Chapter Summaries

Su Fan awakened a mutated Martial Soul with only level-one Innate Soul Power, but discovered it could be manifested inside his body and accelerate the flow of Soul Power. He named it Aperture and began to consider how to develop its potential.

• Su Tian took Su Fan to awaken his Martial Soul, and Su Fan manifested a small, transparent sphere unlike the family's Balloon Martial Soul.
• Su Fan tested his Soul Power on the Compass and received a result of level one, worrying that his cultivation would be difficult.
• Su Fan sensed that his Martial Soul could organize ambient energy by faintly separating the space around it.
• Thinking about Huo Yuhao's Body Martial Soul, Su Fan realized his own Martial Soul could be manifested inside his body and nourished through his meridians.
• Su Fan confirmed that Soul Power flowed faster where his Martial Soul was located, named it Aperture, and returned to his room to study it.

Su Fan developed his Aperture Martial Soul by condensing apertures in his meridians, accelerating his cultivation and improving his ability to sense his body. After a year and a half of effort, he broke through to level ten and discovered that his nine permanent apertures could link with additional illusory ones.

• Su Fan decided to cultivate his Aperture Martial Soul through the meridians and learned the meditation technique from Da Ming.
• Su Fan condensed nine apertures, finding that they accelerated his Soul Power circulation, but he could not maintain a tenth.
• Su Fan spent a month solidifying the first aperture in his right palm, then condensed a second in his left palm a month later and reached level two.
• Over the next year and a half, Su Fan condensed more apertures and advanced from level one to level nine, where he stayed for two and a half months.
• Su Fan condensed his ninth aperture and broke through to level ten as the nine apertures linked with his meridians.
• Su Fan discovered that the nine permanent apertures illuminated parts of his meridians and could support twenty-seven additional illusory apertures, driving his Soul Power like a surging river.

After reaching level ten, Su Fan chose a six-hundred-year Mystic Turtle as his first Soul Ring and successfully absorbed it. His new Space Jump skill could move power or anyone passing through his Aperture nodes, but its range depended on his Soul Power.

• Su Fan told Su Tian he had reached level ten, and Su Tian shared information about two spatial soul beasts gathered by the Su Family Trading Firm.
• Su Fan chose the six-hundred-year Mystic Turtle, and Su Tian arranged an expedition to find it.
• Protected by three Soul Elders, Su Fan found the Mystic Turtle on the Eastsea Coast and absorbed its Soul Ring despite the strain on his meridians.
• Su Fan discovered that his strengthened Aperture Martial Soul had gained the Space Jump skill, though his body could not yet pass through the nodes.
• Su Fan told Su Tian that other people could use the Aperture nodes, and explained that the jump's distance depended on his Soul Power.

Su Fan explored how his Aperture Martial Soul and Space Jump could improve cultivation and enable new applications, then traveled with Su Tian to buy a Mystic Water Pill. At the Mystic Underworld Sect, Yan Shaozhe learned that a merchant firm wanted its young master considered for Shrek Academy, leaving Su Fan’s prospects uncertain.

• Su Fan considered using Space Jump to redirect Soul Power through his meridians, improve cultivation, and create Soul Tool arrays without material components.
• Su Fan decided to study Soul Tools, and Su Tian promised to find him a high-level Soul Engineer to teach him.
• Two days later, Su Tian took Su Fan toward Mystic Nether City to buy a Mystic Water Pill and said Shrek Academy representatives would also be there.
• Su Fan realized Su Tian hoped he would join Shrek, but he judged that joining too early would hold him back and resolved not to go willingly.
• At the Mystic Underworld Sect, Xu Yuan told Yan Shaozhe that a merchant firm wanted its younger brother considered for Shrek Academy, and Yan Shaozhe gave no direct answer.

Yan Shaozhe rejected Su Fan’s request to enter Shrek after deciding his Martial Soul was not truly a Body Martial Soul. Su Fan told Su Tian he hoped to attract the Body Sect’s attention through future tournament performances, and Su Tian began searching for a suitable academy in the Dou Ling Empire.

• Su Tian introduced Su Fan to Yan Shaozhe, who questioned him about his age, Soul Power, and Aperture Martial Soul.
• Su Tian explained that Su Fan’s Martial Soul formed apertures at meridian nodes and that he had risen from level one to level ten Soul Power in a year and a half.
• Yan Shaozhe decided Su Fan’s Martial Soul was not a genuine Body Martial Soul and rejected him for Shrek Academy.
• Su Fan told Su Tian he wanted to join the Body Sect by earning fame at a Soul Master Tournament, while Su Tian worried that this plan would delay his cultivation.
• After returning to Eastsea City, Su Tian chose Dou Ling Royal Academy as a likely fit because its Soul Guidance Department was the strongest in the empire.

Su Fan enrolled at Dou Ling Royal Academy in Lingdou City after rapidly advancing his Aperture cultivation and reaching level fourteen. He settled into an empty dormitory room, while the director reflected on the decline of pure Soul Masters.

• Su Fan recalled Dou Ling Royal Academy’s strong tournament team and resolved to grow strong enough to compete for it.
• Su Fan refined his thirteenth Aperture while traveling to Lingdou City, and his brother Su Tian explained the family’s distant royal connection.
• Su Fan reported to the academy director, who learned that he had reached level fourteen without taking a Soul Ascension Pill and was surprised by his talent.
• After Su Fan left, the director wondered aloud about the dwindling number of pure Soul Masters.
• Su Fan found his assigned room in Dormitory Building Three and discovered it had no roommates.

Su Fan began studying Soul Tools at Dou Ling Royal Academy while seeking a way to turn his Apertures into a source of real combat power. He arrived at Research Institute No. 18 to study Core Arrays under Lin Yue, intending to test his new ideas after returning that evening.

• Su Fan meditated overnight, condensed another Aperture, and recognized that repeating the same method was no longer enough to advance his plans.
• Su Fan devised the idea of using Core Arrays both outside his body, with Apertures as nodes, and inside his Apertures, while linking Apertures, soul skills, and Soul Tools.
• Su Fan went to the Soul Guidance Department and found Research Institute No. 18, which focused on Soul Tools that enhanced Soul Masters' combat abilities.
• Su Fan met Lin Yue, confirmed that he wanted to study Core Arrays, and learned that she would teach him at the institute.

Su Fan studied Lin Yue’s Core Array research and developed the Spirit Crossing Method to accelerate his cultivation. After joining the Dou Ling Team as a reserve member, he used a Mystic Water Pill to reach Level 20, having gained eight levels in half a year.

• Lin Yue gave Su Fan her handwritten Core Array research and told him to check its conclusions before studying her derivations.
• Su Fan learned the Level 1 Energy Gathering Pattern and began inscribing it into his Apertures.
• After a month, Su Fan used Space Jump to channel spiritual energy into his meridians and broke through to Level 15, naming the technique the Spirit Crossing Method.
• Over half a year at Dou Ling Royal Academy, Su Fan reached Level 19, and Lin Yue and the academic affairs director found no problems with his body.
• Director Chi made Su Fan a reserve member of the Dou Ling Team and offered him access to team benefits.
• Su Fan took a Mystic Water Pill and broke through to Level 20.

Su Fan obtained a thousand-year Silver Dream Butterfly Soul Ring and demonstrated his second Soul Skill, Heaven Sealing Earth Locking, which let him seal and control a fifty-meter area. He planned to pursue an Immortal Herb from the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well before seeking Electrolux, but the deadly poison in Sunset Forest left him unsure how to proceed.

• Su Fan decided to absorb a thousand-year Soul Ring and chose the Silver Dream Butterfly as his target.
• Su Fan returned from his Soul Hunting trip three days later and demonstrated Heaven Sealing Earth Locking at the Soul Guidance Department.
• Su Fan resolved to reach level forty before turning twelve and began planning how to obtain Electrolux and an Immortal Herb.
• Su Fan considered the dangers of entering Sunset Forest, where Green Phosphorus Seven-Absolute Flower poison had created a lethal miasma, and could not find a solution.

Su Fan weighed the risks of pursuing a Ten-Thousand Year third soul ring while trying to develop his soul skills and open his Sea of Consciousness. The chapter left him at rank twenty-nine with ninety-one Soul Apertures and a presumed limit of one hundred and eight before his third ring.

• Su Fan realized he might combine Space Jump and Heaven Sealing Earth Locking to create a protected space and cross the toxic miasma.
• Su Fan decided he might attempt a Ten-Thousand Year third soul ring, reasoning that further physique training and Soul Apertures could raise his endurance, but he worried about his spiritual power.
• Director Chi agreed to provide Su Fan a Soul Ascension Pill after a month, and Su Fan used it to advance from rank twenty-two to rank twenty-four.
• Su Fan made progress using Heaven Sealing Earth Locking to form a spatial barrier, but his attempts to condense Soul Apertures stalled because he had not opened his Sea of Consciousness.
• Nearly eleven months later, Su Fan had reached rank twenty-nine and condensed ninety-one Soul Apertures, which he believed could eventually reach a limit of one hundred and eight.

Su Fan developed his Aperture Method further and traveled to Sunset Forest to reach the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well before breaking through level thirty. He entered the poisonous miasma using Heaven Sealing Earth Locking and specialized Soul Tools, but had not yet reached his destination.

• Su Fan expanded the number of Apertures he could manifest and estimated that condensing 108 bodily Apertures would let him reach 360 in total.
• Because his Sea of Consciousness had not opened and he doubted his spiritual power could withstand a Ten-Thousand Year Soul Ring’s Soul Shock, Su Fan applied for extended leave and headed toward the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Su Fan entered Sunset Forest, where poisonous miasma from the Green Phosphorus Seven-Absolute Flower had nearly wiped out the Soul Beast population.
• As the poison eroded his five-meter barrier, Su Fan expanded Heaven Sealing Earth Locking first to ten meters and then to twenty, using Milk Bottles to replenish his Soul Power.
• Su Fan deployed eight custom Soul Tools to reduce the poison inside his barrier and continued recovering Soul Power with his supply of more than thirty Milk Bottles.

Su Fan entered the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and used a charged Class 6 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell to keep the Green Scale Nine-Absolute Flowers and the valley’s Immortal Herbs from attacking him. Youyou agreed to let him take one Immortal Herb and Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, while Su Fan planned to return later for the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass.

• Su Fan used a hair dryer and threatened the Green Scale Nine-Absolute Flowers with his Fixed Soul Guidance Shell, causing them to stop blocking his way.
• Su Fan flew into the valley and held the shell charged as the Aromatic Silk Beauty, Youyou, asked him to put it away.
• Su Fan told Youyou he had come on his own and identified the valley as the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Youyou agreed that Su Fan could take one Immortal Herb that had not become a soul beast, provided he kept the valley secret.
• Su Fan requested Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and said he wanted the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass in the future.

Su Fan took Aromatic Silk Beauty, Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, and numerous medicinal herbs from the valley before returning to the Su Family. After absorbing the Immortal Herbs, he broke through his level-thirty bottleneck, opened his Sea of Consciousness, and condensed his first Soul Aperture.

• Su Fan chose Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and Aromatic Silk Beauty, then persuaded Youyou to point out ordinary medicinal herbs that could strengthen his body and support his recovery.
• Su Fan left the Sunset Forest with the herbs and returned to the Su Family in Eastsea City, where Su Tian arranged for someone to refine some of them into pills.
• Su Fan absorbed Aromatic Silk Beauty, broke through his level-thirty bottleneck, and increased the Apertures within his body to 108.
• Su Fan drank the dew from Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, activated his Apertures, and opened his Sea of Consciousness.
• Su Fan condensed a Soul Aperture in his Sea of Consciousness and used it to temper his spiritual power.

After strengthening his body and developing his Apertures, Su Fan asked Dou Ling Royal Advanced Soul Master Academy to help him hunt a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast for his third ring. Director Chi tested Su Fan and learned that his Apertures could withstand the impact of a fifteen-thousand-year soul ring, while Su Fan had also opened his Sea of Consciousness; Director Chi was left wondering how he had managed it.

• Su Fan examined his transformed Apertures and found that they could compress space, absorb a steady power he suspected was the essence of heaven and earth, and possibly repair his meridians.
• Su Fan spent a month taking Foundation Solidifying Pills and training before returning to Lingdou City to request a soul-hunting team from the academy.
• Director Chi questioned Su Fan's plan to absorb a Ten-Thousand Year Soul Ring, then tested his physical condition and found his meridians unusually strong.
• Su Fan activated his Heavenly Circuit Apertures, allowing his meridians to withstand Director Chi's Soul Power at the level of a fifteen-thousand-year soul ring.
• Su Fan explained his Aperture Method and told Director Chi that he had opened his Sea of Consciousness, prompting Director Chi to ask how he had done it.

Su Fan explained his Ancestral Aperture to Director Chi and secured approval for a Soul Hunting trip led by Director Chi. After three months of searching, Su Fan found an ancient Silver Hero Beast and recognized that its Imprint ability would make a powerful Soul Skill.

• Su Fan claimed that his Ancestral Aperture connected to the Sea of Consciousness, convincing Director Chi that it helped him open one.
• Su Fan cited his experience absorbing Soul Rings beyond his level, and Director Chi approved the trip and offered to lead the team.
• Director Chi assembled a team with two Soul Emperors, and they set out for the Star Dou Great Forest.
• After three months of searching, the team came across a Dark Gold Bear fighting a Silver Hero Beast.
• Su Fan identified the Silver Hero Beast and asked Director Chi to let him take its Soul Ring, then explained that its Imprint skill could copy other Soul Beasts' Soul Skills three times a day.

Su Fan absorbed the Silver Hero Beast’s Ten-Thousand Year Soul Ring, enduring its spiritual shock by refining its remnant soul in his Sea of Consciousness. Back at the academy, he began studying the Imprint soul skill and considered how Soul Tools and Core Arrays might help him store soul skills in his Apertures.

• Director Chi and two Soul Emperors subdued the Silver Hero Beast after it used all three of its Imprint opportunities.
• Su Fan used a fourth-grade Soul Tool dagger to kill the Silver Hero Beast and began absorbing its Ten-Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Su Fan refined the beast’s remnant soul through his Soul Aperture and awakened five hours later, having survived the spiritual shock.
• After returning to Lingdou City, Su Fan used Imprint to call up Crimson Flame Claw, the soul skill he had copied from Teacher Wang.
• Su Fan maintained Crimson Flame Claw for half an hour to study its Soul Power flow, then considered using Soul Tools and Core Arrays to place a soul skill in each Aperture.

Su Fan completed his fourth Soul Ring hunt, gaining a fifty-thousand-year Evil Spirit Orca ring and a powerful area attack, then left the academy to seek Huo Yuhao and win over Electrolux. He found Huo Yuhao with Tang Ya and Bei Bei in the Star Dou Great Forest and made an impressive display of his Aperture power as they shared a meal.

• Su Fan planned to condense his Heavenly Circuit Apertures before reaching level forty and prepared to seek Huo Yuhao and Electrolux.
• Su Fan obtained a fifty-thousand-year Evil Spirit Orca Soul Ring with the academy's help and gained Evil Spirit Mirror Annihilation.
• Su Fan received permission to leave Dou Ling Royal Soul Master Academy and traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• After waiting three days at a junction, Su Fan encountered Huo Yuhao, Tang Ya, and Bei Bei while they grilled fish.
• Su Fan used an Aperture to pull fish from the stream and offered them to Huo Yuhao, leaving Huo Yuhao and Bei Bei stunned and Tang Ya wary.

Su Fan encountered Bei Bei, Tang Ya, and Huo Yuhao before Tian Meng’s Mental Shock knocked him unconscious and Electrolux transformed the Spirit-Devouring Engraving Knife into the Blade of Life. Electrolux joined Su Fan in his Sea of Consciousness, praised his Aperture Method, and Su Fan returned safely to Dou Ling Royal Soul Master Academy.

• Su Fan introduced himself to Bei Bei and Tang Ya, who were surprised by his abilities, while Huo Yuhao grilled fish using spiritual power.
• Tian Meng unleashed a Mental Shock across a ten-kilometer area to prevent witnesses from seeing his sacrifice, and Su Fan fell unconscious with the Spirit-Devouring Engraving Knife exposed.
• Electrolux emerged from a crack in the sky, erased the knife’s baleful aura, transformed it into the Blade of Life, and entered Su Fan’s glabella.
• Electrolux woke Su Fan and warned him to leave, then learned about Su Fan’s Ancestral Aperture and praised his unique Aperture Method.
• Su Fan returned to Lingdou City, where Director Chi worried he might have gone out to hunt another soul ring and warned him not to pursue a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring alone.

Su Fan developed the Soul Aperture Method by realizing that each Soul Aperture should correspond to a physical Aperture and help complete a Soul Skill. He entered Deep Meditation to map the Soul Apertures, while Director Chi and other teachers guarded him as his Soul Power began fluctuating violently without increasing.

• Su Fan reflected on extending his Heavenly Circuit Apertures into a circuit of Soul Apertures to advance his cultivation method.
• Electrolux explained that Soul Apertures could record the characteristics of Soul Skills and should correspond to physical Apertures.
• Su Fan understood the connection, entered Deep Meditation, and began forming and mapping Soul Apertures in his Sea of Consciousness.
• After a week without food or water, Su Fan remained in Deep Meditation, so Director Chi had teachers guard his room rather than disturb him.
• A month later, Director Chi brought pills to help Su Fan recover and learned that his Soul Power was fluctuating violently despite staying at the same level.

Su Fan opened the Heavenly Gate by merging his Ancestral Aperture with his central Soul Aperture, then developed his Aperture Method and replicated the Crimson Flame Claw. After ten months of training, he continued refining how his body and soul reproduced the skill.

• Su Fan merged his Ancestral Aperture with his central Soul Aperture, creating the Heavenly Gate, and Electrolux warned him not to gaze too long into the world's laws.
• Director Chi gave the exhausted Su Fan a pill, and he recovered over three days while resonating with eight more Apertures and reaching level forty-eight.
• Su Fan replicated the Crimson Flame Claw through resonance between his body and soul and carved a deep, scorched mark into a boulder.
• Chi Yuheng asked whether he could learn Su Fan's Aperture Method, and Su Fan explained why its spatial and comprehension requirements made it difficult.
• Su Fan repeatedly practiced the Crimson Flame Claw and fine-tuned his Soul Power circulation and Core Array over the next ten months.