Chapter Summaries

Lu Leng completed the first Thunder God trial and received a second trial to eliminate the Wolf Bandits, while Ye Lingling finished her own trial and absorbed a God-Bestowed Soul Ring. They joined the Thunder Pond Clan after the Wolf Bandits attacked, and Lu Leng asked Yu Man'er to explain who they were.

• Lu Leng completed the Thunder Pool trial, gained five percent Thunder God affinity, and received a second trial to eliminate the Wolf Bandits.
• Ye Lingling completed her first trial, gained a Soul Power level and a God-Bestowed Soul Ring, then spent three days absorbing a two-thousand-year soul ring.
• Yu Man'er warned Lu Leng that the Wolf Bandits had arrived, then hurried to help when an explosion sounded outside the city.
• After Ye Lingling finished absorbing her soul ring, Lu Leng carried her to the outer city, where the Thunder Pond Clan had repelled the Wolf Bandits.
• Yu Man'er told Lu Leng the Wolf Bandits had retreated temporarily, and he asked her to explain their presence in the Land of Thunder Punishment.

After Thunder Pool repelled a Wolf Bandit attack, Lu Leng learned that the clan faced roughly seven hundred enemies but refused to join his trial’s goal of eliminating them. He and Ye Lingling stayed in the outer city to help guard against another attack while Lu Leng worried about how to complete the trial quickly.

• Yu Man'er told Lu Leng that the Wolf Bandits lived in Thunder Roar Forest, numbered roughly seven hundred, and regularly attacked Thunder Pool.
• Yuan Xin interrupted Yu Man'er before she could explain where the Wolf Bandits came from, and Lu Leng searched the battlefield for clues but found none.
• Lu Leng told Yuan Xin that his trial required him and Ye Lingling to assist the clan in eliminating the Wolf Bandits, but Yuan Xin said the clan could only defend itself.
• Lu Leng learned that Yu Ruyi could not act against the Wolf Bandits and worried that the trial would take years to complete.
• Lu Leng and Ye Lingling stayed in the outer city overnight to help guard against Wolf Bandit raids, while Lu Leng lay awake thinking about how to speed up his trials.

Lu Leng and Ye Lingling devised a plan to make the Thunder Pond Clan see both the danger posed by the Wolf Bandits and a chance to defeat them. During a Wolf Bandit assault, Lu Leng fought alongside the clan and discovered that most of its members wielded Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial souls, leaving him wary of their connection to his enemies.

• Lu Leng and Ye Lingling agreed they needed to create a sense of crisis while giving the Thunder Pond Clan hope of victory against the Wolf Bandits.
• A large Wolf Bandit force attacked the city wall, and Lu Leng joined the Thunder Pond Clan in fighting them.
• Lu Leng killed several Wolf Bandits as more climbed the wall and attacked in coordinated waves.
• Yu Man’er and Yu Zhilang used their soul skills to knock Wolf Bandits off the wall, revealing that they were level-sixty Soul Emperors.
• Lu Leng realized that the Thunder Pond Clan members mostly had Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial souls and grew wary of their ties to the clan he opposed.

Lu Leng used the abundant Lightning Element in the Land of Thunder Punishment to unleash Three Thousand Thunder Movements against the Wolf Bandits besieging the Thunder Pond Clan. His attack destroyed one-third of their fighting strength, leaving the clan ready to counterattack.

• Yuan Xin and Yuan Hao joined the battle as Title Douluo, but the Thunder Pond Clan struggled to defend its long wall against the Wolf Bandits.
• Lu Leng broke through the Wolf Bandits surrounding him, then rushed to protect Ye Lingling when they threatened her.
• Lu Leng flew into the sky with Ye Lingling and gathered thunderclouds across a five-hundred-meter area.
• Lu Leng unleashed Three Thousand Thunder Movements, blasting apart or disabling nearly one-third of the Wolf Bandits.
• The Thunder Pond Clan seized the chance to counterattack as the surviving Wolf Bandits became frightened.

Lu Leng helped the Thunder Pool Clan repel the Wolf Bandits, then uncovered signs that the clan and its attackers concealed a deeper secret. After questioning a clansman, he decided to investigate the Wolf Bandits’ nest in Thunder Roar Forest.

• A distant howl caused the Wolf Bandits to retreat, and Lu Leng joined the Thunder Pool Clan’s rescue and casualty efforts.
• Lu Leng found that several dozen clansmen had vanished and noticed blue scales on some Wolf Bandit corpses.
• Yuan Xin learned that eight clansmen had died and thirty-five had been captured, including twenty-five women.
• Lu Leng planted Evil Thought Power in an injured clansman and questioned him at midnight, but the man knew little beyond rumors about Thunder Roar Forest.
• Ye Lingling urged Lu Leng to focus on their assessment, but he decided to investigate the Wolf Bandits’ nest in Thunder Roar Forest.

Lu Leng scouted the Wolf Bandits' lair in Thunder Roar Forest and discovered that they were forcing captured humans to bear their offspring. As he hid nearby, he overheard a pregnant woman say she needed to “deal with this,” leaving her fate unclear.

• Lu Leng left Ye Lingling behind and flew to Thunder Roar Forest to scout the Wolf Bandits' lair.
• Lu Leng found five or six hundred Wolf Bandits and more than a hundred captives living in their encampment.
• Lu Leng saw women caring for Wolf Bandit infants and realized the bandits were using captured humans to reproduce.
• Lu Leng hid with Spatial Concealment when two women approached the forest edge.
• One woman said she felt nauseous, and Lu Leng heard her tell her companion she needed to deal with her pregnancy.

Lu Leng followed a woman from the Wolf Bandits’ lair and learned that she planned to die after being abused and impregnated by them. He gave her poison to use against the bandits, and she returned to the lair intending to ensure they all died, even if she and the other women died with them.

• A woman gave another woman a medicinal herb, and the woman left, resolved to die rather than keep living after what the Wolf Bandits had done to her.
• Lu Leng followed her to a lake and heard her grieve over her suffering and her lost relationship with Erlang.
• Lu Leng stopped the woman from drinking the herb and offered to help her take revenge on the Wolf Bandits.
• The woman explained that the bandit leader could detect ordinary poison, so Lu Leng gave her two poisons that were harmless separately but deadly together.
• The woman warned that the Wolf Bandits made the women eat first, meaning the women would die too, but she took the poisons and promised to make the bandits consume them within three days.

Lu Leng learned that the Wolf Bandits were capturing Thunder Pool clanspeople for a cruel purpose, but Yu Yuanxin refused to help him attack them. He rallied nearly forty clanspeople and headed for Thunder Roar Forest, where a circle on a note confirmed that his secret plan had succeeded.

• Lu Leng told Yu Yuanxin about the Wolf Bandits and asked her to send help, but she refused; he learned that Yu Ruyi was her father and that he wanted to wait and see.
• Ye Lingling suggested that Thunder Pool's lower-ranking clanspeople might not know why their relatives were being captured, so Lu Leng questioned a clansman and urged him to spread the news and gather volunteers.
• The news stirred the clanspeople to action, and nearly forty volunteers followed Lu Leng toward Thunder Roar Forest while Yu Yuanxin and the others watched them leave.
• Lu Leng reached the lakeside and found a note marked with a circle, confirming that his secret plan had succeeded.

Lu Leng used the Snow-Colored Swan Kiss to amplify the poison in the Wolf Bandits’ lair, then launched a surprise attack when it took effect. The Thunder Pool clansmen joined the battle, and Lu Leng confronted the Wolf Bandit leader, who met his charge head-on.

• Lu Leng shattered the Snow-Colored Swan Kiss over the Wolf Bandits’ lair, and a woman among them thanked him.
• The poison took effect, weakening the Thunder Pool clansmen and the Wolf Bandits before the black-furred leader used a vortex to detoxify them.
• Lu Leng struck with a Thunderclap and Wrath of the Dark Demon Evil God, interrupting the leader’s ability and injuring her.
• Lu Leng attacked the leader with Drawing Sword Slash, but her scaled claws blocked the blade and sent her flying into a tree.
• The Thunder Pool clansmen charged in and battled the weakened Wolf Bandits while Lu Leng cut through attackers and approached the leader.
• The leader called Lu Leng an outsider, and he declared that he would take her life before charging at her again.

Lu Leng defeated the Wolf Bandit leader but stopped before killing her after she claimed Yu Ruyi would avenge her. She revealed that she was the last remnant of Yu Ruyi’s wife and explained how his refusal to kill her enabled her to prey on the Thunder Pool.

• The Wolf Bandit leader wounded Lu Leng with a corrosive soul skill, but he used Spirit Destruction Arrow and Swallow Return Flash to defeat her.
• As Lu Leng prepared to kill her, the Wolf Bandit leader warned that Yu Ruyi would kill him and claimed Yu Ruyi could not bear to kill her.
• The Wolf Bandit leader said Yu Ruyi’s wife had been captured by Wolf Bandits and forced to mate with a Gale Demonic Wolf, giving birth to her.
• She explained that Yu Ruyi spared her because she carried his wife’s bloodline and mutated martial soul, then repeatedly failed to stop her from capturing Thunder Pool residents.
• Lu Leng asked whether a disease had caused the Thunder Pool’s normal population to dwindle.

Lu Leng killed the remaining Wolf Bandits and received the Thunder God's Nine Trials reward, but the next trial required him to destroy the Thunder Roar Hell Vine. After seeing the clan members mourn the women who died, he accepted Ye Lingling’s healing and decided to leave.

• Yu Ruyi killed the Wolf Bandit leader before he could reveal more, and Lu Leng found a skull bone on the corpse.
• Lu Leng slaughtered the remaining Wolf Bandits and earned 15% affinity with the Thunder God.
• The Thunder God’s third trial ordered Lu Leng to travel deep into Thunder Roar Forest and destroy the Thunder Roar Hell Vine.
• Lu Leng learned that the captured women had died from the Snow-Colored Swan Kiss and blamed Yu Ruyi for the tragedy.
• Ye Lingling healed Lu Leng despite his protests, and he left with her after witnessing the clan members’ grief.

Lu Leng gave Ye Lingling the Wolf Bandit leader’s skull bone, which she absorbed before learning that her third trial required her to assist Lu Leng in killing the Thunder Roar Hell Vine. As the pair headed into Thunder Roar Forest, Yu Ruyi ordered his children to blame Lu Leng for the Thunder Pool clansmen’s deaths.

• Lu Leng warned Ye Lingling to watch the people of Thunder Pool, especially Yu Ruyi, then gave her the Wolf Bandit leader’s skull bone.
• Ye Lingling absorbed the Gale Demonic Wolf's Corrosive Skull and gained a skill that weakened injured enemies and reduced the healing they received.
• Ye Lingling revealed that her third trial was to assist Lu Leng in killing the Thunder Roar Hell Vine, while Lu Leng had the same target as his own trial.
• Lu Leng and Ye Lingling left for Thunder Roar Forest without greeting the people of Thunder Pool.
• Yu Ruyi learned that fewer than fifty clansmen remained and told Yu Yuanxin and the others to blame Lu Leng for the deaths, hoping to redirect the clansmen’s anger.

Yu Ruyi announced he would enter seclusion to pursue a breakthrough while Lu Leng and Ye Lingling searched Thunder Roar Forest’s center for the Thunder Roar Hell Vine. They found a tiny, newly born shoot, and Lu Leng destroyed it with his Zhan Luo Blade.

• Yu Ruyi gave Yu Man'er and Yu Zhilang two years to complete their objective, then said he would enter seclusion after severing his Inner Demon.
• Lu Leng arrived with Ye Lingling at the open, altar-like center of Thunder Roar Forest and explained how powerful the Thunder Roar Hell Vine could be.
• Lu Leng and Ye Lingling searched the lightning-scorched ground for nearly an hour, then stopped to eat and rest.
• Ye Lingling uncovered a bluish-black shoot in the soil, and Lu Leng identified it as a newly born Thunder Roar Hell Vine.
• Lu Leng told Ye Lingling to retreat, drew the Zhan Luo Blade, and struck the shoot until it exploded into powder.

Lu Leng fought the Thunder Roar Hell Vine, learned that it could not cross the boundary around its territory, and relied on Ye Lingling to heal him. After his second attempt to attack the vine’s nest, another Thunder Whip suddenly struck at him.

• The Thunder Roar Hell Vine ambushed Lu Leng with a lightning whip, wounded him badly, and injured his wings as he tried to flee.
• Ye Lingling healed Lu Leng and deduced that the vine could not cross the circle’s boundary, while warning him to retreat if he was in danger.
• After Lu Leng recovered, he attacked the crack in the rocks with Wind Scroll Remnant Thunder, but several whips joined into a huge one that forced his tornado back.
• Lu Leng stopped the tornado, and a Thunder Whip suddenly lashed toward him before he could react.

Lu Leng repeatedly fought the Thunder Roar Hell Vine, learning to exploit the Zhan Luo Blade and Evil God Slash while Ye Lingling treated his injuries. By the time the one-year deadline approached, he had reduced the vine to one Thunder Whip and continued using it to hone his control of space and time.

• After repeated defeats, Lu Leng discovered that only his Zhan Luo Blade could damage the Thunder Roar Hell Vine and planned to cut off its nine Thunder Whips over the course of a year.
• Ye Lingling warned Lu Leng that the vine was becoming more intent on killing him, but he insisted that he would grow stronger as it weakened.
• The Thunder Roar Hell Vine tried to lure Lu Leng into a fatal trap, but he used Evil God Slash to alter a Thunder Whip's trajectory and escaped.
• Lu Leng trained by repeatedly using Evil God Slash against the vine, improving his mastery of space and beginning to grasp the Time Element.
• After more than two months, Lu Leng could cut off twenty meters of a Thunder Whip in one battle, and a month later he severed an entire whip.
• By the tenth month, Lu Leng had reduced the Thunder Roar Hell Vine to one Thunder Whip, but he delayed killing it so he could continue honing Evil God Slash and the Time Element.

Lu Leng fought the Thunder Roar Hell Vine on the final day of his training, only to discover that it planned to self-destruct. He escaped the blast at the cost of severe injuries and lost consciousness, while Ye Lingling remained safely away.

• Lu Leng reached Soul Power level fifty and briefly learned to slow living creatures with the Time Element, but Yu Ruyi still did not arrive with his God-Bestowed Soul Ring.
• Lu Leng told Ye Lingling to wait at a distance, then flew to attack the Thunder Roar Hell Vine with his Zhan Luo Blade.
• The Thunder Roar Hell Vine unleashed Lightning Forest, but Lu Leng absorbed its lightning with his Thunderclap Wings and advanced toward its crevice.
• The vine feigned weakness, wrapped its Thunder Whip around Lu Leng's foot, and began to self-destruct as he attacked.
• Lu Leng used the Time Element to slow the moment, cut the whip, retreat with Swallow Return Flash, and raise the Heart of Ice and Snow barrier.
• The explosion struck Lu Leng, badly injuring him and knocking him unconscious, while Ye Lingling remained unharmed at a distance.

After Ye Lingling spent a day healing Lu Leng from the Thunder Roar Hell Vine’s self-destruction, he recognized how essential she was and received the reward for completing the third Thunder God trial. The fourth trial ordered him to kill Yu Yuanxin and Yu Yuanhao, leaving him worried about how to do so without Yu Ruyi intervening.

• Ye Lingling repeatedly used her healing soul skill to save Lu Leng, exhausting herself before finally restoring him completely a day later.
• Lu Leng woke to find Ye Lingling asleep from exhaustion, carried her into shelter, and realized he had underestimated her importance.
• Lu Leng received a God-Bestowed Soul Ring and learned that his Thunder God affinity had risen to thirty percent after completing the third trial.
• The Thunder God's fourth trial required Lu Leng to kill the Title Douluo Yu Yuanxin and Yu Yuanhao.
• Lu Leng considered the danger of attacking the two Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan elders together and feared Yu Ruyi would stop him.

Lu Leng returned to the Thunder Pool with Ye Lingling and began absorbing a God-Bestowed Soul Ring while Yu Man'er and Yu Zhilang waited to carry out their plan. A month later, he was still absorbing it, leaving Yu Zhilang anxious about their dwindling time.

• Ye Lingling told Lu Leng that her third trial had raised her Soul Power to level thirty-seven and that her fourth trial required them to kill Yu Yuanxin and the others together.
• Lu Leng and Ye Lingling returned to the Thunder Pool, where Yu Man'er and Yu Zhilang resolved to hurry their plan and use force if necessary.
• Lu Leng began absorbing his God-Bestowed Soul Ring in the Thunder Pool while Ye Lingling stayed nearby to guard him.
• Yu Man'er and Yu Zhilang learned that Lu Leng was absorbing the ring and agreed to wait rather than disturb him.
• After a month passed without Lu Leng finishing the absorption, Yu Zhilang worried that their plan would run out of time.

Lu Leng completed his fifth Soul Ring, gaining two Soul Skills and reaching Soul Power level fifty-five. After discovering Ye Lingling had been missing for hours, he confronted Yu Man’er, who revealed she had drugged him as part of a long-planned scheme.

• Yu Zhilang realized that Lu Leng’s Soul Ring absorption left Ye Lingling unwatched and rushed off to seize his chance.
• Lu Leng finished absorbing his Soul Ring after half a year, gained Heaven’s Judgment and Earth’s Prison Lock, and reached level fifty-five.
• Yu Man’er brought Lu Leng food and juice, claimed she did not know where Ye Lingling had gone, and watched him drink.
• Lu Leng sensed that Yu Man’er was lying and held his blade to her neck, demanding to know Ye Lingling’s whereabouts.
• Yu Man’er revealed that she had given Lu Leng the aphrodisiac Yin-Yang Phoenix Reversal, and Lu Leng realized she had been plotting since the beginning.

Yu Man'er tried to trap Lu Leng with aphrodisiacs and a control pill, but he subdued her and rushed to save Ye Lingling from Yu Zhilang. After killing Yu Zhilang and finding Ye Lingling unharmed, Lu Leng succumbed to the medicine with her; the next morning, they woke together.

• Yu Man'er revealed that she and Yu Ruyi had secretly drugged Lu Leng with aphrodisiacs and the Mother-Child Pill, but Lu Leng used his Spiritual Power to control her instead.
• Lu Leng learned from Yu Man'er that Ye Lingling was in Yu Zhilang's room and flew there despite the drug's worsening effects.
• Lu Leng burst into the room, found Ye Lingling unconscious but still unharmed, and killed Yu Zhilang with the Spirit Destruction Arrow.
• Ye Lingling embraced and kissed Lu Leng, and the two spent the night together.
• The next morning, Lu Leng woke with Ye Lingling curled up in his arms.