Chapter Summaries

Quan Ming faced a test that fired rebounding metal spheres at him and used his Evil Crab's Pincers Soul Skill to catch and crush them. As Quan Yi watched the testers from the Open-air Garden, Quan Li and Quan Yue worried that the test was too strict for Soul Masters who were not combat specialists.

• Quan Lin adapted to a moving floor by running as it carried him backward.
• Quan Ming chose the technique test and prepared for metal projectiles fired from the wall.
• Quan Ming dodged an incoming sphere, then realized it had rebounded and was attacking him from behind.
• Quan Ming activated Evil Crab's Pincers and caught two metal spheres at once, absorbing their impact and crushing them.
• Quan Yi praised Quan Ming, Quan Lin, and the other children as Quan Li and Quan Yue warned him not to make the test too strict for noncombat Soul Masters.

Quan Yi explained that the Soul Ring Condensation Tower’s tests measured people’s limits and restored them after each attempt. Quan Lin kept running while Quan Ming was knocked unconscious by the eleventh iron-ball attack, refusing to give up.

• Quan Yi told Quan Li that the tests adjusted to each person’s strength, stopped automatically when they gave up, and included healing.
• Quan Yi explained to Quan Yue that the tower was designed to help Testers understand their abilities and limits.
• Quan Lin continued the long-distance running test for over an hour, while many Testers quit early and then restarted after the tower restored them.
• Quan Ming endured ten iron-ball attacks and refused to admit defeat when the eleventh came.
• The eleventh iron ball smashed through Quan Ming’s defense, caved in his chest, and knocked him unconscious.

Quan Ming completed the Hidden Challenge: Limit Break and received a Soul Ring reward that halved the Soul Power consumption of his First Soul Skill. Meanwhile, Quan Lin pushed through exhaustion on the endless track and began breaking past his physical limits.

• Quan Ming neutralized the Metal Ball's momentum, completed the challenge, and passed out from his injuries.
• Quan Yi used the tower's healing light to restore Quan Ming and altered his Soul Ring so Evil Crab's Pincers consumed half as much Soul Power.
• Quan Ming tested his improved skill, saw that its option had turned golden, and resolved to earn rewards for the four remaining options.
• After running more than one hundred kilometers, Quan Lin hit the wall and struggled against his body's urge to stop.
• Quan Lin imagined Quan Ming running beside him, reignited his competitive spirit, regained control of his body, and broke through his limit.

After Quan Lin completed the Limit Break challenge, the Soul Ring Condensation Tower rewarded him with a fifty-percent increase to his physical attributes. He began the soul-power pressure test and discovered that enduring extreme pressure could open Hidden Meridians.

• Quan Lin ran past the phantom of Quan Ming, realized he had been chasing his own reflection, and collapsed from exhaustion.
• Quan Yi announced that Quan Lin had completed the Limit Break challenge and received a fifty-percent increase to his physical attributes.
• After recovering, Quan Lin thanked Quan Yi and himself, then selected the soul-power test.
• Quan Lin endured escalating soul-power pressure until it exceeded his own level and left him blood-red and unable to move.
• At level twenty-five, Quan Lin felt his soul power surge into new channels and realized the pressure was opening Hidden Meridians.

Quan Lin endured the Soul Power pressure test, opened another hidden meridian, and recovered after the pressure tore his meridians and knocked him unconscious. He then began the Mental test, where the tower quantified the pressure as his thoughts grew heavy.

• Quan Lin resisted Soul Power pressure up to Level 30, but the strain tore his meridians and made him lose consciousness.
• The Soul Ring Condensation Tower stopped the test, stabilized Quan Lin’s Soul Power, and awarded him one opened hidden meridian.
• Quan Lin woke, celebrated his success, and pressed the button for the Mental test.
• The tower began applying Mental Power pressure and displayed rising numbers that quantified its intensity.
• Quan Lin considered how the Quan Family’s Gauntlets and White Gloves Martial Souls gave them exceptional Mental Power and how Quan Yi intended to develop it.

Quan Lin endured the Tower of Limits' Mental Pressure, gaining direct control of his Mental Power and advancing into its second realm. As the test pushed him toward collapse, he activated the Purple Demon Eye to stimulate his brain.

• Quan Lin's Mental Power passed fifty, letting him control it directly and enter the second realm.
• Quan Yi's framework divided Mental Power into five realms before Divine Sense, while Quan Lin remained unaware of the full significance of his breakthrough.
• Quan Lin summoned his Gauntlets Martial Soul, condensing his Mental Power and enduring the pressure until his value reached one hundred.
• As the value climbed toward one hundred and five, blood flowed from Quan Lin's nose and his will neared collapse.
• Quan Lin drew Soul Power into his brain and activated the Purple Demon Eye, revealing a faint purple tint in his bloodshot eyes.

Quan Lin completed the Soul Ring Condensation Tower’s mental limit-break challenge and received a major increase in Mental Power. He began the Martial Soul test, which separated him from his Black Iron Gauntlets and set them against him in a duel.

• Quan Lin pushed his Mental Power past the limit of one hundred and five, then fainted as the tower announced his Hidden Challenge reward.
• Quan Yi’s emerald and rose-red Divine Light healed Quan Lin and helped raise his Mental Power to one hundred and fifty-eight.
• Quan Lin awoke refreshed, marveled that his Mental Power had increased by man-made means, and prepared to take the Martial Soul test.
• The tower announced that Quan Lin would be separated from his Martial Soul and forced to duel it without using his Martial Soul or soul ring skills.
• The tower stripped away Quan Lin’s Black Iron Gauntlets, which formed the opening stance of the Quan Family Fist Technique and provocatively challenged him.

Quan Lin fought the Black Iron Gauntlets in a trial where his Martial Soul attacked him as an independent opponent. After discovering that his strengthened hands could overpower the gauntlets and that they acted with their own will, he turned to face the second gauntlet.

• Quan Lin matched the Black Iron Gauntlets’ opening stance and exchanged blows, learning that its metal body could only be attacked directly.
• Quan Lin used Mystic Jade Hand and Gang together to strengthen his hands and knock both gauntlets aside.
• Quan Lin pursued a disabled gauntlet, struck it into a wall, and battered it with his strongest punch.
• Quan Lin realized the gauntlets were fighting with their own will rather than being remotely controlled.
• Quan Lin kicked the battered gauntlet away and swung a heavy punch at the gauntlet attacking from behind.

Quan Lin used the Chaotic Wind Hammer Technique to exploit the Black Iron Gauntlets’ weakness and build momentum through repeated clashes. He left the gauntlets trapped against the wall as his twelfth strike hammered one back into it, despite the strain on his body.

• Quan Lin analyzed the Black Iron Gauntlets’ limited strength and used Borrowing Strength and the Chaotic Wind Hammer Technique to knock them apart.
• Quan Lin baited the enraged gauntlets into attacking one at a time, then chained blows together to stack their rebound force.
• Quan Lin kept striking as the gauntlets refused to retreat, and the accumulated force sent one crashing into the wall.
• Quan Lin used his eleventh punch to drive the other gauntlet into the same wall, then closed in by rotating with its rebound.
• Quan Lin risked severe injury to his fists and landed a twelfth, full-circle punch that smashed a gauntlet back into the wall.

Quan Lin completed the Soul Ring Condensation Tower’s Limit Break challenge by overpowering his own martial soul and earning Martial Soul Recognition. As the tower healed him and strengthened his martial soul, the Black Iron Gauntlets began to transform.

• Quan Lin drove the Black Iron Gauntlets into his Impact Spiral and surpassed eighteen consecutive strikes without using his martial soul.
• Quan Lin sensed the gauntlets’ fear and pain, then kept attacking until his martial soul submitted despite the injuries to his hands.
• The Soul Ring Condensation Tower declared the challenge complete, granting the martial soul a fifty percent origin-level all-attribute increase and Quan Lin the ability to unleash its full power.
• Quan Lin learned that he had achieved Martial Soul Recognition after directly confronting and subduing his martial soul.
• The Black Iron Gauntlets were nourished by the tower’s power, becoming smaller, denser, smoother, and marked with fine dark-golden patterns.

Quan Lin’s Black Iron Gauntlets evolved into the Top Quality Mystic Iron Gauntlets, greatly strengthening his Martial Soul and foundation. Meanwhile, Quan Yi continued designing tailored Soul Rings and Skills for the tower’s other Testers.

• Quan Lin reunited with his enhanced Martial Soul and felt its power improve his attributes and soul power.
• The Crystal Platform announced that the Black Iron Gauntlets had become the Top Quality Mystic Iron Gauntlets, which Quan Lin learned were comparable in strength to a Martial Soul belonging to someone with Innate Full Soul Power.
• The Soul Ring Condensation Tower spent a vast reserve of energy to reward Quan Lin after his four Limit Break challenges.
• Quan Yi continued overseeing Testers, noting that many struggled to reach their limits while others requested Soul Rings before finishing their tests.
• Quan Yi analyzed Testers’ individual needs and designed custom Soul Rings and Skills, including a safe Fire-attribute Skill for White Gloves Martial Souls.

Quan Yi used the Soul Ring Condensation Tower to create Soul Rings for nearly a hundred Spirit Masters at once, then offered to help Quan Li strengthen his Soul Rings. Quan Li accepted the offer, while Quan Yue declined so he could advance through cultivation naturally.

• Quan Yi split his consciousness across nearly a hundred rooms and condensed a suitable Artificial Soul Ring for each tester.
• The Spirit Masters began absorbing their new Soul Rings, while Quan Yi recovered from the strain with Huo Wu's help.
• Quan Li praised Quan Yi's achievement and said the group would stay until the tests and absorption were finished.
• Quan Yi offered to increase the age of Quan Li and Quan Yue's Soul Rings using the tower's energy.
• Quan Li eagerly agreed, but Quan Yue refused, saying it would hinder his cultivation before he became a Titled Douluo.

Quan Yue declined to enter the Soul Ring Condensation Tower, so Quan Li took his place and prepared to upgrade his 100,000-year Ninth Soul Ring. Quan Yi began an extreme enhancement that would test Quan Li’s endurance, and the process started as the tower gathered moonlight and starlight.

• Quan Yue refused Quan Yi’s invitation to enter the tower and urged Quan Li to receive the ring-upgrading ceremony.
• Quan Li tested the tower’s metal with a powerful punch, which the walls absorbed without damage.
• Quan Yi explained that he would push Quan Li’s Ninth Soul Ring to its limit while testing how much his body could endure, and Quan Li agreed.
• Quan Yi began the procedure after Quan Li released his soul ring and prepared himself.
• After night fell, the tower gathered moonlight and starlight, and its condensed light struck Quan Li’s Deep Red Soul Ring, shattering it.

Quan Yi infused Quan Li’s Evil Orca King Soul Ring with Ultimate Light, Ultimate Darkness, and Ultimate Ice before raising its years. Quan Li endured the escalating pressure and pushed toward 500,000 years, as his body neared its limit and his Martial Soul began to glow with dark-gold light.

• Quan Yi began transforming the Evil Orca King Soul Ring, strengthening its two skills and integrating three Ultimate Attributes.
• Quan Li endured the four-hour tempering as his Gauntlets Martial Soul and the Soul Ring’s origin adapted to the clashing powers.
• Quan Yi began increasing the Soul Ring’s years, and Quan Li struggled through successive surges of Soul Power and Ultimate Attribute energy.
• Quan Li’s Soul Ring passed 200,000 years, then climbed toward 400,000 as he focused on reaching 500,000 years.
• Quan Li’s body turned translucent and his consciousness blurred, while his Martial Soul began emitting dark-gold specks of light.

Quan Li endured the Evil Orca King's Soul Ring until the Black Gold Gauntlets helped him break through to level 96, making him the Third Peak Douluo of the Sea Island. After recovering, he began testing the new Soul Ring against a Metal Puppet, and the test started with the puppet charging a punch at him.

• Quan Li and the Black Gold Gauntlets resisted the Evil Orca King's Soul Ring as its age surpassed 500,000 years and its power overwhelmed them.
• Quan Li broke through the level 95 shackle and reached level 96 as the Black Gold Gauntlets evolved, then briefly lost consciousness.
• The Soul Ring settled into Quan Li, and its Life Energy restored his body.
• Quan Yi congratulated Quan Li on becoming the Third Peak Douluo of the Sea Island and proposed testing his new Soul Ring.
• Quan Yi summoned a Metal Puppet matched to Quan Li's realm, and Quan Li began fighting it.
• The Metal Puppet slipped behind Quan Li and drew back its fist, but dark red light erupted from Quan Li's arms and enveloped the room.

Quan Li used Black Gold Killer Whale Demonic Influence to freeze the Puppet, then tested its defenses with a controlled Black Gold Demonic Devouring Bite. He uncovered how the Puppet resisted his skill and ended the exchange with the Whale Head restoring some of his energy as the Puppet retreated.

• Quan Li waited to attack while the Puppet remained frozen, suspecting the skill might not affect its mechanical body.
• Quan Li launched a remotely controlled Black Ice Whale Head at the Puppet, baiting it into striking and letting the Whale Head bite through its arm.
• The Puppet cut away the arm's outer layer to escape, revealing that it had used Soul Power as an energy defense against Quan Li's control skill.
• Quan Li deduced the Puppet had planned to exploit his uncertainty and counterattack, but said he had anticipated its independent thinking and outmaneuvered it.
• The Whale Head finished consuming metal and Soul Power, converting them into energy that replenished Quan Li as the Puppet retreated.

Quan Li defeated the Soul Ring Condensation Tower’s Puppet by draining its Soul Power and striking through its defenses with powerful soul skills. After the battle, Quan Yi praised his grandfather’s strength, while Quan Li privately acknowledged how formidable the Puppet had been.

• Whale Eats Divine Metal sensed Quan Li’s threat as the Puppet’s Soul Power defenses were rapidly consumed by his light-and-dark Demonic Influence.
• The Puppet restored a metal barrier over its wound, and Quan Li immediately struck with the Evil Spirit Tiger Whale Axe.
• Quan Li’s attack pierced the Puppet’s defenses and disrupted its mind, leaving it immobilized and exposed.
• Quan Li followed with a dark red ice Whale Head that pierced the Puppet’s chest and scattered its disconnected parts.
• Quan Yi praised Quan Li’s overwhelming strength, and Quan Li privately reflected on the Puppet’s durability and power.

Quan Li completed his test in the Soul Ring Condensation Tower, accepted the Soul Ring’s attribute backlash as training, and reunited with Quan Yi and his family. As the Testers gathered around Quan Yi with reverence, he sensed and identified their shared power as Faith Power.

• Quan Li asked to keep using the Soul Ring Condensation Tower, and Quan Yi told him to bring Rare Metal to replace the bodies consumed by Devouring.
• Quan Li realized Quan Yi had deliberately made his Soul Ring’s Ultimate Attribute influence temper his body and martial soul, and he chose to keep the mechanism in place.
• Quan Li left the trial room and learned that a day and night had passed while many Testers successfully gained Soul Rings and broke through their bottlenecks.
• Quan Li saw the Testers looking at Quan Yi with faith-like reverence and rejoined his family at the central round table.
• Quan Yi sensed a strange power flowing from the crowd, recognized it as Faith Power, and realized it could help condense a divine seat.

Quan Yi studied a newly forming Faith Power and discovered that only he could control it freely, though he could authorize Huo Wu to use it. As faith gathered around him, he reasoned that the power came not from reverence alone but from people recognizing his achievements.

• Quan Yi and Huo Wu secretly examined Faith Power, and it violently rejected Huo Wu when she first tried to control it, weakening her attributes.
• Quan Yi took control of another strand and sensed a young Quan family member's admiration and expectations within it, which strengthened him.
• Quan Yi instructed the Faith Power to accept Huo Wu, allowing her to use it while he bore the resulting burden.
• Quan Yi watched faith gather from people in the Central Plaza and concluded that recognition of his achievements distinguished his Faith Power from the faith Bibi Dong received through her position.

Quan Yi studied how Faith Power formed and concluded that it required both faith and achievements judged by the World Will. After explaining that gods and god positions served as the world's proxy managers, he decided to let the Faith Power return to its source.

• Quan Yi inferred that genuine Faith Power arose when achievements combined with people's faith, and he used his growing power to examine the process.
• Quan Yi and Huo Wu joined their Mental Power through the Dragon Phoenix God Eyes and observed how soul will resonated with the world's fluctuations to become Faith Power.
• Quan Yi concluded that the World Will judged achievements and that Faith Power formed only when achievements and faith reached sufficient levels.
• Quan Yi explained that god positions were authorities formed by Faith Power joining a compatible Great Dao, and that gods acted as the World Will's proxy managers.
• Huo Wu asked what Quan Yi intended to do with the Faith Power, and he answered that he would let it return to where it came from.