Chapter Summaries

After awakening in his ninth life, Chen Ming used five hundred years of Sun Moon Essence and Life Gold to form a body and was found on Moon Gazing Mountain by Chen Dong, who took him home. Six years later, Chen Ming revealed that he had awakened his Martial Soul and Soul Power on his own, then offered to help Chen Dong awaken his Martial Soul if Chen Dong called him Brother Ming.

• Chen Ming recalled his past lives, his clash with Tang San, and his plan to pursue godhood during the era of conflict between the Sun Moon Empire and Douluo Continent.
• Chen Ming used Sun Moon Essence and Life Gold to create an Innate Spiritual Body, and ten months later he was born as a baby on Moon Gazing Mountain.
• Chen Dong found the infant, tested whether he would crawl toward him, and carried him home after Chen Ming crawled his way.
• Six years later, Chen Dong explained that he could not afford the ten Gold Soul Coins needed for Chen Ming's Martial Soul awakening.
• Chen Ming revealed that he had awakened his Martial Soul and Soul Power on his own the previous night.
• Chen Ming offered to awaken Chen Dong's Martial Soul if Chen Dong called him Brother Ming, leaving Chen Dong displeased.

Chen Ming awakened Chen Dong’s Martial Soul and discovered that Chen Dong had Innate Full Soul Power. They decided to seek cultivation, and Chen Dong chose to pursue the Mad Saber Sect.

• Chen Ming told Chen Dong that he had an extra Martial Soul, though he kept the full details of his three Martial Souls to himself.
• Chen Ming awakened Chen Dong’s Martial Soul, revealing a black-and-red Broad Blade wreathed in blood-red mist.
• Chen Ming confirmed that Chen Dong’s Martial Soul was exceptionally powerful and that he had Innate Full Soul Power.
• Chen Dong worried that his age and lack of a Soul Master certificate would keep him from attending school, so Chen Ming suggested joining a sect.
• Chen Dong named the blade Wolf Lord and said he had long wanted to join the Mad Saber Sect.

Chen Ming explained his Body Martial Soul and revealed the Reincarnation Disk, while Chen Dong prepared to seek entry into the Mad Saber Sect. Chen Dong gave Chen Ming his iron saber and demonstrated a powerful strike with his newly awakened Wolf Lord.

• Chen Ming told Chen Dong that one Martial Soul was his own body and revealed the sun-and-moon Reincarnation Disk, which he believed had formed from Sun Moon Essence and the God of Time's divine position.
• Chen Ming said he would focus on cultivating his Body Martial Soul and would follow Chen Dong to the Mad Saber Sect if Chen Dong joined.
• Chen Dong declared that he and Chen Ming would visit the Mad Saber Sect the day after tomorrow.
• The next day, Chen Dong gave Chen Ming the iron saber he had owned since he was sixteen and told him to practice with it.
• Chen Ming swung the iron saber into the ground with enough force to impress Chen Dong.
• Chen Dong summoned the Wolf Lord Broadsword, gathered blood-red mist along its blade, and shouted as he prepared to demonstrate his own strike.

Chen Ming learned Blade Techniques from Chen Dong and cultivated his self-created Heavenly Reincarnation Merit, while Tang San dealt with the God Realm’s lingering chaos after the God of Time’s God Position was destroyed. Chen Ming formed a preliminary soul ring template and planned to complete his first Body Martial Soul ring by hunting a hundred-year soul beast.

• Chen Ming watched Chen Dong demonstrate fluid, adaptable Blade Techniques and recognized his talent.
• Tang San told Xiao Wu that the God of Death had detonated the God of Time’s God Position, leaving the God Realm in chaos for a year and a half.
• Tang San worried that instability in the God Realm and the God of Destruction’s surveillance would prevent him from guiding the Tang Sect’s plan in the lower realms.
• Chen Dong approved of Chen Ming’s legitimate blade Martial Soul and said they would seek admission to the Mad Saber Sect the next day.
• Chen Ming sensed that the Reincarnation Disk contained the origin of the Time God Position and was drastically slowing his Soul Power cultivation.
• Chen Ming condensed a preliminary soul ring template for his Body Martial Soul and resolved to hunt a hundred-year soul beast to complete it.

Chen Ming explained how he created a method to condense and improve Soul Rings, then traveled with Chen Dong to join the Mad Saber Sect. After discovering Chen Ming’s rare Body Martial Soul and Innate Full Soul Power, Lei Zhen accepted both travelers and took Chen Ming under his care for cultivation.

• Chen Ming meditated after forming a prototype Soul Ring, while Chen Dong and he left Moon Gazing Village after awakening Martial Souls for several families.
• Ten days later, Chen Dong and Chen Ming reached Mad Saber City and asked to join the Mad Saber Sect.
• Yuan Liu learned that both men had reached level ten Soul Power just thirteen days after awakening, and that Chen Ming possessed a Body Martial Soul.
• Yuan Liu brought them to his teacher, Lei Zhen, who examined Chen Ming and recognized his unusual condition.
• Lei Zhen accepted Chen Ming into the sect, told him to cultivate under his guidance without taking a master yet, and allowed Chen Dong to stay as well.

Lei Zhen recognized Chen Ming’s Body Martial Soul and invited him to cultivate with the Body Sect, while explaining how Body Martial Soul masters chose soul rings and pursued a Second Awakening. Chen Dong learned that his own Wolf Lord Broadsword was a genuine blade Martial Soul and would receive a soul ring the next day, while Chen Ming prepared to return with Lei Zhen to the Body Sect.

• Chen Dong summoned his Wolf Lord Broadsword, and Lei Zhen forced it back with a barehanded strike before identifying it as the Wolf Lord he knew.
• Lei Zhen offered to take Chen Ming to the Body Sect, and Chen Ming agreed to go.
• Lei Zhen explained the Body Sect’s history and taught Chen Ming about balanced soul-ring choices, endurance limits, and Body Martial Soul Second Awakening.
• Lei Zhen said he would assess Chen Ming’s physical condition at the sect before its elders helped him obtain soul rings, and promised to take Chen Dong for his soul ring the next day.
• Chen Dong listened enviously as Lei Zhen described the advantages of Body Martial Souls.

Chen Ming joined the Body Sect, where Du Busi judged that his physical constitution might let him absorb a thousand-year first Soul Ring after further training. The group settled in the sect near Heaven Dou City, and Chen Ming began preparing to temper his body before obtaining a Soul Ring.

• Lei Zhen took Chen Ming, Chen Dong, and Yuan Liu across the continent toward Heaven Dou City, stopping in the Star Dou Great Forest to find a Soul Ring for Chen Dong.
• Chen Dong absorbed a four-hundred-year Thunder Horned Rhinoceros Soul Ring, gaining a lightning attribute and a burst-type soul skill, and his Soul Power Level was revealed to be 19.
• The group reached the Body Sect, where Du Busi welcomed Chen Ming and assessed his physique as stronger than his own had been at Level 10.
• Chen Ming formally acknowledged Du Busi as his master, and Du Busi urged him to train at the sect before obtaining his first Soul Ring.

Du Busi showed Chen Ming the Body Sect’s secret techniques and explained their cultivation paths. Chen Ming chose to pursue pure Bloodline Power and Unity of Man and Weapon, then revealed that he had Twin Martial Souls, shocking Du Busi.

• Du Busi brought Chen Ming to the Skill Transmission Tower and explained its secret arts, cultivation records, and Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Du Busi described Poison Cultivation and other paths for developing a Body Martial Soul through Exotic Energy.
• Chen Ming asked about Lei Zhen’s Blade Techniques, and Du Busi explained the Unity of Man and Weapon path.
• Chen Ming said he wanted to cultivate pure Bloodline Power and Unity of Man and Weapon.
• Chen Ming told Du Busi he had Twin Martial Souls, and Du Busi reacted in shock.

Chen Ming concealed his Soul Martial Soul as Du Busi mistook its Mental attribute for signs that Chen Ming’s Body Martial Soul could undergo a Second and even Third Awakening. Du Busi began teaching him a Yang Attribute Secret Technique and led him to the Yang Spring, warning him to hide the Mental attribute from others.

• Chen Ming summoned his Reincarnation Disk and let Du Busi sense the Mental attribute of his Body Martial Soul.
• Du Busi concluded that Chen Ming’s martial soul had an incomplete initial awakening and could undergo a Second Awakening followed by a Third Awakening.
• Chen Ming privately recognized that Du Busi’s explanation concealed the truth about his multiple martial souls and kept his Soul Martial Soul secret.
• Du Busi chose a Yang Attribute Secret Technique for Chen Ming and explained how to cultivate with the Yang Spring.
• Du Busi guided Soul Power through Chen Ming’s meridians, was astonished by their condition, and led him toward the Yang Spring.
• Du Busi warned Chen Ming not to reveal his Body Martial Soul’s Mental attribute or his Spiritual Power, especially to his senior sister.

Chen Ming learned about his fellow disciples before testing his physical constitution in Yang Spring. He endured the lake’s heat farther than expected and began tempering his body, leaving Du Busi convinced he could pursue an exceptionally powerful first Soul Ring.

• Du Busi told Chen Ming that Long Aotian was level nineteen and Vina had Twin Martial Souls, while warning him to keep his own talent hidden.
• Chen Ming reflected that his previous eight lives had not changed the Douluo Plane’s overall course and hinted that he had diverted the God of Time’s energy away from Tang San.
• Du Busi brought Chen Ming to Yang Spring and instructed him to swim as far as he could endure before circulating the Body Sect’s secret technique.
• Chen Ming reached forty meters from shore, demonstrating a constitution capable of withstanding an eight-hundred-year Soul Ring.
• Chen Ming swam three meters farther, descended to the lake bottom with Du Busi’s protection, and began cultivating as Du Busi anticipated him attempting a Soul Ring far beyond fifteen hundred years.

Chen Ming used the Yang Spring to temper his body and expand his Sea of Consciousness, then tested his Soul Ring absorption limit with Du Busi. He left the test able to endure a Soul Ring of about sixteen hundred and fifty years, while Du Busi refused his request to attempt a two-thousand-year Soul Ring.

• Chen Ming cultivated in the Yang Spring, using its energy and Life Gold to strengthen his body and guide Spiritual Power into his Sea of Consciousness.
• Chen Ming's Sea of Consciousness rapidly expanded, and an incomplete, scorching halo began forming around his Soul Martial Soul.
• After a month of cultivation, Chen Ming returned to the Yang Spring, where Du Busi tested his ability to withstand Soul Power impact.
• Chen Ming concealed his body's true limit and endured an impact equivalent to sixteen hundred and fifty years before showing pain.
• Chen Ming asked Du Busi to find him a two-thousand-year Soul Ring, but Du Busi refused because the Soul Beast's exact age could not be guaranteed.

Du Busi led Chen Ming, Long Aotian, and Chen Dong into the Star Dou Great Forest to find soul rings suited to their unusually high limits. Chen Dong chose to attempt an eight-hundred-year Blazing Fire Wolf soul ring, and Du Busi subdued the beast for him.

• Du Busi set out with Chen Ming, Long Aotian, and newly advanced Chen Dong to search for soul rings, while Chen Ming recalled his Seventh Life as a Water Qilin and his later pursuit of godhood.
• After three days, the group reached the Star Dou Great Forest, where Du Busi explained that Chen Dong would seek a lower-aged ring first, while Long Aotian needed roughly eleven hundred to fourteen hundred years and Chen Ming needed roughly seventeen hundred to two thousand.
• Five days into the forest, Du Busi found a pack of Blazing Fire Wolves and identified three candidates by their blazing fire patterns.
• Chen Ming noticed that a wolf with seven patterns had stronger Soul Power than the eight-hundred-year wolf, and Du Busi confirmed the seven-pattern wolf had mutated and was about nine hundred years old.
• Chen Dong decided to try the eight-hundred-year Blazing Fire Wolf; Du Busi pressed it to the ground while the rest of the pack fled.

Chen Dong absorbed a Blazing Fire Wolf Soul Ring, and Long Aotian gained a Metagross Soul Ring as the group continued hunting for Chen Ming’s first Soul Ring. After weeks without finding a suitable beast, they reached a gloomy valley where Chen Ming sensed scorching power deep inside.

• Chen Dong killed the Blazing Fire Wolf, absorbed its Soul Ring, and gained the Blazing Fire Slash Soul Skill, which could combine with Collapsing Mountain Slash.
• Du Busi found a Metagross with a thousand-year-level Soul Power fluctuation, and Long Aotian killed it and absorbed its Soul Ring.
• Long Aotian gained Golden God's Wrath, which could turn his arms into metallic weapons, and Du Busi said the group had completed two-thirds of their goal.
• Chen Ming chose ice and fire as the elemental direction for his Soul Rings, and Du Busi planned to find him a fire-attribute Soul Ring first.
• After searching for more than half a month, the group reached a gloomy valley; Long Aotian doubted it held a suitable soul beast, but Chen Ming sensed scorching power within.

Chen Ming discovered a Phoenix-blooded fire lotus in the frigid valley and persuaded Du Busi to let him absorb it. Meanwhile, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion sensed a connection through the Power of Destiny, and Di Tian took her to see his lord after hearing her visions.

• Chen Ming, Du Busi, and their companions entered the valley and found a brilliant golden fire lotus with a Phoenix Bloodline and abundant Life Force.
• Chen Ming asked Du Busi for the lotus, arguing that he could absorb its energy as a soul ring and withstand its power after tempering himself in the Yang Spring.
• Chen Ming recalled that the lotus had grown from Essence Blood shed by a Fire Phoenix in his seventh life and sensed the Power of Destiny stirring within him.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion sensed a connection to a human soul master through the Power of Destiny, and Chen Ming sent fragments of his visions toward her.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion told Di Tian about her visions, including a human touching her Eye of Destiny and scenes involving canine soul beasts and swapped souls.
• Di Tian, alarmed by the visions and the danger to the Auspicious Beast, told the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to come with him to see his lord.

Chen Ming disrupted the flow of time between Douluo Star and the God Realm to delay Tang San’s awareness of events, then transformed the Crimson Phoenix Nirvana Golden Lotus into a soul ring and absorbed it. He raised his first soul ring to three thousand years and told Du Busi how he had done it, leaving his teacher wondering what hidden conditions made the method possible.

• Chen Ming used the power from detonating the God of Time’s God Position to disrupt time between Douluo Star and the God Realm.
• Du Busi stripped the Crimson Phoenix Nirvana Golden Lotus of its petals and seeds, and Chen Ming cut off its root to kill the Heavenly Treasure.
• Chen Ming gathered the lotus’s dispersing energy and formed it into a roughly two-thousand-one-hundred-year soul ring.
• Chen Ming endured the strain of absorbing the ring, fused his Soul Martial Soul into his body, and used the lotus’s energy to transform his physique and strengthen his martial soul.
• Chen Ming absorbed the petals’ energy to raise his first soul ring to three thousand years, then told Du Busi that enveloping a Heavenly Treasure with the soul-ring absorption method could transform it into a ring.

After Chen Ming absorbed the Crimson Phoenix Nirvana Golden Lotus and gained a powerful first Soul Skill, Du Busi changed the group's plans and headed for Shrek City. Meanwhile, the Silver Dragon King ordered Di Tian to find a thousand-year Canine Soul Beast for a mysterious arrangement involving the Auspicious Beast.

• Du Busi suspected Chen Ming's Mental-type Body Martial Soul had helped the Crimson Phoenix Nirvana Golden Lotus become a Soul Beast, though Chen Ming understood that his past as a Soul Beast had been the crucial factor.
• Chen Ming revealed his first Soul Skill, Fire Lotus Overlord Body, which granted fire-element control, Red Lotus Protection, and roughly triple recovery of Soul Power and stamina.
• Chen Ming told Du Busi that his Soul Power had reached level fifteen, shocking Long Aotian and leaving Chen Dong envious.
• Du Busi changed the group's plans and led Chen Ming, Chen Dong, and Long Aotian toward Shrek City.
• The Silver Dragon King told Di Tian that a human god had targeted the Auspicious Beast and ordered him to find a thousand-year Canine Soul Beast.

Du Busi brought Chen Ming and Long Aotian to Shrek City to buy Whale Rubber, concealing his identity as they entered the Treasure Appraisal Pavilion. Chen Ming recognized a piece of Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber from the original story, while Lin Huiqun arranged a discount to keep Du Busi from causing trouble.

• Du Busi told Chen Ming and Long Aotian to hide their identities as the group entered Shrek City to shop for Whale Rubber.
• Du Busi led them into the Treasure Appraisal Pavilion, where Lin Huiqun recognized him and ordered staff to offer a twenty percent discount.
• Du Busi browsed the pavilion, rejected expensive soul bones, and bought body-tempering medicines.
• Du Busi stopped at a display containing Whale Rubber, and Chen Ming recognized it as the Ten-Thousand-Year piece Huo Yuhao had found in the original story.

Chen Ming recognized a black piece of whale rubber as a rare ten-thousand-year specimen, and Du Busi bought it along with two other pieces. Tang Ya’s family asked to buy one, but Du Busi refused and a confrontation at the treasure fair ended with Bei Bei proposing a contest to decide who would get the whale rubber.

• Chen Ming told Du Busi that the black whale rubber held immense energy, so Du Busi bought it and two other pieces for his disciples.
• Tang Ya called after Du Busi, and Tang Ren asked him to sell one piece of thousand-year whale rubber for Tang Ya’s cultivation.
• Du Busi refused, and Lin Huiqun tried to mediate by offering fifteen thousand Gold Soul Coins for the piece.
• Chen Ming objected that Du Busi had three disciples who needed whale rubber, and Du Busi prepared to leave without selling it.
• Bei Bei challenged Du Busi to use the rules of the Soul Master World to determine who would get the whale rubber.

Chen Ming accepted Bei Bei’s challenge over the Millennium Whale Rubber, with a soul bone added to the wager, and revealed a thousand-year first soul ring during their fight. The chapter ended as Chen Ming’s crimson-gold-flamed fist collided with Bei Bei’s lightning-wreathed dragon claw.

• Chen Ming objected to the wager, and Lin Huiqun added a soul bone while keeping the Treasure Appraisal Pavilion’s offer to buy back one piece of Millennium Whale Rubber for fifteen thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Du Busi asked Long Aotian and Chen Ming who would fight, and Chen Ming volunteered, introducing himself as a fifteenth-level Soul Master with a Body Martial Soul.
• Bei Bei agreed to fight without using his second soul skill, and Lin Huiqun arranged a fifty-by-fifty-meter space outside the pavilion.
• Chen Ming and Bei Bei released their Martial Souls, and Chen Ming revealed a purple thousand-year first soul ring that shocked the onlookers.
• Chen Ming used Fire Lotus Overlord Body and Red Lotus Protection to charge through Bei Bei’s Thunder Dragon Claw, then met Bei Bei’s lightning-coated dragon claw with a crimson-gold-flamed fist.

Chen Ming defeated Bei Bei with his growing control over his thousand-year Soul Skill, securing the Soul Bone wager for Du Busi. The Bone Sect then revealed that the Soul Bone was a fused Secret Method Soul Bone suited to Chen Dong, and Chen Dong accepted it after Chen Ming urged him to do so.

• Chen Ming used a final fire-wreathed punch and kick to defeat Bei Bei, who admitted defeat.
• Du Busi collected the bracelet containing the Soul Bone from Lin Huiqun and announced that he and Chen Ming were leaving.
• Lin Huiqun cleared the fire element from Bei Bei's arm, while Tang Ren apologized for the Treasure Appraisal Pavilion losing a Soul Bone.
• Du Busi revealed that the Soul Bone was a fused Secret Method Soul Bone whose resentful souls Chen Dong's Wolf Lord martial soul could suppress.
• Chen Ming said Chen Dong should absorb the Soul Bone, and Du Busi handed Chen Dong the storage bracelet.