Chapter Summaries

Chen Xuanji was hunted by martial-world leaders who coveted his Muscle Tendon Classic, and he died after defeating them with a life-consuming breakthrough. He was reborn as a newborn on Douluo Continent, where an old farmer took him in after burying his murdered parents.

• Master Xuyun and other martial-world leaders attacked Chen Xuanji in his courtyard and demanded the Muscle Tendon Classic.
• Qin Yang revealed himself among the attackers and joined the fight against Chen Xuanji, who was wounded by the Nine Yang Divine Skill.
• Chen Xuanji swallowed a pill, reached Black Tier Futu, and killed the assembled martial-world seniors before fighting Qin Yang alone.
• Chen Xuanji forced out his remaining life force, killed Qin Yang, and died as his body rapidly aged and disappeared.
• On Douluo Continent, a dying woman cut her newborn son from her womb after her husband was murdered for a Spirit Bone.
• An old farmer found the infant, buried the couple, and carried the child away in his bamboo basket.

Six-year-old Chen Xuanji reflected on his past life and his stalled cultivation while living with his adoptive grandfather in Tianhun Village. With his Spirit awakening scheduled for the following week, he accepted his new life and began his morning practice.

• Chen Xuanji woke from a nightmare about his death in his previous life and recalled how he had been reborn in Douluo Continent.
• Chen Xuanji thought about his upbringing by Chen Chen and the Spirit awakening due in Tianhun Village the following week.
• Chen Xuanji recalled that he had cultivated the Muscle Tendon Classic since age two but could not progress until his Spirit awakened.
• Chen Xuanji climbed onto the roof and considered the world, its history, and his hope to cultivate peacefully and travel.
• At sunrise, Chen Xuanji resolved to face his new life and ran through the village for morning practice.

Chen Xilin awakened a powerful dragon-type martial soul and tested at Innate Soul Power Level Seven. He received a token granting him access to the Spirit Hall Main Hall, while Su Tianyu continued awakening the other village children.

• Old Hank brought fourteen children to the Spirit Branch Hall, where Su Tianyu arrived to conduct their martial soul awakenings.
• Su Tianyu possessed his Lone Wolf martial soul and began the awakening process, but directed Chen Xilin to go first.
• The awakening energy fused with Chen Xilin’s Muscle Tendon Classic, causing him to transform into a black-scaled dragon before he returned to normal.
• Su Tianyu identified Chen Xilin’s martial soul as a Dark Demonic Flood Dragon Spirit, and Chen Xilin demonstrated Innate Soul Power Level Seven.
• Su Tianyu gave Chen Xilin an awakening certificate and a token for the Spirit Hall Main Hall in Fasnuo City, then continued awakening the other children.

Chen Xilin awakened a Dark Demonic Flood Dragon Spirit with Innate Soul Power Level Seven and reunited with his guardian, Chen Chen, in Fasnuo City. Chen Chen introduced him to Bishop Yasqi, who gave him a cultivation method and promised to help him hunt a Spirit Beast when he reached Level Ten.

• Chen Xilin left Tianhun Village after awakening his spirit and traveled to Fasnuo City to find Chen Chen.
• Chen Chen returned home, learned of Chen Xilin's Level Seven spirit, and gave him a Storage Spirit Tool as a belated gift.
• The next morning, Chen Chen brought Chen Xilin to the Spirit Hall Main Hall and introduced him to Bishop Yasqi.
• Yasqi inspected Chen Xilin's Spirit Master's Handbook and praised his Dark Demonic Flood Dragon Spirit and talent.
• Yasqi gave Chen Xilin an advanced Meditation Method and a book about Dark Attribute Spirit Beasts, and offered to take him spirit-beast hunting when he reached Level Ten.

Chen Xilin studied dragon martial souls and learned about the powerful spirit masters and factions of Douluo Continent from Hans. He discovered that Fasnuo City had several Spirit Sage experts, while Qian Xunji learned of Bibi Dong’s Twin Martial Souls and decided to take her as his disciple.

• Chen Xilin read confidential records about Dragon Transformation and resolved to pursue stronger-than-normal spirit rings while keeping his abilities secret.
• Hans explained the major powers and strongest spirit masters of the continent, including the Peerless Douluos, the Seven Great Sects, and the empires.
• Chen Xilin asked about Fasnuo City and learned that its strongest expert was the city lord, while a Dark Demonic Flood Dragon spirit master ranked second.
• A messenger told Qian Xunji that orphan Bibi Dong had awakened the Death Spider Emperor and Soul Devouring Spider Emperor as Twin Martial Souls.
• Qian Xunji decided to travel to Bibi Dong and take her as his disciple, then ordered Spirit Hall members to kill Fallen Spirit Masters who attacked civilians.

After using whale rubber to strengthen his body, Chen Xilin set out for Dawn Forest to find a powerful Sub-Dragon Spirit Beast for his first spirit ring. At the forest market, he bought a distribution map and noticed five people following him, preparing to use them to test his combat ability.

• Chen Xilin secretly took whale rubber from Old Chen Chen, cooked and consumed it, then cultivated through the night with the Muscle Tendon Classic to strengthen his body.
• Chen Xilin collected his weapons and left Fasnuo City for Dawn Forest, where he planned to hunt a Sub-Dragon Spirit Beast for his first spirit ring.
• At a market near Dawn Forest, Chen Xilin bought a map showing Sub-Dragon Spirit Beast locations from the Information House.
• Three men, including a Soul Grandmaster, followed Chen Xilin and planned to attack him while he rested.
• Chen Xilin sensed that the three men and two other spirit masters were tailing him and decided to test his strength against them.

Chen Xilin hunted for a suitable Spirit Ring in Dawn Forest, killing three men who had followed him before setting traps for a Nether Demon Flood Dragon. His attack failed and forced him to flee, but he later killed an injured Black Flame Dragon Lizard; a wolf pack then kept him from absorbing its Soul Ring, which vanished after an hour.

• Two men abandoned their plan to rob Chen Xilin, but he ambushed and killed the three others who pursued him, then took their Gold Soul Coins.
• Chen Xilin reached the Nether Demon Flood Dragon's lair and tried to weaken it with traps, but his broadsword broke against its scales and he fled its counterattack.
• After evading the Nether Demon Flood Dragon, Chen Xilin spotted an injured Black Flame Dragon Lizard and killed it by driving his blade into its neck wound.
• A pack of nearly a hundred gray wolves gathered around the Black Flame Dragon Lizard's corpse, leaving Chen Xilin stranded in a tree as its nine-hundred-year Soul Ring dissipated.

Chen Xilin killed a Dark Pattern Python, absorbed its spirit ring, and broke through to the Second Heavenly Cycle of the Muscle Tendon Classic, gaining his first soul skill. He left the spirit beast forest for home, while Chen Chen returned to an empty residence and learned from a note that Chen Xilin had gone to Tianhun Village.

• Chen Xilin spent the night in a tree, then prepared a wire trap and searched for spirit beasts.
• A Dark Pattern Python chased Chen Xilin, who lured it into his wire trap and sliced it in half before killing it with an arrow.
• Chen Xilin absorbed the python's seven-hundred-year spirit ring in a tree hollow, breaking through to the Second Heavenly Cycle and reaching Soul Power level sixteen.
• Chen Xilin gained the first soul skill, Black Dragon Power, which enhanced his strength and speed, then set off home.
• Chen Chen returned to his residence, found Chen Xilin's note saying he had gone to Tianhun Village, and left to visit Yiyue Tower.

Chen Chen tried to claim Liu Hua Kui at Yiyue Tower, but Yu Luomian revealed himself as a Soul Saint, defeated Chen Chen, and escaped the Spirit Hall knights. Several days later, Chen Xilin returned to Fasnuo City and found something changed at Chen Chen's residence.

• Chen Chen went to Yiyue Tower and demanded that Liu Hua Kui attend him, despite the madam warning him that she was entertaining a prestigious guest.
• Yu Luomian, who had promised to redeem Liu Hua Kui, struck Chen Chen and sent him out of the tower.
• Yu Luomian paid the madam for Liu Hua Kui, then shattered Chen Chen's martial soul when Chen Chen challenged him outside.
• The Spirit Hall knights and a Black Bishop confronted Yu Luomian, but he identified himself through his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon powers and flew away.
• Several days later, Chen Xilin returned to Fasnuo City and noticed something different at Chen Chen's residence.

After Chen Xilin learned that Yu Luomian had killed his grandfather, Long Fei took him in as his student and guardian. In Suotuo City, Chen Xilin concealed the truth about his Dark Holy Dragon Spirit from Long Fei and planned to cultivate the Muscle Tendon Classic while his new master was away.

• Yasqi told Chen Xilin that Yu Luomian of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had beaten his grandfather to death.
• Long Fei introduced himself as the Dark Flood Dragon Spirit Master awakened by Chen Xilin's grandfather and took Chen Xilin away to raise him and seek revenge.
• Long Fei brought Chen Xilin to Suotuo City in the Balak Kingdom and asked him to release his martial soul.
• Chen Xilin revealed his Dark Holy Dragon Spirit, and Long Fei recognized it as a powerful True Dragon Species martial soul.
• Chen Xilin claimed that a secret manual let him suppress his soul power and explained that he had absorbed a seven-hundred-year Dark Pattern Python spirit ring.
• Long Fei left to gather cultivation resources, and Chen Xilin planned to practice the Muscle Tendon Classic while he was gone.

Chen Xilin advanced his cultivation under Long Fei’s guidance and, six years later, at twelve years old, reached Level 49 with four extraordinary Soul Rings. After defeating a twenty-thousand-year Striped Fierce Tiger in the Star Dou Great Forest, Long Fei told him he was ready to graduate.

• Chen Xilin perfected the Second Heavenly Cycle of the Muscle Tendon Classic but needed another Soul Ring to advance to the Third Heavenly Cycle.
• While Long Fei was away for two months, Chen Xilin cultivated at home and reached Level 17.
• Long Fei returned with Dragon Paste, Earth Dragon Tendon, and a Medicinal Bath for Chen Xilin, then urged him to work hard toward becoming a Titled Douluo.
• Six years later, twelve-year-old Chen Xilin fought a twenty-thousand-year Striped Fierce Tiger in the Star Dou Great Forest with four Soul Rings and Level 49 Soul Power.
• Chen Xilin killed the tiger with his Dark Dragon Demonic Flame and Myriad Dragon Devouring Abyss, and Long Fei declared him ready to graduate.

At twelve, Chen Xilin had reached Soul Ancestor and was nearing Spirit King, while Long Fei guided him through dangerous Spirit Beast hunts and kept his exceptional Spirit Ring Configuration secret. After Chen Xilin killed a 20,000-year Striped Fierce Tiger, the two prepared to harvest it and share a meal, their bond having grown into a father-and-son-like family.

• Chen Xilin had gained powerful Spirit Rings from Spirit Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest, including an Abyssal Bone Dragon, while Long Fei had reached the peak of rank seventy-nine and learned Yellow Tier Futu.
• Chen Xilin and Long Fei had nearly died after hunting a Fear Demon Dragon, but they escaped when a thousand-year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear fought off two pursuing ten-thousand-year Fear Demon Dragons.
• Long Fei had warned Chen Xilin to conceal his strength and avoid Soul Master registration, subsidies, and duels so the great clans would not discover his Spirit Ring Configuration.
• Long Fei had come to regard Chen Xilin as his son, while Chen Xilin cherished Long Fei as family and hoped he would live long enough to become a Titled Douluo.
• Chen Xilin killed a 20,000-year Striped Fierce Tiger, and Long Fei praised him before they began butchering it to sell its useful parts and buy dinner.

Chen Xilin wondered why he lacked full compatibility with the Dark Holy Dragon’s darkness and suspected his Pure Yang Body was the cause. After visiting a pleasure house to test that theory, he returned in high spirits and prepared to cultivate at night.

• Chen Xilin found strong Soul Power fluctuations outside Long Fei’s room and assumed his teacher was attempting to break through, so he left him undisturbed.
• Chen Xilin trained and reflected on his martial arts, Dark Holy Dragon Spirit, and limited affinity with darkness.
• Chen Xilin recalled a theory about the Five Elements and wondered whether losing his Pure Yang Body would improve his compatibility with darkness.
• Chen Xilin went to a pleasure house in Suotuo City to test his theory.
• Chen Xilin returned home with lipstick marks and planned to test his cultivation in the dark.

Chen Xilin’s teacher, Long Fei, broke through to Level 80 and set out to obtain his Eighth Spirit Ring, while Chen Xilin resumed his visits to Suotuo City’s pleasure district. Elsewhere, Bibi Dong celebrated reaching Level 37 with Qian Xunji, and the Clear Sky Sect worried about Tang Hao’s long absence and the sect’s future.

• Chen Xilin discovered that the Muscle Tendon Classic could strengthen his Dark Attribute, then went to listen to music in Suotuo City.
• Long Fei broke through to Level 80, discussed his Eighth Spirit Ring with Chen Xilin, and left to hunt with his old companions.
• Chen Xilin decided to spend the time before Long Fei returned by cultivating and going out to listen to music again.
• Bibi Dong told Qian Xunji she had reached Level 37, and he let her ride on his shoulders around Spirit City.
• Tang Xiao reassured the worried Earth Shaking Douluo about Tang Hao’s trial in the City of Slaughter, while both hoped for his return.

Long Fei returned to Hadrian City and asked his old brothers to help secure a spirit ring and protect Chen Xilin, whose talent and family history had placed him in danger. After learning that Chen Xilin was the grandson of their eldest brother, the group set out for the Star Dou Great Forest to find Long Fei a suitable spirit beast.

• Long Fei reached Hadrian City and reunited with his brothers at their residence.
• Long Fei revealed that twelve-year-old Chen Xilin had reached Level 49 and described his parents’ deaths, his enemies, and the need for protection.
• The eldest brother revealed that Chen Xilin’s mother, Zhu Zhihan, had been his niece, making Chen Xilin his grandnephew.
• Long Fei told his brothers he needed a thirty-thousand-to-fifty-thousand-year-old dark-attribute sub-dragon spirit beast for his eighth spirit ring.
• Long Fei and his six brothers left Hadrian City and headed across the Jincheng Mountain Range toward the Star Dou Great Forest.

Chen Xilin watched Spirit Master battles in Suotuo Great Soul Arena and reflected on his martial arts ambitions and the deadly Mysterious Nether Palm. Elsewhere, Long Fei killed a nearly fifty-thousand-year-old Dark Earth Dragon King and began absorbing its spirit ring under the guard of his powerful team.

• Chen Xilin watched games, life-and-death battles, and bet battles at the Suotuo Great Soul Arena while weighing the unknowns of the current Timeline.
• Chen Xilin resolved to pursue the Black Tier Futu and other martial arts, including using the Mysterious Nether Palm with his Dark Attribute against anyone who provoked him.
• In the Mixed Zone of the Star Dou Great Forest, Long Fei's team restrained a Dark Earth Dragon King with soul skills and vines.
• At the Golden Eagle's urging, Long Fei delivered the final blow and began absorbing the beast's nearly fifty-thousand-year-old black spirit ring.
• The two Spirit Douluo and four other Spirit Saints guarded Long Fei as he absorbed the ring.

After reaching level 50, Chen Xilin encountered Long Fei and his six companions, briefly clashing with Feng Qingyu before learning they were his uncles. The group welcomed him, and Feng Qingyu offered to protect him as the story left Chen Xilin among Long Fei’s powerful allies.

• Chen Xilin sensed Long Fei and six unfamiliar people approaching, then counterattacked when Feng Qingyu startled him.
• Feng Qingyu used Martial Soul Possession and knocked Chen Xilin away, prompting the others to criticize him.
• Chen Xilin retaliated with his Fourth Spirit Skill, forcing Feng Qingyu to defend himself until Long Fei called off the attack.
• Long Fei introduced Chen Xilin to Zhu Qingyan, Bai Yi, Quan Tianting, Xia Yilong, Xiong Zhan, and Feng Qingyu as his brothers and Chen Xilin’s uncles.
• Feng Qingyu checked Chen Xilin’s age and talent, then promised to keep him safe.

Nearly thirteen-year-old Chen Xilin trained in the Star Dou Great Forest when he clashed with a spoiled young girl who attacked him. After he killed her protector, a Titled Douluo arrived to defend the girl, leaving Chen Xilin facing a powerful new threat.

• Chen Xilin escaped a Ten-Thousand-Year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear and continued training in the forest.
• A young girl confronted Chen Xilin, and he ignored her before she attacked him with her third soul skill.
• Chen Xilin tore apart the girl's spiderweb and slapped her when she attacked him.
• A middle-aged Spirit Emperor tried to intervene, but Chen Xilin killed him within seconds.
• The girl revealed herself as Spirit Hall's Holy Maiden and begged Grandpa Gui to kill Chen Xilin.
• Grandpa Gui, a nine-ring Titled Douluo, attacked Chen Xilin.

Chen Xilin survived a Titled Douluo’s palm, then escaped Bibi Dong and her Spirit Hall guards by luring them into an ambush. He killed the pursuing group with his Dark Sky Curtain and Myriad Dragon Devouring Abyss before leaving the forest.

• Chen Xilin blocked the old man’s palm strike, was sent flying, and retaliated with Myriad Dragon Devouring Abyss, forcing the old man to protect Bibi Dong.
• The old man ordered the Spirit Hall Spirit Emperors and Soul Saints to pursue Chen Xilin, and a canine-martial-soul Spirit Emperor tracked him by scent.
• Chen Xilin concealed himself in the forest, realized the tracking Spirit Emperor had found his trail, and prepared an ambush beneath the trees.
• Chen Xilin trapped the Spirit Hall pursuers in Dark Sky Curtain, where they could not activate enhancement skills or Martial Soul Avatars, and killed them with Myriad Dragon Devouring Abyss.
• Chen Xilin left the scene, and the Mystic Armor Douluo arrived with Bibi Dong to find the guards’ mangled remains.

After Bibi Dong returned to Spirit Hall, she told Qian Xunji that a mysterious boy had attacked her group and displayed extraordinary strength. Qian Xunji and Qian Daoliu examined evidence of the boy’s Dark Attribute Martial Soul and learned that Bibi Dong believed he possessed the Dark Holy Dragon and an unusual spirit ring configuration.

• Feng Qingyu remained responsible for protecting Chen Xilin in the Star Dou Great Forest after Chen Xilin defeated the Spirit Hall pursuers.
• Bibi Dong returned to Spirit Hall and tearfully told Qian Xunji that the boy had killed several Spirit Hall experts and nearly killed her.
• Mystic Armor Douluo described the attack and gave Qian Xunji a wisp of the boy’s Black Flame before leaving with a one-year salary deduction.
• Qian Xunji and Qian Daoliu examined the Black Flame and concluded that its pure Dark Attribute likely came from a high-grade, pure Dark Attribute Martial Soul.
• Bibi Dong identified the boy’s Martial Soul as the Dark Holy Dragon and reported his unusual yellow, purple, purple, black, black spirit ring configuration.
• Qian Xunji decided that the boy should be eliminated if Spirit Hall could not recruit him, while Qian Daoliu reassured Bibi Dong about her future potential.