Chapter Summaries

Lang Lei reached level 10 in the Star Dou Great Forest, activating the Tree and Sea System and gaining Aetheria as its sprite. After claiming his beginner mission rewards, he prepared to use his draw chances.

• Lang Lei recalled how the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had abandoned him and the other menial workers in the Star Dou Great Forest, leaving him alone to survive.
• After eating wild plants and fruit, Lang Lei's Soul Power rose from level 3 to level 9, then broke through to level 10.
• The Tree and Sea System activated, explaining that leveling granted draw chances and missions offered rewards; its sprite asked Lang Lei to name her, and he chose Aetheria.
• Lang Lei opened his basic panel, which showed his Mud martial soul, ten draw chances, and a beginner mission awaiting its reward.
• Lang Lei claimed an Adaptive Soul Ring, three more draw chances, a Martial Soul Slot, and a Body Strengthening Count, then began a ten-draw.

Lang Lei opened his rewards, combined five Unedged Swords, and used several items that strengthened him and could disrupt another person's Martial Soul. He then summoned Griseo, who arrived and invited him to paint.

• Lang Lei fused five Unedged Swords into a Refinement Tier Five weapon.
• Lang Lei and Aetheria ate the Sweet Flower Brewed Chicken, and Lang Lei examined a Martial Soul Deletion Card he planned to use.
• Lang Lei used the Electro God's Eye, gaining control of the Electro element and improved physical abilities.
• Lang Lei received a Fragment of Pink Crystal Flower and learned from Aetheria that drawing more fragments was more likely.
• Lang Lei used the Character Summon Card to summon Griseo, who greeted him and asked what he wanted to paint.

Lang Lei used his novice rewards to gain Heavenly Fire Sacred Judgment, strengthen his body, and obtain an adaptive Soul Ring in the Star Dou Great Forest. As the ring began changing, Griseo summoned powerful World-Painting Creations to protect him.

• Griseo asked where they were, and Lang Lei explained that the Star Dou Great Forest was a different world.
• Lang Lei checked the effects of his rewards and told Aetheria not to imitate unscrupulous systems.
• Lang Lei used the Martial Soul Slot and received Heavenly Fire Sacred Judgment as his second Martial Soul.
• Lang Lei used the Body Strengthening Count, further improving his physical constitution.
• Lang Lei used the Adaptive Soul Ring, and a white Soul Ring appeared around him and began changing color.
• Griseo created several World-Painting Creations with the pressure of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts and ordered them to guard Lang Lei.

Lang Lei successfully absorbed a seventy-thousand-year soul ring, gained a powerful first soul skill, and drew new items from the system. He and Griseo continued through the Star Dou Great Forest with new treasures in hand and Elysia closer to being summoned.

• Lang Lei gained a black soul ring estimated at seventy thousand years, reached level seventeen, and received the soul skill Thousand Transformations Shaping.
• Lang Lei and Griseo left their resting place and walked through the Star Dou Great Forest while he showed her his transformed mud Martial Soul.
• Lang Lei used a ten-pull and obtained three Fragment of Pink Crystal Flower, two cards, three medicinal herbs, and two soul bones.
• Aetheria explained that Heavenly Fire Sacred Judgment could absorb soul bones to condense a soul ring with twice their age, which would only be placed on the Martial Soul once it reached one million years.
• Lang Lei told Griseo she would soon meet Sister Elysia, then checked his panel and asked Aetheria to remove the gender line next time.

Lang Lei and Griseo encountered a Void Leopard in the Star Dou Great Forest, where Qian Renxue intervened and killed the beast. After Lang Lei told her the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had abandoned them, Qian Renxue invited him to go with her.

• Lang Lei shielded Griseo when a Void Leopard blocked their path, then fought it with his daggers and spear while Griseo warned him of an attack.
• Lang Lei wounded the Void Leopard's eye, but it continued teleporting and attacking until Qian Renxue bound it and killed it with her soul skills.
• Qian Renxue approached Lang Lei and Griseo, and Lang Lei identified himself and his sister.
• Lang Lei told Qian Renxue that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had abandoned them in the forest.
• Qian Renxue assessed Lang Lei's age and Soul Power, then invited him to go with her.

Qian Renxue left Lang Lei and Griseo in the care of Snake Lance Douluo and gave Lang Lei a token to seek help from Xue Qinghe. After reaching a place to stay, Lang Lei secretly absorbed two Immortal Herbs, strengthening his spiritual power and body and raising his Soul Power to Level 20.

• Qian Renxue taught Lang Lei and Griseo about soul beasts before stopping near the forest’s edge and entrusting them to Snake Lance Douluo.
• Qian Renxue gave Lang Lei the Heaven Dou Crown Prince Token and told him to find Xue Qinghe in the palace, then flew away.
• Lang Lei learned from Aetheria that the system shielded their surroundings from spiritual perception.
• Lang Lei absorbed the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, which improved his eyesight and spiritual power and strengthened Heavenly Fire Sacred Judgment’s First Soul Skill.
• Lang Lei swallowed the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, raised his Soul Power to Level 20, and greatly improved his physical constitution.

Lang Lei consumed the Earth Dragon Golden Melon and evolved his First Martial Soul into Earth Dragon Dust, gaining new abilities and a major talent boost. After staying with the sleeping Griseo, he received a mission to obtain Earth Dragon Dust’s Second Soul Ring, leaving him ready to return to the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Lang Lei consumed the Earth Dragon Golden Melon, endured its painful effects, and channeled excess Soul Power into Heavenly Fire Sacred Judgment as its First Soul Ring reached one hundred thousand years of condensation.
• Lang Lei’s First Martial Soul evolved from mud into Earth Dragon Dust, and his hair and height changed as the transformation ended.
• Lang Lei comforted Griseo, held her hand while she fell asleep, and then inspected Earth Dragon Dust’s improved talent and two innate skills, Down-to-Earth and Dust Dragon Domain.
• Lang Lei decided he would need to return to the Star Dou Great Forest to acquire a Soul Ring, since he had no Adaptive Soul Ring available.
• The system issued Lang Lei the Companion Mission: Soul Ring Acquisition, offering draw chances, a soul bone, and a Custom Anchor Point based on the Soul Ring’s age.

Lang Lei woke Griseo and took her back into the Star Dou Great Forest to seek a Spirit Ring for his level-twenty breakthrough. Griseo questioned the killing of spirit beasts, and Lang Lei promised to spare innocent ones as they continued into the forest.

• Griseo woke and found Lang Lei cultivating beside her bed; he said they would leave without waiting for Snake Lance Douluo.
• Lang Lei and Griseo slipped into the Star Dou Great Forest, where Griseo admired the colorful plants.
• Lang Lei explained that he needed a Spirit Ring from a spirit beast to break through to the next level.
• Griseo questioned whether spirit beasts were innocent victims of soul masters, and Lang Lei agreed that she was right but said he could not change the rules of the world.
• Griseo said she trusted Lang Lei and would support him, and Lang Lei promised to spare innocent spirit beasts as they continued on.

Lang Lei found a suitable Earth Tyrant Bear in the Star Dou Great Forest and defeated it with the Heavenly Fire Sacred Judgment. He absorbed its near-hundred-thousand-year soul ring, reached level 27, and received mission rewards, including a torso bone and a custom anchor point.

• Lang Lei rejected several soul beasts as unsuitable before Griseo spotted an Earth Tyrant Bear digging nearby.
• Lang Lei fought the Earth Tyrant Bear, then used the Heavenly Fire Sacred Judgment's Zero Rated Power to destroy it.
• Lang Lei found a ninety-thousand-year Earth Tyrant Bear left arm bone and began absorbing the bear's soul ring while Griseo watched.
• Lang Lei reached level 27, and the Heavenly Fire Sacred Judgment's progress toward its first soul ring rose to 310,000 years.
• The system completed Lang Lei's companion mission and awarded him ten draw chances, a Hundred Thousand Year Earth Violent Bear Torso Bone, and a Custom Anchor Point.

Lang Lei absorbed a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone to strengthen Heavenly Fire Sacred Judgment and gained a teleportation anchor, while Griseo found six Thousand-Year Blood Ginseng. He tested his new damage-negating soul skill against Griseo’s creation, was sent flying, and promised not to take such risks again.

• Lang Lei converted the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone into soul-ring progress for Heavenly Fire Sacred Judgment and placed a Custom Anchor Point in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Griseo gave Lang Lei six Thousand-Year Blood Ginseng she had found in the hole dug by the Earth Tyrant Bear.
• Lang Lei showed Griseo his Second Soul Skill, which could negate ninety percent of an attacker's damage while active.
• Griseo's humanoid creation struck Lang Lei and sent him crashing through several trees after breaking through his soul skill.
• Lang Lei reassured Griseo, explained his test, and promised not to do dangerous things again.

Lang Lei and Griseo got lost in the Star Dou Great Forest and encountered Yu Tianheng’s Imperial Dou Team while trying to find their way out. They joined the team for the journey back, with Lang Lei carrying Griseo and helping clear the path.

• Griseo pointed out that Lang Lei had led them past the same tree repeatedly, and he admitted he was lost.
• Lang Lei attacked people hiding in the grass, then stopped when they called out that they meant no harm.
• Yu Tianheng introduced the Imperial Dou Team, and Lang Lei introduced himself and Griseo.
• Yu Tianheng invited Lang Lei and Griseo to travel back with the team, and Griseo revealed that Lang Lei had been lost.
• Lang Lei started walking in the wrong direction, then joined Yu Tianheng at the front of the group and offered to help clear the way.

Lang Lei stunned the Imperial Dou Team by crushing a six-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider while carrying Griseo, then proved he was really seven years old. He sold a Thousand-Year Blood Ginseng to Ye Ling Ling and continued traveling with the group toward Heaven Dou City.

• A Man Faced Demon Spider ambushed the group, and Lang Lei leapt in and pinned it down while Griseo rode on his back.
• Lang Lei kicked the spider into the air and struck it so hard that it disappeared, leaving the Imperial Dou Team astonished.
• Lang Lei said he was seven, and Qin Ming examined him and confirmed his age and extraordinary physical density.
• Lang Lei explained that eating strange grass in the Star Dou Great Forest had changed his body, then showed the group a Thousand-Year Blood Ginseng.
• Ye Ling Ling bought the ginseng for 27,612 Gold Soul Coins and a Storage Soul Tool, then Dugu Yan offered to lend her money for the journey.

After leaving the Star Dou Great Forest, Lang Lei and Griseo received an invitation from Qin Ming to join Heaven Dou Royal Academy, but Lang Lei chose to consider it while pursuing his own plans. The group parted ways, with Lang Lei planning to find an inn and use his twenty pulls.

• Osler celebrated finally leaving the Star Dou Great Forest, and Qin Ming warned the Imperial Dou Team that some members might fail his training test.
• Lang Lei prepared to leave with Griseo, but Qin Ming stopped him and inferred that he had never attended a Soul Master Academy from his approach to fighting spirit beasts.
• Qin Ming invited Lang Lei to join Heaven Dou Royal Academy, gave him textbooks and an Imperial Dou token, and told him the team would travel to Suotuo City for matches.
• Lang Lei declined to travel with the team for now, saying he might visit later, and planned to find an inn and use his twenty pulls.
• Lang Lei and Griseo said goodbye to the Imperial Dou Team and left, while Qin Ming and the others speculated about Lang Lei's background.

Lang Lei fixed the draw module and used a ten-pull, gaining a revival fruit, items for Griseo, spirit bones, and a letter that brought Griseo’s mother Blanca back for three hours. He sent Blanca to reunite with Griseo and began cultivating, leaving the remaining draws unopened.

• Aetheria explained that developing a new feature had disrupted the draw module, then restored it by slapping the panel.
• Lang Lei drew ten items and discovered that the Jianmu Fruit would revive him once at full condition if he died.
• Lang Lei discarded the Blue Silver Grass, took the Mysterious Water Pill, and fused four spirit bones into his Second Martial Soul, Heavenly Fire Sacred Judgment.
• Lang Lei decided to give Griseo her drawing board and brush, then opened Blanca’s letter and summoned her for three hours.
• Blanca learned that Griseo was bathing and rushed to reunite with her while Lang Lei stayed outside and began cultivating.

Lang Lei comforted Griseo after Blanca’s visit and gave her the drawing brush and board Heng had left for her. With Griseo happy again, he tried to use the system for another ten-pull, but the panel needed several slaps before the draw interface appeared.

• After Blanca departed, Griseo asked Lang Lei if there would be another chance to see her, and he promised to do his best.
• Griseo hugged Lang Lei, cried, and fell asleep in his arms; she later woke and asked why Heng had not come.
• Lang Lei told Griseo that Heng had come and gave her the drawing brush and board Heng had left for her, which she asked him to keep safe.
• Lang Lei checked his status panel, asked the system to hide less valuable items, and prepared to make another ten-pull for Griseo.
• When the system did not respond, Lang Lei repeatedly slapped the panel until the card draw interface appeared, then commanded a ten-pull.

Lang Lei opened his second ten-pull and gained useful items, including a revival egg, a paralysis gun, an Adaptive Soul Ring, and two Honkai Shards. He decided to leave with Griseo, intending to use the shards on two people he had already chosen.

• Lang Lei used the one-thousand-year and five-thousand-year Soul Ring Age Cards on his second Soul Ring, raising its age to about ninety-six thousand years.
• Lang Lei examined the Teyvat Fried Egg, which could revive a dead target or restore a living one to peak condition, and collected a large amount of Gold Soul Coins.
• Lang Lei acquired a Trust Card and a Paralysis Gun, then put both away to study later.
• Lang Lei drew a duplicate Adaptive Soul Ring and two Honkai Shards that could turn chosen beings into loyal Honkai Beasts with the strength of level ninety-nine Limit Douluos.
• Lang Lei told Griseo they should get ready to leave, and she took his hand.

Lang Lei and Griseo reached Suotuo City, where Griseo discovered the local paints were too poor to use. Lang Lei decided to make natural mineral pigments for her and returned to the hotel with the supplies he had found.

• Lang Lei got lost while trying to reach Suotuo City by map, so Griseo carried them there on World-Painting Creation.
• Lang Lei booked a hotel room for two months, and Griseo asked him to find her more paint.
• Griseo found the paints in Suotuo City low in quality and variety, so Lang Lei offered to make mineral pigments for her.
• Lang Lei searched a forge for suitable minerals and found materials for red, blue, green, and white pigments, but not yellow.
• Lang Lei chose Gold Soul Coins as a substitute for yellow pigment and bought Gelatin Water and natural gum pads before returning to the hotel with Griseo.

Lang Lei and Griseo made mineral pigment together, completing the system’s Companion Mission. The system transformed their pigment into a miraculous item that let them communicate telepathically and left them both delighted with their shared creation.

• Lang Lei received the Pigment Making mission and invited Griseo to help prepare the ore.
• Lang Lei and Griseo washed, crushed, sifted, ground, settled, and dried the minerals to make pigment.
• Lang Lei and Griseo played with the pigment and celebrated when their finished colors pleased Griseo.
• The system rewarded Lang Lei with an Earth Dragon Dust Passive Grant Card and elevated the pigment into Griseo and Lang Lei's Fond Memories.
• Lang Lei and Griseo discovered that their pigment would never run out or fade, could change to their desired colors, and let them communicate through their minds.

Lang Lei took Griseo to the Suotuo Great Spirit Arena, where they watched the matches before deciding to enter a two-person fight together. After registering the Painting World Combination, they headed to the preparation area for their upcoming match.

• Lang Lei explained the Great Soul Arena to Griseo and led her into the Suotuo Great Spirit Arena.
• Lang Lei used Soul Power to create a Soundproof Barrier, then lifted Griseo onto his shoulders so she could see the Soul Fighting Stage.
• When Griseo grew bored of watching, Lang Lei suggested they enter a two-person match and said she should not attack.
• Lang Lei registered the Painting World Combination despite the receptionist's concern that Griseo was an ordinary person.
• The receptionist told Lang Lei that their turn was approaching, and he carried Griseo toward the preparation area.

Lang Lei and Griseo defeated another seven-man team at the Suotuo Great Spirit Arena, prompting the arena to award him a Purple Gold Soul Fighting Badge and pay him to leave. Lang Lei accepted and planned to focus on breaking through to Level 30 while he and Griseo went to eat Soul Beast meat.

• Lang Lei defeated the opposing seven-man team without using his Martial Soul, and their support Soul Master surrendered.
• The spectators cheered the Painting World Combination, while Lang Lei and Griseo left for the arena supervisor's office.
• The supervisor awarded Lang Lei a Purple Gold Soul Fighting Badge and gave him a card containing 5,000,000 Gold Soul Coins because the arena could not find stronger opponents.
• Lang Lei accepted the payment and said he would stop fighting at the arena while he prepared to break through to Level 30 and absorb the Adaptive Soul Ring.
• Lang Lei and Griseo headed to a barbecue restaurant for Soul Beast meat, and Griseo asked him to massage her feet as punishment for teasing her.