Chapter Summaries

In Xingyue Village, Qie Si and Qi Li learned that something was troubling Spirit Hall as the Martial Soul Awakening was moved up. Wu Ling, a transmigrated child who trained hard, agreed to rest before the ceremony, which was set for the day after tomorrow.

• Qi Li warned Qie Si that a Soul Master had reported trouble at Spirit Hall.
• Qie Si told Qi Li that the village’s Martial Soul Awakening had been moved up to the day after tomorrow.
• Qie Si found Wu Ling training in a river and told him to come home and rest the following day.
• Wu Ling recalled his former life, his rebirth in the Douluo Continent, and what he knew about the world’s timeline.
• Wu Ling bargained with Qie Si over how much he could train before agreeing to soak in a bath of tender walnut shoots.

Wu Ling went to the village’s Martial Soul Awakening with Qie Si’s encouragement and met Su Yuntao, who led the ceremony. During his awakening, Wu Ling saw a Heroic Spirit Summoning vision and received a disc-shaped Martial Soul he recognized as an Unregistered Spirit Origin.

• Wu Ling ate breakfast with Qie Si, who praised his cooking, before objecting to Qie Si adding sugar to his tofu pudding.
• Qie Si reassured Wu Ling that he would support him whatever Martial Soul he awakened, then took him to the village entrance.
• Qie Si introduced the village children to Su Yuntao, and Wu Ling hurried inside after realizing he was the only one left outside.
• Su Yuntao awakened the children’s Martial Souls; ten had no Soul Power, while one awakened a spoon and had first-level Soul Power.
• When Wu Ling entered the awakening array, he saw a Heroic Spirit Summoning vision and manifested a disc-shaped Martial Soul called Unregistered Spirit Origin.

Wu Ling awakened the Heroic Spirit Disk and Innate Full Soul Power, prompting Su Yuntao to invite him into Spirit Hall. Wu Ling accepted, and Su Yuntao led him and the other children out to meet Qie Si and the others.

• Wu Ling manifested a Martial Soul he named the Heroic Spirit Disk, which Su Yuntao mistook for a favorable mutation.
• Wu Ling placed his hand on the crystal ball, which blazed with light and revealed his Innate Full Soul Power.
• Su Yuntao told Wu Ling that Bibi Dong was the only other person publicly known to possess Innate Full Soul Power and offered to take him to Spirit Hall.
• Wu Ling recognized that Bibi Dong had recently become Pope and decided joining Spirit Hall could help him navigate the political upheaval.
• Wu Ling asked whether Spirit Hall provided meals, accepted Su Yuntao's invitation, and followed him out to meet Qie Si and the others.

Wu Ling left the village with Su Yuntao and learned how his Unnamed Spirit Foundation Martial Soul could summon and fuse with Heroic Spirit Shadows. At the Martial Soul Branch Hall in Nuoding City, Yu Xiaogang tried to recruit him as a disciple, but Wu Ling refused.

• Qie Si told Wu Ling to travel to Nuoding City with Su Yuntao and tearfully said farewell as they departed.
• During the carriage ride, Wu Ling worked out that his Martial Soul could summon Heroic Spirit Shadows using Spirit Beasts as Holy Relics and began considering his first Spirit Ring.
• Su Yuntao brought Wu Ling to Ma Xiunuo at the Martial Soul Branch Hall and announced that Wu Ling had Innate Full Soul Power and had agreed to join Spirit Hall.
• Wu Ling recognized the middle-aged man with Ma Xiunuo as Yu Xiaogang, who decided to make him his disciple.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Wu Ling to take him as his master, and Wu Ling decisively refused.

Wu Ling rejected Yu Xiaogang and exposed contradictions in his Spirit Ring theories, prompting Yu to leave in anger. After Spirit Hall confirmed Wu Ling’s Innate Full Soul Power and unusual Martial Soul, Bibi Dong ordered Gui Mei to bring him to her after he obtained his first Spirit Ring.

• Yu Xiaogang tried to recruit Wu Ling, but Wu Ling refused and challenged the logic behind his Spirit Ring theories.
• Wu Ling mocked Yu Xiaogang for failing to break through Rank 30, and Yu tried to attack him before Su Yuntao and Ma Xiunuo intervened.
• Yu Xiaogang left the hall, and Ma Xiunuo confirmed Wu Ling had Innate Full Soul Power and an unfamiliar Heroic Spirit Disk Martial Soul.
• Ma Xiunuo and Su Yuntao brought Wu Ling to the branch hall master, and reports about his talent passed through Spirit Hall to Bibi Dong.
• Bibi Dong ordered Gui Mei to bring Wu Ling to her after he obtained his first Spirit Ring so she could assess his Martial Soul’s potential.

Wu Ling searched the Soul Hunting Forest with Uncle Liu for a suitable first Spirit Ring and recognized a Taillow as his target. The chapter ended as a nearly four-hundred-year Mandala Snake pursued the five-hundred-year Taillow toward them, and Wu Ling stopped Uncle Liu from attacking.

• Uncle Liu took Wu Ling to the Soul Hunting Forest after lunch to find his first Spirit Ring.
• Wu Ling summoned his Unregistered Spirit Origin Martial Soul and told Uncle Liu he sensed a connection to a kind of swallow.
• Wu Ling rejected the Spirit Beasts they encountered while searching, and Uncle Liu revealed his Evergreen Willow Tree Martial Soul.
• Near dusk, a nearly four-hundred-year Mandala Snake chased a five-hundred-year Taillow toward Wu Ling and Uncle Liu.
• Wu Ling tugged at Uncle Liu and asked him not to kill either Spirit Beast, saying he had found his first Spirit Ring target.

Wu Ling absorbed a five-hundred-year Taillow Spirit Ring and revealed a sword-based skill that let him kill a nearly four-hundred-year Mandala Snake and a pack of Howling Moon Wolves. After Wu Ling split the thousand-year Howling Moon Wolf King in four, Gui Mei asked him the name of his move.

• Uncle Liu captured a poisoned five-hundred-year Taillow and a nearly four-hundred-year Mandala Snake, and Wu Ling chose to absorb the Taillow's Spirit Ring.
• Wu Ling absorbed the Taillow Spirit Ring without difficulty and, when Uncle Liu asked about his Spirit Skill, asked him to release the Mandala Snake.
• Wu Ling summoned a phantom and drew a long blade, then killed the charging Mandala Snake with one stroke while Gui Mei watched from the shadows.
• A pack of Howling Moon Wolves attacked Wu Ling, who killed seven of the ten wolves as the others backed away in fear.
• The thousand-year Howling Moon Wolf King charged Wu Ling, who cut it into four pieces with a move he called Swallow Reversal.
• Gui Mei emerged from hiding and asked Wu Ling what the move was called.

Wu Ling revealed that his first Spirit Skill summoned Sasaki Kojiro’s swordsmanship and let him perform an incomplete Swallow Reversal, impressing Gui Mei. Gui Mei invited Wu Ling into Spirit Hall as an inner disciple and brought him to meet Pope Bibi Dong.

• Wu Ling explained that his first Spirit Skill granted him Sasaki Kojiro’s abilities, including Swallow Reversal, though his body could only withstand two slashes.
• Gui Mei questioned Wu Ling about Swallow Reversal, then invited him to join Spirit Hall as he had Uncle Liu.
• Wu Ling accepted Gui Mei’s offer, and Gui Mei promised to take him as a disciple if the Pope showed no interest in him.
• Gui Mei carried Wu Ling to Spirit City, where Wu Ling slept during the journey and later entered the palace with him.
• Wu Ling arrived before Bibi Dong, the current Pope of Spirit Hall.

Wu Ling met Bibi Dong and explained that his Heroic Spirit Disk could summon the souls of legendary figures to possess him. After he suggested the heroes came from an earlier era, Bibi Dong sealed the hall and prepared to hear his account of the Age of Gods.

• Wu Ling was stunned by Bibi Dong’s beauty, then apologized for failing to kneel promptly and received her warning and forgiveness.
• Gui Mei reported Wu Ling’s space-involving ability, prompting Bibi Dong to question him about his Martial Soul.
• Wu Ling told Bibi Dong that his Heroic Spirit Disk summoned Heroic Spirits, which he described as the souls of people who left legends through their own strength or wisdom.
• Wu Ling explained that ordinary people could become strong and cited the forgotten inventors of common things as examples of heroes from a previous era.
• Bibi Dong sealed the hall with her Soul Power, had Gui Mei block his senses, and asked Wu Ling to continue as he named the earlier era the Age of Gods.

Wu Ling recounted the three-stage Age of Gods to Bibi Dong and demonstrated a sword technique granted by his Martial Soul, convincing her that the ancient era was real. Bibi Dong appointed Wu Ling as her disciple, and he addressed her as Master.

• Wu Ling explained how the Age of Gods began, how humans and gods fought, and how human heroes emerged during the Age of Heroes.
• Bibi Dong asked about the Age of Gods' final stage and the disappearance of its history, but Wu Ling said his Martial Soul had revealed only what he had told her.
• Bibi Dong demanded that Wu Ling demonstrate his first Spirit Skill, and he merged with a swordsman phantom before performing Swallow Reversal without using Soul Power.
• Bibi Dong concluded that the ancient era had truly existed, lifted Gui Mei's seal on the room's five senses, and ordered him to recognize Wu Ling as her disciple.
• Wu Ling thanked Bibi Dong as the Pope, then corrected himself and called her Master.

Wu Ling moved into a residence near Bibi Dong’s quarters, where Gui Mei was assigned to protect and teach him. After meeting the servants, Wu Ling welcomed Yue Guan, who had come early with Gui Mei to meet him.

• Bibi Dong decided to protect Wu Ling and keep him close, hoping to win his loyalty and make him a useful ally against Spirit Hall.
• Wu Ling planned to focus on cultivation and avoid assassination while he built up his strength.
• Gui Mei brought Wu Ling to his new residence, gave him four books to study, and told him he and Yue Guan would teach him.
• Fifteen servants arrived to attend to Wu Ling, and Gui Mei gave them their duties.
• Gui Mei and Yue Guan came to meet Wu Ling ahead of schedule, and Wu Ling invited them inside for tea.

Wu Ling trained in theory, combat, and Soul Power under Yue Guan and Gui Mei, with Bibi Dong increasingly impressed by his progress. Two and a half years later, he sparred evenly with Gui Mei until Bibi Dong arrived to watch.

• Yue Guan taught Wu Ling about Spirit Beasts, and he impressed Yue Guan with how quickly he learned.
• Gui Mei trained Wu Ling in combat, helping him master techniques by sparring after Wu Ling used his first Soul Skill.
• Wu Ling practiced a third slash of Swallow Reversal each afternoon, enduring severe injuries that healed in medicinal baths before he cultivated Soul Power at night.
• Over two and a half years, Bibi Dong gained control over Spirit Hall and visited Wu Ling more often as his talent became clear.
• At age eight, Wu Ling used a feint and Swallow Reversal to force Gui Mei to escape with his first Soul Skill.
• Bibi Dong arrived as Wu Ling and Gui Mei stopped sparring.

Wu Ling reached level twenty after years of training and traveled with Gui Mei to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain his second Spirit Ring. At the forest’s edge, he sensed a deadly threat in the darkness but decided to enter that night.

• Bibi Dong praised Wu Ling’s progress and said Gui Mei would take him to the Star Dou Great Forest once he reached level twenty.
• Wu Ling demonstrated Swallow Reversal for Bibi Dong, then collapsed from the strain of its third slash.
• Four days later, Wu Ling reached level twenty, and Yue Guan handed him over to Gui Mei for the trip.
• Gui Mei led Wu Ling to the Star Dou Great Forest, where Wu Ling sensed a danger that could threaten his life.
• Wu Ling told Grandpa Ghost that they would enter the forest that night.

Wu Ling entered the Star Dou Great Forest at night to hunt a Sharp-Scaled Snake for its Spirit Ring. After surviving its scale attacks, he exposed its vulnerable flesh with liquor and killed it, leaving him ready to claim his midnight snack.

• Wu Ling insisted on entering the forest at night, and Gui Mei agreed to follow without helping unless Wu Ling’s life was in danger.
• Wu Ling walked through the dark forest and reached a moonlit river bordered by Blue Silver Grass.
• A Sharp-Scaled Snake ambushed Wu Ling with its scales, but he dodged and blocked its attacks before identifying it.
• Wu Ling tracked the snake and used his knowledge of its weaknesses to plan how to prevent it from retreating.
• Wu Ling poured strong liquor onto the snake’s exposed flesh, then killed it with one sword slash.

After Gui Mei advised Wu Ling to focus more on Soul Power cultivation, Wu Ling traveled to hunt a thousand-year Ghost Tiger for his second Spirit Ring. He found the tiger dead in its nest, then saw a strange dark creature emerge from the boulder and realized it might be an even better Spirit Ring candidate.

• Wu Ling cooked braised snake meat for Gui Mei, who praised his fight against the Sharp-Scaled Snake and advised him to devote more time to refining Soul Power after obtaining his second Spirit Ring.
• Wu Ling told Gui Mei he planned to hunt a thousand-year Ghost Tiger, hoping its Spirit Skill would give him a clone that could help with cultivation.
• Wu Ling rested briefly, traveled toward the river's middle reaches, and reached the Ghost Tiger's territory before dawn.
• Wu Ling followed fresh blood trails to a clearing and discovered a dead Ghost Tiger beside a massive boulder.
• A dark creature tinged with purple crawled out of a hole in the boulder, and Wu Ling wondered if it would make an even better second Spirit Ring.

Wu Ling waited for dawn to weaken a Nether Ghost Leopard, hoping to obtain it as the Heroic Spirit for his second Spirit Ring. After luring it from its cave, he faced the beast and its limited daytime Clones in a tense standoff.

• Wu Ling recalled that a Nether Ghost Leopard’s speed and Nether Shadow Clone ability made it a better cultivation aid than the Ghost Tiger he had originally planned to target.
• Wu Ling concealed his presence near the cave and waited until dawn, when sunlight restricted the leopard’s strength and Clones.
• Wu Ling threw lit torches into the cave to provoke the Nether Ghost Leopard into charging at him.
• Wu Ling used his Mind’s Eye to detect the leopard’s true body and slash at it, but the beast evaded his attack.
• The Nether Ghost Leopard summoned two Clones, while Wu Ling activated his Spirit Ring and prepared to fight as the two sides entered a standoff.

Wu Ling defeated a nearly fifteen-hundred-year-old Nether Ghost Leopard with his Three-Way Swallow Reversal and absorbed its purple Spirit Ring. The ring granted him Hassan of the Hundred Faces, and the chapter ended as Wu Ling merged with the summoned Assassin and began to change.

• Wu Ling and the Nether Ghost Leopard waited for the other to make the first move until they attacked simultaneously at sunrise.
• Wu Ling used his Three-Way Swallow Reversal to strike the Nether Ghost Leopard and both of its clones, killing the true leopard.
• Gui Mei praised Wu Ling’s unusual technique and stood guard while Wu Ling absorbed the leopard’s Spirit Ring.
• Wu Ling absorbed the purple Spirit Ring successfully and estimated that his current limit was around eighteen or nineteen hundred years.
• Wu Ling summoned Hassan of the Hundred Faces, merged her phantom into his body, and watched his shadow boil as he chanted.

Wu Ling gained Hassan of the Hundred Faces’s Spirit Skill and summoned eighty-eight specialized Clones, but decided they could not help him cultivate. After returning to Spirit Hall, he told Bibi Dong that he had created two Clones of his own, named Wu Ling (Hot-Blooded) and Wu Ling (Sage).

• Hassan of the Hundred Faces possessed Wu Ling, and he summoned eighty-eight Clones with specialized abilities.
• Wu Ling dismissed the Clones and told Gui Mei that only Clones of his own could help him cultivate.
• Gui Mei took Wu Ling back to Spirit City, where he met with Bibi Dong and recounted his experiences.
• Wu Ling showed Bibi Dong the eighty-eight Clones and said his own Clones were finished: Wu Ling (Hot-Blooded) and Wu Ling (Sage).

Wu Ling revealed his two mature Clones, Xiao Hong and Xiao Lan, and recounted a story about the Assassin Order to Bibi Dong and Gui Mei. Bibi Dong sent Wu Ling home with Gui Mei and prepared to begin Plan 3, while an elderly stranger appeared before Wu Ling.

• Wu Ling introduced Xiao Hong, who would train his body, and Xiao Lan, who would train his swordsmanship, and explained his plan to divide his time among training, study, and Soul Power refinement.
• Wu Ling told Bibi Dong and Gui Mei a story about an Assassin Order led by Old Man of the Mountain Hassan, and Bibi Dong reflected on the limits of human potential.
• Bibi Dong encouraged Wu Ling to visit his family, and Gui Mei agreed to accompany him.
• After Wu Ling left, Bibi Dong told Gui Mei that she had reached rank ninety and ordered him to inform Elder Ju that Plan 3 would begin after their return.
• An elderly white-haired man appeared in Wu Ling's path and asked whether he was called Wu Ling.

Qian Daoliu tested Wu Ling’s combat strength, and Wu Ling surprised him with Swallow Reversal and the abilities of Xiao Lan and Xiao Hong. Qian Daoliu disappeared after unleashing his Soul Power, drawing Bibi Dong, Gui Mei, and Spirit City’s Title Douluo to Wu Ling’s location.

• Qian Daoliu challenged Wu Ling to fight without using Soul Power, promising to let him go if Wu Ling could force him to use it.
• Wu Ling activated his Spirit Skills and attacked Qian Daoliu with a sword, but Qian Daoliu blocked every strike without counterattacking.
• Wu Ling used Swallow Reversal, and Qian Daoliu disrupted his stance before blocking the attack.
• Xiao Lan and Xiao Hong manifested blades and used Swallow Reversal against Qian Daoliu while Wu Ling prepared another attack.
• Qian Daoliu released a gale of condensed Soul Power that blew Wu Ling and his clones away, then disappeared.
• Bibi Dong, Gui Mei, and the other Title Douluo in Spirit City sensed Qian Daoliu’s Soul Power and rushed toward Wu Ling.