Chapter Summaries

Gu Yuena appeared before Long Yu and revealed that his martial soul and bloodline came from the Dragon God, asking him to restore the soul beast race. She recounted the Dragon God's defeat and the God Realm's ban on soul beasts becoming gods, leaving Long Yu to absorb the burden of the race's possible extinction.

• Gu Yuena arrived through a Spatial Gate, and Long Yu pretended not to recognize her despite feeling his martial soul and bloodline respond to her.
• Gu Yuena identified Long Yu as the Dragon God and knelt, asking him to restore the glory of the soul beast race.
• Gu Yuena explained that humans had entered the God Realm and grown powerful, leading to a war in which the five Supreme Gods defeated the Dragon God.
• Gu Yuena said the Dragon God was split in two, with the Golden Dragon King trapped in the God Realm and Gu Yuena escaping to the Douluo Continent with grave injuries.
• Gu Yuena told Long Yu that the God Realm had forbidden soul beasts from becoming gods and warned that the race might disappear within twenty thousand years.

Long Yu refused Gu Yuena’s plea to lead the soul beast race to revival, arguing that the Divine Realm was too powerful and that he had no reason to risk humanity’s fate for the cause. Gu Yuena accepted his choice but offered to help him find a soul ring, and Long Yu asked her only not to interfere with his search.

• Gu Yuena knelt before Long Yu and asked him to restore the soul beast race to prosperity.
• Long Yu explained that the Divine Realm’s strength made the soul beasts’ chances of victory slim and refused to lead them.
• Gu Yuena cried at his rejection but said she respected his choice and would not force him.
• Long Yu thanked Gu Yuena for knocking out the Seductive Fox that had threatened his senior sister, and Gu Yuena reaffirmed her resolve to revive the soul beast race.
• Gu Yuena offered to help Long Yu find a soul ring, but he declined her help and asked her not to stop him from hunting soul beasts.

Gu Yuena took Long Yu through a Spatial Gate to receive a sacrifice from a twelve-thousand-year-old Dragon Armored Turtle. After reaching Soul Power Level 32, Long Yu offered to help Gu Yuena and learned her injuries would take at least twenty thousand years to heal.

• Gu Yuena reassured Long Yu that she would not harm him and offered him a third soul ring, then brought him through a Spatial Gate while Hu Liena and Chrysanthemum Douluo slept behind a barrier.
• Gu Yuena found a twelve-thousand-year-old Dragon Armored Turtle and commanded it to sacrifice itself to Long Yu.
• The Dragon Armored Turtle sacrificed its life force and cultivation, forming a black soul ring as Long Yu's Dragon God Martial Soul appeared.
• Long Yu absorbed the ring, gained two Soul Power levels, and reached Level 32 with yellow, purple, and black soul rings.
• Long Yu asked Gu Yuena to stop calling him 'my lord' and promised to help her; she revealed that her injuries would take at least twenty thousand years to heal.

Long Yu consulted the newly activated Glory System about healing Gu Yuena and learned he could earn the Secret of 'Zhe' Character by winning the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament alone for the Spirit Hall Academy team. He then discovered his new External Soul Bone, Dragon Armor, and the power and limits of his third soul skill.

• Long Yu asked the Glory System how to heal Gu Yuena, and it offered the Stone of Life or the Secret of 'Zhe' Character, which could restore her within three years.
• Long Yu learned the Secret of 'Zhe' Character cost one hundred million Glory Points, but the system offered it as a reward for winning the tournament alone for the Spirit Hall Academy team.
• Long Yu told Gu Yuena he had a way to help her recover in six years, though she remained doubtful before assuring him she trusted him.
• Gu Yuena pointed out that Long Yu had gained an External Soul Bone, and Long Yu found it covered him in black armor with spikes and a piercing Dragon Thorn ability.
• Long Yu named the External Soul Bone Dragon Armor and learned his third soul skill, Dragon Emperor Overlord Body, made him immune to below-god-level attacks for eight seconds, up to three times a day.

Long Yu told Gu Yuena about his soul skills, strengthening her trust in him, and she asked to stay by his side while he recovered her injuries. He refused because he was going to Spirit City, but promised to meet her in Star Dou Great Forest in about two years.

• Long Yu explained his External Soul Bone and his first three soul skills to Gu Yuena, who was pleased that he trusted her.
• Gu Yuena said she would stay with Long Yu for six years to protect him and help change his views about reviving the soul beast race.
• Long Yu warned that her presence in Spirit City might alert the human gods, and Gu Yuena worried about leaving him unprotected.
• Long Yu promised to visit Gu Yuena in Star Dou Great Forest after about two years, when he expected to reach Soul Ancestor and leave Spirit City to train.
• Long Yu privately planned to seek immortal herbs and use Gu Yuena's strength to oppose Tang San, Grandmaster, and Tang Hao.

Long Yu returned from meeting Gu Yuena with his Dragon God aura concealed and his Martial Soul free to use. After revealing his new Soul Elder rank, powerful third soul skill, and External Soul Bone, he left the Star Dou Great Forest with Hu Liena and Chrysanthemum Douluo, while Gu Yuena watched him go and awaited his return in two years.

• Gu Yuena told Long Yu she had restricted the divine aura from his Dragon God Martial Soul, allowing him to release it without being detected except at a Divine Realm inheritance site.
• Long Yu and Gu Yuena returned to the Star Dou Great Forest camp at dawn, where Hu Liena and Chrysanthemum Douluo woke and found him safe.
• Long Yu revealed that he had reached Rank 32 and gained a twelve-thousand-year Dragon Armored Turtle Soul Ring with the Dragon Emperor Overlord Body skill.
• Long Yu summoned his Dragon Armor External Soul Bone and explained its abilities, astonishing Hu Liena and Chrysanthemum Douluo.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo led Long Yu and Hu Liena toward Spirit City, while Gu Yuena watched them leave and returned to the Lake of Life to await Long Yu in two years.

Long Yu and Hu Liena returned to Spirit City, where Bibi Dong assessed their progress and examined Long Yu’s Dragon Armor. After praising both disciples, Bibi Dong asked Long Yu to explain how he obtained his third soul ring, leaving his answer unknown.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo brought Long Yu and Hu Liena back to Spirit City and told Bibi Dong about their unusual soul-ring absorption.
• Bibi Dong examined Long Yu’s Dragon Armor and judged its defense and bone spikes exceptionally powerful.
• Long Yu told Bibi Dong that he could sustain Dragon Armor for fifteen minutes in a normal battle.
• Hu Liena complained that Bibi Dong was paying more attention to Long Yu, and Bibi Dong praised Hu Liena’s level 42 cultivation.
• Bibi Dong sent Hu Liena away and privately asked Long Yu how he had obtained his third soul ring.

Long Yu told Bibi Dong how he had obtained his extraordinary power, and she accepted his explanation while wondering which divine seat he would inherit. Back in Spirit Hall, he revealed his Level 32 cultivation and unprecedented third ten-thousand-year soul ring before beginning a full-strength test against Jun Yun.

• Long Yu summoned his Dragon Emperor Spear and Nine-Colored Dragon, then told Bibi Dong that mysterious nine-colored energy had led him to the Dragon Armored Turtle; Bibi Dong let him leave and wondered which divine seat he would inherit.
• Hu Liena challenged Long Yu, but he warned that she could not beat him and reluctantly agreed to spar outside.
• Long Yu and Hu Liena returned to the advanced class, where Yan worried that Long Yu had become a Soul Elder and that Hu Liena admired him.
• Long Yu announced his Level 32 Soul Elder cultivation and summoned his Nine-Colored Dragon, dragon claws, and yellow, purple, and black soul rings, shocking the students and instructors.
• Jun Yun revealed her Level 79 Golden Light Eagle Martial Soul and prepared to test Long Yu's full strength.

Long Yu battled Teacher Jun to test his strength, forcing her to use increasingly powerful Soul Skills before losing when his Soul Power ran out. Their spar also helped Teacher Jun break through to level eighty, while Yan resolved to train harder to compete for Hu Liena’s affection and Spirit Hall’s upcoming tournament selection.

• Long Yu attacked Teacher Jun with his spear techniques, but she evaded his strikes and countered from the air with her Soul Skills.
• Long Yu used the pillars to get close and slammed Teacher Jun to the ground with Dragon Suppression, then revealed his External Soul Bone and continued attacking.
• Teacher Jun caught Long Yu’s spear, then used her sixth Soul Skill, but Long Yu’s Dragon Emperor Overlord Body resisted its mental effects.
• Long Yu exhausted his Soul Power and conceded, and Teacher Jun praised his strength while revealing that the battle had raised her Soul Power to level eighty.
• Hu Liena helped Long Yu leave, while Yan chose to train with his teacher and prepare for Spirit Hall’s future tournament selection.

Bibi Dong reassigned Jun Yun to distance her from Long Yu, while Hu Liena tried to draw closer to Long Yu and their accidental kiss left him conflicted over his feelings for her and Qian Renxue. The chapter ended with Bibi Dong comforting Hu Liena as Long Yu slept alone in a pavilion.

• Bibi Dong told Jun Yun she would leave the advanced class and receive a new assignment, intending to weaken her connection with Long Yu and protect his future.
• Long Yu encouraged Hu Liena to learn his movement technique, then beat her in a spar without Soul Power.
• Hu Liena seized the chance to kiss Long Yu, but he noticed Qian Renxue's necklace, pulled away, apologized, and fled.
• Long Yu brooded over his feelings for Hu Liena and Qian Renxue, then fell asleep in a pavilion.
• Hu Liena searched for Long Yu, and Bibi Dong found her and said Long Yu had feelings for her despite his attachment to another woman.

Long Yu taught Hu Liena Phoenix Dance Six Illusions and borrowed Chrysanthemum Douluo’s copy of the Immortal Herb Record to pursue his plans for rare herbs. He returned to class and met Huang Haotian, his new homeroom teacher and combat instructor, preparing for their first spar.

• Bibi Dong told Long Yu that Teacher Jun had left and that he had a new homeroom teacher, while Hu Liena remained calm after breakfast with him.
• Long Yu taught Hu Liena Phoenix Dance Six Illusions, and she quickly grasped its essentials.
• Long Yu asked Chrysanthemum Douluo to lend him the Immortal Herb Record, and Chrysanthemum Douluo gave him his handwritten copy.
• Long Yu returned to the advanced class and met Huang Haotian, a powerful Soul Douluo with a dragon-type martial soul, as his new homeroom teacher and combat instructor.
• Long Yu took his seat and prepared to spar with Huang Haotian that afternoon.

Long Yu faced a crushing defeat against Huang Haotian, who had been ordered by Bibi Dong to temper her disciple and confront his growing pride. After Long Yu accepted his weakness, Huang Haotian hinted at Spirit Hall’s hidden dangers and called him its future Pope, leaving Long Yu aware that he had a long way to grow.

• Long Yu challenged Huang Haotian, but the Soul Douluo used his Martial Soul Avatar and knocked Long Yu off the platform after his defensive skill expired.
• Xie Yue protested Huang Haotian’s mockery of Long Yu, and Huang Haotian told the students that enemies would not excuse weakness because of age or identity.
• Long Yu understood that Bibi Dong had arranged the defeat to temper him and reminded himself that his ambitions reached beyond becoming the strongest young fighter.
• After the other students left, Long Yu asked Huang Haotian about Spirit Hall’s potential enemies, and Huang Haotian said the continent’s peace concealed dark places and sacrifices.
• Huang Haotian urged Long Yu to cultivate for the future of Spirit Hall, calling him its future Pope, and Long Yu began to understand the significance of Spirit Hall’s origins.

Long Yu and his classmates accepted a dangerous Spirit Hall mission to eliminate Evil Soul Masters who had slaughtered civilians in a kingdom under the Heaven Dou Empire. Huang Haotian explained the political dispute that had allowed the killings to continue, then began briefing the forty-eight volunteers on the mission site.

• Over two years, Long Yu reached Soul Power Level 39 while training with Huang Haotian, and Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan also advanced.
• Huang Haotian announced that students seeking graduation and a chance to join Martial Soul Hall Academy’s tournament team had to complete a dangerous mission.
• Long Yu signed up first, followed by Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan; forty-eight students ultimately volunteered.
• Huang Haotian revealed that mysterious attackers had killed thousands of civilians near a Soul Hunting Forest, and a Titled Douluo had confirmed they were Evil Soul Masters.
• Huang Haotian explained that a kingdom’s weak fighters, internal disputes, and refusal of Heaven Dou Empire intervention had let the Evil Soul Masters run rampant.
• Huang Haotian told the students that the kingdom had restricted Spirit Hall’s response and began explaining the mission’s local situation.

Long Yu questioned the risks and unknowns surrounding Spirit Hall’s mission to hunt Evil Soul Masters, and Bibi Dong confirmed that powerful experts would secretly protect a few selected students. Long Yu prepared for the journey without learning who the hidden protector was or what dangers awaited them.

• Huang Haotian reported that a Spirit Hall elder had killed two Evil Soul Master Soul Saints and that the remaining group was hiding in the Soul Hunting Forest.
• Hu Liena reassured Long Yu that the advanced class had enough strength to defeat the Evil Soul Masters, but Long Yu listed possible traps, hidden allies, and the risk of a Soul Saint opponent.
• Bibi Dong agreed with Long Yu’s concerns and refused to give Hu Liena any hints about the mission.
• Long Yu asked Bibi Dong whether experts would secretly protect the students, and she confirmed that her experts would focus on protecting him, Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan.
• Long Yu returned to his residence and prepared supplies, antidotes, and other items for unexpected dangers.

The Martial Soul Hall Advanced Class students traveled to Fengyun Town to investigate Evil Soul Master attacks near a Soul Beast Forest, with Long Yu appointed as their commander. After arriving, Long Yu requested detailed reports while the town mayor’s lecherous behavior toward Hu Liena angered the students.

• Teacher Huang sent the forty-eight students to the kingdom without accompanying them, and they traveled in teams with Long Yu as overall commander.
• After several days, the students arrived in Fengyun Town and met Lu Yun, the local Martial Soul Hall representative.
• Lu Yun described the town’s decline after Evil Soul Masters drove away mercenary groups and introduced Mayor Lin Xuan.
• Hu Liena snapped at Lin Xuan for staring at her, and Long Yu asked for precise information about the attacks, casualties, troop positions, and mercenary groups.
• Lu Yun supplied Long Yu with a folder of prepared information and led the students to their arranged accommodations, while the students continued to spurn Lin Xuan.

Long Yu gathered firsthand information about the Evil Soul Masters and grew more suspicious of Mayor Lin Xuan. Meanwhile, Lin Xuan met with an Evil Soul Master and agreed to help carry out a plan targeting Spirit Hall’s students.

• Long Yu questioned a seven-member mercenary group at a tavern, learned about the Evil Soul Masters, and paid them one thousand Gold Soul Coins for their information.
• Long Yu ordered the Advanced Class members to stay inside Spirit Hall and avoid investigating the Soul Beast Forest alone.
• An Evil Soul Master and Lin Xuan met in the Soul Master Forest and discussed how to draw Spirit Hall’s students into a trap.
• Lin Xuan asked to keep the female soul masters alive so he could abuse them, and the Evil Soul Master approved as long as Lin Xuan completed his task.

After Evil Soul Masters massacred a village, fear and anti-Spirit Hall rumors spread through Fengyun Town while political restrictions kept Spirit Hall from acting freely. Long Yu finally ordered a small team to investigate Soul Beast Forest the next morning, while Lin Xuan secretly welcomed the plan and Yan grew resentful.

• Evil Soul Masters slaughtered a village, driving its survivors and nearby villagers to seek refuge in Fengyun Town.
• Rumors blamed Spirit Hall for failing to protect civilians, while the Heaven Dou Empire and local kingdom withheld further support and restricted Spirit Hall's response.
• Yan, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena pressed Long Yu to act, and Lu Yun and Lin Xuan warned that public anger was escalating.
• Long Yu ordered Wang Tian, Shangguan Hao, and Yu Ling'er to investigate Soul Beast Forest in the morning, with the students to follow that afternoon if the team found nothing unusual.
• Yan challenged Long Yu's decision, but Long Yu ordered him to obey or go alone and forbade him from bringing other students.
• Lin Xuan privately anticipated that Spirit Hall's students would be wiped out and looked forward to exploiting the situation.

Long Yu explained a secret plan to three classmates and assigned them roles for the coming fight against the Evil Soul Masters. He told Hu Liena that the plan could reverse the hunt, though a Soul Sage-level enemy might still make tomorrow’s battle dangerous.

• Long Yu reassured three classmates that they would be safe, explained part of his plan, and sent them to prepare for the next day’s mission.
• Xie Yue noticed the three classmates’ unusually pleased expressions and began to understand Long Yu’s scheme.
• Long Yu and Hu Liena watched the people protesting outside Martial Soul Hall, and Long Yu suspected an influential insider in Fengyun Town was helping the Evil Soul Masters.
• Long Yu warned Hu Liena that they might face a Soul Sage-level Evil Soul Master without a Titled Douluo to protect them.
• Long Yu told Hu Liena that the Evil Soul Masters’ greed would let his plan turn the hunters into prey and put the Evil Soul Masters in danger.

Wang Tian, Shangguan Hao, and Yu Ling'er scouted the Soul Beast Forest for Long Yu and secretly left purple powder behind, while Evil Soul Masters watched them from afar. After the scouts returned safely, Long Yu prepared the advanced classes to depart that afternoon and took out a small purple sphere central to his plan.

• Long Yu sent Wang Tian, Shangguan Hao, and Yu Ling'er to scout the Soul Beast Forest, warning them that their families remained in Spirit City.
• The three scouts searched different parts of the forest and secretly scattered fine purple powder before meeting and reporting that they had found no danger.
• A black-clad Evil Soul Master decided not to attack the scouts, believing a Titled Douluo might be following them, and ordered Lord Blood Prison to act that afternoon.
• Wang Tian, Shangguan Hao, and Yu Ling'er returned safely, and Long Yu told the advanced classes to prepare to set out that afternoon.
• Long Yu silently acknowledged the scouts and took a fingernail-sized purple sphere from his Storage Soul Tool.

Long Yu’s group set out for the Soul Beast Forest as an Evil Soul Master attack drew Chrysanthemum Douluo toward a nearby town. At the forest, Long Yu exposed and killed Lin Xuan, then confronted the hidden Evil Soul Master.

• Long Yu’s group drank the water he provided before setting out, and Lin Xuan insisted on accompanying them as their guide.
• An Evil Soul Master Soul Douluo slaughtered forces near Fengyun Town, prompting the Heaven Dou Empire and the kingdom to ask Spirit Hall for help.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo discussed the crisis with Lu Yun, received the Pope’s secret orders, and left to eliminate the Evil Soul Master.
• Long Yu’s group reached the Soul Beast Forest, where Long Yu demanded to know how far away the Evil Soul Masters were.
• Long Yu pierced Lin Xuan with his Dragon Emperor Spear, then called out the hidden Evil Soul Master, who invited him to join the Evil Spirit Sect as its Saint Son.