Chapter Summaries

Lin Yao, a transmigrator living in Daoxiang Village, prepared for his Martial Soul Awakening while reflecting on his parents’ strength and the mysterious starry vortex in his mind. After his parents reassured him that they would support him regardless of the result, he resolved to grow strong enough to protect the life he cherished.

• Lin Yao gazed at the stars and wondered why he had transmigrated to Douluo Continent while waiting for his Martial Soul Awakening the next day.
• Zhao Wan found Lin Yao on a hill, reminded him to be careful with his iron sword, and brought him home for dinner.
• Lin Yao returned home with Zhao Wan and spoke with his father, Lin Yuyang, who urged him to eat, rest, and prepare for the ceremony.
• Lin Yao considered his parents’ Martial Souls and his own inaccessible starry vortex, while contemplating his uncertain future.
• Zhao Wan and Lin Yuyang reassured Lin Yao that they would stand by him no matter what Martial Soul he awakened, and he resolved to become strong enough to protect them.

Lin Yuyang returned to Daoxiang Village to awaken the Martial Souls of its six-year-old children, and Lin Jing emerged as a promising talent with a mutated Red Tassel Spear and Level Six Innate Soul Power. When Lin Yao's awakening began, its power surpassed even Lin Yuyang's expectations, and the Green Peak Sword reacted as if acknowledging a superior Martial Soul.

• Lin Yao joined the village children awaiting their Martial Soul Awakening after Lin Yuyang returned from helping children in nearby villages.
• Lin Yuyang awakened Lin Jing's mutated Red Tassel Spear and discovered she had Level Six Innate Soul Power, promising to help arrange her academy education.
• Lin Yuyang awakened the other children, most of whom had modest Martial Souls and low Soul Power, while Lin Jing watched eagerly for Lin Yao's turn.
• Lin Yao entered the Awakening Formation, whose power first suggested a high-tier Martial Soul and then surged to the level of a top-tier Martial Soul.
• Lin Yuyang saw his Green Peak Sword hum as if submitting to Lin Yao's awakened Martial Soul.

During his martial soul awakening, Lin Yao entered a palace connecting versions of himself across different worlds and activated their shared Cheat, which stacked their physical and spiritual strength. After meeting his selves from School Apocalypse and Hong Kong Movies World, he returned to the awakening formation, now strengthened and poised to develop his soul-master powers.

• Lin Yao was drawn from his martial soul awakening into a glowing palace, where two versions of himself urged him to touch the Star Imprint.
• Lin Yao touched the Star Imprint with Academy World Lin Yao and Hong Kong Movies World Lin Yao, sharing memories and stacking their physical strength, spiritual power, and other qualities.
• Lin Yao learned that the Cheat linked his soul fragments across worlds, allowing strength and self-improvement knowledge to be shared while limiting private memories and world-specific abilities.
• Academy World Lin Yao explained that he lived in School Apocalypse, where Umbrella Corporation made the approaching crisis dangerous despite his friendship with Busujima Saeko.
• Hong Kong Movies World Lin Yao described working undercover under Wong Chi-shing and said Douluo World Lin Yao's growth could help them survive until a powerful newcomer joined the palace.
• Douluo World Lin Yao agreed that the three would help one another, then returned to the martial soul awakening formation as the palace faded.

During his Martial Soul awakening, Lin Yao gained a Star Sword and a concealed Body Martial Soul, then proved he had Innate Full Soul Power. His father celebrated his extraordinary talent but worried that his own strength would not be enough to protect Lin Yao, while Lin Yao began considering how to secure protection.

• Lin Yao sensed his body strengthening as energy gathered in his hands and chest, forming two Martial Souls, and concealed the more powerful one in his chest.
• Lin Yao summoned the Star Sword, and Lin Yuyang identified it as a beneficial mutation combining traits of his parents' Martial Souls.
• Lin Yao named his sword the Star Sword and tested his Soul Power with the Crystal Ball.
• The Crystal Ball revealed Lin Yao had Innate Full Soul Power, and Lin Yuyang praised his talent while worrying that he could not protect him.
• Lin Yao's peers stared in shock at his talent, while Lin Jing felt discouraged that she might never surpass him.

After Lin Yao awakened a top-tier Martial Soul with Innate Full Soul Power, Lin Yuyang and Zhao Wan decided to seek protection for him from a powerful ally in Seven Treasure City. There, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect celebrated Ning Rongrong’s awakening with Innate Soul Power Level 9, while Ning Fengzhi hoped her talent could break the sect’s Martial Soul Shackle.

• Lin Yuyang told Village Chief Jerry and Zhao Wan that Lin Yao had a top-tier Martial Soul and Innate Full Soul Power, giving him the potential to become a Title Douluo.
• Lin Yuyang warned Zhao Wan that Lin Yao needed protection from powerful forces and decided to take him to Seven Treasure City to seek help from a lord connected to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Rongrong awakened a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda with Innate Soul Power Level 9, the highest the sect had seen in a hundred years.
• Sword Douluo Chen Xin and Bone Douluo Gu Rong praised Ning Rongrong, while Ning Fengzhi hoped her talent could break the sect’s Martial Soul Shackle.

Ning Rongrong’s awakening impressed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, while Ning Fengzhi worried about finding her worthy companions. A report of a child with a top-tier Sword Martial Soul and Innate Full Soul Power sent Sword Douluo to meet the visitor, as Lin Yao returned home and discovered his second Martial Soul, the Star Body.

• Ning Rongrong displayed Innate Soul Power Level 9, and Ning Fengzhi urged her to pair her talent with effort despite Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo praising her.
• Ning Fengzhi worried that the sect lacked promising young Soul Masters who could become reliable companions for Ning Rongrong.
• A guard reported that a Four-Ring Soul Ancestor bearing Sword Douluo’s token had arrived with a child who possessed a top-tier Sword Martial Soul and Innate Full Soul Power.
• Sword Douluo hurried to meet the visitor, while Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo welcomed the prospect of a peerless genius joining the sect.
• Lin Yao returned home with Zhao Wan and summoned his second Martial Soul, the Star Body, discovering its star chart and its ability to absorb Star Power.

Lin Yao explored the powers of his Twin Martial Souls, the Star Sword and Star Body, before Sword Douluo Chen Xin invited him to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. After Lin Yao secured assurances for his parents’ safety, he left home with Chen Xin for Seven Treasure City.

• Lin Yao discovered that his Star Sword and Star Body could work together, and learned their innate skills: Extreme of Sword and the Heavenly Cycle Star Array.
• Lin Yao met Sword Douluo Chen Xin, whom his parents had invited to guide him, and impressed him with his talent and determination.
• Chen Xin invited Lin Yao to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Lin Yao agreed after Chen Xin promised protection and support for his parents.
• Lin Yao said farewell to his parents, then boarded Chen Xin’s Seven Kill Sword and departed for Seven Treasure City.

Chen Xin brought Lin Yao to Seven Treasure City, where Ning Fengzhi welcomed him into the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and introduced him to Ning Rongrong and Gu Rong. Lin Yao revealed his Star Sword Martial Soul, impressing the elders, and Chen Xin demonstrated his Seven Kill Sword Intent to guide him.

• Chen Xin flew Lin Yao to Seven Treasure City and brought him to meet Ning Fengzhi, Ning Rongrong, and Gu Rong.
• Ning Rongrong welcomed Lin Yao playfully, while Ning Fengzhi praised his composure and invited him to call him Uncle Ning.
• Lin Yao summoned his Star Sword, whose pure sword intent amazed Chen Xin and the others.
• Ning Rongrong admired the Star Sword and teased Chen Xin that it looked stronger than his Seven Kill Sword.
• Chen Xin summoned his Seven Kill Sword and let its sword intent clash with Lin Yao's, defeating it while giving Lin Yao a chance to learn.

Lin Yao joined the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as Chen Xin’s student and revealed his Star Sword and its innate sword skill. After proposing a Thousand-Year first Soul Ring, he disclosed his second Martial Soul, the Star Body, and won the sect leaders’ support for cautiously testing his limits.

• Lin Yao explained that his Star Sword possessed the innate soul skill Extreme of Sword, and Chen Xin agreed to guide his cultivation while Ning Fengzhi promised the sect’s support.
• Ning Rongrong tried to establish herself as Lin Yao’s big sister, but Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin insisted she call him Big Brother Yao.
• Ning Fengzhi told Lin Yao to rest before Chen Xin took him to Sunset Forest to obtain his first Soul Ring, and Lin Yao privately planned to pursue a higher-age ring than ordinary geniuses could absorb.
• After dinner, Lin Yao told Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin that he wanted to try a Thousand-Year first Soul Ring and revealed his Star Body, a second Martial Soul that strengthened his body and possessed the innate skill Heavenly Cycle Star Array.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin recognized the Star Body’s potential, agreed to support Lin Yao’s careful pursuit of higher-age Soul Rings, and warned him to keep his Twin Martial Souls secret and not add rings to the Star Body prematurely.

Lin Yao traveled with Sword Douluo Chen Xin to the Sunset Forest to obtain his First Ring, insisting on a Thousand-Year Wood Attribute Soul Ring for his Star Sword. He absorbed a thousand-year Dark Jade Bamboo ring with the aid of his Star Body and reached Level 16, while Chen Xin praised his talent and warned him not to damage his foundation.

• Chen Xin took Lin Yao to the Sunset Forest, where Lin Yao explained that he planned to follow the Five Elements Path and choose a Wood Attribute Soul Ring for his Star Sword.
• Chen Xin cautioned Lin Yao that wood offered little early combat power, but accepted his decision and led him deeper into the forest.
• Lin Yao rejected a five- or six-hundred-year Thousand Star Vine Beast and chose a thousand-year Dark Jade Bamboo that Chen Xin restrained for him.
• Lin Yao began absorbing the Dark Jade Bamboo's Thousand-Year Soul Ring, and when the strain became severe, he manifested his Star Body and Heavenly Cycle Star Array to stabilize himself.
• Lin Yao completed the absorption, advanced to Level 16, and explained that his Star Body had strengthened his body and foundation while absorbing the ring.
• Chen Xin congratulated Lin Yao on his pure Soul Power and warned him not to sacrifice his foundation for faster advancement.

After absorbing his first Soul Ring, Lin Yao tested his new sword skill and helped Dugu Yan stop a fleeing Poison Fang Snake so she could claim its Soul Ring. As Dugu Yan began absorbing it, Chen Xin noticed that she appeared to be poisoned.

• Lin Yao explained and demonstrated his first soul skill, Ink Star Sword Shadow, and Chen Xin praised its potential while urging him to learn swordsmanship fundamentals.
• Lin Yao and Chen Xin encountered Dugu Yan pursuing a Poison Fang Snake, and Lin Yao went to help after Chen Xin approved.
• Lin Yao used Ink Star Sword Shadow to restrain and wound the Poison Fang Snake, leaving it alive for Dugu Yan to finish and absorb as her second Soul Ring.
• Dugu Bo emerged, recognized Chen Xin, and thanked Lin Yao for helping Dugu Yan before standing guard while she absorbed the Soul Ring.
• Lin Yao asked Chen Xin for feedback on his attack, and Chen Xin praised him while advising him to develop sword qi beyond his Soul Ring skills.
• Chen Xin noticed Dugu Yan trembling and flushed as she absorbed the Soul Ring and realized she seemed to be poisoned.

Lin Yao and Chen Xin discovered that Dugu Yan’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent lineage concealed a dangerous poison, while Lin Yao befriended her and discussed her new Soul Skill. After Dugu Bo took Yan away, Chen Xin trained Lin Yao in basic swordsmanship as they traveled back toward the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

• Chen Xin recognized the hidden poison in Dugu Yan’s body, while Dugu Bo silently weighed whether to ask him for help.
• Dugu Yan completed her second Soul Ring and demonstrated Jade Scale Purple Mist, a corrosive control skill that disrupted enemies’ Soul Power.
• Lin Yao advised Dugu Yan on combining her Soul Skills, then revealed his Thousand-Year Soul Ring and Star Sword; they agreed to spar when they met again.
• Dugu Bo grew wary of Lin Yao’s rapport with Dugu Yan and hurriedly led his granddaughter away from the forest.
• Chen Xin taught Lin Yao why swordsmanship required strong fundamentals and ordered him to practice three thousand swings each day.
• Lin Yao diligently practiced under Chen Xin’s guidance, improving enough to contend with Soul Grandmaster-level opponents even without his Soul Ring’s power.

After returning to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Lin Yao reached Level 17 and resumed meditation while Ning Fengzhi and the elders discussed his potential and the sect’s plans for him. Ning Fengzhi also analyzed Dugu Bo’s family’s inherited poison, but concluded that recruiting him would have to wait unless a rare External Soul Bone could be found.

• Lin Yao returned to Seven Treasure City with Chen Xin, rested briefly, and realized that his Soul Power had reached Level 17 before beginning to cultivate again toward Level 20.
• Chen Xin told Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong that Lin Yao had safely absorbed a Thousand-Year Soul Ring, and the elders agreed to increase support for Lin Yao and his parents.
• Chen Xin and Gu Rong discussed Lin Yao’s future strength and how he could support Ning Rongrong, while Ning Fengzhi anticipated that Lin Yao might become a major asset to the sect.
• Chen Xin reported meeting Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, and Ning Fengzhi concluded that their poisoning likely stemmed from the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Martial Soul’s powerful poison.
• Ning Fengzhi rejected the idea of using ordinary Soul Bones to recruit Dugu Bo, explaining that only an External Soul Bone might resolve the family’s inherited poison, so the sect postponed its recruitment plans.

Lin Yao cultivated after absorbing a powerful Soul Ring, then went to Ning Rongrong’s arranged showdown at the Martial Arts Arena. He revealed his Thousand-Year first Soul Ring and level seventeen Soul Power, leaving Ning Rongrong and the gathered disciples stunned as the challenge began.

• Lin Yao noticed Ning Rongrong’s letter challenging him to a nighttime showdown over who would be the sect’s future boss.
• Lin Yao arrived at the Martial Arts Arena, where Ning Rongrong complained that he had kept her waiting and demanded he call her big sister.
• Ning Rongrong ordered a group of disciples to challenge Lin Yao, and Yan Jun stepped forward as their level thirty-one leader.
• Yan Jun displayed his three Soul Rings and tried to persuade Lin Yao to yield, but Lin Yao summoned the Star Sword instead.
• The gathered disciples saw Lin Yao’s Thousand-Year first Soul Ring and realized he had reached level seventeen, while Ning Rongrong worried that her plan would backfire.

Lin Yao defeated Yan Jun and the other Soul Masters despite his lower Soul Power, then comforted Ning Rongrong and claimed the older-brother role she had resisted. Ning Rongrong accepted his warmth, while an unfamiliar feeling began to stir within her.

• Yan Jun questioned how Lin Yao had obtained a Thousand-Year Soul Ring, then attacked him with his Iron Armored Bear Martial Soul and First Soul Skill.
• Lin Yao disrupted Yan Jun's charge with his swordsmanship and held the upper hand, stunning Ning Rongrong.
• Yan Jun used his Third Soul Skill, but Lin Yao's Ink Star Sword Shadow broke his shield and defeated him before he swept aside the other Soul Masters.
• Ning Rongrong challenged Lin Yao nervously, and he reassured her that he would not hurt her and reminded her to call him Brother.
• Lin Yao gently stroked and pinched Ning Rongrong's cheek as he explained that he had acted sternly to make her listen, leaving her flustered and reflecting on her mother's apparent approval.

After Ning Rongrong grew closer to Lin Yao, Ning Fengzhi asked him to guide her and help curb her willfulness. Lin Yao accepted the responsibility, while Rongrong reluctantly agreed but secretly hoped his lessons would be more fun than her old tutors’.

• Ning Rongrong returned to bed after Lin Yao teased her about growing taller, and Lin Yao told Yan Jun and the other youths they would need to pay for their treatment.
• Yan Jun realized Lin Yao was a powerful genius whose position and future prospects far surpassed his own.
• Ning Fengzhi summoned Lin Yao to the main hall, apologized for Rongrong’s behavior, and explained that he wanted her to learn better self-control.
• Lin Yao agreed to guide Ning Rongrong after Ning Fengzhi and the elders declined to intervene on her behalf.
• Ning Rongrong reluctantly accepted Lin Yao’s guidance, then followed him in high spirits while hoping he would not teach her in a boring way.

After Ning Fengzhi arranged for Lin Yao to guide Ning Rongrong, Lin Yao set a training routine and promised to take her out to play. Over the next half month, Rongrong became more diligent, reached Soul Power Level 10, and obtained her first Soul Ring, while Ning Fengzhi watched her rapid change with bewilderment.

• Ning Fengzhi ordered the Sect Enforcers to discipline Yan Jun's group and strengthen security, then discussed with Chen Xin and Gu Rong why Lin Yao should guide Ning Rongrong.
• Lin Yao told Ning Rongrong to call him Brother Lin Yao and proposed a lighter version of his training plan, while agreeing to take her out to play.
• Ning Rongrong and Lin Yao made a pinky promise that he would keep his promise to accompany her on outings.
• Over the next half month, Lin Yao guided Ning Rongrong's cultivation and secretly used his Star Body martial soul to help her reach Level 10.
• Ning Rongrong obtained her first Soul Ring, a four-hundred-year ring that gave her the Strength Amplification skill and raised her Soul Power to Level 13.
• Ning Fengzhi observed Ning Rongrong's new diligence and rapid progress but could not understand how Lin Yao had changed her so quickly.

Lin Yao witnessed the zombie outbreak begin at Fujimi Academy and set out to find Busujima Saeko and Marikawa Shizuka. He joined Miyamoto Rei, Komuro Takashi, and Hisashi Igou, and the four headed downstairs to leave the academy.

• Lin Yao reflected on his newfound powers and prepared his alloy Changhong Sword while considering the dangers of the approaching apocalypse.
• A blood-covered zombie bit a teacher at the academy gate, and the teacher rose moments later as another zombie and attacked a colleague.
• Lin Yao decided to meet Busujima Saeko and Marikawa Shizuka, then left the rooftop as the campus broadcast announced a violent incident.
• Lin Yao encountered Miyamoto Rei, Komuro Takashi, and the injured Hisashi Igou, and advised them to leave the academy and seek treatment for Hisashi Igou.
• Lin Yao, Miyamoto Rei, Komuro Takashi, and Hisashi Igou formed a temporary group and headed downstairs together.

Lin Yao led Miyamoto Rei, Komuro Takashi, and Igo Hironaga through the zombie-infested academy, sharpening his swordsmanship as they fought. After Igo chose to leap to his death rather than become a zombie, Lin Yao urged the survivors onward, and Miyamoto Rei’s call to her father ended with a warning that Chuangzhu City was in chaos.

• Black Hawk helicopters marked as belonging to the Self-Defense Forces flew over the academy, and Lin Yao decided the group needed to leave before the school was overrun.
• Lin Yao cut down the approaching zombies and guided Miyamoto Rei, Komuro Takashi, and Igo Hironaga to a narrow passage where they rested.
• As the virus overwhelmed him, Igo Hironaga leapt over the railing to avoid becoming a zombie, leaving Miyamoto Rei and Komuro Takashi in grief.
• Lin Yao urged Miyamoto Rei and Komuro Takashi to honor Igo Hironaga by surviving, and Miyamoto Rei borrowed Komuro Takashi’s phone to call her father.
• Miyamoto Rei reached her father, who warned that Chuangzhu City was in chaos and told them to escape, but the call cut off before he could finish.

Lin Yao reunited with Busujima Saeko, Marikawa Shizuka, and the others in the staff room and helped clear the zombies around them. The group planned to find a vehicle, check on their families, and reach a defensible place, while Lin Yao’s strength left his companions wondering how he had improved so quickly.

• Lin Yao led Komuro Takashi and Miyamoto Rei through the teaching building, cutting down zombies as they headed toward a scream.
• Lin Yao found Takagi Saya, Hirano Kota, Busujima Saeko, and Marikawa Shizuka in the staff room, then teamed up with Saeko to clear nearby zombies.
• The group introduced themselves, and Takagi Saya complained that Lin Yao had ignored her before he reassured her that they would escape together.
• Busujima Saeko proposed using a vehicle to leave the school, and the group agreed to find their families before seeking a defensible place.
• In the staff room lounge, Lin Yao rejected the bad tea and joked that he was a genius when Saeko asked how he had grown so strong.