Chapter Summaries

Yun Chen, a transmigrated orphan raised by the Xu Family, prepared to awaken his martial soul alongside his childhood friend Xu Xiaoyan. His blood-linked martial soul emerged and worried the Xu parents, who feared it might be judged an Evil Martial Soul.

• Xu Xiaoyan woke Yun Chen by headbutting him while wearing dinosaur pajamas, then her mother scolded her for fooling around.
• Yun Chen reflected on the dangers of the Douluo Continent and decided to wait until his martial soul awakening before planning his future.
• Xu Xiaoyan persuaded her family to delay Yun Chen’s awakening so they could undergo it together.
• Xu Xiaoyan’s father guided Yun Chen through the awakening array, revealing a blood-related martial soul marked by red light and patterns across his face and neck.
• Xu Xiaoyan admired Yun Chen’s red martial soul, while her parents exchanged worried looks over its possible Evil Martial Soul classification.

Yun Chen and Xu Xiaoyan awakened their Martial Souls, revealing Yun Chen’s Innate Full Soul Power and Xu Xiaoyan’s Ice Staff. While Xu’s father searched for a teacher and a Soul Spirit for Yun Chen, Yun Chen began cultivating and training his body.

• Xu’s father tested Yun Chen’s Innate Soul Power and found it was at the maximum level of ten.
• Xu Xiaoyan awakened an Ice Staff Martial Soul and cried because it was different from Yun Chen’s, but Yun Chen comforted her by describing how their Martial Souls could work together.
• Xu Xiaoyan tested at Innate Level Eight Soul Power, and Xu’s father and Mother Xu discussed finding Yun Chen a teacher for his Body Martial Soul.
• News of the children’s talents spread through the Xu Family, while Xu’s father struggled to find a suitable Body Martial Soul teacher and delayed arranging a Soul Spirit for Yun Chen.
• Yun Chen began meditating and training his body, cultivated more than twice as fast as Xu Xiaoyan, and developed a huge appetite.
• After Xu Xiaoyan teased Yun Chen by calling him Brother Pig, he messed up her hair in retaliation.

Yun Chen and Xu Xiaoyan visited the East Sea Spirit Pagoda to choose their first Soul Spirits, with Xu Xiaoyan’s family supporting her more after discovering her mutated martial soul. Yun Chen absorbed a Blood Rage Lion Tiger Soul Spirit and gained a powerful enhancement skill, leaving Mother Xu and Xu Xiaoyan curious about its exact effects.

• Mother Xu took Yun Chen and Xu Xiaoyan to the East Sea Spirit Pagoda to select their Soul Spirits.
• Xu Xiaoyan chose a Soul Spirit suited to the control-type path her parents had selected for her.
• Yun Chen chose the artificial Blood Rage Lion Tiger for its enhancement-type Blood Rage skill.
• Yun Chen absorbed the Soul Spirit and gained a skill that enhanced all his attributes by fifty percent and granted immunity to negative conditions.
• Xu Xiaoyan asked Yun Chen what his first soul skill did, and he told her it enhanced all his attributes by fifty percent.

Yun Chen and Xu Xiaoyan enrolled at Eastsea Junior Academy, then encountered a silver-haired girl being targeted by human traffickers. After the butler rescued her, she introduced herself as Na'er, leaving Yun Chen wondering if she was the person he suspected.

• Mother Xu told Yun Chen and Xu Xiaoyan they would attend Eastsea Junior Soul Master Academy, and Xu Xiaoyan agreed when she learned Yun Chen would go too.
• The butler took Yun Chen and Xu Xiaoyan to finish their enrollment and then brought them out to play.
• Yun Chen heard traffickers discussing a little girl and asked the butler to investigate with him.
• The butler defeated the traffickers and called the authorities to take them away.
• Xu Xiaoyan approached the silver-haired girl, who said her name was Na'er.

Yun Chen and Xu Xiaoyan brought the amnesiac Na'er home, and the Xu Family took her in after no records of her were found. Three years later, Yun Chen had graduated from Junior Soul Master Academy with rank 27 cultivation and had begun developing his blacksmithing skills.

• Xu Xiaoyan asked Yun Chen to bring Na'er home, and Yun Chen agreed while asking Butler Uncle to notify the Law Enforcement Squad.
• Mother Xu welcomed Na'er after hearing what had happened, and she later embraced Na'er and Xu Xiaoyan in their matching dinosaur outfits.
• The Law Enforcement Squad found no records for Na'er in Eastsea City or nearby towns, so she stayed with the Xu Family with Xu's father's approval.
• Over the next three years, Yun Chen and Xu Xiaoyan studied and cultivated, while Yun Chen focused on tempering his body and reached rank 27 by graduation.
• Yun Chen's blacksmithing assessment showed strength as his main talent, but he persisted in practicing and became a level-two blacksmith.

Yun Chen and Xu Xiaoyan enrolled in Eastsea Academy’s Intermediate Division, and Na'er came to say goodbye before returning to her family. Her departure deepened Yun Chen’s involvement in the Spirit Beasts’ plans, leaving him resolved to seek more resources and guidance.

• Yun Chen reached level twenty-seven, and Xu Xiaoyu and Xu Xiaoyan teased each other about their cultivation and fighting skills.
• Three months later, Yun Chen and Xu Xiaoyan enrolled in Class One of Eastsea Academy’s first-year Intermediate Division.
• Na'er told Yun Chen that her family had found her and that she was leaving, though she had left Xu Xiaoyan a letter.
• Yun Chen comforted Na'er by telling her that she and Xu Xiaoyan would always be his younger sisters.
• After Na'er returned to her room, Yun Chen considered seeking cultivation resources and guidance from the Blacksmith Association in Heaven Dou City.

Yun Chen moved into Eastsea Academy, met his roommates, and encountered Tang Wulin and Xie Xie before joining First-Year Class One. The chapter ended with teacher Ye Yingluo and the class stunned when Yun Chen revealed his Soul Power Level was twenty-eight at age nine.

• Yun Chen arrived at Eastsea Academy and introduced his blood-based Body Martial Soul to roommates Zhang Yangzi, Wei Xiaofeng, and Wang Jinxi.
• Zhang Yangzi and Wei Xiaofeng witnessed a fight between Tang Wulin and Xie Xie, while Yun Chen recognized them and reflected on Tang Wulin's Golden Dragon King Bloodline.
• Yun Chen and his roommates picked up Xu Xiaoyan, and Zhang Yangzi treated the group to dinner at the cafeteria.
• Yun Chen attended Ye Yingluo's first-year Class One introduction and nearly fell asleep during her opening remarks.
• Yun Chen announced that his Soul Power Level was twenty-eight, shocking Ye Yingluo and his classmates.

Yun Chen surprised Class One with his Level 28 Soul Power, then settled into academy life and challenged Wei Xiaofeng to a friendly match. When Gu Yue arrived in Eastsea City and noticed him, the chapter revealed that the Silver Dragon King had split into Gu Yue and Na'er, while Gu Yue had come to investigate Tang Wulin's Golden Dragon King aura.

• Ye Yingluo and Class One's students were astonished by Yun Chen's Level 28 Soul Power, and the class also learned that five freshmen were Two Rings Soul Grandmasters.
• Yun Chen and Wei Xiaofeng agreed to fight, with the loser treating everyone in the dorm to a meal.
• Ye Yingluo took Class One outside while Wu Zhangkong's Class Five students ran laps in weighted clothing.
• Gu Yue arrived at the field, and Xu Xiaoyan remarked that she resembled Na'er.
• Yun Chen suspected that Gu Yue and Na'er might be separate personalities of Gu Yuena, while Gu Yue decided to keep her distance from him.
• Gu Yue had come to Eastsea City after Di Tian and the others traced Tang Wulin's Golden Dragon King aura, and the Silver Dragon King had split into Gu Yue and Na'er.

Gu Yue demonstrated her strength by overwhelming Xie Xie in a spar, drawing Wu Zhangkong’s attention. Wu Zhangkong planned to enroll her in Class Five and pair her with Tang Wulin and Xie Xie for the Class Promotion Tournament, while Yun Chen watched without seeking involvement.

• Yun Chen observed that Gu Yue did not acknowledge him and reflected on her memories and Ye Yingluo’s interest in Wu Zhangkong.
• Wu Zhangkong arranged a spar between Gu Yue and Xie Xie, and Gu Yue suppressed him with her control of four elements.
• Yun Chen and Xu Xiaoyan praised Gu Yue’s abilities, while Wei Xiaofeng, Wang Jinxi, and Zhang Yangzi considered how they might fare against her.
• Wu Zhangkong decided to bring Gu Yue into Class Five and form a tournament team with her, Tang Wulin, and Xie Xie.
• Wu Zhangkong left to handle Gu Yue’s enrollment, Ye Yingluo followed him, and Wei Xiaofeng expressed a desire to spar with his classmates.

Yun Chen’s classmates joked about combat lessons, and he promised Xu Xiaoyan a trip to Gourmet Street. Mu Xi and Ouyang Zixin visited the first-year students to find Yun Chen, where Mu Xi urged him to keep practicing blacksmithing and Ouyang Zixin learned that he was nearly Soul Power Level thirty.

• Xu Xiaoyan said she did not want practical combat classes, while Zhang Yangzi and Wei Xiaofeng joked about protecting her.
• Yun Chen invited Xu Xiaoyan to Gourmet Street after school and said they would bring Xu Xiaoyu to pay.
• Mu Xi invited Ouyang Zixin to visit the junior division and look for Yun Chen, but they first encountered Tang Wulin, who did not know him.
• Mu Xi found Yun Chen outside First-Year Class One and reminded him not to neglect his blacksmithing practice.
• Yun Chen said he was nearly Soul Power Level thirty, surprising Ouyang Zixin.

Yun Chen, Xu Xiaoyan, Mu Xi, and Ouyang Zixin went out for Braised Beef in Pot with Xu Xiaoyu, where Ouyang Zixin discovered Mu Xi had maneuvered her into paying for the meal. On the way back, they discussed the upcoming Class Promotion Tournament, though Yun Chen did not know whether he would compete.

• Yun Chen invited Mu Xi and Ouyang Zixin to join him and Xu Xiaoyan for dinner, and Ouyang Zixin agreed to pay for the meal.
• Yun Chen, Xu Xiaoyan, Mu Xi, and Ouyang Zixin met Xu Xiaoyu at Gourmet Street and learned that Yun Chen and Xu Xiaoyan were his younger siblings.
• The group ate Braised Beef in Pot, and Xu Xiaoyu paid the bill, prompting Ouyang Zixin to realize Mu Xi had tricked her into offering to pay.
• Ouyang Zixin greeted Tang Wulin at the restaurant before leaving with Yun Chen and the others.
• Mu Xi asked whether Yun Chen would compete in the upcoming Class Promotion Tournament, and Yun Chen said his teacher had not told him he was needed.

Yun Chen agreed to accompany Xu Xiaoyan into the Spirit Ascension Platform so she could build courage, then entered the simulated Star Dou Great Forest to find her. The chapter left Mother Xu and the Spirit Pagoda staff bewildered by Xu Xiaoyan’s unexpected behavior.

• Yun Chen told Zhang Yangzi, Wei Xiaofeng, and Wang Jinxi that he would give up his place in the Class Promotion Tournament and warned them about their team’s weaknesses.
• Ye Yingluo named Yun Chen, Xu Xiaoyan, Wei Xiaofeng, Zhang Yangzi, and Wang Jinxi as candidates for the tournament.
• Mother Xu asked Yun Chen to accompany Xu Xiaoyan into the Primary Spirit Ascension Platform, and he agreed.
• Yun Chen entered the simulated Star Dou Great Forest and went deeper to find Xu Xiaoyan.
• Mother Xu and the Spirit Pagoda staff watched Xu Xiaoyan’s situation and reacted with bewilderment.

Xu Xiaoyan faced a hundred-year Moon-Scar Bear in the Spirit Ascension Platform and survived by using her soul skill and an improvised trap. Gu Yue watched from hiding as Xu Xiaoyan fled, while Spirit Pagoda staff and an important figure reacted in disbelief.

• Xu Xiaoyan dug a shallow pit beneath a tree and waited for Spirit Beasts, relying on an idea from a story Yun Chen had told her.
• A hundred-year Moon-Scar Bear found Xu Xiaoyan, and Mother Xu refused to have her teleported out so she could face the trial.
• Xu Xiaoyan's Star Wheel Chain caught the charging bear's hind leg, sending it crashing into a tree, and she bound it again while it was dazed.
• Xu Xiaoyan ran after throwing a small ball that burst liquid into the Moon-Scar Bear's eyes, leaving it thrashing in pain.
• Spirit Pagoda staff and an important figure watched in astonishment as Gu Yue secretly observed Xu Xiaoyan's escape.

Xu Xiaoyan used improvised gadgets and a Soul Guidance Bomb to kill a Moon-Scar Bear, leaving Gu Yue shaken by the combat power human technology could provide. The chapter ended with Yun Chen trapped in a fight against a pack of Wind Wolves as he prepared a way to break their encirclement.

• Xu Xiaoyan hid from the Moon-Scar Bear, but it tracked her by scent and chased her.
• Xu Xiaoyan pelted the Moon-Scar Bear with foul-smelling gas and prank devices, setting its fur ablaze.
• Xu Xiaoyan used a Soul Guidance Bomb to kill the Moon-Scar Bear, and Gu Yue began to fear what human technology could do in the hands of powerful fighters.
• Yun Chen searched for Xu Xiaoyan and killed several Ten-Year Spirit Beasts along the way.
• Yun Chen fought a pack of Wind Wolves led by a Hundred-Year Wind Demon Wolf, but struggled to escape their encirclement.

Yun Chen adapted to the Wind Wolves during battle, turning scattered blood crystals into deadly spears and drawing the attention of Leng Yaozhu and the Spirit Pagoda staff. He fought the Alpha Wolf and slammed it into the ground, while Leng Yaozhu ordered that he be brought to meet her after leaving the Spirit Ascension Platform.

• Spirit Pagoda staff noticed Yun Chen dodging the wolves and examined the red dust from his martial soul as Mother Xu agreed to let them record his condition.
• Leng Yaozhu watched a replay of Yun Chen's fight and concluded that his blood-related martial soul behaved in an unusual way.
• Yun Chen summoned the red particles into Blood Spears and pierced the Wind Wolves when their Alpha Wolf led them into a fiercer attack.
• Leng Yaozhu asked the East Sea Spirit Pagoda executive to investigate Yun Chen and arrange a meeting after he left the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Yun Chen blocked the Alpha Wolf's attacks, tracked it with his Bloodline Power, dodged its lunge, grabbed its hind leg, and smashed it into the ground.

Yun Chen fought through a pack of Spirit Beasts in the Spirit Ascension Platform while Xu Xiaoyan and Gu Yue teamed up to search for him. The three reunited near the forest’s edge, though Gu Yue remained distant toward Yun Chen.

• Yun Chen defeated the century-old Alpha Wolf after wiping out its pack and felt his Soul Spirit grow stronger.
• Gu Yue found Xu Xiaoyan after she used her only Soul Guidance Bomb to kill a Moon-Scar Bear, and the two formed a temporary team.
• Xu Xiaoyan told Gu Yue that she reminded her of a friend, while Gu Yue reacted to her with unexpected gentleness.
• Gu Yue and Xu Xiaoyan heard a battle nearby and watched a wounded gliding Spirit Beast flee toward them.
• Yun Chen killed the gliding Spirit Beast with a Blood Spear and reunited with Xu Xiaoyan and Gu Yue.
• Yun Chen thanked Gu Yue for protecting Xu Xiaoyan and offered to treat her to a meal, but Gu Yue answered coldly.

Yun Chen encouraged Xu Xiaoyan to try sensing the stars during the day, then explained the history of human and Spirit Beast conflict as the trio traveled through the Spirit Ascension Platform. His remarks angered Gu Yue, who asked whether he thought Spirit Beasts deserved their fate, and Yun Chen realized he had forgotten who she was.

• Xu Xiaoyan worried that Gu Yue's assessment might be affected, so Yun Chen agreed that they would travel together and urged Xu Xiaoyan to contribute.
• Yun Chen suggested that Xu Xiaoyan might draw on the stars during the day, but her attempt to sense them in the Spirit Ascension Platform failed.
• Gu Yue felt uneasy watching Yun Chen comfort Xu Xiaoyan, then joined them as they headed deeper into the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Xu Xiaoyan admired the simulated forest, and Yun Chen teased her before explaining how Spirit Beasts had once been food for humans and had declined through their long conflict.
• Gu Yue coldly asked Yun Chen whether Spirit Beasts deserved their current condition, and he realized he had spoken carelessly in front of the Silver Dragon King.

Yun Chen explained how the Spirit Beasts’ choices and human greed had led to their loss of power before an Iron-Bristled Savage Bull charged at the group. Yun Chen, Gu Yue, and Xu Xiaoyan fought back and managed to freeze the beast in place.

• Yun Chen told Gu Yue that the Spirit Beasts’ support for the Spirit Pagoda had eased relations with humans but left them vulnerable to human greed and technological change.
• Two roars interrupted Yun Chen, and he shielded Xu Xiaoyan as the group prepared for a charging Spirit Beast.
• Gu Yue identified the creature as an Iron-Bristled Savage Bull, and Yun Chen carried Xu Xiaoyan aside while Gu Yue teleported out of its path.
• Yun Chen leaped onto the bull’s back as Xu Xiaoyan restrained it with her Ice Wheel, but the bull broke free and tried to crush him by rolling over.
• Gu Yue warned Yun Chen to move, and Xu Xiaoyan froze the bull with another Ice Wheel as ice spread across the ground.

Yun Chen, Xu Xiaoyan, and Gu Yue defeated an Iron-Bristled Savage Bull in the Spirit Ascension Platform, but staff pulled them out when a thousand-year Earth-Splitting Demon Lizard appeared. Outside, Leng Yaozhu summoned them, arranged an examination for Xu Xiaoyan, and invited Mother Xu to accompany her.

• Xu Xiaoyan and Gu Yue froze the Iron-Bristled Savage Bull, allowing Yun Chen to knock it off balance and kill it with a blood-energy spear.
• An Earth-Splitting Demon Lizard appeared, and staff removed Yun Chen, Xu Xiaoyan, and Gu Yue from the Spirit Ascension Platform before it could attack.
• Yun Chen helped Xu Xiaoyan from her metal pod and asked Mother Xu to take them home, but a Spirit Pagoda staff member invited them to meet the vice tower master.
• Mother Xu discovered that the vice tower master was Leng Yaozhu, who arranged an examination and nutrient solution for Xu Xiaoyan and offered to let Mother Xu accompany her.

Yun Chen revealed that his unusual martial soul was blood and joined the Spirit Pagoda as a core disciple. Intrigued by his abundant Bloodline Power, Phantom Brain Douluo Han Tianyi sent for someone from the Body Sect to investigate Yun Chen’s abilities.

• After Mother Xu and Xu Xiaoyan left, Leng Yaozhu asked Yun Chen about his martial soul, and he demonstrated it by condensing a ball of blood.
• Leng Yaozhu offered Yun Chen core disciple status in the Spirit Pagoda, and he accepted.
• Mother Xu was pleased by Yun Chen’s decision, while Xu Xiaoyan grew upset until he finished the paperwork and returned with her to the Xu Family.
• Leng Yaozhu sent Yun Chen’s information to Phantom Brain Douluo Han Tianyi for review.
• Han Tianyi contacted his martial nephew and ordered him to visit East Sea and assess Yun Chen, rebuking him when he hesitated.