Chapter Summaries

Li Qing and Tang San returned to find Xiao Wu and the work-study students facing Xiao Laoda’s group, and Li Qing accepted Xiao Chenyu’s challenge. After Li Qing defeated him, Xiao Wu claimed leadership over the students at Nuoding Academy.

• Li Qing brought Tang San to the academy’s rear woods, where they found Xiao Wu preparing for a match against Xiao Laoda’s group.
• Xiao Wu explained that Xiao Laoda had called her his pet rabbit, so they had agreed that the losing side would obey the winners.
• Li Qing mocked Xiao Chenyu, then announced that his Martial Soul was a Scythe and revealed his hundred-year Soul Ring.
• Xiao Chenyu attacked, but Li Qing used his First Soul Skill, Sever, to knock him down without using the blade’s edge.
• With no one else willing to fight, Li Qing declared his side the winner, and Xiao Wu announced that everyone at Nuoding Academy would call her Sister Xiao Wu.

Li Qing found a way past Xiong San’s powerful defense and incapacitated him, but Xiong San called on the Li Maoshan-led Dark Shadow group to attack. Surrounded by nearly fifty mercenaries, Li Qing assigned Tang San and Ling Ren to face the Dark Shadow group as the battle began.

• Li Qing used Gale Storm to attack Xiong San from tricky angles while searching for a weak point in his defense.
• Li Qing baited Xiong San into kicking him, then forced Xiong San’s legs apart and struck him with a powerful blow.
• Li Qing turned to leave with Tang San and Ling Ren, but Xiong San called on Li Maoshan and negotiated for the two mercenary groups to share the spoils.
• Li Maoshan and Xiong San ordered their groups to summon their martial souls, trapping Li Qing, Tang San, and Ling Ren between nearly fifty mercenaries.
• Li Qing told Tang San and Ling Ren to handle the Dark Shadow group and prioritize their safety, then the two groups charged.

Li Qing pushed himself through Spirit Hall Academy’s gravity-running training, inspiring his classmates to challenge their limits as well. After Faco healed the exhausted students, Li Qing continued running at five and a half times gravity, and Class One took on the rest of training with greater determination.

• Li Qing asked Lucal to raise his gravity to five times, then maintained the fastest pace on the track despite the strain.
• Yan requested three times gravity, endured the run, and broke through to the next Soul Power level.
• Xie Yue asked for three times gravity, while Hu Liena and Sun Chuantao requested two and a half times; Lucal could not increase their gravity during the class.
• Faco arrived and used his Healing Light to ease the students’ soreness and minor injuries, and Li Qing thanked him.
• After recovering, Li Qing asked for five and a half times gravity and resumed running; Faco praised him, and his effort inspired Class One to train harder.

Ling Wu increased the Soul Power pressure during a test of Ling Qing’s endurance, while Ling Qing kept smiling and resisted until he summoned the Scythe of Severance. When the pressure neared the level of a Soul Sage, Ling Qing’s Slaughter Domain activated, shocking Ling Wu and Liu Lin.

• Ling Wu gradually increased his Soul Power pressure, but Ling Qing endured it with a smile, leaving Liu Lin astonished.
• Ling Wu raised the pressure further, and Ling Qing finally summoned the Scythe of Severance to help withstand it.
• Ling Wu continued increasing the pressure until Ling Qing was in severe pain and struggling to breathe.
• The Scythe of Severance’s blood-red pattern lit up, and Ling Qing’s Slaughter Domain activated automatically.
• Ling Wu and Liu Lin recognized the Domain and were stunned that a Soul Grandmaster possessed one.

Li Qing and Tang San struggled to recover the Scythe of Severance while fighting the berserk Praying Mantis Tiger, but the battle left them badly wounded and nearly out of strength. The scythe returned to Li Qing’s feet as the Praying Mantis Tiger remained dangerous and Ling Ren was left to face it with them.

• Li Qing opened the Gate of Injury while Tang San and Little White tried to distract the Praying Mantis Tiger and retrieve the Scythe of Severance.
• Li Qing fired a Golden Energy sphere as Tang San attacked with the Clear Sky Hammer, but the Praying Mantis Tiger vanished and the sphere exploded against the hammer.
• The Praying Mantis Tiger reappeared behind Li Qing and slashed his back, forcing his Eight Inner Gates state to end; Tang San restrained the beast while Ling Ren rushed to help.
• The Praying Mantis Tiger staggered as Ling Ren stabbed its eye, then Tang San pulled Ling Ren away from its counterattack.
• Tang San tried to stop Li Qing’s bleeding, while the Praying Mantis Tiger struck its own back and dislodged the Scythe of Severance, which landed at Li Qing’s feet.

Li Qing and Liu Lin summoned Ling Wu from the Golden Tree sapling, and he resealed the Abyss Passage. Ling Wu then sought his descendant, Ling Ren, and tested Li Qing’s strength, leaving him impressed by Li Qing’s resilience.

• The Golden Tree branch grew into a two-and-a-half-meter sapling, and Ling Wu emerged from its trunk.
• Ling Wu revealed that he was Liu Haoyang’s friend and said the damaged seal had opened the Abyss Passage.
• Li Qing recognized Ling Wu’s glowing book as the Book of the Dead and inferred that Ling Wu was Ling Ren’s ancestor.
• Ling Wu used the book’s runes and nearby black stones to seal the Abyss Passage again.
• Ling Wu asked Liu Lin to find his descendant, and Li Qing identified him as Ling Ren.
• Ling Wu tested Li Qing with Soul Power and was surprised when Li Qing resisted without showing pain.

After Brand invited Ling Qing to join the Law Enforcement Hall, Ling Qing postponed the decision until after graduation and returned to his end-of-term matches. Watching Xie Yue face Kong Weiyang rekindled his strange feeling and led him to understand something about his Self-Created Soul Skill.

• Brand asked Ling Qing to join the Law Enforcement Hall, but Ling Qing suggested waiting until he graduated, and Brand agreed.
• Ling Qing's opponent in his final end-of-term Douluo match surrendered, so he sold popcorn and went inside the arena to watch Xie Yue's match.
• Ling Qing saw that Xie Yue's opponent was Kong Weiyang and noticed the same mysterious feeling he had experienced earlier that afternoon.
• When Kong Weiyang's shadow vanished, Ling Qing recalled his fight with him and entered a trance-like state.
• Ling Qing watched a memory of himself use Instant Prison, Judgment Slash and realized that he had resolved the confusion in his mind.

Li Qing encountered Yan at a restaurant and effortlessly stopped Yan’s attempts to attack him. Yan challenged him to a Douluo Arena match and demanded that Li Qing apologize and stay away from Nana if he lost, but Li Qing had not yet accepted those terms.

• Li Qing considered selling Soul Tools in Spirit City and visiting the Douluo Arena to improve his combat skills.
• Yan found Li Qing at a restaurant and tried to grab his shoulder, but Li Qing restrained him.
• When Yan punched at Li Qing, Li Qing redirected Yan’s captured arm so the punch struck Yan’s own hand.
• Li Qing intimidated Yan with his killing intent after Yan pointed a finger at him, then refused to accept a match merely because Yan demanded one.
• Yan offered a wager: if Li Qing lost their Douluo Arena match, he would kneel and apologize and stay away from Nana; Li Qing looked at Yan as if he were a lunatic.

The seal in the Tumbled Stone Forest broke, freeing the Succubus, who proved stronger than Liu Lin as they began to fight. While they battled, Ling Qing entered the array to investigate the unfamiliar demonic power and found a figure near the pillar that had sealed the Succubus.

• A surge of Soul Power and a purple pillar of light revealed that the Tumbled Stone Forest’s seal had broken.
• Liu Lin awakened his seven soul rings, warned Ling Qing to find safety, and rushed to confront the Succubus.
• The Succubus emerged from the pillar and unleashed power greater than Liu Lin’s, then exchanged attacks with him.
• Ling Qing realized that the array was powered by energy from the Succubus and suspected someone had helped break the seal.
• Ling Qing entered the array while Liu Lin and the Succubus fought, followed the dense demonic power to the old sealing pillar, and spotted a figure.

Li Qing spent the afternoon analyzing Twenty-Four Bridges Moonlight Night, then returned to Nuo Lan Academy and made pearl milk tea for the students and his friends. After sharing cups with Xiao Wu, Tang San, Ling Ren, and Master, he served the remaining milk tea in the cafeteria.

• Li Qing reached thirty percent progress analyzing Twenty-Four Bridges Moonlight Night and estimated he could finish within three days.
• Li Qing returned to Nuo Lan Academy and used his kitchen to prepare pearls and brew pearl milk tea.
• Li Qing gave cups of milk tea to Xiao Wu, Tang San, and Ling Ren, and set aside another cup for Master.
• Li Qing served the remaining milk tea to students in the cafeteria, where they lined up and paid according to their means.

Ling Qing followed Xiao Bai into an underground tomb, where he reunited with Tang San and Xiao Wu and met Ling Ren, the current Mourner of the Dead. After Ling Ren explained his family’s legacy and his parents’ disappearance, Ling Qing and Xiao Wu persuaded him to return to Nuoding Academy with them.

• Ling Qing moved the stone stele, saw Xiao Bai flee into the cave, and followed it underground.
• Ling Qing found Tang San and Xiao Wu with Ling Ren and his companion spirit, Xiao Bai.
• Ling Ren explained that his family’s inherited martial soul was the Book of the Dead and that he was the current Mourner of the Dead.
• Ling Ren told them that his parents had disappeared after going to the Star Dou Great Forest when he was six, and that he lived in the tomb he had built for them.
• Ling Qing and Xiao Wu invited Ling Ren to Nuoding Academy, and Xiao Wu led him out as Xiao Bai joined him.

While recovering from his injuries, Ling Qing developed a Soul Power technique to block sound and protect his ears. After hundreds of attempts, he successfully created a barrier that made him deaf to the noisy card game outside.

• Ling Qing stored the head Spirit Bone, then accepted that Tang San, Ling Ren, and Xiao Wu would stay nearby while he recovered.
• Xiao Wu and the others played Fight the Landlord outside Ling Qing's room, interrupting his meditation with their excited calls.
• Remembering that sound needed a medium to travel, Ling Qing began developing the Spirit Shield Skin Project to protect his ears and improve his meditation.
• Ling Qing experimented with Soul Power barriers, abandoning a method that risked bursting his eardrums and refining a two-layer design to thin the air between them.
• After several hundred attempts, Ling Qing succeeded in covering his ears with Spirit Shield Skin and blocking out sound.

After learning that Kong Yuan and his team had died, Li Qing reflected on the dangers of the continent and discovered that two map fragments he owned fit together. Near Gengxin City, he narrowly avoided a powerful red-robed man who had killed Kong Yuan, but the man's return and approaching riders left Li Qing in danger.

• Li Qing learned from Mo Yu that Kong Yuan had died after a mission and resolved not to become complacent about his achievements.
• Li Qing found that two map fragments in his possession overlapped, revealing part of a larger, still-incomplete map.
• Li Qing left Spirit City for Gengxin City, while a group of black-uniformed riders departed another city under a red-haired leader.
• Near Gengxin City, Li Qing used his second soul skill to escape a chain strike from the red-robed man who had killed Kong Yuan's team and an innocent village.
• The red-robed man searched the forest repeatedly but failed to find Li Qing, then vanished and returned as approaching hoofbeats drew near.

Li Qing watched a skilled contestant impress the judges with a fragrant soup, then competed with a serving of egg fried rice. His dish stunned the judges, who recognized it as Glowing Egg Fried Rice, and Han Ming prepared to taste it.

• Li Qing watched a cheerful fat man serve an exceptional soup that delighted the judges and impressed the other contestants.
• Li Qing learned from the contestants' discussion that Chen Zhi was the vice president's disciple, though Chen Zhi had already left.
• Li Qing chose to make egg fried rice when his group began competing and recalled how his strict teacher had trained him.
• Li Qing finished his dish first, brought it to the judges, and claimed he was twelve years old.
• Han Ming and the other judges saw the golden, fragrant rice and recognized it as Glowing Egg Fried Rice, then Han Ming picked up a spoon.

Li Qing killed Gulu with the Scythe of Severance after Gulu’s Fury state pushed him to the brink. At the collapsing Abyss passage, Li Qing worried about the failing seal while Liu Lin prepared a massive attack against the succubus, who hoped Gulu had opened the passage.

• Gulu attacked Li Qing in his Fury state and wounded the back of his left hand, but Li Qing treated the injury and continued fighting.
• Li Qing’s Scythe of Severance cut through Gulu’s claws and split his body in two, killing him as Li Qing’s Eight Inner Gates state ended.
• Li Qing noticed the seal beneath the succubus’s former prison was close to collapsing and wondered how to stop it.
• The succubus’s Charm made Liu Lin’s Blazing Sun Flame explode on him, scorching his clothes and hair while leaving him mostly unharmed.
• Liu Lin activated Blazing Sun Armor and formed a huge fireball, while the succubus worried she could not withstand his attack and hoped Gulu had opened the Abyss passage.

Li Qing watched a six-thousand-year King Kong Wolf battle a Moon Bear, hoping to claim the wolf as his third soul ring and inherit its self-healing ability. As dusk fell, the Moon Bear unleashed Moonlight, blasting the King Kong Wolf out of sight before collapsing from exhaustion.

• The King Kong Wolf used its self-healing ability to trade injuries with the Moon Bear, tearing open its arm and worsening its wounds.
• Li Qing judged that the King Kong Wolf was a suitable third soul ring and concealed himself in a tree to wait for the battle to end.
• The King Kong Wolf attacked the Moon Bear's wounded arm again, then slashed its body as the moon rose.
• The Moon Bear absorbed moonlight and charged its ultimate skill while the King Kong Wolf kept its distance.
• The Moon Bear fired a white beam that struck the King Kong Wolf and made it vanish from view, then collapsed from exhaustion.

Li Qing and Tang San tested their abilities in a brief match, which Tang San won, and Master explained their strengths and weaknesses. Li Qing revealed that his Spirit Bone had improved his scythe and granted him a new skill, then added that it had also increased the age of his First Spirit Ring.

• Li Qing activated his Sharingan and fought Tang San, using his scythe and Severance before Tang San trapped him with Blue Silver Grass and nearly landed a punch.
• Master stopped the match and told Tang San to improve his physical strength and Blue Silver Grass, while advising Li Qing to learn his martial soul and Spirit Skills and use his Spirit Bone.
• Li Qing and Tang San compared their mental power, and Tang San said they had both reached the level of a Soul Grandmaster.
• Li Qing showed Master his Scythe of Severance, explaining that the Great Saber Mantis Spirit Bone had raised his Soul Power to level thirteen and given the scythe a bleeding effect and the Spinning Slash skill.
• Li Qing told Master that the age of his First Spirit Ring had increased.

Li Qing killed a Great Saber Mantis, obtained his first spirit ring, and awakened a one-tomoe Sharingan along with wind-attribute Chakra cultivation. After discovering a strange Spirit Bone in the mantis’s remains, he returned to Nuoding Academy with Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, who warned them to keep it secret.

• Tang San restrained the Great Saber Mantis with Blue Silver Grass while Li Qing wounded it until it died and yielded a yellow spirit ring.
• Li Qing absorbed the ring, reached Level Eleven, awakened the Sharingan (One Tomoe), and activated a wind-attribute Chakra cultivation method.
• Li Qing tested his first spirit skill, Severance, and cut through nine of Tang San’s ten Blue Silver Grass vines.
• Li Qing found a dagger-shaped Spirit Bone in the mantis’s right forelimb, and Yu Xiaogang told him not to absorb it rashly.
• At Nuoding Academy, Yu Xiaogang gave Li Qing and Tang San a book on Soul Power cultivation and recorded the Spirit Bone’s appearance.
• Yu Xiaogang instructed Li Qing and Tang San to hide the Spirit Bone and tell no one about it.

After obtaining the Eight Inner Gates cultivation method, Ling Qing decided to attend class for the first time instead of training. He listened to a strange historical legend about the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires, then made playing cards and lost several rounds of Fight the Landlord to Tang San and Xiao Wu.

• Ling Qing obtained the Eight Inner Gates method and decided to celebrate by attending class.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu were surprised that Ling Qing planned to go to class, and the other students were shocked as well.
• Ling Qing listened attentively to Hao Jian's history lesson, which mentioned the two empires once sending a million soldiers to a mysterious place and then maintaining a centuries-long truce.
• During the break, Ling Qing used Tang San's boards to make the first deck of playing cards on Douluo Continent and taught Tang San and Xiao Wu Fight the Landlord.
• Ling Qing lost the first two rounds to Tang San and Xiao Wu, then watched Xiao Wu win the third round with a powerful hand.

Six-year-old transmigrator Li Qing attended the Martial Soul awakening ceremony in Holy Soul Village, where he awakened a sickle and Innate Full Soul Power after activating the God Eye System. The chapter ended with Su Yuntao stunned by another Innate Full Soul Power and Li Qing preparing to show off.

• Li Qing recalled being rescued and raised by Old Jack, and his unsuccessful attempts to learn Tang San's Tang Sect techniques.
• Old Jack took Li Qing to the village's Martial Soul awakening ceremony, where Li Qing joined Tang San and seven other children.
• Tang San awakened Blue Silver Grass and secretly concealed his Clear Sky Hammer before revealing Innate Full Soul Power.
• Li Qing activated the God Eye System during his ceremony and awakened a sickle Martial Soul.
• Li Qing tested as having Innate Full Soul Power, leaving Su Yuntao stunned as Li Qing decided to show off.