Chapter Summaries

After waking from his injuries, Lin Li learned that Fallen Soul Masters had revived the Flame Demon Skeleton of the ancient Limit Douluo Huo Qianyi, putting Blazing City's defenders in danger. He suspected the crisis concealed a Fire God inheritance beneath the volcano and decided to investigate, while Bai Nan hid how dangerous the battle was for Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang’s grandfather.

• Lin Li woke in Spirit Hall and asked Feng Xiaotian, Huo Wu, and Huo Wushuang about the children and the crisis outside Blazing City.
• Huo Wushuang explained that the city was sealed and its defenders were fighting a powerful being summoned by the Fallen Soul Masters.
• Bai Nan identified the being as the Flame Demon Skeleton and explained Huo Qianyi’s failed God Position inheritance and the Divine Power preserved in his bones.
• Lin Li realized the volcano might contain the Fire God’s Trial Grounds and decided to go investigate.
• Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang feared for their grandfather, and Lin Li noticed Bai Nan was lying about the danger being low.

Lin Li left Blazing City and found a hidden trial site beneath the magma near the Flame Demon Skeleton. He activated the Fire God’s trial by offering his blood and began fighting opponents that matched his level.

• Lin Li escaped Blazing City at night, and Feng Xiaotian followed after finding his room empty.
• Lin Li warned the caravan to stay in the city, then crossed the burning forest and reached the mountaintop without fighting.
• Lin Li jumped onto a stone platform surrounded by magma and discovered that the stone steles contained a hidden trial entrance.
• Lin Li used his blood to reveal the trial rules: he had to win battles across five levels to gain eligibility for the God Trial.
• Lin Li defeated the Level Fifteen Fire Figure with one punch, then defeated its Level Twenty-Six counterpart and waited for the next opponent.

Lin Li fought the Fire God’s trial figures until the Fire God intervened and brought him to the Fire God Temple. The Fire God bestowed the Nine Trials on Lin Li, who accepted the first trial despite questioning the fit, and then sent him away.

• Lin Li repeatedly defeated the forming Fire Figures, gaining 95% resistance to Fire Attribute attacks before exhausting his Soul Power.
• The Fire God used Divine Sense to control a Fire Figure, fought Lin Li, and was repeatedly blown apart.
• The Fire God summoned Lin Li to the Fire God Temple and bestowed the Fire God Nine Trials after noticing a God Seal on Lin Li.
• Lin Li received the first trial: reach Level 30 Soul Power within a year and independently kill a Five-Thousand-Year Soul Beast for 10% affinity and an External Soul Bone age increase.
• Lin Li questioned receiving a Fire God inheritance without a Fire Attribute, but accepted the trial, and the Fire God teleported him away.

Lin Li joined the battle outside the Fire God Temple and helped defeat the Flame Demon Skeleton while Huo Tianquan and Han Yi fought the Fallen Soul Saints. After Han Yi pursued the escaping Old Lu, Lin Li discovered that he had gained a temporary Flame Soul Skill from the skeleton’s remaining divine power.

• Lin Li charged into the battle and struck the Flame Demon Skeleton, stunning Huo Tianquan and Han Yi with his strength.
• Lin Li warned Huo Tianquan to watch for Fallen Soul Masters while he continued fighting the Flame Demon Skeleton.
• Two Fallen Soul Saints arrived, and Huo Tianquan and Han Yi attacked them with their Soul Skills.
• Old Lu betrayed and drained his companion, then escaped into the sky as Han Yi pursued him.
• Lin Li defeated the Flame Demon Skeleton and discovered a Flame Mark in his palm that granted him the temporary Soul Skill Flame Demon Scorching Kill.

After saving Huo Tianquan, Lin Li declined to join Blazing Academy but accepted the dean’s offer of help. He became sworn brothers with Huo Wushuang and was invited to the Fire Dance Day Bonfire Banquet.

• Huo Tianquan offered Lin Li a place at Blazing Academy, but Lin Li declined and explained that he planned to visit Xue Qinghe in Heaven Dou City.
• Huo Tianquan promised to help Lin Li if needed and took him back to Blazing City, while Feng Xiaotian searched for Lin Li and feared he had died.
• Lin Li woke up the next afternoon after Huo Tianquan had gotten him drunk and went downstairs when Huo Wu said Huo Wushuang wanted to see him.
• Huo Wushuang proposed that he and Lin Li become sworn brothers, then pulled Lin Li into an oath ceremony before Lin Li could properly react.
• Huo Wushuang called Lin Li his younger brother and invited him to that night’s Fire Dance Day Bonfire Banquet.

Lin Li celebrated the festival in Blazing City with Huo Wushuang and Huo Wu, then joined them at Blazing Academy’s bonfire gathering. Feng Xiaotian mistakenly believed Lin Li had died, but Huo Wushuang brought them together and Lin Li explained how they had missed each other.

• Lin Li wandered through Blazing City with the Huo siblings and watched Huo Wushuang buy Huo Wu a Red Jade Bracelet from the Bearded Boss.
• Lin Li passed a mourning-decorated courtyard and reflected on how events could teach people that some things remained beyond their reach.
• Lin Li, Huo Wushuang, and Huo Wu arrived at Blazing Academy’s festival, where Huo Wu asked Lin Li about his Soul Ring and he gave her a vague answer about his Martial Soul and physical strength.
• Huo Wushuang found Feng Xiaotian drinking alone, and Feng Xiaotian told him that Lin Li was dead.
• Huo Wushuang took Feng Xiaotian to Lin Li, who explained that he had joined the previous night’s battle using a one-time-use treasure from a volcano, which was why Feng Xiaotian had not found him.

Lin Li traveled from Blazing City toward Heaven Dou City and arrived in Seven Treasure City, where he watched Treasure Pavilion owner Ning Yang handle a public dispute. The chapter left Lin Li intrigued by Ning Yang’s business skills and watching the confrontation unfold.

• Huo Tianquan gave Lin Li a Storage Soul Ring and escorted him out of Blazing City before Lin Li departed with a caravan.
• The Bearded Boss asked Lin Li to write a recommendation letter to Huo Tianquan, and Lin Li agreed to help after they reached Heaven Dou City.
• Lin Li arrived in Seven Treasure City, parted from the Bearded Boss, and stopped at a tea house overlooking Treasure Pavilion.
• A man accused Treasure Pavilion of damaging his belongings, and Ning Yang used his Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda to appraise the fragments.
• Ning Yang acknowledged that the fragments were not treasures but offered to take responsibility for the man’s injuries, and Lin Li watched with sudden interest.

Lin Li saved Ning Yang from an assassination attempt and learned that Ning Yang was Ning Fengzhi’s son. After drinking together, Lin Li decided Ning Yang was worth befriending.

• A Long Sword assassin attacked Ning Yang, but his two guards blocked the strike.
• Lin Li stopped a female attacker who had used a slingshot and brought her to Ning Yang for questioning.
• Ning Yang speculated that the attack might be connected to his father, Ning Fengzhi, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s sect master.
• Ning Yang invited Lin Li to a banquet, and the two drank together in a private room until nightfall.
• Ning Yang spoke sincerely about friendship, and Lin Li concluded that he could befriend him.

Lin Li and Ning Yang parted after Ning Yang drunkenly offered to travel with him, then Ning Yang returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and sought his father’s advice about befriending Lin Li. Ning Fengzhi judged that Ning Yang could not manage the task as he would, but agreed to fund his Heaven Dou City Treasure Pavilion while Ning Yang quietly prepared his own plan.

• Ning Yang told Lin Li about his difficult place in the family and offered to accompany him to Heaven Dou City, but passed out before finishing his proposal.
• Lin Li left after asking Ning Yang’s guards to pass on that they would meet at the East Gate the next morning.
• Ning Yang admitted that he had used his family history and apparent sincerity as bargaining chips, then returned to the sect to ask Ning Fengzhi for advice about Lin Li.
• Ning Fengzhi considered arranging a marriage between Lin Li and Ning Rongrong, then decided Ning Yang could instead help secure Lin Li’s goodwill for the sect.
• Ning Fengzhi told Ning Yang that he could not handle the task and offered to fund his Treasure Pavilion in Heaven Dou City, while cautioning him not to make Lin Li an enemy.
• Ning Yang received and destroyed a letter from his guards, then felt reassured as he pursued a plan to prove himself.

Lin Li entered Heaven Dou City with Ning Yang and learned about its powerful factions, while Xue Qinghe and Bibi Dong each received reports about him. Qian Renxue grew curious about Lin Li and the missing Nuoding City awakening records, while Bibi Dong decided to watch her closely and preserve the seal on the information.

• Ning Yang traveled with Lin Li to Heaven Dou City, warning him about the city's powerful families and Crown Prince Xue Qinghe.
• Lin Li handed Bearded Boss a letter and advice before entering Heaven Dou City with Ning Yang.
• Xue Qinghe received a report on Lin Li's arrival and recalled the missing Spirit Hall awakening report from Nuoding City; she ordered further attention to him and the city.
• Bibi Dong learned that Qian Renxue was investigating Lin Li and ordered her people to keep watching him without investigating him herself.
• Bibi Dong recalled her investigation of Yu Xiaogang and Tang San, maintained the seal on Nuoding City's information, and vowed to crush any genuine feelings Qian Renxue developed.

After reaching Level 30, Lin Li entered the Sunset Forest to obtain a Soul Ring and pursue an opportunity involving an Immortal Herb. He fought a five-thousand-year Shadow-Chasing Leopard, whose teleportation ability he suppressed, and left the battle closing in for the kill.

• Lin Li told Ning Yang he had reached Level 30 and planned to enter the Sunset Forest, but he refused Ning Yang’s offer to accompany him.
• Qian Renxue heard that Lin Li had reached Level 30 and became determined to cultivate harder.
• Lin Li entered the Sunset Forest alone and selected a Shadow-Chasing Leopard estimated to be between five and six thousand years old.
• Lin Li fought the Shadow-Chasing Leopard, using the Sword of Exorcism to restrict its Shadow Leap after it wounded his arm.
• The Shadow-Chasing Leopard tried to defend itself with its claws, but Lin Li’s sword closed in as he prepared to finish it.

Lin Li killed a Shadow-Chasing Leopard, absorbed its Soul Ring, and obtained a Dark Attribute Right Leg Bone before locating the Poison Barrier around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. He began adapting to its poison so he could enter the valley, while two groups left Heaven Dou City to search for him.

• Lin Li killed the Shadow-Chasing Leopard and absorbed its five-thousand-year Soul Ring, gaining a Passive Soul Skill that increased all his attributes by one hundred percent.
• Lin Li found a Dark Attribute Right Leg Bone on the leopard's corpse and stored it without absorbing it.
• After searching for three days, Lin Li followed signs of poisonous plants and Spirit Beasts to the Poison Barrier surrounding the valley with the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Two groups left Heaven Dou City at the same time to search for the vanished Lin Li.
• Lin Li adapted to several poisons and then put his hand into the Poison Barrier, where his Mahoraga Martial Soul completed its first adaptation.

Lin Li entered Dugu Bo’s Herb Garden and confronted the weakened Poison-Titled Douluo, testing his own strength while proving that Dugu Bo’s poison could not affect him. After Lin Li offered to cure Dugu Bo’s poison, Dugu Bo denied being poisoned, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Lin Li crossed the Poison Barrier, reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and found Dugu Bo there in poor condition.
• Dugu Bo threatened Lin Li and unleashed poisonous mist, but Lin Li endured it and struck back, revealing his immunity to poison.
• Dugu Bo attacked Lin Li with his physical strength and knocked him into a rock, but Lin Li survived and climbed out.
• Lin Li offered to cure Dugu Bo’s poison as they exchanged several more blows, while Dugu Bo wondered whether Lin Li had discovered his secret.
• Lin Li ended the sparring and asked whether Dugu Bo doubted his ability to cure him, and Dugu Bo denied ever being poisoned.

Lin Li explained three ways to cure Dugu Bo’s poison and promised to identify a suitable Immortal Herb after further study. With Dugu Bo’s permission, Lin Li took two Immortal Herbs and leapt into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to refine his body.

• Lin Li described Dugu Bo’s poison symptoms, convinced him he could offer three detoxification methods, and earned Dugu Bo’s promise of unconditional help.
• Lin Li explained that the inferior method would remove Dugu Bo’s Poison Arts and that the middle method would contain the poison in a Spirit Bone, which could endanger his family.
• Lin Li said he needed months to find the superior method and explained that an Immortal Herb might cure Dugu Bo and evolve his Martial Soul.
• Dugu Bo allowed Lin Li to take two Immortal Herbs as a deposit, and Lin Li removed the herbs that granted immunity to ice, fire, and poison.
• Lin Li swallowed both Immortal Herbs and jumped into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well while Dugu Bo watched anxiously.

After refining his body in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Lin Li reached its bottom and encountered the Ice and Fire Dragon King Remnant Souls. The Fire God defeated them and granted Lin Li rewards, then assigned him a trial to bring their laws and origin power to the Fire God Temple.

• Lin Li completed his body refinement without increasing his Soul Power Level, then asked Dugu Bo to tell the Treasure Pavilion owner that he was safe.
• Lin Li descended to the bottom of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and discovered the remains of the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King.
• The Fire God appeared and defeated the two Dragon King Remnant Souls while Lin Li watched from behind a protective barrier.
• The Fire God rewarded Lin Li for completing the first trial, increasing his External Soul Bone's lifespan until it reached ten thousand years and transformed into golden scales.
• The Fire God assigned Lin Li a second trial to take the Dragon Kings' laws and origin power to the Fire God Temple, and Lin Li learned the Fire God wanted the Ice Dragon King for himself.

Lin Li absorbed the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ Spirit Bones, gained an Ice-Fire Wings External Soul Bone, and unknowingly refined Ice-Fire Divine Power. After the Fire God urged him to actively use Mahoraga’s adaptation, Lin Li gained complete resistance to ice- and fire-based attacks.

• With the Fire God guarding him, Lin Li absorbed the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ Spirit Bones together.
• As Mahoraga’s Dharma Wheel turned, Lin Li refined a faint strand of Ice-Fire Divine Power that transformed his body and calmed the Spirit Bones’ energy.
• Lin Li reached Soul Power Level 40 and gained the Ice-Fire Wings, which could grant flight or transform into the Ice-Fire Twin Swords.
• The Fire God explained Lin Li’s newly formed Divine Power and urged him to actively guide Mahoraga’s adaptation instead of waiting for attacks.
• Lin Li made Mahoraga adapt without an incoming attack, gaining 100% resistance to ice- and fire-based attacks, even those from gods.

Lin Li discovered that he could deliberately adapt to different powers, then successfully completed his first Subjugation Ritual by defeating Mahoraga with a full-force attack. He completed the Fire God’s second trial and received a boost to his Soul Rings, while the third trial tasked him with stabilizing his rapidly increased strength.

• Lin Li realized that his Martial Soul could adapt to powers he chose and that his Ice and Fire Divine Power remained within him even after he shut it down.
• Lin Li initiated his first Subjugation Ritual and unleashed all his enhancements and attacks on Mahoraga, destroying it in one blow and gaining a permanent 100% boost to all attributes.
• The Fire God reminded Lin Li to complete the second trial, and Lin Li gathered the Origin Law from the two Dragon Corpses and sent it to the Fire God Temple.
• The Fire God said the Fire Dragon King's Origin Law could probably raise him to the Half-step God King level, then sent Lin Li back and replenished Flame Demon Scorching Kill.
• Lin Li completed the Fire God’s second trial, gained ten percent God Position Affinity, and increased all his Soul Ring ages by two thousand years.
• The third trial was issued, requiring Lin Li to stabilize his rapidly increased strength, with a God-Given Soul Ring as the reward.

Lin Li returned from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after reaching Level 40 and accepted Dugu Bo’s offer to take him back to Heaven Dou City. There, Lin Li and Ning Yang discussed ways to prepare for Lin Li’s battles and training.

• Lin Li emerged from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after twenty days and asked Dugu Bo for a Soul Tool that could hold living creatures.
• Lin Li harvested Immortal Herbs from Dugu Bo’s garden, revealed his divine trial mark, and promised to take Dugu Bo with him when he became a god; Dugu Bo asked him to help his granddaughter instead.
• Dugu Bo carried Lin Li back to Heaven Dou City, where Lin Li told Ning Yang he had reached Level 40 and planned to temper himself through battle.
• Ning Yang proposed organizing a continuous King of the Hill Match at the Great Soul Arena to help Lin Li train, and Lin Li considered the idea feasible with additional conditions.

Lin Li and Ning Yang arranged a month-long King of the Hill Match at the Great Soul Arena, then Lin Li gave Ning Yang an Aromatic Silk Beauty. The herb transformed Ning Yang’s Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda into a Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and Lin Li returned to his room to study ways to use Mahoraga.

• Lin Li and Ning Yang planned a month-long arena challenge in which Lin Li would fight without his Martial Soul against Soul Masters up to Soul King rank, with the prize growing each day he defended it.
• Lin Li gave Ning Yang an Aromatic Silk Beauty and explained how to absorb its essence.
• Ning Yang absorbed the herb for two hours, rose from level 24 to level 26, and saw his Martial Soul evolve into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Ning Yang thanked Lin Li and left by horse to tell Sect Master Ning about his breakthrough, promising to handle Lin Li’s arena matter the next day.
• Lin Li returned to his room and began considering how to develop attack methods with Mahoraga instead of relying only on adapting to injuries.

Ning Yang revealed that his Martial Soul had evolved into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, prompting Ning Fengzhi to name him the Sect Heir and plan to recruit Lin Li. Ning Fengzhi also ordered Ning Yang to marry and have children, while he and Chen Xin prepared to visit Heaven Dou City.

• Ning Yang returned home and told Ning Fengzhi that he had broken through the Martial Soul Shackles, then revealed his Nine-layer Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Ning Yang explained that Lin Li had helped him evolve his Martial Soul by giving him an Immortal Herb.
• Ning Fengzhi summoned Chen Xin and Gu Rong, who examined Ning Yang's Martial Soul and confirmed its evolution.
• Ning Fengzhi decided to appoint Ning Yang as the Sect Heir, and Gu Rong and Chen Xin accepted the decision after discussing Ning Rongrong's future.
• Ning Fengzhi resolved to travel with Chen Xin to Heaven Dou City and invite Lin Li to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Fengzhi told Ning Yang to hurry up and marry and have children as a sect mission.