Chapter Summaries

Ling Yu awakened a rare soul-type Body Martial Soul with level five Innate Soul Power and learned Su Yuntao’s basic meditation method. Old Jack tried to arrange academy attendance for Ling Yu and Tang San, but Tang Hao refused, leaving Ling Yu to wonder about Tang San’s family and hidden abilities.

• Su Yuntao measured Ling Yu’s Innate Soul Power at level five after Ling Yu revealed that his Martial Soul was his own soul.
• Ling Yu asked Su Yuntao to teach him cultivation, and Su Yuntao guided him through a meditation cycle and explained the basics.
• Tang San declined Su Yuntao’s method because he already cultivated the Mysterious Heaven Skill.
• Old Jack asked Tang San about attending the Soul Master Academy, and Tang San said he needed to ask Tang Hao first.
• Old Jack returned furious after Tang Hao refused to let Tang San attend the academy, and Ling Yu calmed him over lunch.

Ling Yu registered at Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy, met Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, and helped Xiao Wu buy bedding. Xiao Wu challenged Tang San for the Dorm Seven leadership, leaving their fight about to begin.

• Ling Yu invoked Su Yuntao’s status as a Soul Grandmaster to get past the gatekeeper with Tang San and Old Jack.
• Yu Xiaogang examined the boys’ certificates, dismissed Ling Yu’s rank-five Soul Power, and took an interest in Tang San’s certificate.
• Ling Yu registered, met Wang Sheng in Dorm Seven, and went to find Xiao Wu.
• Ling Yu offered to lend Xiao Wu money for bedding, and the two went out to buy it.
• Xiao Wu accepted Dorm Seven’s challenge rule and attacked Tang San after putting her bedding beside Ling Yu’s.

Ling Yu researched Soul Masters and Soul Beasts, then learned that Tang San and Yu Xiaogang planned to hunt for a Soul Ring. The next morning, Tang San left with Yu Xiaogang, who gave him a Storage Soul Tool and reassured him about the journey.

• Ling Yu praised Xiao Wu after her fight, then went to the library and studied Soul Power, Awakening Stones, and cultivation.
• Back at the dormitory, Ling Yu learned that Tang San would leave with Yu Xiaogang for Soul Hunting and agreed to cover Tang San’s garden-cleaning duties.
• Wang Sheng explained the school’s usual Soul Hunting procedures, while Ling Yu and Xiao Wu discussed whether humans might someday find a way to advance without killing Soul Beasts.
• That night, Ling Yu noticed that cultivating among other Soul Masters seemed to speed up his progress and wondered whether Tang Hao would accompany Tang San.
• On the carriage to the Soul Hunting Forest, Yu Xiaogang reassured Tang San about the danger and gave him a Storage Soul Tool as a gift.

Ling Yu secured the school's support to seek a hundred-year Soul Ring and joined the students' Soul Hunting trip. The chapter ended as Ling Yu and Wang Sheng killed a four-hundred-year Spirit-Devouring Bat and a hundred-year Gale Wolf after the headmaster weakened them.

• Tang San told the work-study students he had obtained a roughly four-hundred-year Mandala Snake Soul Ring, and learned that Xiao Wu had defeated Xiao Chenyu and become a Soul Master.
• Director Su agreed to let Ling Yu follow a route he had researched and promised to help him obtain a Soul Ring around a hundred years old if they found no suitable beast.
• The school group entered the Soul Hunting Forest, where Ling Feng absorbed an eighty-year Dappled Cat Soul Ring.
• During the night, Director Su told Ling Yu that his desired Soul Beast had appeared and revealed that Wang Sheng could claim the hundred-year Gale Wolf fighting it.
• Ling Yu and Wang Sheng reached the headmaster and killed the wounded four-hundred-year Spirit-Devouring Bat and hundred-year Gale Wolf under Director Su's protection.

Ling Yu absorbed his first Soul Ring and gained Spiritual Detection, then used it to evade Xiao Wu’s attacks during a spar. After registering at Spirit Hall, he agreed to take the intermediate academy entrance exam with his classmates, while Yu Xiaogang learned about the value of Ling Yu’s new skill.

• Ling Yu absorbed the yellow Soul Ring and gained Spiritual Detection, which sensed movement within thirty meters and revealed some of a target’s Soul Power pathways.
• Ling Yu guided the group through the Soul Hunting Forest, and the students later registered as Soul Masters at Spirit Hall.
• Ling Yu declined Ma Xiunuo’s invitation to join Spirit Hall and agreed to take the intermediate academy entrance exam with Wang Sheng and the others.
• Xiao Wu challenged Ling Yu to spar, and he used Spiritual Detection to evade her attacks before they called their fight a draw.
• Xiao Wu defeated Wang Sheng in the next spar, while Ling Yu refereed.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Director Su and the headmaster about Ling Yu’s Soul Skill and learned that it could make him the core of a team.

Ling Yu stayed behind instead of joining Wang Sheng at an intermediate academy, then brought Xiao Wu to Holy Soul Village for the holidays. After Tang San learned that his father had left him a letter and disappeared, Ling Yu took Xiao Wu to the nearby hill to tell her something important.

• Ling Yu decided to remain at the junior academy and save money, and he invited Xiao Wu to share a meal with him.
• When the holidays began, Xiao Wu accompanied Ling Yu and Tang San to Holy Soul Village.
• Old Jack told Tang San that his father had left a letter saying he had gone away for Tang San's sake, and Tang San shut himself inside the smithy.
• Ling Yu introduced Xiao Wu to Old Jack, who welcomed her and celebrated Ling Yu becoming a Soul Master.
• After lunch, Ling Yu and Xiao Wu brought food to Tang San, then distributed gifts to the villagers with Old Jack.
• Ling Yu led Xiao Wu up the nearby hill, saying he had something important to tell her in private.

Ling Yu revealed to Xiao Wu that he knew she was a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast and warned her that Tang San’s father, Tang Hao, was watching her. Xiao Wu chose to stay for now, and Ling Yu began exploring whether she could use Soul Rings to grow stronger; they returned home together with the question unresolved.

• Ling Yu told Xiao Wu he knew she had taken human form and urged her to flee because Tang Hao was watching her.
• Xiao Wu decided not to leave Ling Yu in danger and planned to wait for a safer chance to escape.
• Xiao Wu explained how she had traveled to Nuoding City, joined the work-study program, and recovered her power by spending time with peers.
• Ling Yu suggested Xiao Wu might absorb Soul Rings from Soul Beasts near death, prompting her to reconsider how she could become stronger, though she did not agree to try.
• Ling Yu and Xiao Wu returned home, where Old Jack comforted Xiao Wu when she said she was thinking of her mother.

Ling Yu comforted Tang San after Tang Hao left, then warned Xiao Wu about Tang Hao and his wife’s history before they returned to the academy. He began apprenticing at Shi San’s smithy, where his Soul Skill let him inspect ore and identify impurities, impressing the blacksmiths.

• Ling Yu found Tang San grieving in the smithy, left him food, and learned the next morning that Tang San had returned to the academy to find his teacher.
• Ling Yu told Xiao Wu that Tang Hao’s wife had been a transformed hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor who sacrificed herself, and warned Xiao Wu not to antagonize Tang San.
• After vacation, Ling Yu and Xiao Wu returned to the academy, where Ling Yu told Tang San that Xiao Wu’s quiet mood was related to her family.
• Ling Yu asked Tang San to introduce him to the smithy owner so he could learn ore smelting and forging.
• Shi San accepted Ling Yu as an apprentice, then raised his pay after Ling Yu demonstrated that his Soul Skill could detect ore components and impurities.

As the school year ended, Xiao Wu asked Ling Yu to accompany her to the Soul Hunting Forest to find her second Soul Ring. Ling Yu joined Lin Lei’s Soul Hunting Group with Xiao Wu, and the two prepared to begin the hunt with the group the next morning.

• Ling Yu reached rank nineteen while Tang San, already at rank twenty, planned to hunt for a Soul Ring with his teacher and remained wary of Ling Yu’s abilities.
• Xiao Wu asked Ling Yu to go with her to the Soul Hunting Forest, and he agreed after warning her to dress plainly and be careful.
• Ling Yu and Xiao Wu searched the marketplace for a Soul Hunting group, and Ling Yu demonstrated that his Soul Skill could detect activity within fifty meters.
• Lin Lei recruited Ling Yu and Xiao Wu, offering them wages in exchange for joining the group’s month of work.
• Ling Yu told Lin Lei that Xiao Wu needed a suitable six-hundred-year Soul Beast and did not want to kill one herself, and she agreed to help protect the group.
• Lin Lei introduced the new members to the group and told Ling Yu and Xiao Wu to be ready for their first hunt the next morning.

Ling Yu and the Azure Wolf Soul Hunting Group helped three clients obtain Soul Rings, then found a four-hundred-year-old Pufferfish and a six-hundred-year-old Golden Crocodile for a noble's son. Xiao Wu absorbed the Pufferfish's Soul Ring safely and gained Golden Body, though her soul beast presence faded a little.

• Lin Lei led the group into the Soul Hunting Forest, where Ling Yu helped them avoid danger and locate Soul Rings for three customers.
• More than ten days later, Ling Yu spotted a wounded Pufferfish and Golden Crocodile fighting near a water source, and Lin Lei organized the group to drive them ashore and kill them.
• Xiao Wu and the noble's son absorbed the two Soul Rings while Ling Yu worried about Xiao Wu's safety.
• After the group left the forest, Xiao Wu revealed that her new Golden Body skill boosted her resistance, attack, defense, and speed for half an hour.
• Ling Yu noticed golden markings on Xiao Wu had faded, and she confirmed that absorbing the Soul Ring had weakened her soul beast presence.

Ling Yu left school and Xiao Wu behind to pursue a second soul ring and an opportunity at Heaven Dou Royal Academy. After strengthening himself with whale rubber and joining a soul hunting group near the Frozen Forest, he saved enough money and set out for the Spirit Hall in Winter City.

• Ling Yu told Xiao Wu he was leaving to hunt for a second soul ring and pursue opportunities at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, then said goodbye to her and left school.
• Ling Yu quit his smithy job, told Old Jack about his plans, and traveled to Vast Sea City to buy two pieces of whale rubber from the Seven Treasure Chamber of Commerce.
• Ling Yu melted and ate the two-thousand-year whale rubber, then absorbed its heat to improve his strength.
• After traveling to the Frozen Forest, Ling Yu joined the Holy Scorpion Soul Hunting Group, became one of its core members, and broke through to level twenty.
• Ling Yu saved money for three months, bade farewell to his teammates, and headed to the Spirit Hall in Winter City.

Ling Yu commissioned a thousand-year Ice Silkworm, absorbed its Soul Ring, and gained the appraisal ability Spiritual Appraisal along with Ring Fusion talent. After reaching Heaven Dou City, he chose to seek the emperor’s attention through the Royal College of Arms while weighing the factions’ influence.

• Ling Yu paid Spirit Hall to commission and transport a thousand-year Ice Silkworm, then waited while he finished consuming two pieces of whale rubber.
• Ling Yu killed the captured Ice Silkworm and absorbed its purple Soul Ring, gaining the second Soul Skill Spiritual Appraisal and reaching Soul Power rank twenty-three.
• Ling Yu used Spiritual Appraisal on the cage and discovered its traits and exact age, then realized his Soul Rings could fuse and that his first skill’s detection range increased.
• Ling Yu traveled to Heaven Dou City and decided to approach Emperor Xue Ye before Xue Qinghe, hoping to balance the factions’ influence.
• Ling Yu gathered information in the capital and went to the Royal College of Arms, whose duties included managing noble titles, genealogies, and investiture ceremonies.

Ling Yu brought his thousand-year second Soul Ring to Xue Ye’s attention and claimed it came from discovering how to prepare whale rubber. The imperial family heard his explanation, but the chapter ended before they responded.

• Ling Yu demonstrated his Martial Soul Possession and revealed that his second Soul Ring was purple, prompting Xue Cheng to take him to see Xue Ye.
• Palace attendants searched and dressed Ling Yu before leading him into the inner hall, where he met Xue Ye, Xue Qinghe, Xue Xing, and Xue Cheng.
• Xue Ye asked Ling Yu to release his Soul Rings, and the thousand-year second ring astonished everyone present.
• Ling Yu told the imperial family that he had roasted and eaten whale rubber in Vast Sea City, claiming this had strengthened his body and enabled his unusual Soul Ring.

Emperor Xue Ye ennobled Ling Yu as Viscount Nuoding, promised imperial support for his research and academy training, and ordered him protected. As Ling Yu settled into a nearby residence, Qian Renxue arranged to monitor him and assigned Su Yao as his bodyguard.

• Emperor Xue Ye made Ling Yu a Viscount, invited him to join the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy and Imperial Team, and promised a higher rank if he succeeded in the tournament.
• Ling Yu asked for discarded Soul Tools and research materials, and Emperor Xue Ye granted them along with a Storage Soul Tool after learning about Ling Yu’s appraisal Soul Skill.
• Emperor Xue Ye ordered an investigation into Ling Yu’s background, assigned Xue Qinghe to win his allegiance, and told him to arrange protection.
• Qian Renxue sent a letter to Grandpa and ordered Pufferfish to recall Su Yao to protect and report on Ling Yu.
• Xue Cheng completed Ling Yu’s ennoblement, and Emperor Xue Ye exempted Holy Soul Village from taxes and arranged a title for Old Jack after Ling Yu shared his rewards.
• Xue Qinghe took Ling Yu to a nearby house and introduced Su Yao, a rank seventy-two Soul Saint, as his bodyguard.

Ling Yu settled into the residence Xue Qinghe arranged for him and used the palace library to study mental power and cultivation. After learning of whale rubber’s effects, Qian Daoliu and Bibi Dong planned to secure it for Spirit Hall, while Qian Renxue considered acting soon to keep Ling Yu from becoming too closely tied to Heaven Dou.

• Xue Qinghe gave Ling Yu a residence and tokens for the Imperial Supplies Hall and Crown Prince’s residence, then promised to introduce him to the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy board members.
• Ling Yu asked Su Yao to take him to the palace library, where he studied mental power and reasoned that improving his meditation method would require a diagram of the body’s meridians.
• Qian Jun delivered Qian Renxue’s letter to Qian Daoliu, and the enshrined learned that whale rubber could help Soul Masters obtain older Soul Rings.
• Qian Daoliu told Bibi Dong to leave whale rubber on the market to avoid causing trouble for Qian Renxue, while secretly organizing water-attribute Soul Masters to hunt whale Soul Beasts and prepare the rubber as medicine for Spirit Hall.
• After returning home, Ling Yu resolved to improve Holy Soul Village rather than move Grandpa Jack there, then cultivated for the evening.
• Su Yao reported Ling Yu’s diligence and insight to Qian Renxue, who decided it would soon be time to act before he became too closely tied to Heaven Dou.

Ling Yu secured admission to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, along with access to private soul tool research laboratories arranged by Xue Qinghe. Meanwhile, news of Ling Yu’s rise to nobility reached Holy Soul Village and Xiao Wu, who was relieved to learn he was alive and prospering.

• On the carriage ride to the academy, Ling Yu asked Xue Qinghe for a private dormitory and research laboratory, and Xue Qinghe agreed to arrange them.
• Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhi Lin welcomed Ling Yu, inspected his thousand-year second Soul Ring, and placed him provisionally at the Heavenly Subtle Level.
• Xue Qinghe offered to donate three soul tool research laboratories for Ling Yu’s use, and the committee members agreed; Ling Yu was told to prepare laboratory requirements before beginning classes the following Monday.
• Ling Yu coordinated laboratory designs with the imperial construction department over the next few days, while a veiled girl named Lingling declined her friend’s invitation to inspect the laboratories and headed for the library.
• A villager told Old Jack that Ling Yu had become Viscount Nuoding and that Holy Soul Village would no longer pay taxes, prompting Old Jack to hurry to the village entrance.
• Work-study students told Xiao Wu that Ling Yu had become a viscount, and Xiao Wu left the dormitory after privately celebrating that he was alive and had succeeded.

Ling Yu began his studies in the support department after his identity and noble title were confirmed, and learned about the school's classes and requirements. He enrolled in several electives and started studying in the library, where he crossed paths with the aloof black-veiled girl from the assembly.

• Wen Lingxi introduced Ling Yu at the support department assembly, confirmed his credentials, and assigned him to Class One.
• Lin Qing welcomed Ling Yu to Class One and explained the school's required courses, electives, and training-ground rules.
• Wen Lingxi taught the class about choosing healing-type Soul Beasts, and Ling Yu listened attentively.
• Ling Yu signed up for several identification and survival electives, then went to the library to study.
• Ling Yu saw the black-veiled girl from the assembly in the library, and both left thinking the other was hardworking.

Ling Yu learned about the academy’s training and politics while considering the purple-haired student’s possible connection to a rare medicinal garden. At basic physical training, the academy announced the Heaven Dou Secret Medicine and revealed Ling Yu as its successful test subject, displaying his thousand-year second Soul Ring.

• Ling Yu discussed training, tuition, and the academy’s resistance to admitting commoner geniuses with Qin Nian and their classmates.
• In poisonous substance identification class, Ling Yu met Teacher Zhao and noticed the purple-haired girl, whom he suspected was Dugu Yan.
• Ling Yu warned Su Yao that his Soul Ring Configuration would be exposed during physical training, and she told him that Xue Qinghe had made arrangements.
• At the training grounds, Meng Shenji announced that the Heaven Dou Secret Medicine could grant a thousand-year second Soul Ring and identified Ling Yu as its safe first test subject.
• Ling Yu revealed his yellow and purple Soul Rings, astonishing the assembled students and teachers.

Ling Yu studied Soul Rings and Soul Power while Su Yao guarded him, then demonstrated his Soul Rings to Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo Chen Xin during their visit. After Dugu Bo left with Dugu Yan, Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin headed to the imperial palace, suspecting Ling Yu may have helped create the Heaven Dou Secret Medicine.

• Ling Yu pondered Soul Rings, Self-Created Soul Skills, and ways to store Soul Power, while Su Yao watched him think.
• Meng Shenji brought Ning Fengzhi, Ning Rongrong, and Sword Douluo Chen Xin to meet Ling Yu about the Heaven Dou Secret Medicine.
• Ling Yu showed his yellow and purple Soul Rings, and Ning Fengzhi gave him a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect VIP card.
• Sword Douluo Chen Xin revealed that Dugu Bo had been nearby, and Dugu Bo departed with Dugu Yan after discussing the secret medicine.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin left for the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, and Ning Fengzhi speculated that Ling Yu had helped make the Heaven Dou Secret Medicine.

Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin weighed the Heaven Dou Secret Medicine’s implications while Xue Qinghe briefed them on who had come to the palace. Later, Ling Yu accepted his new Soul Tool laboratory and planned his research, while Tang San and Xiao Wu sparred at Nuoding City Junior Soul Master Academy.

• Chen Xin questioned whether Ling Yu’s background matched the imperial family’s story, and Ning Fengzhi decided to pursue the secret medicine carefully while preparing Ning Rongrong for a thousand-year second soul ring.
• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Ning Rongrong met Xue Qinghe, who reported that Poison Douluo and Yu Tianheng had arrived, Salas had left after demanding secret medicine, and the Clear Sky Sect had not responded.
• Ling Yu accepted the completed Soul Tool research laboratory, asked Su Yao to retrieve discarded Soul Tools and imperial materials, and outlined his plans to model and classify the tools and their components.
• A girl in black gauze noticed Ling Yu enter the library and wondered whether the commotion surrounding him had settled down.
• At Nuoding City Junior Soul Master Academy, Xiao Wu’s Golden Body overwhelmed Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass, and Tang San felt relieved that Ling Yu had left.