Chapter Summaries

Xiao Tian awakened a spiritual Sword Martial Soul and rank-five Innate Soul Power, then discovered that a system had bound itself to him and warned of an eighty-thousand-year-old Blue Silver King nearby. He questioned why the powerful soul beast would be in Craftsman Soul Village.

• Xiao Tian went with the village chief to the Martial Soul awakening ceremony, where Su Yuntao awakened the village children.
• Xiao Tian summoned a rusty sword he called Sword Fifteen, sensed its unusual spirituality, and learned he had rank-five Innate Soul Power.
• A system bound itself to Xiao Tian and warned him to flee because an eighty-thousand-year-old Blue Silver King was nearby.
• Xiao Tian asked the system how to handle the danger, and it said the Blue Silver King was usually gentle but could still kill him if he was unlucky.
• Xiao Tian doubted the warning because he believed a Blue Silver King had no reason to be near their village.

Xiao Tian refused Su Yuntao’s invitation to join Martial Soul Hall, then gained rank ten Innate Soul Power after accidentally stepping on a Blue Silver King. After three months of sword practice, he arrived at Notting Academy with Sword Intent and Sword Qi, where Wang Sheng challenged him to fight for Dorm Seven’s leadership.

• Su Yuntao invited Xiao Tian to study at Martial Soul Hall Academy, but Xiao Tian declined and accepted the village chief’s Work-Study Student slot at Notting Academy.
• The system claimed Xiao Tian had crushed an Eighty Thousand Year Blue Silver King and rewarded him by raising his Innate Soul Power to rank ten.
• The village chief gave Xiao Tian an iron longsword, and Xiao Tian summoned Sword Fifteen, whose rust had disappeared and whose blade moved as if it were alive.
• During three months of sword training on the Back Mountain, Xiao Tian cultivated Sword Intent and learned to fire Sword Qi from his fingertips.
• Xiao Tian entered Notting Academy and was assigned to Dorm Seven, where Wang Sheng challenged him to fight the Dorm Leader.

Xiao Tian defeated Wang Sheng and became Dorm Seven’s Dorm Leader, then faced Tang San after the system warned him about powerful figures nearby. Xiao Tian’s Sword Control Technique overwhelmed Tang San’s Tang Sect skills, leaving a blade at his throat.

• Xiao Tian beat Wang Sheng in hand-to-hand combat and accepted the Dorm Leader position.
• The system warned Xiao Tian that Tang Hao, Tang San, and Xiao Wu were nearby, prompting his confusion about its claims.
• Tang San arrived as a work-study student and challenged Xiao Tian after learning he was Dorm Seven’s Dorm Leader.
• Tang San revealed his Innate Full Soul Power and Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, then attacked with Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track.
• Xiao Tian used Sword Control Technique to send Sword Shadows at Tang San, then lunged forward and held Sword Fifteen at his throat.

Xiao Tian defeated Tang San in Dorm Seven and received two martial arts techniques from his system. Xiao Wu arrived and challenged Xiao Tian for the Dorm Leader position, while Tang San struggled to explain his loss.

• Xiao Tian defeated Tang San in the dormitory, and Tang San blamed the cramped space for his loss.
• The system rewarded Xiao Tian with the Immortal Wind Cloud Body Technique and Drunken Immortal Moon Gazing Step, which he learned to the beginner stage.
• Tang San asked Xiao Tian about his sword technique, but Xiao Tian asked him about his footwork and jade-colored hands instead.
• Xiao Wu arrived, introduced herself as a level-ten rabbit martial soul Work-Study Student, and met Tang San and Xiao Tian.
• Xiao Tian introduced himself as Dorm Seven's leader and explained the dormitory rules to Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu challenged Xiao Tian for the Dorm Leader position, and Tang San tried to excuse his loss until Xiao Wu called him cringe.

Xiao Tian provoked Tang San into hiding his hostility, then sparred with Xiao Wu and used Sword Fifteen to outmaneuver and restrain her. He left Xiao Wu demanding another chance to fight while hinting that he had not shown his full strength.

• Xiao Tian called attention to Tang San's hostile look, and Tang San denied planning revenge and proposed another match later.
• Xiao Wu challenged Xiao Tian to spar with their martial souls, and he warned Sword Fifteen to blunt its edge.
• Xiao Wu rushed Xiao Tian with a powerful punch, but their clash sent both of them backward and surprised her with his strength.
• Xiao Tian used Drunken Immortal Moon Gazing Step to move behind Xiao Wu and struck her butt with Sword Fifteen.
• Xiao Wu charged at Xiao Tian again, but he used the softened Sword Fifteen to bind her and told her he had not fought at full strength.

After defeating Xiao Wu, Xiao Tian received several powerful System rewards and went with her to buy bedding. Xiao Wu chose to rely on Xiao Tian rather than share Tang San’s bedding, while Xiao Tian resolved to keep his distance and focus on training.

• Xiao Wu surrendered to Xiao Tian after their spar, and the other students wondered how he had defeated her without showing his full strength.
• The System rewarded Xiao Tian with a storage soul tool, a Space Shuttle Jade Pendant, and the Douluo version of the All-Encompassing Secret.
• An academy staff member delivered bedding to Tang San and told him that Grandmaster wanted to see him after dinner.
• Xiao Tian left to buy bedding, and Xiao Wu decided to go with him and asked him to pay for hers until she could repay him.
• Xiao Tian kept his distance from Xiao Wu, wary of Tang Hao and intent on focusing on sword training.

Xiao Tian and Xiao Wu discussed Spirit Hall, prompting Xiao Wu to reveal her resentment and resolve to grow stronger. The System warned that Tang Hao was nearby, leaving Xiao Tian wondering why Tang Hao was watching him and what he was called by the System.

• Tang San suspected Xiao Tian had been reborn from another world and considered whether he might become an ally or a threat.
• Xiao Tian praised Spirit Hall for helping commoners and offering Soul Master subsidies, but Xiao Wu rejected his praise and became emotional.
• Xiao Wu wiped away her tears and vowed to cultivate after buying bedding so she could challenge Xiao Tian again.
• Xiao Tian questioned his assumptions about Bibi Dong and Xiao Wu's mother's death, then the System warned that Tang Hao was within five hundred meters.
• Xiao Tian realized Tang Hao was likely watching Xiao Wu and focused on the System calling him the Plane Master of Douluo Star.

Xiao Tian planned his next training goals and decided to pursue a soul-power-boosting Spirit Ring once he reached level ten. He urged Wang Sheng to defuse conflicts with the noble students through the academy’s connections, then explained to Xiao Wu why he saw no point in fighting.

• The system’s titles for Tang Hao, Tang San, and Xiao Wu made Xiao Tian suspect it knew more than it should, while Xiao Wu evaded his questions about her home and lack of money.
• Xiao Tian planned to master his movement techniques, attempt Sword Flight, and eventually hunt for a Spirit Ring that boosted soul power.
• Back at Dorm Seven, Xiao Tian told Wang Sheng and the others to spread word of Xiao Wu and Tang San’s talents and use Grandmaster and the headmaster to discourage the noble students from causing trouble.
• Xiao Wu followed Xiao Tian and asked why he had advised the others, and Xiao Tian argued that fighting brought no benefit compared with cultivating.

Xiao Tian practiced swordsmanship with Xiao Wu nearby, then refused Yu Xiaogang’s offer to take him as an unofficial disciple. After Xiao Wu pulled him away from Yu Xiaogang and Tang San so they could reach the cafeteria, Xiao Tian asked why she had defended him.

• Xiao Tian practiced swordsmanship shirtless through the afternoon while Xiao Wu cultivated and watched.
• Xiao Tian and Xiao Wu headed to the cafeteria, where they encountered Yu Xiaogang and Tang San.
• Yu Xiaogang asked to inspect Xiao Tian’s intelligent martial soul and offered to accept him as an unofficial disciple, but Xiao Tian ignored him.
• Tang San challenged Xiao Tian’s attitude, and Xiao Tian’s Sword Intent drew a warning from the system about Tang Hao being nearby.
• Xiao Wu scolded Yu Xiaogang and Tang San, grabbed Xiao Tian’s hand, and ran toward the cafeteria.
• Xiao Tian asked Xiao Wu why she had spoken up for him, and she replied that she had never said she disliked him.

Xiao Tian and Xiao Wu agreed to spar again, while their teasing left Xiao Wu embarrassed and Xiao Tian amused. Yu Xiaogang decided to take Xiao Tian as an Unofficial Disciple to study his unusual Martial Soul, but planned to focus on Tang San and use Xiao Tian as a test subject.

• Xiao Wu proposed occasional combat training with Xiao Tian and said he could make a demand if she lost.
• Xiao Tian teased Xiao Wu about her figure, caught her kick, and joked about buying papaya with milk as they reached the cafeteria.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San that Xiao Tian would be only an Unofficial Disciple, while Tang San alone would be his Closed-Door Disciple.
• Yu Xiaogang planned to take Tang San to the Soul Hunting Forest the next day to obtain a Blue Silver Grass Soul Ring and believed it would counter Xiao Tian.
• Yu Xiaogang considered Xiao Tian an ideal test subject for his theories about Soul Rings and Martial Souls.

Xiao Tian decided to obtain his first Spirit Ring and experimented with using Sword Fifteen for flight. Fifteen carried Xiao Wu around the lawn, while Xiao Tian prepared to test whether Sword Intent could reduce the Soul Power cost.

• Xiao Tian woke Xiao Wu and learned from the system that Tang Hao was not nearby, likely because he was secretly protecting Tang San and Yu Xiaogang.
• Xiao Tian decided to visit another Soul Hunting Forest the next morning to obtain his first Spirit Ring.
• Xiao Tian asked Sword Fifteen to practice Sword Flight, and the sword refused until he suggested it could carry Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu cautiously stood on Sword Fifteen as it carried her in a low circle, while Xiao Tian noticed the flight consumed his Soul Power.
• Xiao Tian used Sword Intent to sharpen Sword Fifteen and planned to test whether it could reduce the Soul Power consumed by flight.

Xiao Tian tested how much Soul Power Sword Fifteen could store before traveling to the Soul Hunting Forest to find a suitable first Spirit Ring. After his warning system alerted him to a fifty-thousand-year Azure Wood Silkworm King, he found what appeared to be a thousand-year Azure Jade Silkworm and realized the system might be wrong.

• Xiao Tian used Soul Power to enlarge Sword Fifteen, successfully flew on it, and discovered that the sword could store nearly all his current Soul Power.
• Xiao Tian left Xiao Wu asleep and traveled overnight toward the Soul Hunting Forest, while Xiao Wu later woke, failed to find him, and decided to seek a secluded place to condense her first Spirit Ring.
• Xiao Tian rested at a teahouse, then entered the forest outskirts and passed by a ten-year Lonely Bamboo while searching for a suitable Spirit Beast.
• The system warned Xiao Tian that a fifty-thousand-year Azure Wood Silkworm King was nearby, so he used Sword Intent Perception and sensed something in the grass.
• Xiao Tian approached the creature and identified it as an Azure Jade Silkworm with ten patterns, indicating it was a thousand-year Spirit Beast, not the king the system had warned him about.

Xiao Tian killed the Azure Jade Silkworm, which the system identified as a fifty-thousand-year Azure Jade Silkworm King, and received rewards before beginning to absorb its Spirit Ring. Elsewhere, Tang San fought a Mandala Snake while Tang Hao watched and reconsidered intervening.

• Xiao Tian reasoned that the system had logged in thousands of years early and decided to test its warnings by visiting places connected to Tang San and the others.
• Xiao Tian used Sword Control Technique to kill the Azure Jade Silkworm and learned from the system that it was a fifty-thousand-year Azure Jade Silkworm King.
• The system rewarded Xiao Tian with an upgradeable Milk Bottle Soul Tool and the Soldier Secret, which could control weapons and other objects.
• Xiao Tian told Fifteen to guard him, dragged the silkworm's corpse into the grass, and began absorbing its Spirit Ring.
• Tang San fought a Mandala Snake while Yu Xiaogang fainted, and Tang Hao stopped himself from intervening after seeing Tang San reveal his unusual abilities.

Xiao Tian absorbed a Thousand-Year Azure Wood Silkworm soul ring and gained a soul skill that greatly amplified his soul power. After he returned to the dormitory, Xiao Wu confronted him with red-rimmed eyes for disappearing all day.

• Tang Hao decided to keep watching Xiao Wu and hoped she would eventually sacrifice herself for Tang San, while considering Xiao Tian a potential ally for his son.
• Xiao Tian finished absorbing the Azure Wood Silkworm soul ring and named his first soul skill Azure Wood Soul Condensation, which increased his soul power by two hundred percent for half an hour and improved his soul-power absorption.
• Wang Sheng and the other students spread word that their dormitory had two students with Innate Full Soul Power who had already obtained their first soul rings, making Xiao Chenyu hesitate to provoke them.
• Worried that Xiao Tian had vanished, Xiao Wu ordered Wang Sheng and the others to help search for him.
• Xiao Tian returned to the dormitory, where Xiao Wu confronted him about being gone all day and showed him her red-rimmed eyes.

Xiao Tian accepted Tang San’s challenge to spar at the academy, despite Tang San’s confidence in his new Spirit Ring. As Tang San launched his first Spirit Skill, Xiao Tian’s sword aura surged, and the chapter ended before showing the result.

• Xiao Wu claimed she wanted to spar with Xiao Tian after obtaining her first Spirit Ring, while Xiao Tian asked whether Tang San had returned.
• Tang San came back and challenged Xiao Tian to spar outdoors, and Xiao Tian accepted despite the system warning him to surrender.
• Xiao Tian and Tang San went to an academy field, where Xiao Chenyu and a crowd of students gathered to watch.
• Tang San announced that he was a Level Twelve Control System Battle Soul Master, while Xiao Tian drew Sword Fifteen and let Tang San attack first.
• Tang San used his first Spirit Skill, Blue Silver Entanglement, but Xiao Tian’s Sword Intent suddenly surged before the attack’s outcome was revealed.

Xiao Tian overwhelmed Tang San in their sparring match, breaking through his Blue Silver Grass with Sword Intent and mocking his first Soul Skill. He unleashed Sword Intent Perfection and wounded Tang San, then appeared behind him with a blade at his neck.

• Xiao Tian shattered Tang San’s Blue Silver Entanglement with his Sword Intent, stunning Tang San, Xiao Chenyu, and Yu Xiaogang.
• Xiao Tian mocked Tang San’s first Soul Skill, and Tang San defended its paralysis toxin and increased toughness before launching his hidden techniques.
• Tang San used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, Mystic Jade Hand, and Purple Demon Eyes to attack Xiao Tian, but Xiao Tian evaded him and sent Sword Shadows through his Blue Silver Grass barriers.
• Xiao Tian invoked Sword Come and released Sword Intent Perfection, driving Tang San back with Sword Qi and cutting him across the body.
• Xiao Tian filled the field with phantoms, and Tang San searched for his real body with Purple Demon Eyes before feeling a blade against his neck.

Xiao Tian defeated Tang San again by using illusions and speed, earning a critical reward from the system. He declined Yu Xiaogang’s offer to become his disciple but arranged to seek his swordsmanship guidance, then faced Xiao Wu’s questions about his soul power.

• Xiao Tian broke free of Tang San’s eye lock, defeated him, and received Three Absolute Sword Qi and a God-Given Spirit Ring as a critical reward.
• Tang San praised Xiao Tian’s sudden breakthrough in Sword Intent, and Xiao Tian proposed sparring with him throughout their six years at Notting Academy.
• Yu Xiaogang renewed his offer to take Xiao Tian as an Outer Disciple, but Xiao Tian declined and asked to visit for swordsmanship guidance instead.
• Yu Xiaogang left with Tang San, and Xiao Wu approached Xiao Tian to ask what level his soul power had reached.

Xiao Tian practiced the Three Absolute Sword Qi, then challenged Xiao Wu to accept Spirit Hall's subsidy if she lost their spar. After Xiao Wu promised to spare Bibi Dong if she ever had the chance to kill her, Xiao Tian defeated and spanked her, triggering a system reward and leaving Xiao Wu fleeing when he suggested another match.

• Xiao Tian copied Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track but found it lacked its essence, then mastered the Three Absolute Sword Qi and comprehended the Seven Absolute Sword Qi.
• Xiao Wu challenged Xiao Tian to reveal his Soul Power level, and he proposed that she collect Spirit Hall's monthly subsidy if she lost their spar.
• Xiao Wu agreed to accept the subsidy and promised to spare Bibi Dong if she ever had the chance to kill her.
• Xiao Tian defeated Xiao Wu and spanked her, and the system rewarded him with a Treasure Accumulation Basin and a method to use Spirit Skills without displaying Spirit Rings.
• Xiao Tian asked Xiao Wu for another match, and she cried out for him not to come over.

Xiao Tian agreed to travel with Tang San and Xiao Wu to Holy Soul Village, where the system detected Ah Yin hidden in a cave nearby. Tang San learned from a letter that Tang Hao had left, while Xiao Tian began considering how to reach Ah Yin and her soul bone.

• After a year of training and sparring, Tang San invited Xiao Tian and Xiao Wu to visit Holy Soul Village, and Xiao Tian agreed.
• Xiao Tian continued telling Tang San and Xiao Wu that improving his Sword Dao Intent could also increase his Soul Power.
• The three arrived at Holy Soul Village, where the system warned Xiao Tian that Ah Yin was hidden in a Back Mountain cave and possessed formidable strength.
• Tang San rushed home, and Old Jack gave him a letter from Tang Hao saying that his father had left to handle something.
• Tang San resolved to cultivate until he became strong enough to learn the truth about his father.

Tang San invited Xiao Wu to become his little sister, but she refused, leaving him dejected. He then challenged Xiao Tian to a sparring match, intending to reveal his concealed weapons and test whether Xiao Tian recognized them.

• Tang San led Xiao Tian and Xiao Wu around Holy Soul Village and showed them the Back Mountain where he cultivated.
• Tang San asked Xiao Wu to be his little sister, but she coldly refused, while Xiao Tian tried to ease the awkwardness.
• Tang San apologized and admitted he had asked because he was upset about his father being gone.
• Tang San noticed Xiao Wu glance at Xiao Tian and wondered whether his own strength was the reason she favored him.
• Tang San challenged Xiao Tian to a sparring match, planning to reveal his concealed weapons and watch for signs that Xiao Tian recognized them.