Chapter Summaries

Ning Qingyun explained that the Wooden Sword appearing alongside Ning Rongrong’s Seven Treasure Glazed Pagoda was her Lifeforce Sword, which had manifested as a Martial Soul called Qingtian. Days later, Chen Xin refused Ning Fengzhi’s request to formally take Ning Rongrong as his disciple, saying he would teach her as her grandfather instead.

• Ning Qingyun told Ning Rongrong that her Lifeforce Sword from her former world had reappeared as a Wooden Sword Martial Soul.
• Ning Qingyun explained that she and Ning Rongrong each owned one of their shared body’s Martial Souls but could borrow the other’s to a limited extent.
• Ning Qingyun named her Wooden Sword Martial Soul Qingtian, and the sword chimed in response.
• A few days later, Ning Fengzhi brought Ning Rongrong to Chen Xin and asked him to take her as his master so she could learn sword cultivation.
• Chen Xin refused to take Ning Rongrong as his formal disciple, saying he would teach her as her grandfather and avoid lowering her generation before an old bones.

Old Jack took Tang San to enroll at Nuoding Academy, where a construction project and the name Freedom Guild caught Tang San's attention. At the academy gates, the doorman insulted them and challenged Tang San's Spirit Hall certificate, until Tang San noticed a thin, middle-aged man approaching.

• Old Jack asked a passerby about the construction site and learned it was for the Freedom Guild, which Tang San did not recognize from his previous life.
• Old Jack brought Tang San to Nuoding Academy, where the doorman mocked their village and questioned Tang San's certificate for Blue Silver Grass and Innate Full Soul Power.
• Old Jack grew angry and prepared to leave to report the doorman to the Spirit Hall Branch steward.
• Tang San stopped and stared beyond the academy gates at a thin, middle-aged man, prompting the doorman to recognize him and put on a fawning smile.

Yu Xiaogang met Tang San at Nuoding Academy and tried to impress him before offering to take him as a disciple. Tang San concealed his knowledge of Yu Xiaogang’s limitations, and the chapter ended with Yu Xiaogang revealing that Tang San had Twin Martial Souls while Wang Zhao watched from afar.

• Yu Xiaogang checked Tang San’s Spirit Hall certificate after hearing about his Innate Full Soul Power and Blue Silver Grass martial soul.
• Old Jack left Tang San in Yu Xiaogang’s care after the two spoke.
• Yu Xiaogang reprimanded the gatekeeper and led Tang San into Nuoding Academy.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that he was a resident known as the Great Master and asked Tang San whether he would accept him as a teacher.
• Yu Xiaogang revealed that Tang San was the third person in a hundred years to possess Twin Martial Souls, while Wang Zhao watched from the void.

At Nuoding Academy, Yu Xiaogang explained why he believed Tang San possessed Twin Martial Souls, and Tang San asked him to become his teacher without kneeling. Yu Xiaogang revealed that Tang San would be his Second Disciple and must keep his mysterious Senior Brother secret, leaving Tang San alarmed by the possibility of a powerful new variable.

• An old woman brought Xiao Wu into Nuoding Academy while Wang Zhao watched from the void.
• Yu Xiaogang used Tang San's Innate Full Soul Power and his research on Blue Silver Grass to argue that Tang San had another Martial Soul.
• Tang San asked Yu Xiaogang to accept him as a disciple, bowing instead of kneeling as he had in his previous life.
• Yu Xiaogang called Tang San his Second Disciple and told him he had to call the First Disciple Senior Brother.
• Tang San questioned Yu Xiaogang about the unknown Senior Brother, then grew wary when Yu Xiaogang told him to keep the matter secret.

Tang San enrolled at Nuoding Academy and became Dorm Seven’s boss before Xiao Wu arrived with an unexpected third Work-Study Student. Tang San recognized Xiao Wu but grew alarmed at yet another unexplained variable.

• Wang Zhao decided to investigate records of new Soul Masters from Nuoding City and nearby villages to learn about Yu Xiaogang’s mysterious earlier disciple.
• Yu Xiaogang registered Tang San at the academy, and Director Su hinted that Yu Xiaogang had once been arrested.
• Tang San collected his uniform, reached Dorm Seven, defeated Wang Sheng, and became its new boss.
• Xiao Wu arrived at Dorm Seven with another boy Work-Study Student, unsettling Tang San with the appearance of another unexpected variable.
• Xiao Wu introduced herself to the students and said her name meant dancing.

Huo Yuhao, reborn ten thousand years before his previous life, confronted memories of how Tang San had controlled him in the God Realm while Sky Dream urged him to break free. After awakening his Spirit Eye martial soul, Huo Yuhao stood before the young Tang San, setting up their meeting at Nuoding Academy.

• Young Huo Yuhao saw Tang San and nearly called him father, while Sky Dream laughed at Tang San's childhood appearance from within his Spiritual Sea.
• Sky Dream reminded Huo Yuhao that Tang San had manipulated and abused him, but Huo Yuhao struggled to accept that view of his father-in-law.
• Huo Yuhao recalled ascending as the God of Emotion, discovering Tang San's control over his life, and hiding his resentment in the God Realm.
• Huo Yuhao explained that a Space-Time Turbulence had sent him back six years ago as an infant in Nuoding City, ten thousand years before his previous life.
• Huo Yuhao and Sky Dream realized that he would encounter the young Tang San at Nuoding Academy, and Sky Dream hoped they might also find Bingbing.
• Huo Yuhao's Spirit Awakening took place, and he awakened a single martial soul, the Spirit Eye.

Huo Yuhao entered Nuoding Academy and met Xiao Wu, while Tang San grew suspicious and jealous of their closeness. Wang Zhao observed the encounter and began to suspect Huo Yuhao's identity as the era's irregularities mounted.

• Xiao Wu introduced herself to Huo Yuhao, took him to collect his uniform, and brought him to Dorm Seven.
• Tang San introduced himself as the dorm leader, asked about their martial souls, and called Huo Yuhao's Spirit Eye rare.
• Wang Zhao noticed Tang San's unusual comment and reconsidered his suspicions about the two boys.
• Tang San tried to tease Xiao Wu about his Blue Silver Grass martial soul, but she ignored him and held Huo Yuhao's arm.
• Seeing Xiao Wu favor Huo Yuhao, Tang San grew jealous and silently decided Huo Yuhao had embarked on the Path to Death.

Tang San challenged Huo Yuhao to a spar, but Xiao Wu stepped in to protect him and fought Tang San instead. After Xiao Wu revealed her Martial Soul and First Soul Ring, she launched an attack, leaving Tang San facing her Waist Bow skill.

• Tang San invoked Dorm Seven’s rule for new Work-Study Students and challenged Huo Yuhao to spar.
• Xiao Wu mistook Huo Yuhao’s awkward expression for fear, shielded him, and accepted Tang San’s challenge.
• Xiao Wu kicked at Tang San, who dodged and knocked her back with an Iron Mountain Lean.
• Xiao Wu called for them to fight with their Martial Souls, then revealed her rabbit Martial Soul and a hundred-year First Soul Ring.
• Xiao Wu’s Soul Ring lit up as she rushed at Tang San, leaped, and swung her scorpion braid.

Xiao Wu defeated Tang San in Dorm Seven, but Tang San insisted that Huo Yuhao prove himself before entering. Xiao Wu revealed that Huo Yuhao had a First Soul Ring, shocking Tang San and the other students.

• Xiao Wu kicked Tang San into a wall with her Waist Bow after he tried to redirect her attack with Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon.
• Tang San admitted defeat, explaining that his Blue Silver Grass martial soul had no Soul Ring yet, and Xiao Wu asked to enter Dorm Seven.
• Tang San demanded that Huo Yuhao last ten moves against him to earn entry and avoid future trouble.
• Xiao Wu stepped aside for Huo Yuhao's fight and began to say that he had a First Soul Ring, prompting the students and Tang San to react in shock.

Huo Yuhao prepared to face Tang San, whose confidence grew after Xiao Wu questioned whether Yuhao could defeat him. As they considered Tang San’s unfamiliar mastery of Tang Sect techniques, Yuhao and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm suspected that he might be reincarnated, leaving Yuhao wary of the strange changes to history.

• Xiao Wu told Tang San that Yuhao’s eye martial soul was special and doubted he could defeat Yuhao in ten moves, despite their shared Innate Full Soul Power.
• Tang San stood and approached Yuhao, determined to proceed with their promised spar.
• Yuhao recalled that Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had formed his million-year First Soul Ring, granting him four spiritual skills but leaving him without the energy boost he had received in his previous life.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm urged Yuhao to beat Tang San, while Yuhao warned that Tang San’s use of Tang Sect techniques made the fight difficult.
• Yuhao suspected Tang San was a reincarnated native of the Douluo Continent and wondered whether someone had altered history.

Huo Yuhao confronted Tang San in a contest and used Spiritual Detection to evade his opening strike and counter him with carefully chosen attacks. Tang San grew increasingly baffled by Huo Yuhao’s abilities and backed away, questioning what the boy’s first soul skill could do.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm urged Huo Yuhao to torment Tang San, and Huo Yuhao decided to fight him.
• Huo Yuhao revealed his Spiritual Eye martial soul and a crystalline white Soul Ring, which Tang San dismissed as a weak ten-year ability.
• Tang San lunged at Huo Yuhao with Black Tiger Digging Heart, but Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection to dodge.
• Huo Yuhao countered with attacks designed to limit Tang San’s use of Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon.
• Tang San struggled to explain Huo Yuhao’s precise attacks, used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track to create distance, and questioned the power of his first soul skill.

Huo Yuhao gained entry to Dorm Seven after Tang San accepted his challenge result, and Xiao Wu became the dorm leader. Xiao Wu proposed sleeping wherever Huo Yuhao slept, provoking Tang San and leaving him confronted by her renewed disgust.

• Huo Yuhao reminded Tang San that he had lasted more than ten moves and asked to enter Dorm Seven.
• Xiao Wu challenged Tang San to honor his promise, and Tang San welcomed Huo Yuhao after explaining the work-study students’ situation.
• Wang Sheng confirmed that Xiao Wu had defeated Tang San, so Tang San yielded the dorm leader position to her.
• Xiao Wu accepted the position and asked Huo Yuhao where he planned to sleep, while Tang San hoped she would choose the bed beside his.
• Xiao Wu told Huo Yuhao she would sleep wherever he slept, and both Huo Yuhao and Tang San objected.
• Xiao Wu asked Tang San what her sleeping arrangements had to do with him, and Tang San saw her disgust as the melody “Snowflakes drift” began in his mind.

At Nuoding Academy’s Dorm Seven, Xiao Wu’s attempts to share a bed with Huo Yuhao frustrated Tang San, while Wang Zhao considered the unusual people gathered there. Teacher Mo assigned Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Huo Yuhao work-study duties, and Xiao Wu turned to Huo Yuhao for bedding after rejecting Tang San’s offer.

• Xiao Wu tried to sleep beside Huo Yuhao, but he refused, so she chose a nearby bed beside Tang San instead.
• Tang San privately resented Huo Yuhao’s place beside Xiao Wu, while Wang Sheng began explaining Nuoding Academy to the three students.
• Wang Zhao observed Xiao Wu, Huo Yuhao, Tang San, and Yu Xiaogang, and decided to stay at the academy longer to plan around the many unusual figures.
• Teacher Mo delivered bedding from Great Master Yu Xiaogang to Tang San and assigned Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Huo Yuhao to clean the garden south of the training grounds.
• Xiao Wu scolded Tang San for offering to share his bedding, then asked Huo Yuhao whether his bedding was large enough for her.

Huo Yuhao and Xiao Wu grew closer while Tang San struggled with her insistence that he call her Sister Xiao Wu. As the children left for lunch, Huo Yuhao and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm discussed their lingering grudge against God King Tang San and resolved to wait for a chance to confront him.

• Huo Yuhao offered Xiao Wu his spare bedding, but she decided to buy a set and invited him to come along.
• Xiao Wu reprimanded Tang San for not calling her Sister Xiao Wu, then agreed they could remain roommates and perhaps become friends.
• Xiao Wu put her arm around Huo Yuhao, and Tang San stopped himself from intervening as Wang Zhao watched their interactions.
• Wang Sheng invited Xiao Wu, Huo Yuhao, and Tang San to lunch and offered to pay, so the group left Dorm Seven together.
• Huo Yuhao spoke with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm about Tang San's past actions, then silently agreed that they would have a chance to settle the score someday.

Xiao Wu reflected on her plans to use Huo Yuhao and Tang San to oppose Spirit Hall and Dragon King Hall while managing their affection for her. At Nuoding Academy’s cafeteria, she stood up for the work-study students after upperclassmen mocked them.

• Xiao Wu recalled entering a village, awakening her Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul with Innate Full Soul Power, and resolving that Spirit Hall remained her enemy despite its apparent friendliness.
• Xiao Wu decided to win over Huo Yuhao because of his powerful Spiritual Detection Sharing skill, while using Tang San’s affection to make him more devoted to her.
• Tang San considered whether Huo Yuhao was a threat he should kill or keep.
• Xiao Wu, Huo Yuhao, Tang San, and the work-study students arrived at the cafeteria, where upperclassmen insulted the students as poor.
• Xiao Wu confronted the upperclassmen, and one mocked her appearance.

At Nuoding Academy’s cafeteria, Xiao Wu criticized Tang San for backing down from older students, while Tang San tried to impress her by defending Yu Xiaogang. The chapter ended with Xiao Wu mocking Tang San instead of admiring him.

• Xiao Wu tried to chase after the older students who had mocked her, but Tang San stopped her and she called him a hypocrite.
• Yu Xiaogang invited Tang San to eat upstairs and visit his place, but Tang San chose to stay with his roommates because he wanted to remain near Xiao Wu and Huo Yuhao.
• Wang Sheng told Tang San that Yu Xiaogang was weak and unlikely to advance beyond level twenty-nine.
• Tang San sternly defended Yu Xiaogang and left the cafeteria, hoping Xiao Wu would be impressed.
• Wang Sheng questioned Tang San’s behavior, and Xiao Wu mocked him for choosing a useless freeloader as his teacher.

Xiao Wu challenged Tang San to prove Yu Xiaogang’s worth by fighting her and Huo Yuhao after six years at Nuoding Academy. Tang San accepted, betting that victory would earn him a date with Xiao Wu, while defeat would make him her little brother; Huo Yuhao reluctantly agreed to join the match.

• Tang San defended Yu Xiaogang after Xiao Wu called him trash, and Huo Yuhao suggested the Great Master might have some ability.
• Xiao Wu proposed a six-year bet in which Tang San would fight her and Huo Yuhao after they graduated from Nuoding Academy.
• Xiao Wu offered to date Tang San if he won, but said he would become her little brother and call himself “Little Sanzi” if he lost.
• Tang San accepted the bet and left the dining hall, privately viewing Huo Yuhao as a variable he might need to eliminate if he grew close to Xiao Wu.
• Huo Yuhao reluctantly agreed to fight alongside Xiao Wu, who celebrated their plan to make Tang San call himself “Little Sanzi.”

Tang San followed Yu Xiaogang to his staff dormitory, where Yu Xiaogang learned that Tang San possessed the Clear Sky Hammer and warned him not to reveal or cultivate it yet. Yu Xiaogang planned to take Tang San to seek an Inner Core Soul Ring, leaving Tang San confused by the unfamiliar plan.

• Tang San waited for Yu Xiaogang outside the cafeteria, then followed him to his dormitory after Yu Xiaogang introduced him to the Nuoding Academy Principal.
• Yu Xiaogang gave Tang San chicken legs and a steamed bun, then asked him to reveal his second Martial Soul.
• Tang San released his Clear Sky Hammer, and Yu Xiaogang told him to keep it secret and never attach a Soul Ring to it without permission.
• Yu Xiaogang asked about Tang San's father and learned that he was a village blacksmith.
• Yu Xiaogang said he would take Tang San to the Spirit Hall Branch the next morning to look for a suitable Inner Core Soul Ring, leaving Tang San bewildered.

Yu Xiaogang explained how the Angel God’s appearance had led to Inner Core Soul Rings, leaving Tang San shaken by the changes to the world he remembered. Tang San then asked about the Dragon King Hall and its leader, Wang Zhao.

• Tang San asked Yu Xiaogang what an Inner Core Soul Ring was, while privately dismissing his general lesson about soul beasts and soul rings.
• Yu Xiaogang said Spirit Hall had begun creating Inner Core Soul Rings after the Angel God manifested at Sacred Ceremonies across the continent a year earlier.
• Yu Xiaogang showed Tang San a Ten-Year Soul Ring Inner Core and recounted the Angel God’s decree and the changes that followed.
• After absorbing Yu Xiaogang’s account, Tang San asked about the Dragon King Hall and its Hall Master, Wang Zhao.
• Yu Xiaogang reflected on Wang Zhao and the growing Freedom Guild, then reassured himself that Tang San and his senior brother would help him stand equal to Wang Zhao.

Yu Xiaogang told Tang San about Wang Zhao’s immense strength and Dragon King Hall, leaving Tang San shaken by another powerful variable in the world. Tang San then asked about his senior brother and learned that a Freedom Guild was being built in Nuoding City.

• Yu Xiaogang gave Tang San his notes about Wang Zhao and explained the young Hall Lord’s background, Soul Ring configuration, and strength.
• Outside the Staff Dormitory, Wang Zhao overheard Yu Xiaogang praising him and jokingly declared Yu Xiaogang his number one fan.
• Tang San realized Wang Zhao was a major variable and agreed not to make an enemy of him before he and his senior brother had grown stronger.
• Tang San asked Yu Xiaogang when he could meet his senior brother, and Yu Xiaogang said the senior brother would likely visit after finishing his closed-door cultivation.
• Yu Xiaogang mentioned the Freedom Guild under Dragon King Hall, and Tang San said he had seen a building site for it in Nuoding City.