Chapter Summaries

Li Qing, Tang San, and Ling Ren entered Soul Hunting Forest to hunt for a thousand-year Spirit Beast, unaware that Zheng Shuo was secretly following them in hopes of robbing them. They avoided a six-hundred-year Striped Cat and continued deeper into the forest.

• Li Qing and the others ate, changed into plain clothes, and arrived at Soul Hunting Forest, where Zheng Shuo noticed their calm behavior and suspected they carried a spatial Soul Tool.
• Zheng Shuo had a subordinate watch his post, then followed the three into the forest, confident his Shadow Snake martial soul would keep him hidden.
• The three presented their Spirit Hall tokens at the gate, put on their masks, and sent Xiao Bai ahead to scout.
• Li Qing led the group, Tang San watched their rear, and Ling Ren relayed Xiao Bai’s reports as they moved toward the forest’s depths in search of a thousand-year Spirit Beast.
• After Xiao Bai spotted a six-hundred-year Striped Cat, the group detoured around it, and Li Qing slowed their pace as they encountered stronger Spirit Beasts.

After curing Xue Ye, Liu Lin worried that the poisoner might target him and feared for Li Qing’s fate. Meanwhile, Li Qing developed black gunpowder and, as Qian Renxue prepared to return to Heaven Dou City, decided to give her a memorable night.

• Liu Lin learned that Xue Ye’s poison had been purged, then worried that the poisoner might kill him or Li Qing.
• Over the next five days, Xue Ye recovered while Li Qing trained with Wu Jian and cooked for him and Qian Renxue.
• Li Qing learned that ice-melting stone was saltpeter, obtained some from Wu Jian, and succeeded in making black gunpowder.
• Wu Jian told Li Qing that Xue Ye and Qian Renxue would leave for Heaven Dou City the morning after next.
• Li Qing sensed Qian Renxue’s sorrow as she gazed at the stars, then asked whether she had ever watched fireworks.

Ling Qing refused to serve Xiao Xue ahead of the queue, and she recognized the iron weights on his legs before leaving. Wan Tianlin returned to the Chef Association after watching Ling Qing, then rushed off when he learned the king had summoned him; at dusk, Xiao Xue came back to Ling Qing’s stall.

• Ling Qing used his imposing aura to silence Xiao Xue’s companion and gave the popcorn to the woman at the front of the line.
• Xiao Xue noticed the cold iron weights on Ling Qing’s legs, recognized him from a past encounter, and left.
• Ling Wu warned Ling Qing that a powerful person had been watching from a nearby corner, then told him the person had left.
• Wan Tianlin’s assistant, Sun Yang, told him the king had requested a meeting, and Wan Tianlin hurried to find him.
• At dusk, Xiao Xue returned to Ling Qing’s stall and asked for two servings of popcorn.

Liu Lin explained how his ancestor and a Titled Douluo friend sealed the Succubus beneath the Tumbled Stone Forest to prevent the Abyss Plane from invading Douluo Continent. Li Qing learned that the Liu Clan had guarded the seal for generations and suspected the sacrificed friend might have been Ling Ren’s ancestor.

• Liu Lin explained that Titled Douluo sealed the Far North abyss passage, but escaped Abyssal Demon Clan members could still threaten Douluo Continent through other weak points in the world barrier.
• Liu Lin revealed that the woman in white was a Succubus and that Li Qing had fallen under her illusion after breathing the gas released when the entrance opened.
• Liu Lin recounted how his ancestor and a Titled Douluo friend attacked the Succubus, then the friend sacrificed himself to create a sealing array that also concealed the Tumbled Stone Forest.
• Liu Lin said his ancestor built three hundred and sixty pillars to reinforce the array and stayed in seclusion to guard the Succubus, beginning the Liu Clan’s generations-long watch.
• Li Qing thanked Liu Lin for the Liu Clan’s service and wondered whether the friend who created the array had been Ling Ren’s ancestor.

Ling Qing opened the first three of the Eight Inner Gates and tested how they enhanced his physical abilities and spirit skill. Later, he explored Nuo Lan City's night market with Tang San and Xiao Wu, where he became interested in a stall selling Soul Tool core formation diagrams.

• Ling Qing lost another card game to Xiao Wu and Tang San, then decided to begin cultivating the Eight Inner Gates.
• At Nuo Lan Academy's Back Mountain, Ling Qing opened the Opening Gate, shattered trees, leaped more than ten meters, and boosted his first spirit skill by about one and a half times.
• Ling Qing opened the Gate of Rest and the Gate of Life, but the third gate left him nearly collapsing from exhaustion.
• After training, Ling Qing went to Nuo Lan City's night market with Tang San and Xiao Wu and noticed a stall selling Soul Tool core formation diagrams.
• Ling Qing picked up a formation diagram, and a handsome youth offered the stall owner one hundred Gold Soul Coins for all of them.

Li Qing’s Scythe of Judgment proved capable of damaging shadows, making Kong Weiyang wary of attacking him. After Li Qing’s Judgment Slash shattered the spectator stands’ shadows, Kong Weiyang emerged and surrendered.

• Li Qing realized his scythe could erase part of Kong Weiyang’s shadow, while Kong Weiyang understood that attacking Li Qing risked injuring himself.
• Li Qing mistook Kong Weiyang’s quiet remark about the next tournament for a promise to end their match with his next spirit skill.
• Li Qing unleashed Instant Hell, Judgment Slash and swung the Scythe of Judgment at Kong Weiyang.
• Kong Weiyang used his Second Spirit Skill to sink into his shadow and escape into the shadows cast by the spectator stands.
• Li Qing’s strike shattered the stands’ shadows and damaged nearby walls, and Kong Weiyang emerged from the darkness and surrendered.

Li Qing entered the underground sealing formation and found a woman in white chained to a pillar. Suspecting she might be a demon in disguise, he refused her offers and questioned her instead, leaving her to realize he had no intention of rescuing her.

• Li Qing opened the underground entrance and used a Soul Tool to light the dark space below.
• Li Qing heard a ghostly plea for help and followed it to a chained woman in white.
• The woman in white begged Li Qing to free her and offered money and a high-grade Soul Power cultivation technique.
• Li Qing said he wanted her to answer his questions, then asked what would happen if he did not save her.
• The woman in white realized Li Qing was teasing her and had no intention of rescuing her.

Li Qing checked on the Mecha Ren Yuan was forging and spent the following days helping refine its design. As the Mecha neared completion, a mysterious woman approached Gengxin City.

• Brand returned to Spirit City with the Red Robe Man's corpse, while Li Qing worried that the incident was not over and planned to leave once the Mecha was finished.
• A seductive woman with a pitch-black tail appeared outside Gengxin City after Brand's group departed, then vanished.
• Three days later, Li Qing visited Ren Yuan at the Blacksmith Association and saw the partly forged Silver White Mecha.
• Ren Yuan showed Li Qing the Mecha, and Li Qing praised and examined it.
• A young woman in black left Huanhai City and hurried toward Gengxin City.
• Li Qing stayed at the Blacksmith Association for seven days, helping Ren Yuan resolve flaws in the Mecha's blueprints; the work took three extra days, and the Mecha was due to take shape that day.

Li Qing checked on Ren Yuan’s Mecha forging and spent a week helping refine its design, delaying its completion by three days. Meanwhile, a seductive woman emerged near Gengxin City, and another young woman set out for the city as the Mecha neared completion.

• Brand returned to Spirit City with the Red Robe Man’s corpse, while Li Qing worried that the incident was not over and planned to leave once his Mecha was finished.
• A scantily clad woman with a black tail appeared outside Gengxin City after Brand’s group left, then vanished into the night.
• Three days later, Li Qing visited Ren Yuan at the Blacksmith Association and admired the partially forged Silver White Mecha.
• A young woman in tight black clothes left Huanhai City and hurried toward Gengxin City.
• Li Qing stayed at the Blacksmith Association for seven days, explaining the blueprints and helping Ren Yuan address design flaws, which added three days to the forging schedule.
• On the final day, the Mecha was about to take shape.

Li Qing checked on the Mecha Ren Yuan was forging and spent the next several days helping refine its design. As the Mecha neared completion in Gengxin City, a seductive woman and a young woman in black tights moved toward the city.

• Brand returned to Spirit City with the Red Robe Man's corpse, while Li Qing worried that the incident was not over and resolved to leave once his Mecha was finished.
• A scantily clad woman with a black tail emerged outside Gengxin City after Brand's group departed, then vanished.
• Li Qing visited the Blacksmith Association and saw the partially completed Silver White Mecha Ren Yuan had forged for him.
• A young woman in black tights left Huanhai City and hurried toward Gengxin City.
• Li Qing stayed at the association for seven days, answering Ren Yuan's questions and helping uncover flaws in the Mecha design, which added three days to its forging time.
• The Mecha reached its final day of forging.

Li Qing learned that Twin Martial Souls could reject one another and cause a soul master to die when attaching a second soul ring, but Ling Wu could not explain how to resolve the danger. After Li Qing mastered the Soul Power Sealing Array and made a Soul Power Milk Bottle, he encountered a heavily guarded royal procession in Kus City.

• Ling Wu warned Li Qing that Twin Martial Soul backlash could be fatal, then admitted he did not know how to prevent it.
• Ling Wu reassured Li Qing that he would be safe for now as long as he did not attach soul rings to his second martial soul.
• Li Qing practiced inscribing the Soul Power Sealing Array, accidentally reducing a stone to powder before continuing with another.
• Li Qing finished a black Soul Power Milk Bottle, filled it with Soul Power, and placed it in his Storage Ring to test how well it preserved the energy.
• While wandering through Kus City's market, Li Qing saw hundreds of Royal Guards escorting two carriages, a procession he recognized as belonging to Emperor Xue Ye.

Li Qing experimented with combining Chakra and Soul Power, then discovered that mental power allowed all three energies to fuse into a powerful golden energy. He tested the new energy in the Back Mountain and left a large tree destroyed by its blast.

• Tang San watched Li Qing exercise from the dormitory roof while cultivating his Purple Demon Eye.
• Li Qing went to a secluded spot in the Back Mountain to experiment with fusing Chakra and Soul Power.
• Li Qing tried using each energy as a mixer and making them collide, but the energies only dispersed and produced gusts of wind.
• Li Qing realized mental power might bind the energies and successfully fused Chakra, Soul Power, and mental power into a golden sphere.
• Li Qing fired the golden sphere at a tree, destroying it and leaving a black crater in the ground.

Li Qing and Tang San searched Soul Hunting Forest with Ling Ren for a suitable Spirit Beast while noticing an unusual number of four-person Soul Master teams. After Ling Ren began absorbing a Roaring Marmot’s soul ring, two approaching groups of Soul Masters forced Li Qing and Tang San to head off and confront them.

• Li Qing explained that his second soul skill, Instant Hell Shadowless Slash, let him shift to an enemy or dodge, though it consumed Soul Power based on distance.
• A scarred, bald captain ordered three men to search deeper into Soul Hunting Forest for something they had not found.
• Li Qing, Tang San, and Ling Ren found few Spirit Beasts but encountered sixteen Soul Masters in four-person groups, leading Tang San to suspect they belonged to Zheng Shuo’s Shadow Mercenary Group.
• After more than ten days of searching, Ling Ren chose a Roaring Marmot, and Li Qing wounded it with Instant Prison, Shadowless Slash before Ling Ren delivered the final blow and began absorbing its soul ring.
• Li Qing sensed two groups of Soul Masters approaching, and he and Tang San each headed toward one while Ling Ren continued absorbing the soul ring.

Li Qing arrived in Kus City, a renowned culinary capital, and learned that the Best Chef Competition was about to begin. After registering, he watched the auditions and noticed a chubby young chef whose cooking caught his attention.

• Li Qing entered Kus City, sampled its food, and learned that the Best Chef Competition would start in two days.
• Unable to find an inn room, Li Qing learned that the Chef's Association provided lodging for contestants and decided to register for the competition.
• Li Qing joined the long registration line and received a token placing him in Group Three after passing the initial registration.
• While waiting for his group's audition, Li Qing heard other contestants discuss Chen Zhi, then focused on a chubby young chef whose cooking technique caught his attention.

Ling Qing outmatched Xiao Xue in a contest to grab iron plate squid, then provoked her by spitting into it and eating it himself. He returned to Xiangju Building, and the next morning the Best Chef Competition began.

• Ling Qing challenged Xiao Xue to race for the iron plate squid again and used the Eight Inner Gates to grab it before she could.
• Ling Qing spat into the squid to keep Xiao Xue from taking it, then ate it and praised the stall owner’s cooking.
• Xiao Xue angrily left after Ling Qing sang at her, while Ling Qing watched her go and returned to Xiangju Building to make Soul Tools.
• Xiao Xue reported to Xue Qinghe that the stall had sold out, and Xue Qinghe told her to take away the food she had brought instead.
• The chefs at Xiangju Building packed their preferred knives, and the Best Chef Competition officially began at nine in the morning.

Li Qing faced Yan in a heavily attended arena match, where their first clash showed Yan’s rock armor could withstand the Scythe of Judgment. Later, Liu Qianxin confronted Li Qing about forming a domain and began telling him he could continue cultivating in the Myriad Soldiers Extreme Domain under special circumstances.

• Lin Qianxin moved Li Qing and Yan’s match to the main Douluo Arena, where she and powerful elders watched from a VIP box.
• Li Qing and Yan both agreed to soul betting and wagered all their savings on themselves, while most spectators backed Yan.
• Li Qing and Yan released their martial souls, and the crowd reacted to Li Qing’s rare soul ring configuration.
• Yan charged with Flame Armor and Granite Rock, but Li Qing met him head-on with the Scythe of Judgment; Li Qing was knocked back six meters while Yan’s rock armor cracked.
• Liu Qianxin summoned Li Qing and asked whether he had formed his own domain; she told him he could keep cultivating in the Myriad Soldiers Extreme Domain under special circumstances.

After helping Ren Yuan break through his bottleneck, Li Qing shared a meal with him and left the Blacksmith Association. The injured red-robed man received a three-day deadline to complete his mission, while Brand ordered Gengxin City sealed off as he pursued the thief and the Spirit Bone.

• Ren Yuan thanked Li Qing for helping him break through, then invited him to discuss mechs over a meal.
• Li Qing ate with Ren Yuan, answered some of his questions, and left to return in a few days for his finished product.
• The wounded red-robed man reported his difficulties to a blood-formed little man, who gave him three more days to complete the mission before sending Five to assist.
• Brand ordered martial law in Gengxin City, issued a bounty for the red-robed man, and sent Spirit Hall Soul Masters to guard the streets.
• Brand examined the bloody hole in his shoulder and focused on the Spirit Bone.

Ling Qing fled through Gengxin City but was ambushed by the man in red, who relentlessly pursued him. After opening five of the Eight Inner Gates and briefly wounding his pursuer, Ling Qing was beaten nearly helpless as the man in red prepared to strike his heart.

• Ling Qing left his inn under the Shadow Cloak, but the man in red found him and attacked with a chain.
• Ling Qing tried Judgment, then escaped with Instant Hell Shadow Slash while Spirit Hall members responded to the signal flare.
• The man in red caught up, and Ling Qing used Great Slaughter in All Directions before opening five of the Eight Inner Gates.
• Ling Qing struck the man in red, but the man answered with a barrage of punches that sent Ling Qing flying and exhausted his strength.
• The man in red reached for Ling Qing's heart as Ling Qing closed his eyes and said goodbye to Douluo.

Li Qing’s Qingyu Combination completed its doubles quota after opponents repeatedly surrendered, so he challenged beyond his rank to secure a solo match. He defeated Du Ruyi’s defensive strategy by enduring her flying daggers and putting the Scythe of Judgment to her throat.

• Li Qing and Xu Yu’s Qingyu Combination won the afternoon doubles matches without fighting because their opponents forfeited after hearing of their morning victories.
• Li Qing learned that his Iron-rank badge prevented the arena from matching him with suitable solo opponents, so he agreed to challenge beyond his rank.
• The arena quickly arranged a match against Du Ruyi, a level forty-two agility-attack Battle Soul Sect Master, while other Soul Masters watched from a VIP box.
• Du Ruyi attacked Li Qing with volleys of jade-green blades and kept her distance, aiming to exhaust his Soul Power and stamina.
• Li Qing used Instant Hell Shadowless Slash to appear behind Du Ruyi, endured her blades piercing him, and held his scythe at her carotid artery.

Li Qing watched Lin Qianxin win the Shadow Cloak so he could later examine its Core Formation, while Yan and Deng Huohuo competed over a Blazing Fire Jadeite Rhinoceros crystal core. The next auction item was an ancient map fragment identical to one Li Qing already owned, leaving him unable to explain the coincidence.

• Li Qing gave up trying to analyze the Shadow Cloak from his seat, and Lin Qianxin won it with a bid of 150,000 Gold Soul Coins.
• Yan pursued the Blazing Fire Jadeite Rhinoceros crystal core against Deng Huohuo, and Lin Qianxin stopped their bidding at 200,000 Gold Soul Coins by offering 250,000 and ordering them to settle ownership through a Soul Battle.
• Li Qing recognized the eighth auction item as an ancient map fragment identical to the one he already possessed, though he still could not decipher it.