Recaps

Lu Yuan used his inherited research knowledge to improve his family’s cultivation, awaken his own Soul Power, and withstand growing scrutiny in Maple Leaf Town. He left for Nuoding City, where Shen Moxin recognized his theories and invited him to study at the academy as a work-study student.

• Lu Yuan awakened a mutated Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul with half a level of Innate Soul Power, then began a training plan and helped Lu Qinghe address his cultivation bottleneck.
• Lu Yuan guided Lu Qinghe through vortex breathing and prepared Energy Soup, earning food and supplies while secretly experimenting on Blue Silver Grass and Soul Condensing Grass.
• Lu Yuan’s experiments showed signs of awakening his Martial Soul, and he reached Level Two Soul Scholar as Lu Qinghe broke through his fifteen-year bottleneck and became a Soul Grandmaster.
• Zhao Shi and townspeople questioned the Lu family about Lu Qinghe’s breakthrough, while Lu Yuan kept their methods secret and defeated Qian Xiaohao in a spar.
• Lu Yuan prepared his family to manage Zhao Shi’s attention, explained his plan to attend an academy, and left Maple Leaf Town for Nuoding City with limited money and supplies.
• Lu Yuan gained access to the library through Shen Moxin, studied Soul Power and Martial Soul research, and challenged a manuscript’s fixed decay model with his own theory.
• Ning Zhishou reprimanded Shen Moxin for bringing Lu Yuan into the library’s restricted section, and Shen Moxin gave Lu Yuan notes and an address before sending him away.
• Lu Yuan and Shen Moxin discussed Soul Power as both particles and waves and considered how it could shape Martial Souls, then Shen Moxin invited him to enroll at Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy as a work-study student.

Lu Yuan’s inventions and unconventional methods brought him into conflict with academy authorities, even as he gained allies and proved his abilities. After Shen Moxin was punished and Lu Yuan chose to leave for Vast Sea City, Teacher Sun sent an assassin after him, but a young stranger intervened.

• Lu Yuan exposed Zhang Hao’s frame-up, defended his theory score, and won his assessment match against Wu Gang through careful observation and strategy.
• Zhou Chun warned Lu Yuan that academy officials were seeking restrictions on his privileges and gave him an address in Vast Sea City as a possible refuge.
• Lu Yuan helped Li Wangye improve his work and challenged Zhao Shi’s mishandling of work-study resources, securing the promised supplies and materials.
• Shen Moxin’s Soul Power teaching spread among students, but Supervisor Sun reported her and the academy removed her lead instructor qualifications.
• Lu Yuan decided to leave the academy, and Shen Moxin gave him her notebook of Soul Power models before he said farewell to his friends and departed at dawn.
• Teacher Sun learned Lu Yuan had left and ordered a gray-clad man to follow him, while Lu Yuan survived an encounter with an Iron Thorn Wild Boar alongside a young stranger.
• The gray-clad man revealed that Teacher Sun had sent him to kill Lu Yuan, and the young stranger refused to leave and drew his dagger.

Lu Yuan and the wounded Lin Xiao escaped the Hundred Refinements Pavilion through a dangerous valley and found shelter with Qingzhu. As Lu Yuan helped Lin Xiao adapt his cultivation and investigated earth-vein resonance, an old enemy arrived, apparently connected to Lin Xiao’s clan.

• Lu Yuan and Lin Xiao escaped the Pavilion’s pursuit through an abandoned mine, where Mo Chen treated Lin Xiao and gave Lu Yuan research notes and a Soul Power-disrupting device.
• A Pavilion deacon overwhelmed the pair, but Lu Yuan used Mo Chen’s device and Blue Silver Grass to escape with Lin Xiao before they fell into a valley.
• Lu Yuan found a nourishing Soul Power plant in the valley and shared its fruit with Lin Xiao, then led him through caves and underground waterways while evading Soul Beasts.
• Lu Yuan and Lin Xiao escaped the valley’s waterways and met Qingzhu, who recognized Shen Moxin’s letter and let them stay after testing Lu Yuan’s reasoning.
• Lu Yuan diagnosed problems in Qingzhu’s Golden Thread Grass patch, and Qingzhu allowed the pair to remain in the valley.
• Lu Yuan devised Netlike Channeling for Lin Xiao, then helped him approach the shadow trait of his Hell Spirit Cat Martial Soul gently until it responded and eased his sluggish Soul Power.
• Lu Yuan and Qingzhu tested a Blue Silver Grass formation that resonated with a blocked earth-vein branch and slightly shifted its Soul Power.
• Qingzhu sensed intruders approaching, and after Lin Xiao feared they might be from his clan, a visitor struck the valley entrance and demanded that Qingzhu greet him.

Lu Yuan helped Lin Xiao rebuild his Soul Power circulation, won him freedom from the Lin Clan, and fled with Qingzhu’s directions to the Thousand Needle Stone Forest. There he joined forces with Mo Chen, uncovered a ruin sought by the Cloud Mist Sect, and escaped with Soul Marrow fragments as the forest drew more factions.

• Lu Yuan accepted Seventh Master Lin’s three-month wager and rebuilt Lin Xiao’s Soul Power routes until Lin Xiao reached level thirty-six and eradicated the stagnation in his Martial Soul.
• Lei Qingyue secured Lin Xiao’s protection from the Hundred Refinements Pavilion in exchange for Lu Yuan’s research notes, and Lin Xiao returned to the Lin Clan with the right to leave after three months.
• After Lin Xiao and Lei Qingyue departed, Qingzhu told Lu Yuan about the Thousand Needle Stone Forest, where he found ancient ruins and met the reclusive researcher Mo Chen.
• Lu Yuan helped Mo Chen improve his Soul Guidance Array research, and the two discovered that a sect force was searching the forest for something near the ruins.
• Lu Yuan and Mo Chen entered the ruins, found a platform that resonated with Lin Xiao’s clan token, and fled a Stone Scorpion swarm before the Cloud Mist Sect could reach them.
• Lu Yuan learned that the Cloud Mist Sect sought Earth Vein Soul Marrow, then joined Mo Chen in tracking it to a valley where the eruption and collapsing pool disrupted the sect’s attempt to claim it.
• Lu Yuan and Mo Chen escaped with Soul Marrow fragments and unusual stones, and Lu Yuan decided they should retrieve their supplies and find a safer place to continue their research.