Arc 4The Mandala Snake’s Lesson
Lu Chen reshaped events around Nuoding Academy while Ning Rongrong received an Immortal Herb and learned troubling details about her future. Tang San followed Yu Xiaogang’s guidance to claim a Mandala Snake Soul Ring, then faced Lu Yun’s challenge to the Grandmaster’s theories at Spirit Hall.
- Lu Chen and Xiao Wu reached Nuoding Academy, where Lu Chen confronted Tang San and Yu Xiaogang before making plans to burden Tang San with work-study duties.
- Yu Xiaogang took Tang San to the Soul Hunting Forest, used Spirit Hall’s map to seek a snake-type Soul Beast, and convinced Tang San that Spirit Hall had ruined his father’s life.
- Lu Chen gave Ning Rongrong an Aromatic Silk Beauty, and his Notebook updates revealed her future, her role in cruel trials, and the fate of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
- Tang San killed a Mandala Snake with his Silent Sleeve Arrow and absorbed its Soul Ring after it injured Yu Xiaogang, who later accepted Tang San’s account of how the beast died.
- Tang San and Yu Xiaogang returned to Nuoding City, where Tang San entered Spirit Hall to seek assessment and registration, while Yu Xiaogang hoped to restore his reputation.
- Tang San announced that his Blue Silver Grass had gained a 400-year Mandala Snake Soul Ring, and Yu Xiaogang defended the choice as proof of his theories.
- Lu Yun explained why a Ghost Vine would have suited Blue Silver Grass better, and Li Feng showed that Teng Kong and Teng Fei had gained strong Ghost Vine Soul Rings under Lu Yun’s guidance.
- Lu Yun told Tang San that the incompatible Soul Ring had locked him into using Blue Silver Grass as a tool Martial Soul, while privately urging him not to seek a way to change his fate.