Chapter Summaries

Qin He defeated Ling Ri without summoning his spirit, prompting Spirit Hall and the spectators to believe his Sacred White Tiger was a God-Tier Spirit. As Spirit Hall sent Chen Xing to face him next, Qin He worried that his effortless victories would make it impossible to hide his strength.

• Salas watched Qin He defeat Ling Ri and resolved that Spirit Hall should recruit him, even if Qin He resisted.
• Ling Ri admitted defeat, and the referee declared Qin He the winner.
• Zhao Chong and Yu Xiaogang speculated that Qin He's powerful spirit explained his victory despite his level 10 Soul Power.
• Hu Liena and Xie Yue regarded Qin He as a formidable threat, while Xie Yue ordered Chen Xing to exhaust him.
• Chen Xing stepped onto the arena, announced his level 16 Earth Bear Spirit, and summoned its giant bear phantom.

Yu Xiaogang and the others concluded that Qin He had compressed his Soul Power, while Qin He remained baffled by their assumptions and tried to avoid drawing attention. After Spirit Hall's Golden Generation conceded one after another, Qin He faced the final member, Hu Liena, and asked whether she would surrender too.

• Yu Xiaogang explained that Qin He had stayed at level 10 to compress his Soul Power and increase its quality, and Zhao Chong accepted the theory with astonishment.
• Salas and Spirit Hall's delegation realized the same thing, while Qin He wondered what they had misunderstood about his strength.
• Engels, Ye Liangchen, Zhang San, and two other members of Spirit Hall's Golden Generation conceded without fighting, leaving the crowd amazed.
• Notting Academy's students and Xiao Chenyu cheered Qin He, while Qin privately worried that the attention would ruin his quiet life.
• Qin He addressed Hu Liena, the last member of Spirit Hall's Golden Generation, and asked whether she would concede as well.

At the Spirit Hall and Notting Academy exchange, Hu Liena tried to use her Bewitching Heart Fox’s Charm on Qin He, but the attack rebounded and controlled her instead. The match ended with Hu Liena unable to control herself, while Qin He remained unaffected.

• Principal Zhao Chong praised Qin He as the exchange match continued amid the crowd’s excitement over Hu Liena’s affection for him.
• Hu Liena introduced her Bewitching Heart Fox and used her First Soul Skill, Charm, affecting many spectators.
• Salas secretly urged Hu Liena to capture Qin He’s attention and promised that the Pope would reward her.
• Hu Liena directed her Charm at Qin He, believing the attack had struck and that she could defeat him.
• Qin He’s Sacred White Tiger reflected the Charm back at Hu Liena, leaving her controlled by a white tiger phantom in her mind.

Qin He praised Hu Liena before their match, but she mistook his words for an attempt to pursue her. As Qin He insisted he only wanted to spar, everyone around them interpreted the exchange as courtship and schemed about the pair’s prospects.

• Qin He praised Hu Liena and challenged her to restore Spirit Hall’s honor, hoping she would not surrender to him.
• Hu Liena suspected Qin He was using psychological warfare, then smiled and offered him a chance to pursue her.
• Qin He rejected the idea of courting Hu Liena and worried that getting involved with her would bring trouble from Spirit Hall.
• Xiao Chenyu, Tang San, Yu Xiaogang, Zhao Chong, Qin Zhan, and Salas each reacted to the apparent flirtation, with Salas considering a match between Qin He and Hu Liena.
• Qin He clarified that he only wanted to spar with Hu Liena, but Notting Academy’s students dismissed his explanation and continued discussing his supposed romantic tactics.

Qin He defeated Hu Liena when her charm skill rebounded and struck her, leaving her to make an embarrassing confession before surrendering. The onlookers mistook the incident for romance, while Salas considered using Hu Liena’s apparent feelings to draw Qin He closer to Spirit Hall.

• Hu Liena’s charm beam rebounded and hit her, causing her to blurt out that she liked Qin He and wanted to marry him.
• Hu Liena broke free of the charm, realized Qin He’s martial soul had reflected her attack, and surrendered to Salas.
• Salas worried about Qin He’s growing threat to Spirit Hall and considered turning Hu Liena’s apparent connection with him into a real relationship.
• The referee declared Qin He the winner, leaving the audience and Yu Xiaogang confused about how he had won.
• Zhao Chong and Qin Zhan assumed Hu Liena had deliberately lost because she was romantically interested in Qin He, while Xiao Chenyu and the other students joked about gaining a sister-in-law.

Qin He’s victory over Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation made him famous across the Heaven Dou Empire, while Xiao Chenyu and others misunderstood his desire to keep a low profile as a grand plan. A month later, Principal Zhao Chong insisted that Qin He join an expedition to obtain his first soul ring, despite Qin He’s attempts to delay it.

• Xiao Chenyu defended Qin He’s arena performance as a deliberate move to secure an alliance with Spirit Hall.
• Newspapers across the Heaven Dou Empire reported Qin He’s victory, and Emperor Xue Ye angrily feared Spirit Hall would recruit him.
• Qin He lamented his sudden fame and spent the following month avoiding the Soul Hunting Forest.
• Xiao Chenyu mistook Qin He’s quiet contemplation for planning how to hide his strength further.
• Principal Zhao Chong invited Qin He to join Notting Academy’s upcoming soul-hunting expedition, but Qin He claimed he needed more time to refine his Soul Power.
• Zhao Chong rejected Qin He’s excuse and declared that he had to obtain a soul ring.

Qin He prepared to leave Notting Academy for the Soul Hunting Forest to obtain his first soul ring, drawing concern and speculation from Spirit Hall, the Heaven Dou Empire, and those who had lost to him. The chapter ended with the Notting Academy group camped at the forest entrance, as Qin He’s soul-ring hunt was about to begin.

• Spirit Hall’s Salas ordered his agents to monitor Qin He closely and investigate his cultivation and choice of first soul ring.
• Xie Yue predicted Qin He would fall behind because of his laziness, while Hu Liena said he remained unfathomable and would likely surprise everyone.
• Yu Xiaogang dismissed Tang San’s suggestion that Qin He was compressing his Soul Power, and Tang San renewed his resolve to surpass Qin He.
• Xue Ye learned Qin He was only now seeking his first soul ring and ordered officials to protect him from Spirit Hall’s interference.
• The Notting Academy group set up camp at the entrance to the Soul Hunting Forest.

Zhao Chong led Notting Academy students into Soul Hunting Forest to hunt Soul Beasts, where he challenged their confidence by presenting a ten-year Solitary Bamboo. The students failed to damage it, and Xiao Chenyu injured his hand trying, while Qin He remained unimpressed.

• Zhao Chong warned the students that Soul Hunting Forest was dangerous before leading the academy group deeper into the forest.
• Zhao Chong explained that the ten-year Solitary Bamboo was a tough plant-type Soul Beast, and Xiao Chenyu dismissed the challenge.
• Several students used their attacks on the bamboo but exhausted their Soul Power without breaking through its defense.
• Xiao Chenyu struck the Solitary Bamboo with his Lone Wolf Sonic Burst, hurt his hand, and complained that the bamboo was cheating.
• Zhao Chong laughed at Xiao Chenyu and began explaining the Solitary Bamboo's traits and weaknesses.

Qin He effortlessly killed a ten-year Solitary Bamboo, shocking Dean Zhao Chong and the Notting Academy students. After a commoner student absorbed its soul ring, the group encountered six Netherworld Wolves led by a hundred-year Netherwolf King, and Zhao Chong charged into battle.

• Qin He killed the ten-year Solitary Bamboo with an unnoticed breath and told the students to absorb its soul ring.
• A commoner student with a Black Vine Martial Soul began absorbing the Solitary Bamboo soul ring as Xiao Chenyu praised Qin He.
• Dean Zhao Chong questioned how a Level 10 Qin He could kill the soul beast, but Qin He blamed the wind.
• After the student finished absorbing the soul ring, Zhao Chong reassured himself that Qin He would still need his help to hunt a hundred-year soul beast.
• Six Netherworld Wolves led by a hundred-year Netherwolf King approached, and Zhao Chong activated his Martial Soul Avatar and attacked the leader.

After Xiao Chenyu absorbed the Netherwolf King's soul ring and reached level twenty-one, Notting Academy's teachers and students insisted on finding Qin He a hundred-year soul ring, despite his protests. That night, two Mandala Snakes—one over a thousand years old and the other at least five thousand—appeared outside their camp and targeted the group.

• Qin He gave Xiao Chenyu the Netherwolf King's hundred-year soul ring, impressing the students and teachers with what they took to be his generosity.
• Xiao Chenyu absorbed the ring, became a level twenty-one Great Soul Master, and thanked Qin He.
• Zhao Chong and the others decided to keep searching Soul Hunting Forest for a good hundred-year ring for Qin He, ignoring his attempts to end the search quickly.
• At night, the campers heard rustling and smelled a poisonous scent, prompting Zhao Chong and the teachers to ready their soul rings.
• The group spotted two Mandala Snakes: a female just over a thousand years old and a male at least five thousand years old, both treating the campers as prey.

Notting Academy’s teachers battled a pack of Netherworld Wolves while Xiao Chenyu hoped to claim the hundred-year Netherwolf King’s soul ring. When the enraged wolf king ambushed Qin He, it struck an invisible barrier and was hurled into a tree, leaving it badly injured.

• Headmaster Zhao Chong fought the hundred-year Netherwolf King while the other teachers subdued the ten-year wolves.
• The teachers invited the students to finish off the weakened wolves and obtain their soul rings.
• Xiao Chenyu eyed the Netherwolf King as a suitable soul beast for his Lone Wolf Soul, while Qin He showed no interest in the hunt.
• The Netherwolf King entered a berserk state and charged at Qin He, whom it mistook for an unprotected weakling.
• Qin He remained unmoved as an invisible barrier stopped the wolf king, then flung it into a tree and left it unable to stand.

Qin He left the injured Netherwolf King for Xiao Chenyu to kill and claim its hundred-year soul ring, though the academy mistook the beast’s injury for the work of a hidden protector. Xiao Chenyu refused to take the ring from Qin He, who insisted it was useless to him and threatened to reject Xiao Chenyu as an underling unless he absorbed it.

• Qin He was relieved that he had injured the Netherwolf King without killing it, while Zhao Chong wondered who had secretly struck the beast.
• Xiao Chenyu saw Qin He standing unharmed and assumed powerful experts had protected him, filling him with admiration.
• Qin He told Xiao Chenyu to kill the injured Netherwolf King and absorb its soul ring, shocking the Notting Academy students.
• Zhao Chong urged Qin He to keep the hundred-year ring for his own first soul ring, but Xiao Chenyu firmly refused it.
• Qin He said the ring was useless to him and ordered Xiao Chenyu to absorb it, threatening to stop recognizing him as his boss if he refused.

Two thousand-year Mandala Snakes attacked Notting Academy’s students, and Principal Zhao Chong’s attempt to stop them failed, leaving him badly injured and poisoned. While Xiao Chenyu urged Qin He to flee, Qin He remained calmly in place as Zhao Chong feared he would be killed.

• Xiao Chenyu and the Notting Academy students trembled before two enormous Mandala Snakes, and Principal Zhao Chong told them to run while he held the beasts off.
• Zhao Chong attacked one Mandala Snake with three Giant Bear soul skills, but it dodged his strike and sent him flying, leaving him injured.
• Zhao Chong ordered the students to escape, while Xiao Chenyu tried to pull the unmoving Qin He away.
• Qin He silently mocked Zhao Chong’s failed charge and remained unconcerned about the snakes.
• The Mandala Snakes prepared to attack, and Zhao Chong became badly poisoned before despairing that Qin He still had not run.

Qin He killed two thousand-year Mandala Snakes with a casual strike, but the Notting Academy group assumed a hidden expert had protected him. From nearby treetops, Meng Shenji and Salas realized neither of them had intervened and suspected an unknown third force was guarding Qin He.

• Qin He tapped the air beside the Mandala Snakes, and the resulting force tore their bodies apart and killed them.
• The Notting Academy group saw the snake corpses and credited an unseen expert with saving them.
• Zhao Chong asked Qin He about his supposed protector, while Qin He let the misunderstanding stand.
• Meng Shenji and Salas introduced themselves as representatives of the Heaven Dou Imperial Family and Spirit Hall, then confirmed that neither had killed the snakes.
• Meng Shenji and Salas concluded that an unknown third force had intervened and decided to report their discovery.

In the Soul Hunting Forest, Qin He absorbed a thousand-year Mandala Snake Soul Ring as his first Soul Ring, astonishing the Notting Academy group. His Soul Power surged to level 20, leaving him ready to absorb a second Soul Ring.

• After the Mandala Snakes died, the frightened Notting Academy students wondered whether they should remain in the Soul Hunting Forest, while Xiao Chenyu praised Qin He's composure.
• Qin He said he had killed both Mandala Snakes, but Xiao Chenyu and the others dismissed his claim as a joke.
• Principal Zhao Chong suggested that the students return while he and Qin He continued searching, but Qin He ordered everyone to leave and pointed out the Soul Rings above the Mandala Snake corpses.
• Despite Zhao Chong's warnings that a thousand-year Soul Ring was too dangerous for a first ring, Qin He absorbed the smaller purple Soul Ring, which fused with his Sacred White Tiger Spirit.
• Zhao Chong tested Qin He's Soul Power and watched it rise from level 11 to level 20 within moments.

Qin He absorbed a second, five-thousand-year soul ring immediately after reaching level 20, astonishing everyone at Notting Academy. He showed no sign of rejection as the ring settled around his neck, leaving Headmaster Zhao Chong and the others stunned.

• Qin He explained that his Soul Power had risen to level 20, while Zhao Chong and Xiao Chenyu reacted to his rapid advancement.
• Xiao Chenyu noted that Qin He could seek another soul ring, and Qin He reached for the five-thousand-year ring beside the first one.
• The students and teachers panicked at Qin He's attempt to absorb a second soul ring, while Zhao Chong feared he would die.
• Xiao Chenyu mistook Zhao Chong's alarm for concern about protecting soul beast resources, and Zhao He spat blood as Qin He proceeded.
• The second purple soul ring contracted around Qin He's neck without causing any discomfort, leaving Zhao Chong unable to believe he had succeeded.

After absorbing his second spirit ring, Qin He’s displayed Soul Power surged to Level 30, astonishing Principal Zhao Chong and the Notting Academy teachers. The group left the Soul Hunting Forest with everyone alive, and Zhao Chong’s colleagues doubted his claim about Qin He’s new level.

• Qin He’s Soul Power rose rapidly after he absorbed his second spirit ring, reaching Level 30 on the tester.
• The teachers attributed Qin He’s growth to his God-Tier Spirit, while Qin He privately considered using spirit rings to reveal more of his power.
• Qin He asked Principal Zhao Chong if he could kill another spirit beast to raise his level, but Zhao Chong ordered the group to leave the forest.
• The Notting Academy group emerged the next morning with all members present, though Zhao Chong had a minor injury and their clothes were dirty.
• A teacher at the entrance doubted Zhao Chong’s claim that Qin He had obtained two spirit rings and reached Level 30, prompting Zhao Chong to insist that Qin He had activated cheats.

Qin Zhan learned that Qin He had become a Level 30 Great Soul Master at six years old after absorbing two thousand-year soul rings, while Zhao Chong struggled to believe it. At Notting Academy, Tang San and Yu Xiaogang heard of Qin He's achievement, and Yu Xiaogang told Tang San to stop comparing himself to Qin He.

• Qin Zhan arrived at the Soul Hunting Forest worried that Qin He was hurt, but Zhao Chong told him Qin He had reached Level 30 and could graduate.
• Qin Zhan boasted that Qin He's talent was average and that he took after his father, leaving Zhao Chong exasperated.
• Yu Xiaogang taught Tang San that Soul Masters had to be cautious about absorbing soul rings, and Tang San hoped Qin He might have made a mistake in the forest.
• Students announced that Qin He had absorbed a thousand-year soul ring and a five-thousand-year soul ring, reached Level 30, and qualified to graduate at six.
• Tang San asked whether Yu Xiaogang still believed he could catch up to Qin He, and Yu Xiaogang said effort could not overcome a lack of talent and advised him to stop seeking abuse by comparing himself to Qin He.

Qin He learned that Xiao Wu had transferred to Notting Academy and was challenging its students, so he decided to check on her. He recalled saving Xiao Wu from Spirit Hall’s Titled Douluo and resolved to keep her from suffering the fate she faced in the original story.

• Xiao Chenyu told Qin He that transfer student Xiao Wu had defeated every upper-year student except Dormitory Six and had challenged Qin He by name.
• Qin He recognized Xiao Wu and recalled meeting her in the Heaven Dou Great Forest, where he had destroyed the Titled Douluo sent by Spirit Hall to capture her.
• Qin He considered the dangers Xiao Wu faced by living among humans and remembered how she and her friends Da Ming and Er Ming had died in the original story.
• Qin He decided to go see Xiao Wu and protect her from a tragic fate.

After learning that Qin He had reached Level 30 at six years old, Spirit Hall and the Heaven Dou Empire treated him as a potential future powerhouse and sought to win him over. The chapter left both forces preparing to use Hu Liena and other marriage prospects to secure his loyalty.

• Platinum Bishop Salas decided Qin He's astonishing cultivation required a report to the Pope.
• Meng Shenji told Xue Ye that Qin He had reached Level 30, and advised the emperor to recruit rather than antagonize him.
• Xue Ye granted Qin He a baron title, offered him a place at Heaven Dou Royal Academy after graduation, and ordered ten Soul Douluos to monitor him.
• Xie Yue and Hu Liena reacted with shock and disbelief when they heard Qin He had become a Level 30 Great Soul Master.
• A Spirit Hall Academy teacher told Hu Liena that the Pope wanted her to spend more time with Qin He and urged her not to disappoint him.