Chapter Summaries

Tang San awakened Blue Silver Grass and demonstrated Innate Full Soul Power, but Su Yuntao dismissed his prospects because of his Martial Soul. Xiao Cao then brought the late Xiao Yan to the ceremony, where Su Yuntao asked his name.

• Old Jack prepared Holy Soul Village’s Martial Soul Awakening ceremony, but Xiao Cao pointed out that Xiao Yan was missing.
• Tang San urged Su Yuntao to begin without Xiao Yan, and six children awakened without showing Soul Power.
• Tang San awakened Blue Silver Grass, then proved he had Innate Full Soul Power when Su Yuntao tested him.
• Su Yuntao said Blue Silver Grass could not be cultivated and refused to answer Tang San’s further questions.
• Xiao Cao returned with Xiao Yan, who had been carrying firewood, and Su Yuntao asked the boy his name.

Xiao Yan persuaded Su Yuntao to awaken his and Xiao Cao’s Martial Souls, but his own Soul Power mysteriously fell to level one during the test. After Tang San left in anger, Xiao Yan reflected on how his cultivation, engagement, and life in another world had all gone wrong.

• Xiao Yan convinced Su Yuntao to hold an awakening ceremony for him and Xiao Cao, while Tang San grew resentful and decided they deserved to die.
• Su Yuntao awakened Xiao Cao’s Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul and found she had no Soul Power, prompting Tang San to confront her until Xiao Yan intervened.
• Xiao Yan awakened a powerful fire-type Martial Soul, but his testing device reading dropped from Innate Full Soul Power to level one as his ring flashed.
• Tang San mocked Xiao Yan’s low Soul Power, and Xiao Yan challenged him over his shame about sharing the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul before Tang San walked away.
• Xiao Yan returned home and recalled losing his Dou Qi, being ridiculed, and having Nalan Yanran break their engagement, then clung to the ring his mother had left him.

After Old Jack denied Xiao Yan the work-study spot and expelled him from Holy Soul Village, Tang San attacked and poisoned him before leaving for Nuoding Academy. Yao Lao awakened and temporarily stopped the poison, but revealed that he had drained Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi and Soul Power, leaving Xiao Yan furious and still facing death within a month.

• Old Jack told Xiao Yan that Tang San had received the work-study spot and drove Xiao Yan out of Holy Soul Village.
• Tang San confronted Xiao Yan, attacked him with Tang Sect Secret Arts, poisoned him, and threw him into the river.
• Old Jack picked up Tang San and took him toward Nuoding Academy, believing Xiao Yan could no longer threaten him.
• Xiao Yan survived the river and collapsed as Tang San’s poison spread through his body.
• Yao Lao emerged from Xiao Yan’s ring and used Bone Spirit Cold Flame to seal the poison, warning that Xiao Yan would die when it reached his heart in one month.
• Yao Lao admitted he had drained Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi and Soul Power, and Xiao Yan angrily slapped the ring away.

Xiao Yan confronted Yao Lao about draining his power and leaving him poisoned, but Yao Lao revealed that he could help and asked Xiao Yan to become his disciple. After Xiao Yan accepted him as his master, Yao Lao admitted the poison was easy for an alchemist to cure and confessed he had exaggerated the danger to secure Xiao Yan’s agreement.

• Xiao Yan demanded that Yao Lao explain why he had followed him to the Douluo Continent and drained his power.
• Yao Lao said Xiao Yan needed to reach Soul Scholar within a month so his Heavenly Flame could destroy the poison, and warned him that Tang San was likely from another world.
• Yao Lao asked Xiao Yan to accept him as his master, and Xiao Yan performed the formal ceremony.
• Yao Lao revealed that he was an alchemist and said the poison was child's play for him.
• Xiao Yan realized Yao Lao had invented the deadline to persuade him to become a disciple, and Yao Lao admitted it.

Xiao Yan reached Nuoding City to find medicinal ingredients for Yao Lao’s antidote and went to Spirit Hall to register as a Soul Master. After Spirit Hall gave him an identity and a monthly subsidy, its staff recognized the Bone Spirit Cold Flame crystal he offered as extraordinary and summoned the deputy hall master to inspect it.

• Yao Lao gave Xiao Yan a Bone Spirit Cold Flame crystal to trade for the antidote ingredients, and Xiao Yan traveled to Nuoding City.
• Xiao Yan fought off a burly man who tried to grab him, and a Spirit Hall peace officer intervened after recognizing that Xiao Yan had Soul Power.
• The officer brought Xiao Yan to Spirit Hall, where a receptionist helped him register and an old man issued him an identity and three gold coins a month.
• Xiao Yan asked whether the subsidy could buy the listed ingredients, and the old man mistook them for kidney tonics and joked that Xiao Yan had weak kidneys.
• The old man examined the Bone Spirit Cold Flame crystal, recognized its unusual chill, and went to fetch the deputy hall master while Xiao Yan angrily overheard his comment.

Xiao Yan traded a Bone Spirit Cold Flame Child Flame crystal to Spirit Hall deputy hall master Yu Tianming for medicinal ingredients, gold, and a Space Soul Tool, and unexpectedly became his big brother. After checking into an inn with Yao Lao, Xiao Yan heard a commotion upstairs.

• Xiao Yan offered Yu Tianming the Bone Spirit Cold Flame Child Flame crystal in exchange for help finding medicinal ingredients, and Yu Tianming revealed it could save his life and help him regain his strength.
• Yu Tianming called Xiao Yan his big brother, and Xiao Yan agreed after learning the crystal gave Yu Tianming hope of avenging his dead children.
• Yu Tianming gave Xiao Yan a lightning-patterned Space Soul Tool and gold, while Xiao Yan received the medicinal ingredients he needed.
• Xiao Yan left the Spirit Hall Branch with the ingredients and stored them and the gold in the bracelet.
• Xiao Yan checked into an inn, and a clamor from upstairs interrupted him as he was about to head up.

Xiao Yan met Xiao Wu at an inn and gave her money before preparing a medicinal pill with Yao Lao. Xiao Wu burst into his room, overwhelmed by the pill’s fragrance, and the chapter ended with her biting Xiao Yan’s mouth as she tried to snatch it.

• Xiao Yan met Xiao Wu after the inn’s landlady kicked her out for not paying, and he gave her six gold coins.
• Xiao Yan prepared medicinal ingredients with Yao Lao, who used the Bone Spirit Cold Flame to refine a pill intended to cure Xiao Yan’s poison.
• Xiao Wu barged into Xiao Yan’s room, drawn by the pill’s fragrance, and attacked him with her Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul and Waist Bow skill.
• Xiao Yan put the pill in his mouth to keep Xiao Wu from taking it, but Xiao Wu lunged forward and bit his mouth.

Xiao Yan swallowed the pill and endured its effects as it removed his poison, strengthened his body, and revealed his Ultimate Fire Martial Soul. After learning that Xiao Wu was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, he chose to treat her as a friend, and the two exchanged names.

• Xiao Yan swallowed the pill before Xiao Wu could take it, and the two scuffled after she regained her senses.
• Xiao Yan endured the pill's effects as it expelled the poison and strengthened his bloodline, muscles, and bones.
• Xiao Yan's Martial Soul manifested as Ultimate Fire, his Soul Power rose to rank seven, and he celebrated surviving the poisoning.
• Xiao Wu threatened Xiao Yan with her Soul Ring, while Yao Lao revealed that she was a Soul Beast.
• Xiao Yan realized Xiao Wu was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast but decided he would never kill her for her Soul Ring.
• Xiao Wu and Xiao Yan introduced themselves and became acquainted.

Xiao Yan warned Xiao Wu about Tang San, then accepted an invitation to Yu Tianming’s banquet after learning the Hall Master had become a Soul Saint. While meditating, Xiao Yan and Yao Lao realized Douluo’s Soul Power might let Xiao Yan turn Dou Qi cultivation techniques into self-created Soul Skills, and Yao Lao offered him an evolvable Yellow Tier technique.

• Xiao Yan paid for Xiao Wu’s supplies, warned her that Tang San had caused the poisonous black fog, and watched her head to Nuoding Academy intent on confronting him.
• Lan He found Xiao Yan and explained that he was Yu Tianming’s adopted grandson, then invited him to a banquet celebrating the Hall Master’s recovery and rise to Soul Saint.
• Xiao Yan traded his red-tier invitation for a white one on Yao Lao’s advice so he could attend without attracting attention.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao realized that Dou Qi cultivation techniques might become powerful self-created Soul Skills when practiced with Soul Power.
• Yao Lao claimed he had a Yellow Tier cultivation technique stronger than a Heaven Tier one because it could evolve.

Xiao Yan learned that Yao Lao’s cultivation technique had never been tested and could only be practiced after obtaining a Soul Ring. At the Spirit Hall banquet, Xiao Yan watched the Grandmaster get turned away over his shabby clothes, then arrived and was welcomed by Lan He as Yu Tianming’s honored guest.

• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan that the technique began at Yellow Tier and promised its benefits would become clear after Xiao Yan obtained his first Soul Ring.
• Xiao Yan headed to the Spirit Hall banquet and saw Nuoding City’s lord and the dean of Nuoding Academy arrive.
• Xiao Yan learned that the mocked Grandmaster had written the Ten Great Theories of Soul Masters but possessed only Soul Grandmaster-level strength.
• Lan He refused the Grandmaster entry because of his dusty clothes, and the Grandmaster left after the dean intervened.
• Xiao Yan bet the bystanders that Lan He would invite him in, and Lan He rushed over and hugged his leg, calling him Grandpa Yan.

Xiao Yan attended Yu Tianming's Spirit Hall banquet and tried to speak with the Grandmaster, who mistook his approach for an insult and rejected him. As Xiao Yan left, Yu Tianming stopped him and ordered Yu Xiaogang to leave.

• Xiao Yan collected a pouch of gold coins, gave Lan He six coins, and went upstairs to the banquet.
• Xiao Yan presented his invitation after a guard mistook him for an uninvited child, then found his seat in the white guest area.
• Xiao Yan recognized the Grandmaster and approached him to ask about Soul Master cultivation, but the Grandmaster accused him of humiliating him and refused to speak with him.
• Xiao Yan told the Grandmaster that the world did not revolve around him and turned to leave.
• Yu Tianming stopped Xiao Yan, confronted the Grandmaster, and ordered Yu Xiaogang to get lost.

Yu Tianming confronted Yu Xiaogang at a banquet, accusing him of causing his family’s deaths and humiliating him in front of the guests. Yu Xiaogang invoked a Pope Token and challenged Yu Tianming through his disciple, Tang San, who had just arrived.

• Yu Tianming revealed his recovered Soul Saint strength and stopped Dean Du from taking Yu Xiaogang away.
• Yu Tianming accused Yu Xiaogang of using the clan’s power in a conflict with Qian Xunji, which left Yu Tianming’s wife and children dead and gravely injured him.
• Yu Xiaogang produced a Pope Token from Bibi Dong to protect himself, then blamed his weak Martial Soul for his misfortune.
• After the guests condemned Yu Xiaogang, he insisted his disciple could prove he was not a good-for-nothing.
• Tang San arrived, and Yu Xiaogang urged him to compete against Yu Tianming’s disciple as Xiao Yan looked on coldly.

Xiao Wu challenged Tang San for control of the dormitory and defeated him, though Tang San agreed to obey her while privately plotting to win her over. After leaving for a Spirit Hall banquet, Tang San found Grandmaster beaten and heard someone call his name.

• Xiao Wu broke into the work-study dormitory, declared herself its boss, and challenged Tang San to a fight.
• Xiao Wu used her Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul to throw Tang San, who surrendered the boss position and agreed to obey her.
• An upperclassman told Tang San that Grandmaster had gone ahead to a Spirit Hall banquet, but Xiao Wu declined Tang San's offer to accompany him.
• Tang San left the dormitory alone and found Grandmaster bloodied on the second floor of Spirit Hall.
• A voice from behind called out to Tang San.

Xiao Yan confronted Tang San and exposed his poisoning, while Yu Tianming punished Yu Xiaogang and Nuoding’s leaders expelled the master and disciple. As Tang San prepared to leave, Xiao Yan challenged him to fight to the death, and Tang San hesitated under the pressure of Xiao Yan’s flame.

• Xiao Yan revealed that Tang San had poisoned him, turning the banquet guests against Tang San and Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Tianming struck Yu Xiaogang with lightning but spared his life after rejecting his attempt to use Tang San against him.
• Yu Xiaogang persuaded Tang San that he had been mistreated and promised to make him the strongest person on the continent.
• The lord of Nuoding City and the academy dean ordered Tang San and Yu Xiaogang to leave, while Tang San vowed to remember those who had opposed them.
• Xiao Yan blocked Tang San’s exit with a flame and challenged him to fight immediately, but Tang San sensed his Blue Silver Grass was suppressed and could not win.

Xiao Yan faced Tang San after Tang San refused their duel and weighed using a poisoned hidden weapon or his Clear Sky Hammer. Xiao Yan spared him to repay his debt to Holy Soul Village and Tang Hao, while Tang San left determined to seek revenge.

• Tang San refused to fight Xiao Yan and secretly considered using a poisoned hidden weapon and his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Yu Tianming, the city lord of Nuoding City, and the guests urged Xiao Yan to kill Tang San, but Xiao Yan told him to leave.
• Xiao Yan explained that he spared Tang San because Tang Hao had once fed him and Holy Soul Village had raised him, then declared he would have no further connection to them.
• Tang San left with the Grandmaster, vowing revenge, while Xiao Yan said he no longer feared Tang San and would suppress him if they met again.

Tang San decided to leave Nuoding City with Grandmaster for Shrek Academy and tried to persuade Xiao Wu to come with him. After she rejected him and went to find Xiao Yan, Tang San drugged her and altered her memories, deciding to make her regard Xiao Yan as an enemy.

• Grandmaster urged Tang San to leave Nuoding City for Shrek Academy, where he claimed powerful Soul Masters taught.
• Tang San agreed to go but told Grandmaster he wanted to bring Xiao Wu along.
• Tang San confessed to Xiao Wu and asked her to leave with him, but she rejected him and set off to find Xiao Yan.
• Tang San used Purple Demon Eye to incapacitate Xiao Wu and the dormitory students, then fed Xiao Wu a Water Lily Pill.
• Tang San gave Xiao Wu another pill and planned to alter her memories so she would see Xiao Yan as her enemy and follow Tang San.

After learning that Xiao Wu had left Nuoding City with Tang San, Xiao Yan refused the city lord’s offer to become his disciple and considered his coming first Soul Ring. The city lord revealed that a Water Qilin in the Star Dou Great Forest might provide a Soul Ring suited to Xiao Yan’s unusual Ultimate Fire.

• A city guard reported that Yu Xiaogang had left Nuoding City with Tang San and a pink-haired girl, and Xiao Yan recognized the girl as Xiao Wu.
• The city lord offered to retrieve Xiao Wu, but Xiao Yan declined because she had left of her own free will.
• The city lord invited Xiao Yan to become his final disciple, but Xiao Yan refused, and Yu Tianming explained that Xiao Yan already had a master.
• Xiao Yan estimated that he would reach level ten in less than a month, while Yu Tianming offered to accompany him to obtain his first Soul Ring.
• The city lord revealed that a water-attribute Soul Beast near the Lake of Life could breathe fire, and Yu Tianming identified it as the Heavenly Yin Demonic Beast: the Water Qilin.

The city lord revealed that a roughly four-hundred-year-old Water Qilin had been born in the Star Dou Great Forest and urged Xiao Yan to seek it as his First Soul Ring. Xiao Yan agreed to try later, but Yao Lao suspected the city lord was not human, a suspicion the author’s note confirmed by explaining that a shape-shifting Soul Beast had escaped the forest.

• The city lord told Yu Tianming and the others that a young Water Qilin had appeared in the Star Dou Great Forest after the previous one died.
• He explained that the Water Qilin was a little over four hundred years old and that several powerful Ferocious Beasts had fallen asleep three hundred years earlier, leaving the Lake of Life under the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape’s control.
• Yu Tianming warned Xiao Yan that reaching the Water Qilin would be nearly impossible, but the city lord claimed the current situation offered an unusual opportunity.
• Yao Lao warned Xiao Yan not to trust the city lord, and Xiao Yan cautiously agreed to try for the Water Qilin once he was stronger.
• After the city lord left with Dean Du, Yu Tianming sensed something was wrong, and Yao Lao concluded that the city lord was not human.
• The author’s note revealed that a Soul Beast capable of taking human form had escaped the forbidden zone of life.

Xiao Yan and Yu Tianming deduced that the returned city lord was the Emperor Auspicious Beast, a Soul Beast from the Star Dou Great Forest, and Yu Tianming warned Xiao Yan against hunting the Water Qilin. A month later, Xiao Yan reached level ten and Yao Lao gave him the Eight Extremes Collapse Dou Technique, leaving him ready to begin learning it.

• Yu Tianming revealed that the city lord returned alone from the Star Dou Great Forest months earlier, rose from a prospective Soul Emperor to a Soul Saint, and had not shown his Martial Soul since.
• Xiao Yan and Yu Tianming connected the city lord to the Emperor Auspicious Beast, the Heavenly Yin Water Beast's natural enemy.
• Yu Tianming warned Xiao Yan that the city lord's information about hunting the Water Qilin might be unreliable, and Xiao Yan said he would not enter the forest's forbidden zone at his current level.
• A month later, Xiao Yan recovered his strength and reached level ten as a Soul Scholar.
• Yao Lao gave Xiao Yan the High Xuan Class Dou Technique Eight Extremes Collapse and explained that physical strength was essential to a true expert.

Xiao Yan and Yu Tianming traveled to the Sunset Forest so Xiao Yan could hunt for his First Soul Ring and investigate a Heavenly Flame and an Immortal Herb. They arrived to find a dying Black Luan driven to the forest’s outskirts, and a mysterious green snake appeared amid its poisonous explosion.

• Xiao Yan practiced Eight Extremes Collapse, and Yao Lao demonstrated how its true explosive power could pulverize a boulder.
• Xiao Yan and Yu Tianming set out for the Sunset Forest, where Yao Lao hoped to find a Heavenly Flame and the Infernal Delicate Apricot.
• Yu Tianming explained that his hundred-year-old Meteor Swift Fire Steed had stayed with him after he left his clan, and Xiao Yan promised to accompany him when he returned.
• At the Sunset Forest, a seven-thousand-year-old Black Luan swooped at them, and Yu Tianming struck it down with his Thunder Dragon Claw.
• Xiao Yan noticed unexplained puncture wounds on the Black Luan, which then exploded in deadly poison and revealed the flickering phantom of a green snake.