Chapter Summaries

During Luo Yun’s Martial Soul awakening, he received a divine inheritance and revealed the Twin Martial Souls Sun Corona and Moon Eclipse. The chapter ended with King Frost Extreme telling Bishop Zhang that Spirit Hall could have Luo Yun only in exchange for Bibi Dong’s position as Pope.

• Luo Yun began his Martial Soul awakening in front of his parents and Bishop Zhang.
• Bishop Zhang struggled to sustain the awakening as Luo Yun remained enveloped in golden light.
• Purple and emerald divine beams descended from the heavens and surrounded Luo Yun.
• Luo Yun revealed his Twin Martial Souls, Sun Corona and Moon Eclipse, as his eyes turned green and purple.
• Luo Shang told Bishop Zhang to report Luo Yun’s divine inheritance to Spirit Hall and demand the position of Pope in exchange for his son.

Luo Yun’s Soul Power shattered the testing crystal ball, suggesting he possessed Innate Level 20 Soul Power. Bishop Zhang agreed to conceal what he had witnessed and stayed at Luo Shang’s residence, while Luo Shang warned Luo Yun to keep the day’s events secret.

• Shen Yinshuang embraced Luo Yun, and Luo Shang called for breakfast after Luo Yun said he was hungry.
• Bishop Zhang tested Luo Yun’s Soul Power, and the crystal ball shattered when Luo Yun touched it.
• Bishop Zhang concluded Luo Yun might have Innate Level 20 Soul Power, and Luo Shang worried about Spirit Hall discovering his son’s abilities.
• Bishop Zhang claimed the crystal ball had broken on its own and accepted Luo Shang’s offer to stay as a guest retainer.
• Bishop Zhang advised Luo Yun not to forget him if he became a god, and Luo Yun promised he would remember.
• Shen Yinshuang cleaned Luo Yun’s hands, and Luo Shang told him not to tell anyone what had happened.

Luo Yun learned that his divine trials required him to absorb a thousand-year Soul Ring as his first, prompting Luo Shang to begin preparing him for the dangerous challenge. The next morning, Luo Shang sent the six-year-old running through the snow with a heavy stone pack.

• Luo Yun promised Luo Shang and Shen Yinshuang that he would keep his talent secret after Shen Yinshuang warned that others might take him away.
• While Luo Yun ate, the Destruction and Life trials gave him their first tasks: absorb a thousand-year Soul Ring and complete the Destruction trial, respectively.
• Luo Shang and Shen Yinshuang worried that the first Soul Ring requirement could kill Luo Yun, and Luo Shang decided to train his body and spiritual power himself.
• Shen Yinshuang made Luo Yun bathe in bitter medicinal water that night, and Luo Shang hauled him outside before dawn the next day.
• Luo Shang loaded Luo Yun with stones and ordered him to run around the city wall through the snow while he followed.

Luo Shang put Luo Yun through punishing endurance and combat training while Shen Yinshuang cared for him with medicinal baths. Half a month after Luo Yun began fighting his father, his final thrust came within three inches of Luo Shang before the training stopped.

• Luo Yun repeatedly fell during a day of running in the snow, then agreed to keep running the next day before passing out.
• Shen Yinshuang treated Luo Yun in a medicinal bath and tearfully questioned Luo Shang, who said the training was necessary for their son to survive.
• After three months, Luo Shang challenged Luo Yun to fight; Luo Yun summoned his Sun Corona Sword and was repeatedly struck down, but kept getting back up.
• Luo Yun told Shen Yinshuang that he had managed to touch Luo Shang three times during training that day.
• Luo Yun endured an especially painful medicinal bath and passed out, prompting Shen Yinshuang to urge Luo Shang to ease up.
• Half a month later, Luo Yun's final sword thrust stopped three inches from Luo Shang's chest, and Luo Shang ended the training session.

Luo Shang took Luo Yun from Frost Ridge City to the Star Dou Great Forest to seek Soul Beasts suited to his Sun Corona Sword. As they ventured deeper into the forest, Luo Yun sensed something and stopped to alert his father.

• Luo Shang said Luo Yun’s physical fitness, Soul Power, and spiritual power had improved, then decided to take him to the Star Dou Great Forest for a suitable Soul Beast.
• Shen Yinshuang said goodbye to Luo Yun and warned Luo Shang to keep their son safe as father and son left Frost Ridge City.
• A week later, Luo Shang and Luo Yun reached the Star Dou Great Forest, where Luo Shang taught him about the forest’s regions and the dangers they might encounter.
• After resting and continuing deeper into the forest, Luo Yun stopped and appeared to sense something nearby.

Luo Yun and Luo Shang found a Holy Leaf Spirit Deer that seemed perfectly suited to Luo Yun’s Martial Soul, but Xue Qinghe and his guards arrived to claim it. Luo Shang identified himself and revealed the Frost Cold Sword and his nine Soul Rings, including a hundred-thousand-year ring, leaving both groups facing off over the deer.

• Luo Yun sensed a calling near a river, and Luo Shang led him through the bushes to find a Holy Leaf Spirit Deer.
• Luo Shang estimated the deer was between fifteen hundred and two thousand years old and said it could suit Luo Yun’s Sun Corona Sword.
• Xue Qinghe arrived with two guards, introduced himself as Crown Prince of the Heaven Dou Empire, and asked Luo Shang and Luo Yun to give way.
• Luo Shang identified himself as King Frost Extreme and refused to yield the deer.
• Luo Shang summoned the Frost Cold Sword and revealed nine Soul Rings, including one red hundred-thousand-year ring, astonishing Luo Yun.

Luo Shang protected the Holy Leaf Spirit Deer from Qian Renxue and allowed her to leave on friendly terms. He then told Luo Yun to kill the deer himself, but it knelt before the boy, leaving them both bewildered.

• Luo Shang revealed his level-ninety-five strength and Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, prompting Qian Renxue and her companions to reconsider taking the deer.
• Qian Renxue chose not to claim the Holy Leaf Spirit Deer and offered Luo Shang a gesture of friendship before departing with Snake Lance Douluo and Pufferfish Douluo.
• After the visitors left, Luo Shang told Luo Yun to kill the trapped Holy Leaf Spirit Deer himself.
• When Luo Yun raised the Corona Sword, the deer knelt reverently instead of fighting or fleeing.
• Luo Yun called to Luo Shang, who admitted he had no idea why the deer was kneeling.

Luo Yun received a thousand-year Soul Ring when the Holy Leaf Spirit Deer willingly sacrificed itself, and he learned that his first soul skill supported allies and weakened enemies. The Life and Destruction Gods set his next trial in the Star Dou Great Forest’s Core Circle, with annihilation as the penalty for failure.

• The Holy Leaf Spirit Deer sacrificed itself to Luo Yun, giving him a thousand-year purple Soul Ring.
• Luo Yun completed the first Life and Destruction trials, gained affinity with both sources, and manifested opposing powers of life and destruction.
• At the Tree of Life, the Life and Destruction Gods discussed changing their trials to challenge Luo Yun.
• Luo Yun used Holy Spirit Illumination, which increased allies’ attributes and decreased enemies’ attributes within its range.
• Luo Yun received the second trials: reach the Star Dou Great Forest’s Core Circle within a month or face annihilation.

Luo Yun learned that failure in his Second Trial would mean erasure, so Luo Shang led him toward the Star Dou Great Forest's Core Circle and instructed him how to survive. After reaching a vast, life-filled lake, they were struck by overwhelming pressure from an unknown source.

• Luo Yun told Luo Shang that his Second Trial required him to reach the Core Circle within a month or be erased, and Luo Shang set out with him at once.
• Luo Shang warned Luo Yun not to release Soul Power or make a sound, and told him to run if ordered; Luo Yun promised to obey.
• After half a month, Luo Shang and Luo Yun reached a lake in the Core Circle, where Luo Shang sensed unusually dense life energy and found the water warm and sweet.
• Luo Yun and Luo Shang were suddenly crushed by several terrifying waves of pressure, leaving Luo Yun on his knees and Luo Shang struggling to stay upright with his sword.

Di Tian confronted Luo Shang and Luo Yun for trespassing in the Core Circle, and Luo Shang fought back to protect his son. As Di Tian moved to stop Luo Shang from self-destructing, Luo Yun completed two divine trials and gained the power to use the Laws of Destruction and Life.

• Di Tian confronted Luo Shang and Luo Yun, demanding to know why they had entered the Core Circle.
• Luo Shang refused to reveal the reason and unleashed his Ninth Soul Skill, but Di Tian crushed the attack effortlessly.
• Di Tian’s pressure forced Luo Shang to his knees, and Luo Shang prepared to self-destruct rather than die like a coward.
• Luo Yun struggled to save his father as the Sun Corona Sword and Moon Eclipse Sword chimed, declaring both second trials complete and granting him use of the Laws of Destruction and Life.
• Luo Yun erupted in purple-black light and broke free of Di Tian’s pressure.

Luo Yun awakened the Law of Destruction and wounded Di Tian, leaving the Ferocious Beasts stunned. Di Tian allowed Luo Shang and Luo Yun to leave with a dying thousand-year Soul Beast, and Luo Shang caught his son as his transformed power faded.

• Luo Yun transformed, manifested wings of Destruction Thunder, and gathered the Law of Destruction in his palm.
• Luo Yun struck Di Tian with a ball of Destruction Thunder, sending him flying and wounding his hand.
• Bi Ji apologized to Luo Yun, while Luo Yun remained unable to control his body or answer Di Tian's questions.
• Di Tian learned Luo Shang and Luo Yun had come because of Luo Yun's God Trial and ordered Bi Ji to find them a dying thousand-year Soul Beast.
• Di Tian told the Ferocious Beasts to keep the encounter secret and left, while Luo Shang thanked him.
• Luo Yun's transformation faded, and Luo Shang caught him as he fell.

After the God of Destruction possessed Luo Yun and saved him, Luo Yun awoke with the Law of Life flowing through him. In the Star Dou Great Forest, he chose a dying Emerald Swan as his Soul Beast, leaving Bi Ji to ask why.

• Luo Yun woke beside Luo Shang and noticed the Law of Life shimmering in his palm.
• In the Douluo God Realm, the God of Destruction told the Goddess of Life that he had sensed traces of the Silver Dragon King's aura around Luo Yun and expected him to choose Moon Eclipse.
• Luo Yun sat by the lake as the Law of Life healed and strengthened him, while Luo Shang challenged him to test his strength against a Ferocious Beast.
• Bi Ji returned with several mortally wounded thousand-year Soul Beasts, explaining that Evil Soul Beasts had injured them and asking Luo Yun to choose one.
• Luo Yun chose the dying Emerald Swan, explaining that its life aura resembled his Martial Soul, then summoned the Sun Corona Sword.

After Luo Yun gained a healing Soul Skill from the Emerald Swan’s sacrifice, Di Tian acknowledged his potential to become a god. Di Tian revealed that he was gambling Luo Yun would spare the Silver Dragon King when she awakened, while avoiding actions that would alert the Divine Realm to her hiding place.

• Luo Yun healed the wounded Emerald Swan with the Law of Life, and it willingly sacrificed itself to grant him his second Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Luo Yun gained the Second Soul Skill Life Eulogy, which could heal injuries and regenerate severed limbs at maximum Soul Power consumption.
• Luo Shang told Luo Yun that he could add a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring to his Second Martial Soul, Moon Eclipse, at level thirty, and called him a future monster.
• Di Tian met Luo Shang and Luo Yun, declared Luo Yun the human with the greatest hope of becoming a god, and told him not to disappoint him.
• Luo Yun thanked Di Tian with a respectful bow before leaving with Luo Shang.
• Di Tian told Bi Ji he was gambling that Luo Yun would show mercy to the Silver Dragon King, and that killing him could alert the Divine Realm to her presence.

After Di Tian and Bi Ji reflected on the Soul Beasts’ decline, Luo Yun and Luo Shang arrived in Suotuo City and checked into the Rose Hotel. There, they encountered Dai Mubai bringing the young Ma Hongjun inside to find a way to relieve his Evil Fire, leaving Luo Shang suspicious of Dai Mubai’s Star Luo Imperial Family origins.

• Bi Ji lamented that Soul Beasts were growing weaker while human Soul Masters continued to grow stronger, and Di Tian decided to gamble on the human who had wounded him.
• A week later, Luo Yun and Luo Shang reached Suotuo City after spending more than half a month in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Luo Yun explored the bustling city with curiosity, and Luo Shang chose the Rose Hotel for their stay.
• Dai Mubai entered the hotel with the distressed Ma Hongjun and offered Gold Soul Coins to get girls to relieve Ma Hongjun’s Evil Fire.
• The receptionist and guests reacted with disbelief, while Luo Shang recognized Dai Mubai’s resemblance to the Star Luo Imperial Family and questioned his presence in Heaven Dou Empire territory.

Luo Yun confronted Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun at the inn after Dai Mubai provoked Ma Hongjun to vent his Evil Fire on him. As Ma Hongjun summoned his Phoenix and prepared his first Soul Skill, Luo Yun stood ready with the Moon Eclipse Sword despite having no Soul Ring.

• Luo Yun stepped between Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun and asked them to wait, but Dai Mubai mocked him as a beggar and urged Ma Hongjun to attack him.
• Ma Hongjun hesitated, but Dai Mubai shoved him toward Luo Yun while Luo Shang calmly watched from a sofa.
• Luo Yun summoned the Moon Eclipse Sword, and Dai Mubai and the inn guests laughed at him for challenging a Soul Master without a Soul Ring.
• The receptionist urged Luo Shang to stop the fight, but he told her to let them fight and assured her Luo Yun would be fine.
• Ma Hongjun lost control of his Evil Fire, summoned his fiery bird and Hundred-Year Soul Ring, and announced his First Soul Skill, Phoenix Fire Line.

Luo Yun blocked Ma Hongjun’s flames with the Moon Eclipse Sword, but his counterattack nearly killed Ma Hongjun before Luo Shang intervened. Flender arrived to find the lobby wrecked and recognized the formidable aura lingering around Luo Shang.

• Ma Hongjun attacked Luo Yun with his Phoenix Fire Line, but Luo Yun blocked the flames with the Moon Eclipse Sword.
• Luo Yun’s sword released destructive energy at Ma Hongjun, and Luo Shang stopped it with his Frost Cold Sword and revealed nine Soul Rings, including a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Luo Yun admitted he could not control the Moon Eclipse Sword’s influence, while Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun realized they had angered Luo Shang’s son.
• Flender entered the damaged hotel lobby, checked on Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun, and studied Luo Shang after sensing his lingering aura.

Luo Yun and Luo Shang left Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun shaken after Luo Shang stopped Luo Yun from nearly killing Ma Hongjun. Back in their hotel room, Luo Yun admitted that his sword’s destructive influence was becoming more tempting and harder to control.

• Flender apologized to Luo Shang for his students’ behavior, and Luo Shang warned him to keep them in line.
• Luo Yun told Ma Hongjun, “Good birds choose their perch. The Phoenix lands only on the Wutong tree,” then followed Luo Shang upstairs.
• Flender learned that Dai Mubai had insulted Luo Yun and that Ma Hongjun attacked first, then reprimanded both students and banned them from leaving campus for a month.
• Luo Shang asked Luo Yun why he had lost control, and Luo Yun explained that his sword filled his mind with urges to destroy and that he increasingly enjoyed the feeling of wielding its power.

Luo Yun received the third Destruction and Life trials, which required him to clear Slaughter City within five years or face annihilation. Luo Shang explained the deadly place to his six-year-old son as he prepared to face the new trial.

• Luo Shang warned Luo Yun not to use the Moon Eclipse Sword or the Law of Destruction until he could control their power, and promised to teach him real swordsmanship.
• God of Destruction and Goddess of Life discussed Luo Shang's caution, and God of Destruction proposed Slaughter City as a place for Luo Yun to practice destruction.
• Luo Yun received the Third Destruction Trial to clear Slaughter City within five years and the Third Life Trial to complete it, with annihilation as the penalty for failure.
• Luo Yun woke Luo Shang and told him the trial's objective, deadline, reward, and penalty.
• Luo Shang explained that Slaughter City barred Soul Power and was filled with deadly cutthroats, making it an exceptionally dangerous place.

Luo Yun returned to Frost Ridge City with Luo Shang after preparing for the Slaughter City trial, and reunited with Shen Yinshuang over a home-cooked meal. That night, Luo Shang led him through a locked passage beneath the mansion toward an unknown training site guarded by soldiers.

• Luo Yun insisted he could complete the God Trial despite the restrictions in Slaughter City, and Luo Shang encouraged him to train first and get used to the smell of blood.
• Luo Shang and Luo Yun returned to Frost Ridge City, where guards recognized them and Shen Yinshuang welcomed them home.
• Shen Yinshuang checked that Luo Yun was unharmed, prepared hot water, and served him a lavish dinner that he eagerly ate.
• Luo Yun asked when training would begin, and Luo Shang told him it would start that night.
• Luo Shang led Luo Yun through the mansion to a locked iron door and down a torchlit passage, where soldiers guarded another large door.

Luo Shang brought Luo Yun to an underground prison filled with condemned criminals and offered nine prisoners their freedom if they could hurt his six-year-old son. After Luo Yun was forbidden to use Soul Power and armed himself with the Moon Eclipse Sword, he faced the prisoners as an unsettling calm spread across his face.

• Luo Shang showed Luo Yun the underground prison and explained that he had kept thousands of condemned criminals alive for his son to use.
• Luo Shang's adjutant dragged ten prisoners out, then knocked down one who taunted the officials.
• Luo Shang promised the remaining nine prisoners their freedom if they could hurt Luo Yun, even by cutting one of his fingers.
• Luo Shang ordered the adjutant to unlock the prisoners and give them swords, while telling Luo Yun not to use Soul Power.
• Luo Yun summoned the Moon Eclipse Sword and walked toward the nine armed prisoners, who were unnerved by his composure.