Chapter Summaries

Dean Lin warned Li Mingzhu about sects and Yu Xiaogang while quietly encouraging him to aim for Heaven Dou Royal Academy. Yu Xiaogang confronted Dean Lin for withholding Li Mingzhu as an experimental subject, then decided to approach Li Mingzhu himself.

• Dean Lin explained the dangers of sects and clans, warned Li Mingzhu to be cautious, and advised him to refuse Yu Xiaogang's requests.
• After Li Mingzhu left, Dean Lin revealed that he hoped to use Li Mingzhu's future success to advance his own career and had rejected Yu Xiaogang's request for an experimental subject.
• Li Mingzhu recognized that Dean Lin was steering him toward Heaven Dou Royal Academy, accepted the direction because it matched his own goal, and returned to cultivation.
• After two days of classes and cultivation, Li Mingzhu's return prompted Yu Xiaogang to storm into Dean Lin's office and demand an explanation for not being informed.
• Dean Lin insisted that Li Mingzhu had to consent to becoming an experimental subject, and Yu Xiaogang left angrily before deciding to seek Li Mingzhu out himself.

Li Mingzhu intimidated Zhang Tao and his classmates with his soul ring, then avoided Yu Xiaogang, who spent a cold, rainy night waiting outside his dormitory. The next morning, Yu Xiaogang finally confronted him and asked for his cooperation.

• Zhang Tao challenged Li Mingzhu, who revealed his yellow soul ring and scared the children into leaving him alone.
• Li Mingzhu decided to skip classes and study independently, while Yu Xiaogang hurried to find him.
• Li Mingzhu slipped away from Yu Xiaogang outside the classroom and ignored him when he pursued him to the dormitory.
• Yu Xiaogang stayed outside Li Mingzhu's dormitory overnight in the cold and rain, determined to catch him the next day.
• Li Mingzhu opened his door the next morning and found Yu Xiaogang soaked and exhausted, asking him to cooperate on something that would benefit them both.

Yu Xiaogang tried to use Li Mingzhu’s mutated martial soul as an excuse to recruit him for soul-ring experiments, but Li Mingzhu mocked his claims and exposed his malicious recommendation. The chapter ended with Yu Xiaogang insisting that Li Mingzhu would get a different result from the tea stink bug soul ring, while Li Mingzhu grew tired of teasing him.

• Yu Xiaogang claimed that mutated martial souls came with problems and used his own harmful mutation and level-twenty-nine cultivation as a warning to Li Mingzhu.
• Li Mingzhu challenged Yu Xiaogang’s boasts and mocked his level limit and fart-based martial soul skill, leaving him furious before he calmed himself.
• Yu Xiaogang urged Li Mingzhu to follow his soul-ring advice, and Li Mingzhu asked what he should absorb for his first ring.
• Yu Xiaogang recommended a four-hundred-year-old tea stink bug and falsely praised its bloodline and Laser Cannon soul skill.
• Li Mingzhu got Yu Xiaogang to admit that his own first soul ring came from a tea stink bug, then laughed at him for the recommendation.
• Yu Xiaogang insisted Li Mingzhu would get a different result because his martial soul had not suffered a harmful mutation, while Li Mingzhu grew annoyed with his rambling.

Li Mingzhu revealed his new soul ring to Yu Xiaogang, then learned that Grandpa Li Mu had summoned him home. After discovering that Li Mu had somehow gained soul power, Li Mingzhu rushed toward Greenleaf Village, while Lin Ruo regretted letting him leave.

• Li Mingzhu showed Yu Xiaogang his yellow soul ring and refused to reveal his soul skill, leaving Yu Xiaogang furious and humiliated.
• Li Mingzhu asked Dean Lin to excuse him from classes and reported Yu Xiaogang's harassment, but Dean Lin said he could not act against him because of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Li Mingzhu received a letter from Grandpa Li Mu asking him to return to Greenleaf Village to discuss something important.
• Li Mu meditated in Greenleaf Village, sensed soul power within himself, and suspected the whale rubber Li Mingzhu had given him was responsible.
• Li Mingzhu hurried to Dean Lin to explain before setting off for Greenleaf Village, and Lin Ruo regretted allowing him to leave.

Li Mingzhu hurried back to Greenleaf Village after receiving Li Mu’s urgent letter and discovered that the whale rubber had unexpectedly given his grandfather soul power. Li Mingzhu confirmed the discovery and showed Li Mu that he had become a rank-fourteen soul master.

• Li Mingzhu rushed straight from Nuoding City to Greenleaf Village, exhausting and replenishing his soul power along the way.
• Li Mingzhu found Li Mu unharmed and followed him into the cellar to discuss the urgent letter.
• Li Mu revealed that he had felt energy after receiving whale rubber and had strengthened it by practicing the Meditation Method.
• Li Mingzhu examined Li Mu and confirmed that his grandfather possessed faint soul power.
• Li Mingzhu promised to give Li Mu a Meditation Method and help him obtain a soul ring if he reached rank ten.
• Li Mingzhu revealed his yellow soul ring and rank-fourteen strength, filling Li Mu with pride.

Li Mingzhu confirmed that Li Mu had awakened rank-two soul power and helped him begin cultivating before returning to the academy. There, Li Mingzhu broke through to rank fifteen and considered how he might obtain a stronger cultivation method for the future.

• Li Mingzhu observed Li Mu cultivating and concluded that whale rubber had stimulated previously undetectable soul power, which had reached around rank two.
• Li Mingzhu promised to strengthen Li Mu's Black Iron Bar martial soul and helped him cultivate in the village, warning him to keep his soul power secret.
• After confirming Li Mu's cultivation was stable, Li Mingzhu returned to the academy and briefly updated Dean Lin Nuo.
• Li Mingzhu meditated in his quarters and broke through to rank fifteen, having gained five ranks in less than a month.
• Li Mingzhu reflected on the limits of meditation and wished he could obtain Tang San's Mysterious Heaven Skill, but decided against trying to invent a cultivation method himself.

Yu Xiaogang injured his face when he fell onto a cup, then struggled to treat the wounds because he was too proud to let anyone see him. He wrapped himself in gauze and a black robe and went out to find treatment.

• Yu Xiaogang angrily tried to think of a way to make Li Mingzhu submit, then kicked at a cup and fell face-first onto it, shattering it with his teeth.
• The broken shards cut Yu Xiaogang's face, and his screams disturbed the neighbors, who cursed him for ruining their night.
• Yu Xiaogang woke the next morning, saw his bloodied face in a mirror, and reopened his wounds by rubbing them.
• Yu Xiaogang removed the shards with tweezers, stopped the bleeding with gauze, and covered himself in a black robe before going to seek treatment.

Yu Xiaogang went to Lin Nuo for help after his face was covered in scars, claiming Blackback Wolves had injured him. Ms. Su treated his wounds but could not remove the scars, leaving Yu Xiaogang to endure painful healing with his disfigurement unresolved.

• Yu Xiaogang left his room in a black robe and endured students’ mockery as he went to Lin Nuo’s office.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed a pack of hundred-year Blackback Wolves had injured his face, but Lin Nuo doubted his story and found the cuts looked deliberate.
• Lin Nuo brought Ms. Su, a rank-thirty-six healing Soul Elder, to examine Yu Xiaogang’s wounds.
• Ms. Su told Yu Xiaogang she could heal his injuries but could not remove the scars that had already formed.
• Yu Xiaogang panicked and grabbed Ms. Su’s calf, but Lin Nuo calmed him and persuaded him to accept treatment.
• Ms. Su used her Blood-Stopping Light and Healing Light skills to close Yu Xiaogang’s wounds, causing him intense pain.

After Su Ya healed Yu Xiaogang’s injuries, his scars remained, but she suggested that a Nine Heart Begonia might still restore his face. Lin Nuo then pressured Yu Xiaogang into paying Su Ya, and Yu Xiaogang removed four space-storing gemstones from the Twenty-Four Bridges Bright Moon Night to give her.

• Su Ya finished treating Yu Xiaogang, but his facial scars remained and he was horrified by his appearance.
• Su Ya mentioned that a Nine Heart Begonia might heal Yu Xiaogang’s scars, giving him hope of recovery.
• Su Ya left Nuoding Academy, and Lin Nuo decided to extract a substantial payment from Yu Xiaogang.
• Lin Nuo warned Yu Xiaogang that refusing to pay would damage his reputation and urged him to match the city lord’s generous gift to Su Ya.
• Yu Xiaogang removed four gemstones from the Twenty-Four Bridges Bright Moon Night and handed them to Lin Nuo.

After Lin Nuo took the four storage gems from Yu Xiaogang, Yu Xiaogang found a scheme to make Li Mingzhu obey and secured Lin Nuo’s agreement not to interfere. Yu Xiaogang approached Li Mingzhu in the Library and began trying to lure him with an offer to recommend a top academy.

• Lin Nuo took the four gems from Yu Xiaogang, who left to seek help removing his scars.
• Yu Xiaogang found Li Mingzhu’s information sheet and became excited after it gave him an idea for dealing with him.
• Yu Xiaogang persuaded Lin Nuo not to interfere with his plan to make Li Mingzhu obey, offering help with Lin Nuo’s fifth Soul Ring in return.
• Yu Xiaogang went to the Library and intercepted Li Mingzhu, who dismissed him and tried to leave.
• Yu Xiaogang followed Li Mingzhu and offered to recommend him to a top academy.

Li Mingzhu rejected Yu Xiaogang’s attempt to lure him into Shrek Academy and confronted him about the academy’s reputation. After Yu Xiaogang threatened Li Mingzhu’s family, Li Mingzhu restrained himself from killing him and pretended he did not care about his grandfather, hoping to keep Li Mu safe.

• Yu Xiaogang praised Shrek Academy and tried to persuade Li Mingzhu to attend, but Li Mingzhu challenged his claims and accused him of deception.
• Li Mingzhu intimidated Yu Xiaogang until he collapsed in fear, then mocked him for wetting his pants.
• Yu Xiaogang threatened Li Mingzhu by reminding him that he had family, provoking Li Mingzhu’s murderous anger.
• Li Mingzhu considered killing Yu Xiaogang but held back because doing so could endanger Li Mu and bring the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and Spirit Hall after him.
• Li Mingzhu claimed he was an orphan who felt no attachment to Li Mu, hoping Yu Xiaogang would not investigate their relationship.

Li Mingzhu secretly confirmed that Yu Xiaogang still posed a threat to Grandpa Mu, then returned to a shop to buy old whale rubber. The shopkeeper opened his supposed crown jewel, releasing a toxic stench that drove customers out and left one unconscious.

• Li Mingzhu pretended to leave Yu Xiaogang, then secretly returned with his domain ability and concluded that Grandpa Mu was safe for now.
• Li Mingzhu decided to disrupt Yu Xiaogang's plans and went back to the shop that sold whale rubber.
• Li Mingzhu asked the shopkeeper for the strongest whale rubber from a very old whale, and the shopkeeper fetched a dusty wooden box.
• The shopkeeper opened the box, unleashing a foul, irritating odor that forced the customers to flee and caused one person to pass out.
• Li Mingzhu formed a soul-power barrier against the odor while the panicked shopkeeper looked at him apologetically.

Li Mingzhu bargained for a strange piece of whale rubber and a valuable piece of thousand-year whale rubber, intending to use them against Yu Xiaogang. He left the shop with one of the two things he needed and still had to find livestock aphrodisiacs.

• The shopkeeper claimed the bizarre, foul-smelling whale rubber was an ancestral treasure from an Evil Spirit Orca over seven thousand years old and offered to compensate Li Mingzhu if it failed.
• Li Mingzhu proposed paying eight hundred Gold Soul Coins for the strange whale rubber and a piece of thousand-year whale rubber, then pretended to leave when the shopkeeper hesitated.
• The shopkeeper stopped Li Mingzhu and accepted his offer after being intimidated by Li Mingzhu's aura.
• The shopkeeper gave Li Mingzhu both pieces of whale rubber, and Li Mingzhu recognized that the thousand-year piece alone was worth the price.
• Li Mingzhu decided he still needed livestock aphrodisiac injections for his plan against Yu Xiaogang.

Li Mingzhu followed the shopkeeper’s address to buy three doses of the strongest Soul Beast aphrodisiac, intending to use them against Yu Xiaogang. Back at his lodgings, he processed the Evil Spirit Orca whale rubber and confirmed that it could help with his plan to push Yu Xiaogang past his Soul Power bottleneck.

• Li Mingzhu told the first shopkeeper he needed a large amount of animal aphrodisiac, and the shopkeeper gave him an address in Nuoding City’s Back Street.
• Li Mingzhu visited a livestock shop, where its shopkeeper explained that he sold aphrodisiacs for Soul Beasts as well as ordinary animals.
• Li Mingzhu bought three doses of the shop’s strongest Soul Beast aphrodisiac and headed back to the academy, planning to give it to Yu Xiaogang that night.
• Li Mingzhu decided to test the Evil Spirit Orca whale rubber because it was essential to his plan to help Yu Xiaogang break through level thirty.
• Li Mingzhu used Domain Space and Dragon Flame to separate the whale rubber into two masses, confirming that it was usable and as potent as ordinary ten-thousand-year whale glue.

Li Mingzhu prepared purified whale rubber essence and planned to manipulate Yu Xiaogang into believing he had discovered a way to break through his bottleneck. After sneaking into Yu Xiaogang’s quarters and knocking him unconscious, Li Mingzhu uncovered Yu Xiaogang’s altered appearance and two Space Soul Tools.

• Li Mingzhu separated the whale rubber essence from its impurities, bottled both masses, and collapsed from exhaustion.
• After resting, Li Mingzhu decided to steer Yu Xiaogang toward a false understanding of how to break through his bottleneck.
• Li Mingzhu used the Great Void Domain to reach Yu Xiaogang’s quarters and knocked him unconscious while he was writing.
• Li Mingzhu read Yu Xiaogang’s discarded letters to his father, then removed his mask and discovered his scarred face.
• Li Mingzhu searched Yu Xiaogang and found the Twenty-Four Bridges Bright Moon Night and a seal-shaped Space Soul Tool with a larger storage space.

Li Mingzhu looted Yu Xiaogang’s Space Soul Tools and discovered a trove of Spirit Hall secrets among his books. He took Yu Xiaogang to a pig farm and used whale rubber to push him through his bottleneck, finally bringing him to level thirty.

• Li Mingzhu opened Yu Xiaogang’s Space Soul Tools, took tens of thousands of Gold Soul Coins, and stored them in the Domain Space.
• Li Mingzhu found that many of Yu Xiaogang’s handwritten books contained Spirit Hall’s confidential knowledge, including information on Angel Inheritance Soul Bones and a Titled Douluo’s abilities, and packed the books away.
• Li Mingzhu carried Yu Xiaogang, whom he called Ganzi, to a Sow Farm in Nuoding City and fed him thousand-year whale rubber while he was unconscious.
• When Yu Xiaogang began to wake, Li Mingzhu struck him with a brick, knocking him unconscious again and cracking his skull.
• Li Mingzhu saw that the first dose had not quite broken Yu Xiaogang’s bottleneck, so he fed him a portion of refined Evil Spirit Orca whale rubber, which raised him to level thirty.

Li Mingzhu drugged Yu Xiaogang and left him naked in a pigpen, where the drugged man spent the night in a frenzied state. At dawn, Yu Xiaogang woke to the aftermath, horrified, while Li Mingzhu escaped as someone approached.

• Li Mingzhu gave unconscious Yu Xiaogang whale rubber impurities and aphrodisiac, then stripped him and threw him into a pigpen dusted with more aphrodisiac powder.
• Yu Xiaogang woke only half-conscious under the drugs and attacked the pigs in the pen while Li Mingzhu watched from concealment.
• After the pigs collapsed, Yu Xiaogang continued thrashing at the ground until the drugs wore off and he lay exhausted.
• Li Mingzhu struck Yu Xiaogang with a stone, waking him to find himself naked and covered in filth among the unconscious pigs.
• Yu Xiaogang panicked and retched after realizing what he had done, while Li Mingzhu fled when he saw someone approaching.

Yu Xiaogang escaped the pig farm and returned to Nuoding Academy, where he discovered his Space Soul Tool and its contents were gone. Li Mingzhu used the whale rubber he had taken from him and reached soul power level seventeen.

• Yu Xiaogang fled the pig farm after its owner discovered the exhausted pigs and ran through Nuoding City toward Nuoding Academy.
• Yu Xiaogang climbed over the academy gate, returned to his residence, and fell asleep from exhaustion.
• Yu Xiaogang woke, washed for hours, and realized that his Space Soul Tool, theories, and knowledge were missing.
• Li Mingzhu inspected his spoils and swallowed the larger portion of refined Evil Spirit Orca whale rubber.
• Li Mingzhu refined the whale rubber, greatly improved his physical strength, and raised his soul power to level seventeen.

Yu Xiaogang mistook his ordeal for a breakthrough caused by his martial soul and decided to keep the supposed method from his clan while searching for his lost Soul Tool. Li Mingzhu read Yu Xiaogang’s books, destroyed his first copy of the Ten Core Theories of Martial Souls, and returned to stabilizing his Soul Power.

• Yu Xiaogang discovered he had broken through his bottleneck to level thirty and convinced himself his martial soul had caused it.
• Yu Xiaogang concluded that Luo Sanpao needed to release pent-up urges and decided not to tell the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan about his breakthrough.
• Yu Xiaogang planned to prepare for soul hunting and search for his missing Soul Tool, but stayed inside when he saw it was growing dark.
• Li Mingzhu finished reading a book on high-grade bloodline soul beasts, then opened Yu Xiaogang’s handwritten Ten Core Theories of Martial Souls.
• Li Mingzhu burned Yu Xiaogang’s book with Dragon Flame and began stabilizing his Soul Power.

Yu Xiaogang learned that Nuoding Academy was warning students about the person who abused pigs at a local farm, but he remained unidentified. After failing to recover his lost belongings, he worried that the incident would reach Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong and destroy the image he had carefully built with them.

• Yu Xiaogang read the academy notice about the pig farm abuse and angrily blamed the people of Nuoding City for spreading it.
• Li Mingzhu saw the notice and chose not to reveal any further clues about Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Xiaogang passed Li Mingzhu at the dining hall and acted contemptuously after remembering he had reached level 30.
• Yu Xiaogang searched near the pig farm and around the city for his lost belongings, while residents joked about the suspected abuse.
• Yu Xiaogang returned to his residence empty-handed and considered offering a reward, but feared exposing himself to Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong.