Chapter Summaries

Chrysanthemum Douluo and the Spirit Hall Golden Generation encountered Dugu Bo, Dugu Chen, and Dugu Yan in the Star Dou Great Forest, where Xie Yue challenged Dugu Chen. Their fight left Xie Yue in danger after Dugu Chen seized one of his Moon Blades and struck at his chest.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo praised Dugu Yan and recognized Dugu Chen, then tried to recruit Dugu Chen to Spirit Hall, but Dugu Chen refused.
• Dugu Yan finished absorbing her soul ring while the two sides maintained a tense standoff.
• Xie Yue challenged Dugu Chen, who revealed that he was Rank 47 while Xie Yue was Rank 41.
• Xie Yue attacked with his Moon Blades, but Dugu Chen blocked the strike with his dragon claws and grabbed one blade.
• Xie Yue raised his other Moon Blade to defend his chest as the blade in Dugu Chen's grip erupted with Blade Qi.

Dugu Chen defeated Xie Yue in a staged display of strength in the Star Dou Great Forest, impressing Hu Liena and the Spirit Hall siblings. After Dugu Bo left with Dugu Chen and Dugu Yan, a Black Giant Tiger appeared, sensed their lingering Soul Power, and memorized their auras.

• Dugu Chen wounded Xie Yue in their opening clash, then struggled to keep up with Xie Yue's hit-and-run attacks without revealing his full strength.
• Dugu Chen used his Kirin Earth Shaker Roar to daze Xie Yue, then sent him flying with a heavy punch after Xie Yue unleashed his remaining Soul Power.
• Dugu Bo mocked Chrysanthemum Douluo, while Xie Yue accepted defeat and Hu Liena asked Dugu Chen whether he would enter the next Continental Soul Master Tournament.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo left with Xie Yue and Hu Liena to find Hu Liena a fourth Soul Ring, and Dugu Bo departed with Dugu Chen and Dugu Yan.
• A Black Giant Tiger appeared at the battle site, sensed the group's lingering Soul Power, memorized their auras, and vanished into the darkness.

Dugu Chen agreed to lead Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s First Team in the Continental Soul Master Tournament and chose his teammates himself. After meeting his new assistant Qin Ming, he gathered his friends and explained the team’s formation, leaving them ready to compete under his captaincy.

• The Education Committee asked Dugu Chen to join the tournament team, and he agreed on the condition that he choose its members.
• Xue Qinghe urged Dugu Chen to win the championship, and Dugu Chen promised to try.
• Liu Ze introduced Qin Ming as the First Team’s assistant and said he would serve as team leader.
• Dugu Chen gathered Dugu Yan and the others, picked up Ning Rongrong, and brought them to the back mountain.
• Dugu Chen explained the tournament team, and his companions accepted him as captain without objection.

Liu Ze and Qin Ming met with Dugu Chen’s team to assess their abilities and prepare for the Soul Master Tournament. Qin Ming challenged their unconventional lineup, and the chapter ended as the team clashed with him in a training fight.

• Liu Ze introduced himself and Qin Ming as the team’s teachers, and Dugu Chen listed the seven students’ ranks and roles.
• Qin Ming questioned the team’s lack of an agility-system Soul Master and its multiple support-system members, prompting Dugu Chen and the others to challenge his judgment.
• Qin Ming revealed his Rank 61 strength and activated his Blazing Fire Wolf Martial Soul, while Dugu Chen’s team formed up to fight him.
• Ning Rongrong and Oscar boosted the attackers, and Dugu Yan used her Soul Skills to strengthen and shield herself and the Shi Brothers.
• The Shi Brothers met Qin Ming’s flaming strike with their shields and blocked it.

Qin Ming fought Dugu Yan, the Shi Brothers, and the Heaven Dou Team, but Dugu Chen overwhelmed him and proved the team’s strength. After Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan treated his injuries and poison, Qin Ming accepted the team’s ability, and they returned to training.

• The Shi Brothers and Dugu Yan coordinated their attacks, and Dugu Yan’s poison forced Qin Ming to unleash Blazing Storm to break free.
• Qin Ming decided to target Ning Rongrong, but Dugu Chen blocked his charge with Kirin Power and sent him flying.
• Liu Ze supported Qin Ming while Ye Lingling healed him and Dugu Yan removed the poison.
• Qin Ming admitted the Heaven Dou Team was outstanding and accepted Dugu Chen’s judgment.
• Dugu Chen and the others resumed training and added team sparring against Liu Ze.

Dugu Chen secured the academy’s help arranging suitable team battles for the Heaven Dou Team and led them to the Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena to begin gaining combat experience. The team prepared to face battle-hardened Soul Ancestor opponents.

• Dugu Chen asked the Three Education Commissioners to help arrange Seven-Person Soul Battles suited to the team’s uneven Soul Power levels, and Meng Shenji agreed to seek the empire’s support.
• Dugu Chen and the Heaven Dou Team traveled from Heaven Dou Royal Academy to Heaven Dou City and arrived at the crowded Great Soul Arena.
• Dugu Chen explained the arena’s popularity to Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling, who accepted that performing before spectators would test their mental fortitude.
• Dugu Chen led the team to the front desk to register for Seven-Person Team Battles against Soul Ancestor-level teams.

Dugu Chen’s team won its final match at the Heaven Dou Grand Soul Fighting Arena, extending its streak to twenty-four victories before preparing to leave the city for training. Dugu Chen laid out their travel plans and safety arrangements, while Oscar and Ning Rongrong bickered over their martial souls.

• The Heaven Dou Team defeated the Mad Dragon Team, securing its twenty-fourth consecutive victory and drawing cheers from the crowd.
• Liu Ze told Cui Steward that the team would leave for other cities the next day, and Cui Steward congratulated them on their upcoming tournament campaign.
• Dugu Chen told the group they would visit the Star Dou Great Forest so he and Oscar could obtain soul rings, then travel through the Heaven Dou Empire for training.
• Dugu Chen reassured Liu Ze and Qin Ming that Dugu Bo and an elder from the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile School would accompany them on the soul-hunting trip.
• Oscar and Ning Rongrong argued about their martial souls, prompting Dugu Chen to consider speaking with Ning Fengzhi about Ning Rongrong’s Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda.

Dugu Chen’s group set out for the Star Dou Great Forest with Dugu Bo and Gu Feng accompanying them, while the travelers discussed their soul-ring plans and teased Oscar. The trip began with Dugu Chen’s friends exposing Oscar’s romantic antics, prompting Dugu Chen to threaten them.

• Dugu Bo arrived with Dugu Chen and praised his disciple’s rapid rise to Soul King, while Gu Feng joined the group as Ning Rongrong’s escort.
• Ning Rongrong introduced Gu Feng, a level-seventy-nine Soul Saint from Bone Douluo’s village who possessed the Twin Winged Thunder Dragon Martial Soul.
• Dugu Bo led the eleven travelers toward the Star Dou Great Forest in three carriages, and Dugu Chen said he planned to absorb a soul ring around thirty-five thousand years old.
• Dugu Chen asked Oscar to prepare sausages for everyone before they entered the forest, and Shi Mo teased Oscar about his unusual soul incantations.
• Shi Mo exposed Oscar’s attempts to get Ning Rongrong’s attention, and Oscar accidentally compared his romantic innocence to Dugu Chen’s.
• Dugu Chen threatened that either Shi Mo and Shi Mo or Oscar would not survive the day, so the two men pounced on Oscar.

Dugu Chen’s group entered the Star Dou Great Forest to seek a thirty-thousand-year Soul Beast, but they encountered a rare Silver Hero Beast instead. Oscar killed it in hopes of inheriting its Imprint ability, leaving the group to see whether his long-held wish would come true.

• Dugu Bo led the group into the Star Dou Great Forest and assigned Gu Feng, Liu Ze, and Qin Ming to protect them as they searched the Mixed Zone.
• After searching for hours, Dugu Chen sensed a Soul Beast approaching, and the group formed a defensive formation around the support-type Soul Masters.
• Dugu Chen recognized the creature as a Silver Hero Beast, and Dugu Bo subdued it without using a soul skill.
• Dugu Chen explained that the Silver Hero Beast’s Imprint ability could copy and store opponents’ soul skills, giving Oscar a chance to inherit the talent.
• Oscar stepped forward and killed the unconscious Silver Hero Beast with a single sword strike.

Dugu Chen and his group pursued a Golden Armored Rhinoceros into a mysterious volcanic forest, where a gigantic lava Soul Beast emerged and attacked them. Dugu Bo challenged the beast with his Poison Array as the group realized it wielded a domain.

• Dugu Chen’s group chased a twenty-five-thousand-year Golden Armored Rhinoceros into a fiery forest after searching for a suitable Soul Beast for him.
• Dugu Bo led the group deeper into the forest despite Dugu Chen’s warning, and they found the rhinoceros pacing beside a volcanic crater.
• A giant flaming hand seized the Golden Armored Rhinoceros and dragged it into the volcano, while Dugu Chen sensed that the beast had targeted him.
• A fifteen-meter lava Soul Beast emerged from the volcano, and Dugu Chen pulled Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling away before a magma pillar erupted beneath them.
• Dugu Bo charged the beast and trapped it in his Jade Phosphor Bewitching Formation, but the Soul Beast’s domain made his Soul Power and strength seem to burn away.

Dugu Bo and Gu Feng battled a regenerating Molten Giant Beast while Dugu Chen discovered its hidden core and prepared to fight it himself. Dugu Bo petrified the Beast before Dugu Chen could claim the kill, leaving Dugu Chen to absorb its Soul Ring.

• The Molten Giant Beast’s Flame Domain overwhelmed Dugu Bo, who rallied Gu Feng and fought it while the others stayed back.
• Dugu Bo used his eighth and ninth Soul Skills to destroy the Beast, but it reappeared and attacked the group with Magma.
• Dugu Chen and Oscar used matching Golden Dragon Claws to clear the falling Magma, then Dugu Chen flew to the crater to investigate the Beast.
• Dugu Chen sensed the Beast’s hidden lower body and asked Dugu Bo to hold it off, prompting the Beast to split apart and reveal a smaller form with Ultimate Earth.
• As the smaller Beast lunged at Dugu Chen, Dugu Bo turned it to stone and told Dugu Chen to absorb its Soul Ring.

Dugu Chen absorbed the Earth Element Sprite's Soul Ring and faced its remnant will and the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger inside his Spiritual Sea. As he continued absorbing the ring, a mysterious red flame entered his body while Dugu Bo and the others stood guard.

• Dugu Chen killed the petrified Soul Beast and discovered that the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's evil aura clung to its corpse.
• Dugu Chen absorbed the Soul Ring while Dugu Bo guarded him, and the ring drew him into his Spiritual Sea.
• Dugu Chen summoned his Kirin Martial Soul and watched it and the Earth Element Sprite's remnant will fight the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger until both remnants faded.
• Dugu Chen witnessed the Earth Element Sprite's memories, learning that the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger had gravely wounded it and that it had spent centuries healing and fusing its Ultimate Earth with the volcano's flames.
• Dugu Bo and the others waited through a day as Dugu Chen absorbed the Soul Ring, and a red flame shot from the volcanic crater into his body.

The Earth God confronted the Fire God for giving a divine power seed to Dugu Chen, whom the Earth God hoped to make his successor. After hearing both sides, the Life and Destruction God Kings decided to examine Dugu Chen themselves.

• The Earth God flew to the Fire God's domain and accused him of interfering with a promising candidate in the lower realm.
• The Fire God and Earth God clashed until the other Elemental Gods intervened and the Life and Destruction God Kings arrived.
• The Earth God explained that Dugu Chen had absorbed an Earth Element Sprite carrying a trace of his divine power, while the Fire God said he had only given Dugu Chen a Seed of Divine Power.
• The Life God King determined that the Fire God had not broken the inheritance rules because the Earth God had not given Dugu Chen a God Trial.
• The Destruction God King and Life God King decided to look at Dugu Chen, ending the gods' dispute for the moment.

The God Realm’s main gods observed Dugu Chen and debated which divine position he might inherit, while the God of Destruction chose not to treat his Golden Dragon King bloodline as a threat. After two days and one night, Dugu Chen completed his absorption of a forty-thousand-year soul ring, advanced to Soul King, and discovered his new soul skill was weapon-type.

• The Destruction God King used Earth God's power to observe Dugu Chen absorbing a soul ring, and the gods noted Dugu Chen's compatibility with the Fire God and Earth God positions and Oscar's suitability for the Food God position.
• The Life God King persuaded the Destruction God King not to harm Dugu Chen over his trace of Golden Dragon King bloodline, and the gods dispersed without settling which position Dugu Chen would inherit.
• After two days and one night, Dugu Chen broke through a blocked meridian and absorbed the black soul ring, officially advancing to Soul King.
• Dugu Yan threw herself into Dugu Chen's embrace when he awoke, and Dugu Bo asked him about his gains.
• Dugu Chen sensed that his meridians and Soul Power had strengthened and that he had become closer to earth and its elemental power.
• Dugu Chen discovered that his fifth soul skill was the weapon-type skill he had wanted.

After gaining a powerful Soul Bone from the Earth Element Sprite, Dugu Chen and his companions emerged from the Star Dou Great Forest onto the Lima Plain. They rescued Zhu Zhuqing from three pursuers, and she joined them to rest.

• Dugu Chen admired the strength and transformation granted by the Earth Element Sprite’s complete Right Arm Bone, then followed the Golden Armored Rhinoceros out of the forest with his group.
• A black-haired girl named Zhu Zhuqing fled across the Lima Plain while three Soul Elders chased her.
• Zhu Zhuqing stumbled into the grove where Dugu Chen’s group was resting, and her pursuers surrounded them.
• Dugu Chen killed all three Soul Elders with Lava Spike after they threatened the group.
• Zhu Zhuqing thanked Dugu Chen, introduced herself, and accepted his offer to rest with the group.

Dugu Chen and his companions welcomed Zhu Zhuqing, treated her exhaustion, and learned she had come from Star Luo to find Dai Mubai after he abandoned her. After discovering the group’s powerful connections, Zhu Zhuqing began to hope they could help her escape her dangerous fate.

• Dugu Chen gave the group Root-Enhancing Dragon Ganoderma Leaves and invited Zhu Zhuqing to join them for food.
• Ye Lingling used her Soul Skill to heal Zhu Zhuqing, while Ning Rongrong introduced herself and befriended her.
• Dugu Chen deduced that Zhu Zhuqing was from the Zhu Family and had come to find Dai Mubai, and Zhu Zhuqing described her hardships and his escape.
• Ning Rongrong offered Zhu Zhuqing a place with their group and promised they could confront Dai Mubai, but Zhu Zhuqing worried about provoking the Star Luo Imperial Family.
• Ning Rongrong revealed the group’s powerful backgrounds, and Zhu Zhuqing felt new hope for her freedom.

Dugu Chen reached the peak of Rank 51 and began helping Zhu Zhuqing after she asked him to teach her how to cultivate. The group rested in a town before continuing their journey without Dugu Bo, while Dugu Chen remained confident in his strength and good nature.

• Zhu Zhuqing decided to travel toward Suotuo City with the group, and Ning Rongrong invited her to sleep in the women's tent.
• Dugu Chen meditated at dawn, found himself near a breakthrough, and noticed his Ultimate Attributes beginning to fuse.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked Dugu Chen to teach her how to cultivate, then fled in embarrassment when Dugu Yan saw her bowing to him.
• Dugu Yan encouraged Dugu Chen to help Zhu Zhuqing and kissed him before returning to wake Ning Rongrong.
• The group reached a town, rested there for two days, and set off again without Dugu Bo, who returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye.

Dugu Chen and his companions arrived in Suotuo City and encountered Dai Mubai outside a restaurant. Zhu Zhuqing recognized him, and Dai Mubai tried to explain himself after seeing her cold reaction.

• Dugu Chen's group entered Suotuo City and checked into the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile School's Suotuo Grand Hotel.
• Dugu Chen ended the girls' shopping trip by persuading them to go eat, then noticed the Rose Hotel on the way to a restaurant.
• Zhu Zhuqing spotted Dai Mubai approaching with a beautiful woman, and Dugu Chen recognized him as the likely Dai Mubai.
• Dai Mubai noticed Zhu Zhuqing, turned back in shock, and told her that things were not what she thought.

Dai Mubai tried to win Zhu Zhuqing back by proving his strength, but Ning Rongrong and Dugu Chen’s group stood against him. On an open field, Dai Mubai faced the group alone and challenged them to attack together.

• Dai Mubai recognized Zhu Zhuqing as his fiancée and worried that his behavior had ruined their chance to use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill against Dai Weisi.
• Ning Rongrong insulted Dai Mubai, then pretended he had bullied her and drew Dugu Chen and the others into backing her up.
• Dai Mubai saw the confrontation as a chance to prove his cultivation to Zhu Zhuqing, while Zhu Zhuqing felt touched by her companions’ support.
• Dugu Chen’s group moved the confrontation to an open field outside the city, where Shi Mo, Shi Mo, and Oscar argued over who would fight Dai Mubai.
• Dai Mubai unleashed his Soul Power, roared, and challenged Dugu Chen’s group to come at him together.

Dai Mubai challenged Oscar and the others, but their coordinated defense and Oscar’s unexpected strength left him injured and badly outmatched. As the fight continued, Dugu Chen and Dugu Yan joked on the sidelines while Dai Mubai neared defeat.

• Dai Mubai activated his White Tiger Martial Soul and attacked Oscar and the Shi Brothers, who blocked his assault with their shields.
• Dai Mubai broke through the Shi Brothers’ defenses and charged Oscar, who used several sausages to strengthen himself before meeting Dai Mubai’s fist.
• Oscar was driven back by Dai Mubai’s punch, but the Shi Brothers’ shields shattered Dai Mubai’s barrier and struck him in the back, leaving him injured.
• Ning Rongrong watched with a mischievous smile, while Zhu Zhuqing showed no concern for Dai Mubai and Dugu Yan teased Dugu Chen about scumbags.
• Dai Mubai failed to break through the Shi Brothers’ defense and struggled against Oscar as his Soul Power dwindled toward defeat.
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