Chapter Summaries

Xu Yang debated whether to choose a combat-focused second soul ring before entering Heaven Dou Royal Academy, worried that noble students might target him. After Madam Ning reassured him about his strength and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s protection, he realized he was still thinking like a powerless worker from his past life.

• Xu Yang guarded the lively Ning Rongrong until she fell asleep, then considered whether to choose Slime or Light Sacred Beetle for his second soul ring.
• Madam Ning noticed Xu Yang’s troubled expression and asked what was on his mind.
• Xu Yang explained that his planned Slime soul skill would offer little combat strength and worried about being ostracized at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Madam Ning told Xu Yang that most students would not threaten him, noble families would avoid political conflicts, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect could protect him.
• Xu Yang recognized that his cautious mindset came from his past life as a bottom-rung workhorse and reminded himself of his powerful position in this life.

Xu Yang chose a Mutated Fire Light Slime as his second soul ring and went with Ning Haiyan to the Sun Flower Sea to hunt one. After absorbing a roughly sixteen-hundred-year slime, Xu Yang found its overbearing soul power manageable and remained confident he could withstand it.

• Xu Yang told Madam Ning he would choose a thousand-year slime for his second soul ring, and she sent him to find Ning Haiyan.
• Xu Yang and Ning Haiyan searched the Sun Flower Sea, where Ning Haiyan used his Martial Soul Avatar and soul skills to expose and restrain the slimes.
• Ning Haiyan identified two matching slimes as roughly sixteen hundred years old and another as twelve hundred years old, and Xu Yang chose the older pair.
• Xu Yang cut down both matching slimes, drew in the soul ring that appeared, and began absorbing it.
• Xu Yang felt the slime's powerful soul energy battering his body but judged that his Sun Soul Power could control it.

Xu Yang absorbed a Slime Soul Ring and gained the Split soul skill, which let him divide and control his Sun Martial Soul fragments. At simultaneous auctions in Heaven Dou City and Star Luo City, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect revealed that whale rubber could increase a Spirit Master's tolerance for older Soul Rings and prepared to demonstrate its claim.

• Xu Yang completed his absorption of the thousand-year Slime Soul Ring and gained the Split soul skill, creating and controlling multiple suns that burned a massive tree to ash.
• Xu Yang explained that his control was limited by his Heart Separation Control realm and planned to seek an Explosion Soul Skill from an Exploding Flame Tree for his fourth Soul Ring.
• Xu Yang and Ning Haiyan left Sunset Forest after their Spirit Beast hunt.
• At auctions in Heaven Dou City and Star Luo City, the host presented Ten Thousand Year Whale Rubber as the finale item and announced that it could improve a Spirit Master's ability to absorb older Soul Rings.
• When attendees demanded proof, the host said the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had studied whale rubber for two years and summoned four youths to demonstrate its effects.

After the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect publicly demonstrated that whale rubber could raise soul ring age limits, factions across the continent scrambled to obtain it. The chapter ended with Xu Yang cultivating under the protection Ning Fengzhi’s revelation had provided.

• At an auction, the host showed four disciples whose unusually old soul rings demonstrated whale rubber’s effects, and the Ten Thousand Year Whale Rubber sold for 300,000 Gold Soul Coins in Heaven Dou City and 320,000 in Star Luo City.
• Soul Master factions began collecting whale rubber and hunting Whale-type Spirit Beasts, while Bibi Dong recognized Ning Fengzhi’s political strategy and ordered Spirit Hall to acquire whale rubber.
• At Notting Junior Soul Master Academy, Yu Xiaogang doubted the news, then decided to seek whale rubber from his friend Flender in hopes of breaking through his cultivation limit.
• At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Xu Yang realized Ning Fengzhi had revealed whale rubber’s effects partly to protect him from attention over his soul rings.
• Xu Yang resumed cultivating, using his Second Soul Skill to gather Sun Power and refine his Soul Power and physique.

Xu Yang discovered that Splitting Soul Skill boosted his cultivation and explored its limits before adapting it to combat. After two months of practice, he completed a Splitting Secret Skill, while his healing Secret Skill remained unfinished.

• Xu Yang found that splitting his Sun Martial Soul increased the amount and speed of Sun Power he could guide, but excessive splitting nearly burned through his Meridians.
• Xu Yang learned that cultivating Essence, Qi, and Spirit together could build his Soul Power, physique, and Spiritual Power, though the method was too demanding for most Spirit Masters.
• Xu Yang tested the limits of Splitting Soul Skill and found he could create more than a hundred broad bean-sized Martial Souls but could control only a small portion of them.
• Xu Yang practiced splitting Hidden Strength and Blade Qi at the Training Field, refining the techniques over two months.
• Xu Yang completed the Splitting Secret Skill before Heaven Dou Royal Academy began classes, while his healing Secret Skill was still incomplete.

Xu Yang mastered precise control of his splitting technique, said goodbye to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and traveled to Heaven Dou City to enroll at the Heaven Dou Royal Academy. He was placed in Heaven Minor Class One and assigned a dormitory after the academy discovered he was an eight-year-old Soul Grandmaster.

• Xu Yang shattered a Fine Iron Stake into sixteen matching fragments and carved furrows into the Training Field with his Wood Sword.
• Xu Yang told Ning Fengzhi he was ready to report to the Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and Ning Fengzhi advised him to be careful and rely on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect if necessary.
• Xu Yang said farewell to Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, Bone Douluo, and Madam Ning, then traveled to Heaven Dou City with Ning Haiyan.
• Xu Yang spent two days exploring Heaven Dou City before going to the academy when its term began.
• The enrollment teacher confirmed Xu Yang's age, Spirit, and twenty-third-level Soul Power, then assigned him to Heaven Minor Class One and dormitory Heaven Minor 103.

Xu Yang enrolled at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and encountered Dugu Yan, Yu Tianheng, and Ye Lingling in his class. Yu Tianheng wanted to test his strength, while Dugu Yan clashed with him, and Ye Lingling viewed him with hostility because of his ties to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

• Xu Yang read Heaven Dou Royal Academy's handbook and questioned why anyone would choose Shrek Academy.
• Xu Yang entered Heaven Minor Class One, recognized Dugu Yan and Yu Tianheng, and sat by the window.
• Yu Tianheng sized up Xu Yang and resolved to challenge him during practical combat class, and Xu Yang welcomed the chance to test Yu Tianheng's martial soul.
• Dugu Yan introduced herself and called Xu Yang a pretty boy, and Xu Yang teased her until she returned angrily to her seat.
• Ye Lingling comforted Dugu Yan and privately resented Xu Yang because the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had excluded and harmed the Nine Heart Begonia clan.

Xu Yang and Yu Tianheng challenged each other to a practical battle at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where they revealed their martial souls and Soul Rings. Yu Tianheng’s Thunder Dragon Claw struck toward Xu Yang, who met it with a punch, leaving Yu Tianheng stunned.

• Yu Tianheng challenged Xu Yang to practical combat, and Xu Yang agreed.
• Wallace took the students to the Training Field and explained the battle rules.
• Xu Yang and Yu Tianheng stepped into the ring as their classmates watched.
• Yu Tianheng revealed his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul and launched his First Soul Skill, Thunder Dragon Claw.
• Xu Yang used no Soul Skill and punched at Yu Tianheng’s lightning attack, making Yu Tianheng stand dazed.

Xu Yang fought Yu Tianheng, resisting his lightning and matching his dragon claws before using his Sun Martial Soul’s fire lines to defeat him. Yu Tianheng was left badly burned beside Wallace, while Xu Yang worried he had nearly killed him.

• Xu Yang endured Yu Tianheng’s lightning with his Soul Power and charged in, then exchanged blows with him on equal terms.
• Xu Yang used Hidden Strength to shatter Yu Tianheng’s Thunder Dragon Claw, startling Wallace.
• Yu Tianheng unleashed Thunderous Might and struck Xu Yang, who healed himself with Morning Light.
• Xu Yang used Heart Separation Control to guide four Sun Martial Souls and fire Sun Fire Line at Yu Tianheng.
• The fire lines blasted Yu Tianheng beside Wallace, leaving him charred, and Xu Yang feared he had almost roasted him alive.

After defeating Yu Tianheng, Xu Yang observed the academy’s students and went to its library to search for cultivation methods and records of Immortal Herbs. There, he found Qian Renxue waiting for him, and their reunion ended with her confronting him for failing to visit.

• Wallace examined Yu Tianheng and found that Xu Yang’s attack had left him unconscious with only minor burns.
• Dugu Yan told Ye Lingling that Xu Yang had restrained his Sun Martial Soul’s power to avoid seriously injuring Yu Tianheng.
• Xu Yang watched the remaining practical matches, reflected on the advantages of major clans, and decided to skip class to visit the library.
• Xu Yang entered the library to look for useful records and discovered Qian Renxue waiting in a private room.
• Qian Renxue told Xu Yang she had come to find him because he had arrived in Heaven Dou City without visiting her.

Xu Yang realized Qian Renxue’s cultivation had slowed because her Ultimate Attributes required her body to adapt, and he became eager to develop Ultimate Attributes in his own Sun Martial Soul. After dismissing one book as useless and another as dangerous nonsense, he continued examining the remaining texts.

• Qian Renxue found Xu Yang in the library and asked him to treat her as an equal, while Xu Yang worried about her ties to Spirit Hall and its feud with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Qian Renxue explained that her cultivation had slowed after Rank 30, prompting Xu Yang to consider how her Ultimate Light and Ultimate Fire attributes affected her progress.
• Xu Yang concluded that Ultimate Attributes slowed cultivation between Rank 30 and Rank 70 but could remove bottlenecks up to Rank 98 once the body adapted.
• Xu Yang borrowed Qian Renxue’s four books, judged the Glazed Meditation Method useless, and identified the advice in How to Accelerate Cultivation as harmful nonsense.

Xu Yang tested the Visualization Method, discovered its potential for strengthening Spiritual Power, and searched the academy library for information about Immortal Herbs. After finding and copying records of several rare herbs, he settled into his luxurious dormitory and began experimenting with cultivating under the night sky.

• Xu Yang used his Sun Martial Soul to practice visualization while Qian Renxue cultivated beside him, then realized the method might greatly improve Spiritual Power.
• Xu Yang searched the academy library for books, including records of Immortal Herbs, while Qian Renxue accompanied him and later left after he refused to explain his search.
• Qian Renxue instructed She Long to secretly watch Xu Yang after leaving the library.
• Xu Yang found records of several Immortal Herbs, including the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower and Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, and copied them before returning the books.
• Xu Yang visited Room 103 in the Heaven Slight Grade dormitory area, then split his Martial Soul into eight spheres and tried cultivating with light from the stars and moon.

Xu Yang found incomplete Soul Tool crafting books in the royal library and decided to join Qin Ming’s selection for the Heaven Dou Royal Fighting Team reserve, despite expecting to serve only as a substitute. He arrived at the training grounds with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, where Yu Tianheng still resented his earlier defeat and Xu Yang kept his plans to befriend Dugu Bo in mind.

• Xu Yang found four damaged books containing Soul Tool crafting knowledge and planned to obtain materials from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect treasury.
• Dugu Yan told Xu Yang that Qin Ming was selecting students for the Heaven Dou Second Team, and Xu Yang agreed to participate to learn about his peers.
• Xu Yang arrived at the training grounds with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, where top students including Yu Tianheng and Osler had gathered.
• Qin Ming considered Yu Tianheng for captain and dismissed Xu Yang as a poor choice because he skipped classes and resisted discipline.
• Yu Tianheng reacted resentfully to Xu Yang’s arrival, while Xu Yang chatted with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling and considered how to reach Dugu Bo and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Qin Ming selected eight students for the Royal Fighting Team by having them endure Meng Shenji’s Soul Power pressure. He began training them together, and their discovery of Xu Yang’s Sun Power cultivation left Dugu Yan sweltering as he cultivated on the balcony.

• Qin Ming introduced himself as the Royal Fighting Team’s new leader and said he would select seven members and three substitutes.
• Meng Shenji tested the students with his Soul Power pressure, and only Xu Yang, Yu Tianheng, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, Shi Mo, Shi Mo, Yu Feng, and Osler remained standing.
• Qin Ming dismissed the fallen students and had the eight survivors introduce themselves as their new teammates.
• Qin Ming arranged group training so the eight could learn to understand each other and coordinate in battle.
• The team discovered that Xu Yang gathered Sun Power to cultivate and watched him fire his First Soul Skill at himself each morning.
• Dugu Yan complained that Xu Yang’s balcony cultivation made the air unbearably hot.

Xu Yang crafted a Soul Tool monocle to magnify objects while Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling watched and talked. He tested the finished device and saw that it produced a clear, adjustable image.

• Dugu Yan complained that the sunlight aggravated the Jade Phosphor Serpent Poison within her, while Ye Lingling offered her ice cream.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling envied Xu Yang’s cultivation-accelerating martial soul as Yu Tianheng cultivated nearby.
• Xu Yang finished cultivating, then used an Engraving Knife to carve Soul Power Circuits into Azure Sea Gold.
• Xu Yang explained to Dugu Yan that making Soul Tools improved his Soul Power control and assembled his carved metal plates with a polished transparent gemstone.
• Xu Yang infused the monocle with Soul Power and saw that he could magnify and reduce the Engraving Knife clearly.

Dugu Yan borrowed Xu Yang’s monocle before joining him in team training against their six teammates. As the battle began, Xu Yang and Dugu Yan countered the group’s attacks, and Xu Yang’s resistance to poison became clear.

• Dugu Yan tried Xu Yang’s monocle and asked him to make one for her, while Xu Yang chose two Soul Tools to craft.
• Xu Yang and Dugu Yan were assigned to face the other six team members in Qin Ming’s training battle.
• Dugu Yan used her red and blue poisons to strengthen Xu Yang before Yu Tianheng attacked him with Thunder Dragon Claw.
• Xu Yang blocked Yu Tianheng’s attack with a sun, while Dugu Yan released poisonous fog that Yu Feng blew away from himself and Ye Lingling.
• Dugu Yan warned Xu Yang about the poison, but it drifted around him and lost its toxicity in the heat surrounding his body.

Xu Yang and Dugu Yan turned the tide against Yu Tianheng’s team, defeating its main attackers and forcing the Shi Mo brothers to surrender. Xu Yang ended the fight with his Soul Power exhausted, leaving the victory to stand on Dugu Yan’s threat of poison.

• Dugu Yan recalled her grandfather’s warning about how fire and lightning could counter poison as Yu Tianheng and four teammates launched a coordinated attack on Xu Yang.
• Xu Yang split his Sun Martial Soul into eight copies and used Sun Fire Lines and Flame Barriers to destroy the incoming shields and repel Osler, Yu Feng, and Yu Tianheng.
• Dugu Yan bound Ye Lingling with her tail and threw her out of the arena while Yu Tianheng was distracted.
• Xu Yang struck Yu Tianheng out of the arena, then caught Yu Feng and knocked him down beside him.
• With only the Shi Mo brothers left, Dugu Yan spread poisonous mist and Xu Yang called on them to surrender; they conceded, while Xu Yang revealed that his Soul Power was spent.

After Xu Yang defeated the Royal Fighting Team in training, Dugu Yan’s poison flared up, and he used his Sun Soul Power to suppress it. He revealed that a book described three ways for Beast Spirit Poison Soul Masters to solve their condition, and Dugu Yan eagerly asked to hear them.

• Dugu Yan criticized Yu Tianheng for losing focus, and Qin Ming explained how Xu Yang had outmaneuvered the team before ending training.
• Xu Yang recovered his Soul Power while the others rested, then heard Dugu Yan groaning in her room and found her convulsing from a poison flare-up.
• Xu Yang used his Sun Soul Power and a healing Secret Skill to clear the active poison in Dugu Yan’s Meridians, though he could not remove the toxin embedded in her body.
• Dugu Yan asked Xu Yang to keep her condition secret, and he recognized that her poison came from her Jade Phosphor Serpent Martial Soul.
• Xu Yang said a book in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s collection described three solutions for Beast Spirit Poison Soul Masters, and Dugu Yan urged him to explain them.
• Xu Yang named reaching the Titled Douluo realm and forming a Poison Pill as the first method, while Dugu Yan recalled that her grandfather had formed one after his breakthrough.

Xu Yang explained ways Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo could manage the poison in their Martial Souls, then pointed Dugu Yan toward the Immortal Herbs in her grandfather’s garden. Dugu Bo recognized the significance of the discovery and realized he needed to better protect the strange place where the herbs grew.

• Xu Yang described storing poison in a sufficiently old Limb Bone and explained why Head and Torso Bones were unsuitable.
• Xu Yang proposed that an earth-element Immortal Herb could improve resistance to poison, and showed Dugu Yan a record of the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.
• Dugu Yan recognized the herb from Dugu Bo’s garden, thanked Xu Yang, and rushed to ask Qin Ming for leave so she could speak with her grandfather.
• Dugu Yan told Dugu Bo about Xu Yang’s methods, and Dugu Bo reacted with shock and regret as he examined the herb’s description.
• Dugu Bo realized Yue Guan might have records about Immortal Herbs and decided to strengthen the defenses around the strange place.

Dugu Bo confirmed that Xu Yang’s advice could help his family and went to Heaven Dou Royal Academy to learn more about immortal herbs. He caught Xu Yang crafting a Soul Tool Thruster, then questioned whether the boy had lured him there on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s behalf.

• Dugu Yan asked Dugu Bo whether Xu Yang’s three methods for dealing with their poison were reliable, and Dugu Bo judged them useful while planning to research forced detoxification and find her a Soul Bone.
• Xu Yang recorded what he remembered about the Land Dragon Golden Melon, hoping Dugu Bo would find it and owe him a favor he could trade for several immortal herbs.
• Xu Yang began crafting a Soul Tool Thruster, but Dugu Bo arrived and watched him work until a mistake made Xu Yang curse.
• Dugu Bo startled Xu Yang, who attacked with his Sun Martial Soul and tried to escape before Dugu Bo extinguished the suns and stopped him.
• Xu Yang recognized Dugu Bo from Ning Fengzhi’s introduction, and Dugu Bo suspected he had leaked information about immortal herbs to lure him there for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Dugu Bo realized from Xu Yang’s reaction that his suspicion was mistaken.