Chapter Summaries

Yao Yan awakened Blue Silver Grass with innate Soul Power at level six, and Tang San awakened the same Martial Soul with Innate Full Soul Power. After learning that both boys could attend Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy, Yao Yan returned home and found his pet spider Xiao Ying had nearly ruined his herbal concoction.

• Yao Yan awakened Blue Silver Grass and tested at innate Soul Power level six, surprising Su Yuntao.
• Tang San awakened Blue Silver Grass with Innate Full Soul Power, and Su Yuntao told Old Jack that two village children qualified for Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy.
• Old Jack promised to take Yao Yan and Tang San to enroll in three months and reassured Tang San that he would speak with Tang Hao.
• Yao Yan returned home and found his herbs nearly burned because Xiao Ying had failed to watch the kitchen fire.
• Yao Yan scolded Xiao Ying for weaving webs and declared that he would inject Soul Power into the spider to make it evolve.

Yao Yan accompanied Tang San and Old Jack to Nuoding Academy, where Yu Xiaogang recognized Tang San’s innate full Soul Power and took him as a disciple. Afterward, Yu Xiaogang asked Yao Yan, whose Blue Silver Grass had innate level six Soul Power, to become his disciple too.

• Yao Yan used Soul Power to change Xiao Ying’s eyes and markings, then spent the night brewing Healing Potions after ruining a pot of herbs.
• Three months later, Old Jack took Yao Yan and Tang San by carriage to Nuoding City, where Yao Yan’s potion sales had helped Holy Soul Village’s villagers earn more money.
• Yao Yan handed the boys’ Spirit Hall certificates to the gatekeeper, who changed his attitude after seeing they were genuine.
• Yu Xiaogang arrived, learned that Tang San had innate full Soul Power, and privately persuaded him to become his disciple.
• Yao Yan avoided hearing Tang San’s secret and later rejoined him and Yu Xiaogang, who asked Yao Yan to take him as a master.

Yao Yan rejected Yu Xiaogang’s offer to become his disciple after proving his Blue Silver Grass had not mutated, then registered at the academy and watched Tang San become Seventh Dormitory’s temporary boss. After Xiao Wu arrived and challenged Tang San, Yao Yan left for the Library to research martial souls, herbs, and medicinal baths.

• Yu Xiaogang offered to take Yao Yan as his disciple, but Yao Yan revealed that his Blue Silver Grass had not mutated and refused.
• Yu Xiaogang registered Tang San and Yao Yan at the Academic Affairs Office, where Director Su and another teacher questioned Yu Xiaogang’s decision to teach Tang San.
• Yao Yan and Tang San received their uniforms and were assigned to Seventh Dormitory.
• Tang San defeated Wang Sheng with Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon and became the dormitory’s temporary boss.
• Xiao Wu arrived at Seventh Dormitory and began fighting Tang San after learning that strength ruled there.
• Yao Yan left with Xiao Ying for the Library to research martial souls, herbs, and medicinal baths.

Yao Yan researched Soul Master cultivation and herbal medicine at the Academy Library, then decided to develop his Blue Silver Grass along a path focused on vitality and malleability. He tested the idea by forming a Grass Snake that defeated Xiao Ying, and left to sell healing medicine and buy cultivation ingredients.

• Yao Yan studied Soul Master cultivation methods and criticized the reliance on hunting Spirit Beasts for Soul Rings.
• Yao Yan examined herbal medicine books, memorized plants that could strengthen the body, and borrowed several books.
• Yao Yan rejected copying Tang San’s control-based approach and decided to shape Blue Silver Grass into weapons by cultivating its vitality and toughness.
• Yao Yan summoned Blue Silver Grass in the park and formed a three-meter Grass Snake using most of his Soul Power.
• Yao Yan used the Grass Snake to catch Xiao Ying, then returned the spider to his backpack and left to sell healing medicine.

Yao Yan visited Li Caiyi at her pharmacy, where she welcomed him warmly and gave him a book of herbs. After he delivered his potions and requested ingredients, Li Caiyi took him out to dinner, thinking of herself as his child bride.

• Yao Yan visited Li Caiyi at Jieyou Pharmacy and told her he had enrolled in Nuoding Academy.
• Li Caiyi examined Yao Yan's Blue Silver Grass, remembered how she had first met him, and gave him a book about herbs.
• Li Caiyi playfully held Yao Yan until they both fell asleep, then asked him to move in with her, but he refused.
• Yao Yan gave Li Caiyi nine Healing Potions and asked her to obtain medicinal ingredients from a prescription.
• Li Caiyi gave Yao Yan a Gold Soul Coin and took his hand to lead him out for dinner.

Yao Yan tested his Medicinal Bath, developed a mass-producible Healing Potion, and advanced to Soul Power level eight. When Tang San returned from the Spirit Beast Forest with Yu Xiaogang injured by a snake, Yao Yan demonstrated that his Blue Silver Grass could pull down a tree without a Soul Skill, stunning them both.

• Yao Yan tested his Medicinal Bath and found that it strengthened his cultivation, then left Xiao Ying in his rented room while he went to school and bought sandbags.
• Over the next month, Yao Yan improved the Healing Potion formula, gave it to Li Caiyi under a profit-sharing contract, and raised his Soul Power to level eight.
• Yao Yan encountered Tang San and Yu Xiaogang as they set off for the Spirit Beast Forest, then continued his training while they were away.
• Two days later, Tang San returned with a snake-poisoned Yu Xiaogang and advised Yao Yan to become Yu Xiaogang's disciple, partly hoping to share Yao Yan's meals.
• Tang San showed off his First Soul Skill, Blue Silver Entanglement, and Yao Yan replied by using his Blue Silver Grass without a Soul Skill to pull a tree down, leaving Tang San and Yu Xiaogang stunned.

Yao Yan exposed Yu Xiaogang’s advice about Tang San’s poison-focused path and humiliated him until he collapsed, worsening his feud with Tang San. Afterward, Yu Xiaogang gave Tang San a book and urged him to register for Spirit Hall’s subsidy, while persuading him that Spirit Hall used the payments to win commoners’ loyalty.

• Yao Yan’s Blue Silver Grass proved resilient enough to help bring down a tree, and Yu Xiaogang claimed Tang San’s poison had weakened it first.
• After learning Tang San had chosen a Mandala Snake for his first Soul Ring, Yao Yan criticized Yu Xiaogang’s advice and mocked his failure to reach level thirty, causing Yu Xiaogang to cough up blood and collapse.
• Tang San threatened Yao Yan with his Hidden Weapon but left to help Yu Xiaogang, while Yao Yan decided to pursue opportunities before Tang San could claim them.
• Yu Xiaogang recovered in his room and gave Tang San a book containing his theories and a Meditation Method.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San to register at Spirit Hall for a monthly Gold Soul Coin subsidy, then portrayed Spirit Hall’s payments as a bid to gain power over commoners.
• Tang San accepted Yu Xiaogang’s view of Spirit Hall, and Yu Xiaogang asked him to collect his subsidy as well.

Yao Yan traveled with Zhou Lie and Zhou Qinglan toward the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain his first Soul Ring, choosing between the Phoenix Immortal Flower and Silver Branch Spruce Wood. After several days on the road, they arrived at Qingshan Town, the market near the forest.

• Yao Yan visited Li Caiyi's pharmacy, where she introduced him to Zhou Lie, who would lead the group to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Li Caiyi reluctantly saw Yao Yan off, and he departed by carriage with Zhou Lie and Zhou Qinglan.
• Zhou Lie gave Yao Yan a map of the Star Dou Great Forest and explained its outer, mixed, and core regions.
• Yao Yan chose the Phoenix Immortal Flower or Silver Branch Spruce Wood for his first Soul Ring, hoping to use their seeds to spread Blue Silver Grass across the battlefield.
• Zhou Lie shared survival advice for traveling through the forest as the group continued toward its destination.
• After several days on the road, Yao Yan and his companions arrived at Qingshan Town.

Yao Yan and the Zhou siblings entered the Star Dou Great Forest to find a suitable Silver Branch Spruce Wood, and Yao Yan absorbed a tree’s roughly eight-hundred-year soul ring. He emerged with his Soul Power at level sixteen.

• Yao Yan, Zhou Lie, and Zhou Qinglan entered Qingshan Town, prepared for the forest, and set out for the Star Dou Great Forest the next morning.
• Zhou Lie and Zhou Qinglan helped Yao Yan find a Silver Branch Spruce Wood, while Yao Yan argued that a Soul Master's physical strength—not fixed theories—determined the soul-ring age he could absorb.
• Zhou Lie felled a massive Silver Branch Spruce Wood, and Yao Yan delivered the finishing blow to the roughly eight-hundred-year tree.
• Yao Yan absorbed its Yellow Soul Ring despite the pain and raised his Soul Power from level ten to level sixteen.

Tang Hao visited Yu Xiaogang to entrust Xiao San to his care before returning to settle unfinished matters. Meanwhile, Yao Yan searched the mountains around Holy Soul Village and found the waterfall cave linked to his bloodline.

• Tang Hao revealed his identity to Yu Xiaogang, asked him to care for Xiao San, and left him the Pope's Token.
• Yao Yan returned to Holy Soul Village and searched nearby mountains and rivers while pretending to gather herbs.
• Yao Yan noticed Tang San and Xiao Wu spending time together as they hammered iron, then continued his search for a month.
• Yao Yan found the waterfall that matched his map and sent Xiao Ying behind it to check the rocks.
• Xiao Ying found a blue-gold blade of grass in a concealed crevice, confirming the cave's location to Yao Yan.

Yao Yan reached Ah Yin’s hidden cave, took the Blue Silver Emperor’s Soul Bone, and persuaded her that Tang San was dead and Tang Hao’s actions had put her at risk. He transplanted Ah Yin into a flowerpot and left a message in the empty lead box before setting out to find a safe place to absorb the Soul Bone.

• Yao Yan grew a vine ladder up the waterfall and opened the concealed entrance to the cave.
• Yao Yan spoke with the intelligent Blue Silver Grass and claimed that Tang San had died and another soul now occupied his body.
• Yao Yan found the Blue Silver Emperor’s Soul Bone in a lead box and placed it in his basket.
• Yao Yan told Ah Yin that Tang San traveled with a human-form Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and questioned Tang Hao’s choices, leaving Ah Yin distressed.
• Yao Yan transplanted Ah Yin into a flowerpot, replaced her with similar Blue Silver Grass, and left a message in the lead box.
• Yao Yan concealed the cave entrance and left to find a secluded place to absorb the Soul Bone.

Yao Yan absorbed the Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone, awakening new plant-related abilities and transforming his Martial Soul. After testing his powers, he resumed gathering herbs while an invisible force released by Xiao Ying reached an unknown destination.

• Yao Yan hid in his cellar and absorbed the Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone, causing blue-gold energy to spread through him and the cellar plants to grow rapidly.
• Xiao Ying touched the energy, changed briefly to deep purple, and sent an invisible force toward a distant destination.
• Five days later, Yao Yan woke, freed Xiao Ying from the vines, and discovered that his hair and Blue Silver Grass had turned blue.
• Yao Yan tested his evolved Martial Soul and new plant control, creating a vine figure and a thorn-lined cage before dismissing them.
• Yao Yan cleaned up the area and resumed gathering herbs as Xiao Ying's invisible force reached its unknown destination.

Bibi Dong learned from Shadow Spider Number One that Tang Hao had appeared, while Yao Yan returned to Nuoding City and was persuaded by Li Caiyi to move in with her. After arranging for his blue-gold Blue Silver Grass to be kept in Qingshan Town, Yao Yan went to say goodbye to his roommates and encountered Wang Sheng and a rabbit.

• Shadow Spider Number One returned to Bibi Dong with memories of a boy, and she learned that Tang Hao had appeared.
• After reaching level twenty during his holiday, Yao Yan returned to Nuoding City and visited Li Caiyi at Jieyou Pharmacy.
• Yao Yan asked Li Caiyi to send his blue-gold Blue Silver Grass to the Qingshan Town branch so it would stay unnoticed.
• Li Caiyi insisted that Yao Yan move in with her, and he agreed as she arranged for his belongings to be moved.
• Yao Yan headed to the dormitory with food to say goodbye to his roommates, discovered roasted rabbits in the bundle, and saw Wang Sheng arrive with a rabbit.

Yao Yan defeated Xiao Wu after she tried to force him to share the roasted rabbits, then left the Seventh Dormitory. Xiao Wu asked Tang San to avenge her, and Tang San vowed to confront Yao Yan.

• Xiao Wu demanded Yao Yan's roasted rabbits, but he shared them with the Seventh Dormitory students, who began eating while she protested.
• Xiao Wu attacked Yao Yan after he defended the others and mocked her attempt to control whether they ate rabbit meat.
• Yao Yan dodged Xiao Wu's attacks and threw her to the ground when she used her soul skill, shocking Wang Sheng and the others.
• Yao Yan refused Wang Sheng's offer to become dormitory boss, said he was moving out, and left after telling Xiao Wu to catch up with him.
• Tang San found Xiao Wu on the ground, heard her embellished account, and vowed to avenge her against Yao Yan.

After repeated refusals, Yao Yan accepted Tang San’s challenge and agreed to wager his place in Nuoding City against Tang San’s Storage Soul Tool. As the match began before a large crowd, Yao Yan declared he would fight without using his Martial Soul.

• Yao Yan accepted Tang San’s challenge after Master Yu mocked his earlier refusals, and demanded Tang San’s Storage Soul Tool as the wager.
• Master Yu accepted on Tang San’s behalf, and Yao Yan agreed that he would leave Nuoding City if he lost; Yao Yan then went to the Principal’s Office to arrange a witness.
• Word of the wager spread through the academy, and students—including Xiao Wu—rushed to the Back Mountain to watch.
• Mang Tianchi tried to cancel the wager, but Yao Yan refused to fight until Mang Tianchi lent him a Storage Soul Tool to stake instead.
• Tang San and Yao Yan revealed their Martial Soul and Soul Ring details before the crowd, and Yao Yan said he would fight without using his Martial Soul.

Yao Yan defeated Tang San in a spar using Blue Silver Vine without initially summoning his Martial Soul, then formed a powerful spear after Master Yu challenged him. The chapter ended with Yao Yan's spear flying toward the badly injured Tang San.

• Yao Yan refused to summon his Martial Soul, and Tang San attacked him with Blue Silver Entanglement.
• Yao Yan evaded Tang San's attacks, countered with Blue Silver Vine, and trapped him in a Spike Array that pierced and wounded him.
• Master Yu rushed to Tang San and accused Yao Yan of being ruthless, prompting Yao Yan to threaten him with a full-power strike.
• Yao Yan formed a long spear from Blue Silver Vine as nearby plants withered and fed it energy.
• Master Yu fled into the student crowd, and Yao Yan's spear shot toward Tang San, who lay barely conscious on the ground.

Yao Yan defeated Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, then claimed the wagered Storage Soul Tool and left the Back Mountain. Tang San rejected Yu Xiaogang’s consolation and went down the mountain with Xiao Wu, leaving Yu Xiaogang worried about him.

• Yao Yan redirected the Blue Silver Overlord Spear toward Yu Xiaogang, bound him and Luo San Pao with Blue Silver Vines, and stopped the spear three inches from Yu Xiaogang’s brow.
• Yao Yan blasted a five-meter-wide pit into the ground, healed Tang San, and left him questioning Yu Xiaogang’s theories about Blue Silver Grass.
• Yao Yan demanded the wager from Mang Tianchi and claimed Tang San’s Twenty-Four Bridges Bright Moon Night Soul Tool before releasing Yu Xiaogang.
• Yao Yan left after telling Yu Xiaogang that his defeated enemies were not opponents, while the students laughed at his departure.
• Tang San declined Yu Xiaogang’s attempt to comfort him, took Xiao Wu’s hand, and went down the mountain, leaving Yu Xiaogang worried about his state of mind.

After losing to Yao Yan, Tang San doubted Master Yu’s theory and his own potential, but Master Yu restored his confidence by explaining the advantages of his Twin Martial Souls and revealing that Tang Hao had helped plan his path. Tang San renewed his resolve to cultivate and vowed to surpass Yao Yan.

• Tang San brooded over his defeat and wondered whether his ordinary Blue Silver Grass could follow Yao Yan’s path.
• Master Yu told Tang San that Yao Yan’s Blue Silver Grass was mutated and urged him not to lose heart because he had Twin Martial Souls.
• Master Yu forbade Tang San from cultivating his second Martial Soul early, claiming that saving it would let him reach Title Douluo faster and later equip it only with Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings.
• Master Yu revealed that Tang Hao had visited him, was far stronger and more knowledgeable than he was, and had helped lay out Tang San’s path.
• Tang San accepted the roasted rabbit, resolved to cultivate diligently to clear Master Yu’s name, and vowed to defeat Yao Yan.

After graduating from Nuoding Academy as a Soul Elder, Yao Yan left Jieyou Pharmacy to travel to Gengxin City and then Qingshan Town, despite Li Caiyi’s reluctance. He departed for the Star Dou Great Forest with Li Caiyi and Zhou Qinglan seeing him off, while Li Caiyi concealed her fear that she could only stay by his side for a while.

• Yao Yan graduated from Nuoding Academy after reaching level thirty and went to Jieyou Pharmacy to tell Li Caiyi he planned to travel to Gengxin City about the Alchemy Furnace.
• Li Caiyi objected to Yao Yan traveling alone, but relented after he promised to stay in Qingshan Town and return quickly if she sent for him.
• Li Caiyi and Yao Yan shared a tender farewell in her office before she took him out for a meal.
• Three days later, Zhou Qinglan told Yao Yan he could contact her elder brother’s team in Qingshan Town if he needed help obtaining his Second Soul Ring.
• Yao Yan boarded a carriage bound for the Star Dou Great Forest, and Li Caiyi told Zhou Qinglan she was confident she would remain his principal wife while privately fearing their time together was limited.

After leaving Nuoding Academy, Yao Yan arrived in Qingshan Town and prepared to hunt a Spirit Beast for his third Soul Ring. He entered the Star Dou Great Forest alone and discovered a moving plant that resembled a Mandala Snake.

• Tang San learned that Yao Yan had graduated and left Nuoding Academy, then received his Twenty-Four Bridges Bright Moon Night Storage Soul Tool back from Mang Tianchi.
• Yao Yan arrived in Qingshan Town, where Physician Yao greeted him and escorted him to Misty Rain Tower.
• At the inn, Yao Yan saw Shui Bing'er and the other Skywater Academy students, then secretly prepared to hunt for a Ten Thousand Year Spirit Beast.
• Shui Bing'er spotted Yao Yan entering the Star Dou Great Forest alone and led the other girls in pursuit, but they lost his trail.
• Yao Yan entered the Mixed Zone and used the Blue Silver Grass to search for a transforming Plant Spirit Beast, discovering a moving plant with a Mandala Flower-shaped crest.