Chapter Summaries

Luo Fan rejected Yu Xiaogang’s offer to become his disciple and entered Notting Academy, where he quickly established himself as the strongest student in Dorm Seven. He began planning to obtain his first Soul Ring and unlock the Wood Clone Technique just as a girl arrived at the dormitory.

• Yu Xiaogang claimed that Tang San and Luo Fan had Twin Martial Souls and invited them to become his disciples, but Luo Fan warned Tang San and refused.
• Yu Xiaogang insulted Luo Fan’s arrogance and predicted that his Blue Silver Grass would limit his growth, while Tang San accepted Yu Xiaogang as his teacher.
• Luo Fan completed his admission as a working student and defeated Wang Sheng’s sneak attack in one move, earning the title of Dorm Seven’s boss.
• Luo Fan told the dormitory students that he had level-10 Soul Power but no Soul Ring, then planned to unlock the Wood Clone Technique with his first Soul Ring.
• A girl’s voice asked whether this was Dorm Seven.

Luo Fan defeated Xiao Wu and Tang San in Dorm Seven, then searched the academy library for a soul beast compatible with his Wood Clone skill. He chose a thousand-year Twin-Bloom Lotus and began thinking of someone who could help him hunt it.

• Xiao Wu challenged Luo Fan and was knocked down by one punch, surprising Wang Sheng and the other dormmates.
• Tang San arrived, challenged Luo Fan, and was thrown into a wall; after using his Tang Sect techniques in a second attack, he was defeated again.
• The next day, Luo Fan searched an illustrated soul beast guide and selected a thousand-year Twin-Bloom Lotus for his first soul ring.
• Luo Fan realized he needed help hunting the soul beast and thought of someone who could assist him.

Tang San regained confidence after Yu Xiaogang promised to help him obtain his first soul ring, while Luo Fan received a Spirit Hall reward for his Whale Rubber discovery. After demonstrating that his physique could match a thousand-year soul ring’s demands, Luo Fan persuaded Su Yuntao to help him hunt one.

• Yu Xiaogang reassured Tang San that Luo Fan’s victory did not matter before Tang San obtained a soul ring, and promised to find him a first ring soon.
• The Notting City branch bishop told Su Yuntao that Spirit Hall had rewarded him and Luo Fan with one thousand Gold Soul Coins each, along with a chance for Luo Fan to study theory in Heaven Dou City.
• Su Yuntao gave Luo Fan his reward when Luo Fan visited the branch and learned he was studying at Notting Academy.
• Luo Fan asked Su Yuntao to help him hunt a thousand-year soul beast for his first soul ring.
• Su Yuntao tested Luo Fan’s strength, found himself outmatched, and agreed to help him hunt a thousand-year soul beast.

Luo Fan absorbed a thousand-year Twin-Bloom Lotus soul ring as his first ring, raising his Soul Power to level 13 and revealing a cultivation-supporting skill. He returned to the academy, where his roommates were stunned by his purple soul ring and Wood Clone Technique.

• Su Yuntao led Luo Fan into Soul Hunting Forest and helped him find and defeat a thousand-year Twin-Bloom Lotus.
• Luo Fan absorbed the purple soul ring, endured its pressure, and advanced from level 10 to level 13.
• Su Yuntao congratulated Luo Fan, asked him to call him Brother Yuntao, and escorted him back to Notting City.
• Luo Fan returned to the dormitory, learned that Tang San had gone to Soul Hunting Forest with Grandmaster, and described his First Soul Skill as supporting cultivation.
• Luo Fan revealed his thousand-year soul ring and used Wood Clone Technique to create four clones that began meditating, leaving Xiao Wu, Wang Sheng, and the others astonished.

Luo Fan showed Dorm Seven that his Thousand-Year first Soul Ring let his clones cultivate alongside him, greatly increasing his gains but also multiplying his fatigue. After Tang San returned with his own first Soul Ring, he challenged Luo Fan to a rematch, and the chapter ended as they revealed their martial souls and Soul Rings.

• Luo Fan explained to Xiao Wu and Dorm Seven that his clones could cultivate independently, though their accumulated fatigue returned when he dismissed them.
• Luo Fan and four clones meditated overnight, and he woke with multiplied fatigue but a substantial increase in Soul Power.
• Xiao Wu offered to cover Luo Fan's work-study duties, but he insisted on sweeping the academy road with her.
• Tang San returned with his first Soul Ring and challenged Luo Fan to spar again, while Yu Xiaogang stayed to watch.
• Luo Fan accepted Tang San's challenge; Tang San revealed his Blue Silver Grass martial soul and yellow Soul Ring, and Luo Fan revealed his own Blue Silver Grass with a purple Soul Ring.

Qian Renxue learned that Luo Fan had absorbed a thousand-year Soul Ring as his first and ordered the Notting City Spirit Hall Branch to monitor his progress. At Notting Academy, Tang San saw Luo Fan’s purple first Soul Ring and challenged Yu Xiaogang’s claim that the limit was 423 years.

• Qian Renxue praised Salas for supplying Whale Rubber and questioned whether Luo Fan’s reward of one thousand Gold Soul Coins was sufficient.
• Salas reported that Luo Fan had absorbed a thousand-year Soul Ring from a Twin-Bloom Lotus as his first ring, surprising Qian Renxue and the two Douluo.
• Qian Renxue ordered the Notting City Spirit Hall Branch to watch Luo Fan and consider cultivating him if he obtained his second Soul Ring before graduating.
• Yu Xiaogang expected onlookers to be impressed by Tang San, but they instead reacted to Luo Fan’s purple thousand-year first Soul Ring.
• Tang San showed his own yellow hundred-year ring, then asked Yu Xiaogang why Luo Fan had surpassed the stated 423-year limit.

Luo Fan defeated Tang San by using his First Soul Skill, Wood Clone Technique, to overwhelm Tang San's Blue Silver Entanglement. Humiliated, Tang San ran off, and Yu Xiaogang chased after him, afraid of losing his disciple.

• Tang San used Blue Silver Entanglement to bind Luo Fan and declared that he had won.
• Luo Fan activated Wood Clone Technique and created four clones that charged Tang San.
• The four Wood Clones beat Tang San despite his attempts to dodge and use poison, until Yu Xiaogang intervened.
• Tang San shoved Yu Xiaogang away and ran off, while Yu Xiaogang called after him and hurried to follow.

After defeating Tang San, Luo Fan gained fame at Notting Academy and received financial support from the headmaster. He began training with his Wood Clones to create a Rasengan, while Yu Xiaogang found Tang San, who blamed him for misleading him.

• Luo Fan dismissed his four Wood Clones, then left the dormitory with Xiao Wu after noticing Tang San had not returned.
• The headmaster examined Luo Fan's thousand-year Soul Ring, ended his work-study duties, and promised him two Gold Soul Coins each month.
• Luo Fan attended class and then bought balloons to begin Rasengan training with his Wood Clones.
• Yu Xiaogang found Tang San after searching all night, and Tang San angrily called him a fraud over his Soul Ring theory.

Yu Xiaogang reassured Tang San that his Clear Sky Hammer could eventually gain powerful Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings, explaining away Luo Fan’s unusually strong first Soul Ring as a result of his exceptional constitution. Meanwhile, Luo Fan completed the first stage of his Rasengan training, but Yu Xiaogang dismissed the effort as childish showing off.

• Yu Xiaogang persuaded Tang San to save his Clear Sky Hammer for later, claiming its first Soul Ring could then be a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring and help him surpass Luo Fan.
• Yu Xiaogang explained Luo Fan’s Thousand-Year first Soul Ring by attributing it to his exceptional physical constitution, and Tang San accepted the explanation.
• Luo Fan and four Wood Clones practiced Rasengan with water balloons until one clone completed the first stage and passed its experience back to Luo Fan.
• Luo Fan completed the first stage himself and planned to begin practicing the next stage with a rubber ball.
• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang that Luo Fan seemed to be creating a Self-Created Soul Skill, and Yu Xiaogang mocked the idea and warned Tang San not to imitate him.

Luo Fan advanced to Soul Power Level 14, gaining the ability to create a fifth Wood Clone, and made progress on his Rasengan training. Tang San grew envious and confronted Yu Xiaogang about why he had not helped him obtain the Wood Clone Technique, leaving Yu Xiaogang at a loss for words.

• Luo Fan's four Wood Clones helped raise his Soul Power from Level 13 to Level 14, allowing him to create five clones.
• Wang Sheng, Xiao Wu, and the other Dorm Seven students noticed Luo Fan's extra clone and learned his Soul Power had increased.
• Tang San watched Luo Fan's demonstration and suffered another mental breakdown over the advantages of the Wood Clone Technique.
• Luo Fan and his five Wood Clones practiced Rasengan until a rubber ball exploded, marking progress on its second stage.
• Tang San asked Yu Xiaogang why Luo Fan had awakened the Wood Clone Technique and blamed him for not helping Tang San obtain it; Yu Xiaogang could not answer.

Yu Xiaogang tried to persuade Luo Fan to become his disciple after learning how the Wood Clone Technique boosted cultivation, but Luo Fan dismissed him. When Yu Xiaogang insisted that Luo Fan could never create a soul skill, Luo Fan began training his Rasengan in front of him, leaving him stunned.

• Yu Xiaogang reassured Tang San that Luo Fan's Wood Clone Technique was a matter of luck, while privately deciding to recruit Luo Fan as a disciple.
• Yu Xiaogang waited for Luo Fan at his cultivation spot and offered to train him into the continent's youngest Titled Douluo.
• Luo Fan laughed at Yu Xiaogang's boast and told him to stop interrupting his cultivation.
• Yu Xiaogang criticized Luo Fan's attempt to create a Self-Created Soul Skill and declared that playing with balls could never produce one.
• Luo Fan summoned five wood clones and began the third stage of training, gathering and rapidly rotating Soul Power in his palm.
• Yu Xiaogang saw the visible spinning Soul Power in Luo Fan's hand and was stunned.

Luo Fan continued training the Rasengan until a Wood Clone completed the technique, allowing him to understand how to control it himself. He tested the finished Rasengan on a boulder.

• Luo Fan struggled to balance the Rasengan’s power and stability through the third training stage, while his Soul Power reached level 15.
• Xiao Wu brought Luo Fan lunch and told him she had reached level 12, while Tang San had advanced to level 13 and was making dangerous-looking items at the blacksmith shop.
• One of Luo Fan’s Wood Clones successfully compressed its Soul Power into a stable, fist-sized Rasengan.
• Luo Fan canceled the Wood Clone Technique, absorbed its training experience, and formed a Rasengan in his own palm.
• Luo Fan pressed the Rasengan against a large boulder.

Luo Fan completed a preliminary Rasengan and advised Xiao Wu to wait until she had more Soul Power before learning it. Tang San and Yu Xiaogang mistook Luo Fan’s three-day absence from training for failure, while Tang San prepared to challenge him again in the academy’s midterm assessment.

• Luo Fan used the Rasengan to grind a large crater into a boulder and judged the technique’s concentrated destructive power satisfactory.
• Xiao Wu asked to learn the Rasengan, and Luo Fan recommended she wait until after level 20 because it required substantial Soul Power.
• After resting, Luo Fan returned to Dorm Seven with Xiao Wu, while Tang San noticed Luo Fan had not trained publicly for three days.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed Luo Fan had given up after failing to create a Self-Created Soul Skill and told Tang San about the upcoming midterm assessment.
• Tang San resolved to enter the assessment and defeat Luo Fan, believing his hidden weapons and long-range tactics gave him the advantage.

Luo Fan trained his Soul Power control and initially declined to enter Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy’s midterm assessment, but Xiao Wu persuaded him to sign up. At the assessment, Tang San and Xiao Wu won their matches, and Luo Fan was called to face fifth-year student Lu Chen.

• Luo Fan practiced running up a tree to improve his Soul Power control and returned to Dorm Seven.
• Xiao Wu told Luo Fan that the midterm assessment offered Gold Soul Coin rewards, and he agreed to participate after she argued that sparring was cultivation.
• At the assessment, the principal announced that more than one hundred and thirty students had registered, including several first-year students.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu displayed their yellow Soul Rings and defeated their upperclassman opponents.
• Luo Fan was called to fight fifth-year student Lu Chen.

Luo Fan faced sixth-year student Lu Chen in the academy competition and unveiled his completed self-created Soul Skill, the Rasengan, defeating him in one strike. His victory stunned Notting Academy and left Yu Xiaogang embarrassed as Tang San questioned him.

• Lu Chen introduced himself as a Level 14 Soul Master with a Black-backed Gorilla Martial Soul, while Luo Fan revealed he was Level 15 and had a purple Soul Ring.
• Xiao Wu told Wang Sheng and the others that Luo Fan had reached Level 13 after absorbing his Thousand-Year Spirit Ring, explaining why they had underestimated his Soul Power.
• Lu Chen charged with his first Soul Skill, but Luo Fan formed a Rasengan in his palm and met the attack head-on.
• Luo Fan's Rasengan blasted Lu Chen several meters away, and the referee declared Luo Fan the winner.
• The students and teachers marveled at Luo Fan's self-created Soul Skill, while Yu Xiaogang stared in disbelief and Tang San gave him a questioning look.

Luo Fan, Tang San, and Xiao Wu rose to prominence in Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy’s midterm assessment, and Tang San and Luo Fan advanced to the final match for first place. Before their duel, Luo Fan mocked Tang San’s confidence as being just like Yu Xiaogang’s.

• Luo Fan’s self-created Soul Skill succeeded, leaving Yu Xiaogang stunned, while Tang San and Xiao Wu won their matches against older students.
• Tang San defeated a sixth-year level 17 Soul Master despite having level 13 Soul Power, and Xiao Wu forced Luo Fan to use Wood Clone during their match.
• The examiner announced that Tang San and Luo Fan would fight to decide first place in the midterm assessment.
• Tang San told Luo Fan that his lack of long-range attacks would make him lose, and Luo Fan compared Tang San’s baseless confidence to Yu Xiaogang’s.
• Yu Xiaogang’s excitement about Tang San’s chances collapsed when Luo Fan’s remark stung him.

Luo Fan and Tang San fought a Soul Duel, with Tang San using his hidden weapons, Purple Demon Eyes, Mysterious Jade Hand, and Blue Silver Entanglement to restrain Luo Fan’s six Wood Clones. Tang San began to tire while Luo Fan remained calm, and Luo Fan hinted that he could create more than six clones.

• Tang San revealed his Purple Demon Eyes and Mysterious Jade Hand, then attacked Luo Fan with hidden weapons from a distance.
• Luo Fan dodged the weapons and created six Wood Clones that charged at Tang San.
• Tang San evaded the clones and used Blue Silver Entanglement to bind all six at once, leaving him panting from the Soul Power cost.
• Luo Fan pointed out that controlling all six clones was exhausting Tang San while his own Soul Power remained steady, thanks to his Thousand-Year Spirit Ring.
• Luo Fan told Tang San that although he had only released six Wood Clones so far, that did not mean six was his limit.

Luo Fan revealed that he could create forty-five Wood Clones, forcing Tang San to surrender and winning first place in the midterm examination. News of Luo Fan spread to the Notting City Spirit Hall branch, while Tang Hao appeared before Yu Xiaogang and introduced himself as Tang San’s father.

• Luo Fan created forty-five Wood Clones, shocking Tang San and the watching students.
• Tang San surrendered, and Luo Fan won the midterm examination.
• Luo Fan’s performance spread through Notting City, and the branch bishop decided to report it to Spirit Hall when an opportunity arose.
• Yu Xiaogang worried about Tang San’s despair after his latest defeat by Luo Fan.
• Tang Hao appeared in Yu Xiaogang’s room and said he was Tang San’s father.

After Tang Hao revealed Tang San’s heritage and entrusted him to Yu Xiaogang, Tang San’s confidence returned as Luo Fan continued growing stronger. With the school break beginning, Luo Fan stayed in Notting City and prepared to reach Level 20 and seek his second soul ring.

• Tang Hao gave Yu Xiaogang a Papal Token and asked him to guide Tang San, then called Luo Fan a suitable whetstone for his son.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San that the Clear Sky Hammer was the world’s top Tool Martial Soul, that his Blue Silver Grass was likely equally exceptional, and that Tang Hao was a Titled Douluo.
• Tang San’s confidence revived, and he resolved to surpass Luo Fan despite his doubts about his own strength.
• Luo Fan mastered tree climbing and walking on water, then advanced through Soul Power Levels 16, 17, and 18 while Tang San and Xiao Wu also cultivated diligently.
• When Notting Academy began its two-month break, Luo Fan chose to stay in Notting City and planned to reach Level 20 and prepare for his second soul ring.

Luo Fan continued training while waiting for Spirit Hall to locate a Void Escape Beast for his second Soul Ring, and Xiao Wu left for the holiday. Meanwhile, Qian Renxue, disguised as Xue Qinghe, arrived in Notting City to meet Luo Fan and encountered him at a restaurant.

• Luo Fan watched Xiao Wu master walking on water, then Xiao Wu lost her balance, changed clothes, and said goodbye before leaving for the Star Dou Forest during the holiday.
• Luo Fan reflected that his second soul skill required the Summoning Technique: Rashomon and focused on finding a Void Escape Beast, while his Soul Power rose to Level 19.
• Qian Renxue, disguised as Xue Qinghe, visited the Notting City Spirit Hall Branch after hearing from Platinum Bishop Salas about Luo Fan.
• Luo Fan ordered ten bowls of noodles at a restaurant, where Xue Qinghe approached him and struck up a conversation.