Chapter Summaries

Zhou Chen activated the Multiverse Top-Up System by spending ten thousand Gold Soul Coins and received the Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic as a cultivation gift. After the System empowered him to reach Qi Refining, he discovered his body had gained powerful strength.

• Zhou Chen spent ten thousand Gold Soul Coins to activate the Multiverse Top-Up System.
• Zhou Chen learned that the level 1 System offered only pill draws, each costing ten thousand Gold Yuan Points.
• The System gave Zhou Chen a free cultivation technique and identified it as the Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic.
• Zhou Chen examined the scripture's cultivation stages and agreed to let the System help him learn it.
• The System empowered Zhou Chen to reach Qi Refining, while the scripture transformed into a small golden sword that entered his glabella.
• Zhou Chen awoke feeling filled with mysterious energy and strong enough to punch a fat pig to death.

After the System gave Zhou Chen Great Perfection of Qi Refining, Old Jack and Tang San checked on him, and Tang San discovered Zhou Chen's hidden strength. With Spirit Hall's awakening ceremony approaching, Zhou Chen prepared for his Spirit to be awakened the next day.

• Old Jack found Zhou Chen unharmed after a beam of light struck his room and recalled finding him as a baby six years earlier.
• Old Jack reminded Zhou Chen that the Spirit Hall awakening ceremony was coming, and Tang San rushed over after seeing the beam of light.
• Tang San tried to probe Zhou Chen with his Purple Demon Eyes, but a ringing sword sound shattered them and left Tang San shocked.
• Zhou Chen studied a compendium of Spirits while preparing for the awakening ceremony and worrying about how to earn more Gold Soul Coins for his System.
• Old Jack arranged for a Spirit Hall deacon to awaken Zhou Chen and Tang San's Spirits separately the next day for twenty Gold Soul Coins.

At Notting City's Spirit Hall, Zhou Chen and Tang San underwent their martial-spirit awakenings, but Zhou Chen's mysterious energy overwhelmed the Soul Power testing crystal. The system revealed that his Central Earth Apricot Yellow Qi had to adapt to Douluo Star's rules or he would die, leaving Zhou Chen struggling to control it.

• Old Jack brought Zhou Chen and Tang San into Spirit Hall, where they met the steward Su Yuntao.
• Tang San awakened Blue Silver Grass and displayed Innate Full Spirit Power.
• Zhou Chen's test caused the crystal ball to glow blue, turn gold, and crack under waves of Soul Power pressure.
• Tang San and Su Yuntao were forced to the ground as Zhou Chen lost control of the energy inside him.
• The system warned Zhou Chen that his Central Earth Apricot Yellow Qi had to adapt to Soul Power rules, so he tried to calm and control it.

Zhou Chen awakened the Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor as his Spirit, unleashing a pressure that incapacitated nearly everyone in Notting City. He learned the Spirit’s identity from the System as the golden spectacle began to fade.

• Zhou Chen’s Soul Power test ended with the crystal ball shattered, leaving Su Yuntao unable to determine his level.
• Su Yuntao began Zhou Chen’s Spirit awakening, and a massive Golden Light Pillar burst through Spirit Hall’s dome.
• Zhou Chen’s humanoid Spirit emerged as darkness, golden lightning, and auspicious clouds filled the sky, while his pressure knocked out Su Yuntao, Tang San, and most of Notting City.
• Cassius and the dean of Notting Academy resisted the pressure, while Tang Hao watched the pillar and headed for Spirit Hall to check on Tang San and Zhou Chen.
• Zhou Chen saw his Spirit’s imperial robes and asked the System what it was; the System identified it as Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor, also known as Di Hong Shi.

Zhou Chen discovered that his awakened Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor spirit gave him Level 30 Soul Power, and the System matched him with a God-level Soul Ring. As the ring’s immense power threatened to kill him, the System released the excess energy into the sky, creating a golden spectacle visible across much of the Douluo Continent.

• Zhou Chen checked his status and confirmed his Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor spirit and Level 30 Soul Power.
• The System offered Zhou Chen a free Soul Ring and began matching one for him.
• Zhou Chen watched the ring transform from white through the higher grades into brilliant gold, identifying it as a God-level Soul Ring.
• The Soul Ring’s overwhelming Soul Power began to fill Zhou Chen’s body, and he begged the System to save him.
• The System guided the excess energy out through a beam from Zhou Chen’s head, turning the skies golden across ten thousand li and nearly half the Douluo Continent.

A vast golden phenomenon and immense, seemingly ownerless Soul Power appeared over Fasinuo Province, alarming the continent’s major powers. Spirit Hall and the Star Luo Empire dispatched agents to investigate as the other factions watched and prepared for what might follow.

• Ning Fengzhi and the two elders at Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Fort sensed the extraordinary Soul Power and discussed making preparations.
• The Clear Sky Sect’s leaders debated the phenomenon and their sect’s hidden status, while one elder defended Tang Hao.
• The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family’s imposing elder saw the crimson-gold sky and left without showing fear of a challenge.
• Bi Bi Dong learned the phenomenon appeared to originate in Fasinuo Province and ordered Yue Guan to accompany Hu Liena there to investigate.
• Dai Tianfeng ordered the Royal Secret Guard to enter the Heaven Dou Empire and uncover the truth as factions across the continent turned their attention to the sky.

After Zhou Chen awakened a Supreme Spirit and a God-level Soul Ring, he worried that Spirit Hall would target him and considered killing Su Yuntao to keep his talent secret. Tang Hao arrived before he could act, knocked out Spirit Hall’s Black Robe Bishop, and carried Zhou Chen and Tang San away.

• Zhou Chen asked the System for more Soul Rings, but it demanded increasing amounts of Gold Yuan Points.
• Zhou Chen surveyed the destruction at the Spirit Hall Branch and feared Spirit Hall would either recruit him or kill him if it learned of his talent.
• Zhou Chen decided to silence Su Yuntao and approached him with a brick while he and Tang San lay unconscious.
• Tang Hao appeared, explained that he had knocked out Cassius to prevent him from interfering, and told Zhou Chen they needed to leave.
• Tang Hao carried the unconscious Tang San and Zhou Chen into the sky.

Zhou Chen received ten thousand Gold Soul Coins from Old Jack and used them for a lottery draw, winning a Purple Micro Breakthrough Pill. He decided Yu Xiaogang was the safest useful person to give it to, hoping to recruit the theorist to help build a force.

• Zhou Chen considered seeking Yu Xiaogang's help understanding his God-level Soul Ring and planned to bring him under his command.
• Old Jack delivered ten thousand Gold Soul Coins and reassured Zhou Chen that he trusted and supported him.
• Zhou Chen fed the coins to the System, converted them into Gold Yuan Points, and used them for a lottery draw.
• The System awarded Zhou Chen a Purple Micro Breakthrough Pill that could raise the cultivation of anyone below the Golden Core Stage by one level.
• Zhou Chen decided to use the pill on Yu Xiaogang, whose Soul Power was capped at rank 29, so he could recruit him while keeping him under control.

Zhou Chen brought Tang San to Notting Academy and introduced him to Yu Xiaogang as a gifted student, intending to use Tang San to approach the Grandmaster. Yu Xiaogang deduced that Tang San had Twin Spirits, leaving Tang San impressed and grateful to Zhou Chen, unaware that Zhou Chen had offered him as a tool.

• Zhou Chen and Tang San arrived at Notting Academy, where Zhou Chen sent his calling card to Yu Xiaogang.
• The gatekeeper brought Yu Xiaogang to meet the children, and Zhou Chen rewarded the gatekeeper with a silver soul coin.
• Zhou Chen introduced Tang San as a genius with Innate Full Spirit Power, while Tang San added that his Martial Soul was Blue Silver Grass.
• Yu Xiaogang used his Martial Soul theory to deduce that Tang San had a second, powerful Martial Soul.
• Tang San admired Yu Xiaogang and felt grateful to Zhou Chen, while Zhou Chen privately regarded him as a tool.

Zhou Chen offered Yu Xiaogang a Purple Micro Breakthrough Pill that could remove the limit on his Soul Power in exchange for helping train a large number of soul masters. Yu Xiaogang agreed to help, and Zhou Chen revealed the name of his family's overt faction: Purple Micro Palace.

• Yu Xiaogang enrolled Tang San at Notting Academy and offered to take Zhou Chen as a disciple, but Zhou Chen refused.
• Zhou Chen told Yu Xiaogang that his family had a pill that could cure his spirit mutation and help him break through Rank 30.
• Zhou Chen showed Yu Xiaogang the Purple Micro Breakthrough Pill, whose fragrance loosened the restraint on Yu Xiaogang's Soul Power.
• Zhou Chen offered the pill in exchange for Yu Xiaogang helping train hundreds or thousands of soul masters.
• Yu Xiaogang agreed to help if Zhou Chen revealed his family's origins, and Zhou Chen instead named their overt faction Purple Micro Palace.

Zhou Chen secured Yu Xiaogang’s allegiance with the Purple Micro Breakthrough Pill, then went to the Small Woods and intervened in a confrontation between Tang San’s work-study students and Xiao Chenyu’s noble group. He revealed his golden Soul Ring and challenged Xiao Chenyu to withstand his Soul Power Pressure for three minutes without Zhou Chen using his martial soul or soul skills.

• Zhou Chen gave Yu Xiaogang the Purple Micro Breakthrough Pill after Yu agreed to pledge his life to Zhou Chen’s family and the Purple Micro Palace.
• Yu Xiaogang hurried back to his residence to take the pill, and Zhou Chen reflected on the fabricated hidden family he had used to persuade him.
• Zhou Chen heard a fight in the Small Woods and found Tang San and Xiao Wu confronting Xiao Chenyu’s noble students after they had beaten Wang Sheng.
• Tang San prepared to fight Xiao Chenyu, but Zhou Chen arrived and challenged Xiao Chenyu instead.
• Zhou Chen displayed his golden Soul Ring, cleared the onlookers away, and told Xiao Chenyu he would win if he endured Zhou Chen’s Soul Power Pressure for three minutes.

Zhou Chen defeated Xiao Chenyu using only Soul Power Pressure, then won Xiao Chenyu’s loyalty. He planned to use Xiao Chenyu’s connection to Notting City’s lord to expand Purple Micro Palace’s influence.

• Xiao Chenyu introduced himself as an eleventh-level, one-ring Battle Soul Master and cautiously challenged Zhou Chen.
• Xiao Chenyu attacked Zhou Chen with his first spirit ability, Raging Wolf Advance.
• Zhou Chen shouted “Suppress!” and overwhelmed Xiao Chenyu with Soul Power Pressure until Xiao Chenyu surrendered.
• Xiao Chenyu admitted defeat, thanked Zhou Chen for showing mercy, and offered to become his little brother.
• Zhou Chen accepted Xiao Chenyu’s offer, intending to use his ties to Notting City’s lord to infiltrate the City Lord’s Mansion.

At the ruined Notting City Spirit Hall Branch, Hu Liena devised a way to identify the child whose Spirit awakening had caused the destruction. After reaching level thirty, she received Zhou Chen’s portrait and was struck by his handsome appearance.

• Chrysanthemum Elder questioned Cassius about the ruined branch and ordered him to execute Su Yuntao for failing to register the child.
• Hu Liena stopped Chrysanthemum Elder from killing Su Yuntao and proposed using a Soul Master’s portrait-drawing skill to find the child.
• Chrysanthemum Elder ordered Cassius to obtain a portrait within two hours, and Cassius hurried to carry out the task.
• Hu Liena revealed she had reached level thirty, and Chrysanthemum Elder offered to take her to Soul Hunting Forest to obtain a Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Cassius delivered Zhou Chen’s portrait to Hu Liena, who admired how handsome he was.

Zhou Chen joined Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, and Notting Academy principal Marx on a trip to the Soul Hunting Forest to help them obtain spirit rings. As they entered the forest market, Hu Liena identified Zhou Chen from a distance.

• Zhou Chen refined his Soul Power through the Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic and set out to meet Yu Xiaogang and Tang San.
• Marx introduced himself as Notting Academy's principal and agreed to accompany the group, though he was surprised Zhou Chen was there to help.
• The group traveled by carriage to the Soul Hunting Forest while Yu Xiaogang taught Tang San about spirit rings and gave him the Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges.
• After arriving, Zhou Chen and the others bought supplies and followed Yu Xiaogang and Marx deeper into the market.
• Hu Liena arrived with Chrysanthemum Elder and recognized Zhou Chen by his handsome appearance.

Yu Xiaogang, Marx, Zhou Chen, and Tang San searched the Soul Hunting Forest for a suitable soul beast, then encountered a dragon-blooded Scaled Armor Beast that overwhelmed Marx and Yu Xiaogang. Zhou Chen activated his golden first soul ring and prepared to use Imperial Sky Shocking Fist.

• Yu Xiaogang showed the soldiers his warrant and led the group into the Soul Hunting Forest, where Marx summoned his Ghost Vine martial soul.
• The group searched the forest for a suitable soul beast, while Zhou Chen left Yu Xiaogang and Marx to handle threats they encountered.
• Marx spotted a roughly 2,500-year-old Scaled Armor Beast with a trace of dragon bloodline, and Yu Xiaogang decided it suited his needs.
• Yu Xiaogang used Luo Sanpao to blast the Scaled Armor Beast, but Marx's Ghost Vine attacks failed to pierce its armor and it charged at him.
• Marx told Yu Xiaogang to flee with the children, but Yu Xiaogang asked Zhou Chen for help, prompting Zhou Chen to reveal his golden soul ring and announce his first spirit ability.

Zhou Chen defeated the Scaled Armor Beast with his powerful first spirit ability, allowing Yu Xiaogang to absorb its Thousand-Year Soul Ring. From a distance, Hu Liena and Chrysanthemum Elder watched, and Hu Liena was tasked with recruiting Zhou Chen into Spirit Hall.

• Zhou Chen struck the Scaled Armor Beast with Imperial Ultimate... Heaven-Shaking Fist, leaving it fatally wounded but draining all his Soul Power.
• Yu Xiaogang killed the beast and absorbed its purple Thousand-Year Soul Ring, gaining a third Soul Ring.
• Tang San and Marx congratulated Yu Xiaogang, and the group set up camp for the night.
• Hu Liena asked Chrysanthemum Elder whether he could have blocked Zhou Chen's attack, and he estimated that it took strength near a Soul Emperor to contend with it.
• Chrysanthemum Elder declared that Spirit Hall would destroy Zhou Chen if he could not be recruited, but agreed to let Hu Liena approach him first and promised not to kill him.

Yu Xiaogang told Marx that Zhou Chen’s family had supplied the pills that helped him break through, prompting Marx to ask to join their faction. Meanwhile, Star Luo Empire Royal Secret Guards entered the Soul Hunting Forest and decided to kill Zhou Chen if they could not recruit him.

• Marx marveled at Zhou Chen’s strength, and Yu Xiaogang said his family had given him pills from a place of divine inheritance.
• Marx asked Yu Xiaogang to recommend him to Zhou Chen’s family, and Yu Xiaogang agreed to speak with Zhou Chen the next day.
• Hu Liena secretly listened outside the tent while concealing her presence.
• Several dozen Star Luo Empire Royal Secret Guards evaded patrols and entered the Soul Hunting Forest.
• The guards learned Spirit Hall had discovered Zhou Chen and chose to carry out the emperor’s order to kill him.

Zhou Chen met Hu Liena, who came to recruit him for Spirit Hall but refused after learning of his supposed reclusive family. Rather than let Spirit Hall kill him, Hu Liena offered to help him escape the Soul Hunting Forest.

• Zhou Chen sensed an invisible intruder in his tent, and Hu Liena revealed herself as a Spirit Hall Saintess.
• Hu Liena explained that her teacher had sent her to recruit Zhou Chen, but she rejected him because she believed his family planned to contend for power on the continent.
• Hu Liena warned that an Elder would cripple Zhou Chen if he refused to join, while Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan waited nearby and Spirit Hall's Enforcement Team surrounded the forest.
• Hu Liena decided she would not harm Zhou Chen and offered to lead him through a gap in the Enforcement Team's defenses.

Hu Liena carried an exhausted Zhou Chen out of the Soul Hunting Forest while fleeing Spirit Hall and the Heaven Dou Empire patrols. After more than a hundred li, she stopped and told him they had been surrounded.

• Zhou Chen collapsed after running for nearly two hours, and Hu Liena caught him and carried him on her back.
• Hu Liena escaped interception squads and leapt over the iron fence at the edge of the Soul Hunting Forest with Zhou Chen.
• Zhou Chen promised to protect Hu Liena for the rest of her life and grant her a beautiful realm when he ruled the world.
• After carrying Zhou Chen for over a hundred li, Hu Liena told him to return to his clan and stay out of sight.
• Hu Liena suddenly stopped and told Zhou Chen they had been surrounded.

Zhou Chen and Hu Liena were surrounded by Star Luo Empire death warriors led by a Soul Emperor. As the attackers overwhelmed them, Zhou Chen awakened his second spirit: the Xuanyuan Sword.

• Hu Liena sensed several dozen black-clad Spirit Masters surrounding her and Zhou Chen, and their leader recognized Zhou Chen from a portrait.
• The leader revealed his White Tiger Spirit and six spirit rings, identified the group as Star Luo Empire death warriors, and ordered them to kill Zhou Chen and Hu Liena.
• Zhou Chen made a deal with the System to awaken his second spirit and asked Hu Liena to hold off the attackers for ten seconds.
• Hu Liena used her Bewitchment ability to stop the attackers, but their leader struck her and broke her concentration.
• A golden pillar shielded Zhou Chen and Hu Liena as Zhou Chen awakened a golden ancient sword, which he recognized as the Xuanyuan Sword.