Chapter Summaries

After awakening a Willow Tree Martial Soul with level one Innate Soul Power, Li Fei gained Heaven-Defying Comprehension and Heaven-Defying Luck and discovered a way to cultivate through his roots. Three months later, he had reached level three Soul Power and prepared to leave Holy Soul Village.

• Li Fei awakened a Willow Tree Martial Soul with level one Innate Soul Power and received his Soul Master certificate.
• A voice granted Li Fei Heaven-Defying Comprehension and Heaven-Defying Luck, greatly improving his intelligence and Spiritual Power.
• Old Jack offered Li Fei the village's Work-Study Student place at Notting City Primary Soul Master Academy and promised the villagers would fund his studies.
• Li Fei used his comprehension to root his Willow Martial Soul in the earth and absorb Earth Energy and Wood Attribute Life Energy to replenish his Soul Power.
• Li Fei cultivated continuously for three months, reaching level three Soul Power and learning to perceive the world through plants.
• Li Fei withdrew his Martial Soul, stood up, and decided it was time to leave Holy Soul Village.

Li Fei enrolled at Notting City Primary Soul Master Academy and kept his true Soul Power level hidden. When a student attacked him in the Seventh Dorm, Li Fei used his Willow Martial Soul and superior endurance to defeat him, leaving himself the dormitory's new boss.

• Grandpa Jack brought Li Fei to Notting City and left after the gatekeeper allowed Li Fei into the academy.
• A female teacher enrolled Li Fei as a work-study student and gave him the key to the Seventh Dorm.
• A young man attacked Li Fei as soon as he entered the dormitory, and Li Fei bound him with Willow Branches.
• The young man broke free using his tiger Martial Soul, but Li Fei dodged his attacks and waited for his Soul Power to run low.
• Li Fei tripped the exhausted young man with his Willow Branches, and the young man conceded and named Li Fei the boss of the Seventh Dorm.

Li Fei cultivated for a year and reached Level 10 Soul Power, then persuaded the headmaster to help him obtain a Plant Type soul ring as an experiment in improving his willow Martial Soul. Back at the dormitory, he learned Wang Hu had been injured by upperclassmen.

• Li Fei defeated Wang Hu, declined to lead the Work-Study Students, and agreed to help if upperclassmen caused trouble.
• Li Fei studied and perfected the Beginner Soul Power Guidance Method, then spent a year cultivating until he reached Level 10 Soul Power.
• Li Fei asked the headmaster to help him obtain a roughly hundred-year-old Plant Type soul ring, and the headmaster agreed to set out the next morning.
• Li Fei returned to the dormitory and discovered Wang Hu had been injured by upperclassmen.

Li Fei traveled with the Headmaster to Soul Hunting Forest to find his First Soul Ring and unexpectedly discovered a rare Yin Yang Flower. After killing it, Li Fei began absorbing its Soul Ring into his Willow Tree.

• Li Fei told Wang Hu he had reached Soul Power level ten and promised to help him settle his score after returning from his Soul Ring hunt.
• The next morning, Li Fei and the Headmaster left Notting City Primary Soul Master Academy, and Li Fei explained that he wanted a control-type Soul Ring.
• The Headmaster led Li Fei into Soul Hunting Forest and instructed him to stay close while they searched for a suitable Plant Soul Beast.
• Li Fei tripped and spotted a roughly two-hundred-year-old Yin Yang Flower, which he recognized as an exceptionally rare Soul Beast.
• The Headmaster gave Li Fei a dagger, and Li Fei killed the defenseless Yin Yang Flower to obtain its Yellow Soul Ring.
• Li Fei summoned his Willow Tree and began absorbing the Yin Yang Flower's Soul Ring, which fused with little difficulty.

Li Fei absorbed a Yin Yang Flower Soul Ring, evolving his Willow Martial Soul into a Yin Yang Willow and gaining the Yin Yang Force skill. After registering as a Soul Master and receiving his monthly Gold Soul Coin, he returned to the academy and discovered his Willow Branch could heal Wang Hu’s fractured arm.

• Li Fei absorbed the Yellow Soul Ring, evolved his Martial Soul into a Yin Yang Willow, and gained Yin Yang Force as his First Soul Skill.
• The Headmaster agreed to keep Li Fei’s Martial Soul mutation method secret until Li Fei grew stronger.
• The Headmaster took Li Fei to Spirit Hall, where Ma Xiunuo registered him as a One-Ring, Level-Eleven Soul Master and offered him a place in Spirit Hall, which Li Fei declined for now.
• Li Fei collected his monthly Gold Soul Coin and returned to Notting Elementary Soul Master Academy.
• Li Fei used a Willow Branch to heal Wang Hu’s fractured arm and promised to help him settle the score if the other student returned.

Li Fei discovered the Yin Yang Flower’s Soul Core, developed Five Elements Power and the Taiji Rotation Soul Skill, and broke through to Soul Power Level Twelve. He went with Wang Hu to confront Si Te and used Taiji Rotation to block the leopard Martial Soul user’s attacks.

• Li Fei found the Yin Yang Flower’s black-and-white Soul Core in his dantian and realized it could strengthen him and store Soul Power.
• After two days of cultivation, Li Fei evolved Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth attributes, created the Taiji Rotation Soul Skill, and advanced to Soul Power Level Twelve.
• Wang Hu told Li Fei that Si Te had returned, and Li Fei went with him to get revenge.
• Si Te showed off his Level Nine Soul Power and Black Panther Martial Soul, then attacked Li Fei with his claws.
• Li Fei used Taiji Rotation to block Si Te’s repeated attacks until Si Te grew tired and taunted Li Fei to attack.

Li Fei beat Si Te for bullying Work-Study Students, then spent a week cultivating and created the Two Forms Domain. When Xiao Zhan arrived with older students to avenge Si Te, Li Fei went out to face them.

• Li Fei used his Yin Yang Willow Martial Soul to bind and whip Si Te, then warned him not to bully Work-Study Students again.
• Wang Hu told Li Fei that Si Te served Xiao Zhan, a twelve-year-old level-fifteen Soul Master who usually visited the school once a week.
• Li Fei returned to the back mountain and spent a week cultivating the Yin Yang Two Forces and Five Elements Power.
• Li Fei completed the Two Forms Domain, which strengthened allies and weakened enemies within its range.
• Xiao Zhan returned to school, heard Si Te's account, and gathered older students to confront the Work-Study Students.
• Wang Hu warned Li Fei that Xiao Zhan had arrived with a group, and Li Fei calmly went out to meet them.

Li Fei rescued the injured work-study students and faced Xiao Zhan and his followers. He used his Two Forms Domain to weaken their attackers and empower his allies, leaving Xiao Zhan defeated and the conflict at an end.

• Xiao Zhan threatened the injured work-study students, but Li Fei and Wang Hu arrived and Li Fei healed them with his Willow Branches.
• Li Fei revealed his century-old First Soul Ring and blocked a sharp-faced man's attack with Taiji Rotation, sending the attacker flying.
• Xiao Zhan ordered his followers to attack Li Fei, who activated the Two Forms Domain and drained their strength while empowering his allies.
• Li Fei bound the attackers with Willow Branches and told Wang Hu and the work-study students to beat them.
• Xiao Zhan charged Li Fei with his One-Eyed Evil Wolf Martial Soul, but the domain slowed and weakened him before Willow Branches bound and battered him unconscious.

After a year of secluded cultivation, Li Fei broke through to level twenty and mastered many elements and self-created soul skills. He planned to obtain his Second Soul Ring, graduate, and attend Plant Academy, while the headmaster agreed to help him hunt for free.

• Li Fei became the academy's student leader and spent a year cultivating in the Back Mountain Forest, mastering many elements and more than ten self-created soul skills.
• Li Fei broke through to level twenty and used the Wind Element to rise above the Back Mountain Forest.
• Li Fei told Wang Hu he planned to graduate for Plant Academy and promised to ask the headmaster to help Wang Hu obtain a hundred-year First Soul Ring when he reached level ten.
• Li Fei asked the headmaster to help him hunt his Second Soul Ring and offered twenty Gold Soul Coins.
• The headmaster refused the money and offered to have the academy hunt Li Fei's Second Soul Ring for free.

Li Fei hunted a seven-hundred-year Phantom Vine in Soul Hunting Forest and absorbed its Soul Ring, becoming a Two Ring Soul Grand Master with the Willow Shadow Clone skill. He left the Headmaster and prepared to verify his rank before setting out for Plant Academy.

• Li Fei accepted the Headmaster’s twenty Gold Soul Coins, then received a Graduation Certificate and recommendation letter for Plant Academy.
• Li Fei and the Headmaster traveled to Soul Hunting Forest, where Li Fei chose to hunt a Phantom Vine for his Second Soul Ring.
• Li Fei used his willow branches to find and sever the Phantom Vine’s root, killing it before it could split into clones.
• Li Fei absorbed the Phantom Vine’s Soul Ring, reached level twenty, and gained the Willow Shadow Clone skill, which created clones with seventy percent of his strength.
• Li Fei asked the Headmaster to help Wang Hu obtain a First Soul Ring, then left for the Martial Soul Branch Hall to verify his rank before traveling to Plant Academy.

Li Fei verified that he had reached Soul Power Level Twenty-Two and registered as a Two Ring Soul Grand Master at the Notting City Martial Soul Branch Hall. He planned to leave for the Plant Academy, but first decided to return to his village and visit his grandfather.

• Li Fei entered the Martial Soul Branch Hall and showed the guards his two Soul Rings, convincing them to let him in.
• Li Fei told Nolan he had come to register his new rank, then passed the Soul Power test with a result of Level Twenty-Two.
• Ma Xiunuo registered Li Fei as a Two Ring Soul Grand Master, offered him a place in Spirit Hall, and issued his certificate and increased monthly subsidy after Li Fei declined.
• Li Fei told Nolan he planned to attend the Plant Academy, collected ten Gold Soul Coins, and left the hall.
• Li Fei decided to visit his grandfather in his village before traveling to the Plant Academy, then slept peacefully after nearly two years without sleep.

Li Fei returned to Holy Soul Village, revealed that he had become a Two Ring Soul Grand Master, and used his money to help the villagers. After leaving to attend Plant Advanced Academy, he stopped in Notting City and bought a Twenty-Year Swift Wind Horse for his long journey.

• Li Fei returned to Holy Soul Village and showed Old Jack and the villagers his two Yellow Soul Rings and Yin Yang Willow.
• Li Fei shared his money with the villagers and arranged for improvements to their homes and the village economy.
• Li Fei told the villagers he had graduated from Notting Academy and planned to study at Plant Advanced Academy.
• Three days later, Li Fei left the village and headed for Notting City's Stable Market to find a faster way to travel.
• Li Fei intimidated the stable owner into lowering the price of a Twenty-Year Swift Wind Horse from twenty Gold Soul Coins to two, then tamed it and rode away.

Li Fei camped in the wilderness on his journey to Plant Academy, where he rescued an injured student named Enjing. After she woke, she explained that Soul Beasts had scattered her group during their return from a mission supporting the Heaven Dou Army.

• Li Fei stopped for the night after his Swift Wind Horse became exhausted, then built a wooden hut and defenses with his Jianmu Technique.
• Li Fei detected an unconscious woman through his Willow Branches and found that she wore Plant Academy’s badge.
• Li Fei tested his Clone Technique against a wolf pack, driving the wolves away and bringing the woman to his hut.
• Li Fei treated the woman’s injuries, and she soon regained consciousness.
• Enjing thanked Li Fei and told him that Soul Beasts had scattered her group after their mission supporting the Heaven Dou Army.

Li Fei agreed to help Enjing find her six missing Plant Academy sisters and revealed his unusual abilities as a two-ring Soul Master. After tracking the sisters through the forest’s plants, he discovered they were badly injured in a cave while three Three-Headed Exploding Bears approached.

• Enjing told Li Fei that her six teammates had gone missing after their group was attacked by three Three-Headed Exploding Bears.
• Li Fei revealed his Yin Yang Willow martial soul and agreed to accompany Enjing to search for her sisters.
• Enjing explained that her team had been weakened by injuries from supporting the army before the bears attacked them.
• Li Fei used his willow branches to communicate with the forest plants and locate the six missing girls in a cave.
• Li Fei found that one girl was unconscious, all six were gravely weak, and the Three-Headed Exploding Bears were closing in, so he and Enjing hurried toward them.

Li Fei and Enjing lured the Three-Headed Exploding Bears away from the cave and went inside to search for the injured Plant Academy girls. After lighting the cave and inspecting Enjing’s martial soul, Li Fei advised her on a future Soul Ring choice.

• The injured girls moved deeper into the cave after the Three-Headed Exploding Bears began smashing at the entrance.
• Li Fei used his Willow Branch Clones to lure the bears away from the cave while he and Enjing waited nearby.
• Li Fei and Enjing entered the cave with the Swift Wind Horse after the bears left, and Li Fei illuminated the passage with his Willow Branch.
• Li Fei told Enjing that a thousand-year Diamond Vine could strengthen her Wood Vine and improve its control and damage.

Li Fei and Enjing found the Plant Six Sisters in the cave and saved them from a snake, then Li Fei discovered he could absorb soul rings and found a storage soul guide ring inside the snake. The group regrouped and recovered, but the ring and the remains it came from left Li Fei wondering who had died in the cave and how.

• Li Fei used willow branches to search the cave while the Plant Six Sisters continued together through its dark tunnels.
• The Plant Six Sisters fled from a snake, but Li Fei's glowing willow branches bound and killed it before it could bite the last woman.
• Li Fei and Enjing reunited with the women, and Enjing explained how Li Fei had saved her; the women welcomed him and praised his talent.
• Li Fei healed the women and unconscious Xiao An with life energy from his willow branches.
• Li Fei absorbed the snake's ten-year soul ring into his yin yang two forces and realized he would need to refine it later.
• Li Fei found a black storage soul guide ring inside the snake's remains and discovered that it held about thirty cubic meters of space.

After rescuing Enjing and the six other women, Li Fei traveled with them to Plant City and sought admission to Plant Academy. Headmistress Su Ru approved his enrollment and was astonished by his transformed Willow Martial Soul and self-developed cultivation insights.

• Li Fei collected ten thousand Gold Soul Coins from a Storage Ring, healed the women, and led them out of the cave.
• Li Fei and the women bought horses, traveled to Plant City, and learned about Plant Academy and its traditions.
• Enjing reported Li Fei’s accomplishments and request to join Plant Academy, and Su Ru invited him to discuss enrollment.
• Li Fei showed Su Ru his Yin Yang Willow and two yellow Soul Rings, then explained how his ordinary Willow Martial Soul had transformed after absorbing a Yin Yang Flower.
• Su Ru and the women read Li Fei’s recommendation letter and were impressed by his theories and his rise to Soul Grandmaster despite having only Level One Innate Soul Power.

Li Fei joined Plant Academy as a Theory Instructor while studying, then immersed himself in its library and used his knowledge and comprehension to create a Top-Tier Soul Power Guiding Method. He named it the Willow God Method and resolved to improve it until it reached God Level or beyond.

• Su Ru offered Li Fei a paid Theory Instructor position, and he accepted while completing his enrollment at Plant Academy.
• Li Fei reviewed his light teaching schedule and spent the following week studying the academy's extensive library collection.
• Su Ru learned Li Fei had spent the week in the library and excused him from both theory and practical classes so he could pursue his research.
• The librarian observed Li Fei and the Yin Yang Willow growing more vigorous despite Li Fei going a week without food or water.
• Li Fei combined several Soul Power Guiding Methods with his knowledge and the Yin Yang Two Forces to create the Top-Tier Willow God Method.

After spending a week studying at the Advanced Soul Master Academy, Li Fei obtained the Top-Tier Willow God Method and began his first day as a theory teacher. He subdued his skeptical students with his strength, but Di Jie challenged him to a duel once he obtained his Second Soul Ring.

• Li Fei realized the Top-Tier Willow God Method would support his cultivation up to Title Douluo, then left the library after learning he had studied there for a week.
• Li Fei ate and hurried to Year One Class One to teach his first theory class.
• The students doubted Li Fei could teach them, so he released his soul power and displayed his two Yellow Soul Rings and Yin Yang Willow martial soul.
• Li Fei bound the students with willow branches and explained how he had reached Level Twenty-Two despite having an ordinary willow martial soul and Level One Innate Soul Power.
• Li Fei invited the students to challenge him, and Di Jie announced that he would duel Li Fei after obtaining his Second Soul Ring.

Li Fei taught his first class, won the students’ respect, and accepted Enjing’s invitation to visit an auction. He then settled in Plant Academy’s back mountain to cultivate, hoping to increase his Soul Power while avoiding the dangers of Star Dou Great Forest.

• Li Fei silenced his students with a display of his Martial Soul, promised to fight Di Jie after he obtained his Second Soul Ring, and taught a lesson that impressed the class.
• Headmaster Su Ru approved of Li Fei’s teaching and arranged for a teacher to take Di Jie and other students to obtain their Second Soul Rings.
• Enjing and the others asked Li Fei for cultivation advice, then invited him to an auction in Plant City, and he agreed to go.
• Li Fei found a place rich in natural energy in Plant Academy’s back mountain, built a small yurt, and began cultivating with the Yin Yang Willow.