Chapter Summaries

Chu Zhao attended the martial soul awakening ceremony and discovered that she had two martial souls and two systems. She left with a scythe martial soul, a hidden second martial soul, and an apparent Innate Soul Power of level one, while Old Jack learned that she and Tang San were the village’s two awakening candidates.

• Old Jack brought Chu Zhao to the awakening ceremony, where Su Yuntao tested the children and identified Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass and Innate Full Soul Power.
• Chu Zhao awakened a sinister-looking scythe martial soul, which Su Yuntao dismissed as an ordinary weapon soul.
• Chu Zhao heard a voice identify the scythe as the Death God Scythe and discovered that the Death God Cultivation System and Farming and Wellness System were activating.
• Chu Zhao concealed the tiny object that appeared in her left hand and received an apparent Innate Soul Power reading of level one.
• Su Yuntao told Old Jack that Tang San had Innate Full Soul Power with a useless martial soul and Chu Zhao had a weapon soul with level one Soul Power.

After discovering that two systems had granted her powerful abilities and missions, Chu Zhao learned that Old Jack planned to give her the village’s work-study academy spot. She worried about the challenges ahead and about taking the spot from Tang San.

• Chu Zhao checked the Death God Cultivation System, found her Soul Power listed as level 21, and received a Thousand Year Soul Ring and a mission to defeat a Soul Grandmaster or a Soul Beast over one hundred years old.
• Chu Zhao opened the Farming and Wellness System, received another Thousand Year Soul Ring and the Longevity Art, and got a mission to buy and plant ten mu of fertile land.
• Chu Zhao realized she would have to complete both systems’ missions within a month despite having only one Soul Ring for each Martial Soul.
• Old Jack visited Chu Zhao and offered her the village’s work-study spot at the Junior Soul Master Academy in Nuoding City.
• Chu Zhao asked whether Tang San should receive the spot instead, and Old Jack explained that Tang San’s father would not let him attend an academy.

Chu Zhao traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest to complete her system tasks and encountered Xiao Wu, whom she defeated with her Death God Scythe. After the system counted the encounter as a completed task, Chu Zhao intercepted a Meteor Hammer aimed at Xiao Wu, and a sinister attacker revealed themself.

• Old Jack promised to find another academy place for Tang San and reminded Chu Zhao that enrollment at Notting Spirit Master Academy was three months away.
• Chu Zhao discovered that she had instantly mastered the Death God Scythe Usage Guide and the Longevity Art, then traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest in one day.
• Chu Zhao met Xiao Wu in the forest, and Xiao Wu tried to persuade her to leave for her safety.
• Xiao Wu attacked Chu Zhao with her Soft Technique, but Chu Zhao numbed her arm, summoned her Death God Scythe, and forced her to yield.
• The system announced that Chu Zhao had completed her novice task by defeating the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Soft Bone Rabbit.
• Chu Zhao threw her scythe to deflect a Meteor Hammer aimed at Xiao Wu, and a sinister voice announced that the attacker had found two little girls to feast on.

Chu Zhao and Xiao Wu were chased through the Star Dou Great Forest by a level thirty-nine Evil Soul Master who wanted to eat them. Chu Zhao stayed behind to fight him, killed him with her First Soul Skill, and completed the system mission.

• The Evil Soul Master appeared and threatened to eat Chu Zhao and Xiao Wu, prompting the Death God Cultivation System to offer Chu Zhao a mission to kill him.
• Chu Zhao led Xiao Wu deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest, but the Evil Soul Master caught up and blocked their path.
• Chu Zhao pushed Xiao Wu away and told her to run, then held the Evil Soul Master back as Xiao Wu fled.
• Chu Zhao revealed her thousand-year soul ring and used Reaper Scythe Shadow Kill to fatally wound the Evil Soul Master.
• Chu Zhao struck the Evil Soul Master again until he died, and the system confirmed that she had completed the mission.

After killing an Evil Soul Master, Chu Zhao looted his coins, started a wheat field near Notting City, and earned rewards from the Farming and Wellness System. She later helped Tang San sell herbs in the city, and they parted after he paid her for the favor.

• Chu Zhao buried the infant skulls found in the Evil Soul Master's Storage Soul Tool, took his Soul Coins, and left his corpse behind; Xiao Wu and then Spirit Hall members arrived afterward.
• Chu Zhao bought ten mu of wasteland near Notting City, planted wheat, and unlocked daily inspection and watering rewards from the Farming and Wellness System.
• Tang San thanked Chu Zhao for encouraging him to study at Notting Academy, then later asked her to accompany him to Notting City to sell herbs.
• Chu Zhao took Tang San to an herb shop, where his basket sold for twenty-one Copper Soul Coins, and accepted six coins from him before they parted.

Chu Zhao harvested Essence Wheat, learned how her farming system empowered crops, and began expanding her farm before enrolling at Notting Academy. Three months later, she arrived there with Tang San and Old Jack, where Yu Xiaogang intervened in a dispute and disappointed Chu Zhao with his appearance.

• Tang San bought wine for Tang Hao and mentioned seeing Spirit Hall, prompting Tang Hao to smash the jug and retreat without explaining his reaction.
• Chu Zhao harvested ten acres of wheat, unlocked the Granary, and discovered that her crops had become valuable Essence Wheat infused with Heavenly Energy.
• The Farming and Wellness System explained the Seed of Life and gave Chu Zhao a Farming Manual, leading her to plan an expanded farm with hired workers.
• Three months later, Chu Zhao agreed to attend Notting Academy for Old Jack's sake, and the Death God Cultivation System issued a task rewarding her with a Soul Power level for enrolling.
• Old Jack escorted Chu Zhao and Tang San to Notting Academy, where Yu Xiaogang intervened in a dispute and Chu Zhao was disappointed by his looks.

After Yu Xiaogang registered Chu Zhao and Tang San at the academy, Chu Zhao learned she had to share Seventh Dormitory and received a mission to defeat Tang San for the position of dormitory boss. She demonstrated her scythe’s power to the dormitory students, and Tang San agreed to fight her.

• Yu Xiaogang recognized that Chu Zhao’s level-one Innate Soul Power suggested her Farm Tool Scythe martial soul was stronger than an ordinary farm tool, and he and Tang San encouraged her to work hard.
• After Yu Xiaogang registered Chu Zhao and Tang San, Chu Zhao’s mission completed and her Soul Power rose from level twenty-three to level twenty-four.
• The director told Chu Zhao that students had to live on campus in shared dormitories, and Chu Zhao and Tang San were assigned to Seventh Dormitory.
• The Death God Cultivation System gave Chu Zhao a mission to defeat Tang San and become Seventh Dormitory’s boss, with a chance to waive a mission-failure penalty as the reward.
• When Wang Sheng made an insinuating remark about Chu Zhao and Tang San, Chu Zhao struck an empty bed with her Scythe and silenced the dormitory.
• Chu Zhao challenged Tang San to a proper match, and Tang San agreed after realizing she wanted to win the position fairly.

Chu Zhao defeated Tang San to become leader of the Seventh Dormitory, then watched Xiao Wu defeat Tang San and claim second place. She set up a private room and cultivated, while Xiao Wu asked Tang San about their shared hometown of Holy Soul Village.

• Chu Zhao used close-combat techniques to defeat Tang San, took the dorm leader position, and made the other work-study students accept her as their boss.
• Xiao Wu arrived, reunited with Chu Zhao, and defeated Tang San in a spar after the dormitory students urged him to test her strength.
• Chu Zhao told Wang Sheng and Tang San that her unusual attack was a way of using her martial soul and claimed her Innate Soul Power was lower than Tang San's.
• Chu Zhao skipped the cafeteria, bought supplies, built a private room in the dormitory, and began cultivating while the other students followed her example.
• Xiao Wu pulled Tang San outside to ask about his and Chu Zhao's hometown, and she gave an unnatural answer when he asked where she was from.

Chu Zhao agreed to cover Tang San’s work-study duties while he went to hunt for his first soul ring, then returned to Seventh Dormitory and found its students fighting intruders from Dorm Six. She helped the students beat them and declared that she protected everyone in Seventh Dormitory.

• Xiao Wu asked Tang San about Chu Zhao’s martial soul and soul power, and Tang San refused to reveal Chu Zhao’s private information.
• Tang San asked Chu Zhao to cover his work-study duties while he went with his teacher to hunt for a soul ring, and Chu Zhao agreed.
• Chu Zhao tended her farmland and returned to Seventh Dormitory to find Xiao Wu and the other students fighting five people from Dorm Six.
• Chu Zhao threw the five intruders outside, immobilized them with soapberries, and let Wang Sheng and the other students retaliate.
• After the students finished beating the intruders, Chu Zhao released them and declared that she was Seventh Dormitory’s boss and would protect its students.

Chu Zhao defeated Boss Xiao and his followers, then told them that effort could reveal strength beyond Soul Power and soul rings. Her words inspired the students to cultivate harder, and Tang San returned from obtaining his first soul ring to find the dormitory changed.

• Chu Zhao faced Boss Xiao, who mocked her Level One Innate Soul Power and called her trash.
• Chu Zhao defeated Boss Xiao twice, including after he used his soul skill, and his followers agreed not to bully Seventh Dormitory.
• Boss Xiao asked how Chu Zhao had won, and she said human potential was infinite and effort could uncover talents beyond Soul Power and soul rings.
• Wang Sheng and the other students began cultivating more diligently, and Xiao Wu also became less careless.
• Tang San returned to find everyone meditating and cultivating, glanced at the dormitory door's "Do Not Disturb" sign, and faced their questions about his first soul ring.

Tang San became a Soul Master, and Wang Sheng soon reached level ten after training hard. As the semester ended, Wang Sheng had to leave Notting Academy because he could not afford further study, and he refused to borrow tuition money from his friends.

• Tang San celebrated becoming a Soul Master while Xiao Wu quietly showed resentment.
• Wang Sheng broke through to level ten, thanked Chu Zhao for inspiring him, and later obtained a Ten-Year Soul Ring with help from academy teachers.
• At the end of the semester, Wang Sheng told Chu Zhao, Tang San, and Xiao Wu that he and two other students had to leave Notting Academy.
• Wang Sheng explained that Intermediate Soul Master Academy cost five Gold Soul Coins a year and that his father had gambled away his saved tuition.
• Xiao Wu asked Tang San to lend Wang Sheng money, but Wang Sheng refused because he could not rely on loans every year.

Chu Zhao helped Wang Sheng secure money for tuition and a job, then accompanied Tang San and Xiao Wu to Holy Soul Village, where Tang San learned that Tang Hao had left. She comforted Tang San and returned to cultivation, insisting that strength gave her security.

• Tang San gave Wang Sheng five Gold Soul Coins for tuition, and Chu Zhao offered him and his friends work at shops bearing the Moonlight name.
• Tang San, Chu Zhao, and Xiao Wu traveled to Holy Soul Village, where Tang San found Old Jack holding a farewell letter from Tang Hao.
• Chu Zhao escorted Old Jack home and left him gifts, then found Tang San and Xiao Wu waiting outside her cabin.
• Tang San wondered whether Tang Hao had left because he hated him, and Chu Zhao reassured him that his father may have been unable to face saying goodbye.
• Xiao Wu and Chu Zhao joked with Tang San until he felt better, then Chu Zhao sent them away so she could cultivate.

Chu Zhao learned that Tang Hao had found her among the dead after two groups fought over her, revealing that her origins were dangerous and mysterious. Old Jack gave her a Ruby Necklace containing locked boxes, and the chapter left Chu Zhao unable to open one that might hold clues about her past.

• Chu Zhao and Tang San and Xiao Wu cultivated together before leaving Holy Soul Village for Notting Academy.
• Old Jack told Chu Zhao that Tang Hao had found her among corpses after a group protecting her and a group trying to kill her had perished.
• Old Jack gave Chu Zhao the Ruby Necklace that had been around her neck, explaining that it was a Storage Soul Tool and that he had kept it secret from Tang Hao.
• Chu Zhao found locked boxes inside the necklace, but Tang San warned that forcing one open would trigger its self-destruct mechanism.
• Tang San examined the box and concluded that only its key could open it, leaving Chu Zhao without the clues she hoped to find.

Chu Zhao left Notting Academy and traveled north, where Xiao Chenyu and Wang Sheng persuaded her to let them follow her. She began training them and other youths with poor backgrounds, believing they could grow with the right methods.

• Tang San gave Chu Zhao a Silent Hidden Arrow and taught her how to use it, then resolved to work harder so he could make more concealed weapons.
• Chu Zhao opened the Moonlight Blacksmith Shop in Notting City and hired Tang San at several times his previous salary.
• Near the end of their second school year, Chu Zhao withdrew from Notting Academy despite Tang San and Xiao Wu asking her to stay.
• In Nordke City, Chu Zhao defeated a level-thirty-two Soul Master without using her martial soul, and Xiao Chenyu and Wang Sheng asked to follow her.
• Chu Zhao accepted Xiao Chenyu and Wang Sheng, along with other youths she had selected, and began training them with methods suited to their individual needs.

Chu Zhao helped Wang Sheng and Xiao Chenyu obtain Soul Rings in the Star Dou Great Forest, revealing that she was an eight-year-old Soul Elder with three purple rings. On the way out, they met Tang San, Yu Xiaogang, and Notting Academy’s headmaster, and Chu Zhao explained how she had become colleagues with Wang Sheng.

• Wang Sheng and Xiao Chenyu discovered Chu Zhao had become a Soul Elder with three purple Soul Rings.
• Chu Zhao helped Wang Sheng kill a strength-type Soul Beast and obtain a hundred-year Soul Ring, then explained that Xiao Chenyu needed a speed-focused Soul Beast for his Silver Wolf martial soul.
• Chu Zhao, Wang Sheng, and Xiao Chenyu encountered Tang San, Yu Xiaogang, and Notting Academy’s headmaster as both groups left the forest after hunting Soul Rings.
• Yu Xiaogang praised Chu Zhao’s cultivation and repeated that there were no useless martial souls, prompting Chu Zhao to think his saying insulted him twice in one sentence.
• Tang San asked how Chu Zhao and the others had met, and Chu Zhao said she and Wang Sheng had become colleagues at a restaurant under the Moonlight Merchant Guild.

Chu Zhao accompanied Zhu Zhuqing to Shrek Academy so she could find Dai Mubai, despite doubting the wisdom of her choice. At the academy’s entrance test, Chu Zhao disguised her soul rings, and the systems bound to her began issuing urgent warnings.

• Tang San told Chu Zhao that Xiao Wu had missed her while she was away, and Chu Zhao said they would meet again.
• Three and a half years later, Zhu Zhuqing insisted on going to Shrek Academy to find Dai Mubai, and Chu Zhao reluctantly agreed to accompany her after hearing some news.
• While waiting in line at Shrek Academy, Chu Zhao sat in a wheelchair and cultivated, leading Xiao Wu to think she had injured her legs until Tang San recognized her true reason.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Chu Zhao paid twenty Gold Soul Coins and reached the entrance test; Chu Zhao disguised her soul rings as two yellow rings.
• Someone in line questioned why Chu Zhao was with Zhu Zhuqing, and both systems bound to Chu Zhao began sounding urgent warnings.

At Shrek Academy, Chu Zhao met Tang San and Xiao Wu again and drew attention by revealing Soul Power above level thirty. The suspected Transmigrator challenged her achievement, and Chu Zhao and her friends confronted him.

• Chu Zhao came to Shrek Academy to investigate a boy she suspected was a Transmigrator who knew the story.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu reunited with Chu Zhao, and Chu Zhao introduced herself to Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing while teasing Dai Mubai about the hotel fight she had witnessed.
• Dai Mubai tried to lead the group past the second test, and Ning Rongrong and the unknown youth demonstrated their Soul Power levels.
• Chu Zhao shattered the Crystal Ball while testing, revealing that she had surpassed level thirty, and compensated the test official.
• The unknown youth mocked Chu Zhao for reaching level thirty despite having Innate Soul Power of only level one, prompting Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing to defend her.

Chu Zhao explained that her Innate Soul Power had been misread as level one, and the group continued toward Shrek Academy’s next trial. After she challenged Dai Mubai’s story about a young Spirit Hall elder, the Transmigrator began to suspect that she knew the plot.

• Tang San accused Chu Zhao’s rapid cultivation of seeming impossible, and Xiao Wu defended her while Chu Zhao stopped them from fighting.
• Chu Zhao revealed that a later test had shown her Soul Power was level ten, suggesting the original Crystal Ball had malfunctioned.
• Tang San sympathized with Chu Zhao over the wasted time and money, but she reassured him that her hard work had let her surpass the others.
• As Dai Mubai described Shrek Academy’s history, Chu Zhao pointed out that its celebrated graduate could not have become a Titled Douluo in his early thirties.
• The Transmigrator claimed the graduate was an honorary elder, but Chu Zhao challenged his account of the title’s authority.
• The Transmigrator asked who Chu Zhao really was and suspected she was another Transmigrator who knew the plot.

Chu Zhao and five other candidates began Shrek Academy’s fourth test, working together against Zhao Wuji while Tang San assigned their roles. Chu Zhao rescued Ning Rongrong from Zhao Wuji’s opening attack, and the team struggled to overcome the vast gap in strength as the battle continued.

• Chu Zhao learned that the Transmigrator was named Tang San, while Shi Yang mocked her Scythe Martial Soul and she mocked him in return.
• Tang San assigned the group’s battle roles, while Shi Yang kept calling him “Third Brother” and Xiao Wu rebuked him.
• When Zhao Wuji attacked Ning Rongrong first, Chu Zhao swept in and carried her to safety.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu restrained and attacked Zhao Wuji, but their teamwork and Zhu Zhuqing’s strike failed to injure him.
• Tang San adapted his technique to help Xiao Wu throw Zhao Wuji down, and Chu Zhao unleashed her First Soul Skill as dust rose around them.

Chu Zhao injured Zhao Wuji twice with her scythe, then helped the group survive his counterattacks as they tried to stall for time. Shi Yang slipped by revealing he knew about Tang San’s Hidden Weapons, and Tang San grew suspicious of him.

• Chu Zhao wounded Zhao Wuji with her First Soul Skill, and Zhao Wuji praised her while warning everyone that he was getting serious.
• Chu Zhao used her Second Soul Skill, Reaper Blood Sea, to injure Zhao Wuji again as Tang San pulled Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing out of danger.
• Chu Zhao told the group to stall, but Shi Yang attacked Zhao Wuji and was knocked back, becoming the most seriously injured among them.
• Shi Yang urged Tang San to use his Hidden Weapons, revealing knowledge he should not have had.
• Tang San questioned how Shi Yang knew about the Hidden Weapons, and Shi Yang claimed he had seen Tang San fight from afar.