Chapter Summaries

Yu Xiaogang forced Tang San to take a thirteen-year-old Lone Bamboo as his First Soul Ring, using his overwhelming power to crush Tang San’s resistance. Tang San submitted outwardly and began absorbing the white ring, while secretly swearing revenge.

• Yu Xiaogang dismissed Tang San’s poisoned needle attack as a reckless test, while Cai Kun recognized that Tang San had tried to kill him.
• Yu Xiaogang seized Tang San and used his Lone Bamboo Pole Vault Soul Skill to carry him to a hollow where Lone Bamboo grew.
• Yu Xiaogang ordered Tang San to take a thirteen-year-old Lone Bamboo as his First Soul Ring, but Tang San argued that he should seek a stronger Soul Beast.
• Yu Xiaogang overwhelmed Tang San with level-one-hundred Soul Power and forced him to cut down the Lone Bamboo.
• Tang San suppressed his anger, absorbed the white Ten-Year Soul Ring into his Blue Silver Grass, and vowed to remember Yu Xiaogang’s blood debt.

Cai Kun learned that Yu Xiaogang’s Lone Bamboo Martial Soul belonged to a system incompatible with Luo Sanpao’s, then tricked him into adopting the title Spring Bamboo Douluo. As Yu Xiaogang proclaimed his new title, thunder split the sky and a seven-colored light lifted him into the air.

• Cai Kun questioned the system and learned that Lone Bamboo and Luo Sanpao operated independently and did not share Soul Power.
• The system said Cai Kun’s High-Speed Train Electric Multiple Unit came from the Great Xia Group and refused to reveal the Soul Skills of Yu Xiaogang’s Lone Bamboo Soul Rings.
• Cai Kun concluded Yu Xiaogang’s strength had been reduced and suggested that he call himself Spring Bamboo Douluo.
• Yu Xiaogang accepted the title despite its resemblance to an insult and loudly proclaimed himself Spring Bamboo Douluo.
• Thunder tore open the clouds, and a seven-colored radiance enveloped Yu Xiaogang and lifted him into the air.

Yu Xiaogang mistook the guiding light triggered by his level 100 Soul Power for a true ascension and arrived at the Divine Realm gates. The guards rejected him as an impostor and prepared to throw him back into the lower realm.

• Yu Xiaogang ascended in a flash of seven-colored light after reaching level 100, while Cai Kun suspected something was wrong with his supposed godhood.
• Yu Xiaogang arrived outside the Divine Realm gates and proudly introduced himself to the guards as a newly risen god.
• The guards asked Yu Xiaogang to prove his inheritance or show his Divine Spark, but he admitted he had neither.
• Yu Xiaogang revealed his bamboo and pig Martial Souls and their weak Soul Rings, prompting the guards to laugh at him and call him an impostor.
• The guards seized Yu Xiaogang and prepared to throw him into a spatial rift as he pleaded not to be sent back.

Yu Xiaogang was allowed into the Divine Realm after the Asura God intervened, but the Asura God and Sea God treated him as a stowaway and subjected him to an assessment. After his selfish answers earned him several slaps, they announced that he would face a practical combat test.

• The Asura God ordered the divine guards to let Yu Xiaogang into the Divine Realm, and Yu Xiaogang rushed inside without waiting for Luo Sanpao.
• Luo Sanpao caught up with Yu Xiaogang and began eating the Divine Realm’s plants while Yu Xiaogang admired his new surroundings.
• The Asura God and Sea God confronted Yu Xiaogang, called him a stowaway who had bypassed a proper Godhood trial, and explained that he needed to pass an assessment to stay.
• The Asura God asked why Yu Xiaogang wanted to become a god, and Yu Xiaogang said he wanted power and revenge, earning a slap from each God King.
• The Asura God asked whether Yu Xiaogang would die to defend the Divine Realm, and when Yu Xiaogang hesitated, the Sea God slapped him before they began the practical combat assessment.

Asura God and Sea God beat Yu Xiaogang after his ascension, while Tang San absorbed a ten-year Soul Ring and learned his first skill, Blue Silver Pole Vault. The next day, Cai Kun grew bored at the academy and headed to the Spirit Hall branch to seek work and opportunities to travel.

• Asura God struck Yu Xiaogang, breaking his bamboo pole and leaving him badly injured, while Sea God mocked him.
• Tang San opened his eyes after absorbing a ten-year Soul Ring and learned that Yu Xiaogang had become a god; Cai Kun left him alone in the forest, and Tang Hao realized he had arrived too late to give Tang San a stronger first ring.
• Tang San used his new Blue Silver Pole Vault skill to launch himself through the air, while Tang Hao departed without revealing that he had been watching.
• At Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy, Tang San told Xiao Wu that Yu Xiaogang had left on an urgent journey, and Cai Kun found his school life dull and his check-in rewards useless.
• Cai Kun remembered Su Yuntao's offer to help and went to the Spirit Hall branch to look for a job that might provide income and travel opportunities.

Cai Kun visited the Spirit Hall Branch in Nuoding City seeking part-time work, but Su Yuntao tried to recruit him instead. Cai Kun rejected promises of power and status, and Su Yuntao began tempting him with money and benefits.

• Cai Kun met Su Yuntao and Sisi outside the Spirit Hall Branch, where Su Yuntao mistook his visit for a decision to join Spirit Hall.
• Cai Kun asked Su Yuntao whether the branch had any part-time jobs, explaining that he needed money to support himself and Grandpa Jack.
• Su Yuntao and Sisi were shocked that a talented child wanted odd jobs, and Su Yuntao said the branch had no work-study positions.
• Su Yuntao stopped Cai Kun from leaving and promised elite training, powerful mentors, Soul Rings, Soul Bones, and even a chance at the papal throne.
• Cai Kun rejected the prospect of becoming Pope and said he wanted an ordinary life with enough money for food and leisure.
• Su Yuntao switched to offering practical rewards, describing his salary, allowances, housing, and the benefits Cai Kun could receive by joining Spirit Hall.

Cai Kun agreed to join the Spirit Hall after negotiating for a free and well-paid position, but learned that Su Yuntao had already sent Tang San’s full-Soul-Power report to higher authorities. In Heaven Dou City, Platinum Bishop Salas decided to investigate the reports himself and claim the credit if the unusual martial souls proved genuine.

• Cai Kun agreed to join the Spirit Hall on the condition that he avoid leadership duties and receive a flexible, easy job.
• Su Yuntao told Cai Kun that he had already sent reports about Cai Kun and Tang San to the Pope Hall.
• Cai Kun realized that Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass and Innate Full Soul Power could expose his hidden second martial soul and put Holy Soul Village in danger.
• Salas doubted the reports from Nuoding City but reconsidered after imagining the rewards if they were true.
• Salas decided to go to Nuoding City to verify the reports and claim the credit before anyone else arrived.

Salas rushed to bring two Innate Full Soul Power talents to Pope Bibi Dong, while Yu Xiaogang was dragged into the Divine Realm and brutally beaten by the Sea God and Asura God after failing his assessment. The chapter ended with Yu Xiaogang desperately begging the two God Kings to stop.

• Salas ordered a fast carriage to Nuoding City and sealed all information about the city until he approved its release.
• The Sea God and Asura God beat Yu Xiaogang after his divine assessment failed and his divine position rejected him.
• The two God Kings argued over their past mistakes and their competing claims on Tang San, taking their anger out on Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Xiaogang survived the beating thanks to his bamboo armor and Soul Bones, but after two hours he begged the God Kings to stop.

The Asura God and Sea God stripped Yu Xiaogang of his counterfeit Lone Bamboo Martial Soul, Soul Bones, and power before sending him back to the mortal world. He returned to Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy, where his hysterical outburst drew a crowd just as Cai Kun, Tang San, and Xiao Wu arrived.

• The Asura God healed Yu Xiaogang, warned him never to force Tang San to absorb another Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo Soul Ring, and declared him unfit for godhood.
• The Sea God ripped the Lone Bamboo Martial Soul and its Soul Bones from Yu Xiaogang, discovered a mark identifying it as a counterfeit, and reduced his Soul Power to level twenty-nine.
• The Asura God and Sea God mocked Yu Xiaogang for ruining his Golden Sacred Dragon bloodline and resolved to investigate who had introduced the strange counterfeit into the lower realm.
• The Asura God beat Yu Xiaogang again and sent him through a spatial passage to Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy; the Sea God kicked Luo Sanpao through after him.
• Yu Xiaogang crashed into the Grandmaster's office, shouted that he would never seek godhood again, and collapsed as students gathered to watch.
• After fifteen days had passed since the battle in the Soul Hunting Forest, Cai Kun, Tang San, and Xiao Wu pushed through the crowd toward the office.

After Yu Xiaogang returned from the Divine Realm traumatized and revealed that the gods had chosen Tang San, Tang Hao fled Nuoding City with his son after killing Salas. Xiao Wu was left behind as Spirit Hall sealed the city and began hunting for Tang Hao, Tang San, and Cai Kun.

• Tang Hao killed Salas and his subordinates, leaving Spirit Hall to bury Su Yuntao’s report and suspend Cai Kun’s expected appointment.
• Cai Kun earned money escorting low-level Soul Scholars through the Soul Hunting Forest, while rumors spread that Yu Xiaogang had died.
• Yu Xiaogang returned to the academy terrified, confessed that Asura God and Sea God had beaten him, and revealed that Tang San had been chosen to become a god.
• Tang Hao seized Tang San from the academy roof and fled, refusing to bring Xiao Wu and leaving her behind to distract Spirit Hall.
• Xiao Wu sensed multiple Titled Douluo and found Nuoding City’s gates sealed by Spirit Hall forces.
• Yue Guan ordered the city searched and all suspected accomplices arrested after Ma Xiunuo identified Tang San and Cai Kun as suspicious students.