Chapter Summaries

After realizing Yu Xiaogang knew about his twin martial souls, Tang San concealed his suspicions long enough to accept him as his teacher. Yu Xiaogang examined Tang San’s black hammer, warned him to keep it secret, and planned to take him to the Soul Hunting Forest the next morning before arranging his admission to Nuoding Academy.

• Tang San considered attacking Yu Xiaogang to protect the secret of his twin martial souls, but relaxed when Yu Xiaogang revealed he had spent twenty Gold Soul Coins on his treatment.
• Yu Xiaogang used Tang San’s certificate and his knowledge of Soul Masters to explain why he suspected Tang San had twin martial souls.
• Tang San knelt and asked Yu Xiaogang to accept him as a disciple, and Yu Xiaogang agreed.
• Tang San revealed his black hammer martial soul, and Yu Xiaogang recognized its significance and warned him not to expose it or add soul rings without permission.
• Yu Xiaogang learned about Tang San’s father but withheld what he knew, then said he would take Tang San to the Soul Hunting Forest the next morning.
• Yu Xiaogang reassured Tang San that he could still attend Nuoding Academy and privately planned to use his talented disciple to take revenge on Principal Wu Fang.

At Nuoding Academy's entrance ceremony, Lu Chen discovered that his Second Grandpa Lu Tian had come to speak, while Xiao Chenyu thanked Lu Chen and showed him documents about work-study jobs and blacksmith shops. Lu Chen reviewed plans that would give Tang San a much harder assignment than the garden-cleaning job he had received in the original story.

• Lu Tian surprised Lu Chen by attending the entrance ceremony and speaking from the stage as a senior from Spirit Hall.
• Xiao Chenyu thanked Lu Chen for helping him obtain a high-quality First Soul Ring and promised Xiao Wu that he would never bully the weak again.
• Lu Chen asked Xiao Chenyu whether he had prepared the documents, and Xiao Chenyu handed him a list of work-study jobs and a list of blacksmith shops in Nuoding City.
• Lu Chen read the work-study list and noted that Tang San's garden-cleaning job appeared far down among the tedious assignments.
• Lu Chen saw that Xiao Chenyu had arranged for others to take over Tang San and Xiao Wu's work, while Mo Hen kept paying their wages.

Lu Chen arranged obstacles for Yu Xiaogang and Tang San’s Soul Ring hunt, while Su Yuntao secretly followed Spirit Hall’s orders to steer them toward snake-type Soul Beasts. The chapter ended with Su Yuntao wondering why a Plant-type Soul Master would seek beast-type Soul Rings.

• Lu Chen reviewed Nuoding Academy’s job assignments and recalled that Yu Xiaogang and Tang San had left for a Soul Hunting Forest.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San were denied entry because guards required Soul Masters to hunt in teams of at least seven during a Soul Beast uprising.
• Yu Xiaogang searched the marketplace for a suitable team, but rejected the groups he encountered.
• Su Yuntao recognized Tang San and learned that Yu Xiaogang was his self-proclaimed teacher.
• Su Yuntao remembered Spirit Hall’s instructions to conceal Plant-type Soul Beasts and give Yu Xiaogang and Tang San a map marking snake-type Soul Beasts.

Yu Xiaogang rejected the Spirit Hall party’s help and took Tang San into the Soul Hunting Forest alone, then revealed Tang San’s hidden connection to Spirit Hall. After studying Su Yuntao’s map, Yu Xiaogang excitedly announced they had found a lead on Tang San’s First Soul Ring.

• Yu Xiaogang insisted that he and Tang San part ways with Su Yuntao’s party, and Su Yuntao gave Tang San a map of the Soul Hunting Forest.
• Yu Xiaogang admitted he had used his talk of hardship to fool Tang San and said Tang San himself had a grudge against Spirit Hall because of his surname and Martial Soul.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San that his father had once been famous across the continent and urged him not to ask about the details until he grew stronger.
• Tang San became convinced that Spirit Hall had ruined his father’s life and felt guilty for doubting Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Xiaogang studied the map, marked several locations associated with snake-type Soul Beasts, and told Tang San they had a lead on his First Soul Ring.

Yu Xiaogang explained his Martial Soul Mimicry Theory and why snake-type Soul Beasts could suit Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass. After they set out to find Tang San’s first Soul Ring, Yu Xiaogang summoned his bizarre martial soul, Luo Sanpao, and Tang San failed to hold back his laughter.

• Tang San supported Yu Xiaogang’s theory and promised to prove it to those who had ridiculed him.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that Blue Silver Grass could accept varied Soul Ring attributes and that snake-type Soul Beasts suited its planned toughness and poison development.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San set off to find Tang San’s first Soul Ring.
• Yu Xiaogang summoned Luo Sanpao and described its strange limitations and fart-based fighting method.
• Tang San tried not to laugh at Luo Sanpao but burst out laughing.

Tang San laughed at Yu Xiaogang during their search for a suitable Soul Beast, while Ning Rongrong completed her Exclusive Mission and received powerful rewards. Lu Chen prepared to use his Title Mission to deal Tang San physical and mental blows, with an uncertain Reverberation offered for exceeding its requirements.

• Tang San laughed at Yu Xiaogang, who then taught him how to identify and counter Soul Beasts as they traveled.
• Yu Xiaogang pointed out a Ten-Year Lone Bamboo as a possible backup Soul Ring, and Tang San noted it for later.
• Ning Rongrong completed her Exclusive Mission and received a title, a Soul Bone Set skull, and a Title Mission to evolve her Martial Soul.
• Liu Erlong compared her Soul Bone Skill unfavorably with Ning Rongrong's and Hu Liena's, while Qian Renxue urged her to focus on Martial Soul Evolution.
• Ning Rongrong worried that she lacked the bloodline enhancement needed to evolve her Martial Soul, as Xiao Wu comforted her.
• Lu Chen learned that exceeding his mission to harm Tang San could earn him a Reverberation, then eagerly anticipated Tang San's return.

Ning Rongrong visited Lu Chen to ask for an Immortal Herb that could evolve her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. Lu Chen gave her an Aromatic Silk Beauty for free and explained how to use it, leaving Ning Rongrong deeply moved.

• Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong visited Lu Chen, and Xiao Wu prompted her friend to explain why she had come.
• Ning Rongrong nervously asked Lu Chen for an Immortal Herb that could evolve her Martial Soul, offering to meet his terms.
• Lu Chen pretended to refuse before revealing that he would give Ning Rongrong an Aromatic Silk Beauty without charge.
• Lu Chen explained how Ning Rongrong should take the herb and warned her about its effects as Xiao Wu led her back to her room.
• Ning Rongrong realized Lu Chen had given her the Immortal Herb and felt deeply moved by his kindness.

Lu Chen recorded Ning Rongrong’s spoiled childhood and her arrival at Shrek Academy, where Flender’s harsh treatment eventually changed her. The chat group debated whether Flender had helped her or failed as a teacher, while Zhu Zhuyun considered the danger facing Zhu Zhuqing in the Star Luo Empire.

• Ning Rongrong opened Lu Chen’s Notebook update in the bath and joined the chat group as its members eagerly anticipated her embarrassing history.
• Lu Chen described Rongrong as a pampered little princess who secretly left home at twelve to enroll in Shrek Academy, prompting speculation about the Shrek Seven Devils.
• Zhu Zhuyun teased Zhu Zhuqing about possibly joining Shrek Academy, while Zhu Zhuqing insisted she would not leave the Star Luo Empire; Zhu Zhuyun also recalled her concerns about Dai Mubai and Dai Weisi.
• Lu Chen recounted how Rongrong clashed with Flender after skipping training and encouraging a classmate to lie, then faced his contemptuous comparisons with her fellow students.
• The chat group members criticized Flender’s training and punishment as unfair and argued that he attacked Rongrong’s worth instead of correcting her behavior.

Zhu Zhuyun and Zhu Zhuqing planned their escape from the Star Luo Empire while reading updates about Ning Rongrong's time at Shrek Academy and Tang San's hidden-weapon dealings. In Heaven Dou City, Qian Renxue persuaded Xue Ye to appoint Ning Fengzhi as Crown Prince's Grand Tutor, and Xue Ye then raised the subject of Dugu Yan.

• Zhu Zhuyun invited Zhu Zhuqing to help plan their escape, and the sisters began writing together.
• Lu Chen's updates described Ning Rongrong joining the Shrek Seven Devils, evolving her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and helping Tang San sell hidden weapons to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Qian Renxue, disguised as Xue Qinghe, supported appointing Ning Fengzhi as Crown Prince's Grand Tutor to strengthen Heaven Dou against the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Xue Ye told Qian Renxue that Dugu Bo had resigned as a Heaven Dou Retainer and that Platinum Bishop Salas had visited him.
• Xue Ye asked Qian Renxue whether Dugu Yan was unsociable and rarely interacted with people her age.

Qian Renxue heard Xue Ye’s plans to arrange marriages involving Dugu Yan and Ning Rongrong, while Lu Chen’s Notebook revealed how Ning Rongrong and Oscar’s future choices destroyed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Ning Rongrong broke down over the revelations, and the chapter ended with Lu Chen warning that her story would get even worse.

• Qian Renxue lied to Xue Ye about Dugu Yan and learned that he planned to match Dugu Yan with Yu Tianheng and considered Ning Rongrong as a match for Xue Qinghe.
• Lu Chen’s Notebook described Oscar pursuing Ning Rongrong, their eventual marriage, and their decision to use their resurrection skill on Tang San instead of Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo.
• The Notebook predicted that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would fall, Ning Rongrong and Oscar would have no descendants, and the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul would disappear.
• Ning Rongrong read the revelations and burst into tears as Xiao Wu comforted her.
• Bibi Dong decided to shelve the Soul Hunting Plan after Lu Chen’s disclosures, but Lu Chen warned that Ning Rongrong would become a psychopath.

The Notebook revealed that Tang San and Ning Rongrong abused Qiankun Asking Love Valley to manipulate Huo Yuhao and other Soul Masters, shocking the Chat Group. It ended with the revelation that Ning Rongrong had tortured the valley’s other trial participants and performed sex reassignment surgery on a later Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect descendant.

• Lu Chen described Tang San’s schemes in the Divine Realm and mortal world, prompting the Chat Group to condemn him and discuss the gods’ failures.
• Lu Chen explained that Qiankun Asking Love Valley arose from the fallen God of Love and punished or rewarded visitors according to its rules about love.
• Lu Chen revealed that Tang San had turned the valley into a private tool for testing Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, and Wang Qiu'er, while Ning Rongrong oversaw the trials of twelve other entrants.
• Lu Chen listed Ning Rongrong’s cruel trials, including forcing Xu Sanshi to kiss a man, making Jiang Nannan relive her trauma, and erasing Zhang Lexuan’s memories.
• Lu Chen revealed that Ning Rongrong had also performed sex reassignment surgery on a female descendant of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Lu Chen exposed Ning Tian’s relationship with Wu Feng, while Ning Rongrong avoided the Notebook’s revelations by absorbing an immortal herb to evolve her Martial Soul. In the Soul Hunting Forest, Tang San used a hidden weapon against the pursuing Mandala Snake, leaving his survival uncertain.

• Lu Chen wrote that Ning Tian had rejected Wu Feng’s love until the God of Love’s power turned her male, and questioned Ning Rongrong’s treatment of her descendant.
• Hu Liena guessed that Ning Tian accepted the transformation to benefit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, earning Bibi Dong’s approval.
• Ning Rongrong stopped reading and began absorbing an immortal herb to evolve her Martial Soul.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San fled a Mandala Snake whose age Su Yuntao’s map had badly underestimated, but Luo Sanpao’s hypnotic mist failed to stop it.
• Yu Xiaogang sent Luo Sanpao to hold off the snake, then recalled his injured Martial Soul as Tang San took matters into his own hands.
• Tang San threw a radish to slow the snake, released Yu Xiaogang’s hand, and fired his Silent Sleeve Arrow at it.

Tang San’s flawed Sleeve Arrow failed to stop the Mandala Snake, and his carefully planned counterattack only blinded it in one eye. As the snake pursued them and Yu Xiaogang succumbed to its venom, Tang San waited for his teacher to draw its attention and fired his final Sleeve Arrow at its blinded eye.

• Tang San’s Silent Sleeve Arrow struck the Mandala Snake’s scales but failed to penetrate them.
• Tang San dodged the snake’s attack and used Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon to guide his short sword into its left eye, but only blinded it.
• Yu Xiaogang scolded Tang San and fled with him as the enraged Mandala Snake pursued them.
• Yu Xiaogang’s exposure to the snake’s neurotoxin made him stiff and caused him to stumble, while Tang San waited for his teacher to draw the snake’s attention.
• Yu Xiaogang tried to fend off the snake with his remaining Soul Power as Tang San fired his last Silent Sleeve Arrow at its blinded left eye.

Tang San survived the Mandala Snake and absorbed its Soul Ring while Yu Xiaogang lay poisoned nearby. After breaking through the first level of the Mysterious Heaven Skill, Tang San finally treated Yu Xiaogang’s severe poisoning, leaving him to wonder whether his teacher would understand the delay.

• The Silent Sleeve Arrow struck the Mandala Snake’s blinded eye, but its dying thrash broke a venomous fang across Yu Xiaogang’s face and flung him into a tree.
• Tang San waited for the Mandala Snake to die, then briefly detoxified Yu Xiaogang before absorbing the beast’s Soul Ring into his Blue Silver Grass.
• Tang San endured the Soul Ring’s violent power, completed the absorption, and broke through the first level of the Mysterious Heaven Skill.
• After several hours, Tang San remembered Yu Xiaogang and treated him by draining the poison from his body, though the wound on his face would likely scar permanently.

Ning Rongrong celebrated her Martial Soul’s evolution and traded jokes with her friends in the Chat Group. Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang woke after two days of treatment in the Soul Hunting Forest and was stunned to learn he owed his rescuers 1,000 Gold Soul Coins.

• Ning Rongrong thanked Lu Chen for helping her evolve her Martial Soul, and Lu Chen asked her to treat them to dinner at Two Nations Spring.
• Ning Rongrong muted Hu Liena, Liu Erlong, and Ah Yin after they joked about Ning Fengzhi, then forbade Xiao Wu from eating the restaurant’s carrot cakes for a week.
• A nine-person Soul Hunting team rescued Tang San and Yu Xiaogang from the Netherworld Wolf pack and arranged treatment for Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Xiaogang woke after two days and protested the 1,000 Gold Soul Coin bill from the Handless Order Squad.

Yu Xiaogang and Tang San settled the Soul Hunting team's 1,000 Gold Soul Coin bill by giving them Tang San's Silent Sleeve Arrow for 200 coins and paying the remaining 800. After Yu Xiaogang discovered his disfigured face, Tang San claimed his teacher had deliberately protected him from the Mandala Snake, and Yu Xiaogang accepted the story before announcing they would return to Nuoding City.

• The Soul Hunting team confronted Yu Xiaogang over his unpaid treatment and escort fees, and Tang San offered his Silent Sleeve Arrow as partial payment.
• Beifeng accepted the arrow for 200 Gold Soul Coins, and Yu Xiaogang paid the remaining 800 coins.
• Yu Xiaogang saw the Mandala Snake's purplish scar across his face and demanded to know what had happened.
• Tang San said Yu Xiaogang had turned back to protect him, letting Tang San kill the snake with the Sleeve Arrow, and Yu Xiaogang decided to treat the story as true.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San to pack so they could return to Nuoding City, and Tang San remembered that he could enroll at Nuoding Academy as a Soul Master.

Tang San and Yu Xiaogang arrived at Nuoding City's Spirit Hall Branch so Tang San could be assessed and registered as a Soul Master. After the guards reminded Tang San of Lu Chen, Yu Xiaogang used the branch's wealth to kindle Tang San's hatred of Spirit Hall, leaving him vowing to destroy it once he was strong enough.

• Tang San anticipated returning to Nuoding Academy and imagined taking revenge on Lu Chen after gaining his first Soul Ring and Soul Skill.
• Yu Xiaogang accompanied Tang San to Nuoding City's Spirit Hall Branch, hoping Tang San's assessment would help restore his reputation.
• The guards initially stopped them, but Tang San released his Soul Power and the guards let them enter after comparing him to Lu Chen.
• Tang San marveled at the Spirit Hall's lavish interior, then learned that the building was only the lowest-grade branch.
• Yu Xiaogang urged Tang San to keep his anger toward Spirit Hall but conceal it until he had enough strength, and Tang San vowed to destroy it.

Yu Xiaogang brought Tang San to the Spirit Hall Branch in Nuoding City for a soul power test and Soul Master registration, where Sisi discovered Tang San was a six-year-old Soul Master. The chapter ended with Yu Xiaogang and Tang San drawing a crowd as Tang San revealed he had absorbed a 400-year Mandala Snake soul ring after Nuoding Academy’s dean drove them away.

• Yu Xiaogang took Tang San to Sisi’s office and requested a soul power test, advancement assessment, and official registration.
• Sisi learned that Tang San was six years old and a Soul Master, then eagerly tried to recruit him into the Spirit Hall.
• Sisi took Yu Xiaogang and Tang San to the Martial Soul Laboratory and sent someone to notify Grandmaster Ma Xiunuo and Head Deacon Li Feng.
• Tang San told the gathered Spirit Hall staff and Soul Masters that Dean Wu Fang had driven him and Yu Xiaogang away from Nuoding Academy.
• Yu Xiaogang introduced himself as the Grandmaster, and Tang San announced that his Blue Silver Grass had absorbed a 400-year Mandala Snake soul ring.

Yu Xiaogang and Tang San tried to use Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass Soul Ring to prove Yu Xiaogang’s theories, but Lu Yun challenged their reasoning and exposed Yu Xiaogang’s outdated classifications. The confrontation left Tang San’s claim undercut as Lu Yun explained that Blue Silver Grass was not a lifeless tool Martial Soul.

• Sisi feared the consequences of summoning Li Feng and Ma Xiunuo to see Yu Xiaogang and Tang San, especially with Lu Yun present.
• Li Feng scolded Sisi and ordered the crowd to disperse, but Yu Xiaogang accused him of covering up Dean Wu Fang’s actions against him and Tang San.
• Tang San displayed his Blue Silver Grass and yellow Soul Ring, claiming that his Mandala Snake Soul Ring proved Yu Xiaogang’s Martial Soul mimicry theory.
• Lu Yun questioned why Tang San had chosen a snake Soul Ring instead of a plant-type one, and Yu Xiaogang angrily objected to his challenge.
• Lu Yun revealed that Spirit Hall had revised its classifications of tool and beast Martial Souls, explaining that Blue Silver Grass possessed life force.

Lu Yun exposed flaws in Yu Xiaogang’s advice about Tang San’s first Soul Ring, leaving both Tang San and Yu Xiaogang shaken. After two Spirit Hall deacons demonstrated the benefits of Ghost Vine Soul Rings, Lu Yun told Tang San he could no longer change course and should keep using Blue Silver Grass as a tool Martial Soul.

• Lu Yun correctly guessed that Tang San’s Mandala Snake Soul Ring had granted Blue Silver Grass toughness, poison, and the Entanglement Soul Skill, unsettling Tang San and enraging Yu Xiaogang.
• Lu Yun challenged Yu Xiaogang’s choice of a Mandala Snake Soul Ring, arguing that a Ghost Vine would have better matched Blue Silver Grass and granted stronger benefits.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed Tang San’s weak inherited abilities resulted from the Soul Ring’s low age, but Li Feng summoned Teng Kong and Teng Fei to describe their powerful Ghost Vine Soul Rings and skills.
• Li Feng revealed that Lu Yun had guided the twins’ Soul Ring choices and that they had defeated a rank twenty-five fallen Soul Master together, leaving Yu Xiaogang unable to answer.
• Lu Yun told Tang San that his incompatible first 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.