Chapter Summaries

Lin Yuan left Bamboo Ridge with his parents and learned that fellow villager Lin Tian had awakened Innate Full Soul Power but refused to join Spirit Hall. Lin Yuan suspected Lin Tian was another transmigrator and began thinking about how to get his cultivation technique.

• Lin Yuan reflected on his transmigration and decided to keep a low profile because he had no Cheat and suspected other transmigrators existed.
• Lin Father invited Su Yuntao onto the carriage as the family left Bamboo Ridge for Notting City.
• Su Yuntao told Lin Father that he had found two children with Innate Full Soul Power: one with Blue Silver Grass and Lin Tian, who had refused Spirit Hall.
• Lin Yuan recognized the Blue Silver Grass child as Tang San and wondered whether Lin Tian possessed a cultivation manual like the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record.
• Lin Yuan abandoned the idea of taking Lin Tian's manual by force but resolved to create an opportunity for Lin Tian to court danger.

On his sixth birthday, Lin Yuan went to the Spirit Branch Hall in Notting City and awakened Lone Bamboo as his Martial Soul with three levels of Innate Soul Power. His father celebrated his promising start as a Soul Master.

• Lin Yuan settled into the family’s new home in Notting City and trained daily to improve his body before his Martial Soul Awakening.
• On his sixth birthday, Lin Yuan accompanied Lin Kun to the Spirit Branch Hall, where Su Yuntao awakened children’s Martial Souls.
• Yan Beifei revealed that he had Blue Silver Grass and nearly two levels of Innate Soul Power, then obtained proof of his Martial Soul for admission to Nouding Academy.
• Lin Yuan awakened Lone Bamboo and tested at three levels of Innate Soul Power.
• Lin Kun congratulated Lin Yuan and invited Su Yuntao and old friends to celebrate at the tavern.

After awakening with level-three innate soul power, Lin Yuan began cultivating and enrolled at Nouding Academy, where his father arranged for Lin Tian to share his room. The chapter left Lin Yuan waiting at the academy gates, where he saw an old man and a boy arrive instead of Lin Tian.

• Su Yuntao issued Lin Yuan's martial soul certificate, and Lin Yuan's parents celebrated his level-three innate soul power.
• Lin Yuan learned that Yan Beifei had sold his mother a Hundred-Year Wild Ginseng and suspected the boy was another Transmigrator with a way to empower his martial soul.
• Lin Yuan asked his father to teach him cultivation and spent the next half month training and exploring Notting City.
• Lin Yuan's father enrolled him at Nouding Academy, paid his tuition, reserved his room, and arranged for the work-study student Lin Tian to live with him.
• Lin Yuan waited by the academy gates for Lin Tian, but an old man and a boy arrived instead.

Tang San arrived at the academy with Old Jack, where Yu Xiaogang tried to recruit him as a disciple and Yan Beifei publicly exposed Yu Xiaogang’s flaws and past. The confrontation left Tang San alarmed that Yan Beifei knew his secret, while Yu Xiaogang faced ridicule from the gathered students.

• Tang San and Old Jack reached the academy, where the gatekeeper challenged Tang San until Tang San knocked him down and Yu Xiaogang intervened.
• Yu Xiaogang verified Tang San’s Martial Soul certificate, sent Old Jack home, and led Tang San into the academy; Yan Beifei followed them inside.
• Yu Xiaogang discovered Tang San’s Twin Martial Souls and persuaded him to become his disciple, but Yan Beifei interrupted and warned Tang San against accepting.
• Yan Beifei accused Yu Xiaogang of being a fraud who could not teach or reach level thirty, and revealed details about his Swine Martial Soul and reputation.
• As students gathered and mocked Yu Xiaogang, Yan Beifei further claimed Yu Xiaogang sought a genius like Tang San to profit from his success rather than teach him.

Yu Xiaogang killed Yan Beifei with Luo Sanpao’s fart after Yan Beifei warned Tang San not to become his disciple. Yan Beifei died with his secrets and powers still undiscovered, while Lin Yuan eagerly waited to loot his body.

• Yu Xiaogang summoned Luo Sanpao and prepared to attack Yan Beifei after Tang San did not intervene.
• Lin Yuan fled the blast’s range as Yu Xiaogang and Tang San put on masks.
• Yan Beifei tried to run and threatened Yu Xiaogang, but Luo Sanpao’s soul skill blasted him into the air and fatally injured him.
• As he lost consciousness, Yan Beifei remembered that his Heavenly Vial figurine could produce Creation Heaven-Reaching Dew, which had enhanced his Blue Silver Grass martial soul.
• The onlookers panicked and scattered, while Lin Yuan pretended to tremble and waited excitedly to loot Yan Beifei’s body.

Yu Xiaogang killed Yan Beifei and accepted Tang San as his disciple, while Lin Yuan volunteered to escort the body back to Emperor Soul Village. After sending Teacher Mo away, Lin Yuan carried Yan Beifei’s corpse into the mountain forest to loot it.

• Yu Xiaogang read Yan Beifei’s certificate, learned he was a poor village boy with weak innate Soul Power, and felt relieved about killing him.
• Tang San confirmed Yan Beifei was dead, then kowtowed to Yu Xiaogang and became his disciple.
• Yu Xiaogang took Tang San to register and dismissed concerns about Yan Beifei’s death, while Lin Yuan stayed behind with the gathered students.
• Lin Yuan told Teacher Mo that Yan Beifei was an orphan from Emperor Soul Village and offered to guide him there with the body.
• Lin Yuan persuaded Teacher Mo to return to the academy, then carried Yan Beifei’s corpse into the mountain forest.

Lin Yuan searched Yan Beifei’s body and discovered a Soul Tool ring containing a Heavenly Vial that could change his life. After returning to Nouding Academy, he went to Dorm Seven and found Lin Tian sparring with Xiao Wu while Tang San watched.

• Lin Yuan found a Soul Tool ring on Yan Beifei and discovered it held Gold Soul Coins, medicinal herbs, a Heavenly Vial, and a translucent fragment.
• Yan Beifei begged Lin Yuan to save him, but Lin Yuan snapped his neck, threw him into a ravine, and hid his clothes elsewhere.
• Lin Yuan returned to Nouding Academy, where students discussed Yu Xiaogang farting a trespasser to death, then stored the ring and went to Dorm Seven.
• Lin Yuan saw Lin Tian defeat Xiao Wu in a sparring match, while Tang San admitted he could not beat Lin Tian and touched the sleeve arrow hidden in his cuff.
• Lin Yuan knocked on Dorm Seven’s door and asked whether Lin Tian was there.

Lin Yuan settled into life at Nouding Academy while secretly testing whether his plastic Heavenly Vial could produce Green Liquid. By the fourth day it had, and he discovered that bathing in water mixed with the liquid greatly accelerated his Soul Power circulation.

• Lin Yuan brought Lin Tian bedding and daily necessities, called Xiao Wu his sister-in-law, and learned that Lin Tian had offered her his bedding while sharing with Tang San.
• Lin Yuan tested the Heavenly Vial under moonlight and established a routine of training, studying, cultivating, and leaving the vial exposed in an abandoned flowerpot each evening.
• On the morning of the fourth day, Lin Yuan found a drop of Green Liquid inside the Heavenly Vial.
• Lin Yuan poured the Green Liquid into a bathing tub and found that meditating in the treated water made his Soul Power circulate several times faster.

Lin Yuan strengthened his Lone Bamboo Martial Soul through cultivation with the green liquid and planned to improve his soul-ring absorption limit. On his way home, he witnessed Lin Tian defeat Xiao Chenyu and began considering the power behind Lin Tian’s cultivation technique.

• Lin Yuan cultivated in the green liquid, which greatly increased his Soul Power and transformed his Martial Soul into a Hundred-Year Lone Bamboo.
• Lin Yuan decided to use Lone Bamboos on the back mountain to obtain a soul ring and planned to raise his absorption limit with Whale Rubber.
• Lin Yuan left the academy carrying medicinal herbs and met two friends who invited him to watch a fight.
• Lin Yuan watched Lin Tian use his first soul skill to defeat Xiao Chenyu while Xiao Wu urged him to hit harder and Tang San studied Lin Tian.
• Xiao Chenyu called for Lin Yuan to get a teacher, prompting Lin Yuan’s two friends to flee while Lin Yuan stayed behind.

Lin Yuan intervened to spare Xiao Chenyu, then helped secure his father’s promotion while secretly obtaining Whale Rubber for his own purposes. The chapter ended with Father Lin returning home and announcing that he had become deputy commander.

• Lin Yuan pleaded with Lin Tian to spare Xiao Chenyu, and Xiao Chenyu called Xiao Wu and Tang San his bosses after seeing their Hundred-Year Soul Rings.
• Lin Tian asked Lin Yuan to have his mother look for Whale Rubber and offered to help him hunt a Soul Ring in return.
• Xiao Chenyu thanked Lin Yuan and promised to recommend Father Lin for deputy guard commander.
• Lin Yuan told Mother Lin about the Whale Rubber, and she gave him a hidden piece to take to Lin Tian and observe.
• Father Lin returned home and announced that he had been promoted to deputy commander.

Lin Yuan used Whale Rubber to strengthen his body, then spent the school year training and cultivating while his mother bought more of it. He gave Lin Tian a small share to avoid suspicion, and by the end of the year Lin Yuan had consumed more than a dozen pieces while Lin Tian had received two.

• Lin Yuan's mother bought Yan Beifei's herbs at market price and gave Lin Yuan several hundred Gold Soul Coins.
• Lin Yuan melted and consumed the Whale Rubber, enduring intense pain as it strengthened his meridians, bones, and muscles.
• Lin Yuan's mother eagerly set out to buy more Whale Rubber, and Lin Yuan decided to give Lin Tian some to prevent suspicion.
• Over the eleven-month school year, Lin Yuan kept up his exercise, studies, meditation, and use of Green Liquid to improve his Lone Bamboo Martial Soul.
• Lin Yuan consumed more than a dozen pieces of Whale Rubber, while his mother arranged for him to give Lin Tian two.

After a year of cultivation, Lin Yuan’s Lone Bamboo Martial Soul had evolved to thousand-year quality, and his Soul Power had reached level eight. As the academy break began, Xiao Wu decided to accompany Lin Tian to his mountain home, leaving Lin Tian pleased but wary of Tang Hao.

• Lin Yuan’s Lone Bamboo Martial Soul evolved to an estimated three-thousand-year quality, and his Soul Power rose to level eight as he planned to prepare bamboo for his First Soul Ring.
• Lin Yuan went to Dorm Seven and found Lin Tian cultivating while Tang San packed for the break.
• Xiao Wu said she would stay at the academy, then asked Lin Tian if she could visit his home.
• Lin Tian warned Xiao Wu that his home was over fifty li away along mountain paths, but she eagerly agreed to go with him.
• Lin Tian welcomed Xiao Wu’s choice but worried that Tang Hao might interfere.

Lin Tian agreed to take Xiao Wu to Bamboo Ridge with Lin Yuan’s help, despite fearing Tang Hao’s reaction. As they prepared to leave, Lin Tian reflected on his previous life, his cultivation, and the choices that had brought him close to Xiao Wu, but he felt an inexplicable sense of loss.

• Xiao Wu refused to go to Holy Soul Village and insisted on traveling to Lin Tian’s village instead.
• Lin Yuan offered Xiao Wu a carriage ride, gave Lin Tian ten Gold Soul Coins, and arranged for them to leave the next morning.
• Lin Tian agreed to take Xiao Wu shopping and bring her to Bamboo Ridge, though he remained anxious about Tang Hao.
• Lin Tian recalled his previous life as Li Keyong’s son, his martial training, and his death at the hands of Yuan Tiangang before transmigrating to Douluo Continent.
• Lin Tian remembered cultivating two techniques, awakening Innate Full Soul Power, and gaining Heavenly Thunder Bamboo and Buddha’s Wrath Fire Lotus Martial Souls.
• Lin Tian recalled becoming Tang San’s sworn brother and subtly warning Xiao Wu about Tang Hao, then felt an inexplicable sense of loss.

Lin Tian tried to protect himself from Tang Hao by becoming Tang San and Xiao Wu’s sworn sibling, but Tang Hao still decided he was a threat. Lin Tian offered to leave and even serve Tang San, yet Tang Hao attacked him and sent him falling from a cliff.

• Lin Tian proposed that he, Tang San, and Xiao Wu become sworn siblings, and the three made the oath before the academy students with Tang San as the eldest, Lin Tian as the second, and Xiao Wu as the youngest.
• Tang Hao watched the ceremony from hiding and decided to kill Lin Tian because he believed Lin Tian threatened his plans for Xiao Wu.
• Lin Yuan stayed behind while Lin Tian and Xiao Wu traveled to Bamboo Ridge, and Tang San parted from them because he could not go to either boy’s village.
• Tang Hao confronted Lin Tian at the cliff and raised his Clear Sky Hammer, declaring that Lin Tian had to die for setting his sights on Xiao Wu.
• Lin Tian pleaded that he was Tang San’s sworn brother, offered to leave, and then offered to serve Tang San as his master.
• Lin Tian revealed his twin martial souls, but Tang Hao vanished and struck him unconscious, sending him falling down the cliff.

After Tang Hao hurled Lin Tian from a cliff, Xiao Wu and the villagers searched for him while Lin Yuan waited for news at his family’s shop. A dangerous young man arrived seeking Whale Rubber and information about Lin Tian, and the chapter ended as Xiao Wu and the village chief came to the shop looking for him.

• Tang Hao struck Lin Tian with his Clear Sky Hammer and sent him tumbling off a cliff, convinced that Lin Tian’s Twin Martial Souls made him too dangerous to spare.
• Xiao Wu discovered that Lin Tian was missing, and the villagers split up to search the hill while she went with the old village chief to Notting City.
• A tall young man entered Lin Yuan’s family shop asking for Whale Rubber, and Lin Yuan suspected that he was another transmigrator.
• Lin Yuan took a Gold Soul Coin and told the young man about Lin Tian’s talent, strength, and connection to Xiao Wu and Tang San.
• Xiao Wu and the old village chief arrived at the shop and asked Lin Yuan whether Lin Tian had returned to Notting City.

Lin Yuan pretended to search for Lin Tian, then found Lin Tian’s corpse and secretly looted two powerful cultivation techniques from his clothes. The next day, Xiao Wu and Tang San arrived in Bamboo Ridge, where Xiao Wu mourned Lin Tian and Tang San felt relieved that his rival was dead.

• Lin Yuan left the medicine shop, found no one in Notting City who had seen Lin Tian, and returned to Bamboo Ridge with Father Lin and the old village chief.
• Lin Yuan reached the back mountain and found that villagers had already recovered Lin Tian’s corpse after his supposed fall from a cliff.
• After everyone left the mourning hall, Lin Yuan searched Lin Tian’s clothes and discovered the Supreme Sacred Heaven and Earth Technique and the Five Thunder Heavenly Heart Formula written in pinyin.
• Lin Yuan stored Lin Tian’s bloodstained clothes in his Soul Tool storage ring and dressed the corpse in a new Nouding Academy uniform.
• Xiao Wu and Tang San arrived the next day; Xiao Wu wept over Lin Tian’s corpse while Tang San felt relieved that Lin Tian could no longer threaten him.

After Lin Tian’s suspicious death, Lin Yuan stayed behind in Bamboo Ridge and secretly began cultivating the Five Thunder Heavenly Heart Formula. Back at the academy, Xiao Wu came to suspect Tang Hao had killed Lin Tian, while Lin Yuan prepared to return to training stronger.

• Tang San examined Lin Tian’s body and found every bone shattered and his internal organs ruptured, suggesting Lin Tian had been killed before being thrown off the cliff.
• Lin Yuan stayed in Bamboo Ridge, publicly mourning Lin Tian while secretly delaying his cultivation until he could work undisturbed.
• On the third evening, Lin Yuan used the Heavenly Vial’s Green Liquid on a Lone Bamboo and began studying the Five Thunder Heavenly Heart Formula.
• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang about Lin Tian’s injuries, and Yu Xiaogang blamed Spirit Hall for the death.
• When Tang San described the injuries to Xiao Wu, she suspected Tang Hao had killed Lin Tian to target her Soul Ring and Soul Bone.
• Lin Yuan cultivated the Five Thunder Heavenly Heart Formula and estimated that, with the Heavenly Vial’s Green Liquid, he could reach level nine Soul Power in under twenty days.

Lin Yuan moved with his parents from Notting City to keep their family safe, then cultivated until he reached Soul Power level ten and returned to Bamboo Ridge with Father Lin to obtain a soul ring. The chapter ended with Lin Yuan secretly using Green Liquid to strengthen a nearly five-hundred-year-old Lone Bamboo.

• Lin Yuan mastered the first level of the Five Thunder Heavenly Heart Formula, reached Soul Power level nine, and discovered that the Supreme Sacred Heaven and Earth Technique produced an incomplete second martial soul.
• Father Lin and Mother Lin decided to leave Notting City after Lin Tian's death and strangers' questions raised concerns about the family's safety.
• Lin Yuan's family moved to a city unnamed in the original story, where Father Lin found work and Mother Lin opened a new herbal shop.
• After two months of cultivation, Lin Yuan reached level ten, then spent another half month cultivating the Supreme Sacred Heaven and Earth Technique before telling his parents.
• Father Lin took Lin Yuan to Bamboo Ridge, where they found the nearly five-hundred-year-old Lone Bamboo Lin Yuan had discovered earlier.
• After Father Lin fell asleep in the cave, Lin Yuan dripped Green Liquid onto the Lone Bamboo and returned to cultivate.

Lin Yuan and Father Lin hunted a nearly six-hundred-year-old Lone Bamboo, and Lin Yuan revealed his extraordinary strength and Thunder Bamboo martial soul while defeating it. He found a Soul Bone in its roots, secured it with his father, and began absorbing the bamboo’s soul ring.

• Father Lin warned Lin Yuan that the Lone Bamboo was over five hundred years old, but Lin Yuan said he was confident after receiving melted Whale Rubber.
• Father Lin attacked the Lone Bamboo with his soul skills, but it hardened itself and retaliated, revealing that it had mutated.
• Lin Yuan defended Father Lin, dodged the bamboo’s attacks, and cut the Lone Bamboo in half with his lightning-charged knife.
• Lin Yuan told Father Lin that his martial soul had mutated from Lone Bamboo into Thunder Bamboo and uncovered a cyan left leg Soul Bone in the roots.
• Father Lin wrapped up the Soul Bone, and Lin Yuan released his Lone Bamboo Martial Soul and began absorbing the soul ring.

After absorbing his first Soul Ring and hiding a soul bone, Lin Yuan spent two years training while keeping a low profile. He reached Soul Power Level seventeen, gained a second Soul Ring and a Wisdom Skull, and left his Lone Bamboo Martial Soul at ten-thousand-year quality on the eve of his journey to Suotuo City Intermediate Soul Master Academy.

• Lin Yuan absorbed a nearly six-hundred-year Lone Bamboo Soul Ring, reached Soul Power Level thirteen, and demonstrated its powerful Lone Bamboo Throw skill before leaving the village with Father Lin.
• After returning home, Lin Yuan stored the soul bone instead of selling or absorbing it, and registered his martial soul as Thunder Bamboo when claiming the Soul Master subsidy.
• Lin Yuan trained for months with the Heavenly Vial, the Saitama method, the Five Thunder Heavenly Heart Formula, and the Supreme Sacred Heaven and Earth Technique, reaching Soul Power Level seventeen.
• Over the following year, Lin Yuan obtained a fifteen-hundred-year Thousand Illusion Bamboo Soul Ring and its Bamboo Forest Mirage skill, along with a Wisdom Skull.
• Lin Yuan discovered that only plant soul beasts cultivated from ten-year soul beasts could drop soul bones, then used Green Liquid to raise his Lone Bamboo Martial Soul to ten-thousand-year quality before setting out for Suotuo City Intermediate Soul Master Academy.