Chapter Summaries

Han Tao used the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to cleanse poisons from his Blue Silver Grass, then tested a stronger Man-Faced Demon Spider Emperor toxin on it. After waiting two days, he woke to find the grass had advanced into Dark Blue Silver Grass and began studying its new properties.

• Han Tao discovered that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well could wash away the Mandala Snake and Ghost Vine poisons, reducing his Blue Silver Grass's quality to 0.6.
• Ning Rongrong supplied Man-Faced Demon Spider poison and used Snow Swan Kiss medicinal power to create a stronger toxin for Han Tao's experiment.
• Han Tao applied the toxin to the Blue Silver Grass, but Ning Rongrong stopped him from forming a Spiritual Contract that could expose him to its mental attack.
• Han Tao waited for the toxin's effects, fell asleep, and woke two days later beside the advanced Dark Blue Silver Grass.
• Han Tao began examining the grass's new traits while considering its mental and spider toxins.

Han Tao discovered that his Blue Silver Grass had gained the ability to devour life force and advanced to the brink of Top Martial Soul quality, but Ning Rongrong demonstrated that her Aromatic Silk Beauty still countered it. He considered how to overcome that weakness and prepared to leave, while Ning Rongrong offered to exchange Immortal Herbs.

• Han Tao found that his evolved Blue Silver Grass could absorb an enemy's life force, though the foreign life force could not merge with his own.
• Han Tao realized his Blue Silver Grass had reached Advanced Martial Soul quality and was close to becoming a Top Martial Soul.
• Ning Rongrong used her Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda to show Han Tao that the Aromatic Silk Beauty suppressed his Blue Silver Grass's strength by at least half.
• Han Tao theorized that a third stage of Blue Silver Grass evolution would eliminate its counters, then decided to focus on reaching Top Martial Soul quality.
• Han Tao asked Ning Rongrong to consider joining him in the National Elite Soul Master Competition, and she agreed after a pause.
• Ning Rongrong offered her Aromatic Silk Beauty in exchange for Han Tao's Lovesick Heartbreak Red, but Han Tao warned that the exchange could worsen the strain on her constitution.

Han Tao escaped the poisonous barrier and realized Ning Rongrong may have been an illusion created by an Immortal Herb that escaped the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. He returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and learned Ning Fengzhi believed Rongrong was still at the well.

• Han Tao sensed something strange when the Lovesick Heartbreak Red appeared white, but he accepted the Ning Rongrong beside him as real after she summoned her Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Han Tao emerged from the poisonous barrier and discovered Ning Rongrong was gone, leading him to suspect their time underground had been an illusion caused by a hallucinogenic Immortal Herb.
• Han Tao returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and found Ning Fengzhi discussing his expensive Desert Camouflage Hell Spirit Cat.
• Han Tao asked Ning Fengzhi whether Ning Rongrong had returned, and Ning Fengzhi said she should still be at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Han Tao told Ning Fengzhi that he had seen Ning Rongrong at the well two days earlier, but something had happened as they came out.

Han Tao told Ning Fengzhi how he had reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and warned him that the Ning Rongrong he encountered underground might not be the real one. Still frightened that the strange Rongrong had read his memories, Han Tao began developing ideas for Soul Master abilities that could detect and control thoughts.

• Ning Fengzhi gave Han Tao two million Gold Soul Coins in exchange for an explanation of how he had crossed the poisonous barrier.
• Han Tao explained that he had dug underground to reach the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, using his knowledge of magnetic fields and the Blue Silver Eye to navigate.
• Han Tao told Ning Fengzhi that he had encountered a Ning Rongrong underground whose Lovesick Heartbreak Red changed from white to red, suggesting she might not be the flower’s true owner.
• Ning Fengzhi suggested Han Tao might have hallucinated, and Han Tao left after advising him to watch Ning Rongrong closely.
• Back in his dormitory, Han Tao feared that the underground Ning Rongrong had read his thoughts and memories.
• Han Tao questioned why Soul Masters lacked abilities such as mind-reading, tracking, and mental manipulation, and began considering how such powers could develop.

Han Tao concluded that illusion realms might provide a path to understanding how thoughts and memories could be read, and decided to investigate Canghui Academy. He then grew suspicious that Ning Rongrong might be an impostor and brought her to Ning Fengzhi to test what she knew about Martial Soul Evolution.

• Han Tao recorded plans to develop thought defenses and learn to read other people's thoughts, then identified illusion realms as a possible medium for doing so.
• Han Tao decided to visit Canghui Academy to study its systematic approach to illusion realms.
• Ning Rongrong asked Han Tao about the National Elite Soul Master Competition team, and he said its four chosen members were her, himself, Ye Lingling, and Ning Tian.
• Ning Rongrong questioned Ye Lingling's place on the team, but Han Tao defended keeping her because the team needed healing and she was Ning Rongrong's Puzzle.
• Han Tao suspected Ning Rongrong was an impostor, took her to Ning Fengzhi, and asked whether he had explained Martial Soul Evolution to her.

Han Tao learned that an Azure Lotus Illusion Heart Root had disguised itself as Ning Rongrong and escaped the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Two days later, Yang Wudi introduced his grandson Yang Qixin as a possible teammate, while Han Tao explained why he valued the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s protection and wealth over early combat strength.

• Ning Fengzhi showed Han Tao the Encyclopedia of Immortal Herbs entry for the Azure Lotus Illusion Heart Root, and Ning Rongrong recalled seeing the herb at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well but denied eating it.
• Han Tao concluded that the herb had copied Ning Rongrong’s appearance and escaped, and he reasoned that a Titled Douluo could detect its illusions.
• Ning Rongrong left with Han Tao after Ning Fengzhi asked whether she knew where the herb had gone, and she claimed she did not know.
• Yang Wudi brought his grandson Yang Qixin to Han Tao and offered him as a Level 31 Soul Breaking Spear Battle Soul Master for Han Tao’s competition team.
• Han Tao told Yang Qixin he would receive no share of a championship Soul Bone, while Yang Wudi doubted Han Tao’s team could win.
• Han Tao reflected that he had joined the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect for its protection and wealth, allowing him to prioritize personal growth and research over combat strength.

Han Tao began combat training with Yang Qixin, Ye Lingling, and Ning Rongrong, teaching them to control their center of gravity and evade attacks. He also learned that Ning Rongrong’s Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda preserved its amplification through the Seventh Layer of the Distraction Control Method, which synchronized soul power frequency.

• Han Tao gathered Yang Qixin, Ye Lingling, and Ning Rongrong to train with Zhao Wuji, while Ning Tian remained away at Foot Washing City.
• Han Tao dodged Zhao Wuji’s attacks using Blue Silver Grass perception and taught the team to control their center of gravity through continuous evasive footwork.
• Han Tao explained borrowing force to maintain balance under attacks and described disrupting an enemy’s center of gravity as a basis for counterattacks.
• Han Tao praised Ning Rongrong’s amplification ability and discussed how support Soul Masters’ buffs were usually weakened against stronger targets.
• Ning Rongrong privately told Han Tao that the Seventh Layer of the Distraction Control Method synchronized soul power frequencies to prevent her buffs from weakening.

Han Tao realized that Soul Power Frequency and thoughts could be exploited by enemies, so he resolved to find ways to defend himself. He asked Ning Rongrong to help test whether changing his frequency could prevent others from cracking it.

• Han Tao recognized that Ning Rongrong’s knowledge of Frequency Resonance and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda’s abilities revealed serious vulnerabilities in his thoughts and soul power.
• Han Tao reasoned that Soul Power Frequency varied with a Soul Master’s Soul Skills and that Ning Rongrong could record a teammate’s frequency while applying buffs.
• Han Tao considered changing his Meditation Method’s Cultivation Speed to alter his frequency, but decided he needed to verify whether it would help.
• Han Tao found Ning Rongrong and asked her to apply a buff to him so he could test his theory.
• Ning Rongrong agreed to help and took out a book titled Soul Power Characteristics.

Han Tao developed a Kinetic State soul power frequency to counter Ning Rongrong’s Real-Time Buff and discovered how frequency synchronization could let his Jade Phosphor Poison penetrate Soul Power defenses. He tested the technique on Zhao Wuji, whose injuries required Ye Lingling’s healing, and Zhao Wuji recovered after two hours.

• Ning Rongrong used Real-Time Buff while Han Tao repeatedly changed his soul power frequency, leading him to develop the Kinetic State.
• Han Tao explained that frequency resonance could strengthen attacks and let his Jade Phosphor Poison pass through an enemy’s Soul Power defenses.
• Han Tao warned Zhao Wuji that he would launch a highly lethal attack and asked Ye Lingling to stand by to heal him.
• Han Tao struck Zhao Wuji with a Jade Phosphor Arrow, and its poison corroded Zhao Wuji’s body before he activated his Martial Soul Avatar.
• Ye Lingling used three healing Soul Skills, and Han Tao withdrew his toxin; Zhao Wuji recovered two hours later and admitted he had been careless.

Han Tao and Ye Lingling investigated whether Mind Concentrating Tea could support mental healing, then bought a Mind Concentrating Tea Tree for Ye Lingling’s fourth Soul Ring. Her new Concentration Soul Skill restored some of Han Tao’s Mental Power.

• Han Tao judged his Cold Jade arrowhead attack a failure because the external arrowhead had not inherited his Soul Power Frequency, though its poison had still threatened Zhao Wuji.
• Ye Lingling told Han Tao she had reached rank forty and found that Mind Concentrating Tea could restore a small amount of Mental Power.
• Han Tao tested three portions of tea leaves, confirmed their minor effect, and agreed to help Ye Lingling obtain a Mind Concentrating Tea Tree.
• Han Tao and Ye Lingling visited Elegant Tea House and arranged to buy a four-thousand-six-hundred-and-nineteen-year-old Mind Concentrating Tea Tree.
• Ye Lingling absorbed the tree’s Soul Ring and used her fourth Soul Skill, Concentration, restoring some of Han Tao’s Mental Power.

Han Tao and Ye Lingling tested her new soul skill, learning that it could heal wounds in split Spiritual Bodies but could not merge them. Ye Lingling recovered after the test, while Han Tao identified Spiritual End Operation as a new research direction and resolved to use his available resources more carefully.

• Ye Lingling thanked Han Tao for helping her obtain the Mental Power-healing soul skill, and Han Tao asked to study it further.
• The Tea Seller Girl teased Han Tao about spending seven hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins and muttered that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect was full of heartless men, apparently referring to Ning Tian.
• Back at the Sect, Han Tao split and fused his Spiritual Body, then had Ye Lingling use her new soul skill to test whether it could repair the cracks.
• Han Tao found that the skill healed wounds in each Spiritual Body fragment but could not fuse the fragments, and he recorded Spiritual End Operation as a major research direction.
• Ye Lingling collapsed from the soul power cost, so Han Tao brought her buns from the Sect's Food System Soul Masters to help her recover.
• Han Tao apologized for overlooking the Sect's food supplies and resolved to make better use of the resources around him.

Han Tao entered the National Elite Soul Master Competition with Ning Rongrong and the Seven Treasure Team, while Shrek faced Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s second team. Watching Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass fail and his hidden weapons turn the match around, Han Tao reflected on the limits of Martial Souls and his own developing abilities.

• Han Tao considered experimenting with Nine Heart Begonia’s healing to fuse fragments of the Spiritual Body, but put aside the dangerous research.
• The National Elite Soul Master Competition began, and Ning Fengzhi backed the Seven Treasure Team while Han Tao and Ning Rongrong prepared to compete.
• Han Tao saw that Tang San was only a rank 36 Control System Soul Elder and recalled how his own research and training had brought him further.
• Shrek Academy faced Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s second team, and Tang San’s Blue Silver Entanglement failed to restrain a stronger opponent.
• Tang San used a Dragon Beard Needle hidden in sheet metal to pierce Soul Power defenses and overturn the battle, prompting Han Tao to question how hidden weapons could hit without a target being held down.

Han Tao led the Seven Treasure Team to defeat the Purple Star Battle Team, using precise footwork and his Blue Silver Bamboo soul skill to knock out their opponents. The team left the arena victorious as Ning Rongrong, Ning Tian, and Ye Lingling wondered how Han Tao had done it.

• Han Tao and the Seven Treasure Team faced the Purple Star Battle Team, whose captain, Zhang Wei, accused them of not taking the match seriously.
• Han Tao evaded Jing Zhou's attacks and used Blue Silver Bamboo to unbalance him, then kicked him out of the arena.
• Yang Qixin separated the attackers while Ning Tian and Ning Rongrong boosted their teammates, and Han Tao's Soul Power Frequency prevented their buffs from affecting him normally.
• Han Tao pierced Zhang Wei's Soul Power defense with Blue Silver Bamboo, disrupted his grip, and threw him out of the arena.
• Han Tao tapped the remaining Purple Star Battle Team members off the stage, and the referee declared the Seven Treasure Team the winner.
• After the match, Ning Rongrong, Ning Tian, and Ye Lingling asked Han Tao how he had done it.

Han Tao explained how Soul Power Frequency, perception, and the control of muscles and force had enabled his unusual victory, then taught Ning Rongrong how movement could be disrupted at key force-transmission points. He left Ning Rongrong experimenting with her amplification skill on Ning Tian, while she began learning to apply it more precisely.

• Han Tao explained that Same Frequency Penetration and the Blue Silver Eye had let him bypass defenses and anticipate his opponent's movements on the Soul Duel Stage.
• Ning Rongrong asked to learn Han Tao's theories, and he agreed in exchange for the two million Gold Soul Coins.
• Han Tao used a whiteboard to teach Ning Rongrong how force passed through the body and how mistimed guidance could disrupt an opponent's movement.
• Ning Tian realized she could not understand Han Tao's advanced theories, while Ye Lingling left the lesson.
• Ning Rongrong summoned her Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and tested her strength amplification on Ning Tian as Han Tao explained the body's support points.
• Ning Rongrong adjusted the placement of her amplification after her first attempt barely affected Ning Tian.

Ning Rongrong used Han Tao’s micro-control method to disrupt White Spirit Team’s attacks with her support skills, winning the match despite failing to affect two opponents. Afterward, she basked in the crowd’s cheers and asked Han Tao if she had been cool.

• Han Tao hid behind Ning Rongrong as she used her Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda’s Strength boost to disrupt Bai Jie’s movements.
• Tang San and Yu Xiaogang failed to understand Ning Rongrong’s precise control, and Yu Xiaogang dismissed it as a petty trick.
• Ning Rongrong used six precisely timed boosts to interrupt four White Spirit Team members, while two escaped the effect.
• Han Tao knocked one unaffected Soul Master out of the arena, and the final member surrendered, giving Seven Treasure Team the victory.
• Ning Rongrong reveled in the spectators’ cheers, hugged Han Tao’s arm, and asked whether she had been cool; Han Tao shook his head.

Shrek Team fought the fire-attribute Blazing Fire Team, and Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass was burned away before he used hidden weapons and teamwork to keep the battle going. Watching from the stands, Han Tao studied Tang San’s control of his teammates’ movement and began considering how to apply the idea himself.

• Huo Wushuang taunted Tang San over Blue Silver Grass’s weakness to fire before the Blazing Fire Team and Shrek Team took their positions on the Soul Duel Stage.
• Tang San’s Blue Silver Entanglement vines burned to ash, so he used the Mother-Child Soul Chasing Life-Snatching Orbs to take three opposing members out of combat.
• Han Tao watched the match beside Ning Rongrong, who explained that she liked thinking from a high place rather than looking down on others.
• The Blazing Fire Team attacked Tang San with Seven Consecutive Fireballs and then targeted his teammates, but Tang San used Blue Silver Grass to reposition them and encircle Huo Wushuang.
• Han Tao praised Tang San’s teamwork and considered using his own Martial Soul to control his allies’ movements.

Han Tao studied Tang San’s use of Blue Silver Grass and realized it could help Soul Masters move, then explored ways to use Martial Souls for flight. Ning Rongrong managed to hover and balance herself with the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, while Han Tao’s Blue Silver Grass failed to support his weight.

• Han Tao watched Tang San’s tactics and realized Blue Silver Grass could reposition allies and potentially assist its user’s movement.
• Han Tao told Ning Rongrong that plant-type Soul Masters might use their Martial Souls to help themselves and teammates move.
• Ning Rongrong used the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda’s suspended force and her first Soul Skill to rise and steady herself in midair.
• Inspired by Ning Rongrong, Han Tao tested whether Blue Silver Grass vines could lift him, but the vines snapped and could not bear his weight.
• Ning Rongrong teased Han Tao after he failed to make Blue Silver Grass support him.

Han Tao struggled with the limits of Blue Silver Grass until Ning Rongrong explained how plant-type martial souls could defy the earth’s restrictions and comforted him about its potential. After spotting Canghui Academy as their next opponent, Han Tao feared Shi Nian might target him and Ning Rongrong, then found no answer when he knocked on her lounge door.

• Han Tao accepted that Ning Rongrong’s Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda surpassed Blue Silver Grass in strength and flight, and Ning Rongrong tried to comfort him.
• Ning Rongrong explained that Blue Silver Grass could evolve by breaking free from the earth’s restrictions, while Han Tao said its path was still distant.
• Han Tao realized Ning Rongrong had been trying to reassure him rather than ask for help evolving her martial soul.
• Han Tao saw that Canghui Academy would be the Seven Treasure Team’s next opponent and recalled Shi Nian’s attack on Tang San in the original work.
• Han Tao concluded that Shi Nian might target him and Ning Rongrong, hurried to her lounge, and received no response after knocking.

Han Tao warned Ning Rongrong that Shi Nian of Canghui Academy might attack them with his illusion-based Martial Soul, then sought protection from Ning Fengzhi. Ning Fengzhi doubted Shi Nian would dare threaten them, while Ning Rongrong continued holding Han Tao’s wrist.

• Han Tao told Ning Rongrong that Shi Nian could trap people in deadly illusions and might target them.
• Han Tao explained that luck had targeted him and Ning Rongrong, and she laughed before accepting the possibility.
• Worried that he could not defend against illusions, Han Tao grabbed Ning Rongrong’s hand and ran to Ning Fengzhi for protection.
• Ning Fengzhi noticed them holding hands and warned Ning Rongrong to act with dignity in public.
• Han Tao told Ning Fengzhi that Shi Nian might assassinate him and Ning Rongrong, but Ning Fengzhi doubted that Shi Nian would dare.

Han Tao used the Blue Silver Eye and a poisoned arrow to defeat Shi Nian and keep him alive for study. Ning Rongrong warned that Shi Nian might still resist, so they severed the tendons in his remaining hand and foot before leaving him helpless.

• Han Tao saw through Shi Nian’s illusion and criticized its flaws.
• Han Tao used the Blue Silver Eye to locate Shi Nian and shot him with a poisoned arrow, destroying his right hand and left leg.
• Ning Rongrong weakened Shi Nian with her first soul skill, letting Han Tao strike him again and destroy his left leg.
• Han Tao stopped the poison from killing Shi Nian and revealed that he planned to study his illusion abilities.
• Ning Rongrong urged Han Tao to prevent Shi Nian from resisting, and Han Tao cut the tendons in his remaining hand and foot.