Chapter Summaries

Wu Tong, a transmigrator in Douluo Continent without a special advantage, headed to the village’s Martial Soul Awakening with Da Zhuang. He hoped to use his ingenuity to rise in the world, but his prospects depended on the awakening ahead.

• Wu Tong reflected on his arrival from Earth and lamented that he had received no special ability.
• Da Zhuang found Wu Tong on Thousand Rock Mountain and hurried him toward the Martial Soul Awakening.
• Da Zhuang asked Wu Tong to continue one of his stories, but Wu Tong suggested waiting until after the awakening.
• Wu Tong considered how rarely commoners awakened a strong Martial Soul and Innate Soul Power.
• Da Zhuang corrected Wu Tong for calling him Xiao Pang, but Wu Tong repeated the nickname as they continued toward the village.

Wu Tong arrived at Pan Rock Village’s Martial Soul Awakening with his adoptive grandfather, Karl, and joined the village children. Spirit Hall deacon Mo Xuan began awakening them, but the first children displayed ordinary Martial Souls and no Soul Power, while Wu Tong remained last in line.

• Wu Tong and Da Zhuang arrived after the village children had gathered, and Karl told Wu Tong to join the line.
• Mo Xuan arrived from Notting City and led the children to the village’s Awakening Hall.
• Mo Xuan revealed his Flame Tiger Martial Soul and explained Martial Soul Possession to the frightened children.
• Mo Xuan awakened the first child’s Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, but the child had no Soul Power.
• Mo Xuan tested more children, whose Martial Souls included an Iron Shovel, Thread Ball, and Wooden Stick, and found that they had no Soul Power.

Wu Tong awakened a brain Body Martial Soul and Innate Full Soul Power, then began planning to develop it into a powerful comprehension talent. Mo Xuan invited him to join Spirit Hall, but Wu Tong deferred the decision until after academy and becoming a Spirit Master.

• Wu Tong awakened a brain Body Martial Soul, which Mo Xuan dismissed as useless.
• Wu Tong resolved to use his brain Martial Soul to create a lesser version of a heaven-defying comprehension talent.
• Wu Tong tested his Soul Power and revealed Innate Full Soul Power, astonishing Mo Xuan.
• Mo Xuan praised Wu Tong’s potential and invited him to join Spirit Hall.
• Wu Tong declined to decide yet, saying he would consider it after finishing Soul Master Academy and becoming a Spirit Master.

After awakening an Innate Full Soul Power Body Martial Soul, Wu Tong traveled with Old Karl to Notting Junior Soul Master Academy and enrolled. He planned to spend six years studying in the library, establish himself as a scholar, and then join Spirit Hall to gain access to resources and knowledge.

• Mo Xuan told Old Karl that Wu Tong had awakened an Innate Full Soul Power Body Martial Soul, and Old Karl comforted the boy about its reputation as a Useless Martial Soul.
• Three days later, Old Karl brought Wu Tong to Notting City and enrolled him at Notting Junior Soul Master Academy.
• Wu Tong recognized the gatekeeper’s reaction as a sign that Tang San had recently enrolled and reasoned that they were the same age.
• Wu Tong planned to study at the Academy for six years, publish research on Body Martial Souls, and join Spirit Hall after establishing his reputation.
• After enrollment, Wu Tong said goodbye to Old Karl and arrived at Dorm Seven.

Wu Tong entered Dorm Seven, met Xiao Wu, and introduced himself to the other work-study students. After avoiding a confrontation with Xiao Wu, he finished arranging his bed and left to bathe.

• Wu Tong entered the dormitory and found Xiao Wu waiting to assert herself as Dorm Seven's boss.
• Xiao Wu told Wu Tong to call her Sister Xiao Wu and become her little brother, and Wu Tong agreed to avoid a fight.
• Wu Tong introduced himself as a work-study student from Pan Rock Village with Innate Full Soul Power and a Body Martial Soul.
• The other students showed envy at Wu Tong's soul power and disdain for his martial soul, while one boy wondered about Body Martial Souls.
• Wu Tong arranged his bed, and Xiao Wu stomped and sulked when he ignored her display of authority.
• Wu Tong left the dormitory to take a bath.

Wu Tong searched the Academy library for a spirit beast whose Spirit Ring could grant him Absolute Memory and help him develop his Martial Soul. After a week of research, he found the Mind's Eye Golden Fox, whose extraordinary memory made it his chosen candidate.

• Wu Tong put on his new Academy uniform and went to the library to study spirit beasts.
• Wu Tong reasoned that his first Spirit Ring could influence his Martial Soul and decided to seek a spirit beast that could grant Absolute Memory.
• Wu Tong examined records of many spirit beasts, rejecting those whose abilities did not fit his needs.
• After a week of searching, Wu Tong found the Mind's Eye Golden Fox and learned of its powerful memory and long pursuit of revenge.
• Wu Tong excitedly chose the Mind's Eye Golden Fox as the spirit beast best suited to his goal.

Wu Tong began preparing to hunt a Mind's Eye Golden Fox by building a source of income, commissioning firearm parts, and hiring an intelligence network to track the Spirit Beast. By sunset, he had set his plans in motion and was heading back to the Academy.

• Wu Tong decided to raise Gold Soul Coins, make firearms for protection, and find the Mind's Eye Golden Fox through an intelligence organization.
• Tang San watched Wu Tong leave the Academy early and dismissed him as someone who would never amount to anything because of his Useless Martial Soul.
• Wu Tong traded Chinese recipes to a successful restaurant owner, then used the reward to hire workers and set up mobile carts selling street snacks.
• Wu Tong brought dimension-marked firearm designs to a blacksmith shop and arranged for the parts to be forged.
• Wu Tong paid the Notting City intelligence network to search for the Mind's Eye Golden Fox and returned toward the Academy at dusk.

After three months of training and waiting, Wu Tong learned that the Mind's Eye Golden Fox had been spotted in the Soul Hunting Forest and prepared to hunt it for his first Spirit Ring. He left with approved leave and planned to hire an experienced soul-hunting team.

• Tang San and Xiao Wu obtained their first Spirit Rings, while Xiao Wu became the Academy's Big Sister Head and Tang San began intensive training.
• Wu Tong completed two M500 Revolvers, made five thousand rounds, and practiced his marksmanship outside Notting City.
• A man in black told Wu Tong that the Mind's Eye Golden Fox had been seen in the eastern Soul Hunting Forest and gave him a map.
• Wu Tong asked Principal Charles for leave to hunt a Spirit Beast and declined an Academy instructor's help.
• Charles approved Wu Tong's leave, and Wu Tong set out to hire a soul-hunting team for the hunt.

Wu Tong entered Soul Hunting Forest with a hired team to find a Mind's Eye Golden Fox for his first Spirit Ring. He identified a five-hundred-year-old fox as absorbable, but Mu Lan warned that it exceeded the usual limit, leaving the team to decide whether to pursue it.

• Wu Tong traveled into Soul Hunting Forest with Wu Tu's experienced soul-hunting team.
• The team restrained an attacking Shadow Wolf after Wu Tu failed to notice it approaching.
• Lu Feng spotted a Mind's Eye Golden Fox, and Wu Tong identified it as a five-hundred-year-old Spirit Beast.
• Wu Tong asked Wu Tu to help capture the fox, but Mu Lan warned that it was older than the usual first-ring limit.

Wu Tong explained why physical constitution and spiritual power could allow soul masters to absorb Spirit Rings beyond the usual age limit, then hunted a Mind's Eye Golden Fox for his first Spirit Ring. After suffering a violent surge of energy during absorption, Wu Tong used his spiritual power to suppress it and successfully stabilized the Spirit Ring.

• Wu Tong told Mu Lan that his research suggested physical constitution determined Spirit Ring age limits, while absorbing a Ten-Thousand Year Spirit Ring also required powerful spiritual strength.
• After Wu Tu confirmed that a ten-thousand-year Spirit Ring's resentment had caused him a soul shock, Mu Lan agreed not to interfere with Wu Tong's decision.
• Liu Feiyan bound the Mind's Eye Golden Fox with her Earth Net, and Lu Feng knocked it unconscious with Shadow Step.
• Wu Tong killed the Mind's Eye Golden Fox with a dagger and began absorbing its Spirit Ring as the hunting team guarded him.
• Violent energy battered Wu Tong's body, and Wu Tu stopped Mu Lan from interrupting the absorption while they waited to see whether Wu Tong could endure it.
• Wu Tong's spiritual power suppressed the energy, allowing him to refine the Spirit Ring and stabilize it around his body.

After refining the Spirit Ring’s energy, Wu Tong awakened with a Mind’s Eye Golden Fox External Soul Bone and a greatly transformed body. He thanked and farewelled Wu Tu’s spirit-hunting team, then returned to Notting City and fell asleep from exhaustion.

• Wu Tong refined the violent Spirit Ring energy, formed a brow pattern matching the Mind’s Eye Golden Fox, and fainted after telling the team he had succeeded.
• Wu Tong woke the next day, discovered his body had grown stronger and taller, and recognized the brow pattern as an External Soul Bone called the Mind’s Eye.
• Liu Feiyan burst into Wu Tong’s room while he was undressed, startling them both.
• Wu Tong reassured Wu Tu that he had recovered, and Wu Tu praised his unprecedented five-hundred-year first Spirit Ring and theory.
• Wu Tong treated the team to a meal, paid the remaining spirit-hunting fee, and said goodbye to Wu Tu and the others.
• Wu Tong returned to Notting City after several days of travel and fell asleep in his dormitory.

Wu Tong reviewed the gains from his hunt: Absolute Memory, the Spirit Detection Soul Skill, and the growing External Soul Bone Mind's Eye, whose abilities let him observe and sense people and things. He decided to use its insight and X-ray vision to steal Tang San's Tang Sect Manuals, especially the Mysterious Heaven Skill, and hoped to build a cultivation method suited to himself.

• Wu Tong wrote down and memorized his martial soul, Spirit Ring, soul bone, and other gains, then burned the note.
• Wu Tong determined that his Mind's Eye Golden Fox Spirit Ring had improved his brain martial soul and granted him Absolute Memory and the Spirit Detection Soul Skill.
• Wu Tong developed the External Soul Bone Mind's Eye into All-Encompassing View, which included X-ray vision, farsight, insight, illusion sight, and mind reading, and Direct Sense, which detected danger and malice.
• Wu Tong decided that the Mind's Eye could help him distinguish friends from enemies when dealing with people and major Factions.
• Wu Tong resolved to use the Mind's Eye's insight and X-ray vision to steal Tang San's Tang Sect Manuals and study the Mysterious Heaven Skill as a foundation for a cultivation method of his own.

Wu Tong used his Mind's Eye Soul Bone to observe and memorize the Mysterious Heaven Skill circulating inside Tang San. The next morning, he waited on the rooftop as Tang San came to cultivate the Purple Demon Eyes.

• Wu Tong decided to use Mind's Eye: Perspective and Insight to learn Tang San's techniques, beginning with the Mysterious Heaven Skill.
• Wu Tong refined his spirit power through cultivation while waiting for Tang San to return to the dormitory that night.
• Wu Tong observed Tang San's internal energy circulation and memorized the route before Tang San sensed him and opened his eyes.
• Tang San searched the dormitory, then left to wash up, while Wu Tong congratulated himself on learning the first of Tang San's techniques and went to sleep.
• Wu Tong went to the rooftop at dawn with a copy of Douluo Heroes Chronicle, and Tang San arrived to cultivate the Purple Demon Eyes.

Wu Tong copied Tang San’s cultivation techniques and began adapting them to his own body. After finding hidden injuries and differences between their physiques, he started revising the Mysterious Heaven Skill.

• Wu Tong used Mind's Eye: Insight and Mind's Eye: Perspective to copy Tang San’s Purple Demon Eyes while Tang San cultivated.
• Wu Tong recalled how he had copied Tang San’s techniques, including Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon, Mystic Jade Hand, and Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, but had left out the Hidden Weapon Compendium.
• Wu Tong examined the Mysterious Heaven Skill and used Mental Detection to map his meridians, acupoints, organs, and hidden injuries.
• Wu Tong compared his body with Tang San’s and decided that he needed to modify the techniques rather than imitate them.
• Wu Tong activated his Martial Soul and began revising the Mysterious Heaven Skill’s acupoint routes and meridian circulation.

After three months of work, Wu Tong completed the Lesser Sun Chapter of his new cultivation method, the Crimson Sun Sutra, and decided to continue pursuing his plan to gather knowledge through Spirit Hall. Mu Lan brought him to meet the Soul Hunting Squad so he could help choose her fourth Spirit Ring, leaving them at the Rose Hotel.

• Wu Tong finished creating the Crimson Sun Sutra, a resource-intensive method with five imagined stages, though he had only completed the Lesser Sun Chapter.
• Wu Tong ran into Mu Lan, who revealed she worked as an Esteemed Guest instructor at Notting Academy and teased him into calling her Teacher.
• Mu Lan told Wu Tong she had reached Level 40 and explained that her Moon Rhythm Radiance Lyre absorbed moonlight to aid her cultivation.
• Mu Lan explained that Wu Tu and the others wanted Wu Tong's advice on choosing her Spirit Ring, and Wu Tong agreed to hear their plans.
• Mu Lan led Wu Tong to the Rose Hotel west of Notting City.

Wu Tong reviewed spirit beast candidates for Mu Lan’s next Spirit Ring and introduced his Martial Soul Evolution Theory, arguing that Spirit Rings should strengthen a Martial Soul’s defining traits. He revealed that his own Martial Soul had already been strengthened, leaving the hunting party eager to learn how.

• Wu Tong joined Wu Tu and the spirit beast hunting party at the Rose Hotel and examined the candidates they had gathered for Mu Lan.
• Wu Tong rejected several candidates, including the Starry Night Bamboo and Moon Void Cicada, while keeping the Soul Cleansing Jade Lotus and Cloud Ripple Tree’s Mountain Moving Ant as backups.
• Wu Tong explained that spirit beast selection should account for a beast’s traits and how they matched the Martial Soul, not just the Soul Skill it provided.
• Wu Tong presented his Martial Soul Evolution Theory, saying suitable Spirit Rings could compensate for flaws and strengthen a Martial Soul’s defining traits.
• Wu Tong revealed that his brain Martial Soul had already been strengthened through this approach, making the others eager to hear the details.

Wu Tong explained how a compatible Spirit Ring had strengthened his Martial Soul and proposed that Mu Lan hunt a Hidden Moon Demon Cat to develop her own Martial Soul. The team accepted his advice and swore to keep the evolution theory secret, while Wu Tong declined to join their hunt and returned to the Academy.

• Wu Tong said the Mind's Eye Golden Fox's strong memory complemented his brain Martial Soul and helped begin its evolution.
• Wu Tu and the others swore by their Martial Souls to keep Wu Tong's theory secret and offered him their support.
• Wu Tong recommended the Hidden Moon Demon Cat for Mu Lan because its moonlight cultivation, concealment, and agility traits could complement her Martial Soul.
• The team agreed to hunt the Hidden Moon Demon Cat, and Wu Tong declined Wu Tu's invitation to join them before returning to the Academy.

Wu Tong cultivated the Crimson Sun Sutra at dusk, absorbing Lesser Sun Energy that tempered his body and expelled impurities. Afterward, he washed himself and his clothes in a stream, then decided to buy a Storage Soul Tool and prepare spare supplies.

• Wu Tong went to the Academy's rear mountain at dusk and chose a spot beneath a tree to cultivate the Crimson Sun Sutra.
• He absorbed Lesser Sun Energy through his acupoints, while surplus Sun Power tempered his body and expelled impurities.
• Wu Tong cultivated until the sunset vanished, then opened his eyes and sensed the increased power in his body.
• He noticed the stench from the burned impurities, used Lesser Sun True Qi to reach a stream, and washed himself and his clothes.
• Wu Tong decided to buy a Storage Soul Tool and prepare spare clothes and supplies, then walked down the mountain.

Wu Tong settled into academy life while Wu Tu’s squad tested the Martial Soul Evolution Theory by helping Mu Lan evolve her Moon Rhythm Radiance Lyre. After receiving his profits, Wu Tong bought a storage bracelet he named Taiji and left with wilderness equipment stored inside it.

• Wu Tong resumed his daily routine of cultivation, study, meals, and sleep at Notting Junior Soul Master Academy.
• Wu Tu led the Soul Hunting Squad into the Star Dou Great Forest, where they found and surrounded a Hidden Moon Demon Cat.
• Lu Feng injured the Hidden Moon Demon Cat, and Mu Lan killed it and absorbed its Spirit Ring.
• Mu Lan discovered that her moonlight-assisted cultivation ability had increased by thirty percent, confirming the Martial Soul Evolution Theory to the squad.
• Wu Tong received three hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins and visited the Seven Treasure Pavilion to buy a storage Soul Tool.
• Wu Tong chose the bracelet, named it Taiji, stored his wilderness survival equipment inside it, and left the shop.

Six years after publishing his Martial Soul Evolution Theory, Wu Tong had become a renowned Sage and researcher while serving under Xue Qinghe, who was secretly Qian Renxue. After Qian Renxue hurried away over an urgent matter, Wu Tong reflected on how his theory had ended his quiet life and brought him into the Heaven Dou Empire’s protection.

• Wu Tong defeated Xue Qinghe at chess, and she asked what he planned to do next.
• Wu Tong said he would help Dugu Bo cure the poison affecting his family after being pestered by him repeatedly.
• A guard delivered urgent news to Xue Qinghe, and she abruptly left the pavilion.
• Wu Tong recalled that Mu Lan’s strengthened Martial Soul had supported his theory, so he compiled Martial Soul Evolution Theory.
• Principal Charles sent Wu Tong’s theory to Martial Soul Monthly, which published it and drew attention from major powers.
• Wu Tong accepted Xue Qinghe’s recruitment, gaining the Heaven Dou Empire’s protection and access to Spirit Hall’s upper ranks through Qian Renxue.