Chapter Summaries

Hu Jiu absorbed the Sky Swallowing Toad’s Soul Ring, defeated its grudge in his Spiritual Sea, and gained an External Soul Bone that transformed his tongue. After waking and reassuring Xiao Wu, he noticed that his AFK Panel had begun glowing gold.

• Tang San and Xiao Wu helped Hu Jiu kill the Sky Swallowing Toad, and Hu Jiu began absorbing its Soul Ring.
• During the absorption, Hu Jiu faced the Sky Swallowing Toad’s grudge in his Spiritual Sea and defeated it.
• Hu Jiu gained an External Soul Bone that remade his tongue, though he resolved to keep the ability secret.
• Xiao Wu worried over Hu Jiu while Tang San tried to understand why he was struggling to absorb a ninety-year Soul Ring.
• Hu Jiu opened his eyes, saw Xiao Wu’s concern, and noticed that his AFK Panel was glowing faintly gold.

Hu Jiu discovered that his AFK Panel could improve his Soul Ring’s age, potentially strengthening its cultivation-boosting skill. After he and his friends agreed to keep the secret, he found the Soul Ring had already advanced to ninety-three years on their journey back to Nuoding City.

• A new golden Idle Slot appeared and began AFK-ing Hu Jiu’s Ten-Year Soul Ring, showing a value of ninety-two.
• Hu Jiu used his new Absorb carrot on Xiao Wu and explained that the skill increased cultivation speed by about one percent.
• Tang San urged Hu Jiu to cultivate his Soul Ring diligently, while Xiao Wu promised to protect him and asked for more carrots.
• Hu Jiu asked Tang San and Xiao Wu to keep his Soul Ring’s ability to improve a secret, and they agreed.
• The next afternoon, Hu Jiu discovered that his Soul Ring had reached ninety-three years and would become a Hundred-Year Soul Ring after about seven more days.

Hu Jiu worked to conceal his rapidly growing Soul Ring Year Limit and discovered that his First Soul Skill permanently boosted his AFK cultivation. After his Soul Ring reached the Hundred Year level and its cultivation effect rose to ten percent, he shared the improved carrot with Tang San and Xiao Wu and promised to help them cultivate.

• Hu Jiu practiced controlling his Soul Ring and assessed how it had strengthened his Soul Power, body, and AFK cultivation.
• A week later, Hu Jiu's Soul Ring became a Hundred Year Soul Ring, raising his First Soul Skill's cultivation effect from one percent to ten percent.
• Hu Jiu gave upgraded carrots to Tang San and Xiao Wu, and Tang San sensed that the skill's cultivation effect had improved.
• Hu Jiu told Tang San that the improvement would benefit all of them and offered to help their cultivation.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu promised to protect Hu Jiu.

Hu Jiu decided to sell his cultivation-boosting Carrots to earn money, and Xiao Wu brought Xiao Chenyu, Liu Long, and Ling Feng to meet him. After they swore to keep his secret and tested the Carrots, they eagerly bought more, earning Hu Jiu six Gold Soul Coins.

• Hu Jiu discussed making money with Xiao Wu and Tang San, then decided to approach Xiao Chenyu, Liu Long, and Ling Feng about buying his Carrots.
• Xiao Wu brought the three boys to Hu Jiu, and they swore not to reveal what they learned about his Martial Soul.
• Hu Jiu made Accelerated Cultivation Carrots and let the three boys and Xiao Wu try them.
• After experiencing the Carrots' cultivation boost, Xiao Chenyu, Liu Long, and Ling Feng agreed to buy more for one Gold Soul Coin each.
• Hu Jiu earned six Gold Soul Coins from the sales.

After more than half a year at Nuoding Academy, Hu Jiu had reached level 20 and strengthened his skills, Soul Ring, and External Soul Bone. When Tang San asked about their Second Soul Rings, Hu Jiu said he planned to choose a Metamon, shocking Tang San.

• After selling his goods, Hu Jiu promised Xiao Wu a treat, and that night he discovered his Soul Ring Idle Slot would reach its target in just over a year.
• More than half a year later, Hu Jiu tested his upgraded tongue External Soul Bone, which could extend five meters and resist ordinary blades.
• Hu Jiu reviewed his progress: his Soul Power had reached level 20, his Soul Ring had grown to 596 years, several skills had advanced, and his AFK Panel had unlocked a sixth Idle Slot.
• Hu Jiu returned to the academy, where Xiao Wu questioned his absence and he gave her candy.
• Tang San told Hu Jiu that he and Xiao Wu had reached level 20 and explained his plan to seek a Soul Beast that would strengthen his Blue Silver Grass.
• Hu Jiu said he intended to use a Metamon for his Second Soul Ring, and Tang San reacted with shock.

Hu Jiu tried to convince Tang San to let him choose Metamon for his Second Soul Ring, explaining why he wanted its Transformation Skill. He kept his real purpose secret: using the skill to help conceal Xiao Wu’s Soul Beast aura.

• Tang San refused to let Hu Jiu choose Metamon and insisted his Second Soul Ring should be at least five hundred years old.
• Hu Jiu showed Tang San how brightly his cultivated Soul Ring now glowed, convincing Tang San that he could raise its year limit himself.
• Tang San warned Hu Jiu to keep the Soul Ring’s rapid growth secret and questioned why he wanted a Transformation Skill.
• Hu Jiu concealed that he wanted the skill to alter Xiao Wu’s aura and protect her from Spirit Hall, while considering immortal herbs as a backup plan.
• Hu Jiu looked toward a future with Xiao Wu as she happily ate a carrot.

Hu Jiu and Xiao Wu traveled toward Mato City so Hu Jiu could hunt for a Metamon Soul Ring, but their trip was interrupted when Ma Feng tried to seize Xiao Wu. Hu Jiu defeated Ma Feng and his guards, leaving the pair to continue their journey.

• Hu Jiu and Xiao Wu left Nuoding Academy for Mato City, where Hu Jiu planned to hunt a Metamon for his Second Soul Ring.
• The pair took their time on the road, enjoying the journey and growing closer as Hu Jiu tried to hold Xiao Wu's hand.
• Near Mato City, Ma Feng blocked their path and invited Xiao Wu onto his carriage, then revealed he was the city lord's son after she told him to get lost.
• Ma Feng ordered his guards, Ma Wen and Ma Wu, to capture Xiao Wu, but she attacked them first.
• Hu Jiu built up the power of his Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, then struck both guards and sent them flying.
• Hu Jiu frightened Ma Feng with his killing intent and finished the fight with a hammer strike.

Hu Jiu and Sister Xiao Wu entered Monster Forest to find his Second Soul Ring after killing Ma Feng, the Mato City Lord’s son. They defeated a shape-changing Metamon King, and Hu Jiu prepared to absorb its ten-year Soul Ring despite Sister Xiao Wu’s doubts.

• Hu Jiu reassured Sister Xiao Wu that he did not blame her for the trouble caused by killing Ma Feng, and they decided to leave for Monster Forest after resting overnight.
• Hu Jiu and Sister Xiao Wu traveled deeper into Monster Forest and found a tiger-shaped Metamon King that Hu Jiu identified as his target.
• The Metamon King dodged Hu Jiu’s hammer and transformed into a fast bird, but Sister Xiao Wu caught it with Waist Bow while it tried to escape again as a snake.
• Hu Jiu killed the Metamon King with his iron hammer, and he and Sister Xiao Wu discussed the creature’s Transformation ability.
• Hu Jiu decided to absorb the Metamon King’s pale ten-year Soul Ring as his Second Soul Ring, while Sister Xiao Wu questioned his choice.

Hu Jiu tested his new Transformation soul skill with Xiao Wu as they hurried toward Nuoding City after causing trouble in Mato City. When two powerful Soul Masters began pursuing them, Hu Jiu led Xiao Wu off the road and considered ambushing them rather than fighting head-on.

• Hu Jiu absorbed a ten-year Metamon Soul Ring, gained the Transformation skill, and saw its ten-year limit appear in the AFK Panel.
• Hu Jiu demonstrated Transformation by changing his face to resemble Tang San, then created a carrot that let Xiao Wu change her appearance to resemble Hu Jiu.
• Hu Jiu reminded Xiao Wu that the Mato City Lord might be looking for them, and they raced toward Nuoding City.
• Hu Jiu offered to help Xiao Wu obtain her Second Soul Ring, but she refused and claimed she had arrangements of her own.
• Hu Jiu sensed two powerful Soul Masters approaching, pulled Xiao Wu off the road, and suggested ambushing their pursuers instead of fighting them directly.

Hu Jiu and Xiao Wu turned to fight the two Soul Masters pursuing them from Mato City, then escaped into Nuoding City's territory. After Hu Jiu used a charged hammer strike to defeat one pursuer, he considered seeking a future skill that would help him evade attacks.

• Hu Jiu and Xiao Wu hid by a mound and planned a coordinated ambush against the pursuing Soul Masters.
• Xiao Wu attacked the Wild Dog Soul Master while Hu Jiu secretly charged the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer.
• Hu Jiu struck after seventy-five swings and crushed the Soul Master who had been fighting Xiao Wu.
• Hu Jiu and Xiao Wu fled Mato City and, two hours later, reached Nuoding City's territory.
• Xiao Wu asked to learn Hu Jiu's hammer technique, but he told her to ask Tang Hao; Hu Jiu then considered obtaining a teleportation skill from a Lightning Rabbit.

After returning to the academy with a new Soul Ring, Hu Jiu defused Tang San’s anger and experimented with ways to strengthen his body using his Transformation Skill. Xiao Chenyu and the others then sought more Accelerated Cultivation Carrots, while Hu Jiu encouraged them to work harder.

• Hu Jiu returned to the academy after four days away, and Tang San angrily confronted him for leaving to hunt a Soul Ring without warning.
• Hu Jiu told Tang San that he had gained Seventy-Two Transformations, avoided answering whether his Soul Ring was Ten-Year, and proposed using the skill to strengthen his muscles; Tang San approved of testing the idea.
• After Tang San left, Hu Jiu experimented with his Transformation Skill, strengthening his skin and exploring ways to improve his speed, hand movements, and reactions.
• Xiao Chenyu, Liu Long, and Ling Feng visited Hu Jiu to buy more Accelerated Cultivation Carrots and described how quickly their Soul Power had risen.
• Hu Jiu encouraged the three to keep cultivating, while Xiao Chenyu and the others privately noted that he spent most of his time playing with Sister Xiao Wu.

Hu Jiu sold Accelerated Cultivation Carrots to Xiao Chenyu, Liu Long, and Ling Feng, then prepared supplies for Little Rabbit before she left to Hunt Soul Ring. With Little Rabbit gone, Hu Jiu challenged Tang San to a spar, and the two faced off on a hillside behind the academy.

• Hu Jiu sold Carrots to Xiao Chenyu, Liu Long, and Ling Feng, giving them thirty each and extra Carrots for their money.
• Little Rabbit told Hu Jiu she was leaving for more than half a month to Hunt Soul Ring with her relatives, and Hu Jiu gave her extra Carrots before she departed.
• Hu Jiu felt lonely without Little Rabbit and later met Tang San, whom he invited to spar.
• Hu Jiu sensed that Tang San had reached level 21 and was close to level 22, but still insisted they fight.
• Hu Jiu and Tang San took their positions on a hillside behind the academy, and Hu Jiu began the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer.

Hu Jiu defeated Tang San by revealing that his Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer had grown far stronger, then focused on developing a new Soul Power attack. Tang San shared techniques from Crane Controlling Dragon Seizing Skill to help Hu Jiu figure out how to shape and spin the attack.

• Hu Jiu dodged Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass and struck him down with a six-hit Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer.
• Hu Jiu explained that his hammer technique had improved and discussed how his Transformation Skill increased his speed.
• Hu Jiu trained Soul Power Control while trying to create a spinning, explosive attack like the Rasengan.
• Tang San recognized Hu Jiu’s idea and shared several techniques from Crane Controlling Dragon Seizing Skill to help him develop it.

Hu Jiu completed the Soul Power Spiral Pill and showed it to Tang San before Xiao Wu returned to the academy. He noticed Xiao Wu seemed troubled after her visit to the Star Dou Great Forest and tried to cheer her up with carrots.

• Hu Jiu successfully created the Soul Power Spiral Pill, and his Soul Power Control reached level seven.
• Hu Jiu surprised Tang San with the new skill, nearly provoking Tang San to use his Hidden Weapons, then explained that he had created it.
• Hu Jiu made Accelerated Cultivation Carrots for Xiao Chenyu and the other two, and Xiao Wu returned to the Seventh Dormitory.
• Hu Jiu found Xiao Wu sitting pensively on the back hill and offered her a carrot to cheer her up.

Hu Jiu trained his Rasengan while his Second Soul Ring reached the Hundred-Year Limit and strengthened his Transformation Skill. As the academy break approached, Xiao Wu and Tang San began learning the Rasengan, and Hu Jiu prepared to leave after a year at the academy.

• Hu Jiu demonstrated his newly created Rasengan to Xiao Wu and said she could learn it once her Soul Power Control improved.
• Hu Jiu and Xiao Wu trained together, and the AFK Panel helped his Rasengan reach levels one and two.
• Hu Jiu's Second Soul Ring reached the Hundred-Year Limit, enhancing his Transformation Skill so he could copy another person's appearance, body, and aura perfectly.
• Hu Jiu showed Xiao Wu his transformation into Tang San, and she could not distinguish him from the real Tang San.
• A month later, Hu Jiu's Rasengan reached level three, while Xiao Wu and Tang San met the requirements to begin its training.
• After spending a year at the academy and receiving visits from Old Jack, Hu Rui, and Emma, Hu Jiu reached the academy break.

Hu Jiu invited Xiao Wu to spend the break at his home, and the two traveled with Tang San to Holy Soul Village. Tang San found that Tang Hao had left, then Hu Jiu brought Xiao Wu home to meet his family.

• Xiao Wu agreed to go home with Hu Jiu after he said he was returning to Holy Soul Village for the break.
• Hu Jiu, Xiao Wu, and Tang San traveled to Holy Soul Village, where Tang San eagerly headed to his home to see Tang Hao.
• Tang San found Old Jack and learned from Tang Hao's letter that his father had already left.
• Hu Jiu comforted Tang San, who decided to clean up and join them later for dinner.
• Hu Jiu introduced Xiao Wu to Old Jack, then brought her home, where Hu Rui and Emma welcomed her enthusiastically.

Hu Jiu asked Tang San to forge him a spiked Meteor Hammer powerful enough to match his growing strength. After weeks of forging, Hu Jiu received the finished weapon and prepared to fight alongside it.

• Tang San visited Hu Jiu’s home, where Hu Jiu gave gifts to his family and explained that his Food System martial soul helped him earn money.
• Hu Jiu asked Tang San to forge a heavy, spiked hammer, and Tang San agreed after Hu Jiu insisted that a weapon should be made for killing.
• Hu Jiu and Tang San spent a week refining pig iron, with Hu Jiu doing most of the hammering while Tang San worked the bellows.
• Tang San shaped the refined iron into a spiked hammer over the following weeks while Hu Jiu watched the weapon take form.
• Hu Jiu received the 132-jin Meteor Hammer and declared that he and the weapon would fight side by side.

Hu Jiu spent the vacation helping Tang San forge Hidden Weapons while Emma took Xiao Wu in as her goddaughter. After a month apart from the academy, Hu Jiu, Xiao Wu, and Tang San left for Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy as second-year students.

• Hu Jiu tried to recruit Tang San and Xiao Wu to spar with his spiked Meteor Hammer, but both refused, and Tang San enlisted him to help forge Hidden Weapons.
• Hu Jiu spent the following days laboring in the Blacksmith Shop while Emma kept Xiao Wu company and made her Hu Jiu’s god-sister.
• Hu Jiu asked whether he could still marry Xiao Wu and later persuaded her to let her hair down, which he admired.
• After a month, Hu Jiu and Xiao Wu said goodbye to Emma and joined Tang San on the journey to Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy.
• Tang San and Hu Jiu had reached Soul Power level 22, while Xiao Wu had reached level 21.

Hu Jiu’s First Soul Ring advanced to a Thousand-Year Soul Ring, permanently doubling his cultivation speed and greatly boosting his AFK Panel. He decided to conceal its power while Tang San became his debtor, and the trio’s cultivation accelerated.

• Hu Jiu kept selling Carrots to Xiao Chenyu, Liu Long, and Ling Feng after they graduated and entered Martial Soul Hall Intermediate Academy.
• Hu Jiu’s First Soul Ring advanced to a Thousand-Year Soul Ring, doubling his cultivation speed and increasing his Soul Ring Idle Slot’s growth.
• Hu Jiu decided to hide his Soul Ring’s effects and considered ending his business with customers who might discover its power.
• Hu Jiu began charging Tang San for Carrots, but let him take them on credit so he would keep cultivating and repay the debt later.
• Hu Jiu’s Carrots became darker and tastier, and Xiao Wu started eating them constantly.
• Hu Jiu, Tang San, and Xiao Wu’s cultivation speeds increased dramatically as they ate the Carrots.

Hu Jiu demonstrated that his Thousand-Year Transformation skill could perfectly copy Xiao Wu and Tang San, though it could not reproduce their Soul Ring Skills. Tang San brought him to meet Grandmaster, who was astonished by Hu Jiu’s rapid cultivation and ability to increase his Soul Ring Year Limit.

• Hu Jiu’s Transformation skill advanced to a Thousand-Year Soul Ring and let him imitate Xiao Wu’s Spirit Avatar, including its sensitive rabbit ears.
• Hu Jiu transformed into Tang San and copied his appearance, clothing, accessories, and Blue Silver Grass, but could not use Tang San’s Soul Ring Skills.
• Tang San told Hu Jiu that Grandmaster wanted to meet him, and Hu Jiu agreed to go immediately.
• Grandmaster remarked on Hu Jiu’s progress despite his level-two Innate Soul Power.
• Grandmaster recalled learning from Tang San that Hu Jiu had reached level twenty-eight and could artificially raise his Soul Ring Year Limits.