Chapter Summaries

Yu Changge defeated Falling Devil with his third soul skill, the Golden Sacred Jade Pillar, and received advice on developing it further. The next morning, he prepared to visit Dugu Bo to discuss pill refining, while promising Bibi Dong he would accompany her to hunt soul beasts once she reached rank fifty.

• Falling Devil broke free of Yu Changge’s Golden Sacred Jade Pillar by using his Tool Soul Avatar, then conceded the match because he had exceeded their agreed limits.
• Falling Devil advised Yu Changge to improve the speed of his third soul skill and consider creating a Self-Created Soul Skill from it.
• Yu Changge explained that the Golden Sacred Jade Pillar could control a target for at least one second, and Thousand Jun and Guang Ling Douluo praised its strength.
• Falling Devil and Thousand Jun explained that their Coiling Dragon Staffs could summon the Heavenly Awakening Sacred Golden Dragon to fight alongside them.
• Yu Changge told Bibi Dong he was leaving to discuss pill refining with Dugu Bo, and promised to accompany her to hunt soul beasts when she reached rank fifty.

Yu Changge visited Dugu Bo and taught him how to form a Soul Power Vortex before beginning their pill-refining research. Yue Guan joined them, and the three made steady progress toward producing their first experimental pills.

• Yu Changge met Dugu Bo at his residence and learned that Dugu Bo had reached level eighty-one after obtaining his eighth soul ring.
• Yu Changge guided Dugu Bo in forming a Soul Power Vortex, which increased the speed of his soul-power circulation by at least thirty percent.
• Yu Changge brought Dugu Bo a collection of spirit herbs, and Dugu Bo decided to practice refining with ordinary herbs before using the rare ingredients.
• Dugu Bo practiced extracting and purifying herbs over the next two months as Yu Changge occasionally returned to Pope Palace and brought Yue Guan to help.
• Yue Guan and Dugu Bo argued over refining techniques and worked well together, bringing the first experimental pills within reach.

Gui Mei returned to report that the Body Martial Soul announcement was ready, while Yu Changge awaited Soul Masters with Body Martial Souls and the first experimental pills. Yu Xiaogang reached Rank Twenty but was mocked by his clansmen, and Yu Luomian prepared to seek a powerful Sub-Dragon Spirit Beast for his next Spirit Ring.

• Gui Mei returned from delivering orders across the continent and learned that Yu Changge and Yue Guan expected their first experimental pills to be ready in another month.
• Gui Mei went to Pope Palace to report to Qian Xunji, while Yu Changge anticipated that Body Martial Soul Soul Masters would soon come looking for him.
• Yu Xiaogang broke through to Rank Twenty after five months of cultivation and planned to tell his father before seeking a Spirit Beast for his Second Soul Ring.
• Yu Luomian reached Rank Forty, while Yu Luomian had already reached Rank Eighty and waited for his older brother's help to hunt a powerful Sub-Dragon Spirit Beast.
• Several clansmen mocked Yu Xiaogang's talent and his first Soul Skill, and he vowed that his martial soul theories would one day make them unworthy to carry his shoes.

Yu Xiaogang reached Rank Twenty and joined Yu Yuanzhen, Yu Luomian, and Yu Xiaogan on a journey to Star Dou Forest to obtain Soul Rings. After learning about the spiritual-power threshold for absorbing ten-thousand-year Soul Rings, Yu Xiaogang began to reconsider his plan for a thousand-year Second Soul Ring.

• Yu Xiaogang ignored the clan members mocking him and declared that obtaining his Second Soul Ring would change everything.
• Yu Xiaogang told Yu Yuanzhen he had reached Rank Twenty, and Yu Yuanzhen took Yu Luomian, Yu Xiaogan, and Yu Xiaogang to Star Dou Forest the next morning.
• Yu Yuanzhen explained that Yu Xiaogan's physique could nearly withstand a ten-thousand-year Fourth Soul Ring, but absorbing a ten-thousand-year ring also required great spiritual power to endure soul shock.
• Yu Xiaogang learned that a Soul Master needed the spiritual power of a gifted Soul King to absorb a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring and wondered whether a similar threshold applied between hundred-year and thousand-year rings.
• Yu Luomian jokingly asked whether Yu Xiaogang planned to try a thousand-year Second Soul Ring, making Yu Xiaogang hesitate over his prepared plan.

Yu Xiaogang accepted that his physique was not strong enough for a thousand-year Second Soul Ring and chose one around eight hundred years. Meanwhile, Spirit Hall publicly announced the concept of Body Martial Souls, prompting the continent’s major powers to assess the claim and watch Spirit Hall.

• Yu Yuanzhen told Yu Xiaogang that absorbing a thousand-year Sub-Dragon Soul Ring required a physique stronger than his current one, so Yu Xiaogang agreed to seek a Soul Ring around eight hundred years.
• Spirit Hall announced the Body Martial Soul concept through its branches across the continent, causing widespread discussion and drawing the attention of sects and royal families.
• Xue Ye summoned Ning Fengzhi to hear his thoughts on Body Martial Souls and wondered why Yu Changge of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had joined Spirit Hall.
• The Star Luo Emperor ordered his people to monitor Spirit Hall, especially any Body Martial Soul Soul Masters it recruited.
• Tang Chen judged the concept plausible and noted that Gui Mei was a powerful example, while Ning Fengzhi studied Spirit Hall’s classifications and invitation to Body Martial Soul Soul Masters.

Spirit Hall’s announcement spread the concept of Body Martial Souls across the continent, drawing the attention of major forces to Yu Changge. In Songwu Village, Wen Shao began awakening children’s martial souls, but the ceremony ended on a mystery when Wang Ping’s body glowed and the others could not see what martial soul he had awakened.

• Ning Fengzhi decided to investigate Yu Changge and privately recruit people with Body Martial Souls for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• People across the continent discussed Spirit Hall’s announcement, and Yu Changge’s name entered the notice of major forces.
• Wen Shao arrived at the Songwu Village Spirit Hall branch to awaken the martial souls of the village children.
• Wang Ping asked Wen Shao whether he could join Spirit Hall if he awakened a martial soul, then stood on the awakening array.
• Wang Ping’s body began to glow during the ceremony, but after it ended the children asked where his martial soul was.

Wen Shao discovered that Wang Ping had awakened a Body Martial Soul and brought him into the Spirit Hall’s care. Meanwhile, Dugu Bo and Yue Guan successfully completed a batch of pills and planned to share the news with the little monster.

• Wang Ping feared he had failed to awaken a Martial Soul, but the crystal ball revealed that he had rank-two Innate Soul Power.
• Wen Shao explained that Wang Ping likely possessed a whole-body or skin Body Martial Soul and offered him Spirit Hall support.
• Wang Ping agreed to join the Spirit Hall, and Wen Shao prepared to take him back immediately.
• Dugu Bo and Yue Guan found three intact, slightly cracked pills in the furnace and confirmed their refinement had succeeded.
• Dugu Bo and Yue Guan decided to tell the little monster about the completed pills.

Yu Changge and Dugu Bo successfully refined their first pills, which could help low-level soul masters increase their soul power. Yu Changge explained that his future training for body martial soul users would involve near-death experiences, then assured Qian Xunji that he could still accompany Bibi Dong to hunt a soul beast after she reached level fifty.

• Dugu Bo showed Yu Changge three pills refined from spiritual herb essence and said they were likely useful only to Soul Masters and those below.
• Yu Changge told Dugu Bo that his training for body martial soul users would require them to enter a near-death state, but he would not force them to participate.
• Yu Changge explained that Gui Mei's false death had led to his martial soul's second awakening and that body martial souls varied in potential depending on the body part involved.
• Yu Changge showed the pills to Qian Xunji and Bibi Dong, and Bibi Dong hoped to use one to reach level fifty and hunt a soul beast with Yu Changge.
• After Bibi Dong left to cultivate, Yu Changge told Qian Xunji that he would first let new body martial soul trainees adapt to Spirit Hall for several months before beginning dangerous training.

Spirit Hall’s announcement about Body Martial Souls drew candidates and interest from the empires, while the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan debated Yu Changge’s research and whether the clan might give its credit to Yu Xiaogang. At Thunder Academy, Yu Tianqing, Yu Shuyao, and Yu Ming celebrated Yu Changge’s recognition and discussed how the Clan Head might react when Yu Changge was summoned home.

• Spirit Hall attracted commoner Spirit Masters with similar martial souls, while nobles and the imperial families also sought to claim enslaved Body Martial Soul users.
• The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s elders read Spirit Hall’s announcement and recognized that Yu Changge had proposed the Body Martial Soul concept.
• Third Elder questioned whether the clan would take Yu Changge’s research and credit Yu Xiaogang, and First Elder deferred the matter until Yu Yuanzhen returned.
• Yu Tianqing, Yu Shuyao, and Yu Ming celebrated Yu Changge’s achievement at Thunder Academy and anticipated that the clan would summon him back.
• Yu Ming worried that Yu Yuanzhen might blame Yu Changge for not explaining Luo Sanpao’s need for Light Attribute Sub-Dragon soul rings, while Yu Tianqing and Yu Shuyao doubted the Clan Head would do so.

Yu Luomian absorbed a seventy-thousand-year Thunder Scale Earth Dragon's Soul Ring and gained the area-effect skill Thunder Dragon Shock. The group continued through the Star Dou Forest, where Yu Xiaogang spotted a lightning-and-poison snake that he believed would suit his Second Soul Ring.

• Yu Yuanzhen killed a seventy-thousand-year Thunder Scale Earth Dragon for Yu Luomian.
• Yu Luomian absorbed its Soul Ring, rose to Rank 82, and gained the Thunder Dragon Shock Soul Skill.
• Yu Xiaogang watched Yu Luomian's breakthrough with envy before the group continued searching for Soul Beasts.
• Yu Xiaogang spotted an eight-hundred-year lightning-and-poison snake in a marsh and declared it suitable for his Second Soul Ring.

Yu Xiaogang absorbed a Thunder Poison Phantom Scale Python’s Soul Ring and reached level twenty-one, but his second Soul Skill was another farting ability. He tested its hypnotic effect on gray wolves, and the pack fled from the stench while his family struggled not to laugh.

• Yu Xiaogang chose the Thunder Poison Phantom Scale Python for his Second Soul Ring despite Yu Yuanzhen’s concerns about its age.
• Yu Yuanzhen severely wounded the python, and Yu Xiaogang killed it and absorbed its Soul Ring.
• Yu Xiaogang broke through to level twenty-one and discovered that his second Soul Skill still involved farting.
• Yu Luomian suggested testing the skill on a weaker soul beast, and the group encountered a pack of gray wolves.
• Yu Xiaogang’s farting Soul Skill put several wolves to sleep, but the leader and the others fled from the smell.
• Yu Yuanzhen, Yu Luomian, and Yu Xiaogang fell silent as they tried not to laugh at the skill’s unimpressive results.

After Yu Xiaogang’s soul-skill test ended in failure, Spirit Hall gathered twenty-two suspected Body Martial Soul users and introduced Yu Changge as their instructor. Yu Changge identified Wang Ping as possessing a Full Body Martial Soul and gave the recruits storage Soul Tools and Gold Soul Coins before preparing to show them the power of their martial souls.

• Yu Xiaogang watched the wolves flee and despaired when his soul skill failed to work as he had hoped.
• Yu Yuanzhen told the group to move on and continue searching for Yu Xiaogang’s soul beast.
• Qian Xunji welcomed twenty-two suspected Body Martial Soul users to Spirit Hall and appointed Yu Changge to oversee them.
• Yu Changge identified Wang Ping as having a Full Body Martial Soul and explained that Body Martial Soul potential mattered more than innate soul power.
• Yu Changge arranged for each recruit to receive a storage Soul Tool and five thousand Gold Soul Coins.

Yu Changge and Qian Xunji explained three options to the twenty-two Body Martial Soul children: join Spirit Hall, enter Yu Changge’s dangerous research and training, or return home. As the children deliberated, Qian Xunji predicted that more would choose Yu Changge than Spirit Hall.

• Qian Xunji explained that Spirit Hall would provide resources to recruits but reduce support if they failed to show potential.
• Qian Xunji said Yu Changge’s trainees would face deadly training to awaken their Body Martial Soul potential, and offered returning home as a third choice.
• Yu Changge and Qian Xunji discussed their agreement for Yu Changge to take the trainees later and for Spirit Hall to receive cooperation in return.
• Qian Xunji granted Yu Changge an Honorary Elder Token, making him Spirit Hall’s youngest honorary elder.
• Yu Changge gave the children one incense stick’s time to decide, then told Bibi Dong he hoped more than half would choose him.
• Qian Xunji said he expected more children to choose Yu Changge than Spirit Hall.

Yu Changge received an honorary elder token from Qian Xunji and asked twenty-two children to choose whether to join Spirit Hall, train under him, or return home. Thirteen chose Yu Changge, including Wang Ping, and he warned them that his Body Martial Soul training could be fatal before arranging for everyone to settle on the mountain.

• Qian Xunji gave Yu Changge an honorary elder token and promised Bibi Dong a Saintess position when she became a Soul Saint.
• Wang Ping decided to train under Yu Changge because he hoped to strengthen his martial soul and gain the power to avenge his family.
• Yu Changge asked the twenty-two children to show their choices, and thirteen stepped forward to join him while nine stayed to join Spirit Hall.
• Yu Changge warned the thirteen that his training could cost them their lives, but none chose to quit.
• Yu Changge sent all twenty-two children to settle halfway up the mountain and said he would teach them about Body Martial Souls in three days.

Yu Changge fused Wang Ping’s Body Martial Soul, which adapted to his Radiant Sacred Dragon and awakened at Silver grade, greatly strengthening his body and combat power. Three days later, he went to teach his first class before the students and a crowd of Spirit Hall elders and bishops.

• Yu Changge arranged for the newly recruited students to explore their surroundings and offered to send some of their Gold Soul Coins to their families.
• Yu Changge chose to fuse Wang Ping’s Body Martial Soul later, expecting it to adapt to his Radiant Sacred Dragon.
• Yu Changge fused the Body Martial Soul at night, and it underwent a Silver-grade Second Awakening that enhanced his physical and spiritual abilities.
• Yu Changge concluded that the awakening, combined with his soul bones, could let him fight opponents using Martial Soul Avatar.
• Three days later, Yu Changge entered a large classroom to begin teaching, while Chrysanthemum, Ghost Douluo, bishops, and elders watched from the back.

Yu Changge began teaching the first group of Body Martial Soul students, explaining his hypotheses about their potential and advancement and outlining their training. Wang Ping asked about his Martial Soul and life-and-death training, and Yu Changge identified him as having a full-body Body Martial Soul with great potential despite his low innate Soul Power.

• Yu Changge warned the elders and bishops observing the class to keep quiet, then introduced Body Martial Souls to the forty students.
• Yu Changge proposed that the importance of an awakened body part might indicate its talent and potential, while noting that poverty could cause congenital deficiencies.
• Yu Changge explained that soul rings might advance Body Martial Souls more easily than other Martial Souls and said the students would train their bodies and take medicinal baths.
• Wang Ping asked Yu Changge to identify his Martial Soul and explain when life-and-death training would begin.
• Yu Changge sensed Wang Ping's Martial Soul and identified it as a pure full-body type with great potential, advising him to train and replenish his qi and blood.

Yu Changge explained how Body Martial Souls could evolve through Near-Death Training and Soul Rings, then set conditions and preparations for training his recruits. He left the children to their instructors while Yue Guan and Gui Mei arranged medicinal support and monitoring for their progress.

• Yu Changge explained that recruits would need to reach rank ten or twenty before beginning Near-Death Training, and warned that despite safeguards, the training could still cause fatal accidents.
• Yu Changge gave the forty recruits about a year to strengthen their bodies and reach rank ten, then introduced Ling Ye and Qing Xiao as their senior members with Pseudo-Body Martial Souls.
• Yu Changge dismissed the class and said instructors would lead their daily lessons while he returned regularly to answer difficult questions.
• After class, Yue Guan asked Yu Changge about medicinal baths, and Yu Changge approved restorative herbs and medicinal liquid to help the children cultivate faster.
• Yu Changge told Yue Guan and Gui Mei to have mentors assess the recruits' potential and willpower, reserving Soul Ascension Pills for those who had joined his tutelage.

Yu Changge explained how Spirit Hall’s medicines and Body Martial Soul Second Awakening could help low-talent Soul Masters, then proposed dangerous deep-sea training to trigger awakenings. Yue Guan and Gui Mei learned that he planned to repeatedly bring the children near death, leaving them uneasy but accepting that the children had chosen this path.

• Yu Changge reviewed how Body Martial Soul Second Awakening might increase Soul Ring ages and decided he needed to test and record the results.
• Gui Mei questioned whether training should begin within half a year, before the children reached Soul Elder, and Yu Changge said the first generation could not wait years for their cultivation to improve.
• Yu Changge proposed throwing the children into the deep sea until they neared death, with Gui Mei rescuing them, in an effort to trigger their Second Awakening.
• Yu Changge said the process could last forty-nine days and might need to be repeated in later years if the children did not awaken.
• Yue Guan called Yu Changge a devil, but he and Gui Mei ultimately accepted that the children had chosen the dangerous path and would have to endure it.

Yu Xiaogan obtained his fourth soul ring and reached level forty-two, while Yu Xiaogang persuaded Yu Yuanzhen to give him another chance to become a Soul Elder. At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin learned that Yu Changge had become a Spirit Hall honorary elder and decided to wait for the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s response.

• Yu Xiaogan absorbed a seven-to-nine-thousand-year-old Thunder Scale Flood Dragon soul ring, reached level forty-two, and gained Blue Lightning Divine Dragon Strike.
• Yu Yuanzhen told Yu Xiaogang to focus on theory, but relented when Yu Xiaogang begged for one more chance to reach Soul Elder.
• Yu Yuanzhen warned Yu Xiaogang that he would be sent to Spirit Hall to study theory if he failed to break through to Soul Elder.
• Ning Fengzhi received intelligence that Body Martial Soul users had low Innate Soul Power and that Yu Changge had been named a Spirit Hall honorary elder.
• Chen Xin suspected Yu Changge’s strength or value to Spirit Hall was greater than they knew, and Ning Fengzhi chose to wait for the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s reaction.

Yu Yuanzhen returned to the clan and learned that Yu Changge had become Spirit Hall’s youngest Honorary Elder. Yu Xiaogang erupted over Yu Changge’s success, and Yu Yuanzhen threw him out of the Council Hall before asking the elders how the old clan chief wanted to handle Yu Changge’s new status.

• Yu Yuanzhen and his party overheard clansmen discussing Yu Changge’s Body Martial Soul and Honorary Elder title, and Yu Feng and Yu Lin confirmed the news to Yu Xiaogan and Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian met the Third Elder, who explained that the Honorary Elder title had been verified through Spirit Hall informants and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Yu Xiaogang raged that Yu Changge had no right to become an Honorary Elder, calling him talentless and a piece of trash.
• Yu Yuanzhen rebuked Yu Xiaogang and hurled him out of the Council Hall with a Thunder Dragon Claw, ordering him to reflect.
• Yu Yuanzhen asked the elders what the old clan chief had said, and the First Elder replied that they should wait for Yu Yuanzhen’s return before deciding Yu Changge’s place in the clan.