Chapter Summaries

Yang Wudi revealed that Yang Jian’s first Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring came from the Sacrifice of Xiaotian’s mother, a Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff, and the clan chiefs marveled at his fortune. As the clans headed to the banquet before the juniors’ sparring, Tailong vowed to defeat Yang Jian and retain the Strength Clan’s champion title.

• Yang Wudi explained that Whale Rubber had helped Yang Jian absorb only his later Soul Rings, not his first one.
• Tai Tan realized that Yang Jian’s first Soul Ring must have come through a Sacrifice, and Yang Wudi confirmed that Xiaotian’s mother had offered it to him.
• Yang Wudi recounted how the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff entrusted Xiaotian to Yang Jian before sacrificing herself, while concealing the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear’s role.
• Bai He, Niu Gao, and Tai Tan envied Yang Jian’s fortune, while Bai Chenxiang was moved by his kindness toward Xiaotian’s mother.
• Tailong entered the hall, assumed Yang Jian had told everyone about his defeat by Xiaotian, and angrily followed Tai Tan.
• Yang Wudi led the clan chiefs to the banquet and announced that the juniors would spar afterward; Tailong then vowed to defeat Yang Jian and defend the Strength Clan’s champion title.

Tailong challenged Yang Jian to a fight at the Four Clans gathering, hoping to prove himself, but Yang Jian effortlessly blocked his full-strength punch. Tailong continued attacking, increasingly alarmed, while Yang Jian remained composed.

• Tai Tan tried to console Tailong, telling him not to force himself and that Yang Jian's dog was beyond his reach, but Tailong insisted he could prove himself.
• At the Breaking Clan's plaza, Tailong leaped onto the Soul Fighting Platform and challenged Yang Jian.
• Yang Wudi encouraged Yang Jian to accept, and Yang Jian summoned his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade before facing Tailong.
• Tailong activated his Great Strength Ape Martial Soul and two Soul Skills, then struck Yang Jian with a powerful punch.
• Yang Jian blocked Tailong's full-powered punch with one hand on his spear, and Tailong launched a rapid series of further attacks.

Yang Jian entered a state of enlightenment while dodging Tailong’s attacks, prompting the clan leaders to send Bai Chenxiang and Niu Fei to challenge him. Tailong chose to help test Yang Jian rather than disrupt his enlightenment, and the three prepared to attack together.

• Tailong used his third Soul Skill and stomped the platform, sending a crack and flying stones toward Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian followed the airflow like a fallen leaf and effortlessly avoided Tailong’s attacks.
• Tai Tan, Bai He, and Niu Gao recognized that Yang Jian had entered enlightenment in battle.
• Yang Wudi and Bai He urged Bai Chenxiang to attack Yang Jian, and Niu Gao sent Niu Fei onto the platform as well.
• Tailong decided not to disrupt Yang Jian’s enlightenment and charged alongside Bai Chenxiang and Niu Fei to test him.

Yang Jian remained in a fragile state of enlightenment while Tailong, Bai Chenxiang, and Niu Fei failed to put enough pressure on him. Tai Tan brought his drunken son Tainuo to the platform to join the attack, where Yang Wudi's threatening presence immediately locked onto him.

• Bai Chenxiang, Niu Fei, and Tailong coordinated their attacks against Yang Jian, but he calmly evaded them while remaining in his state of enlightenment.
• Yang Wudi considered taking the field, but Niu Gao warned that Yang Wudi's strength would crush Yang Jian rather than help him break through.
• Tai Tan learned that Tainuo had gone drinking with Yang Lin, then went to fetch him himself.
• Tai Tan dragged Tainuo to the Soul Fighting Platform and ordered him to attack Yang Jian, explaining that the other three were not providing enough pressure.
• Yang Wudi released his Soul Douluo aura and aimed his Soul-Breaker Spear at Tainuo.

Tainuo joined the battle to test Yang Jian, who evaded the Soul King’s attacks while nearing the end of his epiphany. Yang Jian finally opened his eyes, absorbed Tainuo’s shockwave through his spear, and launched an inescapable thrust.

• Tainuo revealed his Great Strength Ape Martial Soul and challenged Yang Jian after sending Tailong and the others away from the platform.
• Tailong realized how wide the gap was between himself and Yang Jian, while Yang Lin worried that Tainuo might injure his nephew.
• Yang Jian dodged Tainuo’s punches without opening his eyes, and the four clan heads sensed his aura gradually becoming concealed.
• Tainuo used his fourth Soul Skill, Force Tremor, to unleash a shockwave that threatened to destroy the platform.
• Yang Jian opened his eyes, absorbed the force field through his bending Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear, and thrust at Tainuo with an attack he could not evade.

Yang Jian defeated Tainuo with a single spear strike that shattered the Soul Fighting Platform and left a hole in the sky, then named the technique Follow the Waves. The clan chiefs declared Yang Jian the champion, while Tailong resolved to make him his goal.

• Yang Jian's spear strike destroyed the Soul Fighting Platform and left a perfect circular hole in the sky, shocking the spectators and clan chiefs.
• Tainuo recalled that Yang Jian had spared him by shifting the spearhead aside, and Yang Jian steadied him with Soul Power as his legs gave out.
• Yang Jian thanked Tainuo for helping him perfect his spear technique and named the strike Follow the Waves.
• Tainuo praised Yang Jian and declared that his own name would become famous alongside the spear technique.
• Tailong let go of his resentment and resolved to strive toward Yang Jian's level.
• Bai He, Tai Tan, and Niu Gao agreed that Yang Jian had won and ended the sparring after the platform's destruction.

Yang Jian taught Bai Chenxiang Wing Chun, hoping to see whether martial arts from his past life could have a special effect in this world and help win over the Speed Clan. Yang Wudi and Bai He recognized the style as a self-created Soul Skill, and Yang Jian confirmed that he had created it himself.

• Bai Chenxiang often visited Yang Jian's courtyard and eagerly accepted when he offered to teach her a martial art suited to girls.
• Yang Jian demonstrated Wing Chun on a wooden dummy and explained its techniques and principles to Bai Chenxiang.
• Yang Wudi and Bai He arrived and watched Yang Jian practice, then realized Wing Chun was a new style and a Self-Created Soul Skill.
• After finishing the demonstration, Yang Jian told Yang Wudi and Bai He that the martial art was Wing Chun and that he had created it himself.

Yang Jian offered Bai He Wing Chun and the Eight Cutting Blades, giving the Speed Clan a way to improve its attack power. Bai He promised to help Yang Jian in return and hinted at pairing him with Bai Chenxiang, before Yang Jian demonstrated a technique with a dried leaf.

• Yang Wudi praised Yang Jian, while Bai Chenxiang realized Wing Chun was a Self-Created Soul Skill and wondered why Yang Jian was willing to teach it to her.
• Yang Jian offered to write down Wing Chun and the Eight Cutting Blades for Bai He, who was astonished that Yang Jian had created both techniques.
• Bai He promised that he and the Speed Clan would fulfill any request Yang Jian made, grateful for the techniques’ potential to strengthen the clan.
• Yang Wudi joked that Yang Jian should ask Bai He for his Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng, and Bai He offered to give it to Yang Jian as Bai Chenxiang’s dowry.
• Yang Wudi and Bai He teased Bai Chenxiang about Yang Jian, and Yang Jian handed Bai He a dried leaf and told him to sweep it across a stone table at top speed.

Yang Jian demonstrated how the Speed Clan could turn extreme speed into devastating cutting power, then promised Yang Wudi new martial arts for the Breaking Clan. Bai Chenxiang followed Yang Jian into the house, while Yang Wudi asked Bai He whether he was truly ready to give her to the Breaking Clan despite its feud with the Clear Sky Sect.

• Bai He used his speed and a dead leaf to slice a stone table in half after Yang Jian explained the principle behind the technique.
• Yang Jian suggested that the Speed Clan combine its speed with blades and become deadly fighters rather than mere intelligence gatherers.
• Bai He offered the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng to Yang Jian, and Yang Wudi told him to wait until Yang Jian came of age.
• Yang Jian promised Yang Wudi a set of fist techniques and a matching spear technique suited to the Breaking Clan, astonishing him with the news that he had created multiple martial arts.
• Yang Jian went inside to write down the techniques, and Bai Chenxiang followed, saying she would grind his ink.
• Yang Wudi asked Bai He whether he was willing to give Bai Chenxiang to the Breaking Clan despite its irreconcilable feud with the Clear Sky Sect.

Bai He rejected the Clear Sky Sect and swore that the Speed Clan would not support it, prompting Yang Wudi to pledge the Breaking Clan’s alliance. After the Speed Clan departed, Yang Jian trained and broke through to level forty, preparing to hunt for his fourth Soul Ring.

• Bai He told Yang Wudi that the Clear Sky Sect had severed its family ties by abandoning the Speed Clan, and swore on his Sharp-Tailed Swift Martial Soul that he meant it.
• Yang Wudi believed Bai He and promised that the Breaking Clan would stand with the Speed Clan, then offered to let future descendants of Jian'er and Xiangxiang inherit the Speed Clan’s surname if they awakened its Martial Soul.
• Yang Jian gave Yang Wudi the Baji Fist and Six Harmonies Great Spear techniques, while Bai Chenxiang learned Wing Chun and the Eight Cutting Blades.
• Yang Jian toured the Speed Clan with Bai Chenxiang, grew closer to her, and began calling her Xiangxiang before she left with her clan the following day.
• After seven days of training, Yang Jian broke through to level forty and decided to tell Yang Wudi before hunting for his fourth Soul Ring.

Yang Wudi brought Yang Jian a forty-thousand-year Sea Demon Whale right leg bone for Xiaotian, then discovered Yang Jian had reached Soul Power Level forty at age twelve. Yang Jian insisted on hunting his fourth Soul Ring himself with Xiaotian, and Yang Wudi agreed after giving Xiaotian the Soul Bone to absorb.

• Yang Wudi presented Yang Jian with a forty-thousand-year Sea Demon Whale right leg bone intended to help Xiaotian reach the Thousand-Year Soul Beast level.
• Yang Wudi sensed that Yang Jian had broken through to Soul Power Level forty, and Yang Jian explained that he had advanced the previous night.
• Yang Wudi celebrated Yang Jian's achievement and planned to take him to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt his fourth Soul Ring.
• Yang Jian told Yang Wudi he wanted to hunt the Soul Beast himself, with Xiaotian as his companion.
• Yang Wudi agreed to let Yang Jian go after Xiaotian absorbed the Soul Bone, and Yang Jian tossed it to Xiaotian, who swallowed it.

Xiaotian entered a cocoon and remained asleep as its cultivation age rose to a thousand years, so Yang Jian set off alone for the Star Dou Great Forest. At the border between the empires, he encountered Zhu Zhuqing fleeing her family’s guards, only for a five-ringed Soul King to block her escape.

• Xiaotian’s body formed a golden cocoon and continued transforming without waking, so Yang Jian decided to travel without it.
• Yang Wudi agreed to Yang Jian’s plan and saw him off as he left Mountain Lord City for the Star Dou Great Forest on foot.
• After three days, Yang Jian rested in a tree near the border between the Star Luo Empire and the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Zhu Zhuqing rushed from the woods and was surrounded by five guards, while Yang Jian recognized her as the third young miss of the Zhu Family.
• Zhu Zhuqing used her first Soul Skill, Hell Stab, to wound a guard and dash toward an opening in the encirclement.
• Zhu Kai revealed that he was a five-ringed Soul King, and his Soul Power pressure stopped Zhu Zhuqing just short of escaping.

Zhu Zhuqing tried to take her own life rather than be forced back to the Duke Mansion, but Yang Jian stopped her and vowed to protect her. He faced down Zhu Kai and the Zhu Family’s threats without backing down.

• Zhu Zhuqing agreed to return with Zhu Kai, then summoned her Hell Spirit Cat Martial Soul and tried to cut her own throat.
• Yang Jian grabbed Zhu Zhuqing’s wrist just before her claws reached her throat and promised to see her rescue through.
• Zhu Kai ordered Yang Jian to leave, and a guard tried to seize him, but Yang Jian dodged the guard’s grasp.
• Zhu Kai warned Yang Jian that interfering meant making an enemy of the Zhu Family of the Star Luo Empire.
• Yang Jian acknowledged the Zhu Family’s power but remained unafraid, asking, “So what?”

Yang Jian revealed his level-forty Soul Power and extraordinary Soul Rings as he faced Zhu Kai and the five guards attacking him. The guards halted in fear, while Zhu Kai was left stunned by Yang Jian’s strength.

• Zhu Kai ordered his five Soul Elder guards to attack Yang Jian and bring Zhu Zhuqing back unharmed.
• Yang Jian released Zhu Zhuqing’s wrist, told her to trust him, and summoned his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear.
• Yang Jian unleashed level-forty Soul Power, shocking Zhu Kai, Zhu Zhuqing, and the guards.
• Yang Jian revealed three Soul Rings—black, purple-black, and black—and Zhu Kai realized that two were Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings.
• The five guards stopped their charge, afraid of Yang Jian’s power and what it suggested about his identity.

Yang Jian activated his Domination Domain and unleashed a devastating spear strike against Zhu Kai and the five guards. The attack obliterated them, leaving Zhu Zhuqing caught in the resulting blast.

• Yang Jian activated his first soul skill, Domination Domain, and his power surged beyond Zhu Kai's.
• Yang Jian raised his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear and formed a force field around Zhu Kai and the five guards.
• Zhu Kai panicked and unleashed all five of his soul skills in an attempt to survive.
• Yang Jian's golden spear strike swept through the five guards and turned them to nothingness.
• The golden light swallowed Zhu Kai and detonated, sending a shockwave toward Zhu Zhuqing.

Yang Jian rescued Zhu Zhuqing by killing Zhu Kai and his guards with a single strike, then gave her food after learning she had gone days without eating. Zhu Zhuqing thanked him and promised to repay him, while blushing with embarrassment when her hunger became obvious.

• Yang Jian's strike erased Zhu Kai and his five Soul Elder guards, leaving a vast, heat-scorched pit.
• Yang Jian brought Zhu Zhuqing out of her daze and assured her that she was safe.
• Zhu Zhuqing thanked Yang Jian for saving her and promised to repay him, and he introduced himself.
• Zhu Zhuqing's stomach rumbled, revealing that she had gone three days without food or water, and she blushed in embarrassment.
• Yang Jian offered Zhu Zhuqing warm flatbreads and soy-braised beef, which she accepted shyly.

After Yang Jian gave Zhu Zhuqing food and water, she regained her strength and felt an unexpected attraction to him. Exhausted from fleeing, she accepted his tent but struggled to set it up, and Yang Jian offered to help.

• Zhu Zhuqing ate flatbread and braised beef so quickly that she choked, and Yang Jian handed her water.
• Zhu Zhuqing recovered after eating and privately wished Yang Jian were her fiancé.
• Yang Jian offered Zhu Zhuqing a tent after noticing how exhausted she was.
• Zhu Zhuqing struggled for half an hour to assemble the tent, and Yang Jian offered to help.

Yang Jian and Zhu Zhuqing argued over who would sleep in the tent, until Zhu Zhuqing chose to share it with him because she trusted him. They settled down for the night, and Zhu Zhuqing finally slept safely after four days of being hunted.

• Yang Jian quickly set up Zhu Zhuqing's tent and offered to sleep in a tree so she could rest inside.
• Zhu Zhuqing insisted that Yang Jian should take the tent instead, since he had already helped her.
• Yang Jian offered to sleep in the tree or share the tent, expecting Zhu Zhuqing to choose the first option.
• Zhu Zhuqing chose to share the tent with Yang Jian and told him she trusted him.
• Yang Jian and Zhu Zhuqing lay down in the cramped tent, and Zhu Zhuqing eventually fell into a deep sleep.

Yang Jian woke to find Zhu Zhuqing asleep in his arms and tried to return her to her place before she noticed. She woke while he was carrying her, but trusted him when he said it was a misunderstanding.

• Yang Jian woke with Zhu Zhuqing asleep in his arms and realized she had moved there while he slept.
• Yang Jian carefully freed his arm from Zhu Zhuqing's grip and lifted her to carry her back to her original spot.
• Zhu Zhuqing woke as Yang Jian was about to set her down, and they met each other's eyes.
• Yang Jian nervously asked whether she would believe that the situation was a misunderstanding.
• Zhu Zhuqing calmly told Yang Jian that she believed him.

Zhu Zhuqing woke in Yang Jian’s arms after unconsciously seeking his warmth during the night, and both felt embarrassed by their closeness. She joined Yang Jian outside the tent as he prepared breakfast, leaving them together at their campsite.

• Yang Jian asked whether Zhu Zhuqing wanted him to carry her, and she asked him to put her down.
• As Yang Jian lowered Zhu Zhuqing, his hand briefly touched her waist before he withdrew and went outside to prepare breakfast.
• After Yang Jian left, Zhu Zhuqing recalled that she had crawled into his arms while cold and had pretended to sleep when he awoke.
• Zhu Zhuqing calmed herself, stepped outside, and saw Yang Jian roasting a rabbit by the campfire.
• Yang Jian invited Zhu Zhuqing to eat as breakfast neared completion.