Chapter Summaries

Sun Kong returned to Qian Gu Qingfeng with the ashes of A Nan and Yue'er and a strange bead recovered from a Lesser World, explaining that Evil Soul Masters had killed them. After Qian Gu Qingfeng revealed that Dark Hummingbird had appeared near Shrek City, he ordered the group to handle the threat themselves, and the Battle Armor Masters prepared to hunt.

• Sun Kong and his companions brought two boxes of ashes to the island, where Qian Gu Qingfeng asked what had happened in the Lesser World.
• Sun Kong blamed Evil Soul Masters for ambushing the group after he had split them into pairs, and asked Qian Gu Qingfeng to let A Nan and Yue'er see Liujing one last time.
• One of Sun Kong's companions gave Qian Gu Qingfeng a strange bead that A Nan and Yue'er had obtained and said the Evil Soul Masters had attacked to seize it.
• Qian Gu Qingfeng took the boxes and bead, then told the group that Dark Hummingbird had appeared near Shrek City and fled toward Mingdu.
• Qian Gu Qingfeng ordered the Battle Armor Masters to handle the threat themselves, and they summoned their armor and prepared to kill.

Qian Gu Qingfeng brought the last traces of his children, A Nan and Yue'er, to his wife Xia Zheng Leng, and they watched the souls disappear. As they grieved, a strange pearl appeared in their unconscious son Liujing’s bedroom and merged with him.

• Qian Gu Qingfeng arrived at the Spirit Pagoda’s Spirit Realm carrying boxes containing his children’s ashes and remaining soul traces.
• Qian Gu Qingfeng told Xia Zheng Leng that A Nan and Yue'er had died fighting Evil Soul Masters in a newly discovered Lesser World.
• Xia Zheng Leng agreed to see the children’s final soul traces, and she and Qian Gu Qingfeng watched them vanish.
• As Xia Zheng Leng collapsed in grief, Qian Gu Qingfeng sensed a ripple from his storage ring.
• A lightning-streaked crack opened beside the unconscious Liujing, and a pearl emerged and merged into him.

After a mysterious voice jolted Nan Liujing awake, his fragmented memories became clear and medical examinations found him healthy, with unusually strong Spiritual Power. He realized he had been reborn on the Douluo Continent and, still unsettled by his memories, chose to eat first.

• Nan Liujing's consciousness was struck by purplish-red lightning, his memories fused, and a commanding voice urged him to awaken.
• Nan Liujing woke after months unconscious, and Sun Kong entered, relieved to see him conscious.
• Doctors and Elder Lin examined Nan Liujing and found his body stable, his Martial Soul close to awakening, and his Spiritual Power already at the initial stage of the Spirit Connection Realm.
• Sun Kong asked Elder Lin about Nan Liujing's recovery, then reported the results to his leaders after the examination.
• Nan Liujing studied a map marked with Shrek City and recognized that his memories of transmigrating to the Douluo Continent had become clear.
• Sun Kong asked whether Nan Liujing was hungry, and Nan Liujing decided to eat first.

Nan Liujing visited his deceased parents’ graves with his uncle, Sun Kong, and paid his respects. Sun Kong then arranged for Nan Liujing and Sido to attend their Martial Soul Awakening Ceremony together, joking about a childhood betrothal before his upcoming transfer to Mingdu.

• Nan Liujing asked Sun Kong to take him to visit his parents’ graves after realizing they had died.
• Nan Liujing recognized Nan Tian and Xia Yuexin from their photographs, laid flowers at their tombstone, and kowtowed nine times.
• Sun Kong spoke with Sido and her father, Wu Jingru, about Sido’s upcoming Martial Soul Awakening Ceremony.
• Sun Kong told Wu Jingru that he would soon be transferred to Mingdu and offered to arrange a banquet to connect Wu Jingru with local officials.
• Sun Kong proposed that Nan Liujing and Sido awaken their Martial Souls together and joked about arranging a childhood betrothal.

On the way back, Sun Kong told Nan Liujing about his parents and explained the Coiled Dragon Staff’s dragon-soul rankings as Nan considered how he might awaken his Martial Soul. Elsewhere, Tang Hao sensed two unfamiliar divine auras and planned to use one as an opportunity for Tang Wulin while strengthening the seal beneath his hammer.

• Nan Liujing asked Sun Kong about his parents, and Sun Kong explained that his father’s Coiled Dragon Staff held a Thunder Dragon soul while his mother’s Martial Soul was Candy.
• Sun Kong said that Coiled Dragon Staffs could mutate but that no second awakening had been recorded, leaving Nan Liujing to wonder whether the strange lightning sphere in his sea of spirit could be an opportunity.
• Sun Kong planned to return with Nan Liujing to Star Luo City the next day so he could awaken his Martial Soul.
• Tang Hao told Ah Yin that he had sensed two unfamiliar divine auras, one vaguely similar to the Golden Dragon King and another too obscure to trace.
• Tang Hao asked Ah Yin to secretly stimulate Tang Wulin’s Golden Dragon King Bloodline when his Martial Soul awakened, then struck down a surge against the hammer’s seal and prepared to sleep while strengthening it.

Nan Liujing traveled with Sun Kong to the Wu Family estate to witness Wu Jingru’s daughter’s Martial Soul awakening ceremony. The ceremony began with the girl and two boys standing beneath the stained-glass window, but their awakenings had not yet been revealed.

• Nan Liujing researched Eastsea City and Red Mountain Academy before planning a trip to Aolai City after his Martial Soul awakening.
• Nan Liujing traveled with Sun Kong to the Wu Family estate, where Sun Kong introduced him to Wu Jingru and three other old friends.
• Nan Liujing noticed a painting of a White Tiger and a Hell Spirit Cat before following the others into the Wu Family’s ceremonial hall.
• Wu Jingru’s daughter finished praying and turned to face the gathered guests, revealing platinum and dark purple eyes.
• Wu Jingru summoned Soul Power into the stained-glass window, and its gathered light spread beneath the feet of his daughter and two boys, Qiming and Cheng Yu.

During the Wu Family's Martial Soul awakening, Wu Sidu revealed twin Martial Souls, thrilling her family and marking her as its future. The ceremony then turned to Nan Liujing, who was about to awaken his Martial Soul.

• Wu Qiming awakened a Python Blade with Innate Soul Power level five, while Wu Chengyu awakened a Crimson Fire Tiger with level seven.
• Wu Sidu encountered a White Tiger and a Hell Spirit Cat in the darkness and awakened both as her Martial Souls.
• Wu Jingru and the Wu Family celebrated Wu Sidu's exceptional talent, while Nan Liujing watched with Sun Kong and their companions.
• Sun Kong teased Wu Jingru about Wu Sidu's talent and mentioned a girl from the Ye Family, drawing Nan Liujing's curiosity.
• Wu Jingru called Nan Liujing forward for his awakening, and Nan Liujing exchanged a brief greeting with Wu Sidu.

Nan Liujing awakened a powerful Coiled Dragon Staff and a Candy Martial Soul, while a mysterious figure warned him to face the trials tied to the Heavenly Tribulation Bead with courage. He and Wu Sidu then went with Sun Kong to the Star Luo Spirit Transmission Pagoda to obtain Soul Spirits, where they learned about Huo Yuhao’s legacy in the city.

• Nan Liujing awakened the Coiled Dragon Staff, whose lightning drew in lightning elements and suppressed other elements nearby.
• A mysterious figure told Nan Liujing that the Heavenly Tribulation Bead’s chosen bearer had to endure heavenly lightning and urged him to be courageous.
• Nan Liujing discovered he had also inherited his parents’ Candy Martial Soul, which released a fragrance that helped others gather Spiritual Power.
• Ye Changming suggested that Nan Liujing and Wu Sidu, both with Innate Full Soul Power, go to the Spirit Pagoda to obtain Soul Spirits, and Sun Kong agreed.
• At the Star Luo Spirit Transmission Pagoda, Wu Sidu told Nan Liujing how Huo Yuhao had saved the city and how Star Luo City’s Grilled Fish Festival honored him.

At the Spirit Pagoda, Nan Liujing and Wu Sidu tested their abilities and chose their first spirit souls. Nan Liujing fused with the powerful Thunderous Nethervine, broke through to Level 13, and left with Sun Kong and Wu Sidu after Elder Yuan noted that the unusually easy fusion had worried him.

• Elder Yuan tested Nan Liujing and Wu Sidu, finding their Spiritual Power levels to be 220 and 75 respectively.
• Wu Sidu chose a Shadow Leopard spirit soul for her Hell Spirit Cat Martial Soul and completed the fusion.
• Elder Yuan showed Nan Liujing the eight-hundred-year Thunderous Nethervine prepared for him, and Nan Liujing agreed to fuse with it.
• Nan Liujing fused with the Thunderous Nethervine under a master-servant contract, gained a yellow soul ring, and advanced three levels to Level 13.
• Elder Yuan questioned why the notoriously untamed Thunderous Nethervine had fused so easily, while Sun Kong revealed that Nan Liujing's eldest uncle had arranged it.
• Elder Yuan said Nan Liujing could handle a spirit soul below 2,200 years, then Sun Kong led Nan Liujing and Wu Sidu out of the Spirit Pagoda.

Nan Liujing left Wu Family Manor for Eastsea City, where he planned to interfere with Na'er and Tang Wulin meeting. After learning that Eastsea Academy had moved its opening day forward, he headed to Aolai City and prepared to adapt his plans.

• Nan Liujing comforted Wu Sidu with a cat-shaped candy, and she asked him to dance with her at the manor banquet before he left the next morning.
• Sun Kong arranged Nan Liujing's trip to Eastsea City, gave him a protective wristband, and revealed that he was a Titled Douluo known as Heavenly Thunder.
• Nan Liujing arrived in Eastsea City and learned that a possible typhoon had caused Eastsea Academy to begin its term early.
• Nan Liujing redirected the journey to Aolai City, intending to prevent Na'er and Tang Wulin from meeting and thereby complicate Tang Hao and Ah Yin's plans.

Nan Liujing arrived at Red Mountain Academy just as Na'er appeared alone nearby, and a mysterious voice offered him a dangerous chance to earn the Heavenly Tribulation Bead’s benefits by disrupting events. After Tang Wulin and Na'er’s first meeting was interrupted by traffickers, Nan Liujing froze the attackers and reached the frightened girl, leaving the consequences of his intervention uncertain.

• Nan Liujing saw Na'er sitting alone near Red Mountain Academy and heard the mysterious voice warn that intervening could earn him a heavenly lightning baptism.
• Tang Wulin left school discouraged by the disdain for his Blue Silver Grass, then found encouragement in seeing grass grow between paving stones.
• Gu Yue explained that she was testing Tang Wulin, who carried the Golden Dragon King Bloodline, through Na'er rather than risking direct contact.
• Tang Wulin noticed Na'er and tried to stop Wang Cheng and the other traffickers, but Wang Cheng kicked him aside before they could take her.
• Nan Liujing used dark-blue Soul Power to freeze Wang Cheng and the other traffickers, then approached the frightened Na'er.

Nan Liujing rescued Na'er from traffickers and accidentally used the Heavenly Tribulation Bead to disrupt Ah Yin’s influence over Tang Wulin. Gu Yue identified Tang Wulin as the Golden Dragon King’s bearer but chose to keep her subordinate personality near Nan Liujing, while Nan Liujing decided to take Na'er for a meal and later bring her to an orphanage.

• Nan Liujing restrained the traffickers, protected Na'er, and let the peace officers take them away.
• Tang Wulin approached Na'er under Ah Yin’s influence, but Nan Liujing stopped him and the Heavenly Tribulation Bead dispelled the curse mark in Tang Wulin’s eyes.
• Ah Yin recognized that the Golden Dragon King bloodline had lost one of its eighteen seals before her Spiritual Sense vanished.
• Gu Yue identified Tang Wulin as the Golden Dragon King’s bearer and ordered the ferocious beasts to focus on entering human society while her subordinate personality stayed beside Nan Liujing.
• Nan Liujing invited the hungry Na'er to eat with him and planned to take her to an orphanage the next day.

Nan Liujing learned from Ling Ting that the Heavenly Tribulation Bead tied him to the fate of his plane, then agreed to travel to Heaven Dou City to raise his soul spirit. In Aolai City, he cared for Na'er and helped her experience kindness from strangers, while deciding she might be able to stay with him.

• Nan Liujing took Na'er to a hotel, arranged a bath and new clothes for her, and asked Ling Ting whether the people watching them were still nearby.
• Ling Ting asked Nan Liujing about the Dragon God and the missing God Realm, then warned that the Abyss, rival planes, and a hidden deity threatened his world.
• Ling Ting told Nan Liujing that the Heavenly Tribulation Bead made him responsible for the plane's future and promised a way to make him a god; Nan Liujing accepted, though Ling Ting warned him to survive his first heavenly lightning baptism.
• Sun Kong called to say an elemental storm might bring a typhoon and arranged for Nan Liujing to travel to Heaven Dou City to raise his soul spirit alongside Uncle Ye's daughter.
• Nan Liujing took Na'er to dinner, slowed his pace when she struggled to keep up, and reassured her that more people would treat her well.
• Na'er ate an enormous seafood meal and drew a crowd of admiring diners; Nan Liujing comforted her when she grew nervous and considered letting her stay with him.

Nan Liujing traveled to Heaven Dou City with Na'er, while the Spirit Pagoda’s Phoenix Family weighed its future and arranged for Leng Yaozhu to potentially teach him. The chapter ended with Ye Changming warning Nan Liujing that his proud daughter, Ye Xinglan, might be angry about having to team up with him.

• Nan Liujing took Na'er to visit Leng Yi, who later reported that Eastsea City had no suitable recruits for the Phoenix Project and was told to recruit ordinary talents instead.
• Leng Yaozhu discussed the Spirit Pagoda’s political instability and agreed to consider Qian Gu Qingfeng’s request that she teach someone.
• Qian Gu Qingfeng and Xia Zheng Leng discussed using Leng Yaozhu to help Liujing maintain balance between the ruling families, and Qian Gu Qingfeng revealed that the Nether Emperor had appeared near the vanished Lesser World fissure.
• Qian Gu Qingfeng said he had proposed a Spirit Pagoda meeting to purge Evil Soul Masters within the Douluo Continent, while Xia Zheng Leng urged him to protect Liujing before pursuing revenge.
• Nan Liujing met Ye Changming at Heaven Dou Airport with Na'er, and Ye Changming gave her a green-gold crystal to take to Nan Liujing’s eldest uncle for forging.
• Ye Changming told Nan Liujing that he would team up with Ye Xinglan and advised him to ignore her if she made sarcastic remarks.

Nan Liujing entered the elementary Spirit Ascension Platform and began fighting soul beasts in its ancient forest. After defeating a Ghost Vine, he intervened when a Wind Baboon pack cornered two boys and unleashed the Thunder Dragon Soul’s lightning attack, leaving the clearing covered in blood mist.

• Ye Changming brought Nan Liujing and Na'er to the Heaven Dou Spirit Pagoda, where they entered the Spirit Ascension Platform; Ye Changming then discovered that his daughter Ye Xinglan was already inside facing a thousand-year Green Bush Wolf.
• Nan Liujing materialized in a dark forest, followed fresh blood and distant fighting, and killed a roughly five-hundred-year Ghost Vine with his electrified Coiled Dragon Staff.
• Nan Liujing found two twin boys surrounded by Wind Baboons and struck the leader as it was about to attack one of them.
• Nan Liujing summoned his Coiled Dragon Staff and hurled it through the charging hundred-year Wind Baboons, killing them in a series of explosions powered by the Thunder Dragon Soul’s lightning.

Nan Liujing defeated a rare Special Type Wind Baboon, learned about his reward, and raised his Thunderous Nethervine Soul Spirit above a thousand years. In his sea of consciousness, the Heavenly Tribulation Bead revived his Candy Martial Soul, and he tested the golden dragon-scaled candy it produced.

• Nan Liujing killed the enraged Wind Baboon leader with a lightning-charged Coiled Dragon Staff strike, then absorbed energy that raised his Thunderous Nethervine Soul Spirit to 1,040 years.
• Nan Liujing met the Chu brothers, who explained that the leader was a Special Type Wind Baboon and that killing one earned a Soul Spirit Choice Card.
• Nan Liujing concealed himself in a tree and used stored spiritual energy to strengthen his Thunderous Nethervine Soul Spirit, then heard a voice and was pulled into his sea of consciousness.
• Thunder God Ling Ting explained that the Heavenly Tribulation Bead had used a hidden power to repair Nan Liujing's damaged soul, reviving his Candy Martial Soul with golden dragon patterns.
• Nan Liujing discovered that his Candy Martial Soul could make golden dragon-scaled candy by absorbing Heaven and Earth Origin Energy, and he put one in his mouth to test it.

Nan Liujing discovered that his Golden Dragon Candy granted him a powerful Golden Dragon Body, then saved Ye Xinglan from a thousand-year Green Bush Wolf in the Spirit Ascension Platform. He invited her to travel with him, and the two began searching for a safe place to recover as dark clouds gathered overhead.

• Nan Liujing realized his new soul skill resembled Tang Wulin's Golden Dragon Body and wondered whether the Heavenly Tribulation Bead had taken Tang Wulin's bloodline.
• Ye Xinglan fled from a thousand-year Green Bush Wolf, fought back, and was nearly forced to activate her distress signal.
• Nan Liujing appeared with a thousand-year purple soul ring and killed the Green Bush Wolf with a single lightning-charged strike of the Coiled Dragon Staff.
• Nan Liujing gave Ye Xinglan the name Lu Mingfei, teased her about drinking the Heaven Dou River, and offered to form a team.
• Ye Xinglan accepted Nan Liujing's invitation to travel together, and he found her a place to recover her Soul Power as dark clouds gathered overhead.

Nan Liujing and Ye Xinglan fought through the Spirit Ascension Platform as Ye Xinglan began shaping her own sword style, then a heavenly tribulation struck Nan Liujing. As the Heavenly Tribulation Bead sustained him and forged a Plane Imprint, the Spirit Ascension Chamber malfunctioned and powerful figures across the continent sensed the disturbance.

• Ye Xinglan noticed Nan Liujing had secretly dealt with an attacker during her meditation, then learned from his direct fighting style and began making her sword strikes more lethal.
• Nan Liujing used a lightning-charged elbow strike to kill a Bloodclaw Bat, and he and Ye Xinglan watched a storm gather over the forest.
• A silver lightning bolt struck the Heaven Dou Spirit Pagoda and poured through its defensive formation into the Spirit Ascension Platform core area, while Yun Ming sensed a chance to break through and a figure in the sea vanished into the water.
• The Spirit Ascension Chamber's screens failed and time seemed to freeze around everyone except Na'er; she saw Nan Liujing and Ye Xinglan beneath the storm, and Gu Yue sensed the disturbance from afar.
• The Heavenly Tribulation Bead drew a bolt of lightning onto Nan Liujing, who shoved Ye Xinglan away and endured successive strikes as she activated her distress signal.
• The Thunder God revealed that the tribulation was forging Nan Liujing an eternal Plane Imprint that would bypass a Plane Lord's recognition and obstruction.

Nan Liujing survived the heavenly tribulation as a Plane Imprint formed, while the storm drew the Holy Spirit Cult’s emperors and revealed a new path to power for Yun Ming. After everyone trapped in the Spirit Ascension Platform awakened, Ye Xinglan learned that no one named Lu Mingfei had entered and set out to find the boy who had deceived her.

• Nan Liujing endured the heavenly tribulation, and the Thunder God merged with his sea of spirit after entrusting him with his regrets and hopes.
• Spirit Pagoda mobilized its leaders and researchers when a thunderstorm disrupted the Spirit Ascension Platform and trapped its occupants.
• Ghost Emperor Ax and Nether Emperor Ha Luosa confronted Yun Ming, Ya Li, and Chen Xinjie above Heaven Dou City before departing as the storm weakened.
• Yun Ming concluded that the self-formed heavenly tribulation differed from past trials and might help him complete his godly position if it appeared again.
• The Spirit Ascension Platform’s occupants awakened, and Qian Gu Dongfeng suspended its operation pending inspection.
• Ye Xinglan asked staff to find Lu Mingfei, discovered no one by that name had entered the platform, and angrily went to search for him.

Nan Liujing revealed his real name to Ye Xinglan, and the two reconciled before sharing a meal with her father and Na'er. Ye Changming advised the young Soul Masters and analyzed their abilities, while Spirit Pagoda officials secretly considered recruiting Nan Liujing.

• Ye Xinglan waited for Lu Mingfei, then confronted Nan Liujing after Na'er revealed his real name; Nan Liujing introduced himself and renewed their partnership with a handshake.
• A Spirit Pagoda supervisor showed the director secret footage of Nan Liujing defeating powerful spirit beasts, and the director decided to report him as a potential recruit while concealing his identity.
• Ye Changming lectured Ye Xinglan in their vehicle, but Nan Liujing redirected the group to a restaurant for grilled fish.
• Nan Liujing and Ye Xinglan discussed the stories behind Huo Yuhao's Grilled Fish and the dangers of evil Soul Masters; Na'er exposed Nan Liujing's fabricated ghost story.
• Ye Changming shared lessons about caution and ancient Soul Master history, then advised Nan Liujing and Ye Xinglan on their martial souls and techniques over dinner.