Chapter Summaries

Shen Lian underwent his Martial Soul awakening in the unified Sun-Moon Empire and revealed two powerful Martial Souls. His Innate Full Soul Power left his family convinced he would become a legendary figure.

• Shen Lian recalled learning that the Sun-Moon Empire had conquered the entire continent, placing him in an era earlier than The Unrivaled Tang Clan.
• Shen Long, Shen Meng, and Xu Ningxin gathered to witness Shen Lian's Martial Soul awakening.
• Shen Lian awakened the Purple Imperial Heaven-Extinguishing Dragon, an inherited Martial Soul of the imperial family.
• Shen Lian revealed a second Martial Soul, the Shen Family's Dragon-Slaying Blade, stunning his family with his Twin Martial Souls.
• Shen Meng tested Shen Lian's Soul Power, and the Spirit Power Ball confirmed he had Innate Full Soul Power.

Shen Lian convinced Shen Long to let him prepare for an eight-hundred-year Spirit Ring by strengthening his body with Whale Rubber. After absorbing the entire piece over several days, Shen Lian became physically strong enough to attempt the Spirit Ring.

• Shen Lian chose to cultivate the Dragon-Slaying Blade first and planned to cultivate his Purple Imperial Heaven-Extinguishing Dragon after reaching level ninety.
• Shen Lian asked Shen Long to have Lin Song capture an eight-hundred-year Red-Armored Violent Bear, despite his parents' concerns about the first Spirit Ring's limit.
• Shen Lian explained that Whale Rubber could strengthen his physique, and Shen Long agreed to test the claim with a small piece from the Shen Family Treasury.
• Shen Lian safely refined the small piece of Whale Rubber, and Shen Long confirmed that it had improved his physique.
• Over the next few days, Shen Lian absorbed the rest of the Whale Rubber, and Shen Long found his body strong enough to absorb an eight-hundred-year Spirit Ring.

After seven days of training, Shen Lian absorbed an eight-hundred-year Spirit Ring from the Red-Armored Violent Bear, causing a mutation in his Martial Soul and raising his Soul Power to level thirteen. He discovered that his first Spirit Skill, Crimson Flame Soul Slash, combined armor-piercing and dragon-attributed corrosion, and the Purple Imperial Heaven-Extinguishing Dragon resonated with the Dragon-Slaying Blade.

• Shen Lian trained with the Dragon-Slaying Blade Technique by day and cultivated Soul Power at night for seven days.
• Shen Long had Lin Song release the wounded Red-Armored Violent Bear, then ordered Shen Lian to kill it and absorb its Spirit Ring.
• Shen Lian absorbed the beast's eight-hundred-year Spirit Ring with help from the Whale Rubber, and his Purple Imperial Heaven-Extinguishing Dragon phantom resonated with the Dragon-Slaying Blade.
• Shen Lian formed a yellow-purple Spirit Ring with crimson-gold patterns and reached level thirteen, while Shen Meng and Shen Long reacted with astonishment.
• Shen Lian used Crimson Flame Soul Slash to cut through a target pillar, and Shen Long identified a strength boost and dragon-attributed corrosion in the attack.
• Shen Lian's Purple Imperial Heaven-Extinguishing Dragon phantom brushed the blade light, adding a pale purple halo that pulverized the pillar fragments.

After demonstrating his powerful Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Shen Lian chose to cultivate at home under Shen Long rather than attend Sun-Moon Royal Primary Academy, despite Emperor Xu Tianxiang’s wish that he befriend the Crown Prince’s son. Three days later, Shen Lian accompanied Shen Long to the Imperial Palace to meet his maternal grandfather.

• Shen Long praised Shen Lian’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill after it carved a smoking trench into the training ground.
• Shen Long asked whether Shen Lian would attend Sun-Moon Royal Primary Academy or train at home, and Shen Lian chose to stay home under his grandfather’s instruction.
• Shen Long explained that Emperor Xu Tianxiang had hoped Shen Lian would attend the academy to build ties with the Crown Prince’s son, but promised to respect Shen Lian’s decision.
• Shen Long told Shen Lian that Emperor Xu Tianxiang wanted to meet him, and Shen Lian agreed to accompany his grandfather to the palace.
• Three days later, Shen Lian and Shen Long traveled by carriage through Vermilion Bird Gate toward the Imperial Palace.

Shen Lian visited his grandfather, Emperor Xu Tianxiang, and revealed that Whale Rubber had enabled him to absorb an unusually powerful first Spirit Ring. Xu Tianxiang promised him a Crimson Flame Sparrow Spirit for his second ring and rewarded him with a thirty-thousand-year Spirit Bone, which Shen Lian accepted while considering whether it was worth using.

• Shen Lian and Shen Long entered the Imperial Study and greeted Xu Tianxiang.
• Xu Tianxiang offered Shen Lian a seventeen-hundred-year Crimson Flame Sparrow Spirit as his third Spirit Ring.
• Shen Lian showed Xu Tianxiang his eight-hundred-year first Spirit Ring and explained that Whale Rubber had strengthened his body enough to absorb it.
• Xu Tianxiang was astonished by Shen Lian's discovery and praised him for benefiting the Sun-Moon Empire.
• Xu Tianxiang presented Shen Lian with the right leg bone of a thirty-thousand-year Gale Demon Wolf.
• Shen Lian stored the Spirit Bone, privately deciding its wind-element skill might not be worth using a slot for.

After a year of training, Shen Lian reached level twenty in Soul Power on his seventh birthday. Xu Tianxiang arranged for him to absorb the Crimson Flame Sparrow Spirit's Spirit Ring, and the family headed to the palace Martial Arts Arena.

• Xu Tianxiang gave Shen Lian a jade slip and told him to visit the royal family's Inheritance Land after reaching level thirty.
• Shen Lian trained in blade techniques, sparred with Soul Grandmasters, and studied Martial Soul texts throughout the following year.
• On his seventh birthday, Shen Lian broke through to level twenty, and Xu Ningxin and Shen Long prepared to take him to absorb a Spirit Ring.
• Xu Ningxin brought Shen Lian to the palace, where Xu Tianxiang celebrated his breakthrough and ordered the Crimson Flame Sparrow Spirit brought to the Martial Arts Arena.
• Xu Tianxiang shared a memory of Xu Ningxin making soul-conducting agents from plum petals and handed her a wintersweet branch as they walked to the arena.

Shen Lian killed a Crimson Flame Sparrow Spirit and endured the dangerous absorption of its 1,700-year-old Spirit Ring. After three hours, he successfully absorbed it and became the Sun-Moon Empire’s youngest Soul Grandmaster.

• Xu Chengye invited Shen Lian to study at the Sun-Moon Royal Primary Academy, then learned that Shen Lian had reached Level 20 while he remained at Level 19.
• Xu Tianxiang brought Shen Lian and Xu Ningxin to the Martial Arts Arena to absorb a Spirit Ring from a Crimson Flame Sparrow Spirit with ancient Vermilion Bird bloodline.
• A Soul Emperor guard broke the Sparrow Spirit’s wing and dragged it from its cage, and Shen Lian killed it with his dagger.
• Shen Lian began absorbing the Sparrow Spirit’s 1,700-year-old purple Spirit Ring as its fire-attributed Soul Power and remnant soul violently challenged him.
• After three hours, Shen Lian absorbed the Spirit Ring, becoming the Sun-Moon Empire’s youngest Soul Grandmaster, while Xu Chengye resolved to cultivate harder.

Shen Lian manifested a powerful External Soul Bone after absorbing his Spirit Ring, gaining fiery wings and reaching Soul Power level twenty-three. After demonstrating his new soul skills, he promised Xu Tianxiang he would strive to reach godhood.

• Shen Lian convulsed in agony as crimson energy formed fiery wings from his back, and Xu Tianxiang recognized the signs of an External Soul Bone.
• Shen Lian flew around the arena before realizing he was naked, then changed clothes and revealed his Soul Power had reached level twenty-three.
• Shen Lian demonstrated his second soul skill, Flame Sparrow Peerless, scorching and melting the distant target wall.
• Shen Lian revealed his External Soul Bone Skill, Crimson Flame Divine Wings, and blasted the arena with flaming feathers.
• Xu Tianxiang said Shen Lian might reach the realm of godhood, and Shen Lian promised to work toward it.

After Shen Lian reached level thirty and became a ten-year-old Soul Elder, Xu Tianxiang summoned him to reveal the Xu Family’s hidden Divine Seat Inheritance Land and the origin of their dragon Martial Soul. The chapter ended as Shen Lian asked what happened after his ancestor received the Purple Imperial Heaven-Extinguishing Dragon’s vital essence.

• Shen Long celebrated Shen Lian’s new soul skill and External Soul Bone at the Duke of the State Mansion.
• Over three years, Shen Lian trained intensively, meditated, and consumed Whale Rubber as his strength grew.
• At age ten, Shen Lian broke through level thirty, and Shen Long brought him a six-thousand-year Flame Dragon Wolf King from the Evil Demon Forest.
• Shen Lian absorbed the Spirit Ring, reached level thirty-two, and demonstrated his third soul skill, Crimson Flame Gale Slash.
• Shen Lian went to the Imperial Palace, where Xu Tianxiang revealed the Xu Family’s Divine Seat Inheritance Land and recounted how their ancestor gained the Purple Imperial Heaven-Extinguishing Dragon Martial Soul.
• Shen Lian asked Xu Tianxiang what happened after the ancestor received the dragon’s vital essence.

Shen Lian entered the Xu Family’s Inheritance Land and triggered the Nine Trials of Destruction, marking him as a potential successor to the God of Destruction. The God of Destruction sensed the event in the God Realm, where the Goddess of Life asked whether the inheritance could free him from his Divine Seat.

• Xu Tianxiang opened the ancient passage and warned Shen Lian that earlier ancestors had died trying to enter the Inheritance Land.
• Shen Lian used his Purple Imperial Heaven-Extinguishing Dragon Martial Soul to tear open the light screen and enter the Inheritance Land.
• Shen Lian found the million-year Purple Imperial Heaven-Extinguishing Dragon and activated the altar, receiving the Nine Trials of Destruction and a Purple Flame Mark.
• The God of Destruction sensed that someone on Douluo Planet had triggered the Nine Trials of Destruction.
• The Goddess of Life asked the God of Destruction whether the new successor could free him from the restraints of his Divine Seat.

The God of Destruction gave Shen Lian his first God Trial and a token to find an inheritor for the Goddess of Life. Shen Lian learned that Huang Tian would join him as his Spirit Ring and then entered his Martial Soul, revealing it had formed from Huang Tian’s essence blood.

• The God of Destruction promised the Goddess of Life they would travel the mortal world after a new God of Destruction ascended, then descended to Douluo Planet to meet Shen Lian.
• The God of Destruction set Shen Lian’s first trial: climb the 999 steps behind the altar by his own power for increased Spirit Ring ages and a God-Bestowed Spirit Ring.
• The God of Destruction gave Shen Lian a token for the Goddess of Life’s Divine Seat and told him Huang Tian would become his Spirit Ring.
• Huang Tian explained that Shen Lian needed no Divine Seat Affinity because his Purple Imperial Heaven-Extinguishing Dragon Martial Soul already suited the Destruction God Position, and agreed to sacrifice itself for him.
• Shen Lian vowed to help Huang Tian be reborn as a Divine Beast and proposed that Huang Tian become his seventh Spirit Ring.
• Huang Tian entered Shen Lian’s Martial Soul and revealed that the Purple Imperial Heaven-Extinguishing Dragon Martial Soul had formed from its essence blood.

Shen Lian learned that Huang Tian would temper his Martial Soul and could protect him, then told his family that he had received the God of Destruction’s trial. He began climbing the trial’s 999 steps, reaching the ninety-ninth before the pressure and spiritual attacks forced him to stop.

• Huang Tian told Shen Lian that he would temper his Martial Soul and protect him, even against a Peerless Douluo.
• Shen Lian asked Xu Tianxiang to summon his family, then revealed in Yangxin Hall that he had received the God of Destruction’s Nine Trials and showed them his Mark of Destruction.
• Shen Lian told his family that the First God Trial required climbing 999 steps and that he might need to cultivate in the Inheritance Land; his family encouraged him and gave him a jade slip and a dagger.
• Shen Lian returned to the Inheritance Land and began climbing the steps while using Martial Soul Possession.
• Shen Lian reached the ninety-ninth step, where ghostly flames attacked his spiritual power, and he formed a dragon-shaped barrier to endure the assault.

After five years of cultivation in the Inheritance Land, Shen Lian reached the nine hundred ninety-ninth step and completed Destruction Trial One. The trial’s rewards raised his Spirit Ring ages and pushed him to Soul Emperor, while the next trial was set to begin when he advanced to Soul Saint.

• Shen Lian cultivated on the stairs for over a thousand days, strengthening his body and Martial Soul under the pressure of Divine Power of Destruction.
• Over five years, Shen Lian advanced to Soul Ancestor and Soul King and gained his fourth and fifth soul skills.
• Shen Lian endured the attacks on the final stairs and finally stepped onto the nine hundred ninety-ninth step.
• A voice declared Destruction Trial One complete, promised Destruction Trial Two at Soul Saint, and granted Shen Lian five thousand years of added age to each Spirit Ring plus a God-Bestowed Spirit Ring.
• Shen Lian's five Spirit Rings rose to ages of 5,800, 6,700, 11,000, 18,000, and 35,000 years, and he broke through to Soul Emperor.

Shen Lian absorbed a God-Bestowed Spirit Ring as his sixth ring, then told Xu Tianxiang he had completed the first God Trial and needed to leave for a distant second trial. He departed the Imperial Palace carrying a protective jade pendant and set his sights on Douluo Continent.

• Shen Lian absorbed the God-Bestowed Spirit Ring until its age reached sixty-three thousand seven hundred years, then stopped before it could destroy him.
• Shen Lian gained his sixth Spirit Ring and demonstrated the Dragon Flame Heaven-Burning Slash, a powerful skill combining dragon flames and Divine Power of Destruction.
• Shen Lian decided to journey to Douluo Continent and seek the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.
• Shen Lian left the Inheritance Land and told Xu Tianxiang that he had completed the first God Trial and had to depart for the second trial.
• Xu Tianxiang gave Shen Lian a protective jade pendant capable of withstanding three attacks from a Title Douluo, and Shen Lian left the Imperial Palace.

Shen Lian left his family and crossed the dangerous sea on Huang Tian’s back to reach Douluo Continent. After arriving in Vast Sea City, he explored Pei Mansion’s Treasure Pavilion and evaded a trap to enter its vault.

• Shen Lian said goodbye to Xu Ningxin, Shen Meng, and Shen Long before setting off for the coast.
• Shen Lian summoned Huang Tian, who carried him across the sea and drove off repeated attacks from sea Soul Beasts.
• Shen Lian and Huang Tian reached the coast of Douluo Continent, and Shen Lian arrived at Vast Sea City.
• Shen Lian surveyed the unfamiliar city and its crude Soul Tools, then turned his attention to Pei Mansion.
• Shen Lian entered Pei Mansion’s Treasure Pavilion at midnight, triggered a trap, and evaded its poison-coated spikes to reach the treasure vault.

Shen Lian traveled to Notting City to determine whether Tang San was still at the academy, then hurried to Holy Soul Village to find the Spirit Bone hidden behind a waterfall. He entered the cave with Huang Tian’s protection, leaving the search unresolved.

• Shen Lian escaped with one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins and flew to Notting City to check the timeline.
• Shen Lian asked Xiao Xue about Tang San and learned he was with Yu Xiaogang before graduating soon.
• Shen Lian heard that Tang San had come from Holy Soul Village and set out to claim his biological mother's Spirit Bone before Little Scoundrel could get it.
• Shen Lian summoned Huang Tian near the waterfall, and Huang Tian promised to keep Tang Hao from interfering.
• Shen Lian plunged through the waterfall and illuminated the dark cave behind it.

Shen Lian retrieved the Blue Silver Empress’s right leg bone from the cave, then flew to Sunset Forest to claim the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and its Immortal Herbs. He arrived to find Dugu Bo at the spring, ordered Huang Tian to attack him, and began harvesting herbs as the fight unfolded.

• Shen Lian found the Blue Silver Empress’s right leg bone in a hidden wooden box and left the cave with Huang Tian.
• Shen Lian flew toward Sunset Forest, determined to reach the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and gather its Immortal Herbs.
• After searching the poisonous forest for three days, Shen Lian summoned Huang Tian to carry him through the miasma to the spring.
• Huang Tian sensed a Title Douluo, and Shen Lian recognized Dugu Bo and ordered Huang Tian to kill him.
• Shen Lian descended to the valley and began cutting Immortal Herbs with a jade blade, damaging some as he harvested them.

Shen Lian harvested the Immortal Herbs, tempered his body in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, and found the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King’s Spirit Bones at its bottom. After taking them, he surfaced to find Huang Tian overpowering Dugu Bo, whose ninth soul skill failed against Huang Tian’s dragon breath.

• Shen Lian stored more than seventy Immortal Herbs and their seeds, then swallowed the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot before entering the spring.
• After enduring seven days and nights of Ice-Fire Body Tempering, Shen Lian dived deeper into the spring and discovered the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King’s skeletons.
• Shen Lian took the Dragon Kings’ Left and Right Arm Bones, causing the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well’s energy to drain away.
• Shen Lian surfaced and saw Huang Tian toy with Dugu Bo as Dugu Bo unleashed Jade Phosphorus Divine Light.
• Huang Tian’s dragon breath overwhelmed Dugu Bo’s ninth soul skill in less than three breaths.

Shen Lian and Huang Tian defeated Dugu Bo, and Shen Lian destroyed the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well before heading to Heaven Dou Imperial City. At the city gate, a soldier demanded an entrance fee as Shen Lian’s aura surged.

• Huang Tian shattered Dugu Bo’s shield with its dragon breath and brought Shen Lian before him.
• Shen Lian ordered Huang Tian to kill Dugu Bo and throw his corpse into the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Dugu Bo attacked Shen Lian from behind with his Medusa Skull, but Shen Lian’s Purple Flame Mark blocked the petrifying rays, and Shen Lian killed him with Dragon Flame Heaven-Burning Slash.
• Shen Lian stored the Medusa Skull and left Dugu Bo’s corpse in the pool, where Jade Phosphorus Poison tainted the spring and destroyed the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Shen Lian left Sunset Forest and traveled north to investigate Heaven Dou Imperial City.
• At the city gate, a soldier demanded ten silver coins from Shen Lian, who responded by releasing his aura.

Shen Lian entered Heaven Dou Imperial City and clashed with Fourth Prince Xue Beng, who summoned his guards and the City Defense Guard against him. The chapter ended as Shen Lian revealed his formidable Spirit Rings, stunning Xue Beng and the Soul King commander.

• Shen Lian subdued the soldiers at the city gate and entered Heaven Dou Imperial City.
• Xue Beng confronted Shen Lian and ordered his personal guards to attack him.
• Shen Lian defeated Xue Beng’s six guards with precise strikes from his Dragon-Slaying Blade.
• The City Defense Guard arrived, and its Soul King commander attacked Shen Lian with Fire Wolf Possession.
• Shen Lian revealed two purple and four black Spirit Rings, leaving Xue Beng and the commander terrified.