Chapter Summaries

After completing three years of grueling training, Bai Shu claimed the Task Editor’s reward and obtained the god-grade Chaos Green Lotus martial soul, which strengthened and cleansed his body. He returned to Old Jack’s home and went to bed nervously anticipating his martial soul awakening the next day.

• Bai Shu reviewed how the Task Editor had driven him through a thousand days of high-intensity training to earn a random god-grade martial soul.
• Bai Shu claimed his reward and received the Chaos Green Lotus, whose passive power dramatically strengthened his body and removed his injuries and impurities.
• Bai Shu discovered he could not summon the martial soul yet, then tested his new physical strength and raced back to the village.
• Old Jack scolded Bai Shu for returning late before his awakening day, and Bai Shu went to wash and eat the meal Old Jack had prepared.
• Bai Shu lay awake, excited and nervous about the martial soul awakening scheduled for the next day.

Bai Shu awakened the Chaos Green Lotus, whose immense life force astonished Su Yuntao, and hesitated when invited to join Spirit Hall. Tang San later awakened Blue Silver Grass with Innate Full Soul Power, and Old Jack learned that two village children had Innate Full Soul Power.

• Bai Shu noticed Tang San among the children before Su Yuntao began the Martial Soul awakenings.
• Bai Shu awakened the Chaos Green Lotus, and Su Yuntao sensed his Soul Power recovering rapidly beside it.
• Su Yuntao urged Bai Shu to join Spirit Hall, but Bai Shu said he wanted to ask his family first.
• After the other children awakened ordinary Martial Souls, Bai Shu prompted Su Yuntao to test Tang San's Soul Power.
• Tang San's Blue Silver Grass produced a dazzling crystal glow, revealing Innate Full Soul Power.
• Old Jack learned that Bai Shu and Tang San both had Innate Full Soul Power and gratefully thanked Su Yuntao.

Bai Shu discovered the Chaos Green Lotus's Life Domain and the healing, life-extending Chaos Lotus Seed it could produce. Tang Hao then appeared, overpowered him, and seized the seed, leaving its effect on Tang Hao's injuries uncertain.

• Su Yuntao left Holy Soul Village, and Old Jack promised Bai Shu and Tang San he would find a way for both to attend a Soul Master Academy.
• Bai Shu summoned the Chaos Green Lotus and discovered its Life Domain could heal allies, suppress enemies, drain their Soul Power, and help him form Chaos Lotus Seeds.
• Bai Shu learned that a Chaos Lotus Seed could strengthen a Spirit Master and extend their lifespan, then cleaned the house while waiting for Old Jack.
• Tang Hao appeared and crushed Bai Shu beneath his pressure before ordering him to summon his Spirit.
• Tang Hao sensed the Chaos Green Lotus's life aura, seized its Chaos Lotus Seed, and swallowed it, but found its healing effect on his injuries disappointing.

Bai Shu survived Tang Hao’s threat by promising that his Chaos Lotus Seed would become more useful after he gained a soul ring, and he decided to prioritize choosing a Guardian as his system reward. Two months later, Tang Hao took him into a forest to hunt his first soul ring, where he abruptly ordered Bai Shu to kill a hundred-year Nine-Leaf Lotus.

• Tang Hao spared Bai Shu for now, ordered him to stay in the village, and threatened to destroy Holy Soul Village if he told anyone or tried to escape.
• Bai Shu concealed his hatred from Tang Hao, then decided his first system reward should summon a powerful Guardian rather than provide a cultivation technique.
• After two months, Bai Shu reassured Old Jack and met Tang Hao outside the village to begin hunting for a soul ring.
• Tang Hao carried Bai Shu into a forest and searched through the night, while his pressure kept nearby Spirit Beasts from resisting.
• Growing impatient near a small lake, Tang Hao uprooted a hundred-year Nine-Leaf Lotus, tossed it and a dagger to Bai Shu, and ordered him to kill it and absorb its soul ring.

Bai Shu absorbed a century-old Nine-Leaf Lotus soul ring with the Chaos Green Lotus’s help and gained the Life Link skill. After Tang Hao gave him one month to produce more lotus seeds, Bai Shu returned to Old Jack and resolved to find a way to deal with Tang Hao.

• Bai Shu struggled to absorb the Nine-Leaf Lotus soul ring without knowing a meditation technique, but the Chaos Green Lotus entered his dantian and guided the violent Soul Power.
• After absorbing the ring, Bai Shu told Tang Hao that producing more lotus seeds would take a month, and Tang Hao threatened him before leaving him at Holy Soul Village.
• Bai Shu returned home and used his Life Link soul skill to share life force with Old Jack, easing the old man's condition.
• Bai Shu recognized that Tang Hao's one-month deadline left him in danger and asked the system to generate a mission with a Limit Douluo-level Guardian as its reward.

Bai Shu secured a Super Douluo-level Guardian task by accepting a mission to kill a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, then arrived at Notting Academy with Tang San as the term began. After defending Old Jack from the gatekeeper, Bai Shu entered the academy with Tang San, where Yu Xiaogang stopped them to check their martial soul certificates.

• Bai Shu changed the reward to a Guardian with Super Douluo-level combat power and accepted a task to kill a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, intending to target the human-form Spirit Beast who would appear at Notting Academy.
• Bai Shu spent the remaining days pretending to slowly condense Chaos Lotus Seeds while Tang Hao watched him in secret.
• Bai Shu, Tang San, Old Jack, and a villager arrived at Notting Academy three days before Bai Shu's deadline with Tang Hao.
• The gatekeeper tried to shove Old Jack, but Bai Shu restrained him with his strength and century soul ring until Old Jack asked him to let the man go.
• Bai Shu and Tang San entered the academy, where Yu Xiaogang stopped them and asked to verify their martial soul certificates.

Bai Shu registered at the academy after rejecting Yu Xiaogang’s attempt to inspect his credentials, then settled into Dormitory Seven as a Work-Study Student. He left Yu Xiaogang speaking privately with Tang San and looked forward to meeting Xiao Wu.

• Yu Xiaogang noticed Bai Shu’s newly acquired soul ring, took Tang San’s Martial Soul certificate, and tried to inspect Bai Shu’s, but Bai Shu refused and mocked him as a freeloader.
• Bai Shu walked away to register, while Yu Xiaogang kept Tang San’s certificate and suggested that Tang San possessed Twin Martial Souls.
• Bai Shu completed his registration, received his uniform, and found Dormitory Seven in shabby condition.
• Wang Sheng introduced himself as the dormitory boss and explained the newcomer challenge, but accepted Bai Shu’s support-type Martial Soul and let him keep his place as boss.
• Bai Shu chose a clean bed and planned to wait for Xiao Wu so he could gauge her strength.

Xiao Wu arrived at Dormitory Seven and defeated Wang Sheng to become its boss, then asked to share Bai Shu’s bedding. Bai Shu wondered why Tang San had not arrived and resolved to investigate his whereabouts.

• Xiao Wu introduced herself at Dormitory Seven, and Wang Sheng explained that newcomers had to fight for the right to become boss.
• Xiao Wu revealed her Hundred-Year Spirit Ring and easily defeated Wang Sheng, who accepted her as Dormitory Seven’s boss.
• Xiao Wu promised to protect the students, then discovered she had no bedding and asked Wang Sheng for help.
• Xiao Wu asked to share Bai Shu’s clean bedding, and Bai Shu questioned why Tang San had not arrived.
• Bai Shu introduced himself as a First-Ring Spirit Master, and the students grew excited about having two powerful students to protect them.

Bai Shu searched for Tang San after failing to find him at the academy, then learned that the Grandmaster had left with him. Concluding they were likely hunting for a Spirit Ring, Bai Shu left Notting City and headed toward a waterfall near Holy Soul Village, where Ah Yin was his real target.

• Xiao Wu drew a boundary between her bed and Bai Shu's, and Wang Sheng resigned himself to being their underling.
• Bai Shu gave Xiao Wu five Copper Soul Coins for lunch and told her Spirit Masters could receive a monthly subsidy from Spirit Hall.
• After failing to find Tang San in the cafeteria or dormitory, Bai Shu asked the academic affairs office and learned Tang San had registered with the Grandmaster.
• Bai Shu questioned the gatekeeper, who said the Grandmaster had left the academy in a carriage about half an hour earlier.
• Bai Shu bought a map, left Notting City, and headed toward a waterfall near Holy Soul Village to seek Ah Yin.

Bai Shu found Ah Yin hidden behind the waterfall and drained her life force until she withered, completing his task to kill a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. He claimed the reward, a Super Douluo Guardian named Xie Biyan, and wondered why the name sounded familiar.

• Bai Shu reached the waterfall near Holy Soul Village and searched the mountaintop for Ah Yin’s hiding place.
• Bai Shu sensed Ah Yin’s life force and found a small hole leading into the cave where she was kept.
• Bai Shu used Life Link to drain Ah Yin for two hours, nourishing his body and forming nine Chaos Lotus Seeds.
• Ah Yin withered to ash, and Bai Shu’s task to kill a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast was completed.
• Bai Shu claimed Xie Biyan as his Super Douluo Guardian and vowed to confront Tang Hao.

Tang San nearly died when his Blue Silver Grass martial soul destabilized during his first soul ring absorption, but Tang Hao secretly intervened and helped him survive. Tang San woke with a defective soul ring and a changed martial soul, while Bai Shu waited for Xie Biyan to emerge from the system’s transformation.

• Tang San's martial soul trembled and his soul ring energy ran wild, causing him to vomit blood as Yu Xiaogang lay unconscious from snake venom.
• Tang Hao appeared and used his Soul Power to restrain the energy, allowing Tang San's Mysterious Heaven Skill to regain control and resume the absorption.
• Tang Hao left once Tang San's absorption stabilized, ignoring Yu Xiaogang.
• Tang San awoke to find his Blue Silver Grass had become blue-black and barbed, while his first soul ring was a defective pale yellow mixed with white spots.
• Tang San blamed an unseen enemy for the incident, then found Yu Xiaogang barely alive and began trying to treat him.
• Bai Shu waited at a cliff while Xie Biyan emerged from the system's white cocoon after his cultivation system and knowledge were altered.

Bai Shu learned that Xie Biyan was a level ninety-six Super Douluo from the Dou Qi Continent, and named him the Ten Thousand Scorpion Douluo. He had Xie Biyan open the cave beneath the rocks so he could retrieve Ah Yin’s Spirit Bone.

• Xie Biyan knelt before Bai Shu, pledged his loyalty, and revealed his Blood Demon Scorpion Emperor martial soul and nine soul rings, including a hundred-thousand-year ring.
• Xie Biyan told Bai Shu that he was a level ninety-six peak-ranked Super Douluo who could poison even a level ninety-nine Limit Douluo with his Magic Poison Spot.
• Bai Shu recognized Xie Biyan as a figure from the Dou Qi Continent and wondered whether the system could let him travel to other worlds.
• Bai Shu named Xie Biyan the Ten Thousand Scorpion Douluo and ordered him to open the cave to retrieve Ah Yin’s Spirit Bone.
• Xie Biyan struck the rocks with his transformed scorpion pincer, blasting open a crater over five meters wide.

Bai Shu absorbed the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone and redirected its immense energy into his Chaos Green Lotus rather than raising his Soul Power Level. The Martial Soul evolved, and Bai Shu learned that its true nature lay in Chaos, not merely its Life Attribute.

• Xie Biyan retrieved the heavy lead box and stood guard while Bai Shu opened it to reveal the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone.
• Bai Shu fused with the Spirit Bone, and its energy rapidly raised his Soul Power toward level fourteen.
• When the Chaos Green Lotus called for the energy, Bai Shu summoned it into his dantian and suppressed his Soul Power growth to feed the Martial Soul.
• The Chaos Green Lotus absorbed the Spirit Bone’s remaining energy, grew more radiant, and developed clearer golden patterns.
• Bai Shu’s Soul Power transformed into emerald-green energy, and he learned that Chaos—not Life—was the Chaos Green Lotus’s defining attribute.

After the Blue Silver Emperor's Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone advanced the Chaos Green Lotus, Bai Shu discovered its Soul Power could heal people and nourish plants. He sent Xie Biyan to ambush Tang Hao outside Notting City while he went to the Spirit Hall to register and encountered Su Yuntao.

• Bai Shu awakened to the Chaos Green Lotus's growth-stage transformation and sensed the life rhythms of nearby plants.
• Bai Shu told Xie Biyan to ambush and kill Tang Hao on the road outside Notting City, but warned him to retreat if the danger became too great.
• Bai Shu returned briefly to Notting Academy, confirmed Tang San had not come back, and then headed to the Spirit Hall to register as a Spirit Master.
• The guards let Bai Shu enter after he showed his academy badge and explained that he wanted his Soul Power tested.
• Bai Shu found Su Yuntao sitting alone, greeted him, and noticed that he seemed troubled.

Bai Shu completed an advanced appraisal at Spirit Hall, revealing level fourteen Soul Power and collecting his subsidy. Outside Notting City, Tang Hao’s fight with Xie Biyan escalated as Xie Biyan unleashed his martial soul and attacked the injured Clear Sky Douluo.

• Bai Shu told Su Yuntao he planned to finish elementary Spirit Master studies before choosing his future and had come for an advanced appraisal.
• Bai Shu displayed his hundred-year soul ring and tested at level fourteen Soul Power, astonishing Su Yuntao and Ma Xiunuo.
• Bai Shu explained that he had reached level twelve after absorbing his first soul ring and gained two levels through practice over three months.
• Bai Shu completed his registration, received one Gold Soul Coin, and heard a tremendous blast outside Notting City.
• Tang Hao asked Xie Biyan who he was after the Great Sumeru Hammer failed to defeat him and triggered Tang Hao’s poison backlash.
• Xie Biyan transformed into the Blood Demon Scorpion Emperor and fired his eighth soul skill, Blood Demon Heart Devourer, at Tang Hao.

Tang Hao unleashed his remaining soul rings in a desperate attack against Xie Biyan, but was defeated and left near death. Xie Biyan revealed Bai Shu’s role and that Bai Shu had absorbed Ah Yin’s Spirit Bone, leaving Tang Hao overwhelmed with regret and hatred.

• Tang Hao detonated his last two abyssal black soul rings and his hundred-thousand-year ninth soul ring to strike Xie Biyan with the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Xie Biyan survived the attack with injuries, while Tang Hao’s bones shattered and his life force dwindled in the crater.
• Tang Hao asked who Xie Biyan’s Young Master was, and Xie Biyan identified him as Bai Shu, the child Tang Hao had once threatened.
• Tang Hao became enraged when Xie Biyan said he knew about Tang San through their similar bloodline auras.
• Xie Biyan revealed that Bai Shu had absorbed a hundred-thousand-year plant-type Spirit Bone whose aura matched Tang San’s bloodline, and Tang Hao recognized it as Ah Yin’s remains.

Xie Biyan killed Tang Hao, but a Divine Sense Mark from the Asura God entered his soul and was mysteriously erased by a hidden power. Xie Biyan collected Tang Hao’s Spirit Bones and returned to Bai Shu to report the strange event.

• Xie Biyan killed Tang Hao with venom from his Scorpion-Headed Wooden Staff.
• A bloody Divine Sense Mark burst from Tang Hao’s corpse and invaded Xie Biyan’s Spiritual Sea.
• A hazy white light erased the Asura God’s divine will, while the Asura God realized his mark had vanished and resolved to watch events from afar.
• Xie Biyan discovered that the erased divine sense had left pure spiritual energy in his soul, then collected two Spirit Bones from Tang Hao’s corpse.
• Xie Biyan returned to Bai Shu and described the battle and the unexplained red light.

Bai Shu reassured Xie Biyan about the Asura God’s probing and gave him Tang Hao’s Spirit Bones. Back at Notting Academy, Bai Shu chose to isolate Tang San rather than kill him, leaving the Work-Study Students to ignore him and deny him their help.

• Bai Shu told Xie Biyan to absorb the ownerless spiritual power left by the red light and said it posed no danger.
• Bai Shu offered Xie Biyan the two Spirit Bones Tang Hao had dropped, and Xie Biyan accepted the reward.
• Bai Shu returned to Dormitory Seven and found Xiao Wu confronting a badly injured Tang San.
• Bai Shu stopped Xiao Wu from fighting and told the Work-Study Students to treat Tang San as though he did not exist.

Bai Shu slept peacefully after Dormitory Seven ignored Tang San, then woke to find Xiao Wu clinging to him. After learning from Xie Biyan that Xiao Wu was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in human form, Bai Shu allowed her to stay, and he later crossed paths with Tang San and Yu Xiaogang at the cafeteria.

• Xiao Wu became unusually drawn to Bai Shu, while Tang San resented him for persuading Dormitory Seven to ignore the newcomer.
• Bai Shu went to sleep, and Xiao Wu wrapped herself around him during the night; he quietly freed himself and left the dormitory at dawn.
• Bai Shu met Xie Biyan, who reported that Xiao Wu was not fully human, and Bai Shu identified her as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit in human form.
• Bai Shu told Xie Biyan to let Xiao Wu stay and then headed to the cafeteria.
• Bai Shu encountered Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, and Yu Xiaogang showed renewed interest in Bai Shu after investigating his abilities.

Yu Xiaogang tried to recruit Bai Shu as a test subject for his theories, but Bai Shu exposed his ignorance about spirit rings before the cafeteria crowd. Tang San defended his teacher and released his martial soul as the ridicule mounted.

• Yu Xiaogang stopped Bai Shu at the cafeteria entrance and offered to guide his martial soul development, but Bai Shu ignored him and walked inside.
• Tang San blocked Bai Shu’s path, and Bai Shu mocked Yu Xiaogang for being level 29 at fifty despite Bai Shu’s Innate Full Soul Power.
• Yu Xiaogang advised Bai Shu to absorb a Poison Attribute Animal Type Spirit Ring and offered to accept him as a Registered Disciple.
• Bai Shu laughed at the proposal, and older students joined in, pointing out that the poison attribute conflicted with Bai Shu’s Life Attribute and that an animal spirit ring was unsuitable for his plant martial soul.
• Tang San shouted at the students to stop insulting Yu Xiaogang and released his martial soul.