Chapter Summaries

Yan Jun presided over Biluo City's annual Martial Soul awakenings, where the city lord's second son awakened a Leopard Cat Martial Soul with Innate Soul Power of three. When the next child entered the Awakening Array, Yan Jun noticed something unusual about him.

• Yan Jun introduced himself as Spirit Hall's Bishop and began the annual Martial Soul awakenings in Biluo City.
• The city lord's second son awakened a Leopard Cat Martial Soul and tested at three levels of Innate Soul Power.
• People in the crowd discussed the second son's prospects and the city lord's eldest son, whose leg had been broken after a fight with his father.
• Yan Jun quieted the crowd and called the next child into the Awakening Array.
• Yan Jun's clouded eyes cleared and his expression changed when he saw the next child.

Yan Jun oversaw Chen Ming's Martial Soul awakening and recognized the boy's unusual physique and confidence. Chen Ming awakened the poisonous Jade Scorpion Martial Soul, whose fumes poisoned nearby children, and the chapter ended after the Chen Family antidote began calming them while Yan Jun remained concerned about its own poisonous effects.

• Yan Jun noticed Chen Ming's unusually trained physique and asked his name before beginning the awakening.
• Chen Ming identified himself as a child of the Jadeite Chen Family and entered the awakening array.
• The array released an unusual number of lights, and Chen Ming awakened the Jade Scorpion Martial Soul, growing a scorpion tail and a jade-green shell.
• Chen Ming's poisonous scent affected the nearby children, making them stumble, twitch, and panic.
• Yan Jun used Rock Vine and Soul Power to help the children while demanding an antidote from the Chen Family adults.
• A Chen Family man used a wooden bead to release a fragrance that neutralized the poison, but Yan Jun remained uneasy because the fragrance was also mildly poisonous.

In poison-ridden Biluo City, Chen Ming awakened the Chen Family’s Jade Scorpion Martial Soul and stunned the crowd by measuring innate Soul Power at level five. His result could help the declining family endure and might signal that its inherited Soul Power flaw had been overcome.

• The children recovered from the fragrance, and the onlookers turned their attention to Chen Ming and the Chen Family’s troubled inheritance.
• Yan Jun handed Chen Ming a crystal ball and told him to test his Soul Power carefully.
• Chen Ming poured Soul Power into the crystal ball, which began to glow.
• Yan Jun identified Chen Ming’s innate Soul Power as level five and was astonished.
• The onlookers considered whether Chen Ming’s unusual result meant the Chen Family’s Jade Scorpion Martial Soul flaw had been resolved.

Chen Ming, a transmigrator who had spent years training despite his family’s flawed Martial Soul, awakened the Chen Family’s Jade Scorpion and discovered that its poison was exceptionally potent. The chapter left him recognized as a possible genius after his Second Uncle was poisoned by touching his scorpion tail.

• Chen Ming recalled how he had died in his previous life and how he prepared for danger in the Douluo Continent after learning about Tang Hao and Tang San.
• Chen Ming trained relentlessly and studied scorpions in Scorpion Cave, but his Innate Soul Power reached only level five.
• Chen Ming’s Second Uncle touched the scorpion tail behind him and was poisoned before releasing his Jade Scorpion Martial Soul to counter the toxin.
• Chen Ming’s Second Uncle awkwardly praised him as a heaven-sent genius while the onlookers held back their laughter.
• The chapter established that the Chen Family’s Jade Scorpion poison made the small, dwindling family a feared power in Biluo City.

After awakening a powerful poisonous scorpion Martial Soul with level-five Innate Soul Power, Chen Ming sensed an unusual, possibly spiritual power while retracting it. His second uncle rushed him home, where his father mistook them for being pursued and charged out to defend the Chen Family.

• Yan Jun told Chen Ming and his second uncle to move aside, and the spectators gave them room.
• Chen Ming followed his second uncle's instructions to retract his Martial Soul and Soul Power, sensing a strange power he wondered might be a cheat.
• The awakening ceremony ended with Chen Ming having the highest Soul Power among the children, at level five Innate Soul Power.
• Chen Ming's second uncle carried him toward the Chen Family, and his father charged out, assuming enemies were chasing them.
• Chen Ming's second uncle explained that there were no pursuers, leaving his father embarrassed by his mistaken alarm.

Chen Shijie revealed the secret behind the Chen Family’s struggles after Chen Ming awakened a Jade Scorpion Martial Soul with rank-five Innate Soul Power. He explained that the family’s ancestor had discovered a seed of the extraordinarily powerful Bilin Seven Absolute Flower, whose venom might elevate the Jade Scorpion’s quality to that of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

• Chen Tianyun told Chen Shijie that Chen Ming had awakened a Jade Scorpion Martial Soul with rank-five Innate Soul Power.
• Chen Shijie explained that Chen Ming’s awakening gave the family hope of overcoming its long-standing problem.
• Chen Shijie revealed that the Chen Family’s ancestor, Chen Ergou, had risen from a common background to become a Soul King and earn a hereditary count title through military service.
• Chen Shijie said Chen Ergou had entered the royal treasury after the war and selected a seed of the Bilin Seven Absolute Flower.
• Chen Shijie explained that the Bilin Seven Absolute Flower’s venom was exceptionally potent and might raise the Jade Scorpion Martial Soul’s quality to the level of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

Chen Shijie explained how the Chen Family’s cultivation near Biluo Gorge strengthened its Jade Scorpion Martial Soul while draining its Innate Soul Power and damaging later generations. He revealed a possible cure involving Bilin Seven Absolute Flowers, but past attempts had proved lethal, leaving Chen Ming with a dangerous path to restore the family’s bloodline.

• Chen Shijie explained that the family’s ancestor built Biluo City near Bioluo Gorge to cultivate Bilin Seven Absolute Flowers using the gorge’s poison-rich environment.
• Chen Shijie said generations of cultivation near the flowers and the remains of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast gradually raised the Jade Scorpion’s quality while draining the family’s Innate Soul Power.
• Chen Shijie revealed that Qian Daoliu and the Qian Family had identified the contamination and explained how the family’s Martial Soul evolution consumed its Soul Power and weakened later generations.
• Chen Shijie told Chen Ming that the family might be saved by producing a powerful Soul Master, receiving the Angel God’s aid, or evolving a member’s Martial Soul with Bilin Seven Absolute Flower and high-quality Jade Scorpion Soul Rings.
• Chen Shijie explained that Bilin Seven Absolute Flower Soul Beasts were rare and deadly, and that his uncle had barely survived absorbing one as a fourth Soul Ring before dying from the damage to his foundation.

Chen Shijie discovered that Chen Ming’s Jade Scorpion Martial Soul had eleven tail segments, marking it as exceptionally high quality and giving the family hope for its future. He then laid out a strict cultivation plan for Chen Ming, who still considered risking the Bilin Seven Absolute Flower’s Soul Ring.

• Chen Ming summoned his Jade Scorpion Martial Soul at Chen Shijie’s request.
• Chen Shijie counted eleven segments on Chen Ming’s tail and explained how they indicated the Martial Soul’s quality.
• Chen Shijie wept with relief, believing Chen Ming could advance the family’s bloodline without risking the Bilin Seven Absolute Flower.
• Chen Ming considered pursuing the Bilin Seven Absolute Flower’s Soul Ring despite the newly reduced need to take that risk.
• Chen Shijie told Chen Ming that he and Chen Tianyun would closely guard him and devote the next few years to his cultivation.
• Chen Shijie said Chen Ming would attend Heaven Dou Royal Academy after absorbing his second Soul Ring and would eventually inherit the family head position.

After two and a half years of training, Chen Ming reached level ten Soul Power but continued tempering his body before seeking a Soul Ring. His family bought several kinds of Whale Rubber for him, and the potent Evil Spirit Orca variety caused more dramatic effects than he had expected.

• Chen Ming took two and a half years to advance from innate level-five Soul Power to level ten, then postponed obtaining a Soul Ring to strengthen his body.
• Chen Shijie bought ordinary and rare Whale Rubber for Chen Ming, including a twenty-thousand-year Evil Spirit Orca piece that cost three million Gold Soul Coins.
• Chen Ming found that hundred-year Whale Rubber had little benefit, while thousand-year Whale Rubber brought stronger physical effects alongside premature development.
• Chen Ming swallowed a small portion of the Evil Spirit Orca Whale Rubber and became so restless that he plunged into cold water to calm himself.
• Chen Tianyun used the remaining Whale Rubber, and several months later Chen Ming learned that both of his concubines were pregnant.

Chen Ming prepared to absorb a five-hundred-year Bilin Seven Absolute Flower as his First Soul Ring, despite Chen Shijie and Chen Tianyun warning that failure would kill him. He insisted that two and a half years of feeding it his Soul Power and blood had formed a bond that would let him succeed, leaving Chen Tianyun pleading with him to reconsider.

• Chen Ming stood in the cave among the poisonous Bilin Seven Absolute Flowers as he prepared to choose his First Soul Ring.
• Chen Shijie urged Chen Ming to choose an ordinary hundred-year Soul Beast instead of risking a five-hundred-year Bilin Seven Absolute Flower.
• Chen Ming touched the flower and said he had fed it his Soul Power and blood for two and a half years, forming a connection between them.
• Chen Tianyun argued that a five-hundred-year plant Soul Beast could not possess spirituality and pleaded with Chen Ming to rethink his choice.

Chen Ming caused the five-hundred-year Bilin Seven Absolute Flower to sacrifice itself and absorbed its Soul Ring, breaking through a layer of his restraints. In deep meditation, he examined the flower’s abilities and focused on creating the Poison Cloud Technique.

• Chen Ming decided he could absorb the Bilin Seven Absolute Flower’s Soul Ring despite Chen Shijie and Chen Tianyun’s pleas.
• Chen Ming linked his Spiritual Power, Soul Power, and bloodline with the flower, triggering its Sacrifice.
• The Bilin Seven Absolute Flower consumed the energy of the surrounding flowers, bloomed an illusory eighth petal, and turned to ashes as its Soul Power entered Chen Ming.
• Chen Ming entered deep meditation with a deep yellow Soul Ring and realized it had broken through one of the shackles binding him.
• Chen Ming explored the flower’s possible Soul Skills and settled on the Poison Cloud Technique.

Chen Ming absorbed the Bilin Seven Absolute Flower’s Soul Ring and gained Poison Cloud Technique, which let him release its poison and alter the nature of his Soul Power. His family celebrated his apparent Titled Douluo potential, while Chen Ming demonstrated his new skill and fulfilled an ancestral wish.

• Chen Ming gained Poison Cloud Technique and the ability to change his Soul Power’s form and poison, potentially combining toxins from different creatures.
• As the Soul Ring fused with Chen Ming, his body strengthened, plant-like patterns appeared on his Martial Soul, and its scorpion tail began growing beyond twelve segments.
• Chen Shijie concluded that Chen Ming’s Martial Soul could reach emperor rank by level thirty and excitedly declared that his grandson had the aptitude of a Titled Douluo.
• After Chen Ming awoke, Chen Shijie and Chen Tianyun checked his condition and celebrated his potential.
• Chen Ming explained Poison Cloud Technique to his family and produced a small poison cloud, confirming that his Martial Soul had gained the Bilin Seven Absolute Flower’s poison.
• Chen Tianyun and Chen Shijie recognized that their ancestors’ wish had finally been fulfilled in a descendant.

After two years of cultivating and investigating his unusual Soul Ring abilities, Chen Ming reached level twenty and prepared to obtain his Second Soul Ring from a Jade Scorpion the Chen Family had raised for decades. The chapter left him facing the restrained scorpion, whose remarkable potential made it a valuable but costly sacrifice.

• Chen Shijie and Chen Tianyun swore not to reveal what had happened in the cave, then led Chen Ming back to the Chen Family estate.
• Chen Shijie gave Chen Ming a month to explore under Chen Tianyun’s supervision, but Chen Ming returned to cultivating after only a few days.
• Over two years, Chen Ming reached level twenty, strengthened his body, expanded his Martial Soul to thirteen segments, and explored how his golden finger could alter and enhance his Soul Rings.
• Chen Ming recalled that his Second Soul Ring had been decided since his Martial Soul awakening: it would come from a thousand-year Jade Scorpion with nine tail segments.
• Chen Ming examined the restrained Jade Scorpion, which the Chen Family had captured decades earlier and spent hundreds of thousands of Gold Soul Coins raising.

Chen Ming absorbed a rare, decades-cultivated Jade Scorpion Soul Ring and chose Poison Burst Technique as his Second Soul Skill. The Jade Scorpion’s origin also completed his Martial Soul, raising his innate Soul Power to the equivalent of Innate Full Soul Power.

• Chen Ming killed the mutant Jade Scorpion without contaminating its valuable remains and began absorbing its purple Soul Ring.
• Chen Ming suppressed and dismantled the Soul Ring’s foreign power, entering a realm where he could choose among inherited Soul Skills.
• Chen Ming discovered Poison Burst Technique, which detonated anything marked with his Poison Attribute Soul Power, and formed it as his Second Soul Skill.
• Chen Ming’s Martial Soul became complete after absorbing the Jade Scorpion’s origin, and his Innate Soul Power reached its theoretical limit.

Chen Ming absorbed the Jade Scorpion’s thousand-year External Soul Bone, gaining stronger physical abilities and the enhancement skill Poison Emperor Possession. After learning the danger posed by his conspicuous second Soul Ring, his family discussed sending him to Heaven Dou Royal Academy for protection and support.

• Chen Ming absorbed the Jade Scorpion’s tail as an External Soul Bone after Chen Shijie and Chen Tianyun urged him to stay cautious.
• Chen Ming gained Poison Emperor Possession, which boosted all his attributes and doubled his poison potency at a heavy Soul Power cost.
• Chen Ming told Chen Shijie and Chen Tianyun that his Martial Soul had been restored and described his new abilities, bringing the two men to tears of joy.
• Chen Tianyun warned that Chen Ming’s thousand-year second Soul Ring could attract recruitment attempts or assassination if exposed.
• Chen Tianyun proposed sending Chen Ming to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where its education committee and the imperial family could provide protection.

Chen Ming chose Heaven Dou Royal Academy for its protection, privacy, and proximity to Dugu Bo’s treasures, then traveled there with Chen Shijie and Chen Tianyun to enroll. His genuine rank twenty-three cultivation and rare Soul Rings astonished instructor Qin Ming during the academy’s final verification.

• Chen Ming decided Heaven Dou Royal Academy was his best option and agreed to Chen Shijie's request to enroll.
• Chen Shijie and Chen Tianyun packed for Chen Ming, and Chen Shijie gave him his Storage Soul Tool Ring while Chen Tianyun filled its storage space with supplies.
• Chen Ming traveled with his family to Heaven Dou City and entered Heaven Dou Royal Academy without difficulty because of the Chen Family's hereditary count title.
• Qin Ming introduced himself and began verifying Chen Ming's registered age, Martial Soul, Soul Power, and Soul Rings.
• Chen Ming released his Jade Scorpion Martial Soul and displayed his rank twenty-three cultivation and one yellow and one purple Soul Ring.
• Qin Ming, startled by Chen Ming's genuine abilities, rushed to inspect him and called him an outstanding genius.

Qin Ming recognized Chen Ming’s exceptional talent and decided to take him before Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s three Education Committee Members to discuss his training. Chen Ming agreed to meet them, leaving his enrollment and future team placement undecided.

• Qin Ming examined Chen Ming’s Soul Rings and learned that his Poison Cloud Technique and Poison Burst Technique provided area control and explosive attacks.
• Chen Ming confirmed that he was eleven, unmarried, and focused on becoming the strongest Soul Master in the world.
• Qin Ming told Chen Ming that the Education Committee would decide his training and that he might eventually compete in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.
• Chen Ming agreed to go with Qin Ming to meet the three Education Committee Members, and Qin Ming handed his duties to his assistant before leading him there.

Qin Ming brought Chen Ming to meet Heaven Dou Royal Academy's three Education Committee Members after observing his extraordinary endurance and Soul Power efficiency during the climb. They entered the committee members' unassuming house, where the three powerful elders sat drinking around a table.

• Qin Ming and Chen Ming raced up the mountain steps toward the Education Committee Members' residence.
• Qin Ming observed Chen Ming maintain his pace and conserve Soul Power through the long climb, becoming astonished by his stamina and efficiency.
• Qin Ming warned Chen Ming to behave carefully and make a good first impression on the three powerful committee members.
• Qin Ming knocked, announced Chen Ming as a promising student, and was invited inside.
• Chen Ming entered the house and saw the three old committee members gathered around a table covered with food and wine.

Chen Ming met Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s three Education Committee Members, who were astonished by his Soul Power and Soul Rings and took him to the training ground to assess him. Qin Ming prepared to observe as Chen Ming was asked to summon his Martial Soul and attack Meng Shenji.

• Meng Shenji probed Chen Ming with Spiritual Power and learned that Chen Ming could sense it despite having a beast Martial Soul, the Jade Scorpion King.
• Chen Ming introduced himself and revealed that he was eleven years old, had Soul Power Level twenty-three, and possessed one yellow Soul Ring and one purple Soul Ring.
• Qin Ming confirmed that Chen Ming’s information was accurate, delighting Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhi Lin.
• Meng Shenji led Chen Ming and the others to a training ground, where Zhi Lin spoke privately with Qin Ming.
• Qin Ming summoned his Martial Soul while Meng Shenji told Chen Ming to attack him and demonstrate his Soul Skills and strength.

Chen Ming demonstrated the potency of his Jade Scorpion King’s poison during a trial fight with Qin Ming, who was quickly overwhelmed by Chen Ming’s first Soul Skill. After Chen Ming gave him an antidote, Qin Ming’s pain eased, though he remained weak.

• Chen Ming warned Qin Ming about his deadly poison and showed how a drop of venom corroded the training ground.
• Qin Ming activated two enhancement Soul Skills and charged at Chen Ming while suppressing his strength.
• Chen Ming struck with his scorpion tail and released his first Soul Skill, Poison Cloud, engulfing Qin Ming.
• Qin Ming’s flames and Soul Power failed to stop the poison from burning his skin and internal organs.
• Chen Ming sent Qin Ming out of the poisonous mist, and Zhi Lin caught him with his Sky Blue Vine Martial Soul.
• Chen Ming poured prepared antidote into Qin Ming’s mouth, easing his pain enough for him to recover some awareness.