Chapter Summaries

Xia Tianling and the others decided against risking Tang Chen’s life to obtain the Asura Demon Sword and instead attempted to forge its power into Zhu Zhuqing’s Assassin’s Sword. Their experiment succeeded, leaving the transformed sword in their hands.

• Xia Tianling explained that the King of Slaughter could not control the Asura Demon Sword, and Bibi Dong and Qian Daoliu agreed that forcing Tang Chen to use it would be dangerous.
• Zhu Zhuqing proposed condensing an Asura Sword herself, so Xia Tianling took her to the research institute to test whether she could forge Asura Divine Power into her Assassin’s Sword.
• Xia Tianling and Qian Daoliu obtained Divine Slaughter’s Domains, while Zhu Zhuqing compressed her Asura Domain around the Assassin’s Sword.
• Bibi Dong and Qian Daoliu used their domains to contain and compress the sphere as Xia Tianling balanced the forces with his Yin Yang Tai Chi Domain.
• Xia Tianling used Spiritual Forging and Soul Forging hammers to drive the Asura Divine Power into the Assassin’s Sword, covering it with blood-red patterns.
• The final hammer blow exhausted Xia Tianling’s Spiritual Power and Soul Power, and the last trace of Asura Divine Power entered the Assassin’s Sword.

Zhu Zhuqing claimed the Asura Sword, passed the Asura God’s first trial, and received a second trial with a five-year deadline. As Tang Chen began to regain control of his body, Xia Tianling agreed to help the King of Slaughter and trapped Tang Chen inside a mental cage.

• Zhu Zhuqing refined the newly forged Asura Sword, and the Asura God stripped Tang Chen’s sword soul and revoked his inheritor status.
• The Asura God awarded Zhu Zhuqing five percent affinity and assigned her a second trial to master the Asura Sword and Domain and reach Soul Saint within five years.
• The King of Slaughter told Xia Tianling that Tang Chen was waking and begged for help, offering to join Spirit Hall and obey him.
• Xia Tianling agreed to protect the King of Slaughter in exchange for his submission, then entered his Sea of Consciousness to confront Tang Chen.
• Xia Tianling used his Spiritual Sense to imprison Tang Chen’s manifested soul in a reinforced mental cage.

Xia Tianling sealed Tang Chen inside the King of Slaughter, renamed him Fulu, and learned that the City of Slaughter’s food supply came from a mysterious teleportation formation. After a strange plaque summoned its unknown sender to the mountain, Xia Tianling and his allies ambushed the meeting, but the hooded Titled Douluo fled at incredible speed, leaving Xia Tianling in pursuit.

• Xia Tianling sealed Tang Chen’s soul, planted a Spirit Seed in the King of Slaughter, and gave him the name Fulu and a new role managing the City of Slaughter for Spirit Hall.
• Xia Tianling read Fulu’s report and discovered that the City of Slaughter’s food formation was a concealed two-way teleportation array powered by blood and made with rare spatial materials.
• Fulu explained that Tang Chen had been the first Slaughter God to return and that the City’s killers had once survived by drinking from the Hell Blood River.
• Fulu found an old plaque from the mysterious visitor, and Xia Tianling triggered it to receive a message arranging a meeting at the back mountain summit at noon.
• Xia Tianling, Fulu, Tang Hao, and Dugu Bo hid around the summit, but the hooded Titled Douluo fled as soon as he arrived.
• Xia Tianling chased the fleeing Emerald Demon Bird martial soul user and stacked Divine Speed Talismans when he struggled to catch up.

Xia Tianling chased a black-clothed Titled Douluo into Mizong Grand Canyon, where Ban Huang revealed the valley’s dangers and allowed him to pursue the man. The Titled Douluo’s close-range explosion tore open a Space Rift, killing him and pulling Xia Tianling inside, where the system could not safely teleport him out.

• Xia Tianling used his Emblem of Justice and soul skills to catch up with the fleeing Titled Douluo, who pushed his body past its limits to escape into a hidden valley.
• Xia Tianling met Ban Huang, who explained that the valley was his sealed cultivation ground and warned that its unstable space made escape dangerous.
• Ban Huang gave Xia Tianling a chance to capture the injured Titled Douluo, but the man threw an explosive as soon as Xia Tianling appeared.
• The explosion opened a massive Space Rift that tore the Titled Douluo apart and dragged Xia Tianling inside despite his defenses.
• Xia Tianling survived the chaotic passage with his abilities and supplies, but the system refused to use spatial transfer because the forces were too unstable.

After spending a month trapped in the Void Fault, Xia Tianling used the world's blessing and sacrificed his Fate Power and the system's energy to open a way out. He escaped just before the Void Fault collapsed, but the system entered standby for more than five years.

• Xia Tianling poured Soul Power into his jade token, then followed its intermittent guidance through the Void Fault as his loved ones and Spirit Hall searched for him.
• Qian Daoliu and other Spirit Hall elders searched around Mizong Grand Canyon, while Zhu Zhuqing repeatedly tried to contact Xia Tianling until Dugu Bo and Fulu sent her back to Spirit City to recover.
• After seven hundred and twenty hours, the jade token guided Xia Tianling to a precise point, but his strongest physical strike barely opened a crack before it closed.
• Xia Tianling agreed to sacrifice all his Fate Power and the system's energy to pierce the Space Barrier, despite learning that the system would need more than five years to recharge.
• The system opened a Space Channel, and Xia Tianling escaped seconds before the Void Fault collapsed; the system then entered standby.

Xia Tianling discovered that he had crossed the Void Fault to the Sun Moon Continent and set out to learn where he had landed. He found a village massacred by an Evil Soul Master, killed the culprit, and learned the village was isolated in the continent’s southernmost region.

• Xia Tianling contacted Ghost Douluo through a Communication Jade Token, reassured his family that he was safe, and said he would find a way back from beyond the continent.
• Xia Tianling disguised his strength and soul rings, then headed toward signs of human activity while hoping he had reached the Sun Moon Continent.
• Xia Tianling found signs of a battle and recognized the blood scent as belonging to an Evil Soul Master.
• Xia Tianling followed the scent to a village where a Spirit King Evil Soul Master was absorbing the souls and blood of its slaughtered residents.
• Xia Tianling killed the Evil Soul Master and used Soul Searching, discovering that he was in an isolated village in the southernmost part of the Sun Moon Continent.

Xia Tianling forged a new identity as Qian Chaoguang and traveled north through the Sun Moon Empire toward Mingdu to study its Soul Tools. After examining weapons looted from a battle, he uncovered how their rune-based core modules worked and began to understand the differences between them and his own designs.

• Xia Tianling burned Qian Family Village's remains, buried the villagers in a mass grave, and adopted the identity of Qian Chaoguang, an orphan from the village.
• Xia Tianling concealed his distinctive equipment and Martial Soul, then set out on foot for Mingdu to investigate the Sun Moon Empire's Soul Tools.
• Xia Tianling traveled north for over two months, studying local life and learning that the empire's technology focused on combat rather than ordinary people's needs.
• Xia Tianling watched two groups of Soul Engineers fight until a Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Beast killed them, then killed the beast and took their Soul Tools.
• Xia Tianling dismantled several Soul Tool guns and discovered that their core modules used three-dimensional runes to charge, compress, and accelerate Soul Power.

Xia Tianling arrived in Mingdu and found the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy holding an unexpected expansion of enrollment. At a breakfast stall, he staged a story about seeking strength and revenge to catch the attention of a powerful old man he suspected was connected to the academy.

• Xia Tianling entered Mingdu at night, marveled at the vast, brightly lit city, and vowed to remake Douluo Continent in the image of his former homeland.
• Xia Tianling identified the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy but postponed visiting until morning and stayed at an inn.
• Xia Tianling went to the academy gates and wondered why crowds had gathered before the next academic year’s enrollment.
• Xia Tianling asked a plump old man at a breakfast stall about the crowd and learned that the new emperor’s celebrations had prompted the academy to expand enrollment.
• Xia Tianling claimed he wanted to become stronger and seek revenge, using his performance to draw the attention of the powerful old man he believed could help him enter the academy.

Xia Tianling, posing as Qian Chaoguang, impressed Luo Hongchen by revealing his exceptional ability to replicate Soul Tool designs and was accepted as Luo Hongchen’s disciple. Luo Hongchen took him toward the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Master Academy, while Xia Tianling secretly studied the jetpack carrying them.

• Xia Tianling told Luo Hongchen a partly fabricated story about his village’s massacre and his desire to become a Soul Engineer.
• Xia Tianling showed Luo Hongchen an Iron Essence Soul Tool Ray Gun he had replicated, and Luo Hongchen realized its design was accurate despite the unsuitable material.
• Xia Tianling revealed that he had engraved the Soul Tool’s circuits with his Golden Dragon martial soul’s claw, convincing Luo Hongchen that he was exceptionally talented.
• Luo Hongchen offered to teach Xia Tianling Soul Tools and supply him with rare metals, and Xia Tianling accepted his offer of discipleship.
• Luo Hongchen revealed that he was the Hongchen Family’s head and the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Master Academy’s Inner Court dean, then flew off with Xia Tianling using a jetpack.
• Xia Tianling acted frightened during the flight while secretly scanning the jetpack’s structure with his Spiritual Sense.

Luo Hongchen brought Xia Tianling to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy’s testing room, where Xia concealed his true abilities during a physical examination. The measurement instrument flagged his disguised results as impossible and crashed, and the chapter ended as Sun Mingfeng began explaining the next strength test.

• Luo Hongchen gave Xia Tianling an academy map and handbook and led him through the teaching district to a testing room.
• Luo Hongchen introduced Xia Tianling to his senior disciple Sun Mingfeng, who helped operate the physical testing equipment.
• Xia Tianling used secret techniques to disguise his cultivation and physical attributes as those of a fifteen-year-old Soul Ancestor with a Golden Dragon Spirit.
• Sun Mingfeng read out Xia Tianling’s extraordinary physical results, and the measurement instrument sounded an alarm and crashed.
• Luo Hongchen praised Xia Tianling, and Sun Mingfeng began explaining the academy’s strength test.

Xia Tianling stunned Luo Hongchen and Sun Mingfeng with his physical strength and reaction speed during the academy tests, then settled into his dormitory. When his unregistered identity card stopped him from getting cafeteria food, he persuaded the head chef to let him cook for himself, and the kitchen staff gathered to watch.

• Xia Tianling struck the strength-testing instrument with a punch measured at one hundred thousand kilograms, damaging the machine and leaving Luo Hongchen and Sun Mingfeng astonished.
• Xia Tianling cleared the reaction-speed test with a full combo, and Luo Hongchen ended the tests and told Sun Mingfeng to arrange Xia Tianling's enrollment and dormitory.
• After Xia Tianling and Sun Mingfeng left, Luo Hongchen asked a mysterious person to investigate his new disciple, Qian Chaoguang, while Xia Tianling secretly overheard their discussion.
• Sun Mingfeng gave Xia Tianling his dormitory key and arranged to show him around the academy the next morning.
• Xia Tianling discovered that his identity card was not registered in the cafeteria system, so he asked the head chef to let him cook with the kitchen's ingredients.
• The head chef agreed, and the kitchen staff gathered to watch as Xia Tianling began choosing ingredients.

Xia Tianling cooked potent dishes at Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, impressing the cafeteria chefs and Jin Zheng with his raw Sea King Tuna. Jin Zheng paid him rare metals for thirty future meals, and other students began offering valuable metals for a taste of his cooking.

• Xia Tianling selected ingredients and prepared raw Sea King Tuna with a Spirit Chef technique, but the chefs ate several pieces and collapsed from the fish’s powerful cold and Soul Power.
• Xia Tianling finished cooking while the chefs meditated, then invited Jin Zheng, a food-loving Spirit King and Soul Engineer, to share his meal.
• Jin Zheng offered Xia Tianling Titanium Crystal and Starfall Iron in exchange for thirty meals, and Xia Tianling agreed to cook when he had time before the term ended.
• When students arrived and found the chefs unavailable, Xia Tianling offered to serve the food they had prepared, and Jin Zheng introduced him as the dean’s new disciple and his blood brother.
• A student offered Xia Tianling Fine Gold worth over three thousand Gold Soul Coins to cook for five people, and Xia Tianling accepted.

Xia Tianling’s cooking drew a crowd of wealthy Inner Court students, who paid rare metals to order his dishes. After the food sensation spread across the academy, Sun Mingfeng arrived, ate a meal from Xia Tianling, and asked whether his dishes really cost so much.

• Xia Tianling prepared four fish dishes and a Strengthening the Body Braised Fish for five students, who eagerly devoured them.
• Jin Zheng introduced Qian Chaoguang as the cook and set a price of five hundred Gold Soul Coins in rare metals per dish, prompting students to place orders.
• The students praised Xia Tianling’s cooking, spreading word through the Inner Court and drawing a long line of customers.
• Sun Mingfeng arrived after supervising the expanded enrollment examinations and waited until past two in the afternoon to eat.
• Xia Tianling made Sun Mingfeng Cumin Whole Kidney and seaweed egg drop soup, while Jin Zheng joked that the meal cost rare metals worth one thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Sun Mingfeng asked Xia Tianling whether his dishes really cost that much.

Xia Tianling’s cooking made him a sensation in the Inner Court, earning him a fortune in rare metals and prompting the academy to investigate his background. The next morning, Sun Mingfeng began teaching him the basics of Soul Tools and Soul Engineer training.

• Sun Mingfeng gave Xia Tianling a valuable Starlight Sapphire Storage Ring as a welcome gift, and Xia Tianling shared part of his cooking earnings with Jin Zheng, who preferred more meals.
• Xia Tianling agreed to cook for a group of Inner Court students at five hundred Gold Soul Coins per dish, while Jin Zheng invited him to visit his family during the school break.
• Luo Hongchen learned that Xia Tianling’s dishes had improved diners’ Soul Power and physical fitness, and the academy’s leaders decided to investigate him before choosing whether to support or exploit him.
• Sun Mingfeng brought Xia Tianling to the First Laboratory and explained Soul Engineer ranks, Soul Tool categories, and the parts and principles of a Soul Tool.
• Sun Mingfeng told Xia Tianling that he must become an outstanding blacksmith before he could become an outstanding Soul Engineer.

Xia Tianling revealed to Sun Mingfeng that he was already a Divine Craftsman, then rapidly learned Soul Tool theory through lessons and an all-night visit to the library. He resolved to master the entire Soul Engineer system, combine it with other cultivation technologies, and bring it back to Douluo Continent.

• Xia Tianling told Sun Mingfeng he was a Divine Craftsman and demonstrated his skill by purifying mithril with seven hammer strikes.
• Sun Mingfeng taught Xia Tianling Soul Tool theory, and Xia Tianling absorbed the material while connecting it to his existing knowledge.
• Xia Tianling cooked lunch in the laboratory, then kept Sun Mingfeng teaching through the afternoon until Luo Hongchen arrived.
• Sun Mingfeng told Luo Hongchen that Xia Tianling was a Divine Craftsman, leaving Luo Hongchen stunned and concerned about Xia Tianling's background.
• Xia Tianling went to the outer academy library and read through the night, using his Spiritual Sense to memorize books on Rank One Soul Tools.
• Xia Tianling gave Sun Mingfeng a notebook of questions and planned to master the Soul Engineer system, combine it with other technologies, and bring it to Douluo Continent.

After months of intensive study and practice, Xia Tianling applied to take the Soul Engineer rank and Inner Court entrance assessments. Sun Mingfeng led him into the Inner Court’s underground facilities, where Luo Hongchen and the Rank Eight elders awaited his assessment.

• Xia Tianling spent three months mastering foundational Soul Tool knowledge and reading every book in the Outer Court library.
• The academy’s investigation confirmed Xia Tianling’s account of his background, and its leaders approved increased support for his growth.
• Xia Tianling forged four Array Engraving Knives and spent the rest of the month practicing engraving core arrays on ordinary metals.
• Xia Tianling applied for his Soul Engineer rank and Inner Court assessments, and Sun Mingfeng received approval the next morning.
• Sun Mingfeng escorted Xia Tianling through the Inner Court’s security checkpoints and showed him its underground work halls and laboratories.
• Xia Tianling greeted Luo Hongchen and the Rank Eight elders in Luo Hongchen’s laboratory as they prepared to begin the assessment.

Xia Tianling took a timed Soul Engineer advancement examination and astonished Luo Hongchen and the Inner Court elders with his carving skill and past achievements. While the elders debated his training, he went far beyond the examination and nearly completed a Level Six Melee Soul Tool.

• Sun Mingfeng set out a rack of metals and began Xia Tianling’s timed examination, where Xia chose Red Gathering Copper and carved a core module with extraordinary speed and precision.
• Xia finished the core module in three minutes, then continued making a Soul Tool casing while Luo Hongchen let him work.
• Elder Zhe examined Xia’s earlier Iron Essence Ray Gun, and Luo Hongchen revealed that Xia had copied its original core module and even reproduced the original maker’s mistakes.
• The elders agreed Xia had the potential to become a Rank Nine Soul Engineer and began discussing a shared training plan for him.
• After nearly two hours, Luo Hongchen and the elders discovered Xia had made core modules for a Level Six Melee Soul Tool, which he was forging into a long-handled Miao Dao.

Xia Tianling completed a Damascus Steel Melee Soul Tool during his assessment, impressing the elders with its craftsmanship and power. Luo Hongchen awarded him Rank Seven Soul Master status and official admission to the Inner Court, where he would receive his own laboratory.

• Xia Tianling quenched and tempered the saber, polished it, fitted its hilt and guard, and revealed its Damascus Steel patterns through acid etching.
• Luo Hongchen tested the saber, whose core modules amplified Soul Power into a blue blade with powerful Ice Attribute energy, and Xia Tianling named it Heavenly Saber Frost.
• The elders praised the saber's design and forging, while Xia Tianling explained how repeated forging and acid treatment created Damascus Steel patterns.
• Luo Hongchen pinned a seven-star badge to Xia Tianling's uniform and declared him a Rank Seven Soul Master and an official Inner Court student.
• Elder Liang invited Xia Tianling to consult with him about Melee Soul Tools, and the assessment concluded with the elders praising Xia Tianling's abilities.

Xia Tianling earned Rank Seven Soul Master status after mastering Soul Tool engineering in four months, and Luo Hongchen arranged further training and resources for him. After finally resting from months of relentless work, Xia Tianling slept for three days while the academy’s leaders approved major support for his development.

• Xia Tianling passed his assessment by creating a flawless Peak Level Six Melee Soul Tool, and Luo Hongchen praised him and promised a precious scabbard for Frost.
• Luo Hongchen encouraged Xia Tianling to visit Jin Zheng’s family during the break, maintain his Soul Power cultivation, and study in the Inner Court library.
• Xia Tianling revealed that he had reached Level 42, then agreed to rest while Sun Mingfeng and Jin Zheng joined him for a meal.
• Xia Tianling fell asleep in a secluded grove after admitting he was exhausted, and Sun Mingfeng and Jin Zheng carried him back to his dormitory, where he slept for three days.
• The academy’s higher-ups verified Xia Tianling’s Soul Tools and approved extensive resources and knowledge materials to support his development.

After two months of studying Soul Tools and shipbuilding, Xia Tianling went with Jin Zheng to Treasure Food City, where the Jin Family paid him rare metals worth over ten million gold soul coins to cook a seventy-thousand-year Blazing Sun Deep Sea Octopus. His feast raised the cultivation of all four Jin Family members, leaving them eager for more.

• Xia Tianling spent two months studying Level Five through Level Seven Soul Tools and drafting an ocean-going ship blueprint before agreeing to visit Jin Zheng's home and cook for the Jin Family.
• Jin Zheng brought Xia Tianling to Treasure Food City, where Father Jin and Old Master Jin welcomed him with rows of rare metals and offered him a vast payment to prepare their Blazing Sun Deep Sea Octopus.
• Xia Tianling agreed to cook the octopus for dinner, accepted a Storage Belt filled with rare metals, and asked Jin Zheng to summon powerful Soul Masters to help him handle the seventy-thousand-year Sea Soul Beast.
• Xia Tianling and Father Jin turned the octopus into more than a dozen dishes, and the four Jin Family members who ate them each gained one to three cultivation levels.
• Jin Zheng embraced Xia Tianling and demanded another feast, while Old Master Jin tried to become his sworn brother.