Chapter Summaries

Lin Chen rejected Yu Xiaogang’s advice to cultivate his armor Martial Soul as a Defense System, arguing that his Ultimate Armor’s speed and greater potential suited another path. Yu Xiaogang left furious and insisted Lin Chen’s reasoning was ignorant speculation.

• Yu Xiaogang urged Lin Chen to follow the Defense System, but Lin Chen mocked his low Soul Power and refused his guidance.
• Lin Chen explained that the Ultimate Armor was exceptional and that half armor offered speed as well as defense, exposing flaws in Yu Xiaogang’s theory.
• Lin Chen summoned a silver bracelet with a blue gem and declared Yu Xiaogang was 20,000 years too early to guide him.
• Yu Xiaogang angrily called Lin Chen’s arguments wild speculation and accused him of repaying his parents’ concern with disrespect.

Lin Chen rejected Yu Xiaogang’s claim that he had been invited to guide his cultivation and challenged him to prove his strength. After Lin Chen’s Ultimate Armor defeated Yu Xiaogang’s Luo Sanpao, he left Yu Xiaogang humiliated and questioned whether the Grandmaster could teach him.

• Lin Chen told Yu Xiaogang that he had never intended to have him guide his cultivation and challenged him to a fight.
• Yu Xiaogang accepted Lin Chen’s provocation and summoned Luo Sanpao, using its thunderous and hypnotic gas attacks.
• Lin Chen used the Ultimate Armor and Ultimate Zero Sword to blow away the gas and charge Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Xiaogang backed into a courtyard wall, and Lin Chen stopped his sword just beside Yu Xiaogang’s head.
• Lin Chen withdrew the armor and told Yu Xiaogang that he had lost despite Lin Chen not having absorbed a Soul Ring.

Lin Chen drove Yu Xiaogang away after proving his strength, then arranged for Xiao Chenyu’s father to take him hunting Soul Beasts. After consuming Whale Rubber, Lin Chen prepared his body to absorb a Thousand-Year Soul Ring and planned to seek answers about his Martial Soul later.

• Lin Chen mocked Yu Xiaogang for misjudging the Ultimate Armor and told him to leave, prompting Yu Xiaogang to shout at him to get out.
• Xiao Chenyu arrived with more than twenty underlings, greeted Lin Chen as his cousin, and agreed that his father would take Lin Chen hunting Soul Beasts the next day.
• Lin Chen insulted Yu Xiaogang again, and Yu Xiaogang swore he would never visit the Lin Family again before Lin Chen went inside with Xiao Chenyu to discuss the hunt.
• After Xiao Chenyu left, Lin Chen ate a piece of Whale Rubber and absorbed its medicinal power, strengthening his body enough to withstand a Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Lin Chen wondered whether the Soul Hunting Forest had a suitable thousand-year Soul Beast and why he could not control the Ultimate Armor’s other abilities, then went to sleep.

Lin Chen traveled with Xiao Chenfeng and Xiao Chenyu to the Soul Hunting Forest, where Xiao Chenfeng confirmed Lin Chen’s body could withstand a Thousand-Year Soul Ring. After a long search, they encountered an injured Light-Feathered Falcon that met Lin Chen’s requirements, and he asked Xiao Chenfeng to handle it.

• Xiao Chenyu and Xiao Chenfeng arrived to take Lin Chen Soul Beast hunting, and Xiao Chenfeng praised him for beating Yu Xiaogang.
• Lin Chen told Xiao Chenfeng he wanted a powerful light- or space-attribute Thousand-Year Soul Ring, and Xiao Chenfeng tested his body and found it strong enough to absorb one.
• Xiao Chenfeng led Lin Chen and Xiao Chenyu into the Soul Hunting Forest, where they passed up several Soul Beasts that did not meet Lin Chen’s requirements.
• Xiao Chenfeng sensed a roughly 1,200-year-old Soul Beast, and an injured Light-Feathered Falcon burst through the trees.
• Lin Chen recognized that the Light-Feathered Falcon met his Soul Ring requirements and asked Xiao Chenfeng to handle it.

Lin Chen absorbed the Light-Feathered Falcon’s 1,200-year Soul Ring as his First Soul Ring and gained the Light Sword Soul Skill. He demonstrated its power to Xiao Chenfeng and Xiao Chenyu, revealing that its range and strength depended on how much Soul Power he used.

• Xiao Chenfeng defeated the Light-Feathered Falcon by tearing its injured left wing, and Lin Chen killed it with the Ultimate Zero Sword.
• Lin Chen absorbed the falcon’s purple Soul Ring over three double-hours while Xiao Chenfeng guarded him.
• Lin Chen awakened his First Soul Skill, Light Sword, and used it to cut down a towering tree.
• Lin Chen explained that Light Sword could extend his sword’s close-combat range or be released as a ranged attack, and that he could currently project it up to twelve meters.
• Xiao Chenfeng admitted that he might have stopped Lin Chen from absorbing a Thousand-Year Soul Ring if Lin Chen had not fought Yu Xiaogang.

After absorbing the Light-Feathered Falcon as his First Soul Ring, Lin Chen returned to Nuoding City with Xiao Chenfeng and learned that the thousand-year eagle belonged to someone powerful. Xiao Chenfeng warned Lin Chen to hide the Soul Ring’s origin, while Xue Qinghe ordered a frantic search for the escaped beast.

• Lin Chen reflected on his rapid cultivation and worried that he might lack the backing to find a suitable Second Soul Ring.
• Deacons questioned Xiao Chenfeng about a thousand-year eagle that had escaped into the Soul Hunting Forest, and he concealed what had happened to the Light-Feathered Falcon.
• Back in Nuoding City, Xiao Chenfeng learned from Ling Xun that a merchant caravan’s golden eagle had escaped and warned Lin Chen to keep his Soul Ring secret.
• In Heaven Dou City, Xue Qinghe reassured his steward but ordered him to search harder for the Light-Feathered Falcon and recover its corpse if it had died.

After Spirit Hall investigators linked the Light-Feathered Falcon’s death to Lin Chen, Xue Qinghe sent Cao Tian Heng to invite him to the crown prince’s residence. Xiao Chenfeng told Lin Chen about the invitation and offered to refuse it for him.

• A Spirit Hall patrol team found traces showing that a level-forty Soul Ancestor had killed the Light-Feathered Falcon and absorbed its Soul Ring.
• A young investigator suspected Lin Chen, and the captain reported the possibility to Xue Qinghe.
• After reading the secret letter, Xue Qinghe ordered an investigation into Lin Chen and sent someone to negotiate an invitation.
• Cao Tian Heng told Xiao Chenfeng that Xue Qinghe wanted to meet Lin Chen because of his talent, and Xiao Chenfeng agreed to ask Lin Chen what he wanted.
• Xiao Chenfeng told Lin Chen about the invitation and offered to refuse it on his behalf.

Lin Chen met Xue Qinghe in Heaven Dou City, where Xue Qinghe confirmed his rare talent and offered to support his cultivation. Lin Chen left with a Storage Soul Tool and a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone, while Xue Qinghe promised help hunting for his Second Soul Ring.

• Lin Chen agreed to travel to Heaven Dou City after Xiao Chenfeng assured him the invitation was harmless.
• Lin Chen met Xue Qinghe at the Crown Prince's Residence and confirmed that he had killed the Light-Feathered Falcon.
• Xue Qinghe revealed that he had investigated Lin Chen and asked to see his Soul Ring, then examined Lin Chen's Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Xue Qinghe promised to send the Heaven Dou Royal Knights with Lin Chen to the Star Dou Great Forest when he reached level 20.
• Xue Qinghe gave Lin Chen a Storage Soul Tool and a Ten Thousand Year Right Arm Soul Bone from a seventy-thousand-year-old Glinting Sky-Flash Beast.

Lin Chen absorbed the Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone Xue Qinghe gave him, reached level 20, and gained the Light Holy Slash Soul Skill. Xue Qinghe then brought him to the Heaven Dou Royal Academy to enroll and arranged for the Heaven Dou Royal Knights to escort him to the Star Dou Great Forest in three days.

• Xue Qinghe gave Lin Chen his identity token and sent Cao Tian Heng to show him to his room.
• Lin Chen absorbed the Glinting Sky-Flash Beast's Right Arm Soul Bone over five days, reaching level 20 and gaining Light Holy Slash.
• Xue Qinghe visited Lin Chen and offered to take him to enroll at the Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Xue Qinghe brought Lin Chen to the academy and told him the Heaven Dou Royal Knights would escort him to the Star Dou Great Forest in three days.
• A teacher met Lin Chen at the academy entrance and led him inside to register.

Lin Chen completed his enrollment at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Xue Beng tried to provoke him and drive him out. Lin Chen defeated Xue Beng and the noble students who attacked him, then Teacher Sun arrived and recognized him as the Crown Prince’s recommended student.

• Zhao Mingyuan gave Lin Chen his enrollment papers, timetable, and uniform, and Lin Chen signed to make his enrollment official.
• Xue Beng learned that Xue Qinghe had personally arranged Lin Chen’s enrollment and decided to provoke him to undermine the Crown Prince’s influence.
• Xue Beng blocked Lin Chen on the training ground and insulted him, then urged him to strike first; Lin Chen kicked Xue Beng away.
• Xue Beng ordered the noble students to attack Lin Chen, but Lin Chen’s Ultimate Armor and fighting skills repelled them, and the students fled.
• Xue Beng accused Lin Chen of causing trouble, but Lin Chen pointed out that Xue Beng had provoked him first.
• Teacher Sun arrived, questioned Xue Beng’s behavior, and told Lin Chen that the Crown Prince had sent him to handle Lin Chen’s enrollment.

Lin Chen traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest with Snake Lance Douluo to seek a spatial-attribute Soul Ring. After nightfall, Snake Lance Douluo used Lin Chen as bait to attract Soul Beasts, leaving him to face an approaching pack.

• Sun Buyu took Lin Chen into Heaven Dou Royal Academy, while Xue Beng vowed to take revenge on him and Xue Qinghe.
• Three days later, Lin Chen set out for the Star Dou Great Forest under the protection of Yun Mao, whom he recognized as Snake Lance Douluo, She Long.
• After four days of travel, Lin Chen entered the forest with Snake Lance Douluo and asked to find a spatial-attribute Soul Beast for his second Soul Ring.
• At camp, Snake Lance Douluo said he had a way to attract Soul Beasts, then disappeared that night as dozens of beasts gathered around Lin Chen.
• A black wolf led its pack in an attack, and Lin Chen summoned his Ultimate Armor and used his First Soul Skill, Light Sword.

Lin Chen found and absorbed a 2,400-year-old Void Leopard’s Soul Ring, gaining a spatial second Soul Skill and reaching Soul Power Level 29. He and Snake Lance Douluo left the forest with Lin Chen nearing his third Soul Ring breakthrough.

• Lin Chen defeated the Hundred-Year Soul Beasts, and Snake Lance Douluo drove off the watching thousand-year Soul Beasts with his presence.
• After five days searching the Star Dou Great Forest, Snake Lance Douluo found a 2,400-year-old Void Leopard with a strong spatial attribute.
• Snake Lance Douluo wounded the Void Leopard, and Lin Chen killed it and began absorbing its purple Soul Ring.
• Lin Chen completed the absorption and gained the second Soul Skill Void Instant Slash, which let him teleport behind a target within thirty meters and attack while intangible.
• Lin Chen told Snake Lance Douluo that his Soul Power had risen nine levels to Level 29, bringing him close to Level 30.

After returning to Heaven Dou City, Lin Chen agreed to become Xue Qinghe’s student, accepting the risks of tying himself to the crown prince. Far beyond the Douluo galaxy, Zero sensed the Douluo Star, and the gods felt his gaze reach the Divine Realm.

• Lin Chen and Snake Lance Douluo returned to Heaven Dou City escorted by the Heaven Dou Royal Knights, then went back to the crown prince’s residence.
• Xue Qinghe told Lin Chen he wanted him as a student because of his talent and his suitability as a trusted confidant.
• Lin Chen weighed the danger of becoming tied to Xue Qinghe and agreed to become his student.
• Five hundred light-years from the Douluo galaxy, Zero emerged from a vortex and sensed the Palagi Shield near Douluo Star.
• The Goddess of Life and God of Destruction, followed by the gods in the God Realm Committee, felt Zero’s gaze and concluded that its source was far stronger than them.

Zero wondered why the Palagi Shield had appeared on the fragile Douluo planet, while the God Kings feared his power and hoped he meant no harm. In Heaven Dou Academy, Lin Chen dealt with Xue Beng and accepted Dugu Yan’s challenge, asking to meet her grandfather if he won.

• Zero questioned why the Palagi Shield had appeared on the Douluo planet after his use of the Ultimate Bracelet drained much of its energy.
• The Asura God, Godess of Kindness, and God of Evil sensed the divine presence watching the Douluo Continent and feared the planet might collapse if it descended.
• Xue Qinghe formally accepted Lin Chen as his student in private, promised him money and protection for his family, and assigned Snake Lance Douluo to guard him.
• Lin Chen arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Xue Beng mocked him and warned that Xue Qinghe could not protect him forever.
• Dugu Yan approached Lin Chen to test the rumored thousand-year first Soul Ring, and Lin Chen agreed to fight if she let him meet Senior Dugu should he win.

Lin Chen defeated Dugu Yan and arranged to meet Dugu Bo, hoping to gain access to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and its Immortal Herbs. He told Qian Renxue about Dugu Bo’s hidden herb garden, leaving their discussion of it unresolved.

• Dugu Yan agreed to take Lin Chen to meet her grandfather if he beat her, and Lin Chen defeated her instantly with his spatial Soul Skill.
• Dugu Yan promised that Dugu Bo would visit Lin Chen at the Crown Prince’s Residence the next morning.
• Lin Chen decided he would seek entry to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and considered forming a Poison-Attribute Soul Core to treat Dugu Bo’s toxins.
• Dugu Yan told Lin Chen that Dugu Bo had agreed to visit, though he considered a crown prince’s follower unworthy of a personal call.
• Lin Chen met with Xue Qinghe and revealed that Dugu Bo had a hidden Herb Garden in Sunset Forest called the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Lin Chen told Dugu Bo that he could cure the poison afflicting him and Dugu Yan, and explained how Dugu Bo could isolate the toxins by condensing a poison-attribute Soul Core. Dugu Bo pledged ten years of service in exchange and prepared to begin the risky cultivation process at the crown prince's residence.

• Xue Qinghe questioned Lin Chen about the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, accepted his explanation that Dugu Yan had told him, and decided to visit the place herself.
• Lin Chen welcomed Dugu Bo to the crown prince's residence and revealed that he knew the Titled Douluo was suffering from deadly poison.
• Dugu Bo seized Lin Chen and demanded to know how he had learned his secret, then asked whether Lin Chen could cure him and Dugu Yan.
• Lin Chen offered to explain the cure in exchange for Dugu Bo's service, and Dugu Bo promised to serve him for ten years, provided the cure worked.
• Lin Chen explained that Dugu Bo could condense the toxins into a poison-attribute Soul Core while compressing his Soul Power, and said Dugu Yan would need a different treatment.
• Dugu Bo thanked Lin Chen and agreed to begin cultivating in a protected room, despite the danger if he failed to condense the Soul Core.

Lin Chen guided Dugu Bo through condensing a Soul Core from his Soul Power and accumulated poison, then left him meditating after he successfully merged it into his body. Lin Chen told Xue Qinghe that Dugu Bo had promised to serve for ten years, and asked for money to buy ten-thousand-year whale glue for himself and Xue Qinghe.

• Dugu Bo agreed to serve Lin Chen for ten years after his poison was cured, and Lin Chen took him to the cultivation room.
• Following Lin Chen's instructions, Dugu Bo compressed his Soul Power and toxins until they formed an emerald Soul Core.
• Dugu Bo absorbed the Soul Core into his dantian and endured the pain as his body stabilized around it.
• Lin Chen left Dugu Bo meditating and told Xue Qinghe that the cure had succeeded and Dugu Bo had promised to serve him.
• Xue Qinghe offered Lin Chen cultivation resources, and Lin Chen asked for money to buy ten-thousand-year whale glue for them both.

Lin Chen went to the Seven Treasure Chamber of Commerce to buy Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue, claiming it helped his cultivation. After returning to the crown prince's residence with three pieces, he followed Xue Qinghe to a cultivation room to prepare to eat them.

• Xue Qinghe gave Lin Chen a gold card and told him to wear a mask while buying Whale Rubber.
• Lin Chen searched the Seven Treasure Chamber of Commerce and found a shop that had three pieces of Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue.
• Lin Chen bought all three pieces for fifteen thousand Gold Soul Coins and stored them in his Storage Soul Tool.
• Lin Chen returned to the crown prince's residence and showed the Whale Glue to Xue Qinghe.
• Xue Qinghe brought Lin Chen to a cultivation room with an iron pot and a fire beneath it.

Lin Chen absorbed the Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue while Qian Renxue watched, and its powerful yang energy left her shocked and embarrassed. His physique improved enough to raise his estimated Soul Ring limit by about a thousand years, and he planned to visit the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well before seeking his third Soul Ring.

• Xue Qinghe melted the Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue and told Lin Chen to absorb it while he stood guard.
• Lin Chen swallowed the Whale Glue and circulated his Soul Power as its intense medicinal effects heated his body.
• Lin Chen's yang Qi erupted, revealing a towering dragon that left Qian Renxue blushing and stunned.
• After absorbing the Whale Glue, Lin Chen found his physique had improved by a major level and estimated he could withstand Soul Rings about a thousand years older.
• Lin Chen decided not to absorb another piece and said he would visit the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well before hunting his third Soul Ring.
• Lin Chen offered Qian Renxue one of the remaining pieces of Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue, reminding her that he had bought them with her money.

After Dugu Bo successfully formed a Soul Core, his poison was cured and he agreed to serve Lin Chen for ten years. Xue Ye met Lin Chen and promised to provide him with expert teachers, a top Mimicry Cultivation Environment, and valuable cultivation resources.

• Lin Chen visited Dugu Bo after his Soul Core cultivation succeeded, and Dugu Bo celebrated his recovery and increased strength.
• Dugu Bo confirmed he would keep his promise to serve Lin Chen and voiced concern that the Soul Core method might be too dangerous for Dugu Yan.
• Cao Tian Heng summoned Lin Chen to the study, where Xue Ye had requested to meet him.
• Xue Ye asked about Lin Chen's conflict with Xue Beng, and Lin Chen said they had settled it privately.
• Xue Ye offered to provide Lin Chen with experienced teachers, the best available Mimicry Cultivation Environment, and precious cultivation resources.