Chapter Summaries

After awakening twin dragon martial souls during a wolf-bandit attack, Xuan Hao left Lan Yun Village and entered Kanor Town, where a restaurant dispute exposed his overwhelming Dragon Might. Bibi Dong and Hu Liena sensed his power upstairs and recognized that he possessed a pure, high-ranking dragon spirit despite having no soul ring.

• Xuan Hao recalled awakening the Golden Dragon and Silver Dragon after the wolf bandits attacked Lan Yun Village, then leaving the village with thirteen gold soul coins.
• Xuan Hao argued with a waiter who demanded three gold soul coins for his meal and insulted him as a beggar.
• Xuan Hao released his Dragon Might, transformed in appearance, and shattered the restaurant table while insisting he had never refused to pay.
• Hu Liena felt her martial soul fear Xuan Hao's aura, and Bibi Dong identified it as the Dragon Might of an emperor among dragon spirits.
• Bibi Dong sensed that Xuan Hao had abundant soul power but no soul ring, and concluded that his dragon spirit had exceptionally pure blood.

After intimidating a restaurant owner into accepting payment only for his meal, Xuan Hao tried to save money by sleeping in a tree but spotted Gui Mei and fled in terror. He collided with Bibi Dong, who reassured him that there were no ghosts while concealing Gui Mei’s presence.

• The restaurant owner apologized to Xuan Hao, who paid for his meal but refused to pay for the broken table.
• Bibi Dong sent Gui Mei to follow Xuan Hao without being noticed.
• Xuan Hao chose to sleep in a tree rather than spend money on an inn.
• Xuan Hao spotted Gui Mei in the treetops and ran toward the town, leaving the Titled Douluo baffled that he had been seen.
• Xuan Hao collided with Bibi Dong and warned her about a ghost, so she comforted him and claimed there was nothing there.

Bibi Dong captured Xuan Hao after discovering his exceptional talent and brought him to Spirit Hall, where he explained how his Martial Soul awakened. When she asked why he had avoided Spirit Hall, he claimed he hated it because his parents had disappeared after taking a mission, leaving Bibi Dong and Hu Liena sympathetic to his story.

• Xuan Hao tried to flee from Bibi Dong, but she caught him and brought him to her room, where Hu Liena was waiting.
• Bibi Dong introduced herself as the Pope of Spirit Hall and revealed that Xuan Hao had Innate Full Soul Power and a powerful Martial Soul.
• Xuan Hao told Bibi Dong that his Martial Soul had awakened during an attack by wolf bandits, whom he later found dead.
• Bibi Dong asked why Xuan Hao had not sought help from a local Spirit Hall branch, and he secretly considered the dangers of joining Spirit Hall.
• Xuan Hao claimed that his parents had disappeared after accepting a Spirit Hall mission and said he hated Spirit Hall for leaving him behind.
• Hu Liena pitied Xuan Hao, while Bibi Dong struggled to respond to his explanation.

Bibi Dong took Hu Liena and Xuan Hao toward the Star Dou Great Forest so they could hunt for soul rings, giving Xuan Hao a reliable guide to study along the way. After Xuan Hao kept pace with Hu Liena through the long run without tiring, Bibi Dong decided they could seek a more powerful first soul ring for him.

• Bibi Dong invited Xuan Hao to join her and Hu Liena on a trip to the Star Dou Great Forest to find their first and second soul rings.
• Bibi Dong replaced Xuan Hao's unreliable street-stall guide with a detailed book about soul beasts and explained that verified knowledge was controlled by major institutions.
• Bibi Dong sped ahead while Hu Liena and Xuan Hao ran behind her, and Xuan Hao kept reading as he matched Hu Liena's increasing pace.
• The group reached the forest's outer reaches after two hours, with Hu Liena exhausted and Xuan Hao barely winded.
• Bibi Dong observed Xuan Hao's remarkable stamina and said they could aim higher when choosing his first soul ring.

Xuan Hao, Hu Liena, and Bibi Dong entered the Star Dou Great Forest, where Bibi Dong examined Xuan Hao’s Martial Soul. She discovered that he possessed the legendary Golden Dragon, making him the first known human on Douluo Continent to awaken it.

• Hu Liena guided Xuan Hao through the forest and warned him about its dangerous plants and terrain.
• Bibi Dong stopped the group near the Mixed Zone so they could rest and eat.
• Hu Liena offered Xuan Hao her Black Horned Bull jerky, but he stubbornly kept chewing his own rock-hard food.
• Bibi Dong asked Xuan Hao to reveal his Martial Soul so she could choose a suitable Soul Beast for his Soul Ring.
• Xuan Hao summoned a golden dragon phantom, and Bibi Dong identified it as the legendary Golden Dragon.
• Bibi Dong explained that humans were thought unable to possess such a powerful Martial Soul and declared Xuan Hao the first known case.

Bibi Dong tested Xuan Hao’s physical limit and confirmed he could withstand a First Soul Ring of up to 999 years, then discovered that he possessed a second Martial Soul. Xuan Hao revealed the Silver Dragon, leaving Bibi Dong stunned that he carried both legendary dragons.

• Bibi Dong explained how powerful Soul Beast bloodlines could appear through Martial Soul evolution and tested Xuan Hao’s body with simulated Soul Ring pressure.
• Xuan Hao endured pressure up to 999 years, but Bibi Dong warned him that a thousand-year Soul Ring posed a qualitatively greater danger.
• Bibi Dong, Hu Liena, and Xuan Hao searched the forest for a suitable Soul Beast but found none before nightfall.
• Bibi Dong sensed elemental energy gathering around Xuan Hao and concluded that he had another Martial Soul.
• Xuan Hao revealed his Silver Dragon, and Bibi Dong recognized it as the legendary counterpart to his Golden Dragon.

Bibi Dong and Hu Liena gradually won Xuan Hao’s trust as they searched the Star Dou Great Forest for suitable Soul Rings. After Hu Liena absorbed a Soul Ring, Xuan Hao killed an eight-hundred-and-fifty-year-old Diamond Tiger and began absorbing its ring for his Golden Dragon Martial Soul.

• Bibi Dong provided Xuan Hao with a tent and Hu Liena left him the dried meat he had refused earlier, softening his wariness toward them.
• Bibi Dong searched for suitable Soul Beasts for Hu Liena and Xuan Hao, explaining that a powerful beast such as a Diamond Tiger could suit Xuan Hao’s Golden Dragon Martial Soul.
• Bibi Dong found a roughly seven-hundred-and-fifty-year-old Three-eyed Demonic Fox, and Hu Liena killed it and absorbed its Soul Ring, becoming a Soul Grandmaster.
• A wild Diamond Tiger attacked the camp, and Bibi Dong pinned it down with her Soul Power before telling Xuan Hao to kill it.
• Xuan Hao killed the Diamond Tiger and began absorbing its eight-hundred-and-fifty-year-old Soul Ring, enduring its fierce energy as Bibi Dong protected him with her Spiritual Power.
• The Golden Dragon’s roar erupted within Xuan Hao, and golden light burst from his body to suppress the tiger Soul Ring’s violent energy.

Xuan Hao completed his first Soul Ring absorption, reached Soul Power Level 13, and accepted Bibi Dong’s offer to return to Spirit Hall as her disciple and little brother. After revealing that his Golden Dragon Body could double all attributes, he began a spar with Hu Liena.

• Xuan Hao awakened after absorbing the eight-hundred-year Soul Ring and reached Soul Power Level 13.
• Bibi Dong offered to make Xuan Hao her Personal Disciple and promised to treat him as family, and he agreed to call her Elder Sister and return to Spirit Hall.
• Xuan Hao explained that Golden Dragon Body was a State Type Soul Skill that could boost all attributes by up to double at greater Soul Power cost.
• Hu Liena challenged Xuan Hao to demonstrate his Soul Skill in a spar, and Bibi Dong approved.
• Xuan Hao activated Golden Dragon Body while Hu Liena used Martial Soul Possession, and their spar began.

Xuan Hao defeated Hu Liena in a spar by countering her mental-control abilities, then enrolled at Spirit Hall Academy under Bibi Dong’s guidance. Bibi Dong gave him a storage bracelet and a customized Soul Power Meditation Method to help him develop his strength.

• Xuan Hao shut his eyes and held his breath to evade Hu Liena’s Soul Skills, then tackled and pinned her.
• Bibi Dong ended the spar and took Xuan Hao and Hu Liena back to Spirit City.
• Bibi Dong sent Hu Liena to enroll Xuan Hao at Spirit Hall Academy and told him that he needed formal study and competition.
• Hu Liena showed Xuan Hao around the academy, where he was assigned an Elite Class and the best single-occupancy dormitory.
• Bibi Dong gave Xuan Hao a fifty-cubic-meter Storage Soul Tool and a Meditation Method she had tailored to his meridians and Soul Power.

Bibi Dong warned Xuan Hao to keep his Silver Dragon Spirit secret and explained the dangers of cultivating Twin Martial Souls. The next morning, Xuan Hao began studying at Spirit Academy while Bibi Dong sent Yue Guan to watch over him.

• Bibi Dong told Xuan Hao to hide his Silver Dragon Spirit and follow a demanding Meditation Method to control the Soul Power conflict between his Twin Martial Souls.
• Bibi Dong and Xuan Hao joined Hu Liena for a welcome dinner before Hu Liena escorted him to Spirit Academy the next morning.
• Bibi Dong ordered Yue Guan to monitor Spirit Academy and stop anyone from investigating Xuan Hao's Martial Soul or background.
• Hu Liena showed Xuan Hao where to register, and he found his Elite Class.
• Xuan Hao impressed his teacher and classmates with his intelligence and composure, and unsettled boys who tried to provoke him.

Hu Liena warned Xuan Hao that Spirit Academy students would challenge him to prove themselves against the Pope’s disciple, and Tuoba Xiao soon blocked their path to demand a spar. Xuan Hao accepted the challenge and released a Dragon Might that terrified Tuoba Xiao and his companions, then struck before Tuoba Xiao could withdraw.

• Hu Liena explained that students at Spirit Academy would target Xuan Hao as the Pope’s disciple, just as they had challenged her when she enrolled.
• Hu Liena reassured Xuan Hao that his strength should let him handle the students, while warning that Bibi Dong would expect him to settle peer conflicts himself.
• Tuoba Xiao and two Sacred Dragon Sect boys blocked Xuan Hao and Hu Liena on the way to the Canteen, and Tuoba Xiao challenged Xuan Hao to spar.
• Xuan Hao accepted, narrowed his eyes into crimson-gold vertical pupils, and unleashed a Dragon Might that made Tuoba Xiao and his companions tremble in fear.
• Tuoba Xiao tried to call off the fight, but Xuan Hao announced, “Receive my Lion’s Fang!”

Xuan Hao quickly defeated students who challenged him and used Spirit Academy’s rules to beat stronger opponents for money. Bibi Dong learned that her attempt to temper his arrogance had instead made him the academy’s feared “Tyrant of Spirit Academy.”

• Xuan Hao knocked out Tuoba Xiao and his two lackeys in seconds, while Yan and Xie Yue watched and suspected his Martial Soul could suppress opponents with dragon bloodlines.
• Xie Yue stopped Yan from confronting Xuan Hao, deciding they should wait for someone else to test him first.
• A month later, Yue Guan told Bibi Dong that Xuan Hao had beaten every student below level twenty within three days.
• Xuan Hao set up a betting pool and exploited academy rules requiring stronger challengers to suppress their Soul Power and forgo higher-level Soul Ring skills.
• Xuan Hao defeated challengers below level thirty, including Xie Yue and Yan, and forced them to become his subordinates.
• Bibi Dong realized that Xuan Hao had become Spirit Academy’s school bully rather than suffering the setbacks she had intended.

Bibi Dong learned that Xuan Hao had used her authority to impose fees and rules on Spirit Academy students, then headed to confront him. At the academy, Xuan Hao proclaimed his control over the Junior and Intermediate Departments and warned students to obey his rules.

• Yue Guan told Bibi Dong that Xuan Hao charged students for supervised duels and collected monthly protection fees from students he had defeated.
• Yue Guan explained that Xuan Hao invoked Bibi Dong’s name to prevent teachers and the Education Committee from stopping him.
• Bibi Dong realized Xuan Hao had twisted her words into permission to extort students and decided to go confront him herself.
• Xuan Hao addressed nearly a thousand students at Spirit Academy’s Central Plaza, presenting his rules as a way to keep the campus peaceful.
• Xuan Hao declared that he had final authority over the Junior and Intermediate Departments and said he would challenge the advanced division after becoming a Soul Grandmaster.

Xuan Hao collected monthly protection fees from Spirit Academy students under the name of his Peace and Mutual Aid Society until Bibi Dong arrived and took him away. In the Papal Palace, she struggled to decide how to discipline him for using her authority to establish his own rules at the academy.

• Xuan Hao demanded membership fees from Junior and Intermediate Department students, warning that those who refused would not be his friends.
• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan stood guard while Xuan Hao pressured students to pay and insisted they were contributing willingly.
• Bibi Dong confronted Xuan Hao, asked how much a Titled Douluo owed under his rules, and carried him away as the students cheered.
• In the Papal Palace, Bibi Dong considered whether to punish Xuan Hao for challenging the academy's authority and invoking her name to silence its teachers.

Bibi Dong confronted Xuan Hao for using her name to bully students and collect protection money at the academy, but his shameless apologies and clever reasoning left her unable to find grounds to punish him. The chapter ended with Bibi Dong stifled by his argument and wondering how to preserve her authority.

• Bibi Dong questioned Xuan Hao about exploiting her name at the academy, and he immediately admitted he was wrong.
• Xuan Hao massaged Bibi Dong’s legs and pleaded with her until her anger began to fade.
• Bibi Dong stopped him and asked whether he truly understood what he had done wrong.
• Xuan Hao argued that he had followed Bibi Dong’s instruction to listen only to her, and that his sole mistake was making her angry.
• Bibi Dong recognized that Xuan Hao’s airtight-sounding logic excused his behavior and left her speechless.

Xuan Hao avoided punishment by kneeling until Bibi Dong relented, then explained that his drive to earn money came from fearing he would be abandoned and left destitute. He insisted he wanted to rely on himself even though Bibi Dong had promised to protect him.

• Xuan Hao knelt and offered to stay there until Bibi Dong calmed down, leaving her unable to punish him without feeling petty.
• After three minutes, Bibi Dong sighed and told Xuan Hao to get up, then asked why he had formed the Peace and Mutual Aid Society to collect Protection Fees.
• Xuan Hao said he feared being poor after a meal had cost him three Gold Soul Coins, and he wanted savings in case Bibi Dong stopped supporting him.
• Bibi Dong challenged Xuan Hao's belief that she might abandon him, but he explained that even his biological parents had left him behind.
• Xuan Hao told Bibi Dong that he would rely only on himself and wanted a way to survive if she ever stopped wanting him or could no longer protect him.

Bibi Dong punished Xuan Hao for disrupting Spirit Academy, then discovered his talent for cultivating the Soul Power Meditation Method and subjected him to half a month of intensive training. Back at the academy, Xuan Hao eagerly sought Hu Liena to find out what happened to the box of money he had left behind.

• Bibi Dong warned Xuan Hao to keep his protection-fee business from disrupting the academy and confined him to a palace side hall for three days.
• Bibi Dong observed Xuan Hao practice the Meditation Method and ordered him to refine his Spiritual Power during his confinement.
• Bibi Dong extended Xuan Hao's punishment into half a month of intensive training before letting him return to Spirit Academy.
• Xuan Hao calculated how much money he expected to collect and hurried to Hu Liena's classroom to ask where his box of money was.
• Hu Liena welcomed Xuan Hao back with concern, but he immediately asked her about the box.

After Hu Liena returned the Gold Soul Coins she had safeguarded, Xuan Hao collected the unpaid Peace and Mutual Aid Society fees and paid his three enforcers their salaries. He left Xie Yue grudgingly accepting the money, while Xuan Hao’s strength made clear that refusing him was not a safe option.

• Hu Liena returned Xuan Hao’s chest of Gold Soul Coins and told him many students had not yet paid their Society fees.
• Xuan Hao went to the Junior Department and collected the unpaid membership fees, bringing the total to three thousand two hundred Gold Soul Coins.
• Xuan Hao gave Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan one hundred Gold Soul Coins each as their monthly salary.
• Xie Yue objected that collecting money made them look like street thugs and harmed the Pope’s reputation.
• Xuan Hao insisted the money was payment for their work and forced Xie Yue to accept it by threatening to fight him.

After two years of ruling Spirit Academy’s underground Peace and Mutual Aid Society, Xuan Hao was tasked with leading Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan on a Soul Ring hunt while Bibi Dong entered seclusion. The group searched the Star Dou Great Forest’s Mixed Zone for a suitable Second Soul Ring for Xuan Hao’s Golden Dragon Martial Soul.

• Xuan Hao maintained control of the Peace and Mutual Aid Society through threats and promises, while Spirit Academy’s teachers and Education Committee ignored the organization.
• Bibi Dong confirmed that Xuan Hao had reached level twenty and could withstand a Soul Ring of around four thousand years, then appointed him captain of a hunt with Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan.
• Bibi Dong assigned Yue Guan to follow the team secretly and intervene only in emergencies, telling Xuan Hao to lead the others and prove they could cooperate.
• Xuan Hao met Hu Liena, Xie Yue, Yan, and Yue Guan outside Spirit City, then led the group toward the Star Dou Great Forest.
• After three days searching the Mixed Zone without finding a suitable Soul Beast, Yan complained while Xuan Hao remained relaxed and continued looking for a top-tier beast suited to his Golden Dragon Martial Soul.

Xuan Hao and his companions found a dying Golden Lion King and killed it so Xuan Hao could obtain its Soul Ring. After absorbing it, he reached level twenty-two and revealed Golden Dragon Roar, a wide-area attack that stunned his companions and especially affected Hu Liena.

• Xie Yue detected blood and signs of a fierce battle, and the group found a dying Golden Lion King beside a slain Ghost Face Demonic Spider.
• Xie Yue explained that the lion had old injuries and had been poisoned, while Hu Liena warned that it could still be dangerous.
• Xuan Hao used Golden Dragon Body to suppress the lion, then had Yan attack, Xie Yue block its escape, and Hu Liena control it before he killed it with a punch.
• Two hours later, Xuan Hao finished absorbing the lion's Soul Ring and reached level twenty-two.
• Xuan Hao demonstrated Golden Dragon Roar, knocking Yan back and stunning Xie Yue and Hu Liena with its sound, mental shock, and Dragon Might.