Chapter Summaries

Yu Chen awakened a Pokémon egg as his Martial Soul, and it attacked Su Yuntao after he called it trash. The crystal ball shone brilliantly when Yu Chen tested his Innate Soul Power, while a silver dragon woke in the Star Dou Great Forest and wondered where it was.

• Su Yuntao guided the children of Zonghun Village through their Martial Soul awakenings, but none of the first children had Innate Soul Power.
• Yu Chen awakened a basketball-sized Pokémon egg as his Martial Soul, recognizing it as the egg he had brought from his previous life.
• The egg struck Su Yuntao and rampaged through the room after he dismissed it as a trash Martial Soul, then Yu Chen recalled it.
• Yu Chen touched Su Yuntao's crystal ball, which burst with dazzling blue light.
• A slumbering silver dragon in the Lake of Life woke and asked where it was.

Yu Chen awakened his Pokémon Egg martial soul with Innate Full Soul Power and discovered a powerful second martial soul, the Golden Dragon Claw. As the Pokémon Egg began to crack, Gu Yuena continued trying to break out of the barrier imprisoning her.

• Gu Yuena found herself trapped in darkness with her powers sealed, realized she was inside a barrier, and attacked it to escape.
• Su Yuntao confirmed that Yu Chen had Innate Full Soul Power and invited him to join the Spirit Hall, but Yu Chen declined for now.
• Old Tom and the villagers celebrated Yu Chen's awakening, while Su Yuntao doubted that his egg martial soul could lead to a promising future.
• Alone at home, Yu Chen summoned his Golden Dragon Claw and discovered he could use it alongside his Pokémon martial soul.
• Yu Chen realized the Golden Dragon Claw was part of a full-body dragon armor ability, and a crack appeared in the Pokémon Egg.
• Gu Yuena charged repeatedly at the barrier until white light began to show, then attempted to break free.

Yu Chen raised Xiao Bai, unaware that she was Gu Yuena, the Silver Dragon King, transformed into his Martial Soul. After three months of training and humiliating misunderstandings, Gu Yuena briefly returned to her body at the Lake of Life, only to hear Yu Chen’s voice and realize she was still connected to him.

• Yu Chen mistook the newly hatched Gu Yuena for a Pokémon, named her Xiao Bai, and patted her until she made a sound.
• Over three months, Yu Chen trained while keeping Xiao Bai’s Martial Soul released, and Gu Yuena discovered that the Golden Dragon King was also his second Martial Soul.
• Gu Yuena despaired that Yu Chen could not protect the Soul Beast Clan if she and the Golden Dragon King were limited by his rank.
• When Yu Chen ordered Xiao Bai to fetch a branch, Gu Yuena breathed fire on him, and he decided to train her in fire-type moves and taught her Rest.
• Gu Yuena awoke in her body at the Lake of Life, but Yu Chen’s voice called her Xiao Bai, revealing that she remained bound to him.

Gu Yuena discovered that Yu Chen’s Rest technique eased her injuries and ordered Di Tian to protect him while she plotted to exploit his power. Yu Chen arrived at Nuoding Academy and met Yu Xiaogang, whose claims about training Detached Martial Souls he immediately questioned.

• Gu Yuena woke after three days of restful sleep, realized Yu Chen’s technique had helped her, and formed a plan to recover by nurturing and devouring his soul.
• Gu Yuena summoned Di Tian and ordered him to find and protect Yu Chen in Nuoding City.
• On the journey to Nuoding Academy, Old Tom told Yu Chen that Principal Ming Dashan had arranged for Yu Xiaogang to teach him.
• Yu Chen arrived at the academy, greeted Li Erniu, and met Ming Dashan and Yu Xiaogang in the principal’s office.
• Yu Xiaogang reached toward Xiao Bai, but Yu Chen recalled her before she could bite him.
• Yu Chen asked Yu Xiaogang how he planned to train his Martial Soul, and Yu Xiaogang began to say that his own Martial Soul had fire abilities.

Yu Xiaogang tried to recruit Yu Chen as his disciple by presenting three ways to strengthen Xiao Bai, but Yu Chen rejected him after Xiao Bai attacked. Yu Xiaogang then discovered that another new student had Blue Silver Grass and innate full soul power, and became intensely excited.

• Yu Xiaogang proposed strengthening Xiao Bai with fire-attribute or subdragon soul rings, then described his poison-based theory and Luo Sanpao’s two poison soul rings.
• Yu Chen asked about self-created soul skills, but Yu Xiaogang warned him against pursuing them before focusing on cultivation.
• Yu Chen secretly told Xiao Bai to burn Yu Xiaogang, and Ming Dashan blocked the blast with his Wind Wall.
• Yu Chen declined to become Yu Xiaogang’s disciple, saying Xiao Bai opposed it, while Yu Xiaogang invited him to visit if he had cultivation questions.
• Ming Dashan showed Yu Xiaogang a document about other talented new students, and Yu Xiaogang reacted excitedly to a Blue Silver Grass martial soul with innate full soul power.

Yu Chen arrived at Dorm Seven, where he defeated Tang San in a spar and became the dorm’s boss. As the students celebrated and shared fruit, Xiao Wu arrived and introduced herself.

• Yu Chen caught Wang Sheng as he was thrown from Dorm Seven, and learned that Tang San had just beaten him and agreed to protect the work-study students.
• Yu Chen and Tang San introduced their martial souls and level-ten soul power, and Wang Sheng realized both had innate full soul power.
• Yu Chen knocked Tang San through a bed with one punch, and Tang San conceded, acknowledging Yu Chen as the stronger fighter.
• Yu Chen shared fruit with the dormitory students, and Wang Sheng offered to treat him and Tang San to dinner.
• Xiao Wu arrived at Dorm Seven and introduced herself to the students.

Xiao Wu joined Dorm Seven but collapsed under the pressure of Xiao Bai, revealing that Yu Chen’s martial soul could suppress her. At lunch, Yu Xiaogang noticed Tang San and arranged to speak with him later.

• Yu Chen told Xiao Wu that new students had to challenge the dorm boss, but she fell when she met Xiao Bai’s gaze and refused to fight after feeling its pressure.
• Gu Yuena recognized Xiao Wu as a hundred-thousand-year Soft Bone Rabbit, then dismissed her as unworthy of further attention.
• Wang Sheng invited the dormmates to lunch, and Tang San accepted after initially declining the offer.
• Yu Chen ate ten bowls of rice, startling the work-study students, while Tang San considered how to defeat him with Tang Sect hidden weapons.
• Yu Xiaogang arrived, and Tang San defended him against the students’ criticism before introducing himself.
• Yu Xiaogang recognized Tang San, told him to finish eating, and said he would find him later.

Yu Chen explained why he had refused Yu Xiaogang as a master while helping Xiao Wu and training Xiao Bai. Tang San became Yu Xiaogang’s disciple and told Yu Chen that they would leave to hunt Soul Beasts the next morning.

• Yu Chen told Tang San he had rejected Yu Xiaogang because Yu Xiaogang was weak compared with Principal Ming, though he valued his theoretical knowledge.
• Xiao Wu admitted she lacked bedding, so Yu Chen lent her a Silver Soul Coin and then left to cultivate.
• Yu Chen trained Xiao Bai’s flame attack and considered a Flame Wolf or lava-type Soul Beast for his first soul ring.
• Tang San found Yu Chen and told him that he had become Yu Xiaogang’s disciple and that the principal and Yu Xiaogang planned to take them to the forest the next morning.
• Tang San saw the charred tree left by Xiao Bai’s attack and resolved to surpass Yu Chen with Yu Xiaogang’s theories.

Yu Chen, Tang San, Yu Xiaogang, and Ming Dashan traveled toward a soul beast forest to obtain first soul rings for the boys. Yu Xiaogang planned a poison-focused control path for Tang San, while Yu Chen challenged his reasoning and began studying a borrowed soul beast guide.

• Yu Xiaogang said Yu Chen should follow the power attack system and planned to develop Tang San's Blue Silver Grass as a control-type martial soul.
• Yu Xiaogang chose a Mandala Snake over three hundred years old for Tang San's first soul ring, hoping it would grant toughness and poison abilities.
• Yu Chen questioned the choice of a snake and argued that powerful plant-type soul beasts, including Azure Vines, could suit Tang San; Yu Xiaogang dismissed his ideas.
• Ming Dashan gave Yu Chen an Intermediate Soul Beast Pokédex to borrow, and Yu Chen eagerly began reading it.
• Yu Xiaogang gave Tang San a storage soul tool with twenty-four gemstones, while Yu Chen remained absorbed in his book.

Ming Dashan led Yu Chen and Tang San into the Soul Hunting Forest, where Tang San obtained his first soul ring from a Mandala Snake and reached level thirteen. The chapter ended with Tang San concealing his Mysterious Heaven Skill and Yu Chen deciding to leave Nuoding City once he reached level twenty.

• Ming Dashan showed the guards their Soul Hunting Writ and led Yu Chen, Tang San, and Yu Xiaogang into the forest.
• Ming Dashan wounded a Mandala Snake with his fourth soul skill, and Tang San killed it to claim its soul ring.
• Tang San absorbed the ring, strengthening his Blue Silver Grass and gaining venomous, paralyzing vines.
• Ming Dashan discovered that Tang San had reached about level thirteen, while Tang San secretly worried that his Mysterious Heaven Skill would be exposed.
• Yu Chen noticed Tang San’s hidden-weapon movements and resolved to leave Nuoding City after reaching level twenty.

Yu Chen rejected Yu Xiaogang’s calculated offer to arrange a Soul Saint’s help and chose the Diamond Giant Ape for Xiao Bai’s first soul ring. After Ming Dashan struck the ape down, a Gale Griffin swooped in and attacked the group, leaving Ming Dashan to shield Yu Chen.

• Yu Chen asked Xiao Bai to choose between a Flame Wolf and a Diamond Giant Ape, and Xiao Bai indicated that she wanted a wind-attribute soul beast.
• Ming Dashan offered to help Yu Chen search a wild soul beast forest, but Yu Xiaogang proposed using his Soul Saint friend and pretending Yu Chen was his disciple.
• Yu Chen declined Yu Xiaogang’s offer and chose the Diamond Giant Ape, while Yu Xiaogang turned to Tang San and offered him a chance to study at his friend’s academy.
• Ming Dashan found the Diamond Giant Ape and knocked it unconscious with his third soul skill, leaving Yu Chen to bring Xiao Bai over to finish it.
• A Gale Griffin plunged down toward Yu Chen, and Ming Dashan used his second soul skill to shield him while Yu Xiaogang warned that the beast usually traveled in flocks.

Yu Chen absorbed a six-hundred-year Gale Griffin soul ring as his first ring and emerged unharmed, reaching level thirteen. As Yu Chen and the others left the forest, Di Tian noticed someone else hiding nearby.

• Yu Chen killed the Gale Griffin, and Xiao Bai Dragon absorbed its soul ring while Yu Chen cultivated.
• Ming Dashan and Yu Xiaogang discovered the Gale Griffin was six hundred years old and feared Yu Chen would die absorbing its ring.
• Di Tian revealed he had brought the Gale Griffin for Yu Chen, whose bloodline carried the powers of both the Silver and Golden Dragon Kings.
• Yu Chen woke safely at level thirteen, and Yu Xiaogang eagerly questioned him about absorbing the ring.
• Yu Chen, Ming Dashan, and Yu Xiaogang left the forest, while Di Tian noticed another hidden observer behind a distant tree.

Di Tian drove the injured Tang Hao away after defeating him, while Yu Chen trained Xiao Bai Dragon’s wind and fire abilities at Nuoding Academy. The chapter ended with Yu Chen puzzling over why wind and fire failed to work together.

• Tang Hao watched Tang San absorb a soul ring until Di Tian attacked him from the shadows.
• Tang Hao fought Di Tian with his Clear Sky Hammer, but Di Tian stopped the blow with his dragon claw and revealed himself as a ferocious beast.
• Di Tian ordered Tang Hao to leave and stay away for three to five years, and Tang Hao withdrew to seek treatment for his injuries.
• At the academy, Yu Chen tested Xiao Bai Dragon’s Hurricane, Flight, and Wind Speed abilities after she absorbed the Gale Griffin’s soul ring.
• Yu Chen tried to combine Xiao Bai Dragon’s wind and fire, but the flames repeatedly went out or collided with the gale.
• Yu Chen sat down to consider why wind and fire did not strengthen each other as he had expected.

Yu Chen combined Xiao Bai’s Flame Attack with carefully controlled wind currents to create a powerful move he named [Sunny Day]. After the blast drew attention across Nuoding City, Yu Chen fled the Back Mountain while Ming Dashan arrived and searched for the powerful Soul Master he assumed was responsible.

• Yu Chen realized he could use wind to keep heat from escaping, then asked Xiao Bai to repeatedly use Flame Attack on one spot.
• Xiao Bai cycled hot currents back toward the ground, intensifying the flames through nine rounds until Yu Chen’s Soul Power was nearly exhausted.
• Yu Chen had Xiao Bai unleash one final Flame Attack, causing a blast and red mushroom cloud that alarmed Wang Sheng, Ming Dashan, Tang San, and Nuoding City’s residents.
• Yu Chen named the heat-amplifying technique [Sunny Day], noted its long charge time and danger to bystanders, then fled with Xiao Bai.
• Ming Dashan found the scorched clearing and called out to ask which senior had caused the destruction.

Ming Dashan and Di Tian examined the enormous crater left by Yu Chen’s attack, while Di Tian marveled that Yu Chen had touched the beginnings of a domain at level thirteen. Tang Hao visited Yu Xiaogang to entrust Tang San to him before leaving to recover from his injuries, and Yu Xiaogang began preparing Tang San for a special combat-training class.

• Ming Dashan inspected the scorched crater and left, believing the powerful visitor had already departed.
• Di Tian examined the destruction and concluded that Yu Chen had displayed the beginnings of a domain at level thirteen.
• Tang Hao entered Yu Xiaogang’s room, revealed his identity, and said he was leaving for several years to recover from an injury.
• Tang Hao gave Yu Xiaogang a black token and entrusted Tang San to his care before leaving.
• Yu Xiaogang met Tang San outside Dorm Seven and told him the principal would personally teach practical combat to a special class of outstanding students.

Yu Xiaogang’s special training class began with combat matches, and Yu Chen overwhelmed Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass with Xiao Bai’s Hurricane. Yu Chen asked to continue so he could learn from Tang San’s techniques, and Tang San prepared to fight with a pebble in hand.

• Yu Xiaogang explained the class’s combat and tactical training, then had Liu Long and Ling Feng fight; Liu Long won.
• Xiao Wu defeated Xiao Chenyu with Waist Bow after chasing him around the arena.
• Tang San bound Yu Chen with Blue Silver Grass, but Yu Chen broke free through sheer strength.
• Tang San unleashed Blue Silver Entanglement, and Xiao Bai’s Hurricane blew him across the arena.
• Yu Chen asked to continue the match, and Tang San agreed after Yu Xiaogang and Ming Dashan nodded, producing a pebble and warning Yu Chen to watch out.

Yu Chen defeated Tang San by using [Wind Speed] and predicting the paths of his Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track. As the onlookers thought the fight was over, Tang San fired a poisoned iron arrowhead, which Xiao Bai deflected.

• Xiao Bai used [Wind Speed] to enhance Yu Chen’s movement, and he dodged Tang San’s pebble attacks.
• Yu Chen studied Tang San’s Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, predicted his evasions, and punched him in the stomach.
• Liu Long declared Yu Chen the winner, while Xiao Wu and Yu Xiaogang reacted to Tang San’s defeat.
• Tang San suddenly fired a poisoned iron arrowhead at Yu Chen.
• Yu Chen dodged, and Xiao Bai knocked the arrowhead onto the floor, revealing its black-coated tip.

After Tang San used a poisoned Sleeve Arrow during his spar with Yu Chen, Ming Dashan rebuked him, and Yu Chen accepted his apology. Later, Tang San discussed the training with Yu Xiaogang, learned Yu Chen would not attend Shrek Academy, and remained troubled by Yu Chen’s strength.

• Tang San suspected Yu Chen had used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, then felt relieved when Yu Chen stumbled after dodging his poisoned Sleeve Arrow.
• Ming Dashan condemned Tang San for bringing a poisoned metal weapon into a spar, and Yu Xiaogang intervened before Tang San apologized to Yu Chen.
• Yu Xiaogang gave Yu Chen an illustrated guide to subdragon Soul Beasts and ended the incident before assigning individualized training plans.
• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang he valued the team battle and tactical lessons, then learned Yu Chen was expected to pursue a career in government rather than attend Shrek Academy.
• Tang San privately blamed Yu Chen’s powerful Martial Soul for breaking through his Tang Sect techniques and struggled with envy and resentment.

Yu Chen chose the Heaven Dou Royal Intermediate Academy and spent the next two and a half years preparing to leave Nuoding Academy, while Tang San drew strength from Yu Xiaogang’s encouragement and trained his forging skills. By the chapter’s end, Yu Chen had reached level twenty and was asking Tang San to forge refined-iron cookware before his move to Heaven Dou City.

• Yu Xiaogang encouraged Tang San after his defeat, reminding him of his second martial soul and promising to teach him to cultivate Blue Silver Grass.
• Ming Dashan gave Yu Chen soul beast meat and jerky, then recommended the Heaven Dou Royal Intermediate Academy and cautioned him to build his foundation and make trustworthy friends.
• Yu Chen decided to attend the Heaven Dou Royal Intermediate Academy after spending another year or two at Nuoding Academy.
• Two and a half years later, Tang San forged refined iron at the blacksmith shop while Yu Chen watched and asked him to make cookware and other utensils for the journey.
• Yu Chen had reached level twenty but had not yet obtained his second soul ring, though his enrollment in Heaven Dou City had been arranged.

Yu Chen celebrated his coming departure with Zonghun Village, learned that a jade pendant might reveal his birth parents, and watched Xiao Bai Dragon discover a strange waterfall. He followed her lead toward the new discovery.

• Yu Chen watched Tang San forge an iron pot with the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer technique and secretly copied his movements.
• Old Tom hosted a village feast to celebrate Yu Chen reaching level twenty, and Ming Dashan promised to look after him on the journey to Heaven Dou City.
• Old Tom gave Yu Chen a jade pendant found with him as a baby and explained that its engraved character had inspired his name.
• Yu Chen exercised with Xiao Bai Dragon and reflected on how maintaining her outside his body helped him cultivate Soul Power.
• Xiao Bai Dragon returned excitedly and signaled Yu Chen to follow her to a strange waterfall.