Chapter Summaries

Ling Qing used the Scythe of Judgment to evade Kong Weiyang’s shadow attacks and discovered that its golden light could permanently destroy the shadows Kong Weiyang controlled. Kong Weiyang grew afraid and stopped attacking, leaving Ling Qing poised for the next move.

• Ling Qing leaped away from Kong Weiyang’s approaching shadow and planted the Scythe of Judgment in the arena floor to keep the shadow at bay.
• Kong Weiyang unleashed waves of miniature Shadow Thorns, and Ling Qing dodged the first wave before spinning the Scythe of Judgment to scatter the second.
• Ling Qing activated the Scythe of Judgment’s Straight Chain Form, astonishing the spectators and Kong Weiyang.
• Kong Weiyang stopped attacking when he realized that some of the shadows struck by the Scythe of Judgment’s golden light had disappeared instead of returning.

After the semester ended, Li Qing agreed to attend an auction with Yan and Hu Liena, then tested his newly created Soul Skill, Judgment: Shadow Annihilation. The attack veered behind him toward the lakeside, where it struck a willow tree just as Ling Lei and Han Meimei were about to kiss.

• Li Qing agreed to attend the Grand Auction House with Yan, who nervously invited Hu Liena, and she accepted.
• In the Star Luo Empire, a red-robed Evil Spirit survived an attack by a black-uniformed group and struck back, making the elderly archer and the remaining fighters disappear.
• Li Qing practiced engraving a Soul Tool Core Formation, then went to the Martial Arts Arena to test his new Soul Skill.
• Li Qing successfully used Judgment: Shadow Annihilation to slice through a row of targets.
• Li Qing tried the skill in Judgment's chain form, but the black blade radiance shot behind him toward the lakeside.
• Ling Lei professed his love to Han Meimei, and Li Qing's attack felled the willow tree beside them as they were about to kiss.

After defeating Yan, Li Qing watched Spirit Hall’s leaders take interest in his talent and began his first brutal PE class under Lucal’s gravity training. The chapter left Li Qing adapting easily to increased gravity while Yan’s determination to grow stronger burned anew.

• Yan accepted his place as Li Qing’s little brother, and Li Qing thought he could make use of Yan’s status around the academy.
• Bibi Dong heard from Ju Hua Guan that ten-year-old Li Qing had reached level thirty-one with two purple soul rings, learned he had defeated Yan, and ordered an investigation into his background.
• Lucal ordered Class One to run fifty laps and gave Li Qing ten extra, then used his gravity-control soul skill to double the pressure on the field.
• Li Qing ran ahead with Yan, but Lucal increased the pressure around them to four times normal gravity, making Yan stumble and several other students fall.
• Li Qing adapted to the heavier gravity and felt his Chakra spreading through his body, while Yan vowed to become stronger after another defeat.

After gaining the Slaughter Domain, Li Qing tested its range and planned new training focused on Soul Tools and analyzing Tang San’s Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges. He borrowed Tang San’s belt and agreed to report their Soul Hunting Forest trip to the teacher after lunch.

• Li Qing learned that his Slaughter Domain enhanced his strength and suppressed opponents, then measured its range at nearly ten meters.
• Li Qing failed to use the Replication Eye to copy Tang San’s Purple Demon Eye cultivation method and considered secretly copying his Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track instead.
• Li Qing planned to analyze the Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges, repair incomplete Soul Tool diagrams, and spend his afternoons forging Soul Tools.
• Li Qing named the growing energy mass in his Dantian the Golden Pearl and decided to buy milk and tea leaves in Nuoding City.
• Li Qing asked Tang San to lend him his belt, and Tang San agreed after removing its contents.
• Li Qing and Tang San agreed to visit the teacher after lunch to report what happened in the Soul Hunting Forest.

Ling Qing met his new deskmate Hu Liena at Spirit Hall Academy and drew the hostility of Yan, who was jealous that Ling Qing sat beside her. After settling into his dormitory, Ling Qing explored Spirit City and considered selling Soul Tools at a local auction house.

• Hu Liena introduced herself to Ling Qing, who recognized her and focused on the lesson instead of talking with her.
• Yan followed Ling Qing after class, intending to warn him to stay away from Hu Liena, but Ling Qing used Unknowable Eye to lose him.
• The dorm manager learned Ling Qing was a transfer student assigned to Class One and treated him with unusual deference.
• Ling Qing cleaned his dormitory, found the cafeteria leftovers unappealing, and went outside the academy to eat.
• Ling Qing explored Spirit City, saw its Douluo Arena and auction house, and considered selling some Soul Tools.

Qian Renxue revealed that Xue Qinghe had poisoned Xue Ye and explained why Li Qing was being framed. With no safe place left in the Heaven Dou Empire, Li Qing agreed to join Qian Renxue’s faction in Spirit Hall and attend Spirit Hall Academy.

• Li Qing asked to leave so he could help detoxify Xue Ye, but Qian Renxue warned that he would still be blamed for the poisoning.
• Qian Renxue revealed her identity as Spirit Hall’s Saintess and said Spirit Hall had not poisoned Xue Ye.
• Qian Renxue identified Xue Qinghe as the culprit and explained that Gu Xiang had planted traces of poison in Li Qing’s popcorn and tried to kill him.
• Li Qing realized that he would be scapegoated whether Xue Ye survived or died, leaving him unable to remain safely in the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Li Qing agreed to join Qian Renxue’s faction, and she told him to attend Spirit Hall Academy and aim to become a Golden Generation candidate.

Ling Qing recovered from his injuries while suspecting that Wang Defa had secretly been involved with Zhao Si’s wife. A month later, Zhao Si’s wife was confirmed pregnant, leaving Ling Qing convinced the child might not be Zhao Si’s.

• Ling Qing removed his soundproof Soul Power barrier and heard Wang Defa arrive to thank him for saving his life.
• Wang Defa hinted that Ling Qing should keep quiet about what happened, and Ling Qing pretended not to know anything.
• Ling Qing asked Tang San whether anyone had been in Wang Defa’s house; Tang San recalled that Zhao Si’s wife had gone missing.
• Over the next month, Ling Qing and Ling Ren each gained a Soul Power level, Tang San reached level seventeen, and Ling Qing’s injuries healed.
• Zhao Si’s wife was confirmed pregnant after fifteen years of marriage, and Ling Qing suspected Wang Defa might be the father.

Chen Zhi attempted to prepare Crystal Poison Sting Fish for the competition, but Li Qing’s popcorn-making blast startled him and caused him to be poisoned by a spike. Li Qing continued selling popcorn until a Heaven Dou Royal Guard took him away to investigate the noise.

• Chen Zhi carefully removed venom sacs from a Deep Sea Poison Sting Fish while Li Qing and Huang Wenxin sold popcorn outside the competition grounds.
• Li Qing opened his stove, causing a loud blast that startled Chen Zhi and made a poisonous spike pierce his hand.
• Chen Zhi lost consciousness, while Wan Tianlin used the noise as an excuse to retract a chess move against His Majesty Xue Ye.
• Li Qing sold his milder-flavored popcorn to a customer, who praised it.
• A Heaven Dou Royal Guard questioned Li Qing about the explosion and carried him away with his stove, leaving Huang Wenxin to watch the stall.

Imperial Physician Wang understood Ling Qing’s insight about poison and healing, broke through to Soul Sage, and helped detoxify Xue Ye. Ling Qing was imprisoned again while recovering his strength, as a black-robed figure appeared behind Xiao Xue.

• Imperial Physician Wang realized how poison could relate to healing, broke through to Soul Sage, and bowed to Ling Qing in gratitude.
• Ling Qing prepared medicinal soup, and Xue Qinghe fed it to Xue Ye after Imperial Physician Wang released his sealed acupoints.
• Xue Ye woke and expelled poisoned blood, though Ling Qing warned that he still needed medicine to clear the remaining toxins.
• Xue Qinghe ordered Commander Gu to take Ling Qing to a secluded room instead of a cell, where Ling Qing began restoring his Soul Power.
• A black-robed figure suddenly appeared behind Xiao Xue in another room of the Chef's Association.

Li Qing studied the Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges and began crafting his own spatial Soul Tool, using Sea Blue Stones and the Scythe of Severance to inscribe its formation. After twenty days of practice, he succeeded and had ten engraved stones made into a belt, completing his first Soul Tool.

• Li Qing recorded Soul Tool crafting methods and decided to make a spatial tool before learning forging.
• Li Qing bought a bag of Sea Blue Stones and used the Scythe of Severance and Replication Eye to practice engraving the formation.
• Li Qing spent twenty days carving stones, then successfully activated one and tested its storage space.
• Li Qing took ten engraved Sea Blue Stones to a tailor and had them made into a belt, completing his first Soul Tool.

After escaping the Praying Mantis Tiger, Ling Qing brought Tang San and Ling Ren to a hidden cave to recover and discovered that his second martial soul was a God Eye with a Replication Eye. The next morning, the three resumed their search for a suitable Spirit Beast for Ling Ren, with Ling Qing choosing to advance in a spiral.

• Ling Qing carried the injured Tang San and led Ling Ren out of danger to a concealed cave, where Tang San and Ling Ren began recovering.
• Ling Qing checked his character panel and found that he had reached Soul Power level 21, upgraded his Scythe of Severance to level 2, and gained a God Eye with a Replication Eye.
• Ling Qing examined the dense golden energy in his Dantian and recalled that his Scythe of Severance and Tang San's Clear Sky Hammer had combined in a powerful red light against the Praying Mantis Tiger.
• After Tang San recovered through the night, the three set out to find a Spirit Beast for Ling Ren, and Ling Qing decided they would advance in a spiral.

Li Qing entered Han Jin’s mental world and erased his memory of the battle with the red-robed man before fleeing back to Gengxin City. Brand discovered that Han Jin’s memories had been erased, while Han Jin remained confused and in pain.

• Li Qing found Han Jin’s complete memory of the previous night and destroyed it with the Scythe of Judgment.
• Li Qing returned to Gengxin City using his Shadow Cloak and avoided a search by the Spirit Hall Law Enforcement Hall Soul Masters.
• Han Jin woke outside the city with severe pain and no memory of what had happened.
• Brand examined the red-robed man’s wounds and wondered whether one or two people had fought him.
• Brand discovered that someone had erased Han Jin’s memories and sent him away to recover.

Li Qing tested Xie Yue and Hu Liena’s Demonic Charm Martial Soul Fusion Skill, countering its sensory effects with his Sharingan and fighting them inside the red mist. The fusion suddenly dispelled for unknown reasons, leaving the siblings unconscious but unharmed.

• Yu Shaofei stopped Li Qing’s Ringed Great Blade from striking Sun Chuantao and eliminated Sun Chuantao from the match.
• Xie Yue and Hu Liena activated their Demonic Charm Martial Soul Fusion Skill while Li Qing and Yan watched.
• Li Qing used his Sharingan to see through the red mist and struck the fused figure, then exchanged attacks with it as the mist weakened his abilities.
• The fusion abruptly separated, and Hu Liena and Xie Yue collapsed unconscious, leaving Li Qing and the onlookers bewildered.
• Faco examined Hu Liena and Xie Yue and confirmed that they were fine.

Ling Qing escaped after an unknown power revived him and drove him into a murderous frenzy, then investigated the changes to his body and mind. He learned that the Replication Eye contained the lingering power and will of the ancient Demon Dragon King, whose strength could resurrect it by eroding his soul.

• Ling Qing stopped himself from killing Han Jin, knocked him unconscious, and fled with him and the red-robed man's severed arm as powerful figures approached.
• Ling Qing reached a mountain, found his chest wound gone, and discovered a Spirit Bone and strange black energy consuming his Sea of Consciousness.
• Ling Qing found a faint golden light within the black energy and suspected that Ling Wu was still present.
• Ling Qing questioned the system about his revival, but it denied bringing him back to life.
• Ling Qing activated the Replication Eye's hidden function and learned it housed the Demon Dragon King's lingering power and could unleash it at the risk of losing his soul.

Ling Qing struggled to stop the Demon Dragon King's demonic aura from corrupting his Soul Core, until the Replication Eye helped him divide and recombine the energies into a taiji. He condensed the Soul Core, broke through to Soul Power Level 33 and Soul King-level mental power, and named the core Qiankun.

• Ling Qing discovered that the Demon Dragon King's demonic aura had seeped into his Soul Core and fought to keep it from taking over.
• The demonic aura surged back from Ling Qing's Sea of Consciousness, but the Replication Eye activated and separated it from his mental power and golden energy.
• Ling Qing shaped the divided energies into matching comma and circle forms, then joined them into a taiji pattern.
• Ling Qing's soul separated from his body as circulating Soul Power washed impurities from his body, and an elderly man in Spirit City and a presence beneath the Lake of Life sensed the power.
• Ling Qing awoke with a condensed Soul Core, Soul Power at Level 33, and mental power at Soul King level, then named the gold-and-black core Qiankun.

Li Qing learned why Huang Wenxin had joined the Best Chef Competition and heard that Emperor Xue Ye might attend. Back in his room, Li Qing began making a Soul Tool and revealed his Twin Martial Souls to Ling Wu, who warned him about their backlash problem.

• Li Qing and Huang Wenxin praised each other's cooking and watched Kus City from Xiangju Building's rooftop.
• Huang Wenxin said he entered the competition to sample food and secure a room, and told Li Qing Emperor Xue Ye might attend and recruit imperial chefs.
• Li Qing decided to deliberately lose in the second round and stay in Kus City until he finished his plans.
• Li Qing returned to his room and began making a milk-bottle Soul Tool with the Soul Power Sealing Array using black rock from the Tumbled Stone Forest.
• Ling Wu appeared from the Scythe of Judgment, noticed Li Qing's Replication Eye, and heard Li Qing explain his Twin Martial Souls.
• Ling Wu became grave and asked Li Qing whether he knew about the backlash problem with Twin Martial Souls.

Li Qing checked on the Mecha Ren Yuan was forging and helped refine its design, extending the work by three days. 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 the incident was not over and resolved to leave once his Mecha was finished.
• A seductive woman with a pitch-black tail emerged outside Gengxin City after Brand and the others had departed, then vanished.
• Three days later, Li Qing visited the Blacksmith Association, where Ren Yuan showed him the partly forged Mecha.
• Li Qing admired the Mecha and discussed its design with Ren Yuan, helping uncover flaws that added three days to the forging schedule.
• A young woman in black left Huanhai City and hurried toward Gengxin City as Li Qing stayed at the Blacksmith Association to assist Ren Yuan.
• Seven days passed, and Li Qing said the Mecha was due to take shape that day.