Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• At Plant Advanced Soul Master Academy, Jin Yang decides to reveal his First Soul Skill rather than keep it secret. He has already used it to raise his first two Soul Rings from hundred-year to thousand-year rings.
• His roommate, Jiang Yan, is stunned by Jin Yang’s three thousand-year rings and learns that Jin Yang’s skill can permanently increase a Soul Ring’s age.
• Jiang Yan asks Jin Yang to improve his own first ring. His snow-lotus ring was originally only ninety years old, and Jin Yang’s skill temporarily raises it to six hundred years before it settles permanently at one hundred.
• Excited by the result, Jiang Yan urges Jin Yang to tell the academy’s teachers. He believes Jin Yang’s ability could earn him elite training and help the academy in the Soul Master Tournament—and may transform Soul Master research.

Character developments and interactions

• Jin Yang moves from secrecy toward openness, deciding that his extraordinary ability will inevitably become known through academy training. He also shows generosity by helping his roommate without hesitation.
• Jiang Yan shifts from shock and fear to awe, then eagerly declares himself Jin Yang’s “little brother” in exchange for the chance to improve his ring. His own embarrassment over having a weak first ring explains his intense gratitude.
• Their roommate relationship quickly becomes a friendly, comic alliance: Jiang Yan offers loyalty and promises to follow Jin Yang’s lead, while Jin Yang treats the favor as simple and worthwhile.

Significant themes

• Knowledge that overturns convention: Jin Yang’s skill challenges established beliefs about the limits and dangers of Soul Rings.
• Ambition and opportunity: A single improved ring gives Jiang Yan a long-desired source of pride, while Jin Yang’s ability could reshape his prospects and the academy’s future.
• Friendship and mutual benefit: Jin Yang’s small act of help creates trust and loyalty between the roommates.
• Scientific and institutional impact: Jiang Yan recognizes that the ability is more than a personal advantage; it may open a new era for Soul Master development.

Jin Yang settled into life at Plant Academy while Jiang Yan promised to keep his powerful Soul Skill secret. Tang San and Xiao Wu enrolled at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Xue Qinghe singled Xiao Wu out for a conversation and Tang San warned him to behave properly.

• Jin Yang calmed Jiang Yan and agreed they could discuss his Soul Skill later, and Jiang Yan promised not to reveal it.
• Jiang Yan invited Jin Yang to dinner after Jin Yang said he trusted him.
• Tang San concealed the Clear Sky Hammer while the Heaven Dou Royal Academy teacher tested his Blue Silver Grass and admitted him.
• Xiao Wu passed the entrance evaluation, and she and Tang San toured Heaven Dou Royal Academy with a student guide.
• Xue Qinghe beckoned Xiao Wu over, and Tang San followed her before telling Xue Qinghe to conduct himself properly.

Xue Qinghe teased Xiao Wu and Tang San before ordering an investigation into them, while Jin Yang's Soul Ring-enhancing ability alarmed Ye Nanzhu, who urged secrecy and considered seeking Spirit Hall's protection. Jin Yang then met Yao Zi, who recognized him as a student her brother had sent to the Plant Academy.

• Xue Qinghe invited Xiao Wu to the palace, but Tang San refused for her before Xiao Wu clarified that she had only been curious about him.
• Xue Qinghe learned Xiao Wu and Tang San's names, let them leave, and ordered a royal guard to investigate them.
• Ye Nanzhu confirmed that Jin Yang's three Soul Rings had become Thousand-Year Soul Rings and warned him and Jiang Yan to keep his ability secret.
• Ye Nanzhu reassured Jin Yang that the Plant Academy would protect him, then considered consulting the principal or having Jin Yang join Spirit Hall.
• Yao Zi confronted Jiang Yan for missing their meeting, met Jin Yang, and learned that her brother Yao Hong had sent him to the Plant Academy.

Jin Yang reflected on his growing arrogance and decided he needed Qian Daoliu’s protection, but feared Bibi Dong might use him against Yu Xiaogang. He asked Plant Academy for help reaching Qian Daoliu, and the dean agreed to take him to meet the Great Enshrined in three days.

• Yao Zi told Jin Yang that she was a level thirty-nine Soul Elder and urged Jiang Yan to train for a place on Plant Academy’s tournament team.
• Alone on Sunflower, Jin Yang reconsidered his reckless confidence and concluded that joining Spirit Hall under Qian Daoliu’s protection was his best option.
• Jin Yang worried that Bibi Dong might discover his connection to Yu Xiaogang and send him to Yu Xiaogang as a gift.
• Jin Yang told Ye Nanzhu that he wanted to approach Qian Daoliu, and Ye Nanzhu brought him to the dean.
• The dean agreed to take Jin Yang to meet Qian Daoliu in three days and promised that Plant Academy would keep Jin Yang’s first soul skill confidential.

Bibi Dong sent Chrysanthemum Douluo to investigate unusual activity at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and a golden-haired child, while Chrysanthemum Douluo began questioning his loyalty to her. At the Worship Hall, Qian Daoliu accepted Jin Yang as his disciple on the condition that he also increase Qian Renxue’s soul-ring ages.

• Bibi Dong redirected Chrysanthemum Douluo from a visit to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect to assess the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo told Bibi Dong that the Plant Academy dean had visited the Great Enshrined with a golden-haired child, and Bibi Dong ordered him to investigate.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo complained to Ghost Douluo that Bibi Dong treated them like tools and suggested they rest until she treated them as normal subordinates.
• Jin Yang used his first soul skill on Lin Zhen’s first soul ring, permanently fixing a small increase in its age after an hour-long test.
• Qian Daoliu agreed to take Jin Yang as his disciple, provided Jin Yang also increased the ages of some of Qian Renxue’s soul rings.

Jin Yang secured Qian Daoliu’s protection by becoming his disciple, with the understanding that he would help strengthen Qian Renxue. Qian Daoliu arrived at the Plant Academy to a fervent welcome from Plant City’s people.

• Qian Daoliu promised to announce Jin Yang as his disciple through Spirit Hall and protect him from anyone who threatened him.
• Jin Yang returned to the Plant Academy, where Yao Zi organized students to decorate the venue for Qian Daoliu’s visit.
• Yao Zi congratulated Jin Yang on becoming Qian Daoliu’s disciple and said she was eager to meet the Great Enshrined.
• Qian Daoliu arrived in Plant City with Golden Crocodile Douluo and Spirit Hall deacons, as crowds cheered and thanked him.
• Qian Daoliu told Golden Crocodile Douluo that he would not forcibly sweep away the sects and great families, since doing so could bring turmoil to the continent.
• Qian Daoliu’s carriage reached the Plant Academy, where students were maintaining order around the entrance.

Qian Daoliu publicly supported Jin Yang before returning to Spirit City, and news of his new disciple unsettled the major clans. Yu Xiaogang regretted losing Tang San and vowed to find him, while the maid threatened to expose him to the sect master; Bibi Dong also confronted Chrysanthemum Douluo over how he handled her request.

• Qian Daoliu thanked the crowd, endorsed Spirit Hall’s ideals, and left Plant Academy with Golden Crocodile Douluo after supporting Jin Yang.
• News that Qian Daoliu had taken Jin Yang as his disciple spread, prompting varied reactions among the major clans and congratulatory gifts from Xue Ye.
• Yu Xiaogang regretted severing his relationship with Tang San and promised to find him and make amends.
• The maid overheard Yu Xiaogang calling for Tang San, threatened to tell the sect master, and subdued him when he tried to use his soul skill.
• Bibi Dong challenged Chrysanthemum Douluo for having a deacon deliver what she had asked him to give her, and Chrysanthemum Douluo said he and Ghost Douluo wanted time off.

Bibi Dong accepted Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo’s decision to take a long leave, forcing Spirit Hall’s ordinary bishops and deacons to handle their difficult missions. At the Plant Academy, Jin Yang resolved to train for the Whole Continent Soul Master Tournament with Yao Zi.

• Bibi Dong tried to persuade Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to keep working, but Chrysanthemum Douluo firmly insisted that they needed a long rest.
• Bibi Dong yielded, while Demon Bear Douluo and Ghost Leopard Douluo speculated about the elders’ leave and Spirit Hall’s deacons faced harder missions in their absence.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo complained to Ghost Douluo that Bibi Dong had denied them benefits despite their years of service.
• Yao Zi tracked down her younger cousin Jiang Yan and used her Martial Soul to make him return to training.
• Jin Yang reflected on his desire to shine despite stronger people standing ahead of him, then told Yao Zi he wanted to prepare for the Whole Continent Soul Master Tournament.
• Yao Zi invited Jin Yang to train with her, and he agreed.

At the Plant Academy’s training grounds, Yao Zi defeated Jiang Yan and tried to give Jin Yang a gentle practice fight because she believed he was a frail support-type Soul Master. Jin Yang showed her his strength by breaking a thick tree with one punch, leaving Yao Zi stunned.

• Jin Yang followed Yao Zi and Jiang Yan into the academy’s woodland training grounds, where Yao Zi explained that students trained near the Sunset Forest.
• Jiang Yan volunteered to spar with Yao Zi, insisting that Jin Yang was too delicate to take a real fight.
• Yao Zi overwhelmed Jiang Yan’s Man-Eating Flower with flaming thorns and trapped him in a cage of spikes, forcing him to concede.
• Yao Zi began a gentle dodging exercise with Jin Yang, but he charged at her instead of avoiding her thorn vine, prompting her to stop and scold him.
• Jin Yang insisted he was strong and snapped a thick tree in half with one punch, leaving Yao Zi staring in shock.

Jin Yang demonstrated his physical strength and revealed his three-thousand-year Soul Rings, impressing Yao Zi and Jiang Yan. He met Plant Academy’s team, heard rumors that he might become Spirit Hall’s Saint Son, and showed the girls his unusual Sunflower Martial Soul before training began.

• Jin Yang broke a tree trunk with his bare strength, surprising Yao Zi and Jiang Yan.
• Jin Yang summoned Sunflower and revealed that he was a support-type Soul Master with three thousand-year Soul Rings.
• Fang Qiong arrived with the Plant Academy girls and asked Jin Yang about rumors that he was Spirit Hall’s prospective Saint Son.
• Jin Yang wondered whether Qian Daoliu had spread the Saint Son rumors, then joined the group’s training.
• Jin Yang turned Sunflower toward the girls, and Yao Zi praised its strange appearance before calling everyone to begin training.

Ning Rongrong condemned Shrek Academy and invited Oscar to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Oscar decided to follow her. Meanwhile, Yao Zi and the others tested Jin Yang’s powerful support Soul Skill during training.

• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun left the Rose Hotel with women, and Ning Rongrong angrily confronted them for neglecting their duties.
• Ning Rongrong criticized Shrek Academy and offered to take Oscar to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, telling him he had three days to decide.
• Ning Rongrong revealed that Spirit Hall’s Jin Yang could permanently increase the age of others’ Soul Rings, stunning Oscar.
• Oscar overcame his hesitation, resolved to leave Shrek Academy, and ran after Ning Rongrong.
• Yao Zi and the others tested Jin Yang’s Mini Sunflower support Soul Skill and found that it greatly increased their strength while also encouraging and blinding opponents.

Jin Yang impressed the Plant Academy’s students with his Soul Skill, then began classes and heard a lesson on the Spirit Hall’s organization. Meanwhile, Bibi Dong struggled to manage the Spirit Hall’s growing paperwork without Elder Ju and wondered when he would return.

• Fang Qiong, Yao Zi, and the other senior girls praised Jin Yang’s strength and said he gave the Plant Academy hope in team battles.
• Jin Yang cultivated by consuming sunlight, then went with Jiang Yan to breakfast and attended class with Yao Zi and Fang Qiong.
• Xuan Qing began a lesson on the Spirit Hall’s organizational structure, directing her attention toward Jin Yang.
• Bibi Dong struggled through the Spirit Hall’s reports and approvals while Elder Chrysanthemum was absent, and Qian Daoliu avoided offering help.
• After the cardinal delivered the final batch of documents, Bibi Dong sighed that she wondered how long Elder Ju would need to rest.

Bibi Dong learned that Ning Rongrong had brought Oscar, a food-type support Soul Master believed to have innate full soul power, to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and considered sending Spirit Hall elders to investigate. Ning Fengzhi and Jian Chenxin recognized the political danger of Oscar’s talent and went to meet him.

• Bibi Dong read a report about Oscar’s talent and decided to send Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to assess the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Rongrong returned home and tearfully told Ning Fengzhi and Jian Chenxin about her experiences at Shrek Academy, including Oscar’s abilities.
• Ning Rongrong argued that Oscar’s level 30 soul power at age fourteen showed he had innate full soul power, and Jian Chenxin agreed.
• Ning Fengzhi realized Spirit Hall might use Oscar’s arrival to pressure the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to declare its position.
• Jian Chenxin reassured Ning Fengzhi that he and Bone Douluo would protect the sect, then suggested they meet Oscar.

Oscar joined the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and received Ning Fengzhi’s promise of support and personal guidance. Meanwhile, Jin Yang learned Qian Renxue was coming, went shopping with Yao Zi and the others, and asked a shopkeeper for three jin of Century-Old Sunflower Soul Beast seeds.

• Ning Fengzhi welcomed Oscar into the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and promised to provide resources and guide him alongside Rongrong.
• A Plant City Bishop told Jin Yang that Qian Renxue was coming, leaving him wondering why she wanted to see him.
• Jin Yang met Yao Zi and went with her to buy plant soul beast seeds, deciding to plant some sunflowers.
• Fang Qiong showed off the snow lotus seeds she had finally found, and Jin Yang ordered three jin of seeds from a Century-Old Sunflower Soul Beast.

Jin Yang imagined using his martial soul to help ordinary people cultivate, then questioned whether universal cultivation could truly end hardship and inequality. As he returned to the Plant Academy with Yao Zi, he revealed that Spirit Hall’s Saintess would visit the next evening, prompting Yao Zi to rush off to prepare.

• Jin Yang bought sunflower soul beast seeds to experiment with how soul power might produce beneficial mutations and eventually create a sustainable source of useful soul rings.
• Jin Yang reflected on his wish to help the impoverished masses and gave a struggling donkey-carter fifteen copper coins for delivering their shopping.
• Jin Yang asked Yao Zi what life would be like without soul power, and she said ordinary people were destined to endure hardship.
• Jin Yang wondered whether giving everyone cultivation opportunities would improve the world, then considered how scarcity and class divisions might persist.
• Jin Yang told Yao Zi that Spirit Hall’s Saintess would visit the Plant Academy the following evening, and Yao Zi hurried off to organize preparations.

Qian Renxue arrived at Plant Academy, where Jin Yang hosted her and discussed soul skills and soul rings. When they summoned their martial souls, the pair discovered they might be able to perform a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, but Qian Renxue refused to attempt it because she feared Jin Yang could be injured.

• Lin Zhen welcomed Qian Renxue to Plant Academy, and Jin Yang escorted her to a banquet prepared in her honor.
• The teachers and students lined the academy path and excitedly welcomed Qian Renxue as she entered with Jin Yang and Lin Zhen.
• After the banquet, Qian Renxue told Jin Yang she had come to visit him and discuss soul skills and soul rings, so he led her to his training ground.
• Jin Yang and Qian Renxue summoned their martial souls, and their soul rings moved in sync as their martial souls drew toward each other.
• Jin Yang and Qian Renxue recognized signs of a possible Martial Soul Fusion Skill, but Qian Renxue declined to try it because Jin Yang's physical constitution might not withstand the backlash.

Jin Yang and Qian Renxue discovered that their Martial Souls could fuse, producing two powerful forms with very different abilities. After testing the fusion, Qian Renxue considered how to tell Qian Daoliu that her God-Bestowed Martial Soul had fused with Jin Yang’s ordinary Martial Soul.

• Jin Yang demonstrated that his physical strength exceeded Qian Renxue’s, and they agreed to attempt a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Jin Yang and Qian Renxue fused their Martial Souls into a golden, thousand-armed plant giant that restored and invigorated the surrounding vegetation.
• Jin Yang gave Qian Renxue control, and she transformed the fusion into a three-paired-winged angel that unleashed a powerful sword strike through the mountain forest.
• Qian Renxue tested the angel form’s strength, while Jin Yang found his own plant form was slower and harder to control, despite its healing power.
• Jin Yang and Qian Renxue ended the fusion, and Qian Renxue began considering how to report their extraordinary compatibility to Qian Daoliu.

After Qian Renxue gave Jin Yang an Enshrined Token, Jin Yang and Lin Zhen discussed the poison miasma in the Sunset Forest and suspected it was linked to Dugu Bo. Jin Yang persuaded Lin Zhen to alert Spirit Hall, leaving the two hurrying to meet Qian Renxue.

• Qian Renxue gave Jin Yang an Enshrined Token that let him exercise the Great Enshrined’s authority in Spirit Hall territory.
• Lin Zhen reflected on Qian Renxue’s power and his own failure to advance beyond the peak of Soul Dourol.
• Jin Yang asked Lin Zhen about the Sunset Forest’s Poison Miasma Zone and learned that a poison-wielding Soul Douluo with a Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul had once bought poisonous herb seeds in Plant City.
• Jin Yang suggested that the Soul Douluo was Dugu Bo and that a treasured land inside the miasma might explain his rise to Titled Douluo.
• Jin Yang proposed that Spirit Hall investigate the miasma, and Lin Zhen understood his aim and hurried with him toward the Spirit Hall branch where Qian Renxue was staying.

Jin Yang and Lin Zhen enlisted Qian Renxue and Porcupinefish Douluo to investigate the poison miasma in Sunset Forest, which Porcupinefish Douluo identified as Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison. He found a treasured land within the miasma, and the group prepared to secure it while he absorbed the poison.

• Jin Yang and Lin Zhen visited Qian Renxue at the Spirit Hall to discuss the poison miasma and the possibility that Poison Douluo controlled it.
• Porcupinefish Douluo volunteered to investigate because his martial soul made him immune to poison and able to absorb toxins.
• The next morning, Qian Renxue, Porcupinefish Douluo, Snake Lance Douluo, Lin Zhen, and Jin Yang flew to the miasma, where Porcupinefish Douluo identified Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison.
• Porcupinefish Douluo entered the miasma and returned laughing, confirming that a treasured land lay inside.
• Qian Renxue sent Snake Lance Douluo to report to the Great Enshrined and Second Worship and bring guardian teams to secure the area.