Chapter Summaries

Sun Kong returned to Qiangu Qingfeng with the remains of A Nan and Yue Er and a strange bead after Evil Soul Masters killed them in a Small World. Qiangu Qingfeng told the group that Dark Hummingbird had fled toward Ming Capital and left Sun Kong to decide what to do, as the Battle Armor Masters prepared to act.

• Sun Kong and his companions brought A Nan and Yue Er’s remains to Qiangu Qingfeng on the island, and Sun Kong asked whether Sister Xia was there.
• Sun Kong described how Evil Soul Masters ambushed the group in the Small World, killing A Nan and Yue Er after they found a strange bead.
• Sun Kong gave Qiangu Qingfeng the bead and explained that A Nan and Yue Er had said the Evil Soul Masters attacked because of it.
• Qiangu Qingfeng took the boxes and bead, then told the group that Dark Hummingbird had appeared near Shrek City and fled toward Ming Capital.
• Qiangu Qingfeng told Sun Kong to decide what to do, then departed as Sun Kong and the others summoned their Battle Armor and prepared to kill.

Qiangu Qingfeng brought the last traces of A Nan and Yue Er’s souls to Xia Zheng Leng, and the couple watched them disappear. As their grief settled, a bead emerged through a lightning-streaked crack and merged into their unconscious son, Liujing.

• Qiangu Qingfeng flew into the Spirit Pagoda’s Spirit Spirit Realm carrying boxes containing his children’s ashes and lingering souls.
• Xia Zheng Leng sensed Qiangu Qingfeng’s turmoil as she played the qin, and he told her that A Nan and Yue Er had died after encountering Evil Soul Masters in a Small World.
• Qiangu Qingfeng brought Xia Zheng Leng to see A Nan and Yue Er’s final souls before they dissipated.
• Qiangu Qingfeng sensed a subtle ripple from his Soul Guide Storage Ring as Xia Zheng Leng collapsed in grief.
• A bead emerged from a lightning-streaked crack in Liujing’s bedroom and merged into the unconscious boy.

After a mysterious voice and a storm of lightning restored Nan Liujing’s memories, he woke from months of unconsciousness and was examined by Spirit Pagoda doctors. Realizing he had transmigrated to the Douluo Continent and seeing Shrek City on a map, he set aside his shock when Sun Kong asked if he was hungry.

• Nan Liujing’s fragmented memories fused as purple-red lightning shattered the chaos in his consciousness and formed a sphere of light.
• A stern voice rebuked Nan Liujing for giving up, and he abruptly woke after months of unconsciousness.
• Sun Kong entered the bedroom and was delighted to find Nan Liujing awake.
• Doctors examined Nan Liujing and found his body stable, while Elder Lin reported that his Mental Power had reached the initial Spirit Connection Realm.
• Nan Liujing studied a map, recognized that he had transmigrated to the Douluo Continent, and noticed Shrek City marked on it.
• Sun Kong asked Nan Liujing if he was hungry, and Nan Liujing decided to eat first.

Nan Liujing visited his deceased parents’ grave with his uncle, Sun Kong, and resolved to make the best of his life in a dangerous era. Sun Kong arranged for Nan Liujing to attend Si Duo’s Martial Soul Awakening Ceremony, joking with her father, Wu Jingru, about a childhood betrothal.

• Nan Liujing asked Sun Kong to take him to pay his respects to his parents, and Sun Kong agreed.
• On the way to the cemetery, Nan Liujing considered the powerful factions and dangers shaping the era.
• Nan Liujing recognized his parents, Nan Tian and Xia Yue Xin, at their grave, laid flowers, and kowtowed nine times.
• Sun Kong answered Si Duo’s call and learned that she would soon awaken her Martial Soul.
• Sun Kong told Wu Jingru that he was being transferred to Ming Capital and proposed using Si Duo’s ceremony to introduce him to Star Luo City’s officials.
• Sun Kong said Nan Liujing could awaken his Martial Soul alongside Si Duo and joked about arranging a childhood betrothal, but Wu Jingru changed the subject and ended the call.

On the way back, Nan Liujing learned more about his parents’ Martial Souls and wondered whether his mysterious Lightning Orb could offer him a path to a second awakening. Elsewhere, Tang Hao sensed two divine auras, planned to use one to awaken Wulin’s Golden Dragon King bloodline, and strengthened the seal beneath his hammer.

• Nan Liujing asked Sun Kong about his parents, and Sun Kong explained that his father had wielded a Thunder Dragon Soul-infused Dragon Subduing Staff while his mother’s Martial Soul had been Candy.
• Sun Kong described the Dragon Subduing Staff’s Dragon Soul grades and said no second awakening of that Martial Soul had ever been recorded, only mutations.
• Nan Liujing considered whether his Lightning Orb might be an opportunity for a second awakening as they headed toward Shrek City.
• Tang Hao told Ah Yin he had sensed two concealed divine auras, one vaguely similar to the Gold Dragon King, and proposed using it to awaken Wulin’s bloodline when his Martial Soul awakened.
• A surge beneath Tang Hao’s giant hammer tried to break free, but Tang Hao shattered it with divine power before telling Ah Yin he would sleep to strengthen the seal and accelerate its refinement.

Nan Liujing traveled with Sun Kong to the Wu Family estate in Star Luo City to witness Wu Jingru’s daughter’s Awakening Ceremony. He watched as the ceremony began with the girl and two boys standing beneath the stained-glass window.

• Nan Liujing researched Red Mountain Academy and planned to visit Aolai City after his Martial Soul awakened.
• Nan Liujing accompanied Sun Kong to the Wu Family estate, where Sun Kong introduced him to Wu Jingru and three other old friends.
• Nan Liujing noticed portraits and statues of a White Tiger and a Hell Spirit Cat inside the estate.
• Wu Jingru’s daughter, whose name Nan Liujing suspected was Qiming, completed her prayer and turned to face the gathered guests.
• Wu Jingru called Qiming and two boys forward, then sent Soul Power into the stained-glass window, causing lines of light to gather beneath the children.

Wu Sidao awakened Twin Martial Souls, astonishing the Wu Family and marking her as its future. After the family celebrated her talent, attention turned to Nan Liujing as he prepared for his own Martial Soul awakening.

• Wu Qiming awakened a Python Saber with Innate Soul Power Level Five, while Wu Chengyu awakened a Crimson Fire Tiger with Innate Soul Power Level Seven.
• Wu Sidao saw a White Tiger and a Hell Spirit Cat in her consciousness, then awakened both Martial Souls and filled the Wu Family with joy.
• Nan Liujing watched the celebration and overheard Sun Kong and his sworn brothers discuss Wu Sidao and Ye Changming's daughter.
• Wu Jingru proudly showed off Wu Sidao's Twin Martial Souls before reminding Sun Kong that Nan Liujing had come to awaken his Martial Soul.
• Nan Liujing and Wu Sidao exchanged glances as the hall's attention shifted to his awakening.

Nan Liujing awakened a powerful Dragon Subduing Staff and a Candy Martial Soul, while encountering a mysterious figure who told him to face the Heavenly Tribulation with courage. Sun Kong took Nan Liujing and Wu Sidao to the Star Luo Spirit Pagoda to obtain Soul Spirits, where they learned about Huo Yuhao’s legacy in the city.

• Nan Liujing awakened a Dragon Subduing Staff whose lightning weakened other elements, and Wu Jingru discovered that he had a second Martial Soul.
• In a hazy space, a mysterious man told Nan Liujing that he had inherited the bloodline aura of the Heavenly Tribulation Pearl and urged him to face its trials with courage.
• Nan Liujing revealed a fragrant Candy Martial Soul that could help gather Mental Power, surprising Sun Kong and the others.
• Sun Kong agreed to take Nan Liujing and Wu Sidao to the Star Luo Spirit Pagoda to obtain Soul Spirits because both children had Innate Full Soul Power.
• At the Spirit Pagoda, Nan Liujing and Wu Sidao admired murals of Huo Yuhao and his companions, and Wu Sidao explained how Huo Yuhao had saved Star Luo City and inspired the Grilled Fish Festival.

Nan Liujing and Wu Sidao visited the Spirit Pagoda to obtain their first Soul Spirits, where Nan Liujing fused with a powerful Thunderclap Nether Vine and reached Level Thirteen. They left with Elder Yuan’s concern about how easily the unusual Soul Spirit had accepted a Master-Servant Contract.

• Elder Yuan tested Wu Sidao and Nan Liujing, finding their mental power to be seventy-five and two hundred and twenty respectively.
• Wu Sidao chose and fused with a Shadow Leopard Soul Spirit for her Hell Spirit Cat Martial Soul, while Nan Liujing followed Elder Yuan to a separate room.
• Elder Yuan revealed the eight-hundred-year Thunderclap Nether Vine and demonstrated its devastating lightning attack before Nan Liujing agreed to fuse with it.
• Nan Liujing fused with the Thunderclap Nether Vine, broke through three levels to Level Thirteen, and gained a bright yellow Soul Ring marked with lightning patterns.
• Elder Yuan worried that the unruly Thunderclap Nether Vine had accepted a Master-Servant Contract too easily, but Nan Liujing suggested his Martial Soul was compatible with it.
• Sun Kong revealed that Nan Liujing’s uncle had arranged the Soul Spirit, and the group left the Spirit Pagoda for Wu Family Manor.

Nan Liujing left Wu Family Manor for Eastsea City, where he planned to interfere with the events surrounding Na'er and Tang Wulin. After learning that Eastsea Academy had moved its opening day forward, he went to Aolai City instead and prepared to act without advance arrangements.

• Nan Liujing gave Wu Sidao a Soul Power candy, and the two danced together at the manor banquet before he left the next morning with Sun Kong.
• Sun Kong arranged Nan Liujing's trip to Eastsea City, gave him a protective wristband, and revealed that he was a Titled Douluo with a Heavenly Thunder Umbrella Martial Soul.
• Nan Liujing arrived in Eastsea City and learned that a possible typhoon had caused Eastsea Academy to move its opening day forward.
• Nan Liujing redirected his journey to Aolai City and resolved to prevent Na'er and Tang Wulin from meeting, hoping to change the original course of events.

Nan Liujing encountered Na'er and Tang Wulin outside Red Mountain Academy as Gu Yue tested Tang Wulin’s Golden Dragon King bloodline. When human traffickers threatened Na'er, Nan Liujing intervened and froze them, leaving him face-to-face with her.

• Nan Liujing spotted Na'er sitting alone near Red Mountain Academy and heard the mysterious voice warn that intervening could earn him benefits but expose him to danger and a Heavenly Thunder Baptism.
• Tang Wulin left school discouraged by his classmates’ contempt for his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, then found encouragement in a plant growing between paving stones.
• Gu Yue explained why she was cautiously testing Tang Wulin and sent a bloodline aura from Na'er across Aolai City to draw out anyone carrying the Golden Dragon King’s bloodline.
• Tang Wulin noticed Na'er and nearly met her gaze, but Wang Cheng and his gangsters blocked his way and tried to abduct her.
• Wang Cheng kicked Tang Wulin, then tried to kick him again as the gangsters moved to seize Na'er.
• Nan Liujing used Soul Power to freeze Wang Cheng and the other traffickers, then approached the frightened Na'er while Tang Wulin watched in shock.

Nan Liujing stopped Tang Wulin from reaching for Na'er and unknowingly disrupted the force influencing him, alarming Ah Yin and Gu Yue. After the danger passed, Nan Liujing invited the hungry Na'er to eat with him, while planning to take her to an orphanage the next day.

• Nan Liujing kept the immobilized traffickers from escaping, and the Sheriffs beat them before taking them away.
• Tang Wulin approached Na'er with pale gold vertical pupils, but Nan Liujing stopped him and the strange influence on Tang Wulin vanished.
• Ah Yin realized one of the seals on the Golden Dragon King bloodline was missing, while Gu Yue identified Tang Wulin as its bearer and ordered the Fierce Beasts to wait and study the human world.
• Nan Liujing invited Na'er to eat, then planned to return to Eastsea City and take her to an orphanage the next day.

Nan Liujing took Na'er to Aolai Bay, where he learned from Ling Ting that the Heavenly Tribulation Pearl might make him responsible for the plane’s future. After Sun Kong arranged for him to travel to Heaven Dou City, Nan Liujing grew closer to Na'er and resolved to let her stay with him if she was not taken away that night.

• Nan Liujing brought Na'er to a hotel suite in Aolai Bay and asked a woman to bathe and dress her.
• Nan Liujing told Ling Ting what he knew about the Dragon God and the missing God Realm, and Ling Ting warned him that the Heavenly Tribulation Pearl tied him to the plane’s fate.
• Sun Kong called Nan Liujing to report an Elemental Storm and arranged for him to travel to Heaven Dou City to raise his Soul Spirit alongside Uncle Ye’s daughter.
• Na'er told Nan Liujing that he was the first person to treat her well, and he realized she was an individual rather than an accessory or future fusion vessel.
• Nan Liujing led Na'er to dinner, where she ate an enormous amount of seafood and drew a crowd of admiring diners.
• Nan Liujing reassured the nervous Na'er that more people would like her, and she relaxed among the diners.

Nan Liujing took Na'er to Heaven Dou City, where Ye Changming asked him to team up with his proud daughter, Ye Xinglan. Meanwhile, Leng Yaozhu considered the Spirit Pagoda’s growing political crisis and was asked to teach Nan Liujing, while Qiangu Qingfeng and Xia Zheng Leng investigated the Evil Soul Masters behind the Small World deaths.

• Nan Liujing bought wine for Leng Yi and visited him before leaving Eastsea City with Na'er; Leng Yi then joined a meeting where Leng Yaozhu halted the Phoenix Plan in Eastsea City.
• Leng Yaozhu weighed the Spirit Pagoda’s unstable balance before Qiangu Qingfeng asked her to become Nan Liujing’s teacher, offering secret support for the Phoenix Family in return.
• At the cemetery, Qiangu Qingfeng told Xia Zheng Leng that he had encountered Nether Emperor Ha Luosa near the Small World rift and proposed cleansing Evil Soul Masters on the Douluo Continent.
• Nan Liujing and Na'er met Ye Changming at Heaven Dou Airport, where Ye Changming gave Na'er a Green-gold Crystal and revealed that Nan Liujing’s uncle was a skilled forger.
• On the drive to the Heaven Dou Spirit Pagoda, Ye Changming warned Nan Liujing that Ye Xinglan was proud and might speak sarcastically because she had waited a day to meet him.

Nan Liujing entered the Beginner Spirit Ascension Platform and fought his way through its dangerous forest. After rescuing two brothers from a Wind Baboon pack, he left the Wind Baboon Leader as the only beast still standing.

• Nan Liujing and Ye Changming arrived at the Heaven Dou Spirit Pagoda, where Nan Liujing saw its mural of Huo Yuhao and hurried away from it.
• Ye Changming learned that his daughter Ye Xinglan had already entered the Spirit Ascension Platform and watched her face a Thousand-Year Green Bush Wolf.
• Nan Liujing entered the platform, killed a five-hundred-year Ghost Vine with his Dragon Subduing Staff, and raised his first Soul Spirit's age to eight hundred and fifty years.
• Nan Liujing found two young twin brothers surrounded by Wind Baboons and knocked the Wind Baboon Leader away just before it could strike one of them.
• Nan Liujing hurled his lightning-charged Dragon Subduing Staff through the Wind Baboon pack, killing every Hundred-Year Wind Baboon except the leader.

Nan Liujing killed a Special Wind Baboon, gained a Soul Spirit Selection Card, and raised his Thunderclap Nether Vine Soul Spirit to 1,040 years. He then discovered that the Heavenly Tribulation Pearl had revived his Candy Martial Soul, and he tested its new ability to create a golden dragon-patterned lollipop.

• Nan Liujing killed the enraged Wind Baboon Leader with the Dragon Subduing Staff, and the surviving Wind Baboons fled.
• Nan Liujing collected spiritual power from the Wind Baboons and raised his Thunderclap Nether Vine Soul Spirit to 1,040 years.
• Chu Ziyuan and Chu Zihang introduced themselves and explained that killing the Special Wind Baboon earned Nan Liujing a Soul Spirit Selection Card.
• Nan Liujing began Spirit Ascension, strengthening the Thunderclap Nether Vine and increasing its vines to ten.
• The Heavenly Tribulation Pearl merged its power into Nan Liujing's Candy Martial Soul, which Thunder God Ling Ting said had been used to repair Nan Liujing's damaged soul.
• Nan Liujing summoned his revived Candy Martial Soul and created a golden, dragon-patterned lollipop using surrounding energy.

Nan Liujing discovered that his Golden Dragon Candy granted him a persistent Golden Dragon Body, then saved Ye Xinglan from a Thousand-Year Green Bush Wolf with his Dragon Subduing Staff. After defeating the beast, he invited Ye Xinglan to join him, and she followed him to recover her Soul Power as dark clouds began gathering overhead.

• Nan Liujing tested his Golden Dragon Body and suspected the Heavenly Tribulation Pearl had seized Tang Wulin's Golden Dragon King bloodline.
• Ye Xinglan fled a Thousand-Year Green Bush Wolf, tried to fight it in a clearing, and was nearly defeated before Nan Liujing arrived.
• Nan Liujing used his Dragon Subduing Staff and Golden Dragon Body to kill the Green Bush Wolf in one strike, astonishing Ye Xinglan.
• Nan Liujing gave Ye Xinglan the false name Lu Mingfei, declined her offer to team up, then persuaded her to follow him and learn combat techniques.
• Nan Liujing found a safe spot where Ye Xinglan could recover her Soul Power, while he sensed that dark clouds were gathering overhead.

Nan Liujing and Ye Xinglan fought through the Spirit Ascension Platform as Ye Xinglan began reshaping her swordsmanship around decisive attacks. A mysterious lightning strike engulfed Nan Liujing, beginning a Heavenly Tribulation that would mark him with a Plane Imprint, while the chapter left him enduring the storm as the imprint formed.

• Ye Xinglan discovered that Nan Liujing had silently dealt with an attacker while she meditated, then watched him defeat Soul Beasts with his lightning-wreathed staff.
• Ye Xinglan adopted Nan Liujing’s direct fighting style, and they cleared a nest of Blood Claw Bats as a storm gathered overhead.
• A bolt of silver lightning struck the Heaven Dou Spirit Pagoda and poured through its Core Array toward the Spirit Ascension Platform, while Yun Ming sensed a chance to break through and a figure beneath the sea opened his eyes.
• The Spirit Ascension Chamber lost power and seemed to freeze in time; Na'er alone remained unaffected and saw lightning descending toward Nan Liujing and Ye Xinglan.
• Nan Liujing shoved Ye Xinglan away and took the Heavenly Tribulation’s lightning strikes, while Ye Xinglan activated her Distress Signal Device.
• Thunder God watched as the Heavenly Tribulation Pearl sustained Nan Liujing’s life and began forming a Plane Imprint, which would let him bypass a Plane Lord’s obstruction.

Nan Liujing endured the heavenly tribulation and began receiving a Plane Imprint as the Thunder God passed his legacy to him. The Spirit Ascension Platform recovered and its trapped Soul Masters awakened, but Ye Xinglan discovered that the Lu Mingfei she sought was not listed among its entrants.

• Nan Liujing survived the tribulation as the Thunder God merged into his Sea of Consciousness and entrusted him with his regrets.
• The Spirit Pagoda mobilized its leaders and researchers to stabilize the Spirit Ascension Platform while Yun Ming, Chen Xinjie, and Ya Li watched the tribulation above Heaven Dou City.
• Ghost Emperor Ya Ke Si and Nether Emperor Ha Luosa withdrew, and Yun Ming realized the self-generated tribulation might offer him a path to further breakthroughs.
• Nan Liujing's body began absorbing Life Energy as the silver imprint appeared on his forehead, and the Spirit Ascension Platform's systems and trapped Soul Masters recovered.
• Ye Xinglan searched for Lu Mingfei, learned that no entrant by that name had been recorded, and rushed away after suspecting he had lied about his name.

Ye Xinglan confronted Nan Liujing over his false name, then accepted his real identity after he reminded her of their promise as partners. After they shared a meal with Na'er and Ye Changming, a Spirit Pagoda supervisor secretly reported Nan Liujing’s rare talent to his chief, who considered recruiting him.

• Ye Xinglan waited at the Spirit Pagoda for Lu Mingfei and confronted Nan Liujing when he appeared with Ye Changming and Na'er.
• Na'er revealed Nan Liujing’s real name, and Ye Xinglan accepted his renewed introduction after he said they would otherwise forgo drinking the water of the Heaven Dou River.
• A Spirit Ascension Platform supervisor showed the chief secret footage of six-year-old Nan Liujing defeating powerful spirit beasts, and the chief ordered his existence kept hidden while he considered recruiting him.
• Nan Liujing, Ye Xinglan, Na'er, and Ye Changming went to a grilled fish restaurant, where Nan Liujing told Ye Xinglan that revealing a Soul Master’s name could invite danger.
• Na'er exposed Nan Liujing’s ghost-story bluff, and Ye Changming explained that attacks using paper had existed in history before warning the children to stay cautious.
• Ye Changming advised Nan Liujing and Ye Xinglan about their fighting techniques over dinner, while Na'er happily ate more grilled fish.