Chapter Summaries

Tang San and Tang Hao were captured by two Spirit Douluo after Tang San wounded Thin Tall Man with a Dragon Beard Needle. Thin Tall Man used Tang San as leverage to force Tang Hao into a degrading choice, while Tang San begged his father to kill their captors instead of protecting him.

• Tang San struck Thin Tall Man with a Dragon Beard Needle while Tang Hao fought off his spear attack.
• Round-faced Bearded Man's area Soul Skill disoriented Tang San, and Thin Tall Man struck him unconscious.
• Round-faced Bearded Man seized Tang San, allowing Thin Tall Man to knock Tang Hao down and stab him in the abdomen.
• Thin Tall Man threatened Tang Hao and demanded that he relieve his pain if he wanted Tang San to live.
• Round-faced Bearded Man choked Tang San awake, and Tang San saw his injured father and pleaded with him to kill their captors.

Tang San rescued Tang Hao from the two attackers, but Tang Hao's final Ring Explosion weakened him to Spirit Douluo level and left him unconscious. More than three years later, Lin Chen entered the Star Dou Great Forest to find an eighty-thousand-year lightning Spirit Beast for his sixth Spirit Ring, and raced toward a thunderous roar.

• Tang San stabbed the Round-faced Bearded Man with a poisoned needle, giving Tang Hao a chance to retreat.
• Tang Hao detonated his final Spirit Rings and killed the Thin Tall Man with his Clear Sky Hammer, but collapsed from his injuries.
• Tang San carried the unconscious Tang Hao toward Shrek Academy without renting a carriage.
• After more than three years of cultivation, Lin Chen traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest to search for a suitable sixth Spirit Ring.
• Lin Chen searched for half a month, then hurried toward the source of a powerful roar and thunder.

Lin Chen watched the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger kill and devour the Profound Thunder Flood Dragon, growing stronger as he waited to seize the Evil God Bead. When the tiger reached the eighty-thousand-year level, Lin Chen launched his attack.

• Lin Chen hid nearby as the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger fought the higher-cultivation Profound Thunder Flood Dragon.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger pulled the Profound Thunder Flood Dragon into its Life-and-Death Arena and returned with the flood dragon dead.
• The tiger warned nearby Spirit Beasts away, then devoured the Profound Thunder Flood Dragon while Lin Chen remained concealed.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's cultivation rose from over sixty thousand years to the seventy-thousand-year level and continued increasing.
• When the tiger reached the eighty-thousand-year level, Lin Chen stealthily approached and attacked.

Lin Chen killed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, claimed its Evil God Bead, and absorbed its Spirit Ring to reach level sixty-five. After returning to Heaven Dou City, he reunited with Ye Lingling and prepared to give her a gift.

• Lin Chen surprised and killed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, then stored its Evil God Bead before a black hole could pull it away.
• Lin Chen absorbed the tiger’s eighty-thousand-year Spirit Ring, gained the lock-on, guaranteed-hit Soul Skill Sky Thunder Baptism, and reached level sixty-five.
• Lin Chen considered whether he could become both the God of Calamity and an evil god, but kept the Evil God Bead’s power in reserve.
• Lin Chen left the Star Dou Great Forest by carriage and returned to Heaven Dou City half a month later.
• Ye Lingling greeted Lin Chen warmly at home, and he took her inside to give her a gift, leaving her blushing and flustered.

Lin Chen gave Ye Lingling a Blue Silver Emperor offshoot that could evolve her martial soul, and the two confirmed their relationship. Ye Lingling consumed it and evolved her Nine Heart Begonia, leaving them to discover what the change had made possible.

• Lin Chen gave Ye Lingling Ah Yin, explaining that the life-rich plant could help her martial soul undergo a positive mutation.
• Ye Lingling initially refused the precious gift, but accepted it after Lin Chen confessed his feelings and kissed her.
• Ye Lingling questioned Lin Chen about his kissing experience and insisted that she be his first wife, and Lin Chen agreed.
• Following Lin Chen's instructions, Ye Lingling bit Ah Yin and absorbed its life essence as her Nine Heart Begonia and three Spirit Rings appeared.
• The Nine Heart Begonia's stamens changed from nine to twelve, and Ye Lingling opened her eyes, visibly excited by the evolution.

After Ye Lingling’s Martial Soul evolved, she revealed that her Nine Heart Begonia could restore even gravely injured people to peak condition, and Lin Chen warned her to keep its power secret. They went out to celebrate, where Ye Lingling invited Lin Chen to watch her upcoming spirit battle against Skywater Academy and declared that she would be the main wife.

• Ye Lingling explained that her evolved spirit skill could perfectly heal up to three people at once, even restoring severed limbs, while Lin Chen urged her to conceal its full power.
• Ye Lingling tested at Soul Power Level 39, and Lin Chen took her out to celebrate.
• Ye Lingling invited Lin Chen to watch her team’s upcoming spirit battle against Skywater Academy and said she would be the main wife.
• Ye Lingling told Lin Chen that Teacher Qin Ming planned to take the group to see true geniuses in a couple of months, and Lin Chen suspected he meant Tang San and the others from Shrek Academy.
• Lin Chen and Ye Lingling stopped at a restaurant to eat together.

Ye Lingling brought Lin Chen to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where she introduced him as her boyfriend to her teammates and Teacher Qin Ming. Qin Ming reacted with surprise and scrutinized Lin Chen.

• Ye Lingling arrived at the academy with Lin Chen, drawing attention from the young nobles as she affectionately held his arm.
• Ye Lingling showed Lin Chen around the academy and took him to meet Dugu Yan and the rest of the team.
• Osler and the other students were surprised to see Ye Lingling acting intimately with Lin Chen.
• Ye Lingling introduced Lin Chen as her boyfriend to the team, and Lin Chen said he and Dugu Yan had known each other for a long time.
• Qin Ming entered the classroom, heard Ye Lingling introduce Lin Chen as her boyfriend, and looked at Lin Chen with curiosity.

Ye Lingling showed Lin Chen Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s mimetic cultivation environments, and he found that Heavenly Thunder Valley offered only a modest benefit to his already strong cultivation. After spending the morning exploring the academy with Ye Lingling, Lin Chen headed with her to the spirit battle arena.

• Qin Ming asked Dugu Yan what she knew about Lin Chen, but she said she was not close to him and knew nothing about him.
• Ye Lingling explained mimetic cultivation environments to Lin Chen and took him to Heavenly Thunder Valley to try its lightning-attribute energy.
• Lin Chen meditated briefly and found that the valley’s energy saved him some effort but did not greatly improve his cultivation.
• Ye Lingling and Lin Chen explored secluded parts of the academy and kissed before she took him to the cafeteria for lunch.
• Ye Lingling led Lin Chen to Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s spirit battle arena, which had more than a dozen tournament-standard arenas.

Lin Chen and Ye Lingling watched the Heaven Dou Academy team face Skywater Academy in a Soul Fight, while Shui Yue'er drew attention by admiring Lin Chen. The match began with Shui Bing'er freezing the opposing team, leaving the outcome in her side’s hands.

• Shui Yue'er gushed over Lin Chen, and Shui Bing'er warned her to stop staring because Ye Lingling was beside him.
• Qin Ming explained that Lin Chen was only there to watch, and Skywater Academy's team leader agreed to preside over the Soul Fight.
• Dugu Yan revealed her evolved Poison Dragon Martial Soul and Level forty-five Soul Ancestor rank, while Shui Bing'er announced her Ice Phoenix Martial Soul and Level thirty-eight rank.
• At the start of the match, Dugu Yan spread poisonous mist as Shui Bing'er used her first soul skill to freeze all seven Heaven Dou Academy fighters.

Heaven Dou Royal Academy defeated Skywater Academy in a sparring match after Dugu Yan relentlessly beat Shui Yue'er. Lin Chen rejected Qin Ming's recruitment pitch and mocked academy training, while the chapter ended with Ye Lingling healing the opponents and Dugu Yan asking Qin Ming for the afternoon off.

• Dugu Yan broke free of Shui Bing'er's ice seal, freed Ye Lingling, and helped her teammates return the battle to an even footing.
• Lin Chen told Qin Ming that Heaven Dou would win and refused to join an academy, arguing that restricted sparring wasted time and encouraged dangerous habits.
• Dugu Yan pinned Shui Yue'er down and beat her until she surrendered, prompting Shui Bing'er to concede the match for Skywater Academy.
• Ye Lingling healed Shui Bing'er and the other Skywater Academy members after the fight, and Shui Bing'er thanked her.
• Dugu Yan asked Qin Ming for the afternoon off, but he criticized her team for focusing on beating Shui Yue'er.

Lin Chen said farewell to Ye Lingling and traveled toward Heaven Dou City with the Tianshui group, whose members teased Shui Yue'er about her interest in him. When Lin Chen sensed a fight ahead, both carriages stopped and the group got out to wait.

• Lin Chen received a Calamity Authority reward after he stopped the group and said he would leave without Ye Lingling.
• Shui Yue'er asked Lin Chen his name and age, then joked with Yu Hairou about pursuing men who were already dating or married.
• Lin Chen left in Ye Lingling's family carriage, and the Tianshui group followed toward Heaven Dou City in their own carriage.
• Shui Bing'er scolded Shui Yue'er for flirting, while Yu Hairou teased her about her repeated habits.
• The carriages stopped when Lin Chen sensed a fight ahead, and the Tianshui group got out to wait for it to end.

Lin Chen and Shui Yue'er traded teasing remarks about her and Shui Bing'er sharing a husband before Lin Chen sensed danger and warned the group. Teacher Tianshui confronted a fleeing Fallen Soul Emperor, who unleashed his Bloodthirsty Domain and began a desperate attack as pursuers closed in.

• Shui Yue'er told Lin Chen that she and Shui Bing'er would marry the same man, but Lin Chen's teasing made her flee in embarrassment.
• Shui Bing'er, Shui Yue'er, and the other girls mocked Shui Yue'er after she returned to the group.
• Lin Chen sensed the black aura spreading between the girls' brows and warned everyone to prepare for an attack.
• Teacher Tianshui identified a rapidly approaching Fallen Soul Emperor and rushed to intercept him while the others guarded the carriages.
• The Fallen Soul Emperor activated his Bloodthirsty Domain as Teacher Tianshui launched a giant, locking ice spear at him.
• Cornered by Teacher Tianshui's attack and the Soul Emperor pursuers behind him, the Fallen Soul Emperor ignited a blood-colored bead Spirit Ring and vowed to take everyone down with him.

The Fallen Soul Emperor unleashed a life-consuming domain that infected three Soul Emperors with uncontrollable killing intent. Lin Chen and the Tianshui teacher fought them, and Lin Chen struck down two before the battle continued against the bear Soul Emperor.

• The Fallen Soul Emperor expanded a blood-colored domain, then died as the Tianshui teacher pierced him with her Martial Soul Avatar.
• The three Soul Emperors who escaped the domain initially seemed unharmed, but its effects soon filled them with killing intent and blood-colored markings.
• Lin Chen ordered the Tianshui teacher to attack the three men, and she drove back the bear Soul Emperor while Lin Chen appeared behind the leader and pierced his heart.
• Lin Chen faced the blade Soul Emperor, dodged his attacks, and reappeared behind him to stab him through the body.

Lin Chen killed three Spirit Hall Soul Emperors and persuaded the Skywater teacher and students to keep his strength secret. After returning home, he claimed his reward and discovered that his Calamity Authority had expanded to let him summon natural disasters.

• Lin Chen watched the Skywater teacher freeze and shatter the Beast Soul Emperor, then asked her and the students to conceal his strength.
• The Skywater teacher destroyed evidence of Lin Chen's attack, stored the corpses, and warned Shui Bing'er and the others not to reveal what happened.
• Shui Yue'er flirted with Lin Chen and asked to ride in his carriage, while Shui Bing'er apologized and exchanged his home address with him.
• Lin Chen asked Old Liu to keep the incident secret, then parted from the Skywater Academy carriage after entering Heaven Dou City.
• Lin Chen returned home, received his system reward, and discovered that his Calamity Authority could summon natural disasters powerful enough to threaten ordinary Title Douluo.

Lin Chen used the Calamity Authority to send Tang Hao bad luck while Tang San attempted to restore his father’s strength with acupuncture. Tang Hao’s Soul Power surged out of control, leaving the treatment’s outcome uncertain.

• Lin Chen targeted Tang Hao’s Causal Line and sent him a dose of bad luck using half his Soul Power.
• Tang San treated Tang Hao with acupuncture, believing that restored vitality and stimulation could return him to the Title Douluo realm.
• Tang San inserted needles across Tang Hao’s body and guided him to circulate his Soul Power through a heavenly cycle.
• Tang Hao felt his dormant Soul Power grow active and believed the treatment was succeeding.
• Tang San directed Tang Hao’s Soul Power back to his dantian, where it erupted and rampaged uncontrollably through his meridians.

Tang San’s attempt to restore Tang Hao’s strength went catastrophically wrong, damaging Tang Hao’s meridians and draining most of his Soul Power. As father and son questioned their misfortunes and Yu Xiaogang’s usefulness, Tang San asked whether he could discard his teacher once he obtained the Twin Martial Souls method.

• Tang Hao’s Soul Power went berserk during treatment, and Tang San hurriedly removed the needles as Tang Hao’s level fell from eighty-nine to eighty-one.
• Tang Hao forced his remaining Soul Power back into his dantian and took Tang San’s medicinal liquid, but his meridians and foundation remained severely damaged.
• Tang San blamed himself and questioned why his life had been so difficult, recalling Lin Chen’s warning that Yu Xiaogang was a harbinger of disaster.
• Tang Hao wondered whether years of accumulated bad luck had caused the accident and questioned why Holy Soul Village had remained unaffected.
• Tang San asked whether he had to rely on Yu Xiaogang to resolve the conflict between Twin Martial Souls, and Tang Hao explained that Yu Xiaogang’s ex-girlfriend Bibi Dong was the only person known to have achieved that cultivation.
• Tang San asked whether Yu Xiaogang would be useless if Tang San found a way to obtain the method early, leaving Tang Hao stunned.

Lin Chen agreed to travel with Ye Lingling and the others to the Balak Kingdom, while Dugu Yan began making advances toward him beneath the dining table. Ye Lingling revealed that Heaven Dou intended to force the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to submit, and Lin Chen left Dugu Yan flustered as she tried to hide their secret exchange.

• Ye Lingling invited Lin Chen to travel with Qin Ming's group to the Balak Kingdom, and he agreed to leave the morning after tomorrow.
• Dugu Yan reminded Lin Chen that Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er might visit, then decided to pursue him herself beneath the table.
• Ye Lingling said she had heard that Xue Ye intended to make the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect submit to Heaven Dou, but Ning Fengzhi had refused.
• Dugu Yan continued teasing Lin Chen beneath the table as she discussed the sect's situation with Ye Lingling.
• Lin Chen trapped Dugu Yan's foot between his legs and secretly retaliated, making her cough juice back into her cup.

Dugu Yan confessed her feelings to Lin Chen and secretly went to his home, where she kissed him first. The chapter ended with Lin Chen returning her kiss and Dugu Yan realizing how intense he was.

• At dinner, Dugu Yan told Lin Chen that she liked him and asked whether he would accept her feelings.
• Lin Chen agreed but told Dugu Yan to handle Ye Lingling's feelings herself, while Dugu Yan said she enjoyed the idea of sneaking around.
• After the three left the restaurant, Dugu Yan waited at Lin Chen's gate and followed him inside.
• In Lin Chen's bedroom, Dugu Yan nervously asked him to be quick because she had to return home before her grandfather noticed.
• When Lin Chen teased her by waiting, Dugu Yan pulled him down and kissed him, and Lin Chen kissed her back fiercely.

Lin Chen and Dugu Yan spent the night together, and he restored her strength and healed her before she returned home. The next day, Lin Chen sent a letter to the Shui Bing'er sisters and encountered Xue Qinghe while wandering Heaven Dou City.

• Lin Chen laid Dugu Yan on the bed, and they spent the night together.
• Lin Chen used a healing ability to remove Dugu Yan's fatigue and injuries, and she realized he had extraordinary healing powers.
• Dugu Yan bathed, took Lin Chen's bedsheet in her storage Soul Tool, and left before he could see her off.
• Lin Chen sent a letter to the Shui Bing'er sisters saying he would visit Skywater Academy after returning from Shrek Academy.
• Lin Chen encountered Xue Qinghe, secretly inflicted a Disaster Curse on Qian Renxue, and gained a System Bestowed Soul Ring.
• Lin Chen asked why Xue Qinghe was wandering Heaven Dou City without guards.

Lin Chen spent the afternoon with Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan, who brought him bananas before Ye Lingling cooked dinner. As the three ate, Ye Lingling said she and Dugu Yan would pick Lin Chen up the next day to travel to the Balak Kingdom, where a surprise awaited him.

• Qian Renxue asked Lin Chen why he had not seen Ye Lingling, and Lin Chen quickly excused himself and left.
• Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan visited Lin Chen with bananas, and Ye Lingling went to the kitchen to prepare dinner.
• Dugu Yan flirted with Lin Chen while Ye Lingling cooked, then told him Ye Lingling had prepared a surprise for him in the Balak Kingdom.
• Ye Lingling served her homemade meal, and Lin Chen praised her cooking despite the dishes being a little salty.
• Lin Chen asked how they would travel the next day, and Ye Lingling said she and Dugu Yan would come pick him up.