Chapter Summaries

Six-year-old Lu Yuan, an unusually strong adopted child at Notting College, looked forward to awakening his Martial Soul while enjoying his reputation as the students’ Boss. He interrupted Xiao Chenyu’s assault on work-study student Wang Sheng and confronted him.

• Lu Yuan reflected on his arrival in Douluo Continent, his dormant system, and his approaching Martial Soul awakening.
• Students greeted Lu Yuan as Boss, a title he had earned after beating Xiao Chenyu for provoking him.
• Lu Yuan headed toward the Grandmaster’s home and saw Xiao Chenyu pinning Wang Sheng to the ground.
• Xiao Chenyu taunted Wang Sheng and ground his shoe against the student’s face.
• Lu Yuan ordered Xiao Chenyu to stop, and Xiao Chenyu recognized him and shrank back under his glare.

Lu Yuan stopped Xiao Chenyu from bullying Wang Sheng, then visited Grandmaster and read his rankings of powerful Martial Souls. The chapter ended with Lu Yuan wondering what kind of Martial Soul he would awaken.

• Lu Yuan sent Xiao Chenyu and his lackeys away after catching them mistreating Wang Sheng.
• Lu Yuan told Wang Sheng that the work-study students would need to rely on their own strength to avoid being bullied.
• Lu Yuan visited Grandmaster at his cottage and learned that he had written a book about rare and powerful Martial Souls.
• Lu Yuan read the Peerless Chapter and Legendary Chapter rankings, then wondered what Martial Soul he would awaken.

Lu Yuan asked Grandmaster to take him to Spirit Hall for his Martial Soul Awakening, and Grandmaster agreed. During the ritual, Lu Yuan’s awakening unleashed a brilliant golden light and an overwhelming aura that made Sisi tremble.

• Grandmaster explained that Martial Soul rankings were not definitive and that legendary Martial Souls might not truly exist.
• Lu Yuan asked Grandmaster to accompany him to Spirit Hall because his father was away, and Grandmaster agreed.
• Grandmaster brought Lu Yuan to Notting City’s Spirit Hall, where Sisi prepared the awakening array.
• Sisi used her Pink Fox Martial Soul and Soul Power to begin Lu Yuan’s awakening.
• Golden light burst through the barrier around Lu Yuan, and his powerful Martial Soul aura overwhelmed Sisi.

Lu Yuan awakened the Progenitor of Power Golden Dragon and demonstrated Innate Full Soul Power, prompting Spirit Hall to seek his recruitment. He left with Grandmaster while considering how to reach Spirit Hall’s upper ranks, and recognized Sisi’s visitor as Su Yuntao.

• Lu Yuan awakened the Golden Dragon, and the Sign-in System activated with a task requiring him to sign in at the Papal Hall within six months.
• Lu Yuan tested at Innate Full Soul Power, and Sisi invited him to join Spirit Hall; he asked for time to consider.
• Sisi gave Lu Yuan a Spirit Hall certificate and reported his dragon-type Martial Soul and talent to Grandmaster.
• Grandmaster reacted with shock when Lu Yuan identified his Martial Soul as the Progenitor of Power Golden Dragon and led him outside to talk.
• Su Yuntao entered Spirit Hall and greeted Sisi, and Lu Yuan recognized his name.

Lu Yuan showed Grandmaster his Golden Dragon Martial Soul and received advice on developing it as an assault-type Soul Master. Grandmaster asked him to become his disciple, but Lu Yuan refused and later contemplated the dragon’s complete form in his sea of consciousness.

• Lu Yuan released his Golden Dragon Martial Soul, and Grandmaster praised its overwhelming Dragon Might and physical strength.
• Grandmaster advised Lu Yuan to pursue the assault-type path and balance strength, offense, and defense among his first three soul skills.
• Lu Yuan asked whether dragon-type Soul Beasts could provide his first soul ring, and Grandmaster explained that they were powerful but difficult to find and hunt.
• Grandmaster asked Lu Yuan to take him as his master, but Lu Yuan left without accepting because he was destined to join Spirit Hall.
• Lu Yuan returned to his courtyard, thought Tang San would be a better disciple for Grandmaster, and entered his sea of consciousness to behold his Golden Dragon’s complete form.

Lu Yuan visited the Grandmaster to discuss obtaining his first soul ring and met the Grandmaster’s new disciple, Tang San. The two boys were set to hunt for soul rings the next day, while Tang San sensed that Lu Yuan would become his rival.

• Lu Yuan visited the Grandmaster’s wooden house to discuss his first soul ring, which he planned to obtain the next day.
• Lu Yuan met Tang San, and the Grandmaster introduced them as Innate Full Soul Power users with the Golden Dragon and Blue Silver Grass Martial Souls.
• Tang San asked whether Lu Yuan also had Innate Full Soul Power, and the Grandmaster said Lu Yuan had been the most gifted soul master he had met before Tang San.
• The Grandmaster encouraged Tang San to rest before their planned Soul Beast hunt and told him that Blue Silver Grass could become powerful with a soul ring.
• Lu Yuan returned to his courtyard, eager to become a soul master, and practiced his unusual footwork, creating several afterimages.

Lu Yuan, Tang San, Grandmaster, and Ferros traveled to the Soul Hunting Forest to seek first Soul Rings for Lu Yuan and Tang San. After finding a Mandala Snake and a Fiery Mountain Boar fighting, Grandmaster identified the snake as suitable for Tang San, while Lu Yuan argued that his Golden Dragon Spirit could withstand a stronger Soul Ring than Grandmaster’s research suggested.

• Ferros took Lu Yuan, Tang San, and Grandmaster by carriage to the Soul Hunting Forest, where Grandmaster taught Tang San about Soul Masters and Soul Beasts along the way.
• The group bought supplies and entered the forest after presenting their Soul Hunting Token; Luo Sanpao stayed wary of Lu Yuan.
• Grandmaster detected Soul Beasts ahead, and Ferros summoned his Crimson Flame Hound Martial Soul as the group approached cautiously.
• The group spotted a Mandala Snake and a Fiery Mountain Boar locked in battle, and Grandmaster estimated both were roughly three meters long and nearing four hundred years old.
• Grandmaster judged the Mandala Snake suitable for Tang San and the Fiery Mountain Boar suitable for Lu Yuan, but Lu Yuan said his Golden Dragon Spirit could handle a stronger Soul Ring.
• Grandmaster agreed to wait until both beasts were badly injured before making a move, leaving Lu Yuan’s Soul Ring choice undecided.

Lu Yuan used his Golden Dragon possession and Mountain Sea Fist to kill the Fiery Mountain Boar while Ferros subdued the Mandala Snake for Tang San. Tang San began absorbing the snake’s soul ring as Lu Yuan decided to keep searching for a stronger first soul ring.

• Grandmaster gave Ferros the task of restraining the Mandala Snake and handed out masks before the group attacked both injured Soul Beasts.
• Ferros blasted the Soul Beasts with the Crimson Flame Hound’s Prairie Fire, and Grandmaster struck the Fiery Mountain Boar with Luo Sanpao’s first soul skill.
• Lu Yuan possessed himself with the Golden Dragon, used Phoenix Dance Six Illusions and Mountain Collapse, Earth Shatter to smash the Fiery Mountain Boar, then killed it with an iron spear.
• Ferros subdued the Mandala Snake, and Tang San killed it with a short sword before beginning to absorb its soul ring.
• Lu Yuan declined to absorb the Fiery Mountain Boar’s soul ring because he wanted a stronger one, and the group buried both Soul Beast corpses while Tang San absorbed the Mandala Snake’s ring.

Tang San absorbed his first soul ring while Grandmaster, Ferros, and Lu Yuan camped in the Soul Hunting Forest. A Sky-Supporting Demon Ape attacked them during the night, and Lu Yuan joined Ferros in fighting it.

• Grandmaster kept watch while Tang San absorbed the Mandala Snake soul ring, and Lu Yuan meditated beside the campfire.
• Grandmaster noticed the forest had gone silent and spotted a Sky-Supporting Demon Ape approaching the camp.
• Ferros drew the Sky-Supporting Demon Ape away from Tang San, but its attack sent him flying.
• Lu Yuan rushed to the battlefield and caught Ferros before he hit the ground.
• Lu Yuan and Ferros attacked together, and Lu Yuan's spear pierced the Sky-Supporting Demon Ape's neck only slightly.

Lu Yuan and Ferros killed the Sky-Supporting Demon Ape after a difficult battle, and Lu Yuan began absorbing its powerful Soul Ring. As Lu Yuan’s Golden Dragon Spirit overcame the ape’s lingering resentment, Ferros found a glowing crystalline bone in its left palm.

• Lu Yuan wounded the Sky-Supporting Demon Ape’s neck, but the enraged beast struck him twice and badly injured him.
• Ferros attacked the ape while Lu Yuan directed him to target the wound, and they eventually brought it down.
• Lu Yuan drove his bent spear through the ape’s neck wound to kill it completely, then chose to absorb its Soul Ring.
• Lu Yuan forcefully refined the Soul Ring as his Golden Dragon Spirit fought the ape’s lingering resentment, and his condition gradually stabilized.
• Ferros searched the corpse and discovered a faintly glowing crystalline bone in the Sky-Supporting Demon Ape’s left palm.

Lu Yuan finished absorbing the Sky-Supporting Demon Ape's soul ring and gained the Golden Dragon Fist skill, which greatly enhanced his physical abilities. After demonstrating its power and reaching about level fourteen, he left the Soul Hunting Forest with Tang San, Ferros, and Grandmaster to return to the academy.

• Ferros secretly stored a soul bone while he and Grandmaster kept watch as Tang San and Lu Yuan absorbed their soul rings.
• Lu Yuan's Golden Dragon swallowed the Sky-Supporting Demon Ape in his sea of consciousness, and Lu Yuan awoke with golden eyes and a surge of Golden Dragon pressure.
• Lu Yuan described Golden Dragon Fist, which increased his power by one hundred percent and his speed and defense by fifty percent, with stronger boosts as he gained levels.
• Lu Yuan used Golden Dragon Fist to shatter a towering tree, and Grandmaster estimated that his punch carried at least five thousand jin of force.
• Lu Yuan said his Soul Power had reached about level fourteen, and Ferros led him, Tang San, and Grandmaster back to the academy.

Lu Yuan joined Class One at Notting College, where he met Xiao Wu and reunited with Tang San. After sketching a design for a new spear during class, he took them to eat at the cafeteria’s second floor and decided it was time to visit Spirit Hall for his sign-in task.

• Ferros told Lu Yuan to register for Class One at Notting College, where Tang San was also a student.
• Lu Yuan introduced himself to Class One, took the empty seat beside Tang San, and noticed Xiao Wu during the lesson.
• Lu Yuan sketched a design for a replacement spear while the teacher lectured, and Xiao Wu watched him curiously.
• After class, Lu Yuan greeted Xiao Wu and walked with her and Tang San to the cafeteria.
• Lu Yuan learned Xiao Wu had spent most of her allowance on clothes and offered to treat her and Tang San to a meal on the second floor.
• Lu Yuan remembered his Spirit Hall sign-in task as the three entered the second-floor cafeteria.

After a lavish lunch with Xiao Wu and Tang San, Lu Yuan went to Spirit Hall to register as a Soul Master. Ma Xiunuo tested him and discovered that his Soul Power had already reached level fourteen, leaving him surprised and asking to see Lu Yuan’s soul ring.

• Lu Yuan treated Xiao Wu and Tang San to an expensive meal, and the three discussed the conflict between noble students and work-study students.
• Lu Yuan encouraged Tang San and Xiao Wu to rely on their own strength to make the noble students respect them.
• Lu Yuan went to Spirit Hall and found Ma Xiunuo, Sisi, and Su Yuntao in the registration office.
• Ma Xiunuo tested Lu Yuan’s Soul Power and found it was level fourteen, then asked to see his soul ring.

Lu Yuan joined Spirit Hall after Ma Xiunuo learned that his first soul ring came from an over-eight-hundred-year-old Sky-Supporting Demon Ape. He left with a salary and the promise of a carriage to Spirit City, then sensed that something was wrong when he returned to Notting College.

• Lu Yuan revealed his Golden Dragon Spirit and his first soul ring’s origin, impressing Ma Xiunuo with his talent.
• Ma Xiunuo offered Lu Yuan resources, soul-ring assistance, and a chance to travel to Spirit City, and Lu Yuan agreed to join Spirit Hall.
• Ma Xiunuo gave Lu Yuan five hundred Gold Soul Coins, a contract, and a Martial Soul manual, then promised to arrange his trip to Spirit City.
• Ma Xiunuo praised Sisi for finding Lu Yuan and said he would report her contribution to the branch Hall Master.
• Lu Yuan left Spirit Hall for Notting College, sensed that the atmosphere was unusual, and stopped someone to ask about it.

Lu Yuan watched the work-study students challenge Xiao Chenyu’s noble students and advised Wang Sheng on how to defeat Liu Long. The duel began with Wang Sheng preparing to fight, while Xiao Chenyu was relieved to learn Lu Yuan had come only to watch.

• A student told Lu Yuan that the work-study students had challenged Xiao Chenyu’s group to a duel at the back mountain.
• Tang San proposed a best-of-three match, and Xiao Chenyu sent Liu Long to fight first against Wang Sheng.
• Lu Yuan explained that Wang Sheng could exploit Liu Long’s arrogance, wear him down, and land a decisive strike after enduring some hits.
• Xiao Wu relayed Lu Yuan’s strategy to Wang Sheng, who returned to the field ready to fight.
• Xiao Chenyu recognized Lu Yuan and anxiously confirmed he would only watch before returning to his group.
• Xiao Wu learned why Xiao Chenyu feared Lu Yuan and declared she would teach him a lesson later.

Wang Sheng defeated Liu Long by conserving his strength while wearing Liu Long down, and Tang San defeated Ling Feng in one kick. When Xiao Chenyu refused to honor the bet, Tang San stepped up to fight him as Lu Yuan left, confident the work-study students’ rise was unstoppable.

• Wang Sheng tricked Liu Long into wasting his stamina and Soul Power, then knocked him out with a tiger-claw strike.
• Xiao Wu sent Tang San to represent the work-study students against Ling Feng, whom Tang San defeated with one kick.
• Xiao Wu declared victory and demanded that Xiao Chenyu honor the bet, but Xiao Chenyu refused unless someone beat him.
• Tang San challenged Xiao Chenyu, and both revealed their Martial Souls, levels, and Soul Rings before their battle began.
• Lu Yuan left the arena, believing the work-study students’ rise was unstoppable.

After the duel at Notting College, Lu Yuan designed a heavy spear and went to a blacksmith shop to have it forged. There he discovered that his classmate Tang San could make it, and Tang San agreed to forge the Imperial Dragon World-Shocking Spear.

• Xiao Chenyu lost to Tang San, and Xiao Wu beat him afterward, making her famous at Notting College.
• Lu Yuan refined a design for a two-meter spear and took it to a reputable blacksmith shop in Notting City.
• Lu Yuan requested a spear made from several rare metals and showed the blacksmith his detailed blueprint.
• The blacksmith said he could not make the spear himself but directed Lu Yuan to his apprentice, Tang San.
• Tang San examined the blueprint, agreed to forge the spear within a week, and named it the Imperial Dragon World-Shocking Spear with Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan maintained his punishing weighted training while preparing to leave for Spirit City and join Spirit Hall. Ferros accepted the necessity of his decision, kept it secret from Grandmaster, and gave Lu Yuan the Sky-Supporting Demon Ape’s external palm bone to absorb.

• Lu Yuan completed his fortieth weighted lap, then recovered in a medicinal bath prepared with Grandmaster’s prescription.
• Ferros told Lu Yuan that Spirit Hall would send someone in three days to take him to Spirit City.
• Lu Yuan explained that his Golden Dragon Martial Soul made joining Spirit Hall necessary, and Ferros acknowledged he could not protect him from its threats.
• Lu Yuan asked Ferros to keep his Spirit Hall plans from Grandmaster because of their strained history, and Ferros agreed.
• Ferros gave Lu Yuan the Sky-Supporting Demon Ape’s external palm bone and offered to stand guard while he absorbed it.

Lu Yuan successfully absorbed the Sky-Supporting Demon Ape's left palm bone, gaining the Sky-Piercing Strike and reaching level fifteen. After testing the skill by sending Ferros through a courtyard wall, Lu Yuan left to check on the spear he had ordered.

• Lu Yuan endured the pain of absorbing the Sky-Supporting Palm Bone, which strengthened his body and raised his Soul Power to level fifteen.
• Lu Yuan gained the soul bone skill Sky-Piercing Strike and demonstrated it to Ferros.
• Lu Yuan's punch sent Ferros flying through the courtyard wall, though Ferros recovered and praised the skill's power.
• Ferros told Lu Yuan not to worry about the damaged wall and encouraged him to go have fun.
• Lu Yuan left to visit the blacksmith shop and check whether his spear was ready.

Tang San finished forging Lu Yuan’s World-Shocking Spear and invited him to spar, hoping to learn whether Lu Yuan was a fellow transmigrator. Xiao Wu followed Tang San to the plaza and joined the duel, where she and Lu Yuan revealed their Martial Souls and ranks before the fight began.

• Tang San completed the World-Shocking Spear, and Lu Yuan paid the blacksmith the remaining balance before returning to Notting College with Tang San.
• Tang San challenged Lu Yuan to a spar at the plaza that night, intending to discover whether Lu Yuan shared his origins.
• Tang San slipped out of the dormitory at nine o’clock, unaware that Xiao Wu had followed him.
• Lu Yuan noticed Xiao Wu hiding nearby, and she emerged and asked to join the spar.
• Xiao Wu announced her Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul and level twelve rank, and Lu Yuan revealed his Golden Dragon Martial Soul and level fifteen rank.