Chapter Summaries

At Nuoding Academy, Gu Chen confronted Yu Xiaogang after the self-proclaimed Grandmaster insulted him, then tore apart Yu’s reputation and theories in front of a crowd. Director Su stopped Yu from attacking, and Yu left with Tang San after threatening to have Gu Chen expelled.

• Yu Xiaogang praised his guidance to Tang San while disparaging Gu Chen’s level-one Innate Soul Power and Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul.
• Gu Chen rebuked Yu for belittling him and accused him of relying on Tang San’s talent to gain fame and fortune.
• Gu Chen criticized Yu’s Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul as students gathered and applauded him.
• Yu Xiaogang summoned Luo Sanpao to attack Gu Chen, but Director Su stepped in and warned him against harming an academy student.
• Yu Xiaogang backed down, threatened to have Gu Chen expelled, and left with Tang San.

Gu Chen used Director Su’s intervention to escape Yu Xiaogang’s confrontation, then revealed that his cheat had upgraded his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul and explained the rare materials needed for its next upgrade. Yu Xiaogang appealed to Academy Director Chen Qingfeng to have Gu Chen expelled.

• Gu Chen thanked Director Su for protecting him, and Director Su promised to help if Yu Xiaogang targeted him.
• Xiao Chenyu praised Gu Chen for insulting Yu Xiaogang and offered to back him at the academy.
• Gu Chen returned toward Dorm Seven and reflected on his past life, his fear of Tang San, and his Upgrade All Things cheat.
• Gu Chen inspected his Blue Silver General upgrade panel and recalled raising his Innate Soul Power from level one to level three by upgrading Blue Silver Grass.
• Yu Xiaogang barged into Chen Qingfeng’s office and demanded that the academy director expel Gu Chen for insulting him.

Dean Chen chose to keep the new student and told Yu Xiaogang to leave Nuoding Academy. Yu Xiaogang regretted his impulsive ultimatum, then persuaded Tang San that his teachings could make him a god and turned him against Gu Chen.

• Dean Chen refused Yu Xiaogang's demand to expel a new student, citing Yu Xiaogang's years of unreasonable complaints and mistreatment of students.
• Yu Xiaogang demanded that Dean Chen choose between him and the new student, and Dean Chen told him to leave.
• Yu Xiaogang stormed out, then regretted leaving because he had no savings or other income.
• Yu Xiaogang reassured Tang San by claiming the academy failed to recognize his talent and explaining his plan for Tang San's Twin Martial Souls.
• Yu Xiaogang vowed to devote his knowledge to making Tang San a god, and Tang San blamed Gu Chen for humiliating his teacher.

At Nuoding Academy, Gu Chen stayed out of the fight over Dorm Seven’s leadership while Xiao Wu defeated Wang Sheng and claimed the title. Tang San then confronted Gu Chen over Yu Xiaogang’s humiliation and demanded that he apologize, leaving their conflict unresolved.

• Gu Chen arrived at Dorm Seven and refused Wang Sheng’s attempt to make him follow the dorm’s usual hierarchy, citing Xiao Chenyu’s protection.
• Xiao Wu arrived, defeated Wang Sheng, and declared herself the boss of Dorm Seven.
• Gu Chen declined to acknowledge Xiao Wu as his boss unless she first defeated Xiao Chenyu, and Xiao Wu ordered Wang Sheng to challenge him.
• Gu Chen prepared to leave with a wooden box, but Tang San entered and blocked his way.
• Tang San demanded that Gu Chen kowtow to Yu Xiaogang and apologize, threatening to make him pay if he refused.

Gu Chen turned Tang San against the students of Dorm Seven by accusing him of siding with Yu Xiaogang against a fellow villager, and the group joined in condemning Yu Xiaogang and Tang San. Tang San’s anger boiled over, and he attacked Wang Sheng and the others.

• Gu Chen accused Tang San of demanding that a fellow villager kowtow to Yu Xiaogang and reminded him of Grandpa Jack’s advice to support one another.
• The students of Dorm Seven sided with Gu Chen, criticizing Tang San and describing Yu Xiaogang as a notorious freeloader who bullied students.
• Xiao Wu asked Wang Sheng about Yu Xiaogang, and Wang Sheng explained why the academy students disliked him.
• Tang San demanded that everyone apologize to his teacher, while Gu Chen portrayed him as brainwashed and unlike the sensible boy from Holy Soul Village.
• The students threatened to drive Tang San out of Dorm Seven if he kept forcing Gu Chen to apologize, and Tang San finally lashed out at Wang Sheng and the others.

Tang San fought the students of Dorm Seven until Xiao Wu defeated him with her Eight-Stage Throw, and the students retaliated before Yu Xiaogang arrived. Yu Xiaogang summoned Luo Sanpao and unleashed its thunderous fart, while Gu Chen escaped with Xiao Wu.

• Tang San beat most of the students in Dorm Seven and demanded that they apologize to Yu Xiaogang.
• Xiao Wu confronted Tang San, used her Waist Bow and Eight-Stage Throw to defeat him, and Gu Chen secretly helped by tripping him with Blue Silver Grass.
• Wang Sheng and the other students rushed Tang San while he was dazed and beat him until Yu Xiaogang stopped them and rescued his disciple.
• Yu Xiaogang summoned Luo Sanpao after the students accused him and Tang San of being shameless, and Gu Chen fled Dorm Seven with Xiao Wu.
• Yu Xiaogang shouted a command to Luo Sanpao, which unleashed a thunderous fart and left Xiao Wu pale with relief that she had escaped.

After Yu Xiaogang attacked Dorm Seven with his Soul Skill, Gu Chen and Xiao Wu reported him to Director Su, who beat him until the patrol team arrived. Gu Chen and Xiao Wu testified, and the patrol team arrested Yu Xiaogang and Tang San, who vowed to take revenge.

• Gu Chen led Xiao Wu to the academic affairs office and reported that Yu Xiaogang had forced his way into Dorm Seven and used a Soul Skill on the students.
• Director Su rushed to Dorm Seven and beat Yu Xiaogang whenever he tried to release Luo Sanpao's Soul Skill.
• Tang San came out to stop Director Su, but Director Su continued beating Yu Xiaogang until he could no longer stand.
• Captain Ye arrived with the patrol team, and Gu Chen and Xiao Wu explained what had happened.
• Captain Ye ordered the patrol team to arrest Yu Xiaogang and Tang San, who was taken away vowing revenge on everyone present.

Gu Chen took Xiao Wu to register at Spirit Hall, then sold a hundred-year-old ganoderma at the Seven Treasure Pavilion for two hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins. The shopkeeper agreed to the deal, while Gu Chen’s upgrade panel appeared over the ganoderma.

• Gu Chen and Xiao Wu avoided Dorm Seven after Yu Xiaogang’s Soul Skill left its residents injured and the room reeking.
• Gu Chen explained Spirit Hall’s monthly allowances for registered Soul Masters, and Xiao Wu got excited about using the money to buy carrots.
• Gu Chen and Xiao Wu completed their Soul Master registrations at the Spirit Hall Branch.
• Gu Chen visited the Seven Treasure Pavilion and offered the shopkeeper a hundred-year-old ganoderma for sale.
• The shopkeeper offered two hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, and Gu Chen accepted the price.
• Xiao Wu marveled at the ganoderma’s value as Gu Chen saw his upgrade panel appear above it.

Gu Chen sold a Hundred-Year Ganoderma to the Seven Treasure Pavilion for 200,000 Gold Soul Coins and bought a small Space Soul Tool after haggling with the shopkeeper. The chapter ended with Gu Chen noticing that the Space Soul Tool had an upgrade panel.

• Gu Chen considered upgrading the Hundred-Year Ganoderma into a Thousand-Year Ganoderma but chose not to risk attracting attention.
• Gu Chen explained that he needed money to search for different crabapple flowers and eventually find the one needed to upgrade his Blue Silver General Martial Soul.
• The Seven Treasure Pavilion shopkeeper gave Gu Chen two red cards, each holding 100,000 Gold Soul Coins, in exchange for the Hundred-Year Ganoderma.
• The shopkeeper offered Gu Chen a Space Soul Tool with 0.1 cubic meters of storage for 50,000 Gold Soul Coins.
• Gu Chen haggled the shopkeeper down to 25,000 Gold Soul Coins and bought the Space Soul Tool.
• Gu Chen saw an upgrade panel appear above the Space Soul Tool.

Gu Chen discovered that upgrading his Space Soul Tool would grant him a Space Mark skill that could jump him to a marked location, and he arranged to obtain the materials. After Xiao Wu questioned the sale of Soul Beast remains, Gu Chen and Xiao Wu settled into the Rose Hotel while he commissioned the void metal; Tang San and his master remained imprisoned.

• Gu Chen noticed that upgrading his Space Soul Tool would give it a one-cubic-meter capacity and the Space Mark skill, so he bought it and ordered Ten-Year Space-type Soul Beast remains from the Seven Treasure Pavilion shopkeeper.
• Gu Chen collected his change, asked the shopkeeper to deliver the remains to Nuoding Academy within a week, and left the pavilion with Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu asked Gu Chen whether selling Soul Beasts was cruel, and Gu Chen replied that the weak were prey to the strong.
• Gu Chen paid for a month at the Rose Hotel, then commissioned Ten Refinement void metal from a smithy owner, who promised it in seven days.
• Gu Chen returned to the hotel and fell asleep while Tang San and his master remained arrested and imprisoned.

Yu Xiaogang and Tang San endured a brutal night in prison, while Gu Chen began the school year at Nuoding Academy and focused on choosing the right Soul Ring for his Blue Silver Grass. His first class ended with an upgrade panel appearing above the Basic Meditation Method.

• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San were sentenced to prison and placed in a cell with Scar, Wolong, and Fengchu, who attacked them during the night.
• Gu Chen woke after a comfortable hotel stay and persuaded the sleepy Xiao Wu to get ready for school.
• Gu Chen visited his injured Dorm Seven classmates with fruit, and they blamed Tang San for their injuries.
• Gu Chen paid for Xiao Wu and himself to change from work-study students to regular students at Nuoding Academy.
• Gu Chen attended his first class, where an upgrade panel appeared above the Basic Meditation Method.

Gu Chen studied the Nuoding Academy meditation method, then bought begonia flowers from Ye Family Pharmacy after confirming their upgrade potential. He left the city to hunt life-attribute Soul Beasts, while Yu Xiaogang awoke in prison and feared what awaited him.

• Gu Chen compared the Nuoding Academy meditation method with the Spirit Hall version and realized that different versions might make future upgrades easier to supply.
• After cultivation class, Gu Chen visited Ye Family Pharmacy and bought its last two begonia flowers, whose upgrade panel showed they could improve with a ten-year life-attribute Soul Beast corpse.
• Gu Chen chose to gather Soul Beast corpses himself and left Nuoding City to search for Blue Silver Grass Soul Beasts.
• Yu Xiaogang awoke in prison to severe pain and saw Brother Scar grinning at him, making him believe he was in hell.

Gu Chen returned with a basket of harvested Blue Silver Grass Soul Beasts, alarming Xiao Wu and exposing that he knew she was a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit. He claimed a god had granted him the power to evolve his Martial Soul and said he needed Soul Beasts as materials, then prepared to demonstrate it to Xiao Wu.

• Gu Chen returned to the Rose Hotel carrying a basket full of Blue Silver Grass Soul Beast remains.
• Xiao Wu woke outside Gu Chen's room, saw the harvested Soul Beasts, and feared he would hunt her if he learned her identity.
• Gu Chen pulled Xiao Wu into his room and revealed that he knew she was a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit.
• Gu Chen claimed a god had chosen him after his Martial Soul awakened and given him Divine Power of Evolution that required Soul Beasts as consumables.
• Gu Chen summoned his Blue Silver General and offered to demonstrate its evolution power to Xiao Wu.

Gu Chen demonstrated his Divine Power of Evolution to Xiao Wu and discovered that her Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul could evolve into a spatial-type Void Rabbit. He promised to obtain the materials she needed, and Xiao Wu offered to guide him to the Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Gu Chen upgraded the Spirit Hall edition of the Basic Meditation Method using the Nuoding Academy edition and ten-year Blue Silver Grass remains, but Xiao Wu could not recognize the change.
• Gu Chen evolved a living ten-year Blue Silver Grass into a fully restored hundred-year Blue Silver Grass, leaving Xiao Wu stunned.
• Xiao Wu asked Gu Chen to evolve her, and he examined her Martial Soul and found its upgrade path led to a spatial-type Void Rabbit.
• Gu Chen told Xiao Wu that her evolution required a hundred-year spatial-type Soul Beast and Soul Ring, and Xiao Wu realized she could not reach the Star Dou Great Forest from Nuoding City.
• Gu Chen promised to order the needed materials from the Seven Treasure Pavilion, and Xiao Wu offered to take him to the Star Dou Great Forest and have Da Ming and Er Ming catch Soul Beasts for him.

Gu Chen used Blue Silver Grass Soul Beast remains to create a thousand-year Crabapple Spirit Flower, then had Xiao Wu help him wear down a thousand-year Blue Silver Grass. He used its remains, Soul Ring, and the spirit herb to evolve his Martial Soul into the Blue Silver King, raising his Soul Power to level 8.

• Gu Chen upgraded a crabapple flower into a thousand-year Crabapple Spirit Flower using Soul Beast remains, while Xiao Wu watched and agreed to help him fight a thousand-year Blue Silver Grass.
• Gu Chen gave Xiao Wu a dagger and had her battle the thousand-year Blue Silver Grass, which attacked with many leaves and rapidly regenerated.
• Xiao Wu kept the Blue Silver Grass occupied until its attacks weakened, allowing Gu Chen to cut through its stem and kill it.
• Gu Chen combined the Blue Silver Grass's remains and Thousand-Year Soul Ring with the Crabapple Spirit Flower to evolve his Martial Soul.
• Gu Chen's Blue Silver General transformed into the Blue Silver King, and his Soul Power rose from level 4 to level 8.

Gu Chen discovered that upgrading his Blue Silver King into the Blue Silver Emperor required rare ten-thousand-year resources, so he planned to strengthen himself with medicinal herbs and seek help from Xiao Wu’s allies. Meanwhile, Tang Hao remained hidden beside Ah Yin’s grave, unaware that Gu Chen had exposed Xiao Wu’s identity.

• Gu Chen promised Xiao Wu he would evolve her Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul, and she enthusiastically pledged to follow him.
• Gu Chen paid the Rose Hotel manager far more than the room’s damage cost and settled into a new room.
• Gu Chen checked the Blue Silver King’s upgrade requirements and realized that obtaining a ten-thousand-year Soul Bone would prevent him from upgrading it soon.
• Gu Chen planned to raise his Soul Power with medicinal herbs and eventually ask Da Ming and Er Ming for help, believing Tang Hao was absent from Nuoding City.
• Tang Hao drank beside Ah Yin’s grave and vowed that he would make Spirit Hall pay, while placing his hopes for revenge on Tang San.

Gu Chen studied the Intermediate Life Meditation Method and gathered materials to upgrade his Space Soul Tool. After buying a spatial Soul Beast corpse and forging materials, he upgraded the tool into a Space Ring, giving himself a potential means of escaping Tang Hao.

• Gu Chen memorized and learned the Intermediate Life Meditation Method, then decided to seek the materials needed to upgrade it.
• At the Seven Treasure Pavilion, Gu Chen collected a Ten-Year Hollow Wood Parasol Tree corpse, bought an Intermediate Meditation Method, and ordered two living Hundred-Year spatial-attribute Soul Beasts.
• Gu Chen collected a tenfold-forged piece of void metal from the blacksmith and ordered two more.
• Gu Chen used the Hollow Wood Parasol Tree corpse and void metal to upgrade his Space Soul Tool into a Space Ring.

Gu Chen considered where to place the Space Mark and planned to upgrade his Space Ring into a Space-Rending Ring. Xiao Wu visited after defeating Xiao Chenyu for Nuoding Academy’s boss position, but Gu Chen made her call him “Brother Chen” again by reminding her that he could evolve her Martial Soul.

• Gu Chen identified Tang Hao as a likely threat and examined the Space Ring’s upgrade requirements, including Hundred Refinement void metal and a hundred-year space-type Soul Beast corpse.
• Gu Chen decided he would pursue the Space-Rending Ring’s Space Jump skill and believed he could eventually upgrade ten-refinement void metal to meet the forging requirement.
• Xiao Wu confronted Gu Chen for missing her challenge against the upperclassmen and told him she had defeated Xiao Chenyu to become Nuoding Academy’s boss.
• Xiao Wu tried to use her new position to get Gu Chen to call her Sister Xiao Wu, but Gu Chen refused and reminded her that he could evolve her Martial Soul.
• Xiao Wu reluctantly shouted “Brother Chen,” and Gu Chen patted her head.

Gu Chen upgraded his meditation method, stole Yu Xiaogang’s research materials, and settled into a quiet routine while Xiao Wu enjoyed her freedom. Meanwhile, Bibi Dong ordered Yu Xiaogang released and Gu Chen imprisoned, as Tang Hao raced toward Nuoding City on foot.

• Gu Chen upgraded the Intermediate Life Meditation Method to the Advanced Life Meditation Method and found that the Top-Tier upgrade required rare materials, including a thousand-year life-type Soul Bone.
• Gu Chen took Soul Beast records and Yu Xiaogang’s meditation method from his office, then discovered through his upgrade cheat that the method concealed flaws that could cause Soul Power backlash.
• Gu Chen cultivated in a Blue Silver Grass mimicry environment, neared level 9 Soul Power, and gave Xiao Wu Gold Soul Coins while she spent her time relaxing.
• Bibi Dong ordered Yue Guan to have the city lord release Xiaogang and lock Gu Chen up for two years.
• Tang Hao hurried toward Nuoding City on foot after pouring out his heart to Ah Yin.

Tang Hao broke into the Nuoding City prison after learning Tang San had been jailed and beaten, then killed the three men Tang San identified. Yu Xiaogang recognized Tang Hao as Clear Sky Douluo and realized his disciple had powerful backing.

• Yu Xiaogang endured humiliation in prison while Tang San promised to find a way to free him after his release.
• Yu Xiaogang urged Tang San to contact his old friend Flender for help.
• Tang Hao smashed into the prison cell and asked who had hurt Tang San, prompting Tang San to call him Dad.
• Tang San pointed out Scar and the other two men, and Tang Hao killed them with a strike from his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Yu Xiaogang recognized Tang Hao as Clear Sky Douluo and became confident that Tang San could become a Titled Douluo.