Chapter Summaries

Qin Ze dominated a game with tank Kai, then left his university dorm to buy lunch and was struck by a mysterious middle-aged man's jeep. The man sent him through space-time toward Douluo Continent, where a golden light entered Qin Ze before he disappeared.

• Qin Ze's tank Kai defeated the opposing team, and his roommates asked him to bring back lunch.
• Qin Ze crossed the street outside Shancheng University and was hit by a red jeep that appeared out of nowhere.
• The middle-aged man in a villa revealed that he had used the jeep to send Qin Ze away, remarking that the last person he sent had also gone to Douluo Continent.
• Qin Ze drifted through space, absorbed a streak of golden light, and fell unconscious as he vanished.

Shen Tianlei arrived at Maple Leaf Village to awaken the martial souls of its seven six-year-old children, while the villagers hoped one might have soul power. He entered the crowded square with village chief Ke Lan, and the awakening was about to begin.

• Shen Tianlei reflected on finding only five children with soul power in the twelve villages he had visited that day.
• Ke Lan waited at Maple Leaf Village with Zheng Long and Zheng Hu for Shen Tianlei to arrive.
• Shen Tianlei greeted Ke Lan and explained that the five children from the other villages had only innate rank-one or rank-two soul power.
• Villagers gathered at the square and discussed their hopes for the seven children, recalling that Maple Leaf Village had not produced a soul master in nearly thirty years.
• Shen Tianlei and Ke Lan arrived at the wooden awakening house as the villagers opened a path for them.

Shen Tianlei arrived at Maple Leaf Village and began the Martial Soul Awakening ceremony for seven children. As he prepared to awaken the first girl, an old woman watched the wooden house from the crowd before quietly leaving.

• Shen Tianlei apologized to the villagers for arriving late, and Ke Lan led him to the seven children waiting inside the wooden house.
• Shen Tianlei introduced himself as a rank twenty-nine Soul Grandmaster and explained that he would awaken the children's martial souls one by one.
• Shen Tianlei released his Blue Patterned Vine martial soul, reassured the children, and called the first girl forward.
• Ke Lan noticed an old woman watching the wooden house, and she left after observing the ceremony from the crowd.

Zhu Xiyan found a mysterious infant beside the Zeshui River and brought him home. She named him Qin Ze, while the golden light that had appeared with him secretly gave both of them renewed vitality.

• Zhu Xiyan visited the riverside where her late son had played and remembered their time together.
• A golden light appeared in the meadow, and an infant cried beside the river.
• Zhu Xiyan picked up the infant, causing the golden light to enter him and a wisp of light to enter her.
• Zhu Xiyan carried the infant home and saw that he had fallen asleep.
• Zhu Xiyan named the infant Qin Ze after her late son's surname and the Zeshui River where she found him.

During a Martial Soul Awakening in Maple Leaf Village, Shen Tianlei discovered that all seven children had unexpectedly gained Innate Soul Power, and that his own Soul Power had risen as well. He told Village Chief Ke Lan the results were real and recommended sending the children to a Junior Soul Master Academy.

• Shen Tianlei tested the final boy and found level two Soul Power after the boy had first appeared to have none.
• Shen Tianlei retested the other six children and discovered that all seven had level two Innate Soul Power.
• Shen Tianlei sensed that his own Soul Power had risen from level twenty-nine to the threshold of level thirty.
• Shen Tianlei announced to the villagers that all seven children could become Soul Masters, and Ke Lan reacted in disbelief.
• Shen Tianlei told Ke Lan that the awakening had been inexplicable and suggested the village pool money to send the children to a Junior Soul Master Academy.

After Maple Leaf Village celebrated seven children awakening martial souls, its elders agreed to fund their enrollment at Baihe Junior Soul Master Academy. The village chief visited Zhu Xiyan and baby Qin Ze, leaving Qin Ze embarrassed after he passed gas in front of everyone.

• Ke Lan and Zheng Long and Zheng Hu saw Shen Tianlei off, then joined Maple Leaf Village's celebrations for seven newly awakened soul masters.
• Ke Lan proposed that the village storehouse cover the seven children's tuition, and the elders agreed to send them to Baihe Junior Soul Master Academy in a month.
• Maple Leaf Village prepared a celebratory banquet while Qin Ze woke briefly, drank goat milk, and thought about his transmigration.
• Ke Lan visited Zhu Xiyan with two couples, invited her to the banquet, and heard that she had named the baby Qin Ze.
• Qin Ze accidentally passed gas in front of his visitors and felt mortified.

Five years after Qin Ze was taken in by Zhu Xiyan, he worried over her declining health while trying to care for her. When he returned home, he learned she had at most a month to live, leaving him stunned as the fish he had brought for her soup began to die.

• Qin Ze wondered what era of Douluo Continent he had entered and worried that he could not find treasures to help Zhu Xiyan.
• Qin Ze caught nutritious fish and carried them home to cook soup for Zhu Xiyan.
• Qin Ze learned from Ke Lan that Maple Leaf Village’s children had gained Innate Soul Power after seven children awakened their Martial Souls five years earlier.
• Qin Ze returned home and found Zhu Xiyan unconscious while Lin Cuicui, Ke Lan, Zheng Long, Zheng Hu, and a physician were with her.
• Ke Lan told Qin Ze that Zhu Xiyan’s life was fading naturally and that she had at most one month left.
• Qin Ze stood dazed, looking down at the fish in his bucket as they became barely alive.

Qin Ze comforted his dying grandmother Zhu Xiyan and resolved to seek the opportunities that could help him become a god and revive her. Meanwhile, the Body Sect searched for four injured Evil Soul Masters who had killed one of its promising disciples.

• Zhu Xiyan told Qin Ze about losing her husband and son in the war and asked him to face the future after her death.
• Qin Ze went to make Zhu Xiyan fish soup and remembered that a god could bring people into the God Realm, so he planned to pursue the Immortal Herbs and Electrolux’s help.
• A subordinate told the green-haired Body Sect master that four Evil Soul Masters had vanished after fleeing into the forest.
• The Body Sect master ordered his people to search nearby villages and towns, warning that the wounded Evil Soul Masters would need flesh, blood, and souls to recover.
• After his followers left, the Body Sect master reflected on his struggle to break through to Limit Douluo.

Evil Soul Masters fled the pursuing Body Sect while Qin Ze faced the death of his grandmother, Zhu Xiyan. After burying her beside his grandfather, Qin Ze vowed to become a god and reunite with them.

• Four Evil Soul Masters escaped just before two Body Sect Soul Douluo arrived at the corpses they had left behind.
• Zhu Xiyan asked Qin Ze to speak with her alone and comforted him as she neared death.
• Zhu Xiyan died peacefully while Qin Ze held her hand.
• The people of Maple Leaf Village buried Zhu Xiyan beside her husband beneath the ginkgo tree.
• Qin Ze stayed by the graves, vowed to become a god and reunite with his grandparents, then kowtowed nine times.

Qin Ze caught and grilled Green Scale Fish in the forest, where he met the powerful Du Busi, Sect Master of the Body Sect. After Du Busi left, Qin Ze realized he was heading toward Maple Leaf Village.

• Qin Ze caught Green Scale Fish and reflected on his life since his grandmother's death and his upcoming Martial Soul awakening.
• Du Busi emerged from the forest, offered Qin Ze money for the grilled fish, and began eating with him.
• Du Busi released a brief, terrifying aura that left Qin Ze shaken.
• Du Busi departed, and Qin Ze realized he was heading toward Maple Leaf Village.

Qin Ze raced back to Maple Leaf Village after Du Busi vanished, fearing the Super Douluo was heading there. Four Evil Soul Masters slaughtered the villagers and prepared to flee when a voice challenged their insult against the Body Sect.

• Qin Ze put out the fire by the stream and hurried toward Maple Leaf Village, worrying that Du Busi had gone there.
• Four Evil Soul Masters, including Earthworm, killed nearly a hundred villagers and discussed how the Body Sect had not found the village.
• Zheng Long attacked Earthworm with an arrow, but Earthworm's tentacle swallowed it and the Soul Emperors' pressure incapacitated most of the guards.
• Hundreds of villagers emerged to defend their loved ones, prompting the Evil Soul Masters to decide to retreat before the Body Sect found them.
• Earthworm promised to return, but as the four Evil Soul Masters began to leave, an unseen voice demanded, "Who are you calling mad dogs?"

Du Busi arrived in Maple Leaf Village and crippled the four Evil Soul Masters who had killed nearly a hundred villagers, including children. Qin Ze returned to find the village strewn with bodies and learned that a Soul Master had stopped the attack.

• Du Busi appeared before the four Evil Soul Masters, who recognized the Body Sect's rank-98 Sect Master and tried to fight back.
• Du Busi's green mist suppressed their Martial Souls, and he shattered the bones and tendons in all four bodies while leaving them alive.
• Qin Ze raced toward Maple Leaf Village, unknowingly strengthened by a golden light around his heart, and found corpses near the stream.
• Du Busi ordered Zheng Long to gather the dead as villagers began collecting nearly a hundred victims of the attack.
• Qin Ze asked Auntie Li what had happened, learned that Evil Soul Masters had attacked and a Soul Master had saved the village, then ran toward the square.

After the Evil Soul Masters who attacked Maple Leaf Village were captured, Qin Ze asked Du Busi to let him join the Body Sect and was told to return after his Martial Soul Awakening in half a year. The village mourned its many dead, and a Soul Douluo from Baihe City later restored a sense of security.

• Qin Ze reunited with Du Busi and Zheng Long in Maple Leaf Village, where Du Busi’s followers arrived and caged the four captured Evil Soul Masters.
• Qin Ze asked to follow Du Busi, who said the Body Sect only accepted people with Body Martial Souls and promised to return in half a year.
• Qin Ze decided not to tell Du Busi about the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well because he feared the risk of seeking its immortal herbs.
• Maple Leaf Village mourned the villagers killed in the attack, including Zheng Long and Zheng Hu’s father, while Ke Lan fainted after hearing the news.
• The massacre spread fear through nearby villages until a Soul Douluo from Baihe City came to guard the area.

Six months after the tragedy in Maple Leaf Village, Shen Tianlei returned to awaken the village children’s Martial Souls. The first child, Lin Qin, awakened a rare healing Martial Soul with Innate Soul Power Level five, while Qin Ze waited nervously for his turn.

• Shen Tianlei returned to Maple Leaf Village to help its children awaken their Martial Souls, and Ke Lan, Zheng Long, and Zheng Hu welcomed him.
• Qin Ze joined eight other children in the awakening room and wondered what Martial Soul he would receive.
• Shen Tianlei demonstrated his Martial Soul and arranged the nine children in order for their awakenings.
• Lin Qin awakened the rare healing-type Three-Colored Flower Martial Soul and tested at Innate Soul Power Level five.
• Shen Tianlei congratulated Lin Qin, who returned to her seat and studied her Martial Soul while the awakenings continued.

Qin Ze awakened a mysterious Demon Armor martial soul accompanied by an Azure Dragon shadow, then discovered an Illusory World containing sealed Honor of Kings equipment. His left-hand test showed he did not have Twin Martial Souls, and his soul power test revealed Innate Full Soul Power.

• Shen Tianlei awakened the village children, including a boy with a Lone Wolf martial soul and Innate Soul Power level six.
• Qin Ze awakened the Demon Armor, which formed silver-blue armor and a great blade around him.
• An Azure Dragon shadow appeared beside Qin Ze, then vanished as the armor disappeared and Qin Ze collapsed.
• Qin Ze briefly entered an Illusory World filled with sealed Honor of Kings equipment before Shen Tianlei revived him.
• Qin Ze identified his martial soul as Demon Armor and said the Azure Dragon was part of it, not a second martial soul.
• Qin Ze tested at Innate Full Soul Power.

Qin Ze’s awakening revealed an unknown Martial Soul and Innate Full Soul Power, drawing the admiration of Maple Leaf Village and an offer from Shen Tianlei to join the empire. Du Busi then offered to take Qin Ze to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, leaving Qin Ze to consider the trip.

• Shen Tianlei explained the meaning of Qin Ze’s Innate Full Soul Power and invited him to become an affiliated Soul Master of the empire, but Qin Ze asked for time to decide.
• Shen Tianlei announced the children’s awakening results to Maple Leaf Village and revealed that Qin Ze had Innate Full Soul Power.
• Maple Leaf Village held a lavish celebratory banquet, and Qin Ze later shared the news of his awakening at Zhu Xiyan’s grave.
• Du Busi visited Qin Ze and, since Qin Ze did not have a Body Martial Soul, offered to take him to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.

Du Busi explained why Qin Ze should seek resources at the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, and Qin Ze agreed to leave for its disciple recruitment. As Qin Ze departed with Du Busi, the villagers discovered the captured Evil Soul Master Earthworm and were left to decide his fate.

• Du Busi warned Qin Ze that the Heavenly Soul Empire's royal power struggles would put him in danger and advised him to seek support from the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• Qin Ze decided to go to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, and Du Busi said they would leave the next morning for its disciple recruitment.
• Qin Ze paid his respects at Zhu Xiyan's grave and left Maple Leaf Village with Du Busi, who carried him through the sky.
• Ke Lan read Qin Ze's letter, then Zheng Long told him that a cage containing an Evil Soul Master had appeared in the village square.
• Ke Lan identified the captive as Earthworm and told the gathered villagers that they could decide what to do with him.

Du Busi brought Qin Ze to the Star Dou Great Forest to find a first soul ring and discovered that Qin Ze could summon only the blade attached to his Demon Armor martial soul. After testing Qin Ze’s reactions with a thousand-year Mandala Snake, Du Busi threw the snake away, and the search for a suitable soul beast remained ahead.

• Du Busi estimated that Qin Ze’s first soul ring could be six hundred to eight hundred fifty years old and explained that he was helping because Qin Ze seemed to carry the Power of Luck.
• Du Busi flew Qin Ze to the Star Dou Great Forest and explained its zones and the kinds of soul beasts they might find.
• Qin Ze said he could not summon his Demon Armor martial soul, but demonstrated that he could summon its blade; Du Busi decided to seek a soul beast with both offensive and defensive qualities.
• Du Busi identified a thousand-year Mandala Snake hiding in the forest, while Qin Ze stayed alert and prepared for its attack.
• The Mandala Snake ambushed Qin Ze with poisonous gas, but Du Busi seized it and explained its blood-arrow attack before hurling it away.

Qin Ze and Du Busi traveled through the Star Dou Great Forest, where Qin Ze learned about its Soul Beasts and encountered a rare Dark Demon Evil God Tiger facing off against a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear. Du Busi said both beasts were young enough to provide Qin Ze with a Soul Ring, and the chapter ended as their battle intensified.

• Du Busi showed Qin Ze an Arrow Bamboo but explained that it was only about three hundred years old and unsuitable.
• Qin Ze observed numerous Soul Beasts as Du Busi described the forest and its regions.
• A roar sent nearby Soul Beasts fleeing, and Du Busi carried Qin Ze toward its source.
• Du Busi identified the confronting beasts as a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear, both under nine hundred years old.
• Du Busi and Qin Ze watched from a tree as the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger struck first and forced the bear backward.
• The bear sensed a follow-up attack from behind and twisted to meet it with its glowing dreadclaws.

The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and the Clawed Bear battled fiercely, each revealing hidden abilities and powerful attacks. After their clash devastated the surrounding area, Du Busi watched the exhausted beasts and saw a chance for Qin Ze to profit from their fight.

• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger outmaneuvered the Clawed Bear with a feint and nearly struck its head, but the Clawed Bear countered with an earth-powered ambush.
• The Evil Tiger revealed its wings and dodged the Clawed Bear’s attack, though the blow still wounded its abdomen.
• The Evil Tiger attacked with black qi and a numbing ground strike, then formed a black battle-axe from its Evil God Hook’s power.
• The Clawed Bear unleashed its bloodline power, dispelled the numbness, and met the Evil Tiger’s battle-axe with a dark golden claw.
• The collision destroyed the surrounding terrain, and Du Busi remarked that Qin Ze could profit while the two beasts fought.