Recaps

After dying from overwork, Xu Tianming received a God-Level Choice System and chose to be born in the Sun Moon Empire. He awakened as the newborn son of City Lord Xu Xiang, who named him Xu Tianming.

• Xu Tianming learned that he had died from overwork and was about to transmigrate to Douluo Continent.
• The system offered five choices, and Xu Tianming rejected the options tied to the Star Luo Empire, Dou Ling Empire, Heaven Dou Empire, and Shrek Academy.
• Xu Tianming chose the Sun Moon Empire, which promised one of its inherited Martial Souls and a beneficial mutation.
• Xu Tianming arrived as a frail newborn after his mother suffered a difficult birth.
• Xu Xiang celebrated his son's birth, ordered that the child and his wife receive proper care, and named the baby Xu Tianming.

On his sixth birthday, Xu Tianming underwent a traditional Martial Soul awakening at the City Lord's Mansion in Dongyang City. After using his system’s Beneficial Martial Soul Mutation, he created a Sun and Moon in the Same Sky phenomenon, and the chapter ended with Xu Xiang and Kong Yue seeing the changed appearance of his eyes.

• Kong Yue told Xu Tianming that Xu Xiang would awaken his Martial Soul, and Xu Tianming said he was eager to inherit either parent's Martial Soul.
• Xu Xiang returned with a mysterious gift and led Xu Tianming and Kong Yue to the mansion’s backyard for the awakening.
• Xu Xiang used six Awakening Stones to awaken Xu Tianming’s Martial Soul.
• Xu Tianming accepted the system’s prompt to use his Beneficial Martial Soul Mutation.
• A Sun and Moon in the Same Sky appeared over the City Lord’s Mansion, visible throughout Dongyang City.
• The light entered Xu Tianming, revealing molten gold and a Solar Corona in his left pupil and a crescent moon in his silver right eye.

Xu Tianming awakened the Sun Moon Twin Pupils, a Body Martial Soul with the attributes of the sun and moon, and shocked his parents by revealing Innate Full Soul Power. In the God Realm, Tang San’s attempt to interfere with the Douluo Plane was stopped by the Destruction God King, who ordered him to face the God Realm Committee.

• When Xu Tianming awakened his Martial Soul, Tang San sensed a violent change in the Sun Moon Continent’s fate and tried to peer through the mist surrounding the Douluo Plane.
• The Destruction God King confronted Tang San for attempting to interfere with the lower realm and ordered him to go to the God Realm Committee; Tang San agreed to accompany him.
• Xu Tianming told Xu Xiang and Kong Yue that he had awakened the Body Martial Soul Eyes of Sun and Moon, making him the first Spirit Master in the Sun Moon Empire with a Body Martial Soul.
• Xu Tianming placed his hand on the testing crystal, which filled with equal red and blue light and revealed his Innate Full Soul Power.
• Xu Xiang explained that the two colors represented the sun and moon attributes in Xu Tianming’s Martial Soul and warned that he would need to preserve their balance when absorbing Soul Rings.

After Xu Tianming awakened a mutated Body Martial Soul with Innate Full Soul Power, Xu Xiang gave him rewards from the imperial family for his Whale Rubber discovery. Xu Tianming chose natural Whale Rubber over Mingde Hall’s experimental pill, earning the upper half of the Yin Yang Profound Pole Body Refining Art, and left the system reward unclaimed for now.

• Xu Xiang worried about how Xu Tianming’s opposing Martial Soul attributes would affect his future Soul Rings, then praised his son’s rare Martial Soul and Innate Full Soul Power.
• Xu Xiang explained that the imperial family had confirmed Whale Rubber strengthened Spirit Masters’ physiques and rewarded Xu Tianming with a pill made by Mingde Hall and natural Whale Rubber from a fifty-thousand-year One-Horned Giant Whale.
• The system offered Xu Tianming an eighty-thousand-year Cyclops head Spirit Bone for choosing the pill or the upper half of the Yin Yang Profound Pole Body Refining Art for choosing natural Whale Rubber.
• Xu Tianming chose the natural Whale Rubber, received the cultivation art from the system, and postponed claiming it.
• Kong Yue and Xu Xiang questioned Xu Tianming’s decision, and he explained that he trusted the known effects of Whale Rubber more than an experimental pill containing unknown ingredients.

Xu Tianming received the Yin Yang Profound Pole Body Refining Art and discovered that it could cultivate his yin-and-yang Body Martial Soul, though it would slow his Soul Power growth. He began practicing the technique alone in his room, enduring intense heat and cold as his first cultivation session started.

• Xu Tianming chose to postpone consuming the Whale Rubber until he had decided on his first Soul Ring, and Xu Xiang urged him to consider the choice carefully.
• Xu Xiang said he would seek expert advice in Ming Capital and left Xu Tianming in Dongyang City because the imperial family faced hidden dangers.
• After returning to his room, Xu Tianming claimed his system reward and learned the first half of the Yin Yang Profound Pole Body Refining Art.
• Xu Tianming realized the technique suited his balanced Solar Power and Lunar Power but would make his Soul Power grow more slowly, and he accepted the tradeoff.
• Xu Tianming began cultivating by drawing hot and cold energies from his eyes, leaving one side of his body burning and the other freezing.

Xu Tianming completed the first stage of the Yin Yang Profound Pole Body Refining Art and felt his body grow stronger. He learned that the Crown Prince had been assassinated, keeping Xu Xiang from traveling to Ming Capital, and proposed a spiritual-type soul beast for his first Soul Ring.

• Xu Tianming endured the clashing Solar True Fire and Lunar Moon Essence, guided them into their proper positions, and reached the Water and Fire Accomplished, Kan and Li Intercourse realm.
• Xu Tianming noticed his strengthened body and restrained golden and silver eyes, then went to the main hall to find Xu Xiang and Kong Yue worried.
• Xu Xiang told Xu Tianming that the Crown Prince had been assassinated and Ming Capital was in chaos, making it too dangerous for him to travel there.
• Xu Tianming agreed that Xu Xiang should stay in Dongyang City and explained that he wanted a purely spiritual-type soul beast for his first Soul Ring.
• Xu Xiang questioned how Xu Tianming knew so much about Body Martial Souls, and Xu Tianming said his awakened Martial Soul had given him those impressions.

Xu Tianming chose the Evil Eye Tyrant for his first Soul Ring and received a reward of a random Title Douluo Summoning Card. He told Xu Xiang he wanted a five-thousand-year ring, leaving his parents shocked by his ambition.

• Xu Xiang described the spiritual-type spirit beasts available in the Sun Moon Empire and asked Xu Tianming which one he preferred.
• Xu Tianming rejected the Sea Princess because he feared attracting Tang San’s attention, then chose the Evil Eye Tyrant and earned a Title Douluo Summoning Card.
• Xu Xiang explained that he could not accompany Xu Tianming to the Evil Demon Forest and offered to obtain an Evil Eye Tyrant through a Soul Beast Hunter.
• Xu Tianming requested a five-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant as his first Soul Ring, alarming Kong Yue and Xu Xiang.
• Xu Tianming defended the request by saying his first Soul Ring had to prove he was extraordinary.

Xu Tianming absorbed fifty-thousand-year Whale Rubber to strengthen his body, astonishing Xu Xiang and Kong Yue with how completely he refined its energy. Xu Xiang concluded that Tianming’s Body Martial Soul might let him survive absorbing a five-thousand-year first Soul Ring.

• Xu Xiang gave Xu Tianming the fifty-thousand-year Whale Rubber and warned that a five-thousand-year first Soul Ring could be dangerous.
• Xu Xiang melted the Whale Rubber with his Soul Power, and Xu Tianming swallowed it.
• Xu Tianming circulated the Yin Yang Profound Pole Body Refining Art and absorbed all the Whale Rubber’s energy into his body, expelling black impurities as he refined it.
• Xu Xiang sensed no energy leaking from Tianming and noticed that the Whale Rubber had not increased his Soul Power.
• Xu Tianming attributed the energy’s effects to his Body Martial Soul, and Xu Xiang said it might allow him to absorb a five-thousand-year first Soul Ring.

Xu Tianming prepared to obtain his first Soul Ring, and his father presented him with a five-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant despite the danger. Xu Tianming began absorbing it, but the Soul Ring’s energy overwhelmed him as his parents watched.

• Xu Tianming cultivated the Yin Yang Profound Pole Body Refining Art in the City Lord's Mansion until Kong Yue called him to the back garden.
• Xu Xiang showed Xu Tianming a five-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant and warned him that even absorbing it as a fourth Soul Ring was beyond what ordinary Spirit Masters dared attempt.
• Xu Tianming insisted on trying the Soul Ring, and Xu Xiang agreed while warning him not to force himself.
• Xu Tianming used Xu Xiang's Soul Ray Gun to kill the Evil Eye Tyrant, and a purple Soul Ring rose from its corpse.
• Xu Tianming began absorbing the Soul Ring, but its cold energy ravaged his body and made him spit blood; Xu Xiang said he needed to endure the first wave.

Xu Tianming survived absorbing a five-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant Soul Ring, though the process left him unconscious for three days. He awakened with Soul Power at level eleven, and Xu Xiang asked what Soul Skill he had gained.

• Xu Tianming endured the Evil Eye Tyrant Soul Ring’s violent energy and used the Yin Yang Profound Pole Body Refining Art, Solar Power, and Lunar Moon Essence to refine it into his body.
• Xu Xiang reassured the worried Kong Yue that Xu Tianming needed to challenge his limits, while she feared for their son’s life.
• After three days, Xu Tianming’s blood scab cracked and fell away as he awakened with red and blue light flickering across his body and purple radiance in his eyes.
• Xu Tianming sensed that the Soul Ring had strengthened his body and raised his Soul Power to level eleven, while Kong Yue embraced and scolded him for taking such a risk.
• Xu Xiang praised Xu Tianming for making history with the Sun Moon Empire’s first five-thousand-year first Soul Ring and asked what Soul Skill it had granted him.

Xu Tianming explained the two forms of his Sun Moon Twin Pupils and their powerful first soul skills to his parents after absorbing the Evil Eye Tyrant Soul Ring. He then used his system reward to summon the loyal Body Douluo Mu Ye, who greeted him as Master.

• Xu Tianming told Xu Xiang and Kong Yue that his Sun Moon Twin Pupils had Sun and Moon forms, each with a different mental beam soul skill.
• Xu Xiang praised Xu Tianming's abilities, and Kong Yue arranged a feast to celebrate his successful absorption of the five-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Xu Tianming went to bathe and asked the system about the Title Douluo Summoning Card and the summoned person's loyalty.
• Xu Tianming used the card and summoned the Body Douluo Mu Ye, who appeared before him and bowed in greeting.
• Xu Tianming helped Mu Ye up and asked him to call him Tianming instead of Master.

Xu Tianming welcomed Mu Ye, a Body Sect master and Four-Word Battle Armor Master summoned from ten thousand years in the future, and asked him to teach his Body Martial Soul techniques. The chapter ended with Xu Tianming bringing Mu Ye to meet his parents at a family banquet.

• Xu Tianming learned that Mu Ye's mecha, Xiao Hong, had not come with him, though his Four-Word Battle Armor had.
• Mu Ye explained that creating Battle Armor required specialized designers, blacksmiths, manufacturers, and a Spirit Master.
• Xu Tianming revealed his Sun Moon Twin Pupils Martial Soul and Innate Full Soul Power, astonishing Mu Ye.
• Xu Tianming asked Mu Ye to teach him Body Martial Soul techniques, and Mu Ye agreed to train him.
• Xu Tianming brought Mu Ye to meet Xu Xiang and Kong Yue, then dismissed the servants so he could introduce his guest.

Xu Tianming introduced Body Douluo Mu Ye as his new teacher, shocking his parents with Mu Ye’s power and four hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings. Xu Xiang eventually agreed to let Tianming study under Mu Ye, though he remained uneasy about the arrangement.

• Xu Tianming told Xu Xiang and Kong Yue that Mu Ye would become his teacher.
• Mu Ye revealed his Title Douluo pressure and nine Soul Rings, including four hundred-thousand-year rings, and Xu Xiang and Kong Yue were overwhelmed.
• Xu Tianming explained that Mu Ye had observed his awakened Martial Soul and was uniquely qualified to train his mutated Body Martial Soul.
• Xu Xiang questioned Mu Ye’s loyalties, and Mu Ye swore upon his Martial Soul that he was not from the Three Douluo Kingdoms and promised to train Tianming well.
• Xu Tianming asked his parents to let him study under Mu Ye, and Xu Xiang agreed; the family bowed to Mu Ye and hosted him at a strained banquet.
• After Mu Ye settled into a guest room, Xu Xiang remained worried, while Kong Yue reminded him that Tianming’s teacher was a rare and powerful ally.

Xu Tianming began training in the Body Sect’s Flawless Golden Body technique under Mu Ye, enduring a painful medicinal treatment. He left the chapter suspended in midair as Mu Ye repeatedly struck him to drive the medicine into his body.

• Mu Ye explained that the Body Sect’s Innate Secret Technique forged a Flawless Golden Body through dangerous trials and potent medicine, and said Xu Tianming’s physique was suited to it.
• Xu Tianming agreed to learn the technique despite the risk of death, and Mu Ye told him to remove his clothes in the rear garden.
• Mu Ye coated Xu Tianming in a black medicinal liquid made with a pearl from a ten-thousand-year Black Mother Shell and precious ingredients from the Far North Sea.
• Mu Ye slapped Xu Tianming into the air repeatedly, causing minor internal injuries that the medicine then healed.
• Xu Xiang arrived in the garden and watched Xu Tianming’s treatment, remarking that Soul Engineer cultivation seemed easier by comparison.

After five years of punishing Body Sect training, Xu Tianming traveled to Star Dou Forest to meet Huo Yuhao and secure the opportunities tied to him. He encountered Huo Yuhao, Beibei, and Tang Ya over grilled fish, and the group began introducing themselves.

• Mu Ye told Xu Tianming that his physical strength had reached the limit for his level after years of harsh training.
• Xu Tianming waited near Star Dou Forest's entrance after Mu Ye reported that the young Spirit Ice Douluo would appear nearby.
• Xu Tianming found Huo Yuhao cooking fish and warned him that a fire could attract powerful soul beasts.
• Xu Tianming asked Huo Yuhao to share his grilled fish in exchange for help hunting a Soul Ring.
• Tang Ya and Beibei arrived, joined them for the food, and Beibei introduced himself and Tang Ya.

Xu Tianming met Huo Yuhao, Tang Ya, and Beibei in the Star Dou Forest, shared his strengthening wine with them, and revealed that he and Huo Yuhao had eye Martial Souls. He invited Huo Yuhao to join him for training, leaving Huo Yuhao’s answer unresolved.

• Huo Yuhao and Xu Tianming introduced themselves to Beibei while sharing grilled fish in the Star Dou Forest.
• Xu Tianming offered the group Hundred Fruit Brew, and Huo Yuhao and Tang Ya drank a cup each and felt its benefits.
• Xu Tianming recognized Beibei and Tang Ya’s cultivation levels, then avoided revealing his own identity.
• Xu Tianming told Huo Yuhao that his Martial Soul was also eyes and showed him its golden and silver light.
• Xu Tianming invited Huo Yuhao to come with him and promised to provide the best training.

Xu Tianming tried to recruit Huo Yuhao for the Sun Moon Empire, but Huo Yuhao chose to join Tang Ya and Beibei's Tang Sect and pursue admission to Shrek Academy. As the group headed deeper into the Star Dou Forest, Xu Tianming's system activated a new difficult choice.

• Beibei suspected Xu Tianming belonged to the Body Sect, but Xu denied it and revealed that he came from the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xu Tianming invited Huo Yuhao to join the Sun Moon Empire, while Beibei and Tang Ya offered him a path into Shrek Academy through the Tang Sect's recommendation slot.
• Huo Yuhao chose Tang Ya and Beibei's offer, and Xu Tianming accepted his decision before leaving with Mu Ye.
• Beibei and Tang Ya began taking Huo Yuhao deeper into the Star Dou Forest to hunt for a Soul Ring, unaware that Xu Tianming and Mu Ye followed them.
• A wooden warning sign appeared ahead, Mu Ye sensed powerful spiritual fluctuations, and Xu Tianming's God-Level Choice system activated.

As the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sacrificed itself to Huo Yuhao, Xu Tianming chose to wait and intercept Electrolux rather than claim the silkworm for himself. His spiritual power drew Electrolux down from the darkened sky, and the gray current entered Xu Tianming’s forehead.

• Xu Tianming rejected the system’s risky third choice and selected the Spirit Soul Contract reward by choosing to attract Electrolux after the sacrifice.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm wrapped its golden halos around Huo Yuhao and sacrificed itself to him.
• Mu Ye offered to interrupt the sacrifice so Xu Tianming could claim the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, but Xu Tianming refused and warned Mu Ye not to interfere.
• After the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm detected Xu Tianming’s spiritual power, the sky darkened and an immense pressure descended.
• Xu Tianming released his spiritual power, and Electrolux’s gray current entered his forehead.

Xu Tianming intercepted Electrolux and received a Soul Spirit Contract, then waited for Huo Yuhao, Tang Ya, and Beibei to wake. When Beibei attacked him in anger, Xu Tianming repelled him with his body and broke his arm, leaving Beibei demanding to know who he was.

• Electrolux's remnant soul entered Xu Tianming, and he received the Soul Spirit Contract reward.
• Xu Tianming reassured Mu Ye that the gray stream of air posed no danger and checked Huo Yuhao after the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm merged with him.
• Beibei woke, saw Tang Ya unconscious, and demanded to know what Xu Tianming had done to her.
• Xu Tianming ignored Beibei, who summoned his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul and attacked him.
• Xu Tianming withstood Beibei's strike and sent him flying, breaking his right arm; Beibei asked who Xu Tianming was.

Xu Tianming injured Beibei and used the confrontation to criticize Shrek Academy for abandoning the Tang Sect while supporting Heaven Dou and Star Luo in the war against the Sun Moon Empire. He left Tang Ya with an offer to develop the Tang Sect’s hidden weapons in the Sun Moon Empire and promised help against her enemies.

• Beibei attacked Xu Tianming and was badly injured by the force rebounding from Xu Tianming’s body, then Tang Ya woke and found Beibei hurt.
• Xu Tianming claimed he had arrived to watch over the unconscious trio and that Beibei attacked him first, leaving Beibei unable to explain what had happened.
• Xu Tianming reminded Tang Ya and Beibei that Shrek Academy had not helped the Tang Sect avenge its destruction by the Iron Blood Sect, and Tang Ya said she would take revenge herself.
• Beibei defended Shrek Academy’s neutrality in sect disputes, so Xu Tianming challenged him over Shrek’s support for Heaven Dou and Star Luo during the war against the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xu Tianming praised the potential of the Tang Sect’s hidden weapons and invited Tang Ya to develop them in the Sun Moon Empire, offering to help eliminate the Iron Blood Sect and other enemies.

Xu Tianming rebuked Beibei for speaking on Tang Ya’s behalf, then left Huo Yuhao and the others to return to Shrek Academy. After learning why Tang Ya was troubled, Huo Yuhao began to question Shrek Academy’s reputation, while Xu Tianming sent Mu Ye to investigate the Extreme North before he went to Ming Capital.

• Xu Tianming slapped Beibei after Beibei tried to refuse Tang Ya’s possible move to the Sun Moon Empire on her behalf.
• Huo Yuhao woke, and Xu Tianming invited him and Tang Ya to seek opportunities in the Sun Moon Empire before departing Star Dou Forest.
• Beibei said his injuries prevented him from helping Huo Yuhao hunt a Soul Ring, and the three returned toward Shrek Academy.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm told Huo Yuhao that Beibei’s attacks had rebounded off Xu Tianming and explained that Xu Tianming had offered to help Tang Ya avenge the Tang Sect.
• Huo Yuhao questioned Shrek Academy’s reputation after learning it had not helped the Tang Sect, while Xu Tianming ordered Mu Ye to search the Extreme North for a high-age Snow Lotus and the habitats of its three great clans.

Xu Tianming returned to Dongyang City and chose which academy to attend in Ming Capital, earning a forging technique from his God-Level Choice system. After receiving Tiangong Secret Forging, he began training and resolved to reach Thousand Refinement before enrollment.

• Xu Tianming returned home after traveling from Star Dou Forest with Mu Ye, and his parents welcomed him back.
• Xu Xiang told Xu Tianming that Crown Prince Xu Tianran had seized control of the Sun Moon Empire and offered him a choice between two Ming Capital academies.
• Xu Tianming chose the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy on Xu Xiang's recommendation and received Tiangong Secret Forging from the system.
• Xu Tianming absorbed the forging technique's information, then went to the manor's Forging Room to study it and practice.
• Xu Tianming judged that he had barely reached Hundred Refinement and set a goal of reaching Thousand Refinement before enrollment.

Xu Tianming used the Thousand Refinement Method to forge Qingjingang into a longblade with heightened strength and spirituality. After Kong Yue recognized the metal’s unusual qualities, she advised him to choose a path that suited him, and said she would take him to Ming Capital the next day.

• Xu Tianming spent more than two hours forging Qingjingang, while Kong Yue entered the Forging Room and realized she should not disturb him.
• The forging hammers broke as azure light rose from the metal, and Xu Tianming sprayed his blood onto the Qingjingang to complete the forging.
• Xu Tianming revealed a hiltless, jade-green longblade and explained to Kong Yue that his Thousand Refinement Method awakened the metal’s spirituality.
• Kong Yue recognized the longblade’s extraordinary hardness and affinity with Soul Power, then warned Xu Tianming not to spread himself across too many pursuits.
• Kong Yue told Xu Tianming she would take him to Ming Capital the next day so he could consider which path he wanted to follow.

Xu Tianming arrived in Ming Capital to enroll at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy, choosing to take the entrance process rather than use his family connections. His reported cultivation shocked the academy staff and students, and he revealed three extraordinary Soul Rings to prove it.

• Xu Tianming admired the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy and told Kong Yue he would enroll through the normal process.
• Kong Yue warned Xu Tianming to take care of himself and study hard before he entered the academy alone.
• Xu Tianming told the student registrar, Chen An, that he was eleven years old, a thirty-seventh-level control-type Spirit Master, and a First-Level Soul Engineer.
• Chen An's shock drew Elder Ma, who asked Xu Tianming to show his Soul Rings to verify his Soul Power Level.
• Xu Tianming revealed one purple Soul Ring and two black Soul Rings, causing an uproar among the people at registration.

Xu Tianming impressed Ma Yun with his powerful Soul Rings and entered the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy’s practical assessment. He chose to fight a five-thousand-year soul beast without a Soul Tool, but Ma Yun became fascinated by Xu Tianming’s unusual self-forged blade.

• Ma Yun recognized Xu Tianming’s talent and suspected he was connected to the imperial family, then explained the academy’s two entrance assessments.
• Xu Tianming chose the practical assessment and followed Ma Yun to the Trial Grounds.
• Ma Yun raised the challenge to a five-thousand-year soul beast, and Xu Tianming said he would fight without a Soul Tool.
• Xu Tianming showed Ma Yun his emerald-green longsword, which he had forged himself and which had no Core Array.
• Ma Yun handled the blade, felt it reject him, and identified its material as Qingjingang before Xu Tianming urged him to finish the trial first.