Chapter Summaries

Plant Academy’s staff recognized Lin Mo as a likely Spirit Hall agent and decided to conceal their suspicions while giving him normal privileges. As Zhou Hang’s group brought an upperclassman to confront Lin Mo, Teacher Shen and Su Yue rushed to intervene, but Lin Mo was left facing the ambush.

• The vice principal ordered the staff not to investigate or discuss Lin Mo, changed his enrollment age to twelve, and presented his power as a rare acquired Martial Soul mutation.
• The staff agreed to give Lin Mo normal treatment and keep quiet about what they had discovered.
• Teacher Shen learned that Zhou Hang and his companions had brought an older student to block Lin Mo, and he hurried to the scene.
• Su Yue heard that Lin Mo might be in trouble and set off to find him.
• An upper-year student with yellow, yellow, and purple Soul Rings stepped out of the grass and challenged Lin Mo while Zhou Hang’s group watched from hiding.

Lin Mo faced Zhao Lei and Zhou Hang’s group at Plant Academy, but Su Yue intervened and Shen Lin imposed strict punishments on the students who had caused trouble. After settling into academy life and accepting their apologies, Lin Mo secretly went to a remote valley at night and opened the system’s Weather Manipulation skill.

• Zhao Lei confronted Lin Mo, and Su Yue arrived to defend the freshman and fight Zhao Lei.
• Lin Mo pulled Zhou Hang and three others from hiding, bound them with his vines, and stopped them from attacking.
• Shen Lin suppressed the confrontation, punished Zhao Lei and Zhou Hang’s group, and sent Su Yue to escort Lin Mo home.
• The next morning, Zhou Hang and his followers apologized to Lin Mo, who let the dispute go.
• Lin Mo spent several days familiarizing himself with Plant Academy, then slipped out at night to a secluded Back Mountain valley and opened the Weather Manipulation skill.

Lin Mo used Weather Manipulation to cultivate with a hundredfold lightning boost, then received a quest to reach Two-Ring Soul Grandmaster and earn Flash. Over half a month he advanced to level fourteen, and as he began another storm in the Back Mountain, the vice principal noticed the weather’s strange pattern.

• Lin Mo summoned a thunderstorm and used the lightning to temper his Thunder Hell Vine and accelerate his cultivation.
• The system gave Lin Mo a quest to reach Two-Ring Soul Grandmaster, with Flash as the reward.
• Lin Mo walked to class with a girl, brushed off her questions about soul beast identification, and heard her comment on the unusual storm.
• Lin Mo settled into Plant Academy life, cultivated through repeated thunderstorms, and reached level fourteen in half a month.
• Lin Mo activated Weather Manipulation in the Back Mountain while the vice principal watched the storm and wondered why the weather kept changing.

After six months of secret lightning training, Lin Mo broke through to Level 20 and began preparing to obtain his second Soul Ring. Teacher Shen Lin told him the academy was arranging access to Thunder Academy’s Soul Hunting Forest so he could find a suitable lightning-attribute Soul Beast.

• Lin Mo secretly used storms in the Back Mountain to cultivate with Thunder Hell Vine’s hundredfold boost while his Soul Power rose from Level 14 toward Level 20.
• Lin Mo broke through to Level 20 during a thunderstorm, completing his system mission but receiving no reward because he had not added a Soul Ring.
• Lin Mo decided to seek a century-old lightning-attribute Soul Beast for his second Soul Ring and returned to his dormitory after the storm passed.
• Shen Lin recognized Lin Mo’s breakthrough and explained that his second Soul Ring should come from a lightning-attribute Soul Beast.
• Shen Lin told Lin Mo that Plant Academy had contacted Thunder Academy to arrange an entry pass to its exclusive Soul Hunting Forest.

Lin Mo and Shen Lin visited Thunder Academy to seek access to its Soul Hunting Forest for Lin Mo’s second Soul Ring, but the academy’s guards and students treated them with contempt. After being left waiting all morning, they still had not been received.

• Shen Lin warned Lin Mo that Thunder Academy might look down on Plant Academy, then brought him there with an official resource-sharing document.
• Thunder Academy’s guards questioned their request, mocked Lin Mo’s plant Martial Soul, and reluctantly let them enter after learning he was advancing to his second ring.
• A student guide brought Shen Lin and Lin Mo to an empty reception room, where they waited without an academy representative appearing.
• Thunder Academy students gathered to ridicule the visitors and complain that outsiders were seeking their scarce lightning-type Soul Beasts.
• Lin Mo calmly drank tea and read old newspapers while Shen Lin worried about the hostility and praised his composure.

Lin Mo and Shen Lin faced hostility at Thunder Academy over access to scarce lightning-type Soul Rings. Lin Mo blasted open the reception-room wall to challenge his provokers without striking them, and waited for the academy to respond.

• Shen Lin explained that Thunder Academy's students and instructors resented an outsider seeking a share of their scarce lightning-type Soul Rings.
• Three Thunder Academy students confronted Lin Mo and demanded that he return to Plant Academy, claiming no one welcomed him.
• Lin Mo accused them of not knowing how to use lightning-type soul beasts, then released his Thunder Hell Vine Martial Soul and blasted apart the reception-room wall.
• The three students fled, while Lin Mo withdrew his Martial Soul and sat back down without fighting them.
• Shen Lin praised Lin Mo's handling of the provocation, and Lin Mo said he feared no opponent within two rings and would leave a three-ring Soul Elder to his teacher.

Lin Mo and Shen Lin sought permission to enter Thunder Academy’s Soul Hunting Forest, but the dean imposed a rule barring instructors from accompanying students. Yu Tianxin set out to investigate Lin Mo after hearing an exaggerated account of the confrontation, while Shen Lin challenged the academy’s new restriction.

• Three Thunder Academy students told Yu Tianxin that Lin Mo had provoked them and destroyed the reception room wall, and Yu Tianxin decided to meet him.
• Thunder Academy’s dean apologized to Shen Lin and Lin Mo for his students’ behavior, and Lin Mo paid for the damaged wall with gold coins.
• Shen Lin presented the academy document and explained their request to enter Thunder Academy’s Soul Hunting Forest.
• The dean claimed that only students could enter the forest and that instructors were forbidden from accompanying them.
• Shen Lin challenged the rule, and the dean clarified that it applied to Soul Masters advancing from one Soul Ring to two.

Lin Mo and Shen Lin accepted Thunder Academy’s rules for entering its Soul Hunting Forest, despite the academy’s scheme to restrict Lin Mo’s access to valuable lightning soul beasts. The next morning, Lin Mo entered the forest after meeting Yu Tianxin, while four Thunder Academy students prepared to obstruct his hunt.

• The director of education barred Shen Lin from accompanying Lin Mo and imposed a three-day limit, claiming the rules ensured a fair trial for all second-ring candidates.
• Lin Mo accepted the conditions and said he trusted Thunder Academy’s students to help if he ran into trouble; Shen Lin eventually agreed as well.
• The next morning, four level-twenty Thunder Academy students arrived with supplies and detailed maps intended to help them interfere with Lin Mo’s hunt.
• Yu Tianxin came to watch Lin Mo, and the two met formally without speaking.
• Lin Mo entered the Soul Hunting Forest determined to choose the best soul beast he could find.

Lin Mo entered Thunder Academy’s Soul Hunting Forest and discovered that its students were driving low-level soul beasts toward him to force him into wasting his hunting quota. He turned the tables with a storm and disguised himself as a Thousand-Year Soul Beast before pursuing the students.

• Thunder Academy students planned to drive low-level soul beasts toward Lin Mo and reserve the valuable soul beasts for themselves.
• The system expanded Lin Mo’s Soul Beast Sensing to a five-hundred-meter radius and increased his Soul Ring absorption efficiency in the lightning-element woodland.
• Lin Mo sensed more than a dozen Hundred-Year Soul Beasts rushing toward him and realized Thunder Academy students had deliberately driven them there.
• Lin Mo activated Weather Manipulation · Thunderstorm, causing the frightened soul beasts to flee back toward the students.
• Lin Mo used Simulation to transform into a Purple Thunder Baboon while hiding the Thunder Hell Vine, then headed after the Thunder Academy students.

Lin Mo used his simulated Purple Electric Baboon form to drive four Thunder Academy students through a storm and a Soul Beast stampede, forcing them to kill several scarce lightning-element beasts. After stealing their map, he chose to investigate a roughly nine-hundred-year Golden Thunder Feather Falcon in Thunder Cloud Valley.

• Shen Lin suspected the storm over the Soul Hunting Forest was connected to Lin Mo, while Yu Tianxin admired its potential for cultivation.
• Lin Mo, disguised as a Purple Electric Baboon, chased four Thunder Academy students with a pack of Soul Beasts and used the Thunder Hell Vine to hinder them.
• The students killed several Hundred-Year Soul Beasts while escaping, leaving them devastated because those beasts' Soul Rings would have to become their second Soul Rings.
• Lin Mo retrieved the students' dropped map, then escaped after the Soul Beast pack dispersed and ended his Simulation.
• Lin Mo studied the map, found the Golden Thunder Feather Falcon in Thunder Cloud Valley, and decided to inspect the roughly nine-hundred-year Soul Beast.

Lin Mo fought and trapped the newly advanced Thousand-Year Soul Beast Golden Thunder Feather Falcon in Thunder Cloud Valley, weakening it with Thunder Hell Vine and Blood Curse. As he prepared to finish the hunt, he sensed hostile Soul Masters nearby, while the four Thunder Academy students arrived to seek revenge.

• The four Thunder Academy students accepted their low-year Hundred-Year Soul Rings and absorbed them, advancing to Two-Ring Soul Grandmasters.
• Lin Mo reached Thunder Cloud Valley and battled the 1,003-year Golden Thunder Feather Falcon, using Thunder Hell Vine and the Blood Curse Blade to wound it.
• The Golden Thunder Feather Falcon attacked Lin Mo with lightning and wind blades, but Lin Mo used Simulation Skill to trap it in a Vine Cage.
• Lin Mo stacked Blood Curses on the trapped falcon until its strength and Soul Power were nearly exhausted.
• The four newly advanced Thunder Academy students heard the battle and rushed toward Thunder Cloud Valley, planning to attack Lin Mo.
• Lin Mo sensed malice nearby as the system detected lurking Soul Masters.

Lin Mo killed the Golden Thunder Feather Falcon, revealing that it had become a Thousand-Year Soul Beast, while four newly advanced Thunder Academy students tried to seize it from him. He defeated and restrained them, then began punishing them as he prepared to absorb the Soul Ring.

• Four Thunder Academy students arrived and pretended to offer Lin Mo help while demanding that he hand over the trapped Golden Thunder Feather Falcon.
• When the students moved to attack, the falcon died and revealed a Thousand-Year Purple Soul Ring, shocking them with proof that Lin Mo had killed a Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• The four students used a strengthening Soul Skill and attacked Lin Mo, but his Thunder Hell Vines swiftly overwhelmed and bound them.
• Lin Mo slapped and mocked the students for their earlier threats, then told the last one to punish the others for him if he wanted to be released.

Lin Mo forced the Thunder Academy students to submit, then secretly absorbed the Golden Thunder Feather Falcon’s Thousand-Year Soul Ring. He advanced to a Two-Ring Soul Grandmaster, gained Golden Thunder Wings and powerful new abilities, and left the valley after releasing the students.

• Lin Mo made one Thunder Academy student beat his companions, then stopped the ensuing brawl and warned them not to provoke him.
• Lin Mo bound the four students near the valley entrance, took the Golden Thunder Feather Falcon’s corpse, and found a hidden cave.
• Lin Mo absorbed the Thousand-Year Soul Ring, endured the emergence of an External Soul Bone, and advanced to level twenty-three with the Golden Thunder Wings and the Golden Radiance Punishment skill.
• Lin Mo tested the Thunder Spear and his wings, then unlocked and tested the Flash skill after reaching Two-Ring Soul Grandmaster.
• Lin Mo returned to Thunder Cloud Valley, released the students after they agreed to blame their injuries on soul beasts, and sent them away.

Lin Mo returned from the Soul Hunting Forest after advancing to Two-Ring, hiding his External Soul Bone and the details of his hunt until Thunder Academy summoned him over the death of its Thousand-Year Golden Thunder Feather Falcon. He revealed a Thousand-Year second Soul Ring to the stunned academy leaders, leaving them confronted with a feat they believed impossible.

• Lin Mo met Shen Lin outside the forest and confirmed that he had advanced to Two-Ring without mentioning the Thousand-Year Soul Beast or his External Soul Bone.
• The four injured Thunder Academy students told the dean that Lin Mo had killed the Golden Thunder Feather Falcon, which they claimed had become a Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and immobilized them with his soul skill.
• Yu Tianxin learned that Lin Mo had advanced to Two-Ring and set out to challenge him now that they were at the same realm.
• Thunder Academy summoned Lin Mo and Shen Lin to its reception hall, where the dean demanded that Lin Mo reveal his Martial Soul and Soul Rings.
• Lin Mo released his Thunder Hell Vine and displayed a Thousand-Year second Soul Ring, stunning everyone in the hall.

Lin Mo revealed his thousand-year second Soul Ring at Thunder Academy, silencing the officials who had accused him of wasting a Soul Beast. After Thunder Academy apologized and offered compensation, Lin Mo returned to Plant Academy with Instructor Shen Lin, while Yu Tianxin challenged him and invited him to join his team.

• Lin Mo displayed his yellow and purple Soul Rings and offered one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins to settle Thunder Academy's complaint.
• Thunder Academy's dean apologized to Lin Mo, and Yu Tianxin arrived, challenged him to spar, and invited him to join his team.
• A Thunder Academy instructor returned Lin Mo's Diamond Black Card and gave him a token allowing him to hunt thousand-year Soul Rings in their Soul Hunting Forest.
• Lin Mo left Thunder Academy with Shen Lin, who questioned his calm response and learned Lin Mo considered the money spare spending cash.
• Back at Plant Academy, Shen Lin told Lin Mo to rest while he reported to the academy leadership, and Lin Mo thanked him before returning to his dormitory.

Lin Mo explained to Plant Academy’s leaders how he had absorbed a Thousand-Year second Soul Ring, and they warned that Spirit Hall would investigate. As he planned for the turmoil ahead, an urgent report reached Yu Luomian, who was shocked by the news.

• Lin Mo showed Plant Academy’s leaders his Thousand-Year second Soul Ring and claimed he had killed a weakened Golden Thunder Feather Falcon and survived the dangerous absorption by luck.
• The Vice Dean recorded Lin Mo’s account, warned him that Spirit Hall would verify it, and suggested renaming his transformed Martial Soul Thunder Vine.
• After Lin Mo left, Plant Academy’s leaders worried that Spirit Hall and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan would try to recruit him or suspect him of infiltration.
• Lin Mo considered seeking the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow or the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, but decided he needed more strength and would wait out the turmoil first.
• Yu Luomian received an urgent report from Thunder Academy and was stunned to learn that Lin Mo had a Thousand-Year second Soul Ring.

After learning that Lin Mo had supposedly reached Level 23 and obtained a thousand-year second soul ring, Salas checked Spirit Hall’s records and questioned the report’s credibility. He arrived at Plant Academy the next morning to meet Lin Mo and verify the truth.

• Yu Luomian received Thunder Academy’s secret report about Lin Mo’s thousand-year second soul ring and summoned the clan elders for an overnight meeting.
• Salas read the report and searched Spirit Hall’s archives for Lin Mo’s identity and cultivation history.
• Salas found records showing Lin Mo had Level 3 innate soul power, but noted that his martial soul and Soul Power differed sharply between records.
• Salas decided to visit Plant Academy in person before deciding whether to recruit Lin Mo or report the matter.
• Salas arrived at Plant Academy and told the dean that he had come to meet someone.

Salas visited Plant Academy to recruit Lin Mo after learning of his rare talent and witnessed his Thousand-Year second Soul Ring. Lin Mo accepted Spirit Hall’s token and its privileges while leaving his decision about joining open.

• Salas arrived at Plant Academy and asked to meet Lin Mo, whom the dean promptly summoned.
• Lin Mo met Salas, who praised his talent and mentioned Deacon Su Ming’s pending promotion to Priest.
• At Salas’s request, Lin Mo revealed the Thunder Hell Vine and his yellow and purple Soul Rings, astonishing the gathered academy leaders.
• Salas offered Lin Mo Honorary Deacon status, Priest-level authority, access to Spirit Hall resources, and support whether or not he joined.
• Lin Mo accepted the token and said he would consider Salas’s invitation.

After Bishop Salas left Plant Academy, Yu Kun of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan arrived to recruit Lin Mo, but Lin Mo rejected the clan’s offer. Yu Kun suspected Lin Mo had joined Spirit Hall and left with hostile intent, while Shen Lin warned Lin Mo that the rival factions might now see him as part of Spirit Hall.

• Bishop Salas invited Lin Mo to visit the Martial Soul Sanctuary, then left Plant Academy as Yu Kun and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan arrived.
• Yu Kun introduced himself and demanded that Lin Mo show his second Soul Ring, but Lin Mo denied having a Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Yu Kun offered Lin Mo outer-disciple status and conditional access to clan training and Soul Ring resources.
• Lin Mo rejected the offer, saying he preferred the freedom of a Soul Master Academy.
• Yu Kun suspected Lin Mo had joined Spirit Hall and left with a veiled threat after suppressing his killing intent.
• Shen Lin warned Lin Mo that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan might target him, and Lin Mo calmly acknowledged the danger.

Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo Chen Xin visited Plant Academy to verify Lin Mo’s Thousand-Year Soul Ring and recruit him for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Lin Mo declined to join, but accepted a sect token as Ning Fengzhi left the invitation open.

• Shen Lin told Lin Mo that Ning Fengzhi had come in person and wanted to meet him.
• Lin Mo showed Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo Chen Xin his Thunder Hell Vine and its yellow and purple Soul Rings, shocking them with his Thousand-Year second ring.
• Ning Fengzhi offered Lin Mo direct-disciple status, generous treatment, and the sect’s full support for his cultivation.
• Lin Mo thanked Ning Fengzhi but declined to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, saying he wanted to cultivate independently.
• Ning Fengzhi accepted Lin Mo’s decision, gave him a jade pendant granting access to the sect, and left with Sword Douluo Chen Xin.