Chapter Summaries

Ye Yu and the others learned about the academy's scholarships and heard Teacher Wang boast that her son Wang Zhe would soon set a graduation record. At lunch, Ye Yu confronted six students who mocked the working students and threw vegetables on the floor.

• The class doubted that the three Wang brothers had Innate Full Soul Power until Teacher Wang confirmed their certificates, then assigned the students their seats.
• Xiao Wu chose to sit with Tang San and Ye Yu, and Teacher Wang explained the academy's scholarships and graduation records.
• Teacher Wang bragged that Wang Zhe would graduate in nine hundred days, while Ye Yu planned to return with a Soul Ring and apply for graduation the next day.
• Xiao Wu treated the group to lunch on the cafeteria's first floor, where six students mocked Wang Sheng and the working students.
• After one student threw vegetables and soup onto the floor and ridiculed the working students, Ye Yu ordered the group to eat the food from the floor.

Ye Yu confronted Cai Kun and his lackeys in the cafeteria and defeated their first attacker with a single kick. He overwhelmed Cai Kun’s Martial Soul with a punch, leaving Cai Kun preparing to use his Soul Skill.

• Cai Kun and his five lackeys released their Martial Souls and mocked Ye Yu for having no Soul Ring.
• Ye Yu told Xiao Wu to stay back, then kicked Du Tao out of his Wild Boar Charge and sent him flying.
• Cai Kun challenged Ye Yu and demanded that he apologize, eat the spilled food, and lick the soup clean.
• Ye Yu punched Cai Kun’s Bouncy Ball, overpowering its resistance and sending it bouncing away.
• Cai Kun shook his numb hand and announced that he would use his Soul Skill.

Cai Kun attacked Ye Yu with his First Soul Skill, Conscious Bounce, but Ye Yu endured the accelerating ball strikes without injury and treated them as a massage. The chapter left Cai Kun stunned as Ye Yu tracked and blocked the Bouncy Ball with one hand, while telling Cai Kun to stop shouting.

• Cai Kun used Conscious Bounce to make his Bouncy Ball accelerate and target Ye Yu.
• The students worried as the ball struck Ye Yu, but he remained unharmed because of his extraordinary physical toughness.
• Ye Yu said the Bouncy Ball felt like a massage, enraging Cai Kun into increasing its speed and power.
• Ye Yu tracked the ball's path and blocked its rapid attacks with his right hand.
• Cai Kun continued shouting the Soul Skill's name, and Ye Yu picked at his ear and told him to stop.

Ye Yu defeated Cai Kun and his lackeys in the cafeteria, then challenged Rong Yao after he arrived to defend Class Four. Ye Yu sent Rong Yao flying with one punch and forced Cai Kun and the others to eat the spilled vegetables and soup before letting them leave.

• Ye Yu blocked more than twenty unpredictable ricochets from the Bouncy Ball, then sent it crashing into Cai Kun and made him scream for the Infirmary.
• Ye Yu ordered Cai Kun’s lackeys to eat the vegetables and lick up the soup on the floor, but they threatened him with Class Four’s boss, Rong Yao.
• Rong Yao arrived, introduced himself as Class Four’s boss, and demanded that Ye Yu give him face and let the lackeys go.
• Rong Yao released his Brute Black Bear Martial Soul and charged Ye Yu, but Ye Yu dodged slightly and knocked him flying with a backward punch.
• Ye Yu kicked Cai Kun and the lackeys down, and they ate the spilled food before Ye Yu told them to get lost.

Ye Yu and Tang San prepared to obtain their first Soul Rings as Master took them to the Soul Hunting Forest. The chapter left them at a market outside the forest, where Ye Yu noticed a Food System Soul Master selling noodles.

• Ye Yu defeated Cai Kun and Rong Yao, while Rong Yao left to seek help from his cousin Wang Zhe.
• A doctor told Cai Kun his injury would leave a permanent condition, and Cai Kun blamed Ye Yu.
• Master told Ye Yu that he had arranged help with hunting a Soul Beast and advised Tang San to develop his Blue Silver Grass along the Control System path.
• Master said he would take Ye Yu and Tang San to the Soul Hunting Forest the next morning to obtain their first Soul Rings.
• Ye Yu and Tang San traveled with Master to the market outside the Soul Hunting Forest, where Ye Yu noticed a Soul Master selling noodles.

Master explained Soul Hunting Forest’s rules and the importance of teamwork to Tang San and Ye Yu while they waited for a helper. A mysterious fast-moving figure arrived, and Ye Yu recognized him, though the chapter left his identity unrevealed.

• Master explained that the noodle seller had a Control System Martial Soul rather than a Food System Martial Soul because he had chosen the wrong development path.
• On the way to Soul Hunting Forest, Master described the roles a balanced team needed and explained that hunters required a warrant to enter.
• Master showed Tang San and Ye Yu his third-class token, described the marks and the powerful families they represented, and spoke of the six strongest Titled Douluos.
• Ye Yu felt an instinctive disdain when Master praised the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon and wondered why the reaction had arisen within him.
• A swift figure arrived to meet Master, and Ye Yu recognized the newcomer.

Master brought Flender to help Ye Yu hunt soul beasts and explained the risks of pursuing an unusually powerful first soul ring. The group entered the Soul Hunting Forest, where Master summoned his Martial Soul, Luos an Pao.

• Master introduced Flender as a Level 78 Agility Attack System Soul Sage and explained Ye Yu's plan to seek a thousand-year first soul ring.
• Master told Flender to attack Ye Yu's prey heavily, hoping the soul beast would lose the will to live and become easier to absorb.
• Ye Yu insisted on attempting the thousand-year soul ring and revealed his goal of hunting a ten-thousand-year soul beast in six years.
• Master declined Flender's offer to help Tang San hunt a three-hundred-year soul beast and sent Flender deeper into the forest with Ye Yu to search for a thousand-year soul beast.
• Master summoned his Martial Soul, Luos an Pao, which appeared as a plump, adorable creature.

Master gave Ye Yu the Twenty-Four Bridges Moonlight Night and set off with Tang San to find a spirit beast, while Flender took Ye Yu deeper into the forest to seek a thousand-year beast. When Ye Yu dropped his weighted vest, Flender was stunned by the damage it caused.

• Master introduced his mutated martial soul, San Pao, and gave Ye Yu the Twenty-Four Bridges Moonlight Night, promising Tang San a gift of equal value.
• Master and Tang San encountered a four-hundred-year Mandala Snake, judged it too strong to fight, and fled.
• Flender urged Ye Yu to choose a weaker spirit beast, but Ye Yu insisted he wanted a thousand-year one and asked Flender to move faster.
• Ye Yu removed his weighted vest and dropped it, making the ground cave in and crack; Flender stared in shock.

Ye Yu and Flender searched the Soul Hunting Forest for a suitable Soul Beast, and Flender selected a Swift Growth Tiger for Ye Yu’s first Soul Ring. As Flender subdued the tiger, the chapter also showed Master and Tang San facing a deadly Mandala Snake, and Ye Yu stunned Flender with his strength.

• Ye Yu removed his sixteen-thousand-jin Gravity Armor and Heavy Iron, then followed Flender deeper into the Soul Hunting Forest.
• Flender found a thousand-year Swift Growth Tiger with powerful regenerative abilities and began beating it down so Ye Yu could absorb its Soul Ring more easily.
• Master and Tang San faced a four-hundred-year Mandala Snake, which resisted Master’s hypnotic smoke, and they prepared to fight for survival.
• Flender battered the Swift Growth Tiger until it lost the will to live, while Ye Yu watched his extraordinary healing abilities.
• Ye Yu punched the nearly defeated Swift Growth Tiger a hundred meters through several trees, leaving Flender questioning how a Support System Artifact Soul Master could be so strong.

Ye Yu brought the Swift Growth Tiger’s thousand-year soul ring to Master and Tang San, where he learned that Master had been poisoned by a Mandala Snake. Ye Yu and Tang San began absorbing their soul rings, leaving Flender and Master stunned when Ye Yu showed no discomfort at all.

• Flender defeated the Swift Growth Tiger, and Ye Yu obtained its eleven-hundred-year soul ring.
• Flender found Master poisoned beside the Mandala Snake’s corpse, and Tang San treated the wound before Master woke.
• Master warned Ye Yu that the Swift Growth Tiger’s soul ring could cause severe rejection, but Ye Yu chose to absorb it.
• Ye Yu and Tang San began absorbing their soul rings while Flender protected them.
• Tang San struggled against the pain of absorbing the Mandala Snake’s soul ring, while Ye Yu absorbed his ring with an unchanged, relaxed expression.

Ye Yu easily absorbed the Swift Growth Tiger’s thousand-year soul ring, gaining a purple first soul ring and a powerful healing skill. Tang San later finished absorbing his own soul ring and was astonished to learn Ye Yu had completed his absorption long ago.

• Flender tried to recruit Ye Yu to Shrek Academy, while Master said he would bring Ye Yu and Tang San together later.
• The Swift Growth Tiger’s resentment vanished after it sensed a terrifying aura within Ye Yu, allowing Ye Yu to absorb its soul ring without resistance.
• Ye Yu absorbed the thousand-year soul ring, greatly strengthened his body, and gained a support skill that healed Master and expelled his toxins.
• Flender and Master saw Ye Yu’s purple first soul ring and waited quietly as Tang San continued absorbing his own ring.
• Tang San finished absorbing his soul ring, mistook Ye Yu for someone who had not started, and was astonished when Ye Yu said he had finished long ago.

Ye Yu and Tang San revealed their first soul skills after absorbing their soul rings, while Master and Flender marveled at Ye Yu’s unusually easy Thousand-Year Soul Ring absorption. The group prepared to hunt a Nine Thousand-Year Soul Beast for Ye Yu’s next ring.

• Ye Yu told Tang San he had absorbed the Thousand-Year Soul Ring in less than ten minutes, leaving Tang San stunned.
• Ye Yu explained that his First Soul Skill healed injuries and increased vitality, and Master, Flender, and Tang San were amazed by its effects.
• Tang San demonstrated his Blue Silver Grass First Soul Skill, which had gained toughness and a paralysis poison from the Mandala Snake.
• Ye Yu explained that his soul ring’s resentment and repulsion vanished during absorption, and that his body endured its energy without pain.
• Master suggested Ye Yu might be able to absorb a Nine Thousand Year Soul Ring if the same effects continued, and Flender urged the group to set out and hunt one.

Ye Yu chose a dangerous mutant Heavenly Void Power Demon Bull as his second soul-ring target despite Flender's warning that its malice could destroy his sanity. Flender fought the beast, which unleashed its strongest skill and reached ten-thousand-year strength.

• Flender took Ye Yu into the depths of Soul Hunting Forest to search for a suitable power-type soul beast.
• Flender found a nine-thousand-year Heavenly Void Power Demon Bull and warned Ye Yu that its Essence of Malice could corrupt his mind.
• Ye Yu insisted on absorbing the Heavenly Void Power Demon Bull, and Flender agreed to fight it.
• The Heavenly Void Power Demon Bull charged Flender, but Flender overwhelmed it with speed and a barrage of attacks.
• The wounded Heavenly Void Power Demon Bull used Facial Ossification, formed a bone mask, and raised its aura to ten-thousand-year strength.

Flender defeated the nine-thousand-year Heavenly Void Power Demon Bull, and Ye Yu killed it to claim its Soul Ring despite warnings about its violent Evil aura. Ye Yu began absorbing the ring as Master, Flender, and Tang San watched anxiously, while the bull’s resentment prepared to strike back.

• Flender fought the Heavenly Void Power Demon Bull and shattered its bone armor after a hundred exchanges.
• Ye Yu decided to kill the unyielding bull, then struck its Head Bone until it died and formed a dazzling purple Soul Ring.
• Flender brought Ye Yu to Master and Tang San, and Master warned that the ring’s Evil aura could corrupt Ye Yu.
• Ye Yu began absorbing the nine-thousand-year Soul Ring into the Nine Spirit Black Tang as the others watched in worry.
• The bull’s consciousness began spreading its resentment and Evil aura, then was suddenly startled.

Ye Yu absorbed a nine-thousand-year Soul Ring, reaching Level 30 and gaining powerful support abilities. As the chapter ended, he revealed a white Bone Mask that Master identified as an External Soul Bone.

• The Heavenly Void Power Demon Bull sensed a terrifying evil within Ye Yu, gave up resisting, and vanished into the absorption.
• Ye Yu endured the Soul Ring’s immense energy for half an hour while Tang San, Master, and Flender watched anxiously.
• Ye Yu completed the absorption, and Flender confirmed that his soul power had reached Level 30.
• Ye Yu explained that his Second Soul Skill boosted strength by 30% and defense by 25%, while his Healing skill had also risen to 30%.
• Ye Yu formed a white Bone Mask over the right half of his face, and Master recognized it as an External Soul Bone.

Ye Yu explained that his External Soul Bone let him Hollowfy, boosting his Soul Power while risking his sanity. He then revealed its second ability by showing that his second Soul Ring had turned black, leaving Master, Flender, and Tang San stunned by the Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.

• Master explained the rarity, categories, and growth potential of Soul Bones, identifying Ye Yu's mask as an External Soul Bone.
• Ye Yu described Hollowfication, which magnified his dark emotions and could make him lose his reason if the mask covered his entire face.
• Ye Yu said half Hollowfication raised his Soul Power by one level, while complete Hollowfication raised it by two levels regardless of his current level.
• Ye Yu revealed that the mask had a second ability and summoned his Soul Rings, showing that his second ring had become black.
• Master, Flender, and Tang San recognized the black ring as a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and stared in disbelief.

Ye Yu revealed that his External Soul Bone could increase the ages of his soul rings, then went with Tang San to Nuoding City's Spirit Hall for an advancement appraisal. There, he challenged Su Yuntao's demand for a respectful address by revealing enough soul power to make the Soul Grandmaster stop mid-sentence.

• Ye Yu explained that his External Soul Bone's second skill increased his soul ring ages, and Master and Flender praised its power.
• Ye Yu removed his hollowfied mask, restoring his soul rings to their original colors, and he thanked Flender before the group parted ways.
• Master sent Ye Yu and Tang San to the Spirit Hall Branch in Nuoding City for advancement appraisals and their badges.
• Ye Yu and Tang San entered the Spirit Hall and met Su Yuntao, who remembered awakening their martial souls in Holy Soul Village.
• Su Yuntao rebuked Ye Yu for addressing him by name and demanded respect, so Ye Yu released his soul power and let Su Yuntao sense level twenty-one.

Ye Yu and Tang San underwent advancement assessments at Spirit Hall, where their soul power levels surprised Ma Xiunuo and Su Yuntao. They received their badges and left, while the officials dismissed their potential because of their Waste Martial Souls.

• Su Yuntao learned that Ye Yu had reached Level 21 and discovered his Innate Full Soul Power had been Level 20.
• Su Yuntao brought Ye Yu and Tang San to Ma Xiunuo, who sensed Ye Yu’s Level 21 soul power and was astonished by his strength.
• Tang San tested at Level 13 and said his hundred-year soul ring came from a Mandala Snake hunted with his teacher’s help.
• Ma Xiunuo offered Tang San a place at Spirit Hall’s specialized school, but Tang San declined because he already studied at Nuoding Junior Academy.
• Ma Xiunuo gave Tang San a Soul Master badge and Ye Yu a Great Soul Master badge, then he and Su Yuntao lamented their Waste Martial Souls as the boys left.

Ye Yu arrived at the back hill as Xiao Wu’s work-study students prepared to face Boss Xiao’s second-years, then defeated Liu Xu with overwhelming speed and strength. After Liu Xu conceded, Ye Yu made him accept the surname Cai, leaving the students to call him Cai Xu.

• Ye Yu and Tang San heard that Boss Xiao had brought second-year students to confront the work-study students and hurried to the back hill.
• Xiao Wu challenged Xiao Chenyu’s group, and Wang Sheng offered to fight Liu Xu before Ye Yu arrived to take his place.
• Liu Xu vowed that he would change his surname if he lost, and Ye Yu taunted him by asking whether he would become Cai or Shen.
• Ye Yu dodged Liu Xu’s staff and knocked him down with a slap, then stopped his Soul Skill with his arm and struck him again.
• Liu Xu admitted defeat and chose the surname Cai, so Ye Yu declared that the school would call him Cai Xu.

Ye Yu defeated Ling Feng and Xiao Chenyu, then appointed Xiao Wu to lead the second-year students as he prepared to leave Nuoding Junior Academy. He applied for graduation after showing the principal his Great Soul Master Badge, leaving the principal shocked and worried about the scholarship payment.

• Ye Yu defeated Ling Feng with one punch, and Xiao Chenyu admitted defeat and accepted Ye Yu as the students’ leader.
• Ye Yu told Xiao Chenyu’s group that he was leaving and named Xiao Wu as their new leader; Xiao Wu revealed her hundred-year Soul Ring and won their respect.
• Ye Yu went to the principal’s office and applied for graduation, showing the principal his Great Soul Master Badge.
• The principal confirmed that Ye Yu was a Great Soul Master at age six, decided to keep the news private, and realized the academy owed him 1,100 Gold Soul Coins.