Chapter Summaries

Yu Xiaogang died after fighting the women and powerful Soul Masters who hunted him, leaving Ling Yi consumed by guilt. As Ling Yi withdrew to grieve, Ah Yin planned to sacrifice herself for his cultivation, and Shelly arrived to seek him out.

• Ah Rou, Ah Yin, Liu Erlong, Tang Hao, Bibi Dong, and others confronted Yu Xiaogang, who summoned the Blood Red Nine-Headed Evil Dragon King to fight them.
• After hours of battle, Yu Xiaogang lay dying and asked the women to tell Ling Yi that he had wronged him and wished to call him Brother Yi again in another life.
• In Lingyun City, Ling Yi blamed himself for Yu Xiaogang's death, while Ah Yin, Liu Erlong, and Ah Rou comforted him.
• Ling Yi returned alone to the Blue Silver Grass house, and Ah Yin told Ah Rou and Liu Erlong she planned to sacrifice herself to help him reach Level 99.
• Shelly arrived at the City Lord Manor, argued with the women about her past with Ling Yi, and went to find him in the rear courtyard.

Qian Xunji considered recruiting Ling Yi to Spirit Hall, while Tang Hao returned to Clear Sky Sect after Yu Xiaogang’s death and Tang Zhen’s illness worsened. Near his fortieth birthday, Ling Yi sensed the whole world and declared that his influence had changed it.

• Qian Xunji asked Bibi Dong what she thought of Ling Yi and planned to invite him to Spirit Hall’s new city opening ceremony.
• Tang Hao told Tang Zhen and Tang Xiao that Yu Xiaogang had died near Lost Trace Grand Canyon, and Tang Zhen urged him to cultivate toward level 90.
• Tang Zhen suffered a coughing fit, then refused his sons’ suggestion to visit Lingyun City because he feared other powers would learn of his illness.
• Ling Yi reflected on his approaching fortieth birthday in Douluo calendar 2631 and wondered whether someone would be reborn or vanish from the Timeline.
• Ling Yi extended his consciousness across the world through Blue Silver Grass and declared that the Douluo Continent would be different because of him.

Ling Yi was born into a poor farming family in Shan Hai Village and began learning about his new life in a world where Blue Silver Grass was familiar. When his father mentioned the grass at dinner, Ling Yi suddenly recognized something important about his surroundings.

• Ling Xiaoshan hurried home after Zhang Dahe told him his wife was giving birth, and Ling Yi was born soon afterward.
• Ling Yi woke a month later, learned his name, and observed his parents and their simple village life.
• Ling Xiaoshan returned from the fields with a blade of Blue Silver Grass in his hair, and he and Ling Yi playfully interacted.
• At dinner, Ling Xiaoshan showed Zhang Xiaoyu the Blue Silver Grass, and Ling Yi opened his eyes, realizing its significance.

Ling Yi realized he had been reborn in the Douluo Continent and worried that his family’s weak bloodlines would leave him with Blue Silver Grass and no soul power. He coaxed his father into giving him a blade of grass, and Ling Xiaoshan planted another in a bowl beside the family bed.

• Ling Yi recalled how his parents’ families had exchanged marriages and learned that the Zhang family inherited Hoe martial souls while the Ling family usually awakened Blue Silver Grass.
• After hearing his parents discuss martial souls and their family histories, Ling Yi concluded he was in the Douluo Continent and feared he would have no soul power or useful martial soul.
• Ling Yi reached for the Blue Silver Grass in Ling Xiaoshan’s mouth, and Ling Xiaoshan gave him the chewed blade while he suckled.
• Ling Yi began crying when he noticed the chewed end of the grass, then stopped when Ling Xiaoshan hurried away to fetch something.
• Ling Xiaoshan returned with a simple wooden stand and placed a chipped Earthenware Bowl planted with Blue Silver Grass beside the family bed.

At one year old, Ling Yi reviewed what he had learned about his family and their remote home in Shan Hai Village, on Douluo Continent. With the wider world and his future martial soul awakening still far away, he focused on improving his family's meager food and living standards.

• Ling Yi woke after another long sleep and recalled celebrating his first birthday and recently learning to stand and walk.
• Ling Yi summarized the year, location, and family relationships he had pieced together while growing up in Shan Hai Village.
• Ling Yi realized his family lived far from cities and soul masters, with only an annual Spirit Hall visit to awaken children's martial souls.
• Ling Yi set aside his urge to investigate the wider world and worried instead about his family's thin porridge and two and a half meals a day.

Ling Yi used dodder vines to weave a lasso and a small net, surprising his uncle Zhang Dahe with their practical uses. Zhang Dahe showed the tools to Ling Xiaoshan and Zhang Xiaoyu, who began to see how Ling Yi’s simple weaving could catch animals and fish.

• Ling Yi wove a lasso and a small net from dodder vines while home alone.
• Zhang Dahe arrived, triggered Ling Yi’s lasso trap, and discovered that Ling Yi had made it.
• Ling Yi showed Zhang Dahe the small vine net, and Zhang Dahe tested the woven tools in the courtyard.
• Ling Xiaoshan and Zhang Xiaoyu returned home and found Zhang Dahe and Ling Yi working with the vines.
• At dinner, Zhang Dahe explained how Ling Yi’s lasso and net could be used for hunting and fishing, and Ling Xiaoshan and Zhang Xiaoyu examined them.

Three months after Ling Xiaoshan and Zhang Xiaoyu began trapping game, the Ling family had raised twenty pheasants, while Ling Yi continued seeking a way to cultivate. Ling Yi found no breakthrough in his experiments, but his new pets lifted his spirits as he remained anxious about surviving in Douluo Continent.

• Ling Xiaoshan and Zhang Xiaoyu caught a rabbit and two pheasants over three months, and the pheasants produced eighteen chicks.
• Ling Yi lay among Blue Silver Grass in the courtyard, trying to reach a state of spiritual unity, but gained no insight or Soul Power.
• A'Huang interrupted Ling Yi's rest by licking his cheek, and Ling Yi scolded him before cuddling Meow Meow.
• Ling Yi reflected that cultivating his soul was currently his only option and worried about the dangers of Douluo Continent.

Ling Yi and Zhang Lei went to the pond Zhang Dahe had built, where the boys planned to catch frogs with slingshots. Ling Yi inspected the thriving pond and suggested planting flowers, leaving Zhang Dahe to consider transplanting lotus flowers.

• Zhang Lei visited Ling Yi and excitedly handled the Iron Birch Slingshot Zhang Dahe had made for him.
• After lunch, Ling Yi and Zhang Lei went with A'Huang and Meow Meow to find Zhang Dahe at the pond outside Shan Hai Village.
• Zhang Lei told Zhang Dahe they wanted to shoot frogs and give their catch to their grandparents, and Zhang Dahe agreed to help.
• Zhang Dahe carried Ling Yi around the pond and explained how its canals connected it to the Changlin River.
• Ling Yi asked whether they could plant flowers in the pond, and Zhang Dahe considered transplanting lotus flowers from another village.

Nearly four-year-old Ling Yi continued developing his spiritual cultivation and physical awareness while hunting in the Old Forest with Meow Meow. Zhang Lei arrived with A'Huang and asked Ling Yi about his catch.

• Zhang Lei praised A'Huang for catching a Wild Rabbit and headed west through the forest to find Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi sensed a Local Viper approaching and stopped its attack by thrusting a branch into its mouth.
• Meow Meow killed the viper, ate its organs, and settled beside Ling Yi after bringing down three wild chickens.
• Ling Yi reflected on how his Deep Sleep practice had awakened and strengthened his Mental Strength, but decided his progress was still insufficient.
• Zhang Lei called out and startled Meow Meow, whose arched back and vibrating bones gave Ling Yi a new insight into tiger-and-leopard thunderous sounds.
• Ling Yi soothed Meow Meow, greeted Zhang Lei and A'Huang, and asked how their hunt had gone.

Ling Yi and Zhang Lei returned to the Ling Family courtyard, where Ling Yi soothed their crying infant brothers and explained what was troubling them. After their fathers learned the boys had gone near the Old Forest, they warned them about its dangers but accepted that A'Huang and Meow Meow had kept them safe; the families then called everyone to lunch.

• Ling Yi and Zhang Lei returned from the country road while Zhang Lei carried rabbits and pheasants toward the kitchen.
• Ling Yi stopped Ling Shan and Zhang Xin crying, loosening Zhang Xin's quilt and helping Ling Shan burp before advising their mothers on infant care.
• Ling Xiaoshan and Zhang Dahe returned from gathering firewood and fishing, and Zhang Lei admitted that he and Ling Yi had gone to the edge of the Old Forest.
• Ling Xiaoshan warned the boys about dangerous animals in the forest, but he and Zhang Dahe relented after hearing the boys had stayed outside with A'Huang and Meow Meow.
• The two families finished preparing lunch and called Ling Yi, Zhang Lei, and their fathers inside to eat.

In Shan Hai Village, Ling Yi and Zhang Lei went to the Spirit Hall as a Soul Master arrived to conduct the children’s Awakening Ceremony. The ceremony was about to begin when Lu Yi told all four children to line up, leaving Ling Xiaoshan alarmed that Ling Yi was only three and a half.

• Ling Xiaoshan summoned Zhang Lei and Ling Yi after hearing that the Soul Master was nearing the village.
• Ling Xiaoshan led the two children through the snow to the village Spirit Hall, where anxious villagers had gathered.
• Lu Yi arrived, identified himself as a Rank 29 Great Soul Master, and brought out a Blue Crystal Ball.
• Lu Yi ordered the four children, including Ling Yi and Zhang Lei, to line up for the Awakening Ceremony.
• Ling Xiaoshan pulled Ling Yi close and warned Lu Yi that his son was only three and a half, not yet six.

Ling Yi watched Zhang Lei awaken a Hoe Martial Soul but fail to show detectable Soul Power, then privately suggested the test might have missed a tiny amount. That night, Ling Yi reflected on the ceremony as Blue Silver Grass throughout the area reached toward his house.

• Lu Yi awakened Zhang Lei's Hoe Martial Soul, but the Blue Crystal Ball showed no Soul Power, leaving Zhang Lei disappointed.
• Ling Yi noticed a fleeting change in Zhang Lei's pupils and quietly suggested the Crystal Ball might not detect extremely low Soul Power.
• The next two children awakened Sensitive Grass and Short Wooden Stick, and neither had Soul Power; Lu Yi then left to visit more villages.
• At night, Ling Yi reviewed the day's events while Blue Silver Grass in the room swayed with his breathing.
• Ling Yi murmured that it was a pity as snow-covered Blue Silver Grass outside stretched toward his house.

Ling Yi and Zhang Lei planted ginseng seeds in the Old Forest after spring rain cleared, continuing Ling Yi’s effort to grow the medicinal plants. They planned to bring home a ginseng root for dinner, though Zhang Lei tried to persuade Ling Yi not to put it in the chicken soup.

• Ling Yi warned the families working in the fields that a storm was approaching, and everyone returned to Ling Xiaoshan’s house before the rain began.
• Ling Yi prepared more than a dozen ginseng seeds and stored them in pots of Blue Silver Grass until the rain stopped.
• After lunch, Ling Yi and Zhang Lei went to the Old Forest and buried the seeds beneath trees around its outer perimeter.
• Ling Yi explained that the ginseng seeds might take years to bear fruit, then proposed digging up a root found the previous year for dinner.
• Zhang Lei asked Ling Yi to make chicken without ginseng, complaining about its taste and Ling Yi’s daily Blue Silver Grass.

Ling Yi watched Zhang Lei practice the Farmer Three Forms’ Hoeing Form and discussed how physical training had gradually increased Zhang Lei’s soul power despite his lack of innate talent. With Ling Yi’s Martial Soul Awakening Ceremony two days away, the two planned a trip into the Old Forest, confident in their abilities and their guardian animals.

• Ling Yi reflected on how years of observing farmers’ movements had helped him consolidate the Hoeing Form, while the Scything and Axing Forms remained unfinished.
• Zhang Lei told Ling Yi that his soul power had increased again, and Ling Yi explained that strength, training, and nutrition could help it grow despite Zhang Lei’s lack of a cultivation method.
• Ling Yi warned Zhang Lei not to compare himself with a Junior Soul Master Academy student he had outmatched in strength, and urged him to focus on improving himself.
• Ling Yi suggested that he and Zhang Lei walk through the Old Forest, and Zhang Lei eagerly described his improved senses and slingshot skills.
• Zhang Lei pointed out that A'Huang and Meow Meow could protect them from danger; Ling Yi recalled that the animals had become powerful guardians of Shan Hai Village.

Ling Yi awakened Blue Silver Grass with half a level of Innate Soul Power, making him Shan Hai Village’s only child with the aptitude to become a soul master. He received a martial soul certificate and arranged to meet Yan Bin in five days for a Basic Meditation Method, while keeping Zhang Lei’s soul power secret.

• Ling Yi awakened Blue Silver Grass and showed enough Innate Soul Power to qualify for soul master cultivation.
• Yan Bin gave Ling Yi a martial soul certificate and explained that he could seek a Work-study Student slot at a Junior Soul Master Academy.
• Ling Yi learned that Lu Yi had been transferred to the Spirit Hall Main Hall in Mu Zhi City after breaking through to Soul Elder.
• Yan Bin offered Ling Yi a Basic Meditation Method and arranged to meet him in North River Mouth Town five days later.
• After Yan Bin left, Ling Yi told Zhang Lei that a meditation method given by a Spirit Hall deacon would appear more legitimate.
• Ling Yi’s family had previously kept Zhang Lei’s soul power secret, and the two brothers had not told the adults.

Ling Xiaoshan took Ling Yi to town to buy new hoe blades, then urged him to cultivate with the Basic Meditation Method instead of working in the fields. Ling Yi decided to delay academy enrollment and train at home, planning to grow stronger while helping the Ling and Zhang families prosper.

• Ling Xiaoshan bought six iron hoe blades at the blacksmith shop and headed home with Ling Yi.
• Ling Xiaoshan told Ling Yi to cultivate properly and stop going down to the fields, and Ling Yi promised to train while observing the limits on daily cultivation.
• Ling Xiaoshan asked whether Ling Yi could read the Basic Meditation Method and suggested selling livestock to pay for tuition in Mu Zhi City.
• Ling Yi considered the scarce Work-study Student quotas in North River Mouth Town and decided that enrolling a year later would make little difference.
• Ling Yi planned to cultivate his body, spirit, and Soul Power at home while helping the Ling and Zhang families farm, raise livestock, and hunt.

At six years old, Ling Yi surveyed Shan Hai Village’s prosperity and assessed the advantages, skills, and family resources he had built up. He concluded that decades before the familiar story began gave him time to pursue strength and status despite his poor aptitude.

• Ling Yi walked through Shan Hai Village and saw how cooperative farming, expanded fields, and new fish ponds had improved village life.
• Ling Yi rested beside the Zhang Family Lotus Pond and reviewed his personal circumstances and progress.
• Ling Yi identified his strong Mental Strength, knowledge from his previous life, and the decades before the familiar plot began as his three advantages.
• Ling Yi cataloged his training methods, skills, and pets, including A'Huang and Meow Meow.
• Ling Yi assessed the Ling and Zhang families’ farmland, livestock, and savings, and recognized that both families had grown substantially wealthier.

Ling Yi’s awakening with Innate Soul Power made villagers treat him as a possible future Soul Master, and relatives came to renew ties with his family. After they left, he set aside observing farming techniques and prepared to study the Basic Meditation Method with an incomplete Human Meridian Diagram.

• News of Ling Yi’s Innate Soul Power spread through the surrounding villages, but people grew hesitant when betrothal discussions arose.
• Ling Changshui and Ling Bai visited Ling Changqing’s family, renewing contact after hearing that Ling Yi could cultivate Soul Power.
• Ling Yi watched Ling Changshui and Ling Bai leave, then returned to the courtyard with Ling Changqing and Ling Xiaoshan.
• Ling Yi decided to wait until the autumn harvest to observe more people using sickles and refine his Scything Form of the Farmer Three Forms.
• Ling Yi sat down with the Basic Meditation Method and his incomplete Human Meridian Diagram, regretting that his memories of the meridians and acupoints were vague.

Ling Yi traced the Basic Meditation Method’s soul power route onto a human meridian diagram and discovered it followed the Hand Shaoyin Heart Meridian. He considered why the method began at the right little finger’s Shaochong Acupoint, leaving its underlying logic unresolved.

• Ling Yi identified the Shaochong, Shaofu, and Shenmen Acupoints on his right hand and wrist.
• Ling Yi guided his soul power through the Basic Meditation Method’s route and found that it absorbed outside particles, increasing his soul power slightly.
• Ling Yi recognized the route as the Hand Shaoyin Heart Meridian and compared its one-sided path with the paired meridians from his previous life.
• Ling Yi reviewed the Twelve Principal Meridians and focused on how the Hand Shaoyin Heart Meridian connected to the meditation method.
• Ling Yi wondered why the method used the right hand and began at Shaochong rather than another fingertip acupoint.

Ling Yi reasoned that Soul Power cultivation depended on Mental Strength and the body’s ability to withstand spiritual energy, then received three thousand carefully selected Blue Silver Grass seeds from Zhang Lei and the village children. He planned to soak the seeds and cultivate them, while continuing his broader efforts to grow useful plants in the Old Forest.

• Ling Yi ended his meditation after about an hour, noticed his Soul Power had grown roughly five percent, and concluded that declining Mental Strength and strain on the meridians limited cultivation.
• Ling Yi compared his meditation method with Tang San’s Mysterious Heaven Skill and inferred that Soul Masters circulated Soul Power through their meridians while absorbing Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy.
• Zhang Lei arrived with three thousand plump Blue Silver Grass seeds that he and more than twenty children had gathered and sorted for Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi thanked Zhang Lei, promised the children more work and meat, and carried the seeds toward the trough where he had soaked ginseng seeds.