Chapter Summaries

Xiao Xuan awakened a Lone Bamboo Martial Soul with level-one Innate Soul Power, bringing joy to his family and earning support for academy studies. As he touched a bamboo stalk at his grandparents’ home, his Three-in-One Fusion of All Things System activated.

• Su Yuntao awakened Xiao Xuan’s Lone Bamboo Martial Soul and found that he had level-one Innate Soul Power.
• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Wuyong the result, and his father decided to send him to Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy.
• Xiao Xuan and Xiao Wuyong told Li Ya the news, and the family traveled to Lone Bamboo Village to celebrate with his grandparents.
• Xiao Xuan accepted Silver Soul Coins from his grandparents for tuition and wandered into the Lone Bamboo grove behind their home.
• Xiao Xuan touched a bamboo stalk, and the Three-in-One Fusion of All Things System activated.

After awakening the Three-in-One Fusion of All Things System, Xiao Xuan planned to strengthen his Lone Bamboo Martial Soul with metal and ore. He went to a blacksmith shop to buy suitable material, where the blacksmith showed him a piece of alloy ore.

• Xiao Xuan learned that the system could fuse three matching items and add an auxiliary material to strengthen the result's properties.
• Xiao Xuan decided to use hard metals and ores to overcome his Lone Bamboo Martial Soul's weaknesses.
• The next morning, Xiao Xuan left home and went to a blacksmith shop in Nuoding City.
• Xiao Xuan asked the blacksmith about alloy ore, and the blacksmith showed him a palm-sized piece of pale yellow ore priced at one Silver Soul Coin.

Xiao Xuan fused two wild Lone Bamboo plants with Gold Crystal Ore, advancing his Martial Soul to two stars and raising his innate Soul Power from level one to level three. He tested the new bamboo’s hardness by shattering a piece of granite with it.

• Xiao Xuan bought Gold Crystal Ore from a blacksmith for one Silver Soul Coin.
• Xiao Xuan found two wild Lone Bamboo plants outside Nuoding City and used his system to confirm they met the fusion conditions.
• Xiao Xuan fused the plants and ore into his Martial Soul, creating a Two-Star Lone Bamboo with increased toughness and metallic hardness.
• Xiao Xuan discovered that his innate Soul Power had risen from level one to level three and wondered whether further advancement could lead to Innate Full Soul Power.
• Xiao Xuan struck a piece of blue granite with the new Lone Bamboo and shattered it without damaging the bamboo.

Xiao Xuan searched for materials to raise his Lone Bamboo Martial Soul to three stars while preparing to attend Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy. After finding tier-three red-patterned alloy ore and two compatible hundred-year Lone Bamboo stalks deep in the mountains, he had all the materials needed for fusion.

• Xiao Xuan learned that upgrading his two-star Lone Bamboo required two wild hundred-year Lone Bamboo stalks and a tier-three alloy ore.
• Xiao Xuan decided to strengthen his body and spend the days before school with his grandparents in Lone Bamboo Village.
• Xiao Wuyong brought Xiao Xuan back to the village, where Xiao Xuan searched the surrounding countryside for hundred-year Lone Bamboo without success.
• Xiao Xuan traded for a piece of tier-three red-patterned alloy ore at the village smithy.
• Xiao Xuan searched the mountains for five days and found two two-star Lone Bamboo stalks, aged about 120 and 130 years, that met the fusion requirements.

Xiao Xuan fused two century-old Lone Bamboo plants with Red-Patterned Alloy Ore, upgrading his Martial Soul to Three-Star Lone Bamboo and his Innate Soul Power to level eight. After demonstrating its strength, he went alone to register at Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy and noticed an old man and a youngster at the gate.

• Xiao Xuan used Three-in-One Fusion of All Things to combine the Lone Bamboo plants and Red-Patterned Alloy Ore, gaining Three-Star Lone Bamboo.
• Xiao Xuan's Soul Power surged from level three to level eight, and he smashed a basalt boulder with his upgraded Martial Soul.
• More than half a month later, Xiao Wuyong left with his mercenary group for an urgent commission, so Xiao Xuan set off for the academy alone.
• Xiao Xuan registered at Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy, paid his tuition and boarding fees, and received a private room.
• Xiao Xuan looked out from his dormitory window and spotted an old man and a youngster at the academy gate.

Xiao Xuan reached Soul Power level ten and prepared to seek his first Soul Ring, but his father was away on an escort job. He obtained three pieces of low-grade Whale Rubber from his mother and returned to the academy, planning to fuse them and find a way to earn money.

• Xiao Xuan watched Tang San become Yu Xiaogang's disciple and chose to keep a low profile at Nuoding Academy.
• Xiao Xuan studied Soul Beasts and medicinal plants while cultivating, then broke through to Soul Power level ten after a month.
• Xiao Xuan went home to ask Xiao Wuyong to help him obtain his first Soul Ring, but learned his father had left on an escort job.
• Li Ya gave Xiao Xuan three pieces of low-grade Whale Rubber she had obtained from a trading caravan.
• Xiao Xuan returned to his dormitory, planned to fuse the Whale Rubber, and headed for the academic affairs building.

Xiao Xuan revealed that his Lone Bamboo Martial Soul had mutated and raised his Soul Power to level ten, persuading Wang Ping'an to take him to the Soul Hunting Forest. Before they could leave, they encountered an injured Yu Xiaogang and Tang San returning from their own Soul Ring hunt.

• Xiao Xuan asked Wang Ping'an to take him to the Soul Hunting Forest for his First Soul Ring, then demonstrated his level-ten Soul Power and transformed Lone Bamboo Martial Soul.
• Xiao Xuan claimed his Martial Soul had undergone a beneficial mutation, and Wang Ping'an believed him and promised to personally help him find a Soul Ring.
• After lunch, Wang Ping'an met Xiao Xuan at the academy gates, ready to set off for the Soul Hunting Forest.
• Wang Ping'an encountered an injured Yu Xiaogang being supported by Tang San, and Yu Xiaogang claimed they had escaped a four-hundred-year-old Mandala Snake and obtained Tang San's Hundred-Year Soul Ring.
• Yu Xiaogang noticed Xiao Xuan standing behind Wang Ping'an and frowned.

Wang Ping'an took Xiao Xuan into the Soul Hunting Forest to find a First Soul Ring suited to his mutated lone bamboo. Four Bristle Pigs ambushed them, and Wang Ping'an attacked three while Xiao Xuan faced the fourth alone.

• Yu Xiaogang learned that Xiao Xuan had reached the level-ten bottleneck and decided the boy should become his disciple.
• Wang Ping'an and Xiao Xuan entered the Soul Hunting Forest, where Xiao Xuan said he wanted to follow the Power Attack System path.
• Wang Ping'an explained the dangers of the forest as they searched for a suitable Soul Beast.
• Three Bristle Pigs charged from the bushes, while hidden bristles flew at Wang Ping'an from the flank.
• Xiao Xuan blocked the bristles with his lone bamboo, but a fourth Bristle Pig emerged behind them and trapped the pair.
• Wang Ping'an attacked the three pigs in front while Xiao Xuan stood to face the fourth.

Xiao Xuan killed a Bristle Pig over three hundred years old with his Lone Bamboo, surprising Wang Ping'an. After a bright yellow Soul Ring appeared above the beast’s corpse, Xiao Xuan asked to absorb it immediately.

• Xiao Xuan narrowly dodged the Bristle Pig’s charge and wounded it with the Lone Bamboo.
• Xiao Xuan evaded a second charge, drove his spear through the Bristle Pig’s neck, and killed it with a strike to its eye socket.
• Wang Ping'an’s three Bristle Pigs fled after hearing their companion’s death cry, and he found Xiao Xuan standing over the dead beast.
• A bright yellow Soul Ring formed above the Bristle Pig’s corpse, and Xiao Xuan told Wang Ping'an he wanted to absorb it right away.
• Wang Ping'an recovered from his shock and approached the carcass to examine it.

Xiao Xuan absorbed his first Soul Ring, broke through to rank twelve, and demonstrated the powerful ranged attack Lone Bamboo Flying Thrust. The next morning, he went to the Spirit Hall in Nuoding City for certification and a stipend, where Su Yuntao recognized his Lone Bamboo Martial Soul.

• Xiao Xuan absorbed the Bristle Pig's Yellow Soul Ring and broke through to rank twelve.
• Xiao Xuan used Lone Bamboo Flying Thrust to punch three holes through a large tree, impressing Wang Ping'an.
• Xiao Xuan and Wang Ping'an returned to Nuoding City the following morning and parted at the city gate.
• Xiao Xuan went to the Spirit Hall branch to register for Soul Master certification and collect his stipend.
• Su Yuntao heard Xiao Xuan claim to have a Lone Bamboo Martial Soul and approached the counter.

Xiao Xuan visited Spirit Hall to certify as a Soul Master, shocking Su Yuntao by revealing how quickly he had advanced from level-one Innate Soul Power. He collected his subsidy and declined Su Yuntao’s offer to join Spirit Hall, leaving for Nuoding Academy.

• Su Yuntao recognized Xiao Xuan as the child whose Lone Bamboo had tested at level-one Innate Soul Power a month earlier and demanded proof of his Soul Master status.
• Xiao Xuan summoned his crimson-gold Lone Bamboo and a hundred-year Yellow Soul Ring, leaving Su Yuntao and the attendant stunned.
• The attendant completed Xiao Xuan’s certification and gave him his monthly Gold Soul Coin subsidy.
• Su Yuntao urged Xiao Xuan to join Spirit Hall, but Xiao Xuan said he wanted to continue studying at Nuoding Academy.
• Su Yuntao accepted Xiao Xuan’s choice and offered to help him if he needed anything; Xiao Xuan then left Spirit Hall.

Xiao Xuan told his parents that a beneficial Martial Soul mutation had made him a Soul Master with a Hundred-Year Soul Ring, then used his system to synthesize and consume Hundred-Year Supreme-Grade Pure Whale Rubber to temper his body. As academy life resumed, Yu Xiaogang learned Xiao Xuan had also obtained a hundred-year first ring and decided he was a hidden genius he could mentor alongside Tang San.

• Xiao Xuan showed Xiao Wuyong and Li Ya his twelfth-level cultivation and yellow Hundred-Year Soul Ring, explaining that a beneficial mutation had transformed his aptitude.
• Xiao Xuan asked Li Ya to save more cheap Whale Rubber, then returned to Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy.
• Xiao Xuan synthesized three pieces of low-grade Whale Rubber into Hundred-Year Supreme-Grade Pure Whale Rubber and drank it to temper his body through an hour of intense pain.
• Xiao Xuan absorbed the medicinal power, emerged with a sturdier body, and washed away the impurities that had seeped from his skin.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Tang San whether Xiao Xuan had obtained a Soul Ring and learned he had a yellow Hundred-Year Soul Ring.
• Yu Xiaogang dismissed Xiao Xuan's recorded innate level-one Soul Power as a mistake and resolved to mentor him as a genius alongside Tang San.

Yu Xiaogang sent Tang San to invite Xiao Xuan to become his second disciple, but Xiao Xuan refused and left Tang San offended on his teacher’s behalf. Xiao Xuan went to the Nuoding Spirit Hall Branch to seek spear-technique manuals and learned that Su Yuntao was in his office.

• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San that he wanted to take Xiao Xuan as his second disciple and instructed him to deliver the invitation.
• Xiao Xuan refused Tang San’s invitation, saying he had to meditate, and Tang San took the rejection as an insult to Yu Xiaogang.
• Xiao Wu urged Tang San to challenge Xiao Xuan and make him apologize to Yu Xiaogang if he lost; Tang San agreed.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu searched the dining hall for Xiao Xuan, then learned he had taken the afternoon off and gone home.
• Xiao Xuan went to the Nuoding Spirit Hall Branch to find advanced spear-training materials and learned that Su Yuntao was in his second-floor office.

Xiao Xuan borrowed two spear technique manuals from Su Yuntao and used his system to fuse them with a third manual into intermediate spear techniques at the Perfection Realm. The fusion flooded him with the skills and combat experience of a veteran spearman.

• Xiao Xuan asked Su Yuntao whether Spirit Hall would sell him spear manuals, and Su Yuntao offered to lend him two copies instead.
• Xiao Xuan spotted a wanted notice for an Evil Soul Master with a thousand Gold Soul Coin bounty and memorized the criminal’s appearance.
• Su Yuntao gave Xiao Xuan two basic spear technique manuals, and Xiao Xuan chose to study them in the office rather than take them to his dormitory.
• Xiao Xuan read the manuals, then used his system to fuse them with a third volume into intermediate spear techniques at the Perfection Realm.
• Xiao Xuan received a rush of spear techniques, muscle memory, and combat experience as the fusion took effect.

After the Three-in-One Fusion of All Things perfected his spear techniques, Xiao Xuan tested his skills and planned to upgrade his Soul Ring. Back at Nuoding Academy, he ran into Yu Xiaogang, who tried to recruit him as a disciple, but Xiao Xuan challenged Yu Xiaogang about his Soul Power level.

• Xiao Xuan realized fusion had raised his spear techniques to Perfection Realm and tested his mastery with Lone Bamboo.
• Xiao Xuan planned to return to Lone Bamboo Village during the academy holiday to collect two Hundred-Year Soul Rings for an upgrade.
• Yu Xiaogang stopped Xiao Xuan at Nuoding Academy and warned him that his mutated Martial Soul might have hidden dangers.
• Yu Xiaogang praised his expertise in Mutated Martial Souls and urged Xiao Xuan to become his disciple.
• Xiao Xuan asked Yu Xiaogang what level his Soul Power was, and Yu Xiaogang angrily insisted that Soul Power could not measure his abilities.

Xiao Xuan rejected Yu Xiaogang as his teacher and defeated Tang San in a fight outside the boys' dormitory. The onlookers were left stunned as Xiao Xuan held his spear at Tang San's chest and declared victory.

• Xiao Xuan dismissed Yu Xiaogang's theories and refused to become his disciple, prompting Yu Xiaogang to angrily warn him about his Mutated Martial Soul.
• Tang San confronted Xiao Xuan and demanded an apology to Yu Xiaogang, then accepted a duel with the condition that he would avoid Xiao Xuan if he lost.
• Xiao Wu gathered the work-study students to watch, while Yu Xiaogang encouraged Tang San to use his full strength.
• Tang San attacked with his First Soul Skill, Entanglement, sending poisoned Blue Silver Grass vines toward Xiao Xuan.
• Xiao Xuan cut Tang San's vines apart with a Lone Bamboo spear without using Soul Power or a Soul Skill, then rushed forward and stopped the spear at Tang San's chest.

Xiao Xuan defeated Tang San at Nuoding Academy, returned home for the holidays, and fused three pieces of hundred-year Whale Rubber into a thousand-year supreme-grade piece. When he asked to visit his grandparents in the countryside, his parents warned him that a wanted Soul Master had been attacking villages near Nuoding City.

• Xiao Xuan defeated Tang San, who admitted his loss, and Yu Xiaogang blamed it on Tang San's lack of combat experience.
• Xiao Xuan returned home for the holidays, where Li Ya gave him three pieces of hundred-year Whale Rubber.
• Xiao Xuan fused the three pieces into one thousand-year supreme-grade Whale Rubber and stored it for later.
• Xiao Xuan asked Xiao Wuyong and Li Ya to let him visit his grandparents in the countryside.
• Xiao Wuyong and Li Ya warned Xiao Xuan that the fugitive Soul Master Ma Xiu had robbed people and killed several victims near Nuoding City.

Xiao Xuan completed his second body refinement and went into the mountain behind Lone Bamboo Village to upgrade his Soul Ring, where he was attacked by the wanted criminal Ma Xiu. He severed Ma Xiu’s right arm, but Ma Xiu escaped underground using a Soul Bone.

• Xiao Wuyong accompanied Xiao Xuan back to Lone Bamboo Village and promised to stay for a few days.
• Xiao Xuan drank the prepared Whale Rubber and endured its medicinal power as his body grew stronger and more muscular.
• Xiao Xuan sensed danger in the mountain forest and used his Lone Bamboo Martial Soul to survey the area.
• Ma Xiu attacked Xiao Xuan with his second Soul Skill, but Xiao Xuan countered with his bamboo spear and severed Ma Xiu’s right arm.
• Ma Xiu escaped into the ground using a Soul Bone, leaving Xiao Xuan alarmed by its burrowing ability.

Xiao Xuan waited in the bamboo grove for Ma Xiu to attack, using his perception of the underground to detect and kill him. After pulling Ma Xiu’s corpse from the soil, Xiao Xuan recognized him as a wanted criminal and realized he could claim both his Soul Bone and a thousand-unit bounty.

• After severing Ma Xiu’s right claw, Xiao Xuan sensed the danger of Ma Xiu’s underground Soul Bone ability and spread his perception through the bamboo roots.
• Ma Xiu bound his wounded arm in a crevice, then waited for the bleeding to stop before burrowing underground toward Xiao Xuan.
• Xiao Xuan maintained his underground perception for over an hour until a disturbance alerted him to Ma Xiu approaching beneath his feet.
• Xiao Xuan drove his spear into the ground three times, killing Ma Xiu and leaving no Soul Power fluctuation.
• Xiao Xuan dug up Ma Xiu’s corpse, recognized him as a wanted criminal, and celebrated the prospect of claiming his Soul Bone and bounty.

Xiao Xuan fused three Hundred-Year Soul Rings with a Hundred-Year Soul Bone, upgrading his First Soul Ring into a 1,999-year Thousand-Year Soul Ring and giving his Soul Skill a second form. He brought Xiao Wuyong to Ma Xiu’s corpse so his father could claim credit for killing the wanted criminal.

• Xiao Xuan cut a Hundred-Year Soul Bone from Ma Xiu’s remains and took it to the back mountain, where he harvested two Hundred-Year Lone Bamboo Soul Rings.
• Xiao Xuan used the Soul Bone as an auxiliary material to fuse the three Hundred-Year Soul Rings into a 1,999-year Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Xiao Xuan tested his upgraded First Soul Skill and discovered it could launch bamboo spears from underground as well as thrust forward through the air.
• Xiao Xuan decided to bring Xiao Wuyong to Ma Xiu’s corpse so his father could claim the kill and help keep Xiao Xuan’s strength hidden.
• Xiao Wuyong recognized the corpse as Ma Xiu, the killer wanted across the Nuoding region.