Chapter Summaries

Tian Hao and Meng Yuyan encountered an ambush on the merchant caravan’s route, where a hidden Soul Ancestor used rolling stones and thorn-based Soul Skills to attack. Tian Hao borrowed Meng Yuyan’s Soul Power and Martial Soul, fought his way up the slope, and closed in on the enemy Soul Master.

• Tian Hao sensed a Plant System Soul Ancestor hiding above the road and warned Meng Yuyan and the caravan.
• The ambushers sent waves of giant stone balls down the slope, and Tian Hao borrowed Meng Yuyan’s Soul Power and Martial Soul to deflect them away from the caravan.
• Tian Hao raced up the slope by kicking aside and leaping across the rolling stones, then confronted a beautiful Soul Ancestor among the bandits.
• The Soul Ancestor used her Thorn Jungle and Thorn Burst Shot, but Tian Hao advanced through the attacks with his spear, agility, and protective whirlwind.
• The Soul Ancestor summoned two thorn pythons, and Tian Hao struck one with his spear to propel himself toward her.

Tian Hao killed the beautiful soul master who ambushed him and Meng Yuyan, then slaughtered the bandits and consumed their souls. Meng Yuyan suspected the caravan’s hidden cargo had prompted the attack and went to demand payment.

• The beautiful soul master used Thorn Guard and a Thorn Python to defend herself, but Tian Hao pierced the Python with his Black God Battle Suit-enhanced spear and killed her.
• Tian Hao devoured the dead soul master’s remaining power, slaughtered the fleeing bandits, and absorbed their souls into Dream Stealing Space.
• Tian Hao wondered why the killings had not made him sick, while Meng Yuyan called him a pervert after seeing the corpses.
• Tian Hao warned Meng Yuyan that the beautiful soul master’s abilities had been chosen to counter her and ordered the bodies burned to prevent disease.
• Meng Yuyan concluded the caravan’s concealed cargo was probably behind the ambush and went down the slope, angry that they had offered her too little payment.

Tian Hao strengthened the Purple Crystal Thorn Emperor Soul Bone with the defeated soul master's martial soul origin and began planning research into transforming human bones with soul bones. After the caravan dealt with the bodies, he left his Gold Soul Coins with Meng Yuyan, whose thoughts turned to whether he had just confessed to her.

• Tian Hao searched the beautiful soul master, found no money or Storage Soul Tool, and worried that her absence of belongings pointed to a dangerous organization.
• Tian Hao shattered the beautiful soul master's soul rings and martial soul, letting A Lan refine three rings and using the martial soul's origin, Soul Power, and Life Force to strengthen the Purple Crystal Thorn Emperor Soul Bone.
• Tian Hao confirmed that the soul bone could absorb compatible origin power, though the improvement was slight, and prepared to research Soul Bone Transformation of the human skeleton.
• The caravan workers burned the corpses, and Tian Hao noticed that the soul master's stockings were missing.
• Meng Yuyan gave Tian Hao the compensation pouch, but he asked her to hold it and pay for his purchases because he feared his bad luck with money and accepted items.
• Meng Yuyan blushed as she wondered whether Tian Hao had asked her to become his housekeeper as a confession, while Meng Yiran asked her uncle-in-law for a red envelope.

Tian Hao and Meng Yuyan arrived in Gamma City, where he made a mechanical arm and a sword before spotting an advertisement for Shrek Academy. He traveled to Suotuo City to deliver Yu Xiaogang a book of a thousand conjectures, then wondered how to publish it without provoking powerful factions.

• Tian Hao and Meng Yuyan left the caravan in Gamma City, where Tian Hao forged a mechanical arm and a Special Metal sword.
• Tian Hao learned that Spirit Hall had announced his supposed death and planned to travel to Heaven Dou City to meet Dugu Bo.
• While shopping with Meng Yuyan, Tian Hao found an advertisement showing that Flender, Liu Erlong, and Yu Xiaogang had founded Shrek Academy.
• Tian Hao left for Suotuo City that night and wrote a book titled Thousand Great Conjectures on the way to the academy.
• Tian Hao considered how publishing his conjectures might strengthen commoner soul masters and increase fortune, but feared the powerful clans and sects would retaliate.

Tian Hao visited Shrek Academy to meet Yu Xiaogang and instead found Liu Erlong preparing for their wedding. While advising her on running the academy, he met a red-haired young man whose restless fire-attribute Soul Power caused unusually strong desires, and began to suspect a connection to Ma Hongjun’s family.

• Tian Hao arrived at Shrek Academy seeking Yu Xiaogang and learned from Liu Erlong that she and Yu Xiaogang were getting married.
• Liu Erlong invited Tian Hao inside, and he advised her on academy facilities, training, student character, and Soul Master-world experience.
• Tian Hao helped Liu Erlong record his advice while they waited for Yu Xiaogang to return.
• A nervous red-haired young man arrived for his appointment with Yu Xiaogang, and Tian Hao noticed that his Soul Power was unusually restless.
• The young man explained that his family’s awakened martial souls caused powerful desires and that Yu Xiaogang had asked him to come for help.
• Tian Hao asked the young man’s name and martial soul, suspecting he might be related to Ma Hongjun.

Tian Hao examined Ma Tao’s inherited Flame Grass Chicken Martial Soul and traced its Phoenix potential to his great-grandmother, then warned him how to handle its evil fire. Yu Xiaogang and Flender arrived, and Tian Hao revealed that he wanted Soul Power from their Radiant Holy Dragon fusion and a drop of Yu Xiaogang’s Rumbling Sound Cannon blood.

• Tian Hao questioned Ma Tao about his family’s Martial Souls and learned that his great-grandmother had married into the village from outside and that the family’s Innate Soul Power had risen across generations.
• Tian Hao analyzed Ma Tao’s blood and Soul Power, concluding that the evil fire was fused with his Martial Soul and bloodline, and advised him to stop cultivating until he found flames powerful enough to suppress it.
• Ma Tao thanked Tian Hao and left, after which Liu Erlong praised Tian Hao’s knowledge and continued discussing the academy with him.
• Yu Xiaogang and Flender entered, and Yu Xiaogang failed to recognize Tian Hao until the youth explained that he had changed considerably.
• Tian Hao asked Yu Xiaogang for Soul Power from the Radiant Holy Dragon Martial Soul Fusion Skill and a drop of blood from his Rumbling Sound Cannon Martial Soul.
• Liu Erlong hurriedly told Yu Xiaogang that she and Tian Hao had only discussed an academic matter.

Tian Hao obtained Rumbling Sound Cannon’s blood and fused Soul Power after giving Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong an academy development plan. He identified Rumbling Sound Cannon as an underdeveloped Radiant Holy Dragon and left Yu Xiaogang with advice before asking to speak with him privately.

• Flender objected to Tian Hao’s request, but Liu Erlong and Yu Xiaogang agreed after reading Tian Hao’s academy development plan.
• Tian Hao reunited with Rumbling Sound Cannon, collected a drop of its blood, and healed its paw.
• Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Liu Erlong used their fusion technique to transform Rumbling Sound Cannon into a Radiant Holy Dragon, which then shared its Soul Power and origin power with Tian Hao.
• Tian Hao explained that the trio’s technique fused Soul Power and Soul Rings rather than their Martial Souls, and that Rumbling Sound Cannon was a juvenile Radiant Holy Dragon with incompatible Soul Rings.
• Tian Hao advised Yu Xiaogang to develop Rumbling Sound Cannon’s Light Attribute abilities and then asked to discuss personal matters with him alone.

Tian Hao gave Yu Xiaogang a notebook of Martial Soul research and accepted a necklace to return to Bibi Dong, but Yu Xiaogang refused to meet her. As Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong prepared for their wedding, news of his academy plans reached the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, whose leader headed south.

• Tian Hao urged Yu Xiaogang to help Bibi Dong in the City of Slaughter, but Yu Xiaogang rejected the idea and showed no lingering affection for her.
• Tian Hao gave Yu Xiaogang a notebook of research and wished him a happy marriage; Yu Xiaogang handed him Bibi Dong's spider-pendant Storage Soul Tool to return.
• Yu Xiaogang read the notebook and was impressed by its extensive theories, while Liu Erlong asked about Tian Hao and discussed their families and wedding plans with him.
• Flender took the academy plans back to study, while members of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan reported Yu Xiaogang's academy project to the clan.
• A great figure from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan headed south overnight after hearing the news.

Tian Hao and Meng Yuyan found the merchant caravan massacred by a team of Soul Masters, buried the dead, and took some valuable goods with the Spider Necklace. They followed the attackers’ trail into the forest, hoping to discover the caravan’s mysterious cargo and salvage what they could.

• Tian Hao and Meng Yuyan found a dead caravan member on the road, and Tian Hao buried him before they continued onward on horseback.
• They discovered the caravan slaughtered, and Meng Yuyan concluded that a team of Soul Masters, likely the hired escorts, had killed everyone and stolen the leader’s Storage Soul Tool.
• Tian Hao dug graves while Meng Yuyan kept watch and searched the bodies and carts, collecting over a thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Tian Hao used Yu Xiaogang’s Spider Necklace to store valuable goods and their luggage, while Meng Yuyan questioned him about the girl who had given him the necklace.
• Tian Hao spotted tracks leading into the forest and urged Meng Yuyan to follow the Soul Masters and investigate the mysterious cargo.

Tian Hao and Meng Yuyan tracked a battle through the forest, then waited until the victorious Soul King killed his own people to conceal a treasure. They joined their powers, and Tian Hao sped toward the Soul King, who had not yet noticed him.

• Tian Hao asked Meng Yuyan for stockings and used a pair as a disguise, while she put a fresh pair over her own face.
• Tian Hao and Meng Yuyan surveyed the battle and decided to kill everyone there so no one could reveal their identities.
• The Soul King's side won the battle, but the Soul King killed his younger brother when he came to help.
• The Soul King finished off the injured and fallen fighters to keep the treasure secret.
• Tian Hao and Meng Yuyan performed their Soul Power Fusion Skill and Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Tian Hao rushed to within three meters of the Soul King.

Tian Hao used a fused, rapidly stacked Firebird attack to break the Soul King’s defense, then killed him and the other enemies before looting their bodies. He gave Meng Yuyan a valuable lightning-attributed soul bone and had A Lan devour the corpses’ remaining power.

• Tian Hao combined fifteen Firebird Impact Bursts into a giant Fire Phoenix Bird, which destabilized the Soul King’s Wind Whip Barrier.
• Tian Hao flanked the Soul King, shattered his weakened barrier with the Black God Battle Suit, and killed him with his spear and Green Peak Sword.
• Tian Hao beheaded the other corpses to ensure they were dead, then ended the Martial Soul Fusion Skill and separated from Meng Yuyan.
• Tian Hao and Meng Yuyan searched the bodies and found a complete lightning-attributed right-leg soul bone from a beast over fifty thousand years old.
• Tian Hao gave the soul bone to Meng Yuyan and had A Lan devour the corpses’ residual Soul Power and Mental Power.

Tian Hao and Meng Yuyan escaped after claiming a powerful soul bone, hid from the soul masters pursuing it, and began refining and absorbing their gains. Meanwhile, a powerful figure from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan arrived at Shrek Academy during Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong’s wedding.

• Tian Hao concealed the corpses and their souls, martial souls, and soul rings, then fled with Meng Yuyan as soul masters began converging on the scene.
• Tian Hao carried the exhausted Meng Yuyan through the wilderness and hid with her in a cave behind a waterfall, where heavy rain erased their trail.
• Meng Yuyan began refining the high-age soul bone while Tian Hao used Dream Stealing Space to consume the captured souls, soul rings, and martial souls, giving Plant System gains to A Lan.
• A powerful figure from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan arrived at Shrek Academy while Flender held the wedding of Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong.

Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong’s wedding was interrupted when Yu Luomian revealed they were cousins and condemned Yu Xiaogang’s actions. Yu Xiaogang left promising to earn the clan’s acceptance, while Liu Erlong vowed to wait for him.

• Flender prepared the bridal wine as Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong began their wedding ceremony.
• Yu Luomian shattered Liu Erlong’s cup with a pebble, struck Yu Xiaogang, and revealed that Liu Erlong was his daughter and Yu Xiaogang’s cousin.
• Yu Luomian rebuked Yu Xiaogang for publicizing the clan’s accumulated theories and causing the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to be rejected by other sects.
• Yu Xiaogang insisted he would prove himself with new theories and gain the world’s blessing for his relationship with Liu Erlong.
• Yu Xiaogang promised to return with fame and hold a grand wedding, and Liu Erlong tearfully agreed to wait for him.

Yu Luomian confronted Yu Xiaogang about the sacrifices he had made to protect him and the trouble Yu Xiaogang had brought upon the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong insisted he would prove himself, but Yu Luomian lost patience and had them restrained.

• Yu Luomian revealed that he had secretly supported Yu Xiaogang and dealt with enemies who targeted him, while enduring pressure from rival elders in the clan.
• Yu Luomian berated Yu Xiaogang for worsening the clan’s troubles and warned him to grow up.
• Yu Xiaogang said he could prove himself, and Liu Erlong and Flender voiced their confidence in him.
• Yu Luomian kicked Flender away, ordered his guards to seize Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong, and threatened Yu Xiaogang.

Yu Luomian defeated Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, and Flender after they tried to resist his opposition to their marriage, then crippled Yu Xiaogang and sent Liu Erlong away. Meanwhile, Meng Yuyan completed a preliminary refinement of her Soul Bone, and Tian Hao considered copying a martial art for his master.

• Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, and Flender fused their power into the Radiant Holy Dragon and fought Yu Luomian, but he shattered their fusion and wounded Flender severely.
• Yu Luomian had clan members take Liu Erlong away, then used lightning to destroy Yu Xiaogang's twin brothers and warned him never to return.
• Yu Xiaogang checked that Flender was alive, arranged for the village chief to get him treatment, and left with a determined plan to make them proud of him and Shrek Academy.
• Meng Yuyan finished refining her Soul Bone after five days and six nights, gaining a speed-boosting skill, improved constitution, and Soul Power Level 42.
• Tian Hao wondered whether he should copy a Sunflower Manual for his master.

Tian Hao persuaded Meng Yuyan to refine the Soul Bone and promised to teach her more martial skills before they traveled to Heaven Dou City. At the Exotic Beast Academy residence, Meng Yuyan confronted her fiancé, who insulted her, and slapped him.

• Tian Hao explained why the Soul Bone's speed skill suited Meng Yuyan and told her he had methods that could greatly strengthen her once she mastered it.
• Meng Yuyan worried that accepting Tian Hao's martial skills might cause trouble for him, but he assured her he could decide what to share.
• Tian Hao and Meng Yuyan left the mountains after the Soul Bone search had mostly ended and traveled to Heaven Dou City.
• Meng Yuyan brought Tian Hao to the Exotic Beast Academy residence, where a burly young man confronted them and claimed to be her fiancé.
• The young man grabbed for Meng Yuyan, and Tian Hao stopped him and threw him aside.
• The young man insulted Meng Yuyan, and she slapped him hard enough to send him spinning.

Tian Hao and Meng Yuyan confronted Somas over his claim that she was his fiancée, then met Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang at the Exotic Beast Academy. Tian Hao refused Meng Shu’s offer to join the team and stood firm as Chao Tianxiang tried to pressure him with her Soul Power aura.

• Meng Yuyan rejected Somas and denied being his fiancée, while Somas manifested his Golden Snake Sword martial soul and challenged her and Tian Hao.
• Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang arrived and led the group inside before the argument could become a public spectacle.
• Meng Yuyan told Tian Hao that Somas was her age-matched rival, a level-forty-six agility-attack Soul Master, and captain of the Exotic Beast Team.
• Tian Hao decided to leave when he learned Somas could make joining the team difficult, but Meng Shu offered to let him join if he proved himself.
• Tian Hao declined Meng Shu’s offer, and Chao Tianxiang tried to suppress him with her Soul Emperor-level aura.
• Tian Hao shielded Meng Yuyan from most of the pressure and invited Chao Tianxiang to increase it, saying he could withstand it.

Tian Hao refused to join Exotic Beast Academy, and Meng Yuyan chose to leave with him. After Somas challenged him, Tian Hao defeated him by disarming his Golden Snake Sword and sending him crashing into a pool.

• Tian Hao warned Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang about the dangers of the continent, then said he would seek another academy for the Soul Master Competition.
• Meng Yuyan decided to leave with Tian Hao, but Somas challenged him to a duel, and Meng Shu required Tian Hao to prove his strength.
• Tian Hao dodged Somas's first two attacks without drawing his sword, then used his Self-Created Soul Skill to evade the Third Soul Skill, Hundred Snakes Claim Lives.
• Somas unleashed his Fourth Soul Skill, Golden Snake Devouring Strike, but Tian Hao drew his sword and knocked the Golden Snake Sword from his hand.
• The energy snake followed the disarmed sword through a wall and into a pool, leaving Somas defeated and furious.

Tian Hao and Meng Yuyan used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill to defeat Chao Tianxiang in a contest, freeing Meng Yuyan from her marriage contract. Meng Shu offered his daughter a bracelet and wished her happiness with Tian Hao, while Tian Hao declined his invitation to join Exotic Beast Academy.

• Meng Shu praised Tian Hao's swordsmanship, but Chao Tianxiang tried to keep Meng Yuyan from leaving because of her marriage contract with Somas.
• Chao Tianxiang offered to destroy the contract if Tian Hao and Meng Yuyan could force her out of a drawn circle, and they accepted.
• Tian Hao and Meng Yuyan activated their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Tian Hao compressed twenty uses of Firebird Impact Burst into a powerful fire phoenix.
• Tian Hao detonated the fire phoenix against Chao Tianxiang's snake attack, then drove her beyond the circle with a rapid spear assault.
• Chao Tianxiang admitted defeat and destroyed the marriage contract, while Tian Hao declined Meng Shu's invitation to join Exotic Beast Academy.
• Meng Shu gave Meng Yuyan a bracelet meant for her mother and wished her happiness with Tian Hao.

Tian Hao and Meng Yuyan reached Heaven Dou City, where she found clues to Dugu Bo through his son, while Tian Hao planned to prevent Tang San from gaining Dugu Bo’s favor. Elsewhere, Yu Xiaogang copied a notebook and resolved to publish an expanded martial soul guide to prove himself to those who had humiliated him.

• After Meng Yuyan and Tian Hao left, Chao Tianxiang attacked Meng Shu over the bracelet, and Tian Hao heard Meng Shu scream from outside.
• Meng Yuyan used Exotic Beast Academy's connections to learn that Dugu Bo often appeared near Sunset Forest and obtained the address of his son, Dugu Xin, in Heaven Dou City.
• Tian Hao and Meng Yuyan stayed in one hotel room, where Meng Yuyan watched him sleep and imagined spending her life with him while he experienced his memory dreamscape.
• The next morning, Tian Hao set out to find Dugu Bo's son and reasoned that Tang San's transmigration had been guided by a hidden force, so he needed to prepare for a future conflict.
• In a mountain cave, Yu Xiaogang copied a notebook and planned to perfect and publish it as Thousand Core Competencies of Martial Soul, then send a copy to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.