Chapter Summaries

Mu Yuan was rejected by Shrek Academy because Xuan Zi considered his Arm Martial Soul too ordinary, but Wang Yan gave him a recommendation to Blue Tyrant Primary Soul Master Academy. As Uncle Wang accompanied him to Heaven Dou City, Mu Yuan wondered why Shrek had sent him there and worried about explaining that he wanted to find the Body Sect.

• Xuan Zi examined Mu Yuan and rejected him from Shrek Academy, calling his Arm Martial Soul unworthy of the name monster.
• Mu Yuan told Uncle Wang he wanted to leave the village, and Uncle Wang insisted on helping him find an academy.
• Wang Yan returned and gave Mu Yuan a recommendation letter for Blue Tyrant Primary Soul Master Academy.
• After Wang Yan left, Mu Yuan questioned why Shrek had recommended the academy, while Xuan Zi praised Wang Yan for steering him away from the Body Sect.
• Uncle Wang accompanied Mu Yuan to Heaven Dou City, where Mu Yuan worried that Uncle Wang would oppose his plan to join the Body Sect.

Mu Yuan questioned Uncle Wang about Body Martial Souls and the Body Sect before enrolling at Blue Tyrant Primary Soul Master Academy. After a Body Sect member found him, Mu Yuan met Sect Master Du Busi and was welcomed into the sect.

• Mu Yuan learned from Uncle Wang that Body Martial Souls were rare mutations and that the wandering Body Sect had a poor reputation, though Mu Yuan still wanted to join it.
• Mu Yuan enrolled at Blue Tyrant Primary Soul Master Academy after deciding he could not find the Body Sect on his own.
• Three days later, a burly Body Sect member found Mu Yuan at the academy and declared that he would join the sect.
• The man brought Mu Yuan to the Body Sect estate, where Du Busi welcomed him as family and asked about his two-arm Martial Soul.
• Mu Yuan explained Shrek Academy's assessment, and Du Busi criticized Xuan Zi for sending Body Martial Soul students to Blue Tyrant Primary Soul Master Academy.
• Du Busi told Mu Yuan to choose a nearby sect member to follow, explaining that Body Martial Soul cultivation was individual and their guidance would be much the same.

Mu Yuan trained with Qi Lin after joining the Body Sect and used pills to raise his Soul Power rapidly. After meditating on how to develop his Arm Martial Soul, he chose the path of the Eight-Armed Demonic God and reached Level Ten four months after his Martial Soul awakened.

• Mu Yuan chose to train under Qi Lin, who explained that each Body Martial Soul Master developed unique techniques based on their Soul Rings and Soul Skills.
• Mu Yuan continued attending Blue Tyrant Primary Soul Master Academy for foundational lessons while training with the Body Sect.
• The Body Sect gave Mu Yuan a Mystic Water Pill, which raised his Soul Power from Level Three to Level Five; after a month, he reached Level Six and then took a Soul Ascension Pill that brought him to Level Nine.
• Qi Lin advised Mu Yuan to plan how his Arm Martial Soul would develop, and Mu Yuan decided to pursue energy manifestation and transform his Martial Soul into eight arms.
• Four months after awakening his Martial Soul, Mu Yuan reached Level Ten and declared that his Martial Soul was no weaker than anyone else's.

Mu Yuan reached level ten and, with Qi Lin’s help, hunted a Diamond Demon Ape in Sunset Forest for his First Soul Ring. After absorbing it, Mu Yuan awakened the Diamond Demon Body skill, strengthening his body and granting him control over Diamond Demon Power; Qi Lin prepared to share the news with the Sect Master and the others.

• Qi Lin learned that Mu Yuan had advanced from level nine to level ten in two months and believed his Arm Martial Soul could follow the Eight-Armed Demonic God path.
• Qi Lin led Mu Yuan through Sunset Forest to search for a suitable Soul Beast.
• Qi Lin struck down a Diamond Demon Ape with about four hundred years of cultivation, and Mu Yuan killed it and absorbed its Soul Ring.
• Mu Yuan mastered Vajra Power and Demonic Qi during absorption, fusing them into Diamond Demon Power.
• Mu Yuan awoke with the First Soul Skill Diamond Demon Body, which boosted his physique, strength, and defense and let him use Diamond Demon Power for offense and defense.
• Qi Lin praised Mu Yuan’s Soul Skill and said they should tell the Sect Master and the others.

Mu Yuan tempered his body with the Body Sect’s Secret Medicine for a year, reaching Soul Power Rank 18. Du Busi returned with Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber to raise Mu Yuan’s Soul Ring tolerance, setting him up to pursue a powerful Second Soul Ring.

• Du Busi approved Mu Yuan’s Diamond Demon Body Soul Skill and told Qi Lin to supervise his use of the Secret Medicine while he was in that state.
• Du Busi told Mu Yuan to reach Rank 20 on his own before taking his second Soul Ascension Pill, and discussed obtaining Whale Rubber for him and Long Aotian.
• Under Qi Lin’s supervision, Mu Yuan used the Secret Medicine for a year, advancing from Rank 12 to Rank 18 without suffering any ill effects.
• Du Busi returned to the manor with one-third of a Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber and explained that it could let Mu Yuan pursue a fifteen-hundred-to-seventeen-hundred-year Second Soul Ring.

Mu Yuan refined Whale Rubber under Du Busi’s guidance, tempered his body and fist techniques, and raised his Soul Power closer to level twenty. After Du Busi revealed a suitable mutated Deep Sea Demon Octopus for his Second Soul Ring, Mu Yuan agreed to leave with him at once.

• Du Busi helped Mu Yuan refine Whale Rubber and used his poisonous Soul Power to temper Mu Yuan’s channels.
• Mu Yuan suppressed the Whale Rubber’s surging energy with Diamond Demon Power and practiced his fist techniques for three hours, improving his control and gaining a level of Soul Power.
• Du Busi told Qi Lin that he had found a fifteen-hundred-year-old mutated Deep Sea Demon Octopus carrying Heavenly Thunder Power, whose eight tentacles suited Mu Yuan’s path.
• Mu Yuan woke and agreed to leave with Du Busi to hunt the Deep Sea Demon Octopus for his Second Soul Ring.

Mu Yuan and Du Busi encountered an Evil Soul Master who had slaughtered villagers to create a human-made Secret Technique Soul Bone, and Mu Yuan fused with it to gain an ability useful for his Martial Soul. After resting in Eastsea City, they set out to sea, with Mu Yuan persuading Du Busi to travel by Soul Tool Boat.

• Du Busi rushed into a Blood Mist-shrouded village and killed an Evil Soul Master while Mu Yuan watched.
• Du Busi explained that the Scarlet Spirit Bone had been condensed from the resentment of murdered people and could release Blood Qi to form arms.
• Mu Yuan fused with the Scarlet Spirit Bone and used Vajra Subdues Demons to suppress the resentful thoughts within his Mental World.
• After resting in Eastsea City, Mu Yuan persuaded Du Busi to accept a Soul Tool Boat, and they put out to sea three days later.

Mu Yuan and Du Busi imprisoned a Deep Sea Demon Octopus whose Heavenly Thunder Power resonated with Mu Yuan’s Vajra Power, intending for Mu Yuan to obtain its Soul Ring. After half a month of cultivation, Mu Yuan broke through to rank twenty and returned to the octopus, which met him with hatred and a plea for death.

• Mu Yuan followed Du Busi to a valley where a boulder pinned down a Deep Sea Demon Octopus, a thousand-year Soul Beast that had survived a Beast King's Heavenly Tribulation and gained Heavenly Thunder Power.
• The Deep Sea Demon Octopus tried to kill itself rather than give Mu Yuan its Soul Ring, but Mu Yuan struck its tentacle with Vajra Subdues Demons and Du Busi crushed its remaining tentacles.
• Du Busi told Mu Yuan to cultivate until he reached rank twenty while he watched over the imprisoned octopus.
• Mu Yuan spent half a month cultivating and broke through to rank twenty, faster than he expected.
• Mu Yuan returned to the valley and saw bone-deep hatred and a plea for death in the Deep Sea Demon Octopus's gaze, which stirred something within him.

Mu Yuan killed the Deep Sea Demon Octopus and fused with its Soul Ring, gaining an External Soul Bone that formed six additional arms. Du Busi realized Mu Yuan’s new power could offer the Body Sect a path to expand Body Martial Souls, and considered applying the insight to his own cultivation.

• Du Busi explained that he had deliberately raised the Deep Sea Demon Octopus’s hatred in hopes of increasing its chance to produce a Soul Bone.
• Mu Yuan used Vajra Subdues Demons to kill the restrained Deep Sea Demon Octopus, and a purple Soul Ring appeared.
• As Mu Yuan fused with the Soul Ring, he absorbed the beast’s dispersing Soul Power and endured a painful transformation in his Mental World.
• Mu Yuan awoke with an External Soul Bone attached to his back, which used Heavenly Thunder Power and Vajra Power to form six additional arms.
• Du Busi recognized that Mu Yuan’s eight arms could broaden the scope of his Body Martial Soul and considered using the idea to make his own Martial Soul encompass his soul.

Mu Yuan gained the Heavenly Thunder Power Soul Skill from the mutated Deep Sea Demon Octopus and returned toward Heaven Dou City with Du Busi. Near Eastsea City, Yan Shaozhe accused Du Busi of involvement in a village massacre, and Du Busi responded by summoning his nine Soul Rings.

• Mu Yuan tested his second Soul Skill, Heavenly Thunder Power, and found that it enhanced his strength and recovery while summoning a Heavenly Thunder Phantom.
• Du Busi praised Mu Yuan's potential to develop a Dharma Image Phantom, considered taking him as a disciple, and then set off with him for Heaven Dou City.
• Du Busi became absorbed in piloting Mu Yuan's Soul Tool Boat and took them two hours off course before they reached the village massacred by Evil Soul Masters.
• Yan Shaozhe arrived with Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng, accused Du Busi of leaving Poison Arts traces at the massacre, and demanded to know his connection to the Evil Soul Master.
• Du Busi summoned all nine of his Soul Rings, including three red rings, and a familiar voice called out to stop him.

Du Busi confronted Xuan Zi over Shrek Academy’s treatment of Mu Yuan and other Body Martial Soul Masters, then fought him when Xuan Zi tried to justify the academy’s actions. As Yan Shaozhe turned his attention toward Mu Yuan, Mu Yuan called out to Du Busi for help.

• Xuan Zi arrived to shield Yan Shaozhe and questioned Mu Yuan about being with Du Busi.
• Yan Shaozhe accused Du Busi of involvement in a village slaughter, but Du Busi denied it and said he had only killed the Evil Soul Master.
• Du Busi demanded that Xuan Zi explain why Shrek Academy had concealed Soul Masters with Body Martial Souls and sent them elsewhere.
• Xuan Zi defended Shrek Academy’s recruitment practices, and Du Busi declared he would not reason with him before transforming and attacking.
• Xuan Zi entered his Martial Soul Avatar and fought Du Busi while Yan Shaozhe protected Ma Xiaotao and another person.
• Yan Shaozhe looked toward Mu Yuan, who sensed his attention and shouted for Du Busi.

Du Busi stopped Yan Shaozhe from attacking Mu Yuan and demanded compensation from Shrek Academy for the attack on his disciple. He forced Xuan Zi to promise a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone at the next Soul Master Tournament, threatening to kill Shrek Seven Devils if the academy refused.

• Du Busi broke off his fight with Xuan Zi to stop Yan Shaozhe from attacking Mu Yuan, then condemned Yan Shaozhe for ambushing his sect's disciple.
• Xuan Zi shielded Yan Shaozhe and argued that Mu Yuan did not meet Shrek Academy's requirements, but Du Busi demanded an explanation for the attack.
• Du Busi demanded a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, and Xuan Zi refused to hand one over immediately.
• Du Busi ordered Xuan Zi to prepare a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone for collection at the next Soul Master Tournament in Star Luo City.
• Du Busi threatened to hunt down the Shrek Seven Devils and kill one percent of Shrek Academy's students if the Body Sect did not receive the Soul Bone.
• Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe recognized that Du Busi might carry out his threat, while Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng regretted the academy's loss of a precious Soul Bone.

After Shrek Academy compensated the Body Sect for Mu Yuan’s injury, Du Busi offered him the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone and Mu Yuan vowed his loyalty to the sect. Mu Yuan then planned to seize Huo Yuhao’s future opportunities, while the chapter ended with him meeting Long Aotian and Wei Na and learning about their recent soul hunts.

• Du Busi told Mu Yuan that the sect would give him the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone or choose another suitable Soul Bone for him.
• Mu Yuan accepted the reward and planned to take Tian Meng and Electrolux before Huo Yuhao could obtain them.
• Du Busi introduced Mu Yuan to the sect’s Senior Brother Long Aotian and Second Senior Sister Wei Na at the manor in Heaven Dou City.
• Long Aotian reported that he had obtained a five-thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear Soul Ring, and Du Busi praised his success.
• Wei Na reported absorbing a thousand-year White Lotus Soul Ring, and Du Busi approved of her progress toward becoming a Soul King.

Du Busi decided that the Body Sect would enter the next Soul Master Tournament to promote the sect and attract disciples with Body Martial Souls. He selected Xiao Ye, Long Aotian, Wei Na, and Mu Yuan for the team, while Wei Na agreed to arrange an academy as the sect’s competition entry.

• Du Busi announced that the Body Sect would participate in the next Soul Master Tournament, prompting concern from elders about the sect’s candidates and chances.
• Du Busi named Xiao Ye, Long Aotian, and Wei Na as prospective competitors, and the elders recognized that the sect had enough promising young disciples to build a strong team.
• Du Busi explained that he wanted the tournament to make Body Martial Soul users aware of the sect and attract new members.
• Wei Na asked whether the sect would establish an academy, and Du Busi told her to arrange one with her father despite the academy being a shell for the sect.
• Du Busi chose Xiao Ye, three Soul Ancestors, and Mu Yuan’s group as initial candidates, then opened selection to other age-eligible disciples through registration and matches.

Mu Yuan’s Heavenly Thunder Power accidentally helped Long Aotian enter Unity of Heaven and Man, where he unleashed a devastating axe strike before collapsing from exhaustion. After waking, Long Aotian tried to explain how he had controlled the power of heaven and earth, and Mu Yuan began guiding his own Heavenly Thunder across his palm without it exploding.

• Mu Yuan released his golden Heavenly Thunder Power, and its trace of the Might of Heaven and Earth stirred Long Aotian into an epiphany.
• At Du Busi’s approval, Mu Yuan struck Long Aotian with his Heavenly Thunder while Long Aotian defended himself with Dark Gold Power.
• Long Aotian entered Unity of Heaven and Man, condensed Qi into Momentum, and struck the ground with a Giant Axe, unleashing power comparable to some Soul Kings’ ten-thousand-year Soul Skills.
• Long Aotian collapsed from depleted Mental Power and Soul Power, and Du Busi caught him and confirmed he would recover with rest.
• After Long Aotian woke, he described his sensations to Mu Yuan, who followed his instincts and guided Heavenly Thunder across his palm without it exploding.

Mu Yuan learned to control Heavenly Thunder Power and discovered how Long Aotian and Elder Yugu’s Body Martial Souls helped them perceive heaven and earth. Two years later, Mu Yuan reached level thirty and prepared to visit Star Luo City to obtain a dangerous engraving knife for making Soul Tools.

• Du Busi explained that Mu Yuan’s powerful Mental Power helped him stabilize Heavenly Thunder Power, while Long Aotian’s Jade Skin and Elder Yugu’s jadeified bones aided their perception of heaven and earth.
• Mu Yuan continued cultivating and discussing his insights with Long Aotian, Du Busi, and Elder Yugu over the next two years.
• Mu Yuan reached level thirty at nine and a half years old after breaking through the level-twenty-nine bottleneck, which had taken him half a year.
• The Body Sect gradually accepted everyday Soul Tools after Mu Yuan and Wei Na persuaded Du Busi, and Mu Yuan and Wei Na grew closer.
• Wei Na warned Mu Yuan that the engraving knife he planned to obtain was dangerous, but Mu Yuan insisted his Vajra and Heavenly Thunder Power could suppress its resentful spirit.

Mu Yuan sought the Spirit-Eating Engraving Knife to balance the opposing powers within himself, and Du Busi bought it at auction in Star Luo City. On the road to Star Dou Forest, five masked Soul Masters ambushed the group, but Du Busi quickly defeated them and sent them fleeing.

• Mu Yuan decided the Spirit-Eating Engraving Knife could help balance the powers within his Eight-Armed Demonic God path.
• Du Busi accompanied Mu Yuan and Wei Na to Star Luo City, where he won the Spirit-Eating Engraving Knife at auction despite competing bids.
• Wei Na spoke with Jiu Jiu about the knife's deadly reputation, while Jiu Jiu dismissed the idea that the Heaven Soul Royal Family knew how to use it safely.
• Du Busi slowed the group's journey to Star Dou Forest, and five masked Soul Masters ambushed them, demanding the knife and its method of use.
• Wei Na's five Soul Emperor guards revealed their strength, and Du Busi scattered the attackers, took their Storage Soul Guidance Devices, and ordered them to leave.

After an assassination attempt, Du Busi led Mu Yuan and the others into the Star Dou Forest to find Mu Yuan a third Soul Ring suited to his strength and Heavenly Thunder. They discovered a Long-Armed Ape that had awakened Golden Giant Ape blood, and Mu Yuan chose it as his target.

• Mu Yuan accepted Du Busi’s decision to spare the five masked assassins, though he said he would kill anyone who tried to assassinate him.
• Du Busi asked Mu Yuan what kind of third Soul Skill he wanted, and Mu Yuan said he sought explosive physical power to complement his existing enhancement skills.
• After a month of searching, Wei Na spotted a golden ape in the Star Dou Forest’s Mixed Ring.
• Du Busi explained that the ape was a Long-Armed Ape whose Golden Giant Ape bloodline had awakened, giving it exceptional strength, defense, and recovery.
• Mu Yuan chose the Golden Long-Armed Ape for his third Soul Ring, and Du Busi charged toward it.

Mu Yuan absorbed a five-thousand-year Golden Long-Armed Ape Soul Ring, gaining the explosive spatial skill Plucking Stars and Seizing the Moon as well as immense vitality. The change stirred his Blood Qi, and after returning to Heaven Dou City, Du Busi and the elders began preparing him to condense Bloodline Power.

• Du Busi killed the Golden Long-Armed Ape and restrained it while Mu Yuan destroyed its heart with a Soul Tool dagger.
• Mu Yuan absorbed the Ape's Soul Ring, enduring five hours of intense bodily changes as the ring filled him with vitality.
• Mu Yuan discovered that his Third Soul Skill was Plucking Stars and Seizing the Moon, an explosive spatial ability.
• Mu Yuan sensed that the Soul Ring's vitality had stirred his Blood Qi and made him feel able to control and condense it into Bloodline Power.
• Du Busi advised Mu Yuan to wait until they returned to Heaven Dou City, where medicinal baths could support his breakthrough.
• After they returned, Du Busi informed the elders, who gathered rare herbs and prepared a large medicinal cauldron for Mu Yuan.

Mu Yuan studied the Body Sect’s inherited methods for condensing Bloodline Power and entered a medicinal bath to attempt it himself. After enduring the bath and drawing on its vitality, he used his Blood Qi to begin refining his body, leaving the result uncertain.

• Mu Yuan studied the predecessors’ experiences and concluded that Soul Rings both strengthened a Soul Master’s foundation and made Blood Qi harder to unify.
• A month later, Mu Yuan finished his preparations, and Du Busi offered him priority to use a medicinal bath prepared for the sect.
• Mu Yuan entered the steaming bath and used his Third Soul Ring and Scarlet Spirit Bone to endure the heat and draw the medicinal vitality into his Blood Qi.
• Mu Yuan focused on the movement of his Blood Qi and, combining his predecessors’ knowledge with inspiration from his previous life, cried, “Bloodline Furnace, refine!”
• Mu Yuan drove his Blood Qi through his body and used the medicinal bath to begin smelting everything within him.