Chapter Summaries

Lin Chen awakened the Chaos Pearl with Innate Full Soul Power and secretly kept his second Martial Soul, the Heaven-Slaying Sword hidden. After Tang San also revealed Innate Full Soul Power, Lin Chen learned the Chaos Pearl’s abilities and resolved to pursue his own path, beginning by finding a pink figure before Tang San did.

• Lin Chen remembered his past life and the story’s future as he waited with the village children for Martial Soul Awakening.
• Lin Chen awakened the Chaos Pearl and displayed Innate Full Soul Power while concealing the Heaven-Slaying Sword in his left hand.
• Su Yuntao gave Lin Chen an academy certificate and recommended that he study under Yu Xiaogang.
• Tang San awakened Blue Silver Grass with Innate Full Soul Power and concealed his Clear Sky Hammer as he and Lin Chen briefly met.
• At home, Lin Chen learned that the Chaos Pearl contained a storage space and could grow stronger by absorbing Soul Beast essence blood and spirit herb medicine.
• Lin Chen resolved not to follow Tang San’s path and planned to find the pink figure before Tang San did.

Tang Hao warned Tang San to keep his Clear Sky Hammer secret and be cautious of Lin Chen, while Old Jack sent Lin Chen off with money and advice. Lin Chen reached the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest and met Xiao Wu, whom he had been seeking.

• Tang San told Tang Hao he had awakened both Blue Silver Grass and the Clear Sky Hammer, and Tang Hao warned him to hide the hammer and watch Lin Chen.
• Old Jack gave Lin Chen ten Silver Soul Coins and urged him to focus on his studies in Nuoding City and look out for Tang San.
• Lin Chen left Holy Soul Village and traveled for five days to the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest, hoping to find Xiao Wu.
• Lin Chen waited near the forest and released the Chaos Pearl's presence to attract Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu arrived, and Lin Chen introduced himself and asked why she was alone near the dangerous forest.

Lin Chen met Xiao Wu, concealed her identity as a transformed Soul Beast, and invited her to travel with him to Nuoding Academy. As they journeyed through towns toward Suotuo City, Xiao Wu grew excited about the human world and promised to stay with Lin Chen.

• Lin Chen offered Xiao Wu food, learned she had run away from home, and invited her to Nuoding Academy.
• Lin Chen used the Chaos Pearl’s Aura Concealment to suppress Xiao Wu’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast aura, and she agreed to travel with him.
• Lin Chen and Xiao Wu shared an inn room, and he covered her with a quilt while vowing she would not suffer the fate she had in his previous life.
• In Precious Sword City, Xiao Wu admired weapons and tried tanghulu with Lin Chen, then pinky-swore to stay with him and explore the human world.
• On the fourth day, Lin Chen and Xiao Wu reached the area around Suotuo City, where Xiao Wu marveled at the crowds.

Lin Chen protected Xiao Wu from a group of bullies in Suotuo City and helped her across the rough Barak River on their way to Nuoding City. At Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy, they gained entry, where Lin Chen encountered Tang San and Yu Xiaogang just as Yu Xiaogang noticed his certificate of Innate Full Soul Power.

• Lin Chen drove off a fat boy and his lackeys after they tried to force Xiao Wu to become the boy’s servant.
• Lin Chen supported Xiao Wu when she became seasick on the ferry across the Barak River, then carried her ashore.
• Lin Chen brought Xiao Wu to Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy and paid Old Wang to let her enroll as an auditing student.
• Lin Chen saw Tang San arrive with Yu Xiaogang, who noticed Lin Chen’s certificate of Innate Full Soul Power and approached him.

Lin Chen rejected Yu Xiaogang as a teacher after challenging three of his Martial Soul theories, then settled into Nuoding Academy's Dorm Seven with Xiao Wu. He arranged for Xiao Wu to undergo her Martial Soul and Soul Power tests, which Teacher Su began after Lin Chen paid him.

• Lin Chen refused Yu Xiaogang's offer and argued that Soul Ring limits, Twin Martial Soul risks, and Martial Soul evolution made his theories incomplete.
• Yu Xiaogang dismissed Lin Chen's claims in front of Tang San, though the arguments unsettled his confidence in his theories.
• Lin Chen took Xiao Wu to Dorm Seven, where they claimed beds and began their life at Nuoding Academy.
• Lin Chen brought Xiao Wu to the academic affairs office for her tests, and Teacher Su agreed to perform them after Lin Chen gave him a Silver Soul Coin.

Xiao Wu revealed her Innate Full Soul Power at Nuoding Academy and rejected Yu Xiaogang’s offer to teach her, choosing to learn from Lin Chen instead. Lin Chen brought her to Dorm Seven, where Wang Sheng challenged the newcomers to fight for the right to lead the dorm.

• Xiao Wu displayed her Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul and Innate Full Soul Power, astonishing Teacher Su and the academy.
• Yu Xiaogang heard about Xiao Wu’s talent and went with Tang San to recruit her as his disciple.
• Xiao Wu refused Yu Xiaogang and said she would learn from Lin Chen, who also declined his offer on her behalf.
• Lin Chen told Yu Xiaogang to focus on Tang San, then left with Xiao Wu as Tang San watched them suspiciously.
• At Dorm Seven, Wang Sheng confronted Lin Chen and Xiao Wu and challenged them to fight under the dorm’s newcomer rules.

Xiao Wu beat Wang Sheng, then Tang San challenged Lin Chen to a spar and lost after Lin Chen’s Chaos Pearl shielded him from Tang San’s strongest attack. Lin Chen declined to become Dorm Seven’s boss and named Xiao Wu instead, leaving the students to accept her authority.

• Xiao Wu swiftly outmaneuvered Wang Sheng and stopped when Lin Chen asked her to.
• Tang San challenged Lin Chen to a spar without Martial Souls, and the two exchanged techniques from their respective martial arts.
• Lin Chen’s Chaos Pearl dispersed Tang San’s final attack, allowing Lin Chen to strike and win the match.
• Lin Chen named Xiao Wu Dorm Seven’s boss, and Xiao Wu threw Wang Sheng when he questioned her authority.
• Wang Sheng submitted, and the other students greeted Xiao Wu as their boss.

Lin Chen challenged Yu Xiaogang’s claims about Soul Ring limits and explained Ultimate Attributes in Martial Souls, leaving Yu Xiaogang shaken and unable to refute him. After class, Tang San approached Lin Chen to ask whether Blue Silver Grass could evolve.

• Yu Xiaogang taught Martial Soul Theory and criticized claims about Martial Soul evolution and Soul Rings beyond standard limits, directing his remarks at Lin Chen.
• Lin Chen answered that a level-ten Soul Master’s standard Soul Ring limit was 423 years, but special Martial Souls, physiques, and body tempering could raise it.
• Lin Chen described Ultimate Attributes and the Ice Phoenix as examples, surprising Yu Xiaogang with ideas that matched his private research.
• Yu Xiaogang dismissed Lin Chen’s explanation as baseless and left the classroom without his notes when the bell rang.
• Tang San stopped Lin Chen in the corridor and asked whether Blue Silver Grass could evolve.

Lin Chen challenged the academy’s approved history of Spirit Hall and drew renewed suspicion from Yu Xiaogang. As Nuoding Academy prepared to take new students to obtain their first Soul Rings, Lin Chen and Xiao Wu planned to venture deeper into the forest than the group.

• Yu Xiaogang wrote to an old friend about Lin Chen’s Twin Martial Souls and heretical claims, fearing Lin Chen would undermine his theories.
• During Teacher Mo’s history lesson, Lin Chen warned Xiao Wu that Spirit Hall was dangerous to Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts and explained how the organization maintained its power.
• Yu Xiaogang overheard Lin Chen’s analysis and concluded that Lin Chen was hiding a greater secret or had a powerful guide.
• The academy announced that students with level ten Soul Power would travel to Soul Hunting Forest in three days to obtain their First Soul Rings.
• Lin Chen and Xiao Wu silently agreed that hunting with the group would be dull and that their target lay deep in the forest.
• More than a dozen new students gathered at Nuoding Academy’s gates, while Yu Xiaogang joined the teachers to accompany Tang San.

Lin Chen and Xiao Wu slipped away from the student group and traveled deeper into the Soul Hunting Forest to find suitable Soul Rings. Lin Chen reached the Jade Phosphor Python’s swamp territory and prepared to draw out the thousand-year Soul Beast.

• Yu Xiaogang led Tang San west to search for a Hundred-Year Mandala Snake and instructed him on how to hunt it.
• Lin Chen and Xiao Wu left the resting group and headed southeast, using the Chaos Pearl’s Myriad Beasts Suppression to avoid low-level Soul Beasts.
• After the students noticed their absence, Yu Xiaogang dismissed them as reckless and continued the search with Tang San.
• Lin Chen guided Xiao Wu to the swamp where the Jade Phosphor Python lurked, then told her to stay behind a rock while he strengthened his defenses against poison.
• Lin Chen threw a stone at the rotting wood in the swamp to draw out the Jade Phosphor Python.

Lin Chen fought the Thousand-Year Jade Phosphor Python despite his rank-ten Soul Power and the beast’s venom. He killed it with the Heaven-Slaying Sword, but the battle left him drained, wounded, and poisoned.

• The Thousand-Year Jade Phosphor Python attacked Lin Chen with poisonous mist, and his Chaos Body Protection blocked most but not all of the venom.
• The python struck Lin Chen with its tail and jaws, while he dodged its attacks and began to suffer from poison and dwindling Soul Power.
• Lin Chen summoned his Second Martial Soul, the Heaven-Slaying Sword, and cut through the python’s poisonous mist, wounding it.
• Lin Chen dodged the python’s final lunge and drove the sword into its vital point seven inches below its head, killing it.
• Lin Chen staggered against a tree after the fight, having spent most of his Soul Power and sustained a poisoned cut on his shoulder.

Lin Chen endured the dangerous absorption of the Jade Phosphor Python’s Thousand-Year Soul Ring with the Chaos Pearl’s help, while Tang San absorbed a Hundred-Year Soul Ring from a Mandala Snake. Lin Chen succeeded and gained his First Soul Ring.

• Lin Chen concealed the Heaven-Slaying Sword and began absorbing the Jade Phosphor Python’s Thousand-Year Soul Ring as Xiao Wu guarded him.
• The Chaos Pearl refined the python’s poison and Soul Power, repeatedly repairing Lin Chen’s strained meridians.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San found a four-hundred-year Mandala Snake, and Tang San killed it with Sleeve Arrows after evading its venom and attacks.
• Tang San began absorbing the Mandala Snake’s Hundred-Year Soul Ring while Yu Xiaogang stood guard and thought about confronting Lin Chen.
• Lin Chen completed his absorption, felt his strengthened Soul Power, and obtained a Thousand-Year First Soul Ring.

Lin Chen successfully absorbed a Thousand-Year Soul Ring, reached level seventeen, and demonstrated his Chaos Shield to Xiao Wu. He helped her defeat a suitable Shattering Bone Rabbit so she could obtain her first Soul Ring, which emerged as she prepared to absorb it.

• Lin Chen awakened after absorbing a Thousand-Year Soul Ring and tested his Chaos Shield, which protected him from a stone strike.
• Lin Chen found that his Soul Power had reached level seventeen and explained why Xiao Wu could gain more by hunting a suitable Soul Beast than by producing her own Soul Ring.
• Lin Chen and Xiao Wu traveled to a valley where they found a roughly four-hundred-and-ninety-year-old Shattering Bone Rabbit.
• Lin Chen used his Chaos Shield to exhaust the Shattering Bone Rabbit, then Xiao Wu killed it with a waist-powered throw.
• A bright yellow Soul Ring emerged from the Shattering Bone Rabbit, and Lin Chen told Xiao Wu to absorb it.

Xiao Wu absorbed a Yellow Soul Ring and gained the Waist Bow skill while Lin Chen guarded her. On their return to Nuoding Academy, Lin Chen killed a Black Wind Wolf with one punch and revealed his Thousand-Year Soul Ring, drawing widespread attention and special rewards from the dean.

• Xiao Wu absorbed a 490-year-old Soul Ring, reached level thirteen, and demonstrated her Waist Bow skill.
• Lin Chen and Xiao Wu encountered three Nuoding Academy freshmen threatened by a Black Wind Wolf, and Lin Chen killed the beast with one punch.
• Lin Chen and Xiao Wu returned to camp, where Teacher Wang reprimanded them for leaving the group; Lin Chen revealed his purple Thousand-Year Soul Ring and Xiao Wu showed her Yellow Soul Ring.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San reacted with shock to Lin Chen's Thousand-Year Soul Ring, which contradicted Yu Xiaogang's Soul Ring age limit.
• News of Lin Chen's achievement spread through Nuoding Academy, and the dean waived his tuition, granted him extra resources and an allowance, and assigned him a private cultivation room.

Lin Chen and Tang San reached the final of the academy’s lower-grade sparring tournament, where their techniques clashed before a packed audience. Tang San launched a full-force attack against Lin Chen’s Chaos Shield, and the chapter ended as he charged into it with his Mysterious Jade Hand.

• Tang San advanced through the lower-grade sparring tournament and reached the final against Lin Chen, drawing a large crowd to the arena.
• Tang San used Blue Silver Grass and its Mandala Snake poison, but Lin Chen’s gray Qi withered the grass and purified the poison.
• Tang San attacked with Flying Locust Stones and Mysterious Jade Hand, while Lin Chen deflected the projectiles and resisted Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon.
• Tang San unleashed Blue Silver Grass and Hidden Weapons against Lin Chen’s Chaos Shield, but none of his attacks broke through.
• Tang San gathered his Soul Power into his Mysterious Jade Hand and charged into Lin Chen’s shield.

Lin Chen defeated Tang San with the Chaos Domain, earning the academy’s admiration, while Tang San vowed to win next time. Five years later, Lin Chen had reached level thirty with two Thousand-Year Soul Rings, and Xiao Wu was close behind at level twenty-nine.

• Tang San’s full-force strike failed to break Lin Chen’s Chaos Shield, and Lin Chen counterattacked with a palm that Tang San narrowly dodged.
• Lin Chen expanded his Chaos Domain to restrain Tang San, who admitted defeat before the cheering spectators.
• Tang San promised to defeat Lin Chen next time, while Yu Xiaogang left the field and Xiao Wu watched Lin Chen admiringly.
• Lin Chen secretly gathered resources and Gold Soul Coins while cultivating and preparing for the future.
• Over five years, Lin Chen reached level thirty, gained the Chaos Suppression skill, and unlocked faster cultivation in the Chaos Pearl’s expanded space.
• Xiao Wu reached level twenty-nine by age eleven, approaching her next breakthrough.

After graduating from Nuoding Academy, Lin Chen and Xiao Wu accepted an invitation to join Heaven Dou Royal Academy, while Tang San prepared to travel to Shrek Academy. As the graduates departed, Tang San told Lin Chen and Xiao Wu where he was going.

• Lin Chen won first place in Nuoding Academy's graduation assessment, followed by Tang San and Xiao Wu.
• Yu Xiaogang advised Tang San to attend Shrek Academy, and Tang San agreed to follow his teacher's recommendation.
• Lin Chen rejected the idea of following Tang San to Shrek and accepted Teacher Sun's offer for himself and Xiao Wu to join Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Three days later, Wang Sheng and the Dorm Seven students saw Lin Chen and Xiao Wu off at the graduation ceremony.
• Tang San approached Lin Chen and Xiao Wu with his luggage and told them he was going to Shrek Academy.

Lin Chen parted from Tang San after they vowed to compete again, then returned to Holy Soul Village with Xiao Wu. The villagers welcomed him home and marveled at his two Thousand-Year Soul Rings, before Old Jack hosted a celebratory meal.

• Tang San chose Shrek while Lin Chen and Xiao Wu headed for Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and the two boys promised to meet again and settle who was stronger.
• Lin Chen and Xiao Wu traveled to Holy Soul Village, where the villagers recognized him and Old Jack welcomed him home.
• At the villagers' request, Lin Chen revealed his two purple Soul Rings and explained that they came from a thousand-year-old Jade Phosphor Python and a four-thousand-year-old Illusory Heart Demon Spider.
• Old Jack celebrated Lin Chen's return by preparing a welcome meal at his home.

Lin Chen gave Old Jack a hundred Gold Soul Coins to improve Holy Soul Village, then left with Xiao Wu for the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain their Third Soul Rings. They reached the Void Beast King's lair, where Lin Chen prepared to face a fifteen-thousand-year-old beast.

• Lin Chen told Old Jack that Tang San had become a Soul Grandmaster with two hundred-year Soul Rings.
• Lin Chen gave Old Jack a hundred Gold Soul Coins to repair the village roads and school and provide winter supplies for the elders.
• Lin Chen and Xiao Wu left Holy Soul Village after the villagers saw them off.
• Lin Chen changed course for the Star Dou Great Forest to seek Third Soul Rings, planning to hunt a fifteen-thousand-year-old Void Beast King for himself.
• Lin Chen and Xiao Wu reached the Void Beast King's canyon lair, where Lin Chen used the Chaos Pearl to probe the space ahead.

Lin Chen and Xiao Wu confronted a fifteen-thousand-year Void Beast King deep in the canyon, using their abilities to counter its spatial teleportation. Lin Chen pinned it down and Xiao Wu struck, but the beast survived and attacked her; Lin Chen split its spatial cannon with the Heaven-Slaying Sword and raised his blade for another strike.

• Lin Chen and Xiao Wu found the Void Beast King in a clearing and fought to withstand its teleporting attacks.
• Xiao Wu noticed that the space to the beast’s left warped before each teleport, allowing Lin Chen to trap and slow it with Chaos Suppression.
• After a prolonged battle, Lin Chen used the Chaos Pearl to pin the exhausted beast in place, and Xiao Wu struck its head with Waist Bow-Break.
• The Void Beast King survived and fired a spatial cannon at Xiao Wu, but Lin Chen appeared in front of her and split the beam with the Heaven-Slaying Sword.
• Lin Chen raised the Heaven-Slaying Sword, its blade marked by glowing dark-red lines, and brought it down on the beast.