Chapter Summaries

Lu Yu, a second-time transmigrator from Hitori no Shita, accompanied Tang San to Holy Soul Village’s Martial Soul Awakening Ceremony while concealing his knowledge of Tang San’s past. After Tang San awakened Blue Silver Grass, Su Yuntao began testing his Soul Power, leaving Lu Yu next in line for his own awakening.

• Old Jack brought Lu Yu and Tang San from the Blacksmith Shop to the village Spirit Hall for the Awakening Ceremony.
• Lu Yu reflected that he had once lived in Hitori no Shita as Lu Jin’s grandson and knew Tang San was a transmigrator who cultivated Tang Sect techniques.
• Su Yuntao awakened the Martial Souls of seven children, whose results were all ordinary and came with no Soul Power.
• Tang San awakened Blue Silver Grass, and Su Yuntao initially refused to test his Soul Power.
• Tang San repeatedly urged Su Yuntao to test him, and Su Yuntao was stunned by the result.

Lu Yu awakened a mysterious rock-like martial soul and Innate Full Soul Power, causing the testing crystal ball to shatter. Back at the mountain, he recognized the martial soul as the Heaven-Defying Seal, which had accompanied him from his previous life.

• Su Yuntao tested Lu Yu’s martial soul and found a black, cube-shaped object he dismissed as worthless.
• Lu Yu’s Soul Power filled the crystal ball with blue light, and the ball cracked and exploded.
• Old Jack learned that both Tang San and Lu Yu had Innate Full Soul Power despite their supposedly worthless martial souls, then escorted them home and promised to send them to Nuoding City’s junior Soul Master Academy.
• After returning home, Lu Yu made an excuse and went to the back mountain to examine his martial soul.
• Lu Yu spotted the faint words “Heaven-Defying” beneath the object and recognized it as the Heaven-Defying Seal from his previous life.

After awakening the Heaven-Defying Seal as his martial soul, Lu Yu tested its strength and considered its possible connection to his repeated transmigrations. He continued cultivating on a mountaintop, but realized that he needed his first soul ring to advance and could not cultivate the Thunder Arts.

• Lu Yu recalled how the Wang and Lü families had pursued him for the Heavenly Talisman before he was gravely injured and arrived at Holy Soul Village.
• Lu Yu enlarged the Heaven-Defying Seal and smashed it into the ground, discovering that even a fraction of his strength could create a deep pit.
• Lu Yu reflected on how his Innate Qi and cultivation insight had helped him rapidly reach the first-stage bottleneck of Reverse Birth Triple.
• Lu Yu wondered whether the jade seal had caused his transmigration and the powerful force he felt during his martial soul awakening.
• Lu Yu cultivated the Golden Light Spell and concluded that he needed his first soul ring to advance, while questioning why he could not cultivate the Thunder Arts.

Lu Yu and Tang San traveled with Old Jack to Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy, where Lu Yu weighed the risks of pursuing an unusually powerful first soul ring. After Tang San nearly used a hidden weapon against the gatekeeper, Yu Xiaogang intervened and escorted the two boys into the academy.

• Lu Yu decided against seeking a thousand-year first soul ring because his physique was not strong enough and attracting powerful factions would be dangerous.
• Tang San offered to team up with Lu Yu to hunt soul rings, but Lu Yu declined, expecting the academy teachers to help them.
• A young gatekeeper accused Lu Yu and Tang San of forging their Spirit Hall certificates and insulted Holy Soul Village, prompting Tang San to knock him down.
• Lu Yu noticed Tang San readying a Silent Sleeve Arrow and realized he had nearly killed the gatekeeper over the argument.
• Yu Xiaogang arrived, apologized to Old Jack for the gatekeeper's behavior, and took responsibility for Lu Yu and Tang San.

Lu Yu enrolled at Nuoding Academy and focused on mastering talismans while Tang San and Xiao Wu arrived at the Seventh Dormitory. After comprehending a powerful new talisman, Lu Yu noticed Xiao Wu joining two beds together.

• Yu Xiaogang dismissed Lu Yu and took Tang San aside as his new disciple.
• Lu Yu completed enrollment, went to the Seventh Dormitory, and introduced himself to Wang Sheng as a work-study student with a stone martial soul.
• Tang San arrived at the dormitory and defeated Wang Sheng using Tang Sect techniques.
• Xiao Wu introduced herself and defeated Tang San in a spar with her soft skills.
• Lu Yu finally mastered the fourth of the nine strongest talismans in the Compendium of Talismans.
• Lu Yu jumped from his bed and saw Xiao Wu joining two beds together, prompting her to glare at him.

Lu Yu tested several powerful talismans and sought permission to enter the Soul Hunting Forest for his first Soul Ring. He entered the forest alone and began considering which Soul Beast would best suit his Heaven-Defying Seal Martial Soul.

• Lu Yu successfully condensed and tested the Six Ding Heavenly Armor Talisman, then reviewed the four supreme talismans he had mastered and their limits.
• Lu Yu asked Director Su for help entering the Soul Hunting Forest, and Director Su gave him an academy certificate that removed the need for noble guarantees.
• Lu Yu left the academy and traveled to the Soul Hunting Forest, weighing the danger of the forest and the importance of choosing a Soul Ring carefully.
• Lu Yu showed his certificate, declined the hired teams, and entered the Soul Hunting Forest alone despite warnings from the guards.
• Lu Yu reasoned that a strength-type Soul Ring might suit the Heaven-Defying Seal because it specialized in smashing things.

Lu Yu tested his Golden Light Spell against soul beasts in the Soul Hunting Forest while searching for a powerful first soul ring suited to the Heaven-Defying Seal. After luring increasingly strong beasts to his camp, he faced a creature whose speed and strength suggested it was a thousand-year soul beast.

• Lu Yu killed a black tiger with a pale yellow soul ring and judged that he could quickly defeat soul beasts under five hundred years old without talismans.
• Lu Yu continued deeper into the forest, fighting soul beasts and rejecting their soul rings because they were too weak or unsuitable for his strength-focused goal.
• Lu Yu used a campfire and a dead boar to lure soul beasts, but the beasts that arrived were all hundred-year creatures that he drove away or killed.
• A distant roar frightened the nearby soul beasts, and Lu Yu waited for the powerful creature that had made it.
• Lu Yu exchanged a punch with the black shadow as it emerged from the forest, then staggered back and concluded that it was likely a thousand-year soul beast.

Lu Yu recognized the young soul beast attacking him as a Golden Mane Lion-Mastiff and fought to claim it as his first soul ring. After powering himself up and exploiting a moment of paralysis, he gained the upper hand, but the wounded beast merged its Domination Domain into its body.

• Lu Yu recognized the lion-like beast as a Golden Mane Lion-Mastiff with a natural Domination Domain and decided it was the perfect first soul ring.
• The Golden Mane Lion-Mastiff activated its domain and overpowered Lu Yu in their clashes, while his ordinary talismans and Five Thunder Talisman failed to seriously injure it.
• Lu Yu used three Heavenly Gang Talismans to boost his strength and a Heaven and Earth Divine Talisman to restore his condition.
• Lu Yu struck the Golden Mane Lion-Mastiff with a Five Thunder Talisman, then knocked it down and battered its head while it was paralyzed.
• The Golden Mane Lion-Mastiff roared and drew its Domination Domain into its body.

Lu Yu killed the Golden Mane Lion-Mastiff and absorbed its soul ring, reaching level seventeen while breaking through several cultivation bottlenecks. He also discovered and fused an External Soul Bone from its paw, gaining a powerful black-gold clawed gauntlet.

• Lu Yu used the Six Ding Heavenly Armor Talisman and Giant Spirit Palm Talisman to kill the Golden Mane Lion-Mastiff after its desperate counterattack nearly pushed him to his limit.
• Lu Yu recovered for an hour, then absorbed the beast's dark yellow soul ring and endured its soul attack.
• Lu Yu reached level seventeen as the soul ring and his accumulated qi boosted his Soul Power and broke through the bottlenecks of Reverse Birth Triple and the Golden Light Spell.
• Lu Yu found a crystalline black-gold palm bone in the Golden Mane Lion-Mastiff's right front paw and recognized it as an External Soul Bone.
• Lu Yu fused the External Soul Bone into his right hand, forming a black-gold clawed gauntlet that shattered a thick tree with a single punch.

Lu Yu tested the powers of his new External Soul Bone and first soul ring, then returned to Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy. He settled into an intensive training routine while Tang San left with Yu Xiaogang to obtain his first soul ring.

• Lu Yu discovered that the Golden Mane Lion-Mastiff Right Palm Bone tripled his right-hand strength and let him unleash a powerful Domination Domain attack.
• Lu Yu activated his first soul-ring skill, Diamond Seal, which made the Heaven-Defying Seal absolutely indestructible and usable as a weapon.
• Lu Yu returned to Seventh Dormitory, where Tang San secretly watched him and assumed he had obtained a Ten-Year Soul Ring.
• Tang San left to accompany Yu Xiaogang to the Soul Hunting Forest and obtain his first soul ring.
• Lu Yu began balancing classes and work-study duties with cultivating Reverse Birth Triple, the Golden Light Spell, and Thunder Arts, and studying the Compendium of Talismans.

After two years of secluded cultivation, Lu Yu reached Soul Power Level twenty and set out for the Star Dou Great Forest to find a powerful Second Soul Ring. As he searched its outer depths while hiding from approaching humans, a teenage girl burst from the bushes nearby.

• Tang San learned that Lu Yu had reached level twenty and left Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy to obtain his Second Soul Ring, and Yu Xiaogang urged Tang San to challenge him after his return.
• Yu Xiaogang dismissed Lu Yu’s cultivation and assumed his First Soul Ring was only a Ten-Year Soul Ring, while Lu Yu had actually spent two years refining his techniques and mastering talismans.
• Lu Yu traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest, intending to find a strength-type soul beast of over two thousand years for his Second Soul Ring.
• Lu Yu explored the forest’s outer depths, using talismans to stay alert as he searched for a suitable soul beast.
• Lu Yu concealed himself with an Evasion Talisman and a Breath Concealment Talisman when he sensed people approaching, and a petite, short-haired girl ran out of the bushes into his area.

Lu Yu recognized Dugu Yan and the Nine-Section Jade Viper pursuing her, then chose to intervene to save her and gain favor with her grandfather, Dugu Bo. He knocked the snake out of the fight, and Dugu Yan thanked him as he urged her to claim its soul ring.

• Lu Yu identified the purple-haired, green-eyed girl as Dugu Yan and suspected Dugu Bo was watching nearby.
• Seeing Dugu Yan nearing defeat against the Nine-Section Jade Viper, Lu Yu revealed himself and attacked with the Heaven-Defying Seal.
• Lu Yu struck the snake repeatedly until it lay motionless, though still alive.
• Dugu Yan thanked Lu Yu, who told her to act quickly if she wanted the snake's soul ring.

Lu Yu guarded Dugu Yan while she recovered and absorbed a Nine-Section Jade Viper’s soul ring, then spent the night with her in a cave as Dugu Bo secretly watched. In the morning, Lu Yu insisted on escorting Dugu Yan out and collecting the storage Soul Tool she had promised, while she teased him and offered to keep him.

• Dugu Yan asked Lu Yu to guard her while she absorbed the Nine-Section Jade Viper’s soul ring, and he agreed in exchange for a storage Soul Tool and an escort out of the forest.
• After recovering, Dugu Yan killed the viper and absorbed its soul ring, gaining a purple third ring.
• Lu Yu and Dugu Yan took shelter in a cave for the night, while Dugu Bo watched over them from a nearby tree.
• In the morning, Dugu Yan offered to help Lu Yu find a soul ring, but Lu Yu refused and reminded her to honor her promise.
• Dugu Yan teased Lu Yu by offering to keep him, and Lu Yu turned away and walked off.

Lu Yu used the Yang Five Thunders to suppress Dugu Yan’s poison backlash without damaging her Martial Soul, while Dugu Bo watched from the shadows. After Dugu Yan recovered, Lu Yu concealed what he had done, collected his promised reward, and left her at the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Dugu Yan collapsed when the poison from her Nine-Section Jade Viper soul ring flared up, and Lu Yu used the Yang Five Thunders to purge some of the toxins.
• Dugu Bo approached to stop Lu Yu but froze when Dugu Yan’s condition improved, then decided he needed to befriend Lu Yu rather than risk offending him.
• Lu Yu noticed Dugu Bo watching and, after exhausting himself, carried the unconscious Dugu Yan toward the forest’s edge.
• Dugu Yan woke and accepted Lu Yu’s explanation that someone had knocked them out and stabilized her poison, unaware that Lu Yu had treated her.
• Dugu Yan gave Lu Yu her storage Soul Tool as payment for their deal, and Lu Yu left while Dugu Bo asked whether she had taken a liking to him.

Dugu Yan learned that Lu Yu had cured part of her poison and considered seeking his help, while Dugu Bo decided to investigate him before relying on his lightning abilities. Lu Yu obtained a mutated Earth Bear’s soul ring, gained the Thousand Jun Seal skill, and returned safely to Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy.

• Dugu Bo persuaded Dugu Yan that Lu Yu had purged some of her poison and stabilized her Martial Soul backlash, then told her he would investigate Lu Yu before asking him for further help.
• Dugu Yan recalled Dugu Bo’s advice that she should unite with a Soul Master who possessed a top-tier Thunder Martial Soul, and Lu Yu came to mind before she left.
• Lu Yu reflected that his lie to Dugu Yan had been meant to keep Dugu Bo from suspecting he had knowingly approached them.
• Lu Yu killed an eighteen-hundred-year mutated Earth Bear and absorbed its soul ring, gaining Thousand Jun Seal with the Unbreakable ability and gravity control.
• Lu Yu’s Soul Power reached the peak of level twenty-five, and he returned to Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy after three more days in the forest.

Lu Yu spent three years strengthening his cultivation and techniques before entering the Star Dou Great Forest to find a third Soul Ring for the Heaven-Defying Seal. While preparing to venture into the dangerous middle region, he sensed a powerful battle and recognized Dugu Bo among the combatants.

• Lu Yu returned to the Seventh Dormitory, where Xiao Wu questioned how he had survived and Tang San challenged him to spar, but Lu Yu refused.
• Over the next three years, Lu Yu reached level thirty, advanced his techniques, and became formidable in battle, while Tang San and Xiao Wu each obtained a second Soul Ring.
• Lu Yu searched the outer region of the Star Dou Great Forest for a soul beast aged between seven and eight thousand years, then resolved to enter the more dangerous middle region.
• Lu Yu sensed a fierce fight, concealed himself with talismans, and approached to observe the battle.
• Lu Yu recognized Dugu Bo fighting an old woman with six Soul Rings and an old man with eight.

Lu Yu discovered a dragon-transformed Wind Thunder Winged Dragon Bat cub guarding a rare fruit, killed it with the Heaven-Defying Seal, and obtained an External Soul Bone. He then rescued Meng Yiran from a powerful wolf-type soul beast.

• Lu Yu watched Dugu Bo fight the Peerless Dragon Snake Couple over a dying Wind Thunder Winged Dragon Bat.
• Lu Yu followed the adult bat’s gaze to a cave, where he found a dragon-transformation fruit and its cub.
• The cub attacked Lu Yu, who smashed its head with the Heaven-Defying Seal and collected the last fruit.
• Lu Yu found an External Soul Bone among the cub’s remains and hurried away from the cave.
• Lu Yu saw Meng Yiran losing to a wolf-type soul beast and killed it with a single blow from the Heaven-Defying Seal.

Lu Yu tested his newly acquired Wind Thunder Wings, then hunted for a third soul ring and the Eight Spider Lances in the Star Dou Great Forest. After gaining a powerful control skill and an innate sure-hit ability, he found the Eight Spider Lances just as he was leaving and carried the soul bone out of the forest.

• Lu Yu left Meng Yiran after killing a wolf-type soul beast, and the Peerless Dragon Snake Couple later praised Meng Yiran before learning that Lu Yu had slain it with one strike.
• Lu Yu awakened his Wind Thunder Wings, tested their flight and wind-and-lightning attack, and set out to find a third soul ring and a Man Faced Demon Spider.
• Lu Yu spent a week hunting Man Faced Demon Spiders and gained a third soul ring from a Tiger Stripe Turtle, which gave him the Control Seal and awakened Absolute Lock in his Heaven-Defying Seal.
• Lu Yu hunted more Man Faced Demon Spiders for the Eight Spider Lances, then gave up and headed out of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• A Man Faced Demon Spider ambushed Lu Yu near the forest’s edge, but he killed it with his Heaven-Defying Seal and found the Eight Spider Lances soul bone in its remains.

After returning to Nuoding City with his third soul ring, Lu Yu applied for early graduation from Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy. He accepted Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s invitation to join and compete in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament, securing his freedom as a condition.

• Lu Yu returned to Nuoding City and reflected that his cultivation had been held back while he strengthened his foundation.
• Lu Yu asked Director Su to arrange his early graduation, and the academy dean approved it.
• Meng Shenji invited Lu Yu to join Heaven Dou Royal Academy with generous support and a place in the tournament three years later.
• Lu Yu accepted the invitation on the condition that the academy would not restrict his freedom or interfere in his personal affairs.
• Meng Shenji agreed to Lu Yu’s condition and planned to take him to Heaven Dou City.

Lu Yu accepted Tang San’s challenge at Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy and defeated him with a single punch before leaving with Meng Shenji for Heaven Dou Royal Academy. After arriving at the academy, Lu Yu was settling in when a young student approached to ask Meng Shenji about him.

• Meng Shenji invited Lu Yu to leave for Heaven Dou Royal Academy, but Yu Xiaogang and Tang San stopped them and requested a spar between Tang San and Lu Yu.
• Lu Yu agreed to fight Tang San, let Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass bind him, then shattered it and knocked Tang San unconscious with one punch.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San that he had lost because of his combat experience and strength, then decided to visit some old friends.
• Meng Shenji took Lu Yu to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and led him through the mountain gate toward his prepared dormitory.
• A youth around sixteen or seventeen approached Meng Shenji and asked who Lu Yu was.