Chapter Summaries

Six-year-old prince Di Hong, a time traveler in the world of Douluo Dalu, prepared for his martial soul awakening in the Silves Kingdom. He entered the royal hall to begin the ceremony, with his family waiting inside.

• Di Hong reflected on his past-life knowledge of Douluo Dalu and realized he had several decades to prepare before the future war involving Spirit Hall.
• Di Hong worried about his upcoming martial soul awakening and hoped for strong innate soul power or a beneficial mutation.
• A servant told Di Hong that the time had come and that Di Yuan had summoned him.
• Di Hong walked through the palace to the main hall, where Di Yuan and three other family members awaited his awakening ceremony.

Di Hong awakened a mutated Vermilion Bird Martial Soul and was found to have Innate Level 20 Spirit Power. Di Yuan decided to conceal his true talent and let the royal family announce only that he had Innate Full Soul Power.

• Di Yuan used six stones to awaken Di Hong's Martial Soul, which appeared as a sacred, fiery Phoenix-like figure.
• Di Hong identified his mutated Martial Soul as a Vermilion Bird, and Di Yuan recognized that it was no ordinary Phoenix Martial Soul.
• Di Yuan's Blue Crystal Ball cracked when Di Hong tested his Soul Power, and the family concluded that he had exceeded Level 10.
• Di Yuan examined Di Hong and discovered he had Innate Level 20 Spirit Power, astonishing Di Hong and the family.
• Di Yuan ordered the family to keep Di Hong's true talent secret and said the royal family would announce that he had Innate Full Soul Power.

After Di Hong awakened a God-tier Martial Soul with Innate Level 20 Spirit Power, he considered how to cultivate and protect himself, while Di Yuan sought advice from Di Qing. The royal family announced Di Hong’s talent, drawing attention from nobles and neighboring states, including the empire’s Crown Prince Xue Ye.

• Di Yuan abandoned his cultivation plan for Di Hong and went to seek advice from Di Qing.
• Di Hong planned to pursue the Immortal Grade Herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and considered creating his own godhood through cultivation.
• Di Hong remembered he needed two Spirit Rings and learned that the royal treasury held a 60,000-Year Inherited Spirit Bone intended for him.
• Di Yang spread news of Di Hong’s awakening, alarming nobles who had plotted against the royal family and delighting its loyal supporters.
• Di Yuan held three days of lavish banquets, attended by nobles and foreign representatives, including Crown Prince Xue Ye.

Di Hong learned that Crown Prince Xue Ye was courting the Silves Kingdom amid the empire’s succession struggle, then set out with Di Yuan to obtain his first Spirit Ring. They reached the kingdom-controlled Spirit Beast Forest and entered it to hunt.

• Di Ming explained that Xue Ye was seeking the Silves Kingdom’s support against Second Prince Xue Yu and had ennobled Di Hong to win over the family.
• Xue Ye met with Di Yuan privately, departed the next day satisfied, and nodded to Di Hong before leaving.
• After Xue Ye’s departure, Di Yuan took Di Hong toward the Spirit Beast Forest to obtain a Spirit Ring.
• Di Yuan and Di Hong traveled by carriage and arrived at the town outside the forest two mornings later.
• Di Yuan and Di Hong continued into the Spirit Beast Forest to hunt spirit beasts.

Di Hong obtained his first two Spirit Rings in the Spirit Beast Forest and reached level 22. After returning to Silvis City, he began cultivating harder while developing his Vermilion Bird Li Fire and combat skills.

• Di Yuan subdued two Fire Feather Birds and brought them to a safe spot for Di Hong to claim their Spirit Rings.
• Di Hong absorbed the four-hundred-year and eight-hundred-year Spirit Rings separately, raising his Soul Power Level to 22.
• Di Hong demonstrated his Fire Feathers skill, and Di Yuan observed that they could burn Soul Power; Di Hong also named his first skill, Li Fire Bodyguard.
• Di Yuan and Di Hong rested overnight in a small town before returning to Silvis City two days later.
• Di Hong tested his Vermilion Bird Li Fire in the garden and continued cultivating, studying, and practicing swordsmanship.

Di Yuan brought Di Hong a treasured 60,000-year spirit bone at his secluded volcanic cultivation ground, and Di Hong absorbed it, raising his soul power to level twenty-eight. Di Yuan left satisfied with his son's progress, while Di Hong remained at the volcano to cultivate.

• Di Hong cultivated in the fire-rich dead volcano and spent his free time studying books about herbs.
• Di Yuan visited Di Hong and gave him the Di Family's inherited 60,000-year left leg spirit bone from a Fire Leopard.
• Di Hong absorbed the spirit bone, suppressing its fierce fire energy with his soul power as it opened some of his meridians.
• Di Hong's soul power rose four levels to level twenty-eight after absorbing the spirit bone.
• Di Yuan sensed Di Hong's increased strength, praised his rapid progress, and returned to attend to kingdom affairs.

After six years of secluded cultivation, Di Hong had reached Spirit King level at age twelve and went to New City’s Great Soul Arena to test his strength under the alias Ling Guang. He kept his identity hidden, and the arena arranged for him to face a Gold Spirit opponent.

• Di Hong’s Soul Power Level rose to 53 after six years of cultivation near the volcano.
• He traveled to New City and wore a mask to conceal his identity and avoid attracting Spirit Hall’s attention.
• At the Great Soul Arena, Di Hong registered as Ling Guang with the Vermilion Bird Martial Soul and received an Iron Spirit badge.
• The staff member struggled to find a suitable opponent for a Spirit King with an Iron Spirit badge and asked whether he would accept a Gold Spirit opponent.
• Di Hong agreed to fight a Gold Spirit opponent so he could test his strength.

Di Hong entered his first soul duel at the New City Great Soul Arena against the veteran Shi Heng, who sought to claim his tenth consecutive victory. Their fight began with Shi Heng attacking from the ground and Di Hong taking to the air, and it ended with Di Hong sending flaming feathers toward him.

• Di Hong waited in the lounge until staff escorted him to the Seventh Soul Arena for his duel.
• The host introduced Shi Heng, a level 57 Gale Leopard Spirit King on a nine-win streak, and Di Hong, fighting under the name Ling Guang with the Vermilion Bird martial soul.
• Shi Heng activated Gale Speed and whipped up a wind vortex across the arena, but Di Hong used Vermilion Bird Possession to fly above its reach.
• Shi Heng and Di Hong traded taunts because Shi Heng could not reach him and Di Hong refused to come down.
• Shi Heng launched tracking Gale Twin Blades, which Di Hong blocked with Li Fire Bodyguard before counterattacking with Fire Feathers.

Di Hong, competing under the name Ling Guang, defeated Shi Heng with his Vermilion Bird skills and revealed that he had a ten-thousand-year Fourth Spirit Ring. He left the Soul Fighting Arena before registering his points, while the city’s factions began investigating his identity and possible royal connections.

• Shi Heng used Gale Clone to evade Di Hong’s fire feathers, but Di Hong’s flames spread across the arena and threatened to burn away his Soul Power.
• Di Hong used Vermilion Bird Roar to overwhelm Shi Heng with a mental attack, and Shi Heng conceded.
• The audience and host were stunned by Di Hong’s ten-thousand-year Fourth Spirit Ring, while Shi Heng accepted the defeat and left the arena.
• Di Hong told Shi Heng that his name was Ling Guang, then left without registering his points.
• Nobles and factions across the city began investigating Ling Guang, hoping to recruit him or determine whether he came from the Silvis Royal Family.

Di Hong returned to Silvis City after learning that Crown Prince Xue Ye had requested his presence on the annual tribute delegation to Heaven Dou City. He agreed to go with Di Ming and was told to keep his brother in check as the convoy prepared to depart.

• Shen Yi waited for Di Hong and escorted him back to the Royal Palace after the Great King summoned him.
• Di Yang showed Di Hong Crown Prince Xue Ye's letter, which requested that Di Hong join the tribute visit to Heaven Dou City.
• Di Yang explained that the family had prepared an explanation for Di Hong's extraordinary Soul Power Level and advised him to keep a low profile.
• Di Yang told Di Hong he could punish Di Ming if his brother caused trouble, and Di Hong agreed to watch over him.
• The next day, the tribute convoy prepared to leave for Heaven Dou City, with Di Ming noticeably heavier than before.

Di Hong traveled to Heaven Dou City with Di Ming as part of Silves Kingdom’s tribute delegation and learned that nobles had uncovered his identity as Ling Guang. He worried that his exceptional talent might attract dangerous attention, while Di Ming remained carefree and expected his younger brother to protect him.

• Di Yang saw Di Ming and Di Hong off, and Di Ming promised not to drink during the trip.
• Di Hong and Di Ming discussed Silves Kingdom’s valuable tribute and the royal succession conflict drawing the subordinate kingdoms into the struggle.
• Di Ming told Di Hong that nobles had identified him as Ling Guang after his spirit battles in New City.
• Di Hong realized his red hair and eyes made his identity easy to discover and worried that others might learn about his extraordinary talent.
• Di Ming dismissed Di Hong’s concerns, indulged in food and grapes, and joked that he would rely on Di Hong for protection.

Di Hong and Di Ming arrived in Heaven Dou City for the tribute mission and settled into Di Hong’s Earl’s Mansion, where they discovered spies among the staff. With an audience with the emperor scheduled for the next day, Di Hong decided to cultivate and considered visiting Sunset Forest to seek Immortal Grade Herbs.

• Di Hong and Di Ming entered Heaven Dou City, where an official from Crown Prince Xue Ye’s faction welcomed them and led them to Di Hong’s Earl’s Mansion.
• The soldiers accompanying the Silves Kingdom’s delegation camped outside the city, while Di Hong and Di Ming stayed at the mansion.
• After the steward Meng Yuan showed them around, Di Ming identified multiple spies among the mansion’s staff and offered to remove them.
• Di Hong refused to remove the spies, suspecting Second Prince Xue Yu had sent them to watch him because he supported Crown Prince Xue Ye and possessed Innate Full Soul Power.
• Di Hong chose to cultivate instead of exploring the city and considered visiting Sunset Forest for Immortal Grade Herbs before the delegation’s audience with the emperor.

Di Hong and Di Ming attended a banquet hosted by Crown Prince Xue Ye, as Di Hong considered the political danger surrounding the Silves delegation. The chapter left them entering the Crown Prince’s Eastern Palace and Xue Ye warmly welcoming the brothers.

• Meng Yuan delivered Xue Ye’s personal invitation to Di Hong, who worried that the Silves Kingdom’s support for the Crown Prince had drawn him into the royal succession struggle.
• Di Ming returned and told Di Hong about his explorations of Heaven Dou City, then urged him to attend the banquet and enjoy himself.
• On the way to the Crown Prince’s Mansion, Di Ming pointed out that Imperial Finance Minister Xu Han, a supporter of Second Prince Xue Yu, had also come to the banquet.
• Di Hong reflected that Di Ming’s playboy reputation might conceal strong social and political abilities.
• Xue Ye personally welcomed Di Ming and Di Hong, recalled meeting Di Hong as a child, and praised his rapid cultivation as a twelve-year-old Spirit King.

Di Hong attended a grand banquet hosted by Crown Prince Xue Ye, where his exceptional strength impressed the gathered Spirit Masters. Ning Fengzhi arrived, and Di Hong learned that the young sect leader was close to Xue Ye and might eventually draw the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect into the royal family’s power struggle.

• Xue Xing greeted Xue Ye and met Di Hong and Di Ming, while Di Ming explained Di Hong’s rapid cultivation without revealing his true potential.
• Xue Ye brought Di Hong and Di Ming into the banquet hall, where the Spirit Masters were astonished to learn that twelve-year-old Di Hong was a Spirit King.
• Xue Ye addressed the guests and explained that the Emperor had authorized the banquet.
• Ning Fengzhi arrived and greeted Xue Ye, who asked after his gravely ill father.
• Di Ming told Di Hong that Ning Fengzhi was close to Xue Ye and might shift the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect away from neutrality when he succeeded his father.

Di Hong attended the tribute ceremonies in Heaven Dou City, observed the rivalry between Xue Ye and Xue Yu, and planned to search Sunset Forest for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. As the Silves Kingdom’s delegation departed, Di Hong detected Spirit Masters following them and decided to draw the pursuers away.

• At the banquet, Di Hong noticed that Xue Yu was absent and saw Ning Fengzhi watching him.
• Di Hong studied a map of Sunset Forest and planned to search for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Di Hong and Di Ming paid their respects to the emperor, where Di Hong met Xue Yu and observed the princes’ rivalry.
• The emperor wanted Di Hong to stay in Heaven Dou City, but Di Ming and Xue Ye helped secure his departure.
• After the delegation traveled fifty li from the city, Di Hong sensed one Spirit King and two Soul Ancestors following them and proposed splitting up to deal with them.

Di Hong left Di Ming and headed toward Sunset Forest, where he discovered signs that the Clear Sky Sect had been attacked. He followed the trail deeper into the forest, leaving his search for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well aside to find out who had dared to target the sect.

• Di Hong refused Di Ming’s offer of an escort and set off alone toward Sunset Forest.
• Di Hong realized the three Spirit Masters following him were not targeting him, and their attention vanished when he stopped.
• Near Sunset Forest, Di Hong found corpses and determined that Spirit Beasts had killed them.
• Di Hong found a Clear Sky Sect token on a corpse and continued into the forest to investigate.
• Di Hong discovered more than a dozen dead Clear Sky Sect disciples and decided to follow the battle traces.

Di Hong found the remains of a Clear Sky Sect group and learned that their young lady had fled into Sunset Forest after Spirit Beasts attacked them. He followed her trail and a tiger’s roar to a cave, where the girl was trapped with nowhere left to run.

• Tang Lin fled with the young lady in a carriage, but a Ghost Tiger overturned it and attacked them.
• Tang Lin fought the Ghost Tiger while the young lady ran deeper into Sunset Forest.
• Di Hong found a dying Clear Sky Sect disciple, who asked him to find the young lady and return her to the sect before he died.
• Di Hong followed the carriage’s tracks, found Tang Lin and the Ghost Tiger dead, and picked up a sachet whose scent had attracted the Spirit Beasts.
• Di Hong heard a tiger’s roar and rushed toward it, finding the young lady trapped inside a cave.

Di Hong rescued Tang Yuehua from a Tiger Spirit Beast after her companions were killed. As Tang Yuehua grieved, three masked Spirit Masters who had watched the rescue withdrew, deciding their plan was close enough to complete.

• Tang Yuehua hid in a cave while a Tiger Spirit Beast approached and fell asleep at the entrance after losing her scent.
• Di Hong drove the beast away with a fireball and found Tang Yuehua in the cave.
• Tang Yuehua introduced herself and asked Di Hong what had happened to her companions, and he told her they were all dead.
• Three masked Spirit Masters recognized Di Hong as a young Spirit King with two Ten Thousand Year Spirit Rings and chose to retreat.

After Di Hong rescued Tang Yuehua, he sheltered her in Sunset Forest and discovered that a sachet she had bought was scented to attract Spirit Beasts, likely as part of an attack on her group. He planned to take her back to Clear Sky Sect the next day, while Tang Yuehua began to feel safe with him and lamented that her mutated martial soul kept her from becoming a Spirit Master.

• Di Hong made camp with Tang Yuehua, gave her a shirt to keep warm, and returned the sachet she had dropped.
• Di Hong explained that the sachet contained Spirit Beast-luring spices, and Tang Yuehua burned it in grief and anger over the deaths of Tang Yun, Tang Lin, and the others.
• Di Hong suggested Spirit Hall might have been behind the attack, but Tang Yuehua could not identify who was responsible.
• Di Hong gave Tang Yuehua roasted meat and told her he would escort her back to Clear Sky Sect before resuming his search for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Di Hong kept watch and cultivated through the night as Tang Yuehua watched him from the tent and reflected on her inability to become a Spirit Master.

Di Hong escorted Tang Yuehua toward the Clear Sky Sect after helping her collect the ashes of the fallen disciples. Along the way, Tang Yuehua revealed that her mutated Ruyi Ring Martial Soul and innate Noble Ring Domain had left her unable to advance beyond level nine.

• Di Hong woke at level fifty-four and told Tang Yuehua he would take her back to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Di Hong cremated the fallen Clear Sky Sect disciples and stored their ashes in his Soul Tool for Tang Yuehua to bring home.
• As they traveled, Tang Yuehua explained that she had been born with level-nine soul power but could never cultivate beyond it.
• Tang Yuehua showed Di Hong her Ruyi Ring Martial Soul and its Noble Ring Domain.
• Di Hong marveled at the Ruyi Ring's quality, then laughed while imagining Tang Yuehua wielding a Clear Sky Hammer and apologized when she glared at him.