Chapter Summaries

Lin Yang trained Xiao Wu in the Breath of Softness and explained how she could work toward the Transparent World, then gave her a medicinal bath and whale rubber to strengthen her body. The next morning, he set a plan for Xiao Wu to build up her Great Soul Arena record while continuing her cultivation.

• Lin Yang sparred with Xiao Wu, criticized her movements and breathing, and explained the precision needed to reach the Transparent World.
• Lin Yang gave Xiao Wu whale rubber and prepared a medicinal bath, instructing her to use her Breathing Style and then take the rubber with a cold-water soak afterward.
• Xiao Wu used the bath and whale rubber while Lin Yang cultivated and slowly tempered his External Soul Bone with Soul Power.
• The next morning, Xiao Wu reported that her body felt stronger and her Soul Power circulated more smoothly after taking the whale rubber.
• Lin Yang told Xiao Wu to take daily medicinal baths, use whale rubber every three days, and pursue individual matches at the Great Soul Arena until she earned a Bronze Soul Fighter badge.

Xiao Wu and Lin Yang built formidable records in the Great Soul Arena, gaining strength and attracting unwanted attention from powerful groups. Lin Yang paused their matches after driving off a noble’s recruitment efforts, while Xiao Wu neared level twenty, Lin Yang reached level twenty-nine, and Concealed Edge fully merged with his Nichirin Blade.

• Xiao Wu and Lin Yang quickly earned Bronze Soul Fighter badges, then dominated increasingly difficult matches as Blade Ghost and Charming Rabbit.
• Over two months, Lin Yang won all forty-eight individual matches, Xiao Wu won all forty-six, and their pair recorded seventeen wins and one draw; Xiao Wu’s poison-stained draw nearly killed her and left one opponent dead and the other gravely wounded.
• Their success earned them Silver Soul Badges and attracted recruitment attempts from nobles, wealthy magnates, and Great Soul Arena insiders, so Lin Yang stopped their matches to avoid further trouble.
• After a noble retaliated against their refusals, Lin Yang left a Soul Ancestor’s head beside the noble’s bed, frightening him into abandoning his efforts and discouraging further harassment.
• Xiao Wu reached level nineteen at age seven, Lin Yang reached level twenty-nine at age eight while posing as twelve, and Concealed Edge completely merged with the Nichirin Blade after three months of nightly harmonization.

Lin Yang successfully fused his yellow and purple Soul Rings, creating a powerful cutting effect that wrecked his room. After Xiao Wu declined to go shopping and chose to cultivate, Lin Yang went to replace the damaged furnishings and found a shop he suspected belonged to Flender.

• Lin Yang fused his yellow and purple Soul Rings after more than two months of attempts, and their cutting force sliced the room into pieces.
• Xiao Wu rushed in to investigate the noise, called Lin Yang a freak, then decided to cultivate instead of going shopping with him.
• Lin Yang cleared the wreckage into his Soul Tool Bracelet, told Ah Yin he was leaving, and went to buy replacement furnishings.
• Lin Yang spotted a Soul Power mark on a secluded shop and recognized the fleeing Ma Hongjun, whom he suspected was going to vent his Evil Fire.
• Flender worried that his disciple Ma Hongjun's defective Fire Phoenix Martial Soul and recurring Evil Fire had no easy remedy.

Lin Yang bought a plate crystal from Flender after bluffing that he was a student of Qin Ming at Heaven Dou Royal Academy. He left with a plan to send Xiao Wu to Shrek Academy if she could not master the Transparent World by the time he reached level thirty.

• Lin Yang found the plate crystal in Flender's shop and refused to pay more than two hundred Gold Soul Coins.
• Flender suspected Lin Yang was the Great Soul Arena fighter Blade Ghost, but Lin Yang denied it and claimed to be Qin Ming's student.
• Lin Yang mentioned Qin Ming's work at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and Flender agreed to sell him the crystal for two hundred Gold Soul Coins.
• Lin Yang left the shop with the plate crystal and considered Shrek Academy as a possible refuge for Xiao Wu.
• Lin Yang planned to build a relationship with Dugu Bo to obtain immortal herbs and avoid provoking him over Xiao Wu's Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone.

Lin Yang discovered the deadly hair gold inside a plate crystal and gave Xiao Wu three pieces after warning her not to misuse them. A month later, Xiao Wu reached rank twenty, while Lin Yang considered how to hide the over-limit Soul Rings his unusual martial soul required.

• Lin Yang smashed the plate crystal and showed Xiao Wu how its hair gold could unfold into powerful threads when infused with Soul Power.
• Xiao Wu asked for three hair gold pieces, promised not to use them carelessly, then blushed and fled to cultivate after Lin Yang held her hand.
• Lin Yang replaced the cabinet he had damaged while demonstrating the hair gold.
• A month later, Xiao Wu reached rank twenty, and Lin Yang set her second Soul Ring at nine hundred and ninety-nine years to avoid drawing attention.
• Lin Yang resolved to raise the age of his Demon God Body's first Soul Ring when absorbing his third Soul Ring so he could use Invisibility to conceal his unusual Soul Rings.

Lin Yang and Xiao Wu traveled toward the Star Dou Great Forest so Lin Yang could find a third Soul Ring, while he continued training Xiao Wu on the way. At the forest’s center, Da Ming sensed Xiao Wu’s presence and stopped Er Ming from leaving to retrieve her before she entered their territory.

• Lin Yang told Xiao Wu he had broken through and planned to go to the Star Dou Great Forest; she asked to come along to see Da Ming and Er Ming.
• Before they left Suotuo City, Lin Yang revealed he had bought their courtyard so Xiao Wu could return whenever she wished.
• Lin Yang and Xiao Wu traveled by carriage for ten days, with Lin Yang guiding her Breathing Style training as they headed for the Star Dou Great Forest.
• After resting in a town near the forest, Lin Yang and Xiao Wu prepared to continue their journey.
• At the Lake of Life, Da Ming sensed Xiao Wu’s presence, but told Er Ming to wait until she entered their territory rather than risk attracting powerful humans.

Lin Yang and Xiao Wu entered the Star Dou Great Forest to search for a suitable soul beast, but a roar from Er Ming triggered a beast tide and sent Xiao Wu back to check on him. After a fruitless first day, Lin Yang found a nine-thousand-year red gold beast the next morning, only for another powerful roar to frighten it away.

• Lin Yang and Xiao Wu traveled into the Star Dou Great Forest, where Lin Yang searched for a soul beast at least nine thousand years old.
• Er Ming's roar stirred the forest into a beast tide, and Xiao Wu left Lin Yang to check on him.
• Lin Yang searched through the chaos but found no suitable soul beast before nightfall.
• Lin Yang used Invisibility to check on Xiao Wu and saw her with the two forest overlords, who treated her cautiously.
• The next morning, Lin Yang found a nine-thousand-year red gold beast suited to his Nichirin Blade Martial Soul, but a roar from a ten-thousand-year soul beast made it flee.

Lin Yang found an injured Golden Lion-Tiger Beast and attacked it, hoping to obtain its Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring. Though his Nichirin Blade inflicted severe wounds, the beast remained dangerous, so Lin Yang activated his Slash Domain to press the fight.

• Lin Yang reached the Golden Lion-Tiger Beast’s territory and saw it bluff its way through a standoff with a lesser dragon-type Soul Beast.
• After the lesser dragon Soul Beast fled, Lin Yang revealed himself and the Golden Lion-Tiger Beast lunged at him.
• Lin Yang used Complete Ghostification and Crimson Interval to block the beast’s attack, then severed half of its paw with Sun Breathing, Second Form: Blue Heaven.
• Lin Yang relentlessly attacked, cutting the beast’s tail and opening a wound along its back, while the beast’s strikes left him badly injured.
• Lin Yang fused his yellow and purple Soul Rings and activated the pseudo-domain Slash Domain, filling the area around him with cutting slashes.

Lin Yang defeated the ten-thousand-year Golden Lion-Tiger Beast and began absorbing its Soul Ring. After overcoming the beast’s spiritual imprint, he discovered that his spiritual power had broken through into a new realm and formed a spiritual world centered on a sunlike core.

• Lin Yang used Slash Domain and Sun Breathing’s Twelfth Form to defeat the Golden Lion-Tiger Beast.
• Lin Yang asked Ah Yin to guard him, then absorbed the beast’s black Soul Ring inside its cave.
• Lin Yang’s Demon God Body devoured the Soul Ring’s energy while his mind entered a chaotic space.
• Lin Yang defeated the Golden Lion-Tiger Beast’s spiritual imprint with one slash and absorbed the pure spiritual power it left behind.
• The chaotic space collapsed, and Lin Yang found himself in his spiritual world, where a sunlike spiritual core marked his breakthrough.

Lin Yang assessed his spiritual power and redirected the energy nurturing his demon god body's third Soul Ring into strengthening its first Soul Ring, giving it the Invisibility skill greater power. After absorbing the rings, he discovered that his Nichirin Blade had gained blade light and tested his new Sharpness Soul Skill.

• Lin Yang placed himself at the beginning of the Spirit Sea Realm and judged Shi Nian's spiritual power to be far more advanced.
• Lin Yang used the energy nurturing his demon god body's third Soul Ring to raise its first Soul Ring from three thousand to eleven thousand years, leaving the third Soul Ring at two hundred years.
• Lin Yang absorbed his Soul Skills and gained six Soul Rings, while the Nichirin Blade's Martial Soul Origin grew stronger after absorbing the Golden Lion-Tiger Beast's Soul Ring.
• Lin Yang dropped Crimson Interval and watched its sharpened blade pierce the ground, then swung it to release a streak of golden blade light into the cave wall.
• Lin Yang tested his third Soul Skill, Sharpness, which could increase his attack power by as much as three hundred percent.

After obtaining a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, Lin Yang returned to Xiao Wu and revealed that his Second Martial Soul could condense and strengthen its own Soul Rings. They set out for Shrek Academy, where Lin Yang planned to leave Xiao Wu while he traveled to Heaven Dou City for Immortal Herbs.

• Lin Yang found no Soul Bone on the Golden Lion-Tiger Beast's corpse and returned safely to Xiao Wu at the inn.
• Lin Yang showed Xiao Wu his Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring and explained that his Second Martial Soul could condense Soul Rings and increase their age by absorbing Soul Rings.
• Xiao Wu asked about Lin Yang's secrets, and he told her he could not die; she promised Da Ming and Er Ming would not hurt him.
• The next day, Lin Yang and Xiao Wu left town by carriage, and Lin Yang said he would take her to Shrek Academy before going to Heaven Dou City.
• Lin Yang insisted Xiao Wu stay at Shrek Academy until she mastered Transparent World, and she agreed to wait for him to return.

Lin Yang brought Xiao Wu to enroll at Shrek Academy, where she impressed Li Yusong with her age, cultivation, and combat skills. Xiao Wu passed the entrance test and was taken to her dormitory, while Lin Yang remained outside the academy as the school’s tiny student body was revealed.

• Lin Yang and Xiao Wu reached Shrek Academy, and Li Yusong let Xiao Wu enroll after taking her registration fee.
• Li Yusong discovered that Xiao Wu was under eight, had two Soul Rings, and possessed Soul Power at level twenty-one, nearly twenty-two.
• Li Yusong tested Xiao Wu in combat, and she attacked with a Self-Created Soul Skill before he declared that she had passed.
• Li Yusong took Xiao Wu to her dormitory and explained that the academy had only two other students, Ma Hongjun and Oscar.

Lin Yang helped Xiao Wu settle into Shrek Academy, gave her a hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone, and left the next morning. After he departed, Xiao Wu set her sights on growing stronger and heading to Heaven Dou, but her first encounter with Ma Hongjun ended in a fight.

• Lin Yang and Xiao Wu met Oscar, then cleaned and decorated their shabby dormitory.
• Xiao Wu tearfully told Lin Yang she did not want him to leave, and he urged her to cultivate so she could protect herself.
• Lin Yang gave Xiao Wu a hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone and warned her to hide its abilities from others.
• Xiao Wu refined the Soul Bone, shared her past and her hatred of Spirit Hall with Lin Yang, and spent the night with him.
• Lin Yang left without waking Xiao Wu, who resolved to unlock the Transparent World and go to Heaven Dou.
• Xiao Wu encountered Ma Hongjun, became irritated by his advances, and began beating him.

Lin Yang settled in Heaven Dou City while continuing his experiments with medicinal herbs, then took in a dying boy brought to him by a group of mercenaries. He had not wanted to be known as a physician, but his neighbors’ belief in his skills had led patients to his door.

• Lin Yang passed through Jialing Pass and reached Heaven Dou City, where he rented a secluded courtyard while awaiting enrollment at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Lin Yang bought herbs and whale rubber under different identities and conducted experiments, recording that Formula No. 18 could improve physical constitution but carried a high risk of loss of reason.
• A group of mercenaries arrived at Lin Yang’s courtyard, pleading with him to save their gravely ill companion, Xiaohai.
• Lin Yang had the mercenaries carry Xiaohai inside and learned that the boy had fallen ill after their group camped in the wilderness.
• Lin Yang’s neighbors had mistaken him for a physician after he once used the Heimlich Maneuver, and he had gradually begun treating patients despite insisting he was not a doctor.

Lin Yang operated on A Hai to remove parasites from his lungs, then resumed his research and treated an increasing number of patients. By the end, his growing reputation as a doctor had begun attracting herb merchants who sought his advice.

• Lin Yang anesthetized A Hai, removed the parasites wrapped around his lungs, and repaired the wounds with his Flesh Thorns.
• Lin Yang told Keynes that A Hai was safe, and A Hai woke after resting; Keynes paid Lin Yang ten Silver Soul Coins and offered his squad’s help.
• Lin Yang returned to his experiments and continued cultivating, while his Soul Power reached rank thirty-two.
• Keynes praised Lin Yang’s treatment to other mercenaries, bringing a steady stream of patients to his courtyard.
• An herb merchant asked Lin Yang to assess a batch of herbs, and Lin Yang realized that he had gained a local reputation.

Lin Yang agreed to take Keynes's sister Katherine as an apprentice after learning why she wanted to study medicine, and he named his clinic Butterfly Mansion. Katherine began her training there, setting her on a path that would one day make her the Epiphyllum Goddess.

• Lin Yang declined several offers to work as a physician while his reputation and the number of patients at his courtyard grew.
• Lin Yang treated a poor herb gatherer's arm and asked him to bring unusual medicinal herbs in place of a higher fee.
• Keynes asked Lin Yang to consider taking his eleven-year-old sister Katherine as an apprentice, and Lin Yang told him to bring her the next day.
• Lin Yang named the clinic Butterfly Mansion, and Keynes arranged for a signboard to be made.
• Katherine showed Lin Yang her epiphyllum Martial Soul and explained that she wanted to help people who could not get timely medical care.
• Lin Yang accepted Katherine as an apprentice after warning her that medicine required perseverance, and she called him her teacher.

Lin Yang trained Katherine at the Butterfly Mansion, built its reputation, and drove off a rival clinic’s attack with deadly force. After reading Xiao Wu’s letter from Shrek Academy, he realized Tang Hao might soon discover that the Soul Bone was missing.

• Lin Yang taught Katherine medicine through hands-on practice and let her handle simpler injuries while he developed popular clotting powder and antidotes.
• Two Two-Ring Soul Grandmasters sent to trouble the Butterfly Mansion disappeared, and Lin Yang sent the Spring Rejuvenation Medicine Hall manager a warning that made her abandon the dispute.
• A-Da delivered Xiao Wu’s letter from Shrek Academy, and Katherine passed it to Lin Yang.
• Lin Yang read Xiao Wu’s stories about fighting Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and others, then began writing a reply.
• Lin Yang recalled that the academy in Nuoding City would soon begin its holiday and realized Tang Hao might discover that the Soul Bone was gone.

After discovering that Ah Yin and her hundred-thousand-year Soul Bone were missing, Tang Hao confirmed the Blue Silver King was safe and vowed revenge on the thief. In Heaven Dou City, Lin Yang went to the Great Soul Arena seeking a fight, while Qin Ming agreed to let Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan challenge a three-ring Soul Elder.

• Tang Hao found Ah Yin and her hundred-thousand-year Right Leg Bone missing from the cave and destroyed the valley in a fury.
• Tang Hao found the Blue Silver King unharmed and resolved to protect it for Tang San’s second Martial Soul Awakening.
• Lin Yang sent Xiao Wu a letter and body-tempering potions, then registered to compete at Heaven Dou City’s Great Soul Arena.
• Qin Ming reprimanded Dugu Yan for nearly killing opponents, while Yu Tianheng defended their use of Soul Skills.
• Yu Tianheng asked to fight a three-ring Soul Elder, and Qin Ming agreed while warning him and Dugu Yan not to seek momentary glory.

Lin Yang defeated Yu Tianheng in a Soul Fighting match, then persuaded Qin Ming that Dean Flender had recommended him for Heaven Dou Royal Academy. Qin Ming offered to handle Lin Yang’s enrollment personally.

• Lin Yang entered the arena and faced Yu Tianheng, who challenged him with his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul.
• Yu Tianheng attacked with Thunder Dragon Claw, but Lin Yang struck him away with one hand and won the match.
• Qin Ming and Ye Lingling rushed to treat the unconscious Yu Tianheng, while Dugu Yan watched Lin Yang with interest.
• Lin Yang told Qin Ming that Flender had recommended him to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, claiming his friends studied at Shrek Academy.
• Qin Ming believed Lin Yang and offered to personally arrange his enrollment at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

Qin Ming and Dugu Yan discovered that Lin Yang was not yet ten and had already reached rank thirty-two, then brought word of him to Heaven Dou Royal Academy. Qin Ming brought Lin Yang before the academy’s three board members, who were introduced as the story left them together in the reception room.

• Dugu Yan asked Lin Yang to remove his mask, and Qin Ming and Dugu Yan were astonished when he revealed he was not yet ten and was rank thirty-two.
• Qin Ming hurried Lin Yang to meet the board members, while Dugu Yan left to tell her grandfather about the prodigy.
• Yu Tianheng regained consciousness, learned that Qin Ming and Dugu Yan had left, and swore to remember his humiliation before heading back with Ye Lingling.
• Qin Ming escorted Lin Yang through Heaven Dou Royal Academy and explained its mimicry cultivation grounds and his view of its privileged students.
• Qin Ming brought Lin Yang to the board building, where they met Chief Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhi Lin.