Chapter Summaries

Ling Wei brought Tang Chenfeng, Ye Hongling, Ze Ping, and Ze Ya to the Spirit Pagoda, where rising prices made Ze Ping’s Hundred-Year Spirit Soul unaffordable. She presented a badge to request Tower Climbing, and the deputy Tower Master recognized it as a Sect Master Token of the Church of Life.

• Ze Ping learned that Hundred-Year Spirit Souls now cost five hundred thousand, beyond his family’s budget, and began to settle for a Ten-Year Spirit Soul.
• Ling Wei offered another way to help Ze Ping and applied for Tower Climbing, showing the Spirit Transmitter a badge that startled him.
• Ling Wei privately told Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling that the badge came from the Church of Life, which had once invited her to join its core team.
• The Spirit Transmitter took the badge to the deputy Tower Master, who identified it as a Sect Master Token and hurried to meet the group.

Ling Wei confronted the Spirit Pagoda deputy tower master after he attacked her family, revealing her overwhelming power and identity as Blazing Spirit Douluo. The group then traveled to the Ascension Spirit Platform, where Ling Wei explained how Tower Climbing could help Ze Ping obtain a Spirit Soul; they prepared to enter while Ling Wei stayed behind.

• The deputy tower master unleashed Soul Power when Ling Wei reclaimed the Sect Master Token, knocking Ze Ping and his mother unconscious and revealing the siblings’ unusual Soul Rings.
• Ling Wei seized the deputy tower master, revealed her nine Soul Rings and identity as Blazing Spirit Douluo, and forced Zhou Liehong to apologize before she let him go.
• Tang Chenfeng and the others revived Ze Ping and his mother, then rode an elevator deep beneath the Spirit Pagoda.
• Ling Wei explained the Ascension Spirit Platform and Soul Spirit Tower, and the group learned that Tower Climbing could help them find Ze Ping a suitable Spirit Soul at a discount.
• At the Ascension Spirit Platform, staff issued three Tower Climbing slots and Distress Signal Devices, while Ling Wei had to wait outside because of the team’s level-gap restriction.

Tang Chenfeng, Ye Hongling, and Ze Ping entered the Ascension Spirit Platform and began climbing the Soul Spirit Tower. After defeating a Spotted Leopard and a pack of Wood Wolves, they rested on the cleared second floor to recover their Soul Power.

• Tang Chenfeng, Ye Hongling, and Ze Ping entered the Ascension Spirit Platform and learned they could use their Distress Signal Devices to escape if they faced danger.
• Tang Chenfeng led the group through the golden gate into the Soul Spirit Tower, where they defeated a hundred-year Spotted Leopard and chose to continue without absorbing its Spirit Soul.
• On the second floor, eight gates opened and released a pack of about fifty Wood Wolves, including three hundred-year wolves.
• Ye Hongling linked the group and weakened the wolves with her Life Domain while Tang Chenfeng and Ze Ping fought them.
• Tang Chenfeng killed the three alpha wolves, the surviving Wood Wolves fled, and the group rested after clearing the second floor.

Tang Chenfeng’s group defeated a four-hundred-year Iron Armored Rhinoceros on the third floor of the Soul Spirit Tower, and Tang Chenfeng revealed his Star God Armor. On the fourth floor, they encountered a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear, leaving Ling Wei alarmed by their bad luck.

• In the Observation Room, staff praised Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling’s abilities as Ling Wei defended Ze Ping’s potential.
• Tang Chenfeng’s group entered the third floor and faced a charging Iron Armored Rhinoceros.
• Tang Chenfeng used his Star God Armor to stop the beast’s charge, then transformed it into his Star God Hammer and killed the rhinoceros with one strike.
• Ze Ping declined to absorb the Iron Armored Rhinoceros Spirit Soul, and the group continued to the next floor.
• The fourth floor changed into a forest-like arena, where the group sensed a powerful beast and saw a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear emerge.
• Ling Wei questioned why the dangerous Soul Beast had appeared so early, and staff explained that the types of Soul Beasts were random.

Tang Chenfeng and his companions encountered a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear in the Soul Spirit Tower and were overwhelmed by its strength. After Ze Ping and Ye Hongling were eliminated and Tang Chenfeng was left badly injured, his Starlight Stone merged into his hand, and he broke the bear’s dreadclaw with an azure-flaming fist.

• Tang Chenfeng grabbed Ye Hongling and Ze Ping and evaded the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear by leaping through the forest canopy.
• The bear cut through a massive tree and then unleashed its Dark Gold Dreadclaw, forcing Tang Chenfeng to dodge its sweeping attack.
• The Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear leaped after the trio and struck them, eliminating Ze Ping and Ye Hongling while Tang Chenfeng survived with a shattered left arm and torn Star God Armor.
• Tang Chenfeng refused to press the Distress Signal Device, and his Starlight Stone floated from his pocket and merged into his right palm.
• As the bear struck at Tang Chenfeng again, his azure-flaming fist broke its Dark Gold Dreadclaw in two.

Tang Chenfeng awakened the Cosmic Divine Light and defeated the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear, then learned the power could consume his life force if he used it too long. After waking in the Spirit Pagoda infirmary with altered sky-blue hair and eyes, he prepared to return home while Ze Ping kept the bear’s Spirit Soul.

• Tang Chenfeng used Cosmic Divine Light to shatter the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear’s claws and kill it with his Star God Battle Hammer.
• Bai Xing showed Tang Chenfeng what happened and explained that Cosmic Divine Light’s Unstoppable Offense could break any defense but might burn his life force after his Soul Power ran out.
• Tang Chenfeng woke in the infirmary two hours later, and Ling Wei and Ye Hongling saw that his appearance and bodily strength had changed.
• Bai Xing communicated with Tang Chenfeng and told him they would discuss his changes after he dealt with what was in front of him.
• Ze Ping revealed that the deputy tower master had given him the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear’s Spirit Soul, and Tang Chenfeng warned him that absorbing it was risky.
• After Tang Chenfeng passed his examination and Ze Ping obtained his Spirit Soul, the two families said farewell at the Spirit Pagoda and set out for home.

Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling learned that they could seek admission to Cloud City, and Ye Jiulong and Ling Wei decided to accompany them if they passed the assessment. On the rooftop, Tang Chenfeng spoke with Bai Xing about his origins, while her true self received his memories and discussed an unseen person and her plan with the Mysterious Person.

• Ling Wei urged Ye Jiulong to consider returning to Cloud City, and they decided to go with Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling if the siblings passed its assessment.
• Ye Jiulong told Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling that they could rest for a month before resuming training for the assessment two months later.
• After dinner, Tang Chenfeng met Bai Xing on the rooftop, where she explained that she could now communicate with him through a projection and sent a message to her true self.
• Tang Chenfeng asked whether he had a father, and Bai Xing told him he was her child, created without a father in the true sense.
• Bai Xing's true self received Tang Chenfeng's memories, then argued with the Mysterious Person, who said he had seen the person she was looking for.

Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling left Haitian City to take part in Cloud City's talent assessment, traveling with Ye Jiulong, Ling Wei, and Zhao Gaobo by airship. The airship journey began smoothly, though Ye Hongling became airsick.

• Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling said goodbye to their classmates, while Ze Ping admitted he would miss Ye Hongling.
• Tang Chenfeng, Ye Hongling, Ye Jiulong, Ling Wei, and Zhao Gaobo traveled to the Aviation Center and boarded a Soul Tool Airship bound for Cloud City.
• The airship took off and climbed steadily toward the clouds.
• Ye Hongling became airsick, and Ling Wei advised her to close her eyes and rest until the turbulence passed.

Tang Chenfeng traveled to Cloud City with Ye Hongling and met a mysterious blue-haired girl on the airship before she disappeared. As the airship approached Cloud City and its student assessment, teachers from Saint Luo Soul Master Academy prepared to recruit students, and one teacher demanded control over the students he chose.

• Tang Chenfeng went onto the airship's deck and met a melancholy girl with sky-blue hair, who spoke about the changed landscape below before vanishing as Cloud City came into view.
• Tang Chenfeng returned to the cabin, saw that Ye Hongling had mostly recovered, and considered the assessment that would decide whether they could enter Cloud City.
• A female principal and a male teacher from Saint Luo Soul Master Academy discussed recruiting students in a Soul Tool Vehicle.
• The male teacher insisted that the students he selected must be taught by him and negotiated to become the homeroom teacher of Class Six.

Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling entered Cloud City's examination, a survival challenge conducted in a simulated maze filled with Soul Beasts. The chapter left them together in the maze as the examination began.

• Students from the ground arrived at Cloud City's docks and traveled to the examination site, where Zhao Gaobo, Ye Jiulong, and Ling Wei saw Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling enter.
• The chief examiner explained that participants would earn points by killing Soul Beasts, surviving, and potentially defeating other examinees in the Douluo World.
• Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling chose to form a team with each other and entered adjacent Simulation Pods.
• Tang Chenfeng confirmed his personal information, loaded into the Simulation World, and found Ye Hongling beside him in a stone-brick passageway.

Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling fought their way through the assessment maze, defeating a Mu Jin statue before encountering a wounded Demon Lizard Dragon. After Tang Chenfeng broke its neck, three white-haired girls arrived and the siblings realized they had taken down their prey.

• Tang Chenfeng linked with Ye Hongling and led her deeper into the maze, where he destroyed a slow-moving Mu Jin statue for points.
• The siblings encountered a Demon Lizard Dragon fleeing with severe frostbite and weapon wounds, and they chased it into a dead-end chamber.
• Tang Chenfeng used Future Perception Domain to evade the Demon Lizard Dragon and drove Cosmic Divine Light into its neck wound, breaking its cervical spine.
• Three exhausted white-haired girls arrived and told Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling to wait, revealing that the Demon Lizard Dragon had been their prey.

Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling fought the Ice Snow Three Sisters over a dying Demon Lizard Dragon, then triggered the emergence of a powerful Mandala Demon Flower. After the sisters were eliminated by the enraged Soul Beast, Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling remained facing the danger.

• Xue Tianbing, Xue Mengbing, and Xue Linger revealed their Soul Rings and demanded that Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling return the Demon Lizard Dragon they had injured.
• Tang Chenfeng used a Greatsword to kill the Demon Lizard Dragon, then he and Ye Hongling fled as the three sisters attacked them with ice abilities.
• Tang Chenfeng told Ye Hongling to expand her Life Domain, and the chamber shook as a huge Mandala Flower emerged and attacked the pursuing sisters.
• Xue Linger pierced the Mandala Flower with an ice spear and detonated the ice crystals, but the wounded flower opened to reveal itself as a Mandala Demon Flower.
• The enraged Mandala Demon Flower attacked with poisonous thorns and vines, and the Ice Snow Three Sisters were eliminated.

Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling used Ye Hongling’s Life Domain to befriend the Mandala Demon Flower, which fused into her Soul Ring before the assessment abruptly ended. Outside the Virtual World, Wu Lintian intimidated a Tianluo Academy teacher competing for the siblings, while the exam operators discovered that a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast had vanished.

• Tang Chenfeng explained that Bai Xing had sensed the Mandala Demon Flower and that Ye Hongling could awaken it through her Life Inheritor traits.
• Ye Hongling approached the Mandala Demon Flower, used her Life Domain and vines to communicate with it, and watched it shrink before a green-gold sphere entered her Soul Ring.
• Bai Xing told Tang Chenfeng that the Mandala Demon Flower had fused with Ye Hongling to follow her out of the half-virtual, half-real world.
• In the Observation Room, Wu Lintian sent Zi Yun to recruit the eliminated Ice Snow Three Sisters, then challenged a Tianluo Academy teacher over Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling.
• Wu Lintian revealed eight Soul Rings and overpowered the Tianluo Academy teacher before an alarm interrupted them.
• The Simulation World announced an early end to the assessment, and the system operators panicked over the disappearance of a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast.

After the assessment, Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling joined Saint Luo Soul Master Academy under Wu Lintian, despite Bai Xing sensing hidden strength in him. Zi Yun also recruited the disappointed Xue sisters, and both groups prepared to leave for the academy.

• Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling returned their Soul Guide Data Terminals and learned they could keep them for future Virtual World use.
• Wu Lintian invited Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling to become his students at Saint Luo Soul Master Academy, and they accepted.
• Bai Xing warned Tang Chenfeng that Wu Lintian was stronger than he appeared, though Tang Chenfeng sensed no malice from him.
• The Xue sisters lamented their early elimination after losing the Demon Lizard Dragon and being eliminated by a Soul Beast in a secret chamber.
• Zi Yun invited Xue Tianbing, Xue Mengbing, and Xue Linger to Saint Luo Soul Master Academy, and they accepted.

After the examination was postponed because of a problem with the Simulation Pods, Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling prepared to leave for Saint Luo Soul Master Academy. They boarded the bus with the Ice Snow Three Sisters, and it set off toward Cloud City's interior.

• Wu Lintian explained that a Simulation Pod issue had postponed the examination and that the students would be retested after repairs.
• Ling Wei gave Ye Hongling the Church of Life's Sect Master Token for protection, and Ye Hongling accepted it.
• Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling said goodbye to Ye Jiulong, Ling Wei, and Zhao Gaobo, then boarded Wu Lintian's bus.
• Zi Yun brought Xue Tianbing, Xue Mengbing, and Xue Linger onto the bus, where they recognized Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling and tensions flared over their earlier encounter.
• After the teachers calmed the students, the bus carrying Saint Luo Soul Master Academy's five recruits from the ground departed for Cloud City's interior.

Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling arrived at Saint Luo Soul Master Academy, where Wu Lintian handled their enrollment and assigned them separate dormitories. Tang Chenfeng noticed that Xue Linger’s energy was unlike anyone else’s, and the chapter ended as he reached Dormitory 521.

• Tang Chenfeng observed Cloud City’s high-tech skyline and sensed that Xue Linger’s energy was uniquely similar to things found in forests.
• Xue Mengbing teased Tang Chenfeng, and he introduced himself and Ye Hongling, revealing that he was only about ten years old.
• Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling arrived at Saint Luo Soul Master Academy and learned about its vast campus and facilities.
• Wu Lintian took Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling to his office, processed their enrollment, gave them uniforms, and told them classes would begin the day after tomorrow.
• Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling went to their separate dormitories, and Tang Chenfeng reached Dormitory 521.

Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling settled into Saint Luo Soul Master Academy, where a clash over their enormous appetite worsened their conflict with the Xue sisters. Later, Tang Chenfeng and Bai Xing concluded that Xue Linger was likely a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in humanoid form, leaving them to wonder why she had come to Cloud City.

• Tang Chenfeng admired his dormitory, then met Ye Hongling and took her to dinner at the academy cafeteria.
• Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling ate nearly all the rare ingredients before Xue Tianbing, Xue Mengbing, and Xue Linger arrived, prompting the head chef to stop them.
• Xue Linger confronted the siblings over the dwindling food, and the head chef warned everyone not to fight in the cafeteria.
• Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling returned to their dormitories after the tense encounter with the Xue sisters.
• Bai Xing told Tang Chenfeng that Xue Linger was likely a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast who had cultivated again and undergone Humanoid Transformation.
• Tang Chenfeng wondered why Xue Linger had come to the dangerous city and whether Xue Tianbing and Xue Mengbing knew her secret.

Tang Chenfeng attended Saint Luo Soul Master Academy’s opening ceremony and discovered he had been assigned to Class Six, the Soul Device Department, with Ye Hongling. Teacher Wu Lintian introduced the class’s resources and began the students’ first lesson with a practical combat assessment.

• Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling attended the opening ceremony, where Dean Zi Yun gave a speech and the academy assigned students to classes.
• Tang Chenfeng learned he and Ye Hongling had been placed in the small Class Six Soul Device Department under Wu Lintian, and he felt misled by his teacher’s cheerful recruitment.
• Wu Lintian told Class Six that they could freely use combat Simulation Pods and sub-profession workshops, then asked each student to introduce themselves.
• Ye Hongling introduced herself as a ten-year-old Level 26 healing support-type Battle Soul Master, and Tang Chenfeng revealed he was a ten-year-old Level 29 assault-type Battle Soul Master.
• Wu Lintian led the class to the training grounds and announced a no-rules, single-elimination practical combat assessment to evaluate their abilities and aptitude.

Wu Lintian assessed Class Six through combat matches, where Cheng Siqi demonstrated a costly predictive Soul Skill and Tang Chenfeng defeated Zhou Ou without releasing his Martial Soul. Ye Hongling then faced Ge Xinran, whose metal-bladed flowers faltered under Ye Hongling’s Life Domain, leaving the match unresolved.

• Cheng Siqi used his Magic Crystal to predict Yuwen Liu’s attacks and dodge them, but Wu Lintian stopped the match when Cheng Siqi’s Soul Power and Spiritual Power ran low, advancing Yuwen Liu.
• Wu Lintian grew disappointed with Class Six’s weak performances, including students with poor combat abilities and one student with two Ten-Year Soul Rings.
• Tang Chenfeng caught Zhou Ou’s attack, threw him to the ground without using his Martial Soul, and advanced after Wu Lintian told him to release it in future assessments.
• Ye Hongling revealed two Thousand-Year Soul Rings as she faced Ge Xinran, whose Metallization Soul Skill turned her Purple Green Flowers into sharp metal blades.
• Ye Hongling activated her Life Domain, which overwhelmed Ge Xinran and weakened her plant-type Martial Soul.

Ye Hongling defeated Ge Xinran after her Mandala Demon Flower appeared as a Soul Spirit and protected her. Wu Lintian then challenged Tang Chenfeng, and Tang’s powerful second attack cracked Wu Lintian’s shield and forced him out of the circle, leaving Wu Lintian convinced he had found the person someone had described.

• Ge Xinran used her first and second Soul Skills to attack Ye Hongling with metallic flower whips.
• Ye Hongling’s Mandala Demon Flower Soul Spirit appeared, dissolved Ge Xinran’s attack, and struck back with poisoned spikes before Wu Lintian stopped them.
• Wu Lintian declared Ye Hongling the winner, then called Tang Chenfeng forward for an additional match.
• Wu Lintian challenged Tang Chenfeng to force him out of a circle while defending without using his Martial Soul.
• Tang Chenfeng’s first attack was repelled, but his second attack cracked Wu Lintian’s golden shield and forced him a step outside the circle.