Chapter Summaries

Li Jin arrived at Nuoding Academy’s Dorm Seven and explained how his Nine-Colored Koi and innate full soul power had brought wealth and protection to Red Carp Village. Xiao Wu defeated Wang Sheng to become dorm boss, then persuaded Li Jin to share his bedding.

• The work-study students questioned Li Jin’s fine clothes, and he explained that Red Carp Village had struck gold and that he had received a large share of the profits because he could become a Soul Master.
• Li Jin admitted he would not fight because his Nine-Colored Koi was a support-oriented trash Martial Soul, and Wang Sheng accepted him into the dorm.
• Xiao Wu challenged Wang Sheng, kicked him away, and declared herself the new boss of Dorm Seven.
• Xiao Wu noticed that she and Tang San lacked bedding, then asked Li Jin to show appreciation for her protection.
• Li Jin invited Xiao Wu to share his bedding, and she happily accepted.

Li Jin agreed to marry Xiao Wu after Tang San objected to them sharing a bed, leaving Tang San isolated despite receiving bedding from Yu Xiaogang. In a dark corner of Nuoding Academy, Tang Hao’s hidden injuries erupted whenever he intended to kill Li Jin, leaving him collapsed and paralyzed.

• Tang San objected to Li Jin and Xiao Wu sharing a bed, but Xiao Wu rebuked him and declared she would marry Li Jin.
• Li Jin accepted Xiao Wu as his wife and invited the work-study students to a feast while they moved her bed beside his.
• A teacher surnamed Mo delivered Tang San bedding from Yu Xiaogang, but Tang San remained alone as Li Jin and Xiao Wu celebrated.
• Tang Hao secretly resolved to kill Li Jin and exploit Xiao Wu for Tang San, but his killing intent triggered a sudden flare-up of his hidden injuries.
• Tang Hao tried to renew his intent to kill Li Jin, spat blood, and collapsed paralyzed in a dark corner of Nuoding Academy.

After Tang San was left alone in the dormitory, Yu Xiaogang brought him food and told him he planned to recruit Li Jin and Xiao Wu as disciples. Li Jin and Xiao Wu returned to Dorm Seven with the work-study students, where Li Jin recognized Yu Xiaogang and realized he would be difficult to avoid.

• Li Jin and Xiao Wu went to the cafeteria while the work-study students ignored Tang San, who stayed behind eating cold flatbread.
• Yu Xiaogang visited Tang San, gave him steamed buns and a chicken drumstick, and asked about Li Jin and Xiao Wu.
• Yu Xiaogang declared that Li Jin and Xiao Wu likely had twin martial souls and said he intended to take them as disciples.
• Tang San welcomed the plan, imagining that Li Jin and Xiao Wu would become his junior disciples and eventually join the Tang Sect.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San waited in Dorm Seven until Li Jin and Xiao Wu returned with the work-study students after Li Jin treated them to a meal.
• Li Jin spotted Yu Xiaogang in the dormitory and recognized him.

Yu Xiaogang tried to recruit Li Jin and Xiao Wu by claiming they had twin Martial Souls and offering to teach them his theories. They denied his claim and rejected him, while Yu Xiaogang made one last attempt to persuade them by offering to help choose their first Soul Rings.

• Wang Sheng warned Li Jin and Xiao Wu that Yu Xiaogang was an ineffective guest elder, and Tang San threatened him for insulting his teacher.
• Yu Xiaogang led Li Jin, Xiao Wu, and Tang San outside and claimed that Li Jin and Xiao Wu's innate full Soul Power proved they had twin Martial Souls.
• Yu Xiaogang offered to teach Li Jin and Xiao Wu his Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul if they became his disciples.
• Xiao Wu and Li Jin denied having twin Martial Souls and refused Yu Xiaogang's offer, while Tang San insisted they should become his junior disciples.
• Yu Xiaogang offered to choose suitable first Soul Rings for Li Jin and Xiao Wu and warned them not to regret leaving without his guidance.

Li Jin and Xiao Wu rejected Yu Xiaogang’s offer to become his disciples, and bizarre accidents left Yu Xiaogang and Tang San covered in dogshit and soaked. Li Jin learned the Meditation Method, while Tang San returned to Dorm Seven furious at their good fortune.

• Xiao Wu and Li Jin rejected Yu Xiaogang, who threatened to take Tang San to the Soul Hunting Forest and give him a hundred-year soul ring.
• Yu Xiaogang stepped in dogshit, and Tang San fell into it while trying to comfort him; a burst water pipe then soaked them both.
• Li Jin and Xiao Wu returned to Dorm Seven, where Wang Sheng called Yu Xiaogang a freeloader and asked whether they had accepted his offer.
• Li Jin traded dinner for Wang Sheng teaching him the Meditation Method and entered meditation in under a minute, accidentally breaking open a meridian.
• Li Jin took Xiao Wu, Wang Sheng, and the other work-study students to dinner, then returned to find Tang San filthy and drenched, resenting their comfortable day.

Tang San returned to Dorm Seven soaked and unlucky, while Li Jin and Xiao Wu bickered over a quilt and wrestled playfully. The other working students resumed meditation as Tang San watched with envy.

• Xiao Wu mocked Tang San for his appearance, and Tang San's bed collapsed when he sat on it, leaving him responsible for the damage.
• Li Jin blamed Tang San's bad luck on his Koi Physique and returned to his bed, while Xiao Wu kept her distance from Tang San.
• Li Jin decided to sleep instead of cultivate, and Xiao Wu argued with him over who got to use the quilt.
• Xiao Wu pounced on Li Jin and pinned him during their playful wrestling, while Tang San watched enviously.
• Wang Sheng told the working students to stop watching and meditate, and they returned to their cultivation.

Tang San and Yu Xiaogang set out for the Soul Hunting Forest, while Li Jin decided to seek his first Soul Ring in the Star Dou Great Forest. After finding Yu Xiaogang’s lost Storage Soul Tool Ring, Li Jin arranged to ride with a traveling merchant headed toward the Star Luo Empire.

• Tang San left Dorm Seven with Yu Xiaogang to obtain his first Soul Ring, and Yu Xiaogang bought carrots before renting a bumpy donkey-drawn flatbed.
• Yu Xiaogang’s Storage Soul Tool Ring fell off the flatbed, leaving behind his possessions and five thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Li Jin told Xiao Wu he also had innate full Soul Power, gave her a Gold Soul Coin, and left Nuoding Academy to seek a Soul Ring.
• Li Jin found Yu Xiaogang’s ring outside the carriage rental shop and recognized its owner after inspecting its contents.
• A traveling merchant offered Li Jin a ride toward the Star Dou Great Forest on his way to the Star Luo Empire.

Tang Hao recovered enough to leave Nuoding Academy, but his Soul Power went berserk and left him helpless in Nuoding City. After being beaten and discarded as a beggar, he fought a stray dog over a steamed bun.

• Tang Hao regained control of his body after Li Jin left, then decided to retreat to the valley behind Holy Soul Village to recover.
• Tang Hao's Soul Power suddenly ran wild as he flew away, and he crashed into an alley in Nuoding City.
• Hungry and unable to control his power, Tang Hao crawled to Truly Full of Flavor, where Boss Liangzi had his men beat him and throw him back into the alley.
• Su Yuntao left two steamed buns beside the unconscious Tang Hao, who rejected them when he woke.
• Tang Hao drove off a stray dog and clutched the remaining bun, humiliated that he had fought over food.

Yu Xiaogang took Tang San to the Soul Hunting Forest to find his first Soul Ring, boasting about his theories and his own cultivation while concealing the resources he had received from his clan. He rejected a ten-year Lone Bamboo as a mere backup and led Tang San onward in search of a better Soul Beast.

• Yu Xiaogang discovered that his Storage Soul Tool and its 5,000 Gold Soul Coins were missing, then brought Tang San to the Soul Hunting Forest using Bibi Dong's Spirit Hall Elder Token.
• On the way, Yu Xiaogang advised Tang San to become a Control System Soul Master and encouraged him to strengthen Blue Silver Grass with toughness and poison.
• Inside the forest, Yu Xiaogang summoned Luo Sanpao and claimed his theories had helped him cultivate a detrimentally mutated Martial Soul from innate half-level Soul Power to level 29.
• Tang San praised Yu Xiaogang and said Li Jin and Xiao Wu would regret refusing his guidance.
• Yu Xiaogang identified a ten-year Lone Bamboo as a possible first Soul Ring, but after Tang San questioned its quality, he called it a backup and continued searching.

Tang San and Yu Xiaogang encountered a Mandala Snake in the Soul Hunting Forest, and Yu Xiaogang was swallowed before Tang San killed the beast and rescued him. Yu Xiaogang recovered and urged Tang San to absorb the snake’s Soul Ring as his first ring.

• Tang San heard movement in the woods, and Yu Xiaogang sent Luo Sanpao to investigate, revealing a Mandala Snake.
• Yu Xiaogang grabbed Tang San and fled, but his first Soul Skill failed to stop the snake, which bit Luo Sanpao and poisoned Yu Xiaogang.
• The Mandala Snake swallowed Yu Xiaogang, slowing down enough for Tang San to blind it with his Silent Sleeve Arrow and strike it with the Clear Sky Hammer.
• The hammer caused Yu Xiaogang to be expelled from the snake, which died from a prolapsed anus; Tang San treated Yu Xiaogang’s poisoning and woke him.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San that the Mandala Snake’s Soul Ring was a suitable first ring and urged him to absorb it.

Tang San failed to absorb the Mandala Snake’s soul ring after Yu Xiaogang took credit for its accidental death, so they searched for another first soul ring. Tang San killed a Mangy Snake, and Yu Xiaogang urged him to absorb its ring without realizing its itchy-bump flaw would affect Tang San.

• Tang San could not absorb the Mandala Snake’s soul ring, and Yu Xiaogang claimed it had not counted as Tang San’s kill.
• Tang San and Yu Xiaogang continued searching, and Tang San spotted a Mangy Snake rubbing itself against a tree.
• Yu Xiaogang used Luo Sanpao’s second soul skill, Farting Like Mist, to hypnotize the Mangy Snake.
• Tang San attacked the Mangy Snake with his Silent Sleeve Arrow and Clear Sky Hammer, killing it and producing a yellow soul ring.
• Yu Xiaogang encouraged Tang San to absorb the Mangy Snake’s soul ring, unaware that its flaw could give Tang San itchy bumps.

Tang San absorbed the Mangy Snake's Soul Ring and gained Blue Silver Entanglement, while Yu Xiaogang was coerced by three mercenaries as Tang San remained vulnerable. Afterward, Tang San celebrated his new Soul Skill and a breakthrough in his Mysterious Heaven Skill, and he and Yu Xiaogang left the forest.

• Tang San absorbed the Mangy Snake's Soul Ring smoothly, unaware that its venomous traits were merging into his bloodline.
• Three mercenaries confronted Yu Xiaogang, and Brother Scar threatened Tang San to force Yu Xiaogang to comply with him.
• Tang San awoke to find that his Mysterious Heaven Skill bottleneck had broken and learned that his first Soul Skill was Blue Silver Entanglement.
• Tang San demonstrated Blue Silver Entanglement by wrapping his Blue Silver Grass around a tree five meters away.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San they should leave, and Tang San followed him out of the forest.

Li Jin traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest after a poisoned mushroom soup left the Black Wind Ridge bandits unable to attack the caravan. As Li Jin entered the forest to seek his first Soul Ring, the million-year Sky Dream Ice Silkworm decided to hide on him and use his unusual fate to escape its pursuers.

• Phelps warned Li Jin that Black Wind Ridge was dangerous, while Zhou Tong learned that poisonous mushrooms had incapacitated his entire bandit stronghold.
• Phelps left Li Jin near the Star Dou Great Forest, and Li Jin walked into the forest eagerly anticipating his first Soul Ring.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm recounted how it reached 990,000 years of cultivation by eating profound ice marrow, then became a million-year Soul Beast and escaped its captors using Simulation.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm spotted Li Jin and chose to hide on him, hoping his protected fate would conceal it as it fled the Star Dou Great Forest and returned to Bingbing.

Li Jin received the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s million-year sacrifice, but the Nine-Colored Koi turned the beast’s sham sacrifice into a real one and claimed its spiritual origin. Li Jin chose four of the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s skills as the sacrifice continued.

• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm began a sacrifice to Li Jin, hiding his million years of cultivation in his cast-off shell and sending his soul into Li Jin’s mind.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm opened and stabilized Li Jin’s Sea of Consciousness, intending to use Li Jin’s body as a refuge from Di Tian.
• The Nine-Colored Koi entered the Sea of Consciousness and wrested control of the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s spiritual origin from him.
• The Nine-Colored Koi stripped ten masses of spiritual origin from the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and repeatedly knocked him away when he tried to reclaim them.
• Li Jin selected Spiritual Detection, Spiritual Sharing, Spiritual Telekinesis, and Spiritual Bestowal from the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s skills.

Li Jin escaped the Star Dou Great Forest with the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s spiritual origin and the beginnings of a second martial soul, then pressured the silkworm to choose between the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion and the Heavenly Snow Woman. Three days later, he met Yu Xiaogang and Tang San outside Nuoding City, where Tang San challenged him to compare their Soul Rings at Spirit Hall.

• Li Jin discovered that the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s husk could steadily increase his Soul Power and that its origin had given him the beginnings of an ice second martial soul.
• Li Jin subdued the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, read his memories, and threatened to expose his fantasies about the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion unless he helped make her or the Heavenly Snow Woman Li Jin’s second martial soul.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm hesitated over whether to choose the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion or the Heavenly Snow Woman, worried that involving Bingbing would put her in danger.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape received an order from the Lake of Life to find the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm after his false body was exposed.
• Three days later, Li Jin met Yu Xiaogang and Tang San at Nuoding City’s gates, and Yu Xiaogang boasted that Tang San had obtained a hundred-year Soul Ring.
• Jealous of Li Jin, Tang San challenged him to go to Spirit Hall and compare their Soul Rings.

Li Jin went with Yu Xiaogang and Tang San to Spirit Hall to register as a Soul Master, rejecting Yu Xiaogang’s offer to become his disciple. Tang Hao, disguised as a crippled beggar, failed to be recognized by Tang San and suffered another injury flare-up; at Spirit Hall, Ma Xiunuo asked the children to release their Martial Souls.

• Li Jin agreed to visit Spirit Hall with Yu Xiaogang and Tang San, confident in his own Soul Ring.
• Yu Xiaogang lectured Tang San about Soul Master subsidies while belittling a hooded beggar, but Li Jin gave the beggar three Copper Soul Coins and rebuked Yu Xiaogang.
• Li Jin refused Yu Xiaogang’s offer to teach him and hurried to Spirit Hall, while Yu Xiaogang and Tang San followed, planning to show off Tang San’s hundred-year Soul Ring.
• The beggar revealed himself in his thoughts as Tang Hao, who was furious that Tang San did not recognize him and blamed Spirit Hall for his condition.
• Tang Hao’s old injuries flared up, leaving him unable to control his bowels or bladder as passersby avoided him.
• At Spirit Hall, Ma Xiunuo greeted Yu Xiaogang respectfully and asked Tang San and Li Jin to release their Martial Souls.

Li Jin and Tang San registered as Soul Masters after absorbing their first Soul Rings, while Yu Xiaogang mocked Li Jin for having a supposedly weak white ring. The chapter ended with Li Jin’s Soul Power test revealing rank 13, surpassing Tang San’s rank 11 and shocking Yu Xiaogang and Tang San.

• Li Jin revealed his platinum-colored first Soul Ring and Nine-Colored Koi Martial Soul as Tang San showed a yellow Soul Ring and his Martial Soul.
• Yu Xiaogang ridiculed Li Jin’s Soul Ring, while Li Jin’s Nine-Colored Koi devoured the fortune carried by Yu Xiaogang and Tang San’s malice.
• Ma Xiunuo tested Tang San at rank 11, registered him as a Soul Master, and gave him a Gold Soul Coin stipend.
• Ma Xiunuo tested Li Jin and found that he had rank 13 Soul Power.
• Yu Xiaogang declared the crystal ball broken, and Tang San clenched his fists in anger at Li Jin’s higher Soul Power.

Li Jin proved his Soul Power was rank 13, enraging Yu Xiaogang and humiliating Tang San before a falling chandelier injured Yu Xiaogang. After registering as a Soul Master and recovering Tang San’s lost Gold Soul Coin, Li Jin returned to Nuoding Academy, where Xiao Wu welcomed him and declared him her co-ruler.

• Yu Xiaogang tested the crystal ball himself, confirmed Li Jin’s rank 13 Soul Power, and grew furious at Li Jin’s sarcastic remarks.
• A chandelier fell on Yu Xiaogang, injuring him, while Tang San’s Gold Soul Coin slipped into a gap in the floorboards.
• Tang San carried Yu Xiaogang away and insisted his teacher’s guidance would make his own future smoother than Li Jin’s.
• Ma Xiunuo registered Li Jin as a Soul Master and warned him to stay away from Yu Xiaogang; Li Jin used Spiritual Telekinesis to retrieve Tang San’s lost Gold Soul Coin.
• Li Jin returned to Nuoding Academy with candied hawthorns for Xiao Wu, who introduced him to the students and declared that they would rule the academy together.

Tang San returned to the clinic to find Yu Xiaogang had been taken away by Brother Scar, then discovered his paralyzed father, Tang Hao, in an alley. He also stumbled upon Yu Xiaogang in a compromising state, and both men fainted, leaving Tang San reeling.

• Tang San discovered that his Gold Soul Coin was missing, so he went back to Nuoding Academy to borrow money for Yu Xiaogang's clinic bill.
• Brother Scar recognized Yu Xiaogang at the clinic, paid for both their treatments, and had his men take Yu Xiaogang away.
• Tang Hao lay paralyzed at the entrance to the alley beside the Truly Full of Flavor restaurant while Brother Scar and his men left after assaulting Yu Xiaogang.
• Tang San returned to the clinic, learned Yu Xiaogang had already left with someone, and tracked him to the alley.
• Tang San recognized the paralyzed beggar as his father, Tang Hao, who fainted in shame after his son found him.
• Tang San carried Tang Hao deeper into the alley and found Yu Xiaogang pulling up his trousers; Yu Xiaogang panicked and fainted.

Tang San brought the crippled, filthy Tang Hao and injured Yu Xiaogang back to Nuoding Academy, where Xiao Wu and the other students shunned them. After Tang San took them to Yu Xiaogang's attic, it collapsed on all three of them.

• Tang San dragged Tang Hao and Yu Xiaogang into Nuoding Academy, where Xiao Wu and the students recoiled from their stench.
• Xiao Chenyu challenged Tang San but backed off when he saw Tang San's Soul Ring, then ordered him to take Tang Hao elsewhere.
• Xiao Wu told Tang San not to bring Tang Hao to the dorm and left with Li Jin.
• The students decided to spread rumors that Yu Xiaogang had been violated, while Tang San grew jealous of Li Jin and began developing a poisonous lump on his back.
• Tang San washed Tang Hao, tended to Yu Xiaogang, and complained about his bad luck before Yu Xiaogang's attic collapsed, burying all three.