Chapter Summaries

Lingling awakened the Nine Hearts Begonia martial soul with innate rank-eight soul power, while her mother privately revealed that she had helped kill Lingling’s mother and unborn child. In Holy Soul Village, fellow transmigrator Ye Yu trained by a waterfall and looked forward to discovering his martial soul at the upcoming awakening ceremony.

• Lingling awakened the Nine Hearts Begonia martial soul, and her mother and two elders celebrated her innate rank-eight soul power.
• After leaving the hall, Lingling’s mother told the elders that she and they had killed Lingling’s mother six years earlier and that the unborn child had died too.
• Ye Yu met Tang San outside Holy Soul Village as Tang San returned from his early-morning cultivation.
• Tang San privately wondered why his Mysterious Heaven Skill could not break through its first bottleneck, despite his progress in the Purple Demon Eye.
• Ye Yu went to train beneath a waterfall and recalled that his unusual strength had emerged in childhood, though Old Jack had told him little about his origins.
• Ye Yu looked forward to the Martial Soul Awakening ceremony in three days, hoping to learn what martial soul he possessed.

Ye Yu trained beneath a waterfall, displaying extraordinary strength and resolving to attend the upcoming Martial Soul awakening ceremony despite Old Jack’s objections. Old Jack insisted Ye Yu should live as an ordinary person, while Ye Yu suspected his unknown background was the reason; he left while eyeing a coil of rope.

• Ye Yu leaped through the waterfall to its summit and decided he needed a new training method after his strength cracked the boulder.
• Ye Yu returned home hungry and argued with Old Jack, who had threatened to withhold meals if he trained again.
• Old Jack let Ye Yu inside, and Ye Yu ate before asking whether the Soul Master for the awakening ceremony was coming.
• Ye Yu questioned Old Jack about his unknown origins and insisted on attending the ceremony, but Old Jack forbade it.
• Ye Yu left and glanced at a coil of hemp rope in the corner.

Ye Yu displayed astonishing strength while eating breakfast with Tang San and helping him test Tang Hao’s hammer. After carrying a three-ton boulder for training, Ye Yu returned home as Old Jack went to check on him before the martial soul awakening.

• Old Jack left the village to arrange martial soul awakenings and told Tang San he would collect him on the third morning.
• Ye Yu shared Tang San’s rice porridge and ate six bowls, while saving the last bowl for Tang Hao.
• Tang San lifted and swung Tang Hao’s hammer using his Profound Technique, and Tang Hao was surprised by his strength.
• Ye Yu easily held, tossed, and caught the hammer with one hand, astonishing Tang San and Tang Hao before leaving to train with a boulder.
• Ye Yu carried a three-ton boulder for a hundred meters, then returned home as Old Jack hurried over to check on him.

Ye Yu defied Old Jack and went to the village’s Martial Soul Awakening ceremony, where Su Yuntao began testing the children. Tang San awakened Blue Silver Grass and unexpectedly revealed Innate Full Soul Power.

• Ye Yu tied up Old Jack and left for the awakening ceremony despite his grandfather’s pleas.
• Ye Yu arrived at the village Spirit Hall, where Su Yuntao introduced himself as a level twenty-six Soul Grandmaster.
• Su Yuntao awakened the first seven children’s martial souls, but none had Soul Power.
• Tang San awakened Blue Silver Grass and insisted that Su Yuntao test his Soul Power.
• Tang San’s touch made the Blue Crystal Ball shine brilliantly, revealing his Innate Full Soul Power.

During the Martial Soul awakening, Tang San learned that his Blue Silver Grass came with Innate Full Soul Power, and Ye Yu awakened a mysterious black begonia-like Martial Soul with an even brighter test result. The story left Ye Yu excited because he knew his power exceeded rank ten.

• Su Yuntao explained Innate Full Soul Power to Tang San and confirmed that Tang San had rank-ten soul power despite his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul.
• Ye Yu entered the stone circle and awakened a nine-petaled black begonia-like Martial Soul that Su Yuntao mistook for a Black Tail Flower.
• Ye Yu touched the Blue Crystal Ball, which instantly filled with dazzling blue light and illuminated the wooden house.
• Su Yuntao judged Ye Yu to have Innate Full Soul Power, though he could not explain why the crystal ball shone more brightly than it had for Tang San.
• After the awakening ended, Ye Yu went home, knowing his soul power was more than rank ten.

After the awakening, Old Jack learned that Tang San and Ye Yu both had Innate Full Soul Power, though their Martial Souls were considered useless. Ye Yu discovered his true Martial Soul and revealed that he possessed Innate Full Soul Power Level 30, leaving him at the threshold of becoming a Soul Elder.

• Old Jack learned that Tang San's Martial Soul was Blue Silver Grass and Ye Yu's was called Black Tail Flower, though he suspected Ye Yu's might be a mutation.
• Old Jack encouraged Tang San to pursue Soul Master training but advised Ye Yu to give it up, and Ye Yu refused.
• Tang San asked about Soul Rings and considered attending a Soul Master school after speaking with his father.
• Ye Yu summoned his Nine Spirit Black Tang and resolved to investigate its connection to the Nine Hearts Begonia Sect.
• Ye Yu wondered whether he had a hidden Divine Beast Martial Soul, then shattered a boulder with a punch while using only part of his soul power.
• Ye Yu realized he possessed Innate Full Soul Power Level 30 and was a Born Soul Elder.

Ye Yu tempered his powerful body with grueling exercises, convinced that a Support System Soul Master needed the strength to protect himself. The chapter ended with Tang San witnessing Ye Yu’s training and realizing how formidable his childhood friend was.

• Ye Yu lifted a massive boulder and used it as a weight for push-ups, progressing from two hands to one hand and then two fingers.
• Ye Yu tied the three-ton boulder to his back, climbed a cliff, and carefully descended to continue challenging himself.
• Ye Yu asked Old Jack about his identity, but Old Jack remained silent and decided to seek an additional work-study quota in Nuoding City.
• Ye Yu resumed his boulder training the next morning, and Tang San spotted him from afar using Purple Demon Eye.
• Tang San watched Ye Yu do one-handed and two-finger push-ups under the boulder and felt shocked and admiring.

Ye Yu intensified his training and asked Tang Hao for Heavy Iron weights, while Tang Hao taught Tang San a powerful hammer technique. The chapter left Ye Yu facing Tang San’s test to prove he could handle the weights.

• Ye Yu trained beneath a stronger waterfall, and Old Jack saw him carrying a huge boulder before leaving for Nuoding City determined to secure another spot.
• Ye Yu planned an even more demanding daily routine and brought rice to the Blacksmith Shop to trade for a hundred pieces of Heavy Iron.
• Tang Hao agreed to forge the weights, then demonstrated how to generate force through the body while teaching Tang San to use the hammer.
• Tang San practiced the technique, and Ye Yu recognized it as the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer technique.
• Tang Hao told Tang San to strike Ye Yu with the hammer as a test, and Ye Yu readily agreed to face him.

Ye Yu demonstrated his extraordinary strength and quickly mastered Tang Hao’s forging technique, leaving Tang Hao and Tang San astonished. After completing five pieces of Heavy Iron with 180 hammer strikes, Ye Yu continued forging.

• Ye Yu challenged Tang San to strike his raised fist with Iron Hammer using only one hand, and his punch sent the hammer flying and numbed Tang San’s arm.
• Tang Hao began teaching Tang San to forge, and Tang San managed only seven uninterrupted hammer strikes.
• Ye Yu asked for another hammer and said he had learned Tang Hao’s method by watching once.
• Ye Yu struck the iron 36 times without interruption, finishing a smooth piece of Heavy Iron and shocking Tang Hao and Tang San.
• Ye Yu forged five pieces of Heavy Iron with 180 strikes, then kept hammering while Tang Hao and Tang San watched in disbelief.

Ye Yu trained with Heavy Iron while Old Jack agreed to let him attend Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy with Tang San. Old Jack revealed that Ye Yu’s mother, a Soul Douluo with a Begonia Flower Martial Soul, revived him at the cost of her own life, leaving Ye Yu heartbroken.

• Ye Yu and Tang Hao forged Heavy Iron, and Ye Yu strapped it to his limbs before training to improve his speed.
• Old Jack told Ye Yu that Holy Soul Village had two work-study spots and that he would take Ye Yu and Tang San to Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy in three months.
• Ye Yu asked why Old Jack had changed his mind, and Old Jack began telling him about his origins.
• Old Jack recalled finding Ye Yu’s dying mother, who healed his injuries and used her Eighth Soul Skill to revive her stillborn child.
• Ye Yu’s mother gave her newborn son the name Ye Yu and asked Old Jack to raise him, then died after saving him.
• Ye Yu left the house in tears after hearing his mother’s story.

After learning of his mother’s death, Ye Yu lost control and unleashed a devastating power from his left arm. Tang Hao subdued him and discovered that black Dragon Scale had appeared on the arm before vanishing, leaving the power’s origin unknown.

• Ye Yu grieved for his mother and roared as supreme evil black qi surged around his left arm, turning his eyes completely black.
• Tang Hao sensed the energy, ordered Tang San to stay home, and rushed to the hill outside the village.
• Ye Yu destroyed the hundred-meter hill with one strike, then attacked Tang Hao.
• Tang Hao struck Ye Yu with his enormous weapon, knocking him unconscious and carrying him from the ruins.
• Tang Hao saw black Dragon Scale disappear from Ye Yu’s left arm, then concealed what had happened from Old Jack.
• Old Jack carried Ye Yu home and found him sleeping soundly while Tang Hao wondered about the evil energy and Dragon Scale.

Ye Yu learned more about his parents’ mysterious past and trained relentlessly for three months, while Tang San also prepared to leave for Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy. The chapter ended with Ye Yu deciding that his first Soul Ring would be at least a thousand years old.

• Ye Yu woke with no memory of the previous night, asked Old Jack about his mother and father, and vowed to uncover the truth and seek revenge when he was strong enough.
• After Old Jack described what he had witnessed, Ye Yu found the small hill in ruins and thanked Tang Hao, who concealed what had happened.
• Ye Yu trained intensely for three months, doubling the weights on his limbs and destroying eight hills with his punches.
• Ye Yu and Tang San met Old Jack at the village entrance to leave for Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy.
• Tang San decided his first Soul Ring would be at least a hundred years old, while Ye Yu resolved to obtain one of at least a thousand years.

Old Jack explained the Soul Master Academy system and warned Ye Yu and Xiao San about the dangers of obtaining later Soul Rings. In Nuoding City, Ye Yu challenged a shop owner to a bet that he could lift an eight-thousand-jin Gravity Armor, and the chapter ended as the crowd watched his attempt.

• Old Jack told Ye Yu and Xiao San about academy graduation requirements and cautioned them to be careful when seeking Soul Rings after their second.
• Ye Yu visited a weight-training shop in Nuoding City and asked the owner the price of an eight-thousand-jin gravity set.
• The owner mocked Ye Yu, but agreed to give him the Gravity Armor for free if he lifted it, while Ye Yu promised five Gold Soul Coins if he failed.
• Master, Yu Xiaogang, arrived nearby and watched as Ye Yu reached for the Gravity Armor with one hand.
• The owner and onlookers laughed until Ye Yu's attempt made the owner's smile freeze and left the crowd silent.

Ye Yu claimed a gravity vest by lifting it with ease, then hurried to Nuoding Academy, where he found a guard humiliating Old Jack and Tang San. After the guard shoved Old Jack, Ye Yu knocked him down and revealed powerful Soul Power, leaving the guard afraid and questioning the certificates no longer.

• Ye Yu lifted the vest weighing eight thousand jin, won it from the shop owner, and jogged away wearing it.
• The guard at Nuoding Academy mocked Old Jack and Tang San, called their certificates fake, and threw them to the ground.
• The guard shoved Old Jack, but Tang San caught him before he fell.
• Ye Yu arrived, struck the guard and sent him crashing into the academy gate.
• Ye Yu released powerful Soul Power and asked the frightened guard whether he still thought the certificate was fake.

Ye Yu and Tang San entered the academy with Master, who recognized them as rare Twin Martial Soul users, though Ye Yu revealed he had only one martial soul: the mysterious Nine Spirit Black Tang. After Ye Yu explained its origin and the Nine Hearts Begonia lineage, he believed his mutated martial soul’s support abilities surpassed those of the original.

• Ye Yu told Tang San to deal with the fleeing guard, and Tang San killed him with a Silent Sleeve Arrow.
• Master examined Tang San and Ye Yu’s certificates and escorted them into the academy, offering to take both as his students.
• Master identified Tang San and Ye Yu as the third and fourth Twin Martial Soul users known on the continent in nearly a hundred years.
• Ye Yu revealed his black begonia-shaped martial soul and explained the rare Nine Hearts Begonia and its powerful healing ability.
• Ye Yu said his martial soul had mutated from Nine Hearts Begonia into Nine Spirit Black Tang and believed its support abilities were even greater.

Master explained his reasoning about Tang San’s Twin Martial Souls and agreed to teach Tang San and Ye Yu. As Master prepared to help them find their first Soul Rings, Ye Yu asked whether he could kill a thousand-year Soul Beast.

• Master discussed the possible abilities of Ye Yu’s mutated Nine Spirit Black Tang and wondered why Ye Yu did not have a second Martial Soul.
• Master deduced that Tang San had Twin Martial Souls from his Innate Full Soul Power and Tang San agreed to become Master’s student.
• Tang San revealed his hammer Martial Soul, and Master warned him not to use it lightly or attach Soul Rings to it.
• Master planned to register the boys and search for Soul Rings, requiring their first Soul Rings to be at least a hundred years old and saying three hundred years would be best.
• Ye Yu asked Master whether he could kill a thousand-year Soul Beast.

Ye Yu revealed that he planned to absorb a thousand-year first soul ring and had Innate Full Soul Power Level 30, leaving Master and Tang San stunned. He set his sights on hunting a ten-thousand-year soul beast for his third soul ring six years later.

• Ye Yu insisted that his unusually tough body could withstand a thousand-year first soul ring, and Tang San urged Master to trust him.
• Ye Yu described how much gravity and physical impact his body could endure, and Master agreed to find helpers for their soul-beast hunt.
• Ye Yu asked Master to find someone able to hunt an eight- or nine-thousand-year soul beast, then revealed that he had Innate Full Soul Power Level 30.
• Ye Yu explained that some of his soul power strengthened his body as it vanished, and said he would obtain his first two soul rings before hunting for his third himself.
• Ye Yu declared that he would hunt a ten-thousand-year soul beast for his third soul ring in six years.

Ye Yu and Tang San registered at Nuoding Academy, where staff mocked Master and dismissed their Martial Souls. They arrived at Dorm Seven, where Wang Sheng challenged them for control of the dormitory, and Tang San prepared to fight him.

• Ye Yu explained his plan to spend six years cultivating at Level 30 so his body could absorb more soul power before he acquired a third Soul Ring.
• Master registered Ye Yu and Tang San at the academy, where Director Su and two staff members questioned their decision to take Master as their teacher.
• Ye Yu defended Master against the staff members’ ridicule and said that he and Tang San would make Master’s name more illustrious.
• Wang Sheng introduced himself as the boss of Dorm Seven and challenged Ye Yu and Tang San after learning their Martial Souls.
• Tang San volunteered to fight Wang Sheng, while Ye Yu warned that he might seriously injure him if he took the match.

Tang San defeated Wang Sheng and his Martial Soul with fighting techniques, and Wang Sheng handed leadership of Seventh Dormitory to Ye Yu. When Xiao Wu arrived, Ye Yu stepped forward to face her, warning Tang San that she was stronger than she looked.

• Tang San used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track and successive fighting techniques to defeat Wang Sheng, even after Wang Sheng summoned his War Tiger Martial Soul.
• Wang Sheng explained that he had wanted a stronger person to lead the working students and accepted Tang San as the new boss of Seventh Dormitory.
• Tang San told Wang Sheng that Ye Yu was stronger than him, and Ye Yu agreed to become the dormitory's boss until he graduated.
• Ye Yu declared that he would make Nuoding's students fear and respect Seventh Dormitory before he left.
• Xiao Wu arrived at Seventh Dormitory, and Ye Yu volunteered to handle her arrival, warning Tang San that she was not simple and might defeat him.

Xiao Wu challenged Ye Yu for the title of Seventh Dormitory boss, but Ye Yu defeated her with his immense strength and toughness. After the students arrived at Class Five, Ye Yu, Tang San, and Xiao Wu revealed that they all had Innate Full Soul Power, shocking the class.

• Xiao Wu attacked Ye Yu in a sparring match, but he resisted her leg lock, lifted her, and caught her after throwing her aside.
• Xiao Wu accepted her defeat and agreed to call Ye Yu boss, while Ye Yu praised her strength and said she could lead the dormitory after he left.
• Wang Sheng explained the academy’s classes, student ranks, and cleaning duties as Ye Yu, Tang San, and Xiao Wu headed to class.
• Wang Da, Wang Sha, and Wang Bi introduced themselves and looked down on the newcomers, but Teacher Wang required everyone to state their abilities.
• Xiao Wu, Tang San, and Ye Yu each announced Innate Full Soul Power, leaving the classroom shocked.