Chapter Summaries

Yu Xiaochuan underwent his Martial Soul Awakening ceremony and discovered that his Martial Soul was Caterpie, with innate half-level Soul Power. Though the clan saw him as another Yu Xiaogang with a useless beast Martial Soul, Yu Xiaochuan was delighted by Caterpie’s possible dragon bloodline and potential to evolve into Rayquaza.

• Yu Tianheng awakened the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul with innate level-nine Soul Power, earning praise from his grandfather and Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Xiaochuan awakened a green Caterpie Martial Soul, surprising the clan and prompting comparisons to Yu Xiaogang’s Luo Sanpao.
• Yu Xiaochuan recalled Caterpie and tested his Soul Power, revealing innate half-level Soul Power.
• Yu Xiaochuan happily stroked Caterpie and considered its potential to evolve into Rayquaza, while Yu Xiaogang felt comforted that someone else seemed even less talented.

After Yu Xiaochuan awakened a weak Caterpie Martial Soul with only half a rank of Innate Soul Power, the clan leader and Yu Xiaogang proposed that Yu Xiaogang adopt him. Yu Xiaochuan refused but accepted Yu Xiaogang’s cultivation method, reached rank one, and planned to use a Blue Silver Emperor Soul Ring for Caterpie.

• The clan leader asked Yu Xiaogang and Yu Xiaochuan’s parents to consider having Yu Xiaogang adopt Yu Xiaochuan and guide his cultivation.
• Yu Xiaochuan refused the adoption, though he told Yu Xiaogang he would still care for him in his old age.
• Yu Xiaochuan accepted Yu Xiaogang’s Soul Power circulation route and reached rank one after a few days of cultivating with Caterpie.
• Yu Xiaogang advised Yu Xiaochuan to choose Poison-type plant Soul Rings for Caterpie, while Yu Xiaochuan said he preferred nonpoisonous ones.
• Yu Xiaochuan told Yu Xiaogang he planned to use a Blue Silver Grass Soul Ring, secretly intending to target the Blue Silver Emperor.

Yu Xiaochuan trained Caterpie to combine String Shot and Tackle, then brought him to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan school, where he teased Yu Tianheng for being afraid of bugs. The chapter left Caterpie landing on Yu Tianheng’s face after a classmate tried to pull Yu Xiaochuan away.

• Yu Xiaochuan trained Caterpie to swing and launch himself using String Shot and Tackle, improving his mobility and confidence in battle.
• Yu Xiaochuan enrolled in the clan school, where Caterpie drew the attention of bug-loving boys and frightened girls.
• Yu Xiaochuan learned Caterpie had grown to level two and shed his skin once per level while eating aged Blue Silver Grass.
• Yu Tianheng asked Yu Xiaochuan to put Caterpie away, but Yu Xiaochuan teased him by holding the bug in front of his face.
• A girl tried to move Caterpie away, causing Yu Xiaochuan to loosen his grip and drop Caterpie onto Yu Tianheng’s face.

Yu Tianheng challenged Yu Xiaochuan to recover his pride after fainting at the sight of Caterpie, but Yu Xiaochuan refused until Yu Tianheng offered a hundred-year-old ginseng. After Caterpie ate it and reached level three, Yu Xiaochuan and Yu Tianheng met in a grove after school to fight.

• Caterpie landed on Yu Tianheng's face and frightened him unconscious, and Yu Xiaochuan revived him while letting him believe he had simply fallen asleep.
• Yu Tianheng remembered fainting from fear, felt humiliated by the clan's whispers, and lost sleep over the incident.
• Yu Tianheng challenged Yu Xiaochuan, who refused to fight until Yu Tianheng offered a hundred-year-old ginseng.
• Yu Xiaochuan accepted the challenge and fed the ginseng to Caterpie, who ate it, shed his skin, and reached level three.
• After school, Yu Xiaochuan went to the grove beside the clan school, and Yu Tianheng followed him there for their fight.

Yu Xiaochuan ambushed Yu Tianheng with Caterpie and won their fight despite the gap in their levels. After Yu Tianheng’s grandfather urged him to learn from the defeat, Yu Tianheng accepted the lesson and vowed to win next time.

• Yu Tianheng challenged Yu Xiaochuan, expecting to defeat Caterpie and avenge his earlier humiliation.
• Yu Xiaochuan revealed that Caterpie had been waiting, and Caterpie struck Yu Tianheng in the forehead, knocking him unconscious.
• Yu Xiaochuan praised Caterpie for winning his first battle, then carried Yu Tianheng home and told the servants he had found him unconscious.
• The old clan leader learned what had happened and decided Yu Tianheng should treat the defeat as a lesson rather than punish Yu Xiaochuan.
• After Yu Tianheng woke, his grandfather told him not to underestimate other Soul Masters, and Yu Tianheng accepted the lesson while vowing to win their next fight.

Yu Xiaochuan trained Caterpie to use its foul stench and practiced running before agreeing to fight Yu Tianheng again. During their rematch in the grove, Caterpie distracted Yu Tianheng with a stench attack, and Yu Xiaochuan knocked him unconscious with a stick.

• Yu Xiaochuan trained Caterpie to release its stench while practicing evasive running.
• Yu Tianheng challenged Yu Xiaochuan to another fight and gave him a stalk of hundred-year-old ginseng, which Yu Xiaotian fed to Caterpie, raising it to level four.
• Yu Xiaochuan agreed to meet Yu Tianheng after school and brought a wooden stick to the grove.
• Yu Tianheng lunged at Yu Xiaochuan, who dodged and led him on a chase through the grove.
• Caterpie blasted Yu Tianheng with foul gas, and Yu Xiaochuan struck the disoriented boy on the back of the head, knocking him out.

After a blow from Yu Xiaochuan made Yu Tianheng reconsider his impatience, Yu Tianheng focused on cultivation and reached Soul Power Level ten. Yu Xiaochuan worried that Yu Tianheng would challenge him after obtaining a Soul Ring, so he began looking for ways to strengthen Caterpie.

• Yu Xiaochuan carried the unconscious Yu Tianheng home after striking him with a stick, and Yu Tianheng later admitted to his grandfather that he had been wrong to rush into seeking revenge.
• Yu Tianheng stopped challenging Yu Xiaochuan and concentrated on studying and cultivating, while Yu Xiaochuan and Caterpie advanced to level seven over several months.
• Yu Tianheng grew anxious as Yu Xiaochuan’s Soul Power rose quickly, but then Yu Tianheng broke through to level ten and celebrated beside him.
• Yu Xiaochuan feared Yu Tianheng would use his new Soul Ring to defeat him and considered having Caterpie learn Electroweb, while searching for other ways to make Caterpie stronger.

Yu Xiaochuan trained Caterpie to create the Electroweb move and discovered he could use Martial Soul Possession to shoot webs and silk from his wrists. He ended the chapter perched beside a nest of lightning-attribute Soul Beast eggs.

• Yu Xiaochuan gathered lightning-attribute leaves in the clan’s Mimicry Cultivation Environment and fed them to Caterpie, who reached level eight.
• Yu Xiaochuan taught Caterpie to spit out a web, and Caterpie eventually formed a crackling Electroweb.
• Yu Xiaochuan decided Electroweb alone might not defeat Yu Tianheng and tried Martial Soul Possession with Caterpie.
• Yu Xiaochuan discovered that Martial Soul Possession let him shoot webs and silk from his wrists, then swung through the trees.
• Yu Xiaochuan climbed onto a branch and found a nest containing lightning-attribute Soul Beast eggs.

Yu Xiaochuan fed Caterpie stolen bird eggs, then killed and cooked the pursuing Thunderstorm Sparrow. After Yu Tianheng challenged him with a two-hundred-year-old ginseng as the stake, Caterpie reached level nine and learned Bug Bite, and Yu Xiaochuan left to train before their fight.

• Yu Xiaochuan fed Caterpie every egg in a Thunderstorm Sparrow’s nest, prompting the enraged bird to pursue him.
• Yu Xiaochuan trapped the Thunderstorm Sparrow with Electroweb, killed it with Caterpie Jump Kick, and cooked its meat.
• Yu Tianheng returned with a Hundred-Year Soul Ring and challenged Yu Xiaochuan, offering him a two-hundred-year-old ginseng.
• Yu Xiaochuan accepted the challenge and fed the ginseng to Caterpie, who reached level nine and learned Bug Bite.
• Yu Xiaochuan took the afternoon off to practice Bug Bite before his scheduled fight with Yu Tianheng.

Yu Xiaochuan and Yu Tianheng fought in the grove, with Yu Xiaochuan relying on Caterpie’s possession and agility to evade Yu Tianheng’s powerful Thunder Dragon Claw. After Yu Tianheng exhausted his Soul Power, the two traded electrified punches, leaving Yu Xiaochuan at a physical disadvantage.

• Yu Xiaochuan met Yu Tianheng in the grove, and both activated Martial Soul Possession before the fight began.
• Yu Tianheng attacked with Thunder Dragon Claw, but Yu Xiaochuan dodged using Electroweb and String Shot to swing through the trees.
• Yu Tianheng severed Yu Xiaochuan’s String Shot with Thunder Dragon Claw and forced him to land.
• Yu Xiaochuan realized Yu Tianheng had run out of Soul Power, and they began fighting with electrified fists.
• Yu Tianheng’s stronger punches drove Yu Xiaochuan back several steps while Yu Tianheng retreated only one.

Yu Xiaochuan defeated Yu Tianheng in a close fight by using Bug Bite to absorb the lightning Soul Power from Yu Tianheng’s punches and turn it against him. Exhausted but victorious, he met the clan leader, who gave him a four-hundred-year-old ginseng, though it did not help Caterpie break through to rank ten.

• Yu Xiaochuan changed from lightning power to Bug-type power and matched Yu Tianheng’s punches by using Bug Bite.
• Yu Xiaochuan absorbed lightning Soul Power through Bug Bite, then struck Yu Tianheng with a powerful two-fisted attack that knocked him unconscious.
• Yu Xiaochuan called out Yu Tianheng’s hidden guard, who carried Yu Tianheng away and told Yu Xiaochuan that the clan leader wanted to see him.
• The clan leader was surprised that Yu Xiaochuan had defeated his grandson and gave him a four-hundred-year-old ginseng after Yu Xiaochuan asked for one.
• Yu Xiaochuan fed the ginseng to Caterpie, but it did not break through the barrier between rank nine and rank ten.

Yu Xiaochuan failed to break through level nine, so he persuaded the old clan leader to let him leave the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and study at Nuoding Academy. As his carriage departed, he set out hoping to find the Blue Silver Emperor and its Soul Bone.

• Yu Xiaochuan explained that Caterpie had not gained a level after eating four-hundred-year-old ginseng, and the old clan leader offered thousand-year-old ginseng instead.
• Caterpie struggled with the ginseng’s medicinal potency, and Yu Xiaochuan still failed to break through level nine.
• Yu Xiaochuan asked to leave the clan and enroll at Nuoding Academy, and the old clan leader agreed to arrange his enrollment.
• A few days later, Yu Xiaochuan’s parents and the old clan leader saw him off, while Yu Tianheng promised they would fight again someday.
• As his carriage departed, Yu Xiaochuan spoke of life as a journey against the current, leaving the old clan leader reflecting on his words.

Yu Xiaochuan arrived at Nuoding City and refused Yu Xiaogang’s offer to make him a stepson, choosing to pursue his own plans at Nuoding Academy. After settling into the first-year dormitory, he was confronted by Xiao Chenyu, who assumed Xiaochuan’s Caterpie martial soul made him weak despite his rank-nine Innate Soul Power.

• Yu Xiaochuan arrived in Nuoding City and told Yu Xiaogang he wanted to study martial soul theory, but refused to become his stepson.
• Yu Xiaogang angrily left after Xiaochuan rejected his offer again, while Xiaochuan resolved to seek the Blue Silver Emperor and its Soul Bone at Nuoding Academy.
• Yu Xiaochuan found an empty bed in the first-year dormitory and went to sleep after several days of travel.
• Xiao Chenyu surrounded Xiaochuan with the other students and demanded his name, martial soul, and Innate Soul Power.
• Yu Xiaochuan identified his martial soul as Caterpie and his Innate Soul Power as rank nine, prompting Xiao Chenyu to dismiss him as weak and demand that he be called Boss Xiao.

Yu Xiaochuan defeated Xiao Chenyu with Caterpie’s Electroweb and revealed his connection to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, prompting the first-years to accept him as their boss. He then asked Xiao Chenyu to obtain a map of the area so he could explore the mountains and search for the Blue Silver Emperor.

• Yu Xiaochuan challenged Xiao Chenyu, who summoned his Wolf Martial Soul while Yu Xiaochuan called out Caterpie.
• Caterpie trapped Xiao Chenyu in an Electroweb and electrocuted him until the attack dissipated.
• Yu Xiaochuan claimed ties to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and Xiao Chenyu surrendered and told the students to recognize Yu Xiaochuan as their boss.
• Yu Xiaochuan took Xiao Chenyu aside and asked him to get a map of the surrounding area.
• Xiao Chenyu readily agreed, hoping the favor would help him earn Yu Xiaochuan’s approval.

Yu Xiaochuan searched around Nuoding City for the waterfall hiding the Blue Silver Emperor, then borrowed and read Yu Xiaogang’s books in hopes of finding geographical information. After finding no useful leads, he considered joining Spirit Hall to access its library and meet Bibi Dong.

• Xiao Chenyu gave Yu Xiaochuan a map of the area around Nuoding City, but it showed no waterfall, so Yu Xiaochuan told him to find larger maps.
• Yu Xiaochuan searched for several days, found no waterfall, and returned to the dormitory, where Yu Xiaogang confronted him about skipping classes.
• Yu Xiaochuan asked to borrow Yu Xiaogang’s books, and Yu Xiaogang agreed to let him read his collection.
• Yu Xiaochuan finished Yu Xiaogang’s books in a month and found that they contained no useful books on geography or culture.
• Yu Xiaochuan decided that Spirit Hall might be easier to access than the imperial libraries and wondered whether Bibi Dong would let him read its books.

Yu Xiaochuan joined Spirit Hall by revealing his rapid rise to level nine and his inability to break through, then asked to study its records. His report reached Bibi Dong, who saw Yu Xiaogang in his story and summoned him to Spirit City while ordering an investigation into his origins.

• Yu Xiaochuan told Grandmaster Ma Xiunuo he wanted to join Spirit Hall and disclosed his half-level innate soul power, external beast martial soul, and level-nine bottleneck.
• Yu Xiaochuan asked for access to Spirit Hall's library, and Ma Xiunuo said he would report the request to Bibi Dong.
• After Yu Xiaochuan left, Ma Xiunuo eagerly sent an urgent report to Spirit City.
• Bibi Dong recognized Yu Xiaochuan's experience as strikingly similar to Yu Xiaogang's and ordered him brought to Spirit City for a meeting.
• Bibi Dong activated covert agents in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to investigate Yu Xiaochuan and considered nurturing him as a theoretical grandmaster.

Bibi Dong considered adopting Yu Xiaochuan after learning of his talent, while Yu Xiaochuan decided to join Spirit Hall to pursue a breakthrough and study its books. Yu Xiaogang tried to stop him, so Yu Xiaochuan challenged him to a fight, and the chapter ended just before they began.

• Bibi Dong read a covert agent’s report about Yu Xiaochuan and considered taking him as her adopted son.
• After Grandmaster Ma Xiunuo told him to prepare to leave, Yu Xiaochuan told Yu Xiaogang he intended to join Spirit Hall for its books and the chance to advance.
• Yu Xiaogang warned Yu Xiaochuan against Spirit Hall and insisted that his rank-nine Caterpie had reached its limit.
• Yu Xiaochuan insulted Yu Xiaogang and challenged him to a fight, proposing they sever ties if Yu Xiaochuan won and that Yu Xiaochuan become Yu Xiaogang’s stepson if he lost.
• Yu Xiaogang accepted the challenge, and Yu Xiaochuan dismissed Grandmaster Ma Xiunuo’s attempt to intervene before calling for the fight to begin.

Yu Xiaochuan battled Yu Xiaogang, using Caterpie’s abilities and his own Martial Soul Possession to overcome Luo Sanpao. Yu Xiaochuan dodged Yu Xiaogang’s final attack and struck him down, leaving him unable to stand.

• Yu Xiaogang summoned Luo Sanpao, and Yu Xiaochuan summoned Caterpie for their battle.
• Luo Sanpao used one of his blasts, but Caterpie escaped with String Shot and avoided the attack.
• Yu Xiaochuan had Caterpie trap Luo Sanpao with Electroweb, forcing Yu Xiaogang to spend another blast to free him.
• Yu Xiaogang ordered Luo Sanpao to fire its final blast at Yu Xiaochuan, who recalled Caterpie and used Martial Soul Possession to dodge.
• Yu Xiaochuan used Bug Bite to strike Yu Xiaogang in the kidneys, leaving him kneeling in pain.

After defeating Yu Xiaogang, Yu Xiaochuan left Nuoding Academy for Spirit City, where Pope Bibi Dong summoned him and asked him to become her child.

• Yu Xiaochuan defeated Yu Xiaogang and departed Nuoding Academy with Grandmaster Ma Xiunuo, while his friends wished him well.
• The dean comforted Yu Xiaogang, who regretted that Yu Xiaochuan could not become his stepson or disciple.
• Yu Xiaochuan and Ma Xiunuo arrived in Spirit City, and Yu Xiaochuan was summoned to meet the Pope.
• Bibi Dong spoke with Yu Xiaochuan about everyday matters and Martial Soul theory, examined his Caterpie Martial Soul, and expressed her satisfaction with him.
• Bibi Dong asked Yu Xiaochuan whether he would be willing to become her child.

Bibi Dong adopted Yu Xiaochuan and gave him unrestricted access to Spirit Hall’s library, where he spent his days reading. Qian Renxue resented her mother’s affection for him and challenged him, leaving Yu Xiaochuan facing an unexpected confrontation.

• Bibi Dong asked Yu Xiaochuan to become her adopted son, and he agreed, calling her Mother.
• Bibi Dong took Yu Xiaochuan to Spirit Hall’s collection room and allowed him to read every book there.
• Yu Xiaochuan spent his days studying while Bibi Dong watched him and was reminded of Yu Xiaogang.
• After Bibi Dong issued a papal decree naming Yu Xiaochuan her adopted son, Qian Renxue came to the collection room and resented the attention her mother gave him.
• Yu Xiaochuan confronted Qian Renxue about glaring at him, and she introduced herself and challenged him.