Recaps

At the annual martial soul awakening in Holy Soul Village, Lu Chen awakened two martial souls after Su Yuntao’s soul power was drained during the process. Lu Chen recognized them as Blue Silver Grass and the Black Iron Sickle, and suspected his ability to grow stronger by breathing had enabled the dual awakening.

• Su Yuntao awakened the village children’s martial souls, but none of the children before Tang San had soul power.
• Tang San awakened Blue Silver Grass and innate full soul power, then received his Martial Soul Certificate and waited aside.
• Su Yuntao began awakening Lu Chen’s martial soul, but the process drained all of Su Yuntao’s soul power before it was complete.
• Lu Chen continued the awakening using his own soul power and revealed Blue Silver Grass in his left palm.
• Lu Chen realized he had awakened both Blue Silver Grass and the Black Iron Sickle, and attributed it to his breathing ability nourishing his body and martial souls.

Lu Chen awakened blue silver grass with innate full soul power, just like Tang San, and privately believed his constant cultivation had raised his true soul power far beyond what the test revealed. Old Jack learned that both boys had excellent talent but the same weak martial soul, and took them and Lu Chen’s parents to discuss who would use the village’s sole work-study place.

• Lu Chen tested at innate full soul power, leaving Su Yuntao stunned despite his blue silver grass martial soul.
• Tang San watched Lu Chen with envy, recalling his extraordinary strength and comparing it with his own cultivation.
• Su Yuntao gave Lu Chen his Martial Soul Certificate and told Old Jack that both talented children had awakened blue silver grass.
• Old Jack learned that Lu Chen and Tang San were the two children, then proposed drawing lots for the village’s single work-study place and seeking another place for the other boy.
• Old Jack, Tang San, Lu Chen, and Lu Chen’s parents went to Tang San’s home to discuss the work-study place.

Old Jack gave Holy Soul Village’s work-study student quota to Lu Chen after Tang Hao dismissed the opportunity for Tang San. When Tang Hao learned Tang San had awakened twin martial souls, he tried to reclaim the quota and intimidated Lu Chen’s family, leaving Old Jack to reconsider.

• Old Jack woke Tang Hao and argued that Tang San deserved a chance to attend school and become a Spirit Master.
• Tang Hao dismissed the work-study student quota, so Old Jack awarded it to Lu Chen and promised to take him to Nuoding Academy.
• Tang Hao learned that Tang San had also awakened the Clear Sky Hammer and hurried after Old Jack to demand a drawing for the quota.
• Tang Hao unleashed his imposing aura, knocking Lu An and Rose to the ground and leaving Lu Chen stunned.
• Tang Hao told Old Jack to reconsider the quota because Lu Chen’s family had not objected.

Tang Hao used his strength to take Lu Chen’s work-study student place for Tang San, terrifying Lu Chen’s family and Old Jack. Lu Chen left with his parents after secretly vowing revenge, while Tang Hao and Tang San returned home together.

• Tang Hao demanded Lu Chen’s work-study student place for Tang San, and his imposing aura left Lu Chen and his parents helpless and frightened.
• Lu Chen suppressed his fury, swore revenge against Tang Hao in his heart, and gave up the place to protect his family.
• Old Jack reluctantly yielded the place to Tang Hao and left to catch up with Lu Chen’s family.
• Tang San followed Old Jack, who told him to take care of himself, then thanked Tang Hao for securing the place.
• Tang Hao dismissed the confrontation and told Tang San to cook for him as they walked home.

After Tang Hao took Lu Chen’s work-study place, Old Jack promised to find him another one. Lu Chen and Old Jack secured the only available place from Radish Village in exchange for grain, giving Lu Chen a chance to attend the Soul Master Academy.

• Lu Chen reassured Lu An and Rose that Old Jack would help him find another work-study place after Tang Hao took his original one.
• Old Jack caught up with the family and promised to ask neighboring village chiefs for an available place, while Lu An offered three hundred jin of grain as compensation.
• Lu Chen returned home with his parents, determined to choose spirit rings carefully and eventually take revenge.
• Lu Chen’s family prepared four hundred jin of grain, and Lu Chen carried it to Old Jack’s house the next morning.
• Old Jack and Lu Chen visited the surrounding villages and found that only Radish Village had an available work-study place.
• Lu Chen traded three hundred jin of grain to Radish Village’s chief and obtained the place.

Lu Chen and Tang San traveled with Old Jack to Nuoding Academy to enroll, where Lu Chen forced an arrogant gatekeeper to accept their documents. Old Jack left the boys at the academy, giving Lu Chen a warm farewell while dismissing Tang San coldly.

• Lu Chen said goodbye to Lu An and Rose, then waited with Old Jack for Tang San to arrive before they traveled toward Notting City by ox cart.
• Old Jack brought Lu Chen and Tang San to Nuoding Academy and presented their Martial Soul Certificates and Work-Study Student Certificates to the gatekeeper.
• The gatekeeper mocked the boys' certificates and tried to drive them away, so Lu Chen grabbed him and threatened to take him to confront Master Su Yuntao.
• The frightened gatekeeper told Lu Chen and Tang San to register at the Academic Affairs Office, and Lu Chen released him.
• Lu Chen bid farewell to Old Jack, who praised him and wished him well, while Tang San received his documents and was told to register on his own.

Lu Chen registered at Nuoding Academy, rejected Yu Xiaogang’s attempt to approach him, and went to Room Seven. There, he defeated Wang Sheng and became the dormitory’s new boss while waiting for Tang San.

• Lu Chen refused to speak with Yu Xiaogang, who then stepped aside while Tang San spoke with him.
• Lu Chen registered at Nuoding Academy and learned that he had been assigned to Room Seven.
• Lu Chen found the shabby Room Seven dormitory, where Wang Sheng challenged him under the rule that newcomers fought the boss.
• Lu Chen lifted Wang Sheng off the ground until he surrendered and named Lu Chen the new boss.
• Lu Chen settled in, told Wang Sheng that his strength came from being born with divine strength, and waited for Tang San.

Tang San entered Room Seven after becoming Yu Xiaogang’s disciple, but refused to fight Lu Chen for the dorm’s leadership and was isolated by the other work-study students. As he settled into a bed without bedding, a girl with a scorpion braid arrived, lifting his spirits and stirring his heart.

• Tang San entered Room Seven and secretly resolved to keep Lu Chen from learning about Yu Xiaogang’s abilities.
• Lu Chen challenged Tang San to fight for Room Seven’s leadership, but Tang San refused because he feared both Lu Chen’s strength and the consequences of using his hidden weapon.
• Lu Chen ordered Wang Sheng and the other residents to exclude Tang San, and they left him alone in the dorm.
• Tang San chose a corner bed, discovered he had no bedding, and resolved to endure his hardships while learning from Yu Xiaogang.
• A girl with a scorpion-braided ponytail arrived at Room Seven, and Tang San’s mood lightened as he stared at her.

Xiao Wu challenged Lu Chen for the position of Room Seven’s boss after rejecting Tang San’s offer to fight in her place. She revealed her spirit master abilities but still could not throw Lu Chen, who ended the chapter swinging her by the ankles and asking whether she yielded.

• Lu Chen explained Room Seven’s newcomer rule, and Tang San volunteered to fight him in Xiao Wu’s place.
• Xiao Wu shoved Tang San aside, introduced herself, and accepted Lu Chen’s challenge to become Room Seven’s boss.
• Xiao Wu dodged Lu Chen’s attempt to grab her and hooked her legs around his neck, but she could not throw him because of his strength.
• Xiao Wu used Martial Soul Possession and her first spirit skill, Waist Bow, while Wang Sheng and the other students watched in surprise at her yellow soul ring.
• Lu Chen braced himself against Xiao Wu’s enhanced strength, then grabbed her ankles and swung her around while asking if she admitted defeat.

Lu Chen defeated Xiao Wu without using his Martial Soul, then accepted her surrender and became Room Seven’s boss while she claimed second-in-command. Tang San’s attempt to comfort Xiao Wu failed, and after he received bedding and work assignments, he began considering whether sharing with her might win her favor.

• Lu Chen swung Xiao Wu around despite her Martial Soul Possession and First Spirit Skill, and Tang San challenged him to fight instead.
• Lu Chen tossed Xiao Wu aside, but she landed safely and slapped away Tang San’s hand when he tried to comfort her.
• Xiao Wu asked whether Lu Chen was a Spirit Beast Transformation, and he said his Martial Soul was Blue Silver Grass and his strength came from his natural talent and Innate Full Soul Power.
• Xiao Wu admitted defeat, named Lu Chen boss of Room Seven, and declared herself second-in-command, prompting the Work-Study Students to call her Sister Xiao Wu.
• A teacher delivered bedding to Tang San and assigned him, Xiao Wu, and Lu Chen to clean the academy garden for ten Copper Soul Coins a day.
• After Xiao Wu wondered whether the academy provided bedding, Tang San considered sharing his bedding with her to make her happy.

Lu Chen avoided Xiao Wu’s request to share bedding, instead telling her how to claim Spirit Hall’s monthly subsidy so she could buy her own. As Wang Sheng and the others toured him around Nuoding Academy, Tang San stayed behind nursing hostility toward Lu Chen, while Lu Chen learned about the academy’s staff and criticized Yu Xiaogang’s freeloading.

• Xiao Wu asked Lu Chen to share bedding, but he kept his distance and told her that registering at Spirit Hall would earn her a monthly subsidy.
• Xiao Wu rushed off to register, while Wang Sheng and the other students gathered around Lu Chen and agreed to show him the academy.
• Wang Sheng asked Lu Chen about his innate full soul power, and Lu Chen said his Blue Silver Grass martial soul meant he had to choose any spirit ring carefully.
• After the others left Room Seven, Tang San put away his bedding and blamed Lu Chen for Xiao Wu’s coldness toward him.
• Wang Sheng and the others toured Lu Chen around Nuoding Academy, described its staff, and gossiped about Yu Xiaogang; Lu Chen agreed that Yu Xiaogang did little to help the academy.

Lu Chen prepared the Room Seven work-study students for a fight against noble students, recruiting Xiao Wu to help intimidate them. He learned Wang Sheng’s meditation method and discovered that it increased his soul power cultivation speed to about 1.5 times its previous rate.

• At lunch, Wang Sheng accepted Lu Chen’s suggestion to challenge the noble students who had taunted him to a fight in the grove the following afternoon.
• Lu Chen invited Xiao Wu to join the fight, and she eagerly agreed.
• The Room Seven students began meditating, and Wang Sheng taught Lu Chen the basic meditation method.
• Lu Chen used the method to guide energy through his meridians and found that his soul power accumulated at roughly 1.5 times its former speed.
• Lu Chen meditated for the afternoon, then went with his companions to dinner before returning to Room Seven for the night.

Lu Chen attended the academy’s opening ceremony and learned the complete Soul Power Meditation Method, which doubled the speed of his cultivation. Tang San left with Yu Xiaogang to hunt for his first Spirit Ring, while Xiao Wu slept through the first lesson.

• Tang San left Room Seven to join Yu Xiaogang on a trip to the Soul Hunting Forest for his first Spirit Ring, while Lu Chen stayed behind.
• Lu Chen met Xiao Wu, Wang Sheng, and the other students, then attended the opening ceremony and went to his first-year classroom.
• The teacher taught the class the complete Meditation Method, giving Lu Chen new insights beyond the incomplete version Wang Sheng had shared.
• Lu Chen entered meditation easily and discovered that the complete method doubled his usual cultivation speed.
• The teacher praised Lu Chen’s focus but grew angry when he saw Xiao Wu asleep, unaware that she had no need to meditate.

After the morning lesson, Lu Chen encouraged Xiao Wu to join the Work-Study Students’ arranged fight against the noble students. Xiao Wu and Lu Chen led their side to a sweeping victory, defeating the nobles after Xiao Wu beat both Liu Long and Xiao Chenyu.

• The teacher praised Lu Chen for entering meditation quickly and offered to help him with cultivation questions.
• Lu Chen woke Xiao Wu and reminded her about the afternoon fight, and they went to the dining hall.
• At the grove, Xiao Wu learned that Tang San had not come, and Lu Chen accepted Xiao Chenyu’s rules for a three-on-three series of one-on-one fights.
• Wang Sheng lost the first match to Liu Long, but Xiao Wu defeated Liu Long in a single exchange.
• Xiao Chenyu activated Martial Soul Possession and challenged Xiao Wu, who revealed her Hundred-Year Spirit Ring and defeated him.
• With Xiao Chenyu beaten and the nobles unwilling to send another fighter, the Work-Study Students won the contest.

Xiao Wu’s Hundred-Year Spirit Ring won her the academy’s respect, while Tang San returned with his first spirit ring and found Xiao Wu angry that he had missed the students’ match. Over three years, Lu Chen focused on learning about spirit beasts and built up soul power without a ring; at age nine, he applied for leave to hunt his first spirit beast.

• Xiao Chenyu accepted defeat after seeing Xiao Wu’s Hundred-Year Spirit Ring, and Xiao Wu and Lu Chen gained the respect of the academy.
• Tang San returned to Nuoding Academy with Yu Xiaogang after their trip, and Lu Chen inferred that Tang San had obtained a spirit ring from a Datura Snake.
• Tang San sought Xiao Wu to tell her he had become a One-Ring Spirit Master, but she called him a coward for missing the match and refused to hear his explanation.
• Lu Chen devoted himself to studying, learning about spirit beasts from his teachers and from Xiao Wu.
• Three years passed, and nine-year-old Lu Chen had completed six years of schoolwork and accumulated substantial soul power while remaining at rank ten without a spirit ring.
• Lu Chen applied to the Dean of Students for leave so he could go hunt a spirit beast.

Lu Chen left Nuoding Academy and returned to Holy Soul Village to say goodbye to his family before setting out for Star Dou Forest to obtain his first spirit ring. After a dangerous half-month journey, he arrived at the forest, intent on developing his two martial souls along separate paths of life and destruction.

• Lu Chen said goodbye to Xiao Wu and left Nuoding Academy while Tang San secretly hoped he would die during the spirit beast hunt.
• Lu Chen returned to Holy Soul Village and bid farewell to his parents, Lu An and Rose, and Grandpa Old Jack.
• Lu Chen planned to develop Blue Silver Grass as a life-based support martial soul and the Black Iron Sickle as a destructive one.
• After three days, Lu Chen left the village and traveled for half a month through dangers on the road.
• Lu Chen arrived outside Star Dou Forest, ready to begin hunting spirit beasts.

Lu Chen searched Star Dou Forest for a supportive plant spirit beast and discovered a valley full of red blood grass. After wounding a Great King Tiger and driving it away, he found a stalk of thousand-year red blood grass and hesitated over what to do next.

• Lu Chen killed a hundred-year Brocade-Bellied Snake with his Black Iron Sickle, ignored its soul ring, and continued searching for a supportive plant spirit beast.
• After more than ten dangerous days in Star Dou Forest, Lu Chen cut through the forest and found a valley filled with red blood grass.
• A Great King Tiger attacked Lu Chen with a white energy ball and lunged at him, but Lu Chen dodged and slashed open its belly with his sickle.
• Lu Chen stood his ground until the wounded Great King Tiger fled, then entered the valley and discovered a thousand-year red blood grass, leaving him uncertain.

Lu Chen risked absorbing a Millennium Spirit Ring from a Thousand-Year Red Blood Grass and gained a healing skill, then searched Star Dou Forest for a suitable second ring. After more than a month, he discovered a four-thousand-year Cloud Mist Tea Tree on Lakeheart Island.

• Lu Chen cut down the Thousand-Year Red Blood Grass, formed its purple Spirit Ring, and carried it away to absorb somewhere safe.
• Lu Chen absorbed the Millennium Spirit Ring in a tree hollow without harm, reaching rank twenty Soul Power and gaining the Blue Silver Revival skill.
• Lu Chen summoned his evolved Blue Silver Grass, which had become taller and sturdier with blood-red markings on its leaves, then set out to find his second Spirit Ring.
• After searching the Outer Zone of Star Dou Forest for more than a month, Lu Chen found a four-thousand-year Cloud Mist Tea Tree on Lakeheart Island.

Lu Chen drove away the four-thousand-year Iron Armored Crocodile guarding the Cloud Mist Tea Tree, then absorbed the tree’s Spirit Ring. His Soul Power reached rank thirty, and he prepared to seek a third Spirit Ring with a buff ability.

• Lu Chen lured the Iron Armored Crocodile ashore with Nether Wolf corpses and hurled it into the forest.
• Lu Chen blinded the crocodile with his Black Iron Sickle and forced it to flee, then healed his injuries with Blue Silver Revival.
• Lu Chen chopped down the Cloud Mist Tea Tree and used repellent powder to prevent the crocodile from returning.
• Lu Chen absorbed the Cloud Mist Tea Tree’s four-thousand-year Spirit Ring, reaching rank thirty and evolving his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul.
• Lu Chen discovered that Blue Silver Grace restored fatigue, stamina, and Soul Power, and decided his third Spirit Skill should provide a buff.

Lu Chen searched Star Dou Forest for a suitable Spirit Beast while practicing ways to create his own Soul Skills. He found an eight-thousand-year Sun-Facing Flower and began fighting it for his Third Spirit Ring, ending the chapter determined to master his improvised Explosive Step.

• Lu Chen collected Cloud Mist Tea leaves from the fallen tree on Lakeheart Island, processed them, and left with a bundle before resuming his search.
• Over the next month, Lu Chen practiced Blue Silver Grass entanglement and compressing and releasing Soul Power as possible self-created Soul Skills.
• Lu Chen found an eight-thousand-year Sun-Facing Flower and decided to hunt it for his Third Spirit Ring.
• The Sun-Facing Flower attacked Lu Chen with Explosive Seeds, and he dodged them while testing his compressed Soul Power technique.
• Lu Chen's uncontrolled Soul Power launch injured his feet, but it helped him evade the Flower's next attack, and he vowed to master his Explosive Step.

Lu Chen used the Sun-Facing Flower’s attacks to train Explosive Step, then practiced his developing Cannon Fist against its Blazing Sun Shield. After more than twenty days of training, he remained focused on perfecting his self-created skills and preparing to avenge his parents.

• Lu Chen endured a day of Explosive Seed attacks from the Sun-Facing Flower, improving his footwork before healing himself with his Blue Silver Grass spirit skills.
• Lu Chen planned to practice Cannon Fist against the flower’s Blazing Sun Shield and explained how he compressed and released soul power to create the skill.
• Lu Chen made camp, ate dinner, and thought about his progress toward gaining a third spirit ring and taking revenge on Tang Hao and Tang San.
• Lu Chen repeatedly punched the sleeping Sun-Facing Flower’s shield, refining his soul power compression and release until well past midnight.
• Lu Chen continued his training for more than twenty days.

Lu Chen defeated an eight-thousand-year Sun-Facing Flower and absorbed its Spirit Ring as the third ring for his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul. He reached Level 40, gained the Blue Silver Shelter skill, and vowed to confront Tang San when he returned.

• Lu Chen used Explosive Step and Cannon Fist to break the Sun-Facing Flower’s Blazing Sun Shield and destroy its flower disc.
• Lu Chen hid underground and absorbed the Sun-Facing Flower’s eight-thousand-year Spirit Ring, evolving his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul.
• Lu Chen emerged with his Soul Power at Level 40 and thought about proving Tang San wrong when he returned.
• Lu Chen examined his golden-haloed Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul and discovered that his third skill, Blue Silver Shelter, created a shield whose defense scaled with his Soul Power.

Lu Chen entered Star Dou Forest’s Mixed Zone to seek a fourth Spirit Ring and discovered he could sense Blue Silver Grass’s emotions, helping him navigate danger. After finding the remains of a Spirit Master group, he recovered their Storage Soul Guidance Device and continued on, newly reminded of the forest’s dangers.

• Lu Chen realized he could sense Blue Silver Grass’s emotions and used it to learn about nearby safety and danger.
• After three days, Lu Chen reached the Mixed Zone, where the Blue Silver Grass warned him of danger, and he activated Blue Silver Shelter.
• Lu Chen followed the grass’s guidance to a devastated area filled with the remains of a group of Spirit Masters.
• Lu Chen found a metal bracelet and discovered it was a Storage Soul Guidance Device with twelve cubic meters of space and its former owner’s belongings.
• Lu Chen learned from a diary that the bracelet’s owner was a patriarch from Gulei Kingdom who had come to hunt a sixth Spirit Ring.
• Lu Chen buried the remains, put on the bracelet, and left the area.

Lu Chen hunted a thirteen-thousand-year Pure Heart Lotus and absorbed its spirit ring as his fourth ring. He gained Blue Silver Baptism, a purification skill, and reached level 50, leaving him ready to seek his fifth spirit ring.

• Lu Chen found a thirteen-thousand-year Pure Heart Lotus in a lake and decided it was the right spirit beast for his fourth ring.
• Lu Chen spotted a powerful Tassel White Crane at the lake and hid, observing its routines for five days.
• After the Tassel White Crane left to hunt, Lu Chen destroyed the Pure Heart Lotus, claimed its black spirit ring, and fled into the forest.
• Lu Chen hid in a cliff crevice and endured Soul Shock while absorbing the Pure Heart Lotus's ring into his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul.
• Lu Chen gained the fourth soul skill Blue Silver Baptism, which dispelled abnormal conditions, and reached level 50.

Lu Chen discovered that absorbing his Fourth Spirit Ring had strengthened his body and expanded his ability to communicate with Blue Silver Grass. He chose the twenty-five-thousand-year Demon Spirit Tree as a candidate for his Fifth Spirit Ring and weakened it with Blue Silver Baptism, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Lu Chen found no spirit bone in the Pure Heart Lotus, then left the rock crevice to eat and celebrate his Fourth Spirit Ring.
• Half a month later, Lu Chen followed warnings from the Blue Silver Grass into the territory of a dangerous plant spirit beast.
• Lu Chen identified the twenty-five-meter Demon Spirit Tree and considered its strength-amplifying fruit and his ability to counter its evil nature.
• Lu Chen decided to hunt the Demon Spirit Tree for his Fifth Spirit Ring and sent his Blue Silver Grass vines to attack it.
• The Demon Spirit Tree’s barbed roots drained Lu Chen’s soul power, but his Blue Silver Baptism purified their foul energy and left the tree weakened.