Chapter Summaries

Tang Xiao grieved for his wife and vowed to raise his son into a powerful member of the Clear Sky Sect. The next morning, Huang San feigned illness to skip the spirit hunt and pursue his system mission, while Tang San and Yu Xiaogang entered Soul Hunting Forest to seek Tang San’s first spirit ring.

• Tang Lie left to pursue Tang Hao, and Tang Xiao mourned his wife before vowing to bring his son back to the clan and make him powerful.
• Huang San pretended to be sick so Tang San would leave without him, then got up once he was alone and prepared to complete his system mission for a Perfect Soul Ring.
• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang that Huang San was unwell, but Yu Xiaogang insisted their planned spirit hunt proceed without him.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San traveled to Soul Hunting Forest, presented their permit at the entrance, and entered the guarded forest.

Yu Xiaogang led Tang San deeper into the forest and pointed out a ten-year Lone Bamboo as a possible Soul Beast, leaving Tang San confused about his teacher’s choice. Meanwhile, Huang San completed his task by declaring himself a dumbass in class and tried to explain the outburst as an attempt to liven up the classroom.

• Yu Xiaogang gave Tang San a mask and cautiously led him through the forest without summoning Luo Sanpao.
• Yu Xiaogang showed Tang San a ten-year Lone Bamboo as a possible Soul Beast if they could not find a more suitable one.
• Tang San recalled the report that set his endurance limit at four hundred and twenty years, then suppressed his doubts about Yu Xiaogang’s choice.
• Huang San stood on his desk and shouted for the class to look at him before calling himself a stupid dumbass.
• The teacher demanded an explanation, and Huang San claimed he had only wanted to liven up the classroom atmosphere.

After humiliating himself in class to complete a system task, Huang San earned a First Soul Ring and became a Soul Master, but was enraged when its Spirit Skill turned out to be Bind. He left the academy hill disappointed and went to get something to eat.

• The teacher punished Huang San for disrupting class by ordering him to stand outside the classroom for the entire next day, and his classmates laughed at him.
• Huang San fled to a secluded hill, where he cursed the classmates who had mocked him and asked the system to issue his Spirit Ring reward.
• The system granted Huang San a four-hundred-and-fifty-year First Soul Ring, raising his Soul Power from level ten to level eleven and making him a Soul Master.
• Huang San tested the ring and discovered its Spirit Skill was Bind, which left him furious and questioning whether the reward was worthwhile.
• Huang San accepted that the ring could not be exchanged, comforted himself with its benefits, and left the hill to eat.

Tang San absorbed a nearly four-hundred-year-old Mandala Snake Soul Ring, reaching rank eleven and breaking through the Mysterious Heaven Skill bottleneck, while Yu Xiaogang collapsed from his wounds. After Tang San carried him out of Soul Hunting Forest, the guard captain urged Tang San to find a better teacher.

• Tang San killed the dying Mandala Snake and absorbed its yellow Soul Ring while Yu Xiaogang urged him to continue despite his injuries.
• Tang San completed the absorption, reached rank eleven, and broke through the Mysterious Heaven Skill bottleneck; Yu Xiaogang praised the success before passing out.
• Tang San checked Yu Xiaogang's pulse, then carried him out of the forest because he needed treatment for blood loss.
• The guard captain helped Tang San support Yu Xiaogang and asked what had injured them.
• Tang San said they had encountered a four-hundred-year-old Mandala Snake, and the guard captain criticized Yu Xiaogang and told Tang San to find a better path.

After Yu Xiaogang’s poisoning during Tang San’s soul-ring hunt, the Guard Captain’s criticism left Tang San questioning his teacher’s ability. Back at Nuoding Academy, Tang San found Huang San badly bruised and learned he had absorbed a soul ring, while the students celebrated Ling Qingyue’s appointment as Pavilion Master.

• The Guard Captain warned Tang San that Yu Xiaogang’s limited strength and knowledge might hinder his future cultivation, deepening Tang San’s doubts after their dangerous encounter.
• Tang San cared for the poisoned Yu Xiaogang overnight, then brought him back to Nuoding City and nursed him until he was stable.
• Tang San returned to Seventh Dormitory and found Huang San bruised; Huang San claimed he had fallen and said he had absorbed a soul ring the previous night.
• Wang Sheng and the other Work-Study Students brought roast chicken and fruit wine, explaining that Immortal Spirit Pavilion was giving out food to celebrate Ling Qingyue becoming Pavilion Master.

Huang San struggled with powerful emotions while eating roast chicken in Seventh Dormitory, as Tang Hao confronted Yu Xiaogang over Tang San’s training. Yu Xiaogang offered his own son as a test subject for cultivating Twin Martial Souls and proposed using Spirit Hall to help Tang San grow.

• Wang Wu and the others discussed Immortal Spirit Pavilion’s upcoming Goddess coronation until Wang Sheng warned them to stop gossiping.
• Huang San wept over the roast chicken, and the dormitory boys laughed as Li Si revealed Wang Sheng had beaten him the day before.
• Tang Hao seized Yu Xiaogang and condemned him for becoming Tang San’s teacher, while Tang Lie mocked Yu Xiaogang’s theories.
• Yu Xiaogang offered his son Huang San, who also had Twin Martial Souls, as a test subject to find a safe way for Tang San to cultivate his Twin Martial Souls.
• Tang Xiao told Tang Hao to put Yu Xiaogang down, and Yu Xiaogang proposed having Tang San use Spirit Hall as cover for his growth.

Yu Xiaogang tried to persuade Tang Xiao and Tang Lie to let Xiao San use Spirit Hall’s resources to grow stronger, then learned his father Yu Yuanzhen was dead. Tang Lie blamed Spirit Hall for the death, and Yu Xiaogang swore revenge as Tang Xiao asked to see Xiao San.

• Yu Xiaogang argued that Xiao San could gain powerful training resources and Immortal Herbs by using Spirit Hall’s competitions, then turn against Spirit Hall with the Clear Sky Sect’s support.
• Tang Lie warned Yu Xiaogang to keep his identity secret and revealed that Yu Yuanzhen was dead.
• Yu Xiaogang broke down over his father’s death, then Tang Lie told him Spirit Hall had killed Yu Yuanzhen.
• Yu Xiaogang swore to destroy Spirit Hall and avenge his father.
• Tang Xiao asked where Xiao San was and said he wanted to see him.

Tang Xiao and Tang Lie visited Tang San at night, while Tang Hao remained behind with guilt and resentment over the family’s past. Tang Xiao met Tang San as his uncle and left him with a Black Card before Tang Lie urged them to depart.

• Yu Xiaogang advised Tang Xiao not to tell Tang San about his origins or family feud yet, and Tang Xiao asked to see him from afar.
• Tang Xiao left for the Seventh Dormitory, and Tang Lie followed after warning Tang Hao to take care of himself.
• Tang Hao struck the wall and privately blamed Tang Xiao for the family’s estrangement and A Die’s fate.
• Tang Xiao met Tang San beneath the locust tree and called himself the boy’s uncle before Tang Hao arrived with Tang Lie.
• Tang Hao introduced Tang Xiao and Tang Lie as Tang San’s uncle and Seventh grandfather, and Tang San showed them his two Martial Souls.
• Tang Xiao gave Tang San a Black Card and asked him to forgive his absence, but Tang Lie urged him to leave before anyone discovered them.

Tang Xiao left Tang San a Black Card, and Tang Hao told Tang San that he was his real father before leaving. At the academy, Tang San and Huang San learned that the Ten Cities League champion could enter Dao Seeking Academy, while Flender and the Shrek students waited outside their gates for Immortal Spirit Pavilion.

• Tang Xiao gave Tang San a Black Card and urged him to cultivate before Tang Lie took him away.
• Tang Hao told Tang San that he was his real father, then left after saying he might visit again.
• Wang Sheng showed Tang San Spirit Hall's announcement that the Ten Cities League champion could be recommended to Dao Seeking Academy.
• Huang San decided to pursue the championship and use Spirit Hall's resources to regain his strength.
• Flender, Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun waited outside Shrek Academy for Immortal Spirit Pavilion, while Dai Mubai complained about the delay.

Flender awaited the Ministry of Education inspection of Shrek Academy, hoping its renovations would finally win approval. The inspection team found the staff qualified and the facilities complete but noted that the academy lacked a Mimic Training Ground.

• Flender reflected on Shrek Academy’s repeated failed applications and the money he had spent renovating it, while urging Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun to succeed.
• A convoy of cars arrived at the academy carrying Xue Jianli and the Ministry of Education inspection team.
• Flender showed Xue Jianli the renovated academy, and the inspectors split up to assess its staff, facilities, safety, and curriculum.
• Lu Jianming reported that Flender and Chen Xin were qualified and that the academy had complete facilities, but it lacked a Mimic Training Ground.

Flender secured Level Three status for Shrek Academy, allowing it to enroll students and receive subsidies, while planning how to improve the academy’s prospects. Elsewhere, Zhao Linchuan meditated in the void with a lotus embodying the world’s twelve Primal Attributes, as the chapter hinted at an approaching finale.

• Lu Jianming recommended Level Three qualifications for Shrek Academy because it lacked key cultivation facilities, and he gave Flender a temporary permit to begin enrolling students.
• Xue Jianli instructed Flender to file the academy’s admissions and tuition materials and warned him to prepare for annual reviews.
• Dai Mubai questioned why Flender had deferred to the officials, and Flender explained that surviving under the Spirit Hall Empire and the Immortal Spirit Pavilion required following their rules.
• Flender read the permit beneath the old locust tree and planned to recruit students, enter the All-Continent High-Level Soul Master Elite Competition, and seek an upgrade and investment.
• Zhao Linchuan sat in the absolute void, meditating as a forty-eight-petal lotus formed from twelve Primal Attributes rotated between his hands.

Zhao Linchuan guided the ten Origin Laws into forming a world, which endured a devastating clash of fire and ice. He opened his eyes, revealing the united concepts of creation and ending.

• Zhao Linchuan used his will to make the ten elements collide until a metal-law axe split nothingness and began the world's creation.
• Earth formed beneath the crack, light and darkness established day and night, and water and time brought the first land and vegetation to life.
• Lightning struck an ancient tree, igniting a fire that consumed the forests and scorched the newborn world.
• Rain poured down and became Ice Spikes, trapping the world between destructive fire and bitter cold.
• Zhao Linchuan opened his eyes, with creation in his left eye and ending in his right.

Zhao Linchuan completed the creation of a world, whose laws and life began to operate independently. He received the Investiture of the Gods and learned that the realm and its divine system would continually nourish his cultivation.

• Zhao Linchuan restored order to the world, bringing sunlight, warmth, flowing water, and new growth after its destruction.
• The forty-eight-petaled lotus shattered into streams of light that merged into the world and became the foundation of its self-sustaining laws.
• Twenty-four Supreme Treasures emerged from the world’s origin and gathered before Zhao Linchuan.
• Zhao Linchuan selected a gray scroll, which revealed the name Investiture of the Gods.
• Zhao Linchuan realized the world shared his origin and would nourish him, while the Investiture of the Gods allowed him to establish God Positions and command the laws.

After creating a complete world, Zhao Linchuan returned to the women waiting for him, and six years later Tang San won the Ten Cities League while Wang Sheng placed third. At the celebratory banquet, Tang San and Huang San drew most of the city lords’ attention, while Wang Sheng remained unbothered by being overlooked.

• Zhao Linchuan vanished after creating a new world, then returned to the Immortal Spirit Pavilion, where the Snow Empress asked him to grant the women a child and he agreed.
• Six years passed, and the Ten Cities League finals took place in Baishan City.
• Wang Sheng pushed Huang San into a difficult fight, narrowly losing but leaving Huang San weakened and injured.
• Tang San defeated the weakened Huang San to win the championship, with Huang San second and Wang Sheng third.
• At the banquet in Baishan City’s City Lord’s Mansion, the city lords toasted Tang San and Huang San while Wang Sheng ate and drank calmly at the lower end of the table.

At a banquet, Tang San was overwhelmed by city lords offering him marriage prospects, while Huang San grew jealous and left. In a restroom, Huang San overheard that Tang San and the tournament winners’ qualifications were under investigation because their teacher Yu Xiaogang might be tied to the notorious Evil Book incident.

• Cao Chuyue asked Tang San whether he had a fiancée and offered his twelve-year-old daughter to stay by his side.
• City Lord Xiao, a deputy city lord from Lishui, and other guests competed to recommend young women from their families to Tang San.
• Huang San grew jealous of the attention Tang San received, stood up, and left the banquet hall.
• In a restroom stall, Huang San overheard two officials say that the Immortal Spirit Pavilion would investigate the identities and qualifications of the tournament’s champion and runner-up.
• Xiao Liu said the investigation might have uncovered that Yu Xiaogang was the author of the Evil Book, and warned that the tournament officials and city lords could face consequences.

Huang San and Tang San separately learned that Yu Xiaogang might have authored the infamous Evil Book and struggled over whether to report him to protect their chances of entering Dao Seeking Academy. The chapter ended with both men returning to the inn in silence, neither having resolved what to do.

• Huang San feared that Yu Xiaogang's alleged authorship would ruin his prospects and considered reporting him to the authorities.
• Huang San returned to the banquet, and Tang San left for the washroom to settle the alcohol.
• Tang San overheard people say Yu Xiaogang might have written the Evil Book and panicked over the damage to his own future.
• Tang San weighed reporting Yu Xiaogang against his loyalty to his Teacher but could not decide.
• Tang San and Huang San endured the rest of the banquet in silence before returning to the inn.

Unable to sleep after hearing rumors that his teacher may be Yu Xiaogang, author of the Evil Book, Tang San sought Wang Sheng’s advice. Wang Sheng laid out the risks of staying silent or reporting his teacher, then asked Tang San whether he knew the man’s full name, leaving Tang San stunned by the realization that he did not.

• Tang San, troubled by the banquet’s rumors, went to Wang Sheng’s room late at night.
• Tang San told Wang Sheng that his teacher might be Yu Xiaogang, the alleged author of the Evil Book.
• Wang Sheng warned Tang San that knowing the rumors left him with a choice between staying with his teacher or reporting him to the authorities.
• Tang San struggled to choose, saying he had no proof and still regarded the man as his teacher.
• Wang Sheng asked Tang San for his teacher’s full name, and Tang San realized he had never learned it.

Wang Sheng and Tang San abducted Yu Xiaogang to test whether he was really the disgraced Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan member. When confronted at an abandoned stream, Yu Xiaogang denied his identity and claimed his Martial Soul was Luo Sanpao, while Wang Sheng threatened him with a dagger.

• Wang Sheng convinced Tang San to sneak into Yu Xiaogang's room and question him about his hidden identity.
• Wang Sheng knocked Yu Xiaogang unconscious, and he and Tang San carried him from the hotel to an abandoned stream.
• Yu Xiaogang woke tied to a tree with a rag in his mouth as Wang Sheng and Tang San confronted him in masks.
• Wang Sheng asked whether Yu Xiaogang belonged to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and Yu Xiaogang denied knowing the clan or the name.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed his Martial Soul was Luo Sanpao, but Wang Sheng mocked the claim and threatened him with a dagger.

After Yu Xiaogang admitted his identity, Wang Sheng pressured Tang San to report and expose his teacher before investigators uncovered their connection. At dawn, soldiers from Baishan City's Inspection Department sealed Yingbin Tower, where Huang San had been staying.

• Yu Xiaogang admitted to Wang Sheng that he was Yu Xiaogang of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and offered to pay for his life.
• Wang Sheng knocked Yu Xiaogang unconscious again and urged Tang San to report him to the Empire's Inspection Department or the Ice Snow Goddess Hall.
• Tang San abandoned his hesitation and agreed to follow Wang Sheng with Yu Xiaogang to expose him.
• At dawn, Huang San saw that Inspection Department soldiers had sealed Yingbin Tower's exits.

After Yu Xiaogang and Tang San fled Baishan City, Huang San was detained for questioning while Tang San and Wang Sheng hid outside the city with the unconscious Yu Xiaogang. Wang Sheng urged Tang San to report his teacher to the arriving Imperial Envoy, and they waited as the approaching convoy drew near.

• Huang San found Tang San's and Wang Sheng's rooms empty after seeing officials gathered outside the inn.
• A Soul Master captain told Huang San that Yu Xiaogang and Tang San were suspected in an old case and had fled, then ordered him to cooperate with the investigation.
• Huang San denied knowing about Yu Xiaogang's past but agreed to go with the Soul Masters.
• Wang Sheng met Tang San outside Baishan City and reported that the city was locked down and being searched.
• Wang Sheng urged Tang San to report Yu Xiaogang to the Imperial Envoy, and Tang San reluctantly agreed.
• Tang San and Wang Sheng hid beside the road with the unconscious Yu Xiaogang as the approaching convoy neared.