Chapter Summaries

Yu Xiaogang tried to secure Tang San as his disciple by revealing his connection to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, but Tang San dismissed him and chose Xue Bingchen instead. Xue Bingchen accepted Tang San’s three kowtows and welcomed him as a disciple, while privately delighting in his new authority over the young man.

• Yu Xiaogang claimed that he was the young clan master of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and urged Tang San to join him.
• Tang San privately mocked Yu Xiaogang’s weak cultivation and Luo Sanpao, and decided he would never join the clan because he was devoted to rebuilding the Tang Sect.
• Tang San knelt before Xue Bingchen, kowtowed three times, and asked to become his disciple.
• Xue Bingchen accepted Tang San’s kowtows and lifted him with Soul Power, telling him that a respectful bow would have been enough.
• Tang San insisted that a teacher was like a father, and Xue Bingchen privately celebrated his new role as Tang San’s master.

Tang San asked Xue Bingchen about his Soul Power, and Xue Bingchen revealed that he was a six-ring Soul Emperor. He demonstrated his overwhelming strength at Notting Academy, leaving Yu Xiaogang stunned.

• Tang San asked Xue Bingchen what level his Soul Power had reached, while Yu Xiaogang interrupted to claim Xue Bingchen was only a student with an elemental advantage.
• Xue Bingchen ignored Yu Xiaogang and taught Tang San about the Soul Master ranks, from Soul Scholar up to Title Douluo.
• Xue Bingchen told Tang San that he was a Soul Emperor with six rings.
• Xue Bingchen released his Soul Power and revealed two purple rings, three black rings, and a hundred-thousand-year red ring.
• Xue Bingchen summoned his Heavenly Snow Woman martial soul, stunning everyone present and leaving Yu Xiaogang speechless.

Xue Bingchen’s overwhelming Spirit Rings shattered Yu Xiaogang’s confidence, and Tang San chose Xue Bingchen as his master. Xue Bingchen gave Tang San a storage ring filled with Gold Soul Coins, and Tang San discovered its vast space.

• Xue Bingchen revealed his powerful Spirit Rings, including a hundred-thousand-year ring, leaving Yu Xiaogang unable to accept that his theories had been disproved.
• Tang San gratefully kowtowed to Xue Bingchen and chose him as his master, while Yu Xiaogang left Notting Academy in disgrace and vowed to find a disciple who could defeat them.
• Xue Bingchen withdrew his Martial Soul and gave Tang San a sapphire storage ring containing Gold Soul Coins.
• Tang San used his Mysterious Heaven Skill inner force to inspect the ring and discovered a fifty-cubic-meter storage space filled with golden coins.

Tang San was moved by Xue Bingchen’s generosity and revealed his Hidden Weapon, the Silent Sleeve Arrow, while Xue Bingchen urged him to consider how to develop his Blue Silver Grass. After bringing Tang San to Notting Academy, Xue Bingchen secured the academy headmaster’s private villa by revealing a trace of his Soul Emperor pressure.

• Tang San discovered that Xue Bingchen had given him hundreds of Gold Soul Coins and decided to reveal his Silent Sleeve Arrow.
• Xue Bingchen praised the weapon, returned it to Tang San, and promised to take him to Sunset Forest for a first Spirit Ring after he rested at Notting Academy.
• Xue Bingchen asked Tang San to consider whether his Blue Silver Grass should follow a support, control, or lethal path, and Tang San vowed to meet his expectations.
• Xue Bingchen and Tang San arrived at Notting Academy and learned that the best private lodging had been rented by Yu Xiaogang.
• Xue Bingchen released a trace of Soul Emperor pressure, and the headmaster offered his private villa in the academy’s rear mountain; Xue Bingchen accepted.

Xue Bingchen watched Tang San work at the blacksmith shop and establish himself in Dorm Seven while Snow Empress sensed a transformed hundred-thousand-year Soft Bone Rabbit at Notting Academy. At Snow Empress’s request, Xue Bingchen went to find Xiao Wu, who was angrily complaining about Yu Xiaogang.

• Tang San kept forging at the Notting City Blacksmith Shop despite having plenty of Gold Soul Coins.
• Wang Sheng tried to intimidate Tang San in Dorm Seven, then backed down after learning Xue Bingchen was his six-ring Soul Emperor teacher.
• Wang Sheng told Tang San that Yu Xiaogang freeloaded in the cafeteria, and Tang San felt relieved he had not taken Yu Xiaogang as his teacher.
• Snow Empress sensed a recently transformed hundred-thousand-year Soft Bone Rabbit at the academy and asked Xue Bingchen to take her to see it.
• Xiao Wu complained that Yu Xiaogang had insulted her and wrongly claimed her martial soul and innate full soul power indicated Twin Martial Souls.

Xiao Wu complained about Yu Xiaogang before Xue Bingchen appeared, and Snow Empress revealed that she knew Xiao Wu was a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast who had chosen Transformation. Snow Empress took Xiao Wu and Xue Bingchen to a secluded grove, where she identified herself as a powerful Soul Beast and asked whether Xiao Wu knew her name.

• Xiao Wu angrily complained that Yu Xiaogang was ugly and that she did not want to become his disciple.
• Xue Bingchen appeared before Xiao Wu, who was struck by his handsome appearance.
• Snow Empress spoke inside Xiao Wu's mind, questioned why she had undergone Transformation, and warned that a human Title Douluo could hunt her.
• Snow Empress emerged from Xue Bingchen, took Xiao Wu and him to a secluded grove on Notting Academy's back mountain, and confirmed she was a Soul Beast.
• Snow Empress introduced herself as the ruler of the Far North and asked Xiao Wu whether she had heard her name.

Xiao Wu explained to Snow Empress and Xue Bingchen that she had transformed into a human to seek strength and avenge her mother. The chapter ended with Xiao Wu declaring she would not regret her dangerous choice, even if it cost her life.

• Xiao Wu was stunned to learn that Snow Empress was the Far North's legendary seven-hundred-thousand-year ruler.
• Xue Bingchen told Xiao Wu to answer Snow Empress honestly and called Snow Empress his mother, leaving Xiao Wu bewildered.
• Snow Empress explained that she had adopted and raised Xue Bingchen, and assured Xiao Wu that he would not kill her for her Spirit Ring.
• Xiao Wu revealed that a powerful female Soul Master with Twin Martial Souls had killed her mother and taken her as a Spirit Ring.
• Xiao Wu said Daming and Erming could not guarantee victory against the woman, so she transformed and entered the human world to gain strength and avenge her mother.

After hearing Xiao Wu’s story, Snow Empress condemned her reckless plan to avenge her mother and warned that she would be hunted for her Spirit Ring and Spirit Bone. Xiao Wu realized Xue Bingchen held a special place in Snow Empress’s heart and seized on that connection as a possible way to survive.

• Snow Empress listened to Xiao Wu’s account of her mother’s death and judged her decision to enter the human world foolish and dangerous.
• Xiao Wu silently wondered why Snow Empress was in Notting City and why she had emerged from Xue Bingchen’s body.
• In the Far North, Ice Empress sneezed and wondered whether someone was talking about her.
• Snow Empress withdrew her pressure, and Xiao Wu recognized that she was no longer in immediate danger of being killed.
• Xiao Wu realized Snow Empress had accepted Xue Bingchen as the Young Master of the Far North and began to see him as her best chance to survive.

Xiao Wu tried to escape Snow Empress's anger by claiming Xue Bingchen as her father, and Snow Empress accepted her into their Far North family. Xue Bingchen reluctantly accepted Xiao Wu as his bargain daughter after Snow Empress warned her not to betray him.

• Xiao Wu called Snow Empress Mommy, angering her with the attempt to claim kinship.
• Xiao Wu clung to Xue Bingchen and called him Dad, arguing that Snow Empress would then be her Grandma.
• Snow Empress found Xiao Wu's logic amusing and declared her part of the Far North, ordering her to obey Xue Bingchen.
• Snow Empress returned to Xue Bingchen's body after warning Xiao Wu that she would kill her if she harmed or betrayed him.
• Xue Bingchen accepted Xiao Wu as his bargain daughter and told her to stop rubbing against his thigh.

Xue Bingchen promised Xiao Wu a treasure that would conceal her Soul Beast aura and let her stay at his villa. The next morning, Tang San met Xiao Wu and learned she was Xue Bingchen’s newly adopted daughter, whom he treated as his Little Martial Aunt.

• Xue Bingchen promised Xiao Wu a gift that could hide her Soul Beast aura even from a Title Douluo, and she eagerly asked to live with him.
• Xue Bingchen took Xiao Wu to the luxurious villa on Notting Academy’s back mountain, where she stayed the night.
• The next morning, Tang San saw Xiao Wu leaving the villa and mistakenly wondered if she was Xue Bingchen’s wife before realizing she called him Daddy.
• Tang San introduced himself to Xiao Wu and learned she was a newly admitted work-study student and Xue Bingchen’s adopted daughter.
• Tang San respectfully called Xiao Wu Little Martial Aunt and went inside to visit Xue Bingchen, while Xiao Wu wondered about Tang San’s innate full soul power.

Tang San told Xue Bingchen he planned to develop Blue Silver Grass into a hard, sharp weapon, inspired by Xue Bingchen’s example of Chrysanthemum Douluo. Encouraged by his master’s trust and approval, Tang San prepared to reveal the secret of his Clear Sky Hammer.

• Xiao Wu reassured herself that Xue Bingchen and Snow Empress would protect her as she continued watering Blue Silver Grass.
• Tang San entered the villa and waited quietly while Xue Bingchen meditated, reflecting on his master’s generosity and respect for his secrets.
• Tang San told Xue Bingchen that he wanted to develop Blue Silver Grass into an indestructible, sharp weapon rather than a weak binding vine.
• Xue Bingchen cited Chrysanthemum Douluo’s metal-sharpened chrysanthemum martial soul as proof that a plant martial soul could follow a powerful offensive path.
• Tang San asked whether he should choose Spirit Rings that strengthened Blue Silver Grass’s hardness and sharpness, and Xue Bingchen approved.
• Tang San announced that he was ready to confess his greatest secret to Xue Bingchen.

Tang San revealed his Clear Sky Hammer to Xue Bingchen, who guessed that Tang San’s drunken father had another identity but did not explain further. Xue Bingchen set out with Tang San and Xiao Wu for Sunset Forest to find Tang San’s first Spirit Ring and give Xiao Wu a promised gift.

• Tang San showed Xue Bingchen his Clear Sky Hammer and explained that his father had forbidden him from revealing it until he was strong enough.
• Xue Bingchen asked whether Tang San had ever seen his mother, then said he could guess his father’s true identity without revealing it.
• Xue Bingchen told Tang San to pack so they could go to Sunset Forest to find a suitable first Spirit Ring.
• Xiao Wu entered after eavesdropping, and Xue Bingchen invited her along and promised to give her a gift.
• Tang San worried that Sunset Forest was too dangerous for Xiao Wu, then explained that he called her Junior Aunt because she was Xue Bingchen’s adopted daughter.

Xue Bingchen, Tang San, and Xiao Wu set out for Sunset Forest, where Xue planned to find a suitable Spirit Ring for Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass. During the journey, Tang San asked about his father, mother, and the Clear Sky Sect, and Xue hinted that the forest might also hold Immortal Herbs.

• Tang San explained that he would respectfully call Xiao Wu “Little Martial Aunt” because she was Xue Bingchen’s adopted daughter, and Xue accepted the title.
• Xue Bingchen led Tang San and Xiao Wu toward Sunset Forest in a carriage to search for Tang San’s first Spirit Ring.
• Xiao Wu teased Tang San about his silence, and he formally addressed her as “Little Martial Aunt” despite his private reluctance.
• Tang San asked Xue why they were going to Sunset Forest instead of the Soul Hunting Forest and questioned his parents’ identities and his father’s possible connection to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Xue explained that Sunset Forest’s varied Soul Beasts might suit Tang San’s offensive Blue Silver Grass and revealed they might find Immortal Herbs there.

Xue Bingchen warned Tang San to hide his Clear Sky Hammer and revealed that he, too, had Twin Martial Souls. Xiao Wu suspected Xue Bingchen's martial soul was the Heavenly Snow Woman, then grew astonished when Tang San revealed his Gold Soul Coins came from his master.

• Xue Bingchen told Tang San that his Blue Silver Grass could one day lead him to his mother, but refused to explain more about his parents or the Clear Sky Sect.
• Xue Bingchen warned Tang San to keep his Clear Sky Hammer secret and delay giving it Spirit Rings until his first martial soul reached the Title Douluo realm.
• Tang San realized Xue Bingchen also had Twin Martial Souls and admired his master's power.
• After Tang San described Xue Bingchen's ice-and-snow martial soul, Xiao Wu suspected it was the Heavenly Snow Woman and tried to conceal her thoughts from Xue Bingchen.
• Xiao Wu offered to buy food in town, then gaped when Tang San showed her Gold Soul Coins and explained that Xue Bingchen had given them to him.

As the carriage traveled toward Tang San’s first Spirit Ring, Xue Bingchen explained the ordinary limit and promised to raise Tang San’s first-ring limit to at least eight hundred years. The chapter left Tang San and Xiao Wu stunned by Xue Bingchen’s own fifteen-hundred-year first Spirit Ring and his claim that he could help Tang San absorb an even stronger one.

• Xiao Wu begged Xue Bingchen for pocket money, and Tang San gave her several Gold Soul Coins at Xue Bingchen’s request.
• Xiao Wu fawned over Xue Bingchen during the journey while Snow Empress praised her attentiveness.
• Xue Bingchen told Tang San that ordinary Soul Masters could endure a first Spirit Ring of about four hundred and twenty-three years.
• Tang San pointed out that Xue Bingchen’s first Spirit Ring had been purple, and Xue Bingchen confirmed it was fifteen hundred years old.
• Xue Bingchen said he could raise Tang San’s first Spirit Ring limit to at least eight hundred years, and perhaps nine hundred, using his methods and an enhancement soul skill.

Xue Bingchen gave Tang San a two-thousand-year Whale Rubber to strengthen his body so he could pursue a first Spirit Ring far beyond ordinary limits. Tang San began absorbing it by the river while Xiao Wu watched jealously, regretting that she had already formed her first Spirit Ring.

• Xue Bingchen told Tang San he could aim for an eight- or nine-hundred-year first Spirit Ring and promised a method to help him surpass the usual limit.
• Xue Bingchen stopped the carriage by a river and revealed that two-thousand-year Whale Rubber could cleanse and strengthen Tang San's body.
• Xue Bingchen gave Tang San the Whale Rubber and explained how to absorb it.
• Xiao Wu begged silently for a share but learned that the Whale Rubber would do little for her because she had already formed her first Spirit Ring.
• Tang San began absorbing the Whale Rubber and felt intense heat spread through his body.

Tang San absorbed the two-thousand-year Whale Rubber, cleansing and strengthening his body while the remaining energy settled within him. Xue Bingchen explained that the stored power could erupt after Tang San gained his first Spirit Ring, as it once had for him, raising him directly to level fifteen.

• As Tang San absorbed the Whale Rubber, he vowed to repay Xue Bingchen and imagined inviting him to become the Supreme Elder of a future Tang Sect so he could share its secret techniques.
• Tang San completed the absorption, expelled foul-smelling impurities, and jumped into a river to wash while Xiao Wu complained about the stench and regretted having condensed her first Spirit Ring early.
• Xiao Wu privately imagined receiving Whale Rubber from her father, and Xue Bingchen suspected her thoughts were indecent.
• After changing clothes, Tang San told Xue Bingchen that his strength and senses had improved, and Xue Bingchen explained that the Whale Rubber’s remaining energy was stored throughout his body.
• Xue Bingchen revealed that after absorbing his first Spirit Ring, his own stored foundation had erupted and raised his Soul Power directly to level fifteen, astonishing Tang San and Xiao Wu.

Xue Bingchen explained that Tang San’s two-thousand-year Whale Rubber could help him reach at least level twelve after obtaining his first Spirit Ring, then led Tang San and Xiao Wu into Sunset Forest. They stopped at a bamboo grove, where Tang San spotted a solitary bluish-green stalk and asked if it was Guzhu.

• Xue Bingchen told Tang San that Whale Rubber would not let him leap to level fifteen, but should help him reach level twelve after breaking through the level-ten bottleneck.
• Xiao Wu grew jealous of Tang San’s expected Soul Power and vowed to ask Xue Bingchen for two pieces of Whale Rubber when she reached level twenty.
• Xue Bingchen led Tang San and Xiao Wu into Sunset Forest, where they passed a wary team of five Soul Masters.
• Xue Bingchen warned Tang San that unfamiliar Soul Masters in the wilderness could be more dangerous than Soul Beasts, and Tang San promised to remember the lesson.
• Xue Bingchen searched for a suitable Soul Beast with his Mental Power and stopped with the others at a bamboo grove, where Tang San asked whether a tall bluish-green stalk was Guzhu.

Xue Bingchen and Tang San searched for a suitable first Spirit Ring and found an over-eight-hundred-year Golden Thunder Bamboo that matched Tang San’s desired metallic Blue Silver Grass path. Xue Bingchen froze the Soul Beast, then explained that Tang San had to deliver the final blow himself to absorb its Spirit Ring.

• Tang San asked whether a roughly two-hundred-and-thirty-year Guzhu could be his first Spirit Ring, but Xue Bingchen rejected it as too weak.
• Xue Bingchen sensed a powerful lightning aura in a mountain hollow and led Tang San and Xiao Wu to an over-eight-hundred-year Golden Thunder Bamboo.
• Xue Bingchen explained that the Golden Thunder Bamboo could give Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass metallic sharpness and a lightning paralysis effect, and Tang San chose it.
• Xue Bingchen froze the Golden Thunder Bamboo with his Ultimate Ice and uprooted it.
• Xue Bingchen told Tang San to personally kill the frozen Soul Beast to claim its Spirit Ring, and Tang San took out a refined-iron knife.

Tang San absorbed the Golden Thunder Bamboo’s Spirit Ring with Xue Bingchen’s buff protecting him, and his Soul Power rose to level twelve, nearing level thirteen. The chapter ended with Xue Bingchen reflecting on how much faster Tang San was progressing than in the original story.

• Tang San delivered the finishing blow to the Golden Thunder Bamboo and produced a Spirit Ring of more than eight hundred years.
• Tang San began absorbing the Spirit Ring, while Xue Bingchen used Dance of Snow to boost Tang San and Xiao Wu’s attributes by thirty percent.
• Xiao Wu grew jealous that Tang San received a stronger first Spirit Ring and another personal buff from Xue Bingchen.
• After about half an hour, Tang San completed the absorption safely and his Soul Power surged to level twelve.
• Tang San told Xue Bingchen that his level was nearing thirteen, and Xue Bingchen compared his rapid growth with his progress in the original story.