Chapter Summaries

Lin Yang awakened his Martial Soul in Red Maple Village and recovered memories of his past life as the Sun Hashira in the world of Demon Slayer. Su Yuntao discovered Lin Yang had level-five Innate Soul Power and sought to recruit him into Spirit Hall, then went with the village chief to meet Lin Yang’s grandmother.

• Su Yuntao awakened the children of Red Maple Village, and Lin Yang manifested a blade engraved with “Destroyer of Demons.”
• The blade triggered Lin Yang’s sealed memories of his past lives, including his time as the Sun Hashira, and he realized he had two Martial Souls.
• Lin Yang tested at level-five Innate Soul Power, and Su Yuntao invited him to join Spirit Hall.
• Lin Yang said he needed to ask his grandmother first, so Su Yuntao and Village Chief Talen accompanied him to meet Su Xi.

Lin Yang chose to stay with his grandmother and accepted a work-study place at Nuoding City's junior Soul Master Academy. After discovering that his second Martial Soul was Muzan's Demon Blood, he tested its powers and resolved to find a way to overcome its weakness to sunlight, hoping to extend Su Xi's life.

• Lin Yang refused to leave Red Maple Village for Spirit Hall and accepted Su Yuntao's Martial Soul certificate and work-study enrollment offer for Nuoding City.
• Su Xi celebrated Lin Yang's awakening, while Talen promised the village would arrange his trip to school in three months.
• Lin Yang discovered that his second Martial Soul was the mutated Demon Blood he believed had entered his body during his final battle with Muzan.
• Lin Yang removed the Demon Slayer Mark and found that his compatibility with Sun Breathing had greatly increased.
• After testing the Demon Blood Martial Soul, Lin Yang learned that it could transform him into a demon, strengthening his body and giving him extraordinary regeneration, but making him crave blood and fear sunlight.
• Lin Yang decided to control his Demon Blood carefully and seek a way to overcome its sunlight weakness so Su Xi could live longer.

After awakening his martial soul, Lin Yang trained relentlessly for three months, raising his soul power to level seven and regaining several of his former abilities. When school began, he left Red Maple Village with Village Chief Talen and arrived in Nuoding City.

• Lin Yang reassured Grandma Su Xi that the scar on his face had disappeared because of his martial soul awakening, then meditated with Crimson Interval and learned to refine heaven and earth essence into soul power.
• Lin Yang trained daily, healing his injuries with his demon blood martial soul, strengthening his body, and restoring Sun Breathing: Total Concentration: Constant, the Transparent World, and the demon slayer mark.
• After three months, Lin Yang had reached soul power level seven and discovered that the Transparent World could conceal his soul power; he also saw Tang San from a distance without approaching him.
• When school began, Lin Yang said goodbye to Grandma Su Xi and traveled with Village Chief Talen by donkey cart from Red Maple Village to Nuoding City.

Lin Yang enrolled at Nuoding Academy, became the strongest student in Dorm Seven, and caught the attention of Yu Xiaogang, who decided to observe him before considering whether to nurture him.

• Talen escorted Lin Yang to Nuoding Academy, where the gatekeeper let them in after seeing Lin Yang's rank-five Soul Power certificate and saber Martial Soul.
• Lin Yang completed his enrollment as a work-study student and moved into Dormitory Building Seven after Talen left for Red Maple Village.
• Zhao Bufan challenged Lin Yang for control of Dorm Seven, but Lin Yang defeated him with a shoulder throw and became the dorm's boss.
• Wang Sheng, Tie Niu, and Zhao Xiaodao introduced themselves to Lin Yang, who settled into Dorm Seven.
• Su Hong showed Lin Yang's information to Yu Xiaogang, who decided to observe him before determining whether he was worth nurturing.

Lin Yang developed the Great Sun Meditation Method and reached rank ten after four months at the academy. As he prepared to hunt for his first soul ring on his own, Yu Xiaogang appeared and blocked his path.

• Lin Yang spent four months refining the Great Sun Meditation Method, which improved his cultivation and gave his Soul Power a scorching attribute.
• Lin Yang broke through to rank ten, stunning the students in Dorm Seven and leaving Zhao Bufan troubled by the gap between them.
• Lin Yang received praise from his substitute homeroom teacher and began researching soul beasts for a self-directed first soul-ring hunt.
• Lin Yang decided against joining the academy's cautious group hunts and selected several possible soul-beast targets.
• Yu Xiaogang intercepted Lin Yang outside the library as Lin Yang headed to the dining hall.

Yu Xiaogang questioned Lin Yang’s rapid cultivation and claimed his saber Martial Soul had suffered a harmful mutation, then offered to guide him. Lin Yang rejected Yu Xiaogang’s advice to choose a poison-type Soul Beast and walked away, leaving their relationship strained.

• Yu Xiaogang confronted Lin Yang about reaching rank ten despite having rank-five innate Soul Power and a saber Martial Soul.
• Yu Xiaogang used his research to claim Lin Yang’s Martial Soul had undergone a harmful mutation and offered to help him reach Titled Douluo.
• Lin Yang politely declined Yu Xiaogang’s guidance, saying he was focused on choosing a suitable Soul Ring.
• Yu Xiaogang urged Lin Yang to choose a poison-type Soul Beast, but Lin Yang realized Yu Xiaogang wanted to use him to test his theories.
• Lin Yang refused Yu Xiaogang’s advice and left, while Yu Xiaogang angrily warned that he would regret it.

Lin Yang agreed to accompany Zhao Bufan to the Soul Hunting Forest in exchange for access to a Soul Hunting Writ, though he suspected Zhao Bufan was hiding something. He then perfected the fusion of Sun Breathing and Soul Power, creating powerful self-created sword skills at a heavy cost to his stamina and mental strength.

• Zhao Bufan asked Lin Yang to join him in Soul Hunting and promised to provide a Soul Hunting Writ.
• Lin Yang pressed Zhao Bufan for the truth, learning that Zhao Bufan distrusted the Two-Ring Soul Grandmaster who would accompany them.
• Lin Yang agreed to meet Zhao Bufan at the Soul Hunting Forest in three days while Zhao Bufan took leave to fetch the writ.
• Lin Yang practiced Sun Breathing with Soul Power and completed all twelve sword forms using Crimson Interval.
• Lin Yang realized his strengthened sword forms had become self-created Soul Skills, though performing them greatly exhausted him.

Lin Yang confronted the growing bloodlust caused by his Demon Blood Martial Soul and headed to the Soul Hunting Forest to obtain his first Soul Ring. He entered the forest with Zhao Bufan and Zhao Zhuo, who led them to the boundary between the Ten-Year and Hundred-Year Soul Beast territories.

• Lin Yang realized that his Demon Blood Martial Soul's craving for flesh and blood was growing stronger and considered seeking the Blue Spider Lily or other treasures to cure its flaw.
• Three days later, Lin Yang traveled from Nuoding City to the Soul Hunting Forest and met Zhao Bufan and Zhao Zhuo at its entrance.
• Zhao Bufan presented a valid Soul Hunting Writ, allowing the three to pass the guards and enter the forest.
• Lin Yang summoned Crimson Interval as Zhao Zhuo warned him and Zhao Bufan to follow closely.
• Zhao Zhuo led Lin Yang and Zhao Bufan through the forest to the boundary between the Ten-Year and Hundred-Year Soul Beast territories.

On the second day in the Soul Hunting Forest, Lin Yang helped Zhao Bufan kill a three-hundred-year Blazing Fire Wolf and absorb its Soul Ring. Zhao Bufan became a One-Ring Soul Master, while an unexplained glimmer from the wolf's wound caught his attention.

• Lin Yang identified the wounded Blazing Fire Wolf as roughly three hundred years old and a suitable Soul Beast for Zhao Bufan.
• Zhao Zhuo fought the wolf while Lin Yang and Zhao Bufan blocked its escape, but the wolf blasted Zhao Zhuo with fire and charged at Lin Yang.
• Lin Yang killed the Blazing Fire Wolf with one slash, and Zhao Bufan stabbed its heart to claim the Soul Ring.
• Zhao Bufan noticed a faint glimmer in the wolf's wound, hid his reaction, and began absorbing the yellow Soul Ring as Lin Yang stood guard.
• After about an hour, Zhao Bufan successfully absorbed the Soul Ring and became a One-Ring Soul Master.

Lin Yang discovered a soul bone in the Blazing Fire Wolf’s corpse as Zhao Zhuo and Zhao Bufan fought over it. When Zhao Zhuo nearly killed Zhao Bufan, Lin Yang cut off Zhao Zhuo’s head, leaving the soul bone dispute unresolved.

• After Zhao Bufan absorbed a soul ring, he gave Zhao Zhuo the Soul Hunting Writ, but tried to keep him away from the Blazing Fire Wolf’s corpse.
• Lin Yang used Transparent World and spotted a soul bone in the wolf’s foreleg.
• Zhao Zhuo guessed that the corpse contained a soul bone and attacked Zhao Bufan when Zhao Bufan refused to surrender it.
• Zhao Bufan called on Lin Yang to help him kill Zhao Zhuo and split the soul bone, while Zhao Zhuo charged at them.
• When Zhao Zhuo was about to kill Zhao Bufan, Lin Yang used Sun Breathing, First Form: Dance and beheaded him.

Lin Yang offered Zhao Bufan the Blazing Fire Wolf’s Soul Bone in exchange for his savings and a Soul Hunting Writ, then guarded him as he absorbed it. After they resumed searching the Soul Hunting Forest, Lin Yang chose a Golden Extreme Beast as his next target.

• Lin Yang killed Zhao Zhuo and recovered the Blazing Fire Wolf’s hundred-year right leg Soul Bone.
• Lin Yang agreed to trade the Soul Bone to Zhao Bufan for thirty thousand Gold Soul Coins and a Soul Hunting Writ.
• Zhao Bufan explained that his late father had been a bandit who left him the money and writ, then absorbed the Soul Bone under Lin Yang’s guard.
• Zhao Bufan’s Soul Power rose to rank twelve, and he and Lin Yang rested overnight before setting out again at dawn.
• Lin Yang and Zhao Bufan reached the middle-to-rear section of the Soul Hunting Forest, where Lin Yang chose a Golden Extreme Beast.

Lin Yang found and killed a seven-hundred-year Golden Extreme Beast, then began absorbing its Soul Ring despite the danger of exceeding his level. As the absorption continued, he discovered that his Demon Blood Martial Soul was feeding on the ring’s energy.

• Lin Yang found a seven-hundred-year Golden Extreme Beast beneath a cliff and decided to hunt it despite the risks of absorbing its Soul Ring.
• Lin Yang activated his Demon Slayer Mark and used Sun Breathing techniques to evade the beast’s claws and decapitate it.
• Lin Yang asked Zhao Bufan to guard him while he prepared the beast’s den and recovered before absorbing the Soul Ring.
• Lin Yang drew the yellow Soul Ring onto his Nichirin Blade and struggled to refine its powerful energy with the Great Sun Meditation Method.
• Lin Yang realized that his Demon Blood Martial Soul was absorbing the Soul Ring’s energy and seemed to feel full.

Lin Yang absorbed a seven-hundred-year Soul Ring, gained his first Soul Skill, and discovered that his Demon Blood Martial Soul had grown. After returning to the academy, he parted ways with Zhao Bufan and showed his new Soul Ring to Dorm Seven.

• Lin Yang absorbed the Golden Extreme Beast's Soul Ring, reached level thirteen, and gained the Sharp Gold skill, which greatly enhanced Crimson Interval's sharpness and hardness.
• Lin Yang examined his enlarged Demon Blood Martial Soul and sensed that something might be gestating inside it.
• Lin Yang and Zhao Bufan left the Soul Hunting Forest, and Zhao Bufan gave Lin Yang a Storage Soul Tool containing about thirty thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Zhao Bufan told Lin Yang he would apply to graduate, and the two said goodbye before Lin Yang returned to Dorm Seven.
• Lin Yang told Dorm Seven that Zhao Bufan was graduating, then summoned Crimson Interval and displayed his bright yellow Soul Ring to his dormmates.

Lin Yang’s Demon Blood Martial Soul produced its own first soul ring, granting him Invisibility and forcing him to cultivate both Martial Souls at once. After his new hundred-year soul ring made him the academy’s center of attention, he drove away his admirers and began using his money to prepare for more advanced training.

• Lin Yang went to the hill behind the school, where his Demon Blood Martial Soul transformed and condensed a pale-yellow soul ring on its own.
• Lin Yang sensed that his first Soul Skill was Invisibility and concluded that Demon Blood could grow and produce soul rings by absorbing enough power.
• News of Lin Yang’s hundred-year soul ring spread through the academy, and older female students began pursuing him.
• Lin Yang defeated a sixth-year female student in a Soul Fighting match, earning the title “Cold-Faced Swordsman” and discouraging further advances.
• Lin Yang ignored Yu Xiaogang’s coldness, outsourced his work-study duties, and used his money to seek whale rubber and medicinal herbs for training.

Lin Yang returned to Red Maple Village for the holiday and found that Xiao Wu had rescued his injured grandmother and moved into his room. Knowing Xiao Wu was a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast, he confronted her outside the village, and their fight began.

• Lin Yang finished his first academic year, packed gifts, and hurried home to Red Maple Village.
• Village Chief Talen warned Lin Yang that Grandma Su Xi had been injured, so Lin Yang rushed to her house.
• Lin Yang found Grandma Su Xi with a bandaged foot and met Xiao Wu, who had rescued her and was staying in his room.
• Lin Yang took Xiao Wu outside and revealed that he knew she was a Soul Beast and could take her Soul Ring and Soul Bone.
• Xiao Wu activated her Martial Soul and attacked Lin Yang, who cut off her braid and wounded her arm before she used her first Soul Skill, Waist Bow.

Lin Yang defeated Xiao Wu but chose to let her go, warning her to avoid Nuoding City and Holy Soul Village. After she vanished into the woods, he returned home and told Grandma Su Xi that Xiao Wu had left with relatives.

• Xiao Wu attacked Lin Yang with her Soul Skill, but he evaded her and held a blade to her neck.
• Xiao Wu tried to sacrifice herself, but Lin Yang withdrew his blade and said he would spare her because she had cared for Grandma Su Xi.
• Lin Yang warned Xiao Wu that someone in Nuoding City and Holy Soul Village could see through her true form, then gave her a Gold Soul Coin.
• Xiao Wu thanked Lin Yang and Grandma Su Xi before disappearing into the woods.
• Lin Yang prepared dinner and medicine for Grandma Su Xi, then told her Xiao Wu had been taken away by relatives.

Lin Yang searched for the Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone while visiting Grandma Su Xi, then returned to the academy and arranged to live off campus. After Tang San defeated Wang Sheng in Dorm Seven, he challenged Lin Yang for the right to be its boss.

• Lin Yang visited the villagers who had helped Grandma Su Xi, then used his Demon Blood Martial Soul and ravens to search around Holy Soul Village for the Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone cave.
• Lin Yang found the cave a dozen or so li from Holy Soul Village, left a raven to watch its entrance, and released the rest.
• After vacation ended, Lin Yang returned to the academy and saw Tang San become Yu Xiaogang's disciple; Yu Xiaogang disparaged Lin Yang to Tang San.
• Lin Yang arranged to live off campus and returned to Dorm Seven, where Tang San had pinned Wang Sheng after Wang Sheng tried to assert Lin Yang's authority.
• Tang San challenged Lin Yang to decide who would be Dorm Seven's boss.

Lin Yang agreed to Tang San’s challenge without using his Martial Soul, and the two fought in Dorm Seven. Lin Yang defeated Tang San and left him questioning the value of the Tang Sect’s techniques.

• Lin Yang told Dorm Seven he had registered as a day student, but his roommates insisted he would remain their boss.
• Tang San challenged Lin Yang because Lin Yang had spoken disrespectfully about his teacher, Yu Xiaogang, and demanded that Lin Yang fight without his Martial Soul.
• Lin Yang accepted and asked Tang San to apologize to Wang Sheng if he lost.
• Tang San attacked with his hidden techniques, but Lin Yang’s strength and speed overwhelmed his elaborate footwork.
• Lin Yang landed a straight punch that sent Tang San crashing to the ground and decided the match.

After Tang San tried to kill Lin Yang with a hidden weapon, Yu Xiaogang defended him and clashed with Lin Yang, until Dean Su Hong intervened and imposed fines. Lin Yang left Dorm Seven, Tang San was moved beside Yu Xiaogang, and Lin Yang’s feud with Tang San hardened.

• After Tang San fell, he fired a Sleeve Arrow at Lin Yang, who caught it with his bare hand and exposed Tang San’s attempt to kill him.
• Wang Sheng and the other students called for Tang San to be reported, but Yu Xiaogang arrived and dismissed the attack as an accident.
• Yu Xiaogang rebuked Lin Yang, who drew his Nichirin Blade and threatened him before Dean Su Hong stepped in.
• Su Hong fined Lin Yang and Tang San five Silver Soul Coins each, ordered Lin Yang to avoid Yu Xiaogang, and settled the confrontation.
• Lin Yang left Dorm Seven, and Su Hong moved Tang San out of the dormitory before Yu Xiaogang arranged for him to stay beside his room.
• Lin Yang left determined to claim the Blue Silver Emperor soul bone despite his growing feud with Tang San.

After losing to Lin Yang, Tang San received Yu Xiaogang’s explanation and set out with him to obtain a Soul Ring. Meanwhile, Lin Yang tracked Tang Hao, bought and consumed ten-thousand-year whale glue, and returned to the academy with a greatly improved physique.

• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San that Lin Yang’s extra Soul Ring and greater cultivation explained the defeat, then promised to take him to the Soul Hunting Forest the next day.
• Lin Yang found a private house in Nuoding City and used his Demon Blood Martial Soul to discover Tang Hao at the Blue Silver Emperor’s cave before tracking his flight toward the city.
• Lin Yang visited several businesses and bought whale rubber, including a piece he recognized as ten-thousand-year whale glue despite the seller’s lower valuation.
• Lin Yang softened and swallowed the whale glue, then meditated in cold water through the intense heat and desire it caused.
• By morning, Lin Yang found his physique had improved by nearly thirty percent and went to the academy library, where he saw Yu Xiaogang leaving with Tang San to obtain a Soul Ring.