Chapter Summaries

At Greenleaf Village’s martial soul awakening, Li Mingzhu awakened a body martial soul and innate full soul power while concealing the second martial soul that had surged from his left hand. Su Yuntao judged his visible martial soul to be weak and invited him to join Spirit Hall, leaving Li Mingzhu to discuss the offer with village chief Li Mu.

• Village chief Li Mu brought Su Yuntao to oversee Greenleaf Village’s annual martial soul awakening.
• Su Yuntao awakened the children one by one, and Li Mingzhu watched most of them prove to have no soul power.
• Li Mingzhu awakened a body martial soul as a hidden, domineering power surged from his left hand into his mind.
• Li Mingzhu placed his hand on Su Yuntao’s crystal ball and revealed innate full soul power, while Su Yuntao lamented the weakness of his martial soul.
• Su Yuntao invited Li Mingzhu to join Spirit Hall, and Li Mingzhu asked for time to consult Li Mu.
• Su Yuntao told Li Mu that Li Mingzhu had innate full soul power but a weak martial soul, then left as Li Mu took Li Mingzhu home.

Li Mingzhu reassured Li Mu that he would not join the Spirit Hall, and Li Mu gave him the family’s savings to enroll as a regular student. That night, Li Mingzhu discovered his Ancient Void Dragon martial soul and its spatial domain, then prepared to attend school in Nuoding City.

• Li Mu remembered how his childhood sweetheart died while hunting for a Soul Ring and explained his fears for Li Mingzhu’s safety.
• Li Mingzhu told Li Mu he would not join the Spirit Hall and only wanted to study and cultivate.
• Li Mu gave Li Mingzhu the family’s saved soul coins so he could enroll as a regular student.
• Li Mingzhu cultivated at night and discovered his Ancient Void Dragon martial soul, its domain, Dragon Flame, and ability to fly.
• Li Mingzhu’s flight ended when his soul power ran out, and he returned to bed thinking about school, Tang San, and his plans to stay neutral toward the Spirit Hall.

Li Mingzhu arrived at Nuoding Academy and earned special enrollment benefits after proving he had innate full Soul Power. His enormous appetite prompted a cafeteria manager to complain to the dean, while a passing man overheard that Li Mingzhu was a genius.

• Li Mu escorted Li Mingzhu from Greenleaf Village to Nuoding Academy, then left him to register on his own.
• An admissions teacher confirmed Li Mingzhu's innate full Soul Power and brought him to Director Su, who offered free tuition and meals plus a private dorm room.
• Director Su presented Li Mingzhu's information to the dean, who approved the benefits as an investment in the student's potential.
• Li Mingzhu used his meal certificate to eat a huge amount at the cafeteria, prompting Old Wei to complain to the dean.
• The dean explained Li Mingzhu's talent and offered Old Wei a ten-percent increase in the cafeteria's next budget, while a passing man overheard that Li Mingzhu had innate full Soul Power.

Yu Xiaogang learned that Li Mingzhu had innate full soul power and decided to make him his disciple, convinced he had twin martial souls. Li Mingzhu planned to develop his Ancient Void Dragon martial soul in secret, while Yu Xiaogang prepared to meet him at dawn.

• Yu Xiaogang barged into Dean Lin's office and demanded to know where the child with innate full soul power was.
• Dean Lin gave Yu Xiaogang Li Mingzhu's registration form, and Yu Xiaogang became convinced that Li Mingzhu had twin martial souls.
• Yu Xiaogang fantasized about making Li Mingzhu his disciple and revealing the secret of his twin martial souls.
• Li Mingzhu considered the risks of his talents and decided to give the Ancient Void Dragon a soul ring and hide its martial soul phantom in the void.
• At dawn, Yu Xiaogang dressed carefully in front of a mirror to make a good impression on his future disciple.

Li Mingzhu planned to hunt a stronger soul beast, but Yu Xiaogang approached him and tried to persuade him to become his disciple by claiming he had twin martial souls. Li Mingzhu saw through Yu Xiaogang’s flawed reasoning and refused, leaving Yu Xiaogang to make one last attempt with a Space Soul Tool.

• Li Mingzhu stepped outside his room and spotted Yu Xiaogang sneaking toward him.
• Yu Xiaogang introduced himself as the Grandmaster and deduced from Li Mingzhu’s innate full soul power that he had twin martial souls.
• Yu Xiaogang offered to teach Li Mingzhu how to cultivate twin martial souls if he became his disciple.
• Li Mingzhu dismissed Yu Xiaogang’s offer and prepared to leave, thinking the man’s teachings would not help him.
• Yu Xiaogang pulled out a Space Soul Tool and asked Li Mingzhu if he knew what it was.

Li Mingzhu rejected Yu Xiaogang’s attempt to recruit him, insisting that he had no twin martial souls and already had help with cultivation. At Nuoding Academy’s library, he researched spatial-attribute soul beasts and void netherstone, uncovering records of a major incident from a thousand years earlier.

• Yu Xiaogang offered Li Mingzhu a Space Soul Tool to entice him into becoming his disciple, but Li Mingzhu rejected the gift and asked him to stop pestering him.
• Yu Xiaogang summoned his martial soul and boasted about his rank, connections, and ability to guide Li Mingzhu, but Li Mingzhu refused and explained that a Spirit Hall deacon had identified his innate full soul power as a beneficial martial soul mutation.
• Yu Xiaogang realized Li Mingzhu did not have twin martial souls, withdrew his offer, and left after declaring him unworthy of becoming his disciple.
• Li Mingzhu went to Nuoding Academy’s library and researched spatial-attribute soul beasts, selecting the Sky-Splitting Butterfly, Netherclaw Beast, and Thorned Vine as potential targets.
• Li Mingzhu searched for records about void netherstone and discovered that it had caused a major incident a thousand years earlier.

Li Mingzhu researched the history and properties of void netherstone, learning how Marquis Kongwen discovered its spatial marrow a thousand years earlier. After escaping two hundred-thousand-year beast kings, Marquis Kongwen found and absorbed a fragment of void marrow, leaving him close to a breakthrough to rank eighty-four.

• Marquis Kongwen discovered a hill-sized strange stone guarded by two hundred-thousand-year Thorn Dragon kings and escaped their attacks using his soul bone skill, Spatial Shift.
• After recovering, Marquis Kongwen investigated the stone and concluded it was a meteorite that had fallen into the Soul Hunting Forest.
• Marquis Kongwen searched for meteorite fragments, defeated a clan of hundred-year soul beasts, and took one fragment back to his estate.
• Marquis Kongwen shattered the fragment with his Kongwen Flute and found a fist-sized crystal of spatial energy inside.
• Marquis Kongwen named the stone void netherstone and its crystal void marrow, then absorbed the marrow and neared rank eighty-four.

The Marquis of Void Pattern used Void Marrow to evolve his martial soul, reached Level 98, and became a celebrated defender of the Heaven Dou Empire. After a clash with Qian Yuchen forced him to reveal the Void Netherstone secret, powerful soul masters descended on the Soul Hunting Forest, unaware that he still concealed a crucial secret.

• The Marquis of Void Pattern collected Void Netherstones, discovered that Void Marrow could evolve spatial-attribute martial souls, and cultivated to Titled Douluo before obtaining a hundred-thousand-year soul ring that evolved his martial soul into the Void-Tone Immortal Flute.
• The Marquis of Void Pattern cleared the Soul Hunting Forest of Void Netherstones, then secluded himself for fifteen years before emerging at Level 98 to kill a Star Crown Sect Titled Douluo and repel the Star Luo Empire's invasion.
• Factions investigating the Marquis of Void Pattern's strength uncovered the two hundred-thousand-year beast kings in the Soul Hunting Forest and pressured him to reveal his secret.
• Qian Yuchen defeated the Marquis of Void Pattern and an imperial ancestor under the Angel Pact, compelling the Marquis to spread the Void Netherstone secret across the continent.
• Titled Douluo flocked to the Soul Hunting Forest to seek Void Netherstones and targeted the Thorn Dragon Group, while the Marquis of Void Pattern kept another crucial secret hidden.

The Marquis of Spatial Patterns pursued the void marrow, but the Thorn Dragon clan’s self-sacrifice unleashed a spatial storm that killed nearly every powerhouse and left him gravely injured. Years later, he died alongside the Star Crown ancestor, and the Imperial Family ensured his Martial Soul lineage ended.

• The Titled Douluos attacked the Thorn Dragon clan, and the two beast kings resonated with the void netherstone before their clan was annihilated.
• The female beast king detonated herself, then the male beast king detonated with the void marrow, unleashing a spatial storm that killed the assembled powerhouses except the Marquis of Spatial Patterns.
• The Marquis of Spatial Patterns found no void marrow among the shattered stones, and Qian Yuchen saved him from the spatial energy ravaging his body.
• Twenty years later, the Star Luo Empire and the Star Crown Sect seized the marquis's children and forced him to fight the Star Crown ancestor, whom he had previously been unable to defeat.
• The Star Crown ancestor and the Marquis of Spatial Patterns detonated themselves and died together, after which the weakened Star Crown Sect withdrew from the world.
• The Imperial Family arranged for the marquis's children to die and ended his Martial Soul lineage.

After reading about the Void Netherstone, Li Mingzhu secured a week off and 4,000 Gold Soul Coins from Dean Lin after discussing Yu Xiaogang’s approach. He collected the money and went to Nuoding City to buy whale rubber for himself and Grandpa Li Mu.

• Li Mingzhu finished reading the records about the Void Netherstone and decided to avoid entangling himself with the Imperial Families.
• Dean Lin apologized for giving Yu Xiaogang Li Mingzhu’s information, and Li Mingzhu assured him he had refused to become Yu Xiaogang’s disciple.
• Li Mingzhu asked for a week off to move Grandpa Li Mu to Nuoding City, and Dean Lin granted the leave and offered 4,000 Gold Soul Coins as compensation.
• Li Mingzhu planned to use the money to buy whale rubber, including weaker varieties to improve Grandpa Li Mu’s physical fitness.
• After collecting the coins, Li Mingzhu visited a shop in Nuoding City and asked the shopkeeper for whale rubber.

Li Mingzhu bought cultivation supplies on his way back from the academy and returned to Greenleaf Village to visit Li Mu. He told his grandfather that the dean would help him obtain his first soul ring and persuaded Li Mu to accept money for his living expenses.

• Li Mingzhu bought seven pieces of whale rubber and endured the shopkeeper's mistaken assumptions about why he wanted it.
• Li Mingzhu hired a carriage to Greenleaf Village and strengthened his spiritual power after finding stillness during the ride.
• Li Mingzhu returned home and reassured Li Mu that an academy teacher would take him to obtain his first soul ring.
• Li Mingzhu showed Li Mu how his martial soul could store supplies and gave him fifty Gold Soul Coins, which Li Mu accepted after Li Mingzhu said he would need him to stay healthy for the future.

Li Mingzhu used whale rubber to strengthen Li Mu and later began consuming it himself. After taking a nearly thousand-year piece, Li Mingzhu sat down to absorb its medicinal power.

• Li Mingzhu heated a piece of ten-year whale rubber and guided Li Mu as he absorbed it, helping him purge impurities in a cold bath.
• Li Mu felt stronger after the first piece, ate dried meat, then swallowed the two remaining pieces as Li Mingzhu monitored him.
• After a day of rest, Li Mingzhu gave Li Mu a hundred-year piece of whale rubber, which restored his vitality for the day.
• That evening, Li Mingzhu used dragon flame to soften a whale rubber piece over nine hundred years old, swallowed it, and began circulating his Soul Power.

After enduring the pain of thousand-year whale rubber, Li Mingzhu traveled to the Soul Hunting Forest to find a soul ring. He discovered that his Ancient Void Dragon bloodline could overwhelm weaker soul beasts, though its suppression had limits.

• Li Mingzhu swallowed two pieces of thousand-year whale rubber and endured its painful effects, greatly strengthening his body and mind.
• Li Mingzhu left Li Mu, traveled by ox cart to the Soul Hunting Forest, and entered after presenting his soul hunting permit.
• Li Mingzhu spent the night in a tree and woke to find more than thirty ten-year shadow-pattern wolves surrounding it, with four hundred-year wolves waiting nearby.
• Li Mingzhu used his domain and Dragon Flame to burn the ten-year wolves and frighten the four hundred-year wolves into fleeing.
• Li Mingzhu considered how his Ancient Void Dragon bloodline might help him hunt soul beasts near the Void Netherstone ruins, while recognizing that stronger beasts could resist its suppression.

Li Mingzhu traveled deeper into the Soul Hunting Forest and hid as an unusual Man-Eating Flower fought an eight-thousand-year Demon-Striped Tiger. The Man-Eating Flower revealed fire powers, leaving Li Mingzhu shocked by its resemblance to the formidable Sun Man-Eating Flower.

• Li Mingzhu searched the wolf's charred corpse for a soul bone, found nothing, and continued toward the Void Netherstone ruins.
• After recovering his soul power, Li Mingzhu heard something approaching and spotted a mobile, roughly two-thousand-year-old Man-Eating Flower.
• An eight-thousand-year Demon-Striped Tiger attacked the Man-Eating Flower, and Li Mingzhu concealed his aura to watch their fight.
• The Demon-Striped Tiger severed the Man-Eating Flower's roots and vines while the flower sprayed corrosive venom that badly damaged the tiger.
• As the Demon-Striped Tiger charged in to finish the fight, the Man-Eating Flower sprouted flaming spikes and revealed its power over fire.

The Sun Man-Eating Flower mutated into a two-headed beast after the Demon-Striped Tiger tore her apart, while the tiger was badly injured in their continuing fight. Li Mingzhu secretly attacked her with Dragon Flame, igniting the venom inside her as the battle’s outcome remained uncertain.

• The Sun Man-Eating Flower burned away the Demon-Striped Tiger’s fur with fireballs, but he used Demon Tiger's Wrath and Wings of Wind to rush in and tear her apart.
• The Sun Man-Eating Flower survived, transformed into a two-headed beast, and grew more powerful, while the Demon-Striped Tiger continued to burn.
• The Demon-Striped Tiger tore off one of her heads but lost his right leg to her Sun Cannon, leaving Li Mingzhu to decide to intervene.
• Li Mingzhu used Martial Soul Possession and concealment to fly close, then breathed Dragon Flame into the Sun Man-Eating Flower’s open mouth.
• The Dragon Flame ignited the venom inside the Sun Man-Eating Flower, causing her to burn from within.

Li Mingzhu waited for the Sun Man-Eating Flower and Demon-Striped Tiger to kill each other, then claimed two Soul Bones from their remains. He could not absorb the flower’s External Soul Bone and continued toward the Void Stone Ruins, unaware that a seed held the essence it lacked.

• The Demon-Striped Tiger blasted off the Sun Man-Eating Flower’s head, then detonated itself after the flower struck it with a Solar Ray.
• Li Mingzhu revealed himself to the dying Sun Man-Eating Flower, whose rage at seeing him caused it to die; he found a tiger’s corpse inside the flower and extracted an External Soul Bone from its core.
• Li Mingzhu looted a jade-white torso bone from the Demon-Striped Tiger’s charred remains and stored both Soul Bones in his Domain Space.
• Li Mingzhu repeatedly failed to absorb the External Soul Bone and resumed his journey toward the Void Stone Ruins, where his Martial Soul felt drawn to the site.
• A seed began emerging from the Sun Man-Eating Flower’s remains, containing the vital essence missing from its External Soul Bone.

Li Mingzhu found a suitable Netherclaw Beast in the void netherstone basin and absorbed its soul ring as his first. After gaining the Void Space Claw skill and reaching soul power level fourteen, he prepared to investigate what had stirred his Ancient Void Dragon martial soul.

• Li Mingzhu searched the void netherstone basin and spotted a nine-hundred-year-old Netherclaw Beast among a group of older beasts.
• Li Mingzhu followed the Netherclaw Beast as it left to forage, then killed it after confirming the area was clear.
• Li Mingzhu absorbed the beast’s soul ring without difficulty and gained the Void Space Claw soul skill, which enhanced his attributes and let his attacks ignore defense.
• Li Mingzhu discovered that his soul power had risen to level fourteen, found no soul bone on the corpse, and buried the Netherclaw Beast.
• Li Mingzhu turned his attention to the mysterious thing that had stirred his Ancient Void Dragon martial soul.

Li Mingzhu discovered that the spatial fluctuations in the Soul Hunting Forest came from the entrance to a secret realm, but decided against entering while he was only a One-Ring Soul Master. After leaving the forest, he checked into a market tavern, where a gang considered robbing him before their leader warned them off, suspecting he belonged to a powerful sect.

• Li Mingzhu used his Ancient Void Dragon martial soul and domain to recognize that the empty plain concealed a secret realm behind a spatial barrier he could pass through.
• Li Mingzhu chose not to enter the secret realm because he feared its dangers, then hurried out of the Soul Hunting Forest and reached the market at night.
• Li Mingzhu paid eighty-five Gold Soul Coins for a room and food at a tavern, where the clerk warned him not to wander outside at night.
• Sixth urged the bald gang leader to rob Li Mingzhu, but Ding Qiang forbade it because the boy's Space Soul Tool and young age suggested powerful backing.
• Ding Qiang warned his men that attacking a young Soul Master from a major sect could bring disaster, and recalled a Clear Sky Sect Soul Emperor killing a Soul Saint.

Li Mingzhu returned to Nuoding Academy after his journey to the Soul Hunting Forest and revealed that he had obtained a powerful first Soul Ring. Dean Lin was thrilled by its abilities, while Li Mingzhu kept his Ancient Void Dragon Martial Soul hidden.

• Ding Qiang warned his bandits not to target Li Mingzhu and scolded Sixth for acting creepy.
• Li Mingzhu left the tavern without being ambushed and traveled back toward Nuoding City, resolving to explore the spatial secret realm again once he grew stronger.
• Dean Lin worried Li Mingzhu had run off with the four thousand Gold Soul Coins, then excitedly welcomed him when he returned to the academy.
• Li Mingzhu summoned his visible Martial Soul and showed Dean Lin his yellow first Soul Ring while concealing the Ancient Void Dragon.
• Li Mingzhu described his invented Soul Skill, Power of the Empty Nether, which boosted all attributes by twenty percent and gave his attacks a piercing effect.
• Dean Lin praised Li Mingzhu's Soul Skill as a divine skill and recognized how powerful it would be when Li Mingzhu's Body Martial Soul possessed him.

Dean Lin praised Li Mingzhu’s Piercing Thrust and told him about a friend whose unusual blue silver grass soul ring granted powerful healing abilities. He offered Li Mingzhu a scholarship and a path to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, while Li Mingzhu asked whether he could attend Blue Tyrant Academy instead.

• Dean Lin told Li Mingzhu that his soul skill showed his martial soul had extraordinary potential and explained how a friend gained powerful healing abilities from an old blue silver grass soul ring.
• Dean Lin recounted how Yu Xiaogang had dismissed his theories about soul beasts that broke their limits.
• Li Mingzhu said he had paid someone to help him hunt a four-hundred-year-old Netherclaw Beast and claimed his soul power was near level twelve.
• Dean Lin offered Li Mingzhu a hundred gold soul coins each month and promised to recommend him to an intermediate academy and later Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Li Mingzhu asked Dean Lin whether Blue Tyrant Academy would be an option.