Recaps

Lin Mo, a transmigrator who feared dying young, trained his body in preparation for his six-year-old martial soul awakening. At Soul Emperor Village’s ceremony, Su Yuntao began the awakening, and Lin Mo recognized him as a figure connected to Tang San’s rise.

• Lin Mo recalled his previous lives on Earth and in the Pokémon world, which had left him determined to stay healthy and live long.
• Lin Mo learned from Uncle Wang that Su Yuntao had arrived to conduct the village children’s martial soul awakening ceremony.
• Village Chief Lin brought Lin Mo and the other children to the village Spirit Hall, where Su Yuntao introduced himself as a two-ring Battle Soul Master.
• Su Yuntao mentioned a child with Blue Silver Grass and innate full soul power, prompting Lin Mo to recognize the reference to Tang San.
• Su Yuntao arranged six black stones, summoned his Lone Wolf martial soul, and began the ceremony.

Lin Mo awakened a Charmander Pokémon Egg as his Martial Soul and discovered that he had level-six innate Soul Power. He later realized he had also awakened a second Martial Soul, a heart body, and set his sights on reaching level ten to hatch Charmander.

• Lin Mo volunteered to undergo the Martial Soul Awakening ceremony, and golden motes entered his body before an egg appeared in his arms.
• Lin Mo saw a private panel identify the egg as an unhatched Charmander Pokémon Egg that required level-ten Soul Power to hatch.
• Lin Mo tested his Soul Power and produced a dazzling light from the crystal ball, prompting Su Yuntao to reveal that he had level-six innate Soul Power and invite him to join Spirit Hall.
• Lin Mo asked to discuss the invitation with the village chief, accepted his Spirit Hall certificate, and returned to the end of the line.
• Lin Mo inspected his own panel and discovered that he had twin Martial Souls: the Charmander Pokémon Egg and a heart body Martial Soul with blood.

After the awakening ceremony, Lin Mo learned that his rank-six Soul Power came with an egg-shaped Martial Soul that others dismissed as useless. Village Chief Lin arranged for him to attend Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy, where Lin Mo planned to cultivate and investigate how to hatch Charmander and evolve his heart Body Martial Soul.

• Lin Mo reflected on his panel’s information that Charmander would hatch when his Soul Power reached rank ten and that his heart Body Martial Soul could evolve under unknown conditions.
• Su Yuntao finished awakening the village children and told the villagers that Lin Mo had rank-six Innate Soul Power but an apparently useless egg Martial Soul.
• Village Chief Lin offered to secure the shared work-study place for Lin Mo at Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy, and Lin Mo firmly agreed to become a Soul Master.
• Lin Mo welcomed the chance to study cultivation and the world’s Martial Souls while planning to reach Soul Power rank ten and hatch Charmander.
• Lin Mo decided he would have to independently discover how to cultivate and awaken his heart Body Martial Soul, and how to meet its evolution requirements.

Lin Mo traveled with the village chief to Nuoding City to enroll at Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy, explaining that he had refused Su Yuntao’s offer to join Spirit Hall. After reaching the academy, he was ready to seek the meditation method he needed to improve his cultivation.

• The village chief asked Lin Mo why he had refused Su Yuntao’s invitation to join Spirit Hall, and Lin Mo gave caution as his reason while privately resolving to avoid Bibi Dong’s faction.
• The village chief accepted Lin Mo’s decision and encouraged him to become a powerful Soul Master.
• Lin Mo recalled that cultivating with Charmander’s Pokémon Egg had brought his Soul Power to the peak of level six and that his research had developed his Body Martial Soul technique, Blood Burst.
• Lin Mo and the village chief arrived in Nuoding City, left their cart at a village stall, and found Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy after asking for directions.

Lin Mo enrolled at Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy as a working student, revealing his unusual egg martial soul to the staff. He arrived at Dorm Seven just after Tang San defeated Wang Sheng and settled in without challenging the dorm’s new boss.

• Lin Mo entered the academy after the gatekeeper verified his Spirit Hall certificate, then said goodbye to the village chief.
• At the academic affairs office, Director Su examined Lin Mo’s Pokémon Egg martial soul but found no clues, then assigned him to Dorm Seven as a working student.
• Lin Mo reached Dorm Seven after Tang San kicked Wang Sheng into submission and became the dorm’s boss.
• Lin Mo chose a clean bed, put down his belongings, and summoned his egg martial soul while telling the other students he was not a combat-type Soul Master.

Lin Mo joined Dorm Seven, shared fruit with the work-study students, and learned that Tang San would lead the dorm. When new student Xiao Wu arrived, she challenged Tang San for the position and threw him with a leg lock.

• Lin Mo declined to challenge Tang San for Dorm Seven's leadership, explaining that his egg martial soul seemed useless and he wanted to keep a low profile.
• Tang San asked the students to call him dorm leader, while Lin Mo shared village fruit with the dormitory and offered some to an awkward Tang San.
• Xiao Wu arrived as a new work-study student, and Wang Sheng explained that the academy dorms housed boys and girls together.
• At Wang Sheng's urging, Tang San told Xiao Wu she had to demonstrate her strength to challenge for dorm leader.
• Xiao Wu attacked Tang San, slipped free of his grip, wrapped her legs around his neck, and used his forward momentum to throw him backward.

Xiao Wu defeated Tang San and became Dorm Seven’s boss, while she, Tang San, and Lin Mo learned about their duties as working students at Nuoding Academy. Lin Mo kept his distance from the two newcomers and planned to rely on the academy for Soul Hunting before moving on after his egg hatched.

• Xiao Wu defeated Tang San, who admitted his loss, and claimed the title of Dorm Seven’s boss.
• Lin Mo offered Xiao Wu fruit, and she asked Wang Sheng about the academy and then tried to touch Lin Mo’s egg.
• Teacher Mo Hen assigned Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Lin Mo to clean the garden south of the playground for ten Copper Soul Coins a day.
• Xiao Wu and Tang San agreed to push their beds together and share a quilt.
• Lin Mo resolved to keep his distance from Tang San and Xiao Wu while planning to obtain a Soul Ring with academy support and leave Nuoding Academy after Charmander hatched.

Lin Mo joined his roommates for lunch at Nuoding Academy, where he saw Tang San wait for Yu Xiaogang and chose to keep his distance from them. Over the next half year, Lin Mo settled into academy life, found a secluded rear hill to study his second Martial Soul, and watched Tang San defeat Xiao Chenyu.

• Wang Sheng invited Lin Mo, Tang San, and Xiao Wu to the cafeteria, and he offered to pay for the others while Lin Mo said he had enough money for his own meals.
• At the cafeteria, Xiao Wu argued with Xiao Chenyu’s group, while Tang San rejected Wang Sheng’s kindness and waited for Yu Xiaogang after eating coarse flatbread.
• Lin Mo avoided Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, then explored the academy and discovered a secluded rear hill where he could investigate his second Martial Soul away from Tang San and Tang Hao.
• Over the next half year, Lin Mo adjusted to studying and living at Nuoding Academy, passed the reading test, and gained permission to borrow library books.
• Lin Mo found the academy’s Basic Soul Power Calm Mind Method only slightly faster than his own method, and Tang San defeated Xiao Chenyu after returning with his first Soul Ring.

Lin Mo’s cultivation reached the peak of level nine as he balanced his studies, library work, and nightly training with the Charmander egg. He left for the academy’s back mountain, determined to hatch it before seeking his first soul ring.

• Xiao Chenyu’s group took over the working students’ assigned labor while the working students continued receiving their wages.
• Lin Mo explained to Xiao Wu and Tang San that he had been exempted from academic classes and was studying independently or under his teacher.
• Lin Mo asked Xiao Wu and Tang San to cover for him again that night while he cultivated on the back mountain.
• Lin Mo recalled that his awakened heart martial soul had improved his organs and digestion, and that his library job helped him cover his expenses.
• Lin Mo carried the Charmander egg to the secluded back mountain, intent on hatching it as his soul power neared level ten.

Lin Mo cultivated on Nuoding Academy’s back hill and broke through to level ten Soul Power. The breakthrough triggered Charmander’s egg to hatch, reuniting him with his old companion.

• Lin Mo went to the back hill with Charmander’s egg and prepared to break through his level-nine bottleneck.
• Lin Mo reviewed his Soul Power and Blood Burst technique, then steadied himself before cultivating.
• Lin Mo repeatedly guided his Soul Power against the bottleneck as Charmander’s egg grew hot in response.
• Lin Mo broke through to level ten Soul Power, and the egg began glowing and cracking.
• Charmander hatched and stood beside Lin Mo in the pavilion.

Lin Mo watched Charmander hatch and reunited with the partner he had lost, then discovered Charmander’s Entei talent and many mastered skills. With Charmander’s powerful martial soul giving him a public explanation for his talent, Lin Mo planned to rely on it while keeping his stronger second martial soul secret.

• Charmander hatched, recognized Lin Mo, and reunited with him in an emotional embrace.
• Lin Mo examined Charmander’s panel and learned it had level-ten soul power, the Entei talent, and eight mastered skills.
• Lin Mo understood that Entei could fuse different flames, starting with Charmander’s Blaze.
• Lin Mo decided Charmander could display his strength publicly while he concealed his second martial soul.
• Lin Mo and Charmander reaffirmed their partnership and set their sights on growing stronger.

After breaking through to rank ten, Lin Mo returned to Dorm Seven and revealed that his egg martial soul had hatched. He asked his dormmates to keep it secret so he could use it to improve his final exam results and secure a better soul ring, then admitted he had already reached rank ten.

• Lin Mo returned to Dorm Seven without the egg, and told the curious work-study students that it had hatched.
• Wang Sheng and the other students were shocked that a martial soul could hatch, and asked Lin Mo to show them what had emerged.
• Lin Mo agreed to reveal his new martial soul if everyone kept its hatching secret until the final exams.
• Xiao Wu pledged Dorm Seven’s support, and the students, including Tang San, agreed not to tell anyone.
• Wang Sheng asked whether Lin Mo could reach rank ten before the school year ended, and Tang San sensed that he already had.
• Lin Mo confirmed that he had just broken through to rank ten.

Lin Mo revealed that he had reached Soul Power Level ten and showed the newly hatched Charmander Martial Soul to the work-study students. He introduced Charmander as an external beast Martial Soul like Grandmaster's Luo Sanpao, while keeping its abilities and his second Martial Soul secret.

• Wang Sheng and the other students were astonished when Lin Mo confirmed that he had reached level ten.
• Lin Mo summoned Charmander, who breathed a small burst of fire when Xiao Wu tried to pet him, and Lin Mo soothed him.
• Lin Mo apologized to Xiao Wu and explained that Charmander was shy around strangers.
• Wang Sheng compared Charmander to Grandmaster's Luo Sanpao, and Lin Mo confirmed that Charmander was an external beast Martial Soul.
• Lin Mo kept Charmander's talents and skills, as well as his second Martial Soul, secret.

After Tang San revealed Lin Mo’s changed Martial Soul and breakthrough to Yu Xiaogang and Wang Zongchang, the two confronted Lin Mo to inspect Charmander. Yu Xiaogang offered to take Lin Mo as a disciple, but Lin Mo remained wary of him.

• After the others left Dorm Seven, Tang San composed himself and left for class with Lin Mo.
• After the morning lessons, Yu Xiaogang and Wang Zongchang stopped Lin Mo and asked to see his Martial Soul, having heard that it had changed and that he had reached rank ten.
• Lin Mo questioned how they had learned the news and recognized Tang San, standing nearby, as the one who had leaked it.
• Yu Xiaogang admitted his interest in Lin Mo’s rare external beast Martial Soul and offered to take him as a disciple if he could examine it.
• Lin Mo hid his disdain as Yu Xiaogang presented his offer with confidence.

Lin Mo rejected Yu Xiaogang as a teacher but agreed to show his new martial soul to Dean Wang Zongchang in exchange for help obtaining a hundred-year first soul ring. Yu Xiaogang then arranged for Lin Mo to spar with Tang San so he could assess Charmander’s abilities.

• Lin Mo bluntly told Yu Xiaogang that he did not want him as a master, citing their incompatible martial souls and Yu Xiaogang’s lack of practical experience protecting students during soul-ring hunts.
• Wang Zongchang explained that he and Yu Xiaogang wanted to see Lin Mo’s newly hatched martial soul and offered to help him obtain a suitable hundred-year soul ring during the academy’s Soul Hunting Operation.
• Lin Mo weighed the offer and agreed to let them observe Charmander in exchange for Wang Zongchang’s help.
• Yu Xiaogang called Tang San over and proposed that he spar with Lin Mo so he could assess Charmander’s combat abilities.
• Lin Mo accepted the spar and prepared to test Charmander against Tang San and his Tang Sect techniques.

Lin Mo agreed to spar with Tang San at the academy, provided that they used only their Martial Souls and Soul Skills. The match was about to begin as Yu Xiaogang and Headmaster Wang Zongchang saw Charmander for the first time.

• Headmaster Wang Zongchang led Lin Mo, Tang San, and Yu Xiaogang to a secluded teachers' sparring ground.
• Lin Mo insisted that Tang San not use hidden weapons, and Yu Xiaogang agreed on Tang San's behalf.
• Tang San agreed to use only his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, while Wang Zongchang volunteered to referee and protect them.
• Lin Mo summoned Charmander, and Yu Xiaogang and Wang Zongchang stared in surprise at the living Martial Soul.

Lin Mo and Tang San began their spar, and Charmander’s flames easily burned through Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass. As Tang San rushed through the smoke toward Lin Mo, Charmander’s Smokescreen blinded him and left the match unresolved.

• Yu Xiaogang recognized that Lin Mo’s Charmander was far stronger than his own Luo Sanpao, while Dean Wang Zongchang set the rules for the spar.
• Tang San summoned his Blue Silver Grass and used Entanglement as Lin Mo sent Charmander to fight.
• Charmander countered Tang San’s incoming vines with Ember, burning them away despite Tang San’s attempts to attack from different angles.
• Tang San changed tactics and rushed toward Lin Mo, hoping to exploit the weakness of an external beast Martial Soul.
• Charmander released Smokescreen, engulfing Tang San and blinding him as he charged.

Lin Mo’s Charmander defeated Tang San in their spar, prompting Dean Wang Zongchang to promise to take Lin Mo to obtain a hundred-year Soul Ring. The chapter ended with Tang San reeling from his loss while Wang Zongchang judged Lin Mo to be an exceptional talent worth investing in.

• Charmander used Smokescreen to blind Tang San and followed with an Ember attack that forced him to defend himself.
• Dean Wang Zongchang intervened to dispel the attack and declared Lin Mo the winner.
• Tang San struggled to accept his defeat, while Yu Xiaogang reacted with a grim expression.
• Wang Zongchang praised Lin Mo’s Charmander and promised to take him to the Soul Hunting Forest in one week to obtain a suitable hundred-year Soul Ring.
• Lin Mo thanked Wang Zongchang, who privately concluded that Lin Mo was even more worthy of investment than Tang San.

Lin Mo explained Charmander’s fire and Smokescreen as innate instincts, hiding that it had already mastered multiple moves, and Wang Zongchang arranged to take him to the Soul Hunting Forest in a week. Back in Dorm Seven, Lin Mo revealed the dean had seen Charmander, then silently looked toward Tang San when Xiao Wu questioned how the secret had reached him.

• Yu Xiaogang questioned how Charmander could use flames and black smoke without a Soul Ring, and Lin Mo said they were innate instincts of its Martial Soul.
• Wang Zongchang supported Lin Mo’s explanation with the example of his Lie Yan Blade, and Yu Xiaogang dropped his questions.
• Wang Zongchang told Lin Mo to rest and reminded him that they would go to the Soul Hunting Forest in a week.
• Tang San regretted telling Yu Xiaogang about Lin Mo’s changed Martial Soul as Wang Sheng asked Lin Mo what had happened at noon.
• Lin Mo said the dean had heard about Charmander and inspected it, and Xiao Wu questioned how the dean had learned the secret so quickly.
• Lin Mo looked directly at Tang San without saying anything.

Tang San admitted that he had told Yu Xiaogang about Lin Mo's Charmander Martial Soul, claiming he had acted out of concern while privately hoping Yu could use it to overcome his cultivation bottleneck. Lin Mo rejected Tang San's excuse, and the revelation left a rift between Tang San and the other Dorm Seven students.

• Tang San confessed that he had told Yu Xiaogang about Lin Mo's Martial Soul, saying he wanted Yu to investigate it for Lin Mo's benefit.
• Lin Mo recognized that Tang San had broken their agreement in hopes of helping Yu Xiaogang, and told him he no longer wanted that kind of kindness.
• Wang Sheng promised to keep Lin Mo's secret, easing the dorm's tension with a joke from Lin Mo.
• Xiao Wu criticized Tang San for telling the Grandmaster without Lin Mo's permission, and other students regarded Tang San with new wariness.
• Tang San could not defend his actions and silently returned to his bed.

Lin Mo traveled with Dean Wang Zongchang to the Soul Hunting Forest to obtain his first Soul Ring and explained the requirements he had planned for his Charmander Martial Soul. Impressed by Lin Mo’s knowledge and preparation, Dean Wang promised to let him access the academy library’s second floor after they returned.

• Lin Mo packed his luggage and joined Dean Wang Zongchang in a carriage leaving Nuoding City for the Soul Hunting Forest.
• Dean Wang asked Lin Mo what kind of Soul Beast he wanted for his first Soul Ring.
• Lin Mo said he preferred a fire-attribute Soul Beast or one with an earth dragon bloodline, with a powerful innate Soul Skill as a fallback.
• Dean Wang tested Lin Mo’s knowledge of Soul Master cultivation and common Soul Beasts, and Lin Mo answered fluently.
• Dean Wang praised Lin Mo for making good use of the library and told him he could access its second floor after returning from the Soul Hunting Forest.

Dean Wang brought Lin Mo to the Soul Hunting Forest to help him obtain his first Soul Ring. After passing the checkpoint, they headed toward the habitat of hundred-year Soul Beasts, where Lin Mo anticipated Charmander’s first Soul Skill.

• Lin Mo thanked Dean Wang for his support and promised to work harder.
• Dean Wang brought Lin Mo to the Soul Hunting Forest and showed the Soul Hunting Warrant to the guard at the checkpoint.
• Dean Wang introduced Lin Mo to Old Li as a gifted student who had reached the rank-ten bottleneck in less than a year.
• Dean Wang led Lin Mo into the forest, where Lin Mo summoned Charmander to guard him.
• Dean Wang bypassed the outer area and led Lin Mo toward the hundred-year Soul Beasts as Lin Mo eagerly awaited his first Soul Ring.

Lin Mo chose a nearly four-hundred-year-old Torkoal as Charmander’s first Soul Ring, hoping to gain a powerful fire skill or an ability like Sunny Day. After Wang Zongchang helped Charmander kill the Torkoal, Charmander absorbed its Yellow Soul Ring and Lin Mo began guiding the incoming power.

• Lin Mo rejected a two-hundred-year-old Cyndaquil and a Saber-Toothed Earth Dragon, then chose the older Torkoal for its fire attribute and possible Sunny Day ability.
• Lin Mo and Wang Zongchang found the Torkoal again, and Wang summoned his Lie Yan Blade Martial Soul and attacked it with his third Soul Skill, Lie Yan Slash.
• Wang Zongchang severely wounded the Torkoal and broke its shell, then called Lin Mo and Charmander over to finish it.
• Lin Mo ordered Charmander to strike the Torkoal’s wound with Metal Claw, killing it and leaving a Yellow Soul Ring.
• Charmander swallowed the Soul Ring, and Lin Mo focused on guiding and refining the power flowing through their connection.

Lin Mo succeeded in absorbing a Soul Ring and reached Soul Power Level twelve, gaining the Soul Skill Flame Body, which he concealed by demonstrating a fake Flame Charge. On the journey back to Nuoding Academy, he discovered that Charmander had also learned Dragon Breath and could evolve upon reaching Soul Power Level thirty.

• Lin Mo absorbed the Soul Ring, became a One-Ring Soul Master at level twelve, and learned that Charmander's new Soul Skill was Flame Body.
• Lin Mo had Charmander demonstrate a weakened Flare Blitz as Flame Charge, concealing Flame Body from Wang Zongchang.
• Wang Zongchang praised the displayed skill, then escorted Lin Mo safely out of the Soul Hunting Forest and toward Nuoding Academy.
• Lin Mo inspected his panels in the carriage and saw that Charmander had learned Dragon Breath and gained an evolution requirement of Soul Power Level thirty.

Lin Mo analyzed Charmander’s evolution requirements and inferred that its later evolutions were tied to Soul Power milestones. He concluded that his heart Body Martial Soul likely required some external intervention to evolve, and began considering what might provide it.

• Lin Mo reviewed how Soul Power levels ten, thirty, fifty, and seventy marked major cultivation thresholds for Soul Masters.
• Lin Mo inferred that Charmander might evolve into Charmeleon at level thirty and into Charizard at level fifty.
• Lin Mo compared Charmander’s listed requirements with his heart Body Martial Soul’s panel, which still showed its evolution requirements as “Unknown.”
• Lin Mo concluded that raising Soul Power alone probably would not evolve his second Martial Soul and began searching for a possible external force.