Chapter Summaries

At the village’s martial soul awakening, Ye Fan used his mind-projecting ability on Tang San, who mistook Ye Fan’s thoughts for memories from a previous life. The chapter left Tang San wondering what Ye Fan knew about his future martial souls and hidden weapons.

• Ye Fan waited in line for the awakening ceremony and decided to influence Tang San with his ability to project thoughts into other people’s minds.
• Ye Fan projected a boastful thought about being reborn, prompting Tang San to suspect that Ye Fan had lived through the future.
• Tang San sealed his ears and realized he could still hear Ye Fan’s thoughts, then decided to watch him for clues about future opportunities.
• Tang San asked Ye Fan what martial soul he might awaken, and Ye Fan casually guessed that he could inherit a hammer from his blacksmith father.
• Ye Fan’s thoughts revealed that Tang San would have Innate Full Soul Power, Blue Silver Grass, and Clear Sky Hammer, leaving Tang San puzzled by the unfamiliar terms and Ye Fan’s mention of his gadgets.

Ye Fan and Tang San reached Nuoding Academy, where Ye Fan used his Martial Soul to immobilize a guard who tried to turn them away. Yu Xiaogang recognized Tang San’s Twin Martial Souls and became his teacher, while Ye Fan’s inner thoughts left Tang San questioning Yu Xiaogang’s character.

• Tang San accepted Ye Fan’s cured meat and told him that Old Jack would take them to Nuoding Academy two days later.
• At the academy gates, a guard rejected their certificates and trampled Tang San’s; Ye Fan bound the guard with a single word, and Old Jack spat on him before following the boys inside.
• Tang San asked how Ye Fan had stopped the guard, and Ye Fan claimed he had discovered his Martial Soul could bind people through speech.
• Yu Xiaogang caught up with Ye Fan and Tang San, examined Tang San’s certificate, and identified him as the continent’s third person with Twin Martial Souls.
• Yu Xiaogang explained his theory, and Tang San eagerly knelt to accept him as his teacher.
• Ye Fan’s inner thoughts accused Yu Xiaogang of stealing Spirit Hall’s knowledge and resenting Tang San in the future, leaving Tang San troubled.

Ye Fan rejected Yu Xiaogang’s offer to teach him, and Tang San learned more about Yu Xiaogang’s future ingratitude and reconsidered accepting him as a master. The two registered at Nuoding Academy and reached Dorm Seven, where Ye Fan’s power startled the students.

• Yu Xiaogang invited Ye Fan to ask him for guidance, but Ye Fan asked for his Soul Power rank instead of accepting him as a teacher.
• Yu Xiaogang became furious and left after telling Tang San to meet him in the East Building after lunch.
• Tang San heard Ye Fan reveal that he would give Yu Xiaogang an Immortal Herb and later be repaid with slander, so he decided Yu Xiaogang was unworthy of being his master.
• Ye Fan and Tang San registered at the academy, where others looked down on Tang San for taking Yu Xiaogang as his master.
• At Dorm Seven, Ye Fan told Wang Sheng not to block the way, and Wang Sheng involuntarily moved aside as the other students watched in alarm.

Tang San defeated Wang Sheng and the Dorm Seven students after Ye Fan secretly manipulated them into attacking, but the brawl destroyed Tang San’s clothes and belongings. Xiao Wu arrived at the dorm and, after Wang Sheng challenged her to fight Tang San, launched herself at him.

• Tang San slapped Wang Sheng and threw him with a shoulder throw after Wang Sheng challenged him to a fight.
• Ye Fan used his Word Spirit to make Wang Sheng attack again and then ordered everyone in the room to charge Tang San.
• Tang San fought the students for five minutes and beat them, becoming Dorm Seven’s boss, while the fight tore up his clothes and bundle.
• Xiao Wu arrived at Dorm Seven, introduced herself as a Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul user, and asked about the voice she had heard.
• Wang Sheng challenged Xiao Wu to fight Tang San and pushed Tang San forward as Xiao Wu attacked.

Ye Fan defeated Xiao Wu with a brief restraint and privately revealed that he knew she was a soul beast. Xiao Wu heard his thoughts about her identity and a Titled Douluo who might appear nearby, leaving her torn between confronting Ye Fan and relying on him for protection.

• Xiao Wu caught Tang San with her legs and threw him through the air, smashing him onto a bed and winning their fight.
• Xiao Wu heard Ye Fan's thoughts identifying her as a 100,000-year-old Soft Bone Rabbit and decided he was a threat to her secret.
• Ye Fan used the word "Bind" to immobilize Xiao Wu, then released her after asking her to admit defeat and remain the dorm boss.
• Xiao Wu dragged Ye Fan aside and demanded to know why he had called her a little rabbit, while Ye Fan's thoughts revealed that he had returned from the future.
• Xiao Wu heard Ye Fan think that a Titled Douluo would soon appear nearby and that he might replace her as his divine guardian beast, leaving her unsure what to do.

Ye Fan teased Xiao Wu and Tang San about their feelings, while Xiao Wu decided to stay close to Ye Fan because she believed he would protect her. The students then prepared to go to the dining hall, where Xiao Wu hoped to try human food.

• Ye Fan suggested that Tang San had fallen for Xiao Wu, making Xiao Wu recoil from Tang San and leaving Tang San to recognize his feelings.
• Ye Fan claimed Xiao Wu would choose him, and Tang San resolved not to let Ye Fan win her over.
• Xiao Wu threatened the students who were watching, then declared that she would make Ye Fan acknowledge her as boss someday.
• Xiao Wu settled into the bed beside Ye Fan, who concealed her aura with his Word Spirit, while Tang San chose a bed opposite hers.
• Wang Sheng invited Ye Fan, Xiao Wu, and Tang San to the dining hall and offered to pay, and Xiao Wu eagerly agreed.

Tang San, Ye Fan, Xiao Wu, and the work-study students ate together before Xiao Chenyu and his followers insulted them and harassed Xiao Wu. Yu Xiaogang interrupted the confrontation and threatened to report the bullies, leaving Xiao Chenyu stunned by the teacher's sudden intervention.

• Wang Sheng invited Tang San, Ye Fan, Xiao Wu, and the others to the dining hall, where Xiao Wu eagerly tried feeding Ye Fan food and Tang San grew jealous.
• Xiao Chenyu and his followers mocked the work-study students and made crude remarks about Xiao Wu from the dining hall's second floor.
• Wang Sheng stood up to Xiao Chenyu and declared that Xiao Wu was their boss, while Tang San prepared to attack with steel needles.
• Yu Xiaogang entered the dining hall and ordered the students to stop making a racket.
• Yu Xiaogang rebuked Xiao Chenyu and his followers and threatened to speak to the dean, leaving Xiao Chenyu surprised.

Yu Xiaogang rejected Xiao Chenyu’s attempt to bribe him, prompting Ye Fan to use Word Spirit to intensify Xiao Chenyu’s anger until he attacked. Yu Xiaogang summoned Luo Sanpao and began his first soul skill, while Ye Fan and Xiao Wu fled the cafeteria.

• Xiao Chenyu offered Yu Xiaogang Gold Soul Coins to keep him from reporting the academy’s problems, but Yu Xiaogang knocked the coins away and said he would report them.
• Ye Fan used his Word Spirit, Rage, to inflame Xiao Chenyu, who activated his martial soul and lunged at Yu Xiaogang.
• Tang San warned Yu Xiaogang, who dodged Xiao Chenyu’s strike and then stood before Tang San to demonstrate a soul master battle.
• Yu Xiaogang activated Martial Soul Possession and summoned Luo Sanpao, while the cafeteria students watched in surprise.
• Xiao Chenyu charged at Luo Sanpao, and Yu Xiaogang unleashed his first soul skill as Ye Fan grabbed Xiao Wu and ran outside.

Yu Xiaogang’s Soul Skill blasted Xiao Chenyu through the cafeteria window and filled the cafeteria with a foul fog, while Ye Fan and Xiao Wu escaped and went out to eat. Later, Xiao Wu questioned why Ye Fan treated her well, leaving their uneasy relationship unresolved as she wondered whether he had secretly suppressed her Soul Beast aura.

• Luo Sanpao’s explosive Soul Skill sent Xiao Chenyu through the cafeteria window and filled the cafeteria with choking, stinking fog.
• Tang San used Purple Demon Eye and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track to find the exit, while Ye Fan and Xiao Wu watched from outside.
• Xiao Chenyu was carried away by people from the City Lord's Manor, and Yu Xiaogang took Tang San out to eat as students avoided the cafeteria.
• Xiao Wu climbed onto Ye Fan’s bed and demanded that he take her out to eat, so he carried her out of Dorm Seven and left the academy with her.
• While walking on Nuoding Academy's Back Mountain, Xiao Wu asked Ye Fan why he was so good to her, and he teased her instead of giving a serious answer.
• Xiao Wu reflected that Ye Fan might have made her Soul Beast aura disappear, but she remained troubled by the possibility that he treated her well only because of another version of herself.

Ye Fan and Xiao Wu sparred after Xiao Wu reacted to his thoughts about their future, but Tang San interrupted them. Tang San told Ye Fan he would go to the Soul Beast Forest with Yu Xiaogang the next day to obtain his first soul ring, then began to realize something was wrong.

• Ye Fan’s thoughts revealed that Xiao Wu had sacrificed herself for him in the future and returned with him, leaving Xiao Wu furious and confused.
• Xiao Wu kicked Ye Fan and challenged him to fight without using his Martial Soul, then trapped him with a grappling move.
• Ye Fan pretended to relax before breaking free and pinning Xiao Wu, and the two argued over whether he had cheated.
• Tang San arrived and found Ye Fan and Xiao Wu grappling; Xiao Wu snapped at him and left for the dormitory.
• Tang San told Ye Fan he would travel to the Soul Beast Forest with Yu Xiaogang the next day to obtain his first soul ring, then noticed something seemed wrong.

Ye Fan rejected Tang San’s offer to join the Soul Hunting Forest trip and secretly used his inner voice and Word Spirit to give Yu Xiaogang a nightmare about Tang San turning against his theories. Yu Xiaogang woke in terror, believing for a moment that he had been killed.

• Tang San urged Ye Fan to join the trip so he could obtain a Soul Ring, but Ye Fan refused because he did not trust Yu Xiaogang.
• After Tang San left, Ye Fan climbed onto the dormitory roof and used his spiritual power to locate Yu Xiaogang asleep in his room.
• Ye Fan influenced Yu Xiaogang’s dream, transforming his library into a collapsing nightmare.
• In the dream, a black-energy-shrouded Tang San blamed Yu Xiaogang’s theories for his failures and attacked him with a Black Hammer.
• Yu Xiaogang woke gasping and drenched in cold sweat, realizing the attack had been a dream.

Ye Fan left Yu Xiaogang doubting himself after showing him a possible future, then set out with Xiao Wu to obtain a permit for the Soul Hunting Forest. He received the permit at Spirit Hall, where Xiao Wu stayed behind chatting with Sisi, and Su Yuntao stopped Ye Fan as he was about to leave.

• Yu Xiaogang convinced himself that his theories were right and that Tang San could never hate him, while Ye Fan left satisfied with the doubts he had planted.
• Xiao Wu slept in Ye Fan’s bed and then joined him on his trip to the Soul Hunting Forest, claiming she wanted to keep him safe.
• Ye Fan and Xiao Wu reached Spirit Hall in Nuoding City and found Su Yuntao talking with Sisi.
• Sisi offered Xiao Wu a lollipop and chatted with her while Ye Fan followed Su Yuntao inside to complete the permit application and Soul Power test.
• Ye Fan received his permit and turned to leave, but Su Yuntao grabbed him.

Ye Fan and Xiao Wu entered the Soul Hunting Forest, each looking for a chance to pursue their own plans. Ye Fan climbed a tree to survey the area and search for Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, but distant wolf howls alerted him to a hunt.

• Su Yuntao gave Ye Fan advice about protecting Xiao Wu, while Sisi rebuffed Su Yuntao when he tried to take her hand.
• Ye Fan and Xiao Wu entered the Soul Hunting Forest and hid in the grass while they considered their next steps.
• Xiao Wu pretended to have a stomachache and left, hoping to get a chance to condense her soul ring alone.
• Ye Fan climbed a tall tree to survey nearby soul beasts and look for Tang San and Yu Xiaogang.
• Wolf howls sounded in the distance, and Ye Fan readied his bow and arrows.

Ye Fan and Xiao Wu followed a foul wind to a battlefield where Yu Xiaogang and Tang San were surrounded by Gale Demon Wolves. Ye Fan revealed to Xiao Wu that Tang San’s father had once targeted her, leaving her furious as he considered what to do next.

• Ye Fan searched for soul beasts with his thoughts, and Xiao Wu told him she had absorbed a soul ring from a rabbit she found.
• Ye Fan and Xiao Wu followed signs of a large group of soul beasts toward a strange, foul-smelling wind.
• They found Yu Xiaogang and Tang San surrounded by Gale Demon Wolves, with Luo Sanpao fighting to protect them.
• Ye Fan told Xiao Wu that Tang San’s Titled Douluo father had been the first to target her, and Xiao Wu blamed Tang San for bringing disaster upon her.
• Xiao Wu offered to follow Ye Fan’s lead, but he soothed her and said he would not let her approach the dangerous fight.

Ye Fan used a flaming arrow to ignite the gas from Yu Xiaogang’s Soul Skill, setting the Gale Demon Wolves and Luo Sanpao ablaze while Yu Xiaogang and Tang San escaped. Ye Fan and Xiao Wu followed them, and Yu Xiaogang stopped to catch his breath, puzzled by Tang San’s strange expression.

• Ye Fan made a flaming arrow and waited for Yu Xiaogang and Tang San to break free of the Gale Demon Wolves’ encirclement.
• Yu Xiaogang used Luo Sanpao’s second Soul Skill to blanket the wolves in hypnotic gas while Ye Fan shot the flaming arrow into a wolf.
• The gas exploded into a field of flames, burning the wolves and sending Luo Sanpao flying as Yu Xiaogang and Tang San escaped.
• Ye Fan and Xiao Wu left the battlefield strewn with white Soul Rings and pursued Yu Xiaogang and Tang San.
• Yu Xiaogang stopped at a rock face to recover and asked Tang San what he was looking at.

Ye Fan and Xiao Wu emerged from the forest and reunited with Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, whom they had rescued from Gale Demon Wolves. Yu Xiaogang suffered severe burns and bleeding when Luo Sanpao’s injuries transferred back to him, leaving Tang San to patch him up.

• Tang San spotted Ye Fan and Xiao Wu in the forest, and Xiao Wu told him they had saved him and Yu Xiaogang from the wolves.
• Yu Xiaogang blamed Ye Fan for interfering, but his tongue began hurting, and Tang San stepped in to stop the argument.
• Ye Fan revealed that Xiao Wu also had innate full Soul Power, surprising Tang San and drawing Yu Xiaogang’s interest.
• Yu Xiaogang ended his possession of Luo Sanpao, causing Luo Sanpao’s injuries to transfer to his own body and leave him in agony.
• Tang San discovered Yu Xiaogang was bleeding from his backside, then retrieved medicine and gauze from his Soul Tool to treat him.

After Tang San treated Yu Xiaogang’s burned backside, Ye Fan teased them and revealed that Xiao Wu had already absorbed a soul ring. Yu Xiaogang mocked her supposed ten-year soul beast, but Xiao Wu rebuffed him, and Tang San stopped his teacher from prying further.

• Tang San applied medicine to Yu Xiaogang while Ye Fan advised him to exercise, eat less chili, and drink hot water.
• Yu Xiaogang realized Sanpao’s farts could be ignited and began considering how to turn the effect into a safer self-created soul skill.
• Ye Fan teased Tang San about their closeness, and Tang San asked whether Ye Fan and Xiao Wu had found suitable soul rings.
• Ye Fan said Xiao Wu had killed a rabbit drawn to her while she used the toilet, and Xiao Wu kicked him for making it sound misleading.
• Yu Xiaogang assumed Xiao Wu had absorbed a ten-year soul ring and criticized Ye Fan’s guidance, but Xiao Wu rejected his judgment and told him to change his pants.
• Tang San asked Yu Xiaogang not to pry into Xiao Wu’s private affairs, and Yu Xiaogang turned away to hide his soiled clothes.

Ye Fan, Xiao Wu, Tang San, and Yu Xiaogang traveled together to find soul beasts, while Yu Xiaogang's remarks unexpectedly brought Xiao Wu closer to Ye Fan. They reached a bamboo grove, where Yu Xiaogang recommended a ten-year solitary bamboo for Tang San's first soul ring, leaving Tang San to ask Ye Fan what he thought.

• Tang San persuaded Ye Fan and Xiao Wu to travel with him and Yu Xiaogang, offering to apologize for Yu Xiaogang's earlier behavior.
• Yu Xiaogang agreed to guide the group, and Tang San carried him because he was moving too slowly.
• Xiao Wu lamented that gaining soul rings required killing soul beasts, and Ye Fan explained that transformed soul beasts could eventually condense their own rings.
• Yu Xiaogang lectured Ye Fan about transformed soul beasts, provoking Xiao Wu, while Ye Fan stopped her from reacting and hinted that transformation had benefits.
• Ye Fan suggested transformed soul beasts might become cute, and Xiao Wu accepted him more fully, tightening her grip on his hand as Tang San resented their closeness.
• The group reached a bamboo grove, where Yu Xiaogang identified a ten-year solitary bamboo as suitable for Tang San's Blue Silver Grass, and Tang San looked to Ye Fan for his opinion.

Ye Fan, Tang San, Yu Xiaogang, and Xiao Wu searched for a suitable first soul ring before deciding to camp near a dangerous, mist-covered area for the night. When Ye Fan went to gather firewood, Xiao Wu spotted a red tongue emerging from a tree and warned him.

• Tang San rejected the ten-year solitary bamboo, and Yu Xiaogang said he would find a better soul beast for Tang San’s first soul ring.
• Ye Fan considered mental- or sound-based soul beasts for his tongue martial soul, while Xiao Wu suggested several creatures with powerful tongues.
• Yu Xiaogang chose a quiet, misty area for the group to rest, warning that soul beasts were especially dangerous at night.
• Xiao Wu refused Tang San’s radishes, then ordered him to fetch water and fruit after Ye Fan suggested she put him to work.
• Ye Fan searched the mist for firewood and nearby soul beasts, but found only droppings before Xiao Wu warned him of a red tongue emerging from a tree.

Ye Fan and Xiao Wu fought off a camouflaged Mandala Snake, which Yu Xiaogang identified as a suitable soul beast for Tang San. After Ye Fan persuaded Tang San to seek a plant-type soul beast instead, the group fled, with the snake in pursuit.

• Xiao Wu spotted the camouflaged Mandala Snake, and Ye Fan used his word spirits and a rock to fend off its attack until Xiao Wu kicked it back.
• Yu Xiaogang recognized the snake as a Mandala Snake over four hundred years old and urged Tang San to absorb its soul ring for his blue silver grass.
• Ye Fan argued that Tang San should seek a plant-type soul beast, and Tang San told Yu Xiaogang he preferred that option.
• Yu Xiaogang accepted Tang San's decision, and the group ran from the area as the Mandala Snake chased them.
• Ye Fan took out his compound bow, nocked an arrow, and shot at the pursuing Mandala Snake.