Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yi gained a major spiritual-power talent after opening his Sea of Consciousness, then rescued Jiang Nannan, Bei Bei, and Tang Ya after the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s spiritual eruption knocked them unconscious. Huo Yuhao woke beneath Jiang Yi’s Blue Silver Grass shield, and Tang Ya found him struggling to cut his way out.

• Jiang Yi inspected his Sea of Consciousness, tried and failed to affect Electrolux’s gray orb, and left without revealing that he knew Electrolux was there.
• Jiang Yi earned the golden achievement “Consciousness Sea newly opened, behold all beings” and gained the “First Thought Born” talent, which strengthened his spiritual power and granted new perception abilities.
• Jiang Yi used his expanded spiritual perception to locate the unconscious Jiang Nannan, Bei Bei, and Tang Ya, then restored them with his vitality.
• Jiang Nannan woke, embraced Jiang Yi, and asked him not to run off alone again; Bei Bei and Tang Ya also recovered and asked what had happened.
• Jiang Yi told the others he had found Huo Yuhao unconscious and protected him with Blue Silver Grass, while Tang Ya hurried ahead to check on him.
• Huo Yuhao woke and learned from the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm that Jiang Yi had protected him; when Tang Ya arrived, Huo Yuhao was still struggling to cut through the sturdy grass shield.

After Huo Yuhao joined the Tang Sect, Jiang Yi used his new achievement to accumulate a fate poison against Tang San while hiding himself from higher beings. The group rested by the stream, and the next morning they resumed searching for Tang Ya’s Soul Beast without venturing deep into the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Jiang Yi encouraged Huo Yuhao to join the Tang Sect, and Huo Yuhao accepted Tang Ya’s invitation.
• Jiang Yi gained the Fate Parasite talent, which accumulated poison in Huo Yuhao through his connections to Tang San’s legacy, and gained protection from being tracked by higher beings.
• Huo Yuhao completed the Tang Sect master-disciple ceremony, then learned its secret techniques from Bei Bei that night, increasing the accumulated poison.
• Jiang Yi, Jiang Nannan, Tang Ya, Bei Bei, and Huo Yuhao rested by the stream and resumed their search for Tang Ya’s Soul Beast the next morning.

Jiang Yi led the group to the source of the stream, lured out a Water-Purifying White Lotus, and helped Tang Ya begin absorbing its Soul Ring. As Tang Ya fused with it, the lotus’s power began purifying toxins from her Blue Silver Grass, and the process was still underway.

• Jiang Yi killed a nearly thousand-year Jade Poison Snake that had been hiding in the bamboo, then asked Huo Yuhao to demonstrate his Spiritual Detection + Sharing Soul Skill.
• The group found a clear, icy pool, and Jiang Yi poured ink into it to draw out the Water-Purifying White Lotus.
• Jiang Yi bound the roughly twelve-hundred-year-old lotus, and Tang Ya killed it and began absorbing its purple Soul Ring.
• During the fusion, white light enveloped Tang Ya and began purifying the toxins in her Blue Silver Grass, causing her pain.
• Jiang Yi reassured Bei Bei that the purification was normal, while the toxins continued rising as black vapor and Tang Ya’s Martial Soul began to change.

Tang Ya fused with the Water-Purifying White Lotus and gained a purifying support skill, prompting Jiang Yi to consider new ways to develop Blue Silver Grass. After the group returned to Shrek Academy, Jiang Yi and Jiang Nannan went to meet their homeroom teacher and learned that their advancement assessment was at hell-level difficulty.

• Tang Ya completed her Soul Ring fusion, purged the poison from her Blue Silver Grass, and gained the White Lotus Purifying Light skill.
• Jiang Yi considered how adding attributes could open new cultivation paths for Blue Silver Grass Soul Masters, while Huo Yuhao learned from the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm that Jiang Yi was a rank-twenty-seven Soul Grandmaster.
• Jiang Yi led the group out of the Star Dou Great Forest, and they returned to Shrek Academy in time for Huo Yuhao to enroll.
• Jiang Yi recorded Tang Ya's changes for Li Lingyu and sensed that the Poison of Fate's Backlash on Huo Yuhao had increased.
• After the academy opened, Jiang Yi and Jiang Nannan met Xu Sanshi outside Lin Yu's office, where Xu Sanshi warned them that the advancement assessment was hell-level difficulty.

Jiang Yi and his companions learned that their assessment to skip ahead to sixth year would pit them against a Six-Ring Soul Emperor, while Tang Ya’s Water-Purifying White Lotus Soul Ring transformed her Blue Silver Grass into a support-type Martial Soul. The chapter ended with Wang Yan summoning Jiang Yi to ask how he had advised Tang Ya.

• Lin Yu told Jiang Yi, Jiang Nannan, and Xu Sanshi that they would face an Inner Court Soul Emperor in their assessment, which would take place after she returned from hunting for her Sixth Soul Ring.
• Jiang Yi and Jiang Nannan began studying in sixth-year Class One, where Wang Yan had become their homeroom teacher.
• Tang Ya demonstrated her purified Blue Silver Grass to Du Weilun and asked to transfer to Class Three, prompting him to summon Wang Yan for his expertise.
• Tang Ya explained that Jiang Yi had advised her to abandon poison and control attributes and fuse with a Water-Purifying White Lotus Soul Ring.
• Wang Yan confirmed Tang Ya’s Martial Soul could provide support, recommended she continue choosing similar Soul Rings, and rushed to speak with Jiang Yi.
• Wang Yan called Jiang Yi to his office and asked how he had come up with the advice for Tang Ya.

Jiang Yi explained his theory that Blue Silver Grass Soul Masters could pursue different cultivation paths and asked Shrek Academy to support a Martial Soul research department. He also revealed that research could help him gather faith for creating his own godhood, and went to speak with Zhuang Fei before the academy decided whether to support him.

• Wang Yan discussed Tang Ya’s new support path with Jiang Yi and listened as Jiang Yi outlined how Blue Silver Grass could develop into support, healing, or food-type Soul Masters.
• Jiang Yi asked Wang Yan to seek funding, resources, and Blue Silver Grass Soul Masters for experiments, and proposed establishing a Martial Soul research department.
• Wang Yan agreed to help Jiang Yi apply for the project, and Jiang Yi said he would also approach Zhuang Fei.
• Jiang Yi considered using successful Martial Soul research to earn believers and gather the Power of Faith needed to create his own godhood.
• Two days later, Jiang Yi went to find Zhuang Fei, but Zhuang Fei opened his office door and came out just as Jiang Yi arrived.

Jiang Yi arranged for Huo Yuhao to be recommended to Qian Duoduo instead of becoming Fan Yu’s disciple, while demonstrating his progress in Life Mimicry to Elder Zhuang. Later, Jiang Yi and Jiang Nannan went to support Huo Yuhao’s grilled-fish stall, where they found Tang Ya and a long queue.

• Jiang Yi watched Zhuang Fei heal the injured students from Zhou Yi’s strenuous training and spoke with Huo Yuhao about visiting his grilled-fish stall.
• Jiang Yi asked Zhuang Fei to help recommend Huo Yuhao to Qian Duoduo, then showed Elder Zhuang that he had mastered Life Mimicry.
• Elder Zhuang agreed to recommend Huo Yuhao to Qian Duoduo and invited him to come on Sunday.
• Jiang Yi met Jiang Nannan after classes, and they went together to Huo Yuhao’s stall at the academy’s east gate.
• Jiang Yi and Jiang Nannan found a long line at the stall, where Tang Ya was eating grilled fish and greeted them.

Jiang Yi warned Huo Yuhao that Zhou Yi’s training could leave him with hidden injuries, arranged medicinal baths, and offered to recommend him a Soul Tool teacher. Meanwhile, Xuan Zi brought Jiang Yi’s proposal for a Martial Soul research department to a Sea God Pavilion Meeting, where the elders began considering its potential benefits.

• Jiang Yi told Huo Yuhao that his intense training could cause lasting injuries and gave Tang Ya a prescription for medicinal baths.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to visit Jiang Yi on Sunday to meet a recommended Soul Tool teacher, having grown distrustful of Zhou Yi and Fan Yu.
• Wang Yan asked Xuan Zi to raise Jiang Yi’s proposal for a Martial Soul research department at a Sea God Pavilion Meeting.
• Xuan Zi convened the meeting, and Zhang Lexuan gathered the senior elders at the Sea God Pavilion.
• Xuan Zi presented the proposal and argued that research could help Soul Masters with poor talent find better paths to cultivation.

The Sea God Pavilion approved Xuan Zi's proposal to establish a Martial Soul Research Institute, with Jiang Yi and Wang Yan as its chief researchers. As construction preparations began, Jiang Yi planned to publish research on Blue Silver Grass and took Huo Yuhao to Sea God Island to meet a teacher.

• Mu En approved the institute proposal, appointed Xuan Zi as director and Jiang Yi and Wang Yan as chief researchers, and assigned funding from the Martial Soul and Soul Tool Departments.
• Xuan Zi asked Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo to prepare resources, while Elder Zhuang told Qian Duoduo to meet him Sunday about a prospective disciple.
• Jiang Yi and Wang Yan celebrated the approval and decided to finish their Blue Silver Grass research before recruiting researchers.
• Jiang Yi planned to write to his teacher and investigate why the teacher had left Shrek Academy, while continuing to cultivate.
• Jiang Yi met Huo Yuhao on Sunday and led him toward Sea God Island, saying his connections would get them there.

Jiang Yi brought Huo Yuhao to Elder Zhuang, who introduced him to Qian Duoduo; after seeing Huo Yuhao's spiritual detection Soul Skill, Qian Duoduo took him away for experiments. Jiang Yi then studied with Elder Zhuang, who taught him about vitality domains and Life Resonance and Link.

• Jiang Yi led Huo Yuhao across Sea God Lake using a path made with Life Mimicry and brought him to Elder Zhuang's residence.
• Elder Zhuang introduced Huo Yuhao to Qian Duoduo, dean of the Soul Tool Department, and Qian Duoduo tested Huo Yuhao's Soul Skill.
• Qian Duoduo learned the range and potential of Huo Yuhao's spiritual detection and took him away to conduct an experiment.
• Elder Zhuang told Jiang Yi to keep practicing Life Mimicry in combat and explained that the next stage was building a vitality domain for continuous healing.
• Elder Zhuang taught Jiang Yi that Life Resonance and Link with living things could provide a medium for a vitality domain, and Jiang Yi realized he could begin with his existing connection to Blue Silver Grass.

Jiang Yi practiced Life Resonance with Blue Silver Grass and continued developing a spiritual attack, while Huo Yuhao thanked him for helping him become Qian Duoduo’s disciple. In Spirit Mountain City, Li Lingyu learned that Shrek had agreed to establish a Martial Soul Research Academy and hesitated over Jiang Yi’s invitation to lead its research.

• Elder Zhuang demonstrated the Life Force Domain to Jiang Yi and told him to practice before reporting his insights the following week.
• Jiang Yi met Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, and Huo Yuhao thanked him for helping him become Qian Duoduo’s disciple.
• Jiang Yi spent the day practicing Life Resonance with Blue Silver Grass until he briefly matched its life frequency.
• Jiang Yi attempted to develop a spiritual attack by projecting spiritual power from his eyes, but it dispersed after traveling a few centimeters.
• Li Lingyu read Jiang Yi’s letter about Shrek’s planned Martial Soul Research Academy and its invitation for him to become chief researcher, but recalled his promise not to return until he cured someone.

Jiang Yi and Wang Yan opened the Martial Soul Research Institute and launched its first project, recruiting Blue Silver Grass Soul Masters to study a new cultivation path. Jiang Yi selected thirty candidates and prepared to test them as the research began.

• Jiang Yi arrived at the completed Martial Soul Research Institute with Jiang Nannan and received congratulations and gifts from Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, Huo Yuhao, Tang Ya, and the others.
• Xuan Zi told Jiang Yi and Wang Yan that they could manage the institute themselves and ask him for whatever resources they needed.
• Jiang Yi and Wang Yan toured the mostly empty institute, chose their first research project, and posted a notice seeking thirty unringed Blue Silver Grass Soul Masters.
• Nearly a hundred eligible candidates gathered at the institute, and Jiang Yi, Wang Yan, and their helpers selected thirty of them.
• Jiang Yi introduced himself as Researcher Jiang, promised to instruct the candidates and provide cultivation resources, and told them to begin tests that day.

Jiang Yi used Color-Changing Ore to test the bloodline attributes of thirty Blue Silver Grass Soul Masters and found that one, Lei Kai, had a Lightning secondary attribute. After securing resources for their cultivation, Jiang Yi brought Lei Kai to the Martial Soul Research Institute to question him about his background.

• Jiang Yi and Wang Yan recorded the tests, finding that all thirty had Life as their primary attribute, while eighteen had Water, ten Earth, one Light, and Lei Kai Lightning.
• Jiang Yi suspected Lei Kai might carry a Thundering Hell Vine bloodline but could not confirm it without a way to detect bloodlines precisely.
• Wang Yan took the resource list to Xuan Zi, who pressured Yan Shaozhe into providing everything needed for the thirty Soul Masters.
• Jiang Yi returned to cultivation while Wang Yan secured the resources for the institute's experiment.
• Lei Kai arrived at the institute early the next morning, and Jiang Yi took him to the open area outside to ask him a few questions.

Jiang Yi helped Lei Kai and the other Blue Silver Grass Soul Masters cultivate faster by filling the institute grounds with his powerful Blue Silver Grass. A month later, Jiang Yi, Jiang Nannan, and Xu Sanshi began their grade-skipping assessment against the Soul Emperor Luo Ping, whose fiery counterattack left the battle unresolved.

• Jiang Yi learned that Lei Kai had been abandoned as a child and used his Blue Silver Grass to create a cultivation ground that nearly doubled Lei Kai’s cultivation speed.
• The other Blue Silver Grass Soul Masters arrived and cultivated among Jiang Yi’s grass, improving their progress toward rank ten.
• Jiang Yi, Jiang Nannan, and Xu Sanshi went to the Soul Fighting Zone for their delayed assessment, where Lin Yu introduced their opponent, the Inner Court senior Luo Ping.
• At Lin Yu’s signal, Jiang Yi unleashed more than a hundred Blue Silver Vines while Jiang Nannan interrupted Luo Ping’s Martial Soul Possession and Xu Sanshi shielded Jiang Yi.
• Luo Ping endured the vines, blasted them away with a lion’s roar, and then erupted in flames as Jiang Yi’s vines wrapped around him.

Jiang Yi, Jiang Nannan, and Xu Sanshi fought Luo Ping in a grade-skipping assessment, forcing the Soul Emperor to use his defensive Soul Skill before they conceded. After Lin Yu announced their success, her warning about dangerous experiments led Jiang Yi to realize she had been involved in Li Lingyu’s past.

• Luo Ping transformed into his Lie Yan Lion Emperor and attacked, but Jiang Yi’s Blue Silver Grass resisted his flames and Xu Sanshi helped break his charge.
• Jiang Yi struck Luo Ping with Spirit Shock, Xu Sanshi hit him with his shield, and Jiang Nannan attacked with her Full Moon Soul Skill.
• Luo Ping survived the assault with his lion-flame armor, and Jiang Yi conceded before Luo Ping could continue fighting.
• Lin Yu declared Jiang Yi, Jiang Nannan, and Xu Sanshi sixth-year students, then cautioned Jiang Yi against experiments based on incomplete theories.
• Lin Yu reflected on Li Lingyu and her own past, and Jiang Yi realized she was connected to the Extreme Training Method experiment.
• Jiang Yi decided to ask Wang Yan about Lin Yu, then left with Jiang Nannan to celebrate their assessment success.

Jiang Yi learned how Li Lingyu’s reckless experiments had injured both himself and Lin Yu, and resolved to seek Life Essence to treat them. After two months of cultivation, the freshman assessment approached, and Jiang Yi went to visit Huo Yuhao, finding Wang Dong at his stall.

• Jiang Yi asked Wang Yan about Li Lingyu’s past and learned how Li Lingyu’s research and failed experiment had injured Lin Yu, angered her elder, and led to his expulsion from Shrek Academy.
• Jiang Yi learned that Lin Yu was Lin Huiqun’s granddaughter and decided that treating her injuries would require more Life Essence and greater cultivation.
• Jiang Yi spent two months cultivating as Shrek Academy’s freshman assessment drew near, knowing Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong might perform their first Martial Soul Fusion.
• Jiang Yi went to Huo Yuhao’s stall at the east gate and found Wang Dong there instead of Tang Ya.

Jiang Yi visited Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong during their freshman assessment, while Tang San sensed that Huo Yuhao had lost a large portion of his providence and suspected someone was interfering. Later, Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan came to the Martial Soul Research Institute, where Ma Xiaotao asked Jiang Yi to suppress her Evil Fire.

• Jiang Yi visited Huo Yuhao as he grilled fish and learned that Wang Dong’s team had won its first five freshman assessment matches.
• Jiang Yi sensed that the Poison of Fate’s Backlash had grown as Huo Yuhao became more entangled with Tang San’s legacies.
• Tang San sensed that Huo Yuhao’s providence had fallen by nearly thirty percent and wondered who had concealed it from him.
• Ma Xiaotao sought Jiang Yi to suppress her Evil Fire, and Zhang Lexuan led her to the Martial Soul Research Institute.
• Jiang Yi welcomed Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan into the institute and agreed to help Ma Xiaotao after the Blue Silver Grass Soul Masters finished cultivating.
• Wang Yan came out and greeted Zhang Lexuan, who noted that he had become a chief researcher.

Jiang Yi and Ma Xiaotao’s Martial Souls resonated while he suppressed her Evil Fire, drawing them into Deep Meditation and helping him comprehend the Fire of Life. Three months later, Jiang Yi’s Life Resonance cultivation had advanced rapidly, though he still needed to develop his control and understanding.

• Jiang Yi helped the Blue Silver Grass Soul Masters cultivate and then suppressed Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire while Zhang Lexuan questioned his research.
• Jiang Yi and Ma Xiaotao’s Martial Souls resonated, combining Blue Silver Grass and phoenix flames before both entered Deep Meditation.
• Ma Xiaotao awakened first and stood guard over Jiang Yi while Wang Yan left them alone.
• Jiang Yi awakened the next morning with a new ability to manifest the Fire of Life, but found he could sustain it only briefly.
• Over the next three months, Jiang Yi’s cultivation of Life Resonance advanced by leaps and bounds after his breakthrough.

Jiang Yi and Jiang Nannan entered the Star Dou Great Forest to find a fourth Soul Ring for Jiang Nannan, targeting a Dark Moon Spirit Leopard. After Jiang Yi located a suitable one and ambushed it, the leopard fought back with Moon Blades but became trapped by his regrowing Blue Silver Vines.

• Jiang Yi and Jiang Nannan traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest so Jiang Nannan could obtain her fourth Soul Ring.
• They chose the Dark Moon Spirit Leopard as their target because its compressed moonlight attacks suited Jiang Nannan’s need for stronger single-target damage.
• Jiang Yi used the Blue Silver Grass to search the Mixed Zone while Jiang Nannan guarded him, and they encountered and killed a Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent.
• Jiang Yi found a suitable Dark Moon Spirit Leopard and led Jiang Nannan to it after several hours of travel.
• The leopard noticed Jiang Yi’s first sneak attack and cut through many Blue Silver Vines with its Moon Blades.
• Jiang Yi regrew the severed vines, overwhelmed the exhausted leopard, and bound it so it could no longer escape.

Jiang Nannan absorbed her Fourth Soul Ring and gained a powerful Moon Blade ability before she and Jiang Yi left the Star Dou Great Forest. Months later, Jiang Yi completed his Life Force Domain, astonishing Elder Zhuang, who began to share two further lines of research with him.

• Jiang Yi discovered Star Lichen beneath the rock where the Dark Moon Spirit Leopard had slept and guessed that it had alerted the leopard when his vines touched it.
• Jiang Yi guarded Jiang Nannan overnight as she absorbed the leopard's Soul Ring, and she woke at dawn with a new connection to the moon.
• Jiang Nannan demonstrated a Moon Blade and explained that her Fourth Soul Skill, Crescent Moon Slash, had strong piercing and armor-breaking effects.
• Jiang Yi and Jiang Nannan left the Star Dou Great Forest, and Jiang Yi continued cultivating until his Soul Power reached level twenty-nine.
• Jiang Yi constructed a Life Force Domain across Elder Zhuang's courtyard in less than a second, startling Zhuang Fei and impressing Elder Zhuang.
• Elder Zhuang told Jiang Yi he had little left to teach him and invited him and Zhuang Fei inside to hear about two directions of research.