Chapter Summaries

After dying while finishing his thesis, Wang Xingyu awoke in the body of a starving five-year-old in Holy Soul Village. He found food with Tang San’s help and received porridge from Old Jack, but remained overwhelmed by grief and uncertainty about his new life.

• Wang Xingyu recalled the original owner’s life as an orphan in Holy Soul Village, where Old Jack had raised him and brought him what little food he could spare.
• Wang Xingyu went to search for food and nearly dug up a plant whose leaves were poisonous before Tang San warned him and pointed out wild onion bulbs.
• Wang Xingyu found onion bulbs and wild yams, then thanked Tang San when they met again beneath the village’s old locust tree.
• Old Jack brought Wang Xingyu a bowl of porridge and encouraged him to spend time with Tang San.
• Wang Xingyu ate the porridge, lay on his hard bed, and cried as he tried to accept that he could not return home.

Wang Xingyu searched for a way to earn money in Holy Soul Village and gathered materials to attempt an invention. He began preparing grease residue, plant ash, and quicklime, though he did not know the exact recipe.

• Wang Xingyu woke hungry and walked toward the mountain, where he met Tang San and considered how to earn money before his Martial Soul Awakening.
• Wang Xingyu decided to try making something practical and asked Tang San where he could get unwanted grease residue and plant ash.
• Tang San directed Wang Xingyu to Butcher Zhang, who gave him a bowl of leftover grease residue.
• Wang Xingyu collected plant ash from a village household and obtained a small piece of quicklime from Old Man Sun.
• Wang Xingyu soaked the plant ash in water and prepared to experiment with the materials despite not knowing the exact proportions or process.

Wang Xingyu succeeded in making soap and took Tang San to Nuoding City’s market, where they sold their first batch for twenty-eight Copper Soul Coins. He gave soap to Ma Xiunuo for free and asked him to pass another piece to Su Yuntao, hoping to build familiarity so he could read books at the Spirit Hall.

• After several failed attempts, Wang Xingyu made a batch of soap that lathered, and Tang San tested it and asked whether it could be sold.
• Wang Xingyu invited Tang San to join him at the market, and they agreed to go the day after tomorrow.
• Wang Xingyu demonstrated the soap to market-goers, sold all his lumps for two Copper Soul Coins each, and Tang San collected twenty-eight Copper Soul Coins.
• Wang Xingyu visited the Nuoding City Spirit Hall Branch and gave soap to Ma Xiunuo, asking him to pass another lump to Su Yuntao.
• Wang Xingyu explained to Tang San that he hoped the gifts would help him gain access to books at the Spirit Hall, then said their money-making was only beginning.

Wang Xingyu shared soap production with village women, giving him and Tang San more time to study and train. A year later, Tang San awakened Blue Silver Grass with Innate Full Soul Power, while Wang Xingyu also awakened Blue Silver Grass, with Innate Soul Power-level three.

• Wang Xingyu taught Widow Sun, Butcher Zhang's wife, and Old Li's second daughter to make soap, and Old Jack organized production and sales.
• Wang Xingyu saved money by selling finer soap and regularly studied Martial Soul books at the Spirit Hall Branch, where he spoke with Ma Xiunuo and Su Yuntao.
• Wang Xingyu told Tang San that physical training might improve Innate Soul Power, and the two began exercising and running together each morning.
• A year later, Tang San awakened Blue Silver Grass and displayed Innate Full Soul Power during Holy Soul Village's ceremony.
• Wang Xingyu awakened Blue Silver Grass with Innate Soul Power-level three and smiled despite the crowd's disappointment.

After the awakening ceremony, Wang Xingyu explained why he intended to cultivate his Blue Silver Grass along the Life System and advised Tang San to pursue control and attack. He revealed that Tang San had a second Martial Soul and urged him to keep it secret.

• Su Yuntao told Old Jack that Tang San and Wang Xingyu both had Soul Power and Blue Silver Grass Martial Souls, which he called trash.
• Old Jack hurried after Tang San and Wang Xingyu, delighted that two village children could become Soul Masters.
• Wang Xingyu told Tang San that he planned to use Blue Silver Grass for support, healing, and recovery along the Life System.
• Wang Xingyu observed that Tang San's Blue Silver Grass had a golden sheen and recommended a control-focused path with attack as a supplement.
• Wang Xingyu revealed that he had seen a second, hammer-like Martial Soul flash on Tang San's right hand and advised him to combine Blue Silver Grass control with a burst attack from that Soul.
• Wang Xingyu urged Tang San to keep the second Martial Soul secret, while Tang San wondered whether his father was a hidden expert.

Wang Xingyu told Tang San the truth about his parents and urged him to distinguish Spirit Hall’s ordinary members from the leaders responsible for his mother’s death. Tang San left intending to avenge his parents without targeting everyone in Spirit Hall, while considering Wang Xingyu’s suggestion to establish a new organization.

• Old Jack gave Tang San a bowl of meat and broth to take to Tang Hao.
• Wang Xingyu told Tang San that his father belonged to the Clear Sky Sect and that Tang San’s second Martial Soul was the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Wang Xingyu explained that Tang San’s mother had been a Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor who sacrificed herself to save Tang Hao during Spirit Hall’s attack.
• Wang Xingyu advised Tang San to seek revenge on the people responsible rather than ordinary Spirit Hall members, and suggested creating a new organization.
• Tang San said he would avenge his parents without going after everyone, asked what the new organization should be called, and agreed to cultivate with Wang Xingyu the next morning.

Tang San revealed his Clear Sky Hammer to Tang Hao and told him Wang Xingyu had urged him to pursue revenge without harming innocents or destroying Spirit Hall’s useful services. Tang Hao began teaching Tang San smithing and summoned Wang Xingyu, whom he warned he would kill if he failed to carry out his ambition.

• Tang San showed Tang Hao his Clear Sky Hammer, and Tang Hao told him to use it to protect the Blue Silver Grass.
• Tang San explained Wang Xingyu’s views on taking revenge on Spirit Hall’s responsible leaders while preserving its public services and building a replacement organization.
• Tang Hao agreed to teach Tang San smithing and asked him to bring Wang Xingyu to the smithy the next morning.
• Tang Hao questioned Wang Xingyu about his age, aptitude, and plans, then withdrew the pressure he had placed on him.
• Tang Hao told Wang Xingyu he would watch his efforts and kill him if he did not succeed.

Wang Xingyu discovered that Blue Silver Grass could cultivate by taking root in the soil and connecting with nearby plants, while Tang San sensed their recognition of his Blue Silver Emperor bloodline. After Wang Xingyu reaffirmed his plan to oppose Spirit Hall, Tang San taught him the Mysterious Heaven Skill, and they began practicing it together.

• Wang Xingyu planted his Blue Silver Grass roots in the soil and felt a faint connection with the nearby plants.
• Tang San rooted his Blue Silver Grass in the earth and sensed the surrounding grass recognizing him.
• Tang San asked whether Wang Xingyu was serious about building an organization to surpass Spirit Hall and helping destroy it, and Wang Xingyu confirmed he was.
• Tang San decided to teach Wang Xingyu the Mysterious Heaven Skill because they needed to grow stronger and help each other.
• Tang San taught Wang Xingyu the Mysterious Heaven Skill’s mnemonic and circulation route, and Wang Xingyu began practicing its first level.

Wang Xingyu and Tang San discovered that cultivating with their Blue Silver Grass rooted in the soil slowly increased their Soul Power, and Wang Xingyu reached about rank four after a month. Old Jack told them Holy Soul Village had only one work-study slot, but Wang Xingyu gave it to Tang San and said he could pay his own tuition; they prepared to leave for Nuoding Academy.

• Wang Xingyu and Tang San cultivated each morning with their Blue Silver Grass planted in the soil, and Wang Xingyu found it grew fastest in sunlight and rooted deepest in harsh ground.
• After a month of experiments and cultivation, Wang Xingyu and Tang San noticed their Soul Power had increased by about one rank, bringing Wang Xingyu to roughly rank four.
• Old Jack told Wang Xingyu and Tang San that Nuoding Academy had only one work-study slot and that he had secured it for Tang San.
• Wang Xingyu told Old Jack to give the slot to Tang San and explained that he had secretly earned enough money from selling soap to cover his own tuition.
• Old Jack said he would take both boys to Nuoding City at the end of the month, and Wang Xingyu planned to intervene in Tang San's future encounters at the academy.

Wang Xingyu and Tang San arrived at Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy, where Wang Xingyu defended their Spirit Hall certificates and challenged Grandmaster's assumptions about Tang San's Martial Soul. After confronting Grandmaster over his theory and personal limits, Wang Xingyu and Tang San went to register.

• Old Jack brought Wang Xingyu and Tang San to the academy, where the guard called Tang San's certificate fake and demanded a bribe.
• Wang Xingyu threatened to bring Spirit Hall officials to verify the certificates, making the guard apologize and return them properly.
• Grandmaster approached Tang San, declared that he had Twin Martial Souls, and tried to question him about his second Martial Soul.
• Wang Xingyu argued that Tang San's Blue Silver Grass could have a powerful bloodline mutation and challenged Grandmaster's claims about trash Martial Souls.
• Grandmaster left after Wang Xingyu criticized him for preaching his theory while remaining stuck at level twenty-nine, and Wang Xingyu led Tang San to register.

Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Wang Xingyu settled into Dorm Seven, where Xiao Wu claimed the boss position after defeating Tang San. Wang Xingyu shared a cramped quilt with Tang San and wondered how to explain his remark about bringing three quilts.

• Tang San and Xiao Wu arrived at Dorm Seven, chose bare beds, and agreed to buy quilts together.
• Wang Xingyu transferred into Dorm Seven and brought two quilts, which Xiao Wu claimed as one for herself while Tang San and Wang Xingyu shared the other.
• Wang Sheng explained that newcomers had to challenge the dorm boss, and Tang San defeated him with a few deft movements.
• Xiao Wu challenged Tang San, knocked him off balance, and became Dorm Seven's boss, then told Wang Xingyu she would protect him.
• Tang San asked Wang Xingyu why he had said he would have brought three quilts, but Wang Xingyu turned away and told him to sleep.

Wang Xingyu treated Dorm Seven to breakfast, where Xiao Wu confronted a senior student who cut in line and Wang Sheng explained why the dorm chose its strongest fighter as boss. After class, Wang Xingyu and Tang San discussed Tang San’s first Soul Ring and whether Blue Silver Grass could support both control and attack roles.

• Wang Xingyu took the Dorm Seven students to breakfast and paid for meat buns with money he had saved.
• Xiao Wu made Liu Long return to the back of the line, then tripped him when he tried to grab her.
• Wang Sheng told Wang Xingyu and the others that work-study students were often bullied and explained that Dorm Seven’s boss was expected to protect everyone.
• Xiao Wu assured Wang Sheng that she would shoulder that responsibility as the new boss.
• Wang Xingyu urged Tang San to get his first Soul Ring, and Tang San said he would focus on control if he could not pursue both control and attack.
• Wang Xingyu asked Tang San how he knew he could not do both.

Wang Xingyu advised Tang San to choose an Iron Thorn Vine Soul Ring that would let Blue Silver Grass combine control with physical attacks, and suggested paths for Xiao Wu’s Martial Soul to evolve. He took Tang San to the Nuoding City Spirit Hall Branch to find a mercenary group for Soul Beast hunting, while considering his own future Soul Ring.

• Wang Xingyu explained that an Iron Thorn Vine could give Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass a strangling Soul Skill that both controlled and physically damaged enemies.
• Wang Xingyu suggested that Xiao Wu could evolve her Soft Bone Rabbit toward a Red Moon Rabbit, Purple Lightning Rabbit, or Moon Shadow Rabbit, and advised her not to waste a Soul Skill on waist techniques.
• Xiao Wu declined Wang Xingyu’s offer to join their Soul Beast hunt, saying she had already found someone to help her.
• Wang Xingyu and Tang San left the academy for the Spirit Hall Branch in Nuoding City to seek Su Yuntao or Grandpa Ma Xiuluo’s help finding a reliable mercenary group.
• Wang Xingyu told Tang San that he would begin searching for a suitable First Soul Ring for his Life System Blue Silver Grass after Tang San’s Soul Ring was settled.

Wang Xingyu and Tang San hired the Iron Rock Mercenary Group to hunt an Iron Thorn Vine in the Soul Hunting Forest. Tang San absorbed its Soul Ring and gained the Iron Thorn Strangulation skill before the group returned to Nuoding City.

• Wang Xingyu and Tang San asked Su Yuntao for a reliable mercenary group, and Su Yuntao referred them to Tie Yan's Iron Rock Mercenary Group.
• Tie Yan, Liu Dao, and Cheng Dun escorted Wang Xingyu and Tang San into the Soul Hunting Forest to find a two-to-four-hundred-year-old Iron Thorn Vine.
• Tie Yan held the Iron Thorn Vine while Liu Dao and Cheng Dun supported the fight, and Wang Xingyu sent Soul Power through his Blue Silver Grass to strengthen Tang San's.
• Tie Yan shattered the Iron Thorn Vine's roots, and Tang San killed it and began absorbing its Yellow Soul Ring.
• Tang San completed the absorption and demonstrated his new Iron Thorn Strangulation skill before the group left the forest and paid Tie Yan the remaining fee.

On the way back to the academy, Wang Xingyu decided his Life System Blue Silver Grass needed a recovery or symbiotic plant Soul Beast and a Soul Skill to absorb Soul Power. In Dorm Seven, Xiao Wu revealed her Moon Shadow Soul Skill and sparred with Tang San, leaving the three of them looking ahead to fighting together once Wang Xingyu gained his First Soul Ring.

• Wang Xingyu realized he could benefit from Soul Power produced by surrounding Blue Silver Grass but could not absorb it directly, so he planned to seek a compatible plant Soul Beast for his First Soul Ring.
• Wang Xingyu, Tang San, and Xiao Wu returned to Dorm Seven, where Xiao Wu revealed that she had gained a yellow Soul Ring and demonstrated her Moon Shadow Soul Skill.
• Tang San showed the stronger, metallic-edged Blue Silver Grass produced by his Soul Skill, and Xiao Wu challenged him to spar.
• Xiao Wu and Tang San exchanged attacks, with Moon Shadow helping Xiao Wu evade while Tang San used Blue Silver Grass to pursue and redirect himself.
• Wang Xingyu stopped the spar and advised Xiao Wu to vary her speed and paths and Tang San to block likely landing places instead of chasing her.
• Xiao Wu urged Wang Xingyu to get his First Soul Ring so the three could fight together, and he said it would take time because his Soul Power was only rank four.

Xiao Chenyu challenged Xiao Wu and Tang San to a fight on the back mountain, bringing a group of upper-year students to overwhelm them. Tang San and Xiao Wu revealed their Hundred-Year Soul Rings and defeated the attackers with help from Wang Xingyu’s Soul Power transfer, leaving Xiao Chenyu bound and surrendering.

• Liu Long told Xiao Wu that Xiao Chenyu wanted to fight her and Tang San on the back mountain.
• Xiao Chenyu arrived with a dozen students and challenged Xiao Wu and Tang San, who revealed their Hundred-Year Soul Rings.
• Xiao Wu and Tang San quickly defeated the first attackers, while Wang Xingyu secretly transferred Soul Power into Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass.
• As the fight wore on, Wang Xingyu continued supporting Tang San, and Xiao Wu knocked Liu Long into a tree.
• Xiao Chenyu used Martial Soul Possession and charged Tang San, but Tang San blocked his claw with his reinforced forearm and struck him with stones.
• Tang San bound Xiao Chenyu with Blue Silver Grass, and Xiao Chenyu surrendered.

After helping Dorm Seven defeat Xiao Chenyu’s group, Wang Xingyu focused on cultivation and expanded his soap business through Ma Xiunuo. Two and a half years later, Wang Xingyu reached level ten and set out to find Ma Xiunuo to arrange his First Soul Ring.

• Xiao Wu defeated Xiao Chenyu’s group, and Xiao Chenyu conceded that she would lead the academy; afterward, no one troubled Dorm Seven.
• Wang Xingyu and Ma Xiunuo arranged for traveling merchants to sell soap in nearby towns, with Ma Xiunuo managing production and sales.
• Ma Xiunuo told Wang Xingyu that a scout who had investigated the soap was later found dead outside the city, and Wang Xingyu suspected Tang Hao had killed him with a hammer strike.
• Wang Xingyu cultivated daily for two and a half years, gradually learning to siphon Soul Power and transfer it to Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass, but failing to master reverse absorption.
• Wang Xingyu’s Soul Power flowed past its threshold and reached level ten, so he headed down the mountain to find Ma Xiunuo and arrange his First Soul Ring.

Wang Xingyu gave Tang San a Storage Soul Tool and promised to buy Xiao Wu one before graduation. After reaching level ten, Wang Xingyu hired the Iron Rock Mercenary Group to escort him to Soul Hunting Forest to hunt a four-hundred-year Rotten Soil Earthworm for his First Soul Ring.

• Wang Xingyu gave Tang San a gray-blue Storage Soul Tool, and Tang San stored his Hidden Weapons inside it.
• Xiao Wu learned the bag cost fifty Gold Soul Coins, gave up on buying one herself, and brightened when Wang Xingyu promised to get one for her before graduation.
• Wang Xingyu decided to hunt for his First Soul Ring after reaching level ten and chose a four-hundred-year Rotten Soil Earthworm as his target.
• Wang Xingyu, Tang San, and Xiao Wu went to the Iron Rock Mercenary Group, where Tie Yan assembled Liu Dao and Cheng Dun for the expedition.
• The group left Nuoding City for Soul Hunting Forest and headed toward the eastern marshes.

Wang Xingyu gained his first Soul Ring, Life Drain, from a Rotten Soil Earthworm and discovered it could absorb Soul Power and vitality for himself and his teammates. After registering as a Soul Master in Nuoding City, he returned to the academy with Tang San and Xiao Wu, planning to refine his new ability and save for storage pouches.

• Wang Xingyu sensed a roughly four-hundred-year-old Rotten Soil Earthworm underground, and Tie Yan, Liu Dao, Cheng Dun, Tang San, and Xiao Wu helped capture it.
• Wang Xingyu killed the Rotten Soil Earthworm, absorbed its Soul Ring, and reached Level eleven.
• Wang Xingyu tested Life Drain and found that he could absorb Soul Power from connected targets and temporarily store vitality to help teammates recover.
• Tang San noted that Life Drain matched Wang Xingyu's earlier expectations, and Wang Xingyu explained how he had chosen the Rotten Soil Earthworm.
• Wang Xingyu registered as a Soul Master with Ma Xiunuo, received his iron badge, and learned he could collect one Gold Soul Coin each month.
• Wang Xingyu, Tang San, and Xiao Wu returned to the academy as Wang Xingyu planned to practice Life Drain and save for two storage pouches.

In their third year at Nuoding Academy, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Wang Xingyu returned to Holy Soul Village and found that Tang Hao had left. On the back hill, Xiao Wu declared that the three of them were family, and they agreed to become sworn siblings before heading back together.

• Xiao Wu waited for Tang San and Wang Xingyu when vacation began and joined them on their trip to Holy Soul Village.
• Tang San, Wang Xingyu, and Xiao Wu found Tang Hao's smithy empty, with a short letter left behind, and Tang San learned that his father had gone.
• Tang San led Xiao Wu and Wang Xingyu to a flower-filled hollow on the back hill, where they sat together as the sun set.
• Xiao Wu said she would be Tang San's family, and the three agreed to share their fortunes and hardships as sworn siblings, with Tang San first, Xiao Wu second, and Wang Xingyu third.
• Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Wang Xingyu left the hill together to find a meal.