master Meng used a token bearing a swan to gain entry to the Soul Hunting Forest and told Lin Qi to handle encounters himself, with Xiao Wu available to help.

In the Soul Hunting Forest, Xiao Wu’s racial talent triggered Lin Qi’s Background Suppression reward, granting him the Fortune Fist Technique and Mountain River Sword Dao. Lin Qi tested his new fist technique on Xiao Wu and struck her despite her apparent dodge, while she demanded to keep fighting.

• Soul Beasts welcomed Lin Qi and left him alone, while Xiao Wu was repeatedly attacked and Lin Qi found a thousand-year-old Purple Cloud Ganoderma.
• Xiao Wu defeated a Shadow Lurking Wolf with her Soft Skill, and Master Meng pointed out flaws in her technique.
• Xiao Wu’s display of her racial talent triggered Background Suppression, rewarding Lin Qi with the Fortune Fist Technique and Mountain River Sword Dao.
• Lin Qi challenged Xiao Wu to test his new fist technique, and his seemingly ordinary punch hit her waist even after she dodged.
• Xiao Wu refused to accept defeat and insisted on continuing the fight.

Lin Qi searched Soul Hunting Forest for an Earth Nether Sword Ridge Beast suitable for his Mountain River Sword Martial Soul, while Tang San and Yu Xiaogang entered the forest and Tang San killed a Mandala Snake. Lin Qi’s search ended when a dying, roughly two-thousand-year-old Earth Nether Sword Ridge Beast arrived and willingly offered him its Soul Ring.

• Lin Qi learned about the Earth Nether Sword Ridge Beast’s abilities from Master Meng as they searched deeper into Soul Hunting Forest.
• Tang San and Yu Xiaogang entered the forest, and Tang Hao followed to keep Tang San safe.
• Tang San used Tang Sect martial arts and Hidden Weapons to kill a Mandala Snake, then prepared to absorb its Soul Ring under Yu Xiaogang’s guidance.
• Lin Qi’s group encountered a severely wounded Earth Nether Sword Ridge Beast that had fled from a powerful enemy and become stuck in the ground.
• The Earth Nether Sword Ridge Beast showed affection toward Lin Qi and willingly offered him its Soul Ring, and Lin Qi thanked and comforted it.

Lin Qi absorbed the Earth Nether Sword Ridge Beast’s two-thousand-year Soul Ring and gained a First Soul Skill that let him fly as sword light and split into sword-light duplicates. After the beast was buried, Lin Qi found a Spirit Bone left behind by it.

• Master Meng said Lin Qi’s medicinal bath had prepared him to absorb the Earth Nether Sword Ridge Beast’s Soul Ring, and the beast’s willing sacrifice left its soul unresisting.
• Lin Qi absorbed the two-thousand-year Soul Ring in just over an hour, then demonstrated his Sword Flight ability by becoming the Mountain River Sword and racing through the sky.
• Lin Qi showed that his First Soul Skill could also create dozens of sword-light duplicates that attacked the surrounding ground, trees, and rocks.
• Master Meng recognized that Lin Qi’s Light Splitting Shadow technique could also help him escape, and Lin Qi agreed before burying the Earth Nether Sword Ridge Beast.
• Xiao Wu spotted a sword-shaped Spirit Bone where the beast had lain, and Master Meng confirmed that it had left Lin Qi both its Soul Ring and a Spirit Bone.

Lin Qi returned from the Soul Hunting Forest with a two-thousand-year External Soul Bone and encountered Tang San, who showed off his first Soul Ring and challenged him. Back at Nuoding Academy, Master Meng used his connections to stop Spirit Hall from recruiting Lin Qi.

• Lin Qi identified the Earth Nether Sword Ridge Beast's Spirit Bone as an External Soul Bone that could fuse into the spine, then set out for Nuoding Academy with Xiao Wu and Master Meng.
• Lin Qi encountered Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, who had been poisoned by a Mandala Snake, and heard Tang San boast about his hundred-year Soul Ring and promise to challenge him.
• Su Yuntao approached Lin Qi at Nuoding Academy to recruit him into Spirit Hall, so Master Meng took Su Yuntao to speak with the local bishop.
• Master Meng returned and said he had persuaded the bishop, whom he had once guided in cultivation, to stop Spirit Hall from coming after Lin Qi.

Tang San challenged Lin Qi, but Leng Qing prevented Tang Hao from interfering and warned him that he would punish him if Tang San lost. Tang San's Blue Silver Grass attack seemed to trap Lin Qi, but Lin Qi calmly broke free, leaving the duel unresolved.

• Tang San returned to the academy and insisted on challenging Lin Qi despite Yu Xiaogang's warning that the matchup disadvantaged him.
• Leng Qing stopped Tang Hao from intervening, called Tang San a potential stepping stone for Lin Qi, and threatened to beat Tang Hao if Tang San lost.
• Tang San challenged Lin Qi in front of a crowd, and the students' praise for Lin Qi made Tang San increasingly resentful.
• Tang San attacked with Blue Silver Grass and tried to bind Lin Qi, believing the fight was already won.
• Lin Qi calmly walked free as the Blue Silver Grass snapped apart, then asked Tang San what he had just said.

Lin Qi easily defeated Tang San in their spar, revealing his thousand-year First Soul Ring and superior combat ability. Tang San rose after the second blow but could not explain how Lin Qi had overcome his techniques, while Xiao Wu and the spectators mocked his excuses.

• Lin Qi cut through Tang San's Blue Silver Bind, and the spectators realized his First Soul Ring was purple and thousand-year.
• Tang San attacked Lin Qi with Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track and Mysterious Jade Hand, but Lin Qi punched him away without using his sword.
• Tang San attacked again at full strength, but Lin Qi bypassed his defense and struck him in the same spot, leaving him bloodied and stunned.
• Tang Hao and Yu Xiaogang worried over Tang San, while Tang Hao held back from intervening because Leng Qing was nearby.
• Tang San asked what fist technique Lin Qi had used, and Xiao Wu accused him of making excuses after losing.
• The spectators cheered Xiao Wu's rebuke as Tang San's fondness for her vanished.