Chapter Summaries

Yu Xiaogang, a transmigrator with a disciple-accepting system that required a god-potential student, had waited at Nuoding Academy for Tang San. When Tang San arrived, Yu Xiaogang recognized his innate full soul power and deduced that he had a second martial soul.

• Yu Xiaogang recalled his transmigration and the system that would activate once he accepted a disciple with the potential to become a god.
• Liu Bai told Yu Xiaogang that Spirit Hall had added his Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul to its library, and Yu Xiaogang suspected Dong'er had helped.
• Old Jack brought Tang San to Nuoding Academy, where Yu Xiaogang examined his martial soul certificate and recognized him.
• Yu Xiaogang offered to take Tang San to register, then asked what he thought of his Blue Silver Grass martial soul.
• Yu Xiaogang reasoned that Tang San's innate full soul power meant his Blue Silver Grass was latent and that he must have a second, powerful martial soul.

Yu Xiaogang used a bloodline purification potion to strengthen Luo Sanpao and gained extensive knowledge and the Six Powers. He began Tang San’s training by giving him thousand-year whale rubber to prepare his body for a stronger First Soul Ring.

• Yu Xiaogang took the Martial Soul Bloodline Purification Liquid, and Luo Sanpao developed golden scales, claws, a dragon tail, and other draconic features as his bloodline became Golden Sacred Dragon Bloodline.
• Yu Xiaogang used the Complete Knowledge of the Continent and the secret technique Six Powers, gaining knowledge and mastery of the techniques.
• The next day, Tang San arrived at Yu Xiaogang’s residence, and Yu Xiaogang formally began teaching him to cultivate.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that whale rubber could strengthen Tang San’s body and help him withstand a nearly thousand-year Soul Ring as his First Soul Ring.
• Tang San melted and swallowed the thousand-year whale rubber, then sat down to absorb its medicinal power with the Mysterious Heaven Skill.

After Tang San absorbed the whale rubber, Yu Xiaogang taught him that his martial soul was likely the Blue Silver King and recommended cultivating along the life attribute route. The next morning, Yu Xiaogang took Tang San to the Soul Hunting Forest to obtain his first soul ring, where they encountered seven Wind Wolves.

• Tang San absorbed the whale rubber, felt stronger, and learned from Yu Xiaogang that his martial soul was likely the Blue Silver King.
• Yu Xiaogang recommended the life attribute cultivation route for Tang San’s martial soul and explained that Tang San needed a soul ring to advance beyond level ten.
• Yu Xiaogang gave Tang San a book about the continent and planned their trip to the Soul Hunting Forest for the next morning.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San traveled by carriage to the Soul Hunting Forest, where Yu Xiaogang explained its purpose and summoned his martial soul, Luo Sanpao.
• Yu Xiaogang explained how soul rings grant soul power and soul skills as seven Wind Wolves approached them.

Yu Xiaogang taught Tang San about soul rings and led him deeper into the Soul Hunting Forest to find a suitable first ring. They encountered a 422-year-old Mandala Snake, which Luo Sanpao killed, leaving a yellow soul ring for Tang San to absorb.

• Yu Xiaogang demonstrated Luo Sanpao’s Thunderclap skill on seven Wind Wolves and explained that only the one who delivers a soul beast’s fatal blow can absorb its ring.
• Yu Xiaogang taught Tang San about soul ring ages, absorption limits, and balancing physical training with cultivation.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San passed through a bamboo grove and continued deeper into the forest in search of a suitable soul beast.
• A 422-year-old Mandala Snake ambushed Yu Xiaogang, but Luo Sanpao struck it and Yu Xiaogang identified it for Tang San.
• Luo Sanpao used Thunderclap and Holy Dragon’s Claw to overcome the snake’s speed and poisonous mist, then killed it.
• A yellow soul ring rose from the Mandala Snake’s corpse.

Yu Xiaogang and Tang San hunted a Blue-Patterned Longevity Vine so Tang San could obtain his first Soul Ring, while Yu Xiaogang gained a new ability that shared Luo Sanpao’s combat power with his own body. The chapter ended with Tang San testing his strengthened Blue Silver Grass and learning about True Body Armor.

• Yu Xiaogang explained Soul Bones to Tang San after defeating a Mandala Snake, then identified an 890-year-old Blue-Patterned Longevity Vine as suitable for Tang San’s first Soul Ring.
• Yu Xiaogang sent Luo Sanpao to exhaust the vine’s strength, and Tang San killed it by severing its main root.
• Tang San absorbed the vine’s 890-year-old Soul Ring while Yu Xiaogang stood guard, and Yu Xiaogang received the Martial Soul Combat Power Sharing Halo.
• Tang San finished absorbing the Soul Ring, advanced his Mysterious Heaven Skill to the second level, and discovered he could control his Blue Silver Grass within fifty meters.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that the armor covering Tang San’s hand was True Body Armor.

Tang San learned that his First Soul Skill was Earth Vein Power, then spent a month studying under Yu Xiaogang before beginning combat training. Yu Xiaogang demonstrated the first of his Six Styles, leaving Tang San stunned by his speed.

• Tang San revealed that Earth Vein Power let his Blue Silver Grass draw strength from earth veins, and Yu Xiaogang advised him to develop control-type Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Yu Xiaogang registered Tang San as a Soul Master at Spirit Hall, and Tang San reunited with Xiao Wu at the academy.
• Tang San spent a month studying soul power, Soul Beasts, combat tactics, and Soul Ring combinations with Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Xiaogang began Tang San's combat training and explained that some Self-Created Soul Skills could be passed down and taught.
• Yu Xiaogang demonstrated Finger Pistol by piercing a tree trunk with one finger, then moved behind Tang San so quickly that Tang San's Purple Demon Eye could not follow him.

Yu Xiaogang demonstrated the Six Styles to Tang San and explained how the techniques worked. Tang San was deeply impressed by his teacher’s skill and generosity, and began training in Shave under his guidance.

• Yu Xiaogang demonstrated Shave, Storm Leg, and Moonwalk, showing Tang San how he could move at high speed, cut from a distance, and walk through the air.
• Tang San attacked Yu Xiaogang, who used Iron Block to withstand his palm strike and Paper Arts to evade a volley of pebbles.
• Yu Xiaogang revealed that Shave, Moonwalk, Storm Leg, Iron Block, Paper Arts, and Finger Pistol formed his self-created combat art, the Six Styles.
• Tang San admired Yu Xiaogang for creating the Six Styles despite his weak Martial Soul and Soul Power, and regarded him as both mentor and father.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San to focus on the Six Styles, recommended starting with Shave, and began teaching him how to generate explosive force through his legs and ankles.

Tang San trained under Yu Xiaogang to learn Shave, combining the new movement technique with Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track. When Xiao Wu challenged him to a spar, he used his half-finished Shave to evade her attacks, and their fight continued.

• Yu Xiaogang taught Tang San how to concentrate his power for Shave and told him to strengthen his legs.
• Tang San spent the next half month training Shave, cultivating Soul Power, and practicing tactical simulations.
• Xiao Wu challenged Tang San to spar after he returned to the dormitory, and he agreed to fight without using his Blue Silver Grass or Soul Ring.
• Xiao Wu attacked Tang San with chained kicks and her First Soul Skill, Waist Bow.
• Tang San used his incomplete Shave to dodge Xiao Wu's kick, then combined it with Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track to evade her continued attacks.

After Xiao Wu failed to land a hit on Tang San, she asked to become Yu Xiaogang’s disciple and was accepted. She began learning the Six Styles alongside Tang San, while Yu Xiaogang prepared to use his newly obtained adaptive Soul Ring after reaching rank thirty.

• Xiao Wu grew frustrated after Tang San dodged her attacks with Shave, then asked him whether Yu Xiaogang would accept another disciple.
• Tang San brought Xiao Wu to Yu Xiaogang, and Yu Xiaogang accepted her as his second disciple.
• Yu Xiaogang taught Xiao Wu the Six Styles, and she quickly began grasping Shave before challenging Tang San to catch up.
• Yu Xiaogang reflected that he had reached rank thirty and could use the adaptive evolvable Soul Ring instead of traveling to the Soul Hunting Forest.
• After Tang San and Xiao Wu left, Yu Xiaogang took out the color-changing Soul Ring.

Yu Xiaogang absorbed an Adaptive Evolvable Soul Ring that gave him a third Soul Ring starting at about three thousand years, then took Tang San and Xiao Wu shopping for medicinal bath herbs, food for Luo Sanpao, and daily necessities. A year later, Tang San and Xiao Wu had mastered distinct combat styles using Shave.

• Yu Xiaogang absorbed the Adaptive Evolvable Soul Ring and gained a third Soul Ring with an age of about three thousand years.
• Yu Xiaogang took Tang San and Xiao Wu to buy herbs for medicinal baths, and Xiao Wu said she wanted one too.
• Yu Xiaogang bought Soul Beast meat for Luo Sanpao, who appeared and warmed to Xiao Wu.
• The trio bought daily necessities, and Xiao Wu chose rabbit-themed items before they returned to the academy with Luo Sanpao.
• A year later, Tang San and Xiao Wu fought in Yu Xiaogang's courtyard, using their practiced Shave techniques in different ways.

Xiao Wu and Tang San trained together before agreeing to visit Tang San’s village during the school break, while Yu Xiaogang set out for Heaven Dou City to see Liu Erlong. He reached Blue Tyrant Academy and sent a letter to its dean, leaving Yin Shu with the message.

• Xiao Wu combined Shave with Soft Skill and sparred with Tang San until Yu Xiaogang called an end to their training.
• Xiao Wu decided to accompany Tang San home, and Yu Xiaogang gave both students money to take to the villagers.
• Yu Xiaogang reflected on his unresolved feelings for Liu Erlong and Bibi Dong, then traveled to Heaven Dou City.
• Yu Xiaogang arrived at Blue Tyrant Academy and asked the gatekeepers to deliver a letter to the dean.
• A gatekeeper brought Yu Xiaogang’s letter to Yin Shu, the director of studies.

Yu Xiaogang sent Liu Erlong a letter that brought them together after more than a decade apart, and he promised he would not leave her again. At Liu Erlong’s garden, Yu Xiaogang showed her how much Luo Sanpao had grown.

• Yin Shu delivered Yu Xiaogang’s unsigned letter to Liu Erlong, who recognized the song they had shared in their youth and rushed to meet him.
• Liu Erlong found Yu Xiaogang at the academy gates and embraced him, crying as she told him how long she had waited.
• Yu Xiaogang apologized, and he promised Liu Erlong that he would not leave again.
• Liu Erlong brought Yu Xiaogang to her garden, where he recognized the irises she had planted to remember him.
• Yu Xiaogang summoned Luo Sanpao, and Liu Erlong was astonished by his growth and emerging dragonlike features.

Yu Xiaogang reunited with Liu Erlong in Heaven Dou City, showed her that his martial soul had evolved and that he had reached level 36, and spent the day reconnecting with her. While they were out shopping, they unexpectedly encountered Dugu Bo and his granddaughter Dugu Yan.

• Sanpao joyfully greeted Liu Erlong, and Yu Xiaogang revealed that his martial soul had evolved and he had reached level 36.
• Liu Erlong cooked for Yu Xiaogang, and they spent time together catching up on his research, teaching, and two disciples.
• Liu Erlong and Yu Xiaogang strolled through Heaven Dou City's streets, where he bought her several things and candied hawthorns.
• Yu Xiaogang recognized Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan at a stall and calmly introduced himself to Dugu Bo.
• Yu Xiaogang praised Dugu Yan's talent, and Dugu Yan introduced herself to him and Liu Erlong.

Yu Xiaogang revealed a way for Dugu Bo to contain his poison in a Soul Bone, then warned that the method had a dangerous limit. During Dugu Bo’s midnight visit, Yu Xiaogang offered to resolve the poison completely if Dugu Yan became his disciple.

• Yu Xiaogang suggested that Dugu Bo force his toxins into a Soul Bone, and Dugu Bo realized the idea might solve his family’s poisoning problem.
• Liu Erlong worried that Yu Xiaogang had provoked the volatile Poison Douluo, but Yu Xiaogang reassured her.
• Dugu Bo visited Yu Xiaogang at Blue Tyrant Academy that night and offered him a favor in return for the advice.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that a Soul Bone could only hold a limited amount of poison, making the method a temporary solution with potentially disastrous consequences.
• Dugu Bo asked for a lasting cure, and Yu Xiaogang proposed that Dugu Yan become his disciple.

Yu Xiaogang accepted Dugu Yan as his disciple and traveled with Dugu Bo, Liu Erlong, and Dugu Yan to Dugu Bo’s medicinal garden in Sunset Forest. There, Yu Xiaogang recognized rare Immortal Herbs and assured Dugu Bo he could cure their poison.

• Dugu Bo agreed to let Dugu Yan become Yu Xiaogang’s disciple after praising Yu Xiaogang’s knowledge and theories.
• Dugu Bo revealed that he had a garden of rare medicinal herbs and invited Yu Xiaogang to visit it.
• Liu Erlong awoke to find Yu Xiaogang and Dugu Bo chatting warmly, and Dugu Bo greeted her as his younger brother’s wife.
• Dugu Yan performed the discipleship ceremony for Yu Xiaogang as the group traveled toward Sunset Forest.
• Dugu Bo led the group through poisonous miasma to his garden, where Yu Xiaogang said its herbs would let him cure Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan.
• Yu Xiaogang identified an Earth dragon golden melon and a Jade Stem Green Heart Lotus in the garden.

Yu Xiaogang blended two immortal herbs with Sanpao’s blood to make medicine for Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, then gave Liu Erlong a separate herb to absorb. Dugu Bo’s treatment cured his family’s poison and raised his Soul Power to rank 92, while Dugu Yan began absorbing her dose.

• Yu Xiaogang harvested and blended the Earth Dragon Golden Melon and Jade Stem Green Heart Lotus, adding a few drops of Sanpao’s blood to strengthen the medicine.
• Dugu Bo drank the first bowl, and Yu Xiaogang gave Liu Erlong the Crimson Ember Heart-Congealing Stamen to absorb.
• Yu Xiaogang carefully uprooted the Blood Swan Kiss and sealed it in a jade box.
• After absorbing the medicine, Dugu Bo broke through to rank 92 and discovered that his toxins had condensed into a Jade Poison Pellet, no longer corroding his body.
• Dugu Bo thanked Yu Xiaogang and urged Dugu Yan to drink her bowl; she did so and began absorbing the medicine.

Yu Xiaogang gathered the immortal herbs from Dugu Bo’s Medicine Garden, then watched Liu Erlong and Dugu Yan benefit from their herbs. Dugu Yan’s Martial Soul began evolving toward dragon-kind, and the system rewarded Yu Xiaogang for taking her as a disciple.

• Dugu Bo gave Yu Xiaogang the Medicine Garden and lent him the Wishful Hundred Treasure Pouch, which Yu Xiaogang used to collect the immortal herbs and other valuable plants.
• Liu Erlong broke through to level seventy-nine after absorbing an immortal herb, and Yu Xiaogang explained that her talent and cultivation speed had improved.
• Dugu Yan finished absorbing her herb and summoned a jade-green serpentine Martial Soul with budding horns and claws.
• Yu Xiaogang identified Dugu Yan’s Martial Soul as closer to dragon-kind and said it could evolve into a Flood Dragon or something greater.
• The system recognized Dugu Yan as Yu Xiaogang’s disciple and awarded him a Martial Soul Bloodline Evolution Liquid, a Soul Spirit Method, and an adaptive evolvable soul ring.

Yu Xiaogang received the Soul Spirit Method and considered how to introduce it without endangering Soul Beasts, while resolving to visit Bibi Dong in Spirit City. Back in Heaven Dou City, he helped Dugu Yan obtain her third Soul Ring and taught her, Liu Erlong, and Dugu Bo the Six Styles.

• Yu Xiaogang learned the Soul Spirit Method and decided it required careful testing and restrictions to prevent Soul Beasts from suffering the same fate as in another timeline.
• Yu Xiaogang thought about apologizing to Bibi Dong and decided he would visit Spirit City someday.
• Yu Xiaogang and the others left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and returned to Heaven Dou City because its concentrated spiritual energy was unsafe for humans to endure for long.
• Yu Xiaogang helped Dugu Yan obtain a Dragon Iron Rhinoceros Soul Ring, and she became a rank thirty-five Soul Elder with the Jade-Scale Heavenly Dipper Shield Soul Skill.
• Yu Xiaogang taught the Six Styles to Dugu Yan and Liu Erlong, then offered to teach Dugu Bo on the condition that he not pass them on.

Yu Xiaogang returned to Nuoding City with Liu Erlong and reunited with Liu Bai at Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy. When Tang San and Xiao Wu came back with gifts, they met Liu Erlong as their teacher’s wife and learned Yu Xiaogang had prepared gifts for them too.

• Yu Xiaogang left Blue Tyrant Academy with Liu Erlong and told Dugu Yan to keep up her cultivation and training.
• Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong reached Nuoding City, where Liu Bai welcomed them and teased them about getting back together.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu returned to Nuoding Academy with books and clothes for Yu Xiaogang and met Liu Erlong.
• Yu Xiaogang introduced Liu Erlong as his wife, and she welcomed Tang San and Xiao Wu as her disciples.
• Yu Xiaogang praised his disciples’ progress and placed two Jade Boxes on the table for them to open.

Tang San and Xiao Wu took immortal herbs, reached rank twenty, and left Nuoding Academy for Heaven Dou City before the story skipped ahead five years. They arrived in Suotuo City and began exploring while preparing to enroll at Shrek Academy.

• Yu Xiaogang gave Tang San and Xiao Wu immortal herbs and explained how to take them, while Liu Erlong joined them for a meal.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu absorbed the herbs, reached rank twenty, and learned that Liu Erlong was a Soul Saint who headed Blue Tyrant Advanced Soul Master Academy.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San and Xiao Wu to transfer to Liu Erlong's academy in Heaven Dou City, and three days later they left Nuoding Academy after saying goodbye to Liu Bai.
• Five years later, Tang San and Xiao Wu arrived in Suotuo City and discussed Yu Xiaogang's plan for them to enroll at Shrek Academy.
• Xiao Wu dragged Tang San around the city shopping, and he followed with their purchases while she urged him to try candied hawthorn.