Chapter Summaries

Lu Yang, whose martial soul was the divine Winged Dragon of Ra, rejected Yu Xiaogang’s repeated attempts to recruit him at Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy. He returned to Dorm Seven, where Wang Sheng and the other students warned him about Yu Xiaogang, and Lu Yang reaffirmed that he would never become his disciple.

• Yu Xiaogang blocked Lu Yang during his morning exercise and insisted that Lu Yang needed his guidance to overcome his supposedly trash martial soul.
• Lu Yang reminded Yu Xiaogang that he already had a cultivation plan and challenged the Grandmaster’s understanding of his martial soul.
• Yu Xiaogang argued that Lu Yang’s martial soul was a ball of light suited to the Control System, but Lu Yang walked away rather than continue the argument.
• Yu Xiaogang stopped pursuing Lu Yang when other students appeared, and Lu Yang returned to his dormitory.
• Wang Sheng and the residents of Dorm Seven criticized Yu Xiaogang and warned Lu Yang about his reputation, while Lu Yang said he would never accept him as a teacher.

Yu Xiaogang devised a plan to develop Lu Yang’s Martial Soul along both control and support paths, while Lu Yang decided to bypass the academy and seek help from Spirit Hall to obtain his first Soul Ring. The chapter ended with Lu Yang meeting Su Yuntao at the city’s Spirit Hall Branch as Yu Xiaogang and the dean remained unaware he had left.

• Yu Xiaogang completed a Soul Ring cultivation plan for Lu Yang and believed it would persuade him to become his disciple.
• Lu Yang concluded that Yu Xiaogang was obstructing his Soul Hunting application and decided to ask Spirit Hall for help instead.
• Lu Yang planned to hunt a Flame Sparrow and favor enhancement skills for his early Soul Rings.
• Yu Xiaogang presented his plan to the dean, who agreed to delay Lu Yang’s Soul Hunting request for two more days.
• Lu Yang left Nuoding Academy and met Su Yuntao at the Spirit Hall Branch to ask for help obtaining a Soul Ring.

Lu Yang asked Su Yuntao to take him to hunt a soul beast and argued that his unusually strong body could withstand a first soul ring aged seven to eight hundred years. Su Yuntao brought him to the Soul Hunting Forest but had not yet decided whether to support his risky plan.

• Lu Yang asked Su Yuntao to arrange a soul-beast hunt because Nuoding Academy's teachers had not taken him.
• Su Yuntao examined Lu Yang and found his six-year-old body was comparable to that of a One-Ring Soul Master.
• Lu Yang asked to hunt a seven-to-eight-hundred-year-old Flame Sparrow, arguing that his physique could endure its soul ring and that he was willing to gamble on his future.
• Su Yuntao remained uncertain about the risk and postponed his decision until they reached the Soul Hunting Forest.
• Su Yuntao warned Lu Yang to stay close after they entered the forest, and Lu Yang dismissed a ten-year-old lone bamboo as a possible soul ring.

Lu Yang and Su Yuntao found a Mutated Flamefire Sparrow fighting a Flame Sparrow, but both beasts attacked them when they tried to leave. After Lu Yang’s power helped bring down the mutant and Su Yuntao wounded it, Lu Yang killed it and stared at the thousand-year soul ring, leaving Su Yuntao alarmed that he might try to absorb it.

• Lu Yang and Su Yuntao searched the Soul Hunting Forest overnight and resumed their hunt after resting.
• Lu Yang and Su Yuntao discovered a Flame Sparrow fighting a Mutated Flamefire Sparrow whose golden feathers suggested it had a light attribute.
• Lu Yang and Su Yuntao tried to flee when the two thousand-year soul beasts attacked, but the mutant pursued Lu Yang while the Flame Sparrow chased Su Yuntao.
• Lu Yang’s erupting power blocked the mutant’s strike and sent it crashing toward Su Yuntao, who wounded it with his Bloodthirsty Wolf Claw.
• Lu Yang stabbed the wounded Mutated Flamefire Sparrow with a Fine Iron Dagger and killed it, while the Flame Sparrow fled.
• Su Yuntao saw Lu Yang watching the mutant’s purple soul ring and asked whether he intended to absorb it.

Lu Yang insisted on absorbing the mutated Flame Sparrow’s Thousand-Year Soul Ring as his first ring despite Su Yuntao’s warnings, and successfully absorbed it after more than half a day. Su Yuntao planned to report the discovery to Spirit Hall, while Lu Yang worried about attracting Bibi Dong’s attention and the possible consequences of Yu Xiaogang taking him as a disciple.

• Lu Yang insisted on trying to absorb the mutated Flame Sparrow’s Thousand-Year Soul Ring, and Su Yuntao reluctantly agreed to guard him.
• Lu Yang absorbed the ring for more than half a day and broke through without suffering serious pain or injury.
• Lu Yang estimated that his Soul Power had reached rank thirteen or fourteen and suspected his Martial Soul had helped him endure the ring.
• Su Yuntao decided to report Lu Yang’s success to Supervisor Ma Xiunuo so the discovery could reach Spirit Hall’s higher-ups.
• Lu Yang accepted that Spirit Hall might take an interest in him and worried about Bibi Dong’s reaction to Yu Xiaogang possibly making him a disciple.

After obtaining a thousand-year first Soul Ring with Spirit Hall’s help, Lu Yang returned to Nuoding Academy and rejected Yu Xiaogang’s attempt to make him a disciple. He left Yu Xiaogang behind as the Grandmaster angrily berated him.

• Lu Yang registered as a Soul Master and received ten Gold Soul Coins from Ma Xiunuo after Ma learned his first Soul Ring was a thousand-year ring.
• Lu Yang returned to Nuoding Academy and told Director Su that Spirit Hall had helped him obtain his Soul Ring; Director Su then went to report the news to the dean.
• Yu Xiaogang stopped Lu Yang and offered him a development plan for his Light Ball Martial Soul, promising to help him obtain a Soul Ring if he became his disciple.
• Lu Yang told Yu Xiaogang that he had already obtained his first Soul Ring with Spirit Hall’s help and walked away.
• Yu Xiaogang called Lu Yang’s Martial Soul trash and insisted he would fail without his guidance, while Lu Yang silently quickened his pace.

Lu Yang returned to Nuoding Academy after obtaining his first Soul Ring and tried to avoid Yu Xiaogang’s attention. When Yu Xiaogang brought Tang San to show off his new disciple, Lu Yang welcomed the distraction, but Xiao Wu later challenged him over Dorm Seven’s leadership.

• Lu Yang told Wang Sheng and the other Dorm Seven students that he had obtained a Soul Ring with help from a Spirit Hall deacon.
• Yu Xiaogang brought Tang San to Lu Yang and bragged that his new disciple had innate full soul power and would become a great Soul Master.
• Lu Yang congratulated Yu Xiaogang, and Yu Xiaogang took Tang San away to complete his enrollment.
• Lu Yang returned to Dorm Seven and found Tang San and Xiao Wu there, with two beds pushed together.
• Xiao Wu challenged Lu Yang to a fight so she could become Dorm Seven’s boss, but Lu Yang said he was not interested.

Xiao Wu challenged Lu Yang to a fight in Dorm Seven, but he repeatedly overpowered her and warned her not to push him further. The next morning, Tang San left with Yu Xiaogang for the Soul Hunting Forest while Tang Hao remained in Nuoding City.

• Xiao Wu attacked Lu Yang, and he caught her kick and threw her against a dormitory wall despite Tang San's protest.
• Xiao Wu insisted on fighting Lu Yang again, and he used his Martial Soul Possession to counter her attacks and knock her down.
• Lu Yang warned Xiao Wu he would get serious, so she stopped fighting and said they would spar again after she got her soul ring.
• Tang San went to sleep excited about hunting for a soul ring with Yu Xiaogang the next day, while blaming Lu Yang for his embarrassment.
• Tang San met Yu Xiaogang at the academy gates and left for the Soul Hunting Forest, while Tang Hao stayed in Nuoding City.

Lu Yang sparred with Xiao Wu to improve his combat experience, then joined her in rescuing Wang Sheng from noble students who were bullying him. Xiao Wu promised to protect the work-study students, while Wang Sheng worried that the nobles’ family connections would bring trouble.

• Lu Yang accepted Xiao Wu’s challenge and sparred with her, recognizing that she had much more combat experience and that she had held back during her final kick.
• Tang Hao watched Lu Yang and Xiao Wu fight, decided they were merely competing, and considered leaving to catch up with Tang San.
• Lu Yang and Xiao Wu spent the morning sparring, then went to the dining hall, where Wang Sheng and the others learned why they were covered in dust.
• A Dorm Seven student told Lu Yang that noble students had taken Wang Sheng to the hill behind the academy, and Lu Yang and Xiao Wu rushed to help.
• Xiao Wu knocked the noble students down and promised to protect Wang Sheng and the other work-study students, while Wang Sheng feared the nobles’ influence.

Yu Xiaogang took Tang San into the Soul Hunting Forest to find a suitable soul beast, but their search went wrong when a Mandala Snake attacked them at night. Tang San killed the snake, while Yu Xiaogang lay unconscious and Tang San faced the question of what to do next.

• Tang Hao left Nuoding Academy for the Soul Hunting Forest, unaware that Yu Xiaogang had already led Tang San inside.
• Yu Xiaogang passed over a ten-year solitary bamboo and led Tang San deeper into the forest, explaining soul beasts as Luo Sanpao drove away several weak beasts.
• After Luo Sanpao's attacks weakened from repeated use, a Mandala Snake over four hundred years old ambushed Yu Xiaogang and Tang San.
• The Mandala Snake trapped Luo Sanpao and bit him, causing him to vanish into Yu Xiaogang and leaving Yu Xiaogang unconscious from the resulting pain.
• Tang San's Sleeve Arrow bounced off the snake's scales, but he then shot it in the eye and killed it.
• Tang San saw the snake's hundred-year soul ring appear and turned toward the unconscious Yu Xiaogang with a grave expression.

Lu Yang and Xiao Wu clashed with Xiao Chenyu and his noble followers after they disrupted the work-study students’ chores. Lu Yang revealed his Thousand-Year Soul Ring and higher soul power, then threw Xiao Chenyu into the crowd as the fight began.

• Lu Yang and Xiao Wu complained about their boring lessons while walking with their classmates.
• Xiao Chenyu and his followers scattered the work-study students’ weeds, and Xiao Chenyu taunted Xiao Wu by asking her to become his pet bunny.
• Lu Yang stepped forward to protect Xiao Wu and revealed his golden armor and purple Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Xiao Chenyu ordered Liu Long and Ling Feng to attack Lu Yang, but Lu Yang kicked both of them down.
• Xiao Chenyu challenged Lu Yang, then launched his Wolf Claw Assault, and Lu Yang caught his wrist and hurled him into the noble students.

Lu Yang defeated Xiao Chenyu’s gang and revealed that his first soul ring was a thousand-year ring, while Tang San returned with a Mandala Snake soul ring and learned about Lu Yang’s. Lu Yang left Nuoding City’s pharmacy without buying whale rubber and learned he might find it cheaper in Vast Sea City.

• Lu Yang warned Xiao Chenyu and his followers not to trouble the working students again, and Xiao Chenyu agreed before leaving with his gang.
• Tang San returned to Nuoding Academy with Yu Xiaogang, told the headmaster about their trip, and described his Mandala Snake soul ring to the dormitory students.
• Tang San overheard working students say Lu Yang had a thousand-year first soul ring and searched the dormitory for him, but Lu Yang was gone.
• Lu Yang went to a Nuoding City pharmacy to buy whale rubber, but its price was beyond his means.
• The pharmacy owner told Lu Yang that whale rubber might be cheaper in seaside towns and suggested he try Vast Sea City.

Lu Yang learned that Spirit Hall would send him to Heaven Dou City, while he wondered why he was not being taken to Spirit City. After Xiao Wu challenged him with her newly acquired soul skill, Lu Yang revealed Sunflame Dawn and prepared to fight back.

• Su Yuntao told Lu Yang that Spirit Hall would send someone to take him to Heaven Dou City for a better education.
• Lu Yang suspected Qian Renxue had arranged his transfer, while Bibi Dong had actually ordered that he stay away from Spirit City so Yu Xiaogang could teach him.
• Tang San questioned Lu Yang about his thousand-year first soul ring, but Lu Yang refused to explain.
• Xiao Wu challenged Lu Yang again after secretly obtaining her first soul ring and used Waist Bow to knock him flying.
• Lu Yang activated Sunflame Dawn, boosting his attributes and gaining direct control over the flames and light of The Winged Dragon of Ra.

Lu Yang defeated Xiao Wu in a spar with his enhanced abilities, then agreed to fight Tang San. He burned Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass to ash, leaving Tang San stunned by the defeat.

• Lu Yang boosted his attributes and formed a sword and arrows from Soul Power, prompting Xiao Wu to quit their spar before challenging him again.
• Tang San approached after witnessing the spar and asked to fight Lu Yang, while Xiao Wu felt slighted that Tang San had bypassed her.
• Lu Yang and Tang San began fighting without activating their Martial Souls, and Tang San’s superior technique initially kept Lu Yang on the defensive.
• Lu Yang activated his Martial Soul Possession, adapted to Tang San’s attacks, and then answered Tang San’s Blue Silver Entanglement with his Sunflame Dawn Soul Skill.
• Lu Yang’s flames burned Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass vines into ash, leaving Tang San shocked that his Soul Skill had failed to reach Lu Yang.

After Tang San lost to Lu Yang, Yu Xiaogang struggled to explain Lu Yang’s purple first soul ring and unusual abilities. Unable to find Lu Yang at lunchtime, Yu Xiaogang confronted Director Su about his absence from class.

• Xiao Wu followed Tang San after his defeat, while Tang Hao watched and reconsidered his plan to abduct her.
• Lu Yang went to class, while Tang San skipped lessons to tell Yu Xiaogang that Lu Yang had a Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Yu Xiaogang guessed Lu Yang could change the color of light with his soul skill, but Tang San said it was an enhancement skill and that Lu Yang could conjure flames.
• Tang San and Yu Xiaogang looked for Lu Yang at the dining hall, but Xiao Wu said he had disappeared before the last class.
• Yu Xiaogang questioned Director Su about Lu Yang’s whereabouts and accused him of failing to address the student’s absence from class.

After Yu Xiaogang’s interference delayed Lu Yang’s soul hunt, Lu Yang withdrew from Nuoding Academy and left for Heaven Dou City with Porcupinefish Douluo. Back at the academy, Xiao Wu learned what had happened, while Tang San began to doubt his teacher’s conduct.

• Director Su revealed that Lu Yang had withdrawn from Nuoding Academy and angrily confronted Yu Xiaogang, who had wanted to learn how Lu Yang absorbed a thousand-year soul ring.
• Director Su shattered an office door with a punch and warned Yu Xiaogang to stop provoking him.
• At the Spirit Hall Branch, Lu Yang met Porcupinefish Douluo, then flew with him toward Heaven Dou City.
• Xiao Wu discovered Lu Yang’s empty bed, and Wang Sheng explained that Yu Xiaogang had delayed Lu Yang’s soul-hunting application after Lu Yang refused to become his disciple.
• Xiao Wu condemned Yu Xiaogang, and Tang San overheard her words and began to think his teacher had gone too far.

Lu Yang settled into a courtyard in Heaven Dou City while Qian Renxue and her advisers assessed his rapid cultivation and background. Qian Renxue met him in her true appearance, and Lu Yang told her he was adjusting well.

• Porcupinefish Douluo brought Lu Yang to a courtyard in Heaven Dou City, where two servants were assigned to watch over him.
• Ci Xue warned Qian Renxue that Lu Yang’s rapid rise to rank fourteen suggested extraordinary talent, while She Long confirmed his background and relayed his reasons for risking an over-limit soul ring.
• Qian Renxue decided to meet Lu Yang as herself rather than as the Heaven Dou Crown Prince.
• Qian Renxue arrived at Lu Yang’s courtyard with She Long and met him while he was eating.
• Lu Yang complimented Qian Renxue’s beauty by comparing her to the prettiest auntie in his village, then told her he was comfortable in Heaven Dou City and had more time to cultivate.

Lu Yang asked Qian Renxue for money to improve the lives of the villagers who had raised him, and she ordered better provisions for him while considering how to recruit him. After reflecting on Spirit Hall’s internal conflicts, Lu Yang resolved to keep cultivating so he could become strong enough to change his fate.

• Qian Renxue asked Lu Yang what he wanted, and he requested money for the people of Windbreath Village.
• Qian Renxue offered to help Lu Yang with cultivation questions and said she would send She Long to advise him.
• Qian Renxue ordered She Long to increase Lu Yang’s provisions, especially his soul beast meat.
• Lu Yang reviewed his conversation with Qian Renxue and decided he had revealed nothing suspicious.
• Lu Yang considered Spirit Hall’s divisions and resolved to cultivate diligently so he would not become cannon fodder.

After reaching rank twenty, Lu Yang traveled with Qian Renxue and She Long to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain his second Soul Ring. Confident that his physique could withstand a five-thousand-year ring, he persuaded them to support his plan.

• Lu Yang reached rank twenty after more than three months of cultivation, and Qian Renxue decided to help him obtain his second Soul Ring.
• Qian Renxue and She Long picked up Lu Yang and set out for the Star Dou Great Forest.
• She Long examined Lu Yang and judged his physique stronger than an ordinary Soul Elder’s but weaker than a Soul Ancestor’s.
• Lu Yang explained his theory that Soul Ring limits depended on physical strength and chose to seek a Soul Ring around five thousand years old.
• Qian Renxue agreed to Lu Yang’s plan, confident that she and She Long could handle a Soul Beast of that age.

Lu Yang traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest with Qian Renxue and She Long to obtain his second soul ring, gaining combat experience along the way. After absorbing a five-thousand-year Crimson Flame Feathered Sparrow ring, he discovered that The Winged Dragon of Ra might let him choose his own soul skills.

• Qian Renxue asked Lu Yang which soul beast he wanted, and he chose a Crimson Flame Feathered Sparrow or a Blazing Spirit Kite.
• Lu Yang, Qian Renxue, and She Long traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest, where Lu Yang initially struggled with combat before adapting to a defensive, counterattacking style.
• After searching for two days, She Long captured a five-thousand-year Crimson Flame Feathered Sparrow for Lu Yang.
• Lu Yang killed the sparrow and began absorbing its soul ring, completing the process the following evening.
• Lu Yang discovered that the ring seemed to contain no soul skill, but after experimenting, he obtained a skill resembling the one he had imagined and suspected The Winged Dragon of Ra let him choose his soul skills.