Chapter Summaries

Xia Tianling continued educating Tang San and told him about the upcoming Spirit Awakening, including details about the Soul Master who would conduct it. Tang Hao agreed to let Tang San attend, while Xia Tianling earned a thread of Fate Power and briefly got a response from his system.

• Xia Tianling finished cultivating the Great Dao Longevity Scripture and went to meet Tang San on the back mountain.
• Xia Tianling shared his daily lessons about questioning claims and thinking for oneself with Tang San over breakfast.
• Old Jack explained Spirit Awakening and told Tang San that Spirit Hall would visit the village in two days.
• Xia Tianling told Tang San that Su Yuntao would awaken their Spirits and described his Lone Wolf Spirit and Soul Rings, prompting Tang San to ask Tang Hao about becoming a Soul Master.
• Tang Hao agreed that Tang San could attend the awakening, and Xia Tianling received a thread of Fate Power from the system.
• Xia Tianling complained about the system, which replied that it would notify him when he had enough Fate Power to make a wish, then fell silent again.

Xia Tianling and Tang San attended the village’s Martial Soul awakening ceremony, where Tang San awakened Blue Silver Grass with Innate Full Soul Power. Xia Tianling awakened a hammer-and-axe Martial Soul he named Carpenter’s Set, accompanied by the appearance of a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon phantom, and the chapter ended when the Soul Power crystal ball exploded during his test.

• Su Yuntao awakened the village children’s Martial Souls, and Tang San recognized his Lone Wolf Spirit and Soul Rings from Xia Tianling’s earlier predictions.
• Tang San awakened Blue Silver Grass and demonstrated Innate Full Soul Power, while Xia Tianling noticed the concealed Clear Sky Hammer in his left hand.
• Xia Tianling awakened a golden hammer and axe that he sensed formed one complete Martial Soul, as a powerful dragon roar and a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon phantom filled the area.
• Xia Tianling named his Martial Soul Carpenter’s Set and poured his cultivated spiritual power into Su Yuntao’s crystal ball.
• Su Yuntao began announcing Xia Tianling’s innate Soul Power, but the crystal ball exploded before he could finish.

After Xia Tianling displayed Innate Level 19 Soul Power, Spirit Hall moved quickly to recruit him, and Ghost Douluo arrived to assess him personally. Xia Tianling agreed to attend Spirit Hall Academy and gained Ghost Douluo’s favor, while Su Yuntao was rewarded for discovering him.

• Su Yuntao invited Xia Tianling to study at Spirit Hall Academy and took him and Old Jack to the Spirit Hall Branch for testing.
• Xia Tianling’s Martial Soul awakening stirred powerful Spirit Beasts and experts across the continent, including the Pope, Ditian, and the elder at Worship Hall.
• At the Nuoding City Branch, Ma Xiunuo confirmed that Xia Tianling had Innate Level 19 Soul Power, then hurried to report the discovery to headquarters.
• Xia Tianling chose to attend Spirit Hall Academy, and Old Jack departed for Holy Soul Village with an escort.
• Ghost Douluo arrived, examined Xia Tianling’s Hammer and Axe Set, and welcomed him to call him Grandpa Ghost.
• Ghost Douluo awarded Su Yuntao one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins and promised help with his breakthrough and a Thousand-Year Spirit Ring.

Xia Tianling revealed his Five-Clawed Golden Dragon Martial Soul to Ghost Douluo, who brought him to Spirit City to meet Bibi Dong. Bibi Dong accepted him as her disciple, but Qian Daoliu unexpectedly arrived and asked to guide Xia Tianling as a half-master.

• Xia Tianling asked Ghost Douluo for money to support Old Jack, and Ghost Douluo gave him a large sum and sent Su Yuntao to arrange a house and guards.
• Xia Tianling revealed his Five-Clawed Golden Dragon Martial Soul, and Ghost Douluo took him to Spirit City to meet Bibi Dong.
• Bibi Dong examined Xia Tianling's Martial Souls and accepted him as her disciple.
• Qian Daoliu arrived and asked to guide Xia Tianling in cultivation without formally becoming his master.
• Xia Tianling persuaded Bibi Dong to accept Qian Daoliu's offer while affirming that Bibi Dong would remain his teacher, and Qian Daoliu left.

After reaching level twenty, Xia Tianling criticized Douluo Continent’s stagnant cultivation system and obtained the complete Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record through his system. Chrysanthemum Douluo agreed to take him to obtain a Soul Ring, and Xia Tianling asked to visit his grandfather in Nuoding City along the way.

• Xia Tianling finished tempering his final meridian and prepared to condense a Golden Core after obtaining a Soul Ring.
• After three months of cultivation and reading in the Spirit Hall Library, Xia Tianling judged Douluo Continent’s cultivation methods and technology to be severely underdeveloped.
• Xia Tianling wished for the original, more complete Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record, and the system successfully transmitted it to him.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo found Xia Tianling, learned that he had reached level twenty, and offered to take him to obtain a Soul Ring.
• Xia Tianling asked Chrysanthemum Douluo to stop in Nuoding City so he could visit his grandfather, and Chrysanthemum Douluo agreed.

Tang San arrived at Nuoding City Junior Soul Master Academy with Old Jack, where two Spirit Hall guards punished a gatekeeper who insulted them. The Grand Master took Tang San inside and asked him to become his disciple, but Tang San chose to consider the offer before answering.

• Old Jack brought Tang San to enroll at the academy and tried to give him money for food and other needs.
• A gatekeeper insulted Old Jack and reached for his pouch, prompting Hou San and Er Lang to restrain him until the Grand Master intervened.
• The Grand Master checked Tang San's Spirit Hall certificate and agreed to take him to the academy's Teaching Office.
• Old Jack pressed the pouch into Tang San's clothes before leaving, and Tang San resolved to repay his kindness.
• The Grand Master revealed that he was not an academy teacher and asked Tang San to become his disciple.
• Tang San questioned the Grand Master's motives and asked for time to consider the offer.

Tang San questioned Yu Xiaogang’s theories but accepted him as a registered teacher after Yu promised to help him obtain his first two Soul Rings. Meanwhile, Xia Tianling learned of Tang San’s enrollment and left with Chrysanthemum Douluo to hunt for his first Soul Ring.

• Yu Xiaogang explained why he believed Tang San had Twin Martial Souls, but Tang San doubted his theories because Yu was only a Level Twenty-Nine Soul Grandmaster.
• Yu Xiaogang offered to take Tang San as a registered disciple and help him acquire his first two Soul Rings, and Tang San agreed.
• Tang San found the one hundred Gold Soul Coins Old Jack had given him and felt grateful to Old Jack and Xia Tianling.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Xia Tianling visited Old Jack, who told them about Tang San’s academy enrollment and praised Xia Tianling as a former village Prophet.
• Xia Tianling checked the system and saw that Yu Xiaogang’s fate had changed, then set off with Chrysanthemum Douluo for the Soul Hunting Forest near Nuoding City.

Xia Tianling and Chrysanthemum Douluo entered Soul Hunting Forest as Tang San struggled to obtain his First Soul Ring under Grand Master's guidance. After Tang San survived absorbing the Mandala Snake's Soul Ring, Xia Tianling arrived with Chrysanthemum Douluo, who took the poisoned Grand Master aside for treatment.

• Xia Tianling persuaded Chrysanthemum Douluo to enter Soul Hunting Forest that evening, where the gate soldiers recognized Chrysanthemum Douluo's authority.
• The story returned to that morning, when Grand Master brought Tang San into the forest and Tang San grew suspicious of his Soul Ring theories.
• After fighting wolves and killing a Mandala Snake, Tang San reluctantly trusted Grand Master's theory and began absorbing its Soul Ring.
• Grand Master passed out from the snake's poison before Tang San finished absorbing the Soul Ring, but Tang San completed the process and detoxified him.
• Xia Tianling and Chrysanthemum Douluo found Tang San, and Chrysanthemum Douluo took Grand Master aside to treat his poison.

Xia Tianling revealed to Tang San that they came from different eras of the same world and that he knew Tang San’s past as a Tang Sect disciple. He explained why Tang San could not easily switch to his modern cultivation method, and Tang San chose to continue practicing the Mysterious Heaven Skill before telling Xia Tianling about his recent situation at Spirit Hall.

• Xia Tianling quoted a Chinese poem hidden in Tang San’s belt name, Twenty-Four Bridges Moonlight Night, and revealed that he was also a transmigrator.
• Tang San told Xia Tianling that he had died during the Great Tang era, and Xia Tianling explained that he had lived tens of thousands of years later.
• Xia Tianling recognized Tang San as a Tang Sect disciple and described the later rise of the Shushan Immortal Sect and the evolution of cultivation.
• Xia Tianling said Tang San would have to abandon the Mysterious Heaven Skill and his new soul ring to cultivate the Great Dao Longevity Scripture, so Tang San decided to keep his current method.
• Tang San’s trust in Xia Tianling increased, and he told him about his recent situation at Spirit Hall.

Xia Tianling challenged Yu Xiaogang’s theories and gave Tang San a revised Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record, warning that the Tang Sect’s teachings had led its cultivators astray. After Chrysanthemum Douluo revived Yu Xiaogang, Tang San confirmed that his Blue Silver Grass had gained poison and an Entanglement skill, and the group prepared to rest for the night.

• Xia Tianling told Tang San that Yu Xiaogang’s theories about Soul Rings and Twin Martial Souls were unreliable, and argued that Tang San’s Martial Souls must be exceptional.
• Xia Tianling mocked Yu Xiaogang’s claim that no Martial Souls were useless, pointing to Yu Xiaogang’s Level Twenty-Nine cultivation.
• Xia Tianling gave Tang San a revised Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record and warned that the Tang Sect’s old General Outline contradicted the Mysterious Heaven Skill’s balanced cultivation principles.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo dragged the revived Yu Xiaogang over to Tang San, who confirmed that his Blue Silver Grass had gained poison and an Entanglement skill.
• Tang San thanked Chrysanthemum Douluo, who remarked on Yu Xiaogang’s character and offered to send Tang San and Xia Tianling out the next day.

Xia Tianling chose the Two-Piece Set as his primary martial soul and sought a Slime soul beast for a fusion skill. After a long, exhausting fight, he killed a nine-hundred-year Slime and began absorbing its soul ring.

• Xia Tianling told Chrysanthemum Douluo that he planned to follow the Assault System path with the Two-Piece Set as his primary martial soul.
• Xia Tianling explained that a Slime's fusion ability might let him combine the Two-Piece Set's axe and hammer into a stronger weapon.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo led Xia Tianling through the Soul Hunting Forest and found a nine-hundred-year Slime beside a rock.
• Xia Tianling used True Dragon Possession, then battered the Slime for nearly an hour until he shattered it with the hammer.
• Xia Tianling summoned the Two-Piece Set and began absorbing the Slime's yellow soul ring as Chrysanthemum Douluo urged him to focus.

Xia Tianling absorbed a Slime Spirit Ring and condensed a False Core in his Dantian. He awakened his First Spirit Skill, Fusion, and named the combined weapon the Storm Axe.

• Xia Tianling guided the Slime Spirit Ring’s power through his body with the Dao Scripture while Chrysanthemum Douluo watched.
• Xia Tianling condensed the absorbed power into a liquid golden sphere in his Dantian, completing Core Condensation as the Spirit Ring dissipated.
• Xia Tianling finished absorbing the ring and discovered that his body and strength had grown considerably.
• Xia Tianling activated his First Spirit Skill, Fusion, which combined his Hammer and Axe into a larger weapon and boosted his strength and Spirit Skill effects at double Soul Power consumption.
• Xia Tianling named the fused weapon the Storm Axe.

Xia Tianling absorbed a two-thousand-year Thunder Dragon Soul Ring, formed a Golden Core, and gained a lightning-enhancement skill called “Thunder God Aid Me!” He and Chrysanthemum Douluo then prepared to leave the Soul Hunting Forest after a successful hunt.

• Xia Tianling chose a Thunder Dragon as his second Soul Ring, and Chrysanthemum Douluo captured one for him.
• Xia Tianling used his True Dragon bloodline aura to frighten the Thunder Dragon unconscious, then killed it with his Storm Axe.
• Xia Tianling absorbed the Soul Ring, formed a Golden Core, and raised his Soul Power from level twenty-one to level twenty-three.
• Xia Tianling explained that his new skill coated his body and martial soul in lightning, boosting his attacks and causing paralysis and explosions.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo praised the skill and told Xia Tianling they would return after their successful Soul Ring hunt.

Bibi Dong taught Xia Tianling how to use both Martial Souls at once, and he concealed the origin of his cultivation method with Mind Interference. After searching Spirit Hall’s awakening records, Xia Tianling discovered Ma Hongjun’s entry and learned that Tang San’s file had been altered.

• Bibi Dong explained the challenges of using Twin Martial Souls, and Xia Tianling released both of his with ease.
• Bibi Dong noticed Xia Tianling’s unfamiliar Soul Power circulation method, and he claimed it had appeared in his mind along with visions of strange events.
• Xia Tianling used Mind Interference to make Bibi Dong more likely to accept his explanation, then reflected on the Fate Power he had spent.
• Xia Tianling searched Spirit Hall’s Archives Room for recent Spirit Awakening records and found that Tang San’s entry had been crossed out and smudged.
• Xia Tianling found Ma Hongjun’s record, which listed his Mutated Grass Chicken Spirit and Level Nine Innate Spirit Power.

Xia Tianling uncovered records showing that Oscar and Ma Hongjun had been overlooked by Spirit Hall and persuaded Bibi Dong to send him with Ghost Douluo to Suotuo City. After punishing the officials responsible, he set out to retrieve the two geniuses.

• Xia Tianling found Oscar and Ma Hongjun’s awakening records and brought them to Bibi Dong, who ordered Elder Ghost to retrieve the boys and punish the negligent officials.
• Xia Tianling joined Ghost Douluo on the journey to Suotuo City with Bibi Dong’s Pope’s Token.
• Xia Tianling confronted the Branch Hall Master and Vice Hall Master and beat the Vice Hall Master for failing to report the two geniuses.
• Xia Tianling stripped the Branch Hall Master of his position and sentenced him to twenty years of awakening work without pay.
• Ghost Douluo crippled the Vice Hall Master, and Xia Tianling ordered him caged and dragged along as the party departed for the villages.

Xia Tianling went to Spirit Food Village to recruit Oscar after Spirit Hall had unfairly neglected him. Oscar accepted Xia Tianling’s offer of free admission, training, and support at Spirit Hall Academy, and left with him.

• Xia Tianling arrived in Spirit Food Village and asked the village chief to invite Oscar to meet him.
• Xia Tianling apologized to Oscar for Spirit Hall’s mistreatment and had the guards apologize alongside him.
• Xia Tianling offered Oscar a place at Spirit Hall Academy and promised to cover his expenses and training.
• Oscar eagerly accepted, called Xia Tianling his boss, and left the village with him.

Xia Tianling recruited Ma Hongjun into Spirit Hall Academy and staged a public punishment to boost Spirit Hall’s reputation in Suotuo City. The crowd cheered as the disgraced Branch Hall Master was stripped of his Soul Power and ordered to serve villages for twenty years.

• Xia Tianling arrived in Sichen Village and offered Ma Hongjun free admission and support at Spirit Hall Academy, which Ma Hongjun and the village chief gladly accepted.
• On the ride back, Xia Tianling told Ma Hongjun and Oscar that he was the Pope’s disciple and wondered why so many talented people in their world had lost their parents.
• Xia Tianling discovered that the Suotuo City Branch Hall Master had been scared witless, so he abandoned the planned interrogation.
• Xia Tianling presented Ma Hongjun and Oscar as examples of geniuses nearly overlooked because of the Branch Hall Master’s dereliction of duty and announced his punishment to the gathered crowd.
• Xia Tianling declared that the Branch Hall Master would lose his Soul Power, be expelled from Spirit Hall, and perform free spirit awakenings in every village for twenty years, earning cheers from the commoners.

Xia Tianling reported his journey to Bibi Dong, proposed reforms to strengthen Spirit Hall, and secured Su Yuntao’s appointment as Suotuo City Hall Master. Bibi Dong welcomed Oscar and Ma Hongjun into Spirit Hall, assigning Oscar a powerful Food System Spirit Douluo as his master and ordering the elders to help the boys obtain soul rings.

• Bibi Dong killed the Branch Hall Master responsible for the injustice, and Xia Tianling proposed creating an oversight organization and expanding educational support for commoner Spirit Masters.
• Bibi Dong revealed that the Spirit Judgment Hall had already been secretly established and ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo to implement Xia Tianling’s plan to provide more Work-Study Student slots.
• Xia Tianling asked Bibi Dong to appoint Su Yuntao as Suotuo City Hall Master, and she agreed.
• Bibi Dong summoned Oscar and Ma Hongjun, and Oscar became the disciple of an eighty-second-level Food System Spirit Douluo.
• Bibi Dong ordered Oscar to stay behind and sent Elder Ju and Elder Liu to help him and Ma Hongjun obtain carefully selected soul rings.

Xia Tianling gave Ma Hongjun and Oscar cultivation methods to address their weaknesses and strengthen their abilities. Ma Hongjun immediately refined his Evil Fire into Natal True Fire and reached Level Ten, while Oscar resolved to endure the hard training required by his new method.

• Xia Tianling gave Ma Hongjun the Phoenix Fire Technique, which could turn his Evil Fire into Natal True Fire and eventually help him become a true Fire Phoenix.
• Xia Tianling gave Oscar the Martial Golden Body method and explained that it could strengthen his body and give him offensive abilities, though it required strenuous training and medicinal baths.
• Ma Hongjun cultivated the technique, refined a wisp of Natal True Fire, and reached Level Ten.
• Xia Tianling told Ma Hongjun to report to Teacher Li so he could obtain his First Soul Ring.
• Oscar woke after receiving the method and decided he would work hard rather than give up.

Xia Tianling improved Oscar and Ma Hongjun’s training with specialized equipment before Qian Daoliu introduced him to his eleven-year-old granddaughter, Qian Renxue. Their first conversation gave the lonely Qian Renxue a rare chance to make a friend, and Qian Daoliu encouraged them to stay in touch.

• Xia Tianling commissioned durable exercise machines, and Oscar and Ma Hongjun trained with them as their cultivation progressed.
• Bibi Dong tried the equipment, praised Xia Tianling’s idea, and ordered one hundred sets for Spirit Hall.
• Qian Daoliu took Xia Tianling to meet Qian Renxue, revealing that she was eleven years old and much younger than Xia Tianling expected.
• Bibi Dong rushed in when she heard about the meeting, but Qian Daoliu sent her outside and left Xia Tianling and Qian Renxue to talk.
• Xia Tianling chatted with Qian Renxue, who opened up to him despite her secretive life and lack of friends.
• After Xia Tianling left, Qian Renxue asked Qian Daoliu whether she could see him again, and he encouraged her to be friends with him.