Chapter Summaries

Lu Yi awakened a detached Magikarp Martial Soul with Innate Soul Power Level Two, while Su Yuntao judged it useless and chose not to invite him into Spirit Hall. Lu Yi obtained a Meditation Method and Martial Soul certificate, leaving with Wang Shu after Wang Shu also awakened an Innate Soul Power Level Two axe Martial Soul.

• Su Yuntao called Lu Yi's detached Magikarp Martial Soul useless after the awakening ceremony.
• Lu Yi tested at Innate Soul Power Level Two and felt relieved that he had Soul Power.
• Su Yuntao discovered that Wang Shu had awakened an axe Martial Soul with Innate Soul Power Level Two and asked him to join Spirit Hall.
• Wang Shu said he would listen to Lu Yi, and Lu Yi suggested that they consult Wang Shu's parents before deciding.
• Su Yuntao gave Lu Yi a Meditation Method and his Martial Soul certificate, then led Lu Yi and Wang Shu out of Spirit Hall.

After discovering that he could use Magikarp’s talents and skills, Lu Yi trained for three months before leaving for Nuoding Academy with Wang Shu. They entered the academy while Lu Rui stayed behind, hopeful that the boys would secure the village’s future.

• Su Yuntao told Lu Rui that Lu Yi and Wang Shu had awakened Innate Soul Power, though Lu Yi’s Martial Soul seemed useless.
• During his first meditation, Lu Yi discovered that he could control water and use Magikarp’s skills to jump high and land safely.
• Three months later, Wang Shu rejected Su Yuntao’s invitation to join Spirit Hall and insisted on following Lu Yi to Nuoding Academy.
• Lu Rui borrowed a second Work-Study Student slot for Wang Shu, and the two boys set off for the academy.
• At the academy entrance, Lu Rui saw the boys off, and Lu Yi led Wang Shu toward the teaching building to register.

Wang Shu arrived at the Seventh Dormitory and fought Wang Sheng after refusing to call the dormmates his big brothers. Lu Yi defeated Xiong Kui, became the dormitory’s leader, and urged the students to stand up to bullying and focus on cultivation.

• Wang Shu lost a bet with Lu Yi when Wang Sheng challenged him as soon as he arrived at the Seventh Dormitory.
• Wang Shu kicked Wang Sheng in the crotch after Wang Sheng insulted Lu Yi, leaving him collapsed on the floor.
• Lu Yi stepped in when Xiong Kui confronted Wang Shu and accepted Xiong Kui’s challenge to fight for leadership of the dormitory.
• Lu Yi struck Xiong Kui with Water Ball and Tackle, and Xiong Kui and the other dormmates called him Boss.
• Lu Yi told the dormmates to seek help if bullied, speak up for themselves, and prioritize cultivation, then chose adjacent beds with Wang Shu.

Lu Yi sought a way to speed up his cultivation and decided Whale Rubber might improve his talent. He learned that the apothecary sold Thousand-Year Whale Rubber but had no higher-grade stock.

• Lu Yi and the Seventh Dormitory work-study students fought back against noble students who bullied them, and Lu Yi drove off several attackers with Magikarp.
• Lu Yi discovered that Magikarp's Meditation Method helped him cultivate, and he raised his Soul Power to Level 3 after three months.
• Lu Yi considered Immortal Herbs and soul bones as ways to improve his talent, then decided to look for Whale Rubber.
• Lu Yi left Nuoding Academy and hurried to an apothecary to ask about Whale Rubber.
• The apothecary apprentice told Lu Yi that Thousand-Year Whale Rubber cost one silver soul coin per tael, while the shop had no hundred-year or Ten-Thousand-Year stock.

Lu Yi bought Thousand-Year Whale Rubber and consumed it to improve his body and Magikarp, enduring a painful night before testing the results. He found himself stronger and Magikarp larger, then prepared to measure whether his cultivation speed had also increased.

• Lu Yi spent three hundred Bronze Soul Coins on a piece of Thousand-Year Whale Rubber and asked the pharmacy apprentice to notify him if Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber became available.
• Lu Yi softened the Whale Rubber over a bonfire, swallowed it, and fed the residue to Magikarp before cultivating through the intense heat.
• Lu Yi jumped into the pond and spent the night venting the Whale Rubber's medicinal power by punching the mud.
• Lu Yi woke with improved strength, lifted a hundred-jin stone, and saw that Magikarp had grown to about one meter eighty.
• Lu Yi prepared to test whether the Whale Rubber had increased his cultivation speed.

Lu Yi rushed to rescue Wang Shu and challenged Yang Li, a one-ring Soul Master, to a fight. Lu Yi defeated him with Magikarp and his own strength, leaving Yang Li surrendered and the captured students freed.

• A Work-Study Student told Lu Yi that Wang Shu had been surrounded after Yang Li obtained a Soul Ring.
• Lu Yi arrived at the back mountain, knocked Xiao Chenyu away with Magikarp, and freed Wang Shu.
• Yang Li challenged Lu Yi, and Lu Yi agreed on the condition that Yang Li release Xiong Kui and his companions and have his lackeys avoid Lu Yi.
• Yang Li used Ram Horn Charge, but Lu Yi obscured his vision with Water Ball and leapt into a double Tackle with Magikarp.
• Lu Yi threw Yang Li to the ground, and Yang Li yielded and promised to follow his lead.

After Lu Yi subdued Yang Li, he began selling the chance to observe his Self-Created Soul Skills and used the money to buy Thousand-Year Whale Rubber. Three months later, Lu Yi reached level four and celebrated with Wang Shu.

• Yang Li and his lackeys accepted Lu Yi as the Top Student and promised to stop bullying Work-Study Students.
• Yang Li paid Lu Yi three Gold Soul Coins to observe him cultivating Tackle and Splash, and other non-Work-Study Students later paid the same fee.
• Lu Yi earned several hundred Gold Soul Coins, bought seven fist-sized pieces of Thousand-Year Whale Rubber, and consumed six before its benefits stopped.
• Lu Yi reached level four, and he told Wang Shu he would treat him to dinner at the cafeteria's second floor.

Lu Yi discussed Soul Beast research and Martial Soul evolution with Yu Xiaogang, hoping to gain access to his rare knowledge. Yu Xiaogang became intrigued by Lu Yi’s ideas and invited him to his residence for an experiment.

• Yu Xiaogang approached Lu Yi in the library and offered to help with his Soul Beast research.
• Lu Yi recognized Yu Xiaogang and questioned the categories and theories in his Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul.
• Lu Yi proposed that Soul Beasts with dragon bloodlines might help Magikarp evolve and said their sentient Martial Souls might respond to beneficial things.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that Martial Soul evolution was rare, but Lu Yi argued that their Martial Souls might evolve more easily than ordinary ones.
• Yu Xiaogang invited Lu Yi to his residence to conduct an experiment, and Lu Yi accepted.

Lu Yi helped Yu Xiaogang test whether Luo Sanpao could absorb dragon blood to improve its bloodline. After eating a piece of Dragon Blood Vine, Luo Sanpao's head bulge grew, and it happily stuck out its butt.

• Yu Xiaogang brought Lu Yi to his cluttered room and offered him some supplements to strengthen his body.
• Yu Xiaogang found a six-year-old Thousand-year Flowing Savage Dragon Beast leg, but Luo Sanpao sniffed it and showed no interest.
• Luo Sanpao sniffed out a section of Hundred-year Dragon Blood Vine that Yu Xiaogang had been using as a pen holder.
• Yu Xiaogang tossed the Dragon Blood Vine to Luo Sanpao, which chewed and swallowed it.
• Luo Sanpao's head bulge grew slightly, exciting Yu Xiaogang, and it stuck out its butt.

Lu Yi spent a year and a half growing stronger while his Magikarp grew enormous, and he finally acknowledged Yu Xiaogang as his teacher after accepting his generous support. After reaching Soul Power Level 10, Lu Yi prepared to obtain his first Soul Ring, while Flender arrived and tried to recruit him for his academy.

• Lu Yi returned to the Seventh Dormitory with his hair blown into a mess after Luo Sanpao startled him, then reviewed the Meditation Method Yu Xiaogang had given him.
• Over the next year and a half, Lu Yi developed new Self-Created Soul Skills, and Magikarp grew to ten meters long from Yu Xiaogang's steady supply of dragon-type beast meat and medicinal support.
• Lu Yi acknowledged Yu Xiaogang as his teacher after accepting his gifts for two months, and Yu Xiaogang found hope of breaking through Level 30 as Luo Sanpao began to resemble a dragon.
• After Lu Yi reached Soul Power Level 10, Yu Xiaogang contacted Flender to help him obtain his first Soul Ring.
• Flender arrived and urged Yu Xiaogang to send Lu Yi to his academy after graduation, but Yu Xiaogang said Lu Yi would have to decide for himself.

Lu Yi declined Flender’s invitation to attend Shrek Academy, and Yu Xiaogang reassured him that his Martial Soul could still evolve. Yu Xiaogang gave Lu Yi the Twenty-Four Bridges Moonlight Night before they prepared to travel to the Star Dou Great Forest for a soul ring.

• Yu Xiaogang told Lu Yi that Flender wanted him to attend Shrek Academy after graduation, but Lu Yi declined because his Innate Soul Power was only level two.
• Flender acknowledged Lu Yi’s low innate talent and encouraged him, while Yu Xiaogang sent Flender out so he and Lu Yi could prepare for the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Yu Xiaogang assured Lu Yi that their Martial Souls could evolve and that Lu Yi still had a chance to become a Soul Saint.
• Yu Xiaogang gave Lu Yi the storage Soul Tool he had once received with Flender, and Lu Yi accepted it after initially refusing.
• Lu Yi kept the name Twenty-Four Bridges Moonlight Night and explained its meaning, earning Yu Xiaogang’s approval.

Lu Yi, Yu Xiaogang, and Flender traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest to find a powerful water-element Soul Beast for Lu Yi’s first Soul Ring, which Yu Xiaogang limited to around six hundred years. They entered the forest with several candidate Soul Beasts in mind, leaving the hunt still ahead of them.

• Lu Yi and Yu Xiaogang set out with Flender for the Star Dou Great Forest after Yu Xiaogang agreed to seek a roughly six-hundred-year Soul Ring.
• Flender questioned the Soul Ring’s age, but Yu Xiaogang said Lu Yi’s special Martial Soul made his age-limit theory inapplicable.
• The group reached the town outside the forest after a day of travel and entered the Star Dou Great Forest with Flender leading the way.
• Yu Xiaogang named the Wave-Calling Azure Scale Fish as their first target, followed by the Dark Tide Ink Scale Turtle, Thousand-Thread Water Spider Mother, and Turbulent Vortex Conch.
• Yu Xiaogang ruled out dragon-type Soul Beasts to protect Magikarp’s bloodline, while Lu Yi planned to seek enhancement-type soul skills.

Lu Yi and his companions searched the Star Dou Great Forest for a suitable first Soul Ring and found a powerful Mysterious Cang Armor Carp. Although its estimated age exceeded Yu Xiaogang’s limit, Lu Yi persuaded his teacher to let him attempt to absorb its Soul Ring.

• Flender and Yu Xiaogang agreed to search for a month before settling for a less desirable Soul Beast, while Lu Yi and the others continued through the forest.
• Lu Yi sensed a lake ahead, and Flender flew toward a commotion, leaving Lu Yi and Yu Xiaogang to wait beneath a tree.
• Flender returned and led them to the lakeshore, where a wounded Mysterious Cang Armor Carp had fought a three-thousand-year-old Patterned Rock Giant Turtle.
• Lu Yi asked to use the carp for his first Soul Ring, but Yu Xiaogang refused because its estimated age of at least eight hundred and sixty years exceeded his seven-hundred-year limit.
• Lu Yi insisted he was willing to take the risk, and Yu Xiaogang agreed on the condition that Flender interrupt the absorption at the first sign of trouble.

Lu Yi killed the Mysterious Cang Armor Carp and absorbed its Soul Ring without difficulty, gaining a powerful first Soul Skill along with two skills from Magikarp. He left the Star Dou Great Forest with Yu Xiaogang and Flender, noticing that his body had grown enough to make his clothes tight.

• Lu Yi used a Three-Bow Bed Crossbow to kill the Mysterious Cang Armor Carp, then summoned Magikarp to absorb its dark yellow Soul Ring.
• After two hours, Lu Yi woke from meditation having absorbed the Soul Ring without discomfort.
• Lu Yi sensed his first Soul Skill, Oath of Cang Lan, which boosted his attributes and resistance, disrupted nearby enemies' Soul Power, and empowered his next attack.
• Lu Yi revealed that Magikarp had also granted him Water Cannon and Waterfall, then asked Flender to store the Carp's body for Magikarp to eat later.
• Lu Yi followed Yu Xiaogang toward the academy and realized his clothes had become tight after his body grew.

Lu Yi met Yu Xiaogang’s new disciple, Tang San, and welcomed him to the Seventh Dormitory. After helping Tang San settle in, Lu Yi brought him to Yu Xiaogang’s room to collect what their teacher had promised them.

• Lu Yi returned to the Seventh Dormitory and met Yu Xiaogang, who introduced Tang San as his new disciple.
• Lu Yi offered to look after Tang San, explained that Yu Xiaogang’s Martial Soul had developed dragon-like features, and told Tang San to ignore Wang Shu’s antics.
• Lu Yi gave Tang San a spare set of bedding and made up his bed in the dormitory.
• Xiao Wu arrived at the Seventh Dormitory, and Lu Yi pointed out the empty beds before taking Tang San to Yu Xiaogang’s room.

Lu Yi and Tang San received Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber from Yu Xiaogang, who revealed that he had already broken through to level thirty. As Lu Yi and Yu Xiaogang discussed Martial Soul research, Lu Yi realized Tang San's Innate Full Soul Power suggested he might possess a second Martial Soul and asked him about it.

• Lu Yi and Tang San entered Yu Xiaogang's room, where Lu Yi revealed that Yu Xiaogang had been experimenting on himself with Dragon Blood.
• Yu Xiaogang gave Lu Yi and Tang San one piece of Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber each, and both disciples offered their pieces to him instead.
• Yu Xiaogang said Luo Sanpao's dragon horns had fully regrown and he had broken through to level thirty, so Lu Yi kept his Whale Rubber.
• Lu Yi and Yu Xiaogang discussed how light-attributed Dragon Beast flesh and blood helped Luo Sanpao evolve, while Tang San studied a Soul Beast guide.
• Yu Xiaogang told Lu Yi that Tang San had Blue Silver Grass and Innate Full Soul Power, prompting Lu Yi to ask Tang San whether he had a second Martial Soul.

Lu Yi stopped Tang San from using hidden weapons, then helped Yu Xiaogang consider whether Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass could evolve through plant-based Soul Rings. After leaving the teacher’s residence, Lu Yi dragged a frightened Tang San toward the back mountain to show him his “big treasure.”

• Lu Yi restrained Tang San’s Sleeve Arrow and Poison Powder, then offered to teach him Self-Created Soul Skills in exchange for an illustrated record of Immortal Herbs.
• Lu Yi urged Yu Xiaogang to teach Tang San about society, and Yu Xiaogang resolved to pay closer attention to his disciple.
• At Yu Xiaogang’s request, Tang San revealed his Clear Sky Hammer, and Yu Xiaogang warned him not to reveal it or attach Soul Rings to it.
• Lu Yi suggested that Blue Silver Grass might have a King or Emperor form and proposed using plant-type Soul Rings to help it evolve.
• Yu Xiaogang sent Lu Yi and Tang San away so he could devise a new Soul Ring combination, and Lu Yi dragged Tang San toward the back mountain to show him his “big treasure.”

Lu Yi returned to the dormitory with Tang San and challenged Xiao Wu after finding her ordering the work-study students around. Tang San lost to Xiao Wu, but Lu Yi knocked her unconscious and told Tang San and Wang Sheng to take her to the infirmary and discuss their bet when she woke.

• Lu Yi and Tang San admired Lu Yi’s Three-Bow Bed Crossbow and argued about whether it was more useful than Tang San’s hidden weapons.
• Lu Yi found Xiao Wu making Wang Sheng and the other work-study students move her belongings, despite having abolished the dormitory’s lackey rule.
• Xiao Wu challenged Lu Yi to a fight, but Tang San blocked her opening kick and fought her instead.
• Xiao Wu caught Tang San with her Scorpion Tail Whip and threw him, and Lu Yi caught him before he hit the ground.
• Xiao Wu revealed that she was a level twelve Soul Master and attacked Lu Yi with her first Soul Skill, Waist Bow.
• Lu Yi struck Xiao Wu with Waterfall and knocked her unconscious, then told Tang San and Wang Sheng to take her to the infirmary and discuss the bet after she woke.

Yu Xiaogang agreed to train Tang San after Tang Hao entrusted his son to him, and demanded rare Whale Rubber to help Tang San absorb a thousand-year second Soul Ring. Meanwhile, Wang Shu defeated Xiao Wu again at the Seventh Dormitory while Lu Yi went back to sleep.

• Yu Xiaogang studied how dragon-beast flesh affected Luo Sanpao and wondered whether his Martial Soul's attribute had mutated.
• Tang Hao appeared in Yu Xiaogang's room and asked him to take responsibility for training Tang San, and Yu Xiaogang agreed in exchange for nine pieces of high-quality Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber.
• Tang Hao promised to deliver the Whale Rubber within three days and demanded that Yu Xiaogang ensure Tang San could absorb a thousand-year second Soul Ring.
• Lu Yi returned to the Seventh Dormitory after cultivating all night and told Wang Shu to fight Xiao Wu before going to sleep.
• Wang Shu used his Explosive Step and Explosive Flame Slash to knock Xiao Wu unconscious, and Lu Yi asked Tang San to take her to the infirmary.
• Wang Shu complained about Xiao Wu, and Lu Yi told him to keep beating her until she learned her lesson.

After Lu Yi suggested that metal possessed life and that Soul Power could aid forging, Tang San resolved to explore a new method of awakening metal’s spirituality. Meanwhile, Xiao Wu struggled to cultivate for long, and Lu Yi entered the dormitory thinking about which advanced academy to attend after graduation.

• After half a month of eating Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber, Lu Yi had gained tremendous physical strength.
• Lu Yi asked Tang San whether metal had life, and Tang San reasoned that ordinary iron might possess spirituality that a blacksmith could guide.
• Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass had grown fast enough to bind Xiao Wu before she could approach him, frustrating her and driving her to skip class to cultivate.
• Lu Yi suggested using Soul Power in forging, and Tang San excitedly embraced him, convinced the idea could work.
• Xiao Wu gave up meditating after half an hour, then pretended to cultivate when Lu Yi entered the Seventh Dormitory.