Chapter Summaries

Yang Podi awakened the Soul Breaking Spear with rank-nine Innate Soul Power, though Yang Zhentian concealed his true talent as a precaution against their enemies. After Yang Podi wondered whether he had a second Martial Soul and planned to strengthen the Breaking Clan, Yang Zhentian began teaching him meditation.

• Yang Podi filled the Soul Power testing crystal nearly to capacity, and Yang Zhentian announced that his Innate Soul Power was rank eight.
• All twelve other children awakened the Soul Breaking Spear, with rank-seven Innate Soul Power the highest among them.
• Yang Zhentian told Yang Podi that his Soul Power had tested at rank nine, but he had understated it to protect him from Spirit Hall and the Clear Sky Sect.
• Yang Zhentian ordered Yang Podi to attend the Breaking Clan's school, where he would learn Soul Master fundamentals, medicine refining, and how to use the Soul Breaking Spear.
• Yang Podi recalled feeling Soul Power flow as if a second Martial Soul might awaken, then considered how to grow stronger and obtain the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for the Breaking Clan.
• Yang Zhentian brought Yang Podi a book and explained how meditation circulated internal Soul Power and absorbed it from the surrounding environment.

Yang Podi began meditating and presented Yang Zhentian with a demanding training plan. Yang Wudi turned the plan into a shared training program for the Breaking Clan’s children, and Yang Podi started his new cultivation routine.

• Yang Podi completed his first two-hour meditation session, and Yang Zhentian praised his cultivation talent.
• Yang Podi showed Yang Zhentian his detailed training regimen, which included spear practice, lessons, weighted exercise, medicinal baths, and meditation.
• Yang Wudi approved the regimen but reprimanded Yang Zhentian for not supervising Yang Podi or introducing the plan to the clan.
• Yang Podi attended lessons with the other newly awakened children, studying spear techniques, medicinal knowledge, meditation, and Martial Souls.
• Yang Podi joined dozens of Breaking Clan children at the training grounds, where they began climbing the mountain with weights under the teachers’ supervision.

Yang Podi trained relentlessly while waiting for his sister to be born, and he named her Yang Tianyue. Three months after his Martial Soul Awakening, he reached rank 10, fully sensed his Body Martial Soul, and kept it secret as he prepared to obtain a Soul Ring.

• Yang Podi realized his second Martial Soul was his entire body and continued exhausting himself with daily training to strengthen it.
• Yang Podi's mother gave birth to a daughter, and the family gathered to celebrate the Breaking Clan's new little princess.
• Yang Podi suggested the name Yang Tianyue, which Yang Wudi and Yang Zhentian accepted.
• Yang Podi reached rank 10 three months after his Martial Soul Awakening and encountered a cultivation bottleneck.
• Yang Podi fully sensed his Body Martial Soul but hid it from his family, then turned his attention to obtaining a Soul Ring.

After reaching rank ten, Yang Podi planned to build his cultivation around strength-type Soul Rings and asked Yang Wudi and his father to support his approach. Yang Wudi agreed to take him to Sunset Forest to seek a suitable Soul Ring, while Yang Podi also hoped to locate the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Yang Podi decided to pursue a pure-strength cultivation path, using his Soul Breaking Spear and later developing his own spear techniques.
• Yang Podi told Yang Wudi and his father he wanted strength-type Soul Rings, beginning with one around five to six hundred years old.
• Yang Wudi examined Yang Podi's physique and judged it strong enough to withstand a Soul Ring of about five hundred years.
• Yang Podi and Yang Wudi settled on searching for strong Soul Beasts, including Qian Jun Ants and bear, ape, tiger, and dragon types.
• Yang Podi hoped to find the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well during the trip, and Yang Wudi took him by carriage toward Sunset Forest the next morning.

Yang Wudi took Yang Podi into Sunset Forest, teaching him about its dangers and the soul beasts and plants they encountered. As they camped for the night, Yang Wudi warned that people posed the greatest danger in the forest and sensed someone nearby.

• Yang Wudi showed Yang Podi the soul-hunting town and explained its supplies, mercenaries, and the dangers surrounding paid soul-beast hunts.
• Yang Wudi and Yang Podi entered Sunset Forest, where mercenaries watched them and some figures moved nearby.
• Yang Wudi taught Yang Podi to recognize soul beasts and dangerous plants as they searched the forest for a suitable soul beast.
• After finding no suitable target, Yang Wudi pitched a tent at night and used soul-beast dung to deter attackers.
• Yang Wudi warned Yang Podi to avoid injury and stay alert to people in the forest, then sensed someone nearby.

Yang Wudi killed five members of the Blood Mantis Mercenary Group after they tried to rob him and Yang Podi in Sunset Forest. He made Yang Podi search the bodies, then left with him and asked what he had learned from the encounter.

• The Blood Mantis Mercenary Group surrounded Yang Wudi and Yang Podi and demanded their money and valuables.
• Yang Wudi revealed his Soul Rings and told Yang Podi to watch as he killed the group’s leader with his Soul Breaking Spear.
• Yang Wudi pursued and killed the four remaining robbers, then finished off a wounded man.
• Yang Wudi ordered Yang Podi to search the five bodies for valuables, and Yang Podi vomited after completing the grisly task.
• Yang Wudi and Yang Podi left the scene, pitched their tent in another clearing, and Yang Wudi asked his grandson what he had learned.

Yang Wudi taught Yang Podi about the Breaking Clan’s resolve and the dangers of the Soul Master world, while Yang Podi committed to pursuing pure strength. In Sunset Forest, Yang Wudi captured a large Qian Jun Ant for Yang Podi’s first Soul Ring and hurried away from its nest.

• Yang Podi inferred why Yang Wudi had killed the five attackers, and Yang Wudi explained the need to eliminate threats and fight without yielding to intimidation.
• Yang Podi spent the night reflecting on his clan’s history and decided to follow the path of pure strength.
• Yang Wudi warned Yang Podi to remain alert even while sleeping in Soul Hunting Forest, and they continued searching for a Soul Beast.
• Yang Podi questioned whether a Qian Jun Ant was a worthy choice, but agreed to take the roughly six-hundred-year-old specimen after Yang Wudi praised its strength-related benefits.
• Yang Wudi wounded and seized the large Qian Jun Ant, then led Yang Podi away from its nest to avoid danger while absorbing the Soul Ring.

Yang Podi killed a Qian Jun Ant and successfully absorbed its nearly six-hundred-year Soul Ring as his First Soul Ring, reaching rank twelve. After Yang Wudi confirmed he was unharmed, Yang Podi suggested they search Sunset Forest for medicinal herbs before leaving.

• Yang Wudi warned Yang Podi that the Qian Jun Ant's Soul Ring was far older than the normal limit, but Yang Podi insisted he could withstand it and killed the ant with his Soul Breaking Spear.
• Yang Podi absorbed the Soul Ring despite its overwhelming pressure and scorching energy, while his body and Soul Breaking Spear were strengthened.
• Yang Podi opened his eyes unharmed and told Yang Wudi that his First Soul Skill, Qian Jun's Strength, boosted his physical strength by fifty percent and his spear's power by one hundred percent for ten minutes; he had reached rank twelve.
• Yang Wudi examined Yang Podi, praised his success, and found no Soul Bone in the Qian Jun Ant's corpse.
• Yang Podi suggested that he and Yang Wudi search Sunset Forest for medicinal herbs before they left.

Yang Podi and Yang Wudi searched Sunset Forest for medicinal herbs but left without finding the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. On the way home, Yang Podi learned about poison, the Breaking Clan’s medicine-refining tradition, and Aromatic Silk Beauty; back at Clear Source Mountain, Niu Jinfeng checked that he was unharmed.

• Yang Wudi agreed to take Yang Podi through Sunset Forest, where they encountered many Soul Beasts, found valuable herbs, and avoided a ten-thousand-year Hell Leopard.
• Yang Podi and Yang Wudi failed to find the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Yang Wudi refused to enter the forest’s inner region, so they left.
• Yang Podi asked about poison Soul Masters, and Yang Wudi explained Dugu Bo’s poisons and the risks that prolonged poison use posed to Soul Masters.
• Yang Wudi described Aromatic Silk Beauty and told Yang Podi that he would teach him the Breaking Clan’s medicine-refining knowledge, while Yang Podi said he wanted to focus on becoming a stronger Soul Master.
• Yang Wudi and Yang Podi returned to Clear Source Mountain, where Niu Jinfeng examined Yang Podi and warned him not to take such risks again.

Yang Podi began studying the Breaking Clan’s inherited medicine refining knowledge under his grandfather, Yang Wudi, and discovered the potential of the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass. He left eager to learn more while continuing his secret spear training and demanding physical conditioning.

• Yang Wudi brought Yang Podi to the family’s medicine refining room and explained that he must first learn medicinal ingredients before attempting to refine anything.
• Yang Podi studied the clan’s inherited books, including the Complete Compendium of Douluo Continent Immortal Herb, and found the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass especially suited to the Soul Breaking Spear Martial Soul.
• Yang Wudi said the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had searched for the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass without success, and Yang Podi wondered if it grew at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Yang Podi decided not to refine medicine until he was confident and considered whether poisons might help awaken his body Martial Soul.
• Yang Podi secretly practiced spear techniques from his previous life and began wearing a thirty-kilogram set of weights during his daily training.

Yang Podi practiced the basic thrusting technique of the Soul Breaking Spear and reflected on how mastering foundational spear skills could complement his Soul Skills. Yang Wudi then asked him to train alongside Yang Ping'an, an orphaned clan genius, and Yang Podi agreed to take him in and cultivate with him.

• Yang Podi practiced spear thrusts for two hours each morning, planning to master each technique before moving on.
• Yang Wudi urged Yang Podi to socialize and build relationships that would help him lead the Breaking Clan.
• Yang Wudi explained that Yang Ping'an had lost his family and that his mother had entrusted him to Yang Wudi before she died.
• Yang Wudi said Yang Ping'an had rank-seven Innate Soul Power and should train with Yang Podi as his future right-hand man.
• Yang Podi agreed to have Yang Ping'an move into his home and train alongside him.

Yang Podi welcomed Yang Ping'an into the family and trained alongside him as he adjusted to life in the Breaking Clan. Two years later, the clan had grown stronger, while Yang Podi's family and Yang Ping'an continued to advance in their cultivation.

• Yang Zhentian brought Yang Ping'an home, and Yang Podi promised to guide him as his older brother.
• Yang Podi and Yang Ping'an practiced, studied, and trained together, with Yang Ping'an gradually becoming lively and diligent.
• Over the next two years, Yang Wudi and Yang Wushuang each broke through to Soul Douluo, strengthening the Breaking Clan's standing.
• Yang Zhentian reached rank 76, Niu Jinfeng reached rank 68, and Yang Ping'an gained his first Soul Ring and reached rank 16.
• Yang Tianyue grew into an energetic two-year-old, and the Breaking Clan continued to flourish as its elders grew stronger.

Yang Podi broke through to rank twenty and prepared to hunt for his second Soul Ring with Yang Zhentian. He also learned that Dugu Bo had brought Dugu Xin to the Breaking Clan for treatment, but the clan’s medicine experts could only ease the poison unless Dugu Xin destroyed his Martial Soul or obtained the rare aromatic silk beauty.

• Yang Podi broke through to rank twenty during meditation, becoming the youngest Soul Grandmaster in the Breaking Clan’s history.
• Yang Podi told Yang Zhentian and his family about his breakthrough, then agreed to hunt a Soul Beast with his father.
• Yang Podi recalled that Dugu Bo had brought his poisoned son, Dugu Xin, to the Breaking Clan half a month earlier.
• Yang Wudi told Dugu Bo that the clan could relieve Dugu Xin’s poisoning but could not cure its Martial Soul source.
• Yang Wudi said aromatic silk beauty could cure Dugu Xin, but it had been missing for countless years, and Dugu Bo asked the clan to continue treating his son.

Yang Podi and Yang Zhentian searched Sunset Forest for a suitable Soul Beast for Yang Podi’s second Soul Ring. They found a rare Purple-Eyed Demon Tiger nearing a thousand years old, and Yang Podi chose it as his target.

• Yang Podi told Yang Zhentian he wanted a strength-type Soul Beast over nine hundred years old but under a thousand, to avoid risking an unsuitable ring or attracting attention.
• Yang Zhentian took Yang Podi into Sunset Forest, where he carefully protected him from hazards as they searched for three days and nights.
• Yang Podi rejected a Qian Jun Ant and several bear-type Soul Beasts because they did not meet his standards.
• Yang Zhentian heard a distant tiger’s roar and led Yang Podi to a rare Purple-Eyed Demon Tiger, explaining its strength, darkness attributes, and possible teleportation skills.
• After learning the tiger was over nine hundred years old and close to a thousand, Yang Podi decided it would suit him and chose it.

Yang Podi absorbed a nearly thousand-year-old Purple-Eyed Demon Tiger Soul Ring and gained a teleporting attack skill. He and Yang Zhentian prepared to leave after finding no Soul Bone in the tiger's remains.

• Yang Zhentian fought the Purple-Eyed Demon Tiger, wounded it, and pinned it to the ground with his spear.
• Yang Podi killed the weakened tiger by stabbing its eye, then absorbed its Soul Ring despite Yang Zhentian's concern about its age.
• Yang Podi completed the three-hour absorption and gained a second yellow Soul Ring, reaching Soul Power level twenty-two.
• Yang Podi demonstrated Devil Tiger Destruction Kill, which teleported him up to thirty meters and boosted his spear's weight and attack power by fifty percent.
• Yang Zhentian explained how Soul Masters could sense the Soul Power fluctuations caused by teleportation, and he and Yang Podi prepared to leave after finding no Soul Bone.

Yang Podi and Yang Zhentian searched Sunset Forest for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well but discovered a dangerous Titan Giant Python in a silent marsh. After Yang Podi revealed why he had wanted to stay, Yang Zhentian doubted the legendary well could be found.

• Yang Podi persuaded Yang Zhentian to remain in Sunset Forest and train while they searched for places with poisonous gas.
• The two explored the forest’s core region, encountered powerful Soul Beasts, and retreated after finding no poisonous areas.
• Yang Podi noticed a silent marsh, and Yang Zhentian helped him test it by throwing in a Soft Bone Rabbit.
• A Titan Giant Python emerged from the marsh and swallowed the rabbit, prompting Yang Zhentian to warn Yang Podi about the creature’s strength and territory.
• Yang Zhentian urged Yang Podi to leave Sunset Forest, but Yang Podi admitted he had come to search for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Yang Zhentian said the well’s existence was recorded in books but doubted it could be found in Sunset Forest.

Yang Podi and Yang Zhentian searched Sunset Forest for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, using their map and Yang Zhentian’s tracking skills to navigate. After reaching a remote area where the air carried an unusual toxin with both ice and fire attributes, they realized the well was probably nearby.

• Yang Podi told Yang Zhentian that he believed the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was in Sunset Forest, and Yang Zhentian questioned whether it could really exist.
• Yang Zhentian showed Yang Podi a rough map and taught him to use the sun and their travel distance to estimate their location while warning him not to rely on the map for safety.
• Yang Podi and Yang Zhentian continued searching and were chased by a Man Faced Demon Spider over forty thousand years old, leaving them lost in an unknown area.
• Yang Zhentian sensed that their surroundings were unusually remote and that the air contained a mild toxin with both freezing ice and blazing fire attributes.
• Yang Podi told Yang Zhentian that the strange toxin pointed to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well being nearby.

Yang Podi and Yang Zhentian discovered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, a hidden valley filled with rare medicinal herbs. Yang Podi harvested nearly all the immortal-grade and ten-thousand-year herbs, leaving his father questioning his motives and his loyalty to the clan.

• Yang Zhentian gave Yang Podi antidote pills and carried him through the poisonous mist to a hidden valley.
• They found the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and saw numerous rare immortal herbs growing around it.
• Yang Zhentian became absorbed in examining the Aromatic Silk Beauty while Yang Podi began harvesting herbs.
• Yang Podi spent two hours digging up nearly all the immortal-grade and ten-thousand-year herbs, leaving their roots and less valuable plants behind.
• Yang Zhentian challenged Yang Podi over taking the herbs, and Yang Podi said the clan should not trust everyone with knowledge of their value.
• Yang Zhentian objected to Yang Podi's suspicion of clan members, but fell silent when Yang Podi pointed to the medicinal herbs he had left.

Yang Podi and Yang Zhentian decided to conceal the Immortal Herbs and distribute them among their family while protecting the Breaking Clan from the risks of others learning about them. They finished dividing the herbs and planned to take them next, leaving two dangerous herbs unharvested for Yang Podi to consider using later.

• Yang Podi urged Yang Zhentian to keep the Immortal Herbs secret, secure the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and limit knowledge of it to their immediate family.
• Yang Podi proposed herbs for his parents and grandfathers, medicine refined from a nine-grade purple ganoderma for the clan elders, and future shares for Ping'an and Tianyue.
• Yang Zhentian suggested storing the herbs himself because Yang Podi was only a rank-twenty-two Soul Grandmaster, and they agreed to store them separately.
• Yang Podi and Yang Zhentian each took turns choosing Immortal Herbs, and Yang Podi set aside a ten-thousand-year earth ganoderma for his maternal grandfather.
• Yang Podi asked them to leave the octagonal mysterious ice grass and infernal delicate apricot unharvested so he could consider using them after reaching Soul Elder; Yang Zhentian warned him to wait until he was stronger.

Yang Zhentian absorbed the Nine-Grade Dragon Ganoderma and broke through to rank eighty, while Yang Podi endured the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass’s nine leaves and gained a sharp new power. After demonstrating his Soul Breaking Spear’s enhanced attacks, Yang Podi became exhausted and began recovering with a Dragon Ganoderma Leaf.

• Yang Zhentian consumed the Nine-Grade Dragon Ganoderma and, after five hours, broke through to rank eighty as his body and Soul Breaking Spear showed signs of change.
• Yang Zhentian picked the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass with a jade knife and warned Yang Podi that absorbing its ninth leaf could be dangerous.
• Yang Podi absorbed the first eight leaves, enduring increasingly intense pain as the Sword Qi affected his body and brain.
• Yang Podi ignored Yang Zhentian’s warning and absorbed the ninth leaf over an entire day, uniting the effects of all nine leaves.
• Yang Podi tested his enhanced Soul Breaking Spear, firing a spear gleam and slashing the rock wall, then collapsed from exhaustion.
• Yang Zhentian caught Yang Podi and gave him a Dragon Ganoderma Leaf to help him recover.