Chapter Summaries

Lin Qingchen ate a small piece of Whale Rubber and gained only a slight improvement in Qi and blood. Yu Xiaogang persuaded Tang San with his Martial Soul theories and asked him to become his disciple, leaving Tang San to decide whether to accept.

• Lin Qingchen burned away the impurities on the Whale Rubber, ate it, and found its effect on his strength was slight.
• Yu Xiaogang stopped Tang San and Xiao Wu after class and offered to teach Tang San how to cultivate Blue Silver Grass.
• Tang San followed Yu Xiaogang to his dormitory, while Xiao Wu stayed behind and complained about being left alone.
• Yu Xiaogang deduced that Tang San had Twin Martial Souls from his Innate Full Soul Power and explained his reasoning.
• Yu Xiaogang convinced Tang San of his expertise and asked him to take Yu Xiaogang as his master.

Tang San formally became Yu Xiaogang’s disciple and showed him his Twin Martial Souls and Blue Silver Grass Soul Skill. Yu Xiaogang urged him to hide his Clear Sky Hammer and proposed using poison to develop his Blue Silver Grass, leaving Tang San impressed and eager to improve it.

• Tang San knelt and kowtowed to Yu Xiaogang, asking to become his disciple, and Yu Xiaogang gave him a storage belt as a gift.
• Tang San revealed his Clear Sky Hammer, and Yu Xiaogang told him to keep it secret and not attach Soul Rings to it until he reached level ninety.
• Tang San demonstrated Blue Silver Absorption, and Yu Xiaogang cursed Lei Nuo for giving his disciple what he considered a poor Soul Skill.
• Yu Xiaogang proposed that Tang San develop Blue Silver Grass to deliver toxins that could slow, paralyze, or kill opponents.
• Tang San imagined combining poison with his Hidden Weapons and admired Yu Xiaogang’s theory.

Lin Qingchen learned that Tang San had developed a feudalism-related talent and waited until Tang San reached level twenty before preparing to pursue the Blue Silver Emperor’s Seed of Life. As Tang San traveled to the Soul Hunting Forest with Lei Nuo and Yu Xiaogang, Lin Qingchen set out toward Holy Soul Village with an incomplete Realm-Switching Leaf for protection.

• Lin Qingchen noticed Tang San had gained the [Feudalism Warrior] talent and concluded that they were destined to become strangers.
• Three years passed, and Tang San broke through to level twenty, believing he could soon surpass Lin Qingchen.
• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang about his breakthrough, and Yu Xiaogang arranged for him and Lei Nuo to hunt for a Second Soul Ring.
• Tang Hao secretly followed Tang San’s party to the Soul Hunting Forest and vowed to avenge Ah Yin.
• Lin Qingchen revealed his [Incomplete Realm-Switching Leaf] and headed toward Holy Soul Village to seek the Blue Silver Emperor’s seed.

Lin Qingchen traveled to a hidden cave beneath a waterfall to find the Blue Silver Emperor and her soul bone. He took the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone and hid its absence, then prepared to claim the Blue Silver Emperor.

• Lin Qingchen left Nuoding Academy before dawn and traveled toward Holy Soul Village, using maps to locate a waterfall from the original story.
• Lin Qingchen crossed the wilderness with his elemental abilities and used Great Water Element Escape to ascend the waterfall.
• Lin Qingchen passed through the rock behind the waterfall and found the half-dead Blue Silver Emperor growing in a hidden cave.
• Lin Qingchen discovered a concealed box containing the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone.
• Lin Qingchen stored the soul bone, replaced it with a matching stone, and turned to the Blue Silver Emperor.

Lin Qingchen transformed Ah Yin’s remains into a Golden Wonder called the Seed of Creation, then gained a large amount of Power of Fortune after Tang San and Tang Hao suffered the loss of Ah Yin. Meanwhile, Tang San absorbed his second Soul Ring as Tang Hao watched and mourned Ah Yin.

• Lin Qingchen poured his Power of Fortune into Ah Yin’s Seed of Life and turned it into the Seed of Creation, whose description said the life within would grow when Creation’s authority was activated.
• Lin Qingchen replaced the Blue Silver Grass he had taken with another strand, then received 2,000 Power of Fortune for causing Tang San to lose his mother and 500 for causing Tang Hao to lose his wife.
• In the Soul Hunting Forest, Lei Nuo and Yu Xiaogang watched Tang San absorb his second Soul Ring and celebrated his breakthrough to Soul Grandmaster.
• Tang Hao watched Tang San from a tree, cried over Ah Yin, and blamed Spirit Hall for their separation.
• Lin Qingchen headed back to Nuoding Academy, unaware of Tang Hao’s grief and threats against Spirit Hall.

After returning to Nuoding Academy, Lin Qingchen decided to hunt for his own Second Soul Ring and searched the Soul Hunting Forest for a thousand-year beast. He found and defeated a Thunderclap Nether Vine, whose Soul Ring rose from its burning remains.

• Tang San returned to Dorm Seven, where Xiao Wu greeted him enthusiastically, and he noticed Lin Qingchen watching him.
• Lin Qingchen told Lei Nuo that he had reached level twenty and would hunt for his own Soul Ring, so Lei Nuo gave him a permit and likely Soul Beast locations.
• Lin Qingchen searched the Soul Hunting Forest but found no suitable thousand-year Soul Beast among the beasts he tracked down.
• On the fifth day, Lin Qingchen spotted a vine absorbing lightning and recognized it as a Thunderclap Nether Vine.
• Lin Qingchen neutralized the Thunderclap Nether Vine's lightning attacks, tore it out of the ground, and burned it until its yellow Soul Ring with a faint purple tinge appeared.

Lin Qingchen fused the Thunderclap Nether Vine Soul Ring through a storm of lightning, gaining a Thousand-Year Soul Ring, reaching Soul Power Level twenty-four, and testing his new skill. Meanwhile, Tang Hao visited Ah Yin’s resting place and discovered that the Blue Silver Emperor was gone, replaced by the Cold-dressed Blue Silver Grass Lin Qingchen had left behind.

• Lin Qingchen endured repeated lightning strikes as he fused the Thunderclap Nether Vine Soul Ring, while the Seed of Creation healed his injuries.
• The Soul Ring reached a thousand years, turned purple, and the lightning tempered Lin Qingchen’s body; he emerged at Soul Power Level twenty-four.
• Lin Qingchen used his Second Soul Skill, Five Elements Divine Lightning, to blast a large tree apart, then prepared to return to Nuoding Academy.
• Tang Hao escorted Tang San to Nuoding Academy, then traveled to Holy Soul Village to tell Ah Yin about Tang San’s talent and his hopes for revenge.
• Tang Hao noticed an unfamiliar fragrance and found that the Blue Silver Emperor was gone, with only the Cold-dressed Blue Silver Grass Lin Qingchen had left behind.

Tang Hao discovered that the Blue Silver Emperor and the Soul Bone were gone, then went on a destructive rampage before returning to grieve beside the empty chamber. Meanwhile, Lin Qingchen returned from Soul Ring hunting and invited Xiao Wu and the work-study students to eat spicy rabbit heads, leaving Xiao Wu loudly refusing the meal.

• Tang Hao found only ordinary Blue Silver Grass where the Blue Silver Emperor had grown and discovered that the Soul Bone box held a stone instead.
• Tang Hao blamed himself for failing to protect Ah Yin, then smashed the surrounding mountainside for a day and a night.
• Tang Hao returned to the ruined chamber, apologized to Ah Yin, and vowed to protect their son and wait for him to avenge her.
• Lin Qingchen considered asking Dean Lei Nuo for permission to graduate early after reaching level 30 and hunt for his third Soul Ring.
• Lin Qingchen invited Xiao Wu, Tang San, and the work-study students to eat spicy rabbit heads in the cafeteria.
• Xiao Wu objected that rabbits were cute and declared that she would not eat Lin Qingchen's food, though Tang San had already been tempted.

Lin Qingchen paid for Xiao Wu and the other students’ spicy rabbit heads, then met Xiao Chenyu selling his father’s unused supplements. He arranged with Xiao Shan to buy Whale Rubber in bulk and left with a box.

• Xiao Wu eagerly ate Lin Qingchen’s spicy rabbit heads and denied ever saying she would refuse his food.
• Lin Qingchen paid the cafeteria for the students’ meal and wandered around Nuoding City.
• Lin Qingchen found Xiao Chenyu selling supplements after Xiao Shan kicked him out for criticizing his father’s failed attempts to restore his health.
• Lin Qingchen bought the Whale Rubber in Xiao Chenyu’s shop and learned Xiao Shan sourced it through a merchant association in Vast Sea City.
• Lin Qingchen met Xiao Shan, secured his help buying Whale Rubber in bulk, left Gold Soul Coins, and departed with a box of it.

After reaching level 30, Lin Qingchen left Nuoding City to seek his Third Soul Ring and travel to Heaven Dou City. He visited Old Jack and his parents’ grave before setting out.

• Lin Qingchen told Lei Nuo he had reached level 30 and was leaving Nuoding Academy, and Lei Nuo gave him a sealed letter of recommendation for an acquaintance in Heaven Dou City.
• Lin Qingchen declined Lei Nuo’s offer to help with Soul Hunting and left Nuoding Academy by carriage for Holy Soul Village.
• Lin Qingchen told Old Jack he was going to Heaven Dou City and gave him five hundred Gold Soul Coins, reassuring him that he could afford it.
• Lin Qingchen visited his parents’ grave, poured out wine as an offering, and wished for a worry-free journey before leaving.

Lin Qingchen searched the Star Dou Great Forest for a suitable base for his third Soul Skill, hoping to find a defensive Soul Beast. An earthquake-like disturbance led him to a thirty-thousand-year Rift Ruins Earth Dragon and a group that included people he suspected were Yu Tianheng, Dugu Yan, and Qin Ming.

• Lin Qingchen entered the Star Dou Great Forest to seek a Soul Beast that could provide a defensive or amplifying third Soul Skill.
• After finding no suitable Soul Beast, Lin Qingchen prepared to camp but felt a violent tremor and sensed the earth element surging deeper in the forest.
• Lin Qingchen used his Great Five Elements Escape to rush toward the disturbance and sensed a battle involving intense fire energy.
• A thirty-thousand-year Rift Ruins Earth Dragon crashed into view, and Lin Qingchen recognized it as the source of the earthquake-like commotion.
• A flame-wreathed man struck the Rift Ruins Earth Dragon, warned Lin Qingchen to flee, and told Tian Heng and Yanzi to watch him; Lin Qingchen suspected the man was Qin Ming.

Lin Qingchen joined Qin Ming and the Imperial Fighting Team as Qin Ming fought a thirty-thousand-year-old Rift Ruins Earth Dragon. After the beast fell, Qin Ming asked why Lin Qingchen had come alone, and Lin Qingchen revealed that he had neither a father nor a mother.

• A blond youth pulled Lin Qingchen over to the Imperial Fighting Team, where Dugu Yan welcomed him and watched him with interest.
• Lin Qingchen observed Qin Ming overpower the Rift Ruins Earth Dragon and kill it with his Sixth Soul Skill.
• Qin Ming scolded Yu Feng for acting carelessly in the Star Dou Great Forest, then asked Lin Qingchen his name and why he was alone.
• Lin Qingchen told Qin Ming that he had no father or mother and said he had learned to live with their deaths.
• The Imperial Fighting Team felt sympathy for Lin Qingchen, and Ye Lingling looked at him as though she recognized someone like herself.

Lin Qingchen revealed that he was ten years old, had reached level thirty, and possessed a thousand-year second Soul Ring, prompting Qin Ming to invite him to Heaven Dou Royal Academy. Before they could discuss his next Soul Ring, the Rift Ruins Earth Dragon's corpse exploded, and Lin Qingchen saved Ye Lingling from one of three creatures that burst out.

• Lin Qingchen told Qin Ming he had come to hunt for his Third Soul Ring and revealed his yellow and purple Soul Rings, astonishing Qin Ming and the others.
• Lin Qingchen said he was ten years old and agreed to consider attending Heaven Dou Royal Academy after graduating early from junior Soul Master Academy.
• Lin Qingchen sensed something wrong with the lingering earth-element energy and warned the group to watch out.
• The Rift Ruins Earth Dragon's corpse exploded, and three smaller Rift Ruins Earth Dragons attacked Ye Lingling.
• Lin Qingchen rescued Ye Lingling and blocked an attack with his arm, which Ye Lingling healed with her Nine Heart Begonia Soul Skill.
• Qin Ming urged the group to leave because the three creatures had disappeared underground, but Lin Qingchen did not move.

Lin Qingchen lured three Rift Ruins Earth Dragons out from underground so he and the others could defeat them. He chose the dragon with the most concentrated Earth Element power and stored its Soul Ring in the Book of Partial Understanding.

• Lin Qingchen explained that the Rift Ruins Earth Dragons might be only a few thousand years old, and Qin Ming decided the group would stay to help hunt them.
• Lin Qingchen used his Five Elements Qilin and Earth Element power to lure the three dragons out of the ground while the others hid nearby.
• Lin Qingchen blasted one dragon in two with Five Elements Divine Lightning, and Yu Feng, Yu Tianheng, Shi Mo, and the others worked together to incapacitate another.
• Qin Ming subdued the third dragon and praised the Imperial Fighting Team's teamwork.
• Lin Qingchen chose the dragon Yu Tianheng's group had defeated and stored its Soul Ring in the Book of Partial Understanding.

Lin Qingchen explained that his Five Elements Qilin needed five different elemental Soul Rings to advance, then examined the Imperial Fighting Team’s talents with the Book of Talents. He discovered the Shi Brothers carried an unactivated Black Tortoise Bloodline and compared it with the bloodlines of Yu Tianheng and Yu Xiaogang.

• Lin Qingchen told Dugu Yan and the others that he needed four more elemental Soul Rings before his Martial Soul could advance, and Qin Ming and Yu Feng promised to help him find them.
• Yu Feng and Osler bickered about their fighting abilities while Qin Ming let the exchange continue, then ordered the team to make camp for the night.
• Lin Qingchen examined the team’s talents and found the Shi Brothers had an unactivated Black Tortoise Bloodline that could evolve their Martial Soul and grant a Black Tortoise Domain.
• Lin Qingchen compared Yu Tianheng’s Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Bloodline with Yu Xiaogang’s failed mutation, which drained Soul Power and hindered Yu Xiaogang’s cultivation.

Lin Qingchen fused Shi Mo’s Black Tortoise Bloodline and discovered it had transformed into the powerful Five Elements Law: Water. After realizing the Book of Talents had no room for more entries, he abruptly activated his Five Elements Qilin Martial Soul and Five Elements Divine Lightning.

• Lin Qingchen examined Ye Lingling’s Plane Curse and Ultimate Healing talents, then chose Shi Mo’s Black Tortoise Bloodline to test its effect on his Five Elements Qilin Martial Soul.
• Lin Qingchen absorbed the Black Tortoise Bloodline and found that his Book of Talents now listed Five Elements Law: Water instead.
• Lin Qingchen learned that the new talent could let him comprehend the cosmic law of water and develop Ultimate Water or Ultimate Ice.
• Lin Qingchen considered seeking other divine beast bloodlines to gain the remaining Five Elements Laws, but noticed that his Book of Talents was already full.
• Lin Qingchen suddenly raised his right hand, summoned his Five Elements Qilin Martial Soul, and activated his second soul ring to use Five Elements Divine Lightning.

Lin Qingchen suppressed his growing greed for the Law of the Five Elements and consulted the Book of Partial Understanding about the Rift Ruins Earth Dragons, but dismissed its answer as nonsense. After Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan discussed their feelings about him, Lin Qingchen awakened with improved control over water and considered creating new Soul Skills.

• Lin Qingchen electrocuted himself to dispel his fixation on the Law of the Five Elements and decided to focus on the Law of Water and finding his Third Soul Ring.
• Lin Qingchen asked the Book of Partial Understanding why three younger Rift Ruins Earth Dragons emerged from a dead older one, and the book claimed they had grown instantly from its corpse through asexual reproduction.
• Lin Qingchen decided the book was malfunctioning and went to sleep.
• In the girls' tent, Dugu Yan teased Ye Lingling about falling for Lin Qingchen, and Ye Lingling felt an unexplained pang when Dugu Yan said she might pursue him.
• Lin Qingchen woke the next morning with sharper control over water and realized he could try creating Self-Created Soul Skills.

Lin Qingchen cooked Rift Ruins Earth Dragon meat for the group before Qin Ming led them to search for Soul Beasts suited to Lin Qingchen and Ye Lingling. During his night watch with Dugu Yan, a subtle fragrance suddenly reached him.

• Lin Qingchen carved meat from a Rift Ruins Earth Dragon and roasted it with seasonings, drawing the camp awake.
• Qin Ming arranged the search for metal-, wood-, water-, and fire-attribute Soul Beasts for Lin Qingchen and a life-attribute Soul Beast for Ye Lingling.
• The group hunted a Sharp-Clawed Mountain-Piercing Beast, a Mysterious Water Ape, and a Flame Poison Lizard, leaving a wood-attribute beast and Ye Lingling's Soul Ring to find.
• Lin Qingchen took the third night watch with Dugu Yan and began comprehending the Law of Water before a subtle fragrance wafted over.

Lin Qingchen brushed off Dugu Yan while searching the Star Dou Great Forest with Qin Ming’s group for a wood-attribute Soul Beast. The group found a Tranquil Spirit Heart-Concentrating Orchid in a valley, and a heavy breath sounded behind Yu Feng.

• Dugu Yan approached Lin Qingchen, but he asked her to keep her distance and returned to cultivating.
• Lin Qingchen and the others continued searching the forest for a suitable Soul Beast.
• Lin Qingchen detected a faint floral fragrance, and the group followed it into a small valley.
• Ye Lingling identified a Tranquil Spirit Heart-Concentrating Orchid as a gentle, purely life-type Soul Beast.
• Yu Feng wondered why the orchid was alone, then heard a heavy breath behind him.

The Imperial Fighting Team encountered an Azure Wood Spirit Bear guarding a Tranquil Spirit Heart-Concentrating Orchid, and Qin Ming assigned Yu Tianheng to lead the fight while Lin Qingchen and Ye Lingling observed. Lin Qingchen broke through the bear’s defenses and joined the team’s coordinated assault, leaving the battle in their favor.

• Yu Feng spotted an Azure Wood Spirit Bear emerging from a tree, and Qin Ming identified it as a suitable Soul Beast guarding the Tranquil Spirit Heart-Concentrating Orchid.
• Qin Ming told Yu Tianheng to lead the fight, and the bear attacked the Imperial Fighting Team with thick roots to keep them away from the plant.
• Dugu Yan supported her teammates with poisonous mist as the Shi Brothers defended the front and Yu Feng and Osler harried the bear from the sides.
• Lin Qingchen used Five Elements Divine Body and Fire of the Five Elements to break through the roots, then struck the bear and knocked it back.
• Ye Lingling healed the Shi Brothers while Yu Tianheng, Yu Feng, and Osler exploited the bear’s distraction to damage its wooden armor and attack its exposed body.