Chapter Summaries

Zhao Linchuan awakened the Martial Soul Puni and gained Innate Full Soul Power, while the system offered him a choice involving Tang San. After choosing to oppose Tang San, he received a certificate and agreed to study in Nuoding City with Old Jack’s help.

• Zhao Linchuan watched Tang San awaken Blue Silver Grass and demonstrate Innate Full Soul Power.
• The God-Level Choice System appeared and offered Zhao Linchuan a choice between opposing Tang San and joining his faction.
• Zhao Linchuan chose to become Tang San’s enemy and received the Martial Soul Puni, a faint light that destroyed Asura God’s divine sense when he tried to touch it.
• Zhao Linchuan tested at Innate Full Soul Power, and Su Yuntao recorded his Martial Soul as Faint Light.
• Old Jack offered Zhao Linchuan the village’s work-study student spot and said he would seek another for Xiao San.

Zhao Linchuan and Tang San arrived at Nuoding Academy, where Yu Xiaogang verified their certificates and took them in. In Yu Xiaogang’s room, Zhao chose to challenge his Ten Core Theories and began questioning the reasoning behind Tang San’s Twin Martial Souls.

• Old Jack brought Tang San and Zhao Linchuan to Nuoding Academy, where the gatekeeper mocked their certificates and fought them.
• Yu Xiaogang confirmed the certificates were genuine, fired the gatekeeper, and offered to look after the children.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Zhao Linchuan about his second Martial Soul, and Zhao chose a mission to refute Yu Xiaogang’s theories.
• Yu Xiaogang read his Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul Theory aloud while Tang San listened admiringly.
• Zhao Linchuan mocked Yu Xiaogang’s presentation and challenged his first theory, asking how he had deduced that Tang San had Twin Martial Souls.

Zhao Linchuan dismantled Yu Xiaogang’s Ten Core Theories of Martial Souls, leaving Tang San doubtful of his teacher’s expertise. Yu Xiaogang collapsed after Zhao Linchuan challenged him to explain why he had not become a powerful Soul Master himself, and Zhao Linchuan left with his task complete.

• Zhao Linchuan questioned Yu Xiaogang about how Tang San’s two Martial Souls could coexist and exposed gaps in Yu Xiaogang’s explanations.
• Zhao Linchuan criticized the Ten Core Theories as mostly public information, common knowledge, or flawed claims, including Yu Xiaogang’s theory about Soul Power accumulating at a bottleneck.
• Tang San began to doubt whether Yu Xiaogang’s theories could help him cultivate.
• Zhao Linchuan challenged Yu Xiaogang to explain why he had not become a Titled Douluo if hard work could overcome a weak Martial Soul.
• Yu Xiaogang spat blood and ordered Tang San and Zhao Linchuan to leave; Zhao Linchuan departed after receiving a Sword God Solderos Experience Card.

Zhao Linchuan chose a quest to kill Tang Hao after the Clear Sky Douluo developed murderous intent toward him. He lured Tang Hao outside Nuoding City and unleashed the Sword God Solderos Experience Card, ending the chapter as he struck with Formless Slash.

• Zhao Linchuan reviewed his system rewards while walking through Nuoding City and considered how to encounter the hundred-thousand-year-old Rogue Rabbit.
• The system announced that Tang Hao had developed murderous intent toward Zhao Linchuan and offered him a choice of rewards for killing Tang Hao.
• Zhao Linchuan chose the quest that promised Tears of Remidios and sensed Tang Hao's murderous intent following him.
• Zhao Linchuan left the city for a secluded clearing, where Tang Hao appeared and demanded to know how Zhao Linchuan had recognized him.
• Zhao Linchuan claimed he was with Spirit Hall, shattered the Sword God Solderos Experience Card, and attacked Tang Hao with Divine Sword Art—Formless Slash.

Zhao Linchuan killed Tang Hao, seized his six Soul Bones, and retrieved the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ divine bones before returning to Notting City. He reached Dorm Seven with two quilts and met Xiao Wu, who challenged him for ignoring the dorm’s rules.

• Zhao Linchuan instantly sliced Tang Hao apart, collected his six Soul Bones, and received the Tears of Remidios quest reward.
• Zhao Linchuan descended into the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and took the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ two divine bones.
• Zhao Linchuan returned to Nuoding City, checked his system space, bought two quilts, and headed to Notting Junior Spirit Master Academy.
• Zhao Linchuan entered Dorm Seven and found Wang Sheng and the other work-study students welcoming Xiao Wu as their Sister Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu noticed Zhao Linchuan had not paid his respects and challenged him about Dorm Seven’s rules.

Zhao Linchuan chose a mission that would bring Yan Fei and Yue Shen from the Legend of Qin world, then challenged Xiao Wu’s claim to lead Dorm Seven. After outmaneuvering her in a fight, he left her sprawled on the ground, asking if she was okay.

• Zhao Linchuan chose the mission to see someone first thing in the morning, accepting the reward of Yan Fei, Yue Shen, and 50,000 system points upon completion.
• Zhao Linchuan asked Xiao Wu about Dorm Seven’s rules, and she said the strongest person became the boss.
• Zhao Linchuan mocked Xiao Wu, dodged her kick, seized her ankle, and knocked her into the wall.
• Xiao Wu attacked again with her Soft Technique, but Zhao Linchuan fell backward and landed on top of her, defeating her hold.
• Zhao Linchuan stood up and asked Xiao Wu if she was okay as she lay coughing and in pain.

Zhao Linchuan settled into Dorm Seven and accepted Tang San’s challenge after Tang San defeated Wang Sheng. As Tang San launched his first attack, Zhao Linchuan countered with a glowing punch.

• Zhao Linchuan intimidated Wang Sheng and the other work-study students, then had one of them make his bed with his bright pink comforter.
• Xiao Wu asked to share Zhao Linchuan’s bedding, pushed their beds together, and he agreed to let her sleep beside him.
• Tang San arrived, and Wang Sheng challenged him to defeat Zhao Linchuan under Dorm Seven’s rules; Zhao Linchuan instead required Tang San to defeat Wang Sheng first.
• Tang San defeated Wang Sheng and challenged Zhao Linchuan to apologize to Yu Xiaogang and take him as his master if he lost.
• Zhao Linchuan wagered that Tang San would perform his work-study duties for the semester if he lost, and Tang San accepted.
• Tang San attacked Zhao Linchuan with a swift, mysterious move, but Zhao Linchuan countered with a glowing punch.

Zhao Linchuan knocked Tang San unconscious with a single punch, then left Notting Academy to summon Yan Fei and Yue Shen. The two women arrived in an unfamiliar room and demanded to know who he was and where they were.

• Zhao Linchuan defeated Tang San with one punch, and Tang San crashed through Dorm Seven’s door and fell unconscious.
• Wang Sheng and the other work-study students agreed to claim Tang San had knocked himself out, while Zhao Linchuan left before the teachers could question him.
• Zhao Linchuan failed to buy a residence and booked a deluxe room at an inn instead.
• Zhao Linchuan summoned Yan Fei and Yue Shen through the system, and both appeared in the room.
• Yan Fei and Yue Shen recognized that an unexplained mark restrained them from harming Zhao Linchuan, and Yue Shen questioned him about their location.

Zhao Linchuan explained Douluo Continent to Yan Fei and Yue Shen, then bought a mansion in Nuoding City to serve as their residence. He began Yue Shen’s Martial Soul awakening, which revealed a jade-white disc and a mysterious spiritual phantom.

• Zhao Linchuan told Yan Fei and Yue Shen that they had been reborn in Douluo Continent and explained Martial Souls, Soul Rings, and Soul Power.
• Zhao Linchuan gave Yan Fei a guidebook, prompting Yue Shen to feel resentful about his apparent favoritism.
• Zhao Linchuan took the women to a real estate agency, where Yue Shen used her influence and Yan Fei revealed her Soul Saint aura to secure a mansion at a low price.
• Zhao Linchuan placed six Spirit Awakening Stones in the mansion’s main hall and directed Yue Shen to stand in their formation.
• Zhao Linchuan activated the stones, and Yue Shen manifested a jade-white disc Martial Soul along with a blue-and-gold spiritual phantom.

Yue Shen and Yan Fei awakened powerful Martial Souls and began adjusting to the new world, while Zhao Linchuan arranged for Yue Shen to get her own copy of a spirit master guide. Later, Yu Xiaogang confronted Zhao over Tang San’s injuries, and Zhao shouted for help as Yu threatened to discipline him.

• Yue Shen felt her spiritual power grow stronger after awakening, then watched Yan Fei enter the Awakening Stone formation.
• Yan Fei awakened the Three-Legged Golden Crow and Great Sun Golden Wheel, which Zhao Linchuan praised as foundations for divine-grade Martial Souls.
• Yue Shen asked Zhao Linchuan to borrow Yan Fei’s guidebook, and he offered her a separate copy in exchange for handling a task.
• Yue Shen received a new copy of General Knowledge of Spirit Masters outside the dean’s office and resolved not to fall behind Yan Fei.
• Zhao Linchuan visited Dorm Seven and pretended to be concerned about Tang San, whose injuries Yu Xiaogang blamed on him.
• Yu Xiaogang threatened to teach Zhao Linchuan a lesson, so Zhao shouted for help and accused him of bullying a work-study student.

Zhao Linchuan accepted a system mission to leave Tang San with a memorable first Soul Ring hunt, then skipped class to plan it. At his residence, Yue Shen brought him tea as he considered how to interfere with Tang San’s trip.

• Yu Xiaogang calmed the crowd outside Dorm Seven, then told Tang San he would take him to the Soul Hunting Forest for his First Soul Ring.
• Zhao Linchuan received a choice mission and chose to trip Tang San up while leaving him with a deep impression.
• Zhao Linchuan persuaded Xiao Wu to stay by his side with a promise of carrots, then left the dormitory the next morning to skip class.
• Zhao Linchuan sat in his west-city residence and considered how to make Tang San’s Soul Ring hunt memorable.
• Yue Shen brought Zhao Linchuan tea, and he asked why she had risen so early.

Yue Shen sought to learn whether Zhao Linchuan could provide rare Soul Ring and Soul Bone resources, and he revealed that he owned a God-Bestowed Soul Ring with a limit just below one hundred thousand years. He gave her a task in exchange for a reward, leaving Yue Shen eager to prove her value before Yan Fei could get ahead.

• Yue Shen used her knowledge of Spirit Masters to consider how Zhao Linchuan’s resources could help her rise beyond what she could obtain alone.
• Zhao Linchuan asked whether Yue Shen had a name, and she revealed that her surname was Ji.
• Yue Shen asked Zhao Linchuan how to obtain a God-Bestowed Soul Ring or a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.
• Zhao Linchuan produced a God-Bestowed Soul Ring that could bestow one of up to ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine years, then warned Yue Shen that valuable rewards had to be earned.
• Zhao Linchuan told Yue Shen to set aside her cautious schemes and follow him to help with a task, promising a reward if she did it well.
• Yue Shen eagerly followed Zhao Linchuan and thought with satisfaction that she had beaten Yan Fei to an opportunity.

In the Soul Hunting Forest, Zhao Linchuan explained to Yue Shen why she should strengthen her body before absorbing a Soul Ring. He then kissed her, claimed he had wanted to taste her lip gloss, and asked whether she was tired of living so cautiously.

• Zhao Linchuan showed Yue Shen the weak white Soul Rings left above the Nether Wolf corpses and explained their low age and power.
• Yue Shen said her energy had fully converted into Soul Power and asked when she could absorb a Soul Ring.
• Zhao Linchuan warned that her constitution and spiritual strength would limit the Soul Rings she could absorb, and that stronger early rings could permanently improve her potential.
• Yue Shen wondered aloud whether a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring could be her first, and Zhao Linchuan told her to bend down before kissing her.
• Yue Shen panicked and blushed after the kiss, while Zhao Linchuan said he had only wanted to taste her lip gloss.
• Zhao Linchuan asked Yue Shen whether living cautiously was tiring, and she avoided answering as she reflected on the burdens she had long hidden.

Zhao Linchuan gave Yue Shen a Hundred Thousand Year Self-Adaptive Soul Bone and urged her to pursue a full set of Soul Bones and a Hundred Thousand Year First Soul Ring. After Tang San gained his first Soul Ring, two summoned Green Goblins confronted him, while Yan Fei and Yue Shen competed to serve Zhao Linchuan when he returned home.

• Zhao Linchuan gave Yue Shen a Hundred Thousand Year Self-Adaptive Soul Bone and advised her to gather a full set before seeking a Soul Ring.
• Tang San killed the Mandala Snake and gained its Hundred-Year Soul Ring while Yu Xiaogang lay gravely injured and poisoned.
• Zhao Linchuan secretly summoned two Green Goblins and instructed them before leaving the forest with Yue Shen.
• After Tang San became a Soul Master, two Green Goblins emerged and confronted him as he hurried to help Yu Xiaogang.
• Yan Fei welcomed Zhao Linchuan home and served him a meal, prompting Yue Shen to compete by serving him too.

Zhao Linchuan gave Yan Fei a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone and tried to comfort Yue Shen with a Storage Soul Tool, but Yue Shen became upset when she learned Yan Fei received an identical ring. After returning to Dorm Seven, he found Xiao Wu waiting angrily for the carrots he had promised.

• Yan Fei told Zhao Linchuan her Soul Power had reached level eighty, and he gave her a Hundred Thousand Year Self-Adaptive Soul Bone to absorb before hunting for a Soul Ring.
• Yue Shen felt hurt when she saw Yan Fei receive the same Soul Bone, so Zhao Linchuan gave Yue Shen a Storage Soul Tool ring and put it on her finger.
• Yue Shen felt special until Yan Fei returned wearing a matching ring, then accused Yan Fei of competing with her and stormed to her room.
• Zhao Linchuan returned to Dorm Seven at night, where Xiao Wu scolded him for coming back without the carrots he had promised.

Zhao Linchuan fused his Puni First Spirit Ring, reached Level fourteen Soul Power, and considered seeking a suitable Soul Bone. Two days later, Bibi Dong learned that Tang Hao had been killed in a bizarre dismemberment outside Nuoding City, with no clues identifying the killer.

• Zhao Linchuan gave Xiao Wu a bag of carrots in exchange for her staying as his bed-warming maid.
• Zhao Linchuan fused the Puni First Spirit Ring while Wang Sheng mistook his reaction for something else and threw him toilet paper.
• Zhao Linchuan completed the fusion with a three-thousand-year Soul Ring and rose from level ten to Level fourteen Soul Power.
• Yue Guan reported to Bibi Dong that Tang Hao had been found dismembered outside Nuoding City and that the killer remained unknown.

After Tang Hao’s death drew spies to Nuoding City, Zhao Linchuan had Yue Shen alter their memories and loyalties before sending them back. The residence appeared cleared of suspicion, while the spies became potential sources of warnings and intelligence.

• Bibi Dong ordered Yue Guan to spread news of Tang Hao’s death and find the killer, hoping to recruit them.
• Yue Shen explained that she and Yan Fei had captured the spies who came to investigate Zhao Linchuan’s residence.
• Yan Fei said the Clear Sky Sect’s spies focused on recovering Tang Hao’s lost Soul Bone rather than seeking revenge.
• Zhao Linchuan told Yue Shen to implant suggestions that would make the spies dismiss the residence and secretly protect and inform on his group.
• Yue Shen used her powers to alter the spies’ minds and free them, and they left the courtyard without raising suspicion.

With Tang Hao’s death drawing powerful factions toward Nuoding City, Zhao Linchuan considered strengthening Yue Shen or Yan Fei to protect himself. He brought Yue Shen to her room and weighed which system resources to use, leaving his plan unresolved.

• Zhao Linchuan warned Yue Shen and Yan Fei that he could grant one of them a resource capable of transforming her, but questioned whether she would remain loyal afterward.
• Yue Shen said she belonged to Zhao Linchuan because he had taken liberties with her in the Soul Hunting Forest, leaving Yan Fei shocked and Zhao Linchuan embarrassed by the misunderstanding.
• Zhao Linchuan took Yue Shen to her room, leaving Yan Fei alone in the main hall, uneasy about their departure.
• Zhao Linchuan considered his need for a powerful bodyguard as Tang Hao’s death made Nuoding City a gathering point for dangerous factions.
• Zhao Linchuan reviewed the System Mall’s Soul Ring and Soul Bone prices and considered using a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Soul Bone alongside the Tears of Remidios.

Zhao Linchuan gave Yue Shen four Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones and nine God-Bestowed Soul Rings after she declared her devotion to him, then warned her not to let jealousy toward Yan Fei go too far. Yan Fei later offered Zhao Linchuan the same loyalty as Yue Shen, and he explained that he had already shown her special favor and invested in her.

• Yue Shen confirmed that her promise to belong to Zhao Linchuan came from the heart, and he accepted her declaration.
• Zhao Linchuan gave Yue Shen four Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones and nine God-Bestowed Soul Rings, reserving the right arm bone for another plan.
• Zhao Linchuan warned Yue Shen not to let her rivalry with Yan Fei become serious, and Yue Shen asked if she could teach Yan Fei a small lesson.
• Yan Fei secretly led Zhao Linchuan to her room and asked about his relationship with Yue Shen.
• Yan Fei offered Zhao Linchuan the same loyalty as Yue Shen, and Zhao Linchuan told her he valued her and had already invested in her.

Yan Fei wondered what price Zhao Linchuan expected her to pay for the resources he gave Yue Shen, while Yue Shen completed her transformation and began cultivating a Hundred-Thousand-Year First Soul Ring. The next morning, Yue Shen emerged from seclusion and overwhelmed Xiao Wu with her spiritual power before Zhao Linchuan introduced Xiao Wu as his maid.

• Zhao Linchuan told Yan Fei she would need to pay the same price Yue Shen had paid to receive comparable resources, then left her alone to consider his meaning.
• Yue Shen absorbed the final energy of her left leg bone, felt her body and spiritual power transformed, and crushed a God-Bestowed Soul Ring to begin cultivating a Hundred-Thousand-Year First Soul Ring.
• Zhao Linchuan brought Xiao Wu from Notting Academy to his residence, where she sensed a terrifying presence and tried to escape.
• Yue Shen's surging spiritual power forced Xiao Wu to the floor, and Yue Shen appeared in the central hall after completing her cultivation.
• Zhao Linchuan introduced Xiao Wu as his personal maid and told Yue Shen not to frighten her; Yue Shen agreed and returned to meditate.