Chapter Summaries

Su Chen was on the brink of death during a Wolf Bandit massacre when his Life Simulator activated and transported him into System Space. As his first simulation began, a Sky Screen appeared across Douluo Continent and announced a world-comparison event with rules and rewards.

• Wolf Bandits attacked Su Chen’s village, and one burst into his hiding place and left him badly injured.
• Su Chen recalled that he had transmigrated to Douluo Continent twelve years earlier, awakened a faint-speck Martial Soul with zero Innate Soul Power, and chosen a quiet life in the village.
• The Life Simulator activated during Su Chen’s crisis and moved him into System Space, where he began a simulation with the traits Scientific Research Maniac and Absolute Rationality.
• Su Chen’s simulated identity was revealed as the son of Yu Yuanzhen and twin brother of Yu Xiaogang in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• At Shrek Academy, Flender introduced Yu Xiaogang to Dai Mubai, Tang San, and the other students as a renowned theorist.
• A Sky Screen appeared across Douluo Continent, froze everyone’s bodies, and announced comparison videos, bullet-screen rules, and rewards for ten randomly selected viewers.

The Sky Screen began its first comparison, pairing Yu Xiaogang, called the “Theory Grandmaster,” with his twin brother Yu Chen, the “Ancestor of Immortal Dao” from another world. As the continent reacted and comments questioned Yu Xiaogang’s fame, he remained unaware that powerful factions regarded his theories as a joke.

• Tang San, Ma Hongjun, Flender, and Yu Xiaogang reacted to the Sky Screen’s promised rewards, while Yu Xiaogang celebrated the possibility of evolving his Martial Soul.
• The Sky Screen named Yu Xiaogang and his twin brother Yu Chen as the first comparison candidates from two different worlds.
• Bibi Dong wondered whether another version of herself was happy with Yu Xiaogang, then felt jealous and resentful at the possibility.
• Chen Xin failed to break free of the Sky Screen’s restraint, while Ning Fengzhi hoped to evolve the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda into a Nine Treasure Pagoda.
• Comments asked who Yu Xiaogang was, leaving him stung, while he dismissed the commenters as ordinary Soul Masters.

The Sky Screen began showing Yu Xiaogang’s arrogant youth in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, while Tang San became fixated on the possibility of immortal cultivation. Clan members’ comments revealed their contempt for Yu Xiaogang, and the footage was about to explain their hatred.

• Yu Xiaogang dismissed the Ancestor of Immortal Dao, while Flender backed his claims and Ning Rongrong doubted his reputation.
• Tang San saw the words “Ancestor of Immortal Dao” and resolved to learn the immortal cultivation method from the Sky Screen.
• Liu Erlong recognized Yu Xiaogang’s name and eagerly watched, believing the footage would prove his talent.
• The Sky Screen showed Yu Yuanzhen naming his son Yu Xiaogang and described how Yu Xiaogang’s privileged upbringing made him arrogant toward clan members below Soul Sage rank.
• Ma Hongjun asked Yu Xiaogang about his cultivation, while Yu Xiaogang flushed with embarrassment and Flender urged everyone to keep watching.
• Members of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan posted scathing comments about Yu Xiaogang, and Yu Yuanzhen’s silence reflected his hatred of his son.

Six years later, Yu Xiaogang’s martial soul awakening ceremony drew representatives from powerful forces across the continent, but he awakened a piglet-like martial soul and was mocked by the Sky Screen audience. The chapter ended with Yu Xiaogang furious at the public exposure and ridicule.

• Yu Xiaogang spent six years learning about martial soul cultivation from Yu Yuanzhen, who grew increasingly proud of him.
• Yu Yuanzhen invited renowned forces to witness Yu Xiaogang’s awakening ceremony, and Yu Xiaogang insisted on standing last to make a grand entrance.
• The clan children awakened their martial souls, with Yu Xiaogang scorning them for having no more than level-eight Innate Soul Power.
• Yu Xiaogang entered the Awakening Array and discovered that his martial soul was a chubby, pale-purple piglet-like creature.
• Huo Wu, Shui Yue'er, and other viewers mocked Yu Xiaogang, who became enraged at the Sky Screen and those ridiculing him.

The Sky Screen showed Yu Xiaogang awakening a Pig Spirit and only half a level of Innate Soul Power, then pretending to faint as the crowd mocked him. Back at Shrek Academy, Zhu Zhuqing questioned whether he was qualified to teach them.

• Ma Hongjun laughed at Yu Xiaogang, prompting Dai Mubai, Oscar, and others to join in, while Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong reacted angrily to the mockery.
• Dugu Yan argued that people mocked Yu Xiaogang for his arrogant behavior, and Yu Luomian told Liu Erlong to stop defending him.
• Yu Xiaogang hoped his Pig Spirit was secretly extraordinary, but the clan elder tested him and announced he had half a level of Innate Soul Power.
• Overwhelmed by the crowd's laughter, Yu Xiaogang slapped himself and pretended to faint.
• At Shrek Academy, Zhu Zhuqing told Flender that Yu Xiaogang probably was not qualified to be their teacher.

Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong challenged Yu Xiaogang’s ability to teach, but Flender persuaded him to keep them at Shrek Academy for the sake of the team and Tang San’s tournament prospects. The Sky Screen then began showing Yu Chen’s first-stage video, which revealed his birth as Yu Xiaogang’s twin and left Yu Yuanzhen fearing that the quiet infant was simple-minded.

• Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong called Yu Xiaogang unfit to teach, and Yu Xiaogang demanded that Flender expel them.
• Flender persuaded Yu Xiaogang to tolerate the insults because Shrek needed the students for the tournament, and Tang San defended his teacher’s knowledge of martial soul theory.
• The Sky Screen announced the end of Yu Xiaogang’s first-stage video and began Yu Chen’s first-stage video.
• Yu Yuanzhen welcomed twin sons and named the elder Yu Chen and the younger Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Yuanzhen noticed that infant Yu Chen did not cry or react when pinched and feared that he had been born simple-minded.

Yu Chen’s childhood in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan was marked by his father’s neglect, Yu Xiaogang’s contempt, and the clan’s mockery, though his apparent dullness came from his Absolute Rationality trait. At age six, he entered the martial soul awakening array while everyone expected him to awaken a useless martial soul.

• Yu Chen stayed silent until age four, when he asked Yu Yuanzhen to explain martial souls, but Yu Yuanzhen refused him and readily taught Yu Xiaogang instead.
• Yu Chen listened quietly as Yu Yuanzhen explained the clan’s martial soul, showing no outward reaction to the favoritism or Yu Xiaogang’s smug taunts.
• Yu Chen spent his days eating, sleeping, and studying in the Library Pavilion until his sixth birthday and martial soul awakening ceremony.
• Yu Yuanzhen excluded other forces from the ceremony and placed Yu Chen and Yu Xiaogang at the back of the line as clan members mocked Yu Chen and spread rumors about his birth.
• Yu Chen ignored the crowd’s insults and walked into the Awakening Array without hesitation.

Yu Chen awakened a tiny speck of light and was declared to have Innate Zero Soul Power, prompting ridicule from his clan and Soul Masters watching the Sky Screen. After he left for a cabin filled with cages and Soul Beast remains, viewers debated whether he had known his talent in advance, and the discussion turned to the cabin.

• Yu Chen showed no Soul Power during his awakening test, and Yu Yuanzhen and the crowd mocked him.
• Yu Xiaogang celebrated Yu Chen’s result, while Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing disapproved of his behavior; Liu Erlong praised him and Huo Wu and Shui Yue'er condemned him.
• Yu Chen smiled and murmured that events were as he had guessed, then left the square and entered a secluded cabin containing cages and Soul Beast remains.
• After Yu Chen’s first-stage footage ended, viewers debated his cryptic remark, and Yu Xiaogang and Ning Fengzhi argued that people could not know their Innate Soul Power before awakening.
• Ning Fengzhi explained to Chen Xin that advance knowledge of talent could transform how sects recruited children, and viewers shifted their discussion to the cabin.

The Sky Screen revealed that Yu Chen’s suspicious wooden house held caged Soft Bone Rabbits, enraging Xiao Wu, before it began broadcasting Yu Xiaogang’s martial soul cultivation footage. Yu Xiaogang’s failed attempt to feign unconsciousness and blame Yu Zhou ended with Yu Yuanzhen striking and scolding him, while Yu Xiaogang privately turned his resentment on his father.

• Xiao Wu saw Soft Bone Rabbits imprisoned in Yu Chen’s wooden house and vowed to teach him a lesson if they met.
• Yu Tianheng suggested Yu Chen was a madman, and Yu Xiaogang laughed at the accusation before the Sky Screen began the second-stage comparison.
• The Sky Screen showed Yu Xiaogang feigning unconsciousness at the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s awakening ceremony, prompting Ning Heng and Qian Xunji to leave.
• Yu Yuanzhen carried Yu Xiaogang to his quarters, exposed his act, and slapped and scolded him.
• Yu Xiaogang blamed Yu Zhou for his poor martial soul and soul power, but Yu Yuanzhen rejected the accusation and silenced him.
• Yu Xiaogang realized his attempt to win his father’s sympathy had failed and privately blamed Yu Yuanzhen for his poor talent.

Yu Xiaogang's past thoughts and behavior were exposed on the sky screen, drawing ridicule from those around him and fury from Yu Yuanzhen. The footage then showed Yu Xiaogang reaching level ten after four years of clan support, while Liu Erlong defended him against further mockery.

• The sky screen revealed Yu Xiaogang had blamed his parents for his poor martial soul, prompting denunciations and leaving him humiliated as Bibi Dong continued to support him.
• Yu Xiaogang summoned his piglet martial soul and resented it, while Ning Rongrong laughed and Yu Yuanzhen angrily watched the footage.
• Yu Yuanzhen agreed to allocate clan resources to Yu Xiaogang so he could test whether a soul ring would change his unusual martial soul.
• Yu Xiaogang received extensive clan resources, spent four years researching soul rings, and finally reached level ten.
• Liu Erlong praised Yu Xiaogang's progress, but Huo Wu and Feng Xiaotian mocked him for taking four years despite the resources he received.

Yu Xiaogang’s carefully chosen first Soul Ring gave him a fart-based Soul Skill instead of improving his Martial Soul. The Sky Screen revealed his humiliation to viewers, leaving Yu Xiaogang furious and vowing revenge if it did not compensate him.

• Yu Xiaogang explained to Yu Yuanzhen that a Blunt-Armored Thunder-Pattern Badger was the ideal Soul Beast for Luo Sanpao, and Yu Yuanzhen took him to the Star Dou Forest.
• Yu Xiaogang killed the badger and successfully absorbed its yellow Soul Ring, expecting his Martial Soul to improve.
• When Yu Yuanzhen demanded to see his Soul Skill, Yu Xiaogang revealed “Fart Like Thunder—Luo Sanpao Shatters Heaven and Earth,” which produced a pungent toxic fog.
• Ning Rongrong, Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, Zhu Zhuqing, and others laughed at the Sky Screen footage while Yu Xiaogang’s reputation crumbled.
• Yu Xiaogang silently threatened the Sky Screen, swearing to make it pay unless it compensated him with Martial Soul Evolution.

Flender’s defense of Liu Erlong and Yu Xiaogang exposed his lingering feelings for Erlong and sparked gossip among the Shrek students. The Sky Screen showed Yu Yuanzhen ordering Yu Xiaogang into confinement over his farting soul skill, but Yu Xiaogang then threatened to reveal the embarrassing truth.

• Flender apologized to Liu Erlong after she rebuked him for defending her and Yu Xiaogang.
• Dai Mubai offered Flender romantic advice, but Flender stopped himself when he noticed Yu Xiaogang’s resentful stare.
• Yu Xiaogang privately resolved to reunite with Liu Erlong after the Sky Screen ended, while the Shrek students picked up on the trio’s scandal.
• The Sky Screen showed Yu Yuanzhen berating Yu Xiaogang for gaining a farting soul skill and ordering him to stay in the clan and hide it.
• Yu Yuanzhen reacted in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to the continent learning of the scandal and ordered men to bring Yu Xiaogang back.
• Yu Xiaogang complied with the confinement order but warned Yu Yuanzhen that revealing his situation would bring disgrace upon his father.

The Sky Screen revealed that Yu Xiaogang persuaded Yu Yuanzhen to hide his useless Soul Skill and falsely claim his Martial Soul had improved so he could keep receiving Young Clan Leader resources. The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan condemned Yu Yuanzhen after learning he had deceived them, leaving him disgraced and overwhelmed.

• Yu Xiaogang convinced Yu Yuanzhen to lie to the clan about his Martial Soul and Soul Skill, promising to find a real improvement later.
• Yu Xiaogang persuaded Yu Yuanzhen to keep granting him Young Clan Leader resources, and Yu Yuanzhen reluctantly agreed.
• Yu Xiaogang boasted to the clan elders about his supposed Martial Soul improvement while Yu Yuanzhen stayed silent.
• The clan members learned from the Sky Screen that Yu Yuanzhen had deceived them and angrily demanded an explanation.
• Yu Yuanzhen slumped in disgrace as Yu Luomian sighed at his brother's ruin.

Yu Yuanzhen promised the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan he would bring Yu Xiaogang back, prompting Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong to plan to protect him. The Sky Screen then showed Yu Xiaogang failing to improve his Martial Soul again, while his fabricated reputation drew Qian Xunji and Ning Heng to visit Yu Yuanzhen.

• Ning Fengzhi defended Yu Yuanzhen, persuading the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to forgive him, and Yu Yuanzhen promised to bring Yu Xiaogang back after the Sky Screen ended.
• Bibi Dong resolved to destroy the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, while Liu Erlong decided to find Yu Xiaogang and Ning Rongrong planned to reveal his location at Shrek Academy.
• The Sky Screen showed Yu Xiaogang reaching level twenty again, absorbing a Soul Ring, and gaining another farting Soul Skill.
• Yu Yuanzhen helped Yu Xiaogang hide his failure, and Yu Xiaogang spread the claim that his Martial Soul had evolved into a dragon-type Martial Soul.
• A year later, Qian Xunji and Ning Heng visited Yu Yuanzhen to meet Yu Xiaogang, who unexpectedly ran in and announced another research breakthrough.

Yu Xiaogang's deception was exposed before the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and after enduring two more years of ridicule, he left the clan vowing revenge. When his second-phase video ended, Flender planned to take him away while viewers began speculating about Yu Chen's upcoming comparison video.

• Yu Yuanzhen, Qian Xunji, and Ning Heng confronted Yu Xiaogang, and Qian Xunji arranged a duel to reveal his true abilities to the clan.
• The clan members discovered Yu Xiaogang's Piglet Martial Soul and farting soul skill, mocked him, and drove him to pretend to faint.
• After two years without the young clan master's resources, Yu Xiaogang left the clan and swore to make its members regret their treatment of him.
• Bibi Dong became angry at Yan's comment, while Hu Liena realized her teacher's hostility toward people mocking Yu Xiaogang.
• Flender planned to take Yu Xiaogang away temporarily, and Ning Rongrong schemed to keep him at Shrek Academy.
• Viewers debated Yu Chen's upcoming video, with Yu Feng and Osler suspecting he was more remarkable than he seemed.

Su Chen resumed the simulation and watched six-year-old Yu Chen develop a theory that Martial Souls acted as shackles by converting Natural Soul Power into less efficient, single-attribute Bloodline Soul Power. The Sky Screen's revelations stunned the continent, and Dugu Bo wondered whether Yu Chen could have cured his poison.

• Su Chen complained about the stalled simulation until the system loaded it, then chose to continue.
• Yu Chen drew and processed his blood, compared it with an earlier sample, and found a change after his Martial Soul awakening.
• Yu Chen wrote that Martial Souls converted Natural Soul Power into Bloodline Soul Power, with conversion affected by Martial Soul, physique, and spiritual power.
• Ning Fengzhi praised Yu Chen's theory as potentially capable of overturning the Soul Master cultivation system, and Dugu Bo called him a theoretical Grandmaster.
• Dugu Bo regretted that Yu Chen was not from his world and wondered whether Yu Chen could cure his Jade Phosphorous Serpent poison.

Tang San understood Yu Chen’s theories about Soul Power, while viewers praised Yu Chen’s experiments and challenged Yu Xiaogang’s standing as a theorist. In the simulation, Yu Chen collected only one Gold Soul Coin from the clan’s resource hall and walked away, prompting Su Chen to complain that he should have fought for more.

• Tang San realized that the Mysterious Heaven Skill absorbed pure Natural Soul Power without the Martial Soul conversion process, angering Yu Xiaogang.
• Shui Bing'er, Hu Liena, Oscar, and Ning Fengzhi explained and defended Yu Chen’s theories and experiments in the Sky Screen comments.
• Ning Fengzhi praised Yu Chen’s genius, and viewers demanded that the Sky Screen name him a Theory Grandmaster.
• Yu Chen went to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s hall to collect his monthly cultivation resources, where Yu Kun mocked him and the crowd joined in.
• Yu Kun gave Yu Chen just one Gold Soul Coin, and Yu Chen silently took it and left.
• Su Chen complained that Yu Chen should have made a scene to get more resources.

Su Chen activated consciousness synchronization and experienced Yu Chen's simulation, which showed Yu Chen plotting revenge against Yu Kun. The video ended with Yu Chen drugging, kidnapping, and preparing Yu Kun for his experiments, while viewers reacted with fear and admiration.

• Su Chen activated the Consciousness Synchronization Service and entered Yu Chen's simulated experience.
• Yu Chen spent two years observing Yu Kun and preparing an extract made from Hemp Leaf Grass.
• Yu Chen put the extract in Yu Kun's wine, followed him after he left the tavern, and carried him unconscious to a hidden basement.
• Yu Chen severed Yu Kun's hand and foot tendons and forced Soul-Sealing Moss extract into his mouth to begin the next stage of his experiment.
• Dugu Bo praised Yu Chen's talent and ruthlessness, while Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Yu Xiaogang reacted to the video.

Yu Xiaogang condemned Yu Chen’s earlier attack, while Ning Rongrong and Ning Fengzhi admired Yu Chen’s restraint and rationality. The Sky Screen showed Yu Chen secretly experimenting on Yu Kun, then left him pausing after Yu Xiaogang called him a valuable research subject because they were twins.

• Yu Xiaogang denounced Yu Chen’s attack as shameless, and Ning Rongrong defended Yu Chen by pointing out Yu Kun had bullied him and withheld his Gold Soul Coins.
• Ning Fengzhi admired Yu Chen’s patience and careful planning and regretted not having a son like him.
• Yu Chen poured Bone-Eroding Velvet Vine extract down Yu Kun’s throat, then began the second stage of his research with a small blade.
• Yu Chen kept up his ordinary routine while the clan investigated Yu Kun’s disappearance, and after a year he devoted himself fully to research.
• Yu Xiaogang blocked Yu Chen and bragged that he had evolved his Martial Soul, then offered to help Yu Chen become a Soul Master if he joined an experiment.
• Yu Chen walked away as Yu Xiaogang insulted him, but paused at the words “twin brothers” and “research value.”

Yu Chen suppressed his desire to experiment on Yu Xiaogang and returned to his cabin, where he prepared to conduct a final experiment on the chained Yu Kun. He claimed Yu Kun would be able to cultivate after his Martial Soul shattered and enter a new system, leaving the Soul Master world stunned and Ning Fengzhi convinced Yu Chen had created the Immortal Path.

• Yu Chen considered using Yu Xiaogang for bloodline research but decided against it to avoid being exposed.
• Liu Erlong, Huo Wushuang, and Xue Wu condemned Yu Xiaogang in the Sky Screen barrage, while Flender advised him to stop speaking.
• Yu Chen returned to his cabin, descended into the basement, and told the chained Yu Kun that the final experiment would test whether he could cultivate after his Martial Soul shattered.
• Bibi Dong dismissed Yu Chen's claim as a way to torment Yu Kun, while Hu Liena watched with growing belief that he might succeed.
• Ning Fengzhi told Chen Xin and Gu Rong that Yu Chen's Immortal Path was likely a new cultivation system he had created.