Chapter Summaries

Mu Ye tried to recruit Mu Tianchen into the Body Sect by offering its Innate Secret Method and Martial Soul Secondary Awakening, but Mu Tianchen refused out of loyalty to Leng Yaozhu. Mu Tianchen agreed to repay the Purple Gold Bone-Mending Ointment within three years and revealed that he planned to join the military, leaving Mu Ye furious and worried.

• Mu Ye offered to make Mu Tianchen his disciple and teach him the Body Sect's Innate Secret Method and Martial Soul Secondary Awakening, but Mu Tianchen refused because Leng Yaozhu was already his teacher.
• Mu Ye set a three-year deadline for Mu Tianchen to repay the Purple Gold Bone-Mending Ointment or provide something of equal value, and Mu Tianchen agreed.
• Mu Ye asked Mu Tianchen what he planned to do after leaving the Spirit Pagoda, and Mu Tianchen said he might join the military.
• Mu Tianchen explained that he wanted to test himself in dangerous places and grow stronger through life-and-death struggles, prompting Mu Ye to scold him for his choice.

After recovering from his battle with the Holy Spirit Cult’s Level 98 Super Douluo, Mu Tianchen reunited with Tang Ziran and Lang Yue and decided to move them to the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters for their safety. He planned to set out on a new journey and accelerate his training toward becoming a Title Douluo.

• Mu Ye left after Mu Tianchen refused to become his disciple, but offered to welcome him into the Body Sect in the future and gave him his contact information.
• Mu Tianchen tested the Purple Gold Bone-Mending Ointment, reflected on his defeat by the Holy Spirit Cult powerhouse he believed was Dark Hummingbird, and resolved to grow stronger.
• Mu Tianchen and the Golden Behemoth set out to find the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff and reunite with Tang Ziran and Lang Yue, whom the beast had rescued.
• Mu Tianchen assured his parents that he had recovered, then noticed that his Soul Power density was close to advancing beyond 9.5.
• Mu Tianchen told Tang Ziran and Lang Yue that he would send them to the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters, where Sky Phoenix Douluo Leng Yaozhu could protect them.

After entrusting Tang Ziran and Lang Yue to Leng Yaozhu’s protection, Mu Tianchen watched his parents depart and decided to repair his damaged Two-Word Battle Armor before joining the Blood God Legion. He went to the East Sea City Blacksmith Association to meet Mu Chen, where a golden-haired girl approached him.

• Leng Yaozhu promised to protect Tang Ziran, Lang Yue, and Tang Wulin while urging Mu Tianchen to prioritize his survival and become a Title Douluo.
• Mu Tianchen reassured his parents, soothed their emotions with his Holy Dragon of Light aura, and watched them board a train out of East Sea City.
• After his parents left, Mu Tianchen decided to repair his badly damaged Two-Word Battle Armor, Holy Dragon, before traveling to the Blood God Legion.
• Mu Tianchen went to the East Sea City Blacksmith Association and showed receptionist Yun Xiaoling his Spirit Pagoda Headquarters Council badge to request a meeting with President Mu Chen.
• A golden-haired girl who said Mu Chen was her father arrived and looked at Mu Tianchen with interest.

Mu Tianchen accompanied Mu Xi to meet her father, President Mu Chen, at the East Sea City Blacksmith Association. During the elevator ride, Mu Xi learned that Mu Tianchen was the top-ranked youth genius on the Mainland Youth Genius Ranking and was stunned by his twin Holy Dragon Martial Souls and extraordinary cultivation.

• Mu Xi recognized Mu Tianchen as Tang Wulin's adopted older brother after he revealed that Tang Wulin had described her as a caring senior sister.
• Mu Xi offered to take Mu Tianchen to see her father, President Mu Chen, and Yun Xiaoling warned her that Mu Chen had failed another forging attempt.
• On the elevator ride, Mu Xi questioned Mu Tianchen about his Martial Soul and discussed famous Martial Souls, including Sky-Piercing Douluo Yun Ming's Sky-Piercing Spear.
• Mu Tianchen told Mu Xi to check the Mainland Youth Genius Ranking, where she found him ranked first as a fifteen-year-old Level 69 Soul Emperor with three Holy Dragon Martial Souls and Innate Level 20 Soul Power.
• Mu Tianchen confirmed that the ranking described him, and Mu Xi assumed his auxiliary profession was too low-ranked to list.

Mu Tianchen visited the East Sea City Blacksmith Association to repair his damaged Two-Word Battle Armor, Holy Dragon. Mu Chen agreed to lend him the association’s best Forging Room, leaving Mu Tianchen ready to repair the armor before heading to the Northwest Continent to join the Blood God Legion.

• Mu Xi brought Mu Tianchen to her father Mu Chen’s office at the East Sea City Blacksmith Association.
• Mu Chen welcomed Mu Tianchen and asked why he had come to the association.
• Mu Tianchen revealed his battle-damaged Two-Word Battle Armor, Holy Dragon, and explained that he intended to repair it himself.
• Mu Tianchen told Mu Chen and Mu Xi that he was a level 7 Mecha Repairer, surprising them both.
• Mu Chen agreed to lend Mu Tianchen the association’s best Forging Room.
• Mu Tianchen planned to repair Holy Dragon and then travel to the Northwest Continent to join the Blood God Legion.

Mu Tianchen spent a month repairing and redesigning his Two-Word Battle Armor, improving its power and adapting it to both of his Martial Souls. After thanking Mu Chen, he decided to enlist in the military and looked toward the northwest as his next destination.

• Mu Chen gave Mu Tianchen a private Forging Room, then praised his and Tang Wulin's talents while speaking with Mu Xi.
• Mu Tianchen examined his damaged Battle Armor and decided to redesign its breastplate and back armor to accommodate his Light and Dark Dragon Emperor Transformation.
• Mu Tianchen forged a new breastplate with Light Dragon Crystal Stone and redesigned the back armor, improving the armor's efficiency and light-energy amplification by twenty percent.
• Over the next twenty days, Mu Tianchen repaired the remaining damage and integrated the Battle Armor with both of his Martial Souls.
• Mu Tianchen thanked Mu Chen, who invited him to treat the East Sea City Blacksmith Association as home and call him Uncle Mu.
• Mu Tianchen told Mu Chen he planned to enlist in the military, then gazed toward the northwest of the Douluo Continent, where he intended to fight next.

Mu Tianchen traveled from East Sea City to Ming Capital on his way to join the Blood God Legion, where a staged robbery accusation briefly landed him at the Federal Central Guard Bureau. Deputy Legion Commander Long Tianwu confirmed his resolve and took him aboard a military aircraft bound for Blazing Basin.

• Mu Tianchen left Mu Chen and Mu Xi and took a Soul Guidance Train to Ming Capital, where he admired the city's advanced technology.
• A young woman grabbed Mu Tianchen and falsely accused him of robbery, and Federal Central Guard Bureau officers took them both to the station.
• Long Tianwu arrived, revealed that the Guard Bureau had cleared Mu Tianchen, and escorted him out.
• Mu Tianchen recognized Long Tianwu as the Blood God Legion's deputy legion commander and reaffirmed his wish to join.
• Long Tianwu accepted Mu Tianchen's resolve and took him to a military airport, where they boarded an aircraft for Blazing Basin.

Mu Tianchen began the Blood God Legion’s assessment by crossing the Blazing Basin toward the Endless Mountains in an off-road vehicle. After stopping in a canyon, he was confronted by two young women who mistook him for a thief and attacked him, only for him to easily evade and repel them.

• Long Tianwu explained that Mu Tianchen had to cross the desert alone and find the Blood God Legion camp in the Endless Mountains without using his martial soul or Soul Power.
• Mu Tianchen drove his Tang Sect off-road vehicle into the desert, relying on his Soul Core to replenish his Soul Power as he traveled.
• At night, Mu Tianchen parked in a canyon and found another vehicle, a campfire, and grilled meat with no one nearby.
• A young Four-Ring Soul Ancestor accused Mu Tianchen of stealing the meat and attacked him, but he blocked her kick and sent her flying.
• A second young woman sprang from the darkness and struck the ground where Mu Tianchen had stood, but he dodged her attack.
• Mu Tianchen faced the two women and criticized them for attacking someone he called an ordinary person.

Mu Tianchen met Long Yuxue and Jiang Qiyue by a campfire in the desert and discovered that Long Yuxue was Long Tianwu’s daughter. The encounter ended in awkward surprise when he ate a piece of roasted meat Long Yuxue had already bitten.

• Jiang Qiyue accused Mu Tianchen of being a thief, but Long Yuxue apologized and invited him to share their campfire.
• Long Yuxue guessed Mu Tianchen was headed to the Blood God Legion assessment, and he recognized her as Long Tianwu’s daughter.
• Jiang Qiyue suspected Mu Tianchen was trying to pursue Long Yuxue, while Long Yuxue realized he was the celebrated Mu Tianchen her father had meant to receive.
• Mu Tianchen praised the roasted meat and discovered that the piece he had eaten was the one Long Yuxue had already started.

Mu Tianchen, Long Yuxue, and Jiang Qiyue chatted beside their campfire before hundreds of Sand Demon Worms surrounded them. Mu Tianchen revealed his Two-Word Battle Armor and immense strength by killing over a hundred worms in an instant, leaving Long Yuxue and Jiang Qiyue stunned as the battle continued.

• Mu Tianchen ate the grilled meat Long Yuxue had already eaten from, embarrassing her and surprising Jiang Qiyue.
• Jiang Qiyue warned Mu Tianchen that the Blood God Legion assessment was difficult, while Long Yuxue asked about Spirit Pagoda Headquarters.
• Jiang Qiyue asked Mu Tianchen to help her obtain a Soul Spirit, then teased Long Yuxue about him winning her over.
• A tremor alerted the three, and Mu Tianchen used Holy Dragon Perception to detect hundreds of Sand Demon Worms approaching.
• The Sand Demon Worms surrounded the group, including a leader whose cultivation Mu Tianchen estimated at fifty thousand years.
• Mu Tianchen summoned his Two-Word Battle Armor and used Sky Soaring Dragon Flash to destroy over a hundred weaker worms, shocking Long Yuxue and Jiang Qiyue.

Mu Tianchen, Long Yuxue, and Jiang Qiyue battled a swarm of Sand Demon Worms, with Mu Tianchen focusing on the two ten-thousand-year worms and their fifty-thousand-year leader. He killed the leader but collapsed from its poison, leaving his condition uncertain.

• Long Yuxue and Jiang Qiyue joined the fight, using her Soul Guidance Ray Gun and Jiang Qiyue’s Earth Tyrant Dragon strength to kill Sand Demon Worms.
• Mu Tianchen killed one ten-thousand-year Sand Demon Worm with Holy Light Dragon Fist and stored its Soul Ring.
• The fifty-thousand-year Sand Demon Worm leader poisoned Mu Tianchen, but he suppressed the toxin long enough to kill the other ten-thousand-year worm.
• Mu Tianchen trapped the leader in a Cage of Light Trajectory, then used the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff transformed into a golden halberd to cleave it in two.
• The leader’s poison erupted inside Mu Tianchen, and he fell from the sky.

Mu Tianchen survived the battle with the Sand Demon Worms but was poisoned by their fifty-thousand-year leader. Long Tianwu arrived with the Blood God Legion’s antidote, while Zhang Huanyun ordered an investigation into how such a powerful worm had left the desert’s core.

• Jiang Qiyue caught Mu Tianchen as he fell, and Long Yuxue drove the remaining Sand Demon Worms away with High-Energy Shock Bombs.
• Jiang Qiyue brought the unconscious Mu Tianchen to Long Yuxue, who gave him a pill that temporarily slowed the venom.
• Long Yuxue contacted her father, Long Tianwu, who learned Mu Tianchen needed the legion’s special antidote.
• Zhang Huanyun ordered Long Tianwu to take the antidote to Mu Tianchen and launched an investigation into the fifty-thousand-year Sand Demon Worm’s presence outside the desert’s core.
• Mu Tianchen regained consciousness and used his Ultimate Light and Two-Word Battle Armor to keep the poison from reaching his heart and organs.
• Long Tianwu arrived by helicopter with the antidote after Long Yuxue and Jiang Qiyue thanked Mu Tianchen and waited with him.

After Long Tianwu treated Mu Tianchen’s Sand Demon Worm poisoning, Mu Tianchen continued his assessment alone and reached the snow mountains leading to the Blood God Legion. As he began climbing, Zhang Huanyun and the other senior officers watched and discussed whether he could endure the assessment and help solve the Abyss problem.

• Long Tianwu applied antidote to Mu Tianchen and left with Long Yuxue and Jiang Qiyue, while Mu Tianchen remained alone in the desert.
• The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff urged Mu Tianchen to make Soul Ring Converters, but Mu Tianchen said he would consider it after entering the Blood God Legion.
• Mu Tianchen drove for two days to the Endless Mountains, stored his vehicle, and began climbing toward the Blood God Legion’s garrison.
• Mu Tianchen climbed the steep snow mountain with agility as concealed cameras transmitted his progress to the Blood God Legion.
• Zhang Huanyun praised Mu Tianchen’s climbing and fitness while the senior officers debated his motives and chances of completing the assessment.

Mu Tianchen climbed through the Great Snow Mountains without using his Martial Soul or Soul Power and reached the Blood God Legion’s outer camp in seven days. Long Tianwu accepted his mountain-climbing test but said Mu Tianchen still had to pass another assessment, which would begin the next morning.

• The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff told Mu Tianchen that three hundred-thousand-year spirit plants could advance his body cultivation to the eighth level, while Mu Tianchen considered seeking access to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well someday.
• Mu Tianchen continued climbing the snowy mountains, thinking of Tang Wulin and focusing on growing stronger through battles against Abyssal Creatures.
• After seven days, Mu Tianchen reached the Blood God Legion’s camp at six thousand meters, where Long Tianwu, Long Yuxue, and Jiang Qiyue were waiting.
• Long Tianwu declared Mu Tianchen’s climb a pass but told him he had to complete another assessment before joining the Blood God Legion.
• Long Tianwu led Mu Tianchen into the camp, while Jiang Qiyue and Long Yuxue remarked on how quickly he had arrived.

Mu Tianchen settled into the Blood God Legion after being specially recruited, and Long Tianwu explained that Zhang Huanyun viewed him as a possible successor. After a rest, Mu Tianchen met Jiang Wuyue, who challenged him to prove his strength in a fight.

• Long Tianwu showed Mu Tianchen his dormitory and explained that his assessment against Abyssal Creatures would determine his starting position.
• Long Tianwu told Mu Tianchen that Zhang Huanyun had overruled objections to recruit him and saw him as a possible successor.
• Mu Tianchen rested for five hours, while the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff sensed a powerful presence in the Blood God Legion.
• Jiang Wuyue introduced himself as deputy director of the Special Service Division and offered to show Mu Tianchen around before his assessment.
• Jiang Wuyue learned that Mu Tianchen possessed the Holy Dragon of Light Martial Soul and challenged him to a fight.

Mu Tianchen accepted Jiang Wuyue’s challenge after negotiating a month of meals if he won, then fought the Tyrant Dragon wielder in a Blood God Legion Battle Room. The fight left Jiang Wuyue crashing into the protective barrier under Mu Tianchen’s Holy Light Dragon Fist.

• Jiang Wuyue challenged Mu Tianchen, who agreed after Jiang promised to cover the Battle Room costs and treat him to a month of meals if he won.
• Jiang Wuyue brought Mu Tianchen to the Blood God Legion’s residential area, and they paid fifty Merit Points to enter a Battle Room.
• Jiang Wuyue revealed his level-fifty-four Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul, while Mu Tianchen revealed his level-sixty-nine Holy Dragon of Light Martial Soul and six black Soul Rings.
• Jiang Wuyue struck first, but Mu Tianchen’s punch sent him flying despite his Overlord Dragon Body enhancement.
• Mu Tianchen used Sky Soaring Dragon Flash and the Cage of Light Trajectory to evade Jiang Wuyue and briefly trap him, but Jiang broke free.
• Mu Tianchen launched Holy Light Dragon Fist and blasted Jiang Wuyue into the protective barrier with a powerful beam of light.

Mu Tianchen defeated Jiang Wuyue in their battle-room match, and Jiang Wuyue conceded before arranging Mu Tianchen’s final assessment for the next day. Meanwhile, Zhang Huanyun’s meeting revealed that an Abyssal Tide was expected within a month and that Blood One planned to enter the Abyss Plane again.

• Jiang Wuyue used Overlord Defense against Mu Tianchen, but Mu Tianchen overwhelmed him with fast attacks enhanced by Holy Dragon Amplification and hurled him into the protective barrier.
• Jiang Wuyue conceded, acknowledged Mu Tianchen’s superior strength, and told him the assessment would officially begin the next day.
• Mu Tianchen remembered Jiang Wuyue had not given him meal Merit Points and hurried after him to demand dinner.
• Long Tianwu told Zhang Huanyun and the other deputy commander that an Abyssal Tide was expected within a month and would likely cause heavy losses.
• Zhang Huanyun asked about Mu Tianchen’s assessment, then revealed that Blood One planned to enter the Abyss Plane again soon.

Mu Tianchen joined Jiang Wuyue for a Blood God Legion assessment in a virtual Abyss Passage, where he was required to fight without Martial Souls or Soul Power. After effortlessly killing waves of abyss bats with his bare hands and his Sky-Piercing Lance, he and Jiang Wuyue encountered the giant beast Ba An.

• Jiang Wuyue took Mu Tianchen to the assessment facility and explained that the test would record his performance against Abyssal Creatures.
• Mu Tianchen and Jiang Wuyue entered the virtual Abyss Passage, where Mu Tianchen used his spiritual power to navigate the darkness.
• Mu Tianchen killed a Four-Clawed Bat with one punch, astonishing Jiang Wuyue.
• Mu Tianchen drew his Sky-Piercing Lance and destroyed three Six-Clawed Bats with one sweep before cutting down more bats as he charged ahead.
• Mu Tianchen led Jiang Wuyue into a vast cavern, where they encountered Ba An.

Mu Tianchen fought and killed the powerful Ba An using only his physical strength and the Sky-Piercing Lance, impressing Jiang Wuyue and the Blood God Legion commanders. The assessment continued, however, as Zhang Huanyun revealed that an even stronger Abyssal Creature had yet to appear.

• Jiang Wuyue warned Mu Tianchen that Ba An was a formidable opponent, but Mu Tianchen chose to fight it.
• Mu Tianchen dodged Ba An’s attacks, built up Holy Dragon Amplification, and shattered one of its legs with the Sky-Piercing Lance.
• Mu Tianchen evaded Ba An’s counterattacks and finally pulverized its head, killing it without using a martial soul or Soul Power.
• Jiang Wuyue watched in shock, while Zhang Huanyun and Long Tianwu praised Mu Tianchen’s strength and discussed whether he could be promoted to Second Lieutenant.
• Zhang Huanyun told Long Tianwu that the assessment was not over because the virtual realm’s strongest Abyssal Creature had yet to appear.

After killing Ba An in the Blood God Legion’s virtual assessment, Mu Tianchen faced a hidden Abyssal Spirit Dragon that overwhelmed Jiang Wuyue with its spiritual attack. Protected by the Eye of Destiny, Mu Tianchen advanced toward the creature with his Sky-Piercing Lance, ready to test its strength.

• Jiang Wuyue praised Mu Tianchen for killing Ba An and predicted he would earn a high assessment rating and possibly the rank of Second Lieutenant.
• As Mu Tianchen and Jiang Wuyue prepared to leave, an Abyssal Spirit Dragon emerged from a nearby cave and attacked them with a powerful spiritual shockwave.
• Mu Tianchen’s spiritual barrier briefly protected Jiang Wuyue, but the Abyssal Spirit Dragon shattered it and destroyed Jiang Wuyue’s body within seconds.
• At Blood God Legion Command Headquarters, Zhang Huanyun identified the creature as an Abyssal Spirit Dragon and ordered that Mu Tianchen receive the rank of Second Lieutenant regardless of what happened next.
• Mu Tianchen relied on the Eye of Destiny to negate spiritual attacks, gripped his Sky-Piercing Lance, and approached the Abyssal Spirit Dragon.